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over the darkened city
gleaming towers
terraced roofs and rain-
slicked streets
a cool wind flurries
a mournful whine
swirling mist that seems
an opalescent scrim fallen
over dreamers, wanderers,
insomniacs and beyond
the skyline the harbor
and beyond the harbor
the sea with all-night
trawlers and what drifts
drifts away: the day
long gone down
like a contusion
at the horizon, no
moon nor stars,
only a translucent
cluster of souls
rising silently
to life
--M deO
Trudging forward, the whispers carry me along the fog covered marsh. The fog sweeps over the water like opalescent dreams sweeping over my sleep. The grasses soon catch fire to the morning light while bringing much needed warmth to my waking soul. I can feel my fingers and even my legs seem a bit lighter. Just before me, a lumbering tree along the bank blocks my path. An eerie moan suggests that perhaps it's time to cut a new trail. Sometimes the way forward requires a detour.
Continuing the marsh stories as the weekend draws near. Wishing everyone a great day ahead!
A Glossy Ibis catches some unidentified critter mid-air between its beak.
This Glossy had been feeding close to the river’s edge, when it suddenly manoeuvred itself into the perfect position under the bright sunshine to show-off the incredible iridescent spectrum of its feathers, with hues ranging from bronze to violet and from turquoise through to magenta, all of which can be seen on a single feather.
For those who’re curious: “These glossy or iridescent colours result from the diffraction of sunlight by platelets at the tips of the wing feathers. The tiny platelets act in such a way to interfere with light rays to produce the opalescent coloration.” (Source: Universities Space Research Association)
The winter of 2024 / 25 is only the 6th time since 1978 that a Glossy Ibis has been seen in Hong Kong.
Thank you for your interest, views, faves, comments and awards ! This image was captured in Hong Kong 香港. (Better viewed on a larger screen.)
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Plaza de Tores (Bull Ring), Alicante, Spain. View from Castilo de Santa Bárbara.
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Death in the Afternoon is a non-fiction book written by Ernest Hemingway about the ceremony and traditions of Spanish bullfighting, published in 1932. An expert drinker himself, Hemingway also claimed to have invented the cocktail Death in the Afternoon, a risky pairing of absinthe and Champagne. His exact instructions suggested adding iced Champagne to a jigger of absinthe until it attained “the proper opalescent milkiness,” then proceeding to drink three to five of the cocktails in one sitting.
Myself, I'm very much against bullfighting. And please drink responsibly!
This dress by TSL at the Liaison Collaborative is just stunning. The SL materials make the fabric glow with opalescent sheen as you move to and fro through light. The gown comes in two colors, black and white, and both have the most brilliantly amazing materials. This is the perfect gown for Halloween and a real stunner...
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Thought this ocean shot, recently taken while flying into Oahu, would be fun to share for the Smile on Saturday challenge, "Observe the O." It was so cool to have these rainbow like, opalescent colors greet us as we arrived in Hawaii which of course is the Rainbow State.
Opalescent Pool in Black Sands Basin, one of the ever-changing thermal wonders of Yellowstone. On my previous winter visit, the colors were so muted they were hardly visible, but they were very showy this time. Selective black and white processing :)
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This 1959 Jaguar XK150 S 3.4 litre drop head coupé, 78 KPE, is seen at The Classic Motor Hub. The car is painted in Opalescent Silver Blue with Dark Blue interior and hood.
"Les mystères de la nuit s'écrètent en épis sauvages brûleurs d'iode sous un regard opalescent."
Prose by my friend and artist Michel Culot.
Nei giorni freddi dell'inverno, quando la nebbia lotta con il sole per rubare la luce alla laguna, le acque immobili e speculari perdono la loro dimensione. Gli orizzonti vengono inghiottiti dal nulla e l'intera laguna sprofonda in una quiescenza gelida. Ma quando il sole riesce timidamente e fendere i veli opalescenti di nebbia, ecco rinascere per incanto la magia della laguna. La stessa, da almeno sei millenni ..... ..
Pearlvine Milkweed (Matelea reticulata) is a vine in the Milkweed family with heart-shaped leaves, five green netted petals, and a curious opalescent center.
A jewel, cradled in a safety net, surrounded by hearts of love.
The plant is an endemic--that is, it grows only in the Texas hill country. Like other milkweeds it is a host plant for the Queen and Monarch butterflies.
They are edge plants, growing where the forest meets sunlight, requiring not dappled light, but both shade and sun. It grows in the trees along one of my paths.
La pianura ha un suo fascino, sopratutto in Autunno, quando salgono le prime nebbie e l'atmosfera si carica di umidità. L'acqua rifrange la luce che lentamente si spegne oltre l'orizzonte scatenando le meraviglie di un attimo.
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#Watch
Please don't ask me how this photo came to be. This is, once again, a last-minute attempt, made today after I tried and tried yesterday (unsuccessfully, I might add). "Watch" is one of the "easy and therefore difficult" themes, at least for me it was very difficult. It didn't help that I was a little obsessed with reflections, because my first idea was to photograph the reflection of my Dad's watch in the rainbow-coloured mirror dial of one of my "Who cares if the watch is legible as long as it looks cool?" Casio watches. It didn't work, neither as a single image nor as in-camera stacking or focus bracketing.
Next, I tried to photograph the reflection of another Casio in the blank space on the backside of my old pocket watch (the part where, back then, the owner's initials were engraved). Without the initials, it looked like a mirror, nicely framed by an ornate pattern. So I carefully polished it, but it was too scratched and dull, so any reflection was quite muted and blurred. All I managed here was a soft reflection of the indices of an old Skagen Quartz watch, but it didn't look like much. I still tried this and that and then called it a day (or rather: a night).
Today, I decided to give it one more go, and this time, my Mom's antique pocket watch came to the rescue. The latter's back (with an engraved "K") is much shinier and highly polished. And while I still couldn't get any at least halfway clear reflections of yet another Casio's digital dial, I managed to reflect its colours on the guilloche-patterned back of my Mom's pocket watch. I had fixed the pocket watch at 90 degrees onto the black tile with modelling clay, and placed the A1000RBW right next to it. The warped "deformation" was created by the angle of the two lamps and the reflections from the Casio, but, as mentioned above in my first sentence, I really have no idea how. It just happened, and it happened to look good ;)
HMM, Everyone!
...or they could just be grey. Melting ice from the Franz Josef Glacier in Westland Tai Poutini National Park, South Island, feeds the icy waters of the Waiho River.
Lured by the swirling, opalescent flows, and having decided not to pack waterproof boots, I made the mistake of wading into the glacial waters.
Excruciating.
Even five minutes later when my lower extremities had partially numbed, it was still as if red hot needles were being driven into my legs from all sides.
La Disputa di santo Stefano è un dipinto olio su tela (147x172 cm) di Vittore Carpaccio, firmato e datato 1514 e conservato nella Pinacoteca di Brera a Milano. Si tratta di uno dei cinque teleri (di cui uno perduto) eseguiti per la Scuola di Santo Stefano di Venezia.
La confraternita era una delle Scuole minori di Venezia. Ampliata nel 1476 e accresciuta da un massiccio numero di adesioni dal 1506, fu decorata dal ciclo di teleri di Carpaccio, specialista del genere, che vi lavorò dal 1511 al 1520.
Con la soppressione della confraternita nel 1806 tutte le decorazioni e gli arredi vennero venduti e dispersi; i teleri in particolare finirono, dopo vari passaggi, in più musei e uno di essi (Processo di santo Stefano) andò perduto.
Si tratta di opere della fase discendente dell'artista, chiuso in sé stesso e fedele al suo attardato stile quattrocentesco mentre la pittura veneziana veniva rivoluzionata da Giorgione e da altri artisti.
Il tema della predica di santo Stefano che parla nel Sinedrio di Gerusalemme, stimolò la vena narrativa del pittore, che creò un'ambientazione esotica ricca di dettagli fantastici.
La scena, secondo uno schema collaudato da tempo, si svolge tutta sul proscenio del primo piano, in particolare sotto un'ariosa loggia rinascimentale. Stefano si trova sul seggio sulla sommità del Sinedrio, attorniato da saggi orientali che lo ascoltano e lo contraddicono e, più avanti verso destra, da una folla di dignitari vestiti alla veneziana e poco interessati alla scena sacra, dove si devono trovare numerosi ritratti di confratelli. Nell'uomo col cappuccio rosso e la lunga barba Carpaccio sembra omaggiare il San Girolamo nella Pala di San Zaccaria di Giovanni Bellini. La loggia è leggermente in tralice e reca la firma e la data sui plinti delle colonne (VICTOR / CARPATHIUS / PINXIT e M / D.XIIII). La costruzione prospettica è rigorosa, soprattutto nel portico in primo piano, dove tutti i volumi sono scorciati, perfino quelli più legati a dettagli secondari, come i libri e le ombre sui gradini.
Lo sfondo è arricchito da stravaganti architetture, riecheggianti però anche opere reali, tra cui una piramide che culmina con una sfera opalescente (che somiglia alla piramide di Caio Cestio), una statua equestre su un piedistallo con pilastri ricoperti da nicchie con statue (ispirato al monumento a Bartolomeo Colleoni di Verrocchio), una torre con loggiato, una città murata con alte torri difensive. Gli edifici si serrano sullo sfondo delle colline venete dolcemente sfumate sui toni verdi e bruni, che esaltano le figure antistanti. Tipico è il ripidissimo scorcio in diagonale delle mura della città, usato fin dai primissimi teleri come l'Arrivo dei pellegrini a Colonia (1490) delle Storie di sant'Orsola.
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The Burnished-buff Tanager is a common resident of gallery forest, pastures, and savannas across South America, from Colombia and Venezuela south to northeastern Argentina. The color of this tanager's opalescent plumage varies with the light, but in general the Burnished-buff Tanager appears straw-gold, with pale greenish blue wings. The two subspecies found in northern and western South America have a black mask and bluish throat. In contrast, on the four subspecies found in eastern and central South America black extends from the sides of the face to the throat, and in a broad stripe down the center of the breast. A seventh subspecies found at the mouth of the Amazon River has plumage that is intermediate between the two other subspecies groups. Burnished-buff Tanager usually is seen alone or in pairs flying from tree to tree in search of fruits and berries. At times this bird may join other species at fruiting trees. A tanager of open areas, the Burnished-buff Tanager is a regular visitor to gardens and trees around buildings in llanos. This is a male, photographed at Sítio Macuquinho - Salesópolis, São Paulo, Brasil.
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Nobody knows how old Petra is, but it was a thriving city when Abraham left Ur of the Chaldees, and for a full five thousand years it has had but that one entrance, through a gorge that narrows finally until only one loaded camel at a time can pass. Army after army down the centuries have tried to storm the place, and failed, so that even the invincible Alexander and the Romans had to fall back on the arts of friendship to obtain the key. We, the last invaders, came as friends, if only Grim could persuade the tyrant to believe it.
The sun rose over the city just as we reached the narrowest part of the gut, Grim leading, and its first rays showed that we were using the bed of a watercourse for a road. Exactly in front of us, glimpsed through a twelve-foot gap between cliffs six hundred feet high, was a sight worth going twice that distance, running twice that risk, to see—a rose-red temple front, carved out of the solid valley wall and glistening in the opalescent hues of morning.
Not even Burkhardt, who was the first civilized man to see the place in a thousand years, described that temple properly; because you can’t. It is huge—majestic—silent—empty—aglow with all the prism colors in the morning sun. And it seems to think.”
― Talbot Mundy, The Lion of Petra
The Harvard Chapel: ‘The Baptism of Christ’ (1905) by John La Farge is a rare example of this American artist’s work.
John Harvard (1607-1638), son of a prosperous butcher in the Borough High Street, was baptised in this church (then St Mary Overie) in 1607 and attended the local grammar school. After graduating from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he emigrated to Massachusetts in 1637 to establish a college of education there. He died of consumption a year later, leaving his library and half his fortune to the College of New Town, later renamed Harvard University.
Joseph Choate, US ambassador to Britain (1899-1905) and former Harvard alumnus, encouraged the University to commemorate Harvard’s link with Southwark by refurbishing this Chapel. Choate commissioned the American artist John La Farge (1835-1910) to create the three-light window which dominates this space.
The main subject is the Baptism of Christ, alluding to the original dedication of the chapel to St John the Baptist and also to the baptism of John Harvard himself. Above the transom on the left are the arms of Harvard University, and on the right are those of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. In the centre are the Royal Arms as they appeared between 1415 and 1603. However, the supporters and crest are of a later period, probably dating from the window’s restoration in 1948.
The striking difference between this window and others in the cathedral can be attributed to the original research and development in glass making undertaken by John La Farge himself.
‘The Baptism of Christ’ is the only example of this brilliant American artist’s work in England. La Farge is widely regarded as the creative inventor of opalescent glass for church windows.
Maker: John La Farge of New York, 1905 and his maker's mark appears in the bottom right corner.
Note: The irregularities and mixtures of colour in the angels’ wings and the robes of Christ and St John. This sculptural approach to glass is typical of La Farge windows, combining layers of contoured glass in swirling colours, requiring minimal glass painting to achieve its effect.
Presented by J.H. Choate, U.S. Ambassador in 1907 to commemorate the Baptism at St Mary Overie of John Harvard,1607-1638, founder of Harvard University. The donor described the window as emblematic of ‘the deep-seated and abiding relations of friendship which unite England with the United States’.
Damaged in World War II, the window was restored in 1948 through the generosity of Harvard alumni in the USA. Harvard alumni also contributed to the full conservation of the window
Happy Window Wednesday!
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Titulo............................ Cold out there
Artista........................... Jon Hopkins
Genero......................... Contemporáneo
Álbum........................... Opalescent ( 2001 )
Also know as the opalescent nudibranch, this colorful nudi was once the most abundant species in Morro Bay. Its numbers have drastically declined for unknown reasons.
[...] I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets [...]
-- Quote by Hamlin Garland
Nikon D200, Tokina 12-24 f/4, 12mm - f/22 - 1s - Cokin Grad Tobacco + GND8 optical filters
Castel Gandolfo, Italy (June, 2016)
Erstwhile (Marcus Inkpen/Sharni Azalee)
A close look here sees walkways, docks… a skyport in the bowl of an enormous crater, wrought from a technology so advanced that it will forever seem ancient. From here, merchants in scarabesque vessels ply their trade between the worlds, between realities. But step back; let the sunlight gleam from the opalescent hulls and they become as petals, the brass and iron of the walkways become stems, to the structures that hold it all together: a magnificent flower, shining in the crater’s embrace. In the middle of it all, a bright light streaks upwards, the connection to those other realities by which these ships journey to places as yet undreamed. This is the gateway of now. The launching off point for those brave souls that are truly ready for the future.
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Macro Monday challenge = painted. The canvas is my jeans jacket. The paint is dimensional fabric paint in a tube. Each dot is unique as the paint is liquid and it definitely takes practice to get rounded dots. Not exactly my favorite thing to do!! lol.. Must not be at an angle when you're doing the dots or you'll get crooked dots, etc. But I do love them once they're done. ;-) HMM! :-)
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....No, not really a hot tub on Venus, rather it is the Opalescent Pool at Black Basin (Yellowstone NP). It has a rolling boil driven by the Sprouter Geyser underneath. The Basin name comes from the obsidian cinder rock surrounding it.