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29/08/2016, approaching Ijmuiden, Netherlands.
Keel laid on 15/03/3009, launched on 04/11/2009 and completed on 10/06/2010 by Astilleros Gondan S.A., Castropol, Spain (447), 839g.t., 445 dwt. & 73 tons bollard pull as :- 'Vortex'
for Solent Towage Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Østensjø Rederi AS of Haugesund, Norway.
Vessel is designed for escort operations, harbour work as well as ocean towage. It is equipped with oil recovery and fire fighting equipment (FiFi 1) & fully equipped for salvage in open waters.
Photos with permission of Willem Koper 🔱
Found this one digging through my archive... Enjoy for your personal use if you really want this shot of me shooting the underbelly of Cloudgate. No commercial use without permission.
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The vortex,
The vortex inside my mind
The vortex that won't let me shine
The vortex with a huge empty whirl
The mighty vortex that always hurls!
So, I fed the vortex
Fed it with piece of my murk;
And the vortex turned dark!
This is the result of the famous “polar vortex” that is currently in force in Europe on this rather original fountain in Tervueren, close to Brussels.
Voici le résultat du fameux vortex polaire qui sévit en Europe sur cette fontaine plus qu’originale à Tervueren (une commune proche de Bruxelles).
"Non mi illudere se poi non ci sei Non farmi dipendere da te se poi te ne vai. Non darmi attenzioni se poi smetti di farlo. Non darmi affetto se poi mi fai morire per averlo. Non riempirmi di emozioni se poi mi lasci un vuoto. Non farmi affezionare se poi sparisci.
Non trascinarmi giù, verso il fondo ,in un vortice di emozioni che non riesco a fermare. Piego i ricordi, prendo a calci il niente, straccio il dolore e risalgo piu forte"
An ant is holding onto a leaf, keeping itself dry and alive. The rapids can be tough, unforgiving and survival isn't given around the next bend of the stream. The stream of life, which is time. Like this ant we're just passengers and life is our vessel as we rush through time. Mostly the rapids of life flow in a fairly predictable way, sometimes slower, sometimes faster. That is until you reach a vortex. Those are the events in life that can decide whether you get pulled out of the ride or not. You can fight the Vortex and win, you can fight an loose too. There certainly is no guarantee. Sometimes the Vortex will pull you in, throw you around and spit you out again. Nevertheless, whenever you're in that Vortex, it feels like your taken out of the regular flow. It is like if time stops and all you do is fight for survival, this is your Dies Irae. There is no karma, no bad or good luck. It's only anymore or not anymore.
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Camera: Kiev 88
Lens: Mir-26b, 45mm/f3.5
Film: Fomopan 200iso
On 9 November 2005, 10 years ago today, ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft left Earth and began its 153-day journey to Venus. The craft then spent eight years studying the planet in detail before the mission came to an end in December 2014.
One of the mission aims was to observe the planet’s atmosphere continuously over long periods in a bid to understand its dynamic behaviour.
The atmosphere is the densest of all the terrestrial planets, and is composed almost entirely of carbon dioxide. The planet is also wrapped in a thick layer of cloud made mostly of sulphuric acid. This combination of greenhouse gas and perennial cloud layer led to an enormous greenhouse warming, leaving Venus’ surface extremely hot – just over 450ºC – and hidden from our eyes.
Although winds on the planet’s surface move very slowly, at a few kilometres per hour, the atmospheric density at this altitude is so great that they exert greater force than much faster winds would on Earth.
Winds at the 65 km-high cloud-tops, however, are a different story altogether. The higher-altitude winds whizz around at up to 400 km/h, some 60 times faster than the rotation of the planet itself. This causes some especially dynamic and fast-moving effects in the planet’s upper atmosphere, one of the most prominent being its ‘polar vortices’.
The polar vortices arise because there is more sunlight at lower latitudes. As gas at low latitudes heats it rises, and moves towards the poles, where cooler air sinks. The air converging on the pole accelerates sideways and spirals downwards, like water swirling around a plug hole.
In the centre of the polar vortex, sinking air pushes the clouds lower down by several kilometres, to altitudes where the atmospheric temperature is higher. The central ‘eye of the vortex’ can therefore be clearly seen by mapping thermal-infrared light, which shows the cloud-top temperature: the clouds at the core of the vortex are at a higher temperature, indicated by yellow tones, than the surrounding region, and therefore stand out clearly in these images.
Venus Express has shown that the polar vortices of Venus are among the most variable in the Solar System. This series of images of Venus’ south pole was taken with the VIRTIS instrument from February 2007 (top left) to April 2008 (bottom right).
The shape of this vortex core, which typically measures 2000–3000 km across, changes dramatically as it is buffeted by turbulent winds. It can resemble an ‘S’, a figure-of-eight, a spiral, an eye, and more, quickly morphing from one day to the next.
Each of the images in this frame is roughly 4000 km across.
Credit: ESA/VIRTIS-Venus Express/INAF-IAPS/LESIA-Obs. Paris/G. Piccioni
Some lovely vortex effects from Emirates' 777-300ER upon its landing on runway 33 at WAW.
Shame I was at the other spot taking shots of takeoffs from 29...
Day 44 of the Daily Photo Project
"The Vortex"
Sitting outside the Museum of Modern Art in Fort Worth, the Vortex is an instant attention getter both for its immense size and because the reverberating sounds it makes when inside.
Another shot from yesterday. Last winter we were hit by extreme cold weather due to a Polar Vortex, where a mass of Canadian air drops over the Great Lakes region. For the last two days we have been experiencing the summer time version of the same phenomenon, with temps 15 degrees below normal. It's fantastic!
Imagen en doble espejo compuesta y fusionada con Microsoft Paint de Windows; mejorada, arremolinda y ondulada con MGI PhotoSuite III SE/Image double mirror view composed and stitched with Microsoft Paint of Windows; enhanced, whirled and waved with MGI PhotoSuite III SE. Original vortex was linear and converging. EXIF data were lost when whirling made.
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29/08/2016, approaching Ijmuiden, Netherlands.
Keel laid on 15/03/3009, launched on 04/11/2009 and completed on 10/06/2010 by Astilleros Gondan S.A., Castropol, Spain (447), 839g.t., 445 dwt. & 73 tons bollard pull as :- 'Vortex'
for Solent Towage Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Østensjø Rederi AS of Haugesund, Norway.
Vessel is designed for escort operations, harbour work as well as ocean towage. It is equipped with oil recovery and fire fighting equipment (FiFi 1) & fully equipped for salvage in open waters.
Photos with permission of Willem Koper🔱
Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus)
Esquimalt Lagoon, Colwood, BC
Dipping its beak into the water almost to its eyes and quickly pulling it out again has produced a turbulent vortex for this sandpiper to study.
I came across an article online on how to construct a steel wool burning rig that allows you to create a vortex effect whilst doing a steel wool spin. I set to work and constructed a small mesh box, I bought a couple of doglead clips and connected them at each end of a standard gear cable from a mountain bike. The good thing about having the dog lead clip at the mesh box end is that it keeps the lid closed on the box but is also very fast to unclip allowing a fast refill of steel wool. I also fitted a small pipe to the cable that can be used as a variable point for spinning. This allows you to start spinning with a small arc and increase the arc as you walk towards the camera, therefore creating the Vortex. I done about ten spins tonight but liked this one the best. Cheers Derek :-)