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My son James and his wife Helen unwittingly ( or not ;-) ) trying to prove something - Los Angeles County Museum of Art ( LACMA )
Our Daily Challenge: still life, soft or hard
A sodden leaf on the hard sidewalk entrance to the park inspired this still life using elements found nearby. It also goes into my collection of miniature still lifes: www.flickr.com/photos/vaneramos/albums/72157710665437733
Plant materials: maple, bedstraw, buckthorn, white oak, cedar, stringy stonecrop
Quite a small bird. One of my Field Guides describes it as big as a gum leaf, which they are often obscured by as they eat scale and other insects in mainly Eucalypt trees. They nest in earthern banks, lining the end of their burrow with stringy bark. This male was near a nesting burrow this morning along the road near our home.
I haven't ventured into the downtown area. It seems so distant. And so, I don't know, standard downtowny.
Also, Seattle has this insane road system, which relies on Interstate 5 to connect its bits and pieces. You CAN, if you want, take long detours and run into multiple dead ends to get to where it is you are going, but sometimes I feel as they say in Maine: you can't get there from here!
The other thing about the Seattle area is that all the electricity is above ground, something I have to take into account when I take a photo, to avoid the stringy stuff dangling all over the place. In Colorado, even in the small owns, most of the electrical system is underground. Amazing.
And Seattle doesn't really have a good sidewalk set up. You can traipse along a street sidewalk and suddenly find yourself in the street. Fortunately, at least in the suburban area, traffic in the side streets isn't too heavy.
thank you everyone for your feedback and nice compliments on my last couple of photos! it really means a lot. i feel like my photos are becoming a bit boring lately and i am running out of ideas! for the past year or so, i've been putting a lot of effort into iphoneography and instagram and it had been a very long time since i had taken a picture on my DSLR and edited a photo on my laptop. now that i have a little bit more time that school is over i will definitely put more effort into my DSLR photos (especially now that i have a new camera)! that being said, here's another one, taken on my nikon d5100 with a 50mm lens, edited in adobe lightroom 4. initially i was going to edit out that little stringy thing, but i realized it's a delicate little spiderweb! hope you all like! :)
Stringy Accident
An accidental abstract photo whilst trying to unsuccessfully create a light tunnel with string (fairy) lights. First the string lights got caught on the camera, pinged towards my face, and then got caught on a tree branch. f/8, 25secs, ISO200. Minimal post processing from RAW exposure in Adobe Lightroom 6.
The Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd was constructed in 1892. The architect is unknown, however, it is possible that the design may be attributed to the work of JH Buckeridge, Brisbane Diocesan architect for the Anglican Church from 1886 - 1902. Buckeridge lived in Sydney from 1892 and managed the design of church buildings from there.
Reverend John Vincent, the first chaplain in the penal settlement of Moreton Bay, then part of the Diocese of Newcastle, arrived in 1829. Up until the late 1840s, parishioners held services in makeshift buildings, open-air services, and in private homes. In 1848 land was chosen in the present Queens's Park in George Street for the first Anglican Church in Brisbane, Saint John the Evangelist. With the establishment of the colony of Queensland in December 1859, it became necessary to form a new diocese within the Anglican Church. The Bishop of the new diocese, Reverend Edward Wyndham Tufnell, arrived in September 1860. Tufnell brought with him six young clergymen, inlcuding the Reverend Thomas Jones who played an important part in the early days of the Church of the Good Shepherd and other churches of the diocese.
By 1870, the Parish of Toowong had been formed and Brookfield was included as a remote part of that parish. By this time, Brookfield was settled by farmers and timbergetters who had arrived in the area in the late 1850s and 1860s. The Reverend Robert Creyke administered to the remote areas of the large parish. A centre for worship was established at Indooroopilly in 1887 and the Church of Saint Andrew was formally opened by Bishop Webber, Bishop of Brisbane, on the 25th of August 1889. It is possible that Hedley Allen Dunn was the architect of this church. On the 9th of January 1890, the Parish of Toowong was divided and the boundaries of the Indooroopilly Parish were fixed, making Brookfield a remote part of the Indooroopilly Parish. Even with a change in Parish boundaries, the Anglican parishioners of Brookfield were still required to travel some distance to church. During one of his visits to Brookfield for services the Reverend AR Rivers encouraged the local people to construct a church, and consequently, a Building Committee was established.
The land that was acquired for the building of a church, on the corner of Brookfield and Boscombe Streets, had been surveyed for sale in 1859. It was originally part of a land grant farmed by John McGrath, who obtained the Deed of Grant in January 1861. It was in October 1892 that the Building Committee purchased the land, for £20, from the owner, William Thomas Gee. On the 21st of November 1892, the solicitors, Wilson, Newman-Wilson and Hemming, forwarded to the Synod of the Diocese of Brisbane the Certificate of Title for the land on which the Church of the Good Shepherd was to be built. The church cost £220 to build and was consecrated on Easter Monday the 2nd of April 1893. The architect of the church is unknown, though, it is likely that it was not designed directly by JH Buckeridge, the Diocesan Architect. There were, however, plans drawn by Buckeridge which Bishop Webber made available to some Building Committees. These plans were intended to assist in costing and assessing sizes, and the Church of the Good Shepherd may have been based on one of these plans.
To reduce costs the interior was originally unlined, revealing the studwork, and the timber was oiled rather than stained or painted. The gable roofs of the church were originally clad with 'stringy-bark' shingles. The north vestry appears to have been added after the building was opened and may account for the presence of chamfer boards on the internal south wall of the vestry. The later addition of vestries was not uncommon was usually related to funding availability. Sometime in the 1930s, the shingle roof was replaced by iron sheeting and in the early 1950s, the interior walls were lined and painted. The chancel interior was clad with 'masonite' and louvre windows were installed on either side of the altar.
During the 1960s, further maintenance work was carried out and the church was repainted and rewired. The sanctuary was relined with clear-finished, horizontal pine boards and the floor around the vestry and pulpit was repaired. During this time the church floor was sanded and varnished.
In 1968, the Parish of Kenmore, Brookfield, and Moggill was formed. During the 1980s, stained glass was installed and the church was repaired once more. The adjacent parish hall was built in 1985 to the designs of architect Philip Gough. The church bell, originally located outside the vestry, was moved to a position north of the west porch.
Source: Queensland Heritage Register.
Stringy cloud interfered with the bling at Treboul as 5Z43 headed back to Derby on 14th August 2024.
Although Halloween is over, the pumpkins that served as Jack-O-Lanterns are still very much alive. They have become a cauldron filled with gooey, oozing, fuzzy, stringy, tangled web of enzymes, spores, and mold. All of which are breaking down and consuming the "delectable" flesh of the pumpkin.....every last drop.
It will be one more year before getting the photo I want of breeding plumage egrets. I thought this was it, until looked at the feathers. This bird was having a successful wade / feed and the gorgeous feathers are wet and stringy. Timing is everything, even on the large scale :-)
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Some sections of the Knysna forests are completely inundated with lianas and vines and other stringy (and hangy) thingies!
Sometimes when I walk through these parts it almost feels like I am walking along the bottom of the ocean... through a dense, dark, green kelp-forest... reaching up towards the water's surface.
This illusion is usually enhanced by some nice soft light penetrating the canopy... and a gentle breeze (which makes the kelp move just as it would underwater).
It's quite a challenge to take an interesting photograph in all this tangle of jungle... but I wanted to try to capture this underwater sensation that I sometimes feel here... so I persevered.
After about 60 photos... I think that I finally managed to get one that is reasonably representative.
One of my favorite zoetropes, "Charon" by Peter Hudson, returned this year. I think I saw it first in 2011? I can't remember exactly. It was great to see it again, and this thing is always tough to photograph. Six people come up and randomly pull the ropes to cause a flashing to begin, animating the skeleton Charon crossing the river Styx into Hades. As I was taking this, and I'm not kidding, this tiny older man with stringy grey hair came up to me and growled. "I'm Dr. Toboggin, and I have a degree in psychedelics, would you like to lick the back of my hand?" I actually thought about doing it, but I had to rush over to grab a photo of the temple before it burned down. I'll see you next time, Dr. Toboggin.
The Toad mating season has started, this was one of seven spotted yesterday by the weekend there will be hundreds for three or four days then job done! stringy Toad spawn in abundance.
An artistic impression of a Bolivian performer with the band Nuna'ye at the Edmonton Heritage Festival in August 2006.
Did you know that one of man's greatest inventions, the thimble, was once used to measure spirits and, that prostitutes in olde England would use them to "thimble-knock" on windows to announce their presence? The earliest known thimble was discovered in the ruins of Pompeii. Its creation has been dated to the first century AD. The first thimble ever seen in England was made in 1695 by a Dutchman named John Lofting (1659-1742) who called it a "thumb-bell" because it was worn on the thumb and its shape was that of a bell. The modern name "thimble" was derived from and remains today as a softened form of the original "thumb-bell".
The sewing needle was originally made of bone or wood and have been around for thousands of years. Excavations on the island of Oland at Alby in Sweden have revealed bone needle casings dating back to 6000 BC. At the Kostenki site in Russia, needles have been found that are dated to 40,000 years ago. And, more recently, American Indians used needles made from the tips of the agave leaf to sew together skins and other items used in a cloth-like manner. Their threads were made also from the long stringy fibers of the same plant.
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My final build for Iron Builder with 6kyubi6
Secret ingredient for this round is that stringy pitchfork.
Didn't have the parts to make an actual scene from the game at this scale, so I improvised on the scene.
Koh Ker temple complex. Many of the Cambodian ruins open to visitors appear to have been carefully pruned to retain the overgrown aesthetic while limiting further damage from growing roots or falling chunks of dying vegetation. The stringy trunks on these trees nicely mirror the surrounding stone pillars.
Herbarium
branch out to me, shroud me with the leafage of who you are
so when the tendrils that grow from the void of the wakeful nights bind your every extremity,
we shall tear the stringy vine with twice the strength,
the strength of we.
branch out to me, cushion me where I ache with the leafage of who you are
so that the lesions that reopen when I try conquer the thorny umbrage so helplessly
cease crying the red and the lymph and the sap,
because now it is we.
branch out to me, our rootlets in the warm moistness of soil twine,
my bud into bloom into fruit, embraced by your bines - wild bouquets grow selflessly.
sweet-smelling petals to brown, withered leaves
- the flora of we.
Each morning there seems to be a massive UP manifest train that heads over to Barstow.
When it runs well, it runs well, but when it doesn't things can clog up on the hill as I've seen a few times. Today its chugging along reasonably well, although there is a BNSF pig train chomping at the bit behind it. I was hoping that he would have been a few hundred feet further ahead here, but alas the UP pushers are only just leaving Caliente behind and passing the road crossing. Not that you'll probably be able to see that in this little picture.
23 Sept 2016, Tunnel 1, Tehachapi Pass, California.
Usnea on Mountain Laurel, Bennett Gap Trail
2014 © Christina Melton
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Connections in nature result in an organism that is greater than the sum of its parts...
A lichen is composed of at least two different but connected organisms – a fungus and a colony of microscopic green algae or cyanobacteria. The fungus supplies a root structure, the shape, and reproductive structures. The fungus also finds, soaks up, and retains water and nutrients. The algae or bacterial cells provide carbohydrates to the combined organism through photosynthesis – something a fungus cannot do. In effect, the fungus is fed by the algal partner. The algae partners in lichens cannot live outside their host, nor can the host live without its algae. It is their connection to each other and to their environment that permits each composite organism to survive and to thrive.
This particular stringy lichen, Usnea (Old Man’s Beard), is said to be an indicator of air quality. If the air quality where it is growing is compromised, this lichen disappears. Almost anyone who has walked through a forest has encountered Usnea, but may not have noticed it and probably didn't know the inconspicuous gray-green fuzzy stuff covering many of the trees is one of the strongest immune tonics in the herb world. Usnea species – a source of antibiotic and antifungal lichen acids – have widespread potential for medical applications, with Usnic acid being found more effective against some bacterial strains than penicillin (particularly against Staphylococcus and Pneumonococcus). It has been used in cosmetic production for its antimicrobial and antifungal properties as a preservative and deodorant, and to create dyes for textiles.
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Everyone loves new lens day! Today I stumbled upon a used macro lens in a shop and instantly fell in love. I knew it was the perfect match and a type of lens I always wanted.
Nikon D7100 + Tamron SP 90 mm Macro 1:1
The matted stringy feathers on this Wood Stork nestling's head, neck and chest look more like wooly fur than feathers.
Location: Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Delray Beach, Florida, United States of America
Our Daily Challenge: String, Stringed, Stringy
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A quick shot of what I've been working on. Please excuse the stringy/hairyness. I'm glad all the pieces are basically made- just working out the finishing details. Hopefully there will be enough left over time to make a mouse pet AND take some decent photographs of the finished product.
Hoping to prove in one of the upcoming challenges that I'm not a one trick pony! For me, it seems like the last few challenges have called for this tedious embellishment. I love to do it but I'd like to stretch my skills by not considering what fans would like to buy. Looking forward to the next challenge announcement!
In celebration of the International Year of Astronomy 2009, NASA's Great Observatories -- the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Chandra X-ray Observatory -- have collaborated to produce an unprecedented image of the central region of our Milky Way galaxy.
In this spectacular image, observations using infrared light and X-ray light see through the obscuring dust and reveal the intense activity near the galactic core. Note that the center of the galaxy is located within the bright white region to the right of and just below the middle of the image. The entire image width covers about one-half a degree, about the same angular width as the full moon.
Each telescope's contribution is presented in a different color:
- Yellow represents the near-infrared observations of Hubble. They outline the energetic regions where stars are being born as well as reveal hundreds of thousands of stars.
- Red represents the infrared observations of Spitzer. The radiation and winds from stars create glowing dust clouds that exhibit complex structures from compact, spherical globules to long, stringy filaments.
- Blue and violet represents the X-ray observations of Chandra. X-rays are emitted by gas heated to millions of degrees by stellar explosions and by outflows from the supermassive black hole in the galaxy's center. The bright blue blob on the left side of the full field image is emission from a double star system containing either a neutron star or a black hole.
When these views are brought together, this composite image provides one of the most detailed views ever of our galaxy's mysterious core.
Read entire caption/view more images: www.chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2009/galactic/
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/UMass/D. Wang et al.; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI/D.Wang et al.; IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSC/S.Stolovy
Caption credit: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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Self portrait (of sorts). This is the first shot of my Fluid Dynamics series.
See the second one here.
Single off cam flash (SB700) with very close umbrella top right.
Got to admit, a few novice mistakes notwithstanding, I'm pleased with the way this turned out.
Lightbox = L = better
I have seen numerous female Rufous Whistlers at this location however, this is the first time I have seen a male. To my surprise I didn't see just one male but three as they fossicked and prodded looking for insect in the stringy bark of the jarrah trees.
She lives in a swamp in a hollow log
With a one-eyed snake and a three-legged dog
Bent, bony body, and stringy hair
And if she ever seen y'all messin' 'round there
She'd go... another man done gone
Marie Laveau
Song by Bobby Bare ‧ 1973
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Genial chenille. That’s W9’s description. “Chenille is any sort of yarn that has long pile — that is, stringy ends that are rooted in the core. It could help you remember what chenille is if you know it's a French word originally meaning “hairy caterpillar,” which is something it resembles.”
Thank you to Halladay Bill who gave us precise directions and helped us find the bird at San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary.
L to R:
- Ghost Rider
- Daredevil
- Iron Man
- Spider-Man
- Iron Fist
Origins:
Ghost Rider / Jonathan "Johnny" Blaze
- A businessman struck by the magic of Morgana Le Fay, he was possessed by a demon from another dimension. However, he managed to repel it using a ring that interdimensional repellants, created with stark tech and Morgana's mystical artifacts. Now, he uses that ring to summon the demon, gaining blazing powers from another plane.
Daredevil / Matthew "Matt" Murdock
- College roommate and current roommate of Peter Parker, Matt Murdock was a lawyer-turned vigilante. However, not soon after starting his new career, he was blinded after being exposed to one of Mysterio's weapons. Soon after, he was given technology by Tony Stark that allowed him to hear much better than the average human, giving him a "Radar Sense". He continues to fight crime with Peter Parker and the Avengers.
Iron Man / Antony "Tony" Stark
- Owner of Stark Robotics and expert at building/designing drones, Tony Stark became Iron Man after an attack at a press conference. He decided to build a robot suit to clean "bad-guys" off the street, including "vigilantes" Daredevil and Spider-Man. Using a suit powered with Morgana Le Fay's magic, he now leads the superhero team known as the 'Avengers'.
Spider-Man / Peter Parker
- After being bitten by a radioactive spider on a field trip with Matt Murdock (His college roommate), Peter developed powers, allowing him to mimic that of a spider. He soon created gauntlets that allowed him to shoot "webs", stringy, disposable wires created by Stark Robotics. He now works with Matt and defends the city as part of the Avengers.
Iron Fist / Danielle "Danni" Rand
- Danielle "Danni" Rand, AKA Iron Fist, decided to become a vigilante after seeing Spider-Man and Daredevil take on the crime of New York. She is a master in multiple forms of martial arts, and is also a talented gymnast. Although she is in her late teens, Danni is a strong member of the team.
THE AVENGERS
- Created after a demonic invasion of New York City, orchestrated by Morgana Le Fay, the government-operated PMC called "PROVIDENCE" recruited vigilantes and superheroes to unite the city and stop future invasions / threats.