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Now reduced to running three days a week (down from five), CN 324 has just left Taschereau Yard and is on its way to Vermont, with CN 5612 & CN 2665 for power.
3rd April 2008 - Panavia Tornado GR4 'ZG713/123' of 2 squadron seen here at Bae Systems at Warton. This airframe was reduced to spares in April 2013 at RAF Leeming.
A cattle egret overflies a field in search of prey on a rainy overcast day. These large, white birds, described as elegant by many birders, have thrived and are now considered pests in the islands. The cattle egret was introduced to Hawaii from Africa to reduce flies and other ectoparasites on ranch cattle. Besides invertebrates, they eat just about anything, including the nestlings of other birds.
A lot of editing went into this shot, although I think it's all standard stuff for Milky Way photographers (I'm new at this!). The arch was lighted using LED lighting and shot separately from the Milky Way. The Milky Way was a series of about 8 or so photos that were stacked in a program called Sequator, which does a nice job reducing noise.
Taken out in the middle of nowhere (Joshua Tree National Park wilderness area). You don't want to be out in this area in the summer months. Heck, even nighttime temps are ridiculously hot!
The Orion constellation shot under Bortle 3 sky.
Equipment:
- Nikon D300 modified
- Nikkor AF-S 105mm f/1.4 ED
- Skywatcher StarAdventurer
Frames:
45 frames x 120sec at ISO 800.
Preprocessed in APP and Pixinsight and post-processed in Lightroom.
Old data, re-edited.
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Templo de Zeus Olímpico - Atenas - Grecia
El templo de Zeus Olímpico, también conocido como el Olimpeion (griego Ναός του Ολυμπίου Δός, o Naos tou Olimpiou Dios), es un templo de Atenas. Aunque comenzado en el siglo VI a. C., no fue terminado hasta el reinado del emperador Adriano, en el siglo II. En las épocas helenística y romana era el templo más grande de Grecia.
El templo se ubica a unos 500 metros al sureste de la Acrópolis de Atenas y a unos 700 m al sur de la Plaza Sintagma (centro de Atenas).
Sus cimientos fueron colocados en el sitio de un primer templo por el tirano Pisístrato en 515 a. C., pero el trabajo fue abandonado cuando su hijo, Hipias, fue derrocado en 510 a. C.Durante los años de la democracia ateniense, el templo fue dejado incompleto, porque se pensó que atentaba contra la hybris construir a tal escala. Aristóteles, en la Política, citó el templo como un ejemplo de cómo las tiranías atraían al pueblo a grandes obras de estado y lo dejaban sin tiempo, energía o medios para rebelarse.
El trabajo fue reanudado en 174 a. C., durante la dominación macedonia de Grecia, bajo el patrocinio del rey helenístico Antíoco IV Epífanes, que contrató al arquitecto romano Cosucio para diseñar el templo más grande del mundo conocido. Cuando Antíoco murió en 164 a. C. el trabajo estaba retrasado otra vez.
En 86 a. C., después de que las ciudades griegas cayeran bajo dominio romano, el general Sila llevó dos columnas del templo inacabado a Roma, para adornar el templo de Júpiter Capitolino en la Colina Capitolina. Estas columnas influyeron en el desarrollo del estilo corintio en Roma.
En el siglo II, el templo fue retomado por el emperador Adriano, un gran admirador de la cultura griega, quien finalmente lo llevó a su conclusión en 129 (algunas fuentes dicen que en 131).
El templo fue construido en mármol del monte Pentélico. Medía 96 metros de largo en sus lados mayores y 40 metros a lo ancho de sus caras oriental y occidental. Contaba de 104 columnas corintias, cada una de 17 metros de alto, de 2,6 metros de diámetro y un peso aproximado de 364 toneladas; de las cuales 48 estaban colocadas en filas triples bajo los frontones y 56 en filas dobles en los lados. Solo 16 de estas columnas sobreviven hoy, 13 de ellas, en el lado este, en pie. De las tres restantes, en el lado oeste, una se derrumbó en 1852 y está todavía tendida donde cayó.3
Adriano dedicó el templo a Zeus. También erigió una enorme estatua de marfil de Zeus en la cella del templo. Los frontones estaban adornados con muchas estatuas, pero también en todo el templo había estatuas y bustos de hombres famosos. Los atenienses, para mostrar su gratitud a Adriano, erigieron una estatua de él detrás del templo. Desafortunadamente, ninguna de las esculturas que adornaban el templo, o de su interior, ha sobrevivido. No se sabe exactamente cuándo fue destruido el templo, pero se especula que, como otros grandes edificios en Atenas, probablemente fue destruido por un terremoto durante los años bizantinos y sus ruinas se utilizaron para construir otros edificios.
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Temple of Olympian Zeus - Athens - Greece
The Temple of Olympian Zeus (Greek: Ναός του Ολυμπίου Διός, Naós tou Olympíou Diós), also known as the Olympieion or Columns of the Olympian Zeus, is a former colossal temple at the center of the Greek capital Athens. It was dedicated to "Olympian" Zeus, a name originating from his position as head of the Olympian gods. Construction began in the 6th century BC during the rule of the Athenian tyrants, who envisaged building the greatest temple in the ancient world, but it was not completed until the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century AD, some 638 years after the project had begun. During the Roman period the temple, which included 104 colossal columns, was renowned as the largest temple in Greece and housed one of the largest cult statues in the ancient world.
The temple's glory was short-lived, as it fell into disuse after being pillaged during a barbarian invasion in 267 AD, just about a century after its completion. It was probably never repaired and was reduced to ruins thereafter. In the centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire, it was extensively quarried for building materials to supply building projects elsewhere in the city. Despite that, a substantial part of the temple remains today, notably sixteen of the original gigantic columns, and it continues to be part of a very important archaeological site of Greece.
The temple is located approximately 500 m (0.31 mi) south-east of the Acropolis, and about 700 m (0.43 mi) south of the center of Athens, Syntagma Square. Its foundations were laid on the site of an ancient outdoor sanctuary dedicated to Zeus. An earlier temple had stood there, constructed by the tyrant Peisistratus around 550 BC. The building was demolished after the death of Peisistratos and the construction of a colossal new Temple of Olympian Zeus was begun around 520 BC by his sons, Hippias and Hipparchos. They sought to surpass two famous contemporary temples, the Heraion of Samos and the second Temple of Artemis at Ephesus. Designed by the architects Antistates, Callaeschrus, Antimachides and Phormos, the Temple of Olympian Zeus was intended to be built of local limestone in the Doric style on a colossal platform measuring 41 m (134 ft 6 in) by 108 m (354 ft 4 in). It was to be flanked by a double colonnade of eight columns across the front and back and twenty-one on the flanks, surrounding the cella.
Corinthian columns detail
The work was abandoned when the tyranny was overthrown and Hippias was expelled in 510 BC. Only the platform and some elements of the columns had been completed by that point, and the temple remained in that state for 336 years. The temple was left unfinished during the years of Athenian democracy, apparently, because the Greeks thought it was hubris to build on such a scale. In his treatise Politics, Aristotle cited the temple as an example of how tyrannies engaged the populace in great works for the state (like a white elephant) and left them no time, energy or means to rebel.[1]
It was not until 174 BC that the Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes, who presented himself as the earthly embodiment of Zeus, revived the project and placed the Roman architect Decimus Cossutius in charge. The design was changed to have three rows of eight columns across the front and back of the temple and a double row of twenty on the flanks, for a total of 104 columns. The columns would stand 17 m (55 ft 9 in) high and 2 m (6 ft 7 in) in diameter. The building material was changed to the expensive but high-quality Pentelic marble and the order was changed from Doric to Corinthian, marking the first time that this order had been used on the exterior of a major temple. However, the project ground to a halt again in 164 BC with the death of Antiochus. The temple was still only half-finished by that stage.
Serious damage was inflicted on the partly built temple by Lucius Cornelius Sulla's sack of Athens in 86 BC. While looting the city, Sulla seized some of the incomplete columns and transported them back to Rome, where they were re-used in the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill. A half-hearted attempt was made to complete the temple during Augustus' reign as the first Roman emperor, but it was not until the accession of Hadrian in the 2nd century AD that the project was finally completed around 638 years after it had begun.
My new ultra-wide zoom lens... A Canon 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 EF-S, with the Canon EW-83E lens hood attached (reduces lens flair).
There is also a Hoya Super HMC 77mm UV(0) fitler attached.
Soft after sunset light reduces the north shore and Copper Island to shapes while Shuswap lake takes on the pink hue from the sky.
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Autumn
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A very misty morning light rain and my favourite light so I made a concerted effort to go out with my camera.
I shot a few local scenes that I have been hoping to shoot in snow but as we have had none to speak of this winter :-(
Had a very enjoyable and relaxed couple of hours trying to remember how my camera works.
I can't remember the land being so wet everywhere is sodden but I think this helped with the low lying mist
It's a little ironic that I have this amazing 61 MP camera and incredible cannon glass yet love days when the atmospheric conditions reduce and almost negate all the tech.
Image Details:
Total exposure 13 hours 40 mins.
17x1200s Ha 1x1 (5hrs 40mins)
11x1200s OIII 1x1 (3hrs 40mins)
13x600s SII 1x1 (4hrs 20mins)
Darks, flats and bias. -20c.
Optic - SW Evostar ED80 DS-PRO with SW 0.85 reducer @ 526mm focal length.
Mount - HEQ5 PRO Synscan with Rowan Belt Drive mod.
Sensor - Atik 383l+ Mono CCD + Baader 36mm 7nm Ha, 8.5nm OIII and 8nm SII..
Guiding - ZWO ASI120MM + Orion 162mm/F3.2 guidescope with PHD2.
Sequence Generator Pro and PixInsight.
Thanks for looking.
Some of the contents of a large plastic box in our kitchen drawer where we put our recyclable items such as plastic bottles, magazines, flyers, food tins and drink cans. When it's full I take it out to the garage & tip everything in a big wheelie bin. This gets collected by a private company fortnightly, the other week they take our actual rubbish (trash) away, thankfully we don't produce much of that so often that wheelie bin only goes out once a month. Glass has to be taken to a bottle bank. I use to take gardening & bird watching magazines to our GP surgery for others to read but those days are gone.
We compost all our newspapers, cardboard packaging/toilet rolls etc & I reuse suitable plastic food trays to stand plant pots in. All available windowsills currently have trays with small pots containing tomato/chilli/pepper/courgette & sweetcorn seedlings, waiting for the current cold snap to pass so I can plant them out in the polytunnel.
For Macro Mondays theme "Trash" HMM!
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.
“If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it.”
― Charles Bukowski
My soul burns everyday for ideas that desire life. I am reduced to ashes by my passion. I am forever seeking to be rebuilt into someone more fulfilled for having created and learned and created again. This is why I started the Promoting Passion Convention, and it is with enormous joy that today I open registration for the 2017 event!
www.promotingpassion.com/convention/
September 8-10, 2017
Buffalo, NY, USA
Early bird pricing ends Sunday, March 5!
This convention is for building your why, creating with intent, finding your uniqueness, celebrating your differences, and learning in a safe environment that accepts anyone and everyone, no matter how out of place you may feel sometimes.
I hope you'll take a look at the info page linked above where I detail everything you need to know about Promoting Passion. This will be our 3rd annual gathering, and like a family, though maybe we've never met, we will come together to fulfill our dreams...and, as Mr. Bukowski says, to be reduced to ashes and built again.
The theme for this week's Macro Mondays is "plastic". I became very aware of the issue of single-use plastic contaminating our oceans on visiting uninhabited areas of eastern Greenland last year and taking part in a beach clean-up - we collected dozens of items of throwaway plastic. It has become big news this year with the UK's proposal to ban plastic straws and cotton buds. For my macro entry I decided to take a picture of my water bottle, which I now use instead of buying bottled water - saving a lot of money as well as doing a small bit to save our oceans. So - this is "Plastic" for Macro Mondays. HMM! (field of view is under 2 inches)
And doubling up - my Day 23 entry for April 2018: A month in 30 pictures, and #23/100 for 100 x: The 2018 Edition - my x is macro with a dedicated macro lens.
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Forggensee is a lake located north of Füssen in the district of Ostallgäu in Bavaria, Germany. One of many lakes in the region around Hohenschwangau and Neuschwanstein castles, Forggensee is the fifth-largest lake in Bavaria, with a surface area of 15.2 km². The River Lech flows through it. Forggensee is known primarily as a tourist destination for aquatic sports and recreation. The lake provides ideal conditions for surfing, sailing, fishing and boating. The lake is stocked with pike, trout and eel. Two ships navigate the lake on two different routes.
Forggensee is a man-made lake. It was created in 1954, when the River Lech was dammed for the first time to create the Lechsee Lake. The option of letting water in and out reduces the risk of flooding when the snow melts in the spring and regulates the flow of water over the "Power Plant Step" located downstream.
The Spring of Endless Light
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The Milky Way over Trona Pinnacles, CA on a very hot August evening. The pinnacles are tufas left from an ancient lake bed. I used a warm white light from a handheld Zhiyun FiveRay FR100C RGB LED tube light to illuminate the tufas while the camera's shutter was open during the long exposure night photo.
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(Plate 2992) Nikon D750/Irix 15mm f/2.4 lens. 25 photos "stacked" to reduce noise. Each photo 20 seconds f/2.5 ISO 4000. 24 August 2022.
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Well, I'm reduced to one hand at the moment with a broken wrist - so maybe have time to catch up with some editing!
The red window frame neatly matches the red frame of the bike!
Would the lady who rides this red-framed bike really shop here? The shoes on the left are reduced price in the sale, down from 795 euros to a measly 395 euros, who could resist?
A westbound commuter train on the Milwaukee District - West Line at Galewood. In the distance can be seen what is left of the Milwaukee Road's Galewood Yard - once the MILW Road,s primary Chicago classification yard until its role was reduced when the hump yard at Bensenville was upgraded and expanded in 1953.
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.
Had half a clear night the other night (albeit with a 90% moon) for the first time since the beginning of October which gave me time to do this. I was hoping to do Olll in the same session but after 2 subs the clouds rolled back in, so that's on the back burner.
ED80 with 0.85 reducer, HEQ5 pro
Cooled mono Canon 450D
Astronomik 12nm Ha filter
10 x 1200 seconds iso 1600
Calibrated and stacked in Nebulosity
Processed with Straton and CS5
West Hoe is an area of Plymouth in the English county of Devon.
It is a Victorian housing development built into the site of a quarry from which much limestone was taken for the city centre development of Plymouth. It abuts Millbay harbour to the west and the Hoe promenade to the east. Much of the housing stock is used as lodging houses and bed and breakfast tourist hotels. There are still some interesting and elegant buildings including a grand parade and the remnant of the old public steam baths beside West Hoe Basin which were briefly a yacht club and latterly a bar/restaurant.
Bioflight employs a fleet exclusively consisting of the P68. This reduces maintenance and pilot training costs, increases our operational flexibility and provides consistent cost-effective production across a wide range of survey types.
With the ability to either carry observers for low altitude visual surveys or mount advanced camera and laser systems by utilising the aircrafts’ camera hatch, we can adapt perfectly to whichever survey mission and operational requirements you may have.
Our current fleet consist of 10 Vulcanair P68’s divided into 3 Observer and 7 P68C versions.
Canon 7 with 50mm Canon f1.8 lens
Ilford fP4+ semi-stand developed in HC-110 1:90 for 18 minutes with minimal agitation
In capturing this architectural structure, I aimed to transform a functional element into abstract composition. I chose an angle maximizing leading lines and dramatic contrast. The black and white treatment amplifies the scene's pure geometry, while perspective creates visual tension guiding the eye. My intention was to reveal hidden beauty in everyday architecture, reducing it to its purest essence: lines, shapes, and shadows.