Salmon fresh off the fishing boats in Steveston, BC

.........atrophy

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I love the outcome

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Processed with Snapseed.

它不再依戀

它不再停留

它越走越快

它絕不回頭

它刻畫臉龐歲月

匆匆。

Our backyard Cardinals have started the process already...

"What Happens When a Cardinal Molts?

Cardinals, like all other birds, molt. When a bird molts, it loses a few feathers at a time. When new feathers grow in their place, the bird loses a few more. A cardinal molts at least once a year, usually in late summer or early fall.

A cardinal needs some of its feathers for flying. When the bird molts, it sheds only a few flying feathers at a time. That way, the cardinal can keep on flying even while it is molting.

A cardinal must work hard to keep its feathers in good shape. It uses its beak to preen, or clean, each feather. A cardinal must also take baths. First, the bird dips its head into a puddle or a birdbath. Then it beats its wings to spread the water all over its body." - Howstuffworks

Built with Processing

import noc.*;

import hipstersinc.sunflow.*;

import hipstersinc.sunflow.shader.*;

import hipstersinc.*;

void setup() {

size(600, 900, "hipstersinc.P5Sunflow");

noStroke();

}

void draw() {

setupCamera();

background(255);

translate(width/2, 50, 0);

rotateX(QUARTER_PI);

rotateZ(QUARTER_PI);

fill(255);

float scl = 30;

int time = minute();

for(int j =0; j<3; j++){

Vector3D pos = new Vector3D(random(-500,500),random(-1000,300),-1000);

Vector3D rot = new Vector3D(0,0,0);

for(int i=0; i<3000; i++) {

float boxSize = 386+random(200);

pushMatrix();

translate(pos.x,pos.y,pos.z);

rotateX(rot.x);

rotateY(rot.y);

rotateZ(rot.z);

scale(random(.1),random(.4),random(.1));

box(boxSize);

Vector3D add = new Vector3D(random(-1,1),random(-1,1),random(-1,1));

add.mult(scl);

pos.add(add);

pos.z = constrain(pos.z,-800,-1400);

add = new Vector3D(random(-1,1),random(-1,1),random(-1,1));

add.mult(.05);

rot.add(add);

popMatrix();

}

}

saveFrame(int(minute()-time)+"minutesRendering.png");

saveFrame(int(minute()-time)+"minutesRendering.tif");

}

void setupCamera() {

P5Sunflow sunflow = (P5Sunflow) g;

//sunflow.camera.setType(SunflowCamera.PINHOLE);

sunflow.camera.setType(SunflowCamera.THINLENS);

sunflow.camera.setFocalDistance(450);

sunflow.camera.setLensRadius(12f);

sunflow.scene.setAaSamples(12);

}

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Blanching Spinach

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Photographed in mid-town Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Multiple exposures, between 07.18 and 14.37 EDT.

Transits of the tiny planet Mercury across the face of the Sun are rare: They occur, on average, just 13.4 times per century. The entire 7 hours 30 minutes of this transit was visible throughout North America, and here in Toronto we were lucky to get a clear sky for most of the day.

Mercury's path across the Sun is at a diagonal angle, because Mercury's orbit around the Sun is tilted or inclined some 7° with respect to Earth's orbit around the Sun. This is why, most of the time when Mercury passes between Earth and the Sun (on average 21 times out of every 22 orbits), the innermost planet passes to the north or the south of the Sun, and misses the Sun completely as seen from Earth, so that no transit occurs.

When transits do occur, they happen at so-called "transit seasons", in either May or November. The next transit of Mercury will occur on 2019 Nov. 11. This event will be visible in its entirety from eastern North America, and will last 5 hours, 26 minutes, with Mercury passing almost directly across the centre of the Sun.

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Note re the curved path of Mercury across the Sun:

Those of you who are keen of eye will have noted that Mercury's path across the Sun is not absolutely straight, but rather waves a little. This is real and not the result of carelessness in producing the composite image. Here is the explanation:

A geocentric observer (one located in the centre of planet Earth) would see Mercury's path across the Sun perfectly straight. But we observe from a rotating platform (Earth's surface), and therefore as Earth rotated and the Sun rose higher in the sky and then lower during the 7.5 hours of the transit, parallax changed the north-south position of Mercury relative to the Sun and produced the slightly wavy path. The same effect can be observed for the Moon's path across the sky during the course of a night.

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A sunspot can be seen near but just above the centre of the solar disk, and two tinier ones just left of centre.

Here is a photo of me with the telescope that I used for the photos comprising this composite:

www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/26828397292

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Nikon D810 camera body on Explore Scientific 152 mm (6 inch) apochromatic triplet refracting telescope, with Kendrick Baader film solar filter, mounted on Sky-Watcher AZ-EQ6 SynScan equatorial mount

Most exposures for this composite: ISO 100; 1/500 sec. exposure at f/8

Processed in Photoshop CS6 (masking, brightness, contrast, colour desaturation, sharpening)

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OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

高輪ゲートウェイ駅 / Minato, Tokyo, Japan

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My camera has got some nice features. I don't need to lug a computer around with me, anymore.

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9.23.07

Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.

-Barbara Sher

I'll admit it. I hate to feel vulnerable. Things out of my control make me very uncomfortable. So, I look all around and look like crazy and get confused and more confused and then all of a sudden it hits me - all I had to do was look up. When will I learn?

This one is also dedicated to sweet Tricia today. Some positive thoughts going into her 35th year.

gecsdk@hotmail.com

www.facebook.com/Germano-Coelho-Stencil-Arte-263450587197...

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Process shot of a collaborative project with Stéphane Blanquet.

I went overboard on the processing, I know, but I'm in just one of those moods today . . .

Another bifurcation diagram made over breakfast. This one is for the function f(x) = cos(pi(x-0.5))-0.1sin(16x)(1-x).

Clock programmed using Processing. The 'planets' follow the hour, minute, and second hand, whilst the gradients change hue gradually each minute. The gradient is produced by changing the HSB values, with brightness highest for the outer ring and becoming darker by 10% for each ring towards the centre.

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