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I found this structure a real challenge to photograph. Personally I don't find much beauty in this and found the sharp angles hard against the lens and the sky. I decided to let the sculpture lead the eye up to the sky.
The ArcelorMittal Orbit is a 115-metre-high tower in Stratford in the Olympic Park. It was designed by Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond.
The sharp eye of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured the tiny moon Phobos during its orbital trek around Mars on 12 May 2016. The observations were intended to photograph Mars while it was on its closest approach to Earth along its orbit, so the moon’s cameo appearance was a bonus.
Over the course of 22 minutes, Hubble took 13 separate exposures, allowing astronomers to create a timelapse video showing the movement of Phobos around its host planet. Because the moon is so small, just 27×22×18 km, it appears star-like in the images.
It also orbits incredibly close to Mars, just 6000 km above the planet, making it closer to its parent planet than any other moon in the Solar System.
Sibling Deimos orbits much further out, at a distance of some 23 500 km.
While the origin of the moons is much debated, their fate is inevitable. Phobos is gradually spiraling in towards Mars and within 50 million years will likely either break up due to the planet’s gravity, or crash into its surface. Meanwhile, the opposite is true for Deimos: its orbit is slowly taking it away from Mars.
This image was first published on 20 July 2017.
Credit: NASA, ESA and Z. Levay (STScI) Acknowledgment: J. Bell (ASU) and M. Wolff (Space Science Institute)
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Hudsonville Fair last night with Lee. No sun on Tuesday night made for a little more of a dramatic sky. Played with this in Topaz to make it pop a little more.
Not all dark ride shots are inside. LOL!!
I hadn't ridden this ride since I was a kid so on this trip I wanted to share this fun ride with my own son. He LOVED it!!! Though a chance of this at night for him still couldn't win out over Buzz. So I got to ride this by myself and have all the fun of shooting. I controlled the rocket with my foot. HA!
I found this ground into the rock in Bryce Canyon [USA]. I took this shot because I liked how the lines and curves worked with another. Also the colour of the different layers of the sandstone really add to this picture.
ArcelorMittal Orbit Sculpture, in the Olympic Park, Stratford, London. Tallest sculpture in the UK, by Anish Kapoor, built for the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012.
ArcelorMittal Orbit is a 114.5 meter high sculpture and observation tower in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, London. It is Britain's largest piece of public art and is intended to be a permanent lasting legacy of London's hosting of the 2012 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.
It is sited between the Olympic Stadium and the Aquatics Centre.
150 Sec exposure, f 7.1, 16 Stop ND filter.
Lukes has this wonderful cuddle pose that floats around in the sky.
fyi: It's my tradition to go Goth for the month of October. I started a little early this year xD
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My hair: MiaSofia Wild Woman
" A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving "
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This is another take on the same Cuban Lily that I posted a few weeks back. Taken at Longwood Gardens with the Sony FE 90mm f/2.8 Macro G OSS Lens.
I love the look from the Orbits Ringflash, even without the signature Ringflash halo. I put my SB900 in it with a sync cord to my hotshoe, stuck it on my 24-70 2.8 and chased my son around the house in TTL mode. Can't beat that color saturation!
Go North West has recently introduced newer buses on its 52 and 53 routes, representing a huge upgrade for two important bus routes which connect many of our city's suburbs. The 52 runs from Failsworth to Salford Shopping City and the intu Trafford Centre, whilst the 53 - Manchester’s oldest unchanged bus route - takes an orbital circuit of the city, connecting Cheetham Hill with North Manchester General Hospital, Blackley, Harpurhey, Sportcity, Gorton, Belle Vue, Longsight, Rusholme, Salford Quays and Pendleton.
(English translation follows below)
Über der Piazza des K21 schwebt in über 25 Metern Höhe die riesige Rauminstallation in orbit des Künstlers Tomás Saraceno. Das begehbare Kunstwerk ist eine Konstruktion aus beinahe transparenten Stahlnetzen, die in drei Ebenen unter der gewaltigen Glaskuppel aufgespannt sind. In der 2.500 Quadratmeter umfassenden Netzstruktur sind fünf luftgefüllte "Sphären", gewaltige Ballons, platziert.
Die Installation wirkt wie eine surreale Landschaft, ein Wolkenmeer oder wie der Kosmos mit seinen scheinbar schwerelos schwebenden Planeten. Besucher sind eingeladen, die Installation zu betreten und kletternd für sich zu entdecken. Die Wagemutigen nehmen die Museumsbesucher in der Tiefe aus luftiger Höhe wie winzige Figuren in einer Modellwelt wahr. Umgekehrt erscheinen die Menschen im Netz von unten wie Schwebende oder Schwimmer am Himmel.
Wenn mehrere Personen gleichzeitig die Installation betreten, geraten die Netze in Bewegung – die Spannung der Stahlseile und der Abstand der drei schwankenden Netzebenen verändert sich unwillkürlich. Der Raum in der Schwebe wird so zu einem schwingenden Netz von Beziehungen, Resonanzen und einander bedingender Kommunikation.
Die Besucher nehmen, ähnlich wie eine Spinne im Netz, die anderen Menschen durch Vibrationen wahr. Dies verdeutlicht das Interesse des Künstlers an neuen hybriden, über die herkömmlichen Möglichkeiten des Menschen hinausgehenden Formen von Kommunikation und Kooperation, die er in seinem Berliner Atelier untersucht.
(Homepage der Kunstsammlung NRW)
Above the piazza of the K21 hovers the huge installation in orbit of the artist Tomás Saraceno in more than 25 meters height. The walk-in artwork is a construction of almost transparent steel nets spanned in three levels under the huge glass dome. In the 2,500 square meter network structure, five air-filled "spheres", huge balloons, are placed.
The installation looks like a surreal landscape, a sea of clouds or the cosmos with its seemingly weightless floating planets. Visitors are invited to enter the installation and climb for themselves. The daredevils perceive museum visitors in the depths from lofty heights like tiny figures in a model world. Conversely, people in the net from below appear as hovers or swimmers in the sky.
If several people enter the installation at the same time, the nets get moving - the tension of the steel cables and the distance between the three fluctuating network levels changes involuntarily. The suspended space thus becomes an oscillating network of relationships, resonances and interdependent communication.
Similar to a spider in the web, visitors perceive other people through vibrations. This illustrates the artist's interest in new hybrid forms of communication and cooperation that go beyond the traditional possibilities of man and that he examines in his Berlin studio.
(Homepage of the Kunstsammlung NRW)
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Standing in the Olympic Park looking up at the ArcelorMittal Orbit as the moon sits high above it.
Equipment:
. Canon EOS 5D Mark III
. Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L II USM
Exposure:
. Tripod
. 50mm @ f/8, ISO 100 & 8 Seconds
What would be a five minute long exposure photograph showing a Tayside Aviation Warrior making three orbits, the base leg over the Tay Rail Bridge and final approach to Dundee Airport.
Some 380 images and two and a half hours work went into this photo,
Go North West unveiled their new Orbit branding to the Manchester public by having YY66PDU on show on Market Street which was probably the first bus on Market street for many years. Classed as route branding for the 52 and 53 routes which turn up just about everywhere between them they cleverly don’t show the actual route, so if they do stray its not the end of the world, however to many Orbit may look like another company as the Go North West logo is not prominent at the front. Not only does this launch a new livery, the batch also have four digit fleet numbers taking them away from the inherited First series.
ESA’s new Sun exploring spacecraft Solar Orbiter launched atop the US Atlas V 411 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 04:03 GMT (05:03 CET) on 10 February 2020. An ESA-led mission with strong NASA participation, Solar Orbiter will look at some of the never-before-seen regions of the Sun, such as the poles, and attempt to shed more light on the origins of solar wind, which can knock out power grids on the ground and disrupt operations of satellites orbiting the Earth. The spacecraft will take advantage of the gravitational pull of Venus to adjust its orbit to obtain unprecedented views of the solar surface.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
