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"The dragonfly, in almost every part of the world #symbolizes #change and change in the #perspective of #self #realization; and the kind of change that has its source in #mental and #emotional #maturity and the #understanding of the #deepermeaning of #life"
#treasure #nikon moment of the day #dragonfly ...rarely can I get these shots, especially #babywearing I truly see that moment as a judgment of #selfawareness and I #passed !! :) #blue #green #macro #bokeh #combo
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found on my daily workload . work ............ aaaaaaaah.. somebody has to take photos while whistling and working..
this one is dedicated to a friend of mine, going through some hard times with her family not quite understanding her new spiritual path in life.
she has a a big heart , and a heart that hurts the little things.. that yes, are important, so here is a boost to her ...... yo my friend. rock on sista..
"Oh, my life is changing everyday
In every possible way
And my dreams it's never quiet as it seems
Never quiet as it seems
I know I've felt like this before
But now I'm feeling it even more
Because it came from you
And then I open up and see
The person falling here is me
A different way to be
I want more, impossible to ignore
Impossible to ignore
And they'll come true, impossible not to do
Impossible not to do
And now I tell you openly
You have my heart so don't hurt me
You're what I couldn't find
A totally amazing mind
So understanding and so kind
You're everything to me
Oh, my life is changing every day
In every possible way
And my dreams it's never quiet as it seems
'Cause you're a dream to me, dream to me ...."
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This is also a shot from a scene in my new video "Polar Spirits", released april 16th 2013, watch it here:
This was shot at Senja, northern Norway Oct.14th 2012. Senja is the second largest island in Norway, and with its huge mountains and fjords it is a photographers dream. This shot shows the popular "Devil's Jaw", the rugged teeth raising up from the seas
I have so many shots from the last two days, it's hard to choose which one to post, and I can't post all :) But I think this one turned out ok, and I hope you like it. More shots to come soon..
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Among Speedsters there is an understanding that the faster you go, the more at risk you are of losing your way and ending up trapped in the speed force. To combat this one needs to focus on a single object, person, or idea in order to keep themselves grounded. The term “lightning rod” has been adopted among the speedsters as the product of this fact.
To many a lightning rod is commonly another person to whom they share a special bond with. The bond shared between two individuals can be an effective lightning rod, however the bond can be broken if one side becomes deceased. (Popular users of a relational lightning rods: Barry Allen, Wally West, Wallace West, and Liberty Belle)
Others choose an ideal or belief to keep them grounded. This connection is a bit more difficult to uphold as the mind is one of the first things to become compromised when a speedster taps too far into the Speed Force. However the use of this technique is really only upheld by those who have very limited access to the use of the Speed Force, though a few more powerful users have learned to master this technique. (Popular users of Ideology lightning rods: Jay Garrick, Johnny Quick, Jesse Quick, Max Mercury, and Bart Allen)
The last type is a physical item used to act as a speedster’s lightning rod. Speedsters who use this technique often find themselves outside of any relationship strong enough to manifest itself as a lightning rod. Some Speedsters who have an impressive potential in Speed Force energy find themselves using an actual physical manifestation of the Speed Force to keep them grounded. (Popular users of Physical Lightning rods: Hunter Zolomon, Eobard Thawne, Savitar, and Dark Flash)
For all users not able of understanding German I´m sorry that I have just my little poem for you, as I´m not eloquent enough in expressing my thoughts as accurate in English as I can in German, at least concerning this shot.
An dieser Stelle ein kleiner Einschub bzw. Vorgriff mit einem Bild aus dem Elsass, bei welchem ich unmittelbar bei der Aufnahme wusste, dass ich mich auf dessen Bearbeitung freuen würde und das es ein Bild zum Nachdenken ergeben wird. Nachdem ich gestern Abend in der Stimmung war es zu bearbeiten, wollte ich es heute auch gleich einstellen.
Als ich in den frühen Morgenstunden dort im Herzen des Elsass am Wegrand eines kleinen Feldweges im Nebel stand, kam mir gleich die Assoziation das diese Szene doch sehr unserem Lebensweg ähnelt. Ein Weg dessen Verlauf immer weiter nach oben zum Gipfel führt, nicht aber ohne das es dabei viele kleine Anhöhen und auch einige Tiefen und Täler zu durchwandern gilt. Selbst wenn man die nächsten Schritte sehen oder zumindest erahnen kann, so ist es doch schwierig weit genug in die vernebelte Ferne zu blicken um sagen zu können was einen die Zukunft bringen mag. Eine Erhebung die aus der Ferne noch aussah wie ein großer Berg, dessen Erklimmen ein nobles Ziel sei, kann sich beim Erreichen als kleine Anhöhe entpuppen, die einen nur spärlich weiter zum Gipfel führt. Auf der anderen Seite ist auch nicht jedes Tal ein Rückschlag, sondern es kann einem dabei helfen seine Gedanken zu ordnen und mit noch größerem Ehrgeiz den Weitermarsch nach vorne anzutreten.
Kurvig und steinig ist der Weg zweifellos. Was man bereit ist an Anstrengungen zu unternehmen und was man bereit ist am Weg hinter sich zu lassen um den Gipfel zu erreichen, ist eines jeden eigene Entscheidung. Auch was einen auf dem Weg vorantreibt und wie man sich das Ziel letztlich vorstellt kann einem nur das eigene selbst beantworten.
Hier stehe ich noch ganz am Fuß des Berges in einer kleinen Mulde, doch die nächste Anhöhe ist schon im Blick. Danach ist nur Nebel - Nebel der alles verdeckt. Ein Schleier aus weißer Unklarheit, ein Dunst der Zeit der irgendwann verfliegt. Es scheint dort oben heller zu sein als hier unten im dunklen Tal. So will ich mich auf den Weg machen, getrieben das Ziel zu sehen...
'Peace through Understanding', the theme of the World's Fair in 1964-1965. And yes, it is still quite appropriate at the current situation here.
The Unisphere is a spherical stainless steel representation of the Earth, located in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in the borough of Queens, New York City. The sphere, which measures 140 feet (43 m) high and 120 feet (37 m) in diameter, was commissioned as part of the 1964 New York World's Fair. The Unisphere is one of the borough's most iconic and enduring symbols.
Commissioned to celebrate the beginning of the space age, the Unisphere was conceived and constructed as the theme symbol of the 1964–1965 New York World's Fair. The theme of the World's Fair was "Peace Through Understanding" and the Unisphere represented the theme of global interdependence. It was dedicated to "Man's Achievements on a Shrinking Globe in an Expanding Universe".
--- wikipedia
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bats graciously offered me a much-needed tutorial on night shooting the other night. Woo hoo! I know have a basic understanding the optics and my camera's capabilities. Expect more to come — if I can sit still long enough for the exposures...
A Mythical Dragon V1
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Unleashing the Chaos of Fractals: A Mythical Dragon Born from Infinite Patterns.
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May Peace, Love, and Understanding saturate your 2021!!
Crassula Campfire (Crassula Capitella) in late afternoon light.
"(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding" is a 1974 song written by English singer/songwriter Nick Lowe. Initially released by Lowe in 1974, the song did not chart. The song was most famously covered by Elvis Costello & the Attractions and released as a B-side to Lowe's 1978 solo single "American Squirm." The cover saw great popularity and was later included on the American version of Costello's 1979 album Armed Forces. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(What%27s_So_Funny_%27Bout)_Peace,_Love,_and_Understanding
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May 2017 bring more peace, truth and mutual understanding to all! And lots of smiles :)
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Second Coming of Jesus | "When It Comes to God, What Is Your Understanding"
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Introduction
Almighty God says, "The so-called God is not only the Holy Spirit, that Spirit, the sevenfold intensified Spirit, the all-encompassing Spirit, but also a person, an ordinary person, an exceptionally common person. He is not only male, but also female. They are similar in that They are both born to humans, and dissimilar in that one is conceived by the Holy Spirit and the other is born to a human but derived directly from the Spirit. They are similar in that both incarnate fleshes of God carry out God the Father’s work, and dissimilar in that one does the work of redemption and the other does the work of conquering. Both represent God the Father, but one is the Lord of redemption filled with lovingkindness and mercy, and the other is the God of righteousness filled with wrath and judgment. One is the Supreme Commander to launch the redemption work, and the other is the righteous God to accomplish the work of conquering. One is the Beginning, the other the End. One is sinless flesh, the other is flesh that completes the redemption, continues the work, and is never of sin. Both are the same Spirit, but They dwell in different fleshes and are born in different places. And They are separated by several thousand years. Yet all Their work is mutually complementary, never conflictual, and can be spoken of in the same breath. Both are people, but one is a baby boy and the other is an infant girl."
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Understanding that even as Spring comes closer certain obstacles may be met which, ascribing to the words of the title song which marked every grammar school's graduation ceremony in my day, must be overcome regardless how daunting. Here we have a familiar figure eyeing up the challenge before meeting it head on and, as shown in the comment photos, valiantly vanquishing it...though not without some initial reluctance. Intrepid indeed...
On 10 December, ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray space observatory is celebrating its 20th launch anniversary. In those two decades, the observatory has supplied a constant stream of outstanding science. One area that the mission has excelled in is the science of black holes, having had a profound effect on our understanding of these cosmic enigmas.
Black holes are celestial objects so dense that nothing, not even light, can escape their pull. In this artist’s impression, the weird shapes of light around the black hole are what computer simulations predict will happen in the vicinity of its intense gravitational field.
Although neither XMM-Newton nor any other telescope can actually see black holes in this detail, the mission’s data and observations have provided a great source of information about these mysterious gravitational traps. In particular, XMM-Newton has been particularly good at isolating the X-rays given out by high-temperature, ionised atoms of iron as they swirl towards doom in the black hole.
The X-rays given out from the iron contain information about the geometry and dynamics of the black hole. In 2013, XMM-Newton was used to measure such emission in order to study the rotation rate of the supermassive black hole at the centre of the spiral galaxy NGC 1365.
Supermassive black holes, with masses between millions and billions of times the mass of our Sun, are thought to lurk in the centre of almost every large galaxy in the Universe. Their rotation rate is important because it can give away important details about the history of their host galaxy.
A fast rotating black hole is fed by a uniform stream of matter falling together, or by galaxies merging with one another, whereas a slowly rotating black hole is buffeted from all sides by small clumps of matter hitting it. In the case of NGC 1365, XMM-Newton showed that the black hole was rotating quickly and so the galaxy probably grew steadily over time, or merged with others.
More recently, XMM-Newton discovered mysterious flashes from the black hole at the centre of another galaxy called GSN 069. These flares took place every nine hours or so, raising the brightness of the X-ray emission by a factor of 100. These eruptions are thought to be coming from the matter caught in the black hole’s gravitational grip or from a less massive black hole circling the more massive one.
As XMM-Newton continues into its third decade, black holes and the galaxies they are found in will continue to be a priority target.
More about XMM-Newton’s first two decades in space:
XMM-Newton at 20: The fascinating X-ray Universe
XMM-Newton at 20: The large-scale Universe
XMM-Newton at 20: Taking care of the science operations
Credits: ESA/XMM-Newton/I. de la Calle
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Well since you guys just Love my night shots... LOL!
And a thank you to the motorist who volutarly moved their vehicle to make this shot possible.
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Yes I'm back again.
However due to my main computer on which I edit my work being struck down with a big bad virus, this picture and all the others I am uploading, were Unedited but have now been replaced with Edited versions. So enjoy and Thanks for your patience and understanding.
I do still hate everything about this shit that is new Flickr and always will, but an inability to find another outlet for my work that is as easy for me to use as the Old BETTER Flickr was, has forced me back to Flickr, even though it goes against everything I believe in.
I don't generally have an opinion on my own work, I prefer to leave that to other people and so based on the positive responses to my work from the various friends I had made on Flickr prior to the changes I have decided to upload some more of my work as an experiment and to see what happens.
So make the most of me before they delete my acount: www.flickr.com/photos/69558134@N05/?details=1, to stop me complaining!!
This week in 2007, the space shuttle Atlantis, mission STS-117, landed at Edwards Air Force Base following the completion of a successful 14-day mission to the International Space Station. The primary mission objective was to deliver the second and third starboard truss segments, S3 and S4, and another pair of solar arrays to the station. Today, the Payload Operations Integration Center at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center serves as "science central" for the space station, working 24/7, 365 days a year in support of the orbiting laboratory's scientific experiments. The NASA History Program is responsible for generating, disseminating, and preserving NASA’s remarkable history and providing a comprehensive understanding of the institutional, cultural, social, political, economic, technological and scientific aspects of NASA’s activities in aeronautics and space. For more pictures like this one and to connect to NASA’s history, visit the Marshall History Program’s webpage.
Image credit: NASA
The peculiar galaxy NGC 3256 dominates this image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. This Milky Way-sized galaxy lies about 120 million light-years away in the constellation Vela, and is a denizen of the Hydra-Centaurus Supercluster.
NGC 3256 may seem peaceful, a swirl of tightly entwined spiral arms set in a hazy cloud of light, but this image shows the aftermath of an ancient cosmic clash. This distorted galaxy is the wreckage of a head-on collision between two equally massive spiral galaxies which astronomers estimate to have met around 500 million years ago. The tumultuous past of NGC 3256 is captured in the long tendrils of shining dust and stars which extend outwards from the main body of the galaxy. The striking red and orange regions spread across the galaxy contain young stars created in the merger that are irradiating small dust grains, which then emit infrared light that is captured in astonishing detail by Webb’s instruments. Further out, there are extended tidal features, which are mostly stars pulled out of the galaxies when they collided.
If you were asked to picture a galaxy collision, you might picture stars careening into one another with catastrophically explosive results. In reality, the spaces between the stars in a galaxy are vast; when galaxies collide, their clouds of stars pass through one another and mingle like two clouds of smoke. The gas and dust in colliding galaxies does interact, however, and with spectacular results. The galactic collision that created NGC 3256 triggered a luminous burst of star formation that can be seen in the brightest portions of this image. These infant stars shine most brightly at infrared wavelengths, light which can penetrate through obscuring dust in the galaxy, and which makes the stars perfect subjects for Webb.
This observation is one of several which take a detailed look at the physics of star formation and black hole growth in nearby merging galaxies, hoping to transform astronomers' understanding of galactic evolution. Capturing a selection of luminous infrared galaxies like NGC 3256 will help the astronomical community to understand how Webb can unravel the complex histories of nearby star-forming galaxies.
This image contains data from Webb’s Near-InfraRed Camera and Mid-InfraRed Instrument, which — as the names suggest — capture NGC 3256 in stunning detail at infrared wavelengths. Previous observations of NGC 3256 with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope revealed this cosmic collision at visible wavelengths, and Hubble and Webb observations are shown side-by-side using the slider tool here.
[Image Description: A large, face-on spiral galaxy. The core is radiating very brightly. Streaks of dust glow intensely red, in the centre and across most of the galaxy. This gas is surrounded by a dark grey halo made of the galaxy’s stars. The halo stretches out into a tidal tail at the upper-left, and another at the bottom. Small stars and galaxies surround the spiral galaxy, on a black background.]
Credits: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Armus, A. Evans
"In which direction does the light reside? And where is the place of darkness that you should take it to its territory And understand the paths to its home?"-Job 38:19,20
“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion." Albert Camus.
For me, that means grabbing my camera, my better half, and getting away from the crowds. Haven't quite got to the point where I understand it all, though - including why Flickr introduced color banding in the sky of this image. Couldn't see it in the original.
Energy is a physical property that we talk about, but have a difficult time understanding. It differs from mass in that we cannot hold it in our hands, Its all around us but we can't see it. It transforms ocean water into rain. Sends sparks of electricity through the clouds before a thunderstorm. Some scientist say that everything is nothing but energy, that mass is just a manifestation of energy. as is light, heat and motion.
Hiking along this beautiful Ozark stream one has to be struck by the powerful force of this water. Water that is not much different than the what flows through your tap (minus the chlorine). Except it has been energized.
I wanted to capture this flow of energy. To do this I hiked down a steep ravine and stood on the bank, bent down close to the surface of the water where it slammed up against granite rocks and exploded in splendor. Positioned my camera where the water almost jumped out of the banks in turmoil. I wanted you to see the turbulence, feel the force, smell the mist as it rises off the surface.
Tiemann Shut-Ins Trail
Madison County Missouri
Haute Cuture African Fashion Model V1
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a haute cuture African fashion model wearing a traditional headdress of a turban and a mumu dress of rich gold red and black colors of Kuba Cloth colorful and intricate geometric patterns wearing fancy bone beeds of earrings and necklace in golden tones art studio shot lighting beautiful smooth skin and smile
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This little American Pika can be forgiven for not understanding the coming devastating effects of climate change. It has a brain that is about the size of a lima bean which is engaged primarily in day to day survival. Many pikas never see a human being, so they can be forgiven for not understanding that we are directly responsible for the global warming that may very well cause the demise of some of their populations in parts of North America.
No such forgiveness should be granted to a U.S. President who, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, simply chooses to not believe that humans are responsible for climate change.
The National Climate Assessment draws on input from 13 federal agencies, including NASA and the Defense Department, with contributions from 300 scientists. The latest volume spans more than 1,600 pages, and a key recurring theme is that climate change will be devastating...
POTUS, response: "I don't believe it".
Tell it to the pika President T.
Moving through unfamiliar movements in familiar situations, thisdance explores and challenges dancers’ understanding of their ownbodies and ways of moving.
Choreographer: Tan Bee Hung
when someone can truly look into you and know you and really see what you are and how you think and what you would do. when someone has been looking for so long for the things that they have always had within themselves, but needed the right mirror. the right mirror.
double exposure on the hasselblad.
Listening to the stories of others and putting yourself in their shoes can go such a long way toward greater understanding and being better equipped for whatever lies before you. It is amazing how different a scenario can look when you have a perspective-shift and begin to view the world through the eyes of another.
This photo is from Sylvan Lake at Custer State Park in South Dakota.
"I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times."
Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to his left. Then he says, "It's not as if our lives are divided simply into light and dark. There's shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does. And to acquire a healthy intelligence takes a certain amount of time and effort. I don't think you have a particularly dark character."
~ Haruki Murakami (After Dark)