The microbial mat is what brings out the most color in this, the largest hot spring in the United States, and the third largest in the world. During the summer the mats are redder, in the winter they can be dark green. The steam and water in the center are blue because of its sterility caused by the extreme temperatures.

This is a 7-image panorama taken mid-day in June of this year.

Looking down on one of Yellowstone's most unique and popular geological wonders, the Grand Prismatic Spring.

"The bright, vivid colors in the spring are the result of microbial mats around the edges of the mineral-rich water. The mats produce colors ranging from green to red; the amount of color in the microbial mats depends on the ratio of chlorophyll to carotenoids and on the temperature gradient in the runoff. In the summer, the mats tend to be orange and red, whereas in the winter the mats are usually dark green. The center of the pool is sterile due to extreme heat.

The deep blue color of the water in the center of the pool results from the intrinsic blue color of water. The effect is strongest in the center of the spring, because of its sterility and depth.

The spring is approximately 370 feet (110 m) in diameter and is 160 feet (50 m) deep. The spring discharges an estimated 560 US gallons (2,100 L) of 160 °F (70 °C) water per minute." Wiki

Have a fabulous Friday and wonderful weekend!

Saint Perpetua: c. 182–203, patron saint of

cattle, martyrs, widows, mothers, ranchers and butchers, Carthage, Catalonia, Vierzon and Tunisia and invoked against the death of children

Saint Felicity: Unknown–203, patron saint of

martyrs, help to have male children, expectant mothers, mothers, Tunisia and

invoked against sterility and the death of children

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This is, of course, the Grand Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone National Park.

As I was joined by a small group of people attempting to capture some magic at sunset, here, a young mom, who clearly had endured a long day with her very young kids in tow asked me, "Why isn't it as colorful in person?"

I explained that the colors here typically pop during the height of the day, because of the way the mineral deposits catch the light, and that photographers in the evening rely on much longer shutter speeds to allow for the color to saturate their images. This example is a 9-image panorama with each image a minimum of 15 seconds in duration. The human eye simply won't pick up this much color at dusk.

The microbial mat is what brings out the most color in this, the largest hot spring in the United States, and the third largest in the world. During the summer the mats are redder, in the winter they can be dark green. The steam and water in the center are blue because of its sterility caused by the extreme temperatures.

This is why I try to capture these images and share them with my friends, family, and as broad a distribution as possible...the camera catches what is there, but not easily seen. I find it a joy to see them and hope others do, too.

It's the end of the Tulip season in The Netherlands. Other plants - see the photo - are vying for their place in garden beds. No worry, our early bloomers will be back next year. How?

Well, both ends of our Tulip can in principle further its kind. Of course there are at 'bottom end' bulbs, still covered by soil. Those bulbs are in fact a 'thickened' part of the lowest stem. They have miniature 'leafscales' (something like an onion's) that will in Spring sprout into leaves; also, of course, there's a rudimentary stem, and even an as yet undeveloped flower. It'll be a copy of its parent.

But at the 'top end' there's the flower. In the photo it's almost through functioning. That flower has stamens with pollen - two of them on view here - and centrally there's that wondrous pistil, the female organ down through which pollen will activate the ovules into seed. But generally hybrid tulips, such as probably this one, bring forth sterile seed. So your best bet for a nice tulip patch next year is to plant bulbs for any hybrids that catch your fancy.

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Allium sativum, commonly known as garlic, is a species in the onion genus, Allium.

Its close relatives include the onion, shallot, leek, chive, and rakkyo.With a history of human consumption and use of over 7,000 years, garlic is native to central Asia, and has long been a staple in the Mediterranean region, as well as a frequent seasoning in Asia, Africa, and Europe. It was known to Ancient Egyptians, and has been used both for food flavoring andtraditional medicine.

Allium sativum grows in the wild in areas where it has become naturalized. The "wild garlic", "crow garlic", and "field garlic" of Britain are members of the species Allium ursinum, Allium vineale, and Allium oleraceum, respectively. Identification of the wild progenitor for common garlic is made difficult by the sterility of its many cultivarswhich may all be descended from the species, Allium longicuspis, growing wild in central and southwestern Asia.

In North America, Allium vineale (known as "wild garlic" or "crow garlic") and Allium canadense, known as "meadow garlic" or "wild garlic" and "wild onion", are commonweeds in fields.So-called elephant garlic, is actually a wild leek (Allium ampeloprasum), and not a true garlic. Single clove garlic (also called pearl or solo garlic) originated in the Yunnan province of China.

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Burgos and Toledo (Spain); and Muslim converts; invoked against cases of blood flow, falls, accident, sterility, bad luck and uterine hemorrhage

Tensions between Muslims and Christians have often existed throughout history, sometimes resulting in bloody conflict. Through her quiet, simple life Casilda served her Creator—first in one faith, then another.

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The Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park is the largest hot spring in the United States, and the third largest in the world

The bright, vivid colors in the spring are the result of microbial mats around the edges of the mineral-rich water. The mats produce colors ranging from green to red; the amount of color in the microbial mats depends on the ratio of chlorophyll to carotenoids and on the temperature gradient in the runoff. In the summer, the mats tend to be orange and red, whereas in the winter the mats are usually dark green.The center of the pool is sterile due to extreme heat.

The deep blue color of the water in the center of the pool results from the intrinsic blue color of water. The effect is strongest in the center of the spring, because of its sterility and depth.

Grand Prismatic Spring.

Le prime testimonianze della sorgente risalgono ai primi esploratori e geometri europei.

Nel 1839, un gruppo di quattro cacciatori dell'American Fur Company attraversò il Midway Geyser Basin e notò un "lago bollente", molto probabilmente la Grand Prismatic Spring, con un diametro di 90 metri.

Nel 1870, la spedizione Washburn-Langford-Doane visitò la sorgente, notando un geyser di 15 metri nelle vicinanze (in seguito chiamato Excelsior).

I colori vivaci e brillanti della sorgente sono il risultato di strati microbici di batteri termofili che si formano lungo i bordi dell'acqua ricca di minerali.

Gli strati producono colori che vanno dal verde al rosso; la quantità di colore negli strati microbici dipende dal rapporto tra clorofilla e carotenoidi e dal gradiente di temperatura nel deflusso.

In estate, le stuoie tendono ad essere arancioni e rosse, mentre in inverno sono solitamente verde scuro.

Il colore blu intenso dell'acqua al centro della piscina deriva dal colore blu intrinseco dell'acqua.

L'effetto è più forte al centro della sorgente, per via della sua sterilità e profondità.

Grand Prismatic Spring.

The first records of the spring are from early European explorers and surveyors.

In 1839, a group of four trappers from the American Fur Company crossed the Midway Geyser Basin and made note of a "boiling lake", most likely the Grand Prismatic Spring, with a diameter of 300 feet.

In 1870 the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition visited the spring, noting a 50-foot geyser nearby (later named Excelsior).

The bright, vivid colors in the spring are the result of microbial mats of thermophilic bacteria around the edges of the mineral-rich water.

The mats produce colors ranging from green to red; the amount of color in the microbial mats depends on the ratio of chlorophyll to carotenoids and on the temperature gradient in the runoff.

In the summer, the mats tend to be orange and red, whereas in the winter the mats are usually dark green.

The deep blue color of the water in the center of the pool results from the intrinsic blue color of water.

The effect is strongest in the center of the spring, because of its sterility and depth.

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Go right ahead,

those arrogant sods

think they know it all

yet they live in pods

go right to hell

arrogant selfish breed

no more room for you

you wild-grown seed

now go right ahead have your say

but only for me to reply

with a might

that rightfully fits the supply

I'm done with sifting through the crap

in lifeless, soulless cold-blooded sterility

you stay on your side as I will mine

I want my world back with dignity.

by anglia24

13h35: 21/06/2007

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Joachim for fathers, grandfathers, grand parents, married couples, cabinetmakers, linen traders; and in Brazil: Alterosa, Montezuma, Porteirinha, São Joaquim de Bicas; Adjuntas, Puerto Rico

Anne for mothers, parents, grandmothers, grandparents, broommakers, married couples, childless couples, couples who have grown old, couples trying to conceive, dress makers, infertile couples, homemakers, housewives, cabinetmakers, carpenters, equestrians, horse riders, lace makers, lace workers, linen traders, miners, mothers, old clothes dealers, poor people, pregnancy, expectant mothers, pregnant women, roommakers, seamstresses, stablemen, turners, weavers, women in labor, women unable to conceive, women looking for a husband; France; Brittany, France; Canada; Quebec; Micmaqs; Santa Anna, California; San Joaquin, Philippines; archdiocese of Detroit, Michigan; diocese of Caxito, Angola; diocese of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere, Quebec, Canada; diocese of Norwich, Connecticut; Santa Ana Indian Pueblo; Taos, New Mexico; against poverty and barrenness or sterility; invoked to find lost articles; and in Brazil

Abre Campo

Água Boa

Antônio Carlos

Bambuí

Barroso

Belmiro Braga

Boscotrecase

Brasília de Minas

Carandaí

Congonhas do Norte

Coroaci

Coromandel

Ferros

Guaraciaba

Guidoval

Imbé de Minas

Indianápolis

Itaúna

Jequeri

João Pinheiro

Lavras

Montezuma

Olhos d’Água

Onça do Pitangui

Padre Carvalho

Patis

Pirapetinga

Ponto Chic

Resplendor

Santana da Vargem

Santana de Cataguases

Santana de Pirapama

Santana do Deserto

Santana do Garambéu

Santana do Jacaré

Santana do Manhuaçu

Santana do Paraíso

Santana do Riacho

Santana dos Montes

São Joaquim de Bicas

Sapucaí-Mirim

Silvianópolis

Verdelândia

Wenceslau Brás

in Italy

Antrodoco

Boschi Sant’Anna

Caserta

Castagnole Monferrato

Castelbuono

Castelletto d’Erro

Castiglione Falletto

Cave del Predil

Corinaldo

Corneliano d’Alba

Jelsi

Matinella, Albanella

Venice

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A close-up view of The Grand Prismatic Spring taken from the boardwalk.

This is the largest hot spring in the United States. It is located in the Midway Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park. Its colors match the rainbow dispersion of white light by an optical prism: red, orange, yellow, green, and blue. The deep blue color of the water in the center of the pool results from the intrinsic blue color of water. The effect is strongest in the center of the spring, because of its sterility and depth. The multicolored layers get their hues from different species of thermophile (heat-loving) bacteria living in the progressively cooler water around the spring. The Grand Prismatic Spring is 160 feet deep with the diameter of 370 feet and the temperature in the center is 70 °C (160 °F).

Many thanks to all those who view, fav or comment my pictures. I very much appreciate it.

First mentioned in a 1597 document but recorded as a resort in 1850, Sovata is located at an altitute of 1,600 ft. in the forested region of Transylvania, Romania. Sovata features the heliothermal and salty Ursu (Bear) lake – unique in Europe, located in a depression of a salt mountain. The place where the lake is now was originally a pasture. The mineral waters here are highly prescribed in gynecological and sterility afflictions, rheumatic pains, peripheral nervous system and post-accidental motor diseases. Sovata has other salty lakes, such as Alunis, Black, Red and Green Lakes.

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After years of wanting to get a shot from "above," we finally did it. And the park service has made it quite easy to do so now with a lovely trail leading to an overlook, rather than scrambling the steep hillside on your own.

According to Wikipedia, Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park is the largest hot spring in the United States, and the third largest in the world. The spring was noted by geologists working in the Hayden Geological Survey of 1871, and named by them for its striking coloration. Its colors match most of those seen in the rainbow dispersion of white light by an optical prism: red, orange, yellow, green, and blue. The vivid colors in the spring are the result of microbial mats around the edges of the mineral-rich water. The mats produce colors ranging from green to red; the amount of color in the microbial mats depends on the ratio of chlorophyll to carotenoids and on the temperature gradient in the runoff. In the summer, the mats tend to be orange and red, whereas in the winter the mats are usually dark green. The center of the pool is sterile due to extreme heat. The deep blue color of the water in the center of the pool results from the intrinsic blue color of water. The effect is strongest in the center of the spring, because of its sterility and depth.

Have a great week!!!! Still playing catch up from being gone and battling a nasty summer cold, so I will catch up with everyone soon.

A brief, dreamlike moment as the incoming waters of the Gironde swirl around the wooden posts of this beautiful old fishing hut. A morning where the pastel tones seemed never ending, the lines and wires and posts appearing to fade into the sky as the sun slowly rose. A morning which has often filled my thoughts over the last year. Of all the places that I’ve been lucky enough to photograph, this is one of my absolute favorites. And just typing these words transports me back to that day- my tiny office tucked away at the top of the house is suddenly filled with the scent of wild garlic, the sun streaming through the skylight onto my book cluttered desk reminding me of how good the warm air felt against my skin. And if I close my eyes and lean back in my chair, I can still hear the gentle lap of water and the creak of timbered joints moving with the ebb and flow of the tide.

And this makes me happy. There’s an organic feel to these structures which really appeals to me – a kind of romance if you like. In a way, it’s very similar to the feeling that I have for old cars. Yes, I know they’re flawed and temperamental and liable to leave me stranded in the middle of nowhere in a puddle of fluid– but that’s kind of exciting to me. They were designed to be imperfect and therefore they’re interesting. In a world of ones and zeros with its order and sterility, places like this have a warmth and a soul which simply cannot be replicated by programs and lines of code.

Of course, I should be typing this on an old Remington, the clack of keys filling this space with a beautifully analogue staccato beat. But there’s always a balance to be had. And just like I won’t be calculating my tax return on an abacus, I accept that modern life has some very useful things to offer. Like this computer.

Embrace the imperfect and have a fabulous weekend.

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One of my "leftovers" from Yellowstone that I never got to until this morning. As I kept staring at this one Paintpot (in the Norris Geyser Basin) geyser, I kept thinking that Yellowstone can't just be seen; it has to be experienced.

Yellowstone is not just anything. Not wildlife, not scenics, not wildflowers, and not just Old Faithful. "Yellowstone National Park is an American national park located in the western United States, with parts in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. It was established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872. Yellowstone was the first national park in the U.S. and is also widely held to be the first national park in the world. The park is known for its wildlife and its many geothermal features, especially Old Faithful geyser, one of its most popular.While it represents many types of biomes, the subalpine forest is the most abundant. It is part of the South Central Rockies forests ecoregion."

I've been fortunate to experience Yellowstone seven times since 1947. Well, I've visited the park for more than six days each visit, but haven't experienced the 3,468.4 square miles! I've "done" perhaps 50. My parents had to show me its wonders, and I had to show my wife, and then my kids. So we always stated with Old Faithful, but during the visit of 2014, we took in Coulter Bay*, and most of the geysers, and the Bison and Pronghorn herds during calving, and what was open on the Lamar Valley. We were there for the two weeks before the park was officially open for 2014.

The geothermal areas of Yellowstone include several geyser basins in Yellowstone National Park as well as other geothermal features such as hot springs, mud pots, and fumaroles. The number of thermal features in Yellowstone is estimated at 10,000. We managed 20, and were fascinated by the colors. The bright, vivid colors in the spring are the result of microbial mats around the edges of the mineral-rich water. ... The deep blue color of the water in the center of the pool results from the intrinsic blue color of water. The effect is strongest in the center of the spring, because of its sterility and depth. We were lucky to see 20.

Footnote though a highlight: I added 11 species of birds in our first three days. *Coulter, technically part of the Grand Tetons.

Early signs of spring in the woods above Banovici as trees coming into leaf relieve the sterility of winter. The class 83 loco makes its way up to the coal mine loading point with empty hopper wagons.

Banovici near Tuzla, Bosnia.

April 2010. © David Hill

Today is Mothers Day in Ireland and the UK. Timely to post this image of St. Anne, Mother of Mary. It's from Belmullet, Co. Mayo. (by George S. Walsh)

St Anne is one of the Patron Saints of Mothers. She is also the Patron Saint of parents, pregnant women, children, unmarried people, teachers, carpenters, child care providers, seamstresses, lace-makers, secondhand-clothes dealers, equestrians, stable-men, miners, lost things, loving homes, poverty and sterility.

Getting acquainted with the Sigma way of things. Also finding getting used to a film equivalent 45 mm lens,which the Sigma 30 mm is, is an easy transition after years of the Fuji 23 mm which is film equivalent to 35 mm. I sometimes lamented that things were too small in certain instances with the wider Fuji lens,so it's really nice to have the extra size the Sigma lens gives. Definitely not digital sterility coming off the Sigma. Having shot a 100 or so photos now with it, and recalling some of the commentary I read about it prior to buying, there was some good commentary I can now say, and some overblown,and some I now am not agreeing with. Overall am liking it and will continue to explore it and hopefully I can learn to do photography that is more capable and more personally interesting. Not just with the Sigma but with some of those wonderful film cameras sitting in my photography room. I've said that before but I am pretty sure I am finally getting around to making that happen. Many things for some time have not allowed me to feel free to devote any energy to film cameras,life has required a lot of emotional devotion to other more necessary and important things,

The Grand Prismatic Spring is the largest hot spring in the USA, and the third largest in the world (after Frying Pan Lake in New Zealand and Boiling Lake in Dominica). It is located in the Midway Geyser Basin, in Yellowstone National Park, a World Heritage Site.

The spring is ~370 feet (110 m) in diameter & is 160 feet (50 m) deep. The spring discharges 560 US gallons (2,100 L) of 160 °F (70 °C) water per minute. The bright, vivid colors in the spring are the result of microbial mats around the edges of the mineral-rich water. The mats produce colors ranging from green to red; the amount of color in the microbial mats depends on the ratio of chlorophyll to carotenoids and on the temperature gradient in the runoff. In the summer, the mats tend to be orange and red, whereas in the winter the mats are usually dark green. The center of the pool is sterile due to extreme heat. The deep blue color of the water in the center of the pool results from the intrinsic blue color of water. The effect is strongest in the center of the spring, because of its sterility and depth. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Prismatic_Spring

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The Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park is the largest hot spring in the United States, and the third largest in the world, after Frying Pan Lake in New Zealand and Boiling Lake in Dominica. It is located in the Midway Geyser Basin.

Grand Prismatic Spring was noted by geologists working in the Hayden Geological Survey of 1871, and named by them for its striking coloration. Its colors match most of those seen in the rainbow dispersion of white light by an optical prism: red, orange, yellow, green, and blue. The bright, vivid colors in the spring are the result of microbial mats around the edges of the mineral-rich water. The mats produce colors ranging from green to red; the amount of color in the microbial mats depends on the ratio of chlorophyll to carotenoids and on the temperature gradient in the runoff. In the summer, the mats tend to be orange and red, whereas in the winter the mats are usually dark green. The center of the pool is sterile due to extreme heat.

The deep blue color of the water in the center of the pool results from the intrinsic blue color of water. The effect is strongest in the center of the spring, because of its sterility and depth.

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Glysophate is the most used herbicide: it is a weapon of mass destruction, which not only affects the biodiversity of water and soil, but also human health.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classifies glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic to humans.”

Scientific research concludes that glyphosate produces: sterility, kidney and hormonal problems, deterioration in the nervous system and causes cell damage and death.

Although glyphosate degrades very quickly, it is converted to a product called aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA), which has been proven to remain in the soil for periods of more than three years and contaminate groundwater. This substance can even be carried by rivers and reach populations that are not necessarily agricultural. AMPA, according to laboratory studies, is a substance that damages the genetic material of living beings.

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From Wikipedia:

The Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park is the largest hot spring in the United States, and the third largest in the world, after Frying Pan Lake in New Zealand and Boiling Lake in Dominica. It is located in the Midway Geyser Basin.

Grand Prismatic Spring was noted by geologists working in the Hayden Geological Survey of 1871, and named by them for its striking coloration. Its colors match most of those seen in the rainbow dispersion of white light by an optical prism: red, orange, yellow, green, and blue

The bright, vivid colors in the spring are the result of microbial mats around the edges of the mineral-rich water. The mats produce colors ranging from green to red; the amount of color in the microbial mats depends on the ratio of chlorophyll to carotenoids and on the temperature gradient in the runoff. In the summer, the mats tend to be orange and red, whereas in the winter the mats are usually dark green. The center of the pool is sterile due to extreme heat.

The deep blue color of the water in the center of the pool results from the intrinsic blue color of water. The effect is strongest in the center of the spring, because of its sterility and depth.

The spring is approximately 370 feet (110 m) in diameter and is 160 feet (50 m) deep. The spring discharges an estimated 560 US gallons (2,100 L) of 160 °F (70 °C) water per minute.

Don’t try this at home……

I have spent years slowly poisoning my self…….So please leave it to the professionals

Jack-in-the-Pulpit root is used in alternative medicine and is edible (only after drying and cooking), it is acrid, antiseptic, diaphoretic, expectorant, irritant and stimulant.

A medicinal poultice of root used for headaches and various skin diseases. Ointment used for ringworm, tetterworm and abscess.

The fresh root contains high concentrations of calcium oxalate and is considered to be too dangerous and intensely acrid to use. Roasting the root after drying it 6 months removes the acridity. In this way

Native Americans peeled and ground the roots to powder to make a bread, which has a flavor similar to chocolate. The roots can be cut into very thin slices and allowed to dry for several months, after which they are eaten like potato chips, crumbled to make a cereal or ground into a cocoa-flavored powder for making biscuits and cakes. A starch obtained from the roots is used as a stiffener for clothes.

Caution is advised as ingesting the fresh root can cause poisoning and even death.

The root was used as a contraceptive by the women of some Native American tribes. One teaspoonful of the dried herb, powdered root in cold water was said to prevent conception for a week whilst two teaspoonfuls in hot water was said to induce permanent sterility.

Color~Grand Pristine SIte

The bright, vivid colors in the spring are the result of microbial mats around the edges of the mineral-rich water. The mats produce colors ranging from green to red; the amount of color in the microbial mats depends on the ratio of chlorophyll to carotenoids and on the temperature gradient in the runoff. In the summer, the mats tend to be orange and red, whereas in the winter the mats are usually dark green. The center of the pool is sterile due to extreme heat.

The deep blue color of the water in the center of the pool results from the intrinsic blue color of water. The effect is strongest in the center of the spring, because of its sterility and depth.

The spring is approximately 370 feet (110 m) in diameter and is 160 feet (50 m) deep. The spring discharges an estimated 560 US gallons (2,100 L) of 160 °F (70 °C) water per minute.

The Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park is the largest hot spring in the United States. It is located in the Midway Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park. Its colors match the rainbow dispersion of white light by an optical prism: red, orange, yellow, green, and blue. The deep blue color of the water in the center of the pool results from the intrinsic blue color of water. The effect is strongest in the center of the spring, because of its sterility and depth. The multicolored layers get their hues from different species of thermophile (heat-loving) bacteria living in the progressively cooler water around the spring. The Grand Prismatic Spring is 160 feet deep with the diameter of 370 feet and the temperature in the center is 70 °C (160 °F).

If you see it in large, you can see people walking on the boardwalk around the Grand Prismatic Spring, Excelsior Geyser and Turquoise Pool.

Many thanks to all those who view, fav or comment my pictures. I very much appreciate it.

Explored 14th Oct 2017.

ms Zaandam is sliding past the high-rises of BA's Puerto Madero district and this is goodbye to beautiful Buenos Aires.

The ship is heading to Montevideo Uruguay. The sky was somewhat hazing this afternoon.

Puerto Madero is a barrio (district) of BA occupying a significant portion of the Río de la Plata riverbank and representing the latest architectural trends in the city.

Today the barrio is one of the trendiest boroughs in Buenos Aires becoming the preferred address for a growing number of young professionals and retirees.

Puerto Madero benefits and suffers from the same factors that affect similar mega-projects: the comprehensive planning, done all at one time, has a certain sterility.

In part because of the high-quality of urban design, infrastructure and location, it quickly gets priced up, and is seen to be more a reservation for the rich than something which reflects the urban mix of the surrounding city.

A more serious problem with Puerto Madero is its physical disconnection from the adjacent neighbourhoods of BA, including the historic centre of the city.

those battling breast cancer, rape victims, bakers, wet nurses, nurses, bellfounders (due to the shape of her severed breasts) and against fire, earthquakes, eruptions of Mount Etna. She is also considered to be a powerful intercessor when people suffer from fires.

She is also the patron saint of breast cancer patients, martyrs,

jewelers; martyrs; natural disasters; nurses; Palermo, Sicily; single laywomen; sterility; torture victims; and volcanic eruptions.

Agatha is also the patron Saint of Catania, Sicily; Molise, Malta, San Marino, Gallipoli in Apulia,[6] and Zamarramala, a municipality of the Province of Segovia in Spain.

Agatha is also celebrated in Palermo! Together with St Cristina, saint Ninfa and Saint’Oliva, she is in fact one of the four patron saints of the so-called Felicissima City

Agatha is patron of Sicily, many other Italian towns, and even several foreign locations. Among these, the Republic of San Marino, Mdina in Malta, City of Pesqueira in Brazil and Le Fournet in France.

Pretty though the light palate of the City at dusk may be, the simple sterility of the shot seemed to need enlivened somehow. The riverboat suddenly roared eastbound from Southwark pier as the answer to my gripe.

The Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park is the largest hot spring in the United States, and the third largest in the world, after Frying Pan Lake in New Zealand and Boiling Lake in Dominica. It is located in the Midway Geyser Basin.

Grand Prismatic Spring was noted by geologists working in the Hayden Geological Survey of 1871, and named by them for its striking coloration. Its colors match most of those seen in the rainbow dispersion of white light by an optical prism: red, orange, yellow, green, and blue. The bright, vivid colors in the spring are the result of microbial mats around the edges of the mineral-rich water. The mats produce colors ranging from green to red; the amount of color in the microbial mats depends on the ratio of chlorophyll to carotenoids and on the temperature gradient in the runoff. In the summer, the mats tend to be orange and red, whereas in the winter the mats are usually dark green. The center of the pool is sterile due to extreme heat.

The deep blue color of the water in the center of the pool results from the intrinsic blue color of water. The effect is strongest in the center of the spring, because of its sterility and depth.

The photo was taken by #alexdahphoto @Canon 6D Mark ii

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Derek Jarman Garden Prospect Cottage

Derek Jarman (1942-1994) was an English film director who made a famous garden on the shingle shore near Dungeness nuclear power station. Jarman believed that the Pilot Inn, nearby, provides “Simply the finest fish and chips in all England". The garden design style is postmodern and highly context-sensitive - a complete rejection of modernist design theory. He disliked the sterility of modernism; he despised its lack of interest in poetry, allusion and stories; he deplored the techno-cruelty exemplified in Dr. D. G. Hessayon's 'How to be an expert' series of garden books. Jarman's small circles of flint reminded him of standing stones and dolmens. He remarked that 'Paradise haunts gardens, and some gardens are paradises.

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Prospect Cottage, Dungeness, Kent UK. Derek Jarman (1942-1994) was an English film director who made a famous garden on the shingle shore near Dungeness nuclear power station. Jarman believed that the Pilot Inn, nearby, provides “Simply the finest fish and chips in all England". The garden design style is postmodern and highly context-sensitive - a complete rejection of modernist design theory. He disliked the sterility of modernism; he despised its lack of interest in poetry, allusion and stories; he deplored the techno-cruelty exemplified in Dr. D. G. Hessayon's 'How to be an expert' series of garden books. Jarman's small circles of flint reminded him of standing stones and dolmens. He remarked that 'Paradise haunts gardens, and some gardens are paradises. Mine is one of them. Others are like bad children, spoilt by their parents, over-watered and covered with noxious chemicals.

Explore #42 on Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Color, without our realizing it, can have a profound effect on how we feel both mentally and physically.

BLUE represents peace, tranquility, calm, stability, harmony, unity, trust, truth, confidence, conservatism, security, cleanliness, order, loyalty, sky, water, cold, technology, and depression.

GREEN, one of most-often cited favorite colors. It represents nature, environment, health, good luck, renewal, youth, vigor, spring, generosity, fertility, jealousy, inexperience, envy, misfortune.

Its cool quality soothes, calms, and has great healing powers. It is often worn in operating rooms by surgeons.

WHITE is what we see when all colors come together in perfect balance.

It represents reverence, purity, simplicity, cleanliness, peace, humility, precision, innocence, youth, birth, winter, snow, good, sterility, and marriage.

RED is the color that we pay the most attention to. It is the warmest and most energic color in the spectrum.

We associate red with love, valentines, danger, desire, speed, strength, violence, anger, emergency exit signs, stop signs and blood.

This image has all these colours....how does it make your mood feel ?

We were downtown Rocky Point (Puerto Penasco, Mexico) and the sun had just set. Evan held a single Canon flash head with tiny softbox on it aimed at Briana... or where Briana would be when she leaped. I wanted the monument to be represented with the silhouette. The strollers along the boardwalk removes the sterility that could be a little stilting.

Sun had dipped below horizon about 2 minutes before and we had no time to think about setting up the light and measuring it. I chimped in two shots without Briana in it so I had my shutter speed. Knowing what the exposure of the flash was at 8 feet, it was instantaneous to set the light for this. I had Bri jump about 8 times to get the one I liked.

I liked this one.

Gates of Freedom Series. A closed door may be sterility or safety. On the path of knowledge, it is a puzzle, a riddle. Probing the riddle is the doorway to enlightenment. In the path of action, a closed door may be lack of initiative or opportunity, an internal or an external block. Some doors need opening.

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from my visit to Cheltenham on Thursday. Most of the people in Cheltenham were either on the High Street or the lower end of the Prom. Walking up the Prom to Montpelier the shops become more exclusive and the people few and far between. This creates an air of sterility.

The Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park is the largest hot spring in the United States, and the third largest in the world, after Frying Pan Lake in New Zealand and Boiling Lake in Dominica. It is located in the Midway Geyser Basin in the western part of the park

The first records of the spring are from early European explorers and surveyors. In 1839, a group of fur trappers from the American Fur Company crossed the Midway Geyser Basin and made note of a "boiling lake", most likely the Grand Prismatic Spring, with a diameter of 90m. In 1870 the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition visited the spring, noting a 15m geyser nearby (later named Excelsior).

The spring was noted by geologists working in the Hayden Geological Survey of 1871, and named by them for its striking colouration. Its colours match the rainbow dispersion of white light by an optical prism: red, orange, yellow, green, and blue.

The vivid colours are the result of microbial mats around the edges of the mineral-rich water. The mats produce colours ranging from green to red; the amount of colour in the microbial mats depends on the ratio of chlorophyll to carotenoids and on the temperature gradient in the run-off. In the summer, the mats tend to be orange and red, whereas in the winter the mats are usually dark green. The centre of the pool is sterile due to extreme heat.

The deep blue colour of the water in the centre of the pool results from the intrinsic blue colour of water. The effect is strongest in the centre because of its sterility and depth.

The spring is approximately 110m in diameter and 50m deep. It discharges an estimated 2,100 litres of 70°C water every minute.

The pancaking in the foreground brown area is the result of this patch drying out at times, leaving just the dark brown rivulets running across the lighter base. In the background, the hillside is recovering from a a major blaze.

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First mentioned in a 1597 document but recorded as a resort in 1850, Sovata is located at an altitute of 1,600 ft. in the forested region of Transylvania, Romania. Sovata features the heliothermal and salty Ursu (Bear) lake – unique in Europe, located in a depression of a salt mountain. The place where the lake is now was originally a pasture. The mineral waters here are highly prescribed in gynecological and sterility afflictions, rheumatic pains, peripheral nervous system and post-accidental motor diseases. Sovata has other salty lakes, such as Alunis, Black, Red and Green Lakes.

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Ya’ll feeling the existential dread, exhaustion from how pandemics magnify minor issues, uncanny valley of attempting to avoid humans yet feeling the isolation from the ones you want to be around... and so often getting lost in the loops of your own thoughts? Image came to me a couple of weeks ago, looks almost exactly like it appeared in my head. Feel like it captured the chaos, confusion, and assorted suck of this year.

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Tech notes. Multiple light sources with different color temperatures for orange/sinister catch lights and minor specular highlights on the tube. Repeating geometric shapes. Play with perspective and angle while breaking artistic rules. Working more in high key these days— abundant horrors hide in the light, and the intention with a light background in this image was to nod to the blankness and sterility with the intrusive notion of staring up from a gurney.

First mentioned in a 1597 document but recorded as a resort in 1850, Sovata is located at an altitute of 1,600 ft. in the forested region of Transylvania, Romania. Sovata features the heliothermal and salty Ursu (Bear) lake – unique in Europe, located in a depression of a salt mountain. The place where the lake is now was originally a pasture. The mineral waters here are highly prescribed in gynecological and sterility afflictions, rheumatic pains, peripheral nervous system and post-accidental motor diseases. Sovata has other salty lakes, such as Alunis, Black, Red and Green Lakes.

Lenox Tower, the Mitchell, IL, convergence of the Chicago and Alton, the Big Four, and the Wabash, all three spliced by a connection with the Alton and Southern. For trains entering St. Louis from the north and east, Lenox Tower was a landmark denoting the entrance to the metropolitan area and its convoluted spaghetti of trackage criss-crossing throughout. Lenox was in itself a complex web--a plant comprised of dozens of switches thrown only through the permission of hundreds of bars interlocked through tiny blocks which, if all lined up in perfect configuration, would enable a permissive aspect to illuminate a route for an oncoming train. The tower's second story floorboards withstood the nearly constant trampling of tower operators, scampering about all the while tugging pistol-grip handles in turn sending a unique electrical command to line a switch or illuminate a signal to safely control the crossing of diamonds, the divergence through the puzzle switch, or the highball of such crack passenger trains as the Abraham Lincoln, Wabash Cannon Ball, or in later years, the Texas Eagle, all threading the needle through a multitude of less prominent freights. Built for the Big Four, coming under control of mighty parent New York Central, finally being passed around like an unwanted stepchild to Union Pacific, Lenox Tower changed hands often since its construction in 1924, but it remained mostly unchanged in both purpose and in operation throughout its years. But time and technology were destined to catch up eventually.

The calendar on the wall reads October 2018, the last calendar month to ever grace the bulletin boards of Lenox. For Halloween Day will bring with it death, as the pipelines threading away from the tower like a spider's legs will be severed, and the friendly faces of local tower operators pulling pistol-grip levers to line train movements will be replaced by three initials punching keystrokes onto a generic computer screen inside a dark dungeon hundreds of miles away in Omaha. We're inside a relic living out its last working days, nearly 100 years of St. Louis' railroad history housed inside its walls and out, irreplaceable for the stories it could tell and the emblematic operational practices that it demands that will die along with it. For now, its cluttered yet lively walls hide the inevitable, and the tower operator has southbound Amtrak Lincoln Service train #303 safely lined through the plant on Springfield Sub Main 1 destined for St. Louis.

The tower building stood for another two and a half years following its closure at the end of October 2018. On May 17, 2021, it met its ultimate death at the cold steel claws of an excavator. And yet another stalwart of railroading past has fallen, replaced by the efficiency and sterility of the digital age.

Taken with permission, rather obviously, on an unforgettable afternoon spent in the innerworkings of one of America's last manned interlocking towers.

(c) Alwyn Greer 2025

Azabudai Hills JP Mori Tower in Roppongi

Walking into an ultra modern high-end shopping mall in Rappongi Hills, I immediately felt a coldness, a starkness in the surroundings, an overwhelming sense of sterility, where everything was so clean and polished, and to me, a rather unpleasant and unfriendly environment, hardly conducive to anywhere I'd want to spend ridiculous amounts of money. The open atrium with it's elevators caught my attention of course so I overexposed this shot by a couple of stops and gave it the high key treatment in post.

Exactly two years ago I sat in the grounds of the same hotel and wrote some words about coming off the fence regarding a decision I needed to make. I wrote the following:

"The lights have been bright, the company compelling and the opportunities endless. Now I have run into a wire mesh fence. I have been running along it's perimeter for a while hoping to find an open door that will enable my journey onwards. Through the wire I can see a land of freedom, a chance to roam, a chance to break the confines of perfectionism. A chance to run with the wind, battle the storms and an opportunity to bask in the sun. I must leave behind the orchestrated sterility of conformism. Time to leave and walk away. Perhaps I will regret my actions and maybe I'll come back with my tail between my legs pleading to return ...."

Well, two years on and do I want to return to the old ways? Am I missing anything? The answer is a resounding NO!

For me this this picture represents my open door to freedom. I can't see what's beyond the horizon but I sure want to carry on walking towards that horizon.

P.S. This is just as I saw it, no added elements. I knew what I wanted and waited until a lone person was on the horizon.

The Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park is the largest hot spring in the United States, and the third largest in the world, after Frying Pan Lake in New Zealand and Boiling Lake in Dominica. It is located in the Midway Geyser Basin in the western part of the park

The first records of the spring are from early European explorers and surveyors. In 1839, a group of fur trappers from the American Fur Company crossed the Midway Geyser Basin and made note of a "boiling lake", most likely the Grand Prismatic Spring, with a diameter of 90m. In 1870 the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition visited the spring, noting a 15m geyser nearby (later named Excelsior).

The spring was noted by geologists working in the Hayden Geological Survey of 1871, and named by them for its striking colouration. Its colours match the rainbow dispersion of white light by an optical prism: red, orange, yellow, green, and blue.

The vivid colours are the result of microbial mats around the edges of the mineral-rich water. The mats produce colours ranging from green to red; the amount of colour in the microbial mats depends on the ratio of chlorophyll to carotenoids and on the temperature gradient in the run-off. In the summer, the mats tend to be orange and red, whereas in the winter the mats are usually dark green. The centre of the pool is sterile due to extreme heat.

The deep blue colour of the water in the centre of the pool results from the intrinsic blue colour of water. The effect is strongest in the centre because of its sterility and depth.

The spring is approximately 110m in diameter and 50m deep. It discharges an estimated 2,100 litres of 70°C water every minute.