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often found occupying the space between land and sky. this would have been a fun shot for alice's leap year project that we were doing last year... which got sidelined due to her various injuries. here's hoping that 2013 treats her better!
this week i have been slowly increasing her level of exercise and she is handling it just fine. she is delighted to be running again! she is not showing any signs of lameness, has a nice balanced gait when she's moving, no dragging of her right hind foot, and she is now allowing me to gently stretch that leg. she is still receiving laser therapy twice weekly, but may soon decrease to once weekly. no agility training for at least another week, because she is just soooo crazy when she gets out there! i am pleased with her progress! keep feeling good, alice girl.
Today's story and sketch "by me", as you look into the back of it, you
see sketched for the first time the "Orange Smokey Mountains Theme Park" here
in Wonder World. It was a surprise to Knobby when the Mountains were transported
in the greatest Swap of some Smokey Mountains from Tennessee, for Swamp land
from Sunny Southern Florida, all done by Knobby Gofish's cousin Billy's, (Big Billies Extraterrestrial Mountain Moving Technologies). But after the swap they
quit Smoking, not a whiff of smoke or even fog. Seems the air is to Muggy and Hot
in Florida for the Naturally occurring Blue Misty Smoke in Tennessee. That was
almost a deal breaker for opening day, of the first Smokey Mountain Theme Park on this or any other Moon or Planet in our Galaxy. But when Knobby gets into anything technical and needs help, he always goes to his go to Technical Advisor,
and reanimated crash test dummy friend, "Rescue Randy" at one time was just
an Anatomically Correct Crash Test Dummy that fell into the Ocean, then he laid
on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean for a year. One day he was found by a crew doing underwater maintenance on an Offshore Oil Platform (the Exxon Hondo), the divers threw the Barnacle encrusted Dummy (nicknamed Randy) by the Hondo Crew, into a Dumpster. But what Luck for Randy, another underwater crew of Aliens from Lippo (the Blue Moon) were also doing research in the Santa Barbara Channel, who were watching the whole ordeal, and felt sorry for the Dummy, they took him to the Alien Reanimation Laboratory at the campus of "UCSB" in Isla Vista, and when he came to life he had most if not all of the wisdom of the Universe. But this is not a story about Randy or how the reanimation was performed, for most of our readers have already read his story.
But today is about of the Alien you see in the beautiful B&R Galaxy Astro Glider
at the top of this sketch, and he is the Master of Intergalactic Pyrotechnics,
The little grey Alien who is only known as (Sparkly Juan) no one knows where
he is from or where he keeps his 47 Wives, they are a story for another time.
But check in on tomorrows tale when we find out how every hour on the hour,
Sparkly creates the Orange Smoke coming out of the mountains, and even bigger
thrill at night when the sky lights up with an Orange Smokey Glow.
But this tale will continue tomorrow, until then taa ta the Rod Blog.
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spin that wheel
This is a main hub inside of the (humongous) Dubai Mall. And what exactly was I doing in a shopping mall?
In order to avoid the question, allow me to explain today’s post in “Wheel of Fortune” format:
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I_TE_G_L_CTIC S_OPPI_G SP_EE
(Pat Sajak) Eli, spin that wheel!
*bleep*bleep*bleep**bleep**bleep***bleep****bleep*****bleep*******bleep**********bleep
(Eli) I’d like to buy a vouel. “A”
(Pat Sajak) Yes, there are 2 As
I_TE_GALACTIC S_OPPI_G SP_EE
(Eli) hmm, I’d like to solve the puzzle, please. Is it: INTERGALACTIC SHOPPING SPREE?
*extended dramatic silence
(Pat Sajak) YES! Eli, you’re moving on to the bonus round!
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Technical Mumbo Jumbo:
- Nikon D700 - Nikkor 14-24 f/2.8 @ 18mm f/2.8 Iso: 100 / 5 (handheld) Exposure Brackets (-2,-1,0,1,2)
- HDR Photography Processing & Tone Mapping using Photomatix Pro
- Post Processing & Color Correction using Photoshop
- Enhanced detail with Nik Software Sharpener Pro
- Additional enhancement with Topaz Detail
- Visited the foodcourt
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My latest mirror-made adventures in chrome and light yielded this mask well in advance of the approaching Halloween holiday.
INTERGALACTIC GARDEN - BIHEMISPHERIC ART
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Geeks day out with pcftm at the new Westside (built by Daniel Libeskind) mall in Brünnen bei Bern.
The actual goal of the trip to Bern was to visit the newly renovated Parlament building, but the length of the queue to enter the building was far too long for our tastes (and it was freezing cold). So we gave up on politics and dedicated the afternoon to a temple to consumerism... :-)
Shot with Basilio's Sigma 12-24 lens :-)
For Kacey
Just because ♥
Jazz and A-Team*, that's our team
Step inside the party, disrupt the whole scene
When it comes to beats, well I'm a fiend
I like my sugar with coffee and cream
Well I got to keep it going, keep it going full steam
Too sweet to be sour, too nice to be mean
Well on the tough guy style- I'm not too keen
Beastie Boys ~ ♫ ♪ Intergalactic ♫ ♪
This composite image shows an intergalactic "weather map" around the elliptical galaxy NGC 5813, the dominant central galaxy in a galaxy group located about 105 million light years away from Earth. Just like a weather map for a local forecast on Earth, the colored circle depicts variations in temperature across a region. This particular maps presents the range of temperature in a region of space as observed by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, with the hotter temperatures shown in red and decreasingly cooler temperatures shown in orange, yellow, green, and blue.
A notable feature of this image is the relatively small variation in temperature across the weather map, with a range of only about 30% across several hundred thousand light years. Without any sources of heat, the densest gas near the center of the map should cool to much lower temperatures as energy is lost because of radiation. However, regular outbursts generated by the supermassive black hole at the center of NGC 5813 provide heat, preventing the gas near the center of the galaxy from cooling to such low temperatures. This decreases the amount of cool gas available to form new stars. This process is analogous to the sun providing heat for Earth's atmosphere and preventing water and water vapor from cooling and freezing.
How do outbursts generated by the black hole provide heat? Powerful jets produced as gas swirls toward the black hole push cavities into the hot gas and drive shock waves -- like sonic booms -- outwards, heating the gas. The shocks from the most recent outburst, which occurred about 3 million years ago in Earth’s time frame, show up as a "figure eight" structure at the center of the image. This is the first system where the observed heating from shocks alone is sufficient to keep the gas from cooling indefinitely. These shocks allow the relatively tiny black hole to heat the huge area surrounding it, as shown here.
The gas around NGC 5813 shows evidence for three distinct outbursts from the black hole, which occurred 3 million, 20 million and 90 million years ago, in Earth's time frame. The average power of the two most recent outbursts differ by about a factor of six, showing that the power delivered by the jets can vary significantly over timescales of about 10 million years.
A paper describing these results has been accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. The first author of the paper is Scott Randall from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and the co-authors are Bill Forman from CfA; Simona Giacintucci from CfA and INAF in Bologna, Italy; Paul Nulsen from CfA; Ming Sun from the University of Virginia; Christine Jones from CfA; Eugene Churazov from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany and the Space Research Institute in Moscow, Russia; Larry David and Ralph Kraft from CfA; Megan Donahue from Michigan State University; Elizabeth Blanton from Boston University; and Aurora Simionescu and Norbert Werner from Stanford University.
Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/S.Randall et al., Optical: SDSS
Read entire caption/view more images: chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2010/ngc5813/
Caption credit: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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Intergalactic Tower, the HQ of the Federation on Micropolis, in Classic Space colours. Built Jan '18 with some PAB bits, and a few parts from an old Star Wars set. Ref: D1520-161
Watch the video on this Block by Blockhead
Looks like a face to me. I seem to be way in to the mirror thing right now.Kinetic photography. but hay it is fun. Photo made from motion and things flying in a room. then add a bit of photo shop and fun things start to happen. what do you think.
Tomorrowland
Magic Kingdom
Walt Disney World, FL
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[Part 4]
Nightfall had already arrived by the time Franz reached this mysterious destination. What Franz was seeing was beyond anything that he could've imagined. There wasn't just a solitary building, but a completely different world than his own. But of course, the bigger picture is always initially lost in the eyes of a little boy. “Holy moly,” Franz exclaimed, “look at all these pretty colors.” “Fritz would never believe I seen such fancy looking lamps.” Slowly stepping through the threshold of these neon lights, Franz noticed that no one, or no being, appeared to be around. Every once in a while, he would seem to notice a person or two; but those visions would quickly disappear. While wandering through this new world, he notices an area full of goods and supplies. "Merchant of Venus?" Franz wondered. He procedes to enter....
The End.
...Gotta love a Coen Brothers' inspired ending. ;)
... And if anyone was wondering what was with the 'unique' posting week; I was making up a story for a shot that I didn't think was all that strong. And looking at some of the photos I was also working with at the time, I realized they could all be blended in a story atmosphere; even with a stretch or two. I can't promise this coincedence won't happen again though.
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Classic Ford Galaxie at the Father's Day Weekend Antique Car Show in Middleton, NS.
I've shot the local Galaxies a number of times, but this is one of my favourite attempts. Not sure if I should have cropped so close to the wheel rim, though. I was trying to keep a letterbox type of aspect ratio.
Try to spin the image (; for time killing or damaging your phone, maybe. More appropriate for lg phone users.
TEATROS DEL CANAL - MADRID
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Una sencilla representación del soñar despierto, como la inmensidad de pensamientos puede provocar lagunas mentales, tsunamis y desbordes.
The generally cloudy weather of recent weeks gave few possibilities for imaging, so on the odd cloudless evening, I will tackle a subject that I can capture in a single evening.
The image is of NGC 2419, The Intergalactic Wanderer, a globular cluster that has proved to be something of an enigma to understand. It was discovered by William Herschel on December 31, 1788, and it differs from most other globular clusters in that it is so distant from the centre of the galaxy that it was thought to be not in orbit about the galaxy and thus earned the nickname 'The Intergalactic Wanderer'.
Studies of it now reveal that its orbit takes it out beyond the Magellanic Clouds and it takes three billion years to make one trip around the galaxy. It is at a distance of about 300,000 light-years from the solar system and at the same distance from the galactic centre. It presents a dim disc 4.5' across and has a magnitude of around 10. The brightest foreground stars in this image are around magnitude 8 but the brightest individual stars in the cluster itself are around magnitude 15.
The data comprise 15 x five-minutes of RGB captured on the evening of 5th February 2021.
Telescope: 200mm Ritchey-Chretien at 1660mm focal length
Camera: QSI 683 with Astrodon filters and a Lodestar as an off-axis guide camera
Mount: Skywatcher EQ8
Location: Cambridge, UK
Data capture: NINA, processing PixInsight including photometric colour calibration, Photoshop
INTERGALACTIC GARDEN / JARDIN INTERGALACTICO
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MOBILE GARDEN - TEATROS DEL CANAL MADRID