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Well, winter is here and is the best time to process images. So expect more frequent posting as I have been doing recently.
I was supposed to be leaving today on a planned trip to Georgia, Florida and Alabama and am very disappointed that it fell through. Can't win them all. It still could happen in the spring, but I am counting on exploring the eastern half of Nebraska in March. Also a high probability of a return to Texas. Hopefully 2016 will get me across the pond to the great U.K.
hairy cat's ear, common cat's-ear, false dandelion, frogbit, gosmore, spotted catsear
(Hypochoeris radicata L.)
Family: Aster (Asteraceae)
A perennial weed that is similar to common dandelion. Usually occurs in non-wetlands (estimated probability 67%-99%), but occasionally found on wetlands (estimated probability 1%-33%).
The proof that I should donate this book---along with many, many others like it on my shelves---is the thick layer of dust that has formed on top if it. Q.E.D.
Probability & Measure Theory, 2nd Ed.
by R. B. Ash and C. A. Doléans-Dade
Academic Press, San Diego (2000)
Free to a loving home; is house-broken and loves to cuddle.
The weather forecast stated a 0% probability of rain, but this was our first shot of the day and we all got a fair soaking in the process!
Most southbound services ran late too, the 1V91 05.33 Holyhead to Cardiff Central was 45 minutes to the bad.
Antelope Canyon Arizona Desert Fine Art! High Res Upper Antelope Canyon Ghosts & Light Beams! Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Landscape & Nature Photography!
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Enjoy my new fine art landscapes & ballet video!
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Let me know what you think! :)
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Working on a couple photography books! 45EPIC GODDESS PHOTOGRAPHY: A classic guide to exalting the archetypal woman. And 45EPIC Fine Art Landscape Photography!
Fresh snow! More on my golden ratio musings: facebook.com/goldennumberratio
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Greetings all! I have been busy finishing a few books on photography, while traveling all over--to Zion and the Sierras--shooting fall colors. Please see some here: facebook.com/mcgucken
Let me know in the comments if you would like a free review copy of one of my photography books! :)
Titles include:
The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art with the Yin-Yang Wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography
facebook.com/goldennumberratio
And I am also working on a book on photographing the goddesses! :) More goddesses soon!
Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
www.facebook.com/Epic-Poetry-for-Epic-Landscape-Photograp...
Did you know that John Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson all loved epic poetry and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, and Robert Burns?
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
www.facebook.com/lightimedimensiontheory/
Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
Follow me on instagram!
Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!
Enjoy my new fine art landscapes & ballet video!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3b1df46oKw
Let me know what you think! :)
Elliot McGucken Fine Art Landscape and Nature Photography
Zion NP Fall Foliage, Autumn Colors, & Winter Snow! Elliot McGucken Fine Art Landscape and Nature Photography!
Antelope Canyon! Elliot McGucken Fine Art Landscape and Nature Photography!
(for English see below)
Že to bez sněhu nebude ono? Tss.
Sever totiž umí neskutečný věci. Kdysi jsem se o tom dohadoval s jedním známým, kantor odněkud od Kolína, co musí mít vždycky pravdu. Tvrdil jsem mu, že tyhle fotky s neuvěřitelnou oblohou nejsou až taková náhoda, že tady u nás na severu se tomu dá jít pár dnů v roce naproti. Nevěřil, nemožný.
Tady jo. Když se potká pár podmínek, hlavně severozápadní proudění, navečer se to občas stane. Krušné hory mraky rozervou a pod ně mezerou nad horama svitne nízký slunce. Extáze. Ten domov, kterej si ponesu navždycky v srdci.
Ze svého pokoje u rodičů jsem měl na západ výhled a když s to vypadalo dobře, bral jsem foťák a kramle. A šance byla pěkných pár procent, možná dokonce desítek procent. Ale že to bude tentokrát až takovej obraz, to mě fakt nenapadlo.
Je 17:00 a scéna začíná. Zleva od hor se dělá modro, ale co to je? Vzadu ještě trochu prší, dělá se duha. Tlačím očima hodinky a přemlouvám mraky. Zpožděný pražský rychlík, R614 Salubia, 363.077, čtyři zelené, najbrtí áčko na konci. Dobrých patnáct minut sekyra. Parádní fotka, ale duha je tam furt jenom trochu. Ale doma člověk dostává druhý šance...
Je 17:17, tři minuty po rychlíku je to tady. Ani jsem nečekal, že za to fíra s dispečerem vezmou až tak. Os 6824/5 z Děčína do Mostu. Nejhorší myslitelný svezení, mřenka, kterou jsme my severočeští fotiči pohrdávali. Ale teď je mi sakra dobrá...
Rata-tatata.
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Once I had a kind of brawl with a distant friend, a teacher who always has to be right. I claimed that these pictures with a dramatic sky are not that rare and that you can predict it into a certain probability. He couldn't believe, as in his native landscape it seemed not possible.
Out here in the north it is possible.
The Krušné hory is somewhat unique mountain range, they seem tiny from the German side, but from the Czech one, it is monumental. A hunderd miles long bareer of steep slopes that gain some 2000 elevation feet in just two or three miles here. Ideal stuff to tear the clouds when the wind is right, even if it were just a few days a year. However if you grew up here, you could feel those moments somehow.
And this was the case again. Arrival to the nearest suitable spot at 5 PM, just little over an hour to the dusk. Where is that express from Prague? 15 minutes of delay, I keep convincing the clouds and pushing the time with my bare eyes.
Finally it is here. A beautiful picture, only when I saw it on the display I realized that there is a little sign of rainbow in the left. Hold on, what is that sound? Just three minutes behind there is the local train; something considered little bit inferior. Those bloody green 163-Class were almost the same for 20 years, just three coaches... It was the rapidly changing scenery that made it so special. Rainbow suddenly appears as there is some rain in the background.
Taka-taka-taka.
Forever special.
There are numerous follies on the Wentworth Woodhouse estate and the Needle’s Eye is one of the best known and probably the oldest. The Needle’s Eye is a 14m high pyramid shaped obelisk topped with an urn and arch (‘the eye’) running through its base. It is located 1 km north of Wentworth Woodhouse in Lee Wood and at the highest point of an old road that ran from the Lion (Rainborough) Lodge on the northern boundary of the estate. That road no longer exists but its alignment is easily seen when looking north to the Lion Lodge. The vista to the south of Wentworth Woodhouse no longer exists because of the trees nearer the house.
Legend has it that the Needle’s Eye was built by the 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, to satisfy a wager that he could drive a “horse and carriage through the eye of a needle” circa 1780. A nice story but unlikely to be true though.
Charles’ father Thomas Watson-Wentworth the 1st Marquess of Rockingham listed a “building of an obelisk in Lee Wood in his summary of activity between 1722 and 1733. There is an engraving of an obelisk in Lee Wood dated 1728 and reference on a plan of the estate dated 1730. So, in all probability the Needle’s Eye was built between 1722 and 1730 and possibly before the 2nd Marquess was born.
A further curio is that there are small round holes on the eastern side of the obelisk, and these are thought to be from musket balls. There is an unsubstantiated rumour of a firing squad involving Jacobite rebels.
With no accurate record of when, why and who built it the Needles Eye remains on of the most enigmatic follies on the estate.
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ウチからは いよいよ夏本番！ってことでサンダルです( ;谷)
確率同じなのでおみくじ的にどうぞぉぉ～
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Superbloom Carrizo Plains National Monument Tembler Range Desert Spring Wildflowers Fine Art Photography 45EPIC Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Landscape and Nature Photography! God Spilled the Paint! California Wild Flowers!
Greetings mate! I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
www.facebook.com/Epic-Poetry-for-Epic-Landscape-Photograp...
Did you know that John Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson all loved epic poetry and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, and Robert Burns?
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
www.facebook.com/lightimedimensiontheory/
Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
Follow me on instagram!
Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!
Fresh snow! More on my golden ratio musings: The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography facebook.com/goldennumberratio
Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
Zion National Park Autumn Colors & Winter Snow Fine Art Photography 45EPIC Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Landscape and Nature Photography
Love shooting with both the sony A7RII and the Nikon D810! :)
45EPIC Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Landscape and Nature Photography!
Antelope Canyon High Res Light Beams & Ghosts Fine Art Landscape Photography! Elliot McGucken Amercian Southwest Desert Fine Art Landscape and Nature Photography in Upper Antelope Canyon, Arizona!
I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
www.facebook.com/Epic-Poetry-for-Epic-Landscape-Photograp...
Did you know that John Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson all loved epic poetry and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, and Robert Burns?
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
www.facebook.com/lightimedimensiontheory/
Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
Follow me on instagram!
Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!
Enjoy my new fine art landscapes & ballet video!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3b1df46oKw
Let me know what you think! :)
Antelope Canyon! Elliot McGucken Fine Art Landscape and Nature Photography!
The Stang...
Coming soon to the Mississauga Promenade Center ther I 15th Annual Cruisin' for A Cure Canada;
Something I have been a huge supporter of in the past. The Car Show That Saves Men's Lives, which is held annually at the Powerade center in Brampton.
that was the first one in three years as Coiid shut it down and this is the first one since 2019. the turn out was amazing with over 400 cars participating and a smaller than typical crowd of only 3000. hopefully this year will be better.
Please tell your husbands, fathers, uncles, grandfather brothers and any man you care about to get a PSA test it changes the odds from 5 % survivability to 93%.
Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in American men, behind lung cancer. About 1 man in 41 will die of prostate cancer. Prostate cancer can be a fatal disease, but due to early detection most men diagnosed with prostate cancer will not die from it.
74% of prostate cancers are diagnosed early at Stage I and II. The probability of surviving prostate cancer at least five years after diagnosis is about 93% in Canada.
For more information check out the website for the car show.
www.cruisinforacurecanada.com/About.htm
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it looks like i am treading the long exposure photographer's well-worn and seemingly inevitable path from seascape to cityscape. (and, in all probability, back again!) not sure i'm entirely comfortable with this - there are so many people taking what, for me, are breathtaking photos within this rather narrow frame of reference (the best of the lot being joel tjintjelaar in my opinion) that it seems nigh on impossible to inject any kind of originality into this oevre. or maybe i'm just lazy...?
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise Pascal.
Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic theologian. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalising the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote in defence of the scientific method.
In 1642, while still a teenager, he started some pioneering work on calculating machines. After three years of effort and 50 prototypes, he built 20 finished machines (called Pascal's calculators and later Pascalines) over the following 10 years, establishing him as one of the first two inventors of the mechanical calculator.
Pascal was an important mathematician, helping create two major new areas of research: he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of 16, and later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science. Following Galileo Galilei and Torricelli, in 1647, he rebutted Aristotle's followers who insisted that nature abhors a vacuum. Pascal's results caused many disputes before being accepted. Source Wikipedia.
According to my analysis,
the math is over.
No more sad statistics
from the year of fear and loss.
But it meant nothing to you,
you small sum of a bird,
the axiom of my logic.
You were too busy with your own estimates,
with equating your chances
from the coordinates
of a proven sweet solution.
You’ve become a garden constant,
flying square routes and triangles,
adding to the measure of my work.
“Simplify the variables,” you sing,
then, in a fraction of a blur,
you dance the impossible graph of your ardour.
[EN]
✨ Two nights ago, it was simply magical! ✨
Three days ago (May 27), I climbed to the top of the Pain de Sucre (3208m altitude) to take night photographs.
The sea of clouds was not planned, but many conditions were met to achieve the photograph I had in mind.
Monitoring the weather forecast closely, the latter indicated the presence of a sea of clouds for a good part of the night; that of May 29 to 30). 😃
And it is this condition that I lacked to hope to achieve the desired photograph for a long time! ☁
When I saw this, I didn't quite know what to feel.
Torn between “all the conditions are met, it's just great! » and « Redo 500m of D+ over 2km? Alone? With 18kg of equipment? By -2°C? When I already went up two days ago? 😂”.
Being aware of the number of conditions to be met and their probability that they will all be met, I ended up motivating myself and going to the top of Sugar Loaf!
And I was not disappointed. The sea of clouds was there, settled for a few hours.
Like the feeling that time stands still, that life is sweeter.
✅ In addition to giving a pleasant feeling of well-being, the presence of a sea of clouds reduces the spread of light pollution, blocks atmospheric turbulence and thus offers exceptional sky transparency!
I spent nights at altitude, summer and winter, but there I admit that I have rarely seen such a pure sky even on the horizon.
I was then able to take this shot in the presence of the famous Mont Viso above the sea of clouds and under the Milky Way.
You will notice the presence of a slightly green color in the sky; it is a natural and rare phenomenon to observe called airglow 😉.
I am delighted to share with you this magnificent view under the stars from the Franco-Italian border. 🇮🇹🇫🇷
More photographs and timelapses taken up there are coming!
Sweet dreams ✨
📷 EXIF 📷
✅ Unfiltered Canon 6D + Samyang 35mm f/1.4 lens.
✅ Ninja 4 Panoramic Head.
✅ Panorama of 12 photographs.
✅ For the foreground: Panorama of 6 photographs. Each photograph is a single exposure of 50 seconds at ISO 2000 and f/2.8.
✅ For the sky: Panorama of 6 photographs. Each photograph is a single exposure of 8 seconds at ISO 6400 and f/2.8.
[FR]
✨ Il y a deux nuits, c'était simplement magique ! ✨
Il y a trois jours (le 27 mai), je grimpais au sommet du Pain de Sucre (3208m d'altitude) afin d'y réaliser des photographies nocturnes.
La mer de nuages n'était pas prévue, mais beaucoup de conditions étaient réunies pour réaliser la photographie que j'avais en tête.
Surveillant les prévisions météorologiques de près, ces dernières indiquaient la présence d'une mer de nuages une bonne partie de la nuit ; celle du 29 au 30 mai). 😃
Et c'est cette condition qu'il me manquait pour espérer réaliser la photographie voulue depuis un bon moment ! ☁
Quand j'ai vu cela, je ne savais pas trop quoi ressentir.
Tiraillé entre « toutes les conditions sont réunies, c'est juste top ! » et « Refaire 500m de D+ sur 2km ? Tout seul ?Avec 18kg de matériel ? Par -2 °C ? Alors que je suis déjà monté il y a deux jours ? 😂».
Étant conscient du nombre de conditions à remplir et de leur probabilité qu'elles soient toutes réunies, j'ai fini par me motiver et partir au sommet du Pain de Sucre !
Et je n'ai pas été déçu. La mer de nuages était bien là, posée depuis quelques heures.
Comme la sensation que le temps s'arrête, que la vie est plus douce.
✅ En plus de donner une agréable sensation de bien-être, la présence de mer de nuages permet de diminuer la diffusion de la pollution lumineuse, bloque les turbulences atmosphériques et ainsi offre une transparence du ciel exceptionnelle !
J'en ai passé des nuits en altitude, été comme hiver, mais là je reconnais que j'ai rarement vu un ciel aussi pur même sur l'horizon.
J'ai alors pu réaliser ce cliché en présence du fameux Mont Viso au-dessus de la mer de nuages et sous la Voie Lactée.
Vous remarquerez la présence d'une couleur légèrement verte dans le ciel ; il s'agit d'un phénomène naturel et rare à observer appelé airglow 😉.
Je suis ravi de partager avec vous cette vue magnifique sous les étoiles depuis la frontière franco-italienne. 🇮🇹🇫🇷
D'autres photographies et timelapses réalisés là-haut sont à venir !
Faites de beaux rêves ✨
📷 EXIFS 📷
✅ Canon 6D défiltré + objectif Samyang 35mm f/1.4.
✅ Tête panoramique Ninja 4
✅ Panorama de 12 photographies.
✅ Pour le sol : Panorama de 6 photographies. Chaque photographie est une pose unique de 50 secondes à 2000 ISO et f/2.8.
✅ Pour le ciel : Panorama de 6 photographies. Chaque photographie est une pose unique de 8 secondes à 6400 ISO et à f/2.8.
Malibu Beach Milky Way through a Sea Cave! The Epic Starry Night Seascape! Malibu Sea Caves! Pacific Ocean Astro Landscapes! Epic Landscape Photography: Elliot McGucken Fine Art Nature Astrophotography!
New book! Epic Landscape Photography: The Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography!
www.facebook.com/epiclandscapephotography/
The Epic Seascape! Malibu Sea Caves!
Landscape photography is not only about traveling through space, but it is also about traveling through time. One may return to the same beach time and again throughout the seasons to find a million different universes, changing in an infinitude of manners with each passing wave.
Not only do we voyage outwardly to get the shot, but we travel even further inwardly. While I spend my year trekking along the John Muir Trail, and on through Zion, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, Death Valley, and the Colorado Plateau, my heart always finds its home in these Malibu sea caves, where I have stood in awe during all hours of the day and night.
Included within are a few shots that only I have so far captured, including a miraculous winter solstice sunrise.
Best wishes throughout the coming year!
Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!
facebook.com/mcgucken
Working on a couple photography books! 45EPIC GODDESS PHOTOGRAPHY: A classic guide to exalting the archetypal woman. And 45EPIC Fine Art Landscape Photography!
More on my golden ratio musings: facebook.com/goldennumberratio
instagram.com/goldennumberratio
Greetings all! I have been busy finishing a few books on photography, while traveling all over--to Zion and the Sierras--shooting fall colors. Please see some here: facebook.com/mcgucken
Let me know in the comments if you would like a free review copy of one of my photography books! :)
Titles include:
The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art with the Yin-Yang Wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography
facebook.com/goldennumberratio
And I am also working on a book on photographing the goddesses! :) More goddesses soon!
Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
www.facebook.com/Epic-Poetry-for-Epic-Landscape-Photograp...
Did you know that John Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson all loved epic poetry and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, and Robert Burns?
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
www.facebook.com/lightimedimensiontheory/
Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
Follow me on instagram!
Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!
"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."- Abraham Lincoln
Nothing scares me more than the deep, undiscovered ocean depths or considering the probability of an asteroid smashing into the Earth. Anything else is just child's play. There are the exceptions; I can be startled, especially if they involve giant t-rex heads or zombie-police officers. Around this hour tomorrow, I will be attending the Horror Nights event in Hollywood. Looking forward to seeing how that will pan out.
The Basilica of San Michele Maggiore is a Roman Catholic church in Pavia, region of Lombardy, Italy. The building, dating to the 11-12th centuries, is a well-preserved example of the Lombard-Romanesque style. Archeological evidence, such as Ostrogoth silverware found at the site in 1968, suggests the site may have housed an early Christian basilica dating to the fifth century. The silverware is now preserved in the Pavia Civic Museums. Between 662 and 671, a church was built at the desire of King Grimoald. Dedicated to St Michael, it was built on the location of the Lombard Palace chapel. This church was destroyed by a fire in 1004, and only the lower part of the bell tower dates to the 7th-century church. The construction of the current crypt, choir and transept was begun in the late 11th century and was completed by 1130. The vaults of the nave, originally with two grossly squared groin-vaulted spans, were replaced in 1489 by the design of master architect Agostino de Candia in four rectangular spans, and the structure was created by his father the renown Pavia master mason Iacopo da Candia.
The basilica was the seat of numerous important events, including the coronations of Berengar I (888), Guy III (889), Louis III (900), Rudolph II (922), Hugh (926), Berengar II and his son Adalbert (950), Arduin (1002), Henry II (1004) and Frederick Barbarossa (1155). Over the centuries, the basilica hosted other sumptuous ceremonies and coronations, such as in February 1397, when Gian Galeazzo Visconti wanted to celebrate the diploma of the emperor Wenceslas in October 1396, with which the succession system of the Duchy of Milan was regulated, basing it on male primogeniture and for this the county of Pavia was created, reserved exclusively for the heir to the throne. On this occasion, the lord had the ceremony celebrated by tracing the models of early medieval coronations: in fact, he was welcomed by the bishop and the aristocrats of the city outside the walls and, with the ducal and comital insignia, he reached the basilica in procession where a solemn mass was celebrated , which was followed by tournaments of knights and banquets. In homage to the royal prerogatives of the basilica, the first duke of Milan, Gian Galeazzo Visconti, ordered that, after his death, his body be buried in the Certosa di Pavia, while his heart was to be kept in the basilica of San Michele.
During some works carried out in the basilica in 1968, precious silver artefacts of Ostrogothic manufacture were found underneath a tomb dated between the 11th and 12th centuries, now kept in the Pavia Civic Museums. These are objects, plates, a spoon and a fragment of a cup, non-liturgical and hidden, in all probability, before the tenth century, perhaps part of the original treasury of the basilica.
The Vallum is a huge earthworks that runs parallel to the Roman Wall. It's purpose is not fully understood, but in alll probability it acted as a second line of defence. Northumberland
A century-plus old barn is slowly being overrun with vegetation. Each year grasses encroach the open doors trying to extend their domain while trees do their best to overwhelm and hide the barn. In future decades, the barn will collapse and passing motorists will only glimpse the thriving vegetation.
It once was not this way. In the early 1900s, it is a good probability this barn was painted red, fully roofed as well-kept windows and doors provided daylight in the mornings and late afternoons for a farmer and a couple of his family as they milked a few cows and fed impatient calves.
A mere century ago, almost 40 percent of the total US population lived on farms, and overall 60 percent lived in rural areas. Today those figures have shrunk to about 1 percent and 20 percent.
There may not be any first or second generation farm kids still living who grew up on this farm. A few stories of those days may still circulate with their succeeding generations but maybe not.
This is one more set of farm life stories that have been lost or are pretty much forgotten.
In the 1950s when I grew up, a little over 20% of all children in the US under age of 18 lived on farms (seemed like most lived in our house). Today, less than 2% of the US population is comprised of farm and ranch families.
The ramifications of this switch to a more urban population is easily understood as why many young people today don’t know where their foods come from or the source of meats they eat. The far majority of youth under 18 have never stepped foot on a farm or experienced the nuzzle of a calf or observed a litter of pigs being born.
Many young folks have never cared for a pet calf, rooster or other farm critters that they fed daily. Millions have never smelled freshly tilled ground in the spring as seagulls cried overhead or had their sinuses cleared by cleaning out a chicken house or a pig pen.
This foundational lack has consequences. Growing up on the farm, many of us older folks remember developing a reverence for life at every stage of an animal’s existence. We grew up with an experiential knowledge that work was a critical ingredient to a successful life and observed working toward a common goal as a family was one way to guarantee survival and perhaps even prosperity.
When we drive pass by the dying ruins of a barn like this, we realize they represents a lot more than simply rotting wood.
(Photographed near Dalbo, MN)
We have a whole bag of various sized probability die (or dice ) at home which my husband used in the classroom in his teaching days. These three are convex or regular icosahedrons with twenty triangular faces. HMM!
Sparrowhawk - (M) Accipiter Nisus
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Though it is a predator which specialises in catching woodland birds, the Eurasian sparrowhawk can be found in any habitat and often hunts garden birds in towns and cities. Males tend to take smaller birds, including tits, finches, and sparrows; females catch primarily thrushes and starlings, but are capable of killing birds weighing 500 g (18 oz) or more.
The Eurasian sparrowhawk is found throughout the temperate and subtropical parts of the Old World; while birds from the northern parts of the range migrate south for winter, their southern counterparts remain resident or make dispersive movements. Eurasian sparrowhawks breed in suitable woodland of any type, with the nest, measuring up to 60 cm (2.0 ft) across, built using twigs in a tree. Four or five pale blue, brown-spotted eggs are laid; the success of the breeding attempt is dependent on the female maintaining a high weight while the male brings her food. The chicks hatch after 33 days and fledge after 24 to 28 days.
The probability of a juvenile surviving its first year is 34%, with 69% of adults surviving from one year to the next. Mortality in young males is greater than that of young females and the typical lifespan is four years. This species is now one of the most common birds of prey in Europe, although the population crashed after the Second World War. Organochlorine insecticides used to treat seeds before sowing built up in the bird population, and the concentrations in Eurasian sparrowhawks were enough to kill some outright and incapacitate others; affected birds laid eggs with fragile shells which broke during incubation. However, its population recovered after the chemicals were banned, and it is now relatively common, classified as being of Least Concern by BirdLife International.
The Eurasian sparrowhawk's hunting behaviour has brought it into conflict with humans for hundreds of years, particularly racing pigeon owners and people rearing poultry and gamebirds. It has also been blamed for decreases in passerine populations. The increase in population of the Eurasian Sparrowhawk coincides with the decline in House Sparrows in Britain. Studies of racing pigeon deaths found that Eurasian sparrowhawks were responsible for less than 1%. Falconers have utilised the Eurasian sparrowhawk since at least the 16th century; although the species has a reputation for being difficult to train, it is also praised for its courage. The species features in Teutonic mythology and is mentioned in works by writers including William Shakespeare, Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Ted Hughes.
Male Eurasian sparrowhawks regularly kill birds weighing up to 40 g (1.4 oz) and sometimes up to 120 g (4.2 oz); females can tackle prey up to 500 g (18 oz) or more. The weight of food consumed by adult birds daily is estimated to be 40–50 g (1.4–1.8 oz) for males and 50–70 g (1.8–2.5 oz) for females. During one year, a pair of Eurasian sparrowhawks could take 2,200 house sparrows, 600 common blackbirds or 110 wood pigeons. Species that feed in the open, far from cover, or are conspicuous by their behaviour or coloration, are taken more often by Eurasian sparrowhawks. For example, great tits and house sparrows are vulnerable to attack. Eurasian sparrowhawks may account for more than 50% of deaths in certain species, but the extent varies from area to area.
Males tend to take tits, finches, sparrows and buntings; females often take thrushes and starlings. Larger quarry (such as doves and magpies) may not die immediately but succumb during feather plucking and eating. More than 120 bird species have been recorded as prey and individual Eurasian sparrowhawks may specialise in certain prey. The birds taken are usually adults or fledglings, though chicks in the nest and carrion are sometimes eaten. Small mammals, including bats, are sometimes caught but insects are eaten only very rarely.
Yes, I'm reading another science fiction series as a form of escapism. In the first book an alien artifact generated a wave that altered the world's probability factor. photo leap was used to create this image. The original photo was of a Florida beach in the Gulf of MEXICO.
You can meet these creatures in the forrest of mid-latitude of Eastern Europe. Sometimes they help lost travelers and mushroom pickers to find the way home. But also you have an equal probability to find yourself in a swamp...
Be careful with "mushroom trip" ;)
It was a speedbuild for contest about fantastic beasts, and I haven't enough parts to realize the idea. I have questions for both of "Mushrooms" but I definitely love the terrain.
A glance at the app that evening gave me little hope: “The probability of seeing auroras was just 1%.” But that didn't stop me - after all, it had already worked once this year! So I packed my equipment, put on some warm clothes and headed out into the field. What happened in the sky was hard to put into words - an indescribable experience.
I am incredibly happy to have been able to capture this natural phenomenon in my Swabian homeland for the second time now. I was particularly lucky with a gap in the clouds, which made the spectacle possible in the first place. The photo is a panorama of two times six pictures, taken with a focal length of 16 mm.
Flasks and escort coach to Devonport Royal Dockyard, for nuclear submarine servicing. At date of posting I don't think the flasks have come back, and if I knew the date I couldn't tell you! Escort coaches (ie armed guards) are only used when high grade nuclear material, eg spent fuel, is being carried. Though in all probability the flasks were empty on the run down and will be full on return.
Of the two E10 spares I’ve seen one three times now, and the other zero times. The laws of probability aren’t playing ball.
Here is 251 with an 8 on 8.2.25, likely filling in for the Bridgford which was being displayed at the launch event instead of being in traffic.
Canal Street, Nottingham
YH24 MFA
There is an extremely small but non-zero probability that this entire vehicle may randomly appear at a different spot in the universe. Hang on.
The Snæfellsnes Peninsula is a region in western Iceland known for its dramatic landscapes. At its western tip, Snæfellsjökull National Park is dominated by Snæfellsjökull Volcano, which is topped by a glacier.
Hellnar (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈhɛtlnar̥]) is an ancient fishing village, a cluster of old houses and buildings situated close to Arnarstapi on the westernmost part of the Snæfellsnes peninsula, Iceland.
Although Hellnar village used to be a major port of call for fishing vessels and the largest and busiest centre of fishing and fishing vessels in Snæfellsnes, there were also a few farms in and around Hellnar village along with quite a few semi-permanent and short-stay living quarters for seamen and the migrating workforce. Hellnar village can in all probability trace its function as a major port of call back to the Middle Ages, and the oldest written source of it being describes as a fishing port dates back to 1560.
In earlier times, Hellnar would have been in relatively large part fisheries-related farms and buildings, and in the national census of 1703, some 194 individuals were registered as being inhabitants of Hellnar. This same year the buildings and farms of Hellnar are listed as numbering 38 altogether, of which 7 farms are listed as agricultural farms, 11 as having fisheries and fisheries-related functions, and 20 as listed as being semi-permanent or short-stay lodgings for the migrating work force and displaced persons.
On the beach some spectacular rock formations are to be seen, one of which is a protruding cliff called Valasnös, which reaches across the ocean front and into the sea. Tunneling into this cliff there is a cave known for colorful changes of lighting and shades that vary in tune with the natural light and the movements of the sea.
Washington series: Mount Rainier
🇺🇸 With a summit elevation of 4.394 m Mount Rainier is the highest mountain in the U.S. state of Washington and the Cascade Range. Due to its high probability of an eruption in the (relative) near future, Mount Rainier is considered one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world. Late May many parts of the national park were still closed due to snow, the lakes were still frozen and spring had not really arrived.
🇩🇪 Mit einer Höhe von 4394 m ist Mount Rainier der höchste Berg in Washington und der Kaskadenkette. Ein Ausbruch in (relativ) naher Zukunft wird erwartet und macht Mt. Rainier zu einem der aktuell gefährlichsten Vulkane. Ende Mai waren große Teile des Nationalparks noch immer wegen Schneemassen gesperrt, die Seen waren immer noch zugefroren und der Frühling ließ noch auf sich warten.
This highly discussed sculpture was created by the artist Knut Steen in 1969, but it was not unveiled until 1998.
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This king is the founder of the ancient city of Bergen. His father Harald Hardrada (half brother of St. Olaf) attempted to become King of England, but it was William the Conqueror who achieved that position. Far back King Olav with all probability is an ancestor to the photographer and King William a very close relative to other ancestors.
In the St. Marx Cemetary (German: Sankt Marxer Friedhof, also called Biedermeierfriedhof St. Marx), which was used from 1784 until 1874 and is a park now. It's located in Landstraße, the 3rd district of Vienna.
On the tombstone on the left we are told that the lard dealer and landlord Michael Schaller died on January 20 1867 at the age of 80, one month after his 70-year-old wife Anna. He had married her, when she was a widow. Her son, Michael Schaller's stepson Friedrich Kaden, died 15 days after his mother had died at the age of 37. Thus there were three deaths in this family in a period of one month.
The persons mentioned on the tombstone in the middle died much younger than Mr. Schaller and his wife. The innkeeper's wife Marie Schmidtleitner died in 1862 at the age of 21. On August 4 1866 a one-year-old boy with the name Franz Schmidtleitner died. On March 9 1869 the innkeeper Franz Schmidtleitner died at the age of 51. He was in all probability the boy's father, but who was the boy's mother?
On the tombstone on the right we are told that in 1862 the parents of Adolf and Aloisia Plischke lost their three-year old son and their one-year-old daughter within five days. Perhaps the two children died of smallpox. In the 18th century lots of people, mostly children, died of this disease during epidemics. With the introduction of smallpox vaccine at the beginning of the 19th century the disease was reduced considerably. But it wasn't defeated for good, because there was much skepticism and fear in connection with vaccination among Vienna's population. From 1830 until 1860 there were several smaller smallpox epidemics in the city, but in the 1860s the number of deaths began to increase strongly again. After the smallpox pandemic at the beginning of the 1870s, which caused 3,334 deaths in the city in the year 1872 and 1,410 deaths in 1873, cumpulsory vaccination for school children was introduced. Thus the disease was virtually vanquished by the end of the century.
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Let me know in the comments if you would like a free review copy of one of my photography books! :)
Titles include:
The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art with the Yin-Yang Wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography
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And I am also working on a book on photographing the goddesses! :) More goddesses soon!
Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
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Did you know that John Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson all loved epic poetry and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, and Robert Burns?
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
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Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
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Your math teach will look askance at you if you insist that two is greater than four, and for good reason. But I know of at least once situation where two (as in feet) really is greater than four (wheels). It is the math of snowpacalypse. I can also tell you that one stalled car plus one stalled car quickly equals infinity. Or there exponential relationship between inches of snow and time of travel. I love math, especially blizzard math.
Last year's snowfall was pretty incredible, an opinion no doubt influenced by the fact I was above the traffic, not in it. To be fair though, I chose to park well before I got caught in traffic and walk the rest of the way before things got too messy.
Will we get another such snowfall this year? I have heard predictions that claim we will, but I'm skeptical. This was a once-a-decade snowing for Portland, which isn't to say it won't happen two years in a row... but probability is an area of mathematics that I spend less time in. I can tell you though that if we do, the number of exposed rolls of film I will produce will be greater than zero.
Pentax 67
Kodak Tri-X
This was a very rare occasion where the #sunset color prediction app got it wrong: tonight was rated at the lowest probability of pretty colors (50%).
To my eye at least, the app was very wrong.
Many showed up to watch the Saturday night color show, seen here over Lake Washington in Melbourne, Florida.
Pic: me
Plantearse hacer una foto de este tren en "El Directo" a mediados de noviembre es una locura. Pero si perseveramos en ese propósito cuando el tren ha partido de Bilbao con un retraso de 210 minutos, entonces ya estamos entrando en el terreno de la majadería. La previsión meteorológica tampoco invitaba al optimismo pero a nuestra llegada a Villagonzalo nos encontramos con un sol magnífico que, por otra parte, inundaba el punto con unas molestas sombras que ha habido que trabajar a conciencia. Así que, en un acto de insensatez, una semana después me encontraba en el mismo sitio, a la misma hora, esperando al mismo tren, contando con muchas probabilidades de que la foto fuera espantosa y asumiendo el riesgo de que los usuarios de Flickr se hartaran de mi galería por su manifiesta ausencia de originalidad. Pero esta línea puede conmigo, me atrae irremisiblemente y me impide ser juicioso. Es un placer extraño, casi diría que para "lobos esteparios", poder seguir haciendo fotos en esta línea que se resiste a desaparecer pese al maltrato y al abandono que ha sufrido durante décadas.
To take a picture of this train in "El Directo" in mid-November is crazy. But if we persevere in our intention when the train has left Bilbao with a delay of 210 minutes, then we are already entering the field of foolishness. The weather forecast also did not invite optimism but upon our arrival in Villagonzalo we found a magnificent sun that, on the other hand, flooded the point with annoying shadows that I had to work conscientiously. So, in an act of foolishness, a week later I was in the same place, at the same time, waiting for the same train, with a high probability that the photo was frightening and assuming the risk that Flickr users would get fed up of my gallery because of its manifest absence of originality. But this line can with me, attracts me irremissibly and prevents me from being judicious. It is a strange pleasure, I would almost say that for "steppe wolves", to be able to continue taking photos in this line that resists disappearing despite the abuse and neglect it has suffered for decades.
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I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
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Did you know that John Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson all loved epic poetry and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, and Robert Burns?
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
www.facebook.com/lightimedimensiontheory/
Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
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La Galassia di Andromeda, una grande galassia a spirale barrata che dista circa 2,54 milioni di anni luce dalla Terra, si trova nella costellazione di Andromeda, da cui prende il nome. È una galassia di grandi dimensioni ed è la più vicina alla nostra, la Via Lattea.
La Galassia di Andromeda, con la sua magnitudine apparente pari a +3,4 e la dimensione apparente pari a 190’ + 60’ è visibile anche a occhio nudo ed è tra gli oggetti più lontani visibili senza l'ausilio di strumenti.
Curiosità: La Galassia di Andromeda è in avvicinamento alla Via Lattea alla velocità di circa 400.000 km/h (100–140 km/s). Le due galassie potrebbero così collidere e in quel caso probabilmente si fonderanno dando origine ad una galassia ellittica di grandi proporzioni. Scontri di questo tipo sono frequenti nei gruppi di galassie.
La velocità tangenziale di M31 rispetto alla Via Lattea non è però ben conosciuta, creando così incertezza sul quando la collisione avverrà e sul come essa procederà. Uno studio del 2025 indica che la probabilità di collisione tra le due galassie nei prossimi 10 miliardi sia solo del 50%.
Dati di scatto:
Questa immagine è il risultato dell’integrazione di 25 frames 60" ripresi la notte del 23 Agosto durante l’osservazione pubblica presso il Santuario dedicato a Sant’Ignazio di Loyola situato nel comune di Pessinetto (TO), a 931 metri sul livello del mare. Da notare che non ho avuto modo di fare i Flat.
Telescopio newton GSO 154/600, Camera di ripresa ASI 294 MC Pro con filtro Optolong L-Pro
Telescopio guida 60/240, Camera ASI 120 mini
Montatura Skywatcher HEQ5 Synscan Pro
Acquisizione Asiair Pro, Elaborazione in RGB con Pixinsight.
The Andromeda Galaxy, a large barred spiral galaxy approximately 2.54 million light-years from Earth, is located in the constellation Andromeda, from which it takes its name. It is a large galaxy and the closest to our own, the Milky Way.
The Andromeda Galaxy, with its apparent magnitude of +3.4 and apparent size of 190' + 60', is visible to the naked eye and is among the most distant objects visible without the aid of instruments.
Interesting fact: The Andromeda Galaxy is approaching the Milky Way at a speed of approximately 400,000 km/h (100–140 km/s). The two galaxies could collide, and in that case they will likely merge, giving rise to a large elliptical galaxy. Collisions of this type are frequent in galaxy groups.
However, the tangential velocity of M31 with respect to the Milky Way is not well known, thus creating uncertainty about when the collision will occur and how it will proceed. A 2025 study indicates that the probability of a collision between the two galaxies in the next 10 billion years is only 50%. Shooting data:
This image is the result of integrating 25 60" frames taken on the night of August 23rd during the public observation at the Sanctuary dedicated to Saint Ignatius of Loyola, located in the municipality of Pessinetto (TO), 931 meters above sea level. Please note that I did not have the opportunity to take flat-field images.
GSO 154/600 Newtonian telescope, ASI 294 MC Pro camera with Optolong L-Pro filter
60/240 guide scope, ASI 120 mini camera
Skywatcher HEQ5 Synscan Pro mount
Asiair Pro acquisition, RGB processing with Pixinsight.
Excerpt from the plaque:
The Observer by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov
Walking a narrow path among the grass one can see the strange shed. Inside is a chair, and in front of the open window there is a spyglass mounted on a secure base. If one sits down on the chair, assuming the position of the mysterious observer (who, in all probability, established his observation point here a long time ago and has been conducting lengthy observations), and looks into the eyepiece of the spyglass, then one will see a strange, even entirely extraordinary spectacle.
In the circle of observation there is a window vividly illuminated with a bright light from within. Through the window, you can see what is going on in the room.
Right on the other side of the window is a table with food on it, a man and a woman standing at the table can be seen, and next to them, at the same table, are two angels with large white wings attached to their backs.
Apparently, this extraordinary scene attracted the attention of this unknown “Voyeur,” and we, along with this observer, are also able to witness this scene.
There is a great deal that is strange and “accidental” in this situation. We “accidentally” found the half-opened old gate in the wall; “accidentally” discovered the secret observation point and “accidentally,” out of sheer curiosity, looked into it and at precisely that time when the master of the look-out point had slipped away somewhere; and of course, we accidentally witnessed that very scene which undoubtedly can only be seen very rarely.
An additional circumstance of this mysterious story is the fact that through the lens (which is firmly fixed in this one position) one can only see the window, whereas the actual house where this window exists is not so easy to find as a result of the great distance.
Malibu Fine Art Sea Cave Sunset Seascape! 45Epic Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Landscape and Nature Photography
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Working on a couple photography books! 45EPIC GODDESS PHOTOGRAPHY: A classic guide to exalting the archetypal woman. And 45EPIC Fine Art Landscape Photography!
Fresh snow! More on my golden ratio musings: facebook.com/goldennumberratio
instagram.com/goldennumberratio
Greetings all! I have been busy finishing a few books on photography, while traveling all over--to Zion and the Sierras--shooting fall colors. Please see some here: facebook.com/mcgucken
Let me know in the comments if you would like a free review copy of one of my photography books! :)
Titles include:
The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art with the Yin-Yang Wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography
facebook.com/goldennumberratio
And I am also working on a book on photographing the goddesses! :) More goddesses soon!
Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
www.facebook.com/Epic-Poetry-for-Epic-Landscape-Photograp...
Did you know that John Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson all loved epic poetry and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, and Robert Burns?
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
www.facebook.com/lightimedimensiontheory/
Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
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Dante's View - over 5,000 feet above sea level with a prime view of the lowest point in the US. Trippy stuff.
The wind was gusting at about 50 MPH this morning, but you would never know it from this photo. I was laying down while composing this to decrease the probability of getting blown over the edge. Worth it.
The Drommedaris , the most famous building of Enkhuizen , is the southern gateway of the city.
It was the fortification at the entrance of the Old Port. The oldest parts , the artillery cellar
and the ground floor are from 1540.
Above the gate is a cell on death row, where the oak wainscot vintages and sometimes poems are carved.
One of the old names of the building is the southern gate.
A hundred years after the first construction and after the Eighty Years' War against the Spaniards, De Drommedaris in 1649 raised to its present height. The why is not clear. In all probability, it had something to do with being able to hang in the now famous carillon.
Since 1959, the Drom, as it is called by regulars, used as a cultural center, café and youth hostel. In these turbulent sixties, lived in the attic a small commune and the building was the center of everything that was young and alternative.
This hippie times are over, but the fun, diversity and occasionally a bit of craziness, is always gone.
The Drommedaris today is above all a cultural center, with performances in the fields of music, theater, film and more.
Also there's a saga about the two anchors, as seen in this picture a bit to the right , it goes like this: About the battle between Enkhuizen and Gelderlanders . Erik in the Buck discovered that the duke of Gelre with a large fleet is near Enkhuizen is to loot the city. He calls to attract citizens to battle , and there the Gelderlanders so scared of , they rush to flee and leave their anchors. As trophies which are secured to the Drommedaris , the battle tower of Enkhuizen .
De Drommedaris
De Drommedaris, het beroemdste gebouw van Enkhuizen, is de zuidelijke toegangspoort van de stad.
Het was de vesting aan de ingang van de Oude Haven. De oudste delen, de artillerie kelder
en de begane grond komen uit 1540.
Boven de poort is een cel in de dodencel, waar de eiken lambrisering jaargangen en soms gedichten worden gesneden.
Één van de oude namen van het gebouw is de zuidelijke poort.
Honderd jaar na de eerste aanleg en na de Tachtigjarige Oorlog tegen de Spanjaarden, De Drommedaris in 1649 verheven tot zijn huidige hoogte. Het waarom is niet duidelijk. Naar alle waarschijnlijkheid, het had iets te maken met de mogelijkheid om op te hangen in de inmiddels beroemde carillion.
Sinds 1959, het Drom, zoals het wordt genoemd door stamgasten, gebruikt als een cultureel centrum, een café en een jeugdherberg. In deze turbulente jaren zestig woonde op de zolder een kleine gemeente en het gebouw was het centrum van alles wat jong en alternatief was.
Deze hippie tijden zijn voorbij, maar het plezier, diversiteit en af en toe een beetje gekte, is altijd gegaan.
De Drommedaris vandaag is vooral een cultureel centrum, met optredens op het gebied van muziek, theater, film en nog veel meer.
Ook is er een saga over de twee ankers, zoals te zien is op deze foto een beetje naar rechts, het gaat als volgt: Over de slag tussen de Enkhuizers en de Geldersen. Erik in de Bok ontdekt dat de hertog van Gelre met een grote vloot voor Enkhuizen ligt om de stad te plunderen. Hij roept de burgers op ten strijde te trekken en daar schrikken de Geldersen zo van, dat ze halsoverkop wegvluchten en hun ankers achterlaten. Als trofee worden die aan de Drommedaris, de gevechtstoren van Enkhuizen, vastgemaakt.
Sparrowhawk - (M) Accipiter Nisus
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Though it is a predator which specialises in catching woodland birds, the Eurasian sparrowhawk can be found in any habitat and often hunts garden birds in towns and cities. Males tend to take smaller birds, including tits, finches, and sparrows; females catch primarily thrushes and starlings, but are capable of killing birds weighing 500 g (18 oz) or more.
The Eurasian sparrowhawk is found throughout the temperate and subtropical parts of the Old World; while birds from the northern parts of the range migrate south for winter, their southern counterparts remain resident or make dispersive movements. Eurasian sparrowhawks breed in suitable woodland of any type, with the nest, measuring up to 60 cm (2.0 ft) across, built using twigs in a tree. Four or five pale blue, brown-spotted eggs are laid; the success of the breeding attempt is dependent on the female maintaining a high weight while the male brings her food. The chicks hatch after 33 days and fledge after 24 to 28 days.
The probability of a juvenile surviving its first year is 34%, with 69% of adults surviving from one year to the next. Mortality in young males is greater than that of young females and the typical lifespan is four years. This species is now one of the most common birds of prey in Europe, although the population crashed after the Second World War. Organochlorine insecticides used to treat seeds before sowing built up in the bird population, and the concentrations in Eurasian sparrowhawks were enough to kill some outright and incapacitate others; affected birds laid eggs with fragile shells which broke during incubation. However, its population recovered after the chemicals were banned, and it is now relatively common, classified as being of Least Concern by BirdLife International.
The Eurasian sparrowhawk's hunting behaviour has brought it into conflict with humans for hundreds of years, particularly racing pigeon owners and people rearing poultry and gamebirds. It has also been blamed for decreases in passerine populations. The increase in population of the Eurasian Sparrowhawk coincides with the decline in House Sparrows in Britain. Studies of racing pigeon deaths found that Eurasian sparrowhawks were responsible for less than 1%. Falconers have utilised the Eurasian sparrowhawk since at least the 16th century; although the species has a reputation for being difficult to train, it is also praised for its courage. The species features in Teutonic mythology and is mentioned in works by writers including William Shakespeare, Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Ted Hughes.
Male Eurasian sparrowhawks regularly kill birds weighing up to 40 g (1.4 oz) and sometimes up to 120 g (4.2 oz); females can tackle prey up to 500 g (18 oz) or more. The weight of food consumed by adult birds daily is estimated to be 40–50 g (1.4–1.8 oz) for males and 50–70 g (1.8–2.5 oz) for females. During one year, a pair of Eurasian sparrowhawks could take 2,200 house sparrows, 600 common blackbirds or 110 wood pigeons. Species that feed in the open, far from cover, or are conspicuous by their behaviour or coloration, are taken more often by Eurasian sparrowhawks. For example, great tits and house sparrows are vulnerable to attack. Eurasian sparrowhawks may account for more than 50% of deaths in certain species, but the extent varies from area to area.
Males tend to take tits, finches, sparrows and buntings; females often take thrushes and starlings. Larger quarry (such as doves and magpies) may not die immediately but succumb during feather plucking and eating. More than 120 bird species have been recorded as prey and individual Eurasian sparrowhawks may specialise in certain prey. The birds taken are usually adults or fledglings, though chicks in the nest and carrion are sometimes eaten. Small mammals, including bats, are sometimes caught but insects are eaten only very rarely.
I made the trip to London specifically to get this one shot as this is the last time in all probability that a Grid works along the Acton Wells Junction to Cricklewood line as this service runs only as far as Northolt Sidings from the start of next week. The wall to wall crystal clear winter sun also helped in my decision! The prospect of the Crossrail 345 also starting daytime testing on the Southend Victoria branch was another significant motivator but yet again nothing happened on that score.
My major concern with this train was that it was due within just two minutes of the counterpart service from Cricklewood to Calvert (6M01) at this location and I had visions of being completely bowled but in the end fortune smiled as the DCR Grid was 8 minutes early and 66 718 was 5 minutes late.
“[The sculpture is to remind] of the fact that both people and molecules exist in a world governed by probability, and that the objective of all creative and scientific traditions is finding wholeness and unity within the world.” – Jonathan Borofsky
There are numerous follies on the Wentworth Woodhouse estate and the Needle’s Eye is one of the best known and probably the oldest. The Needle’s Eye is a 14m high pyramid shaped obelisk topped with an urn and arch (‘the eye’) running through its base. It is located 1 km north of Wentworth Woodhouse in Lee Wood and at the highest point of an old road that ran from the Lion (Rainborough) Lodge on the northern boundary of the estate. That road no longer exists but its alignment is easily seen when looking north to the Lion Lodge. The vista to the south of Wentworth Woodhouse no longer exists because of the trees nearer the house.
Legend has it that the Needle’s Eye was built by the 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, to satisfy a wager that he could drive a “horse and carriage through the eye of a needle” circa 1780. A nice story but unlikely to be true though.
Charles’ father Thomas Watson-Wentworth the 1st Marquess of Rockingham listed a “building of an obelisk in Lee Wood in his summary of activity between 1722 and 1733. There is an engraving of an obelisk in Lee Wood dated 1728 and reference on a plan of the estate dated 1730. So, in all probability the Needle’s Eye was built between 1722 and 1730 and possibly before the 2nd Marquess was born.
A further curio is that there are small round holes on the eastern side of the obelisk, and these are thought to be from musket balls. There is an unsubstantiated rumour of a firing squad involving Jacobite rebels.
With no accurate record of when, why and who built it the Needles Eye remains on of the most enigmatic follies on the estate.