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Filaments, prominences and a couple of sunspots.
9 panel mosaic
Lunt LS80Tha/B18/DSII and Grasshopper 3 camera with 2.5x Powermate
A throwback to one of the most beatiful fish I kept - the filament barb. As seen here, adult males develop a more intense colour pattern than females and exhibit noticeable tubercules on the head when in spawning condition - when I first saw this I thought they had developed a sickness haha!
A bright solar prominence rose up from the Sun and twisted around in about a six-hour period (Apr. 21, 2015). While some of the material broke away into space, much of it fell back into the Sun. The images were taken in a wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light. At its greatest height, the plume extended out many times the size of Earth, allowing numerous amateur astronomers to observe this event with their solar telescopes.
Credit: NASA/SDO
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I had some light bulbs left over from when I was smashing them, the glass was shattered but the filaments were still intact. So I put them in a lamp!
Explored on January 4, 2013. Highest postition #174. Thank you!
The filaments of the pincusion protea.
Australian native flowers are so beautiful, and while some of the protea family are native to here, this one isn't and is native to South Africa.
Mrs Mail indulges herself with Australian natives including Grevillia and Waratahs, and I indulge myself with photographing them. While I joke that I don't do flowers, I remain fascinated with the graphic structure on many species and can't resist trying to show them in a way different to any other, which of course, is nigh on impossible, as it has all been done before, by many.
Except for a slight lift in lighting, this is basically SOOC using my black cloth.
Indulgence Theme
The G49 filament seen by ESA’s Herschel space observatory. With a total mass over 80 000 solar masses, this huge but slender structure of gas and dust extends over about 280 light-years in length, while its diameter is only about 5 light-years.
Cooler gas and dust is seen in red and yellow, with temperatures as low as –252ºC. In the densest and coolest clumps, the seeds of new generations of stars are taking shape. A brighter clump of matter is visible at the left tip of the wispy thread. This filament is about 18 000 light-years away.
The image is a composite of the wavelengths of 70 microns (blue), 160 microns (green) and 350 microns (red) and spans about 1.17x0.93º. The image is oriented with northeast towards the left of the image and southwest towards the right.
Credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS/SPIRE/Ke Wang et al. 2015
This small 2 inch circle of ceramic painting of two young children holding a umbrella in the rain with a light bulb over it for the fun of it, when I start playing with the miniature studio never know what may be the mix.
The glowing filament of an old-style incandescent lamp, shot at f/10 and 1/8000s with a neutral density filter set at 1:128. About 1 inch across.
A bright solar prominence rose up from the Sun and twisted around in about a six-hour period (Apr. 21, 2015). While some of the material broke away into space, much of it fell back into the Sun. The images were taken in a wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light. At its greatest height, the plume extended out many times the size of Earth, allowing numerous amateur astronomers to observe this event with their solar telescopes. Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA.
These are modern bulbs with an old filament style.
This i an LED so super efficient. Edison would be proud
One purple and one blue-gelled flashes (580EX (thanks, Alan!) and 580EXII) @ 1/16 to left and right with baffles to keep the background dark, triggered via ST-E2.
The significant change compared to previous efforts was dumping the softbox and using the flash direct, which allows winding back the flash power a bit.
I was taking Remy for a walk and of course scanning the leaves for caterpillars. I spotted a tiny bit of "debris" on a maple leaf. Of course I have to check out anything that looks out of place and sure enough it was a tiny instar of a "Nematocampa resistaria" Horned Spanworm! One of the Filament Bearers they are an amazing and beautiful caterpillar! Ellicott City, Howard County, MD
An interesting work shop at the camera club last night. I learned how the old light bulbs work and how they release a gas when switched on. Remove the glass without damaging the element and connect it to the power and you have this capture!
I'm afraid I couldn't get in to make use of the black back ground and I also limited myself to my 24-105mm. Would have been better if I had brought my 70-200mm. Still, it's coped with a cropping and just to add a bit of mystery, I removed the wire from the switch to the light fitting!
“Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.” ~ Junichiro Tanizaki
So much beauty in something that gets less and less common.
The Sun sported a very long filament that stretched out over 500,000 miles (800,000 km) and was visible for several days (June 3-4, 2014). It broke apart and dissipated soon after the end of the video clip. Filaments are tenuous strands of plasma held above the Sun's surface by magnetic forces. They appear darker because their temperature is somewhat cooler than that of the Sun's surface. The still image, shown in a combination of two wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light, was taken at 11:33 UT on June 4.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/Solar Dynamics Observatory
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Sometimes it is good to play. Been a busy day and so had a little fun before retiring. Captured this just before the rain arrived - was suppose to be getting the washing off the line! Anyhow, haven't had much time for Flickr today so will get back on it tomorrow. Off to bed for now though to read the odd page of 'The Innocent Man' by John Grisham. I have read it before but it deserves a second outing.
BTW - anyone with an interest in photography and an hour to spare - if you have access to BBC iPlayer I can highly a programme about an amazing photographer call Vivien Maier - to see is to believe. Her story is spell binding as are her images. Also see the website
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0366jd5/imagine..._Summer_...
Illuminated seed filaments (papus) from below against a dark background.
A milkweed seed's anatomy features a central, flat, brown seed with a distinct tuft of fluffy, white, silky filaments called a coma or papus attached to one end. This coma acts as a natural parachute, catching the wind to disperse the seed for reproduction. Inside the seed is the plant embryo, enclosed by a seed coat. Now don't ya feel edjumacated?
Inverted view of the 1 million km long solar filament
Lunt LS60, ASI120mm
AS!2, Registax 6, PS CS 6 inverted Ha
Blown around until it became entangled among the hips and thorns of a climbing rose this tuft of plastic filaments caught my eye early this morning.