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7DOS Time Black & White Wednesday
Looking through the clock from inside the Musee d'Orsay, Paris, towards Sacre Coeur. The outside of the building is in the comments below.
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Two young ibexes, relaxing above the clouds, on a wall shelter near the refuge Cà d'Asti (2.854 m).
Ibexes are always communicating an otherworldly sense of calmness and serenity ... I believe that this simple moment can depict pretty well their innermost essence :-)
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"Time, I wait for you, hibernating, hoping life will start again. Petal in the water, the days all seem the same; I dream by day, I shut the light out, I escape." - Keane
"Time after time
If you fall, I will catch you, I'll be waiting
Time after time
If you're lost, you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall, I will catch you, I will be waiting…"
*Cindi Lauper*
The #MacroMondays #Timepieces theme
Physicist Sir Arthur Eddington introduced us to The Arrow of Time. As we look into the future we see a universe which is gradually descending into disorder, expanding and cooling, ultimately to become a scattered collection of particles so far separated within an unimaginably vast nothingness that the probability of them ever again combining to create anything is zilch. That is indeed a depressing forecast of our destiny, but as the process will take about 10 trillion years (around 50x the current age of The Universe) there's no need to cancel your pro subs just yet. Conversely if we look into our past we see greater order. Ultimately we could look back to The Big Bang when The Universe was simple and very highly ordered before its unimaginably rapid expansion an instant later.
HMM all - very deep for a Monday! Sir Arthur illustrates The Second Law of Thermodynamics which holds that entropy increases with time. The entropy of a system refers to the amount of order within it. Low entropy describes a high degree of order. For example, if we conceptually reduce your home, that pile of bricks or whatever, into its constituent atoms we can imagine that only a very few arrangements of those atoms would create your home, meaning that your home is a low entropy system. Similarly a pile of beach sand has a high level of disorder, representing high entropy. A pile of sand is a pile of sand - there are very many ways the grains of sand in a pile may be arranged to create any old pile and one pile of sand is pretty much the same as any other. However, if you put some in a bucket then threw it into the air, you would be very surprised if it landed in the form of a sand castle. But it could, proven by you instead flipping the bucket over in traditional seaside fashion, giving it a tap and carefully removing it, creating your sand castle. The grains therefore can make such a thing and could therefore land in just the right places even if you threw them into the air. But there are far many more configurations that they could take (most of which are unremarkable piles) so while a sand castle magically appearing from a load of airborne sand could theoretically happen, it is a vanishingly improbable event. Functionally speaking, the probability of such an event occurring is zero. If you left a formed sand castle alone, you'd see its entropy increase as it decays into an unremarkable high entropy pile of sand. Ultimately it will become just another part of the even higher entropy beach, demonstrating, during your hard earned summer holiday, a university level physics concept. I've never done a university physics course, he hastily clarifies, but I have done some reading on it.
I should say that it has been fairly pointed out to me that this interpretation does depend on one's world view. This is mine. It's a world view which led to the manufacture of transport options to get to beaches, buckets capable of creating sand castles, cameras, the internet and probes heading to the edges of The Solar System and ultimately beyond on precisely predetermined trajectories calculated using physics, so I think it has some evidence to support it. The background of the photo is the Christian creation story, Genesis 1. That's mine too.
In creating the image, I used a plain yellow background created in Photoshop over which I added a layer of a paving stone to provide texture, reducing its opacity to allow the yellow to colour it. Genesis followed, and finally a photo of a small pocket watch which I vandalised through the wonders of Photoshop, using much tiny deleting, moving and transforming, its parts disappearing into the future as it falls into disorder, following The Arrow of Time.
I spent a little time in downtown Salem today between rain squalls. This is one of the interior walls in one of our favorite lunch spots.
Explore! Nov. 11, 2009 #410
A rare sortie on to the golf course today, whilst waiting on one of the tees looked up and saw silhouette potential thanks to the light and a massive hill (the hill I had to get my shot up I should add...)
Macro Monday Theme: Time Pieces.
A Japanese watch that tells the time by showing a complicated pattern of red and green LED lights in these black holes. Unfortunately it run out of battery a while ago so I cannot show that. The width of the bracelet is about 1 cm.
Time is TIME - by Citizen at Fuori Salone 2016.
A place where you can reflect on the nature and perception of time and of the moment. Amazingly done.
Checking out for a while…need a rest…will catch up, when I can…
(My Miss Woolly, at nap time..)
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Eurasian Sparrowhawk (accipiter nisus) flight_w_1958
If there's one thing that defines the Eurasian Sparrowhawk, apart from its skills and dexterity during flight, it's its loyalty to its partner throughout its life.
The Eurasian sparrowhawk may not be a 100% monogamous bird. Sometimes in the life of the sparrowhawk there may be situations where one member of the pair disappears, for whatever reason.
According to studies, every year, established sparrowhawk pairs remain steady, as long as the richness of their territory is maintained. If the prey is scarce, both partners look for a new territory nearby in which to settle together and build the nest.
The main reason why a pair of hawks separates is because of the lack of offspring. First, when a pair fails to have chicks, the first thing they do is change territory.
If the following year the couple also fails to conceive, it’s usually the female that goes in search of a new territory and a new partner. The male tends to stay in the old territory and look for a new female to reproduce with there.
The Eurasian sparrowhawk isn’t one of the fastest birds of prey, as it’s outpaced by birds such as the peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), which can travel at up to 240 miles per hour. However, the 75 miles per hour that sparrowhawks can reach are nothing to laugh at.
Like all birds of the Falconidae family, these animals are extremely fast and agile in flight. Their capacity makes them skillful predators of small, fast prey.
And here's something else:
We know that weaker and sicker animals are easier prey in nature. If a mammal limps, a bird flies poorly or demonstrates changes in its behavior that expose it more to predation, it’s very likely that it’ll be hunted rather than a healthy and strong animal. However, this isn’t always the case, as healthy animals are also often preyed upon.
Sparrowhawks feed mainly on passerines or songbirds. In addition, there’s a marked difference in the diet of the female and male Eurasian sparrowhawk. They hunt birds that weigh between 1.4 to 1.8 ounces. At most, they may hunt birds weighing up to 4.25 ounces. Their favorite prey are finches, sparrows, and great tits.
On the other hand, females have a predilection for larger prey. In general, the average weight of the birds hunted by a female sparrowhawk is between 1.75 and 2.5 ounces, but they’re able to capture animals weighing up to a little over a pound.
The most interesting thing about this is that, according to one study, these birds are able to select prey infected with blood parasites, such as Leucocytozoon or malaria. Infected birds are 16 to 25% more likely to be caught than those that aren’t.
Buildings on Regents Street, London are reflected in a clock store window.
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This was another possibility for the Macro Monday theme of perfect match. One hand without the other is useless. Time is flying by so must get on with housework rather than having fun with photography!
This Song Sparrow decided that Dragonfly was on the menu for his dinner and wasted no time to ensure his food was fresh.
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Only Time…
Quién puede decir adonde va el camino, dónde el día fluye? Solamente el tiempo...
¿Y quién puede decir si su amor crece, como su corazón eligió? Solamente el tiempo...
¿Quién sabe? Solamente el tiempo... ¿Quién sabe? Solamente el tiempo...
Música: Enya. Only Time.
Black and white composition relating to time, items of time or end of time depending on how you look at it.
50020, 50023, 45088, 47097, 50033 and a few more hangers on....Bristol Bath Road on 3-5-75
Part of the Tom Derrington Collection and holding all rights. Photographer unknown
Quite a few years before any of the 50's received names, only 50033 has survived into preservation.
“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.”
Henry David Thoreau
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