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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
LE Elena has been fully deboxed. She is standing, supported by the included display stand.
Some observations about the doll that weren't apparent before deboxing. She has a swivel waist, as did the original Designer Princess dolls, instead of the chest joint that most female LE 17 inch dolls have. I guess that is why the doll has the word Designer as part of her official name. The joint isn't so useful for this doll because of the stiffness of her upper dress. She also has hinge jointed knees and ball jointed ankles.
She has light gold colored shoes with low heels. They are also have embossed decorations with a blue jewel in each shoe. She has a bow in the back with the two ends of the ribbon forming a tail that is a couple of inches longer than the dress. There is a full length red satin skirt under the decorated overskirt. Under that is a double layered tulle petticoat that is an inch shorter than the skirt.
She can hold the scepter in her hand only with the help of a rubber band, which I left from the original packaging. Finally her pony tail is fairly stiff with hair product, and is heavy so it tends to pull her head backwards and to her right (our left when she is facing us). This is similar to the problem with the heavy ponytail of the LE Jasmine dolls.
I got the Elena of Avalor LE 17 inch Doll from my local Disney Store on the release day, Tuesday November 21, 2017. I went to my store at 11:30 am, instead of my usual line up before the store opens for LE doll releases. There were three of the doll behind the counter, but placed sideways and with no promo placard. So it wasn't obvious that there was a Limited Edition doll release today. The CM I bought the doll from didn't seem to know anything about the release, so I don't know how many dolls the store got in, how many they sold, or how many were remaining. I took the first doll that was handed to me, since the doll looked perfect to me. She is #1375 of 6000.
Elena of Avalor Designer Doll - Limited Edition
US Disney Store
Released online and in-store 2017-11-21
Purchased in-store 2017-11-21
#1375 of 6000
$119.95
Item No. 6003040900403P
Collectors and fans of Elena of Avalor alike will adore this highly detailed designer doll featuring the teenager in charge. Looking regal in her embroidered, rhinestone-studded dress, this limited edition doll will become a treasured favorite.
Safety
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD - Small Parts. Not for children under 3 years.
Magic in the details
Please note: Purchase of this item is limited to 1 per Guest.
• Limited Edition of 6000
• Certificate of Authenticity
• Fully poseable
• Multi-layered dress features embroidered and rhinestone details
• Removable tiara, bracelet, and shoes (earrings are attached)
• Scepter features rhinestone accents
• Includes display stand
• Scenic display presentation box
• Inspired by Elena of Avalor on Disney Channel
The bare necessities
• Plastic
• 16'' H
• Imported
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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'You don’t take a photograph, you make it'. - Ansel Adams
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
This sector of the Green River canyon in eastern Utah is known as Bowknot Bend because of the way the river doubles back on itself. The loop carries river rafters 14.5 kilometers (9 miles) before bringing them back to nearly the same point they started from—though on the other side of a low, narrow saddle (image center).
In this photograph taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station, the Green River appears dark because it lies in deep shadow, 300 meters (1,000 feet) below the surrounding landscape. The yellow-tinged cliffs that face the rising sun give a sense of the steep canyon walls. The straight white line across the scene is the contrail from a jet liner that passed over Bowknot Bend. Note that north is to the bottom of the image.
The reason for the tight bends in the Green River is the same as it is for the Mississippi: river courses often wind over time when they flow across a bed of relatively soft sediment in a floodplain. Geologists assume that the Green River, before its present canyon phase, once snaked across a wide valley on a bed of its own sediment and made a series of striking meander bends. Vertical uplift of the entire landscape—by deep-seated tectonic forces related to the growth of the Rocky Mountains—caused the Green River to erode downwards into the hard rocks under the valley. In the process, the present vertical-sided canyon was formed, preserving the tight loops reminiscent of an earlier time.
Bowknot was named by geologist John Wesley Powell in 1869 during one of his famous explorations of the rivers in the American West. The Green River flows south (toward the top of this image) and joins the Colorado River downstream. The combined flow of these rivers was responsible for cutting the Grand Canyon, some 325 kilometers (200 miles) away from Bowknot.
Astronaut photograph ISS038-E-35416 was acquired on January 22, 2014, with a Nikon D3X digital camera using a 1000 millimeter lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by the Expedition 38 crew. It has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory as part of the ISS National Lab to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Caption by M. Justin Wilkinson, Jacobs at NASA-JSC.
About Crew Earth Observations:
In Crew Earth Observations (CEO), crewmembers on the International Space Station (ISS) photograph the Earth from their unique point of view located 200 miles above the surface. Photographs record how the planet is changing over time, from human-caused changes like urban growth and reservoir construction, to natural dynamic events such as hurricanes, floods and volcanic eruptions. A major emphasis of CEO is to monitor disaster response events in support of the International Disaster Charter (IDC). CEO imagery provides researchers on Earth with key data to understand the planet from the perspective of the ISS. Crewmembers have been photographing Earth from space since the early Mercury missions beginning in 1961. The continuous images taken from the ISS ensure this record remains unbroken.
Image credit: NASA
Original image:
earth.jsc.nasa.gov/EarthObservatory/BowknotBend.htm
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www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/index.html
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I have some exciting news to share! I'm having my first solo photography exhibition in London November 11-17 at The Chance Gallery in Chelsea! Please come along to see the show.
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Observations from a recent spotting adventure. We were flying out of IAD and the wife left me have some spotting time. I noticed about 10 United 787s were scheduled to land in roughly a one hour period. As we left the hotel about 3 miles east of the airport the planes were landing on 1R so we decided to go to the Chantilly Costco. We got there and waited. Nothing. I checked FR 24 and noticed that in that short time frame from the hotel to Costco (15 minutes?) the operations switched so now the landings were happening on 19L. We doubled back and decided to go to parking garage 1 (Spot 3). The max daily rate is currently $10; also Level 5 was chained off so we had to settle for Level 4. We caught about two of the Dreamliners along with Qatar, KLM, and some biz jets on 19L. Most of the traffic was United Express jets. It seemed like all landings were on 19L up until 5 pm and then everything switched to 19C. Bummer. We couldn’t see any 19C landings from Garage 1.
I assume it’s a Covid effect but IAD was almost a ghost town; there are 2-3 very busy periods (such as 1500-1700) and then absolutely nothing. Our inbound flight landed at 1900 and Terminal B was totally shut down. The outbound flight was in around 1000 and very few things were open.
I took these photo in late October 2020.
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.
Swainson's Hawk, Borrego Valley Hawkwatch, Borrego Springs, CA
Observations at the evening Hawkwatch site on Borrego Valley Road
March 22, 2022 through March 28, 2022
Each morning's count is submitted to
Borrego Valley Hawkwatch
"Each spring in Borrego Springs provides a window into the migration patterns of Swainson's Hawks. Swainson's Hawks spend the winter in Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina. In early to mid-February the first Swainson's hawks arrive in the Borrego Valley from Mexico. As the season progrreses the hawks arrive from Colombia, and finally in April, from Argentina. The journey from Argentina is over 6,000 miles. The highest period of migration is mid-late March.
During a typical migration there are many thousands of hawks passing through, sometimes hundreds in the sky at the same time. It’s a story of hawks, caterpillars, and springtime wildflowers. The hawks come to feast on the caterpillars of the White-lined sphinx moth and the caterpillars are here to eat the flowers that bloom after winter's rainfall.
Hal Cohen, Hawkwatch Founder and Coordinator:
"I’m a hawkaholic! The drug is administered in doses that range from a slow dribble of hawks to a thousand or more in a day. I can’t seem to kick the habit. When I moved to Borrego Springs in 2001, I was frustrated and depressed: NO HAWKWATCH. At least not one that was clearly evident. Then in 2003, I discovered a steady stream of migrating Swainson’s Hawks entering Borrego Valley, spending a night and perhaps a day feeding on caterpillars. Migration then continues north the following day through Coyote Canyon on the way to breeding grounds as far away as Alaska.
We are one of only two hawkwatches in California! And, we observe more Swainson’s Hawks migrating through North America in spring than any other site in America!
You, too, can become a hawkaholic and share the wonders of migration of one of the most beautiful hawks in North America: Swainson’s Hawks. We need volunteers to observe, count, and gather data concerning the migration of hawks through Borrego Valley. Please join us if you can by giving sending us your contact information in the form above, right. Volunteers are trained and assigned to spicific time slots to count the hawks.
Beginners and experienced hawkwatchers are encouraged to participate! We hope you can make at least one of these dates. But if you can’t, you are still welcome to get involved. We count hawks from February 21 into April every spring season. Join us to experience a natural phenomenon and become a Citizen Scientist."
A Brief History of the Hawkwarch
When my wife and I moved to Borrego Springs in 2001 she observed that I was obviously missing the regular hawk watching activities that I had enjoyed so much in Illinois. Hawk watching to me is much more than just looking at hawks. Hawk watching is counting hundreds of hawks in in the midst of migration.
In early March of 2003 I noticed some Turkey Vultures roosting in Eucalyptus trees at the Roadrunner Club in Borrego Springs. They were not hawks, but I figured what the heck, I'll start a Turkey Vulture watch! I followed the Turkey Vultures as they circled upwards, called “kettliing” in hawk watch lingo, as they streamed out of town. On one fateful day when I had come to watch turkey vultures, I noticed a dozen hawks kettling up, not turkey vultures this time, but Swainson’s Hawks! On that fateful day true hawk watching became reality in Borrego Springs.
2 weeks ago, I spend some hours in Paris between 2 meetings and took these pictures... For all who asked, I use 2 apps to do the effect on my iphone images. I firstly use TiltShiftGen to do color balances and focus, and then I put them in CrossProcess...
Dundas Square, early one Sunday morning ... soldiers lay their weapons down on the square's pavement then ... stand there looking at them! Why? For what purpose?
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'You don’t take a photograph, you make it'. - Ansel Adams