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Stunning autumn colors from Sweden and the Nordics.
Photo Credit: Lars Ling
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A host of astronomical objects are scattered across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Background galaxies ranging from stately spirals to fuzzy ellipticals are strewn across the image, while a smattering of bright foreground stars are closer to home. In the center of the image, the vague shape of the small galaxy UGC 7983 appears as a hazy cloud of light. UGC 7983 is around 30 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. It is a dwarf irregular galaxy – a type thought to be similar to the very earliest galaxies in the universe.
This image also reveals a relatively nearby astronomical interloper. A minor asteroid in our own solar system streaks across the upper left-hand side of the image. The asteroid’s trail is visible as four streaks of light separated by small gaps. These streaks of light represent the four separate exposures that were combined to create this image. The small gaps between each observation reflect filter changes inside Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys between exposures.
Capturing an asteroid was a fortunate side effect of a larger effort to observe every known galaxy close to the Milky Way. Hubble had imaged roughly 75% of all the Milky Way’s near galactic neighbors, when a group of astronomers proposed using the gaps between longer Hubble observations to capture images of the remaining 25%. The project was an elegant efficient way to fill gaps in Hubble's observing schedule and in our knowledge of nearby galaxies.
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Tully
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Que importante es ser capaz en algún momento de parar esta actividad frenética que nos imponen (trabajo, familia, amigos, obligaciones)
o nosotros mismos nos marcamos (tengo que .. hay que.. sin falta debo..)
para poder contemplar todas esas cosas increÃbles que nos perdemos.
Estuve en León y Madrid.. Precioso, precioso, precioso...!!!!
I hosted a photo walk for Flickr Worldwide Photo-walk Day, in Vancouver Canada. Close to 50 participants from the meet group Vancouver Photo walks combed the streets of two of Vancouver's oldest neighbourhoods looking for great texture. The shops were closing in Chinatown as we went through and were .....let's say "NOT CLEAN" This little bit of yellow jumped at me. HMM!
Söderåsens Naturreservat i Skåne om hösten. The Södeåsens Naturereserve in Scania, Sweden, Fall
The Battle Rounds Begin tonight! Read more here:
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Calgary hosts two festivals around this time each winter in order to enliven the downtown core, as well as to echo the wonderful spirit that was generated during the 1988 Winter Olympics held here. More pics to come.
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It's my birthday today. I have a whole host of disparate thoughts on the matter, and today is as good a day to share them as any. Time is a subject that fascinates me. It is a common theme, in some fashion, in much of my photography. As such, birthdays in particular are a day that remind us of time. Many of us handle this reminder in various ways. Some dive in and celebrate the anniversary of their birth. Others want to avoid the attention and any thoughts regarding how this days marks the passing of our lives. Some don't much care at all whether it is today or tomorrow. We all handle time differently but we all play by the same rules. That is what fascinates me: this notion of time we have. I have read about how time is a human invention. I also recently read Slaughterhouse Five for the first time and enjoyed the Trafalmadorians' concept of time. In the book it is described that a Trafalmadorian sees all time at once, they say as we can look at a whole mountain range. A Trafalmadorian sees a dead person and thinks that they are doing quite poorly in that moment, but in other moments that person is quite healthy and happy. Birthdays are a very linear way of looking at time, and I think that is what bothers some of us. Instead of seeing the start of that linear path, we are seeing the end of it, but we are still looking in a linear fashion, regardless of which direction we are focusing on.
Personally, I don't put a lot of significance on my birthday. It's occurrence neither dismay nor terribly excites me. I appreciate the excitement of others over it (to a degree) but don't find it a necessary ingredient to the day either. I think part of this for me is that I try to make every other day as important as my birthday is. I try not to put myself in a position to need an annual reminder about the value of my birth, and rather try to use every day in that regard. Somewhere I got old enough to realize that the future is not infinite for me, thus every day is a gift in that regard. This does add a certain poignancy to each passing day and I sometimes wonder at the bliss of ignorance. My son is still young enough to enjoy that and I try to do what I can to preserve it for him. Not that I rue my perspective on it at all, I just appreciate the benefits of the other perspectives.
Not your typical birthday post, eh? That's ok, I generally have little patience for simple repetition. I don't claim that the ideas I have to share are any better than any others, but I do love engaging with how I think about things and exploring alternative ways to look at the world. I also don't need this to make any sense to anyone else, partially because it only partly makes sense to me, but such is the challenge of translating multi-faceted thoughts via a photo caption.
I really just wanted to share a photo because it is something I haven't done as much of on here as I used to.
In regard to this image, it was made on the edge of Detroit Lake. The lake itself is influenced by human intervention. A dam at the end of the lake has caused it to be much larger than it would have originally been. As is common for such man-made reservoirs, you will find a strip of land on the lake shore that is clearcut forest. These are like graveyards of trees and I find myself both fascinated and repelled by them. On a trip down to Proxy Falls we made a stop here to explore a while and I really wanted to try to find a way capture some aspect of this place. There is the horror of the carnage that is left of what was once a thriving forest, but then again there is also the fascinating presence of time as witnessed by the deposits left by previous high water marks and the semi-decayed, semi-preserved tree stumps. It is surreal in its way. Thankfully I had the Flexbody with me and its ability to tilt worked well with that sense of surreality.
And I think that is all the thoughts I have to share for today.
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A market town in the medieval period, Birmingham grew in the 18th century Midlands Enlightenment and subsequent Industrial Revolution, which saw advances in science, technology, and economic development, producing a series of innovations that laid many of the foundations of modern industrial society. By 1791 it was being hailed as "the first manufacturing town in the world".Birmingham's distinctive economic profile, with thousands of small workshops practising a wide variety of specialised and highly skilled trades, encouraged exceptional levels of creativity and innovation and provided an economic base for prosperity that was to last into the final quarter of the 20th century. The Watt steam engine was invented in Birmingham.
The resulting high level of social mobility also fostered a culture of political radicalism which, under leaders from Thomas Attwood to Joseph Chamberlain, was to give it a political influence unparalleled in Britain outside London, and a pivotal role in the development of British democracy. From the summer of 1940 to the spring of 1943, Birmingham was bombed heavily by the German Luftwaffe in what is known as the Birmingham Blitz. The damage done to the city's infrastructure, in addition to a deliberate policy of demolition and new building by planners, led to extensive urban regeneration in subsequent decades.
Birmingham's economy is now dominated by the service sector. The city is a major international commercial centre, ranked as a gamma+ world city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network; and an important transport, retail, events and conference hub. Its metropolitan economy is the second largest in the United Kingdom with a GDP of $121.1bn (2014), and its six universities make it the largest centre of higher education in the country outside London. Birmingham's major cultural institutions – the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Birmingham Royal Ballet, the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, the Library of Birmingham and the Barber Institute of Fine Arts – enjoy international reputations, and the city has vibrant and influential grassroots art, music, literary and culinary scenes. Birmingham is the fourth-most visited city in the UK by foreign visitors.
Birmingham's two professional football clubs are Aston Villa and Birmingham City, the former having achieved the most success by winning seven league titles and one European Cup. Birmingham has been selected to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
People from Birmingham are called Brummies, a term derived from the city's nickname of "Brum", which originates from the city's old name, Brummagem, which in turn is thought to have derived from "Bromwich-ham".The Brummie accent and dialect are particularly distinctive.
Information from Wikipedia.
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L’hosta se repère facilement au jardin : une grande touffe au feuillage large et décoratif, où le vert et le jaune clair se marient pour le plaisir des yeux. Il se plait à l’ombre et si les fleurs sont de la partie, il tolérera aussi l’ensoleillement. Ainsi, il habille les sous-bois, les massifs et les bordures. Souvent, il prend place en pot, apportant sa touche à une terrasse ou un balcon. Contre la limace, son ennemi juré, il a aujourd’hui plus d’une parade à son actif !
Out on one of my shoots I walked down to the bridge over the creek that feeds my pond. While trying to capture a Catbird Portrait I took a few clicks of a long dead tree stump...most likely Locust...since it has endured so long...it was a dead stump 21 years ago when I arrived. Really nothing...but that sums up a lot of things.
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The church hosts also a marking in the form of a meridian line inlaid in the paving of the left aisle in 1655; it was calculated and designed by the astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini, who was teaching astronomy at the University. A meridian line does not indicate the time: instead, with its length of 66.8 metres (219 ft) it is one of the largest astronomical instruments in the world, allowing measurements that were for the time uniquely precise. The sun light, entering through a 27.07 mm (1.066 in) hole placed at a 27.07 m (88.8 ft) height in the church wall, projects an elliptical image of the sun, which at local noon falls exactly on the meridian line and every day is different as to position and size. The position of the projected image along the line allows to determine accurately the daily altitude of the sun at noon, from which Cassini was able to calculate with unprecedented precision astronomical parameters such as the obliquity of the ecliptic, the duration of the tropical year and the timing of equinoxes and solstices. On the other hand, the size of the projected sun's image, and in particular its rate of variation during the year, allowed Cassini the first experimental verification of Kepler's laws of planetary motion.
Cassini and Domenico Guglielmini published an illustrated account of how the meridian line was accomplished in 1695.
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La iglesia también alberga una marca en forma de lÃnea meridiana incrustada en el pavimento de la nave izquierda en 1655; fue calculada y diseñada por el astrónomo Giovanni Domenico Cassini, que enseñaba astronomÃa en la Universidad. Una lÃnea meridiana no indica la hora: en cambio, con su longitud de 66,8 metros (219 pies), es uno de los instrumentos astronómicos más grandes del mundo, lo que permite mediciones que para la época eran excepcionalmente precisas. La luz del sol, que entra a través de un orificio de 27,07 mm (1,066 pulgadas) colocado a 27,07 m (88,8 pies) de altura en el muro de la iglesia, proyecta una imagen elÃptica del sol, que al mediodÃa local cae exactamente sobre la lÃnea meridiana y cada dÃa es diferente en cuanto a posición y tamaño. La posición de la imagen proyectada a lo largo de la lÃnea permite determinar con precisión la altitud diaria del sol al mediodÃa, a partir de la cual Cassini pudo calcular con una precisión sin precedentes parámetros astronómicos como la oblicuidad de la eclÃptica, la duración del año trópico y la sincronización de los equinoccios y solsticios. Por otra parte, el tamaño de la imagen proyectada del sol, y en particular su tasa de variación a lo largo del año, permitieron a Cassini la primera verificación experimental de las leyes de Kepler sobre el movimiento planetario.
Cassini y Domenico Guglielmini publicaron un relato ilustrado de cómo se logró la lÃnea del meridiano en 1695.
Sundsby is mentioned as early as 1388, but its history dates back to the 1500s and is strongly associated with the legendary Margaret Huitfeldt, who settled in Sundsby 1635 and died there 1683rd
Tjörn bought Sundsby manor 2003rd Since 2006 the area has been available to the public, and it quickly became a popular destination for visitors.
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