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This tiny frost 'butterfly' is growing, yesterday it was but a quarter inch, now it has 'spread it's wings' a bit, and gained size, almost doubled.
Of particular interest to me are the formations across the bottom, too small to see with the naked unaided eye, but springing to 'life' like tiny cotyledons from a bursting seed.
The platforms of Ramsbottom Station are fleeced with a fresh covering of snow.
Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway territory with ‘A Class’ 52332 standing in the station with a mixed goods train, having gained permission from the Bobby to draw forward and take on water...
Equipo Principal: SW Explorer 200p + SW Coma Corrector 0.9x + ZWO ASI 1600 mm-pro + ZWO EAF + ZWO 7x2" EFW + SW EQ6-R-Pro
Equipo guía: ZWO M68 OAG + camara guia ZWO ASI 120mm mini
*Gain 139, -20 º C, Ha 7nm 2" Optolong, 80x180"
*Gain 139, -20 º C, Oiii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 80x180"
100 Darks
55 Flats por filtro
100 Dark-Flats por filtro
Polar Align: SharpCap 4
Adquisición: SGP 3.1
Procesado: Pixinsight 1.8.9, PS, Blur Exterminator
Those who know, know.
Amsterdam, 2019.
Muiden Castle (Dutch: Muiderslot) is a castle in the Netherlands, located at the mouth of the Vecht river, some 15 kilometers southeast of Amsterdam, in Muiden, where it flows into what used to be the Zuiderzee. It is one of the better known castles in the Netherlands and featured in many television shows set in the Middle Ages.
The history of Muiden Castle begins with Count Floris V who built a stone castle at the mouth of the river in 1280, when he gained command over an area that used to be part of the Sea of Utrecht. The Vecht river was the trade route to Utrecht, one of the most important trade towns of that age. The castle was used to enforce a toll on the traders. It is a relatively small castle, measuring 32 by 35 metres with brick walls well over 1.5 metres thick. A large moat surrounded the castle.
In 1296, Gerard van Velsen conspired together with Herman van Woerden, Gijsbrecht IV of Amstel, and several others to kidnap Floris V. The count was eventually imprisoned in Muiden Castle. After Floris V attempted to escape, Gerard personally killed the count on the 27th of June 1296 by stabbing him 20 times. The alleged cause of the conflict between the nobles was the rape of Gerard van Velsen's wife by Floris.
In 1297, the castle was conquered by Willem van Mechelen, the Archbishop of Utrecht, and by the year 1300 the castle was demolished.
In the Fourteenth century (ca. 1370-1386) the castle was rebuilt on the same spot based on the same plan, by Albert I, Duke of Bavaria, who at that time was also the Count of Holland and Zeeland.
Look forward to your sinless and perfect home!
(William Nicholson, "Death, the Believer's Gain!" 1862)
"For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain!" Philippians 1:21
At death, the Christian gains holiness without sin. In Heaven, the very existence of sin will be destroyed, "Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life!" Revelation 21:27
Here on earth, sin is the ruin of man--the ruin of his immortal soul. It has blighted and blasted the world, and filled it with impurity, misery, and death!
The Christian has here to struggle and wrestle . . .
with sin in his members,
with his depraved heart,
with sin in his family,
with sin in his neighbors,
with sin in his business transactions,
with sin in society at large.
He feels its evil operations, and laments its corrupting effects.
But in Heaven the Christian shall gain purity without sin! All the remains of sin, and the dregs of corruption are left forever behind!
No condemning conscience is found there.
No unhallowed appetites are found there.
No disordered affections exist there.
No appearance or vestige of evil is found there.
Every child of God is as pure as Christ is pure--as perfect as his Father in Heaven is perfect.
Child of mortality, heir of corruption! Look forward to your sinless and perfect home, and learn that to die will be gain indeed!
"Now the dwelling of God is with men, and He will live with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away!" Revelation 21:3-4
Chris bravely offered to gain a higher vantage point to get a better angle of the winery I was trying to photograph, and while she was up there, it would have been a waste not to do something silly and record it for posterity.
Equipo Principal: ZWO ASI 1600 mm-pro + SW Explorer 250pds + SW Coma Corrector 0.9x + EQ6-R-Pro + ZWO EAF + ZWO 7x2" EFW
Equipo guía: guidescope 60/240 mm, ZWO ASI 120mm mini
*Gain 100, -25 º C, R-CCD 2" Svbony + L-Pro 2" Optolong, 50x120"
*Gain 100, -25 º C, G-CCD 2" Svbony + L-Pro 2" Optolong, 50x120"
*Gain 100, -25 º C, B-CCD 2" Svbony + L-Pro 2" Optolong, 50x120"
*Gain 100, -25 º C, L 2" Optolong + L-Pro 2" Optolong, 197x120"
50 Darks
50 Flats / filter
Polar Align: SharpCap 3.2
Adquisición: SGP 3.1
Procesado: Pixinsight 1.8.8, PS
Hello everyone, I would like to invite you to subscribe to my new Instagram page, exclusively for photos, thank you very much, the profile name is Instagram: @guilhermeLeibantefoto
William Land Park in East Sacramento has one pond that has been almost completely overtaken by water lilies. During an overcast day, I grabbed my telephoto for some compositions of the flowers in diffuse light. While I had to overcome some breezy conditions by using a higher ISO, the bees did not seem to mind the wind and were happily pollinating these interesting looking plants.
Photo taken from inside 'Mashka Jewellery Store' I have to give a shout out to the owners for allowing me to take a photo of the decor inside only of the window display paper design. Mashka have an incredible range of beautiful handmade Jewellery, Located @ 1400 Grant Avenue on Telegraph Hill, San Francisco. mashka.com . Absolutely no gain, no copyright, and no involvement with said company. This decor in the window display caught my attention whilst walking by one morning and I just had to get a photo of this awesome decor, and this decor ONLY.
...and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
It's about your outlook on life.
You can either regret or rejoice.
Anime Stars and Project Babymetal - METAL MAYnia at Hatsune Miku's Vocaloid World - Saturday, May 7th 2022
* 9:00 am:
Anime Stars - High Gain Street rock-metal concert
with Gumi, Rin, Teto, Lily, Ritsu and more vocaloids
* 11:00 am
Project Babymetal
Fully choreographed sync-to-music tribute show to Japanese kawaii-metal
Spent the 4th of July morning promoting animal welfare in Houston’s East End. As almost always, we meet abandoned animals; the rescuer seen here gaining the trust of this bedraggled, homeless dog. This is an incredible lady who works endlessly for animal rights and, perhaps with the exception of one other person, has rescued more animals than anyone else I personally know.
This was the reason I visited the Olympic Peninsula because I wanted to see these endemic Olympic Marmots. I had never seen them before and they did not disappoint. It was fun watching them and listening to them whistle. The hike up to see them was beautiful at 5.2Km long an elevation gain of 650Ft to the top of Hurricane Hill via Hurricane Ridge which sits at 5700Ft. At the top we had views of the Olympic Peninsula, The Strait of Juan de Fuca, Olympic Mountains and Victoria and Canada. The views of the Olympic Marmots and other wildlife and scenery was something special to see. I saw 6 Marmots on the hike and all of them were above 4000Ft. I saw adults and young and the young looked very different from the older ones as they had white faces and bellies. The one photographed here is an adult. I like their unique coat colour which has a lot of copper in it. It was fun to watch them sunning themselves on the rocks. I love his expression especially in this shot.
Olympic Marmots are endemic to the Olympic Peninsula and are not found anywhere else in the world. They are declining due to climate change and predation and have been intensely monitored since 2010. Olympic Marmots are the largest of all Marmots and show the greatest sexual dimorphism with the males being much larger than the females.
The Olympic marmot is the second-rarest North American marmot, behind the critically endangered Vancouver Island Marmot which I recently photographed.
This is the official endemic mammal of Washington State.
I’m looking forward to 2015 & more landscape photography. This time I'm thinking ahead to what my next journey is going to be, both literally and figuratively. I want to be more focus and concentrate on the specific photos rather than running around and wasting time taking shots of everywhere I do. Also I am looking for new companions to share my experience and my talents.
I want to improve my collection of landscape photography and wishing to expand my travel plans to seek for new places. Therefore, I want to concentrate on my skills and my creative drive for this year. I am fortunate to see the beauty in the simplicity of light and nature, and I'm able to use that vision to create photos in my own style. Creativity is a talent that needs to be shared able to gain confidences and inspiration for the next journey. My goal this year is to aspire other upcoming landscape photographers and share my experiences and journey with them.
A blessed and prosperous New year!!!
This mix and intensity of colors could not be more typical in Mexico.
The streets gain a joy that would otherwise be buried, also in Oaxaca with its low-rise buildings due to earthquakes, no building rules over the next one, making it a delight to walk through its streets.
A pair of SD60s lead CN L514 south passed the GTW Gaines depot, now the Village of Gaines Public Library, on a cool winter afternoon.
A majestic view of Mount Nandadevi and Mount Betartholi on the trek to Kuari in Garhwal Himalayas, India
Flickr. David. David. Flickr.
This is the beginning of my “meet my friends project”. This project allows me to humanize my peers and get to know their stories and share how fortunate I’ve been to meet these awesome people with others. Let’s get started!
Where we met: David was part of a dance group in a talent show at school where I was photographer. This is him actually doing a gainer, no photo manip here.
After a short conversation with David, some things were clear:
-He’s a big nerd. Interests include Scott Pilgrim, cosplaying, 5am talks about various equations, and learning new languages (german, French, Japanese..).
-He gets very invested in movies and books. (emphasis on very)
-He has a big heart. Poor guy is still traumatized by his friend stealing a whole rack of plastic bags at a grocery store one day.
Conclusion: Is he human or is he dancer? Both! He’s more than that guy who can just do flips. I asked him what he wish people did more, his answer was simple: Stop judging people and have fun with life.
Media recommendations: Sense8 (netflix), The Martian by Andy Weir (book)
Shearings Alexander bodied Tigers buses 53 -56 - however they would not enter service with these registrations F53 -56 ENF. Delivered late (in 7/89) we decided to delay registering them until 8/89 so they gained G registrations, becoming G53-56 RND. Seen here in Gower St depot having just arrived on their delivery run from Belfast via the Larne ferry and a long drag down from Stranraer.
CN 5432 east, operating as local L528, splits the classic searchlight signals at Rosedale West, on CN's Yale Subdivision.
The nuances that make this image special are fairly esoteric, and may not mean much to those who haven't visited southern British Columbia in the past quarter century.
Since the spring of 2000, CN and arch rival CP have jointly operated their parallel mainlines down the Thompson, and Fraser Canyons as a shared 'Directional Running Zone'. The agreement allowed all of the westbound traffic from both roads to operate over CN's Ashcroft, and Yale subdivisions, between a point near Ashcroft to the east, and Matsqui Junction to the west. Conversely all eastbound traffic is routed over CP's Cascade and Thompson subdivisions between Mission at the west end, and near Ashcroft at the east end. The arrangement has greatly benefited both railroads, as the total train capacity for this important traffic corridor is virtually unlimited now. Under E. Hunter Harrison's reign at CN in the mid 2000's, 5 sidings were removed on the CN side, signaling that this arrangement was permanent in their eyes. When EHH gained leadership at CP, he completed the task of gutting infrastructure at that railway too, and removed 10 sidings on their side of the canyon. The message was clear; the DRZ is here to stay.
For photographers, this operational change was met with mixed emotions. The upside being that one could now set up on the 'CP' side of the river in the morning and shoot all the eastbound traffic in optimum light, and then switch over to the 'CN' side in the afternoon as the sun shifted to favor westbound traffic. The downside to this is that for much of the DRZ, both lines run on a north-south bearing, so the time with optimum light for eastbound traffic on much of the route is limited to a scant few hours during the longest days of the year. The main point of regret though, is that on both lines many classic locations and angles were rendered effectively useless. CP has shown an appetite to run an occasional train against this current of traffic, to the effect of one or two movements per year. CN has been rigid to adhering to this doctrine though, unless the CP line has been out of service due to rock slides or other force majeure, or for the occasional work train movement.
Cue my surprise when it became apparent that CN was running their rarely used L528 symbol to pick up a cut of 32 cars from a manifest train that had been set out for reasons unknown to me at the Rosedale Siding, 22 miles up the single direction DRZ on the Yale Sub. The single light SD60 did not do justice to most of the 'old' eastbound angles on this stretch of line, but it makes a nostalgic stand in for an eastbound train taking a run at the grade and curves up the Fraser Canyon ahead.
No correspondence. "Real Photo Series. British Manufacture."
Vesta Tilley was born Matilda Powles in 1864, in a road off Commandery Street in Worcester. Her father worked at Worcester Royal Porcelain, but he was also a performer and encouraged her early career.
She began performing as male characters, such as Burlington Bertie, and became one of the biggest music hall stars of the period. After a brief retirement she returned to the stage during WWI to support recruitment drives and perform for servicemen.
Following the outbreak of World War I and before conscription, Vesta and her husband Sir Abraham Walter de Frece joined other peers from the entertainment sector on a campaign to support the war effort. They embarked on a series of fund raising activities for war related charities. They also set about actively recruiting men for the armed forces. During this period Vesta’s stage characters mainly depicted soldiers and all her songs were patriotic in nature. She played the role of ‘Tommy in the Trench’ and ‘Jack Tar Home from Sea’ and encouraged men in the audience to join her on the stage and enlist during her show. She also sang such songs as 'Jolly Good Luck to the Girl Who Loves a Soldier', 'The Army of Today's All Right', ‘A Bit of a Blighty One’ and 'Six Days' Leave'. At this point in her career, Vesta was a great music hall star acclaimed around the country, and she was very capable of influencing peoples’ opinion. Additionally, variety theatres were hugely popular and were often used as a hub for war propaganda.
Vesta chose to sing cheerful songs, not only with the aim of being patriotic but also to raise the morale of her audience. ‘The Army of To-day’s all right’ was especially successful in encouraging new recruits to join up the war effort and even the War Office used the title for a poster asking for volunteers.
In one week alone, while performing in Hackney, she managed to enlist a whole battalion, ‘The Vesta Tilley Platoon’, supported by Mr Horatio Bottomley (1860-1933) the politician, self-proclaimed ‘Unofficial Recruiting Agent to the British Empire’ and credited with conducting twenty recruiting meetings and 340 patriotic war lectures across the country. The impact of her work during World War I gained Vesta the nickname of ‘Britain’s greatest recruiting sergeant’.
Her performances were also aimed at serving men, who often gave her tips on how to improve her military characters. Vesta enjoyed working with soldiers as she liked to appear as realistic as possible on stage. Throughout the war Vesta became a popular symbol of home for soldiers on the Front, who used to send her requests for her costumes and make-up to use in their own military concerts on war camps, and she was only too happy to comply.
Petra (Arabic: البتراء, Al-Batrāʾ; Ancient Greek: Πέτρα), originally known as Raqmu (Nabataean Arabic: الرقيم), is a historical and archaeological city in southern Jordan. Petra lies on the slope of Jabal Al-Madbah in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Arabah valley that run from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. Established possibly as early as the 4th century BC as the capital city of the Nabataean Kingdom. The Nabataeans were nomadic Arabs who invested in Petra's proximity to the trade routes by establishing it as a major regional trading hub.
The trading business gained the Nabataeans considerable revenue, and Petra became the focus of their wealth. The earliest recorded historical reference to the city was when an envious Greek dynasty attempted to ransack the city in 312 BC. The Nabataeans were, unlike their enemies, accustomed to living in the barren deserts, and were able to repel attacks by utilizing the area's mountainous terrain. They were particularly skillful in harvesting rainwater, agriculture and stone carving. The Kingdom's capital continued to flourish until the 1st century AD when its famous Al-Khazneh facade was constructed, and its population peaked at an estimated 20,000 inhabitants.
Encroaching troops of the Roman Empire in 106 AD forced the Nabataeans to surrender. The Romans annexed and renamed the Kingdom to Arabia Petraea. Petra's importance declined as sea trade routes emerged, and after a 363 earthquake destroyed many structures. The Byzantine Era witnessed the construction of several Christian churches. By 700, the city became an abandoned place where only a handful of nomads grazed goats. It remained an unknown place until it was rediscovered by Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt in 1812, sparking renewed interest in the city.
The city is famous for its rock-cut architecture and water conduit system. Another name for Petra is the Rose City due to the color of the stone out of which it is carved. It is a symbol of Jordan, as well as Jordan's most-visited tourist attraction. It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1985. UNESCO has described it as "one of the most precious cultural properties of man's cultural heritage".
Ich finde, dass es nur wenig Tiere auf diesem Planeten gibt, die noch niedlicher sind als die Kegelrobbenbabys.
Nur drei Wochen werden sie von der Mutter gesäugt und nehmen dabei täglich bis zu 2 kg an Gewicht zu.
I think there are few animals on this planet that are even cuter than the gray seal pups.
They are suckled by their mother for just three weeks and gain up to 2 kg in weight every day.
This image is my first image to gain interest from a major magazine. I was contacted by a woman from "Ski Magazine" in regards to this photo a couple of months ago, and today I recieved a copy of the magazine with my photo in it.
I didn't get the check yet, but heh, it's sort of nice considering I took this shot about a month after getting my first DSLR. I just stuck it on Bulb and went with the longest exposure I could without a cable release (30 seconds)...
Nikon 18-200vr
Waterfall on the River/Afon Cain in the Coed y Brenin Forest Park, Gwynedd, north Wales.
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
martin mars water bomber taking off from Sterling arm, vancouver island, canada
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L514 rolls south on the Holly Sub, horn blaring through the small town of Gaines. Until about 8 years ago, there was a siding to the right of the train, torn out along with a few others as CN rationalized the Holly. The old GTW depot still stands here and is used by the town as administrative offices. L514 is a new local out of Flint that ferries intermodal to and from Ferndale via the Flint and Holly subs.
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