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than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference :-)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
RESIST!!
prunus mume, pink Japanese flowering apricot, 'Bonita', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, Raleigh, north carolina
From the "senses" series: Vision
If someone sees something, they react. Cause-effect. According to Pavlov, reflexes could be conditioned. If you don't see, you don't react. But if vision is deprived from you and you know and watch that you don't see because someone doesn't want you to see, you react. Cause-effect.
The Eiffel Tower is a 330-metre-high iron
truss tower in Paris. Along a frieze on the first floor are
72 names of important scientists and technicians, 18
on each side. Criticism is levelled at the deliberate
omission of scientists with long surnames and also
women who rendered outstanding services to science,
for example also the important French mathematician
Sophie Germain.
All I want is a room with a view
A sight worth seeing, a vision of you
All I want is a room with a view
Oh
I will give you my finest hour
The one I spent watching you shower
I will give you my finest hour
Oh yeah
All I want is a photo in my wallet
A small remembrance of something more solid
All I want is a picture of you
Picture this, a day in December
Picture this, freezing cold weather
You got clouds on your lids and you'd be on the skids
If it weren't for your job at the garage
If you could only, oh
Picture this, a sky full of thunder
Picture this, my telephone number
One and one is what I'm telling you
Oh yeah
All I want is 20-20 vision
A total portrait with no omissions
All I want is a vision of you
Oh, if you can
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The Scene
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Elles ont échappé à la récolte, aux coups de vent d'automne, à la voracité insidieuse des insectes et des loirs... Perchées sur leur branche pour mieux admirer l'impressionnante falaise de Céüse, sept pommes brillent dans le soleil d'hiver, attendant gelées à coeur le passage d'une Ève improbable, avant de devenir sept lunes rousses au parfum de cidre, et de joncher le sol pour d'obscures pétanques.
Eilean Donan Castle went through several phases of development from the earliest fortifications of the 13th century through to its destruction in 1719, and the subsequent reconstruction in the 20th century. The first phase comprised a curtain wall enclosing much of the island with a tower house added in the 14th century. In the 14th or 15th century the outer wall was abandoned and a smaller enclosure built around the tower house. More development within this courtyard took place in the 16th century, as well as the addition of defences on the eastern side. The castle was almost totally destroyed in 1719, after which almost 200 years passed before reconstruction began. Although some archaeological evidence has been recovered from the island, much material was lost during the reconstruction works making it difficult to build a clear picture of the early castle. Very little historical evidence survives.
The castell of Ylen Donen is composed of a strong and fair dungeon upon a rock, with another tower compasd with a fair barmkin wall, with orchards and trees, al within ane yland of the lenth of twa pair of butts almost round. It is sayd of old that castel consisted of seven tours.
The only drawing of the castle prior to its destruction was made in 1714 by Lewis Petit (c. 1665–1720), a military engineer with the Board of Ordnance who came to Scotland in 1714 to survey Fort William and other defences in the area. Among the drawings he produced are a plan and elevation of Eilean Donan, which clearly show that the castle was largely derelict by this time, with only a building at the southeast corner being roofed. In the 13th century, a curtain wall or wall of enceinte was constructed around the island, enclosing most of the area above the high tide line. Scant remains of these walls can be traced on the ground, running around the northern end of the island. The eastern and southern segments of this wall are largely obscured by later development, although the enclosure is assumed to have contained an area of around 3,000 square metres (32,000 square feet). At the northern point of the wall the foundations of a large tower survive, measuring around 12 by 13 metres (39 by 43 ft) and the remains of foundations suggest further towers at the north-east and southwest corners of the enclosure. The enclosure was accessed via a sea-gate in the north-west curtain wall, where a small beach would have allowed boats to be drawn up. Another beach to the southwest may have formed a second access. Archaeological excavations in 2008 and 2009 confirmed the presence of these walls, and also found evidence that metalworking was taking place in the northern part of the castle. A tower house or keep was built against the curtain wall at the high point of the island, probably in the 14th century. The tower measured 16.5 by 12.4 m (54 ft 2 in by 40 ft 8 in), with walls 3 m (9 ft 10 in) thick. The vaulted ground floor was originally divided in two, with a stair in the north wall giving access to the first-floor hall. Above this were probably another two storeys, including a garret. The tower, according to Petit's later drawing, was topped by crowstep gables, and surrounded by a walkway and bartizans (small turrets) at the corners.
At an unknown period, probably in the later 14th century or early 15th century, the outer wall was abandoned in favour of a smaller defensive enclosure, around 25 m (82 ft) square. The entrance to this smaller courtyard was from the east. The reasons for this change are unclear, though it is suggested that the smaller area would have been easier to defend. During the 16th century, two buildings were added to the southern periphery of the enclosure. A small house was constructed within the southeast angle of the wall, with a circular stair-tower on its northern side giving access to the walkway along the eastern curtain wall. Located just inside the gate, this is likely to have served as a house for the castle's constable or keeper, and is the only building shown with a roof on Petit's survey. At the southwest corner of the enclosure, an L-plan block was put up, possibly as late as the early 17th century. The southern part is sited outside the line of the inner curtain wall, with a northern wing, which may have been a slightly later addition, inside the wall.
A mural chamber within the keep
In the later 16th century, the castle was extended eastward to create a bastion or "hornwork", providing a more securely defended entrance. The hornwork comprises a pair of walls enclosing a triangular courtyard, linking the east wall of the castle with an irregular hexagonal (or heptagonal) structure. This structure, 11.5 m (37 ft 9 in) across, contains a well at its lowest level, 5 m (16 ft) across and 10 m (33 ft) deep. This led MacGibbon and Ross to describe the structure as a water tower or cistern. However, the presence of a door on its eastern side is shown in 19th century photographs, indicating that it was built as the main entrance to the castle. The water-filled interior would have been crossed by a removable bridge, presenting an obstacle to attackers. From the bridge, access to the castle would have been up a flight of steps, into the triangular courtyard, and through the gate in the east curtain wall. It is possible that the hexagonal bastion was roofed to serve as an artillery position. Dredging of the reservoir in 1893 recovered two brass guns, referred to as "double hagbuts", and measuring around 1 m (3 ft) long with a bore of around 25 millimetres (1 in). Also recovered was a yett, an iron gate, probably installed in the east door to the bastion, but now on display inside the castle. At some point in the 17th century, this elaborate access was abandoned and a more convenient entrance opened in the south wall of the hornwork. By 1714, Lewis Petit's drawing clearly shows that the castle was largely derelict, with only the house at the southeast corner being roofed. Four years later, it was completely demolished, and, by 1912, very little of the castle was still standing.
The present castle buildings are entirely the result of 20th-century reconstruction by Gilstrap-Macrae, who commissioned Edinburgh architect George Mackie Watson to draw up the plans. Although the rebuilding followed the extant ground plan, the details of the present castle differ from its original appearance. The survey drawings by Lewis Petit were not rediscovered until the restoration was almost complete, and the restorers therefore were forced to rely on less accurate interpretations such as the work of MacGibbon and Ross, who attempted a plan of the remains in the late 19th century. The clerk of works, Farquhar Macrae, is said to have based the reconstruction on a dream in which he saw the restored Eilean Donan.Rather than a genuinely medieval castle, Eilean Donan is described as "a romantic reincarnation in the tradition of early 20th-century castle revivals." John Gifford, analysing the building against the Petit survey, notes a "fussy elaboration of what was probably plain originally, and an omission of decoration where it once existed", and describes the interior as "a rubbly Edwardian stage-set for life in the Middle Ages".
The castle is today entered from the south, via a modern portal complete with a portcullis. Above the door is a Gaelic inscription which in translation reads: "As long as there is a Macrae inside, there will never be a Fraser outside", referring to a bond of kinship between the two clans, and a similar inscription which once adorned the Fraser's home at Beaufort Castle. Above this is carved the coat of arms of John Macrae-Gilstrap. The portal gives access to the courtyard, the level of which has been lowered exposing the bedrock around the tower house. The present buildings at the southeast of the castle reflect the form of the earlier structures, including the circular stair tower, but are larger in extent. To the southwest only the southern portion of the L-shaped block was reconstructed, as a plain three-storey house, while in place of the northern wing is an open platform giving views over the loch. A small tower occupies the north-west angle. The keep itself follows the original dimensions, though the formerly subdivided ground floor is now a single room: the tunnel-vaulted Billeting Hall. Above on the first floor is the Banqueting Hall with an oak ceiling, and decorated with coats of arms and 15th-century style fireplace. The main ceiling beams in the Banqueting Hall are of Douglas Fir and were shipped from British Columbia, Canada as a gift from the Macraes of Canada. Small mural chambers within the walls are accessed from each hall.
Die Existenz der Sankt-Thomasbrücke ist seit 1197 nachgewiesen.
Die Brücke hat nur einen Bogen mit einer Spannweite von 31,10 m. Der Verzicht auf Pfeiler ermöglichte es, das Flussbett an dieser Stelle etwas einzuengen, um später eine neue Uferstraße anzulegen. Das Tragwerk besteht aus vier hohlen, ovalen Gusseisenrohren, die sich an zwei starken Widerlagern abstützen, die auf Beton gegründet wurden. Da es damals wesentlich leichter war, Rohrhälften als gebogene Rohre zu gießen, wurden Abschnitte aus linken und rechten Rohrhälften gefertigt und so versetzt zusammengefügt, dass das Ende eines Abschnitts in der Mitte des Abschnitts der anderen Rohrhälfte lag. Anders als bei der Pont du Carrousel in Paris blieben die Rohre leer. Auf den Bögen befinden sich Ringe mit abnehmendem Durchmesser, die das Brückendeck stützen.
The existence of the Saint Thomas Bridge has been proven since 1197.
The bridge has only one arch with a span of 31.10 m. The omission of pillars made it possible to narrow the river bed at this point, so that a new river bank could be built later. The structure consists of four hollow, oval cast-iron tubes supported by two strong abutments founded on concrete. Since it was then much easier to cast half-pipes than bent pipes, sections were made from left and right half-pipes and joined together in a staggered manner so that the end of one section was in the middle of the section of the other half. Unlike the Pont du Carrousel in Paris, the pipes remained empty. On the arches are rings of decreasing diameter that support the bridge deck.
Don’t say it aloud,
don’t let the coastal span of another utterance
roll off your tongue.
It’s a subtle, innate, human skill
of non-articulation, omission, awkwardness,
concealing something light behind your heart,
something so light, so sweet, so unshareable,
this wild generosity of not burdening anyone
with things that might make their face twitch.
And then speech starts, like the start of a cold,
it warms your lungs, and the fever sets in,
and since early August anxious people have been wandering around
glowing from within with this mysterious light.
Serhiy Zhadan (Translated from the Ukrainian by Amelia Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk)
Flower by Lode
If there is anything in this world that boils my piss, leaves my blood over reduced and my tension simmering is human cruelty, particularly when it is carried out by lying via omission of awareness of the problem that's so apparent it's glowing in the dark. This photograph, which is radically departing from my usual material, is the photographic evidence that voting changes nothing, we are NOT living in a civilised society and the lyrics to the song Affirmation by Savage Garden said it all...
I believe the struggle for financial freedom isn't fair
I believe the only ones who disagree are millionaires
It's time we crushed the cruelty of the powers that should not be and take back our sovereign right for freedom and right to choose, which is what the 1.8 million people protested for in London on Saturday!
On that merry note I hope everyone had a great weekend; for the week ahead I wish you all the best, and so as always, thank you! :)
PS: When you saw this photo you thought, "a homeless person" no one thinks "a human suffering!"
....well it would have been rude not to call in, but I think my time in Bleahab has worked as no tripods were used...and it was a lovely evening so it would have been an omission not to....
L'Albufera lake, Valencia (Spain).
DRI image (digital blending) made up from three different shots (5 secs, 10 secs and 20 secs). The water is like a mirror as a consequence of the long exposure that has 'silkened' any ripples that there were. The photo was taken when the sun was completely hidden, so it was almost dark. However, depending of your screen, you can see the photo darker than it is.
Comments are welcome and thanks in advance!
Please, I always try to reciprocate all the comments that I receive, if I miss some comment, do not get angry with me, is not deliberate, is only an omission. Yesterday, I realized that a guy from Canada removed me from his contacts list because he did not feel enough reciprocated, so it makes me feel sad.
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1953-54 Arvin model 780 TFM AM-FM table radio dial. The radio was produced not long after the longstanding 88-108 MHz FM radio band (initially 88-106 MHz in 1945, for a short time) was standardized in the US.
The implementation of a separate FM scale on a typical AM dial is rather unique, if confusing at first. One glaring omission, maybe just due to timing, is the set of marks at 640 and 1240 kHz on the AM dial for the now-long-defunct CONELRAD alert system, a design requirement for radios sold between 1953 and '63.
Living right next door to the nature reserve at Brockadale I expected that I would have already managed to photograph these beautiful birds. Thankfully on an early morning walk a couple of days ago I managed to put right this omission.
Lontano da qui, forse è stato solo un sogno.
Un sogno neanche raccontato bene, con qualche omissione, qualche reticenza. Vergogna, che alcune cose era meglio non dirtele.
Ti fiderai ancora di me, adesso che ho taciuto? Che fine farà la nostra intesa, il nostro baciarci in questa strada deserta e bagnata dalla pioggia?
Dimmi, si è incrinato qualcosa adesso? Io solo paura che col tempo, certo, questa crepa romperà tutto. Non sarebbe nemmeno la prima volta a voler essere sinceri.
Come posso fare a recuperare la tua fiducia? E la fiducia di chi mi sta attorno? E quella del mondo intero?
Mi dici: "pensa al passato guardati indietro. Impara dai tuoi errori e dagli errori di chi ci ha preceduto".
Mentre mi parli la pioggia aumenta, adesso ho i capelli bagnati. Hai la faccia serena. Io invece penso al passato, al mio passato. Penso che dai miei errori non imparo mai. Che continuo, irrimediabilmente a ripeterli.
Solo adesso capisco veramente il povero Sisifo.
E intanto continua a piovere. Smetterà mai?
Can you imagine viewing London with no people?
When I set out to photograph London at night, my main goal was to capture the city, one of the most populated in the world, empty. That's right. I aimed to have no people in the photographs. One would think this would be a challenging task, though it really hasn't been. The real challenge is London's rapidly changing skyline.
I would photograph an area around the Square Mile, then need to return as an omission of a particular new building would have been too obvious. The Shard is a prime example. There are super images captured from Tower Bridge in my London photo library, but The Shard is either non-existent or in various stages of construction. Needless to say, the photos ended up on the "cutting room floor."
Well, Hello Shard! Hello Walkie Talkie! Hello Cheesegrater! Your emergence created issues and slowed the progress of my project. I had to return to your area more times than once. This is not a complaint. I love capturing London with my camera, but the changes have been more obvious to me and I tend to be a perfectionist. My goal to get it right makes me return over and over again.
All that said, with a diversion, London at night is simply beautiful. When the lights come on the city shines gloriously, and seems to be a bit more stately, or grand. What is missed during the day, stands out at night almost demanding due attention.
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The road to the chapel. Brompton Cemetery was designed by architect, Benjamin Baud with at its centre a modest domed chapel dated 1839, designed in the style of the basilica of St. Peter's in Rome reached by long colonnades, and flanked by catacombs.
Apart from the two subsidiary chapels in the 'Great Circle', the only important omissions from Baud's original layout plans were the arcades which he had envisaged for the formation of a large courtyard in front of the principal chapel; but it may well be that in their continuous search for economy the directors had reduced the quality and embellishment of his first designs.
I attempted a dark foreground without loosing atmosphere and details so that the focal point can be the bright sky in the distance with the light coming through slightly from the central arched window.
Today I had the pleasure of spending time with one of my dearest friends at Buttonwoods Farm in Connecticut. These junctures are fleeting as the sunflowers in this immense field will soon become a deliberate act of omission. Within the last week many of the sunflowers have already succumbed to an early grave.
Life is about a cycle of birth and death. Both of them usher in change. Beauty can be found with your eyes anywhere you choose to focus. From a fallen leaf within autumn's blanket, to the blossoming of life shortly after winters departure.
Greeting to my virtual friends that give the greatest gift; their time commenting, faving and dreaming.
Another image with a Canadian Coast Guard Helicopter overhead.
The following vessels are reported as being part of the response to the stricken vessel:
Canadian Coast Guard
CCGS Cape Calvert 47 Motor Lifeboat - Evacuated Crew
CCGS Cape Naden 47 MLB - Evacuated Crew
CCGS Captain Goddard M.S.M - Hero Class Patrol Vessel - Monitoring/Response
CCGS Atlantic Raven - Emergency Offshore Tow Vessel (under charter) - Monitoring/Response
Canadian Tug
Seaspan Raven - Direct support fire suppression
USA
Contracted by ships owners
Resolve Marine - Emergency response and salvage company
They appear to have contracted the following vessels which are on scene providing fire fighting.
MV Maersk Tender -Direct support fire suppression
MV Maersk Trader - Direct support fire suppression
Both built as Tug/Offshore Supply Vessel, which typically have excellent towing and fire fighting capabilities.
Without a doubt there very well may be omissions as I have gathered the information from public sources. Cheers
KR46MO
( Cutro,quarantaseiesima vittima, maschio, 0 anni )
Questa era la sigla che era stata assegnata al corpicino di un bambino di pochi mesi, trovato esanime sulla spiaggia di Cutro, dopo il terribile naufragio che si era verificato nella notte tra il 25 e il 26 febbraio del 2023.
Nessuno verrà a reclamare quel piccolo corpo, cui verrà dato il nome simbolico di Alì, perché i genitori erano anche loro affogati.
94 furono le vittime, di cui 35 bambini.
Dopo il ' decreto Cutro' sono continuate le morti in mare, con quasi 6000 vittime.
In questi giorni, dopo il tifone Harry (si calcola 1000 morti ) il mare continua a restituire corpi di uomini e donne affogati, 15 sinora.
Il 30 gennaio 2026 è iniziato il processo per trovare i colpevoli della strage, con accusa di omissione di soccorso e omicidio colposo. Ma, a differenza di altri processi, non sono ammessi giornalisti e telecamere e tutto si svolgerà nel mistero e a porte chiuse. Chissà perché.
Genova Pegli, un pomeriggio d'inverno
Remembering the Cutro shipwreck ( February 26th, 94 victims )
From an Orchard in Biglerville, Pennsylvania.
Biglerville, in Adams County, southern Pennsylvania, is a town with endless apple orchards. The National Apple Museum is located on West Hanover Street.
© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved
Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland, captured in April 2025.
Where are my new photos you may ask? Well, the computer saga continues.
My replacement PC has sat in it's shipping box for 2 weeks while I have been going through another Long COVID flare up. Much of the last two weeks has been spent horizontal with severe dysautonomia again. My heart rate frequently dropping in half to just 40 BPM for many minutes at a time. Thumping in my chest. Blood pressure all over the place. Heat regulation all over the place. Digestive system all over the place. Brain fog. The works.
On top of that, because of my CPTSD, I have been actually terrified to open up the PC box and set it up based on so many issues and problems now. My 'green zone' of being able to cope with things going wrong is tiny. So, on a couple of occasions where I did have a little physical strength, I did not have the mental capacity to cope.
Yesterday the stars aligned.
My latest LC flare appears to have ended after two weeks, the same duration as all previous ones curiously, so I opened up the shipping box that my replacement PC came in. I didn't even get as far as opening up the box containing my PC because, inside, I found the box for the GPU and immediately noticed that it was the wrong one. It should have been a 16GB GPU but instead it was an 8GB one.
My CPTSD was immediately triggered. I flew straight off the edge. My 'green zone' gone in an instant. A trauma breakdown followed and sadly, with CPTSD, it followed the familiar pattern of ending up with self-blame and self-hate. It really is a horrific condition to live with.
I have emailed my contact at the company and it was quite a scathing email because I was triggered at that point.
I await the response and plan to put things right.
I don't think my old PC will survive the coming heatwave from this weekend onwards here. We're expecting to go from below average temperatures for well above average temperatures all across Europe. I already have two external fans blowing their socks off at my old PC motherboard and graphics card.
Is it too much to expect a company to get something right these days? Have we normalised errors, omissions and mishaps? The whole saga is farcical at this point.
My 860+ unedited photos remain on my camera memory card and backed up on my old RAID drive. I am so sorry that I cannot share them with you all. I am super annoyed because I think there are some real crackers among those shots.
Today I need to practice self-care and try to rebalance my mental health. I will keep you all updated.
Take care.
Floral Friday
in Explore - March 29, 2024
Symbolique
"On compte le muscari dans la liste des grands oubliés des dictionnaires des fleurs… En effet, rares sont les ouvrages et les articles qui s’intéressent à la symbolique de cette plante printanière. D’après nos recherches, le muscari serait tout de même associé à l’engagement amoureux. On l’utiliserait ainsi pour témoigner à la personne aimée de notre sérieux et/ou en prélude à un mariage.
S’il fallait traduire cela en un message, cela pourrait donner : « Je fais le serment de t’aimer et de t’épauler jusqu’à la fin de mes jours« , « Nous sommes faits l’un pour l’autre« , « Je veux passer le reste de ma vie à tes côtés » ou autre promesse romantique ET sincère !"
www.art-floral.fr/fleurs/muscari/#:~:text=Le%20muscari%20....
Symbolism
"The muscari is one of the great omissions from flower dictionaries... In fact, very few books or articles deal with the symbolism of this spring plant. However, according to our research, muscari is associated with commitment to love. It is used to show the person you love how serious you are and/or as a prelude to marriage.
If you had to translate this into a message, it might read: "I vow to love and support you for the rest of my life", "We were made for each other", "I will be with you for the rest of my life" or "I will be with you for the rest of my life". We're made for each other", "I want to spend the rest of my life with you", "I want to spend the rest of my life with you". I want to spend the rest of my life by your side" or some other romantic AND sincere promise!"
* I never visited Sainte-Chapelle on my previous trips to Paris , it was completely off my radar. I am glad I finally rectified this omission as its an extraordinary building . Having visited Chartres , Reims and Bourges I thought I had seen the best stained glass in France but Sainte-Chapelle took it to another level. It was like walking into a vast kaleidoscope the windows appeared to float given the minimal stone supports . It was obviously built to the glory of God and to please a king however I marvel at the ingenuity and imagination of the thirteenth century craftsman and builders who created this glorious example of human civilisation .
I really had to push the ISO on this shot it was quite dark inside hand held shot
A little information
The Sainte-Chapelle is a royal chapel in the Gothic style, within the medieval Palais de la Cité, the residence of the Kings of France until the 14th century, on the Île de la Cité in the River Seine in Paris. Construction began some time after 1238 and the chapel was consecrated on 26 April 1248. The Sainte-Chapelle is considered among the highest achievements of of Gothic architecture. it has one of the most extensive 13th-century stained glass collections anywhere in the world.
The windows dominate the chapel and the stone wall surface is reduced too little more than a delicate framework. Arranged across 15 windows, each 15 metres high, the stained glass panes depict 113 scenes from the Old and New Testaments recounting the history of the world until the arrival of the relics in Paris. The huge windows fill the nave and apse, while a large rose window with Flamboyant tracery (added to the upper chapel c. 1490) dominates the western wall.
THANKS FOR YOUR VISITING BUT CAN I ASK YOU NOT TO FAVE AN IMAGE WITHOUT ALSO MAKING A COMMENT. MANY THANKS KEITH. ANYONE MAKING MULTIPLE FAVES WITHOUT COMMENTS WILL SIMPLY BE BLOCKED
Captured approximately 2 miles Northwest of St Govan's Head.
The Carboniferous Limestone at Bullslaughter Bay hosts some of the most notable examples of deep weathering in
the British Isles as well as two members of an enigmatic suite of breccias known as the Gash Breccias. The weathered limestone has been investigated thoroughly in order to identify the process responsible for the weathering.
Studies show that the weathering is isovolumetric but the weathering profile is not characterised by a vertical gradient and its depth suggests that meteoric waters did not contribute significantly to the weathering process.
The weathered limestone has lost significant amounts of calcium and parts are virtually decalcified.
It is seen that the dominant primary minerals of illite and quartz have been preserved while secondary clay minerals are generally absent. The weathered limestone cannot be a saprolite sensu stricto as it has been subjected to only restricted chemical processes. It is, therefore, interpreted as a “ghost-rock”.
This type of weathering results from chemical dissolution by slow moving waters in the saturated zone. It is suggested that the weathering may have taken place during periods of emergence in the Carboniferous, at the same time as the cyclothem tops were exposed to subaerial modification, as evidenced by omission surfaces and palaeokarstic solution features.
This is the first time that ghost-rock weathering has been reported from the British Isles.
** Until 2019 I had never visited Sainte-Chapelle. Hard to believe that on all my previous trips to Paris I had missed it in spite of certainly walking past it many times as it's quite close to Notre Dame. I am glad I finally rectified this omission as it's an extraordinary building . It was like walking into a vast kaleidoscope the windows appeared to float in the air given the minimal stone supports . I marvel at the ingenuity and imagination of the thirteenth century craftsman and builders who created this glorious example of human civilisation .
I really had to push the ISO on this shot it was quite dark inside hand held shot
A little information
The Sainte-Chapelle is a royal chapel in the Gothic style, within the medieval Palais de la Cité, the residence of the Kings of France until the 14th century, on the Île de la Cité in the River Seine in Paris. Construction began some time after 1238 and the chapel was consecrated on 26 April 1248. The Sainte-Chapelle is considered among the highest achievements of of Gothic architecture. it has one of the most extensive 13th-century stained glass collections anywhere in the world.
The windows dominate the chapel and the stone wall surface is reduced too little more than a delicate framework. Arranged across 15 windows, each 15 metres high, the stained glass panes depict 113 scenes from the Old and New Testaments recounting the history of the world until the arrival of the relics in Paris. The huge windows fill the nave and apse, while a large rose window with Flamboyant tracery (added to the upper chapel c. 1490) dominates the western wall
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Wake up, Americans, and defend your liberties!
'[T]he White House has created a website that lists media outlets and reporters who, according to the government, publish false, biased or misleading stories.
The new "Media Offenders" website includes featured "Offenders of the Week" as well as a "Hall of Shame" that consists of four pages (at time of publication) of media reports the White House has sorted into the categories bias, lie, false claim, malpractice, omission of context, mischaracterization, circular reporting, failure to report and left-wing lunacy.
[...]
Anything but a fully free press goes against the very DNA of the country. The first amendment to the US Constitution reads, in part, "Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press …"
In 1776, lawmakers in colonial Virginia passed a declaration of rights that noted the importance of a free press: "The freedom of the press is one of the greatest bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments."
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[T]he "Media Offenders" website, along with the Pentagon's reporting restrictions and Trump's lawsuits against several media outlets publishing unfavorable stories about him, is a sign of how unprecedented the current US government's antagonism against the press is.'
www.dw.com/en/how-white-house-attack-on-journalists-affec... (probably a fake news outlet soon to be listed in the Hall of Shame)
Grade 1 listed building at Cardiff Bay, Cardiff. Built in 1897 as the headquarters for the Bute Dock Company, it is now part of the Welsh Parliament (Senedd Cymru) estate.
I can now say I've visited the four capitals of the UK nations, Cardiff having been a glaring omission from the list for many years.
The falling blossoms
Look at them, it is the storm
That is chasing them
The sensory language of Haiku-poetry…a Japanese lyrical art-form from the 1600’s.
Haiku-poetry exhibits a rigid 5-7-5 structure and does not have to rhyme. It is very precise in it’s expression of nature and of feelings, always placed in the present tense, and contains very few words. The omission of a single element would result in the verse “falling apart”, losing it’s meaning.
There is no place for abstract imagery within the Haiku universe. Its language is short and precise and leaves the reader with no doubt as to its meaning.
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) is often considered ”the father” of Haiku but it is not known exactly when the first haiku was written. The earliest examples of haiku-like verses are in the 1235 Hyakunin Isshu anthology, compiled by Fujiwara no Teika.
In this example of the pre-Haiku era, the first kana is of course at the top of the perpendicular, but the text is in just one line and not in the rigid 5-7-5 structure of Haiku. (No rules without exceptions).
The falling blossoms
Look at them, it is the storm
That is chasing them
(Translation by Henderson).
Enjoy my pictorial interpretation…..
See my Haiku album here:
in my today's helplessness towards this never ending terror of murder by omission, i just had the notion of repeating a little ceremony...
Amazingly I havn't featured a singleton 'Hanson in the Sun' on Flickr since last June,nearly a full year ago! So i though i would remedy that omission tonight...Here is 59101 against a nice darkened backdrop with '7C64' the 15:25 from Acton-TC going down to Merehead Quarry.
---24 may 2021---
The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.
-Marya Mannes
[ di giorgio, stella-marina, rosa e gaarch so già]
Rob Brezsny, per la settimana 25 giugno - 1 luglio
Ariete (21 marzo - 19 aprile)
Alcuni anni fa un gruppo di artisti ha realizzato un enorme coniglio di lana rosa e l’ha messo su una montagna in Italia. Il coniglio è lungo sessanta metri e rimarrà lì fino al 2025. Quest’opera d’arte apparentemente buffa, però, ha un aspetto inquietante: il coniglio ha una ferita da cui escono le viscere. Non ti consiglio di andarlo a vedere. Secondo la mia lettura dei presagi astrali, infatti, faresti meglio a rannicchiarti in posizione fetale e a succhiarti il pollice tra le calde braccia di una gigantesca figura materna. Non dovresti tollerare nessuno scherzo che t’impedisca di sprofondare in un pacifico e totale relax.
Toro (20 aprile - 20 maggio)
Nel 1998 ho passato tre settimane a leggere La psicoanalisi del fuoco e La poetica della rêverie del filosofo francese Gaston Bachelard. I suoi insegnamenti mi hanno colpito così tanto che ho riempito di appunti due quaderni da 120 pagine. Ancora oggi li rileggo per trarre ispirazione da quelle idee che all’epoca non ero abbastanza maturo da capire fino in fondo. Stai entrando in una fase del tuo ciclo astrale in cui potrebbe succederti qualcosa di simile, Toro: ti si presenterà una straordinaria opportunità pedagogica, alla quale potrai attingere per molto tempo.
Gemelli (21 maggio - 20 giugno)
Complimenti, Gemelli! Non solo sei sopravvissuto a un’ondata d’incessanti novità, ma sei riuscito anche a sfruttare bene gli adattamenti che queste novità richiedevano. Perciò ti conferisco il raro e prestigioso titolo di Amante del cambiamento, che attribuisco a uno dei segni dello zodiaco ogni quattro anni. Cos’hai in programma adesso? Presto l’emozione suscitata dalle novità si affievolirà e potrai integrarle meglio nella tua vita. Ti consiglio di rilassarti e abbandonarti a una routine più lenta, calma e riflessiva.
Cancro (21 giugno - 22 luglio)
Ecco alcuni lavori mal pagati che ho fatto e nemmeno molto bene: estrarre linfa dagli aceri nel Vermont, guidare un taxi in North Carolina, lavorare in un parco di divertimenti nel New Jersey, fare da cavia per alcuni esperimenti medici in California, scavare fossati in South Carolina e raccogliere olive nel sud della Francia. Devo considerarmi un fallito perché ottenevo risultati mediocri e guadagnavo poco? Penso di no, perché alla fine ho trovato occupazioni più soddisfacenti, e da allora è andato tutto bene. Non ha senso, perciò, giudicarmi severamente se facevo cose che non erano in sintonia con la mia anima. Ti prego di applicare questo ragionamento anche a te.
Leone (23 luglio - 22 agosto)
Ogni anno Playboy pubblica la classifica dei college dove bisogna iscriversi per divertirsi anziché studiare. Quest’anno al primo posto c’è l’università del Wisconsin, “la migliore del paese per imparare a bere birra”. L’Huffington Post, invece, elenca le università dove si fanno meno feste. Tra le prime c’è la Brigham Young, dove agli studenti è vietato bere, fumare e fare sesso. L’università di Chicago, invece, è definita “la tomba di ogni divertimento”. Nelle prossime tre settimane, Leone, ti consiglio di scegliere un ambiente che rientri più nella seconda categoria che nella prima. È ora di cominciare a darti da fare, di ridurre le attività che ti distraggono dall’obiettivo principale e di coltivare la gravitas degli antichi romani.
Vergine (23 agosto - 22 settembre)
Stai entrando in una fase del tuo ciclo a lungo termine in cui dovresti coltivare l’abbondanza. Per trarne il massimo vantaggio, ti consiglio di essere supergeneroso e supersensibile alla generosità. Elargisci più doni del solito e mettiti nella condizione ideale per riceverli. Mi rendo conto che la seconda parte di questo consiglio potrebbe crearti difficoltà. Voi Vergini spesso preferite dare piuttosto che ricevere. Ma in questo caso ti prego di fare entrambe le cose. Il dare non funzionerà bene senza il ricevere.
Bilancia (23 settembre - 22 ottobre)
Negli ultimi mesi hai perso qualcosa, Bilancia? Questa settimana comincia una fase in cui, anche se non potrai ritrovare quello che hai perso, potrai ricrearlo a un livello superiore. Forse un desiderio che sembrava sfumato si sta semplicemente rimodellando, e ora potrai esprimerlo in una forma migliore. O forse un rapporto che si è rovinato stava solo morendo per poter rinascere più sincero e flessibile.
Scorpione (23 ottobre - 21 novembre)
Immagino che tu abbia superato una frontiera da cui non vedi nessun punto di forza riconoscibile. Probabilmente ti senti a disagio, come se avessi perso la strada. Ma poi arriva un saggio che nel suo piccolo oroscopo ti dice che sei esattamente dove dovresti essere. Questo tuo vagabondare fuori dal cerchio magico è carico di opportunità, che potrebbero aiutarti a fare un uso migliore del cerchio quando ci tornerai dentro. Spero che darai ascolto a questo saggio e, almeno per il momento, resisterai alla tentazione di gettarti di nuovo nel cuore dell’azione.
Sagittario (22 novembre - 21 dicembre)
In passato le ragazze svedesi mettevano sette tipi di fiori sotto il cuscino la notte prima del solstizio d’estate per sognare l’uomo che avrebbero sposato. È una sciocchezza, naturalmente. Ma due notti fa ho messo sotto il mio cuscino un gladiolo, un’ortensia, un lillà, un’orchidea, una bocca di leone, un tulipano e una rosa, e ho sognato la dea dell’intimità con in testa una corona di gigli che mi ha chiesto di portare un messaggio a tutti i Sagittari. Ha detto che, anche solo immaginando di infilare sette fiori sotto il vostro cuscino, sognerete il modo per aiutare la vostra vita amorosa a passare alla prossima fase e a esprimere tutte le sue potenzialità.
Capricorno (22 dicembre - 19 gennaio)
Sei diventato una persona così colta e raffinata che non ti sorprendi più di niente? Trai le tue conclusioni da ogni nuova esperienza confrontandola con il tuo passato? Spero di no. Mi auguro che tu sia pronto a diventare un esploratore dagli occhi aperti, le braccia spalancate e il cuore indomito. Spero che inviterai la vita a sbalordirti. Nei prossimi giorni, l’atteggiamento migliore da assumere è quello di una vergine che prevede un futuro interessante. Se ti libererai di tutte le aspettative superate e le complicazioni irrilevanti, ti pioveranno addosso più benedizioni di quante tu ne possa immaginare.
Acquario (20 gennaio - 18 febbraio)
La famigerata “bibbia dei peccatori” fu pubblicata nel 1631. In origine non si chiamava così. Era nata come una bibbia normale, ma conteneva un errore tipografico. Nel libro dell’Esodo, dov’erano elencati i dieci comandamenti, era saltato un “non”. Il risultato – un vero insulto agli occhi dei devoti – era “commetterai adulterio”. Quasi tutte le copie furono bruciate e il tipografo fu punito. Attento a non commettere uno sbaglio del genere, Acquario: una piccola omissione potrebbe cambiare il significato di tutto. L’ideale sarebbe individuare l’errore e correggerlo prima di scatenare un putiferio.
Pesci (19 febbraio - 20 marzo)
Il cocomero asinino è una pianta dalle caratteristiche insolite: quando il frutto è maturo, si apre e sputa fuori i semi, che possono arrivare anche molto lontano. Nelle prossime settimane, Pesci, somiglierai a questa pianta. Sarà il momento ideale per diffondere la tua influenza e offrire a tutti i tuoi doni speciali. Il mondo t’implora di condividere con lui il tuo spirito creativo, preferibilmente sparandolo a raffica molto lontano.
in my today's helplessness towards this never ending terror of murder by omission, i just had the notion of repeating a little ceremony...
Quare tristis, perchè sempre, nella veglia e nel sonno,
nell'omissione e nell'adempimento,
l'anima ci fa così male?
Noi che la custodiamo senza amarla, senza conoscerla
nella gabbietta delle nostre ossa
come il vetro di una lanterna
custodisce la fiamma
sappiamo soltanto che è lei,
lei che non ha nè tendini nè sangue,
la compagnia più sanguinosa.
Tu come lei invisibile
proteggici dal suo silenzio,
fa che sentiamo in tempo la sua voce.
Giovanni Raboni
in my today's helplessness towards this never ending terror of murder by omission, i just had the notion of repeating a little ceremony...
With FE 85mm f1.4 GM.
Loved the way this lens renders the out of focus background.
Autumn is when leaves turn into flowers and hence my attempt to shoot fall foliage like how I would shoot flowers.
Z9, finally a competent mirrorless release from Nikon and Nikon's 1st "Pro" spec mirrorless camera, an important one as they have been losing market share.
A few things to note though, per DpReview the Z9 Dynamic Range (DR) is around a stop (1EV) behind the Z7ii.
This corresponds with the A9 vs A7III (both 24mp) back when the 1st stacked sensor made its appearance. The 1st Gen stacked sensor impacts DR especially at lower ISOs, the A9 lags the A7III by a stop at Base ISO and this narrowed to ½ a stop difference by ISO200 and it’s eventually all equal from ISO1,600.
However the newer A1 (50mp) only lags the A7RIII (42mp) by ⅓ of a stop and by ISO640, the difference in DR is gone.
We'll need to see how far the Z9 really lags Z7ii in DR especially when the Z7ii already lags the A1 by half a stop all the way from ISO503 onwards.
The Z9 (1.340g) is also a third heavier than the EOS-R3 which also has an integrated battery grip, in fact the Z9 is merely 110g lighter than the D6! The Nikon D850 (1,005g) is a 9fps camera with battery grip attached and in DpReview’s D850 review, they already harped about how big and heavy the D850 is even without the battery grip.
Big plus for the Z9 is $5,500 vs $5,999 for the 24mp EOS R3, thanks to the omission of the costly mechanical shutter mechanism in the Z9 and the Z9’s 45mp sensor is likely derived from the one in the 5 years old D850. The Z9 also has a multi-directional rear LCD instead of the fully articulating one in the R3, synced IS like Canon & m43, Sony is really lagging behind on sync IS now.
Still early days, it's always better to let all that fanbois froth die down and wait for field reports from hobbyists especially those who actually shoot multiple systems and hence less biased. If we were to believe the gear forum Z-ealot shills, they are tripping over each other just to get to shoot stills with the 1.34kg Z9 at 20fps.
Now that the Z9 is finally out, hopefully we won't have to wait another 2 years for a true mirrorless successor for the D850 (Z8?)! But by then, a potential Z8 is unlikely to be substantially better than the D850 and a lightly used D850 will be a fraction of the cost of a new Z8. Perhaps a Z6III with the 33mp sensor from the new A7IV will suffice for a stills shooter, waiting on Nikon is like watching grass grow these days.
Been watching out for the Z 24-120mm f4 S, rather disappointed that Nikon did a Tamron here by omitting VR just to save some weight. Every mirrorless 24-105mm lens on the market has IS/VR, even Nikon’s DSLR versions as well as their APS-C lenses covering this focal range has VR. It’s odd that all of the (pre)reviews thus far avoided any mention of this VR omission.
Canon's mirrorless RF 24-105mm F4L IS USM is capable of 5 stops of stabilization alone but with combination of IS + IBIS, Canon claims 8 stops of total stabilization! Perhaps Nikon is trying to milk this by making a Z 24-120mm f4 II with VR later just like the way they released the Z6 & Z7 with just one XQD card slot blaming lack of space only to follow up with Z6ii & Z7ii with identical dimensions but with 2 card slots!
IBIS effectiveness is typically pegged at 50-70mm (read the fine print), the longer the focal length, the less effective the IBIS becomes hence going beyond 70mm, lens VR/IS is important to have.
As for Nikon's FTZii adapter, it still does not support 5-axis stabilization for Nikon's own DSLR lenses. If Nikon is indeed confident enough that their Z lenses are far superior to their F mount equivalents like Nikon shills proclaim, they would not need to cripple their FTZ adapter.
Snapdragons and Curry Plant, not Curry Tree! SOOC
A cobalt blue glass vase of cut flowers and herbs from my winter garden in Tucson, Arizona.
I love using cobalt blue glasses as vases for cut flowers and foliage.
The white snapdragon flowers and the purple basil flowers are from my kitchen garden. I don't see any blue rosemary flowers. That was a definite omission. Shame on me!
Now the hard part:
The curry plant is in my garden. It smells like the spice curry or its ingredient cumin. It was in the herb section of Harlow Gardens in Tucson, Arizona. However, it is not the same as the Curry Tree that is originally from subtropical India. This plant is not an herb in my sense of the word, so I will be making inquiries at Harlow.
This appears to be my first posting of this as a straight out of the camera (SOOC) photo.
Gary and I had our trip to Iceland booked exactly a year ago. If we had known what the next year might bring each of us we might never have done it. But we left on 14th March just as Coronavirus was really becoming an issue in the UK. Should we go or should we stay, to be with loved ones? Or could we use the excuse we were going somewhere very isolated: Iceland? It was an awkward decision to make. Especially as Gary was moving house on the Thursday we were away!
So, we went with some trepidation. Would we get back? Hell yes, some how, some way, unless someone offered to extend our stay. Crowdfunding perhaps?
We intended to take eight days, a road trip as far as Hvalnes lighthouse on the eastern corner of the island and back across to Kirkjufell conical mountain on a western cape. And in between I had made up a list of over 65 'locations' that might provide a photographic opportunity of one sort another. Advance weather forecasts of snow, lots of it, suggested we hadn't a hope in hell of getting to half of them, perhaps far fewer.
As it was we covered almost 2400 km (allowing for ice slippage), mainly on snowy and icy roads, sometimes in blizzards, trudged through snow a foot to three feet deep in places, for hours, and still made it to 40 locations on the list, some more than once. Two major omissions: no aurora and no ice cave. And no colourful sunrises or sunsets...well just one bit of colour one evening when we were already on the second beer and warm again. But one big adventure.
This was Diamond Beach. We paid three brief visits, two in rain and snow and one in mid afternoon sunshine. But at all times the sea was thunderous, wildly crashing in on the black sand. It's a sight to behold when you first see it. There were a huge crowd of people on the westerly side and far fewer of us on the eastern side. Most of the chunks were opaque ice, and you had to look for the crystal clear ones amongst them. Strangely, relatively few photographers seemed to pick these gems out.
I'm not a fan of the very streaky, fakey looking shots with over saturated orange suns behind, so I hope this shows you the more genuine beauty of what it is like. The crystal clear block on the left is about two feet long.
(With so much snow from beginning to end of this trip it was an omission not to have a polarising filter with me.)
The best known kind of event horizon is that of black holes - one of the earliest fruits of Einstein's General relativity, due to brilliant work by Karl Schwarzschild in 1916. A black hole's horizon is a boundary in spacetime from which no signal or radiation can come out to affect an external observer. Put in a simpler way: no light, radio waves, or any other kind of radiation emitted from inside the event horizon can ever hope to escape from it, because in that region the black hole's gravitational pull is so strong that not even light (travelling at the craziest possible speed in the whole universe) can overcome it. So the event horizon is what makes the hole, well... black. Incidentally, I would slightly prefer something like "not-even-black hole", but I suspect that this term would not stick ;-)*
Of course, this narrative is not about black holes - the direct observation of the immediate environment of a black hole with angular resolution comparable to the event horizon is one of the Holy Grails of astrophysics - but I felt the need to attempt and clarify a bit what the concept means.
I was at Cala de la Vinyeta in Calella, as in my previous upload, Primeval light. No black holes there, but a pretty unremarkable, middle-aged yellow star some 4.5 billion years old - yet our most precious friend for a whole lot of reasons.
I was fairly sure that the sun was still below the horizon, as my watch suggested; but the cliff enclosing the Eastern end of the cove hid the very point of the horizon from which the Sun would have risen. I perceived that looming bulk of rosy rocks - would-be rosy sand in a handful of centuries - as an event horizon effectively keeping out of my view the focal point of the approaching sunrise. I decided not to mind the thing - who knows, I thought, sometimes one discover unexpected treasures just out of the trodden track... Moreover, I would not waste precious minutes in tentatively looking for another pov - since, I knew, there are further rocks beyond the cliff.
As the radiance beyond the cliff was growing more and more in the cloudless sky, I began to feel thankful to my personal event horizon for shading my camera from the intense glow :-) So I happily took my exposure bracketing to be processed with luminosity masks and went on enjoying my photographic session.
I am not happy with some parts of this shot - mainly the sea - but I like the glorious glow beyond the cliff, hinting to the hidden sunrise without revealing it. This is the common thread of this series from Cala de la Vinyeta.
* Hope that Hawking will forgive my omission of the radiation named after him, which, however, is produced at the event horizon - so effectively endowing black holes with a temperature, if not with colour.