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Wreck of a Japanese Misubishi Zero (A6M3 Reisen) fighter, a casualty of WWII conflict in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea. Lying in about 30 metres of water not far from the shore NW of Kokopo, the wreck escaped burial during the 1994 volcanic eruptions and remains a popular dive site.
Rephotographed from an original Kodachrome transparency taken with a Nikonos II, UW-NIKKOR 15mm f2.8 lens and Seatite strobe.
One of the most photographed locations in my hometown but anytime I can people to the flavor of the capture it makes me happy. These people are located next to the Scout Statue, which is not identified in this image. This area is South of downtown and obviously overlooks the "Heart of America".
Kansas City, Missouri
Mike D.
Looking south from Mevagissey, Cornwall. October 2017.
Another lens I lugged around the world for one or two frames - the undeservedly dissed XF60/2.4 Macro.
Fuji X-T2, XF60/2.4 R Macro, 1/3000th sec at f/8, ISO 400
Just a crop of this infrared panorama (due to Flickr's "best display size" which obviously seems to vary between free and pro users):
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Also black & white, 8:5 aspect ratio, 7157 x 4474px (32MP).
It's cool how the ripples on the lake are confined to a certain area, outside of it, the water is flat like a mirror.
Nikon D90 (APS-C, fullspectrum mod)
Tamron 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 Di ll VC HLD
Hoya R72 (720nm infrared pass-filter)
ISO200, 24mm, f/6.3, 0,8sec
panorama head, tripod, remote
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Single White Lightning 1600 in Octabox about 20 feet above. Pocket Wizardry and plenty of compositry!
The Dubliners - Fields Of Athenry
The Fields of Athenry è una celebre canzone popolare irlandese.
Il testo della canzone narra della Grande carestia irlandese, e più precisamente della narrazione di un immaginario prigioniero irlandese che attraverso il muro di una prigione ascolta la conversazione di un giovane uomo con sua moglie.
Il giovane deve essere trasportato dopo sentenza alla colonia penale australiana di Botany Bay per aver rubato del cibo per mantenere la sua famiglia ridotta in povertà dalla carestia.
L'uomo probabilmente viene da Athenry, come suggeriscono il titolo ed il ritornello della canzone, un villaggio della Contea di Galway che in quel periodo soffrì terribilmente la carestia. L'ultimo verso narra la dipartita della nave-prigione, che scompare all'orizzonte sotto gli occhi della donna, proprio mentre l'ultima stella della notte scompare.
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A close up from yesterday photo. BNSF Z train rounding the curve and in to the cut just west of Oregon IL.(Looks great on Black or large)..
“MS Pride of America is a cruise ship operated by NCL America, a division of Norwegian Cruise Lines, to sail itineraries in the Hawaiian Islands. Construction of the ship began in 2000 in the United States as part of a plan for a U.S.-built and U.S.-flagged cruise ship under Project America, but the project failed and she was eventually purchased by Norwegian Cruise Lines and completed in Germany. She was inaugurated in 2005, and was the first new U.S. flagged, U.S.-built (aside from the outfitting) deep water passenger ship in nearly fifty years since the SS Argentina of 1958.”
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This is the first time I've walked along this stretch of beach, on the north side of a county park. I noticed this 10x10 inch post half buried in the sand. Nothing in the immediate area uses that size post (other than the pier several hundred feet down the beach), so I'm guessing this was driven there by the storm surge during Hurricane Harvey in August 2017. I don't know if the wind is currently eroding the dune away from it, or if the wind is slowly burying it in the dune, although I suspect the latter. In either case it showcases the forces of wind and water. For 120 pictures in 2020 #43 "Forces of nature".
Created out of the magical universal soup ~ We are here to post as many great images on flickr as we can ~ That is our purpose in life ~ And we are not happy with the answer being 42;-)) So we keep experimenting and searching for the most unique images all the time...
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;-)) Related to the max.................
The ministry of time
Chapter II: The Mystery of the Incubators
The style card and credits here
Sam found himself alone in the laboratory, the dim lights flickering intermittently over the equipment. A bottle of beer was within his reach as he immersed himself in his thoughts. Recently, an unusual event had shaken his scientific world: the disappearance of a body from the incubators. This act not only defied the laws but also raised serious questions about the integrity of the timeline.
As the golden liquid flowed down his throat, Sam pondered the possible devastating consequences that this incident could unleash. What effect would it have on historical evolution? How would it alter temporal continuity? These questions haunted him, filling his mind with unease and concern.
An even more alarming idea seized his thoughts: Who could have orchestrated this act and for what purpose? Time travel technology was heavily regulated, its illegal use a serious offense. Only a few would have access to it, and none of them would have noble motives to carry out such an action.
As Sam delved into his reflections, a determination grew within him: he must uncover the truth behind this enigma. Not only for the sake of the scientific community and temporal stability but also for his insatiable thirst for knowledge. With determination in his gaze, he promised himself that he would not rest until he found answers and ensured that temporal integrity remained intact.
With the collaboration from:
BIRTH / *Birth* 'Valor' Lelutka EvoX BOM @ UBER EVENT
CHRIS TWO DESIGN / Cyber VR Headset Y.2077 @ in main store
TANAKA /[TNK] GAMER MINI-FRIDGE @ GOTHCORE event
KOKOS-EARRING ROKITI-Gauged XL/S @ menselected
KOKOS-HUD-EARRING ROKITI-Gauged XL Ears(EXTRA) @ menselected
SAM KOKOS- HAIRBASE SAM-EVOX @ GROUP GIFT
[LOB] SPACEX SET @ in main store now
Synnergy.Tavis/Cryo Chamber [360] Backdrop @ Easter offer
A huge pile of cars sinking into an underground lake.
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Sunset over The Bay of Fires in Tasmania.... The Colours in the rocks are amazing..
Sony A7r2
Carl Zeiss 50mm F1.4 PlanarT
ISO 100 | 50mm | F11 | 2 sec
8 shot stitched panorama
Lee Filter - Little Stopper
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This is a panorama along about 60° of the northern summer Milky Way from Cepheus at left, to Cygnus at centre and at right. It frames the great variety of bright and dark nebulas in this region of the sky, notably:
- the circular IC 1396 nebula at left in Cepheus with the orange Garnet Star,
- the North America Nebula (NGC 7000) just left of centre,
- and the IC 1318 complex around Gamma Cygni just right of centre.
The dark Funnel Cloud Nebula, aka Le Gentil 3, is at left between IC 1396 and NGC 7000, while the dark region to the right (south) of NGC 7000 is the Northern Coal Sack, though to the eye, as here, that area does not appear as dark as the Funnel Cloud area.
The bright Cygnus Starcloud is right of centre, where we are looking down the Milky Way's spiral arm we live in. It is bordered below by the Cygnus Rift of dark lanes in the Milky Way which continue south into Aquila.
The small (on this scale) Wizard Nebula (NGC 7380) and Lion Nebula (Sh2-132) are at far left in Cepheus.
The small round red Cocoon Nebula, IC 5146, is at the end of a thin lane of dark dust, B168, or the Dark Cigar, at bottom left, while the tiny green Dumbbell Nebula, M27 in Vulpecula, is just visible at bottom right.
This is a stitch using Photoshop's Photomerge function of 10 segments, each segment a stack of 8 to 10 exposures of 1-minute each with the Canon RF135mm lens at f/2 on the red-sensitive Canon Ra camera at ISO 800. All on the Star Adventurer tracker.
The camera was turned to portrait orientation to align the long dimension of the frame across the width of the Milky Way for greater east-west coverage. This required moving the camera by only 5° from segment to segment to ensure enough overlap. I used a ball head with an additional panorama azimuth motion with degree gradations on it to faciliate panning along the Milky Way following the galactic equator using just one simple motion.
The lens had an 82mm URTH Night broadband light pollution reduction filter on it to help increase contrast and bring out the nebulas. No narrowband filters were used here. Even so, most of the contrast enhancement was in processing with the application of a Nik Collection 6 Pro Contrast filter, plus curves with luminosity masks, and a Nebula Filter action in PhotoKemi Startools actions.
Taken from home on a fine though not fully transparent night on May 14/15, 2023 when the time for shooting this area was limited due to the short spring night. Two more segments shot to the right farther down the Milky Way were too blue and struck by dawn twilight to be usable.
The Citadel of Besançon (French: Citadelle de Besançon) is a 17th-century fortress in Franche-Comté, France. It is one of the finest masterpieces of military architecture designed by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban. The Citadel occupies 11 hectares (27 acres) on Mount Saint-Etienne, one of the seven hills that protect Besançon, the capital of Franche-Comté. Mount Saint-Etienne occupies the neck of an oxbow formed by the river Doubs, giving the site a strategic importance that Julius Caesar recognised as early as 58 BC. The Citadel overlooks the old quarter of the city, which is located within the oxbow, and offers a magnificent view of the entire city and its surroundings.
The fortification is well preserved. Today it is an important tourist site (over a quarter of a million visitors per year) due both to its own characteristics and because it is the site of several museums. These museums include a museum of the Resistance and deportation, a museum focusing on traditional life in Franche-Comté and the region's archeological history, and a museum of natural history that includes a zoo, an insectarium, an aquarium, vivariums, a noctarium, a climatorium, a pedagogical exhibit on evolution, botanical gardens, and a children's farm. There is also a restaurant and shops.
On 7 July 2008, UNESCO listed the Citadel, together with nearby Fort Griffon, as a World Heritage Site. Since 1942, the French Ministry of Culture has listed the Citadel as a Monument historique.
Part 1 of 4 of my collaboration with Inthert for the Space Rally Racers category of the Space Jam 2020 contest.
In this great solar-system spanning race, the pilots taking part must be both an ace pilot and engineer. A dash through an asteroid field and a race across the planet’s hostile surface to the finish - by any means necessary.
“And they’re off! The Super Six, piloted by the daring Steve Sprocket, leads the pack in what seems like beautiful conditions for today’s race. But I’m sure it won’t last long as our intrepid group of racers approach their first challenge: the perilous asteroid field!”
The other builds in the series:
1. The Super Six
2. The Not So super Six
3. The Less Than Super Six
4. The Seriously Less Than Super Sub-par Six
A portrait of a Hmong girl in northern Vietnam, Sapa, with a red circle on her forehead. This is usually a sign that the person is recovering from a sickness and is supposed to help relieve the symptoms.
The so-called Temple of Concordia is one of the best preserved temples of Greek antiquity and the showpiece of the "valley of the temples" near Agrigento.
Fox squirrels at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on a snowy day - Monday January 23rd, 2023. Here is wishing you joy, health and peace wherever you are.
No.46233 'Duchess of Sutherland' is a London, Midland and Scottish Railway Princess Coronation Class 4-6-2 "Pacific" type steam locomotive built in 1938 by Crewe Works for the London Midland and Scottish Railway
Built as a high speed express passenger locomotive
such as ‘The Royal Scot’ and ‘The Mid-Day Scot' between London Euston and Glasgow Central as well as other expresses Withdrawn by British Railways in 1964, the locomotive was originally sold to Butlins holiday camp in Scotland. In 1996, the locomotive was acquired by The Princess Royal Class Locomotive Trust with the intention of restoration to mainline condition . In 2001, 46233 was restored to operating condition and since then has been a regular performer on the national network
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The sun is breaking in your eyes
To start a new day
This broken heart can still survive
With a touch of your grace
Shadows fade into the light
I am by your side,
Where love will find you
Torrenieri, Tuscany, Italy
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I am Wednesday's Child. I was born on a Wednesday in 1963. The year I was born Medger Evers was murdered, 4 little girls were killed in the Birmingham bombing, and John F. Kennedy Jr. was assasinated. He died the day I turned 7 months old. My mom says, everyone was crying, and I cried with them. All true, and sad, and things I know as an adult, that make me proud of my parents and the values they gave me, BUT Wednesday's Child is Full of Woe??....hmmmm???
That's BS man!! I'm not full of woe! I'm not a greeting card, or a poem, or a precious moments doll full of Woe!!! I'm full of WOW! Life is grand!!! God knows, and my husband knows, I have my bad days, but NOT because I'm Wednesday's Child!! I ROCK!! Wednesday's ROCK!! This one is for all of Wednesday's Children!! Rock on my fine friends, Rock ON! LOL!!! I'm not a nut, just a fully operational nerd. =o)
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Back in the summer of 1995, I was exposing oddles of K64 on Cedar Rapids and Iowa City's road job.
Where else in the Midwest could a solid set of 1950s era motive power be chased on a daily basis? The sights and sounds of the past would soon be silenced by newer power and re-routes.
Photo 2 - The early evening December light. The Shard, the tallest building in Europe, and the Gherkin in the City of London, seen at the bottom of this image, are dwarfed by a Victorian gasometer in Bethnal Green, East London.
This is the 'Bridge of Aspiration' which links the Royal Ballet School in Covent Garden, London with the Royal Opera House.
It was designed in 2003 by architects Wilkinson Eyre and engineers Flint & Neill.
Sunrise along the Bogue Banks South of Morehead City, North Carolina. Thanks for looking and have a large weekend.
This is the famous Isle of Staffa off the west coast of Mull and one of my occasional forays into landscape photography. The reason it is famous is because of its amazing geology comprising basalt columns, but also because of Fingal's Cave, itself made famous by Felix Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn visited Staffa in 1829 and was inspired to compose an overture (The Hebrides opus 26, aka Fingal's Cave) after listening to the echoes in Fingal's Cave: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcogD-hHEYs The cave on the right with the tourists is Fingal's Cave, and you can see the basalt columns looking like a broken honeycomb side-on. The cave became known as Fingal's Cave after the eponymous hero of an epic poem by 18th century Scots poet-historian James Macpherson. In Irish mythology, the hero Fingal is known as Fionn mac Cumhaill (Finn MacCool), and it is suggested that Macpherson rendered the name as Fingal (meaning "white stranger") through a misapprehension of the name which in old Gaelic would appear as Finn. The legend of the Giant's Causeway has Finn building the causeway between Ireland and Scotland as he was challenged to a fight by the Scottish giant Benandonner. Finn accepted the challenge and built the causeway across the North Channel so that the two giants could meet. The basalt columns of the Giant's Causeway in County Antrim, and those of Staffa are part of the same ancient lava flow. Around 50 to 60 million years ago, during the Palaeocene, this area was subject to intense volcanic activity, when highly fluid molten basalt intruded through chalk beds to form an extensive volcanic plateau (the Thulean Plateau). As the lava cooled, contraction occurred. Horizontal contraction fractured in a similar way to drying mud, with the cracks propagating down as the mass cooled, leaving pillar-like structures, which also fractured horizontally. In many cases, the horizontal fracture resulted in a bottom face that is convex, while the upper face of the lower segment is concave, producing what are called "ball and socket" joints. The size of the columns was primarily determined by the speed at which lava cooled. The extensive fracture network produced the distinctive columns seen today.
before the bay of palma awakens, the day murmurs its arrival through the whispers of dawn. clouds part like curtains unveiling a stage, rays of light cascade, each a gentle touch on the slumbering sea. the silhouette of the distant mountains stands as the eternal audience, witnessing the slow brightening of the world. it’s a serene symphony where each element plays its part in harmony, the sea reflecting the sky’s moody hues, the land a dark contrast to the awakening sky. in this quiet hour, time pauses, allowing the earth to inhale the promise of a new day, a subtle interlude before life resumes its pace.
Such a beautiful night after 5 days of clouds and rain, but the good news is, no flooding! So, after we had friends over for breakfast and the purged the garage some, we cooked steaks over a fire and then enjoyed sitting by it for the remainder of the night.
"Then, amid the roar of bees in the afternoon sunlight, Simon found for the fruit they could not reach... passed them back down to the endless, outstretched hands."
A quick shot of the Orion Nebula (M42), one of my favourite celestial objects and a really satisfying target. I've been waiting a year for an opportunity to image this nebula again, this time with a polar alignment and guiding to enable much longer exposures than the 15 second subs I took last time and with a lower ISO to reduce noise. The next project with this is to either stitch two shots together or, better still, rotate the camera in order to fit both the Orion Nebula and the nearby Running Man Nebula into one frame.
13 x 4 minute exposures at 400 ISO
8 x dark frames
10 x flat frames
21 x bias/offset frames (subtracted from flat frames only)
Total exposure time - 52 minutes
Guided with PHD
Processed in Nebulosity, Maxim DL and Photoshop
Equipment
Celestron NexStar 127 SLT
GoTo AltAz mount with homemade wedge
Orion 50mm Mini Guide Scope
ZWO ASI120 MC guiding camera
Canon EOS 700D DSLR
[Wikipedia] The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way, being south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion. It is one of the brightest nebulae, and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky. M42 is located at a distance of 1,344 ± 20 light years and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. The M42 nebula is estimated to be 24 light years across. It has a mass of about 2000 times the mass of the Sun. Older texts frequently refer to the Orion Nebula as the Great Nebula in Orion or the Great Orion Nebula.
The Orion Nebula is one of the most scrutinized and photographed objects in the night sky, and is among the most intensely studied celestial features. The nebula has revealed much about the process of how stars and planetary systems are formed from collapsing clouds of gas and dust. Astronomers have directly observed protoplanetary disks, brown dwarfs, intense and turbulent motions of the gas, and the photo-ionizing effects of massive nearby stars in the nebula. [Wikipedia]
Source: Scan of an OS RP photograph.
Grid: SU1584.
Date: January 1953.
Copyright: OS-Crown.
Used by very kind permission.
Repository: Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
On the evening of May 10th 1989, a lite helper set was in the process of crossing from track two to track one utilizing the hand-throw cross over at Summit Ave in Gaithersburg. The trouble is, they had opened up in front of the westbound Millville Rock Runner. Luckily, speed had been reduced prior to impact and nobody was seriously hurt. The damage was bad enough to CSXT 6047 on the rock runner that it was retired, making it one of the first GP40-2s retired under CSX...although it was later purchased and rebuilt for a shortline. These pictures were taken the morning after the wreck. I believe Bill Bench was the engineer on #6047. I have never figured out the cause of this one, whether or not the helper set crew didn't wait for the signal to time out at Derwood, or ignored an instruction to open up behind the rock runner. No photographer listed, JL Sessa collection.
Walking by ruins of ancient town Salona was very interesting for me. I tried to imagine, that many centuries ago here was a big town, full of people :)
Salona was an ancient city and capital of Roman province on the Dalmatian coast located in modern-day Croatia and it's situated near today's town of Solin, about 5 km from Split. Under the Romans, Salona was the political centre of the Dalmatia region, reaching its peak under Emperor Diocletian who built his palace in Split. Huns and Goths swept down in the middle of the 5th century announcing the end of Roman rule. Salona wound up in the Eastern Roman Empire but in 614 the Slavs and Avars moved in and levelled the town to the ground. The most impressive ruin is the 2nd-century amphitheatre which was destroyed by the Venetians in the 17th century. At one time it could accommodate 18,000 spectators and who knows how many gladiators fighting bears. Also interesting is the Manastirine, a burial place for early Christian martyrs (torn apart by lions?) which is part of an archaeological reserve which includes the Tusculum Museum. Other remains from the early Christian period include the remains of a cemetery basilica that dates from the 4th century and the ruins of a three-nave cathedral with an octagonal baptistery. You'll notice remains of a covered aqueduct from the 1st century, public baths and other ancient churches. There's also a small museum near the entrance which sometimes has informative leaflets.
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Ulice dawnej Salony. Ogromnie mi się tam podobało. Pozostałości miasta zajmują duży obszar i są nieźle zachowane. Od razu wyobrażałam sobie, że kiedyś to miejsce było pełne ludzi i miejskiego gwaru :)
Nieopodal Splitu znajdują się ruiny starożytnego miasta Salona, stolicy rzymskiej prowincji Dalmacji. Nazwa pochodzi od wydobywanej w okolicy soli. Obecna nazwa miasta to Solin. Pierwsze wzmianki o Salonie pochodzą z 119 r. p.n.e. Pod panowaniem Rzymian (od I w. p.n.e.) stała się największym i najbogatszym miastem środkowej Dalmacji. Liczba mieszkańców dochodziła do 50-60 tysięcy. Miasto otoczone było wysokimi murami z 88 basztami. Początkowo miała kształt trapezu jednak silny rozwój spowodował jego zmianę. Około 240 roku w Salonie urodził się przyszły cesarz rzymski Dioklecjan, którego ruiny pałacu w Splicie stoją do dnia dzisiejszego. W V w. Salona została najechana przez Hunów i Gotów, jednak już w VI w. przeszła pod władanie Bizancjum. O wiele gorzej dla Salony zakończył się w 614 roku najazd Awarów i Słowian. Uciekający mieszkańcy Salony znaleźli schronienie w Pałacu Dioklecjana. Do największych i najlepiej zachowanych pozostałości, które możemy zobaczyć w miejscu dawnej salony należą: największy wczesnochrześcijański cmentarz na otwartej przestrzeni, na którym pochowano m.in. św. Dujama (Dominjusza) oraz 3-kondygnacyjna bazylika, wybudowana w V w., ogromny, mieszczący 17-18 tys. osób amfiteatr z II wieku, centrum diecezjalne (zbudowane po wydaniu edyktu mediolańskiego w 313 roku, oparte na dwóch bazylikach, baptysterium (wraz z ośmioboczną chrzcielnicą) oraz pałacu biskupim), termy, 5-cio łukowy most oraz część murów miejskich.