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At first glance, the galaxy NGC 4151 looks like an average spiral. Examine its center more closely, though, and you can spot a bright smudge that stands out from the softer glow around it. That point of light marks the location of a supermassive black hole weighing about 40 million times as much as our Sun.
Astronomers will use NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to measure that black hole’s mass. The result might seem like a piece of trivia, but its mass determines how a black hole feeds and affects the surrounding galaxy. And since most galaxies contain a supermassive black hole, learning about this nearby galaxy will improve our understanding of many galaxies across the cosmos.
Image credit: NASA, ESA, and J. DePasquale (STScI)
This Banded Lapwing parent is not alone. Beside it, in this low tangled vegetation, is its newly hatched chick. Outfitted in its GI Joe jacket and cap, it is visible only because of a few white, downy feathers.
Would someone like to guess how many hotels, particularly in country Australia are called the Criterion. I have no idea why this rather boring name is so popular but googling it will give you an idea. Right up there with the Commercial, Railway and Imperial and there are no doubt others!
This one is smack bang in the middle of the sugar cane growing town of South Johnstone south west of Innisfail. With two other local sugar mills permanently closed (Mourilyan and Goondi), the mill in this town is not only the only one left in this district but also very busy. Of course, the day we drove past was boiler and maintenance day and everything including trains doing harvested cane deliveries were at full stop. We seemed to find this more frequently this trip than ever before. Very frustrating!
If you look closely at the very wet road in the foreground, you can see the railway tracks here pass down the main street on the way to the mill and in that sense when it is operating at full blast this is a busy place and a great spot to get a cane train shot. Maybe have a drink and wait out the next train.
Here is a shot from a previous visit.
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PS as I have not tagged this Queensland railways nor put it in such a group, I have no idea how it got into this group anyway.
Eu gostei muito dessa blend. Estou muito in love com esse shoot, e principalmente com aquela foto que ela tá com o chiclete. *-* Antes que alguém diga que tá parecida com a do Rúben e blá blá... Sim, eu me inspirei um pouco nele, mas não foi muita coisa, até porque nem se compara, né? pelamor/
Usei tratamento do Isac, da Nat e da Laila. omg/
Alguém já viu o 1º capítulo da 4ª temporada de Glee que começou ontem? Gente! Muito bom, a temporada começou com tudo. Novos personagens, um "novo" romance pra Rachel, etc. Fora que Call me Maybe na versão glee é mais que perfeita. amo/
Psd pra quem quiser: www.mediafire.com/?jo7kc4iccuv84a0
na lightbox a blend fica bem bonitinha
Looking towards Fort William from the Ardgour Ferry Terminal, awaiting the Corran Ferry. I hadad 20 minutes until I needed to get back into the car so sat my camera down at the water level for some long exposures facing east. 1/8 sec due to no ND filter.
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I just want to thank everyone for always visiting my photostream even though I can't visit often. I hope everyone has a wonderful friday and weekend!
Have a count up... there are 25 Cockatoos at my count in this image. We put a small amount of food out for them, in the trees by the drive way, but they seem to find the balcony to be an agreeable spot to congregate independent of the food source.
I thought my Flickr friend John (Westernthunderer) might appreciate this one....
BNSF train H-STLTUL (St. Louis to Tulsa) hauls ass westbound passed the old Frisco searchlight signals in Eureka, MO, on the BNSF Cuba sub. These are *supposed* to be replaced at some point this year, and with the year winding down, one has got to ask, "How Much Longer?"
I was looking forward to go out with xinapray to do some early morning low-light shooting. We went out to Golden Gardens Park, in Seattle, WA, when it was still quite dark, found a nice spot on the beach and had to realize that there won’t be any beautiful sunrise that day. I believe I was still able to learn a lot.
Some additional remarks:
-I would like to tell you that this is straight out of camera but I had to correct a 3 degree tilt (using a tripod – how embarrassing),
-I had to crop quite significantly to get a composition I like,
-I worked on quite some layers on the curves to get the light and the contrast the way I want it (and to further reduce the noise of a 30 sec exposure)
-I felt I needed to do a b/w conversion.
-Thanks for the use of the ND-filter, Ray (it really helped a lot)
I hope you like it (and the two other versions of that morning too).
For a better version of the same rocks I suggest having a look at Ray’s Swirls taken that same morning.
These photos are for you, Ray!
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Back to Costa Rica, San Gerardo de Dota this time.
It is really incredible how fast those little hummingbirds fly. And I've got a trash bin full of proof that it really is extremely difficult to catch them in flight. So when this Green Violetear hovered just long enough for the focus to catch on I couldn't have been more happy.
Canon EOS 1D X mark II
Canon EF600mm f/4L IS II USM
ISO 2500, f5.0, 1/3200s, exp. comp +0.33
How I made this photo? See new YouTube BTS video! youtu.be/R6OOOAWmE7M
Leica M240 + Leica Elmar 50mm f2.8 + Leica M240 B&W preset + Daylight
Working with ex L'Oréal hair model, Juli :)
a small group of black-capped chickadees followed me through the winter woods today, staying just behind me & over my shoulder...one fellow broke from the pack and found a promising composition