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Green Amethyst and Nickel Chloride
Macro Mondays, Theme: Green
For an image with scale, see here: www.flickr.com/gp/kuriyan/1g05Zn
Nine focus-stacked images, generated using a macro rail.
'Organic in the inorganic' was what came to mind for this picture, as despite the metal and glass and sheer monumentalism of this building there is something organic to the feeling of it: a tribute to those who imagined and designed it.
A refrigeration technician I met inside told me that it was the greenest and most sustainable building in Sydney. Then I researched it and found that it had won all sorts of awards, so: kudos to the architects and builders, and all who sail in her.
[Organic in the inorganic_MS_IMG_0334]
The juxtapose of organic and inorganic objects are reflected on the pond at the Flower Dome of Gardens by the Bay, Singapore.
Water is a polar inorganic compound that is at room temperature a tasteless and odourless liquid, which is nearly colourless apart from an inherent hint of blue. It is by far the most studied chemical compound and is described as the "universal solvent" and the "solvent of life." It is the most abundant substance on the surface of Earth and the only common substance to exist as a solid, liquid, and gas on Earth's surface. It is also the third most abundant molecule in the universe behind molecular hydrogen and carbon monoxide.
The properties of water have historically been used to define various temperature scales. Notably, the Kelvin, Celsius, Rankine, and Fahrenheit scales were, or currently are, defined by the freezing and boiling points of water.
Drinking water, also known as potable water, is water that is safe to drink or use for food preparation. The amount of drinking water required to maintain good health varies, and depends on physical activity level, age, health-related issues, and environmental conditions. For those who work in a hot climate, up to 16 litres a day may be required. Typically in developed countries, tap water meets drinking water quality standards, even though only a small proportion is actually consumed or used in food preparation. Other typical uses for tap water include washing, toilets, and irrigation.
Globally, by 2015, 89% of people had access to water from a source that is suitable for drinking – called improved water source. In sub-Saharan Africa, access to potable water ranged from 40% to 80% of the population. Nearly 4.2 billion people worldwide had access to tap water, while another 2.4 billion had access to wells or public taps. The World Health Organization considers access to safe drinking-water a basic human right.
About 1 to 2 billion people lack safe drinking water. More people die from unsafe water than from war, then-U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in 2010. Third world countries are most affected by lack of water, flooding, and water quality. Up to 80 percent of illnesses in developing countries are the direct result of inadequate water and sanitation. Water covers approximately 70% of the Earth's surface, where approximately 97.2% of it is saline, only 2.8% fresh. Source Wikipedia.
Edgar Froese - Aqua
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNWF50faO0s
Edgar Willmar Froese was a German musical artist and electronic music pioneer, best known for founding the electronic music group Tangerine Dream in 1967.
TD : 1/500 f/8 ISO 400 @28mm Pentax-M lens on hybrid Alpha 6000
Barium chloride is the inorganic compound with the formula BaCl2. It is one of the most common water-soluble salts of barium. Like other barium salts, it is toxic and imparts a yellow-green coloration to a flame. It is also hygroscopic.
As an inexpensive, soluble salt of barium, barium chloride finds wide application in the laboratory. It is commonly used as a test for sulfate ion. In industry, barium chloride is mainly used in the purification of brine solution in caustic chlorine plants and also in the manufacture of heat treatment salts, case hardening of steel, in the manufacture of pigments, and in the manufacture of other barium salts. BaCl2 is also used in fireworks to give a bright green color. However, its toxicity limits its applicability.
This is the continuation of this photo: Uneven Vortex
I'm so proud of this photo because almost one year ago I started photography and I have grown in many ways that I never thought I would, so this represents the effort I give to every photo.
I really want to make a complete series of this concept, I tried to make this photo for weeks but it just didn't work out until yesterday and I reallly like the result.
Inpired by Jamie Baldridge.
Chaplin Lake is a large saline body of water on the Canadian prairie, covering about 20 sq km but only a few inches deep. When the shallow water warms in spring, billions of brine shrimp hatch and provide a feast for thousands of shorebirds on their northward migratory journey. Usually this occurs in late April and early May.
But I don't think there is a "usual" or "normal" anymore. Many, many people have remarked on the strange, abnormal spring we're having, here and elsewhere. For example, I planted spinach in my garden on March 19. That's more than a month early; most years the earth remains frozen until late April. I covered it with a plastic sheet. The seeds germinated and I now have a healthy bed of baby spinach.
However, following the unseasonal warm spell came an unseasonal cold spell, and some terrible weather that swept through Montana, the Dakotas, Manitoba and western Ontario, bringing blizzard conditions and stopping the bird migration for many days. When my friend Lori took me on a guided tour of the restricted area of Chaplin Lake, there were no birds. She said the dykes and mounds should be covered with shorebirds at this time.
Likewise, she told me she had never seen ice wedged and piled on the lake shore like this so late in the season. The top left photo, however, isn't snow; it's sodium sulphate! Chaplin Lake is a huge producer of this mineral salt, an inorganic compound used in the production of pulp and paper, detergents, and in glass making.
Saskatchewan Mining and Minerals, the company that works this rich resource, manages water levels in the lake to ensure habitat protection for the migratory shorebirds while mining a world-class quality product. They work closely with government and environmental groups. A refreshing atmosphere of co-operation not always present with mining operations.
More than half the world's population of Sanderlings stop at Chaplin Lake, along with significant numbers of Stilt Sandpipers, Semi-palmated Sandpipers, Piping Plovers, and many other species.
I'm planning to head back up there in mid-May, expecting a pretty good show!
Photographed at Chaplin Lake, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2022 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
What distinguishes organic from inorganic existence is the fact that the plant or the animal stands in an active and defensive relation to temporality. All finite existence, a stone or a dog, is constantly on the verge of nonexistence: any moment it may cease to exist. But unlike the stone, the dog is endowed to a degree with the ability to fight or avoid the ills of life.
--Abraham Joshua Heschel, Between God and Man, An Interpretation of Judaism, pg 108
Between the constellations of Taurus and Auriga a stretch of dark clouds form what looks like a cosmic waterfall. “Pouring down” between the California Nebula and the Pleiades star cluster are 30-40 thousand solar masses of gas and dust, including a variety of organic and inorganic molecules. The gravitational collapse of dense clumps within the nebula creates young T Tauri stars, named for their prototype star in the constellation of Taurus.
This six-panel mosaic shows the magnificent structures of the Taurus-Auriga dark clouds on a large scale.
Stack of approximately 720 exposures of 90 seconds each (18 hours total integration time).
Taken during several nights in September, October and November 2021 in rural Upper Austria with a QHY600C-PH and a Sigma Art telephoto lens 135mm f/1.8.
Tracking with Skywatcher EQ6-R, autoguiding with MGEN-3. Processed with Astro Pixel Proxessor and Photoshop.
E for experimental@Chicago, IL
Look at all that inorganic and mathematical grain!
So I was bored at work. And as you do, I looked up the science behind film grains. The noise in the dark part of the image are in fact statistical quantum fluctuations which arise due to the absorption of photons by the silver halide crystals in the film. It follows a random Poisson distribution. Similarly, noise in the light areas follows a random binomial distribution.
Interestingly, both the Poisson and the binomial distribution can be approximated by a normal distribution (or a Gaussian) under different conditions. The Gaussian is an isotropic (i.e. uniform on all sides, so it spreads out like a chocolate orange) distribution and the Lightroom/Photoshop-generated grains certainly look like it - or in quasi-witchdoctor photo-speak, lacking in soul.. (presumably)
I think this is the reason some photographer think the film grain is "organic". This is because the distribution of silver halide grains in the film exists in a phase-separation field* (i.e. it isn't uniform) and so the grain patterns are not in fact uniform Gaussians nor isotropic, which Lightroom tries to mimic.
Now that we can sort of quantify this intangible film organicity thing, it's kind of interesting to see(lol) that our eyes can spot the subtle differences between the computer generated grain and a quantum-fluidic instability.
Anyway, take-home msg is probably that “biology is somewhat physics” - so you can imagine I was like an overexcited silver halide crystal in a bath of Portra 400 emulsions when they said the same thing on Star Trek discoveries. Now if only Netflix made a Star Wars one.. :)
*I work with phase-separation fields.
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Anyway, this pic is awesome :-)
Inorganic rubbish collection week ...random drive by, U-turn, drive back, take the pic, leave the bear
The concrete pillars below the Taren Point bridge hold up a mighty structure, as do the flowing buttress roots of giant figs in the nearby rainforest.
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On a walk tonight, this fascinating conglomeration of inorganic material was begging to be photographed at low tide . . .
I recognize bricks, but the rest is a mystery.
As I hopped onto this mass for a closer look, it began to wobble!
Wasn't expecting that!
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Precious opal ("black matrix opal") in Tertiary-aged vesicular basalt from Honduras.
A mineral is a naturally-occurring, solid, inorganic, crystalline substance having a fairly definite chemical composition and having fairly definite physical properties. At its simplest, a mineral is a naturally-occurring solid chemical. Currently, there are about 5900 named and described minerals - about 200 of them are common and about 20 of them are very common. Mineral classification is based on anion chemistry. Major categories of minerals are: elements, sulfides, oxides, halides, carbonates, sulfates, phosphates, and silicates.
The silicates are the most abundant and chemically complex group of minerals. All silicates have silica as the basis for their chemistry. "Silica" refers to SiO2 chemistry. The fundamental molecular unit of silica is one small silicon atom surrounded by four large oxygen atoms in the shape of a triangular pyramid - this is the silica tetrahedron - SiO4. Each oxygen atom is shared by two silicon atoms, so only half of the four oxygens "belong" to each silicon. The resulting formula for silica is thus SiO2, not SiO4.
Opal is hydrous silica (SiO2·nH2O). Technically, opal is not a mineral because it lacks a crystalline structure. Opal is supposed to be called a mineraloid. Opal is made up of extremely tiny spheres (colloids) that can be seen with a scanning electron microscope (SEM).
Gem-quality opal, or precious opal, has a wonderful rainbow play of colors (opalescence). This play of color is the result of light being diffracted by planes of voids between large areas of regularly packed, same-sized opal colloids. Different opalescent colors are produced by colloids of differing sizes. If individual colloids are larger than 140 x 10-6 mm in size, purple & blue & green colors are produced. Once colloids get as large as about 240 x 10-6 mm, red color is seen (Carr et al., 1979).
Not all opals have the famous play of colors, however. Common opal has a wax-like luster & is often milky whitish with no visible color play at all. Opal is moderately hard (H = 5 to 6), has a white streak, and has conchoidal fracture.
Several groups of organisms make skeletons of opaline silica, for example hexactinellid sponges, diatoms, radiolarians, silicoflagellates, and ebridians. Some organisms incorporate opal into their tissues, for example horsetails/scouring rushes and sawgrass. Sometimes, fossils are preserved in opal or precious opal.
Locality: Tablon Mine, near Erandique, southeastern Lempira Department, western Honduras
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Photo gallery of opal:
www.mindat.org/gallery.php?min=3004
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Reference cited:
Carr et al. (1979) - Andamooka opal fields: the geology of the precious stones field and the results of the subsidised mining program. Geological Survey of South Australia Department of Mines and Energy Report of Investigations 51. 68 pp.
Adrián Villar Rojas - The Most Beautiful of All Mothers, Site-specific installation, organic and inorganic materials
Büyükada, Prince Islands / Adalar
14th Istanbul Biennial, Saltwater / Tuzlu su
www.artsy.net/artwork/adrian-villar-rojas-the-most-beauti...
Live simulations of active digital ecologies and layered composites of organic, inorganic, man- and machine-made matter
by Adrián Villar Rojas
at Fondation Beyeler
I'll be releasing a limited wave of these when I open my new storefront - in the meantime, let's admire how nice it looks.
I'll be releasing a limited wave of these when I open my new storefront - in the meantime, let's admire how nice it looks.
William Blythe Ltd, founded in 1845 in Accrington, Lancashire is one of the longest surviving chemical businesses in the UK. Wm. Blythe Ltd started as a manufacturer of inorganic chemicals for the local textile industry, producing several products, including zinc sulphate for use in the production of Rayon and zinc chloride for use in batteries and for the dissolution of cellulose. By the turn of the century William Blythe was also manufacturing picric acid for use in the local dyestuffs industry. William Blythe’s business was founded on the manufacture of inorganic chemicals and over 170 years on the business manufactures exclusively inorganic chemicals based on a range of different elements with product applications as diverse as catalysis, semi-conductor manufacture, high speed printing and fire retarding polymers.