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Periodically atmospherics cast an otherworldly panorama. This image was shot about an hour after sunrise on the Washington side of the mouth of the Columbia River.
Cold,wet and a bit miserable. I'm glad the snow has receded for now,after two months of it the novelty has worn off slightly.
After a wonderful holiday season it is time to get back to the realities of every day life. Here is wishing you simplicity, peace, and love in dealing with what the New Year brings.
NASA image acquired July 12, 2011
If you have never been north of the Arctic Circle, it is easy to imagine that the “ice cap” at the top of the world is a uniform sheet of white. The reality, particularly during the spring and summer melt, is a mottled landscape of white, teal, slate gray, green, and navy.
The sea ice atop the Arctic Ocean can—as shown in this photograph from July 12, 2011—look more like swiss cheese or a bright coastal wetland. As ice melts, the liquid water collects in depressions on the surface and deepens them, forming melt ponds. These fresh water ponds are separated from the salty sea below and around it, until breaks in the ice merge the two.
Researchers on the NASA-funded ICESCAPE mission—Impacts of Climate on Ecosystems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment—have been examining melt ponds, the ice around them, and the waters below for three weeks, with three more to go. Carried by the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy, a team of oceanographers, marine biologists, and glaciologists are investigating how changing conditions in the Arctic affect the ocean’s chemical and biological makeup.
The science team collects water samples to examine water chemistry and to observe the colonies of plankton growing in the water and on the surfaces of the ice. Other instruments are used to assess how much and how far sunlight is penetrating into—and warming—the Arctic Ocean. Still others are measuring the current systems that move water from the depths to the surface, as well as horizontally across the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas.
Incidentally, the crew members in the photo are not harvesting data; they are collecting supplies. A C-130 airplane flew by earlier in the day, dropping a parachuted canister of hardware for fixing instruments and other machinery on the icebreaker.
NASA science writer Kathryn Hansen is blogging daily from the ICESCAPE cruise. Click here to learn some science, see what people are eating, and sample life on an Arctic icebreaker. You can also get a daily glimpse of the ice in the Arctic by clicking on the MODIS Rapid Response page.
NASA photograph by Kathryn Hansen. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.
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* ESCAPE FROM REALITY *
~ Escapando de la Realidad ~
RIPOLLET / BARCELONA / ESPAÑA
por: Marco Vianna©
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Un domingo aburrido para estar en casa . . . nada mejor que plasmar el momento
magico, y la mente despejar . . . . . en la imagen capturé los campos a las afueras
del pueblo, donde plantan trigo, y en primavera abundan las *amapolas*.
# Para esta toma:
Canon EOS 400D Digital + Canon EF-S 18 ÷ 55mm f/3.5 ÷ 5.6
# Obturación: 1/125 seg. ~ Diafragmado: f/6.7 ~ 100 ISO
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“The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.”
Fwa.. Busy day. Had play practice and a choir concert.
This picture makes my feet look rather big. They're really not large.
The stick insect in the back is my little sis.
We were goofing around, when I stubbed my toe and lept onto the bed. (just as the camera happened to flash).
Niiiiiiiice.
For her, day-to-day thoughts have nothing to do with the conflict in Iraq.
They don't involve gas prices, future career choices, or the upcoming election.
The greatest decision she has right now is this: Should Suzy's dress be blue, pink, or perhaps yellow?
That is her reality. Pure, simple, sweet reality.
Let's go with pink...
(Thanks, AlexEdg, for the texture)
***added Tuesday night***
Just looked at this ORKUT website. I'm glad such sickness is not part of our childrens' reality. Absolutely makes my stomach turn. I have a flickr friend, bullfrogs*and*butterflies who has a child featured on one of the profiles there. The fake profile actually shows a "sexiness rating" of 2 1/2 hearts! So sad...
No morning coffee, lunch or evening glass of wine by the pool - we're home and it's January... Dreaming of summer and warmer weather. Shot yesterday but didn't get it posted till today...
unos tanto y otros tan poco.....
unos derrochando oportunidades y otros tantos buscándolas.....
es cruda, pero es ella....realidad.
To make this photo more attractive, auto enhance used, which lowered the high tone, raised the low tone, increased contract and saturation, refined the details. The final one is quite different from the original. So, is this one better than the original? Well, it may bring out more than my eyes can notice, but it is a little far from the reality. Or I was restricted by the camera I used? What should we capture through the camera? reality or fantasy?
For the last two weeks I posted 30 images regarding the Protesters Trucker Convoy and I made many references as to the reality of COVID. As a frontline worker that I have dealt with it for nearly 2 years, managing patients that suffered and even died from it, I felt that I had to create relative photojournalism. How things will now unfold is unknown as there could even be another surge of the virus especially if all mandatory management is taken away.
I like to thank a lot of my Flickr contacts who supported me and also made impressive and accurate comments, thank you all. However there are other Flickr contacts who don’t agree with me, made no references and some have even deleted me as a contact. That’s OK as I do respect others too.
Now I will proceed with more typical photography and work on contacting my followers that I was unable to do recently.
Hope all of you are staying safe and doing well!
You can buy this photo from Getty Images.
Thanks Andrés for asking I never need much encouragement to reveal these things :-) So, here goes: The base image was one of my favourites and one I'm quite proud of from 2012:
www.flickr.com/photos/pj_photos_/8267691698/in/set-721576...
Then I applied a massive amount of vertical motion blur in photoshop. Boosted the contrast and colour saturation (heavily). Then I applied a layer mask and removed it from the central part of the image. To smooth off the transition I reapplied the motion blur and used a graduated filter and removed it again but made that more transparent.. Well, you did ask :-)
I'm not on Flickr quite as much these days and not finding quite as much time to take photos. I still do feel I have the passion for the hobby though, but I do like to keep a high level of consistency, and I do know that falls aside sometimes.. AS for Flickr, my great friends and contacts (still think this is the best community on the Internet bar none) keep me going with your inspiring work and also you appreciated words of encouragement. I apologise that I may not find quite as much time to comment but I really will try to reciprocate back.
Go figure.. what is reality and what is its reflection!
Isn't it a challenge of a lifetime?
One of my favorite images... it's so neatly confusing :)
Have a great weekend!
“The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov