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Here's a Red-shouldered Hawk on its way to the nest with some additional nesting material. I believe that the Florida Red-shouldered breed earlier than the species in other parts of the country. Once site had them breeding from January to May when general reference books state the species breed from May to July. In any event, I'm hoping that they are not just faking us out and that we have some new chicks to celebrate. In the course of my reading I learned that the females are larger than the males (probably smarter too) and that the pair are monogamous. Having said that, I've never been able to see the size difference but will pay more attention in the future. Happy 2023 everyone. (Buteo lineatus)
Father Tanglha and Mother Namtso.
"Gnyan-chen-thang-lha"means "the God of Grassland" in the Tibetan language.
གཉན་ཆེན་ཐང་ལྷ > gnyan chen thang lha > Nyenchen Tanglha - 7088m (23254ft)
Nyenchen Tanglha. Important protector of the Nyingma teachings, regarded as a bodhisattva on the eighth level. Also a name of a mountain range south-east of Lake Namtso..
Nyen Chen Tanglha: a mountain god from the central Tibetan area of U-tsang. Aside from the people of the local region Nyen Chen Tanglha is most popular with the Karma Kagyu and the Gelug Traditions of Buddhism.
Again, two worlds: on the right, the reflection of a lady in the window of a train passing through a station at great speed. On the left, what you perceive from the station from the perspective of the train. What is moving? The train or the train station?
Edwards Place, built in 1833 and remodeled in 1857, is an historic house museum that tells the story of social and domestic life in Abraham Lincoln's Springfield, Illinois. Restored in 2015 to its antebellum glory, this Italianate mansion was one a center for social activity in Springfield. Prominent citizens and politicians such as Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, David Davis, and numerous governors, judges, lawyers, and politicians were entertained at lavish dinner parties and the grounds played host to many summer picnics and political rallies.
Edwards Place was the home of attorney Benjamin Edwards, youngest son of Governor Ninian Edwards and brother-in-law of Mary Lincoln’s sister Elizabeth. Although the Lincolns did not court or marry here, Edwards Place is currently home to the "courting couch" on which Lincoln and Mary Todd sat during the early days of their romance, originally the property of Ninian Edwards.
Edwards Place has been owned and operated by the Springfield Art Association, a private, non-profit visual arts organization, since 1913. The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.
A view of W. Main Street as seen from above Capitol Ave. in the heart of the Mount Sterling Commercial Historic District. The district includes four entire city blocks and parts of four others. Nearly all of the buildings in the district are Italianate commercial buildings; the only exceptions are a Classical Revival bank building (a portion of which is seen in the lower left) and the courthouse (shown previously), which incorporates both Italianate and Classical Revival elements. The district was added to the NRHP in 1987.
Mount Sterling is the seat of Brown County. The city had a population of 2,006 at the 2020 census.
Sources:
National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form: Mount Sterling Commercial Historic District; Mount Sterling, Illinois (Wikipedia); Mount Sterling Commercial Historic District (Wikipedia), Brown County, Illinois (Wikipedia)
Image published in the September 2025 edition of Sky and Telescope magazine.
Image:
This image is comprised of Ha and OIII band data, and for the first time I have a target where the OIII signal is far stronger than the Ha signal. In my rendering of this image that I posted a week ago, I could barely, if at all, see any evidence of the Ha in the image.
I altered my PixInsight workflow three ways to improve the original image and obtain this result. Before mapping the Ha and OIII to the RGB channels, I applied LinearFit to increase the intensity of the Ha data to match the OIII. After mapping Ha and OIII to the RGB channels, I applied SPCC, this time with Ideal QE Curve selected, and using Photon Flux for the Whte Reference. And lastly, I selected OIII as luminance when I mixed the colors in NarrowbandNormalization.
As a result of the alternate processing, I can see Ha depicted as a goldish color in the outlying wispy areas, and within the target object.
Equipment:
ZWO ASI6200MM-P/EFW 2" x 7 (HO)
TeleVue NP101is (4" f/4.3)
Losmandy G11
Software:
Captured in NINA
Processed in PixInsight
Finished in Affinity Photo
Integration:
Ha 20 x 600s = 3:20
OIII 26 x 600s = 4:20
Total integration: 7:40
A reference shot, not something I would normally post but I thought some of you may be interested in seeing some of the variety of waterfowl that I've been photographing lately along this river. In this group there are common mergansers, American black ducks, mallards, a Canada goose and a northern shoveler. Just outside the frame were gadwalls and hooded mergansers.
In this Mount recorded the steps involved in making hard cider,presenting an image of life on a farm in Setauket, Long Island that is vivid and cheerful,but also a thinly veiled allusion to current events.A newspaper story published in connection with the painting suggested the Mount modeled each figure as a reference to a participant in the presidential campaign of 1840,in which the Whigs defeated the Jacksonian democrats by promoting their candidate,William Henry Harrison,as a common man who would rather drink cider in a cabin than move into the White House.
1. Skinny scalp before (modeled by Sprinkles)
2. I rinsed and conditioned the skinny and set it on sponge rollers. I placed it under a portable fan to dry for several hours and left the rollers in overnight.
3. Rollers out, curls set (no products used, curls set tight and smooth)
4. Styled: finger fluffing and separating curls, no combing or brushing
Dylan update for Karen ♥
Considering doing the lips over. Is the color right?
Fabric for dress shown underneath :)
Yesterday I spent a lot of time trying to track down information on this bench, and then for any other photo of the bench that might take me to a useful link....I gave up.
However, I am persistent, and this morning I searched for what was written as a heading on the bench i.e. Esk Coastal Habitat, and way down the URL list I spotted "There Is Another Alphabet - Invisible Dust", I nearly didn't click, but luckily I did and bingo!
invisibledust.com/projects/thereisanotheralphabet
And so discovered there are three three ‘There is another alphabet‘ benches, so we missed the other two; and that they date from 2022, so much newer than we realised.
The title comes from a poem by Dejan Stojanovic: “There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.”
The link above has a pictorial map showing where the benches are.
As part of Wild Eye, the three sculptural benches were situated around Whitby Harbour, and were created with designs by local people about the wildlife of the Esk Estuary in collaboration with artists Juneau Projects.
BTW the list cross references to what is shown on bench - I have highlighted A, B and C with notes.
A. Beadlet anemone
B. Bottlenose dolphin
C. Cod
...
S. Sandwich tern - I think that might have been on the back.
Reference File: 2019.06.27-Stonhenge-776
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Do not use, reproduce or alter in any way
FERNANDO LOPEZ ARBARELLO
Reference (sorry for that English, I just copy from another source):
Novosibirsk region. Bolotninsky area. village Turnaevo. Church of St. Seraphim of Sarov.
One of the few surviving in an undistorted form in the Siberian wooden churches beg. XX. The building, constructed on a model project in 1912-1914, surmounted by an eight-poschiptsovymi completion and five decorative cupolas over the porch set belfry. Closed in 1940, busy club, and later a warehouse, dilapidated. The decision to transfer the church to believers adopted in 1989, the first service was held in 2000. Repaired.
The only fully preserved prerevolutionary wooden temple in the Novosibirsk region
No matter how you look at it, the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, the work of esteemed architect Frank Gehry presents an interesting abstract face. This is a very cool building as are all of Gehry's that I have seen. When shooting this place it is definitely hard to tell what is level but then again, who cares?
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In a seemingly endless expanse of water that merges with the sky almost without distinction, this little lighthouse is the only reference.
Reference painting: www.flickr.com/photos/134884717@N03/51228165416/in/photos...
Built for a Eurobricks.com contest - see all entries here: www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/forum/114-watt... Voting thread will be up in a day or two.
The Reference Library is Queen Margerethe II's book collection. Many of the books date from the 1700s.
Christiansborg Palace was built from 1907 to 1928. The palace contains premises for the royal family, the Parliament and the judiciary system.
Reference image:
www.flickr.com/photos/nomadichomemaker/174626839/
Discussion thread:
www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/discuss/7215763166292...
Like to see these pictures as LARGE as your screen? Just click on this Slideshow : www.flickr.com/photos/reurinkjan/sets/72157627765541022/s...
Yamdrok Yutso ཡར་འབྲོག་གཡུ་མཚོ་ yar 'brog g.yu mtsho
The sacred lake of Yamdrok Yutso (4408 m) is revered as a talisman, supporting the life-spirit of the Tibetan nation. It is said that should its waters dry, Tibet will no longer be habitable. By far the largest lake in South Tibet ( 754 sq km ), the pincer-shaped Yamdrok Yutso has nine islands, one of which houses a monastery and a Padmasambhava stone footprint. Within its hook-shaped western peninsula, there is another entire lake, Dremtso and beyond its southeast extremity yet another, named Pagyutso.