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A perfectly aligned series of Inca windows inside the ancient citadel of Machu Picchu, Peru.
This photo captures the incredible symmetry, geometry, and engineering precision used in Inca stone architecture.
Taken during a visit to the high Andes, this layered window frame shows three aligned stone walls — a design feature that reflects the Inca understanding of structure, balance, and visual harmony.
Machu Picchu, Cusco, Peru
Inca Empire • Stone Masonry • Sacred Valley
When are we going to realize that hate, intolerance, greed and superiority only harm our society. The only way forward to achieve peace is to come together, discuss our differences, try and understand one another and work towards mutual solutions. We are all human beings and none of us are better than the other. It is time to realize that we are all an important part of the whole and therefore it is our duty to our children to work together with respect and compassion.
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Cat's Eye
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PP work in Adobe PS Elements 2024 Raw filters
Further PP work in Luminar Neo filters. Hybrid creation.
A close-up of a mystical lacquered tiger's eye, hyper-detailed and reflective, showing intricate mother-of-pearl inlay patterns swirling within the iris geometric floral motifs, traditional Korean cloud curves, and shimmering crescent moons. The tiger’s eye glows softly with iridescent highlights pale blue, violet, and gold capturing both wisdom and ancient memory. The surrounding fur is made of nacre scales, finely patterned and glowing faintly in ambient moonlight. Photorealistic rendering, shallow depth of field, surreal but poetic tone
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"The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear."
― Stephen King
Deterior surdus eo nullus, qui renuit audire
Latin proverb
There are none so deaf as those who will not hear....
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In the end there doesn't have to be
anyone who understands you.......
There just has to be someone who
wants to.
Robert Brault
A spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies, known as Arp 143, has fueled the unusual triangular-shaped star-formation frenzy as captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
The interacting galaxy duo Arp 143 contains the distorted, star-forming spiral galaxy NGC 2445, at right, along with its less flashy companion, NGC 2444, at left. Their frenzied collision takes place against the tapestry of distant galaxies, of which some can be seen through the interacting pair.
Astronomers suggest that the two galaxies passed through each other, igniting the uniquely shaped firestorm of star formation in NGC 2445, where thousands of stars are bursting into life. This galaxy is awash with new stars because it is rich in gas, the raw material from which stars are made. However, it hasn’t yet escaped the gravitational clutches of its partner at left. The pair is waging a cosmic tug-of-war, which NGC 2444 appears to be winning. That galaxy has pulled gas from NGC 2445, forming the oddball triangle of newly minted stars.
NGC 2444 is also responsible for yanking strands of gas from its partner, stoking the streamers of young, blue stars that appear to form a bridge between the two galaxies. These streamers are among the first in what appears to be a wave of star formation that started on the galaxy’s outskirts and continued inward. Researchers estimate the streamer stars were born between 50 million and 100 million years ago. But these infant stars are being left behind as NGC 2445 continues to pull slowly away from NGC 2444.
Stars no older than one million to two million years old are forming closer to the centre of NGC 2445. Hubble’s keen vision reveals some individual stars, the brightest and most massive in the galaxy. Most of the brilliant blue clumps are groupings of stars and the pink blobs are glowing gas clouds enshrouding young, massive star clusters.
Although most of the action is happening in NGC 2445, it doesn’t mean the other member of the interacting pair has escaped unscathed. The gravitational tussle has stretched NGC 2444 into an odd shape, yanking gas far from the galaxy. NGC 2444 contains old stars and no new starbirth because it lost its gas long ago, well before this galactic encounter.
Aside from the star formation in NGC 2445, another interesting feature that Hubble has uncovered is the dark filaments of gas in the starburst galaxy’s bright core. Those features may have been formed by outbursts of material. Radio observations reveal a powerful source in the core that may be spearheading the outbursts. The radio source may have been produced by intense star formation or a black hole gobbling up material flowing into the centre.
It’s not uncommon for star formation to occur in the cores of galaxies, driven by interactions. Plenty of gas from galactic encounters flows into the centre, which can trigger the birth of new stars. Outflows from these stars can drive material out, but the dust created by these outbursts blankets the core and other regions throughout NGC 2445, making it difficult for Hubble to study in visible light.
However, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope will have the infrared vision to peer through the dust covering these regions to reveal the young star clusters that are hidden from view in visible-light images. In this way, Hubble and Webb will provide the full census of stars in NGC 2445. The census will help astronomers answer questions such as what the star-formation rate is, how long it takes for stars to form, and whether the starburst in NGC 2445 is fading or just heating up.
Studying young, massive star clusters still embedded in their dust and gas cocoons is important for understanding how star formation affects the evolution of galaxies. Massive stars that explode as supernovae enrich their environment with chemical elements heavier than hydrogen and helium.
The Arp 143 system is listed in a compendium of 338 unusual-looking interacting galaxies called the “Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies” published in 1966 by astronomer Halton Arp.
Credits: NASA, ESA, STScI, and J. Dalcanton (Center for Computational Astrophysics/Flatiron Inst., UWashington); CC BY 4.0
Our resident Wood Duck. I say resident because unlike all the other wood ducks in the area this one thinks it's a mallard. It hangs around with mallards in this tiny pond off the trail. If someone pays any attention to him, he gets off his branch and hides under the branches. His wife is understanding and while she misses her warm southern trips to California in the winter, she tolerates his fascination with mallards.
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A melting lunchtime sketch today in London.
Author, The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Perspective available online and in stores.
God will give you strength, for every battle, wisdom for every decision, and peace that surpasses understanding!!
T- 10
At New Richmond WI
No 21 eng 551 waits for the Omaha Local eng 4402 to finish up at DOboy Mill. July 1977.
These last two shots really had to be in monochrome. I did think about reducing the saturation levels so the barest colour appeared, but in the end I went for classic black and white. I wonder sometimes if some people today struggle with understanding what black and white photography is about. We live in a world of instant simulation, and it takes imagination and effort to "read" a black and white.
Ansel Adams once likened working in colour to be like playing an out of tune piano (Adams was a concert pianist before turning to photography).
'"I can get—for me—a far greater sense of ‘color' through a well-planned and executed black-and-white image than I have ever achieved with color photography," he wrote in 1967. For Adams, who could translate sunlight's blinding spectrum into binary code perhaps more acutely than anyone before or since, there was an "infinite scale of values" in monochrome. Color was mere reality, the lumpy world given for everyone to look at, before artists began the difficult and honorable job of trying to perfect it in shades of gray.' www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/ansel-adams-in-color-...
I like that description. Mind you I recently purchased "Ansel Adams in Color" (Little, Brown and Company, 1993), and although there's not a lot of his colour slides left (most have deteriorated with time), what is in this collection is a real treasure.
"No machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding."
Louis. V. Gerstner Jr
She descended in silence, a wisp of the divine sculpted into flesh. The heavens split behind her, spilling gold across the storm-ridden sky. Her radiance was moonlight upon the crest of a wave.
Her wings were a cathedral of white feathers, each bearing the weight of untold sorrows and whispered prayers. She was not merely beauty. She was purpose incarnate. A sentinel between the mortal and the eternal.
Her gaze held no judgment, only understanding. She did not come to strike down nor to redeem. She was the quiet before the reckoning, the pause before the truth.
As the clouds swirled around her and the earth trembled beneath her feet, the world held its breath, waiting for the words she would speak, the message she would bear.
For an angel does not come without reason.
And this one had come to change everything.
When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.
(Bette Midler)
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I’d first like to say thank you for all the kind words and understanding I’ve received over the last week. I needed to share my love for Toby and your reactions to my indulgence was over whelming, again thank you. Carla and I needed to get away so on Thursday we went to Royston to visit my daughter. The dogs loved that place and some lonely walks around the heath and fields were heartbreaking but help the healing. Yesterday afternoon I went to the cliffs with the camera and had some fun with my recent purchase a OM System 5. It was a bit of a impulse buy a couple of months ago which I regretted immediately, what do I need another camera for and another system as well! I’m very happy with my Canon and Fujifilm gear and have no intentions of replacing them, but I was after a gadget. I’ve had Olympus OM cameras before, an OM10ii and OM5ii, swapping the OM5 for a XT2 back in 2018. I loved the computational features and when I saw the OM5 had added to these especially the ND filters my curiosity was piqued. This photos taken yesterday with the inbuilt ND16 filter at 1/4”, handheld, I’m quiet impressed.
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This is something I have never seen before. These moths gain their name from the practice seen here. My understanding is that they couple up one behind the other when they move through open spaces. That way they look like a snake and therefore put off potential predators. These moths have a terrible reputation for damage in the high coniferous forests in Southern Europe, North Africa and Central Asia. This photo was taken at around 6,000 feet up on the slopes of Mount Etna in Sicily.
Within each being
A tiger lurks
Ready to pounce
Growl and snarl
Ready to rip and roar
Slash and tear
With dynamic force
Stealth and grace
Eternally vigilant
In the jungle of life
Within each tiger
The stillness waits
Spreading peace
Relaxation and calm
Devotion and stability
Deep tranquility
Unbounded reflection
Adoration and affection
Ever surrendering
To Infinite Bliss
GF June 18/2022
The world within and the world without all seem to be revealing these two opposite forces in varying degrees. When these two find balance, a new way of living is possible. The breath flows inward and outward forging earths while the Infinite Source unceasingly adapts Itself again and again. We awaken to participate more fully as we activate this Creator in ourselves and with increasing awareness and intention realize more and more who we are and why we are here.
Kalt träd med det äkta solljuset från vänster som lyser på trädet. Här är en variant av svart-vitt filter pålagt för en mer talande bild för temat, enligt mig.
Originalet där ni kan se hur vackert solen lyser på trädet finns bredvid denna i min mapp "Höst" på min sida.
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Group: Fotosöndag
Filter: black and White no7
You can see my original image in the folder named Autumn in my profile.
‘They Are Human Beings’: Homeland Security Faulted for Treatment of Migrant Children -The New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/us/politics/homeland-security-...
A whole generation of migrant kids is languishing at the U.S.-Mexico border -
The Los Angeles Times
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We need to make our voices known to insist upon fair treatment for all children and people throughout the world, families should not be separated and jailed for no reason. There are many difficult problems to solve, but this one should not be neglected, we need to face it head-on and find positive solutions and surely we could do that by acting with our friends, not against them. The world is linked by technology, it is not the time to separate countries and nationalities, we all need one another, it is time to unite. This is not the time to be greedy and selfish, instead, we have to work together!
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There are painters who must,
having found the place, must,
repaint it, compelled to repeat it,
each a variant, yet always the same,
always different
I awake to a perspective that is wide,
always differentiated from the prior,
always almost similar, but never with
the same exactitude, differing attitude,
same longitude, identical latitude,
always different
horizon distanced, in all ways a view
encompassing, duality near, far distant,
harmoniously, eyes open, magnetized
to wake before 6am by the suns modesty,
first light, first clarity, a curtain risen, yet,
always different
am I so blessed or thus cursed, for the urge
to disclaim and ode, compose and thus self-
decompose, analyze, reflect, slice apart, needing
the comprehensive understanding this me/place
scripts the raw appreciation, daily differentiated
always the same
this peaceful venue seizures, chest calmly
pounding at the insistence it commands,
the price I must pay for the prize to praise,
to sing, weep, reward restful sleep with lyrics
eked out, pouring, unsustainable yet finished,
always different
a single May Iris, returns, born from a torrential,
thunder, lightning, sky mayhem, rises by a sundial
greets midst a planted clump, upright rises, lavender,
in a majestic solitary, absent but a day prior, yet mine eyes
failed to witness its discernible emerging birthing creation,
always different,
always the same
here, I am Iris too, always the same, a day aged,
but the differences minute but stolid actualized,
this overnight sensation, my body’s restoration,
what I visualize, indivisible, now visible, realized,
miracle of continuity, unchanging chained change,
always different ,
always the same
wonder, am I more blessed, or a s~lightly cursed being,
my breath restored, wet eyes full brimming, changed,
revived but always modified, a newer old man, whose
sum total always a different number, but in sequential,
compelled to confess, no understanding of this miracle,
always the same,
always different,
this daily visionary miracle
-Nat Lipstadt via hellopoetry
Anthropomorphic Female Cat Ice Skating
Created with Midjourney
PP work in Adobe PS Elements 2024 Raw filters
an anthropomorphic female cat ice skates on a frozen lake in winter. Her costume is beautiful and flowing as she swirls around. The frozen lake is like glass, with color from light turquoise to deep turquoise. The cool winter sun sparkles on her costume, skates, and the ice.
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As NASA’s Juno mission completed its 43rd close flyby of Jupiter on July 5, 2022, its JunoCam instrument captured this striking view of vortices — hurricane-like spiral wind patterns — near the planet’s north pole.
These powerful storms can be over 30 miles (50 kilometers) in height and hundreds of miles across. Figuring out how they form is key to understanding Jupiter's atmosphere, as well as the fluid dynamics and cloud chemistry that create the planet’s other atmospheric features. Scientists are particularly interested in the vortices’ varying shapes, sizes, and colors. For example, cyclones, which spin counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern, and anti-cyclones, which rotate clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the southern hemisphere, exhibit very different colors and shapes.
A NASA citizen science project, Jovian Vortex Hunter, seeks help from volunteer members of the public to spot and help categorize vortices and other atmospheric phenomena visible in JunoCam photos of Jupiter. This process does not require specialized training or software, and can be done by anyone, anywhere, with a cellphone or laptop. As of July 2022, 2,404 volunteers had made 376,725 classifications using the Jovian Vortex Hunter project web site at www.zooniverse.org/projects/ramanakumars/jovian-vortex-hu....
Another citizen scientist, Brian Swift, created this enhanced color and contrast view of vortices using raw JunoCam image data. At the time the raw image was taken, the Juno spacecraft was about 15,600 miles (25,100 kilometers) above Jupiter’s cloud tops, at a latitude of about 84 degrees.
JunoCam's raw images are available for the public to peruse and process into image products at missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing. More information about NASA citizen science can be found at science.nasa.gov/citizenscience and www.nasa.gov/solve/opportunities/citizenscience.
More information about Juno is at www.nasa.gov/juno and missionjuno.swri.edu. For more about this finding and other science results, see www.missionjuno.swri.edu/science-findings.
Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS; Image processing by Brian Swift © CC BY
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Local observations during the 'Lockdown'. TV aerials form an important connection for people confined to understanding what is going on in the world via the media.
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Excerpt from youractionsmatter.ca/bee-thankful/:
Bee Thankful
• Bees are vital to the preservation of ecological balance and biodiversity in nature. They provide one of the most recognizable ecosystem services, pollination, which is what makes most food production possible.
• One third of all the food we eat depends on bees, and of the 100 crop varieties that provide 90% of the world’s food, 71 are pollinated by bees.
• Honeybees alone pollinate 80% of all flowering plants, including more than 130 types of fruits and vegetables.
• The journey of bees begins with manure and fertilizer. It is used to enrich the soil, providing essential nutrients that help seeds germinate and plants grow.
• Water, a fundamental element for life, aids in the absorption of these nutrients from the soil, allowing the plant to grow strong and healthy.
• As the plant matures on the fertile land, it develops vibrant flowers rich in nectar and pollen.
• Bees are attracted to these flowers for their nectar, which they use to create honey, and in the process, they pollinate the plant, contributing to its reproductive cycle and the growth of new plants.
• This illustrates a symbiotic relationship, where bees and plants rely on each other for survival and growth.
• Despite their profound importance for the food we eat, bee populations are declining at an alarming rate.
• Last winter, Canada had its largest honeybee colony loss in the past 20 years, with 46% of colonies perishing nationally.
• Global warming, pesticide use, habitat destruction, and air pollution all contribute to bee mortality.
• By understanding the vital role bees play in our ecosystem and food production, and making conscious choices to help, we can contribute to the conservation of bees and the vital services they provide.
(Re-edited & replaced November 2011)
day three hundred and sixty five.
Explored.
Three hundred and sixty five—what it is to me; it’s planning my day around my self portrait instead of trying to fit time to shoot into my day, it’s loving my camera like a friend, it’s creativity ruts as well as shots I’m still proud of, it’s a journal of my thoughts, it’s a new obsession with my favorite friend, it’s learning to not care what you look like, it’s the joy of finding music lyrics to suit whatever mood you're trying to portray, it’s what forces you to see every single thing as beautiful (and never be able to undo that), it’s rushing to take a photo at 11:50 at night and waking up before the sun, it’s finding motivation in everyone else’s project, it’s truly understanding how simultaneously lasting and fleeting a year really is.
Kaleigh, thank you, thank you. A thousand times over. For getting me started, for keeping me going, thank you.
this is the end,
you gentle friend.
this is the end, my only friend, the end
of our elaborate plans, the end
of everything that stands, the end
no safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes
again.
this is the end,
you gentle friend.
this is the end, my only friend, the end.
it hurts to set you free
but you'll never follow me
the end of laughter
and soft lies
the end of nights we tried to die;
PS: this shot was insane. I had to climb up 50 feet of almost vertical rock in the blazing sun all the while trying not to slip on sea water or get pelted with ginormous waves. I also had to wear a long sleeved shirt in the tropics.
PPS: good luck Adriana. :)