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The time of the September New Moon is ideal for a visit to Zermatt's Stellisee: in the time between midnight and two o'clock in the morning the Milky Way stands vertically above the most famous mountain of the Alps, the Matterhorn
Ultra fractal program - no post manipulation
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Once a time queen of the line, the FS E412 Class lost her primary role along the Brenner route.
Replaced by Vectrons on the services towards Quadrante Europa, they are now mainly used as helpers for the other Mercitalia trains.
It is the case of this service coming from Civitavecchia led by an E494 which has been reinforced by E412.016 North from Trento.
It's also worth to notice that this double traction is something pretty "generational". E412s (Bombardier TRAXX 112E) are the "great-grandmother" of the E494s (TRAXX 3DC) and have been both manufactured in the same plant in Vado Ligure.
Define Spirit.. Is it just an illusion caused by the chemical substances secreted by the glands of the roughly made human body?
Or is the Matter just a property of the Spirit?
Too many useless fights throug the ages , but stll nobody ever was able to give a clear answer to this topic.
There is a simple idea that may be closer to the truth:
"What we decide to believe,makes us what we are."
Anyway,whatever it is , my decision is to keep on walking with you. SAPP💕
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IC 4604 and friends. The Ro Ophiuchi Nebula
This is officially my first RGB picture without using narrowband filters. Taken from a bortle 2 zone during the new moon in the little town of Tolmie in country Victoria, Australia. This is about 15h of data across 2 panels. My FOV does not allow me to capture the whole of the Rho Ophiuchi complex, so this is the best I could do with the time I had.
Funny enough I did not combine the luminance channel with this data as I found that it washed out of a lot of the details in the blue channel, detail that just was not really visible in the luminance channel, no matter how hard I have tried to pull it out, so this is a straight RGB picture
Astrobin: www.astrobin.com/ln5irs/B/
Imaging Telescopes:
William Optics Zenithstar 73
Imaging Camera:
ZWO ASI 1600MM-Pro
Mount:
Skywatcher EQ-6r Pro
Software:
Nina, PHD2, Photoshop, Pixinsight, RC astro NoiseXterminator.
Frames:
Antlia Pro Blue: 60x300" (5h) (gain: 139.00) f/5.9 -10°C bin 1x1
Antlia Pro Green: 60x300" (5h) (gain: 139.00) f/5.9 -10°C bin 1x1
Antlia Pro Red: 60x300" (5h) (gain: 139.00) f/5.9 -10°C bin 1x1
Integration:
15h
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale:
2.00
No matter what your beliefs or background may be, the mobile phone will still devour your every waking moment.
I will not be silent. I will not be complacent. I will speak out. I will protest. I will amplify voices. I will work to learn, grow, repair and do better. I will support organizations like Chicago Freedom School chicagofreedomschool.org , Chicago Community Bond Fund chicagobond.org and Black Lives Matter Chicago blacklivesmatterchicago.org
A starry night and the milky way at Carvers Gap, North Carolina / Tennessee border looking toward North Carolina.
An assignment for day 2 of the Empowerment International photography workshop was to docment 3 of the most important things in their lives. Josefina chose her mother as number one. The fritiangas (food) she sells as number two, and school books number three. Seems she has her priorites in order. :-) www.empowermentinternational.org
My niece Keerti, pumping out the tunes on an electric guitar.
Update: Keerti has taken to the guitar like a duck to water. So we have given it to her.
It is so painful to see in news protesters clashing with police and causing some sorts of the troubles. This is not what I have seen when I joined them yesterday at the USA Embassy in London. It was most well organised I possible even seen, so peaceful and friendly. Several times I have been offered face mask and water. There were only good vibes of a united community. Not sure why someone decided to go to Whitehall and clash with police. From the other hand – no rights were won without breaking the law – this is the world we all live, unfortunately.
PS
If you prefer still version, check it out on my blog - maxgor.com/documentary/black-lives-matter
A single exposure reflection which is best seen large.
I recently took this image in the centre of an English city and it is a scene which touched my heart and made me wonder what is their story.
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One of my favorite things about Flickr is that it allows you to grow as a photographer. I'm encouraged to expose new things to see what kind of reaction I can get. I also love to peek in on what others are doing, and learn new techniques from them. It helps you to get out of your ruts.
It has been pointed out to me that I’m in a rut, as most of the time I focus my love of photography horizontally. I’ve been exclusively messing around with panoramas and wide formats. And why not? When you want to consummate a meaningful composition, size DOES matter. There is so much you can do with the extra room to attract followers and views. I like big “faves” and I cannot lie.
I know vertical formats are often “selfies.” That is not as satisfying. I want to know if I can learn to do it vertically and stay composed. So I think I’m going to flirt with petite formats. The question is, how long can I last?
I don’t want pity-views, but let’s see if I can be exclusively vertical while keeping things composed and interesting for my contacts. I will consider it a challenge to be horizontally abstinent for at least a week. It should not be that hard…. Remember, it’s not the size of your format that matters – it’s what you do with your aperture.
The last nearly four years have seemed like eons for me. Every day that I can bear to pay attention, I am horrified by what atrocities Trump is responsible for. I have gone to so many protests in so many places for so many causes/reasons, both well attended and scarcely attended in good weather and in the middle of a freezing cold winter. There are times I have really questioned what good it even does but a little voice in my head has still told me it was the right thing to do.
But, then the Coronavirus hit and I wondered seriously if protesting was the right thing to do…after reading the statistics in my own city about people of color being killed by the Coronavirus at a much higher rate than white people, I had to ask myself, is it actually a case of white privilege if I protest? This seems like such a strange thing to ask when you are protesting your outrage about a man being killed only because he happened to be Black and existing in America but still I had to ask. Because, if I am part of the problem of spreading this virus and my presence results in more deaths of more people of color, isn’t that defeating the purpose? In addition, how about all of the healthcare workers who have been burdened for so long? Why should I make a choice for them that could affect the survival and treatment of myself and others? It just seemed too risky for this die hard protestor.
I have never dealt with this kind of moral dilemma before. My sense of right and wrong is usually pretty strong and doesn’t leave room for tons of contemplation and deliberation. I can’t really remember the last time I had to seriously ponder “What is the right thing to do in this situation?” asking myself again and again. I usually just know these things intuitively and then try to make my best ethical choice. I’m not saying that I don’t see layers of grey between black and white so much as just I have an idea of how to act in terms of what is right with my soul. I’m also not saying that I don’t learn new things and from the perspective of others and change based on being open to learning. But, the idea of what is fundamentally the ethical choice to make about whether or not to attend a protest for a cause I believe in has never been this difficult before.
And, there is the other side of things that I don’t really like to talk about-the more human side of things. I am unfortunately all too human in my fears about contacting Coronavirus/Covid19. To be honest, I’m the type of person that gets nervous taking a walk in my own neighborhood and gets frustrated when I see the joggers and dog walkers on my street roaming without a mask or groups of a few friends partying on a rooftop in close proximity. It seems pretty hypocritical to me that I’d also be finding myself amidst thousands of people in super close proximity sometimes under overpasses neck to neck, masks or no.
So, what I am saying is that I am actually probably a little paranoid. For a large part of my life, I didn’t realize I was any different from others in my fears until I went to college and learned about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and realized that my irrational fear of death that took hold of me if I didn’t do certain things when I was little-tap my fingers every time I saw a green car, squeeze my toes every time I passed a squirrel-that sort of thing-wasn’t what most kids go through. And, it was crippling. Most of the time, I would cry hysterically thinking I was going to die and great harm would really come to my family and I if I told anyone and voiced these fears out loud. I know, I know…it sounds crazy and doesn’t make tons of sense. And, even though I know that and have gotten better dealing with this side of my self as an adult, it still hasn’t gone away completely. There’s a real instinctual fear that makes me think the worst will happen to me.
The news, of course, doesn’t help…and consider that non essential businesses were shuttered and school was cancelled for the rest of the year, I am even more terrified about the damage this virus can do. Then, there’s also the choir study…where they found that one man in close proximity singing with a choir infected pretty much the whole choir and killed a few too. Of course, this is outdoors, but I still can’t help thinking about all of the times I opened my mouth to chant pro Black Life Matters sentiments even if I was wearing a mask.
And, in many ways, I feel like I am not even worthy enough to say the name of George Floyd or Breonna Taylor who should have turned 27 on Friday, the day that I joined these protests. Because, as someone who is white, I could never know the true horror of this. She was a hero, an EMT worker, and it wasn’t just her own life and her family that was robbed but all of our lives and the sadness is overpowering. So, I ended up saying her name a few thousand times and feeling like I was losing my mind because I couldn’t rewind time and change reality.
I don’t know the answer to all of this and I still don’t know if I contracted the virus or not. But, in any case, I hope that these protests meant something and continue to mean something. Maybe it actually means more to those in power that people would risk their lives to fight for Black Lives and, if those mayors and governors really care about the citizens of their city, they have to act on these social justice issues-hold police accountable, take police out of schools and bring in social workers, counselors, librarians, art and music creative outlets instead. Let’s have a dance class or a drama class instead of kids being subjected to cruel excessive force and mock prison cells from early ages. Surely anything that helps kids is better than something doing active harm. Let’s put more money into mental health facilities instead of incarcerations. Let’s make sure when someone is released from prison that they have a job to go to. Let’s make sure our citizens have healthcare and that there are valid low income housing measures. All of these things will reduce crime and improve the quality of life. That is the direction we need to think in instead of increasing a police force. We need to think about the disparities between communities and races and ensure these people are protected and treated with respect-the same respect and treatment white people have been taking for granted in my country for centuries.
Above: a new mural for George Floyd, murdered by a group of police officers in a complicit system where the police are protected from their evil racist acts.
This mural was recently completed in the past couple of days and is found in Humboldt Park, Chicago on Division Avenue just east of California Ave. Cristian J. Roldán and Esther Kovacs
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Letztens hatte ich Sturmfreie Bude und hatte geplant das aufkommende Unwetter am Spiegel Hauptgebäude in Hamburg zu fotografieren. Dass dieser Plan aber sowas von aufgeht hätte ich nie geglaubt.
Zum Making Of Video gehts hier lang:
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV - Canon EF 16-35 f4 IS L - NiSi V6 - NiSi GND 0.9 Soft - 30 sek - f/19 - Iso 100 - 24mm
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I must tell you this before we move on to matters which have occurred in the village recently.🏡🏡🏡
Just before the lockdown a gentleman knocked at the door to which Horace answered dressed in his butlers outfit (come on what’s strange about this, you would not want to see Horace in the buff) this gentleman asked Horace if he would like to make a donation towards a new community swimming pool being built in a neighbouring parish, so Horace scuttled off and returned with a glass of water.🚰💧🏊♂️🏊♀️
Where were we, yes as has been reported previously, our village is known for its community spirit, some residents have more spirit than others, it just depends on the size of their drinks cabinet.🍷🍷🍷
Though a small village there are many organisations within it, such as, the runner bean growing society, the ladies exhibition drinking team, and of course the newly formed botty coughing club who were going out on tour in 2020, so the lockdown has come as a bit of a blow to them.🍺🍷🍺💨💨💨
However, one of the newer organisations is the bee keeping club who’s Honorary Secretary is Tizzy Talskiddy a founder member of the exhibition drinking team, so as you can imagine, alcohol runs in her veins.🐝🐝🐝
Tizzy felt in these times of lockdown that of a Saturday evening, using the miracles of technology such as Skype, the bee keeping club could hold an on line yard of ale drinking competition (this could get messy)📡⌨️💻
Most members of the bee keeping club are quite extravert so it will come as no surprise they keep quite a few gallons of beer tucked away at home for a rainy day, so they had plenty of ammunition in order to participate in this event.😜🍺🍺🍺
You may be asking, what would be used for the yard glass, as luck would have it Nancy Nancarrow (of Reliant Robin fame) just happens to do a bit of glass blowing on the side and in recognition of the bee keeping club being set up, she made every member a yard glass and engraved their name into it.🚙🍹🍸
I can hear you all saying who would go first for timing purposes etc, well Agnes Penrose (Walter’s wife) had thought of this and had arranged for Horace’s dog Nipper to load up his wheelbarrow with tins of beer and deliver a can and place on each club members driveway.🐶
What the competitors had not realised was that Agnes had vigorously shaken one of the cans, everyone was asked to open their tins together on Skype, you guessed it whoever got sprayed in beer had to go first. 💦💦💦💦💦
You must all try this one night with your family and friends on line, it really is good fun and gets everyone revved up for the evening in these abnormal times.
“Mrs P have you put extra washing powder on the shopping list”.😂😂😂
I will leave you with this thought, Horace wants to do his bit in order to protect the ozone layer. He has decided to stop using spray on deodorant, and bought himself one of the old fashion deodorant sticks. He read the instructions which said “remove cap and push up bottom”.🙈
Thank you so much for looking at my photographs, the comments and banter you leave are so appreciated. Take care and have a lovely weekend.
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emerging
out of obscurity
into light of day
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40D vs SD750
Strobist info:
580ex ii handheld, 4 pops
high left & high right @ 1/2 power with short grid snoot
low left & low right @ 1/4 power with long grid snoot
No matter how
twisted
gnarled
wretched
old
battered
how not just there yet.
We all have|deserve a place in the Sun.