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Have you every seen such a spherical bird? I'm guessing this Gambel's Quail has done quite well for himself, foraging his way to rather round proportions. His wife was nearby and she was nearly equally spherical.
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I was looking for an image to take today and then had coffee with a friend and spotted these on her table....
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Stunning Seaside Spherical Perfect Panorama Patchogue 360° - IMRAN™
What a perfect day at the blessed beach of the East Patchogue, Long Island, New York home it was. Enjoy every inch of it as if you were there with me.
It was an absolutely perfect set of 24 photos even the previous model Apple iPhone 13 Pro Max captured. I was able to stitch it into this panorama. Only a couple of places on the Fire Island horizong line had to be touched up.
Those titching blemishes could be noticed on zooming in. They were caused by the photos being taken handheld while I stood on soft sand trying to align the shots and get full coverage from sky to sea to sand.
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through the heat of the day and the cool of night, children played in the balls next to the city of science and th hemisphere.
Annotazione per il Gruppo 'Italians make it better': queste piccole geodi sono state rinvenute in Italia.
This in very special to me. These kind of stone balls or geodes are still a half mystery.
They can be found in nature in tiny sizes, smaller than a golf ball until massive sizes of some meters of diameter.
A likely theory is that these spherical rocks are concretions, masses of minerals formed when a cementing sedimentary material, carried by water, comes into contact with an organic nucleus like a leaf, a twig, a shell or maybe a fossil. The resulting chemical reaction forms the ball as a concentric formation in progressive overlapping layers like an onion, often as perfect spheres. These balls are actually found in many places around the world, and people are known to crack them open to get at what they hope is a fossil inside.
I think they are not typically "geodes" that contain crystal stones, quartz or even semi-precious stones. However they certainly contain a core but they are something odder and geologically more unknown. The most interesting to me is the one on the far right that has a hole showing its nucleus.
These spherical iron stones can be found in Italy, as far as I know, in rocky areas close to the sea like in the Region Abruzzo and in places with sedimentation of volcanic origin.
Now, for the curiosity part, I have found that there is a variety of iron stones called "Le Moqui Marbles" that are very similar to those I have, although I can't recall where they were originally found. Anyway, their scientific origin, is still rather mysterious for the same geologists who have different theories pertaining the formation of these concretions.
The area where the Moqui spherical stones can be found is located in the United States desert between the state of Utah and northern Arizona, at the base of Navaho Sandstone, a system of sandstone block formations.
The estimated age of these "balls" is between 120 and 190 million years, at the beginning of the Giurassic era.
The Moqui Marbles, as said, are a real mystery to all geologists: despite the various theories, none seem completely convincing.
These strange minerals are also called Iron Balls, Indian Balls, Navaho Cherries or shaman stones for their spiritual value. Externally, they are composed of Iron oxide (hematite), inside instead are characterized by a very fine compound of silica, like a coral-colored sand, while in the center of this there is a small sphere of sandstone or sand.
The most surprising and peculiar thing is that these iron balls, according to what the native Navaho shamans assert, have energetic and healing properties on a spiritual and metaphysical level. They give off balanced energies, protective and absorb negativity. The sandstone core is a silica sand that has properties comparable to those of rock crystal which is believed to be a rebalancing stone.
Similar sort of natural mineral perfectly spherical "bowling or even massive cannon balls" have been found in many different sites of the Planet: for instance in China, Bosnia, Romania, California, North Dakota, New Zealand, Costarica as well as in many Regions of Italy. They can be made of different kinds of minerals but all date back to very ancient geological eras. Some prefer to believe to their formation as man-made objects manufacted by extremely intelligent, knowledged primitive people but this probably belongs to legends that still nowadays feed popular beliefs, inspire imaginary scenarios and sci-fi fantasies...
My Still Life arrangement and photo, shot in darkness except the dim natural light of few candles :
those Geodes I photographed are very small but kinda heavy, with a size ranging from a golf ball up to a tennis ball for the biggest one. They have a rough and rusty look and I super like them till the point to attempt a still life arrangement! As a base on the ground I used some genuine shell sand, collected from the Adriatic Sea.
I have found these iron stones in an Italian open-air Vintage market: I was attracted to the biggest ones of maybe one meter of diameter, so I approached the seller and asked him many questions since I liked them much. The kind seller must have been very proud of my interest in the peculiarity of his natural goods and decided to spontaneously gift me 5 of the smallest ones he had on display, as a souvenir. I remember he had no wrapping packaging, so he emptied the paper lunch satchel containing his "panino" and filled it up with the balls :-)
> For the group Pareidolia: they recall me some planets, the moon surface and the biggest one seems to have a face.
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Shot in darkness except the dim natural light of few candles.
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360 degree spherical panorama.
Devil's Tower National Monument, WY.
180x360 stitched spherical panorama created from 50 images.
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Museumskäfer, sehr kugelig und nur 2-3 mm groß - Museum Beetle, very spherical and 2-3 mm in size only.
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