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Wat Kuhak Nokor, Kampong Thom, Cambodia
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Burney Falls is fed by an underground spring and flows nearly constantly year-round. While some water flows over the top, a significant fraction simply flows through the porous rock and out of the face of the waterfall.
Theodore Roosevelt once declared Burney Falls the "eighth wonder of the world."
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A gem in the Icelandic highlands.
Hrauneyjafossar.
The beauty of this canyon appeared when the Sigalda Power plant was built. The dam brought about that a lagoon was created, Krókslón, resulting the water level in the originally wild glacier river to be dropped by many meters.
A lot of little beautiful waterfalls are being formed by water seeking its way through several porous lava layers around the lagoon. Really a fascinating view.
I was perhaps not quite lucky the day I took the picture because often the river has a beautiful turquoise colour instead of a grey brownish colour, possibly due to the high water level of the lagoon.
Littleworth Common is a publicly owned area of heathland, with birch and oak woodland which has grown up since it stopped being regularly grazed as farming practices have changed.
The common has a number of these still and silent ponds.
In the porous chalk landscape of the Chilterns, surface water is normally rare but here we're at the chalk's southeastern edge, and as at nearby Stoke Common the water percolating through it meets a layer of clay and appears here forming pools and areas of shallow surface water, squelshy with bog mosses.
The pond does look rather unappetizing, but I suspect because it is so full of life. Not a lot was moving on such a hot and muggy day except for early butterflies and day-moths, but I'd love to be here at dawn or dusk to see the wildlife that relies on it.
"Akin to a porous geologic formation shaped by the flow of wind and water, the building’s central, five-story atrium greets arriving visitors like an intriguing landscape, ready to be explored."
-- Studio Gang. Com
Richard Gilder Center,
American Museum of Natural History
Yu Garden or Yuyuan Garden (豫园 literaly Garden of Happiness) is an extensive Chinese garden located beside the City God Temple in the northeast of the Old City of Shanghai at Huangpu District, Shanghai. It abuts the Yuyuan Tourist Mart, the Huxinting Teahouse and the Yu Garden Bazaar.
This garden is accessible from the Shanghai Metro's Line 10 and Line 14 Yuyuan Garden station.
A centerpiece is the Exquisite Jade Rock (玉玲珑) a porous 3.3-m, 5-ton boulder. Rumours about its origin include the story that it was meant for the Huizong Emperor (Northern Song Dynasty from 1100 to 1126 AD) the imperial garden in Bianjing, but was salvaged from the Huangpu River after the boat carrying it had sunk.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_Garden
El Jardín Yu o Jardín Yuyuan (豫园 literalmente Jardín de la Felicidad) es un extenso jardín chino ubicado junto al Templo del Dios de la Ciudad en el noreste de la Ciudad Vieja de Shanghai en el distrito de Huangpu, Shanghai. Colinda con el Yuyuan Tourist Mart, la casa de té Huxinting y el Yu Garden Bazaar.
Se puede acceder a este jardín desde la estación Yuyuan Garden de las líneas 10 y 14 del metro de Shanghai.
Una pieza central es la Exquisita Roca de Jade (玉玲珑), una roca porosa de 3,3 m y 5 toneladas. Los rumores sobre su origen incluyen la historia de que estaba destinado al emperador Huizong (dinastía Song del Norte de 1100 a 1126 d. C.) el jardín imperial en Bianjing, pero que fue rescatado del río Huangpu después de que el barco que lo transportaba se hundiera.
Underside of a really beautiful find, though the top is quite boring, as seen a couple of shots on!
Thanks to Diggleken for the ID. Winter Polypore.
Hraunfossar (Borgarfjörður, western Iceland) is a series of waterfalls formed by rivulets streaming over a distance of about 900 metres out of the Hallmundarhraun, a lava field which flowed from an eruption of one of the volcanoes lying under the glacier Langjökull. The waterfalls pour into the Hvítá river from ledges of less porous rock in the lava. The name hraun comes from the Icelandic word for lava. The Hraunfossar are situated near Húsafell and Reykholt .
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Hraunfossar, located at Borgarfjörður, western Iceland, is a series of waterfalls formed by rivulets streaming over a distance of about 900 metres out of the Hallmundarhraun, a lava field which flowed from an eruption of one of the volcanoes lying under the glacier Langjökull. The waterfalls pour into the Hvítá river from ledges of less porous rock in the lava. The name hraun comes from the Icelandic word for lava. The Hraunfossar are situated near Húsafell and Reykholt.
the vine started out as a straight little plant but soon become a large thick twisted trunk. the bottom is just two pieces and as it climbs it becomes three and higher becomes multi pieced.
the trunk is as thick as a leg. it's skin is tough but the inside is a sponge and very porous. the branches at the top are hollow like a reed or bamboo shoot. i cut this vine back twice in the summer almost to the point where it looks like it is barely alive and in two weeks is almost grown back.
it is the home of all type little animals. spiders, flies, bees, ants cats, raccoons, possums, butterflies and the dead pieces make for great fire starter pieces for my barbecue.
[ES] Las estatuas moais están talladas en roca volcánica muy porosa y de muy baja densidad, por eso a pesar de ser tan grandes son más fáciles de mover de lo que la intuición apunta. La cantera de los moais está en las faldas del crater de Rano Raraku, uno de los tres volcanes que formaron la isla.
[EN] The moai statues are sculpted from volcanic rock, very porous and low density. That's why they were easier to move around the island than intuition tells. The quarry is in the hillside of Rano Raraku volcano, one of the three that gave birth to the island.
Hraunfossar (western Iceland) is a series of waterfalls formed by rivulets streaming over a distance of about 900 metres out of the Hallmundarhraun, a lava field which flowed from an eruption of one of the volcanoes lying under the glacier Langjökull. The waterfalls pour into the Hvítá river from ledges of less porous rock in the lava. The name hraun comes from the Icelandic word for lava. The Hraunfossar are situated near Húsafell and Reykholt.
(Borgarfjörður, western Iceland) is a series of waterfalls formed by rivulets streaming over a distance of about 900 metres out of the Hallmundarhraun, a lava field which flowed from an eruption of one of the volcanoes lying under the glacier Langjökull. The waterfalls pour into the Hvítá river from ledges of less porous rock in the lava. The name hraun comes from the Icelandic word for lava. The Hraunfossar are situated near Húsafell and Reykholt and lava-tube cave Víðgelmir is close by.
Hraunfossar (western Iceland) is a series of waterfalls formed by rivulets streaming over a distance of about 900 metres out of the Hallmundarhraun, a lava field which flowed from an eruption of one of the volcanoes lying under the glacier Langjökull. The waterfalls pour into the Hvítá river from ledges of less porous rock in the lava. The name hraun comes from the Icelandic word for lava. The Hraunfossar are situated near Húsafell and Reykholt.
Goreme, Cappadocia, Turkey.
Nikon FM3A, AF Nikkor 35mm 2 D
Kodak Tri-X @box (frozen expired)
Microphen stock, 7' 15" @20C; 3rd use
Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 ED
As explained to me, a Cappadocian Hoodoo column consists of volcanic strata from several local volcanos laid down some millions of years ago. Not all the strata are the same material. The lower portion of the column is compressed mineral ash which erodes easily in wind and especially water. The top dark portion is a much harder basaltic material which erodes quite slowly. As the landscape erodes during rainstorms and windstorms, the lower strata preferentially erodes with the basaltic cap providing a protective umbrella effect, leaving the column as you see here.
The compressive force of the heavy cap also makes the column of porous ash below denser and more resistant to erosion.
Locals over the past 2 millenia found the material easy to carve out with simple tools and made dwellings and storage areas for crops in these structures, and hiding places to escape into in advance of an invasion. Some of these (in cliffs) are incredibly complicated and very deep, up to 4 stories of vertical tunneling complete with ventilation shafts and internal wells.
NEPAL, In Pokhara,
The porous underground of the Pokhara valley favours the formation of caves and several caves can be found within city limits. In the south of the city, a tributary of the Seti flowing out of the Phewa Lake disappears at Patale Chhango (पाताले छाँगो, Nepali for Hell's Falls, also called Davis Falls, after someone who supposedly fell in) into an underground gorge, to reappear 500 metres (1,600 feet) further south.
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This Treehopper from the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador is from the genus Cladonota in the family Membracidae. It is only 6 mm in length. Treehoppers are insects related to cicadas and leafhoppers. Most treehoppers have a highly modified pronotum on the back, in this case forming a porous structure resembling a coral skeleton. The Treehopper probes the leaf with its rostrum for sap which is rich in sugar. The white coating is mold which has infested the Treehopper.
Hraunfossar and nearby Barnafoss in Western Iceland during the peak of autumn. The composition highlights a series of silken cascades emerging directly from the porous Hallmundarhraun lava field.
Against the dark texture of the volcanic rock, I liked how the glacial water created a brilliant white contrast. Above the falls, a dense canopy of birch scrub glows in vibrant shades of amber and gold, signaling the seasonal transition. I used a long-exposure technique to transform the water into ghostly veils, emphasizing the serene and mystical atmosphere of Iceland’s volcanic landscape.
Thanks to the wonderful flickr community for your comments, faves, and views! And the opportunity to share my image via Explore!
"Asphalt is porous, meaning the microstructure of asphalt consists of lots and lots of tiny random tubes through the solid material. Thanks to the capillary effect, water is sucked into those tiny tubes, and gas is forced out. This gas being forced out of the porous asphalt material and through the liquid on the surface creates bubbles."
I have several shots of this waterfall, Hraunfoss, from very different perspectives as we flew around it. It is truly a paralizing task to try to choose one, as they all have something very special and particular to it.
This one is not perfectly framed, but I think it's the one I like the most. The water comes from the porous lava field, and sheds directly into the river.
Exif: ISO 320 ; f/2.8 ;1/1000 ; @55mm
Aerial shot
Visconti Homo Sapiens Midi fountain pen dipped in orange ink. Porous lava surface shows really well :)
These had the porous-looking undersides that helps distinguish turkey tail from false turkey tail, but I am no mycologist.
Day 1 on the Greenstone Trail, Isle Royale National Park.
This memorial was tagged several times by the same person. As the stone is very soft and porous the spray paint could not be eradicated. Anzac Day is when the people of Australia and New Zealand remember the people who lost their lives in the armed forces. To make the memorial fairly presentable on Anzac Day they had to tie a painted paper resemblance of the stonework over the worst tagged parts. Unable to stick it down with possibly damaging glue it had hundreds of metres of fishing line wrapped around it. The line was almost invisible until you got close.
For #200 in my "Endless project" I have gone for a scene from Autumn last year. It was a strange morning as it was cloudy and grey until about 10 minutes before I took this photo.
Shower tile detail.
Fired clay is usually porous to water, and one of the main reasons for glazing it in a second firing is to make it impermeable. You get to add lustre and hardness too which makes glazing a winner!
So how to convey the impermeability of glaze?
This is a detail of the Italian tiles in my shower, sprayed with water from a garden sprayer (sorry about the cheat – I didn’t want to stand in a wet shower or deal with humidity on the lens, lol). I had to wait until afternoon to get the right light through the window.
In a touch of irony, I often think of ideas while in the shower but not this one!
So that’s my take on this week’s Macro Monday theme. Hope you enjoy it. Thanks for looking and reading :)
[Handheld in daylight. Because of that I pushed the ISO (though the D90 struggles with noise when you do that) and propped the camera against the wall.
Cropped, rotated, and quite well tweaked in LR for exposure, colour and clarity/vibrance. Slight dark vignette. Moderately mangled in Topaz Detail to add a bit more drama; metadata and keywords in iMatch; published from LR.]
Yu Garden or Yuyuan Garden (豫园 literaly Garden of Happiness) is an extensive Chinese garden located beside the City God Temple in the northeast of the Old City of Shanghai at Huangpu District, Shanghai. It abuts the Yuyuan Tourist Mart, the Huxinting Teahouse and the Yu Garden Bazaar.
This garden is accessible from the Shanghai Metro's Line 10 and Line 14 Yuyuan Garden station.
A centerpiece is the Exquisite Jade Rock (玉玲珑) a porous 3.3-m, 5-ton boulder. Rumours about its origin include the story that it was meant for the Huizong Emperor (Northern Song Dynasty from 1100 to 1126 AD) the imperial garden in Bianjing, but was salvaged from the Huangpu River after the boat carrying it had sunk.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_Garden
El Jardín Yu o Jardín Yuyuan (豫园 literalmente Jardín de la Felicidad) es un extenso jardín chino ubicado junto al Templo del Dios de la Ciudad en el noreste de la Ciudad Vieja de Shanghai en el distrito de Huangpu, Shanghai. Colinda con el Yuyuan Tourist Mart, la casa de té Huxinting y el Yu Garden Bazaar.
Se puede acceder a este jardín desde la estación Yuyuan Garden de las líneas 10 y 14 del metro de Shanghai.
Una pieza central es la Exquisita Roca de Jade (玉玲珑), una roca porosa de 3,3 m y 5 toneladas. Los rumores sobre su origen incluyen la historia de que estaba destinado al emperador Huizong (dinastía Song del Norte de 1100 a 1126 d. C.) el jardín imperial en Bianjing, pero que fue rescatado del río Huangpu después de que el barco que lo transportaba se hundiera.
Hraunfossar waterfall, Iceland
The waterfalls pour into the Hvítá river from ledges of less porous rock in the lava.
Porcellanite is a siliceous duricrust which has developed within altered Cretaceous mudrocks in the Darwin city area and is well exposed in coastal cliffs to the north. Its distinctive geotechnical properties include low bulk density, variable strength that is highly dependent on moisture content, and relatively high (but inconsistent) durability. The porcellanite rock mass is inhomogeneous and anisotropic; it is unrippable at the surface, but becomes weaker with depth. It is also highly permeable in places, even karst‐like, due to solution cavities. These characteristics are common to all duricrusts and result from processes of solution, replacement and redeposition by silica‐laden groundwater. Such processes may have been intermittently active through most of the Cenozoic and there is evidence that they continue to the present. The upper 2–4 m of the porcellanite profile is made up of a brittle, high‐strength rock with a silica content approaching that of silcrete. The underlying altered and porous siltstone is much weaker and deforms plastically under loading, due to a cellular microfabric composed largely of opaline silica replacing clay minerals. Porcellanite has long been used as the main building stone in Darwin and is now quarried for shoreline filling. Although some of it is of select fill or road sub‐base quality, crushed porcellanite contains an excess of plastic fines making it unsuitable for basecourse. Porcellanite has been a failure as breakwater stone, despite producing blocks of adequate size.
I shot this at the Trona Pinnacles on July 18, 2017.
This panorama was stitched together from 20 vertical frames shot with my Canon 6D and Tokina AT-X 17-35mm at 1/20 sec f/8 ISO 100 at 35mm.
The Trona Pinnacles are an unusual geological feature in the California Desert National Conservation Area. The unusual landscape consists of more than 500 tufa spires (porous rock formed as a deposit when springs interact with other bodies of water), some as high as 140 feet (43 m), rising from the bed of the Searles Lake (dry) basin. The pinnacles vary in size and shape from short and squat to tall and thin, and are composed primarily of calcium carbonate (tufa). They now sit isolated and slowly crumbling away near the south end of the valley, surrounded by many square miles of flat, dried mud and with stark mountain ranges at either side.
The Pinnacles are recognizable in more than a dozen hit movies. Over thirty film projects a year are shot among the tufa pinnacles, including backdrops for car commercials and sci-fi movies and television series such as Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Disney's Dinosaur, The Gate II, Lost in Space, and Planet of the Apes.
Delphi (gr. Δελφοί), - the ancient Greek city and the temple at the foot of Parnassus. Delphi knows and honor Homer, who, however, calls them Pytho. All the fame owed oracles. Shrine of Apollo was a Dorian structure built of porous limestone and white marble paryjskiego. The temple had a size of 5 × 15 columns (fragment of the ruins is visible in the picture ..
The biggest respekt enjoyed Delphi in archaic Greece, when the priests delficcy, with the help of his oracle (where the Pythia sat) leading almost the entire life of the Greeks.
Pythia sat alone in a room of this temple on the tripod and the "narcotic" vapor predicted the future. Her answers were always ambiguous, so nobody can challenge its authority. Apparently hallucinogenic fumes mined from a small slit in the chamber Pythia. Only a recent study showed that the main temple stands exactly on the intersection of two geological faults. The surrounding rocks are common mineral called travertine, emitting ethylene, which inspired a man can make in a particular state. According to geologists, the ethylene flow was stopped, due to great earthquake 373 BC
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Delfy (gr. Δελφοί), – prastare miasto i świątynia grecka u stóp Parnasu. Delfy zna i czci Homer, który jednak nazywa je Pythó. Całą sławę zawdzięczało wyroczni. Przybytek Apollina był budowlą dorycką wzniesioną z porowatego wapienia oraz białego marmuru paryjskiego. Świątynia miała wymiary 5×15 kolumn (fragment jej ruin jest widoczny na zdjęciu.
Największym poważaniem cieszyły się Delfy w archaicznej Grecji, kiedy kapłani delficcy, przy pomocy swej wyroczni (w której zasiadała Pytia) kierowali całym niemal życiem Greków.
Sama Pytia zasiadała w jednym z pomieszczeń tej świątyni na trójnogu i w "narkotycznych" oparach przepowiadała przyszłość. Jej odpowiedzi były zawsze dwuznaczne, by nikt nie mógł podważyć jej autorytetu. Podobno halucynogenne opary wydobywały się z małej szczeliny w komnacie Pytii. Dopiero niedawne badania wskazały, że główna świątynia stoi dokładnie na przecięciu dwóch uskoków geologicznych. W okolicznych skałach powszechny jest minerał zwany trawertynem, wydzielający etylen, który wdychany może wprowadzać człowieka w szczególny stan. Zdaniem geologów, ten wypływ etylenu został zahamowany, na skutek wielkiego trzęsienia ziemi 373 p.n.e.
HS2’s main works civils contractor in the West Midlands, Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV), has completed the construction of the 200 metre porous portal of HS2’s Burton Green Tunnel.
The portal is the southern entrance to the 700 metre green tunnel, which will carry HS2 trains through Burton Green. Once built, the tunnel will have green space created over the top, covered with trees and plants, providing a new landscape for the local community.
Over 160 roof segments have been installed as part of the 200-metre long concrete porous portal, with each segment weighing over 20 tonnes. The porous portal features a series of vents in the roof which transition HS2 trains leaving and entering the tunnel. The pressured air wave produced by the ‘piston effect’ of the train moving through the tunnel will be channelled through the vents.
A bloomery is a type of metallurgical furnace once used widely for smelting iron from its oxides. The bloomery was the earliest form of smelter capable of smelting iron. Bloomeries produce a porous mass of iron and slag called a bloom. The mix of slag and iron in the bloom, termed sponge iron, is usually consolidated and further forged into wrought iron. Blast furnaces, which produce pig iron, have largely superseded bloomeries.
A bloomery consists of a pit or chimney with heat-resistant walls made of earth, clay, or stone. Near the bottom, one or more pipes (made of clay or metal) enter through the side walls. These pipes, called tuyeres, allow air to enter the furnace, either by natural draught or forced with bellows or a trompe. An opening at the bottom of the bloomery may be used to remove the bloom, or the bloomery can be tipped over and the bloom removed from the top.
The first step taken before the bloomery can be used is the preparation of the charcoal and the iron ore. Charcoal is nearly pure carbon which, when burned, both produces the high temperature needed for the smelting process and provides the carbon monoxide needed for reduction of the metal.
The ore is broken into small pieces and usually roasted in a fire, to make rock based ores easier to break up, bake out some impurities, and (to a lesser extent) to remove any moisture in the ore. Any large impurities (as silica) in the ore can be removed as it is crushed. The desired particle size depends primarily on which of several ore types may be available, which will also have a relationship to the layout and operation of the furnace, of which there are a number of regional, historic/traditional forms. Natural iron ores can vary considerably in oxide form (Fe2O3 / Fe3O4 / FeO(OH) ), and importantly in relative iron content. Since slag from previous blooms may have a high iron content, it can also be broken up and may be recycled into the bloomery with the new ore.
In operation, after the bloomery is preheated typically with a wood fire, shifting to burning pre-sized charcoal, iron ore and additional charcoal are introduced through the top. Again, 'traditional' methods vary, but normally smaller charges of ore are added at the start of the main smelting sequence, increasing to larger amounts as the smelt progresses. Overall a typical ratio of total charcoal to ore added will in a roughly one-to-one ratio. Inside the furnace, carbon monoxide from the incomplete combustion of the charcoal reduces the iron oxides in the ore to metallic iron without melting the ore; this allows the bloomery to operate at lower temperatures than the melting temperature of the ore. As the desired product of a bloomery is iron which is easily forgeable, it requires a low carbon content. The temperature and ratio of charcoal to iron ore must be carefully controlled to keep the iron from absorbing too much carbon and thus becoming unforgeable. Cast iron occurs when the iron absorbs 2% to 4% carbon. Because the bloomery is self-fluxing, the addition of limestone is not required to form a slag.
The small particles of iron produced in this way fall to the bottom of the furnace, where they combine with molten slag, often consisting of fayalite, a compound of silicon, oxygen and iron mixed with other impurities from the ore. The hot liquid slag, running to the bottom of the furnace, cools against the base and lower side walls of the furnace, effectively forming a bowl still containing fluid slag. As the individual iron particles form, they fall into this bowl and sinter together under their own weight, forming a spongy mass referred to as the bloom. Because the bloom is typically porous, and its open spaces can be full of slag, the extracted mass must beaten with heavy hammers to both compress voids and drive out any molten slag remaining. This process may require several additional heating and compaction cycles, working at high 'welding' temperatures. Iron treated this way is said to be wrought (worked), and the resulting iron, with reduced amounts of slag, is called wrought iron or bar iron. Because of the creation process, individual blooms can often have differing carbon contents between the original top and bottom surfaces, differences that will also be somewhat blended together through the flattening, folding and hammer welding sequences. It is also possible to produce blooms coated in steel (higher carbon) by manipulating the charge of and air flow to the bloomery.
As the era of modern commercial steelmaking began, the word bloom was extended to another sense referring to an intermediate-stage piece of steel, of a size comparable to many traditional iron blooms, that was ready to be further worked into billet. wikipedia
Taken on the Anchorage Coastal Wildlife Refuge near Carr Gottstein Park in Anchorage, Alaska. Saltwater freezes differently than fresh water, leaving porous ice in strange configurations.
Yu Garden or Yuyuan Garden (豫园 literaly Garden of Happiness) is an extensive Chinese garden located beside the City God Temple in the northeast of the Old City of Shanghai at Huangpu District, Shanghai. It abuts the Yuyuan Tourist Mart, the Huxinting Teahouse and the Yu Garden Bazaar.
This garden is accessible from the Shanghai Metro's Line 10 and Line 14 Yuyuan Garden station.
A centerpiece is the Exquisite Jade Rock (玉玲珑) a porous 3.3-m, 5-ton boulder. Rumours about its origin include the story that it was meant for the Huizong Emperor (Northern Song Dynasty from 1100 to 1126 AD) the imperial garden in Bianjing, but was salvaged from the Huangpu River after the boat carrying it had sunk.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_Garden
El Jardín Yu o Jardín Yuyuan (豫园 literalmente Jardín de la Felicidad) es un extenso jardín chino ubicado junto al Templo del Dios de la Ciudad en el noreste de la Ciudad Vieja de Shanghai en el distrito de Huangpu, Shanghai. Colinda con el Yuyuan Tourist Mart, la casa de té Huxinting y el Yu Garden Bazaar.
Se puede acceder a este jardín desde la estación Yuyuan Garden de las líneas 10 y 14 del metro de Shanghai.
Una pieza central es la Exquisita Roca de Jade (玉玲珑), una roca porosa de 3,3 m y 5 toneladas. Los rumores sobre su origen incluyen la historia de que estaba destinado al emperador Huizong (dinastía Song del Norte de 1100 a 1126 d. C.) el jardín imperial en Bianjing, pero que fue rescatado del río Huangpu después de que el barco que lo transportaba se hundiera.
Zelenci is a spring and eponymous nature reserve near the town of Kranjska Gora, in the far northwestern corner of Slovenia. It is the source of the river Sava Dolinka, a tributary of the Danube.
At Zelenci, water from the underground stream Nadiža (originating in the Planica valley) re-emerges through the porous bottom of a two-m deep lake, whose waters are noted for their deep, brilliant green. The spring and its surrounding area are named after this colour, zelen meaning "green" in Slovene and "Zelenci" being its possessive plural.)
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1:72 scale Porsche Carrera GT on a soft porous foam mat, magazine standing upright behind.
Was kinda saving this song for a Tusaud mannequin, but it doesn't look like I'm gonna get that chance any time soon... should watch it and count the stars you recognise.
Anywho I finally got meself a macro lens! Yay me!
Not the most realistic shot, but I think the concept is sound, just gotta find a better background.
Shots of Amilie will resume tomorrow when I have time to process.
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
Exposure: 0.167 sec (1/6)
Aperture: f/8.0
Focal Length: 100 mm
ISO Speed: 1000
Exposure Bias: -2/3 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire
Post-Proc: Converted to B&W, Curves, High-Pass sharpening and Vignette
Upper Proxy Falls
Willamette National Forest, OR
At the end of a hanging valley created by glacier-cut canyons 6000 yrs ago, Upper Proxy Falls and nearby Proxy Falls, known as “cascade and plunge” waterfalls, are formed from a collection of springs on the side of North Sister, a mountain in central Oregon. The waterfalls plummet off the glacier carved cliffs into porous subsoil and sink underground giving the impression there is no surface outlet. (Wikipedia)
These are charming thatched cottages in the village of Micheldever, Hampshire, England. This picturesque village is renowned for its well-preserved, historic thatched and timber-framed cottages, offering a glimpse into traditional English rural life.
Micheldever boasts some very old thatched cottages, with structures like Shillingbury and Corner Cottage dating back to the 15th century (around 1453), making them among the oldest in the village.
The cottages here showcase classic English architectural styles, with features such as exposed timber frames, unique thatch patterns, and in some cases, distinctive elements like the thatch griffin on Griffin Cottage. The village setting, with its traditional pubs and historic buildings like the former bake house and post office, contributes to the idyllic atmosphere surrounding these cottages.
Micheldever is located in Hampshire, southern England, offering a peaceful rural escape while remaining within reach of larger towns and attractions in the region.
The village and civil parish is situated 10 km north of Winchester. It lies upon the River Dever.
The river, and village, formerly part of Stratton Park (Not to be confused with Stratton Park in Kempshott, Basingstoke), lie on a Hampshire grass downland, underlain with chalk and flint. Parts of the river now disappear in summer through lack of replenishment, evaporation and, more specifically, the porous nature of the bedrock.
Poppy,
Papaver rhoeas L., 1753, the wild poppy, is a phanerogamous species of the genus Papaver, belonging to the Papaveraceae (papaveraceae) family.
It is an annual cycle plant that can reach more than 50 cm in height. It has stems erect and little branched with fine hairs. The leaves, which emerge alternately along the stem, without petiole, are pinnate and very jagged at the margins with a single central rib. The flowers, intense scarlet, bell-shaped and almost spherical, have four fine petals and two hairy sepals. The petals are very delicate and wither quickly, so the flowers can not be used in floral decorations. The stamens, of black color, form a ringed cluster around the gynoecium, which gives it the appearance of a black button. The fruit is a unilocular capsule with false walls, pale green, oval / subglobose, truncated by a kind of lid on the top (disc) with 8-18 rays and with numerous inframymetric seeds, which escape through pores below of the upper disc (porous dehiscence). These tiny seeds are, as in all species of the genus, kidney-shaped, alveolate with polygonal and brown reticulum. They bloom from the beginning to the end of spring. [Citation needed]
Detail of the reproductive devices
Poppy has been associated with agriculture since ancient times. Its life cycle adapts to most cereal crops, flourish and grow before harvesting. Although it is considered a weed, (Source Wikipedia)
Amapola,
Papaver rhoeas L., 1753, la amapola silvestre, es una especie fanerógama del género Papaver, perteneciente a la familia Papaveraceae (papaveráceas).
Es una planta de ciclo anual que puede alcanzar más de 50 cm de altura. Posee tallos erectos y poco ramificados con finos pelillos. Las hojas, que nacen alternas a lo largo del tallo, sin peciolo, son pinnadas y muy dentadas en los márgenes con una única nervadura central. Las flores, de color escarlata intenso, acampanadas y casi esféricas, poseen cuatro finos pétalos y dos sépalos vellosos. Los pétalos son muy delicados y se marchitan rápidamente, por lo que las flores no pueden usarse en adornos florales. Los estambres, de color negro, forman un racimo anillado alrededor del gineceo, lo que le da el aspecto de botón negro. El fruto es una cápsula unilocular con falsos tabiques, verde pálido, de forma ovalada/subglobosa, truncada por una especie de tapa en la parte superior (disco) con 8-18 radios y con numerosas semillas inframilimétricas, que escapan a través de poros debajo del disco superior (dehiscencia porícida). Dichas diminutas semillas son, como en todas las especies del género, de forma arriñonada, alveoladas con retículo poligonal y de color pardo. Florecen de principio a final de la primavera.[cita requerida]
Detalle de los aparatos reproductores
La amapola se ha asociado a la agricultura desde épocas antiguas. Su ciclo de vida se adapta a la mayoría de los cultivos de cereales, florecen y granan antes de la recolección de las cosechas. Aunque se la considera una mala hierba, (Fuente Wikipedia)
16 Mile Creek totally disappears into porous limestone just above Upper Louth Falls, and then after reappearing, half of it disappears into a hole just below the top of the falls. This is the swirl where it disappears into a hole.
Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
On the floor of the valley east of the Teton range, glacial meltwaters have deposited thick layers of cobbles, gravel, sand, and silt. The resulting porous soil holds so little water that only the gray-green sagebrush and a few tough grasses can survive.
These sagebrush steppes are dry, occurring most often the rain shadows of mountains in the western United States. They are cold in the winter and hot in the summer, with most of their precipitation falling in the winter as snow.
On this day the first snows of the winter were falling in the higher elevations as a storm front moved through the area.
These are the colors of Icelandic lava. All of those stones were right next to each other.
It is very light, porous as you can see, and breaks easily.
Its name? Scoria. (that does not sound well in Spanish!)
From Wikipeadia: Scoria is a volcanic rock containing many holes or vesicles. It is most generally dark in color (generally dark brown, black or red), and basaltic or andesitic in composition.
Scoria is relatively low in mass as a result of its numerous macroscopic vesicles, but in contrast to pumice, all scoria has a specific gravity greater than 1, and sinks in water.
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Palm Valley is a valley in the MacDonnell Ranges west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia.
The last population of the Marienpalme (Livistona mariae) is in the valley in the Finke Gorge National Park, which can only be reached by four-wheel drive vehicles over a 16-kilometer track south of Hermannsburg. The water, which is important for survival, comes from mountain ridges made of porous sandstone, which have developed into a huge reservoir of water through erosion that has lasted for millions of years.
The palm species, which came from a more humid climatic period, has probably only survived here on the banks of Palm Creek for around 20,000 years. In March 2012, an Australian-Japanese research team described in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B the thesis that Australian natives could have transported palm seeds to the center of the continent around 15,000 years ago.
Read more: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Valley_(Northern_Territory)
Palm Valley ist ein Tal in den MacDonnell Ranges westlich von Alice Springs im Northern Territory Australiens.
In dem Tal im Finke-Gorge-Nationalpark, das nur mit Allradfahrzeugen über eine 16 Kilometer lange Piste südlich von Hermannsburg zu erreichen ist, befindet sich die letzte Population der Marienpalme (Livistona mariae). Das zum Überleben wichtige Wasser stammt von Bergkämmen aus porösem Sandstein, die sich durch seit Jahrmillionen andauernde Erosion zu einem gewaltigen Wasserspeicher entwickelt haben.
Die aus einer feuchteren Klimaperiode stammende Palmenart hat vermutlich seit etwa 20.000 Jahren nur hier am Ufer des Palm Creek überdauert. Ein australisch-japanisches Forscherteam beschrieb im März 2012 im Fachblatt Proceedings of the Royal Society B die These, dass australische Ureinwohner vor rund 15.000 Jahren Palmensamen ins Zentrum des Kontinents transportiert haben könnten.
Mehr lesen: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Valley_(Northern_Territory)
One gallon alkaline glazed jug, 8-3/4" high, from Old Edgefield District, South Carolina, USA, ca. 1850. MGK collection.
South Carolina is known for having three unique folk-art traditions: Sweetgrass basketry, Catawba pottery, and Edgefield pottery. For more than 200 years, the Edgefield area of South Carolina has been known for its stoneware pottery. Strong and non-porous, stoneware is usually glazed and fired in a kiln at very high temperatures. This pottery was intended for everyday use, in a time before the Mason jar revolutionized food storage.