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This meerkat guard was an often watched and photographed subject in the Tiergarten Nuremberg. I had the fortune to take a photo of the observers observer in their natural habitat.
Dieser Erdmännchenwächter (Suricata suricatta) war ein gut beobachtetes Motiv im Tiergarten Nürnberg. Ich hatte das Glück den Beobachter und seinen Beobachter in ihrem natürlichen Habitat zu photographieren.
Members of the Hubble operations team work in the control room on July 15, 2021 to restore Hubble to science operations.
Credits: NASA/Goddard/Rebecca Roth
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Hubble’s payload computer, which controls and coordinates the observatory’s onboard science instruments, halted suddenly on June 13. When the main computer failed to receive a signal from the payload computer, it automatically placed Hubble’s science instruments into safe mode. That meant the telescope would no longer be doing science while mission specialists analyzed the situation.
In response to the anomaly, NASA began a switch to backup spacecraft hardware on Hubble in response to an ongoing problem with its payload computer. This was a multi-day event.
Science observations restarted the afternoon of Saturday, July 17.
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Credit: NASA/Goddard/Rebecca Roth
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Observations 043-048 for PID 1727, 'COSMOS-Web: The JWST Cosmic Origins Survey'
F115W Blue
F150W Cyan
F277W Greenish/Yellow
F444W Red
More details: www.reddit.com/r/jameswebb/comments/106f458/new_nircam_wi...
Note that a decent amount of bad pixels and cosmic blob artifacts snuck through the standard calibration pipeline processing in the L3 data. In this mosaic, these are typically bright red, green, or blue with relatively sharp edges compared to the galaxies, and are more prevalent at the edges/seams.
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'You don’t take a photograph, you make it'. - Ansel Adams
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'You don’t take a photograph, you make it'. - Ansel Adams
Our visit to this beautiful beach resort in Caleta de Fuste, Fuerteventura, Islas Canarias, Spain, during our visit in Jan./Feb. 2016. Highly recommended.
Echium vulgare L. Viper's bugloss Lisičina 6315 Bot 2014 S 2520 Pulac_072 1.V.2014.
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www.projectnoah.org/spottings/1729704158
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5.V.2014. Pulac Rijeka.
www.inaturalist.org/observations/48998447
+ Pulac 2
www.inaturalist.org/observations/52453223
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8.IX.2018. Gumanac
www.inaturalist.org/observations/52453511
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1.VI.2019. Dragarski
www.inaturalist.org/observations/57616540
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14.X.2019. 55776 Rückweiler, Germany
So, its Sunday and my day for passenger observations during the car journey to take my son to swimming club.
I've saved these as three vertical triptychs - I like the notion of being able to move them around, playing with the order they are displayed in..like one of those puzzle games..but on a giant scale! ;0)
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This picture was taken in front of a breakwater along the coast in Texel, the Netherlands, that is only visible during low tide and covered with mussels.
Credit: Petra Manche
View all winning entries for the 2015 World Ocean Day photo contest on the National Ocean Service website.
iss069e037324 (July 26, 2023) -- Earth's Moon in first quarter phase as United Arab Emirates (UAE) Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi captured this photo aboard the International Space Station.
Despite the cold, birds and visitors continue to flock to Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin! Geese, swans and ducks can be easily seen from the observation deck.
Photo by USFWS.
Dark Park only hours from where I live, Perseid Meteor shower, and a new moon, I could not pass up the opportunity.
Here are a handful of pics I took with my limited time there (before the condensation took over and the battery on my 5d dying).
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A father and his young family watch as Trainee Guard Jarrod Mitton using hand signals guides PB15 448 ont its train at Bundamba Racecourse.
Illustration for ISO 31000 and Those Who Don’t Know History: onriskof.com/2016/12/08/iso31000-those-who-dont-know-hist...
Been noticing with the Voigtlander Close Focus adapter, I'm lazy and forget to bottom out the flange for infinity focus shots like this, if you zoom into the beautiful distant trees.
I'm just doing my daily workout to up miles walked until I can get into the field. Chance to take walking photos and observe results at home. Sucks to go on a forty acre walk and get home with photos out of focus. Here I'm back to basics, f11 with infinity mark at right scale 11. Yosemite is a month away and I've gotten so rusty.
Voigtlander 35mm f1.7 Ultron ASPH w Metabones LM / E adapter
Handheld, RH Lili Pad burn
Isabella Bird (shown in Chinese attire, above) was a British traveller and explorer in the late nineteenth century. Here are some of her observations (Bird, 1880) of the character of the Japanese people (with particular emphasis upon morality, clothing, tourism, nakedness and pride).
20 I say search because, for there are not names on the streets, where there are numbers they have no sequence
Tourism
27 miserable looking / young looking
The Japanese look most diminutive in European dress. Each garment is a misfit, and exaggerates the miserable physique, and the national defects of concave chests and bow legs. The lack of "complexion" and of hair upon the face makes it nearly impossible to judge of the ages of men. I supposed that all the railroad officials were striplings of 17 or 18, but they are men from 25 to 40 years old.
29 dignified burlesques on the adults.
pride
29 The national costume, which also conceals the defects of their figures.
36 The kimono has not "fit" and slouches over the shoulders.
39 Men and women do not walk together (families never together also)
47 Japanese politeness is almost servile in its attitude and expression, the Chinaman is independent , almost supercilious.
pride
51 Another but far inferior difficulty on which much stress is laid is the practice of common among native servants of getting a "squeeze" out of every money transaction on the road, so that the cost of travelling is often doubled, and sometimes trebled, according to the skill and capacity of the servant.
Morality, stealing, theft. thief, robbery
76 But here (at a temple) as everywhere, people interested me more than things. Their devout but frequently irreverent worship, their gross and puerile superstitions, the total absence of beggars and disorderly characters, the childish amusements of men and women, the formal dress and gravity of children, the singular mixture of religion and amusement, the extreme but not disrespectful curiosity which which foreigners are still regarded, the absence of groups in which father, mother and children, enjoy themselves together, yet the perfect freedom with which women move among men, the attention paid to children by the parents of both sexes, the diminutive size of the people, the exposed by modest faces of the women, the clean and well-dressed appearance of all, the extreme quietness, the courtesy and good order preserved by the thousands of thronged the temple and its grounds during the afternoon and the fact that not a single policeman was present, made a deep impression upon me.
Morality, stealing, theft. thief, robbery
78 I decline to admire fat faces, pub noses thick lips, long eyes, turned up at the outer corners and complexions which owe much to powder and paint. The habit of painting the lips with a reddish-yellow pigment, and of heavily powdering the face and throat with pearl powder is a repulsive one. But it is hard to pronounce any unfavourable criticism on women who have so much kindly grace and manner.
91 SOUNDS
One one side a man recited Buddhist prayers in a high key; on the other a girl was twanging, a species of guitar; the house was full of talking and splashing, drums and tom-toms were beaten outside; there were street cries innumerable, and the whistling of the blind shampooers, and the resonant clap of fire-watchmen who perambulates Japanese villages, and beats two pieces of wood together in token of his vigilance, where intolerable. It was a life of which I knew nothing, the mystery was more alarming than attractive
97 SOUNDS
I lay down on my precarious stretcher before eight but as the night advanced, the din of the house increased till it became truly diabolical and never ceased until after one. Drums, tom-toms, and cymbals were beaten; kotos and samisens screeched and twanged; geishas (professional women with the accomplishments of dancing, singing and playing) danced accompanied by songs whose jerking discords were most laughable; story-tellers recited tales in a hight key and the running about and splashing close to my room never ceased.
91 My money was lying about, and nothing seemed easier than to slide a hand through the fusuma and appropriate it. Ito told me that the well was badly contaminated, the odours were fearful; illness was to be feared as well as robbery! So unreasonably I reasoned NOTE 1 My fears, thought quite natural for a lady alone, had really no justification. I have since travelled 1200 miles in the interior, and in Yezo, with perfect safety, and I believe that there is no country in the world in which a lady can travel with such absolute security from danger and rudeness as in Japan.
Morality, stealing, theft. thief, robbery
94 jinriksha runner falls ill. He pleased me much by the honest independent way in which he provided a substitute, strictly adhering to his bargain, and never asking for a gratuity on account of his illness.
Morality, stealing, theft. thief, robbery
97 Ito..suggested to that robbery was quite likely, and asked to be allowed to take charge of my money; but did not decamp with it during the night.
Morality, stealing, theft. thief, robbery
98 If there are few sights which shock the traveller, there is much even on the surface to indicate vices which degrade and enslave the manhood of Japan.
sex
103I regretfully parted with my coolies, who had served me kindly and faithfully. They had paid me many little attentions, such as always beating the dust out of my dress, inflating my air-pillow, and bringing me flowers, and where always grateful when I walked up hills; and just now, after going for a frolic to the mountains, the called to wish me good-bye, bringing branches of azaleas.
126 Before leaving Yumoto I saw the modus operandi of a "squeeze." I asked for the bill, when instead of giving to me, the host ran upstairs and asked Ito (guide) how much it should be, the two dividing the overcharge. Your servants gets a squeeze on everything you buy and on your hotel expenses, and it is managed very adroitly, and you cannot prevent it, it is best not to worry about it so long as it keeps within reasonable limits.
Morality, stealing, theft. thief, robbery
129 Obedience is the foundation of the Japanese social order, and with children accustomed to unquestioning obedience at home the teacher has no trouble in securing quietness, attention and docility.
130いろはにほへとちりぬ Colour and perfume vanish away. What can be lasting in this world? To-day disappears in the abyss of nothingness; It is but the passing image of a dream, and causes only a slight trouble."
131 Map/guidebook fun
One evening I was asked to join the family, and they entertained me by showing me picture and guide books, illustrated by woodcuts of the most striking objects, and giving itineraries, names of yadoyas, and other local information. One volume of pictures very finely executed on silk was more than a century old. (kept in kura)...(next para) Kanaya and his sister often pay me an evening visit, and with Brunton's map on the floor, we project astonishing routes to Niigata, which are usually abruptly abandoned on finding a mountain chain in the way with never a road over it.
Tourism
139 The children sit up as late as their parents and included in all their conversation. //
I never saw people take so much delight in their offspring, carrying them about, or holding their hands in walking, watching and entering into the games, supplying them constantly with new toys, taking them to picnics and festivals, never being content to be without them, and treating other people's children also with a suitable measure of affection and attention. Both father and mothers take a pride in their children. It is most amusing about six every morning to see twelve of fourteen men sitting on a low wall, each with a child under two in his arms, fondling and playing with it and showing off its physique and intelligence. To judge from appearances, the children form the chief topic at this morning gathering.
Fundoshi Maro nakedness
245 The houses are very poor, the summer costume of the men consists of the maro only.
85 As far as I could see across the slush, there were wheels at work, up which copper-skinned men, naked, except for the maro or loin-cloth, were industriously climbing.
139 You see the father who wears nothing but a maro in the bosom of his family.
187 Few of the men wore anything but the maro
128 Do you remember a sentence in Dr. Macgregor's last sermon? "hat strange sights some of you will see!" Could there be a strange on that a decent-looking middle aged man, lying on his chest in the verandah, raised on his elbows, and intently reading a book, clothed only in a pair of spectacles.
150 The men may be said to wear nothing
75 children The children, though for our ideas too gentle and formal are very prepossessing in looks and behaviour. They are so perfectly docile and obedient, so ready to help their parents, so good to the little ones, and in the many hours which I have spent in watching them at play, I have never heard an angry word, or seen a sour look or act. But they are little men and women rather than children, and their old-fashioned appearance is greatly aided by their dress, which is as I have remarked before, is the same as that of adults.
142 Haggling
Morality, stealing, theft. thief, robbery
144 "Ito's vanity" for ugly as I think him (Ito) he has a large share of personal vanity, whitens his teeth, and powders his face carefully before a mirror, and is in great dread of sunburn. He powders his hands too and polishes his nails, and never goes out without gloves.
146 I intended to make use of it (a transport company that arranges for horses, hired from farmers) much against Ito's wishes, who reckoned on many a prospective "squeeze" in dealings with the farmers.
Morality, stealing, theft. thief, robbery
In Japan stealing is absent, but creative accounting ("the squeeze") rife. I claim, as always, that the amazing way in which the Japanese do not steal things but are at the same time able to "squeeze" double or triple the expenses from their employer relates to the nature of the Other (and horror) in Japanese culture.
Westerners have a horrible other that listens. This encourages us to be fairly honest, if very self-serving, in our self-narrative. Our narratives are self-enhancing but are constrained by the need for them to be palatable to another imagined human being. On the other hand, we feel no one is watching, so how we look, however, is far less fraught, ego-involved. We can get very fat, or even justify theft as redistribution of wealth (Robin Hood), since "property is [or can be argued, narrated to be] theft." We are good at promises and institutions of linguistic trust (such as insurance) since we want to be heard to be, narrated to be, good.
The Japanese, on the other hand, have an Other (that is almost as horrifying) that looks, concealed not in the head but amongst the crowd. This encourages them to be fairly upstanding, if very self-serving, in their posture (sekentei). Their self-imaginings are self-enhancing but are constrained by the need for them to be palatable to another imagined human being. So the Japanese abhor crimes and misdemeanour's that can be seen, such as theft and physical violence. When it comes to linguistic malfeasance such as "the squeeze" or kick-back however, this can be seen as just a way of doing business involving no visual injury. The Japanese are good at creating things (monozukiri) since they want to be seen, imagined to be, good.
This modal -- language vs vision -- difference highlights one aspect of the origin of the myths of individualism and collectivism. It is not in fact the case that the Japanese are any more or less individualistic or collectivist, nor Westerners likewise. Both Japanese and Westerners care to an extent about real others and care more about their horrible intra psychic familiars, but in each case the horror of the familiar must be hidden.
It is only because our familiars, our imaginary friends, are horrible that they can remain hidden and continue to be familiar. Identity is a contradiction that depends upon horror, or sin, on a split that must be felt to be, but not be cognised as being. Identity or self is impossible (nothing can see or say itself) but the dream of its possibility is maintained by desire for, and abhorrence -- and resultant obfuscation -- of the duality required.
In the Western case the necessary, horrible imaginary friend is hidden *inside* the person as an interlocutor that, as inside the person, can only therefore be denied by being claimed to be part of, and one with the self. Eve, that gross "knowing" helper we have, is hidden by virtue of being thought of as just another me (see Levinas vs Derrida and "altrui"). She disappears because, as Adam Smith says, we are just splitting ourselves into two of ourselves. If there is just me and me, then there appears to be nothing disgusting going on. Westerners think, "I think to myself."
But if on the other hand the Other is external, as is required by any visual (self) cognition, there is little way of claiming that the Other is me. Spatial dualism, or rather distance, eye and surface, as required by visual cognition, becomes apparent, and undeniable. So the Japanese claim that all they are doing is being collectivist. The Japanese horrible Other is just another person, one of many other people. The Japanese hide the horror, their familiar, their imaginary friend, in the crowd.
Individualism and collectivism are myths by which means we hide Eve/Amaterasu, a part of our souls, our "helpmeets".
In a similar way to paradox of Japanese morality in which Japanese will not steal your wallet even if you leave it on a table at a restaurant and walk out, but may (or did) charge a kickback doubling or tripling the price, the British will be utterly polite, honest and even humorous as they sell you narcotics and destroy your country, as we did to China for 150 years. Some estimate that the enforced import of opium into China resulted in the deaths of 100 million Chinese, but at least one British "academic makes jokes about it .
Paraphrasing Isaiah, those that worship the logos have a tendency to smear over their eyes so that they cannot see, and those that worship idols have a tendency to smear over their hearts so they cannot comprehend.
Bird, I. L. (1880). Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels in the Interior Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrines of Nikkô and Isé. J. Murray.