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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."
Mirror Image...
Yesterdays sunrise was so lopsided all the clouds were in the east and the sun was directly ahead with very little cloud cover.
when i got home to do my editing i noticed how strange the sky looked all one sided and being one who likes symmetry in photos... i decided to duplicate and flip the image horizontally, then stitch the two images together into one (mirroring the original)
As you can see what i ended up with; was a fun arch of clouds that gave the photo a whole new life.
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This mural hides the site where they are building a new electricity sub-station. on the other side of the road is the old lopsided sub-station. This sunk downon one side during the numerous earthquakes.
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.
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The Pris loveseat is slightly formal, vintage, prissy, and a bit austere - but then it is softened by a bright pastel, tied slipcover, and pillow. The whimsical lamp with its lopsided wireframe and the painted wood tables are added to make the room relaxed and informal. A colorful, faded rug and tabletop decor of a dish of roses, teacup, and a magazine finish this small living room set.
The loveseat and pillow have 24 fabric choices. The roses have three.
The set is priced individually or in fatpacks discounted by 50% for the event: PG and Adult options.
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Afterwards in my main store
Fr. Joe's shack in 1983. To know the poor you have to live with them. So he did. For thirty-three years.
Photo copyright / Jim Coyne
The following is excerpted from The Gospel of Father Joe:
SETUP: The year is 2000 and Father Joe has taken me to his "neighborhood" and shanty home for the first time
Beyond the parking lot's suffocating smell of diesel and as far as I could see was a slum held aloft on crisscrossing catwalks. Stilts of wood stuck into the muck of a dung-brown canal colored by nature, life, and a city sewage pump. Hundreds of family homes, each smaller than my two-room Banyan Tree suite, sat four feet or so above a soupy mix, give or take twelve inches, depending on the tide of the Chao Phraya River and the day's emissions from a Bangkok Municipal Authority pumping station No. 14.
A few of the more feeble homes leaned into neighbors, like buddies staggering home from a tavern, and at every curve of the catwalks, dense pockets of odor waited, some vaguely different but all sour. At one point, the stench was so strong that we stopped in our tracks, walked to the edge of the catwalk, and stared down.
I jerked reflexively, pulled my shirt over my nose, then lowered it just as quickly. I hoped he hadn't seen. Evidently he had. "Yeah," Father Joe said. "That's a battle I've lost."
Standing on the water was a pile of rubbish as high as raked leaves. Cans, bottles, wrappers, dirty diapers, spoiled food, and various other things I couldn't identify or see clearly in the murky water and evening's shadows. But in the boil of that evening, I could taste them. I wanted to spit.
As we watched, a milky oblong bubble of methane, as large as a head of cauliflower, gurgled to the surface along the edge of one pile. It jiggled like gelatin, then popped.
Daaamn! I couldn't help it; the curse slipped out.
This was Father Joe's neighborhood. His home was two hard turns away and on the left. Had I known, I would've shown more restraint.
Damn, I thought but didn't let slip two minutes later when he stood outside a door and fiddled with a lock and key.
Yours?
He waved me in. From where I stood two feet inside, it looked tidier and sturdier than the others, but it was still a wood-and-tin shack. It had two rooms and a floor made lopsided from the uneven settling of catwalk stilts. He had a single bed, a small TV, and in a corner of the first room, one of those Abdominizer sit-up gadgets.
The "house," as he called it, was proof of evolution. It was several rungs up from other Slaughterhouse shacks where he'd lived.
"Top of the food chain," he said with a straight face.
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For more information on Father Joe's work and chairty visit the Mercy Centre website or its USA tax-deductible equivalent here
Vidarbha is the north-eastern region of Maharashtra state(India), now forming two divisions (Nagpur and Amravati). It is less economically prosperous compared to the rest of Maharashtra.
Vidarbha was in the media spotlight for a spate of farmer suicides in recent years ostensibly because of the falling Minimum Support Price for cotton. The problem is complex and root causes include lopsided policies of the World Trade Organisation and developed nations' subsidies to their cotton farmers which make Vidarbha's cotton uncompetitive in world markets. Consequently Vidarbha is plagued by high rates of school drop outs, penniless widows left in the wake of suicides, loan sharks and exploitation of the vulnerable groups.
The Indian government had promised to increase the minimum rate for cotton by approximately Rs 100 ($2) but reneged on its promise by reducing the Minimum Support Price further. This resulted in more suicides as farmers were ashamed to default on debt payments to loan sharks. "In 2006, 1,044 suicides were reported in Vidarbha alone - that's one suicide every eight hours.
On 1 July 2006 the Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh announced a Rs. 3,750-crore (Rupees 37.5 billion) relief package for Vidharbha. The package should help farmers in six districts of the region. However not everybody is convinced that the aid is getting through to where it is needed. Activists covering the region feel that a lot more needs to be done. A fortnight after the PM's package was announced, journalist P Sainath wrote the following article in the Hindu criticising the package and saying that it was destined to fail.
Source: Wikipedia
It’s a mass murder by a faulty governing system.
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May their souls rest in peace, but humanity owe them justice!
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Holga 120 wide pinhole camera
Kodak T-MAX 100 @50 ASA
38 sec.
It's a little bit lopsided and I think maybe to make transforming
in PS like I do it usually with architecture.
The curved parts on the upper right side are from the camera - first I thought the negative was not flat in the scanner.
Well, I could eliminate all this "faults" in photoshop; but do I really want this, or better keep the original character ?
With the strong vignetting I was shure that I didn't really like it, so I cutted a little bit the edge round the pinhole.
Even though her price still makes me cringe like a lot, I'm still super glad I bought Ms Sato although she's a little disappointing, aren't there like 3 of her dolls that look like this one?
I'm not a fan of her skirt and her shoes are a bitch to tie, her lashes on her left fell off so I had to re-glue it on and she has a hole next to her left ear mad her head is a bit wobbly on her body, I wasn't expecting perfection but I was expecting pretty damn close to it for $140
Although you can't really see them yet, I layered her hair slightly, I felt I didn't have much of a choice considering some of her hair was hella lopsided, anyways the next 2 I'm getting is On The Rise Jolie and Ambitious Kesenia
And even though I'm complaining a lot I really don't want to return or sell her anytime soon, she's a beautiful doll and despite her flaws she has officially popped my FR cherry which makes her hella special to me, I think I even want another one of her actually!
“love builds up the broken wall
and straigtens the crooked path.
love keeps the stars in the firmament
and imposes rhythm on te ocean tides
each of us is created of it
and i suspect
each of us was created for it”
Maya Angelou
Thanks for texture from:
FREE texture from NinianLif
And to Trish McCoy for the fab border.
I believe the C spec was a basic model, however this one seems to have had extras such as the rear wiper fitted. I would still love to see one of those Metros with the strange looking rear bumper.
Whilst this car was very clean, it was a bit lopsided as is common with these, as well as having rust spots bubbling up. Still, I love the originality of it, right down to the badges and coloured stripes.
just floating along in this sea of absurdity. sometimes you need to, as lucy in the sky with diamonds might say, ... turn on, tune in, drop out.
(we're all mad here.)
tra la la. one thing i do know is that in the past 48 hours, i have broken two computers. the first was my macbook pro. it just crashed. sweet?! thank god for external harddrizzles. then i was using my stepdad's. which i proceeded to spill water on, as well as his piles of papers that seem very important... "goldman sachs CDP response rate", um whatever that is, yeah, i ruined it.
shit! gotta flee the country. oh, well, whaddya know.... how conveeeeenient....
This is the most nervous I think I have been uploading a photo, it's easier to hide behind crazy makeup or a concept, but I find it much harder doing 'normal' photos. Anyhow yesterday someone suggested I try out some brighter, friendlier photos and seeing as in 46 photos I have yet to smile I guess you get to see my very lopsided one.
I kept leaping up when taking today's photo, I'd jumped a gate with a big private - keep out sign but I liked the crumpled field too much to pass on it. Needless to say I got out of there again pretty quickly when I started hearing people shooting nearby :P
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The eagle was a long way off and this is a very heavy crop from the initial 600mm focal length, so the quality could be a lot better. I first thought the eagle was an odd looking bird that appeared to be flying lopsided. It was only when I enlarged it to a considerable degree, that I could see what was happening. I can't identify the victim, but it could be a little black cormorant.
The magpie gave chase for a short time and then flew off in another direction.
Full write-up here: theastroenthusiast.com/ngc-2276-from-hubble/
The magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 2276 looks a bit lopsided in this Hubble Space Telescope snapshot. A bright hub of older yellowish stars normally lies directly in the center of most spiral galaxies. But the bulge in NGC 2276 looks offset to the upper left. In reality, a neighboring galaxy to the right of NGC 2276 (NGC 2300, not seen here) is gravitationally tugging on its disk of blue stars, pulling the stars on one side of the galaxy outward to distort the galaxy’s normal fried-egg appearance. This sort of “tug of war” between galaxies that pass close enough to feel each other’s gravitational pull is not uncommon in the universe. But, like snowflakes, no two close encounters look exactly alike. In addition, newborn and short-lived massive stars form a bright, blue arm along the upper left edge of NGC 2276. They trace out a lane of intense star formation. This may have been triggered by a prior collision with a dwarf galaxy. It could also be due to NGC 2276 plowing into the superheated gas that lies among galaxies in galaxy clusters. This would compress the gas to precipitate into stars, and trigger a firestorm of starbirth.
By using five color channels spanning near-infrared, visible, and ultraviolet, I was able to reveal not only intense star forming regions (bright nodes of blue) and stars in the dust lanes, but also fainter stellar disruptions (shown on the bottom right).
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In October we made a proper visit to St Mary’s church in East Quantoxhead. It's only a small village and although it's only a couple of miles on the seaward side of the A39, it feels very much like part of an ancient estate, as indeed it is. Right next to the church is Court House, the mostly Elizabethan home of the Luttrell family, whose other home was Dunster Castle over many centuries.
St Mary’s was built in the 14th century on the site of an earlier one, was restored in 1698 and some further renovation took place in 1860. It has a modest rood screen with parts dating from the 14th century, some early 16th-century carved bench ends and a large canopy tomb in the chancel to Hugh Luttrell, who died in 1522 and his son Andrew, who died in 1538. Several other Luttrells are buried in St George’s church in Dunster.
The church is built from Blue Lias ‘random rubbles’ with sandstone dressings (according to Historic England), and I rather like the lopsided arch above the door.
Ely Cathedral is in the top rank of the great English cathedrals, and indeed earns its place among the best of medieval churches internationally for its unique architecture and astonishing beauty. It is a church I've visited several times over the years and never fails to impress, its form at once imposing and strikingly individual. Owing to the flatness of the surrounding countryside it is visible from afar as a major landmark, which makes approaching this tiny city all the more enticing.
The church was founded as an abbey by St Etheldreda in 672 and didn't achieve cathedral status until the foundation of the diocese in 1109. Much of the present building dates from the following years, with the nave and transepts still substantially as they were built (aside from a few altered windows and later ceilings) and a fine example of Norman / Romanesque architecture. A little later during the 1170s the soaring west tower and western transepts were added which would have created a magnificent facade when complete and of a type rarely seen in this country. The style is richer with more use of ornamentation than before, but also many of the arches (particularly the upper parts of the tower) are pointed, making it an early example of the transition to Gothic (the octagonal top storey is from two centuries later, but follows the original overall plan in form, if not detail). The north-west transept however collapsed in the late 15th century and was never rebuilt, leaving the front of the cathedral will the curiously lopsided but not unattractive west front we see today. The Galilee porch that projects from the base of the tower dates from the beginning of the 13th century, only a few decades later but now fully Gothic in style.
The Norman eastern limb had been fairly short so the next major building phases saw the great eastward extension of the presbytery built in Gothic style in 1234-50. It makes an interesting contrast with the earlier parts of the building being so rich in style, externally punctuated with pinnacles and flying buttresses and profusely ornamented withing, making the Romanesque nave and transepts seem somewhat austere by comparison. Then in 1321 an ambitious new lady chapel was begun at the north-east corner, but soon afterwards work was delayed by unforeseen events.
In 1322 the old Norman central tower collapsed, bringing down with it most of the old Romanesque choir (but not the recently built presbytery beyond). The aftermath left the cathedral with a gaping hole at its heart, but this must have inspired those charged with its recovery, and under the direction of Alan of Walsingham the crossing was rebuilt in a unique way; rather than build a new tower of a similar form the central piers that supported it were entirely cleared away along with the adjoining bay of nave, transepts and choir to create a much larger octagonal central space. This then rose to become the unique central tower that Ely is so famous for, the Octagon, a combination of a lower octagonal tower built of stone crowned by a delicate lantern built of wood and covered with lead externally. The result is an incredible, piece of architecture, and the view inside of the open space rising to the curved vaults above on which the glazed lantern appears to float is unforgettable.
After the Octagon and beautifully spacious and richly adorned Lady Chapel were completed there was no more major work at the cathedral. The transept roofs were replaced in the 15th century with the wooden hammerbeam structures we see today, adorned with large angel figures in the East Anglian tradition. The most significant late medieval additions are the two sumptuously decorated chantry chapels built within the end of each choir aisle, each a riot of later medieval ornament and Bishop West's also being remarkable for its fusion of Gothic and Renaissance detail. The cloister appears to have been rebuilt at a similar stage though sadly very little of it survives today.
Sadly the Reformation saw a wave of iconoclasm of particular ferocity unleashed here in Ely. The most telling reminder is the Lady Chapel with its richly ornamented arcading carved with hundreds of small scenes and figures, all brutally beheaded (not a single head survives). Free standing statues in niches have all gone without trace, but in the case of Bishop West's chantry chapel the topmost figures were carved in relief, so these were hammered away leaving the mutilated remains as a testament to zealotry and intolerance. Most of the stained glass appears to have also been removed around this time, so there was surprisingly little damage here during the Civil War a century later as the Puritan frenzy had already been unleashed.
A corner of the north transept collapsed in 1699 but was rebuilt almost identically, a rare early example of such an exacting approach to reconstruction. The classical form of a window and doorway below are the only reminders of the rebuilding, some say with advice from Christopher Wren whose uncle had been bishop here decades earlier (Wren knew the cathedral as a result, and the Octagon is believed to have inspired his plans for St Paul's, as the ground plans of the Octagon and his domed central space at St Paul's are remarkably similar).
The cathedral saw further changes in the 18th century when the structure was in need of repair. James Essex was called in to repair the Octagon and the wooden lantern was stabilised but its external was appearance simplified by stripping away much of its original detail. The medieval choir stalls had originally sat directly underneath the Octagon with painted walls on either side, but these were removed at this time and the stalls relocated further east to the position they are in now. Sadly the Norman pulpitum screen at the end of the nave was also removed (the earliest of its kind to survive in any cathedral).
By the mid 19th century tastes had changed again and the Victorian preference for richness over Georgian austerity saw the cathedral restored under the direction of George Gilbert Scott. He restored the Octagon lantern to something much closer to its original appearance and added new screens at the crossing and behind the altar. Stained glass gradually filled the cathedral again and it remains one of the richest collections of Victorian glass in the country. The ceiling of the nave which had been left plain for centuries was given a new richly painted finish with scenes from the Old & New Testaments, begun by Henry le Strange but finished by Thomas Gambier Parry after the former had died halfway through the project. Gambier Parry also undertook the lavish redecoration of the interior of the Octagon lantern.
The cathedral has remained little changed since and is one of the rewarding in the country. There is much of beauty to enjoy here beyond the architecture, with many interesting tombs and monuments from the medieval and post-Reformation periods. There is a wealth of stained glass of unusual richness; not everyone appreciates Victorian glass (indeed Alec Clifton Taylor was quite scathing about the glass here) but while it is very mixed I find much of it is of remarkably high quality.
Since 1972 the Stained Glass Museum has been housed in the nave triforium (originally on the north side, it was later transferred to the south where it currently remains). This is the only collection in the country solely devoted to the medium and is a great ambassador for it, with fine pieces covering a range of styles and illustrating the development of the art through the various backlit panels on show in the gallery.
Visitors can usually take tours to ascend the Octagon and even the west tower on more select days. Tours do get booked up though so it took me many visits before I could make my ascent, but happily this time I finally managed it and it was a wonderful experience I won't forget. Frustratingly I was unable to ascend the west tower since I was at a symposium on the day when tours were held so I hope to have better luck next time.
For more historical detail and context see below:-
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ely_Cathedral
For entry fees and tower tours see the cathedral's website below:-
I’d gone to Nottingham’s Highfields Park with the sole intent of approaching people to see if they would agree to me photographing them for my stranger project.
Blessing was walking down a path that would bring her very close to me, so I stepped forward and introduced the project to her. Blessing was intrigued by the project but was a little reluctant as she said she never looked good in photographs. It didn’t take much encouragement from me to get her to say yes though.
We were standing near a grassy area with some trees forming a background. Perfect, I thought as the natural greens would go so well with Blessing green grey top. Blessing wasn’t keen on the first few pictures we did as she was standing a little lopsided so she suggested we did some more and we came up with some images she liked.
Blessing is currently in her first year of three studying International Media and Communications. I asked if that was the area she’d like to work in, and Blessing said she wasn’t sure, then added that she wanted a job with a creative side.
When not studying, Blessing likes to read – short novels in either the action or rom com genres. Blessing also enjoys listening to music and told me she plays the piano.
What is Blessing’s guilty pleasure? She smiled and then said, “doing nothing.”
The one word that Blessing would use to describe herself would be calm and her biggest strength is that she is not afraid to say yes.
I asked Blessing to tell me a fun fact about herself and she said that she was a cheerleader between the ages of five to ten.
Thank-you Blessing for letting me photograph you for my stranger project. I hope you like your portrait.
This picture is #272 in the 100 Strangers project, yes, I’ve decided to do a third round. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
This is my 244th submission to the Human Family Group. To view more street portraits and stories visit www.flickr.com/groups/thehumanfamily/
This is a crescent-shaped cocoon of gas and dust — a nebula known as NGC 3199, which lies 12 000 light-years away from Earth. It appears to plough through the star-studded sky like a ship through stormy seas. This imagery is very appropriate due to NGC 3199’s location in Carina — a southern constellation which is named after the keel of a ship!
NGC 3199 was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel in 1834 as he compiled his famous catalogue of interesting night sky objects. The nebula has been the subject of numerous observations since, including those by ESO’s 8.2-metre Very Large Telescope (eso0310, eso1117), and 2.6-metre VLT Survey Telescope (VST). The latter made the observations that comprise this image. The nebula’s bright crescent feature is now known to be part of a much larger but fainter bubble of gas and dust.
The nebula contains a notable star named HD 89358, which is an unusual type of extremely hot and massive star known as a Wolf-Rayet star. HD 89358 generates incredibly intense stellar winds and outflows that smash into and sweep up the surrounding material, contributing to NGC 3199’s twisted and lopsided morphology.
source: ESO
This object has been captured using a FLI PL 16803 Monochrome CCD camera mounted on a ASA 1000 (1 meter telescope). Data acquired by Telescope.live from El Sauce Observatory, Rio Hurtado Chile.
RA: 10h 16m 32.6s
DEC: -57° 55' 02"
Location: Carina
Size: 18.6 x 18.6 arcmin
Acquisition May 2020
Total acquisition time of 3 hours.
Technical Details
Data acquisition: Telescope.live
Processing: Nicolas ROLLAND
Location: El Sauce Observatory, Rio Hurtado Chile
L 6 x 600 sec
R 4 x 600 sec
G 4 x 600 sec
B 4 x 600 sec
Optics: ASA 1000 (39 inches @6.8)
Mount: ASA Alt-Az Direct Drive Mount
CCD: FLI PL 16803
Pre Processing: CCDstack & Pixinsight
Post Processing: Photoshop CC
Way back last August we took advantage of a break in the rain to visit St Decuman in Watchet, situated well back from the road on a hill overlooking the harbour. St Decuman was a Celtic saint who arrived in Somerset from Pembrokeshire and is thought to have died in Watchet around 706. Legend has it that he floated across the channel with a cow and lived peacefully in Watchet until the native pagans took against him and decapitated him. An early martyr, St Decuman is said to have washed his head in a nearby holy well and then placed it back on his body.
The church has a 13th-century chancel, with the rest being from the 15th. It has a plain wagon roof, a fine wooden rood screen in the local style, and a carved frieze with a number of angels. The Wyndham chapel has a number of tombs and memorials, the Wyndhams being lords of the manor. Sir John Wyndham (1558 – 1645) was very active in defending the West Country against the threat of the Spanish Armada (Watchet had been invaded by the Vikings some centuries before). There are also memorials to his parents, a chest tomb for his grandparents, and kneeling effigies of two of Sir John's sons, Henry and George. Like many churches, it was restored by the Victorians, in this case by James Piers St Aubyn in 1886–1891, and although he’s thought to have been unimaginative, at St Decuman the changes were quite sensitive.
The bell tower has an external staircase, which I would have thought was more trouble than an internal one, and which gives the tower a slightly lopsided appearance.
i had another strange dream last night, this time involving bill clinton. again, freud would go crazy. and, again, i am using flickr as my dream journal. (except i won't go into detail because i would be ..ahem.. embarrassed.)
anyway. it is snowing hard here but it looks as though i'll be able to keep warm, what with this package that just arrived from mr. narly.... perfect timing, i'd say!! :D
I came across this little grasshopper while walking along the edge of a saltmarsh at the coast. It had one rear leg missing, but obviously had adapted very well. A milli-second after pressing the shutter it did a spectacular leap from the twig it was sitting on and vanished from view....
This Sambar deer was in a bit of a haze when we spotted him. He looked up with mild curiosity and then froze for the next 10 minutes, allowing me to capture this portrait. Did you see his lopsided horns? They shed these incredible horns every year, and as its pure calcium, they end up eating it.
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The iconic Damrak Narrow Houses. They are narrow because in the 16th century, how wide a building was would determine how much taxes the residents would pay. The buildings also appear to be lopsided as some of the buildings were built on wooden stilts or piles over marshy ground and over time, either the stilts warped due to age or they sank as the buildings were renovated and extra floors would be added increasing the weight of the building.
Wind farm near American Falls, ID
Instagram and Flickr app noodling
It's a little lopsided...too many lines!
Hinsdale, Illinois is one of those places where, seemingly, nothing ever changes- a place full of people who'll throw their money around to make sure it stays that way, for better (the beautifully intact, historic town center, including the old CB&Q Brush Hill station, still in use, for instance) or for worse- witness the myriad of historic homes in the area being razed for McMansions that make a mockery of architecture and stand as testament to the completely lopsided wealth distribution of our times. At the suburb's center, Metra 186 approaches the historic depot with an early-afternoon outbound BNSF line run.
August 30, 2016
Truepenny
[troo-pen-ee]
noun
1. a trusty, honest fellow.
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It was another one of those, what will I shoot, sort of days and just when I started to think it would be another mundane photo, this guy started hollering from the tree, trying to scare off Fyero.
She was having none of that and he stood still long enough grab a shot.
This guy has been around for about a year now and is generally quite friendly. I think because of his missing ear and lopsided walk he relies on kind humans to throw food his way more than the others.
Luckily, he came to the right neighbourhood and the majority of us are huge animal lovers and are suckers for the underdog, so we do what we can for him.
Hope everyone has had a good day.
Click "L" for a larger view.
Millbrook Village, Hardwick, New Jersey.
Technical details:
Bronica SQ-A medium format film camera with a Bronica Zenzanon 65mm F4 PS lens.
Hoya Yellow-Green filter on lens.
Fuji Acros 100 film shot at ISO 100.
Semi-stand development using Kodak HC-110 1+100 dilution for 1 hour with 30 seconds initial agitation with swizzle stick and three turns @ 30 minute mark. Paterson 3 reel tank.
Negative scanned with Epson 4990 on holders fitted with ANR glass.
In addition to diminishing habitat (reduction of wild Milkweed by farmers, development and gardeners as well as the destruction of Oyamel Fir trees in Mexico) Monarch butterflies have myriad other threats which reduce their survival rate in the wild to between 2% and 8% depending on the region.
Of the five Monarch caterpillar instars we found in early September, four survived the first week. The littlest instar died on the first day of unknown causes - but most likely of some sort of parasite. The remaining four moved on to chrysalis in time frames relative to their sizes when we found them and two have hatched successfully so far.
Another one, which seemed healthy & vibrant as it ate its way through several big Milkweed leaves, broke from its silk tether during the caterpillar-to-chrysalis process and fell to the layers of paper towel at the bottom of the terrarium. It was a soft landing but not something that's part of the normal process.
In the wild that chrysalis would have died. But, after it dried, I was able to secure it with a bit of glue and sewing thread (...thank you Google!), pick it up and to suspend it in a Mason jar in the hopes of giving it a chance at survival. Because I couldn't really do anything until it dried (...and although I rolled it with a little spatula so it would dry more uniformly) it didn't have the immediate benefit of gravity's hugely critical role in its drying symmetrically - so the chrysalis was "lopsided."
Still we had hopes for it since it seemed to be going through the normal chrysalis-to-butterfly stages. But when it hatched early this morning the butterfly's wings were malformed and it couldn't open them fully. There was nothing I could do, so I lifted it to a vase of zinnia which I placed on a window sill where it later died.
It might have had a virus (there are a couple known to cause malformation of wings) or it might have had some other abnormality or weakness which is why it fell in the first place. Or the perfect geometry of a chrysalis might be absolutely critical to the butterfly's formation during that process. There's no way to know.
One chrysalis to go...!
It's not easy being a Monarch. ♡