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Example of use of TOPAZ AI SHARPEN
A Chiffchaff taking off
Un pouillot veloce qui s'envole
It's impossible to recover a movement blur with a sharpening filter : a sharpening filter will only add noise in this case but it will never recover details.
TOPAZ AI SHARPEN includes a new function called STABILIZE that is different from a simple sharpening filter. It tries to find a movement on the photo and to cancel it. That's why sometimes there are small artifacts on the opposite side of the movement, but it is really easy to deal with them with GIMP or photoshop.
To conclude : this tool deserves a try as it is free for 30 days.
It is very usefull for animals in movement (birds in flight, animals running ...), but it can manage movement of the photographer too.
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Dún Aonghasa (Unofficial anglicised version Dun Aengus) is the best-known of several prehistoric hill forts on the Aran Islands of County Galway, Republic of Ireland. It lies on Inis Mór, at the edge of a 100-metre-high (330 ft) cliff.
A popular tourist attraction, Dún Aonghasa is an important archaeological site.
History
It is not known exactly when Dún Aonghasa was built, though it is now thought that most of the structures date from the Bronze Age and Iron Age. T. F. O'Rahilly surmised in what is known as O'Rahilly's historical model that it was built in the 2nd century BC by the Builg following the Laginian conquest of Connacht.Excavations at the site indicate that the first construction goes back to 1100 BC, when rubble was piled against large upright stones to form the first enclosure. Around 500 BC, the triple wall defenses were probably constructed along the fort's western side.
The 19th-century artist George Petrie called "Dún Aonghasa" "the most magnificent barbaric monument in Europe". Its name, meaning "Fort of Aonghas", may refer to the pre-Christian god of the same name described in Irish mythology, or the mythical king, Aonghus mac Úmhór. It has thus traditionally been associated with the Fir Bolg.
Form and function
The fort consists of a series of four concentric walls of dry stone construction, built on a high cliff some one hundred metres above the sea. At the time of its construction sea levels were considerably lower and a recent Radio Telefis Eireann documentary estimates that originally it was 1000 metres from the sea. Surviving stonework is four metres wide at some points. The original shape was presumably oval or D-shaped but parts of the cliff and fort have since collapsed into the sea. Outside the third ring of walls lies a defensive system of stone slabs, known as a cheval de frise, planted in an upright position in the ground and still largely well-preserved. These ruins also feature a huge rectangular stone slab, the function of which is unknown. Impressively large among prehistoric ruins, the outermost wall of Dún Aonghasa encloses an area of approximately 6 hectares (14 acres).
Today
The walls of Dún Aonghasa have been rebuilt to a height of 6m and have wall walks, chambers, and flights of stairs. The restoration is easily distinguished from the original construction by the use of mortar.[citation needed]
There is a small museum illustrating the history of the fort and its possible functions. Also in the vicinity is a Neolithic tomb and a small heritage park featuring examples of a traditional thatched cottage and an illegal poteen distillery.
The Yonghe Temple Palace of Peace and Harmony, also known as the Yonghe Lamasery, or popularly as the Lama Temple, is a temple and monastery of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism located on 12 Yonghegong Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing, China. The building and artwork of the temple is a combination of Han Chinese and Tibetan styles. This building is one of the largest Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in China proper. The current abbot is Lama Hu Xuefeng. Building work on the Yonghe Temple started in 1694 during the Qing dynasty on the site where originally stood an official residence for court eunuchs of the Ming dynasty. After the Chinese Civil War ended in 1949, the temple was declared a national monument and closed for the following 32 years. It is said to have survived the Cultural Revolution due to the intervention of Premier Zhou Enlai. Reopened to the public in 1981, it is today both a functioning temple and highly popular tourist attraction in the city. 1681
These old elevators were designed for function not so much for form or prettiness. Over time though their patina transforms them into a wonderful artistic looking form.
Summer 2025
These are the remains of the hamlet of Lodge overlooking Scar House Reservoir, Upper Nidderdale
The view from the ruins of the Methodist Chapel over Scar House Reservoir is a delight to see though when the chapel was functioning the view would have been over a green and fertile valley
Lodge was a small farming hamlet complete with Methodist Chapel originally founded as a monastic grange farm. Abandoned in the 1920's its historic legacy is faint but enduring.
In 1900 Lodge was a thriving community of small upland farms. It probably started life in the 13th century when a grange farm was built here. The farm and land belonged to the Cistercian Monastery of Byland Abbey. When the Abbey was dissolved in 1538 the land was sold to wealthy local landowners who over the next 350 years improved the farms and land.
Bradford Corporation, responsible for building Scar House Reservoir owned Lodge from 1904. The last residents left in 1929
At one time the droveway through Lodge was the main road connecting Scotland to Eastern England
Detail from the information board at Lodge
The Monostor Fortress - the largest modern fortress in Central Europe - was built between 1850 and 1871. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the neoclassical military monument is a fascinating sight with its huge walls of precisely hewn stone, the 3-4 metre thick earthen ramparts covering the defences and its network of underground passages (kazamata) several kilometres long.
Its monumental dimensions are evidenced by the following figures: The fortress covers 25 hectares, the total area including the firing ranges is 70 hectares, the floor area of the buildings is 25 680 m2 and the number of rooms is 640.
After the fortress was built, it served generations of soldiers of the Hungarian Defence Forces. Its tasks included the defence of the central fortress (North - Komárom) and the control of shipping on the Danube. It was never used in combat and served mainly as a training centre and weapons depot. During the First World War it was used as a conscription and training centre. During the Second World War, the 22nd Infantry Regiment had its headquarters at Fort Monostor, and the soldiers of the 1st and 2nd Infantry Regiments were stationed there. After the Second World War.
Between 1945 and 1990, the Red Army's Army Group South set up the largest ammunition depot in Central Europe in the fort. With their withdrawal, the military function of the fortress ended forever.
Today the fort is a popular destination with a military history exhibition, Cold War vehicles, a bread museum, a boat exhibition and numerous events.
Looking up at the award-winning Sharp Centre for Design at OCAD University in Toronto. Although quite striking with the 12 multi-coloured, pencil-like supports, I downplayed the colour as to highlight the contrasting shapes, angles, light and textures with this capture.
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The Monostor Fortress - the largest modern fortress in Central Europe - was built between 1850 and 1871. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the neoclassical military monument is a fascinating sight with its huge walls of precisely hewn stone, the 3-4 metre thick earthen ramparts covering the defences and its network of underground passages (kazamata) several kilometres long.
Its monumental dimensions are evidenced by the following figures: The fortress covers 25 hectares, the total area including the firing ranges is 70 hectares, the floor area of the buildings is 25 680 m2 and the number of rooms is 640.
After the fortress was built, it served generations of soldiers of the Hungarian Defence Forces. Its tasks included the defence of the central fortress (North - Komárom) and the control of shipping on the Danube. It was never used in combat and served mainly as a training centre and weapons depot. During the First World War it was used as a conscription and training centre. During the Second World War, the 22nd Infantry Regiment had its headquarters at Fort Monostor, and the soldiers of the 1st and 2nd Infantry Regiments were stationed there. After the Second World War.
Between 1945 and 1990, the Red Army's Army Group South set up the largest ammunition depot in Central Europe in the fort. With their withdrawal, the military function of the fortress ended forever.
Today the fort is a popular destination with a military history exhibition, Cold War vehicles, a bread museum, a boat exhibition and numerous events.
Each rhododendron bloom is a gathered colony of small, near-identical flowers—delicate, deliberate, and designed to draw in early summer’s pollinators. Their symmetry has both function and grace.
Glasgow Central ..
397012 5C51 15.08 Glasgow Central-Carstairs empty stock move, on the point of departing,
385039 having recently arrived.
In France we say: "La fonction fait la forme". Here, one could say: "The form generates the function".
All function, no form, or at least none that has a bit of visual appeal. Some farmer has an innate feel for brutalist design, yet... see that latch? It's brilliant; releasing the bolt allows it to slide securely into place, reducing the chance that the gate will be left open. Oddly enough, the path beyond leads to one of the most beautiful and most photographed fishing huts in Connemara, Ireland...
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Shell Haus, one of the main attractions for me in Berlin. Built in 1930-1931 for oil company Rhenia-Ossag, a Royal Dutch Shell subsidiary, the building has seen numerous ups and downs. While the location of this modernist gem is not central, I highly recommend visiting this beautiful building if possible.
Too damp to sit.
HBM!
For the curious, "Telegraph Clump" functioned as one of the locations for the semaphore line, an optical telegraph system that ran between London and Great Yarmouth from around the 1820's to around 1850.
One of seven surviving city gates in Kaliningrad, the former city of Königsberg. The Brandenburg Gate is the only gate of the still existing gates of Kaliningrad that performs its original transport function. The structure has been restored and is protected by the state as an architectural monument.
UPDATE: I think I finally discovered the actual species. According to this excellent site, it looks like it's a Cotton Harlequin Bug (Tectocoris diophthalmus).
I've never seen one of these before and apparently it's a Harlequin Beetle. I can't find much information or even the botanical name for it, so I did a search for quotes that referred to harlequins.
Imagine my delight when I found a quote from Battlestar Galactica! Here's the quote in full from Wikiquote:
Hybrid: Two protons expelled at each coupling site creates the mode of force, the embryo becomes a fish though we don't enter until a plate, we're here to experience, evolve the little toe, atrophy, don't ask me how, I'll be dead in a thousand light years, thank you, thank you, genesis turns to its source, reduction occurs step wise though the essence is all one, end of line. FTL system check. Diagnostic functions within parameters repeats the harlequin, the agony exquisite, the colors run the path of ashes...
A sunny and colourful photo from my visit to Eberbach, in the German Neckartal.
This shot was taken on the Breitenstein where fruit trees grow in the old-fashioned, more natural way. This Hawthorn is part of an old hedge between meadows with trees, and a nearby notice explains the function of hedges: they provide shelter from the wind for trees and crops, as well as a higher humidity on the fields. They create a natural habitat for all kinds of birds and for mammals such as hedgehogs.
But a hedge needs to be trimmed every 10 to 15 years otherwise it loses its dense shape and with that its vitality and its function as a nesting place. I found this piece of information quite interesting. [Explored on 13/01/2024, #120]
Yellow daylily (Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus) / Gelbe Taglilie
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We've had a string of winter storms lately - good to be prepared and protected.
From North Hollywood, California.
Die Waldohreule hat mit einer Körperlänge von 31 bis 37 cm und einer Flügelspannweite von 86 bis 98 cm etwa die Größe einer Schleiereule. Sie ist wesentlich schlanker als ein Waldkauz und mit einem Gewicht von 220 bis 280 Gramm (Männchen) bzw. 250 bis 370 Gramm (Weibchen) erheblich leichter. Durch die auffallend großen Federohren und das marmorierte Gefieder, ähnelt die Waldohreule optisch dem deutlich größeren Uhu. Die Federohren haben keine Funktion im Zusammenhang mit der Hörleistung der Eule. Zur Verstärkung der Hörleistung dient vielmehr der bei der Waldohreule auffällige Gesichtsschleier, der Ähnlichkeit mit dem Schleier der Sumpfohreule aufweist.
(Wikipedia)
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With a body length of 31 to 37 cm and a wingspan of 86 to 98 cm, the long-eared owl is about the size of a barn owl. It is much slimmer than a tawny owl and considerably lighter, weighing 220 to 280 grams (males) or 250 to 370 grams (females). With its strikingly large feather tufts and marbled plumage, the long-eared owl resembles the much larger eagle owl. The feather tufts have no function in relation to the owl's hearing. Instead, the long-eared owl's striking facial disc, which resembles the disc of the short-eared owl, serves to enhance its hearing.
It is known that the Devil's Bridge was built in the 16th century during the Ottoman period, due to the materials and construction techniques used. The structure, which was built as an aqueduct to allow the water coming to the neighborhood to pass through the valley, later started to function as a bridge by connecting the two slopes.
It is thought that the bridge, which is not preferred for use today due to its location in the valley and being narrow and high, was named "Devil's Bridge" due to its spooky structure.
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The National Carillon, situated on Aspen Island in central Canberra, Australia is a large carillon managed and maintained by the National Capital Authority on behalf of the Commonwealth of Australia
The carillon was a gift from the British government to the people of Australia to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the national capital, Canberra. Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the National Carillon on 26 April 1970. The tower, standing 50 metres (160 ft) tall, was designed by Cameron Chisholm Nicol, a firm based in Western Australia. The concept was developed by Don Ho, one of the firm's architects, in 1968. In 2004, the carillon underwent refurbishment, including renovations of interior function facilities and the addition of two extra bells.
Carillons must have at least 23 bells to be considered as such, and the National Carillon has 55 (increased from 53 during refurbishments in 2003). Each bell weighs between seven kilograms (15 pounds) and six tonnes. The bells span four and a half octaves chromatically.
The carillon features moderate-size function facilities for small gatherings offering wonderful views over Lake Burley Griffin and central Canberra.
The carillon is in regular use, chiming every quarter-hour and playing a short tune on the hour along with tours and recitals on many days. For example, there is usually a recital of carols on Christmas Eve each year with music being played for around an hour at dusk. The best place to listen to the carillon is suggested to be within 100 metres of the building though the sound can usually be heard much further away in the Parliamentary Triangle, Kingston and Civic.
Stop smoking, as this will only bring you health problems in addition to harming the environment.
The human lung is composed of small structures, the alveoli, responsible for the gas exchange of the blood. Blood flow and blood flow between heart and lungs are intense. Cigarette smoke directly affect the functioning of the heart-lung circulation. Over time the pulmonary alveolus are being cemented by the components of cigarette smoke, failing to do its function. The body will then be replaced by smaller tissue oxygenation, resulting in greater ease of tiredness for the smoker. Cigarette smoking also causes countless damage to the heart and lungs, such as heart attack and cancer.
Excerpt from bronte-village.ca/bronte-market-square-open-for-business/:
Located at 2445 Lakeshore Rd W, the square was created as an amenity for the district by The Village property owner and is now managed by the Town of Oakville.
The space is bookable for events and activations (think outdoor markets, fitness classes, holiday-themed activities, live music – the possibilities are endless!) and will be dressed to impress with colourful hanging baskets and planters soon.
Bronte Market Square also functions as a resting and gathering space and for improving connectivity and pedestrian access to local businesses. Its infrastructure includes seating areas, access to electrical power and a water feature.
The adult humpback whale is generally 14–15 m (46–49 ft) long, though individuals up to 16–17 m (52–56 ft) long have been recorded. Females are usually 1–1.5 m (3 ft 3 in – 4 ft 11 in) longer than males.
The species can reach body masses of 40 metric tons (44 short tons). Calves are born at around 4.3 m (14 ft) long with a mass of 680 kg (1,500 lb)] The species has a bulky body with a thin rostrum and proportionally long flippers, each around one-third of its body length.[14][15] It has a short dorsal fin that varies from nearly nonexistent to somewhat long and curved.
Like other rorquals, the humpback has grooves between the tip of the lower jaw and the navel. The grooves are relatively few in number in this species, ranging from 14 to 35. The upper jaw is lined with baleen plates, which number 540–800 in total and are black in color.
The dorsal or upper side of the animal is generally black; the ventral or underside has various levels of black and white coloration. Whales in the southern hemisphere tend to have more white pigmentation. The flippers can vary from all-white to white only on the undersurface. Some individuals may be all white, notably Migaloo who is a true albino. The varying color patterns and scars on the tail flukes distinguish individual animals.[
The end of the genital slit of the female is marked by a round feature, known as the hemispherical lobe, which visually distinguishes males and females.[15][19]
Unique among large whales, humpbacks have bumps or tubercles on the head and front edge of the flippers; the tail fluke has a jagged trailing edge. The tubercles on the head are 5–10 cm (2.0–3.9 in) thick at the base and protrude up to 6.5 cm (2.6 in).
They are mostly hollow in the center, often containing at least one fragile hair that erupts 1–3 cm (0.39–1.18 in) from the skin and is 0.1 mm (0.0039 in) thick. The tubercles develop early in gestation and may have a sensory function, as they are rich in nerves. Sensory nerve cells in the skin are adapted to withstand the high water pressure of diving.
In one study, a humpback whale brain measured 22.4 cm (8.8 in) long and 18 cm (7.1 in) wide at the tips of the temporal lobes, and weighed around 4.6 kg (10 lb). The humpback's brain has a complexity similar to that of the brains of smaller whales and dolphins.
The structure of the eye indicates that eyesight is relatively poor, being only able to see silhouettes over long distances and finer details relatively close. Computer models of the middle ear suggest that the humpback can hear at frequencies between 15 Hz and 3 kHz "when stimulated at the tympanic membrane", and between 200 Hz and 9 kHz "if stimulated at the thinner region of the tympanic bone adjacent to the tympanic membrane". These ranges are consistent with their vocalization ranges.
As in all cetaceans, the respiratory tract of the humpback whale is connected to the blowholes and not to the mouth, although the species appears to be able to unlock the epiglottis and larynx and move them towards the oral cavity, allowing humpbacks to blow bubbles from their mouths. The vocal folds of the humpback are more horizontally positioned than those of land mammals which allows them to produce underwater calls. These calls are amplified by a laryngeal sac.
This image was taken in Juneau, Alaska
Excerpt from bronte-village.ca/bronte-market-square-open-for-business/:
Located at 2445 Lakeshore Rd W, the square was created as an amenity for the district by The Village property owner and is now managed by the Town of Oakville.
The space is bookable for events and activations (think outdoor markets, fitness classes, holiday-themed activities, live music – the possibilities are endless!) and will be dressed to impress with colourful hanging baskets and planters soon.
Bronte Market Square also functions as a resting and gathering space and for improving connectivity and pedestrian access to local businesses. Its infrastructure includes seating areas, access to electrical power and a water feature.
After six months of redevelopment, the Natural History Museum this month reopened its centrepiece, Hintze Hall, with Dippy the Diplodocus replaced by the skeleton of a 25-metre blue whale named Hope. I was fortunate to be able to visit the museum a few days after it opened, and to behold the remarkable sight of this creature -- the largest ever to have lived -- suspended from the hall's ceiling and diving downwards with its jaws open.
Having last photographed Hintze Hall more than two years ago, it was fun to return to the location and to try an angle I hadn't photographed in a while. The challenge here is always the immense number of visitors the museum welcomes each day, and my workflow to capture the scene nearly empty was similar to my previous take, which is to say about 45 minutes of continuous shooting and then using Photoshop's Statistics function within the Scripts menu to calculate and remove any inconsistent elements. In addition to bracketing my exposures so that I could later blend them using luminosity masks, I was also drawn to the dramatic mid-morning sunlight coming through the windows, which cast a warm glow on Hope and created a wonderful array of patterns along the hall's floor. The sun on this particular morning was constantly dipping behind the clouds, however, so I was restricted to shooting only when the sun reappeared, as well as trying to capture each part of the scene without people at least once to ensure a clean and straightforward editing process.
Although I'd bracketed nine exposures and had a range of tonality to work with, the bulk of my workflow was geared towards the darker exposures, which captured all of the detail in the museum's windows and a moody sense of mystery beneath its arches, as well as emphasising the pattern of light and shadow along the ground. With this said, I used the brighter exposures to gently restore detail to the brickwork and to emphasise portions of the building's architecture, for example J. W. Beaufort's portrait of Alfred Russel Wallace to the right of Darwin's statue. After this, I used a mixture of Curves, Hue/Saturation, Colour Balance, Selective Colour and Gradient Map adjustments to find the right shade of blue for the shadows and to emphasise the warmth of the sunlight streaming through the windows. Inside Nik's Colour Efex Pro and Silver Efex Pro, I significantly lowered the midtones and softened the structure across the museum's floor, as well as applying a small amount of the Detail Extractor and Tonal Contrast filters to the walls to bring out their texture.
The mother and son beneath the whale were added further along in the workflow, but I felt they completed the image. Besides providing a sense of the scale of the skeleton towering over them, there seemed to be something meaningful about their presence beneath a display that's intended as a symbol of humanity's power to shape a sustainable future. This particular whale was stranded at Wexford Harbour in southeast Ireland in 1871, but the species was hunted to the brink of extinction during the 20th century, with the blue whale being the first species that humans finally resolved to save on a global scale. Their population has steadily begun to climb again, hence the name Hope, and there seemed to be something very hopeful about a parent and child visiting an environment where everyone is encouraged to be a part of that change.
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