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The old sugar beet processing plant in Franklin, Idaho has been reduced to a concrete and wood skeleton, but there is enough left of it for a Window Wednesday photo. HWW
Kick back and chillax.......
Slender-tailed meerkat
Scientific name: Suricata suricatta
Meerkats live together in large communities and are very friendly towards each other. They work as a group to look out for one another, with some meerkats being posted as lookouts to watch for predators and others being used to hunt prey or nurse the pups.
Often pictured ‘standing up’ on their rear legs, these inquisitive creatures are alert to every movement around them.
The dark patches around their eyes help to reduce the glare of the sun, making them even more effective lookouts. They communicate by chirping and make shrill sounds to warn each other of potential dangers.
45 x 4 and 5-minute exposures, totalling 3 hours 12 minutes, taken mostly last week, but including some frames from 2017 and 2014. (Multiple frames are used to reduce digital noise - the more frames, the better, to a point!)
All exposures manually guided. f/4 and ISO 1600. Modified EOS 600D & Revelation 12" Newtonian reflector telescope.
Registered and stacked using DeepSkyStacker; curves adjusted in Canon Photo Professional; noise reduction via Cyberlink PhotoDirector.
This workers' banner includes as a central theme the 8 hours day. On April 21 in 1856 stonemasons walked off the job in Melbourne where they were building the new university. They demanded better working conditions in the form of a reduced maximum number of daily working hours. At the time people could work up to 14 hours in the day.
www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/eight-hour-day
This was an idea first proposed by the British social radical Robert Owen in 1817. It was a nice way of dividing the day into 8 hours of work, 8 hours of recreation and 8 hours of rest.
RMC Tokina 135mm 1:2.8 (Minolta MD mount) @ f/5.6
through Quenox Focal Reducer Minolta SR - Fuji X-Mount
on Fujifilm X-E1
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Gasteracantha cancriformis (spinybacked orbweaver) is a species of orb-weaver spider (family Araneidae). It is widely distributed in the New World.
The genus name Gasteracantha derives from the Greek words γαστήρ (gaster, "belly") and ἄκανθα (acantha, "thorn"), while the specific epithet cancriformis derives from the Latin words cancer ("crab") and forma ("shape, form, appearance").
Females are 5–9 mm (0.20–0.35 in) long and 10–13 mm (0.39–0.51 in) wide. The six abdominal spine-like projections on the abdomen are characteristic. The carapace, legs, and underside are black with white spots under the abdomen. Variations occur in the colour of the upperside of the abdomen - a white or yellow colour with both featuring black spots. A white upper side can have either red or black spines while a yellow upperside can only have black ones. Like with many other spiders, males are much smaller (2 to 3 mm long) and longer than wide. All morphs have six abdominal spines. They are similar to the females in colour, but have a gray abdomen with white spots and the spines are reduced to four or five stubby projections.
This species of spider does not live very long. In fact, the lifespan lasts only until reproduction, which usually takes place in the spring following the winter when they hatched. Females die after producing an egg mass, and males die six days after a complete cycle of sperm induction to the female.
Los Angeles. California.
Getting out & hiking into a place like this is always good for the mind, heart, & soul. At least it is for me! My son & two of my nephews went with me to Turkey Foot & Mize Mill Falls Saturday. Great day to be in the woods.
Air pollution is contamination of the indoor or outdoor environment by any chemical, physical or biological agent that modifies the natural characteristics of the atmosphere.
Household combustion devices, motor vehicles, industrial facilities and forest fires are common sources of air pollution. Pollutants of major public health concern include particulate matter, carbon monoxide, ozone, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide. Outdoor and indoor air pollution cause respiratory and other diseases and are important sources of morbidity and mortality.
Air quality is closely linked to the earth’s climate and ecosystems globally. Policies to reduce air pollution, therefore, offer a win-win strategy for both climate and health, lowering the burden of disease attributable to air pollution, as well as contributing to the near- and long-term mitigation of climate change.
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I originally created this in Microsoft Designer and placed it in Photoshop to make artistic changes and hand-paint certain areas. I use Camera Raw filters to upgrade the clarity and reduce aliasing and haloing for larger prints.
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Whakarewarewa (reduced version of Te Whakarewarewatanga O Te Ope Taua A Wahiao, meaning The gathering place for the war parties of Wahiao, often abbreviated to Whaka by locals) is a Rotorua semi-rural geothermal area in the Taupo Volcanic Zone of New Zealand. This was the site of the Māori fortress of Te Puia, first occupied around 1325, and known as an impenetrable stronghold never taken in battle. Māori have lived here ever since, taking full advantage of the geothermal activity in the valley for heating and cooking.
Te Pākira marae, Whakarewarewa Thermal Village, Rotorua, New Zealand
The fact that Large Tortoiseshells have managed to recolonise Britain after an absence of about 50 years really was against all odds. This is because the population is in steep decline across Europe, so greatly reducing the chances of colonising from Europe. Austria, Denmark and the Netherlands experienced a >75% decrease between 1975 and 2000. Belgium and Romania declined by 50-75% and Czechia, Germany and Slovakia 25-50% decrease.
This one was basking on a Poplar Tree trunk with wings half open in Orlestone Woods, Kent. From this view it looks rather like a Small Tortoiseshell but this is definitely Large Tortoiseshell. There was a report of one somewhere in the National Forest in Leicestershire last week, which is unbelievably far north for a recent colonist.
..would you have a little bit of sugar to give me, please?
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Wasmannia Auropunctata
Red Ant / Electric Ant / Small Fire Ant
It's a very small social ant (about 1.5 mm long) light brown to golden in color, native to Central and South America. In homes, they usually live in plants, pots and cracks in walls and floors.
Their diet is very varied; although they have preferences for nectaries and honeydew, they also show interest in fats, so it is possible to find them in the kitchen.
"The hive invader" is considered a plague, and was included in the list of the 100 most harmful invasive species in the world.
Even with all this, their way of communicating, the intelligence,
behavior and evolution, are worthy of admiration.
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To have a clearer idea about the size of the ant; if I'll reduced the photograph to its natural scale, the frame would have dimensions
of 7.5 x 5.5mm.. Yep! I said MILLIMETERS, not centimeters: this complete photograph printed on paper on this scale, would be smaller than the nail of your index finger. Ahh.. the amazing nature!
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. #MacroMondays
. #AllNatural
HMM!
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Wild - at Pantanal - MS - The Hyacinth Macaw is the largest parrot in the world and easily one of the most spectacular. It is an enormous bird weighing on average 1.5 kilograms (3.5 pounds) and is completely blue save its dark bill and bare yellow orbital ring and stripe at base of its lower mandible. It is completely dependent on the fruits of a number of palm species and has a necessarily massive bill to aid in the cracking of the tough exterior. Due to its dependence on palm fruit its range is regulated by the presence and abundance of its preferred species and is distributed in north central and south central Brazil into extreme north west Paraguay where it can be found in palm savannas, Mauritia palm stands, open dry woodland, gallery forest and the edge of humid lowland forest.
This species was reduced to an estimated 3000 birds by massive illegal trade in the period 1970–1990, with possibly as many as 10,000 being taken from the wild in the 1980s alone. In 1987 the species was placed on Appendix I of CITES, but for a time this only stimulated greater demand. Now reduced to three isolated populations in E Amazonia, the Gerais and the Pantanal, Brazil, with marginal occurrence in Bolivia and perhaps Paraguay. Stronghold is the Pantanal, where its range has expanded and population has shown signs of recovery since 1990 (2), probably as a result of conservation projects. In contrast, those of E Amazonia and the Gerais have continued to decline, from an estimated 1500 individuals in 1986 to 1000 in 2003. No hard population data, but total population estimated at 6500 individuals (equivalent to 4300 mature birds) in 2003, of which 5000 were in the Pantanal and around 200 in Bolivia (3). In the 1990s several long-term studies of the species started, in part coupled with conservation initiatives, often involving ecotourism, environmental education and nest-box deployment, at certain ranches in the Pantanal. However, local trapping for feathers and food may persist, as well as destruction of nest-sites either for farming or to obtain birds, and indeed general habitat loss throughout the species's range continues to decrease its survival prospects. Uplisted to Endangered in 2000 because the population has decreased very rapidly in the recent past and the threats from habitat loss and illegal trapping for the cagebird trade remain (4); downlisted to Vulnerable in 2014 because population declines had not been as rapid as feared BirdLife International (2014) Species factsheet: Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus. Collar, N., P. F. D. Boesman, and C. J. Sharpe (2020). Hyacinth Macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. doi.org/10.2173/bow.hyamac1.01
Moreover, in the last 3 years, the species population has decreased even more due to the fires and environmental destruction. Thus, it is a real blessing to find them in the wild.
Have a peaceful Wednesday - HBW.
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beyond the mind
state of reduced sensory overload
cartography | max richter
youtu.be/SNapoDicpuQ?si=O4CRU2eFJ7E4eKOk
The face trembles between two worlds —
in suspension between adaptation and dissolution.
The self melts, dissolving its contours,
to reveal, for a single breath, what lives beneath.
Outside, the world rages — glaring, greedy, demanding.
While inside, the light collapses into silence, into the fragile realm of one’s own.
When everything grows too loud, the image breaks —
for truth reveals itself only in decay, when the noise outside becomes unbearable.
by bes~•
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.
— C. Jung
Coal Tit! Latin: Parus ater, Swedish: Svartmes! Februari 2025, Arvidsjaur, Lapland. Sweden!
Noise reduced in Photoshop!
Reduced visibility on a morning commute, followed by a beautiful sunny day. Unlike in Calgary where it is snowing today.
The Bullfrog(Rana catesbeiana) is Canada's largest frog averaging 10-15 cm (4-6 in) in length. The bullfrog unfortunately is becoming increasingly rare due to environmental changes, pesticide poisoning, and habitat destruction. At one time their meaty legs were prized for food and the frog's numbers were reduced due to over harvesting. I used to see Bullfrogs a lot at my cottage in the 70's when I was growing up but now they are very hard to find. I was very suprised to come across a rainwater pond filled with quite a few of these frogs the other day and was glad to see that there are still some around.
(Information from Up North: Bennet, Tiner)
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Imaged the Heart Nebula located in the constellation Cassiopeia. This has been a lower priority target for me in the past but got bumped up once I went mono. I'm glad I was able to get a decent shot of it this year. My camera and scope combo give a good FOV on this faint target. Oiii was extremely faint, but luckily good narrowband processing techniques can mask that well.
Total exposure time for this image is: 29 hours.
Equipment:
- AT65EDQ Scope
- ZWO ASI1600mm-Pro Imaging Camera
- Belt Modded Orion Sirius EQ-G
- QHY miniGuideScope and QHY5L-ii mono guidecam
- Chroma Ha/Oiii/Sii filters
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Software:
- N.I.N.A. for capture
- PHD2 for guiding
- PixInsight for Processing
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Acquisition:
- 175 x 300" Ha - Chroma 5nm
- 69 x 300" Oiii - Chroma 3nm
- 104 x 300" Sii - Chroma 3nm
- 200 gain and 50 offset, -10C
- 20 flats and flat-darks per filter
- 30 darks from library
- Nights: 10/12, 10/14, 11/6, 11/7/20
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Processing:
Each Master Image:
- Calibration, Integration, DrizzleIntegration
- DynamicCrop
- DynamicBackgroundExtraction
- Deconvolution (Ha only)
- TGVDenoise + MMT noise reduction using EZDenoise Script
- Arcsinhstretch (x2) to bring to nonlinear
- HistogramTransformation for further stretch
- CurvesTransformation to bring up background level
- StarAlign Oiii and Sii to Ha
- Starnet to remove stars from each master; duplicate starless Ha and set aside to use as Luminance layer
Combine Starless Masters via PixelMath:
- Duplicate Oiii and rename to 'f'. CurvesTransformation to boost signal of f and lower background
- R: f*Sii + ~f*Ha
- G: f*(0.7*Ha + 0.3*Sii) + ~f*Oiii
- B: Oiii
- Visit thecoldestnights.com/2020/06/pixinsight-dynamic-narrowban... for more information on Dynamic Narrowband Combinations
- CurvesTransformation to slightly reduce green and boost saturation
Starless Ha Luminance Processing:
- CurvesTransformation for contrast
- RangeMask + LocalHistogramEqualization on Melotte 15 to bring back details
- DarkStructureEnhance script at 0.3
- UnsharpMask using a new RangeMask
Combine Luminance and Color:
- LRGBCombination with Luminance at 85% weight and chrominance noise reduction enabled
Add Back Color Stars and Final Processing:
- StarAlign linear Oiii and Sii masters to linear Ha master
- Arcsinhstretch just barely each linear master
- Duplicate each barely stretched master and Starnet each to remove stars
- PixelMath: Master_Stars - Master_Starless to get just the stars for each channel
- PixelMath: Combine the stars of each channel into a color star image:
- R: Ha_stars
- G: Sii_stars
- B: Oiii_stars
- PixelMath: RGB_Stars + RGB_Nebula to add stars into nebula image
- DynamicCrop to remove edges
- Save and Export
The trains run on reduced schedules, but they are still running. - Side effect of having much less traffic is probably running truly on time.
World of Top Gear at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, is a unique exhibition of vehicles from every era of the hit television show. The TGV12 was motoring journalist Jeremy Clarkson’s car-based train that was featured in Series 17. It was made from a Jaguar XJS.
‘XJ12 596’ is the actual TGV12 ‘sports train’ driven by Clarkson during Top Gear’s valiant attempt to reduce the cost of railway travel using innovative car-based rolling stock. The ‘locomotive’ is little more than an old Jaguar convertible with some different wheels on it.
Following the re-introduction of front door boarding, the maximum capacity of buses has changed due to social distancing. Therefore, even though this bus normally has a maximum capacity of 57 and has 31 seats, it can now only carry 10 passengers. Metroline West ADL Enviro200 DEL2145 (LK65EAA) shows off the new features whilst out on the 331.
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For a late Freight Car Friday offering here's a view of Berkshire and Eastern Railroad train EDMO is exiting the west portal of the 4.75 mile long Hoosac Tunnel at MP 420.4 on the B&E operated Pan Am Southern Freight Mainline, the one time Boston and Maine Fitchburg Division.
The classic Conrail can opener logo adorns an empty tri level auto rack that provides a great visual of how tight the clearances are on this legendary bore. Orignally double tracked, when the tunnel was reduced to single track in 1957 the rails were centered to allow for TOFC loads. Clearances were increased in 1997 by lowering the track and again in 2007 by notching the roof providing the current clearance of 19 ft 6 in to clear most auto racks as well as double stacked international containers.
North Adams, Massachusetts
Saturday November 23, 2024
The first testimage made with my new Paramount MX+ is done.
I had a big change in the software because windows 7 is no longer supported by TheSkyX. Instead of buying Windows 10, I installed Linux Mint. "Kstars Ekos" can be used to control the camera, OAG etc. and TheSkyX is used to control the Paramount. Has worked well so far without Ascom.
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- Camera: Moravian G2-8300 + OAG
- Telescope: Omegon 126/880 f/7 Triplet Apo
- Riccardi Reducer 0.75x (660 mm @ f/5.25)
- Mount: Paramount MX+
- Guiding Camera: Starlite Xpress Lodestar X2
/// Software
- Capturing Software: TheSkyX, Kstars Ekos
- Processing Software: PixInsight 1.8
/// Image Integration
- 8x600" H-alpha / bin 1x1 / -20°C
(1.33h)
Grand prismatic spring, Yellowstone National Park. Lens: Pentax-FA 100-300mm F4.7-5.8. Panorama from 5/6 images.
i emptied the blue bucket 4 times yesterday, as the gutters leak in the corners, and it drips on our new deck, now i plan to add a chain hanging down from the corner, or i cut the length in two, and put the chain drain in the middle, that will reduce the amount of expansion and contraction, and it can move in the centre, and keep the corners from pulling apart.
Reduce the intensity of wave action in inshore waters and thereby reduce coastal erosion or provide safe harbourage. Also designed to protect a gently sloping beach and placed one to three hundred feet offshore in relatively shallow water.
I normally wouldn't have posted this as it was a bit blurry before I reduced the size to disguise it, but it makes an interesting comparison with the previous one of a chiffchaff. It was taken just a few yards away and an hour later, and I'm fairly sure this one is a willow warbler. They look so similar but this has much paler legs, longer primary feathers and a slightly more prominent eye stripe. The songs are easy to tell apart, but unfortunately I didn't hear either of them.
Opinions from any expert birders are welcome!
Mt Sunday — or Eldoras, depending on how you wan to look at it. ;) — on a lovely Summer morning, with the Southern Alpes in the background, and one of the thousands of streams that feed the Rangitata River.
These days, you're better off seeing all my photos in "L", as I've reduced substantially the resolution of the images I upload. Your honest comments and critiques are very much welcomed. Favs too! ;) Please refrain from posting awards and groups' "comment codes". They're really not my thing.
The tomb of Tutankhamun (reigned c. 1332–1323 BC), a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, is located in the Valley of the Kings. The tomb, also known by its tomb number KV62, consists of four chambers and an entrance staircase and corridor. It is smaller and less extensively decorated than other Egyptian royal tombs of its time, and it probably originated as a tomb for a non-royal individual that was adapted for Tutankhamun's use after his premature death. Like other pharaohs, Tutankhamun was buried with a wide variety of funerary objects and personal possessions, such as coffins, furniture, clothing and jewelry, though in the unusually limited space these goods had to be densely packed. Robbers entered the tomb twice in the years immediately following the burial, but Tutankhamun's mummy and most of the burial goods remained intact. The tomb's low position, dug into the floor of the valley, allowed its entrance to be hidden by debris deposited by flooding and tomb construction. Thus, unlike other tombs in the valley, it was not stripped of its valuables during the Third Intermediate Period (c. 1070–664 BC).
Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered in 1922 by excavators led by Howard Carter and his patron, George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon. As a result of the quantity and spectacular appearance of the burial goods, the tomb attracted a media frenzy and became the most famous find in the history of Egyptology. The discovery produced only limited evidence about the history of Tutankhamun's reign and the Amarna Period that preceded it, but it provided insight into the material culture of wealthy ancient Egyptians as well as patterns of ancient tomb robbery. Tutankhamun became one of the best-known pharaohs, and some artefacts from his tomb, such as his golden funerary mask, are among the best-known artworks from ancient Egypt.
Most of the tomb's goods were sent to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and are now in the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, although Tutankhamun's mummy and sarcophagus are still on display in the tomb. Flooding and heavy tourist traffic have inflicted damage on the tomb since its discovery, and a replica of the burial chamber has been constructed nearby to reduce tourist pressure on the original tomb.
Just another frame from this fun trip last summer.
Amtrak Empire Service train 260 from Albany-Rensselaer to New York Penn Station pops out of the the 200 ft long west bore of Oscawana Tunnel on Main 2 of Metro North's Hudson Line at MP 36.8. Twenty nine year old P32AC-DM 709 still looks pretty sharp in its classic Phase III dress leading the standard five car Budd Amfleet consist.
This is the original New York Central Railroad mainline which opened between New York City and Albany in 1851 as the Hudson River Railroad, and the first tunnel here (the one at right that Main 1 passes thru) dates from the line's construction through here in 1849 while this one the train is emerging from with Mains 2 and 4 dates from 1912 when four tracks were installed (the original tunnel had two). In 1864 the Hudson River Railroad was purchased by Cornelius Vanderbilt along with the New York and Harlem. Meanwhile in 1853 Erastus Corning had assembled a plethora of small local lines as the New York Central Railroad running from Albany to Buffalo and in 1867 Vanderbilt merged it with his road to create the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad and the rest as they say is history.
By the 1950s as the railroad was showing signs of weakness but also modernizing under the leadership of A.E. Perlman. Around that era the four track mainline was equipped with CTC and reduced to three mains thru here. If anyone can fill me in on the exact dates of the changes here I'd be most grateful.
Hamlet of Crugers
Cortlandt, New York
Saturday August 3, 2024
Architecte : Norman Foster
Le bâtiment a la forme d'un bulbe, spécialement dessiné pour réduire sa surface et ainsi favoriser les économies d'énergie. Sa forme a souvent été comparée à celle du casque de Dark Vador, à un œuf mal formé, à un cloporte ou encore à un casque de moto (in wikipedia)
The building has an unusual, bulbous shape, purportedly intended to reduce its surface area and thus improve energy efficiency, although energy use measurements have shown this building to be fairly inefficient in terms of energy use. It has been compared variously to Darth Vader's helmet, a misshapen egg, a woodlouse and a motorcycle helmet (in wikipedia)
Don't write in; I already know. But if you stand here and squint, this little slice of the Ouroboros sculpture looks like you're inside a torus. Of course you aren't! A torus is made by the full 360⁰ rotation of a circle — with other constraints too fiddly to mention.
But the radius rotating here — so we get the representation of the mythical Ouroboros and not a true torus — must reduce or else it wouldn't fly up itself…like the legendary hoop snake!
More impressive than the conception of this work of art is the technical excellence of its fabrication. Just the notion of the rolling, bending, cutting, fitting, welding, fettling, polishing — blah, blah blah — makes my head hurt. It's a marvel.
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