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Part of the Panagyurishte Treasure, a set of nine vessels made of gold, unearthed in 1949 in the southern outskirts of the town of Panagyurishte, in southern Bulgaria. The treasure consists of an amphora-rhyton, two rhyta with stags' heads (this is one), one rhyton with a ram's head, one rhyton with a goat protome, three jug-rhyta shaped as female heads, and a phiale. There are traces of niello in the horns of the animals and other details.
The relief frieze on this rhyton depicts two antithetical scenes: seen here is the right scene, depicting Herakles' third Labor, the capture of the Keryneian Hind. The left scene (not seen here) depicts Theseus subduing the bull of Marathon. The presentation of both these heroes together, with clear reference to the legendary history of Athens and Greece, suggests a connection to the great victory over the Persians at Marathon (490 BCE).
Rhyta like this one are reflective of the cultural traditions of the regions where such vases were used for ritual and banquet: Thrace and Anatolia, on both sides of the Propontis. The imagery from all of the pieces of this set are part of an expression of the propaganda initiated by Philip II and continued by Alexander the Great aimed at uniting the Greeks, together with the Macedonians, in the campaign against Persia. The treasure was probably initially meant for a sanctuary, where they would have had a ceremonial function.
It's likely that the workshop(s) that created the treasure were located somewhere between the island of Thasos and the shores of the Propontis. It's possible that the Panagyurishte Treasure was designed as an offering at the Sanctuary of Athena at Troy and dedicated at the Panathenaia festival. Another possibility is that it was offered at the sanctuary in Lysimachia, where the cult buildings were probably related to the same ideological program.
Rhyton with the head of a stag, gold, late 4th-early 3rd century BCE.
Plovdiv, Regional Archaeological Museum (inv. 3198), Bulgaria
This is part of a series of photos from a day at Chester Zoo as part of my 30th birthday celebrations with my closest friend.
This image is licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0. Non-commercial use only. Credit required
Processing was done in Lightroom(no HDR), used a Cross Process preset. More information on my blog: scottosmith.com/2007/10/15/waiting-for-the-night/
“Uranus' moon Miranda is shown in a computer-assembled mosaic of images obtained Jan. 24, 1986, by the Voyager 2 spacecraft. Miranda is the innermost and smallest of the five major Uranian satellites, just 480 kilometers (about 300 miles) in diameter. Nine images were combined to obtain this full-disk, south-polar view, which shows the varying geologic provinces of Miranda. The bulk of the photo comprises seven high-resolution images from the Voyager closest-approach sequence. Data from more distant, lower-resolution images were used to fill in gaps along the limb.
Miranda's surface consists of two strikingly different major types of terrain. One is an old, heavily cratered, rolling terrain with relatively uniform albedo, or reflectivity. The other is a young, complex terrain characterized by sets of bright and dark bands, scarps and ridges -- features found in the ovoid regions at right and left and in the distinctive "chevron" feature below and right of center.
Final image processing was done by the U.S. Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Ariz. Special navigational data used to improve Voyager's camera pointing were also used to "control" or register the images in the assembly of the mosaic; the data were generated by means of new techniques developed by JPL's Navigation Ancillary Information Facility. The images were projected onto a global sinusoidal map base. The Voyager Project is managed for NASA by Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.”
A strip of ‘typing’ paper with “Frontispiece. Miranda, Uranian world of chaos as pictured by NASA’s Voyager Spacecraft, January 1986.” typed on it was taped across the also taped JPL description on the verso. It was removed, although retained for/as evidence of provenance, that being from the estate of Eric Burgess.
The above description is based on the orientation of the photograph abiding by the hand-annotated “TOP” on the obverse, although it’s affixed commensurate with the below description. That description being at the JPL Photojournal website & in agreement with their orientation of the image. So, with all due respect to Mr. Burgess & staff, I’ve gotta go with JPL this time:
“Uranus' moon Miranda is shown in a computer-assembled mosaic of images obtained Jan. 24, 1986, by the Voyager 2 spacecraft. Miranda is the innermost and smallest of the five major Uranian satellites, just 480 kilometers (about 300 miles) in diameter. Nine images were combined to obtain this full-disc, south-polar view, which shows the varying geologic provinces of Miranda. The bulk of the photo comprises seven high-resolution images from the Voyager closest-approach sequence. Data from more distant, lower-resolution images were used to fill in gaps along the limb.
Miranda's surface consists of two strikingly different major types of terrain. One is an old, heavily cratered, rolling terrain with relatively uniform albedo, or reflectivity. The other is a young, complex terrain characterized by sets of bright and dark bands, scarps and ridges features found in the ovoid regions at the top and bottom and in the distinctive "chevron" feature above and to the right of center.
Final image processing was done by the U.S. Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Ariz. Special navigational data used to improve Voyager's camera pointing were also used to "control" or register the images in the assembly of the mosaic; the data were generated by means of new techniques developed by JPL's Navigation Ancillary Information Facility. The images were projected onto a global sinusoidal map base. The Voyager Project is managed for NASA by Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.”
At:
photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01490
Interesting:
www.universetoday.com/159376/scientists-investigate-poten...
Credit: UNIVERSE TODAY website
Female Goosander,mergus merganser,caught in brief sunlight at Poynton Pool,Cheshire .
Plenty of Goosanders about but difficult to approach hence a fair bit of trimming to this shot
"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. "
Leonardo da Vinci
February 19, 2014 Aurora as seen near Calgary, Alberta. Big Hill Springs Privincial Park. Low light and Night Photography can reveal some interesting opportunities. The light on the water with the naked eye was so very faint.
So this is the set up of the shoot I did at Garage Studios on Tuesday for more of my fruit and paint still life work. Mr Boss man (DD) gave me a slot in the studio to do some still life magic, what a lovely Chap.
8 hours later and a load of splattered paint and the pictures were done.
Here's my lighting set up. In my head it started with 3 lights and hours later ended up being 5 lights, boards, flags etc. The subject was very reflective, which was fun to sort out (slight sarcasm in my voice).
Thank you to Daniel and Rachel, who assisted me and I do wonder if they thought I was mad, but hay ho there is reason to my madness.... sometimes.
I've tagged each light with what power it was on and what it was reading.
I was shooting F13, 125 Shutter.
Final image
glass panes in French windows all having a different object or event behind them so a difficult choice to decide which one to open - non of the images on the front have any relationship to what's inside but choices of some sort are made every moment of our waking lives - what if....? - thanks for looking - best on black - have a great week
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Some large heavy surf at Smiths Beach down in Dunsborough... I was enjoying being on the beach and photographing while a couple of my friends braved the conditions. Beautiful day.... surfers would often look back to watch people make it or ... break it.
A roomful of Christmas Trees at Tower Hill Botanical Garden's Winter Reimagined makes a good reflection in a spherical ornament.
North Point Centre's reflective roof of steel and glass Bransholme East Yorkshire and Hull or Kingston upon Hull. Taken with an iPhone SE Back Camera.