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"There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for."
– Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, 1927
The International Day of Non-Violence is observed on October 2, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, by all member states of the United Nations (UN web-pages on Non-Violence Day).
This is a photo of an exhibit (statues), in the Sabarmati Ashram museum, that recreates the famous Salt March, an overwhelmingly popular act of non-violent civil disobedience in colonial India initiated by Mahatma Gandhi.
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Taken from the same vantage point of yesterday's post, but with a closer view.
The two dominant bell towers of this Basilica are 192 feet high (and the hill itself is already 1,300 feet in elevation!).
Visitors who climb the 178 steps to the top are rewarded with a breathtaking view of the countryside for miles around.
From Wikipedia:
"The Basilica and National Shrine of Mary, Help of Christians at the Holy Hill is a Roman Catholic Marian shrine in Erin, Wisconsin, United States, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary under the venerated title Help of Christians.[2] The land and the shrine serves as a religious pilgrimage and attracts approximately 300,000 visitors each year.
Pope Benedict XVI raised the shrine to the status of Minor Basilica via Pontifical Decree on 11 July 2006."
Work was started on the Basilica in 1926 and it was completed in 1931.
... this is image of good luck, as in the four corners, there are 'Fu', which is the Chinese ultimate good luck character. It means good fortune, wealth and good luck. goodlucksymbols.com/chinese-lucky-character/
At the time i almost completed the work, the time was 13:13, so i took a photo to the digital clock on my desktop and added to the work...
It has been many weeks since I managed to celebrate half-nekkid thursday. It's about time I got back to that, don't you think?
Happy HNT. :)
And since October in National Breast Cancer Awareness Month I figure it's only fair that I show off my support with a pink bra (um... pun intended... sorry.) And in that spirit I've also submitted this shot to the boobiethon. Go check them out and donate money to a great cause... you could even win access to a whole gallery of bare boobs.
This picture is for the group Macro Mondays and this week the theme is "Member's Choice - Found in the kitchen".
I've had these little "juicers" for.....forever!! You're supposed to push the serrated end into an orange and drink the juice from the spout.
The Harvest Moon (the Full Moon of October 1, 2020) rising almost due east at the end of a country road in southern Alberta, near home. The horizon was smoky or dusty, so the Moon was very red as it rose, and looking almost like a totally eclipsed Moon.
This is a blend of 6 exposures, all 1/2-second with the A&M 80mm f/6 apo refractor (for 480mm focal length) and Canon 6D MkII at ISO 400, taken as part of a 460-frame time-lapse sequence, with shots every 2 seconds. For this composite I choose 6 images at 2-minute intervals, so the Moon rose its own diameter between frames. The ground comes from the first image in the sequence when the lighting was brightest. The Moon rose at 7:35 pm this night, about 30 minutes after sunset. A mild Orton glow effect added to the ground with Luminar 4.
The nearly Full Moon (a waning gibbous) rising in conjunction on October 2 just below Mars, then 11 days before opposition and very bright. This was from home in Alberta.
This is a 5-exposure stack (from short for the Moon to long for the sky) blended with luminosity masks all with the 135mm telephoto, untracked, and Canon 6DMkII. A mild Orton glow effect added with Luminar 4.
Traveling the back roads of Southern Utah in Late October . A storm is brewing which will take away the remaining Fall color on the trees.
Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is rising in the dawn twilight over the Pelloncillo Mountains in New Mexico, on October 2, 2024.
The location was the Quailway Cottage just west of Rodeo, New Mexico, just over the state line in Arizona. The time was 6:14 am MDT.
The tail was visible in binoculars earlier when just the tail had cleared the mountains and the sky was darker. At the time of the photo the bright comet head and short tail near the head were obvious in binoculars but the fainter extended tail was not. The comet head, shining at about magnitude 0 (a rough estimate comparing it to Regulus) remained obvious in binoculars for many more minutes as the sky brightened.
High winds the day before kicked up a lot of dust in the air. While this had largely settled by dawn here, some remaining dust has reduced contrast somewhat, softened the scene, and no doubt contributed to the layered banding in the atmosphere.
The field of view is 10º by 15º, so the tail extends about 8º here, and in the darker sky before the head rose it was certainly longer.
Technical:
This is a blend of a stack of 4 x 4-second tracked exposures for the sky, followed by a single untracked 15-second exposure for the ground, to bring out some of the colour in the mountains, all at f/2 and ISO 400 with the RF135mm lens on the Canon R5. The camera was on the MSM Nomad tracker. The tracker keeps the comet and stars sharp, and the blending in of the untracked image keeps the ground and horizon line sharp. A mild and masked application of Nik Color EFX Detail Extractor on the sky helped bring out the comet's tail.
Here's another shot of the moon Friday. I'm surprised at how I managed to capture the craters on the right side of the moon!
Explore October 2, 2007
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Tripod a must!
The nearly Full Moon (a waning gibbous) in conjunction on October 2 just below Mars, then 11 days before a close opposition and very bright. This was from home in Alberta.
This is a 6-exposure stack (from short 1/100 sec for the Moon and Mars to long 1 second for the sky so it does not go completely black) blended with luminosity masks all with the tracked Astro-Physics 105mm Traveler telescope at f/6 for 630mm focal length, and Canon 6DMkII. The disk of Mars is just resolved.
The red rocks add color to the yellows to give a more complete pallet of Fall colors.The coming storm will take down most of the remaining leaves on the trees.