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Observations from a trip to the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas (USA), October 2006.
Lyside Sulphur - Kricogonia lyside
I liked the way the angled natural light emphasized the wing veins. Happy Wing Wednesday!
Found an abandoned farmhouse from the early 1900's that had just been "excavated" from the woods. It had been hidden behind a thicket of trees and was recently cleared of them. I had driven by it a dozen times and never knew it was there until today. Needless to say I did some exploring.
©2015 Jamie A. MacDonald
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'You don’t take a photograph, you make it'. - Ansel Adams
SN2021hrs observations (Yasuo Sano)
Observer's code:
San: Yasuo Sano (Nayoro, Hokkaido,Japan)
Instruments: 0.36m-SCT + FLI 1001E exp 30sec
object YYYYMMDD(UT) mag code
SN2022hrs 20220425.4621 +13.033B San VSOLJ
SN2022hrs 20220425.4662 +12.770V San VSOLJ
SN2022hrs 20220425.4703 +12.555Rc San VSOLJ
SN2022hrs 20220425.4744 +12.606Ic San VSOLJ
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'You don’t take a photograph, you make it'. - Ansel Adams
Following the advancing terminator as well as lunar libration.
Orion XT8-i Telescope
20mm Plossl Eyepiece
iPhone 5S
Observations in two wavelengths of extreme UV light revealed the magnetic connections between a pair of large and dynamic active regions observed over almost a two-day period (Feb. 2-4, 2014). The tangles of lines between the two regions are actually high-energy particles spinning along the magnetic field lines that arch between them. The numerous bright flashes are solar flares erupting. Active regions are areas of intense magnetism and appear as sunspots in white light images. The color table of the AIA 193 images was changed to help bring out the magnetic field lines. Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory/NASA.
Our observations and impressions seen at the Fuerteventura Golf Resort, Caleta de Fuste, Fuerteventura, Islas Canarias, Spain during our visit in January/February 2016. It’s a beautiful resort, wonderful vegetation, the seaside, gorgeous architecture, good air and overall beautiful setting near the airport in Fuerteventura. Highly recommended for a short or longer visit to this memorable island.
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'You don’t take a photograph, you make it'. - Ansel Adams
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)
P2080025 At Shallow Crossing with G & S
Quote from Facebook about why we love Oz..
Australia: an American's view
Interesting set of observations from a visitor from the other side of the Pacific.'Value what you have and don't give it away.' There's a lot to admire about Australia, especially if you're a visiting American, says David Mason. More often than you might expect, Australian friends patiently listening to me enthuse about their country have said, ''We need outsiders like you to remind us what we have.'' So here it is - a small presumptuous list of what one foreigner admires in Oz.
1... Health care. I know the controversies, but basic national health care is a gift. In America, medical expenses are a leading cause of bankruptcy. The drug companies dominate politics and advertising.
Obama is being crucified for taking halting baby steps towards sanity. You can't turn on the telly without hours of drug advertisements - something I have never yet seen here. And your emphasis on prevention - making cigarettes less accessible, for one - is a model.
2... Food. Yes, we have great food in America too, especially in the big cities.
But your bread is less sweet, your lamb is cheaper, and your supermarket vegetables and fruits are fresher than ours.
Too often in my country an apple is a ball of pulp as big as your face.
The dainty Pink Lady apples of Oz are the juiciest I've had. And don't get me started on coffee.
In American small towns it tastes like water flavoured with burnt dirt, but the smallest shop in the smallest town in Oz can make a first-rate latte.
I love your ubiquitous bakeries, your hot-cross buns. Shall I go on?
3... Language. How do you do it?
The rhyming slang and Aboriginal place names like magic spells.
Words that seem vaguely English yet also resemble an argot from another planet.
I love the way institutional names get turned into diminutives - Vinnie's and Salvos - and absolutely nothing's sacred.
Everything's an opportunity for word games and everyone's a nickname.
Lingo makes the world go round.
It's the spontaneous wit of the people that tickles me most.
Late one night at a barbie my new mate Suds remarked, ''Nothing's the same since 24-7.'' Amen.
4... Free-to-air TV. In Oz, you buy a TV, plug it in and watch some of the best programming I've ever seen - uncensored.
In America, you can't get diddly-squat without paying a cable or satellite company heavy fees.
In Oz a few channels make it hard to choose.
In America, you've got 400 channels and nothing to watch.
5... Small shops. Outside the big cities in America corporations have nearly erased them.
Identical malls with identical restaurants serving inferior food.
Except for geography, it's hard to tell one American town from another.
The ''take-away'' culture here is wonderful.
Human encounters are real - stirring happens, stories get told.
The curries are to die for. And you don't have to tip!
6... Free camping. We used to have this too, and I guess it's still free when you backpack miles away from the roads.
But I love the fact that in Oz everyone owns the shore and in many places you can pull up a camper van and stare at the sea for weeks.
I love the ''primitive'' and independent campgrounds, the life out of doors.
The few idiots who leave their stubbies and rubbish behind in these pristine places ought to be transported in chains.
7... Religion. In America, it's everywhere - especially where it's not supposed to be, like politics.
I imagine you have your Pharisees too, making a big public show of devotion, but I have yet to meet one here.
8... Roads. Peak hour aside, I've found travel on your roads pure heaven.
My country's ''freeways'' are crowded, crumbling, insanely knotted with looping overpasses - it's like racing homicidal maniacs on fraying spaghetti.
I've taken the Hume without stress, and I love the Princes Highway when it's two lanes.
Ninety minutes south of Bateman's Bay I was sorry to see one billboard for a McDonald's.
It's blocking a lovely paddock view. Someone should remove it.
9... Real multiculturalism. I know there are tensions, just like anywhere else, but I love the distinctiveness of your communities and the way you publicly acknowledge the Aboriginal past.
Recently, too, I spent quality time with Melbourne Greeks, and was gratified both by their devotion to their own great language and culture and their openness to an Afghan lunch.
10. Fewer guns. You had Port Arthur in 1996 and got real in response. America replicates such massacres several times a year and nothing changes.
Why?
Our religion of individual rights makes the good of the community an impossible dream.
Instead of mateship we have ''It's mine and nobody else's''.
We talk a great game about freedom, but too often live in fear.
There's more to say - your kaleidoscopic birds, your perfumed bush in springtime, your vast beaches.
These are just a few blessings that make Australia a rarity.
Of course, it's not paradise - nowhere is - but I love it here.
No need to wave flags like Americans and add to the world's windiness.
Just value what you have and don't give it away.
David Mason is a US writer and professor, and poet laureate of Colorado.
The history behind Don MacLean's "American Pie"
around a campfire..
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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.
On one of the night observations at ASTROPORT, Just before everything got fogged out, I got the opportunity to photograph the most prominent constellation of the winter skies, ORION - The Hunter. I didn't get much time to photograph it, but this is what I managed.
The Yellowish star is called Betelegeuse. This is star is in its dying stage ( called a red giant star ) and will explode on its death. One day ( aproxx 5 billion years in the future ) Sun will also inflate to form a red giant star, but not as big as Betelgeuse. It will not explode, but when it becomes a red giant, the inner planets Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars would be go inside the sun because of its increasing size.
Below the three stars in line ( from left - Alnitak, Alnilam, Mintaka ), you will see a cloudy structure. This is called the ORION NEBULA. This is the nearest place from Earth where stars take birth.
This constellation has always been my favorite because its always visible in the winter sky, even in the most light polluted cities.
15 x 1min at 1600 ISO
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.
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'You don’t take a photograph, you make it'. - Ansel Adams
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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
Students and teachers learn about the natural world through a constructivist style of learning. Photo by Tina Shaw/USFWS.
I'm on Carbonmade now! Using it as a portfolio site so I'm being strict with what I put up there.
Have a look though, there are more in the 'Observations' set :)