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© Darlene Bushue 2019
Went out to one of our favorite spots not far from home yesterday morning and came across this guy, feeding in the willows. Poor thing has been through the ringer this rut season, and I can only imagine how lopsided he feels because those antlers are HEAVY. Other than losing his other, he appeared to be healthy and happy.
Have a great Sunday!!!
5/14/24 - Hall & Shuttpelz Lake Trail, Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area, Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon, USA
29 January 2022, Edinburgh Airport
Looking very lopsided as it struggles in the gale force winds brought by Storm Malik.
In celebration of the 31st anniversary of the launching of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers aimed the celebrated observatory at one of the brightest stars seen in our galaxy to capture its beauty.
The giant star featured in this latest Hubble Space Telescope anniversary image is waging a tug-of-war between gravity and radiation to avoid self-destruction. The star, called AG Carinae, is surrounded by an expanding shell of gas and dust — a nebula. The nebula is about five light-years wide, which equals the distance from here to our nearest star, Alpha Centauri.
The huge structure was created from one or more giant eruptions several thousand years ago. The star’s outer layers were blown into space, the expelled material amounting to roughly 10 times the mass of our Sun. These outbursts are typical in the life of a rare breed of star called a Luminous Blue Variable (LBV), a brief unstable phase in the short life of an ultra-bright, glamorous star that lives fast and dies young. These stars are among the most massive and brightest stars known. They live for only a few million years, compared to the roughly 10-billion-year lifetime of our own Sun. AG Carinae is a few million years old and resides 20 000 light-years away inside our Milky Way galaxy. The star’s expected lifetime is between 5 million and 6 million years.
LBVs have a dual personality. They appear to spend years in semi-quiescent bliss and then they erupt in a petulant outburst, during which their luminosity increases — sometimes by several orders of magnitude. These behemoths are stars in the extreme, far different from normal stars like our Sun. In fact AG Carinae is estimated to be up to 70 times more massive than our Sun and shines with the blinding brilliance of 1 million suns.
Major outbursts such as the one that produced the nebula featured in this image occur a few times during a LBV’s lifetime. A LBV star only casts off material when it is in danger of self-destruction. Because of their massive forms and super-hot temperatures, luminous blue variable stars like AG Carinae are in a constant battle to maintain stability. It’s an arm-wrestling contest between radiation pressure from within the star pushing outward and gravity pressing inward. This arm-wrestling match results in the star’s expanding and contracting. The outward pressure occasionally wins the battle, and the star expands to such an immense size that it blows off its outer layers, like a volcano erupting. But this outburst only happens when the star is on the verge of coming apart. After the star ejects the material, it contracts to its normal (large) size, settles back down, and becomes stable again.
LBV stars are rare: fewer than 50 are known among the galaxies in our local group of neighbouring galaxies. These stars spend tens of thousands of years in this phase, a blink of an eye in cosmic time. Some are expected to end their lives in titanic supernova blasts, which enrich the Universe with the heavier elements beyond iron.
Like many other LBVs, AG Carinae remains unstable. It has experienced lesser outbursts that have not been as powerful as the one that created the present nebula. Although AG Carinae is semi-quiescient now, its searing radiation and powerful stellar wind (streams of charged particles) have been shaping the ancient nebula, sculpting intricate structures as outflowing gas slams into the slower-moving outer nebula. The wind is travelling at up to 1 million kilometres per hour, about 10 times faster than the expanding nebula. Over time, the hot wind catches up with the cooler expelled material, ploughs into it, and pushes it farther away from the star. This “snowplough” effect has cleared a cavity around the star.
The red material is glowing hydrogen gas laced with nitrogen gas. The diffuse red material at upper left pinpoints where the wind has broken through a tenuous region of material and swept it into space. The most prominent features, highlighted in blue, are filamentary structures shaped like tadpoles and lopsided bubbles. These structures are dust clumps illuminated by the star’s light. The tadpole-shaped features, most prominent at left and bottom, are denser dust clumps that have been sculpted by the stellar wind. Hubble’s sharp vision reveals these delicate-looking structures in great detail.
The image was taken in visible and ultraviolet light. Hubble is ideally suited for observations in ultraviolet light because this wavelength range can only be viewed from space.
Credits: NASA, ESA and STScI; CC BY 4.0
56 million light years away, in the constellation of Volans, there is a dramatic lopsided intermediate spiral galaxy known as the Meathook Galaxy. Its asymmetric shape has one arm tightly folded in, while the other is dotted with star forming regions that extend far out from its galactic nucleus. These regions are trailing off to the left on the lower arm, and have a slightly pink and reddish colours.
The galaxy itself is around 110,000 light years across and is moving away from us at 1466 kilometres per second. I have always enjoyed looking at interesting shaped galaxies as usually have an interesting history. In this instance, around 200 million years ago, there may have been a gravitational interaction with the fuzzy galaxy to the lower right, AM 0738-692. If you look carefully, there is a fairly easy to spot almost edge background galaxy, around the two o’clock position.
Within inner region of NGC 2442, there is a background galaxy just popping through. I had to resort to some Hubble images to verify, and there it was. That is so cool to be able to see a galaxy through a closer galaxy. To locate it, draw a line from the core, moving outwards toward the 4:30 clock position, and there is what looks like a horizontal line perpendicular to the line you have just drawn out. It is very subtle. Another feature to help locate it, look at the ends of a forked brownish structure that connects back to the core of the galaxy. There are quite a few dim, far off galaxies throughout the frame.
Exposure Details
16 Blue Binned 2X2 – 450 Sec each
17 Green Binned 2X2 – 450 Sec each
19 Red Binned 2X2 – 450 Sec each
19 Lum Binned 1X2 – 900 Sec each
14 Ha Binned 1x1 – 1200 Sec
Instruments Used:
10 Inch RCOS fl 9.1
Astro Physics AP-900 Mount
SBIG STL 11000m
FLI Filter Wheel
Astrodon Lum, Red, Green, Blue Filters
Baader Planetarium H-alpha 7nm Narrowband-Filter
L-DG51B tip toes along the jointed rail along Potash Road near Moab as a trio of dirt bikers blow their doors off in a lopsided "race".
From Atlasobscura: "A mushroom-shaped rock looms above the coast near Måløy, Norway. Over time, strong westerly winds caused the ocean to erode and shape many of the stones along the shore, including this one. Thousands of years of crashing waves gave the Kannesteinen Rock its distinct svelte figure.
Depending on the angle (and the viewer’s imagination), the mushroom rock may take the shape of a goblet, a leafy stem, a wonky heart, a statue of a mushroom cloud, or a lopsided whale tale bursting through the surrounding stones. Locals used to call the misshapen geological figure “kannestolen” because it supposedly also resembles a one-legged chair (“stolen” is the Norwegian word for chair).
The rock, though sporting an oddly thin middle, is still stable. Three or four people can comfortably climb atop its surface, though this can be a tricky feat during high tide. It’s now a sought-after spot for photographers, and is even considered a protected location under Norwegian law."
As we walked to McG’s to watch the Super Bowl. 40:365 update: left at the end of the third. Since my team was out early in the playoffs, I didn’t care who won. But this game was so lopsided it was boring.
This emboidered piece is going to be the top of a sewing box I am making to keep my embroidery tools in. I found a pattern for a making fabric covered boxes at the library and am now trying to decide which one I want to make.
This golden and beautifully lopsided tree caught my attention when I was looking up to admire a perfect sky of blue. Taken at Madam Brett Park in Beacon, NY
Running lopsided account the right side on new 132 lb. welded rail and the left on smaller 115 lb. stick rail Niagara Falls to Toronto set of VIA RDC's with leader 6120 still in CN red on June 2, 1979.
The proverb says stones decay, words last, but both are fading at Copp's Hill Burying Ground in Boston. With good reason: It was established in 1659 as Boston's second cemetery and is now part of the Freedom Trail. The gravestones may be lopsided, but the sense of history is still strong. Among those buried there are Cotton Mather and his father Increase, both of whom were Puritan ministers associated with the Salem witch trials, and Robert Newman, the sexton at Old North Church who hung the lanterns during Paul Revere's midnight ride.
In the eye of a tornado, there is silence, for just a moment.
As she held herself upright against the wall that encased the arduous staircase, her toes dipped into the layer of water that obscured the wooden floorboards of the strip club. At her side, she held a bottle of tequila loosely, listening as the bitter liquid crested around inside. Eyelids struggled to stay open under the heavy blanket of pain relief and alcohol, her jaw slack as if hung on broken hinges as her breath escaped her. Her weight teetered forward until she stumbled down the last two steps into the knee-height ocean, her shoulders sinking as she tapped along the wall for the switch, recklessly desiring to gaze upon the stage in its seedy prestige, for one last time before the inevitable end of the Twister as she knew it. Sure, she'd seen a storm or two but nothing quite like the looming wheel of debris that cradled itself at the bottom of Bourbon Street. With a grunt, she pulled down the lever that cast the platform and pole into a bright, searing light that was painful as her eyes adjusted from torchlight to wonder. True, inescapable wonder. There wasn't a stage like it in the entire city. She waded through the water, shivering but desperate for her moment. A hiss marooned her as she scraped her arm, clambering desperately onto the stage, the pole radiant under the yellow beams of the lighting ring. Blood quickly pooled to the surface of her skin but it went unnoticed for now as flesh took to metal and she pulled herself taut against it, her chest heaving. Clinging to her friend, her confidant. Silence fell once more until she was stirred from her stupor by a drop of water hitting the back of her shoulder. With nothing but a lopsided smile hung on her maw, she pivoted around the pole drunkenly, the bottle of Tequila slipping out of her hand and onto the stage, fracturing into insignificant pieces. She hummed. Not any song in particular but something that paired well with her hips as she pulled herself around the metal stilt, her free hand trailing behind her, along with her consciousness until it left her in a heap at the base of the pole, clinging to it as the broken glass clung to her skin. Sore, wet and dishevelled, just the way it should be in the Titty Twister.
Tonight the moon was really low and also had an orange tint (apparently the two go hand in hand.) It looks a little lopsided on the right side. I thought it was the way I took the shot until I looked it up and saw it is indeed, a little lumpy at this phase. (Actually, this phase is called Waning Gibbous and only 92% of the moon is visible.)
I used a 2.0x tc and the 70-200mm lens to get this.
Another from wednesday's mid week ramble with a bunch of my fellow North East togs. A great time was had by all...
This one is from a bit earlier in the night (hence the slightly warmer tones) using the lovely glistening wet sand to pick up on the colours. Just needed a conveniently placed pedestrian really, but there wasn't one around!
Little bit of perspective adjustment done in Photoshop to deal with the lopsided lampposts the Sigma 10-20mm causes when shooting anything towards the edge of frame. Other than that, pretty much as shot.
EOS 50D / Sigma 10-20mm / Hi tech 0.6 ND Hard and Soft
In the topsy-turvy world of lopsided things and swerving curios, one constant could usually be unearthed somewhere, found floundering in the murkiness, slapping about in the torrent and swishy-swashing movement of the waves. It wasn’t always pretty and quite often, the disheveled look was the result of outside forces bearing down with all their glittery promise of salvation but...
My photo of some street art from Toronto, as well as Digital Art from a Blank Canvas CXC.
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All. Day. Long. That is how long it took me to straighten this fountain out! It is held in place by two ropes that attach to it and to the edge of the pond and are anchored by ground ties. One is on the bottom left of the photo, the other on the opposite side near the "steps" that I dug into the bank. I have to untie the one on the bottom left, then walk around the pond to pull the fountain in. Something got stuck in the fountain and made the spray very uneven plus it was sitting lopsided so the spray wasn't uniform... tilted to one side. First thing I discovered is that the 15 lbs of added weight that kept it in the upright position were gone, somewhere on the bottom of the pond. Had to hunt down something else to use (luckily my husband hoarded lots of metal things!). The second thing I found was a poor wee frog had gotten caught in the fountain. The rest of the time was spent putting the fountain in and taking it out to get those weights in just the right place. The whole fountain, with weights weighs an estimated 50 lbs! I lost count of the trips around the pond (more than a dozen), back and forth to the barn and house for various things. It was a long hard day but doesn't it look fabulous in the late evening sun??? LOL
Mercury, our smallest planetary neighbor, has very little to call an atmosphere, but it does have a strange weather pattern: morning micro-meteor showers.
Recent modeling along with previously published results from NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft — short for Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging, a mission that observed Mercury from 2011 to 2015 — has shed new light on how certain types of comets influence the lopsided bombardment of Mercury’s surface by tiny dust particles called micrometeoroids. This study also gave new insight into how these micrometeoroid showers can shape Mercury’s very thin atmosphere, called an exosphere.
The research, led by Petr Pokorný, Menelaos Sarantos and Diego Janches of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, simulated the variations in meteoroid impacts, revealing surprising patterns in the time of day impacts occur. These findings were reported in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on June 19, 2017.
Here, data from the Mercury Atmosphere and Surface Composition Spectrometer, or MASCS, instrument is overlain on the mosaic from the Mercury Dual Imaging System, or MDIS.
Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
this was my first attempt at decorating with rolled fondant - well, pretty much any cake decorating actually, but i'm just good like that! ;)
it was for an engagement party for a friend and the idea was just to do the cupcakes and since i had some cake mix left over i decided to TRY a small cake - even though i had no idea what i was doing. hence it came out a bit lopsided - but hey that's ok. and i was THRILLED with how the cupcakes turned out. definitely going to have to try this again sometime.
Just like my Faded Desert, this Kyori had the most lopsided hair! Ugh it was killing my OCD so snip snip I went! If she was a real person, all o did was add some layers and take off like 3inches, I'm also recurling her hair
Happy Thrusting Thursday. Is Lefty showing dominance over the other bull or preparing for Valentine's Day in some awkward moose fashion? It's likely the former, but if it is the latter, he may not fully understand the concept. But what can you expect from a lopsided moose? Either way, I'm not here to judge. Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA, November 2024
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same spot a life time later . . .
The big odometer rolled over to 09 - Slim Cessna at the Bluebird - it’s a tradition.
Get dressed up and take your chances - the stage was a wonder - the basement all sin and sentimentality. Couldn’t ask for more, wouldn't get it if i did.
My father left a long time ago - no big deal – i hardly knew the man. i got his ships compass and a Ruger single six, a beautiful piece that i keep wrapped in rags unloaded down in the basement.
New years day i slept till i woke - i get out the Ruger and take one bullet from a box i’ve been chipping away at for years. Then i fish around in the cupboard for that quart can of beef ravioli - Chef Boyardee - another tradition.
Out back i set the can on a hobbled lopsided chair up against the garage. The garage is brick, it’s mine, so what of it . . .
Ok Boyardee it's over for you – this is for killing my baby brother you fat fuck. i pull back the hammer - this ain’t target practice - it’s an execution.
BAMM
Right in the gut – he slams against the chair back and keels over oozing all tomatoy and meat - i notice the B movie splatter on the brick and his gurgled last bit of mumbling but i don't speak italian
the world seems amazingly quiet - a distant barking dog and that’s about it
i make a few new years resolutions and turn toward the house
Inside i pop the lid and dump the remains of chef fat fuck into a sauce pan - i believe in eating what i shoot
i shout out a “who wants ravioli” and from upstairs comes an “I do me too”
we’ll split it three ways - hunter/provider runs in my blood . . .
The door bell
It’s Jackie our positive thinking middle aged Canadian tango dancing fish oil researching next door neighbor
“did you hear anything a few minutes ago?”
like what?
“I don’t know. Like a gun shot. Sounded really really close”
i stand there with my steaming bowl and then fork a big one. i make a point of chewing slow with my mouth closed.
Gee i didn’t hear anything . . . . (so much for new years resolution number one) - want some ravioli? No? - well happy new year, let’s hope it’s a real good one!
She gives me a funny half smile and turns away
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so
here we are again
i mean you.
wishing everyone a peaceful and joyous time ahead . . .
Enjoy camera life!
Mean it.
A little garden building, deliberately lopsided and with the two parts of its facade set at slightly different angles to face views across the garden.
Having a May birthday means that it's not truly my birthday until my house is filled with the smell of lilacs. This was a much easier feat I was a child, living in the country, surrounded by lilacs. Today, I have to go searching for lilacs on the side of the road to take home ... but this year Tanya and Jasper brought some from their garden!
I've been working on Matlin's 'fetch/hold' ... I even have her holding her treats like pizzles and dehydrated rabbit ears - without chowing down on them! So the lilacs weren't a huge challenge, although they were somewhat lopsided with all of those heavy blooms.
And of course, as I was praising Matlin and shooting - not to be upstaged - Mirabelle came out of her cat cave.
NOTE: I promise next week's photo won't be 'Matlin holding things'!!
Das Foto wäre fast im digitalen Mülleimer gelandet, denn eigentlich dachte ich zuerst: „Na super, Häuser beim Umfallen erwischt.“
Doch je länger ich hinsah, desto mehr gefiel mir dieser Schieflagen-Charme, also entschied ich mich, es doch zu posten.
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The photo almost ended up in the digital garbage can, because at first I thought: "Great, houses caught falling over."
But the longer I looked at it, the more I liked this lopsided charm, so I decided to post it after all.
The lopsided Bartley Mansion is about to lose its second parapet, but this time the ornate stone structure will be preserved.
Neighborhoods in Partnership, a nonprofit group that manages the Museum Place apartments, plans to empty its $21,000 reserve fund to save the stone parapet and fix the stairs leading up to the entrance of the Bartley Mansion at 1855 Collingwood Blvd.
“This is the only chateau-esque style building in Toledo,” said Kathleen Kovacs, NIP's executive director.
“We wanted to remove the parapet before it fell so that if we ever find the money, we can put it back.”
Wealthy grocer Rudolph Bartley built the grand mansion in 1905.
After his death about 10 years later, the building was used as a mortuary until the early 1970s, said Matt Wiederhold, NIP's development specialist.
In the late 1970s, the right top parapet crumbled off the mansion and was destroyed.
The building sat vacant for the two decades, falling victim to vandalism and water damage.
A developer renovated the mansion in the mid-1990s, converting it to apartments in the Museum Place complex.
“It's one of the last major mansions left on Collingwood,” Mr. Wiederhold said. “When it was first built, it was pretty stunning and spectacular.”
"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil" - James Allen
title inspired by The Ladykillers (the 1955 original not the dreadful remake)
roid week day three
{polaroid SX-70 + polaroid TZ Artistic film}
Bird Photography Insight # 42
Birds are bastards
Take this Common Yellowthroat, for example. The CY might be the easiest of all warblers to photograph in my area, since they are, after all, ”common”. Nonetheless, I took 420 shots of this bird yesterday. The other 418 ended up in the trash. This little guy jumps from branch to branch, tree to tree, then skulks around in the grass, flies back up into the trees, darting, dashing, peak-a-freakin’-booing around… Rarely, does he give you a clear look, he’s almost always obscured by cover. As exasperating as this little bastard can be, his behavior is also what makes bird photography fun. It’s a thrill when you finally do succeed in using your 3 pound brain to outwit one of these guys with a brain that that weighs a 1/3 of a gram. Maybe we should switch to the term “human-brain” to disparage … at least for bird photographers.
Also, lest you think the Common Yellowthroat is uniquely bastardly. No! Don’t even get me started about ducks!
Common Name: Common Yellowthroat
Scientific Name: Geothlypis trichas
Taxonomy: Animalia - Chordata - Aves - Passeriformes - Parulidae (Anatinae)
2024 Bird Species Count: Somewhere around 70. (I'm behind on posting)
Ps. There will be a lot more warblers moving through the mid-Atlantic area over the next couple months, so this is probably the last Common Yellowthroat pix I’ll post for a while. I’ll be out matching wits with the likes of the Chestnut-sided, the Ovenbird, the American Redstart, etc. etc, etc.
Pps. I’ll save you the math. The human brain weighs about 4000 times as much as the warbler brain. And statistically, the battle of wits is just about as lopsided - only opposite.
Repro Francie - Just arrived today. Very pleased. Sweet face, great outfit. Good face shape, lips in the right place. Overall happy with quality, but her hair needs to be washed and reset. It has tons of stiff glue and mine is lopsided. Her eyelashes have some longer pieces that need to be trimmed. Nice twist and turn Francie body. Cute shoes and the fabric is decent.
Barbie Signature Francie 1967 Doll Reproduction
In stock repro "Floating In"
Released June 2022
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Taken at the peak of Titop island some 400 sweaty steps up in Halong bay, Vietnam. This is what you see after
taken about ten metres away from the last photo
I think i need to work on keeping my camera level when taking photos though - feeling pretty over these lopsided ones
Velvia 50 processed C-41
*Pentax P30n 28mm lens
Germany, Lüneburg, the old Crane “Alter Kran”, a wooden medieval riverside crane located at historical former harbour of the river Limenau. The Crane is still full functening in working condition today, he has two large wheels inside that enables the crane cable to be raised & lowered.
The origin of settlements dates back to 8th century, in the 13th century, due to the enlarged harbor the city later became the title of "Hanseatic city".
The historic town of Lüneburg lies above a salt dome which is the town's original foundation of prosperity. The constant mining of the salt deposits over which the town stands has also resulted in the sometimes gradual, sometimes dramatically sinking of various town areas. Many of the historic buildings, even lopsided because of the sinking ground, are 500 & more years old or were restored.
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This scene brings to mind a good lesson to be related about Disney photography....
First is composition and symmetry, or in this case the LACK of either...Photographing Disneyland as long as I have, it becomes second nature to anticipate certain things about the Park and the pitfalls associated with capturing certain scenes. One of the more bothersome areas for me, is exactly the scene composed here. when they built Disneyland, it seems like they were just winging it sometimes, using a idea rather than a blueprint, especially where planters pathways, brickwork, and other such decorative touches are concerned. When composing a straight-on shot, it is important that the scene is level, straight, and has squall spacing and cropping all around. The scene should have leading lines that are equal if possible, and the scene should be balanced for height of objects...
Well you can throw all of that out the window here because the planter is crooked, the bricks are not symmetrical, the pumpkin is lopsided with one ear taller than the other and is crooked in the planter (plus it needs a fresh paint job) the stanchions holding the chains are not symmetrical to either the pumpkin or the brickwork, and the buildings are of different height on either side of the street. All of this maddenly confounds a symmetrical composition which is why I usually shoot this from the side to hide it all....
However, sometimes the scene itself is just what it is....
The Hamilton Banker
Colliers, Conception Bay Nfld
"The Hamilton Banker is more of an "abandoned" ship than it is a shipwreck. The 34 metre fishing vessel lies lopsided on a mound of rocks near the community of Colliers. After partially sinking in Harbour Grace in 2006 it was towed to Colliers to await judgment on whether it was sea worthy or salvageable. It sat beached in a small cove for several years before the infamous winter storm, "Snowmageddon" hit the area in 2020 lifting the shift and forcing it aground on the opposite side of the harbour. In June 2022, the ship was dismantled and disposed of."