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I mentioned in my photograph titled "Integration - 1" that the Fabian Way Park & Ride service in Swansea, operated by First Cymru under contract to the City & County of Swansea, was amalgamated into First Cymru's Service 8 (Bay Campus-City Centre-Singleton Campus & Hospital-Sketty Park-Hendrefoilan Student Village) from 17th June.
Wright Eclipse Gemini-bodied Volvo B7TL 37170, is therefore seen leaving the Fabian Way site when heading for the Bay Campus during the first week of the new arrangements.
So I rarely do anything SOOC now, but thought I'd show how well taks integrate with Fuji . All manual setting except flash which was TTL -2/3 bounced back off burgundy wall behind me with a diffuser and. a table lamp on to the top left . Wide open
M 31, the Andromeda Galaxy, 60 minutes of integration into SHO with Takahashi FSQ-106EDX4 106/382 f 3/6 telescope, QHY 600M Pro camera, are 12 shots, 4x300 seconds for each filter, processing with Pixinsight and Photoshop. All data and shots were captured with Telescope Live. The Andromeda Galaxy (sometimes known as the Great Andromeda Nebula or by the catalog designations M 31 and NGC 224) is a large barred spiral galaxy about 2.538 million light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Andromeda, from which it takes its name. It is the closest large galaxy to ours, the Milky Way; it is visible even to the naked eye and is among the most distant objects visible without the aid of tools.
The Andromeda Galaxy is the largest of the Local Group, a group of galaxies that also includes the Milky Way and the Triangulum Galaxy, plus about fifty other minor galaxies, many of which are satellites of the main ones.
According to studies published in the 2000s, derived from observations by the Spitzer Space Telescope, it would contain about a billion stars (one thousand billion), a number greater than that of the Milky Way, estimated between 200 and 400 billion stars. However, there are conflicting opinions on mass: some studies indicate a mass value for the Milky Way equal to 80% of that of Andromeda, while, according to others, the two galaxies would have similar mass sizes. However, some studies suggest that the Milky Way contains more dark matter and may therefore be the one with the largest mass.
With an apparent magnitude of 3.4; The Andromeda Galaxy is one of the brightest objects in Messier's catalog.
Looking northeastward at the western face of the Sierra del Carmen. This was taken in the same locale as the Part 9 photo, which is to say we're about 5.5 road mi / 8.9 road km north of the Carlota Tinaja stop documented in Part 7 and Part 8. That equates to being approximately 12.4 road mi / 20.0 road km north of the intersection of Old Ore Road and Park Road 12. How about that for a lot of geolocation?
This is a closer, tighter view of one section of the imposing fault scarp of the Alto Relex horst. To review the Laramide-Orogeny and Basin-and-Range tectonics that went into making this impressive feature, see the Part 9 description.
The rock unit we're gazing at is the cliff-forming Santa Elena Limestone, the Lower Cretaceous formation also so dramatically displayed in the park's Santa Elena and Boquillas Canyons.
When it's near or at the Earth's surface, the Santa Elena Limestone often develops deep vertical joints (fractures where no sizeable displacement has occurred) and karst (solution features created by acidic precipitation and ground water). Some karst features visible here include caves and widened joints.
As jointed sections of the Santa Elena cliff face continue to weather, they can turn into freestanding hoodoos, which often assume a spire- or chimneylike shape. The process of hoodooification has apparently not progressed as far at Alto Relex as it has at Boquillas Canyon, but there are a few examples of weird and funky forms emerging from the bedrock. Can you find any of them in this image?
To see the other photos and descriptions in this set, visit my my Integrative Natural History of Old Ore Road album.
Facing northwestward on a beautiful summer's day in the Old Dominion. What a magnificently scenic, botanical, and geological state this is.
I found this characteristic example of a Table Mountain Pine (Pinus pungens) and some of its siblings inhabiting an outcrop of metabasalt (metamorphosed basalt) of the Upper Neoproterozoic Catoctin Formation. I'll focus on that rock unit, as exposed here and at the Greenstone Overlook, in separate photos and descriptions.
The Table Mountain Pine is found in the mountains of the Eastern US, from Pennsylvania to Georgia. Its fairly linear, montane distribution makes it one of the more exotic tree species for a Midwestern botanist to find.
Part 4 of this series offers a close-up of this species's needles and cones.
You'll find the other photos and descriptions of this series in my Integrative Natural History of the Blue Ridge Province album.
Pretzel, our youngest resident cat, instantly got on with the kittens. In fact, he couldn't wait to start interacting with them and tried to break into the room where they were held in 'quarantine' after we initially took them in.
More on trapping and integrating the feral brothers is available here: makedoandmendnovice.blogspot.com/2023/02/a-sudden-influx-...
Due to funding constraints, the City & County of Swansea has had to look at a different model for providing its two remaining Park & Ride services. Therefore, from 17th June, the two bespoke services operated by First Cymru under contract have been amalgamated into the company's parallel commercial services.. Thus the former 501 covering Landore is now merged into Service 34 (Neath-Skewen-Llansamlet-Enterprise Park-Swansea City Centre) and the former 502 serving Fabian Way is now covered by Service 8 (Bay Campus-City Centre-Singleton Campus & Hospital-Sketty Park-Hendrefoilan Student Village).
Alexander Dennis E30D 67433 is one a pair that have covered the Landore service for the last five and a half years, and carry a two-tone green contract livery. These have been de-branded and re-allocated from Swansea Ravenhill depot to Port Talbot to temporarily cover Service 34 alongside the two-tone blue pair from the Fabian Way service.
My mid June 2019 shot of her in her new role was taken on Phoenix Way in Swansea Enterprise Park.
NAVAL AIR FACILITY ATSUGI, Japan (March 28, 2022) Commander, Task Force (CTF) 70 Rear Adm. Michael Donnelly, (left) and Commander, Fleet Air Force Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Vice Adm. Futakawa Tatsuya, (right) participate in a signing ceremony aimed at strengthening bilateral integration and coordination between their staffs. CTF 70, as theater strike warfare commander, is forward-deployed to U.S. 7th Fleet in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Rafael Avelar).
A small zone in Wan Chai with (presumably) perfect Feng Shui.
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Sandhill Cranes, Canada Geese, and Mallards share a cramped wetlands space in northwest Oregon.
Just got a new computer, a Dell XPS 15. The display is much more vivid so here's hoping the images look okay on others' systems...
Long exposure photography.
Mars 4/8 Planets in our solar system.
My series "Cosmic Ophelia" integrates the beauty of nature, the vastness of the cosmos with a mysterious femininity that wraps it.
A woman as the epitome of 8 Planets in Our Solar System.
Due to funding constraints, the City & County of Swansea has had to look at a different model for providing its two remaining Park & Ride services. Therefore, from 17th June, the two bespoke services operated by First Cymru under contract have been amalgamated into the company's parallel commercial services.. Thus the former 501 covering Landore is now merged into Service 34 (Neath-Skewen-Llansamlet-Enterprise Park-Swansea City Centre) and the former 502 serving Fabian Way is now covered by Service 8 (Bay Campus-City Centre-Singleton Campus & Hospital-Sketty Park-Hendrefoilan Student Village).
The five Alexander Dennis E20D MMCs (67091-5) bought for Swansea UniBus work have now transferred from Swansea Ravenhill to Port Talbot depot. These are the intended vehicles for Service 34. and the batch is in the process of receiving the red, maroon and orange fleet livery.
Recently de-branded 67091 is captured using the Bus Only link from the Landore Park & Ride site when returning to the City Centre in early 2019.
Leica M2
Leica Summilux 35mm f/1.4 II
Fomapan 100
Ars Imago FD 1+39
6 min 30 sec 20°C
Scan from negative film
© 2008 Steve Kelley
Have a crooked Friday! :) Shot from Jersey City, NJ.
9exp using Photomatix 3.1
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PACIFIC OCEAN (Aug. 6, 2021) Sailors aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) heave a shot line on the ship’s flight deck during a fueling-at-sea with the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer JS Makinami (DD 112). America Expeditionary Strike Group along with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, are conducting operations alongside partner nations and allies in support of the Combined and Join Battle Problem (CJBP). CJBP is one of many operations nested under the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s Large Scale Global Exercise (LSGE) 21. LSGE 21 is a global command and control exercise, with a regional focus, to enhance integration of the U.S., allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Vincent E. Zline)
(Updated on May 10, 2025)
Looking generally northwestward. Taken either at the Pinkley Peak picnic area, or a little south of it. So I was near the beginning of my transit of Puerto Blanco Drive, which for much of its 41 mi (66 km) is just a stony, one-way, high-clearance-only track. I'm proud to say that I negotiated the whole dang loop, without one flat tire and without getting stuck in any washouts, in my little Chevy S-10 2WD pickup. And after that I did the Ajo Mountain Drive, an additional and better graded 21 mi (34 km). For some reason I didn't take photos there.
The Ektachrome slides I took this day along Puerto Blanco Drive are, thirty-three years later, of two types. One group remains quite clear and equitably tone-balanced. The other has the quality of a darkling dream, due to the Creosote Bushes (Larrea tridentata) appearing as Stygian masses below the pea-green Saguaros (Carnegiea gigantea). Perhaps it was the lighting. At this distant remove, I just don't know. But I rather like the effect.
This particular image is obviously one of the second group. What it primarily shows, and what clearly caught my geologist's eye at the time, was the yellow-spotted Pinkley Peak in the background.
Named for an important National Park Service official of bygone years, this prominence is part of the upthrust horst block known as the Puerto Blanco Mountains.
Upthrust ranges, down-dropped basins: that's right, we're smack dab in the Basin and Range Province, that immense world-historical museum of extensional tectonics. A large portion of the western US and Mexico can be likened to a gigantic sheet of saltwater taffy that got stretched apart and badly cracked.
One of my main references for this series is the Bedrock Geology Map of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and Vicinity, Southwest Arizona (Thompson et al., Arizona Geological Survey, 2024). It includes an informative booklet.
According to that source, Pinkley Peak is something of a volcanic layer cake. Its dark-toned, nipplelike peak is mapped as Childs Latite. This rock type, the extrusive equivalent of monzonite, contains a roughly equal amount of alkali and plagioclase feldspars, but very little quartz.
Below the latite, however, is the appropriately dubbed Pinkley Peak rhyolite. (Its rock type is not capitalized, the map authors explain, because the name is an informal one.) And the yellower zones on the middle and lower slopes is a lithic-lapili-tuff member within that unit.
All of these are early Miocene in age, and came into being during the heyday of Basin-and-Range magmatic activity. In contrast, the core of the Puerto Blanco Mountains is composed of considerably older metamorphic rocks dating to the Jurassic.
Down here on the Sonoran Desert Floor, however, there's younger, Pliocene-to-Pleistocene alluvium deposits mantled in desert pavement. For a discussion of that amazing feature, see this post of mine in another Flickr series. For now, suffice it to say that in many places the desert itself is better paved than Puerto Blanco Drive.
To see the other photos and descriptions in this set, visit my my Integrative Natural History of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument album.
INTEGRATION-LIEBE-LABSKAUS
Dinge, die Hamburg ausmachen.
..gesehen an einer Mauer, die für allerlei Aufkleber, meist politisch-anarchistisch, herhält
This photo from Northrop Grumman's clean room in Redondo Beach, California shows the start of the integration process of the James Webb Space Telescope. The telescope is seen hanging from a crane, in the process of being moved over the sunshield.
Here's a recent video about the recent successful assembly of Webb into its final form: youtu.be/Trh9ohPo-cE
Image credit: Northrop Grumman
Graz Art Museum, Austria - spacelab UK Peter Cook, Colin Fournier - 2003
The Kunsthaus Graz was built as part of the European Capital of Culture celebrations in 2003 and has since become an architectural landmark in Graz, Austria. Its exhibition program specializes in contemporary art of the last four decades. Its unusual form differs radically from conventional exhibition contexts, many of which maintain the traditions of the modernist "White Cube". The team of architects used an innovative stylistic idiom, known as blob architecture within the historical ambiance of Graz along the river Mur. Thus, the gigantic building affectionately called the "Friendly Alien" by its creators Peter Cook and Colin Fournier, in form and material, stands out consciously against the surrounding baroque roof landscape with its red clay roofing tiles, but nevertheless integrates the facade of the 1847 iron house.
Architecture, design, new media, internet art, film, and photography are united under one roof. Kunsthaus Graz was developed as an institution to stage international exhibitions of multidisciplinary, modern and contemporary art from the 1960s to the present day. It doesn't collect new pieces, it maintains no permanent exhibitions and has no research establishments. Its exclusive purpose is to present and procure contemporary art productions. Kunsthaus Graz implements an innovative concept, which offers various possibilities in its galleries to fulfil the high curatorial requirements of contemporary exhibitions.
The BIX Facade of the museum represents a singular fusion from architecture and New Media and is based on a concept of the Berliner architects realities:united. BIX, a name which consists of the words "Big" and "pixels" is the acrylic glass skin of the eastern side of the building toward the Mur and city center and represents an oversize urban screen, which serves as an instrument for artistic productions. BIX projects accompany different exhibitions and are not transported into the public area, also the direct environment is defined and shaped. Beyond that the "communicating outer skin" offers a possible drilling platform for art projects, which brings up for discussion the dialogue between media and area. 930 40Watt fluorescent rings are embedded in the 900 m2 outer skin, with the illumination level of each one being variable between 0 and 100%. Each light ring functions as a pixel, which can be served by a central computer. In this way they can be developed as roughly screened indications, texts and film sequences, which radiate far into the urban area and thus, the blue blister of Graz with a screen of immense size makes an art gallery.
Three very different movements in very different lighting conditions, but generally struggling with fast moving clouds (black and white) resulting in ever changing settings even within he frame. I worked from home first thing this morning and then on my way to Rotherham called in at Darnall station, a place where I had never stopped for the Hope to Walsall tanks.
A variation on the normal route via the Dore West Curve and Dronfield today it ran via Sheffield station and Woodhouse Junction. 66615 is seen here climbing up from Nunnery and Woodburn Junctions on the 09:19 Hope (Earles Sidings) Fhh to Walsall Freight Terminal.
Next post meeting and needing some fresh air to battle a migraine, evidence that the Scots are doing everything they can to remain integrated into Europe. Scotrail - Saltaire liveried 68006 would be more at home on commuter services out of Edinburgh, but this week has been a regular performer on the 6C89 0945 Mountsorrel to Carlisle NY. The disappointment of this running a 664xx for the first few weeks now overcome and a useful diagram as the same loco appears to work the train all week.
Finally a VSTP numerically confusing 56087 and 56078 on the 0C51 12:00 Doncaster CHS to Whitemoor Yard LDC GBRF, only just about dropping on one of those elusive sunspots.
Two days before the scheduled launch, the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket and NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft rolls out of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41 Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2013, Cape Canaveral, Florida. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)