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A humanmade sand dune along the shoreline with mountain mining in the background.
The Great Salt Lake - GPS is not the exact spot of the photo.
Adults are large and quite uniform dark brown eagles with very broad wings and short tails. Single white "comma" mark at the wrist of the underwing. Similar to the Lesser Spotted Eagle, which is smaller, paler, and more contrasting. Juveniles are more boldly patterned with numerous prominent dirty white spots on the back and upper wings. More tied to forests than Lesser Spotted Eagle, but still near rivers and bogs. Frequents humanmade habitats more often in winter, such as lakes, rubbish dumps, and reservoirs. (eBird)
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We went to the Ras Al-Khor Wetland on our first day in Dubai, before the tour officially started, to combat jet lag and to find some easy birds. Unfortunately, the whole wetland area was closed for renovations. While debating what to do next, this impressive eagle flew overhead, giving us nice views. Small recompense for the disappointment of not seeing all the other birds.
Here is the link to our Arabian Peninsula birding trip: ebird.org/tripreport/431495
Ras al-Khor Wetland, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. November 2025.
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According to Wikipedia, False Kiva is a human-made stone circle of unknown origin in a cave in a remote area of the Canyonlands National Park. It requires some hiking knowledge or special directions to find. Debate rages on whether to disclose the exact location of False Kiva, as it enjoys a semi-protected status. While park rangers are required to disclose the location of the Class II site if asked about it directly, it does not appear on official maps of the park. Because of the remoteness of the location, the site itself is not protected from vandalism of any kind.
Getting there requires some rock scrambling which I am not very good at. The hubby was bound and determined to make it there and managed to succeed. He even came away with some decent shots, using his little Nikon Coolpix.
Have a great Wednesday.....thanks for all your comments and visits!!!!
Broken Beauty Series
Vintage auto glass
Anfractuous forms in nature are sinuous, twisty, and winding. You find these forms at various levels of scale. Examples include patterns in fingerprints, brain matter, agate and other stones, and rivers. You also find anfractuous forms in entropy, the breakdown of material. You find it in rust, and as shown here, you find it in broken vintage auto safety glass, a bonded layer of celluloid between two layers of glass. The sinuous detail in the safety glass is astounding. I find it interesting that anfractuous forms, and other forms and patterns as well, are found in nature and in the breakdown of humanmade materials alike. The forces of nature and time act upon them both.
Thanks to Li: Dynamic Forms in Nature by David Wade for teaching me about anfractuous forms and other forms in nature.
The sky is endless. The grass is free. Yet only humans feel the need to mark what isn’t theirs, then wonder where the wonder went.
آسمان بی پایان است. چمنزار آزاد است.
با اینحال، فقط انسان است که احساس میکند باید آنچه از آنِ او نیست را علامتگذاری کند،
و بعد، با تعجب میپرسد: شگفتیها کجا رفتند؟
The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres. The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia, separated from the coast by a channel 160 kilometres wide in places and over 61 metres deep. The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from outer space and is the world's biggest single structure made by living organisms. This reef structure is composed of and built by billions of tiny organisms, known as coral polyps. It supports a wide diversity of life and was selected as a World Heritage Site in 1981. CNN labelled it one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World in 1997. Australian World Heritage places included it in its list in 2007. The Queensland National Trust named it a state icon of Queensland in 2006.
A large part of the reef is protected by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, which helps to limit the impact of human use, such as fishing and tourism. Other environmental pressures on the reef and its ecosystem include runoff of humanmade pollutants, climate change accompanied by mass coral bleaching, dumping of dredging sludge and cyclic population outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish. According to a study published in October 2012 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the reef has lost more than half its coral cover since 1985, a finding reaffirmed by a 2020 study which found over half of the reef's coral cover to have been lost between 1995 and 2017, with the effects of a widespread 2020 bleaching event not yet quantified.
The Great Barrier Reef has long been known to and used by the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and is an important part of local groups' cultures and spirituality. The reef is a very popular destination for tourists, especially in the Whitsunday Islands and Cairns regions. Tourism is an important economic activity for the region, generating over AUD$3 billion per year. In November 2014, Google launched Google Underwater Street View in 3D of the Great Barrier Reef.
A March 2016 report stated that coral bleaching was more widespread than previously thought, seriously affecting the northern parts of the reef as a result of warming ocean temperatures. In October 2016, Outside published an obituary for the reef; the article was criticised for being premature and hindering efforts to bolster the resilience of the reef. In March 2017, the journal Nature published a paper showing that huge sections of an 800-kilometre stretch in the northern part of the reef had died in the course of 2016 of high water temperatures, an event that the authors put down to the effects of global climate change. The percentage of baby corals being born on the Great Barrier Reef dropped drastically in 2018 and scientists are describing it as the early stage of a "huge natural selection event unfolding". Many of the mature breeding adults died in the bleaching events of 2016–17, leading to low coral birth rates. The types of corals that reproduced also changed, leading to a "long-term reorganisation of the reef ecosystem if the trend continues."
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 stipulates an Outlook Report on the Reef's health, pressures, and future every five years. The last report was published in 2019. In March 2022, another mass bleaching event has been confirmed, which raised further concerns about the future of this reef system, especially when considering the possible effects of El Niño weather phenomenon.
The Australian Institute of Marine Science conducts annual surveys of the Great Barrier Reef's status, and the 2022 report showed the greatest recovery in 36 years. It is mainly due to the regrowth of two-thirds of the reef by the fast-growing Acropora coral, which is the dominant coral there.
The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres. The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia, separated from the coast by a channel 160 kilometres wide in places and over 61 metres deep. The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from outer space and is the world's biggest single structure made by living organisms. This reef structure is composed of and built by billions of tiny organisms, known as coral polyps. It supports a wide diversity of life and was selected as a World Heritage Site in 1981. CNN labelled it one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World in 1997. Australian World Heritage places included it in its list in 2007. The Queensland National Trust named it a state icon of Queensland in 2006.
A large part of the reef is protected by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, which helps to limit the impact of human use, such as fishing and tourism. Other environmental pressures on the reef and its ecosystem include runoff of humanmade pollutants, climate change accompanied by mass coral bleaching, dumping of dredging sludge and cyclic population outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish. According to a study published in October 2012 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the reef has lost more than half its coral cover since 1985, a finding reaffirmed by a 2020 study which found over half of the reef's coral cover to have been lost between 1995 and 2017, with the effects of a widespread 2020 bleaching event not yet quantified.
The Great Barrier Reef has long been known to and used by the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and is an important part of local groups' cultures and spirituality. The reef is a very popular destination for tourists, especially in the Whitsunday Islands and Cairns regions. Tourism is an important economic activity for the region, generating over AUD$3 billion per year. In November 2014, Google launched Google Underwater Street View in 3D of the Great Barrier Reef.
A March 2016 report stated that coral bleaching was more widespread than previously thought, seriously affecting the northern parts of the reef as a result of warming ocean temperatures. In October 2016, Outside published an obituary for the reef; the article was criticised for being premature and hindering efforts to bolster the resilience of the reef. In March 2017, the journal Nature published a paper showing that huge sections of an 800-kilometre stretch in the northern part of the reef had died in the course of 2016 of high water temperatures, an event that the authors put down to the effects of global climate change. The percentage of baby corals being born on the Great Barrier Reef dropped drastically in 2018 and scientists are describing it as the early stage of a "huge natural selection event unfolding". Many of the mature breeding adults died in the bleaching events of 2016–17, leading to low coral birth rates. The types of corals that reproduced also changed, leading to a "long-term reorganisation of the reef ecosystem if the trend continues."
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 stipulates an Outlook Report on the Reef's health, pressures, and future every five years. The last report was published in 2019. In March 2022, another mass bleaching event has been confirmed, which raised further concerns about the future of this reef system, especially when considering the possible effects of El Niño weather phenomenon.
The Australian Institute of Marine Science conducts annual surveys of the Great Barrier Reef's status, and the 2022 report showed the greatest recovery in 36 years. It is mainly due to the regrowth of two-thirds of the reef by the fast-growing Acropora coral, which is the dominant coral there.
Mingus Mill
Great Smoky Mountains Nat'l Park
Cherokee, N.C.
06-05-25
From cloud filled skies the moisture falls
Into oceans, landlocked lakes, and streams
To the tops of frozen mountains where it melts and flows
through meadow, mountainside and valley
The rushing flushing cleansing flow
Forever purposeful, playful, powerful
Streaming along paths natural and humanmade
Along the millstream to the wheel
Whether grinding or not
The millstream flows
Much like the purposeful traveler
From cloud filled skies the traveler arrives
Landing along rivers and streams
Climbing mountains and exploring new worlds
Into the vale, up along the trail
Enjoying different feelings, different landscapes
Hearing the different languages of the world's denizens
Flowing along, like the millstream
Never wavering in purpose, always with
A true energetic destination at
the never ending waterwheel of life
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This is my last post before my latest adventure. When I get back I'll hopefully be filling my social media feeds with hundreds if not thousands of new images from the Emerald Isle of Ireland, flooding the waterwheel with gallons of new experiences and destinations.
More grist for the mill of plentiful purpose. More energy for my endless hike through Gaia's glory. Enough with the endless metaphors. ☺️ (At least until I get back.)
The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres. The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia, separated from the coast by a channel 160 kilometres wide in places and over 61 metres deep. The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from outer space and is the world's biggest single structure made by living organisms. This reef structure is composed of and built by billions of tiny organisms, known as coral polyps. It supports a wide diversity of life and was selected as a World Heritage Site in 1981. CNN labelled it one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World in 1997. Australian World Heritage places included it in its list in 2007. The Queensland National Trust named it a state icon of Queensland in 2006.
A large part of the reef is protected by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, which helps to limit the impact of human use, such as fishing and tourism. Other environmental pressures on the reef and its ecosystem include runoff of humanmade pollutants, climate change accompanied by mass coral bleaching, dumping of dredging sludge and cyclic population outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish. According to a study published in October 2012 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the reef has lost more than half its coral cover since 1985, a finding reaffirmed by a 2020 study which found over half of the reef's coral cover to have been lost between 1995 and 2017, with the effects of a widespread 2020 bleaching event not yet quantified.
The Great Barrier Reef has long been known to and used by the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and is an important part of local groups' cultures and spirituality. The reef is a very popular destination for tourists, especially in the Whitsunday Islands and Cairns regions. Tourism is an important economic activity for the region, generating over AUD$3 billion per year. In November 2014, Google launched Google Underwater Street View in 3D of the Great Barrier Reef.
A March 2016 report stated that coral bleaching was more widespread than previously thought, seriously affecting the northern parts of the reef as a result of warming ocean temperatures. In October 2016, Outside published an obituary for the reef; the article was criticised for being premature and hindering efforts to bolster the resilience of the reef. In March 2017, the journal Nature published a paper showing that huge sections of an 800-kilometre stretch in the northern part of the reef had died in the course of 2016 of high water temperatures, an event that the authors put down to the effects of global climate change. The percentage of baby corals being born on the Great Barrier Reef dropped drastically in 2018 and scientists are describing it as the early stage of a "huge natural selection event unfolding". Many of the mature breeding adults died in the bleaching events of 2016–17, leading to low coral birth rates. The types of corals that reproduced also changed, leading to a "long-term reorganisation of the reef ecosystem if the trend continues."
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 stipulates an Outlook Report on the Reef's health, pressures, and future every five years. The last report was published in 2019. In March 2022, another mass bleaching event has been confirmed, which raised further concerns about the future of this reef system, especially when considering the possible effects of El Niño weather phenomenon.
The Australian Institute of Marine Science conducts annual surveys of the Great Barrier Reef's status, and the 2022 report showed the greatest recovery in 36 years. It is mainly due to the regrowth of two-thirds of the reef by the fast-growing Acropora coral, which is the dominant coral there.
It's lovely to see a large-scale mural by Kaffeine in the CBD again, it's been quite a while as she has been unwell for some time. Wonderful to have her back.
Katie says of her work;
"The Supreme Court of Victoria’s unicorn is a symbol of colonial power & control, & the Westminster system of law. The kangaroo symbolises First Nations Australians’ complex systems of lore, which continue to this day. It felt surreal & special to be supported to paint about the ongoing battle between two legal systems, right in the middle of Melbourne’s legal precinct.
I don’t have the answers as to how the country is going to fix our colonial wrongs, or the devastating legacy of the Frontier Wars, illegal occupation & dispossession; but I do know that we have to keep asking the questions, & placing them in the minds of those with the power to change law & policy.
I encourage law & policy makers, & the public to think about this battle as they pass my mural at 540 Little Bourke st. I hope that when the mural’s gold chrome paint reflects flashes of sunlight into surrounding offices & skyscrapers, the occupants pause to consider the meaning of the mural.
There are many public depictions of the Imperial unciorn in the legal precinct; I’m stoked that mine now joins the herd."
This painting is "Human-made" as is the struggle it represents, so it is my submission for the "Human-made" theme for this months Flickr Friends Melbourne challenge.
The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres. The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia, separated from the coast by a channel 160 kilometres wide in places and over 61 metres deep. The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from outer space and is the world's biggest single structure made by living organisms. This reef structure is composed of and built by billions of tiny organisms, known as coral polyps. It supports a wide diversity of life and was selected as a World Heritage Site in 1981. CNN labelled it one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World in 1997. Australian World Heritage places included it in its list in 2007. The Queensland National Trust named it a state icon of Queensland in 2006.
A large part of the reef is protected by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, which helps to limit the impact of human use, such as fishing and tourism. Other environmental pressures on the reef and its ecosystem include runoff of humanmade pollutants, climate change accompanied by mass coral bleaching, dumping of dredging sludge and cyclic population outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish. According to a study published in October 2012 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the reef has lost more than half its coral cover since 1985, a finding reaffirmed by a 2020 study which found over half of the reef's coral cover to have been lost between 1995 and 2017, with the effects of a widespread 2020 bleaching event not yet quantified.
The Great Barrier Reef has long been known to and used by the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and is an important part of local groups' cultures and spirituality. The reef is a very popular destination for tourists, especially in the Whitsunday Islands and Cairns regions. Tourism is an important economic activity for the region, generating over AUD$3 billion per year. In November 2014, Google launched Google Underwater Street View in 3D of the Great Barrier Reef.
A March 2016 report stated that coral bleaching was more widespread than previously thought, seriously affecting the northern parts of the reef as a result of warming ocean temperatures. In October 2016, Outside published an obituary for the reef; the article was criticised for being premature and hindering efforts to bolster the resilience of the reef. In March 2017, the journal Nature published a paper showing that huge sections of an 800-kilometre stretch in the northern part of the reef had died in the course of 2016 of high water temperatures, an event that the authors put down to the effects of global climate change. The percentage of baby corals being born on the Great Barrier Reef dropped drastically in 2018 and scientists are describing it as the early stage of a "huge natural selection event unfolding". Many of the mature breeding adults died in the bleaching events of 2016–17, leading to low coral birth rates. The types of corals that reproduced also changed, leading to a "long-term reorganisation of the reef ecosystem if the trend continues."
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 stipulates an Outlook Report on the Reef's health, pressures, and future every five years. The last report was published in 2019. In March 2022, another mass bleaching event has been confirmed, which raised further concerns about the future of this reef system, especially when considering the possible effects of El Niño weather phenomenon.
The Australian Institute of Marine Science conducts annual surveys of the Great Barrier Reef's status, and the 2022 report showed the greatest recovery in 36 years. It is mainly due to the regrowth of two-thirds of the reef by the fast-growing Acropora coral, which is the dominant coral there.
The Red Line
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There's something special about this long red bus that I really like. The curves and lines are beautiful. I illuminated the vintage bus with warm white light from a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light during the long exposure. Light painting to illuminate subjects is a beautiful, addictive art, as you can walk around the scene, deciding what to bring to light and what to keep in shadow. Photographed during a night photography workshop that we taught in the Nevada desert.
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For photos, books, workshops and more: www.kenleephotography.com
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(Plate 9932) Pentax K-1/28-105mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. 2 minutes f/8 ISO 200. May 2023.
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The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres. The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia, separated from the coast by a channel 160 kilometres wide in places and over 61 metres deep. The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from outer space and is the world's biggest single structure made by living organisms. This reef structure is composed of and built by billions of tiny organisms, known as coral polyps. It supports a wide diversity of life and was selected as a World Heritage Site in 1981. CNN labelled it one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World in 1997.[9] Australian World Heritage places included it in its list in 2007. The Queensland National Trust named it a state icon of Queensland in 2006.
A large part of the reef is protected by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, which helps to limit the impact of human use, such as fishing and tourism. Other environmental pressures on the reef and its ecosystem include runoff of humanmade pollutants, climate change accompanied by mass coral bleaching, dumping of dredging sludge and cyclic population outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish. According to a study published in October 2012 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the reef has lost more than half its coral cover since 1985, a finding reaffirmed by a 2020 study which found over half of the reef's coral cover to have been lost between 1995 and 2017, with the effects of a widespread 2020 bleaching event not yet quantified.
The Great Barrier Reef has long been known to and used by the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and is an important part of local groups' cultures and spirituality. The reef is a very popular destination for tourists, especially in the Whitsunday Islands and Cairns regions. Tourism is an important economic activity for the region, generating over AUD$3 billion per year. In November 2014, Google launched Google Underwater Street View in 3D of the Great Barrier Reef.
A March 2016 report stated that coral bleaching was more widespread than previously thought, seriously affecting the northern parts of the reef as a result of warming ocean temperatures. In October 2016, Outside published an obituary for the reef; the article was criticised for being premature and hindering efforts to bolster the resilience of the reef. In March 2017, the journal Nature published a paper showing that huge sections of an 800-kilometre stretch in the northern part of the reef had died in the course of 2016 of high water temperatures, an event that the authors put down to the effects of global climate change. The percentage of baby corals being born on the Great Barrier Reef dropped drastically in 2018 and scientists are describing it as the early stage of a "huge natural selection event unfolding". Many of the mature breeding adults died in the bleaching events of 2016–17, leading to low coral birth rates. The types of corals that reproduced also changed, leading to a "long-term reorganisation of the reef ecosystem if the trend continues."
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 stipulates an Outlook Report on the Reef's health, pressures, and future every five years. The last report was published in 2019. In March 2022, another mass bleaching event has been confirmed, which raised further concerns about the future of this reef system, especially when considering the possible effects of El Niño weather phenomenon.
The Australian Institute of Marine Science conducts annual surveys of the Great Barrier Reef's status, and the 2022 report showed the greatest recovery in 36 years. It is mainly due to the regrowth of two-thirds of the reef by the fast-growing Acropora coral, which is the dominant coral there.
- Leo Buscaglia.
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As a landscape photographer, whenever I see the humanmade elements mar the natural beauty of a scene, I go out of my way to exclude them from my compositions. Nothing can me lose my composure faster than a pristine ruined by us humans. Now don’t get me wrong, I believe human elements have their place, but I just cringe when a completely out of touch building or landmark is suddenly jars you out of an otherwise stunning natural spot.
But as to every rule, there seem to be exceptions to my annoyance. The first I experienced a thaw in my feelings was while living in NH. There is a county in NH called Hillsborough. In the early 19th century, the residents of the county decided to employ some Scottish masons to build a bunch of arch bridges across the various branches of the Contoocook River. The bridges were made without any sort of mortar, by painstakingly interlocking every stone into place. They are still used to this day and are a fantastic testament to how humanmade elements can coexist with nature and add to its beauty. Since then, I have visited many civilian corp buildings at various parts of the country and other historic sites where I have seen one excellent example after another of human elements coexisting wonderfully with nature.
So with that in mind, when I heard about the Cedar Creek Grist Mill, a member of the illustrious National Register of Historic places, I immediately added int to a list of places to visit during our Washington Road trip. Due to its location, it was one of the first places we stopped during our road trip. And the mill didn’t disappoint, its architecture and subtility added immensely in increasing the beauty of the location. I felt like the common trend here is that the humanmade elements do not try to overpower the natural beauty of the setting. I love visiting sites like these and getting a reminder that there were times when we built elements that complemented nature with enhancing the beauty of the world in mind rather than mindless dominion over nature.
The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres. The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia, separated from the coast by a channel 160 kilometres wide in places and over 61 metres deep. The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from outer space and is the world's biggest single structure made by living organisms. This reef structure is composed of and built by billions of tiny organisms, known as coral polyps. It supports a wide diversity of life and was selected as a World Heritage Site in 1981. CNN labelled it one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World in 1997. Australian World Heritage places included it in its list in 2007. The Queensland National Trust named it a state icon of Queensland in 2006.
A large part of the reef is protected by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, which helps to limit the impact of human use, such as fishing and tourism. Other environmental pressures on the reef and its ecosystem include runoff of humanmade pollutants, climate change accompanied by mass coral bleaching, dumping of dredging sludge and cyclic population outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish. According to a study published in October 2012 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the reef has lost more than half its coral cover since 1985, a finding reaffirmed by a 2020 study which found over half of the reef's coral cover to have been lost between 1995 and 2017, with the effects of a widespread 2020 bleaching event not yet quantified.
The Great Barrier Reef has long been known to and used by the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and is an important part of local groups' cultures and spirituality. The reef is a very popular destination for tourists, especially in the Whitsunday Islands and Cairns regions. Tourism is an important economic activity for the region, generating over AUD$3 billion per year. In November 2014, Google launched Google Underwater Street View in 3D of the Great Barrier Reef.
A March 2016 report stated that coral bleaching was more widespread than previously thought, seriously affecting the northern parts of the reef as a result of warming ocean temperatures. In October 2016, Outside published an obituary for the reef; the article was criticised for being premature and hindering efforts to bolster the resilience of the reef. In March 2017, the journal Nature published a paper showing that huge sections of an 800-kilometre stretch in the northern part of the reef had died in the course of 2016 of high water temperatures, an event that the authors put down to the effects of global climate change. The percentage of baby corals being born on the Great Barrier Reef dropped drastically in 2018 and scientists are describing it as the early stage of a "huge natural selection event unfolding". Many of the mature breeding adults died in the bleaching events of 2016–17, leading to low coral birth rates. The types of corals that reproduced also changed, leading to a "long-term reorganisation of the reef ecosystem if the trend continues."
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 stipulates an Outlook Report on the Reef's health, pressures, and future every five years. The last report was published in 2019. In March 2022, another mass bleaching event has been confirmed, which raised further concerns about the future of this reef system, especially when considering the possible effects of El Niño weather phenomenon.
The Australian Institute of Marine Science conducts annual surveys of the Great Barrier Reef's status, and the 2022 report showed the greatest recovery in 36 years. It is mainly due to the regrowth of two-thirds of the reef by the fast-growing Acropora coral, which is the dominant coral there.
The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres. The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia, separated from the coast by a channel 160 kilometres wide in places and over 61 metres deep. The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from outer space and is the world's biggest single structure made by living organisms. This reef structure is composed of and built by billions of tiny organisms, known as coral polyps. It supports a wide diversity of life and was selected as a World Heritage Site in 1981. CNN labelled it one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World in 1997. Australian World Heritage places included it in its list in 2007. The Queensland National Trust named it a state icon of Queensland in 2006.
A large part of the reef is protected by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, which helps to limit the impact of human use, such as fishing and tourism. Other environmental pressures on the reef and its ecosystem include runoff of humanmade pollutants, climate change accompanied by mass coral bleaching, dumping of dredging sludge and cyclic population outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish. According to a study published in October 2012 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the reef has lost more than half its coral cover since 1985, a finding reaffirmed by a 2020 study which found over half of the reef's coral cover to have been lost between 1995 and 2017, with the effects of a widespread 2020 bleaching event not yet quantified.
The Great Barrier Reef has long been known to and used by the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and is an important part of local groups' cultures and spirituality. The reef is a very popular destination for tourists, especially in the Whitsunday Islands and Cairns regions. Tourism is an important economic activity for the region, generating over AUD$3 billion per year. In November 2014, Google launched Google Underwater Street View in 3D of the Great Barrier Reef.
A March 2016 report stated that coral bleaching was more widespread than previously thought, seriously affecting the northern parts of the reef as a result of warming ocean temperatures. In October 2016, Outside published an obituary for the reef; the article was criticised for being premature and hindering efforts to bolster the resilience of the reef. In March 2017, the journal Nature published a paper showing that huge sections of an 800-kilometre stretch in the northern part of the reef had died in the course of 2016 of high water temperatures, an event that the authors put down to the effects of global climate change. The percentage of baby corals being born on the Great Barrier Reef dropped drastically in 2018 and scientists are describing it as the early stage of a "huge natural selection event unfolding". Many of the mature breeding adults died in the bleaching events of 2016–17, leading to low coral birth rates. The types of corals that reproduced also changed, leading to a "long-term reorganisation of the reef ecosystem if the trend continues."
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 stipulates an Outlook Report on the Reef's health, pressures, and future every five years. The last report was published in 2019. In March 2022, another mass bleaching event has been confirmed, which raised further concerns about the future of this reef system, especially when considering the possible effects of El Niño weather phenomenon.
The Australian Institute of Marine Science conducts annual surveys of the Great Barrier Reef's status, and the 2022 report showed the greatest recovery in 36 years. It is mainly due to the regrowth of two-thirds of the reef by the fast-growing Acropora coral, which is the dominant coral there.
I don't know why but this scene remind me a cd cover from any of the music bands in the middle of the 90's
In my head is strongly related with U2 and the album Joshua Tree... I know I must be wrong or crazy but please, be gentle :)
The Night They Shone Old Dixie Up
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Night time at the abandoned Dixie Inn, a surprisingly tiny former restaurant located in Hinckley, CA (PG&E and Erin Brockovich infamy). I illuminated the night scene with warm white and Teal (GST-TM) light from a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light during the long exposure. Light painting to illuminate subjects is a beautiful, addictive art, as you can walk around the scene, deciding what to bring to light and what to keep in shadow. And it's more fun than typing key prompts for AI-generated art.
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(Plate 0162) Pentax K-1/28-105mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. 2 minutes f/8 ISO 200. July 2023.
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- Alfred Eisenstaedt.
Watkins Glen is one of the most beautiful destinations to visit, east of the country, if you are a landscape photographer. The place is gorgeous, almost right out of a medieval movie set. It’s a narrow glen with a hiking trail, and that means some essential architecture elements like railing and bridges. Now, this is where the park shines. Every single humanmade detail at this park is designed to go well with the aesthetic of the glen. It adds to the natural beauty rather than distracting from it.
I took this shot on my first visit, and at the time, my goal was to not include any human element in my nature shots, so I tried to remove the trail as much as possible from my compositions. I didn’t think of posting this image because it had a bit of the trail showing at the top right of the picture. Now, when I look at the photo, I feel how well the trail elements fit into the scene and wish more gov agencies take the aesthetic of the trail into account when hiking trails are designed in pristine nature.
Ein Seltsamer Volkswagen Für Dich
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Have you ever seen anything like this modified VW camper with a bug roof? I illuminated the night scene with warm white light from a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light during the long exposure. Light painting to illuminate subjects is a beautiful, addictive art, as you can walk around the scene, deciding what to bring to light and what to keep in shadow. This way, it's more fun than AI-generated art. Photographed during the last night of our Nelson Ghost Town Night Photography Workshop in Nevada. This may appear in my fourth book of night photography, history, and experiences.
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(Plate 9953) Pentax K-1/28-105mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. 2 minutes f/9 ISO 200. May 2023.
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Moondial
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Creative parking from a pilot? Nelson Ghost Town, with an airplane tail pointing the way to the midnight moon. I illuminated the scene with warm white light from a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light during the long exposure. Light painting to illuminate subjects is a beautiful, addictive art, as you can walk around the scene, deciding what to bring to light and what to keep in shadow. Photographed during a night photography workshop that we taught in the Nevada desert. The title is one of my punny puns, as this reminds me of a sundial, but also, "mundial" is "world" in Spanish, so there's that. Fun with words. This will appear in my fourth book of night photography, history, and experiences.
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(Plate 9888) Pentax K-1/28-105mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. 81 seconds f/8 ISO 200. May 2023.
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Under Night's Inky Veil
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Under dark cover of clouds, this shack at Rhyolite is still somehow standing, at least for now. I somehow found my way in the dark so I could illuminate the shack with warm white and teal light during the long exposure. Light painting to illuminate subjects is a beautiful, addictive art, as you can walk around the scene, deciding what to bring to light and what to keep in shadow. I also love opportunities to shoot some light out windows. I photographed this after a really fun night photography workshop in Nevada.
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(Plate 0107) Pentax K-1/28-105mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. 3 minutes f/4.5 ISO 200. May 2023.
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- David Hockney.
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There are quite many passes between the central and eastern California that crosses over the Sierra Nevada mountain range. The most famous one being the Tioga Pass that crosses over to Yosemite National Park. While on one of our road trips to the eastern Sierra, we decided to check out a new pass, which we haven’t yet tried. The name of this pass is the Sonora Pass, and it crosses the Sierra Nevada mountain to the north of Yosemite Valley.
As usual with all mountain passes, there seems to be a river, and its called the West Walker River. North of Bridgeport is the starting point of the Pass. It starts out sticking close to the river before entering the Stanislaus National Forest and following the Stanislaus River. Columns of the giants is a beautiful short hike nearby to stretch your legs before you get to Donnell vista. At Donnell Vista, you get a beautiful view of the Donell Lake, which is a humanmade lake created due to the construction of Donnell's dam.
I took this shot at the east entry point of the Sonora pass alongside the West Walker River before we entered the actual mountain pass. I am not sure what exactly makes this composition work for me, but I liked the shrubs in the foreground, the sliver of reflection that is the river, and the foothills of the Sierra at a distance.
Citrus
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Nothing like some juicy oranges on a beautiful night. Vintage citrus truck, California. This is an actual real photo. Light painting to illuminate subjects is a beautiful, addictive art, as you can walk around the scene, deciding what to bring to light and what to keep in shadow.
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(Plate 9438) Pentax K-1/28-105mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. 101 seconds f/8 ISO 200. April 2023.
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Lindbergh's Last Stand
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A mysterious night photo of an abandoned 1920s transcontinental airport languishing in obscurity somewhere in the Mojave Desert. I illuminated the night scene with warm white light from a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light during the long exposure. Light painting to illuminate subjects is a beautiful, addictive art, as you can walk around the scene, deciding what to bring to light and what to keep in shadow. And it's more fun than typing key prompts for AI-generated art.
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(Plate 0155) Pentax K-1/28-105mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. 3 minutes f/9 ISO 200. July 2023.
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The Desert Queen
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Step into the enigmatic world of the past with this night time view. You're looking at a magnificent head frame, ore bin, and hoisting house, reminiscent of an era long gone. Built in the early 1900s, this site holds the whispers of the hardy miners who toiled beneath the earth's surface. I illuminated the scene with a warm white light from my trusty handheld ProtoMachines LED2 during the long exposure. Light painting to illuminate subjects by hand is a beautiful, addictive art, as you can walk around the scene, deciding what to bring to light and what to keep in shadow. The upper part of the mountain is illuminated by streetlights from a nearby town and a moon starting to rise to the camera's right.
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(Plate 9982) Pentax K-1/28-105mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. Earth: 3 minutes f/8 ISO 200. Sky: 20 seconds f/3.5 ISO 3200. May 2023.
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The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres. The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia, separated from the coast by a channel 160 kilometres wide in places and over 61 metres deep. The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from outer space and is the world's biggest single structure made by living organisms. This reef structure is composed of and built by billions of tiny organisms, known as coral polyps. It supports a wide diversity of life and was selected as a World Heritage Site in 1981. CNN labelled it one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World in 1997.[9] Australian World Heritage places included it in its list in 2007. The Queensland National Trust named it a state icon of Queensland in 2006.
A large part of the reef is protected by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, which helps to limit the impact of human use, such as fishing and tourism. Other environmental pressures on the reef and its ecosystem include runoff of humanmade pollutants, climate change accompanied by mass coral bleaching, dumping of dredging sludge and cyclic population outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish. According to a study published in October 2012 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the reef has lost more than half its coral cover since 1985, a finding reaffirmed by a 2020 study which found over half of the reef's coral cover to have been lost between 1995 and 2017, with the effects of a widespread 2020 bleaching event not yet quantified.
The Great Barrier Reef has long been known to and used by the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and is an important part of local groups' cultures and spirituality. The reef is a very popular destination for tourists, especially in the Whitsunday Islands and Cairns regions. Tourism is an important economic activity for the region, generating over AUD$3 billion per year. In November 2014, Google launched Google Underwater Street View in 3D of the Great Barrier Reef.
A March 2016 report stated that coral bleaching was more widespread than previously thought, seriously affecting the northern parts of the reef as a result of warming ocean temperatures. In October 2016, Outside published an obituary for the reef; the article was criticised for being premature and hindering efforts to bolster the resilience of the reef. In March 2017, the journal Nature published a paper showing that huge sections of an 800-kilometre stretch in the northern part of the reef had died in the course of 2016 of high water temperatures, an event that the authors put down to the effects of global climate change. The percentage of baby corals being born on the Great Barrier Reef dropped drastically in 2018 and scientists are describing it as the early stage of a "huge natural selection event unfolding". Many of the mature breeding adults died in the bleaching events of 2016–17, leading to low coral birth rates. The types of corals that reproduced also changed, leading to a "long-term reorganisation of the reef ecosystem if the trend continues."
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 stipulates an Outlook Report on the Reef's health, pressures, and future every five years. The last report was published in 2019. In March 2022, another mass bleaching event has been confirmed, which raised further concerns about the future of this reef system, especially when considering the possible effects of El Niño weather phenomenon.
The Australian Institute of Marine Science conducts annual surveys of the Great Barrier Reef's status, and the 2022 report showed the greatest recovery in 36 years. It is mainly due to the regrowth of two-thirds of the reef by the fast-growing Acropora coral, which is the dominant coral there.
The Red-Eye
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A mysterious civil twilight photo of a smaller building, part of the complex of an abandoned 1920s transcontinental airport languishing in obscurity somewhere in the Mojave Desert. I illuminated the night scene with warm white and red light from a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light during the long exposure. Light painting to illuminate subjects is a beautiful, addictive art, as you can walk around the scene, deciding what to bring to light and what to keep in shadow. And it's more fun than typing key prompts for AI-generated art.
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(Plate 0143) Pentax K-1/28-105mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. 90 seconds f/9 ISO 200. July 2023.
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Disraeli Gears
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Abandoned mechanized hoisting mechanism at night. Prior to engines, mules pulled the mine cars. Not really having anything to do with sprockets or Cream albums, but the title sounds nice. Photographed in a hoist house at night, the interior engulfed in total darkness. I lit the enormous gear with warm white light and the back wall with blue light using a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 during the long exposure. Light painting to illuminate subjects by hand is a beautiful, addictive art, as you can walk around the scene, deciding what to bring to light and what to keep in shadow. And it's more fun than AI-generated art.
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(Plate 9969) Pentax K-1/28-105mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. 2 minutes f/8 ISO 200. May 2023.
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Philadelphia Museum of Art
The humanmade cliffs of the city make for awesome perches from which to broadcast one's presence to the world.
Belmont After Dark
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Stepping back into history, it's challenging not to be in awe of the Belmont Courthouse, standing proudly as a testament to the silver rush era of central Nevada. Built in 1876, this architectural gem witnessed the influx of prospectors seeking their fortune in the nearby silver mines. As the mines eventually closed their doors, people stripped roofs for their valuable timber. However, the Belmont Courthouse was mercifully an exception. The Courthouse is being painstakingly restored by Friends of the Belmont Courthouse. As a bonus, there are several hundred signatures on the interior walls. Eerily, one of the names carved on the wall says Charles Manson. For fun, I left the camera in Bulb Mode for the amount of time it took me to walk down to the Courthouse, bathe the Courthouse in the warm glow of my handheld light, light painting the interior of each room as well as the exterior, then walking back up the road to my camera to turn it off. That was 9 minutes and 16 seconds, the longest single exposure star trails I've done in years (my longest ever is 36 minutes). The moon came out during my exposure, so the star trails are very faint. Oh well. I photographed this after a really fun night photography workshop in Nevada.
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(Plate 0090) Pentax K-1/28-105mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. 556 seconds f/4.5 ISO 200. May 2023.
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Firestick Before Wifi
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A mysterious night photo of the fascinating fireplace and television of 1920s abandoned transcontinental airport languishing in obscurity somewhere in the Mojave Desert. I illuminated the night scene with warm white and red light from a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light during the long exposure. Light painting to illuminate subjects is a beautiful, addictive art, as you can walk around the scene, deciding what to bring to light and what to keep in shadow. And it's more fun than typing key prompts for AI-generated art.
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(Plate 0149) Pentax K-1/28-105mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. 2 minutes f/8 ISO 200. July 2023.
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This is the last of my dewy web shots. Glad I got them when I did. We were soooo shortchanged on fog this September, it's not even remotely funny.
A couple of people have told me they've tried spraying water on spider webs to get this kind of effect... and it seems not to work. I think that's because the webs are so delicate and... well... humanmade spray apparatus is a sledgehammer next to the gentleness of fog and mists and dew...
But really. Our typical September weather is fog in the mornings, sun in the afternoons. And here it is October and I think we've only had about three foggy days since August. BAH.
Stories from the Porch
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Wood being scarce, Tom Kelly decided he'd build a house with other material: glass bottles. Lots of them. Kelly collected over 50,000 bottles in six months from the 50 saloons in Rhyolite. He built a three-room house with porch and quaint gingerbread trim. Inside, the walls were covered with plaster. It's really a unique, beautiful and comfortable house. I illuminated the scene with warm white and teal (GST) light during the long exposure. Light painting to illuminate subjects is a beautiful, addictive art, as you can walk around the scene, deciding what to bring to light and what to keep in shadow. I had special permission to photograph this at night. It is ordinarily locked up at night.
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(Plate 0124) Pentax K-1/28-105mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. May 2023.
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Europe, France, Charente department: Torsac village.
Probably built during 2d part of 19 century for hygienic purposes, this washhouse is beside his own water source. You can see a water mill in the background situated on a little river which is passing near this washhouse. This place is a small peaceful valley inhabited for centuries, maybe since the paleolitic era according to some archeological researches: silex tools have been discovered by archeologists in this valley.
- Michelangelo.
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Usually, my landscape trips are focused on natural landscape elements. I am generally very frustrated when I have humanmade elements in my compositions. Still, once in a while, we come across human features that enhance the natural beauty of a place. I feel like I have to give a big thanks to the Civilian Conservation Corps. More often than not, when we come across a beautiful bridge or, in this case, a cabin, somehow, I know that the CCC is involved. Sometimes when I research a location, I learn about structures created by CCC and often make it a point to visit.
While researching the Valley of fire state park, I learned about the three cabins that were built by the Civilian Conservation Corps. These three cabins were some of the earliest work done by the ccc. It was built using the native Aztec sandstones in 1934 for visiting tourists. These cabins are located on the base of towering rock formation and provided a cool shelter on a park where temps often exceeded 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
After a stormy weather day. Light was yellow and made green an amazing look.
Loubressac in French, English & Deutch
French Countryside
Taken by me. Modified by me. Imperfect.
The heart that catches the light, as I see it: only pink and blue, like my soul.
The Tree and the Rock
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Photographed in Joshua Tree NP in 2012, when I was first learning how to do night photography and light painting. I used a Dorcy Spotlight and lit the juniper and rock from about 20 meters away, according to my old notes at the time, and I remember running up a large rock to get some height and distance. Regardless, I got lucky, and was able to photograph it without bothering anyone or having too many people running around. I re-processed this, and it seems like it cleaned up well after a bit of denoising and remixing.
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(Plate 197) Nikon D7000/Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 lens. 209 seconds f/16 ISO 200. 2012 December 28.
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