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ahh i've been waiting since last summerrr to do this but had to wait till school started to get the projector. i'm doing more of these tomorrow. i was going through my middle school photos (i projected stars on someone when i was about 12 or 13) and they are horribbleee. it's cool to do the same shoot twice with a 4 year gap inbetween and see how i've improved.... :) more to come
Like any good tourist, I had to take a picture of this historic monument. It's not anything too brilliant, or magnificent, but it is a quaint, even respectable landmark to commemorate Active World's narrative of when the world was born, and who was its first citizen. There's a bit more that would be interesting to know, such as who this first citizen was in the real world, and what their relation to Active Worlds was. Was this Cy person part of the team that created Active Worlds, or is this the first unique individual that signed up to become a citizen? A lot of questions, just from one statue and its simple homage.
Note: I have come to consider places like Worlds and Active Worlds as being open virtual worlds. These were the pioneers of virtual spaces on the internet, and among the first to quote Snow Crash, even begin to coin 'metaverse' and web3.0 in trying to explain what they are. Therefore, any group that, in a general sense, speaks of themselves as an open world, open life, virtual world, web3.0, or hypergrid, seems appropriate appropriate groups to add them to. After all, these virtual worlds were very much ahead of the game and developed a lot of the aspects that make up our virtual world experiences even to this day. Not only did they have teleportation to different regions, but to different servers, even without utilizing a hypergate, but simply by teleporting to that server, as long as you had that server's coordinates. If you don't agree with this definition, let me know, and I won't post these in your group.
Nepal is a landlocked nation in Southern Asia, amid the Tibet self-governing district of China and India. It has 8 of the world"s 10 tallest summit, plus Mount Everest - the world"s highest - on the partition with Tibet, and Lumbini, the country of origin of the Gautama Buddha, the initiator of Buddhism.
Nepal has various earth features, ascending from less than 100 meters (that’s around 328 ft.) altitude in the tropical Terai—the northern edge of the Gangetic Plain, past the endless snow line to some 90 summits above 7,000 meters (that’s about 22,966 ft.) plus Earth"s tallest Mount Everest or Sagarmatha which is around 8,848m (that’s around 29,029 ft.)
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Origin and Habitat: Coast regions around Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
(unranked):Angiosperms
(unranked):Eudicots
(unranked):Asterids
Order:Gentianales
Family:Apocynaceae
Subfamily:Asclepiadoideae
Genus:Orbea
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That Pumukkale site, back in Turkey, is one of a kind.
First, note that the bath I'm talking about doesn't include getting wet in the small lake in the foreground, as that lake is just here for decoration.
Instead, the bath are taking place on the side of that suspiciously white mountain, which is white because at the top of it lies a hot spring from where the water flows all the way to the bottom of the mountain, creating perfect pools in the process.
But that's just the first taste of what's going on here as I found out when on location.
At the summit lies the ruins of an entire former roman city, including streets, house foundations, and a wonderfully preserved outdoor theater that could fit thousands of people, all hidden from the bottom of all things.
So when you think you're already blessed at the sight of this wonderful natural beauty, know that this is just the beginning.
Name of Norse origins, the barn at the end of the lake.
Walls around the tarn are ancient and date from the original settlers Possibly C10, when they clearing the land for planting. Ancient pollarded ash trees grow around the tarn and are under threat from disease.
At one time there was an Inn by the pack horse bridge when the best route through Borrowdale was not along the valley bottom but on dryer ground up the valley side. This route provides a very scenic walk from Keswick to Rosthwaite and beyond.
Watendlath is owned by the National Trust and has good parking and a café.
It is also the setting for Judith Paris a novel by Hugh Walpole in the Rogue Herries series of books. Walpole lived in Borrowdale for a time
Not possible to do at the moment but I wonder what excavation of the floors in the buildings would reveal, possibly continuous occupation for over a thousand years..
Mission photos. Origins of the Iconian precursors. Last of the Iconians and their past.
Iconians in this story are not tied to STO. This is what the BluShock version would look like.
Citadel Bam, Bam, Iran.
The origins of the citadel of Bam, Arg-e Bam, can be traced back to the Achaemenid period (6th to 4th centuries BC) and even beyond. The heyday of the citadel was from the 7th to 11th centuries, being at the crossroads of important trade routes and known for the production of silk and cotton garments. The citadel, which contains the governor’s quarters and the fortified residential area, forms the central focus of a vast cultural landscape, which is marked by a series of forts and citadels, now in ruins. The existence of life in the oasis was based on the underground irrigation canals, the qanāts, of which Bam has preserved some of the earliest evidence in Iran and which continue to function till the present time. Arg-e Bam is the most representative example of a fortified medieval town built in vernacular technique using mud layers (Chineh), sun-dried mud bricks (khesht), and vaulted and domed structures. Outside the core area of Arg-e Bam, there are other protected historic structures which include Qal’eh Dokhtar (Maiden’s fortress, ca. 7th century), Emamzadeh Zeyd Mausoleum (11-12th century), and Emamzadeh Asiri Mausoleum (12th century and historic qanāt systems and cultivations southeast of the Arg.
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Ornate Tree Lizard
Death Valley National Park
These lizards are found in the Southwest but primarily in Arizona and Nevada. How this small population arrived in Death Valley is not known
The Pleiades (also known as the Seven Sisters, the Little Hen, or by the acronym M45 in Charles Messier's catalog) is an open cluster visible in the constellation of Taurus. This cluster is quite close (440 light years) and has several stars visible to the naked eye. In urban environments, only four or five of the brightest stars can be seen, in a darker place even twelve. All the components are surrounded by light reflection nebulae, observable especially in long exposure photographs taken with telescopes of considerable size.
It is noteworthy that the stars of the Pleiades are really close to each other, have a common origin and are linked by gravity.
Given their distance, the stars visible between the Pleiades are much hotter than normal, and this is reflected in their color: they are blue or white giants; the cluster actually has hundreds of other stars, many of which are too far away and cold to be seen with the naked eye. The Pleiades are a young cluster, with an estimated age of about 100 million years and a predicted life of only another 250 million years, since the stars are too far apart.
Because of their brightness and proximity to each other, the brightest stars of the Pleiades have been known since ancient times: they are mentioned, for example, by Homer and Ptolemy. The Nebra disk, a bronze artifact from 1600 BC found in the summer of 1999 in Nebra, Germany, is one of the oldest known representations of the cosmos: in this disk the Pleiades are the third clearly distinguishable celestial object after the Sun and the Moon.
Since it was discovered that stars are celestial bodies similar to the Sun, it was hypothesized that some were somehow linked to each other. Thanks to the study of proper motion and the scientific determination of the distances of the stars, it became clear that the Pleiades are indeed gravitationally linked and that they have a common origin.
The Pleiades cluster is located north of the celestial equator, therefore in the Northern Hemisphere; its declination is about 24°N, so it is close enough to the celestial equator to be observable from all populated areas of the Earth, up to the Antarctic Circle. North of the Arctic Circle they appear circumpolar, while one degree north of the Tropic of Cancer they can be observed at the zenith. In the Northern Hemisphere the cluster dominates the evening sky from mid-autumn to early spring, in the Southern Hemisphere it is typical of the summer sky.
9 hours of shooting with a color camera, l-pro filter and apochromatic triplet
Mission photos. Origins of the Iconian precursors. Last of the Iconians and their past.
Iconians in this story are not tied to STO. This is what the BluShock version would look like.
The origin of life for Calgary and Southern Alberta begins it's long journey. Heavenly Bow Lake lies just below Bow Glacier deep in the heart of the Rockie Mountains as summer gives way to fall.
5d, 17-40f4L, 3SND, 3HS GND
l'origine de cet établissement remonte au moins à l'an 1073, date de la donation par Evrard, vicomte de Chartres à l'abbaye de Marmoutier, de ce qu'il possédait à Nottonville.
le prieuré fut bâti par les moines de Marmoutier sur les restes d'une résidence d'époque carolingienne.
Le logis prioral date du 15ème siècle et comprend une charpente en bateau inversé.
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SIGMA DP1 Merrill
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Origin: Europe.
Habitat: Forests, deserts, rocky areas.
Nesting: A hollow on a rock ledge or cave, or an old eagle nest.
Facts:
This eagle owl is the largest and most powerful owl in Europe, about 69 cms (27 inches) in length. It has a large beak and enormous talons but its most noticeable features are the striking orange eyes. It has prominent ear tufts which are raised or lowered depending on its mood. The plumage is mostly mottled but with bolder streaks on the breast.
It takes a range of prey from insects to larger animals such as hares, and even game birds.
Muy buenas, hoy vuelvo para mi tierra, pegadito a la costa, y os dejo esta toma que realicé en el Parque Natural de Calblanque. En esta ocasión la idea la tenía clara, unir el efecto que produce la lana de acero con el entorno y aprovechar la vía láctea para realizar un encuadre completo.
Como siempre, en una sola toma, sin utilizar Photoshop, y realizando un procesado ligero en Lightroom. En esta ocasión, pude realizar la toma gracias a tener un objetivo completamente manual. Para los que estéis familiarizados con la fotografía nocturna, sabréis que la configuración de la cámara para sacar la vía láctea, es totalmente distinta a la configuración para lograr una correcta exposición de la lana de acero. Para lograrlo, tuve que jugar con la apertura, y solo pude hacerlo gracias a que el objetivo que utilicé es totalmente manual, y me permite cambiar la apertura una vez iniciada la toma.
Estos son los datos de la toma:
Canon 6D @ Samyang 14mm @ 40 seg. @ 6400 ISO @ F/2.8-22
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...A l'origine, l'église de Braine avaient une longueur de 70 m.
Elle comportait 6 travées.
L'emplacement de la partie disparue est matérialisé au sol sur le parvis.
A la limité rouge du parvis s'élevaient trois partails aux ébrasements profonds, celui du milieu étant surmonté d'une grande rose.
En 1650, l'église est pillée par les Espagnols, à la révolution elle est saccagée.
Le 16 avril 1791, l'église est fermée et les Prémontrés chassés.
Un décret la voua à la destruction en 1806.
Elle fut sauvée grâce à un curé de Braine, l'Abbé Beaucamps qui alerta les autorités et le Roi Louis XVIII lui rappelant que les Comtes de Dreux étaient des Capétiens.
Au moment de la restauration en 1829 une grande partie de la nef était effrondrée.
Les 4 premières travées furent démolies et les portails démontés, l'église ne mesure plus que 42 m.
Les travaux durèrent une vingtaine d'années.
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Assassin's Creed: Origins
Otis_Inf's injectable camera system; hotsampling via SRWE (7000x5000); bicubic smother resampling; reshade 4.3.0
Havana is a town in Gadsden County, Florida, United States, and a suburb of Tallahassee. The population was 1,754 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Tallahassee Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town was named after Havana, Cuba, located about 530 miles (850 km) to the south.
Havana is of Indian origin and honors the name of Cuba's capital.
In 1902, following the completion of the of Georgia, Florida and Alabama Railroad, settlers moved a mile east to the present site of Havana, Florida. The railway town was important to the export of farming and tobacco. On December 5, 1906, Havana was incorporated into a town. The name "Havana" was proposed by James Mathewson, a schoolteacher. Shade tobacco was an important crop at that time.
On March 16, 1916, Havana was destroyed by a fire and 26 business-owned buildings were burned leaving only two remaining stores.
In recent times, much of the tobacco crop industry has declined and is known for its antiques, art galleries and specialty stores.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana,_Florida
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Night shot obtained zooming out with my lens, from 40mm to 17mm, during an exposure time of only 30 seconds, ISO 6400. Obviously camera on tripod.
Shot taken in the far September 27th 2011 while I was wandering during the night at the foot of Mount Paterno (Dolomites), whose tormented ridges look also as visually drag during the use of my zoom.
On the left, the more brilliant line is generated by planet Jupiter. The gas giant in our solar system that shines, especially on moonless nights, more than any star because of its "proximity" to the Earth.
Therefore, I hope it is clear, nothing to do with the star trail technique, which itself is often largely misunderstood. In that case you need to set a long exposure of at least 15 minutes up to what you want, also a few hours, by pointing your camera towards the Polaris in the Northern Hemisphere, or Sigma Octantis if your are in the Southern Hemisphere, then you obtain concentric trails. Also it is possible to point the camera toward any other cardinal point in order to get more "parallel" trails the more you get closer to the celestial equator.
Instead, in this shot the trails appear to come from a single point, as a sort of Big Bang structure, which wouldn't be obtainable in any other way except that zooming during exposure.
The fact of being able to get a similar shot in just 30 seconds (without having to wait hours!) undoubtedly has its advantages. An image like this definitely belongs within the field of abstract photography... this implies it may be necessary to make a few attempts before to get a "making sense" dialogue between the various elements visible and less visible to the naked eye.
Here it seemed to me that the shining Jupiter on the left, the ridges of Paterno at the bottom as well as on the right, and the central "point of origin", due to the lens zooming, contribute to create a logical structure in the overall image (hopefully also with a symbolic meaning).
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Tenth picture of my series Origin.
(This time in a 1:1 view, focusing foreground in this trunk that was close to the shore, returning to the sea)
Who among us has not ever asked yourself: What are we? Where we come from? and where do we go?
A very simple and purely material response might be:
We are sea water sea we come and we will return to the sea. And it always reminds me of the connections that our internal environment with the sea.
Connections that obey biological facts of universal and eternal proportions that are unquestionable.
Picture taken just a minutes before the sunset in La Garrofera Beach from Valencia, this wonderful natural and wild beach belongs to the Albufera Natural Park.
On the technical side, say that I only used a neutral gradient three steps filter.
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Fire is very present in the Mediterranean environment because it is a pagan element of renewal. Many festivals celebrate fire shows such as the "correfoc" (fire-run), a Catalan term that defines a parade in which characters dressed as devils parade with pyrotechnic elements that literally spit fire and to which people join to dance under the sparks thrown by their infernal instruments.
Driving out to Badwater in the pouring rain, I was starting to get a little worried that after just barely catching the last light nights before, I was going to again play bad host to my friend Micah and have him in the wrong place at the wrong time. In addition, David had made the drive up from Vegas and seeing him standing in the rain as we pulled in dampened my spirits even more. "Damn", I thought, it was supposed to clear.
We were going to have to play the waiting game, so I figured we may as well make some grilled cheese taco sandwiches. Yea, I invented that by the way and it's delicious. And then something magical started happening, and I'm talking about more then the sandwiches! The clouds on the western mountains began to clear, the sun began to shoot rays through the clouds, and the rain let up. It was go time!
The rest is a bit of a blur. We jumped in the trucks, roared down the road and found a place David knew about where the flats were juicy. As we hustled out to the playa, and then the sky did things I've never seen before in DV; Clearing to the west, storming to the east, and glowing like we were running around in a large tanning bed. David said "Apocalyptic". He was right. Cheers and happy shooting. -jared r.