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I am just beginning to explore the potential of using a drone on my photographic journey. This was shot today with a DJI Spark.
Project: Cheap Film Camera Challenge with Expired Kodak Film.
Camera: Vivitar PZ3105 = Total Cost $5 CDN. (Unused)
Film: Expired 35mm Kodak Film from the 90's/early 2000's.
Such great timing for this project - In October 2022 The Eastman Kodak Co. announced on Twitter that it has hired more than 300 people over the past 18 months to handle the rising demand for 35mm film, and that it's aiming to hire even more workers.
Coming in 2024 -> A Sloth's Life on Expired Kodak 35mm film
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-> Support Pentax as they announced in late 2022 that they will be laying out a potential road map for manufacturing a range of new film cameras:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXUmpqY3nWQ&t=48s
-> Read the Nov. 30th 2022 Article by Janet Nguyen: Film photography has made a comeback. Can Manufacturers keep up with demand?
www.marketplace.org/2022/11/30/film-photography-has-made-...
-> Read the Jan. 24th, 2023 Vice.com Article by Bea Tridimas: Why There’s A Colour Film Shortage Right Now.
www.vice.com/en/article/dy7m8x/why-theres-a-colour-film-s...
-> Read the Dec. 29th 2022 PetaPixel Article by Pesala Bandara: Photographer Becomes Internet Hit for Expired Film and Unusual Cameras.
petapixel.com/2022/12/29/photographer-becomes-internet-hi...
-> Read thephoblographer Article: Kodak Ektar H35 Review. It's beautiful and fun to use!
www.thephoblographer.com/2022/07/31/kodak-ektar-h35-revie...
-> Be aware: Kodak prices to soar up to 40% in 2023!
www.digitalcameraworld.com/news/another-price-hike-for-ca...
-> What the Vivitar PZ3105 looks like:
www.depop.com/products/loafcameras-vivitar-pz3105-idee000...
Nerium oleander is an evergreen shrub or small tree in the dogbane family Apocynaceae, potentially toxic in all its parts. It is the only species currently classified in the genus Nerium. Wikipedia
This is an image that I feel encapsulates my current photographic situation. If you follow my work you may (or may not) have noticed that my frequency of uploads has tailed off somewhat and that is down to a few things. The first one is time, time to get out with the camera, time to process and time to upload. Lack of time has been a big factor for me throughout the past year, so much so that I no longer have a dedicated website for my portfolio of images and felt it was a waste of money when I couldn't keep it current. I did however set up a blog site but even that is starting to suffer.
Secondly processing images is becoming a chore, this could be down to me doing more film photography, but the truth is my current PC has become frustrating to use and to upgrade would be expensive so I simply store the digital files in the hope that I will be able to process them at a later date and hopefully on a faster PC.
But all rainy days have to end, and this is no different. My iPhone has been getting some use, allowing me to be more creative with simple snapshots like above and instant processing. So all is not lost, I'm still creating images which is important, I'm even jotting down potential projects to work on in the future. The lack of time out in the field with my dslr hasn't all been bad, it's given me perspective and when photographic opportunities come along I grab them and make the most of them even if it's for an hour or two.
Anyone out there in a similar situation, just hang in there ;-)
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A double exposure of the St Johns Bridge, taken with my Holga camera as I rode across the bridge, no I wasn't driving. The fun thing about double exposures, holga, and windshield shooting is that with any of them you never quite know what you are going to get. Combine all three of them together and the results are even more unpredictable. It is this unpredictability that I am particularly drawn to. This is a vision not even my imagination would have created, yet my $25 dollar plastic camera did. Amazing.
This particular photo by the way is dedicated to a good friend, with whom I recently had a discussion with about subpar photography. They are a big fan of this bridge so hopefully they like this shot too. But these sort of discussions can drive me a bit mad at times. Especially considering I hold their photography in very high esteem. They have a wonderful vision of this world, and a true passion for seeking out and capturing the magic of it. Seeing someone of such ability fail to realize in their own work their ability for causing the rest of us marvel is a travesty. Our photography is what we make of it, nothing more and nothing less. It truly troubles me to see someone whose photography could be something more, make it something less.
Photography is such an incredibly subject business. You take a soulless metal and glass device that has no opinion, thoughts or feelings...in other words, bias, and you use it to capture something as unique and undefinable as one's own vision. There is no way to be able to quantify this. It is what we believe it to be. I do not like to think of good pictures or bad pictures. To me, a slightly out of focus shot of some 40 year old man from the 1950's may be boring (it often isn't) but to that man's granddaughter who is seeing it 50 years later, it is priceless. Maybe this shot of the bridge, which I find intriguing and mysterious, might bore or confuse another. How can one possibly label a photo as being necessarily a "good" shot or a "bad" shot, or a "subpar" shot for that matter then? You show it to ten people and you will likely get ten different responses. Majority opinion then? Surely not. Because majority opinion would often be unimpressed with all your personal family photos, yet we still love to display them at home.
Each photographer shoots at least partially themselves, even if the photograph is meant for some other audience. It is their vision they are recording, their craftsmanship being put to the test. Ultimately I believe the person's opinion who matters the most when it comes to your photography is your own. And yes, I agree, the opinions of others, especially the nice and constructive ones, certainly make an impact too. I guess what all this long-winded rambling was about, was me just trying to say, don't do yourself that injustice by failing to see what you are capable of when you pick up a camera. Do not fail to believe in yourself, for to do so is to limit yourself, to handicap your ability to see. One does not have to be an arrogant snob about it either, instead of thinking good or bad, think potential, think vision, think possibility. I am always a little sad when I see such great photographers producing great photography, which everybody else enjoys except for themselves. Alright then, off of my soapbox. Hope you made it this far, now get away from that comp and go take some photos. ;-)
If you are interested in pricing for my images, or just plain curious, more info can be found at my website: www.zebandrews.com
Well.....our potential "winter event" for 2019 was a total bust. Local meteorologists and iphone weather apps whipped the whole city up into a snow induced frenzy. In reality, we got a light dusting and will get a whole bunch or rain. Alas, I will have to look back on images from last years snow storm and hope the temperatures drop.
Image with my Hasselblad 500cm
This colourful artwork appears it might be partially inspired by a 1918 Soviet Red Army recruitment poster - itself possibly influenced by the still celebrated 1914 British propaganda poster of Kitchener with a pointed finger reminding potential cannon fodder that "Your country needs you!" - a poster which encouraged tens of thousands of young British men to volunteer for the killing fields of Flanders. The Putin-like face and the rats are just some of several notable differences from the original Red Army poster.
I suspect that many academics, while possibly readily agreeing that Putin could easily be classified as a "terrorist" (like many equally brutal authoritarian leaders the West eagerly support), might find it difficult to accept defining him as in any way "Red," especially given Russia's powerful oligarchic system and Putin's own declared belief that communism is "a blind alley, far away from the mainstream of civilization." Whether Putin's ideas of civilisation are somewhat warped is a different question.
I don't know whether there is also any inspiration from Oxford academic Timothy Garton Ash who described Putin as "rat faced," though I'm not sure whether the addition of rat analogies to the debate is helpful.
I post this series of photos of anti-war protests in central London as a neutral observer (more photos will be following soon). I'm no fan of either Russian or Western imperialism and military aggression and I have every sympathy with the Ukrainians who are facing a war of aggression from their more powerful northern neighbour, part of the motive for which seems to be to rebuild the prestige and power of Russia, as a sort of new Russian empire reflecting the former hegemonic influence over Eastern Europe of the Soviet Union. All at an immense cost in lives, and also a clear and grave violation of international law. Putin's decision to escalate the nuclear standoff with the West by publicly placing his nuclear forces on high alert should be another reminder of just how dangerous he is.
However, the West should also share a significant portion of the blame for this war. The Russian invasion is far from "unprovoked" as many media commentators claim. First, we have to remember recent history and how Russia has good reason to fear NATO which was originally set up to combat the threat of the 'Russian hordes.' It is remarkable how in 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev, despite his familiarity with Germany's responsibility for having invaded Russia twice during the twentieth century (in 1914 and 1941), agreed to allow East Germany to join West Germany inside a hostile military alliance. There was however a quid pro quo, as promised by President George H. W. Bush (senior) and Secretary of State James Baker that NATO wouldn't move "another inch to the east" but that promise was soon broken as during the Clinton presidency, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary joined, and then under President George W. Bush, the NATO alliance was further extended to include Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and the Baltic States, and further still under Obama to Croatia and Albania.
This means that NATO forces are now frequently deployed right around Russia's western borders (except for Ukraine and Belarus). One can imagine, Washington's paranoia, if say in the 1960s or 1970s, Mexico and Canada had declared their intention to join the Warsaw Pact and many people may be familiar with how Cuba's desire to station Soviet missiles on its territory to deter a feared US invasion (and frequent terror attacks), almost led to a nuclear war, though fortunately Khrushchev saw wisdom and backed down in the face of JFK's terrifying brinkmanship and secretly the United States did agree to withdraw some of its older strategic nuclear missiles from Turkey.
At the same time the United States sees Ukraine as occupying a key space on the strategic chessboard, and has ensured that Ukraine has become increasingly dependent on foreign debt and Washington's goodwill, and has continued to plan for Ukraine's eventual incorporation into NATO. That would mean Ukraine, which occupies a vital strategic position on Russia's southern flank and with its border just 350 miles from Moscow, would also become a potential platform for an assault on Russia and even if no assault ever occurred, the mere fact of NATO's enhanced power, would inevitably greatly diminish any remaining influence Russia had to counterbalance US hegemony in Europe. That's why Ukraine's membership of NATO is something which no Russian leader was ever likely to accept. It is of course easy to see a possible compromise - that Ukraine should remain neutral but that in return all countries should respect its territorial integrity, although allowing some autonomy for the Russian speaking areas in Crimea and the Donbass.
Western media has downplayed the suffering of the Russian population in the Donbass region, which for years has been subjected to constant shelling from government forces, and although Ukrainian civilians have also been killed by Russian backed separatists, the UN figures clearly show that year after year, it was the Russian population which suffered a far higher level of fatalities and serious injuries, including the deaths of many children.
ukraine.un.org/sites/default/files/2022-02/Conflict-relat...
Western media also holds up Ukraine as a beacon of freedom and democracy, but while there have been some important gains for civil society in recent years, Russians have good reason to be unhappy. The Ukraine government has harassed and detained several opposition and pro-Russian journalists and in February 2017 it banned the commercial importation of books from Russia and a new education law made Ukrainian the sole language of instruction in secondary schools, which obviously discriminated against its Russian population. Fascist militias are also growing in number and corruption is endemic while the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture suspects the Ukrainian government of operating secret prisons.
However, it should be noted that the human rights record of the separatist regions of Luhansk and Donetsk have also received intense criticism from the UN OHCHR (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights) and various NGOs for suspected human rights abuses, while Russia's appalling human rights record and its increasing authoritarianism is well known.
To avoid the enormous risk of a nuclear confrontation the West has to start thinking of a way to allow Putin to climb down, without jeopardising European security or sacrificing the freedoms of the Ukrainian people and the obvious way would be to agree to recognise Ukraine as a neutral sovereign state which would remain outside NATO and with a real democratic autonomy for the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
If the West continues to funnel enormous quantities of high tech military equipment into Ukraine, without any attempt to reach a political compromise (by recognising Russia's legitimate security concerns and autonomy for the Donbass region while still guaranteeing Ukraine's sovereignty) there's a very real risk that an increasingly frustrated Putin will issue an ultimatum for the tactical use of nuclear weapons in order to regain the upper hand on the battlefield, and this will be an incredibly dangerous moment for humankind.
There are several "readings" of this symbol.
7 eyes is a bead of "attention". As the Tibetan simply explained to me, the owner of the bead will be heard, noticed, perceived and remembered.
According to a more common version, the Tibetan dZi bead 7 eyes symbolizes the constellation Ursa Major. The 7 eyes of the Dzi bead represent the 7 stars from this constellation. In Tibet, it is believed that Ursa Major is a manifestation of the seven Buddhas of medicine.
The main task of these seven Buddhas is to free all living beings from diseases of an external and internal nature. The main Buddha of medicine, or the guru of medicine, is depicted with a blue body, which symbolizes wisdom and that he is an emanation of the healing power of all the buddhas. In his left hand he holds a bowl filled with healing nectar, and in his right hand he holds a medicinal plant.
The Buddha of Medicine helps a person to awaken bodily and mental powers that we can use to heal ourselves and help other people. These are not some external forces that help us, this is what is inside us, in our consciousness. These are the dormant forces that can be awakened by meditation, awareness of the moment "now", visualization and other spiritual practices.
When awakened, this inner source exerts tremendous healing power. It opens the reserves of the human body and spirit and is able to most fully reveal the true personal potential of a person. Tibetan dZi bead 7 eyes helps in revealing this inner potential.
Once we shot L550 leaving Manistique we tried 1 other shot that was meh and then booked it west to Rapid River knowing there had to be a shot of the bridge. We arrived with more than enough time to explore and try to find a shot but upon arrival I noticed a run down house with no activity that was up for sale so I quickly became a "Potential" buyer of the house and started looking around and at the same time planning the shot. After thinking it through and well getting this shot i decided the house just wasn't for me even though it offers up some great shots and proceeded west to Happy Rock.
A potential buyer looking at some antiquarian prints in one of the many fascinating shops in Cecil Court, just off Charring Cross Road in London. This is 3 exposures with -1+ stops bracketing, then Photomatix for HDR and tonemapping, and finally Photoshop for the finishing touches.
...wouldn't want to be here without a shelter during a winter storm!
Last ten images uploaded with f-Stop. Potential replacement for my beloved FlickApertureExport plugin that does no longer work on my OS Sierra. Well, it was Flickr changing its API authentication process. Seems the page that should hand out the key was deleted. Just can't figure out why it still can sign in on my OS 10.6.8 machine with Aperture 3.2.4 but not on a newer one with OS 10.12.6 with Aperture 3.6. Dragged all the related files over, but it wants to authenticate anew and fails.
f-Stop needs some improvements though. Takes me about three times longer now, as I have to fill in the fields all over again from my custom fields in Aperture. But I’m very pleased by the developers response in regards to improving the process and app. It’s loaded with features and a bargain. So if you are looking for a nice way to upload to Flickr, this is way better than their uploader. Plus it’s a stand-alone solution that does all I ever do at the Flickr website.
Western Canada, Section 5: Vancouver Island, Port Hardy - Holberg - North Coast Trail
I post this series of photos of an anti-war protest in central London as a neutral observer (more photos will be following soon). I'm no fan of either Russian or Western imperialism and military aggression and I have every sympathy with the Ukrainians who are facing a war of aggression from their more powerful northern neighbour, part of the motive for which seems to be to rebuild the prestige and power of Russia, as a sort of new Russian empire reflecting the former hegemonic influence over Eastern Europe of the Soviet Union. All at an immense cost in lives, and also a clear and grave violation of international law. Putin's decision to escalate the nuclear standoff with the West by publicly placing his nuclear forces on high alert should be another reminder of just how dangerous he is.
However, the West should also share a significant portion of the blame for this war. The Russian invasion is far from "unprovoked" as many media commentators claim. First, we have to remember recent history and how Russia has good reason to fear NATO which was originally set up to combat the threat of the 'Russian hordes.' It is remarkable how in 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev, despite his familiarity with Germany's responsibility for having invaded Russia twice during the twentieth century (in 1914 and 1941), agreed to allow East Germany to join West Germany inside a hostile military alliance. There was however a quid pro quo, as promised by President George H. W. Bush (senior) and Secretary of State James Baker that NATO wouldn't move "another inch to the east" but that promise was soon broken as during the Clinton presidency, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary joined, and then under President George W. Bush, the NATO alliance was further extended to include Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and the Baltic States, and further still under Obama to Croatia and Albania.
This means that NATO forces are now frequently deployed right around Russia's western borders (except for Ukraine and Belarus). One can imagine, Washington's paranoia, if say in the 1960s or 1970s, Mexico and Canada had declared their intention to join the Warsaw Pact and many people may be familiar with how Cuba's desire to station Soviet missiles on its territory to deter a feared US invasion (and frequent terror attacks), almost led to a nuclear war, though fortunately Khrushchev saw wisdom and backed down in the face of JFK's terrifying brinkmanship and secretly the United States did agree to withdraw some of its older strategic nuclear missiles from Turkey.
At the same time the United States sees Ukraine as occupying a key space on the strategic chessboard, and has ensured that Ukraine has become increasingly dependent on foreign debt and Washington's goodwill, and has continued to plan for Ukraine's eventual incorporation into NATO. That would mean Ukraine, which occupies a vital strategic position on Russia's southern flank and with its border just 350 miles from Moscow, would also become a potential platform for an assault on Russia and even if no assault ever occurred, the mere fact of NATO's enhanced power, would inevitably greatly diminish any remaining influence Russia had to counterbalance US hegemony in Europe. That's why Ukraine's membership of NATO is something which no Russian leader was ever likely to accept. It is of course easy to see a possible compromise - that Ukraine should remain neutral but that in return all countries should respect its territorial integrity, although allowing some autonomy for the Russian speaking areas in Crimea and the Donbass.
Western media has downplayed the suffering of the Russian population in the Donbass region, which for years has been subjected to constant shelling from government forces, and although Ukrainian civilians have also been killed by Russian backed separatists, the UN figures clearly show that year after year, it was the Russian population which suffered a far higher level of fatalities and serious injuries, including the deaths of many children.
ukraine.un.org/sites/default/files/2022-02/Conflict-relat...
Western media also holds up Ukraine as a beacon of freedom and democracy, but while there have been some important gains for civil society in recent years, Russians have good reason to be unhappy. The Ukraine government has harassed and detained several opposition and pro-Russian journalists and in February 2017 it banned the commercial importation of books from Russia and a new education law made Ukrainian the sole language of instruction in secondary schools, which obviously discriminated against its Russian population. Fascist militias are also growing in number and corruption is endemic while the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture suspects the Ukrainian government of operating secret prisons.
However, it should be noted that the human rights record of the separatist regions of Luhansk and Donetsk have also received intense criticism from the UN OHCHR (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights) and various NGOs for suspected human rights abuses, while Russia's appalling human rights record and its increasing authoritarianism is well known.
To avoid the enormous risk of a nuclear confrontation the West has to start thinking of a way to allow Putin to climb down, without jeopardising European security or sacrificing the freedoms of the Ukrainian people and the obvious way would be to agree to recognise Ukraine as a neutral sovereign state which would remain outside NATO and with a real democratic autonomy for the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
If the West continues to funnel enormous quantities of high tech military equipment into Ukraine, without any attempt to reach a political compromise (by recognising Russia's legitimate security concerns and autonomy for the Donbass region while still guaranteeing Ukraine's sovereignty) there's a very real risk that an increasingly frustrated Putin will issue an ultimatum for the tactical use of nuclear weapons in order to regain the upper hand on the battlefield, and this will be an incredibly dangerous moment for humankind.
Volcán de Agua (also known as Hunahpú by Mayans) is a stratovolcano located in the department of Sacatepéquez in Guatemala. At 3,760 m (12,340 ft), Agua Volcano towers more than 3,500 m (11,500 ft) above the Pacific coastal plain to the south and 2,000 m (6,600 ft) above the Guatemalan Highlands to the north. It dominates the local landscape except when hidden by cloud cover. The volcano is within 5 to 10 km (3.1 to 6.2 mi) of the city of Antigua Guatemala and several other large towns situated on its northern apron. These towns have a combined population of nearly 100,000. It is within about 20 km of Escuintla (population, ca .100,000) to the south. Coffee is grown on the volcano's lower slopes.
The local Kaqchikel people have always called the volcano Hunapú "place of flowers" or Jun Ajpu' "one hunter (The calendar date for the sacred site; a typical method for naming sacred sites in Mayan cosmovision)" in current Kaqchikel orthography. The Spanish conquistadors also called it Hunapú until a lahar from the volcano in 1541 destroyed the original capital of Guatemala (now known as Ciudad Vieja) and the city was moved to the current site of Antigua Guatemala following this disaster. Among the casualties was the governor Beatriz de la Cueva. As the lahar produced a destructive flood of water, this prompted the modern name "Volcán de Agua" meaning "Volcano of Water", in contrast to the nearby "Volcán de Fuego" or "Volcano of Fire". The Kaqchikels call Volcan de Fuego Chi Gag, which translates to "where the fire is" or Chi Q'aq' in current Kaqchikel orthography.
The volcano has not had any historical eruptions, but it has the potential to produce debris flows and lahars that could inundate nearby populated areas.
The volcano was last blanketed by snowfall in January 1967.
The Volcán de Agua has been declared a protected area in 1956 and covers an area of 12,600 Ha.
On January 21, 2012, 12,000 Guatemalans formed a human chain all the way to the peak Volcan de Agua in a protest against domestic violence.
I used to play a little chess. Like most of the boys my age at the time, I got caught up in the Bobby Fischer craze when he beat Boris Spasski for the world championship. I bought a set, got a couple of books, learned a couple of cheap tricks, and was set to crush my opponents. At first, my opponents were mostly my friends who knew diddley squat about chess, and were easy pickings for a kid with some book knowledge and a few memorized opening traps.
Full of a false sense of invincibility, I decided to take my skills to the local chess club. I showed up at their meeting on Thursday night and the first thing I noticed was the room was full of old guys. How hard could this be? I'm not going to say anymore about this other than I did have some potential. Just not at chess.
Happy Slider's Sunday everyone.
Nevada City CA
This waterfront next to the Canadian Parliament...what can I say? Maybe it looks somewhat better at sunset? Maybe it looks better by cropping out the unimaginative Claridge condo buildings on Lebreton Flats? Just imagine what could be there...
Kids are amazing. The more time I spend performing for them, the "amazed-er" I get.
A child really can embrace the notion that something can magically appear in a bag that was empty just a moment before. They laugh with abandon. Looking cool isn't all that important to a kid.
I like kids.
When I am on stage doing a show, I look out at the all those little eyes looking back at me in the happy expectation that something wonderful is going to happen.
Do you know what I see? A sea of potential. These little people could become anything: writers or lawyers, serial killers or politicians (same difference, I guess.)
The world hasn't written on their souls with that indelible marker yet.
They could become anything.
Which is something else I find really cool. Who knows? Maybe one or two of them will wind up on flickr.
Thanks to Dianna for the texture. Her excellent Photostream is here: www.flickr.com/photos/dianna1966/
A swirling Eastern Pacific Ocean storm system headed for California was spotted by NOAA's GOES-West satellite on February 28. According to the National Weather Service, this storm system has the potential to bring heavy rainfall to the drought-stricken state.
The storm was captured using visible data from NOAA's GOES-West or GOES-15 satellite on Feb. 28 at 1915 UTC/11:15 a.m. PST was made into an image by NASA/NOAA's GOES Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The storm's center appeared as a tight swirl, with bands of clouds and showers already sweeping over the state extending from northern California to Baja California, Mexico.
At 11:30 a.m. PST on February 28, Bill Patzert, climatologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. said, "Right now from northern to southern California we are being battered by very heavy rain, strong winds and our coastal communities are being battered by high surf. Through the weekend we are bracing for mud and rock slides in areas that recently burned [from wildfires]. Flooding is looming up and down the state."
The National Weather Service (NWS) serving Los Angeles posted a Flood Watch for the region on Friday, February 28. The Flood Watch notes the "potential for flash flooding and debris flows for some 2013 and 2014 burn areas in Los Angeles County from this morning through Saturday evening (March 1).”
The NWS Flood Watch also noted "a very strong and dynamic storm will bring a significant amount of rain to much of southwestern California through Saturday evening. A flash flood watch has been issued for several recent burn areas in Los Angeles County due to the abundant rainfall expected. Rain rates at times are expected to range from a half inch to one inch per hour which could cause significant mud and debris flows. There will be a chance of thunderstorms with locally higher rainfall rates."
"Californians haven't seen rain and wind this powerful in 3 years," Patzert said. "By early next week, as this system moves east, this powerful system will wreak havoc causing snow and ice storms through the Midwest into the Northeast."
GOES satellites provide the kind of continuous monitoring necessary for intensive data analysis. Geostationary describes an orbit in which a satellite is always in the same position with respect to the rotating Earth. This allows GOES to hover continuously over one position on Earth's surface, appearing stationary. As a result, GOES provide a constant vigil for the atmospheric "triggers" for severe weather conditions such as tornadoes, flash floods, hail storms and hurricanes.
On a positive note, Patzert noted, "This is a nice down payment on drought recovery in the parched Western U.S."
For updated information about the storm system, visit NOAA's National Weather Service website: www.weather.gov
For more information about GOES satellites, visit: www.goes.noaa.gov/ or goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Rob Gutro
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This atmospheric image shows a galaxy named Messier 85, captured in all its delicate, hazy glory by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Messier 85 slants through the constellation of Coma Berenices (Berenice’s Hair), and lies around 50 million light-years from Earth. It was first discovered by Charles Messier’s colleague Pierre Méchain in 1781, and is included in the Messier catalogue of celestial objects.
Messier 85 is intriguing — its properties lie somewhere between those of a lenticular and an elliptical galaxy, and it appears to be interacting with two of its neighbours: the beautiful spiral NGC 4394, located out of frame to the upper left, and the small elliptical MCG 3-32-38, located out of frame to the centre bottom.
The galaxy contains some 400 billion stars, most of which are very old. However, the central region hosts a population of relatively young stars of just a few billion years in age; these stars are thought to have formed in a late burst of star formation, likely triggered as Messier 85 merged with another galaxy over four billion years ago. Messier 85 has a further potentially strange quality. Almost every galaxy is thought to have a supermassive black hole at its centre, but from measurements of the velocities of stars in this galaxy, it is unclear whether Messier 85 contains such a black hole.
This image combines infrared, visible and ultraviolet observations from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3.
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. O'Connell; CC BY 4.0
I know, more cinematic shots, but I'm loving this way too much right now. Just love the potential of it, and have barely scratched the surface!
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You're looking at a picture that I think has the potential to be one of the best shots I'll ever take.
Not this go around obviously, frankly this is pants, you can see that. But if you can look past the obvious deficiencies of this attempt, you'll surely see what I mean.
Look at the location, a reasonably straight run at you albeit with a roller coaster-esque feel, a couple of small dips and bumps followed by a much longer climb towards you. The semaphores to the left, the track literally disappearing from view in the foreground.
I've often thought of trying the shot from the bridge I've used to frame other shots from this location, see www.flickr.com/photos/darkprince66/16857442410/ .
Trouble is, doing so is going to lose that edge that those tracks disappearing gives, so that's out.
Position-wise, this is near perfect, I've got train, tracks and signals lined up well. Ideally, I'd like just a little more to the left side, so that you get both tracks of the down line that Tug 66 is on plunging away from you.
No matter this time, this is another epic fail. But one day, I'm going to nail this f***er. And you'll be the first to know about it.
60066 6M30 Margam-Dee Marsh, Buckley, 5 April 2015.
Protesters from Occupy LA in a showdown over being evicted.
More from this series at: Showdown at City Hall.
In Garter Blue livery LNER A4 4-6-2 4498 Sir Nigel Gresley departs southwards to Newport on the A4 locomotive Society's Salopian steam special under the watchful eye of the railway policeman. He is not wearing hi-vis and is more interested in the A4 than any potential trespassers.
The potential health benefits of Shatavari. Shatavari has a wide range of benefits. A study published in the Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Disease showed that the herb strengthens the immune system by enhancing the functioning of macrophages―the immune cells responsible for digesting potentially destructive organisms and cancer cells. This plant is now considered an endangered species because of all it's known uses.
This is one of my houseplants....have had it probably 30-40 years and have never known it's information!!!!!! 😮
My plant is in full bloom but the flowers are so tiny it's hard to photograph....my camera doesn't want to focus on the flowers very well!! Maybe if I use manual mode that would help. They are probably the size of a large pin-head.