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Went to Montana over spring break (yes, I know, that was over a month ago), took the giant Canon, and went skiing, dogsledding, etc.
Edit: crop, selective desat via "color" setting on regular brush tool.
Sorry about the severe lack of new pictures; my finals and honors projects are all conspiring to eat my free time. D:
College of DuPage’s annual Celebration of Academic Excellence highlighted the accomplishments of honors students, scholarship recipients, outstanding graduates and academic standouts during the 2024-25 academic year.
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals a glistening and ancient globular cluster named NGC 3201 — a gathering of hundreds of thousands of stars bound together by gravity. NGC 3201 was discovered in 1826 by the Scottish astronomer James Dunlop, who described it as a “pretty large, pretty bright” object that becomes “rather irregular” towards its centre. Globular clusters are found around all large galaxies, but their origin and role in galaxy formation remain tantalisingly unclear. Astronomers recently discovered a black hole lurking at the heart of NGC 3201 — its position was revealed by the strange movements of a star being quickly flung around a massive, invisible counterpart. This sparkling group of stars also has some strange properties which make it unique amongst the over 150 globular clusters belonging to the Milky Way. NGC 3201 has an extremely fast velocity with respect to the Sun and its orbit is retrograde, meaning that it moves speedily in the opposite direction to the galactic centre, which it orbits. The unusual behaviour of this cluster suggests that it may have extragalactic origins, but at some point was captured by the Milky Way’s gravity. However, the chemical makeup of this intriguing cluster tells a different story — the stars within NGC 3201 are chemically very similar to those of other galactic globular clusters, implying that they formed at a similar location and time to their neighbours. Whether this mysterious cluster was adopted by our galaxy or has for some reason evolved very differently to the family of clusters it grew up with, it is certainly an unusual astronomical beauty. Acknowledgement: Sarajedini et al.
The "Invasive Species" area of the Botanical Gardens was full of crocuses and these small flowers. I haven't seen nearly as much in bloom in people's yards.
In this sea of pinks and yellows was one red standout: this chubby little cardinal. He sure looks plump, right? Or am I just imagining that?
This group of orchids has been intact and pushing out into the open space of the Lamberton Conservatory for a month or more. The highest orchid is about 6 ft. off the ground.
I wonder why I didn't take a picture of it before this!?
Very strange - after I spent five minutes getting the tassle on his cap so he could easily wear it and slide it over once graduated, they never actually told the students to move the tassle over to the right side. You can see that some did it on their own, others did not - and one wants to swing his around like a lasso!
That one would be mine. :)
p.s. this is for Lea who seems to think I shoot too much color! :)
Here is the back of one of the standouts. They are super easy to hang. You can also frame them if you like. They look great either way!
one small step for man, one giant step for mankind:)
突然很BT 地想起了初中时候的惯用作文开场白：“在浩瀚的记忆海洋里，总有那么一只贝壳特别的鲜艳闪亮着，那只贝壳就是blah blah blah......"
See my Atlanta Botanical Garden SAT 08-01-09 set here.
Canon 40D
Canon 50mm Compact Macro
Nikon 52mm CPL, with rotating hood
I needed to clear my head and have a serenity prayer moment this morning, so what better way to do that than take a little hike in the hills behind my house, I'm lucky to live in a somewhat rural area of San Diego, and with Spring in full bloom how could some fresh air, exercise and all this not lift my spirits?