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A mirrored fountain in the shape of an orchid, right inside the opening of this year's Orchid Show at the New York Botanical Garden. I try very hard not to get my reflection in photos, and yet I see bits and pieces of me scattered and bounced around on this piece, along with those of many, many people. But only I know which are me. This was Sunday, the second day after the long-awaited opening, and the crowds were oppressive, constantly stepping in front of others to get selfies. I immediately planned to come back on a weekday, when it would hopefully be less crowded, but never really got the chance.The greenhouse was closed only a few weeks into the show. I made it to the outdoor gardens on March 15th, and about an hour after I left the whole place was closed indefinitely for the pandemic. I'm just glad I had the chance to get there when I did. The New York Botanical Garden, The Bronx, NYC -- February 16, 2020
This stunning image, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), shows part of the sky in the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer). The region is rendered in exquisite detail — deep red and bright blue stars are scattered across the frame, set against a background of thousands of more distant stars and galaxies. Two features are particularly striking: the colors of the stars, and the dramatic crosses that burst from the centers of the brightest bodies.
While some of the colors in this frame have been enhanced and tweaked during the process of creating the image from the observational data, different stars do indeed glow in different colors. Stars differ in color according to their surface temperature: very hot stars are blue or white, while cooler stars are redder. They may be cooler because they are smaller, or because they are very old and have entered the red giant phase, when an old star expands and cools dramatically as its core collapses.
The crosses are nothing to do with the stars themselves, and, because Hubble orbits above Earth’s atmosphere, nor are they due to any kind of atmospheric disturbance. They are actually known as diffraction spikes, and are caused by the structure of the telescope itself.
Like all big modern telescopes, Hubble uses mirrors to capture light and form images. Its secondary mirror is supported by struts, called telescope spiders, arranged in a cross formation, and they diffract the incoming light. Diffraction is the slight bending of light as it passes near the edge of an object. Every cross in this image is due to a single set of struts within Hubble itself! Whilst the spikes are technically an inaccuracy, many astrophotographers choose to emphasize and celebrate them as a beautiful feature of their images.
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
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Old Polesie - series. New street vision. A wall with a mural. Scattered letters form a circle in subsequent versions.
Believe it or not, this was a photograph of leaves on a patch of snow... And no, the snow was not yellow in real life.
*Explored Nov. 16th #338*
This is for a friend, Taylor Greene, she had some fall shots in her photostream
and told me she wanted to see some amazing leaf shots, so I had to get to go out & shoot some leaves.
Here's hers: www.flickr.com/photos/michelletaylorgreene/5164945393/in/...
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Waterfall at the FDR memorial in Washington DC. The scattered granite boulders represent the destruction and violence of WWII (Roosevelt's 3rd term)
Hidden Valley Beach Bunga South Mimosa Rocks National Park. About a 20-25 minute walk form carpark and the track is a fire track, fairly even and above the beach. Very breezy this day. Lots of small boulders on this beach at each end as well as rock layering nearby.
I know it happens every day, but it's pretty awesome nonetheless...
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This is a similar shot to one uploaded a few weeks ago so ignore it if you've seen it before. Sunrise on the Norfolk coast, with a bit of off camera flash on the foreground. Just tidied up some of the processing a bit
Potter Point | Botany Bay National Park | NSW | Australia
An amazing colourful sunset tonight, good stuff!
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The sun was moments away from making its first official appearance, and my camera was down in the sand, experiencing a crab-level view at Folly Beach near Charleston, South Carolina.
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"When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills,
it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region,
earth being so intermixed with sky,
and gradually transformed into it."
Nathaniel Hawthorne