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The exposure in this was a bit tricky.....the sun was just beginning to filter through and only part of the group was illuminated. There was an early morning mist and periodically a snow squall would erupt. So it was sort of a grab bag of atmospheric variables.
The robin in the foreground is the same one I posted the other day. The nest that he and his mate are investigating is in a crabapple to his left. He perches on the rock and drives all potential intruders from his perceived domain.
The deer are watching the approach of our big tabby cat, Tucson; as he makes his morning foray to get a drink and check the rocks around the frog pond for voles and wood mice.
(three stack composite edit)
Candle flames for the Macro Mondays theme: flame. An interesting challenge - what the eye perceives and what the camera records are not necessarily very similar.
HMM!
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Most people perceive darkness as negative. however, i feel safe in the dark. Not everyone can see right through you. You can observe from the dark without being noticed. Thus you recognize the truth from the darkness. And even if it hurts. The truth is positive.
You want this awesome Tattoo? It is the "Ishani " Tatt. by Letis Tattoo.
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or three months. Time helps get rid of sentimental attachments to a photograph: "I really liked this person I photographed so the picture must be good" or "I worked very hard on this picture so it must be successful." Time gives you the distance necessary to see the work more clearly :-)
Alex Webb
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zephyranthes, rain lily, 'Labuffarosea', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
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Between Reality and Beyond, there is only One Step...!
I would even say that their World fits into Ours in an invisible subtlety. . .like the breeze of the wind that we dont see, but that we feel, with sometimes shivers that run through our whole body.
Life is Feeling, Life is Emotion, Life is Sensitivity for those who let their Heart Feel and Guide their Steps...
There are only those who have this exacerbated Sensitivity, who can better than any other, perceive bits of the Invisible of the Beyond.
Happy and Blessed are those who have received this unexpected Grace, even if it's only Once... .
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Entre la Realidad y el Mas-Alla, solo hay un Paso...!
Incluso diria que su Mundo encaja en el Nuestro en una sutileza invisible. . .como la brisa del viento que no vemos, pero que sentimos, con a veces escalofrios que nos recorren todo el cuerpo.
Vida es Sentimiento, Vida es Emocion, Vida es Sensibilidad para aquellos que dejan que su Corazon Siente y Guie sus Pasos...
Solo hay quienes tienen esta Sensibilidad exacerbada, quienes mejor que nadie, perciben retazos de lo Invisible del Mas-Alla.
Bienaventurados y Benditos los que han recibido esta Gracia inesperada... aunque mismo sea una sola vez... .
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Entre Réalité et Au-Delà , il n'y a qu'un Pas ... !
je dirais même que leur Monde s'imbrique dans le Nôtre dans une subtilité invisible . . .comme la brise du vent que nous ne voyons pas, mais que nous ressentons, avec parfois des frissons qui nous parcourent tout le corps.
La Vie est Sentir, la Vie est Emotion, la Vie est Sensibilité pour qui, laisse son Coeur Ressentir et Guider ses Pas ...
Il n'y a que ceux qui ont cette Sensibilité exacerbée, qui peuvent mieux que tout autre, percevoir des bribes de l'Invisible de l'Au- Delà.
Bienheureux et Bénis sont ceux qui ont reçu cette Grâce inopinée ... même si ce n'est qu'Une Seule Fois ... .
Lea Aboma 21/07/2022
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The White Desert beckons with its vast horizons outlining free standing stacks, all carved by the elements from pure white chalk. These rock formations each carry a unique posture and aura resembling familiar images. One can perceive a giant eagle, a weeping lady, a sphinx, a camel, and even a huge whale. The most iconic of these are the giant mushrooms, which unfortunately are the last forms a chalk structure takes before the forces of erosion cause it to topple.
"If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe." - Nicola Tesla.
In reference to the sacred geometry, that all things return in numerological degrees to 3 6 or 9. it also said that, "The numbers 1, 2, 4, 5, 7 represent the physical world while the 3 6 9 represent the divine realm of the physical world." Which in accordance to how one receives, perceives and transmits the universe can yield the translation of the same, but numbers are in infinite and so are we!
This bridge has been a noticeable feature on many of my walkabouts in Berlin, on this particular day it on my route. I always pick a destination and head straight to it, as the crow flies so to speak, then zigzag between locations of photos toward the route back home. This bridge was one of those moments. This way I have a definitive photographic goal which is then also spliced with a "come what may" approach to my homeward direction. Thus hybridising a mental target with an open mind.
I hope everyone has a Happy Easter and all are well, so as always, thank you! :)
“Highly sensitive people are too often perceived as weaklings or damaged goods. To feel intensely is not a symptom of weakness, it is the trademark of the truly alive and compassionate. It is not the empath who is broken, it is society that has become dysfunctional and emotionally disabled. There is no shame in expressing your authentic feelings. Those who are at times described as being a 'hot mess' or having 'too many issues' are the very fabric of what keeps the dream alive for a more caring, humane world. Never be ashamed to let your tears shine a light in this world.”
― Anthon St. Maarten
I'm pretty sure this is the female bald eagle who spends a great more deal of time at the nest, watching over the eaglets than the male. That said, I've seen the male suddenly appear when a perceived threat approaches, such as another eagle, so I believe when not out hunting for the family he's keeping an eye on things. The male is the one that usually brings food to the nest, typically a fish; after he's consumed the head. The female is slightly larger although it's hard to tell. Harriet, the famous Fort Myers eagle appears to have been lost and the male has taken up all of the duties of parenthood. I've been told other females have flirted with him but so far, he's remained a single parent. I'm not sure a new mate would care for his chicks, a fact I'd love to learn if anyone has witnessed that behavior. (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
Society is unity in diversity.
George Herbert Mead
Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.
Harold Washington
Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
Malcolm Forbes
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
M. Scott Peck
Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.
Stephen Covey
Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
William Butler Yeats
We have to transcend our differences to transform our future.
Antonio Guterres
Diversity is a mix and inclusion is making the mix work.
Andrés Tapia
No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.
Mahatma Gandhi
A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it.
Sam Brownback
Too many of us still believe our differences define us.
John Lewis
Before God, we are all equally wise, and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein
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Sonhos de uma tarde de inverno
Sevilla, ES, 2023
[PT] Entre ruas, sombras e ficções
Contemplo ruas, pessoas e pedras, entre ficções e esquecimentos, inspirado no poeta, talvez, percebo as sombras dos gestos de outros, a poesia do crepúsculo, um desassossego.
“...todos somos igualmente derivados de não sei quê, sombras de gestos feitos por outrem, efeitos encarnados, consequências que sentem.” (Fernando Pessoa, Livro do Desassossego, v.164)
[ES] Entre calles, sombras y ficciones
Contemplo calles, personas y piedras, entre ficciones y olvidos, inspirado en el poeta, quizás, percibo las sombras de los gestos de otros, la poesía del crepúsculo, una inquietud.
“...todos somos igualmente derivados de no sé qué, sombras de gestos hechos por otra persona, efectos encarnados, consecuencias que sienten.” (Fernando Pessoa, Libro del desasosiego, v.164)
[ENG] Between streets, shadows and fictions
I contemplate streets, people and stones, between fictions and oblivion, inspired by the poet, perhaps, I perceive the shadows of the gestures of others, the poetry of twilight, a restlessness.
“...we are all equally derived from I don't know what, shadows of gestures made by someone else, embodied effects, consequences they feel.” (Fernando Pessoa, Book of Disquiet, v.164)
A camera looks. A mind sees. A heart perceives :-)
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pansy, featuring the ubiquitous pine pollen, sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
Saint Mary’s Cathedral is located in the historic center of Photi. In particular : В in today’s Central Park. This location of the building was chosen because of the rays perceived from the street.
Photi is a city, which was built according to a plan. 12 squares were joining the central street (twelve Apostles sign) and the ray sign was created. The most important event in the history of Photi was the building of Guria– Samegrelo eparchy’s cathedral in 1906-1907 years, In which’s construction, great contribution belongs to Niko Nikoladze.
The project was created by A.Zelenko. The project is the reduced analog of Constantinople’s Hagia Sofia. Later, after that, R. Marpeld made some corrections in project, the project was approved. The church was entertained to hold 2000 prayers. The construction of the church was tasked to “Black Sea Building Society”. The construction began in 6 July, 1906 and finished in September, 1907. It lasted for 1 year and 3 months. It was opened on 14 September “Jvartamagleba” holiday. The church’s foundation was blessed, by Guria-Samegrelo bishop, Giorgi.
On 22 May, 1907 the cross was erected on the dome of the church. Soviet government, turned the cathedral into theatre. In 2005, by the prayer-blessing of Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia, the cathedral returned to the Photi patriarchate ownage.
and its very existence, with new eyes :-)
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
HGGT! Truth Matters!
dahlia, j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
ꒌ ИЗЛАЗАК ПУНОГ МЕСЕЦА, последњег пред летњу дугодневицу 21. јуна 2022.
► █░▓ At 22:58, this is ALMOST AN HOUR into the twilight (sun has set at 22:00 sharp gorgeously, I'll post an image). The actual moonrise was 16 minutes before this very moment, but to me the ideal horizon is blocked by buildings and trees so I had to wait. In those 16 minutes the moon has traveled 3° to the south and 2° up from the horizon where it had appeared at 137° southeast. Some cloud formation came handy to give an illusion here that it's a real moonrise. Full moon is 99,8% here today (on 14 June 2022), six days left to summer solstice. By the end of the night the illuminated part will wane down to 99,2%. Believe it or not, a difference of already 0,3% (when the moon reached the highest point on the sky due south in the middle of the night), can already be perceived by the naked eye.
To my disappointment I can't spot the moon at SE due to set there at 5:40, either the sky is too bright already (sun rises soon at 5:20) or the clouds or mist are blocking it low on the horizon.
Aperture priority, set fully open for the longest throw of this zoom lens. Handheld, supported by the balcony railing. For the full frame equivalent of 800mm not a bad result with the shutter speed of a 1/13 of a second. Soon after this I lowered the ISO from 3200 to 400 and obtained the same handheld result with 1/2.5 sec and much less noise. But the yellow moon had by then already emerged from the mystical clouds. And became the true moon - here it resembles the sun actually.
Developed from raw and edited in Affinity Photo 1.10.5. Cropped at the top and bottom to fit the 16 by 9 format.
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An old photo from my archives, and not great a bit grainy and dark. I wanted to remember this caring father fox, Big Red.
My own very wonderful father died one year ago. I miss you everyday dad and love you.
This photo is also to honor all those beautiful wolves who were chased down and murdered recently in our state. Animals and wildlife care about their young just like we do. Predators are gravely misunderstood. As author of the book NVER CRY WOLF Farley Mowat stated so well:
“We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.”
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Suprematism is an early twentieth-century art movement focused on the fundamentals of geometry (circles, squares, rectangles, triangles). The term refers to a form of abstract art based on the supremacy of pure artistic expression rather than on a visual or literal depiction of objects. It is entirely subjective and gives room for the artist to present what they think or perceive versus what they may see.
Looking close... on Friday!
Pebbles
As a general rule, geologists perceive all stones and pebbles as rocks, but not all rocks are considered stones (or pebbles). A pebble is a small stone that has had its edges smoothed by water erosion.
Harvest is coming soon
There are dark thunderclouds across the country. What do they bring us? Strong storm? Heavy rain? Thunder and lightning? Hailstorm? Destruction and devastation? Or nothing at all? This time they brought rain and wind. I was just taking photos of this natural miracle by the rain otherwise nothing happened. So I just got a little wet. But the threatening impression of the clouds did not reveal anything good.
Sometimes we see only dark clouds in our lives and find no way out. We can no longer perceive the beautiful things around us, even though they are still there. So I experienced this moment, when I stood alone on the edge of this cornfield, with the forces of nature around me. I felt so small and realized that it is only for grace that I can see all these miracles. As I was about to leave, the sun came out between the dark clouds for a little moment, making a golden miracle of brilliancy and vitality out of this cornfield. So quickly can something dark and hopeless appear in our lives chance to a moment of joy and gratitude.
To the photo: Not far from my house is a cornfield on a steep hill. From there you have a wonderful view of the Swiss Alps. I photographed the grain field but exactly on the opposite side. The sun had already passed and the gold-brown cornfield shone the last time on that day in the rays of the sun. I always had to look up from my point of view to the end of the hill. It was simply a fascinating look up.
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I have a dream..... that there is no sadness anymore...
Mark Knopfler - Local Hero (Live)
Criquet verte-échine
(Chorthippus dorsatus (Zetterstedt, 1821)
Du soleil plein dans l'oeil,
le meilleur moment pour faire de la photo Macro,
le sujet en règle générale ne vous voit pas, mais attention la réaction ne se fait
pas attendre à la moindre ombre perçue....
Ici un très beau Criquet... et dire qu'il en a qui les mangent.....!:
Full sun in the eye,
the best time to do Macro photography,
The subject as a rule does not see you, but be careful the reaction is not made
not waiting for the slightest perceived shadow....
Here a very beautiful Locust... and to say that he has some who eat them.....
Madrid, España, 2023
[PT] Entre ruas, sombras e ficções
Contemplo ruas, pessoas e pedras, entre ficções e esquecimentos, inspirado no poeta, talvez, percebo as sombras dos gestos de outros, a poesia do crepúsculo, um desassossego.
“...todos somos igualmente derivados de não sei quê, sombras de gestos feitos por outrem, efeitos encarnados, consequências que sentem.” (Fernando Pessoa, Livro do Desassossego, v.164)
[ES] Entre calles, sombras y ficciones
Contemplo calles, personas y piedras, entre ficciones y olvidos, inspirado en el poeta, quizás, percibo las sombras de los gestos de otros, la poesía del crepúsculo, una inquietud.
“...todos somos igualmente derivados de no sé qué, sombras de gestos hechos por otra persona, efectos encarnados, consecuencias que sienten.” (Fernando Pessoa, Libro del desasosiego, v.164)
[ENG] Between streets, shadows and fictions
I contemplate streets, people and stones, between fictions and oblivion, inspired by the poet, perhaps, I perceive the shadows of the gestures of others, the poetry of twilight, a restlessness.
“...we are all equally derived from I don't know what, shadows of gestures made by someone else, embodied effects, consequences they feel.” (Fernando Pessoa, Book of Disquiet, v.164)
"In reality, every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers the reader to enable him to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have perceived in himself."
"The bonds between ourselves and another person exist only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and with which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying."
Reading Proust in a fog ^_^
I need lots of help to understand things, everything...
Sundown and sadness - when being distant is perceived as being a good thing and time slips away -
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This old Wisconsin round barn was in pretty dilipidated shape until recently when a new roof was installed. Too often these marvels of rural architecture are left to their own devices, and the results are heartbreaking. More work still needs to be done to this old beauty, but now it has time,and can be enjoyed by a new generation....
Round barns gained a short lived popularity in the late 1800's and early 1900's because of their perceived efficiency. But the high cost of construction was a obstacle to them becoming popular...
These lovely tulips in our garden basked in the early summer sunshine.
The tulip is a perennial, bulbous plant with showy flowers in the genus Tulipa, of which around 75 wild species are currently accepted and which belongs to the family Liliaceae.
The genus's native range extends west to the Iberian Peninsula, through North Africa to Greece, the Balkans, Turkey, throughout the Levant (Syria, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan) and Iran, North to Ukraine, southern Siberia and Mongolia, and east to the Northwest of China. The tulip's centre of diversity is in the Pamir, Hindu Kush, and Tien Shan mountains. It is a typical element of steppe and winter-rain Mediterranean vegetation. A number of species and many hybrid cultivars are grown in gardens, as potted plants, or as cut flowers.
Tulips are spring-blooming perennials that grow from bulbs. Depending on the species, tulip plants can be between 4 inches (10 cm) and 28 inches (71 cm) high. The tulip's large flowers usually bloom on scapes with leaves in a rosette at ground level and a single flowering stalk arising from amongst the leaves.Tulip stems have few leaves. Larger species tend to have multiple leaves. Plants typically have two to six leaves, some species up to 12. The tulip's leaf is strap-shaped, with a waxy coating, and the leaves are alternately arranged on the stem; these fleshy blades are often bluish green in color. Most tulips produce only one flower per stem, but a few species bear multiple flowers on their scapes (e.g. Tulipa turkestanica). The generally cup or star-shaped tulip flower has three petals and three sepals, which are often termed tepals because they are nearly identical. These six tepals are often marked on the interior surface near the bases with darker colorings. Tulip flowers come in a wide variety of colors, except pure blue (several tulips with "blue" in the name have a faint violet hue).
The flowers have six distinct, basifixed stamens with filaments shorter than the tepals. Each stigma has three distinct lobes, and the ovaries are superior, with three chambers. The tulip's seed is a capsule with a leathery covering and an ellipsoid to globe shape. Each capsule contains numerous flat, disc-shaped seeds in two rows per chamber. These light to dark brown seeds have very thin seed coats and endosperm that does not normally fill the entire seed.
Etymology
The word tulip, first mentioned in western Europe in or around 1554 and seemingly derived from the "Turkish Letters" of diplomat Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, first appeared in English as tulipa or tulipant, entering the language by way of French: tulipe and its obsolete form tulipan or by way of Modern Latin tulīpa, from Ottoman Turkish tülbend ("muslin" or "gauze"), and may be ultimately derived from the Persian: دلبند delband ("Turban"), this name being applied because of a perceived resemblance of the shape of a tulip flower to that of a turban. This may have been due to a translation error in early times, when it was fashionable in the Ottoman Empire to wear tulips on turbans. The translator possibly confused the flower for the turban.
Tulips are called laleh (from Persian لاله, lâleh) in Persian, Turkish, Arabic, and Bulgarian. In Arabic letters, "laleh" is written with the same letters as Allah, which is why the flower became a holy symbol. It was also associated with the House of Osman, resulting in tulips being widely used in decorative motifs on tiles, mosques, fabrics, crockery, etc. in the Ottoman Empire
Cultivation
Tulip cultivars have usually several species in their direct background, but most have been derived from Tulipa suaveolens, often erroneously listed as Tulipa schrenkii. Tulipa gesneriana is in itself an early hybrid of complex origin and is probably not the same taxon as was described by Conrad Gesner in the 16th century.
Tulips are indigenous to mountainous areas with temperate climates and need a period of cool dormancy, known as vernalization. They thrive in climates with long, cool springs and dry summers. Tulip bulbs imported to warm-winter areas of are often planted in autumn to be treated as annuals.
Tulip bulbs are typically planted around late summer and fall, in well-drained soils, normally from 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 cm) deep, depending on the type. Species tulips are normally planted deeper.
Propagation
Tulips can be propagated through bulb offsets, seeds or micropropagation. Offsets and tissue culture methods are means of asexual propagation for producing genetic clones of the parent plant, which maintains cultivar genetic integrity. Seeds are most often used to propagate species and subspecies or to create new hybrids. Many tulip species can cross-pollinate with each other, and when wild tulip populations overlap geographically with other tulip species or subspecies, they often hybridize and create mixed populations. Most commercial tulip cultivars are complex hybrids, and often sterile.
Offsets require a year or more of growth before plants are large enough to flower. Tulips grown from seeds often need five to eight years before plants are of flowering size. Commercial growers usually harvest the tulip bulbs in late summer and grade them into sizes; bulbs large enough to flower are sorted and sold, while smaller bulbs are sorted into sizes and replanted for sale in the future. The Netherlands are the world's main producer of commercial tulip plants, producing as many as 3 billion bulbs annually, the majority for export.
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip
Subject and object—the perceiver and what is perceived—are not one, nor are they two. They are mutually dependent.
Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel, “Tricycle Online Course: Finding Freedom”
A starry sky is seen through a sandstone arch on Hunt's Mesa.
Everywhere and always, human beings have struggled to understand and express their relationship to the infinite, their place in the grand spiritual design that they perceive in the cosmos. Whenever I point my camera towards the heavens I'm reminded of the massive expanse we live in, that's our neighborhood in the left eye. We're just a dust speck floating along unfettered, minute and ignorant. Isn't ignorance Bliss!!!
On our way back from shooting the sunset on Hunt's Mesa, we used an alternate route back so that we could stop by this incredible triple window arch. The thing was so massive Wayne and I were having a hard time shooting it. My widest fastest lens is the 16-35mm f2.8 so I used that but still couldn't get it all in after several attempts, this being one of them. After I merged the series It looked like some kind of drama mask or a stone giant's face, up close. Hope you like it.
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Been once more outdoors for some shooting. While i rested on an parkbench i created this scenery. The contrast between the bench and the flowers made them almost pop out.
Even Color does not exist, but is created in our brains. In order to see color we need light, an object and our eyes. Color arises in the presence of light. Whenever light falls on an object, some of the rays are reflected by the object and the remainder is absorbed. The part that is reflected, determines the color.
Our eyes cannot perceive the light that is absorbed by an object. An apple, for example, absorbs all colors, except green. Because the green is reflected and is captured by our eyes, we see the green color of the apple.
The most ideal light for seeing color is diffuse daylight, when the sun is more or less behind the clouds and it is slightly rainy. This produces the most truthful colors.
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Color does not exist, but is created in our brains. In order to see color we need light, an object and our eyes. Color arises in the presence of light. Whenever light falls on an object, some of the rays are reflected by the object and the remainder is absorbed. The part that is reflected, determines the color.
Our eyes cannot perceive the light that is absorbed by an object. An apple, for example, absorbs all colors, except green. Because the green is reflected and is captured by our eyes, we see the green color of the apple.
The most ideal light for seeing color is diffuse daylight, when the sun is more or less behind the clouds and it is slightly rainy. This produces the most truthful colors.
Thank you for all your visits, comments and faves
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved
Pelicans are a genus of large water birds that make up the family Pelecanidae. They are characterised by a long beak and a large throat pouch used for catching prey and draining water from the scooped-up contents before swallowing. They have predominantly pale plumage, the exceptions being the brown and Peruvian pelicans. The bills, pouches, and bare facial skin of all species become brightly coloured before the breeding season. The eight living pelican species have a patchy global distribution, ranging latitudinally from the tropics to the temperate zone, though they are absent from interior South America and from polar regions and the open ocean. Pelicans frequent inland and coastal waters, where they feed principally on fish, catching them at or near the water surface. They are gregarious birds, travelling in flocks, hunting cooperatively, and breeding colonially. Four white-plumaged species tend to nest on the ground, and four brown or grey-plumaged species nest mainly in trees. The relationship between pelicans and people has often been contentious. The birds have been persecuted because of their perceived competition with commercial and recreational fishing. Their populations have fallen through habitat destruction, disturbance, and environmental pollution, and three species are of conservation concern. They also have a long history of cultural significance in mythology, and in Christian and heraldic iconography. 56787
Looking everywhere, there are colors and clouds never perceived by my eyes. In the blink of an eye everything can change. This is the life!
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Spatial graphics . . .
Space graphics . . .
basically it is a "two-dimensional three-dimensionality" ... which would be nothing special, after all, are all photos "two-dimensional three-dimensionality", but in this style I'm all about minimalism and graphic patterns that reality has created and that we do not always perceive as such ...
the railing brings a denser pattern and to the right angle as to the circle additional diagonals and a slight colorfulness ... and is thus anything but a disturbing factor ...
im Grunde ist es eine "zweidimensionale Dreidimensionalität" ... was ja nichts besonderes wäre, sind schließlich alle Fotos, aber es geht mir bei diesem Stil um Minimalismus und Grafikmuster, die die Wirklichkeit geschaffen hat und die wir nicht immer als solches wahrnehmen ...
so bringt das Geländer ein dichteres Muster und zum rechten Winkel wie zum Kreis zusätzliche Diagonalen und eine leichte Farbigkeit ... und ist damit alles Andere als ein Störfaktor ...
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St Catherine's Fort is a 19th century Palmerston Fort, located on St Catherine's Island, at Tenby, West Wales. The fort was recommended by the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom which had been established in 1859 by Lord Palmerston in response to a perceived threat of invasion by Emperor Napoleon III of France. When considering the defence of the Royal Dockyard at Pembroke Dock and the anchorage at Milford Haven, the Commissioners believed that there was a danger that an enemy force might stage an amphibious landing on a beach on the southern Pembrokeshire coast and attack the naval facilities overland. It was envisaged by the Commissioners that there should be a chain of coastal artillery forts extending along the coast from Tenby to Freshwater West covering all the potential landing sites, but in the event, only the fort at Tenby was constructed
Information from Tenbyislands Trust.
Texture's by William Walton&Topaz
Pelicans are a genus of large water birds that make up the family Pelecanidae. They are characterised by a long beak and a large throat pouch used for catching prey and draining water from the scooped-up contents before swallowing. They have predominantly pale plumage, the exceptions being the brown and Peruvian pelicans. The bills, pouches, and bare facial skin of all species become brightly coloured before the breeding season. The eight living pelican species have a patchy global distribution, ranging latitudinally from the tropics to the temperate zone, though they are absent from interior South America and from polar regions and the open ocean. Pelicans frequent inland and coastal waters, where they feed principally on fish, catching them at or near the water surface. They are gregarious birds, travelling in flocks, hunting cooperatively, and breeding colonially. Four white-plumaged species tend to nest on the ground, and four brown or grey-plumaged species nest mainly in trees. The relationship between pelicans and people has often been contentious. The birds have been persecuted because of their perceived competition with commercial and recreational fishing. Their populations have fallen through habitat destruction, disturbance, and environmental pollution, and three species are of conservation concern. They also have a long history of cultural significance in mythology, and in Christian and heraldic iconography. 56806
viele Märchen- oder Sagengestalten mussten erst zum Ende des Regenbogens reisen, um den Schatz am Fuß des Regenbogens zu finden. Auch wenn wir den Fuß des Regenbogens niemals erreichen, so hat der Lichtbogen seine Faszination nicht verloren.
Aber wie entsteht ein Regenbogen.
Das Sonnenlicht wird von Regentropfen gebrochen und reflektiert. Er keinen festen Ort aber eine feste Ausrichtung. Er ist immer an der der Sonne genau entgegengesetzten Seite des Himmels in einem Winkelabstand von 42° um den Sonnengegenpunkt zu sehen. Da dieser Sonnengegenpunkt bei hochstehender Sonne hinter dem Horizont liegt, ist es unmöglich, mittags einen Regenbogen zu beobachten. Je höher die Sonne am Himmel steht, desto flacher ist der Regenbogen, bei tiefstehender Abendsonne wölbt er sich entsprechend hoch.
Warum aber beträgt dieser Winkel immer 42°? Ein Lichtstrahl, der in einen Wassertropfen eintritt, wird von der Grenzschicht zwischen Wasser und Luft reflektiert und verläßt den Tropfen wieder in einem bestimmten Winkel zu seiner ursprünglichen Einfallsrichtung. Natürlich fällt in Wirklichkeit immer ein ganzes Bündel Lichtstrahlen in einen Tropfen ein, und da jeder einzelne Strahl in einem anderen Winkel auf die Tropfenoberfläche trifft, sind die Austrittswinkel ebenfalls ganz unterschiedlich.
Dass dennoch nur die 42° Strahlen von uns als Regenbogen wahrgenommen werden, hängt damit zusammen, daß eine größere Ablenkung aus physikalischen Gründen nicht möglich ist. Alle Lichtstrahlen, die eigentlich noch weiter als diese 42° gebrochen werden müßten, konzentrieren sich an diesem Grenzwert und bilden dadurch den für uns sichtbaren Regenbogen. Die Lichtstrahlen mit kleineren Auslenkwinkeln verursachen lediglich eine leichte Aufhellung des Himmels innerhalb des Bogens.
Da das Sonnenlicht aus Strahlen verschiedener Wellenlänge aufgebaut ist, und sich die Brechung für jede Wellenlänge etwas unterscheidet, wird das Licht nicht nur abgelenkt sondern auch in seine Farbanteile zerlegt. Blaues Licht wird stärker gebrochen als rotes und liegt dadurch beim Austritt aus dem Tropfen näher am ursprünglichen Strahl. Im Regenbogen sehen wir daher den blauvioletten Streifen am weitesten innen, gefolgt von grün, gelb und ganz außen rot.
many fairy tale or legend characters first had to travel to the end of the rainbow to find the treasure at the foot of the rainbow. Even if we never reach the foot of the rainbow, the arc has not lost its fascination.
But how does a rainbow come about?
The sunlight is refracted and reflected by raindrops. It is not a fixed location but a fixed orientation. It can always be seen on the exactly opposite side of the sky to the sun at an angular distance of 42 ° around the sun's counterpoint. Since this opposite point of the sun lies behind the horizon when the sun is high, it is impossible to observe a rainbow at noon. The higher the sun is in the sky, the flatter the rainbow, and when the evening sun is low it arches accordingly.
But why is this angle always 42 °? A ray of light that enters a drop of water is reflected by the boundary layer between water and air and leaves the drop at a certain angle to its original direction of incidence. Of course, in reality a whole bundle of light rays always falls into a drop, and since each individual ray hits the drop surface at a different angle, the exit angles are also very different.
The fact that we only perceive the 42 ° rays as rainbows is due to the fact that a greater deflection is not possible for physical reasons. All rays of light, which should actually be refracted further than this 42 °, concentrate at this limit value and thereby form the rainbow that is visible to us. The light rays with smaller deflection angles only cause a slight brightening of the sky within the arc.
Since sunlight is made up of rays of different wavelengths and the refraction differs slightly for each wavelength, the light is not only deflected but also broken down into its color components. Blue light is refracted more strongly than red light and is therefore closer to the original ray when it emerges from the drop. In the rainbow we therefore see the blue-violet stripe furthest inside, followed by green, yellow and red on the outside.
You can almost warm your hands on them! Taken in our garden last spring...
The tulip is a perennial, bulbous plant with showy flowers in the genus Tulipa, of which around 75 wild species are currently accepted and which belongs to the family Liliaceae.
The genus's native range extends west to the Iberian Peninsula, through North Africa to Greece, the Balkans, Turkey, throughout the Levant (Syria, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan) and Iran, North to Ukraine, southern Siberia and Mongolia, and east to the Northwest of China. The tulip's centre of diversity is in the Pamir, Hindu Kush, and Tien Shan mountains. It is a typical element of steppe and winter-rain Mediterranean vegetation. A number of species and many hybrid cultivars are grown in gardens, as potted plants, or as cut flowers.
Tulips are spring-blooming perennials that grow from bulbs. Depending on the species, tulip plants can be between 4 inches (10 cm) and 28 inches (71 cm) high. The tulip's large flowers usually bloom on scapes with leaves in a rosette at ground level and a single flowering stalk arising from amongst the leaves.Tulip stems have few leaves. Larger species tend to have multiple leaves. Plants typically have two to six leaves, some species up to 12. The tulip's leaf is strap-shaped, with a waxy coating, and the leaves are alternately arranged on the stem; these fleshy blades are often bluish green in color. Most tulips produce only one flower per stem, but a few species bear multiple flowers on their scapes (e.g. Tulipa turkestanica). The generally cup or star-shaped tulip flower has three petals and three sepals, which are often termed tepals because they are nearly identical. These six tepals are often marked on the interior surface near the bases with darker colorings. Tulip flowers come in a wide variety of colors, except pure blue (several tulips with "blue" in the name have a faint violet hue).
The flowers have six distinct, basifixed stamens with filaments shorter than the tepals. Each stigma has three distinct lobes, and the ovaries are superior, with three chambers. The tulip's seed is a capsule with a leathery covering and an ellipsoid to globe shape. Each capsule contains numerous flat, disc-shaped seeds in two rows per chamber. These light to dark brown seeds have very thin seed coats and endosperm that does not normally fill the entire seed.
Etymology
The word tulip, first mentioned in western Europe in or around 1554 and seemingly derived from the "Turkish Letters" of diplomat Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, first appeared in English as tulipa or tulipant, entering the language by way of French: tulipe and its obsolete form tulipan or by way of Modern Latin tulīpa, from Ottoman Turkish tülbend ("muslin" or "gauze"), and may be ultimately derived from the Persian: دلبند delband ("Turban"), this name being applied because of a perceived resemblance of the shape of a tulip flower to that of a turban. This may have been due to a translation error in early times, when it was fashionable in the Ottoman Empire to wear tulips on turbans. The translator possibly confused the flower for the turban.
Tulips are called laleh (from Persian لاله, lâleh) in Persian, Turkish, Arabic, and Bulgarian. In Arabic letters, "laleh" is written with the same letters as Allah, which is why the flower became a holy symbol. It was also associated with the House of Osman, resulting in tulips being widely used in decorative motifs on tiles, mosques, fabrics, crockery, etc. in the Ottoman Empire
Cultivation
Tulip cultivars have usually several species in their direct background, but most have been derived from Tulipa suaveolens, often erroneously listed as Tulipa schrenkii. Tulipa gesneriana is in itself an early hybrid of complex origin and is probably not the same taxon as was described by Conrad Gesner in the 16th century.
Tulips are indigenous to mountainous areas with temperate climates and need a period of cool dormancy, known as vernalization. They thrive in climates with long, cool springs and dry summers. Tulip bulbs imported to warm-winter areas of are often planted in autumn to be treated as annuals.
Tulip bulbs are typically planted around late summer and fall, in well-drained soils, normally from 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 cm) deep, depending on the type. Species tulips are normally planted deeper.
Propagation
Tulips can be propagated through bulb offsets, seeds or micropropagation. Offsets and tissue culture methods are means of asexual propagation for producing genetic clones of the parent plant, which maintains cultivar genetic integrity. Seeds are most often used to propagate species and subspecies or to create new hybrids. Many tulip species can cross-pollinate with each other, and when wild tulip populations overlap geographically with other tulip species or subspecies, they often hybridize and create mixed populations. Most commercial tulip cultivars are complex hybrids, and often sterile.
Offsets require a year or more of growth before plants are large enough to flower. Tulips grown from seeds often need five to eight years before plants are of flowering size. Commercial growers usually harvest the tulip bulbs in late summer and grade them into sizes; bulbs large enough to flower are sorted and sold, while smaller bulbs are sorted into sizes and replanted for sale in the future. The Netherlands are the world's main producer of commercial tulip plants, producing as many as 3 billion bulbs annually, the majority for export.
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip
Looking in the deepness of the eyes of this ageless Sadhu, I can perceive everuthing which has bewitched me of India, wisdom, sadness, life, death, richness, poverty, story, courage, tradition and the people. India is an ancient and strange place, difficult to understand and to know, but easy to love.
... wurde sicher diese Honigbiene, die den zur Zeit blühenden weiß-rosa Winter-Schneeball besucht. Wahrscheinlich ist es der Duftschneeball Viburnum x bodnantense, der diesen schon auf größere Entfernung wahrnehmbaren Duft aussendet.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodnant-Schneeball
... was this honey bee visiting the currently blooming white-pink winter viburnum with a stunning smell. It's probably the Scented Snowball Viburnum x bodnantense that emits this scent that can be perceived from a great distance.
Apricale.Liguria
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Une église très faiblement éclairée dont je n'ai perçu la beauté qu'au traitement.
L'intérieur est composé de trois nefs divisées en deux rangées de quatre piliers. Les voutes ont été décorées de fresques avec des motifs floraux et figures de saints par Leonida Martini en 1904.
Le sol en mosaïque de Tamagno, présente de précieuses fresques également réalisées par l'artiste.
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--------------------------------------------------------- Apricale Liguria. (See previous photo)
A church plunged into almost complete darkness the beauty of which I only perceived during the treatment. 6400 ISO f4 1/4s
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The interior consists of three naves divided into two rows of four pillars. The vaults were decorated with frescoes featuring floral motifs and figures of saints by Leonida Martini in 1904.
The Tamagno mosaic floor features precious frescoes also created by the artist.
There's nothing quite as heartwarming as witnessing the tender bond between a mother Long-tailed macaque and her infant. Their interactions are often filled with grooming, gentle touches, and protective gazes, truly a sweet sight to behold.
The long-tailed macaque, also called the crab-eating macaque, is a fascinating primate native to Southeast Asia with a history deeply intertwined with human communities.
Throughout their range, these macaques have been perceived in conflicting ways – sometimes as agricultural pests, other times as sacred creatures.
In Bali, a thriving population of about 1260 Balinese long-tailed macaques finds refuge in Mandala Suci Wenara Wana, better known as the Ubud Monkey Forest.
Visitors to Uluwatu Temple often witness their renowned cleverness firsthand, as these macaques have learned to "rob" tourists of items like hats and sunglasses, subsequently "bartering" their loot for food.
(Nikon Z6II, Nikon 24-200 f/4-6.3, 1/400 @ f/8, ISO 5000, edited to taste)
Sevenfold Insignificance
Fallen bicycles in China
In German "The phrase "A sack of rice (or bicycle) fell over in China (or Beijing)" is a colloquial metaphor for an unimportant event. With this derogatory, joking phrase, the speaker expresses his disinterest or signals the perceived insignificance of a topic." de.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_China_ist_ein_Sack_Reis_umgefallen
On the campus of Hefei University in Hefei, the capital of the province Anhui
Sacred Stones.
Nothing in this life is real. We discover that after our human life. And sometimes, if you're lucky, long before that. It's called Awakening. When you realise everything here, in this life (human experience) is simply perceived. Many names for it, many levels of it too. Even highly Awakened people can very rarely (the Buddah comes to mind) become aware of even the Observer. That's Pure Unbound Awareness. Shapeless, no size, no colour, not born and can never die (not exist). When you rise from innerstanding to overstanding.
Well, er... what is reality? I see a simulated hologram and it is my consciousness that is observing it. All I 'know' is that 'I' am still the Observer. Not the 'person' observing, because I can observe my person. Nothing can 'see' the 'I'. Pure, unbound 'Consciousness' is what can NEVER be seen. If you can observe it, it isn't trully you. I could go on, but is there any point?
Usually, when you're thinking about cropping a photo a little to improve the composition, you follow your intuition.
But I'm sure - we all perceive the picture in the paper differently.
Undoubtedly, each of us sees the world differently.
It's difficult to see the world through someone else's eyes. But sometimes you want to understand how your viewer sees your picture, and who he is?
Reading from left to right
or read from right to left -
we automatically see the composition in the opposite development.
And often with different meaning interpretations !
And this is just such a case.
we all have a great creative weekend
Mongolian gobi.
filmed on 135 Fujicolor S400 film
the lab NORITSU KOKI scan
Sh2-68 is a planetary nebula in the Serpens constellation, estimated to be around 980 light years from earth (planetary nebulae are extremely difficult to perform distance measurements on, let alone accurate ones). It's sometimes refered to as "The flaming skull" nebula. Usually, I think these names are quite far-fetched; with this one I can sort of see it though.
At first sight, this is your typical planetary nebula. Meaning a low to intermediate mass star came to the end of its life and the colourful gas we see is what used to make up the outer shell of said star. However, the "tail" of gas moving away (towards the right of the frame) is somewhat unusual. So what's going on there?
The central star within the nebula is moving through space at a fairly high speed. Additionally, the area of space it's in contains a fair bit of gas/dust of its own. As a result, the material being expelled by the star is meeting some resistance as it collides with the already present gas (and is being slowed down if you will), while the star itself continues on its merry way. Over a long period of time, the distance between the star and the expelled gas becomes great enough to be perceived as a "tail".
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Not so the forest rebel.
He has a tough decision to make: to reserve the right—at any cost—to judge for himself what he is called upon to support or contribute to. There will be considerable sacrifices, but they will be accompanied by an immediate gain in sovereignty. Naturally, as things stand, only a tiny minority will perceive the gain as such. Dominion, however, can only come from those who have preserved in themselves a knowledge of native human measures and who will not be forced by any superior power to forsake acting humanely.
[E. J.]