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For Mosaic Montage Monday theme of Fluid Forms is this montage of the young curled fern frond at the Dale Chihuly Exhibit at the Adelaide Botanic garden and an overlay of flowing lines and dots. Many of Dale Chihuly pieces exhibit flowing curls and curves too indicating fluidity. HMMM
The photograph shows the former Jarisch villa located at 88 Kościuszki Avenue.
Built in the years 1923-1925 on behalf of Alfred and Bodo Jarisch, sons of the industrialist Florian Jarisch (at the back of the tenement house built by their father in 1892 from the side of 153 Piotrkowska Street).
The author of the design was Karl Seidl, a Viennese architect.
The villas are decorated with two loggias on the left side and impressive stairs on the right, which lead to the ground floor and the first floor. A turret rises above the central semicircular bay window. Additional decorations are double semi-columns located between the windows on the ground floor and the first floor.
Throughout its history, the building has been used as a Wedding Palace, Tourist Information Centre, and the Resident Service Centre of the City of Łódź Office for the Central district.
Taken this very evening at a fantastic Christmas market that I visited with friends. We bought beautiful handmade gifts & some yummy Indian food to take back to eat at their house; my first time trying dosa. For Saturday Self Challenge theme “light”.
76/100 : My 100x photos this year will all feature benches or chairs.
First experiments with a new form in the ever-evolving world of Pano-Sabotage photography that's been dubbed "MonitorPano". It's both a new turn for me and a return to a very old tactic I used in 2012 where I achieved coarse but provoking layers by photographing, with my Canon Rebel XS, my computers screen saver as it faded in and out between images in my photo files. The great thing was that the images didn't just click from one to the next like a slide show, they faded in and out over top of each other. There was always a "crossover" point where the two images would occupy the same amount of "presence" on the screen thereby becoming "fused" or "blended" ... in effect ... layered. A cruder version of Brian Enos Installation piece, "77 Million Paintings", perhaps, but using the same idea.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0_4rCfpNzw
By the time Apple brought out the next Operating System, they'd taken out that scrolling slide show feature from what was then "iPhoto" and re-dubbed it "Photos". It always amazes me how the Silicon Valley geeks always "improve" things by taking out unique and wonderful features. Gotta mow it all down to sameness and uniformity, I guess. Unique features are seen as "mistakes".
Liz Mack has asked, "How long will it take for Apple to 'correct' the algorithms that allow for Pano-Sabotage photography ?"
MonitorPano, even though being hotly used right now and to great effect has actually been around quietly for a few years now. Don of the PANO-vision group was actually one of the first Pano-Sabotage artists to start "pano-ing" his desktop screen, and has often produced some very unique work with this method. Recently, Bill Smith, Paul Ewing and Liz Mack have taken it up with a vengeance with striking results.
"Graph ET 1" is the first finished piece that I created using the same technique the Paul, Bill, Liz and Don use. All of us in "PANO-Vision" learn a lot from each other and each of us makes invaluable contributions to the groups knowledge and technique base by that sharing. In PANO, as well call it for short, it's not about competition. We thrive by sharing. Each of us grows by contributing to an ongoing and easy exchange.
"MonitorPano" is achieved by setting one's cell phone camera on "Pano", clicking it on, while focusing on the desktop monitor and using the other hand to tap the arrow right ( or left ) key to quickly jump from photo to photo while the cell phone hand is pano-sabotaging the whole "pass". Tricky, and it takes some co-ordination, but it can be quite surprising what results.
This image was created for the PANO-Vision Groups Summer Contest, "PANO to the Metal".
www.flickr.com/groups/2892788@N23/discuss/72157667684597037/
Image culled from SLR shots done in 2011 and
"MonitorPanoed" and processed June 6, 2018.
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© Richard S Warner ( Visionheart ) - 2018. All Rights Reserved. This image is not for use in any form without explicit, express, written permission.
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I am VERY proud to announce that I was chosen to be the feature artist of the "Kreative People" Group's Spring Gallery - Running until the end of June. I really must thank both abstractartangel77 and Xandram for bestowing me with this great honour. The link to the gallery appears below:
Please visit my Kreative People Highlight Gallery HERE
@Fotosöndag: Form kan vara vad som helst. Därför kom jag att fundera på, vilken form som kan vara avgörande för att fylla en funktion. Det första som dök upp var en "gammaldags" blyertspenna som måste formas med hjälp av en pennvässare för att fungera.
"Pombagira, Bombogira, Exú Mulher ou ainda Bomobonjira, são todas formas de a denominar. Em especial, é mais utilizada a denominação Pombagira que nos chega pela influência Banta (Angola). A Entidade Banta Aluvaiá-Pombagira que foi trazida de África durante o fluxo de escravos para o Brasil e então submetida à entidade Iorubana Exú, durante todo o processo de miscigenação que se desenvolveu no Brasil, sendo colocada e entendida como a sua vertente feminina.
O facto de esta ser uma entidade que é entendida e cultuada de diferentes formas por diversas nações do Candomblé, pela Umbanda e pela Kimbanda, prova desde logo que se tratou de um processo de adaptação não consensual que ainda hoje perdura.
No Candomblé mais tradicional, como o Ketu, estas entidades não são cultuadas. No Candomblé tradicional, cultua-se exclusivamente o Orixá Exú que é uma entidade masculina, cuja simbologia é unicamente fálica, e portanto nada tem de feminino. No entanto, as Pombagiras existem de facto, não são Orixás, mas assim mesmo, são cultuadas também no Candomblé, embora nas nações menos tradicionais.
Como membro do Candomblé Ketu, o conceito que formei sobre quem são as Pombagiras é simples: são seres do mundo astral, guerreiras tanto quanto Exú, que estão bem próximas da nossa esfera humana, algumas já reencarnaram e outras não. Convivi de perto com Maria Padilha. Tive oportunidade durante os anos de vê-la, assim como às outras que pertenciam a várias médiuns do terreiro, realizarem inúmeros trabalhos: ajudar a vencer obstáculos, a ser feliz no amor, vencer problemas de saúde de desarmonia conjugal, e muitas outros problemas que as pessoas tinham e sobre os quais lhe pediam auxílio.
Pombagira subdivide-se numa enorme legião onde cada qual tem o seu nome próprio, conforme a sua área de actividade. Temos a linha das que pertencem às encruzilhadas como Pomba Gira Rainha das 7 Encruzilhadas; a linha do cemitério liderada pela Pombagira da Calunga; a linha das ciganas, lideradas pela Pombagira Cigana; e a linha ligada aos locais ermos, liderada pela Pombagira, Maria Mulambo. Com relação às suas manifestações nos médiuns, normalmente como mulheres, as suas legiões podem adoptar nomes como Pombagira Rosa, mas pertencendo a esta ou àquela linha, liderada pela chefe correspondente.
Uma coisa é muito certa, todo e qualquer problema que colocamos nas mãos de qualquer uma delas tem solução. A sua força é guerreira, a sua vibração magnética é carregada de sensualidade e alegria, tanto que a sua chegada aos médiuns é sempre alegre, solta e sensual.
Exú tem ligação com a força sexual criativa, e a Pombagira por sua vez com a circulação dessa energia criativa existente na vida e no Universo. Lamentavelmente a sua reputação tornou-se péssima devido a erros de incorporação dos próprios médiuns, que por deturpações pessoais as transformaram em seres com fama de depravadas, libidinosas e cruéis.
O importante ao invocá-las é lembrar sempre que, são entidades complexas de personalidade forte, e que nunca perdoam uma falta de palavra dada. O importante também é não invocá-las para trazer prejuízo a outrem, porque elas o farão com certeza, mas a dívida kármica adquirida ficará por conta de quem pediu.
Quanto ao seu aspecto sensual, faz parte de sua polaridade, não querendo significar com isso depravação ou perversão. Até hoje não conheci nenhuma mulher que tenha deixado de ser honesta por culpa de qualquer uma delas."
He can hold the carvers too =D Had to add those minifig hands in the fingers for it though. Look proper of a scrapbot, which fits him, but also a bit evilish. Tsk.
J'ai pris ces photos un matin, à 5h40, lorsque le soleil se levait..
I took these pictures a morning at 5:40am, during the sunrise
Julien Delfort ©
Forma parte de las figuras del paso de Nuestro Padre Jesús de Nazaret, de la Hdad. de Pino Montano, Sevilla.
Realizado por el escultor Fernando Castejón López en 2007.
A still from the video I posted recently. RAW to render. No processing. This one struck me as some kind of sea creature. But it's just ice.
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Subconscious exploration is a project that explores the multifaceted nature of reality and the fine border between reason and phantasm.
Sus fecas son muy ácidas y los árboles en que anida suelen secarse razón por la que en algunos países son declarados plagas y su erradicación por cualquier forma es permitida. Una pena.
This Neotropic Cormorant is an expert diver and can capture fish, aquatic insects and frogs while holding its breath underwater for a Good time. It is common to find him pose in low altitudes proudly exhibiting its long neck.
Su nombre científico Phalacrocorax brasilianus significa: Cuervo calvo del Brasil. Se compone del género en griego > Phalakrós: calvo + Kórax: Cuervo y su epíteto Brasilianus significa: Del Brasil.
Orden: SULIFORMES
Familia: Phalacrocoracidae
Genero: Tringa
Nombres comunes: Cormorán Neotropical, Cormorán Biguá
Nombre en ingles: Neotropic Cormorant
Nombre científico: Phalacrocorax brasilianus
Lugar de captura: Recinto del Pensamiento
Región: Manizales, Colombia
Por: Carlos Iván Restrepo Jaramillo
We were driving and saw this phenomenal cloud- but it looked like a mushroom cloud! I have to admit I was somewhat fearful at first, even with the beauty of it!
A Brooks Kingsnake (Lampropeltis getula brooksi) crawls across a trail in southern Florida.
Miami-Dade county, FL
A sunset capture form El. Franco Lee Park that never made its way into the photostream. Hopefully, a few warm clouds will brighten and warm your spirit for the day.
We spent that morning getting blanketed by a rare snow storm that left everything under a sheet of white. The snowfall stopped before noon and a majority of the snow is gone from the roadways. Those roadways could be quite treacherous this evening as the temperatures drop to 19ᴼF overnight. I know that some in the north will give a chuckle and say that they deal with temperatures like this on a daily basis, but we can go three or four years at a time before the temperatures drop below the freezing point here in the Houston area. Our infrastructure is just not set up to handle situations like this and so, it’s a bit of a challenge over the next 14 to 16 hours before eh temperatures get above freezing. We’ll be above freezing by 10 am tomorrow and everything should return to normal after that.
I did venture out to take some photos, but have not looked at those photos, but I am not noted for my snowscapes and am not certain that any will be posted. Just hoping that everyone stays save and warm from Texas to Florida.
Just a footnote about the decorative birds on the observation platform, they are not real, but are a part of the decorative handrail on the platform.
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Eine besondere Form der Abzweigstelle, die heutzutage äußerst selten geworden ist bei den europäischen Eisenbahnen, ist diese Betriebsstelle an der Schmalspurbahn Jindrichov Hradec bzw. an der durch Jindrichuv Hradec führende Normalspurstrecke. Hier mündet die bosnische Spur mit 760 mm in das Normaspurgleis mit 1435 mm und wird bis zum Bahnhot Jindrichuv Hradec als Dreischienengleis weitergeführt. Triebwagen M27 004 befährt gerade, von Kamenice nac Lipou kommend, den Abzweig.
(EN) Bath's coralblenny - (FR) Blennie de Bath
Ecsenius bathi black stripes form, Pura Island, Indonesia
A giant wooden horse sculpture at Burghley House Sculpture Garden, Stamford. "From Far Away Great Changes Come As Forms You Thought You Knew" by Robert Fung.
A new image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope reveals a remarkable cosmic sight: at least 17 concentric dust rings emanating from a pair of stars. Located just over 5000 light-years from Earth, the duo is collectively known as Wolf-Rayet 140. Each ring was created when the two stars came close together and their stellar winds (streams of gas they blow into space) met, compressing the gas and forming dust. The stars’ orbits bring them together about once every eight years; like the rings of a tree’s trunk, the dust loops mark the passage of time.
In addition to Webb’s overall sensitivity, its Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) is uniquely qualified to study the dust rings. These rings are also called shells by astronomers because they are thicker and wider than they appear in the image. Webb’s science instruments detect infrared light, a range of wavelengths invisible to the human eye.
Contributed under both ESA and NASA leadership, Webb’s MIRI instrument detects the longest infrared wavelengths. This means that it can often see cooler objects – including the dust rings – than Webb’s other instruments can. MIRI’s spectrometer also revealed the composition of the dust, formed mostly from material ejected by a type of star known as a Wolf-Rayet star. A Wolf-Rayet star is born with at least 25 times more mass than our Sun and is nearing the end of its life, when it will likely explode as a supernova and then collapse into a black hole. Burning hotter than in its youth, a Wolf-Rayet star generates powerful winds that push huge amounts of gas into space. The Wolf-Rayet star in this particular pair may have shed more than half its original mass via this process.
Transforming gas into dust is somewhat like turning flour into bread. It requires specific conditions and ingredients. Hydrogen, the most common element found in stars, can’t form dust on its own. But because Wolf-Rayet stars shed so much mass, they also eject more complex elements typically found deep in a star’s interior, including carbon. The heavy elements in the wind cool as they travel into space and are then compressed where the winds from both stars meet, like when two hands knead dough.
Some other Wolf-Rayet systems form dust, but none is known to make rings like Wolf-Rayet 140 does. The unique ring pattern forms because the orbit of the Wolf-Rayet star in WR 140 is elongated, not circular. Only when the stars come close together – about the same distance between Earth and the Sun – and their winds collide is the gas under sufficient pressure to form dust. With circular orbits, Wolf-Rayet binaries can produce dust continuously.
The science team thinks WR 140’s winds also swept the surrounding area clear of residual material they might otherwise collide with, which may be why the rings remain so pristine rather than smeared or dispersed. There are likely even more rings that have become so faint and dispersed, not even Webb can see them in the data.
Wolf-Rayet stars may seem exotic compared to our Sun, but they may have played a role in star and planet formation. When a Wolf-Rayet star clears an area, the swept-up material can pile up at the outskirts and become dense enough for new stars to form. There is some evidence the Sun formed in such a scenario.
Using data from MIRI’s Medium Resolution Spectroscopy mode, the new study provides the best evidence yet that Wolf-Rayet stars produce carbon-rich dust molecules. What’s more, the preservation of the dust shells indicates that this dust can survive in the hostile environment between stars, going on to supply material for future stars and planets. The catch is that while astronomers estimate that there should be at least a few thousand Wolf-Rayet stars in our galaxy, only about 600 have been found to date.
These results have been published today in Nature Astronomy.
MIRI was contributed by ESA and NASA, with the instrument designed and built by a consortium of nationally funded European Institutes (the MIRI European Consortium) in partnership with JPL and the University of Arizona.
[Image Description: The background of this Webb image of star Wolf-Rayet 140 is black. A pair of bright stars dominates the centre of the image, with at least 17 pink-orange concentric dust rings emanating from them. Throughout the scene are a range of distant galaxies, the majority of which are very tiny and red, appearing as splotches.]
Credits: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/JPL-Caltech; CC BY 4.0