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Cattails sway about madly as extreme winds blow in behind a late autumn cold front. I love experiencing rapid weather changes brought on by storms. There's a feeling of disarray, both in the landscape and sky, as air masses collide. Vast amounts of energy are released in the process, an abundant source of creative motivation just waiting to be tapped.
Out in this open meadow, the gusty wind was whipping everything around me into a continuous blur. Very difficult to focus the eye on any one thing when everything is in motion. Photography truly becomes more of a shoot by feel process rather than one of looking through viewfinder. As is often the case, I'm responding more to how the scene makes me feel rather than how it actually looks.
The cattails delineate an impassable boundary for me. Stems from an irrational fear of snakes. Even as a child, I equated cattails with marshes and wetlands and a high probability of harboring snakes. Even with snakes in hibernation in this freezing cold air, the tangle of overgrowth and the certainty of sinking into mud in the still soft earth was more than enough to deter me. Still I lingered on the verge; the scene almost comically bleak, the sky a dark shade or murder gray.
It was originally built in 1694 as a single-domed structure, then reconstructed in 1720-1749 and rebuilt in 1764 into its current 9-domed structure.
It has a height of 32 meters with a perimeter of 26 × 8 meters. There are nine domes, one larger in the center surrounded by eight smaller ones.
Kizhi, Karelia, Russia
Close up image from one of our favourite west coast beaches. A gorgeous calm night with clouds closing in the beach. Not the prettiest lighthouse but distinct and interesting shape of the rock.
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I'd like to give a big thank you to Beebo Wallace for giving his blessing on my use of this image as the basis for this painting. Thank you, D.
oil on canvas 48"x32"
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taken back in November, 2011 at Fort Funston while my daughters enjoyed their time at the local San Francisco zoo.
Absolutely I want the sequel. 😂🐈⬛ First, let's package our newly liberated rooftop troublemaker.
Title — Nine Lives Ahead
Short Story
The cat had been following her for three nights.
Tonight, she finally followed it.
Across one rooftop. Then another. Higher each time, until the sensible part of her stopped asking where they were going.
At the next gap, the cat simply sat down and watched.
She looked across.
Looked down.
Then smiled.
“Oh, you have got to be kidding me.”
She jumped anyway.
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I love this little string of reindeer and Santa, but only just noticed it's 9 tiny reindeer instead of 8! Maybe one is Rudolph! :)
Taken early after sunrise hits the tree about a month prior to the previous snow version I shared.
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Nine Stones Close, also known as the Grey Ladies, is a Bronze Age stone circle located near Youlgreave in Derbyshire. It sits within a local prehistoric landscape that includes Bronze Age barrows and settlement enclosures, and is part of a tradition of stone circle construction that spread throughout much of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Ages, over a period between 3300 and 900 BCE. The purpose of the monument is unknown, although archaeologists have speculated that the stones represented supernatural entities.
It is uncertain whether there were originally nine stones, one theory being that nine is a corruption of 'noon', said to be the time when, according to local folklore, fairies would gather at the site to dance.
Life at 12,000 feet
The least chipmunk is the smallest squirrel in the park ranging in length from less than seven inches to nine inches. They can be identified by five stripes on the back and sides of their small bodies. Two of the stripes extend onto the head. Only the chipmunk has stripes on its face. If there are no stripes, it is a golden-mantled ground squirrel.
This species of chipmunk has the largest range of habitat, living from the lowest elevations to timberline and above, primarily in rocky areas.
Least chipmunks are not true hibernators. They are in a state of torpor from which they occasionally arouse to feed on stored food.
- From NPS
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The urban epicenter of Shanghai glows as warm and cool lights illuminate the tangle of overlapping highways.
Ninth planet may have been discovered, researchers say … Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have found evidence in the outer solar system of an object that could be a real ninth planet … Nicknamed Planet Nine, it "has a mass about 10 times that of Earth and orbits about 20 times farther from the sun" than Neptune … (edition.cnn.com/2016/01/20/us/possible-ninth-planet/)
the Planet Nine were not seen and discovered for so many years is due to we see things on black and white basis, if we try see things in blue and yellow basis, we could see it clearly …
mountain view taken from my photo ‘Pat Sin Leng’ flic.kr/p/y1kizU
A nine banded armadillo out looking for a grub or two. I have always wanted to find a baby in the wild but so far they have managed to elude me and my camera. ( explore # 42 ) my thanks to everyone
Réaliser une photo macro ayant pour thème le nombre/chiffre 9 laisse beaucoup de perspectives. J'ai opté pour une photo minimaliste avec un morceau de bolduc suspendu pour lui donner plus de légèreté. De quoi bien commencer la semaine. Bonne semaine à tous.
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Or as some of my friends would say, "Day chill."
We're having a bit of a tropical storm here where I live. I've never seen the beach look the way it did today. Crazy windy and huuuge waves!
Despite the grim weather, to mark the type's retirement from service, the Royal Air Force Panavia Tornado FINale Diamond Nine formation make a memorable pass overhead Marham
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This viaduct was built at Gotuwala between the two railway stations – Ella and Demodara during the British Colonial period is the largest in Sri Lanka. Located almost 3100 feet above the sea level, this 99.6ft high bridge is called “Ahas namaye palama” (Nine skies bridge) in Sinhala. When one stands underneath it and looks up there is a beautiful sight of ‘nine skies’ through the nine arches, hence the Sinhala name. This bridge is also called ‘The Bridge in the sky’ due to the sheer height.
This massive bridge is built entirely of solid rocks, bricks and cement without using a single piece of steel. The bridge was finally commissioned in 1921.
There is a popular story to say that when construction work was commenced on the bridge, the World War 1 broke-out and the steel consignment assigned for this site was seized and was used for war related projects. When the work came to a standstill the locals came forward and build the bridge with solid stone bricks and cement without steel.
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This was an experiment in simplicity. No focus stacking, no editing beyond basic adjustments and cropping, all the work done in studio to create a fun water droplet refraction image. The hardest part about this is being a good “droplet architect”!
I shot this image with the Lumix G9 which is a 20MP micro four thirds camera but with a high-resolution mode that can generate 80MP images. It was my first encounter with this feature, and I use it regularly on my Lumix S14 and A1 camera bodies. I had never previously published this image online, though it did end up in my new book (which you can grab a copy of here: skycrystals.ca/product/pre-order-macro-photography-the-un... ) adjacent to the foreword.
That high-resolution mode makes “macro” work easier… or at least, the perception of macro work! The term is directly related to how large something is in reality vs. how large it appears on the sensor. A 1:1 relationship (life-size) is the classical definition of macro work… but today we use the term for anything notably magnified – and cropping can get us there as well. When cropping in excessively, you’ll also need a lens capable of resolving the best details while simultaneously avoiding issues from diffraction. I found that the Leica 45mm F/2.8mm macro at F/11 (or wider) holds up nicely when the high resolution mode is activated and cropping is utilized to push deeper into the macro realm while still maintaining excellent depth of field.
The flower petals are held in place just outside of the frame with “third hand tools”, little alligator clamps on a swivel base that can easily position subjects for table-top macro work. The droplets themselves were placed with a hypodermic needle, and the water is just that: plain old tap water.
The goal was to try and place the petals all at different angles; the bottom petal is facing more forward to come out of focus, but the droplets were placed in line with the others to try and get a bit of depth in the frame while maintaining the best level of focus. One must work quickly, however! The petals will droop and change positions fairly quickly, likely shifting the droplets to a slightly different focal plane. The camera is set up beforehand with a remote trigger so as soon as everything is in place, I can fire off the shot.
Illuminated with an LED flashlight pointed at the flower in the background, the background becomes brighter than the petals, and thereby the droplets become brighter than the surface they are attached to. This helps them stand out more brightly and vibrantly in the image. A full list of considerations, techniques and equipment is presented in my new book, linked above. This is such a fun subject to explore at home, on your kitchen table!
What I loved most about the museum was the little acrylic blocks with numbers on them, beside each item. This matched up with the description placed discretely somewhere else..