Any stop to Venice would not be complete without visiting the colorful streets of the island of Burano. After doing so many jigsaw puzzles of pictures from here, it was a thrill to see it with my own two eyes.

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EP20 is equipped by the 3 power bogies produced by the NEVZ itself and presumably developed on the base of the FLEXX Power 140 RU locomotive bogie designed by Bombardie.

The bogie suspension system is consisted of coil primary suspension with a one-sided, wear-free wheelset guidance, and flexicoil secondary suspension (the support of the carbody on the bogie) realised by wear free secondary coil springs equipeed with anti-hunting and anti-rocking dampers; according to flexicoil principle the bogie on the coils can be freely deflected into vertical and horizontal directions. Tractive forces from bogie to locomotive are transferred via traction rods connected to a low lying connection at the bogie pivot centre. Mechanical braking is realized by the wheel mounted disc brakes. Electric braking is either up to 4.5MW rheostatic braking via roof mounted resistors, or up to 7.2MW regenerative braking.

The EP20 (ЭП20) is a type of 6 axle Bo'Bo'Bo' dual-system electric passenger locomotive being built from 2011 y for Russian Railways by the Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant (as a part of the Transmashholding), the main electric locomotive developer and producer in Soviet Union and Russia. EP20 was designed to replace of failed EP10 project by TRTrans, a joint venture between Transmashholding and Alstom by French, Belgian, and Russia based engineers to 2008 y. It is able to haul 24 coaches at 160 km/h or 17 coaches at 200 km/h and operate both on the DC and AC electrified tracks (3kV DC or 25 kV 50 Hz AC). Possibly for a first time for Russian locomotives, the cab design includes special progressive deformation steel cage for impact absorption. Due to extremal quantity of foreign components and thier high price a year production is not so big and now built 77 from 200 of ordered.

Some specifications:

Loco weight -135 t

Power output: continuous - 6600 kW /hourly - 7200 kW,

Tractive effort: 350 kN (0-74 km/h) 115 kN at 200 km/h

Motors: Bogie suspended six pole 1.2 MW (1,600 hp) asynchronous DTA-1200A with six IGBT traction converters

Transmission: Bogie mounted traction motors, via gear to hollow shaft drive, with flexible couplings

Loco brake:Rheostatic 4500 kW (DC)/ 3200 kW (AC), regenerative 6000 kW, electropneumatic wheel disc.

(information from Wiki)

"Buddhist account of consciousness provides a new way of looking into contemplation, where absorption into meditation does not only bring in changes in the neural level but in the very personality of the individual, turning him into a good human being....."

The Yonghe Temple, also known as the Yonghe Lamasery, or popularly as the Lama Temple, is a temple and monastery of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism located on 12 Yonghegong Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing, China. The building and artwork of the temple is a combination of Han Chinese and Tibetan styles, established in 1694.

A real live Australian Water Dragon (Physignathus lesueurii) basking at dusk on a city park red mood light, presumably to either get a nice warm glow to look hot and/or to stay warm. :) I especially like the back leg stretch and the skin's rich absorption of red colour from the light. The dragon also looks very happy with its achievements and position and made no attempt to move when I carefully approached to photograph. The really cool thing was the light changed colour every so often and so did the dragon's colour. By way of example, please see the photo below.

Thanks for stopping by. Appreciate your comments. :)

Hot Water Dragon_MG_8422 2014-03-31

This is for Stars N' Heroes' Super-Villain Contest.

Left-Right:

BIllard Wrecker: Brawn

Powers: Super-Strength and Durability

Weaknesses: Cybernetic implants have been used to make him stronger, however they keep destroying his brain leaving him to have the mind of a 3 year old.

Backstory: The Wrecker triplets were all going to fail in life. They're parents were crack-addicted alcoholics.

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William Wrecker: Brainpower

Powers: Super-Intelligent cyborg.

Weaknesses: No durability or Strength whatsoever.

Backstory: William Wrecker was the only smart one in his whole family. He tried his best to get a good job and resume, instead he decided crime was easier. he and his brothers went to get cybernetic implants and William became the Super-Villain, Brainpower.

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Duke Wrecker: Suckapunch

Powers: Super-Strength, Durability, and Power Absorption

Weaknesses: Slow on speed and relies on brute force.

Backstory: Superhero geek that never had much in life. He soon got Cybernetic implants that messed with his brain causing him to become a crazed murder.

The colourful but obscure area in the Cepheus Milky Way that contains the Lion Nebula (at bottom), a region emitting both red Hydrogen-alpha light and cyan Oxygen III light. It is a nebula that only recently became popular as an astrophoto target, perhaps because of its new nickname and from the use of narrowband filters to bring it out. It is not in the popular Messier, NGC or IC catalogues but is officially labeled as Sharpless 2-132. Meanwhile at top, the brightest nebula is the even more obscure Sharpless 2-135, alongside a very faint band of nebulosity that might not have a catalogue number — I couldn't find one!

The nebulosity at top is a deeper red than the Lion Nebula, as the top area of sky contains more dark dust absorbing and reddening the nebulosity and also decreasing the star density and yellowing the sky compared to the richer, brighter and bluer region at bottom to the south around the Lion.

There is a very small (like a fuzzy red star) planetary nebula just right of centre called the Little Ring Nebula, or M2-51, from the Minkowski catalogue. Another tiny planetary in the extreme lower left corner is Abell 79. The field of view here is 5° by 3.3°, with north up.

The star at upper left is the famous variable and double star Delta Cephei. The yellow star at right is Zeta Cephei.

This is a stack of 48 sub-frames taken over two nights, all with the SharpStar 94mm EDPH refractor at f/4.4 and the Canon Ra camera:

- A stack of 16 x 8-minute exposures with a "clear" filter, an Astronomik UV/IR cut filter at ISO 800

- A stack of 16 x 12-minute exposures through an IDAS NB1 dual-narrowband filter at ISO 1600

- A stack of 16 x 16-minute exposures through an IDAS NBX dual ultra-narrowband filter at ISO 1600. This set was shot on night #2 as there was not enough time to shoot it on the same night at the other sets.

The clear filter set contributes the sky background and natural star colours. The NB1 filter set contributes most of the red H-alpha component, while the "extreme" NBX filter contributes mostly the cyan OIII emission which the Lion Nebula has in abundance, somewhat unusually for an emission nebula.

All stacked, aligned, merged and masked in Photoshop 2021. Luminosity masks with Lumenzia helped bring out the faint nebulosity.

Taken from home. Autoguided with the MGEN3 autoguider applying a dithering move between each exposure average out thermal noise when aligning and stacking. No LENR or dark frames were employed on this frosty night! At one point late on night 2 the little guidescope frosted over as the guide star was lost. Hair dryer to the rescue!

Manufacturer: Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan - U.S.A.

Type: Model 65K Thunderbird Hardtop

Production time: September 1972 - September 1973

Production outlet: 87,269

Engine: 7033cc Ford 385-series V-8 429 N-code OHV

Power: 211 bhp / 4.400 rpm

Torque: 443 Nm/ 2.600 rpm

Drivetrain: rear wheels

Speed: 194 km/h

Curb weight: 2300 kg

Wheelbase: 120.4 inch

Chassis: box frame with S-shape front frame rails provide energy absorption on inpact and crossbars with separate all-steel body

Steering: integral power ball circulation control

Gearbox: Ford C6 Select-Shift Cruise-O- Matic three-speed automatic / steering column shift

Clutch: not applicable

Carburettor: Motorcraft 4-barrel downdraft

Fuel tank: 85 liter

Electric system: 12 Volts 77 Ah Motorcraft Sta-Ful

Ignition system: distributor and coil

Brakes front: 11.72 inch hydraulic servo-assisted discs self-adjusting type

Brakes rear: 11 inch hydraulic drums self-adjusting type

Suspension front: independent drag-struts ball joint type, Cross-link with elastically mounted tension strut, upper trapezoid triangle cross-bars, lower single cross-bars, sway bar, coil springs +

Suspension rear: beam axle, Posi-Ride four-link rubber-cushion system, lower longitudinal links, upper angle braces, sway bar, helical coils +

Rear axle: live semi-floating type

Differential: hypoid 2,75:1

Wheels: 6 x 15 inch steel discs

Tires: 230 x 15 Michelin steel-belted radial ply

Options: 7536cc Ford 385-series V-8 460 A-code OHV engine, Traction-Lok differential axle, heavy duty suspension, heavy duty trailer towing package, Sure-Track brake control system, Opera Windows, fingertip speed device control, Select-Aire Conditioning, power windows, 6-way power seats, powe antenna, remote controlled right side view mirror, AM/FM Stereo Radio/Stereo Tape Player sound system, dual rear speakers, vinyl roof, Exterior Decor Group (Includes Textured Grain Vinyl Roof and Wide Vinyl, Bodyside Moldings with Matching Texture Inserts), front cornering lamps, Deluxe bumper group, DeLuxe wheel covers, leather and vinyl trim, reclining passenger seat, Deluxe Color-Keyed seat belts, electric defroster, high back bucket seats with console, Rim-Blow Deluxe three-spoke steering wheel, tilt steering wheel, power door locks, electric trunk lid, rocker panel mouldings, door edge guards, license plate frame, spare tire cover, Color-keyed floor mats with carpet inserts, power-operated sunroof (vinyl roof required), tinted glass, Anti-Theft alarm system, interval windshield wipers, high-intensity map lights, warning lights for headlamps on, low fuel, door ajar, "headlamps on", warning buzzer, and engine compartment light

Special:

- Ford was launched in a converted factory in 1903 with $28,000 in cash from twelve investors, most notably John Francis Dodge and Horace Elgin Dodge who would later found the Dodge Brothers Motor Vehicle Company.

- Henry Ford was 40 years old when he founded the Ford Motor Company, which would go on to become one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world, the largest family-controlled company in the world, as well as being one of the few to survive the Great Depression.

- Semon "Bunkie" Knudsen, the former GM man now President of Ford, is said to be responsible for the redesigned style.

- This sixth generation Thunderbird (1972-1976: 299,146 units built), the “Big Birds” Series, is the largest Thunderbird ever produced by Ford, based on the Lincoln Continental Mark IV and with Opera windows (optional, but hardly sold without them), inspired by the 1971 Cadillac Eldorado (Cadillac called them coach windows).

- The Thunderbird was marketed as a luxury car that didn't cost as much as a Mark IV. Ford prepared literature for its dealers comparing the two cars, showing dollar for dollar the Thunderbird was the better buy. Of course, the cars were basically the same except for some additional trim and other features on the Mark IV that weren't shared with the Thunderbird.

- There are even reports of Thunderbirds leaving the Wixom, Michigan Assembly Plant with Continental Mark IV instrument panel inserts, and vice versa. So apparently there was some confusion on the assembly line.

- Ford’s 1973 marketing slogan: “Thunderbird '73. Still unique in all the world”.

Juni 2021

Karl weiß sich schon früh in Szene zu setzen, ist immer um Aufmerksamkeit bemüht und schaut selbstverliebt in die Kamera. Er wird später mal ein namhafter Aerosolforscher werden! - Karl knows how to put himself in the limelight at an early age, is always looking for attention and looking at the camera with self-absorption. He will later become a renowned aerosol researcher!

Delta 400.

A black and white film simulation using DxO Film Pack software.

Delta 400 uses the "core-shell crystal" tabular technology known as T-grain which is different from a conventional-grain film in the way that the film’s silver content is distributed. T-grain films have flat crystals whereas conventional-grain films (Tri-X, HP5,) have round crystals. The flatness of the crystal allows better light absorption. Theoretically, a T-grain film should provide sharper images when compared to a conventional-grain film. The Delta 400 can be used between 200 and 3200 ISO. It's one of the more flexible films for a wide range of uses in analogue photography.

Essa densa nuvem de poeira estelar é iluminada por estrelas jovens.

É uma região em colapso, onde muitas outras estrelas estão nascendo.

Quase sempre esquecida, essa linda região da constelação de LUPUS é muitas vezes preterida por estar muito próximo da região do escorpião, amplamente fotografada por nós, astronomos amadores.

Inclusive o trabalho de pesquisa para esse breve artigo foi árduo devido as poucas informações a cerca desse objeto.

Conhecido como Sandqvist 14 ou Lupus 3, está localizada a 600 anos-luz da terra. (uma das nebulosas escuras mais próximas da terra)

Quase toda a nebulosidade é formada por poeira e gás e se estende por centenas de anos-luz.

As estrelas jovens, e azuis do centro, foram formadas nessa nuvem cósmica, que quando suficientemente aquecida, sua radiação e fortes ventos, varreram a nebulosidade de sua frente, podendo enfim brilhar de seu berço caótico de escuridão.

Esse processo de formação estelar é lento, e provavelmente essa paisagem celestial não irá se alterar durante muito tempo.

Os primeiros astrônomos que observaram as nebulosas escuras pensavam que esses trechos de céu mais escuro eram vazios. Porém a partir de 1900 Edward Emerson Barnard observou e fotografou mais de 200 nebulosas escuras

Também são conhecidas como nebulosas de absorção, pois as partículas frias e densas de poeira absorvem e dispersam a luz que passa pela nuvem.

This dense cloud of stellar dust is illuminated by young stars.

It is a collapsing region, where many other stars are being born.

Almost always forgotten, this beautiful region of the constellation LUPUS is often overlooked because it is very close to the region of the scorpion, widely photographed by amateur astronomers.

Even the research work for this brief article was arduous because of the little information about that object.

Known as Sandqvist 14 or Lupus 3, it is located 600 light-years from Earth. (one of the darkest nebulae closest to Earth)

Nearly all of the cloudiness is formed by dust and gas and stretches for hundreds of light-years.

The young, blue stars of the center were formed in this cosmic cloud, which when sufficiently heated, its radiation and strong winds, swept the cloudiness of its front, and could at last shine from its chaotic cradle of darkness.

This process of star formation is slow, and probably this celestial landscape will not change for long.

Early astronomers who watched the dark nebulae thought that these stretches of darker sky were empty. However from 1900 Edward Emerson Barnard observed and photographed more than 200 dark nebulae.

They are also known as absorption nebulae, because the cold, dense particles of dust absorb and disperse light passing through the cloud.

Dial and meters do point the way... This is a Triplett 3256 tunable absorption-type frequency meter from 1951.

Walker Lake is a natural lake, in the Great Basin in western Nevada in the United States. It is 11 mi (17 km) long and 5 mi (8 km) wide, in northwestern Mineral County along the east side of the Wassuk Range, about 75 mi (120 km) southeast of Reno. The lake is fed from the north by the Walker River and has no natural outlet except absorption and evaporation.

West Midlands Travel Leyland Fleetline / East Lancs 6721 was the first of this batch of 40 to arrive in March 1977, the final order placed by Coventry Transport prior to its absorption into West Midlands PTE in 1974. Seen here in its home city 13 years later, series withdrawals of the batch commenced the previous year, but several others lasted long enough to receive the later version of fleet livery.

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My back hurts when I think of this picture... While walking down this dip in the forest around Tarn Hows, I accidentally stepped on a wet root. My shoes had no grip on it and so I tumbled big time. In the moment of falling, I was like "Damn... the camera.... Damn²... the Zeiss!" and raised my arm. Camera and lens didn't touch the ground, my body did... with no absorption. Must have been a sight for the gods...

Did you ever destroy some equipment this way? ;)

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Exposure 0.05 sec (1/20)

Aperture f/7.1

Focal Length 35 mm

ISO Speed 200

0-6-0PT 29 former Cleobury Mortimer & Ditton Priors Railway on breakdown train on the CM &DPR after absorption by the Great Western. 1938. (S.H.P. Higgins)

Let’s talk about colour. Snowflakes are not flat, they have volume. That volume allows for air pockets to be trapped in the ice. Given the right thickness of the “bubble” and/or the right thickness of the ice on either side of it, something magical can happen.

Before I continue my rambles, however: the second edition of my macro photography book is out. The publisher just restocked their North American supply, which can be ordered direct: www.routledge.com/Macro-Photography-The-Universe-at-Our-F... - they gave me a special code for 20% off if ordered direct: 25SMA4

Snowflakes don’t possess colour the way we normally see colour: absorption and reflection. A red car is red because it absorbs all colours except red. A snowflake, however, behaves more like a soap bubble, a spot of oil on the ground, or the wings of the Madagascan Sunset Moth, among others. Here we’re talking about “thin film interference”. The colours are created from light interfering with itself inside the crystal through multiple air/ice boundaries, and thickness matters.

There’s fancy calculators and physics for this ( www.sciencecalculators.org/optics/thin-films/ ) but the basics are pretty easy to understand. The speed of light isn’t constant, it changes based on what it is traveling through. Fastest in a vacuum, slower in air, slower further in ice. When light enters ice, it slows down and the trajectory changes. However, not all light enters the ice – a good portion is reflected off the surface. This reflected light never slows down. That’s our baseline.

The light that enters the ice? Some of it will reflect off the inner boundary – where the air pocket is. This light will then travel back up through the ice, and into the air once more. However, it is now “out of sync” with the light that never entered the ice. It was moving slower for a very brief period of time. What happens when the ice is so thin that the resulting beams of light are within a wavelength of each-other? While being out of sync? They interfere with one another, both constructively and destructively.

This means that “white” light (all the colours) will be transformed. How thick the ice is will determine the resulting colours that you see (there’s a chart here that references colours and thickness: soapbubble.fandom.com/wiki/Color_and_Film_Thickness ). Just like any waves (sound, water, light), some interference will cancel things out (destructive), and some will amplify (constructive). This is where the colour in snowflakes come from; the light is shaped by the snowflake itself.

I’ve seen thin film interference everywhere from a cup of Turkish coffee to the meniscus formed around the lid of fountain pen ink. Ever see “Newton’s Rings?” - It’s everywhere if you’re paying attention. Not all snowflakes have the right balance of features to produce it, but when it shows up to the party, it’s always the first thing you notice.

The Hague

March 2012

The Netherlands

Urban life in the Netherlands

Ricoh GRD IV

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If you ask nicely i will probably say yes, just ask me first!

If you happen to be in one of my frames and have any objections to this.

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Name: Dr. Lawrence Adam Sullivan, PhD

Hero's name: Atomfuse

Age: Early to mid-40’s

Bio: An expert university professor, psychologist, nuclear physicist and lecturer, Dr. Sullivan was a famous man at campus and on TV. He was also the mentor of Adrian Kane and Megan Hinds during their university days, (who they considered him like an uncle and a father figure). At some point in his mid 30s, he had a secret career as a superhero, operating for more than a decade or two, (around 12 years approximately). However he had lung cancer and one of his hands contacted gangrenes, resulting him giving up superpowers for good. His suit was nearly destroyed in his last battle, forcing him to crawl to the nearest hospital (he managed to change clothes in a few minutes. Weeks later when the cancer reached his hand, he was miraculously cured of it, but as a side effect and consequence, half of his affected arm had to be chopped off.

The powerless doctor had to accommodate his death, and took a “leave of absence”, leaving his niece to be in charge and replace him, which the both agreed. One day, he stumbled across a “compass”, which he believed were extraterrestrials, but was left by a dying superhero instead. Lawrence managed to rewire, encode and reprogram the man’s mind into the “compass”. His mind was connected to it, linking both knowledge and history together, lots of things were shown to each other.

As a result, Lawrence decided to spring back into action after 2 years of temporary retirement, and rebuilt his own suit from spare, custom parts. Part of his powers also came back, but not every one of it. Despite keeping the compass, Lawrence figured it was some sort of high tech tool that housed amounts of stuff, and the hero popped up to him in hologram. His words inspired Lawrence to make something more better, giving him courage. But realising his former students were in danger and having big duties, he decided to help them—-and the world.

Powers and abilities: Currently possesses

ESP, high intelligence, telepathic resistance, environment adaptation, atomic manipulation and absorption, generate plasma, alter his molecular structure, control matter, atomic vision, breath, consumption and etc. He is also resistant to nuclear energy and cannot be split, but can reform if need. Absorption of too much energy will not harm him. Despite losing a lot of powers, he has skills in engineering, psychology, survival, knowledge history, philosophy, science, medicine as well as other physical skills. Lawrence is good at observing people, can give great speeches (i.e pep talk), has levels of humour that makes him like a comedian. He does possess some skill in fighting and firearms.

Weaknesses: His fear of cancer returning anytime, his niece, has a need to protect the compass as if he owes it, willing to sacrifice himself for the greater good. Inability to fly and has no access to his lost powers.

Equipment: Only his arms, hand, legs and feet have armour (plus some awesome green socks, it’s his favourite colour), his right arm is robotic and covered by his suit, the torso is mainly a jacket with some protective clothing. Owns some guns, especially a energy one, the “compass”, a jetpack that he developed years ago, reinvented with functions as a backpack and has fuel that never runs out.

Personality: Observant, humorous, calm, independent, persuasive, reflective, somewhat complex.

The mysterious planet Cyano orbits deep inside the alt process belt. It consists entirely of ferric ammonium citrate. Absorption of UV radiation by its atmosphere of gaseous potassium ferricyanide results in an enormous electron migration in the planetary crystalline lattice thereby generating a super massive magnetosphere.

f/3.5 for 2.65e13 nanoseconds

Made in-camera on Cot 320 coated with traditional cyanotype sensitizer.

Imbeciles Agape Madness A Philosopher's Book.

Opfattende udelelige korrespondenter kontrollerede principper fragmentariske kongelige idealer danner,

Canlyniad tywyll llafur hymgorffori cynnil ymddygiad tawel rhyfeddod crynu pigo eneidiau craff synhwyrau,

,Wzbudzone emocje wzniosłość sprawiedliwość wzbudzały cechy, które manifestują brudne tajemnice mający mieszanie świń

Incontrôlable interne contraire des êtres méchante pensée turpitude conditions d'absorption dégradé yeux émancipés,

Synkende kommandoer urenset grimhet ignorerte intellektjon som opererer bestemte deler idioter,

Müde instabile Vereinigung unveränderliche Argumentation akzeptiert symbolische Mythen packende Regeln vermischt Hindernisse,

Καταδικάζοντας τους νόμους περί φιλανθρωπίας ουσιών αναθέτοντας περιστασιακές συνταγές ιδιοτυπίας διαδοχικές έρευνες,

morum corruptelas doctrinae culmen virtutum memoria ritus discedere turpe dubia proditio,

怒りの哀悼の気持ちの悩み逆境に苦しむ嫌悪感.

Steve.D.Hammond.

The center of the pool is sterile due to the extreme temperature. Without any organisms, this area has the deep intrinsic blue colour of water, as the result of water’s absorption of red wavelengths of visible light. The edges of the pool consists of bands of different colours and each band in the “microbial rainbow” represents a mini-ecosystem.

Several pigmented bacteria grow in the microbial mats at different ranges of temperature. In these thermal gradients, or distinct zones of microbial communities adapted to a specific temperature, microbes produce bright colours such as green (chlorophylls) and red (carotenoids). Depending on the amount of sunlight, the temperature of the water changes throughout the year, and may favor one kind of microbe over another. In the summer, the photosynthetic microbes in the mats produce dark red and orange pigments as a form of protection from the intense sunlight. During the winter, the mats appear dark green due to the domination of green photosynthetic pigments.

I could enjoy processing of old data taken just before COVID-19 era.

Hydrogen-alpha 656.3nm red and Oxygen-III 500.7nm greenish blue were dominant here. Bluish reflection of gas was faint but wide, which is usually invisible in imaging with narrow-bad pass filters.

Those colors were not homogeneous due to overlapping dust and gas. Strong hydrogen-alpha red area tends to change into striking color near genuine Red, when it is overlapped by relatively dense brownish dust and gas due to stronger absorption of shorter wavelength light by dust and gas. I love all of those colors.

Here is a frame taken at the same site in Hawaii　January 2012:

www.flickr.com/photos/hiroc/7648303232

equipment: Takahashi FSQ-130ED, F3 Reducer 0.6x, and Canon EOS R-sp4II, modified by Seo-san on Takahashi EM-200 Temma 2 Jr, autoguided at a star nearby with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, Pentax x2 Extender, Starlight Xpress Superstar Autoguider, GPUSB, and PHD2 Guiding

exposure: 3 times x 30 minutes, 4 x 15 min, 4 x 4 min, and 4 x 1 minute at ISO 1,600 and f/3.0

site: 11,000 feet or 3,280m above sea level at lat. 19 32 31 North and long. 155 34 00 West near Mauna Loa Observatory in The Big Island Hawaii

Leica M6 Re-Issue / Leica 21mm Super-Elmar f/3.4 / Fuji 400 / Plustek 8300AI Scanner / Negative Lab Pro

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

Chance Nkosi Gomez (30 years of age) initiated by H.H Swami Jyotirmayanda as Sri Govinda walks an integral yogic path in which photography is the primary creative field of expression. The medium was introduced during sophomore year of high school by educator Dr. Devin Marsh of Robert Morgan Educational Center. Coming into alignment with light, its nature and articulating the camera was the focus during that time. Thereafter while completing a Photographic Technology Degree, the realization of what made an image “striking” came to the foreground of the inner dialogue. These college years brought forth major absorption and reflection as an apprentice to photographer and educator Tony A. Chirinos of Miami Dade College. The process of working towards a singular idea of interest and thus building a series became the heading from here on while the camera aided in cultivating an adherence to the present moment. The viewfinder resembles a doorway to the unified field of consciousness in which line, shape, form, color, value, texture all dissolve. It is here that the yogi is reminded of sat-chit-ananda (the supreme reality as all-pervading; pure consciousness). As of May 2024 Govinda has completed his 300hr yoga teacher training program at Sattva Yoga Academy studying from Master Yogi Anand Mehrotra in Rishikesh, India, Himalayas. This has strengthened his personal Sadhana and allows one to carry and share ancient Vedic Technology leading others in ultimately directing their intellect to bloom into intuition. As awareness and self-realization grows so does the imagery that is all at once divine in the mastery of capturing and controlling light. Over the last seven years he has self-published six photographic books, Follow me i’ll be right behind you (2017), Sonata - Minimal Study (2018), Birds Singing Lies (2018), Rwanda (2019), Where does the body begin? (2019) & Swayam Jyotis (2023). Currently, Govinda is employed at the Leica Store Miami as a camera specialist and starting his journey as a practitioner of yoga ॐ

Taken with their father's permission, a brother and sister are absorbed with their play in the city park...

There is an intriguing surface unit in parts of the ancient Martian highlands that may consist of chloride salts (like NaCl, or table salt) which precipitated out of shallow lakes as in desert regions of Earth.

It has unusual thermal properties and distinctive morphologies, but lacks spectral absorption bands. All of these characteristics and the geologic settings are consistent with salt deposits. These deposits are often associated with clay minerals that do have distinctive absorption bands.

Image cutout is less than 1 km (under 1 mi) across and the spacecraft altitude was 266 km (165 mi). For full observation details including images with scale bars, visit the source link.

uahirise.org/ESP_016354_1745

NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

Name: Arden Cole Knox

Aliases: “Optix”, D-Knox, Ard, Doctor Surfer

Age: 22-30

Bio: Arden was born on a offshore island to a tribe full of different people with vast cultures, but mostly surfers. He also grew up to be a medical engineer, hired by lots of people, including the military. At one point, he built a female programmed robot/AI, but it got destroyed. Later, Arden built a one with spare parts, nicknamed “Cerebrum,” but Arden gave it a proper name, “Norbert”. Arden would go on to be a doctor, lifeguard, bodyguard and constantly switching jobs, and some of them were pretty odd. It wasn’t until he and his companion stumbled upon a broken Deep Sea Marine suit, and made it into a suit.

Powers and abilities: Laser generation from his palms, for offensive, defensive, protection and healing purposes.Aside from his powers, he is a skilled field medic, martial artist, surfer, archer, engineer, linguist, computer programmer and etc. Also, a skilled pizza maker and cook.

Equipment: Always wearing sunglasses electric binoculars, big backpack with tools, crossbow, bow and arrows, custom made electric staff (never runs out of energy), “Nobert”, who has lots of functions, like lasers, surgery tools, scanners, power absorption, and never-ending batteries, which he likely never dies.

Weaknesses: Nobert, who is one of his friends, his friends’ safety, not taking lives of not necessary.

Personality: Also humorous, has a big heart, calm, cultural, well rounded, calculated, brave.

with eyes like glass you look out through a veil of self-absorption. I do that thing where I teeter forward, almost falling, just. And I stop myself from falling into you with an honest laugh. But you look back at me and don't see a thing. The faint incline of the side of your mouth is the most emotionless line across your face, and all the rest read pity.

Stop it. You complain and you rattle when nothing is painful but everything hurts; you're okay.

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District 789, Beijing

July 2012

China

Urban life

Canon 550D

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Beyrouth, une des plus vieilles villes du monde 😮 🇱🇧 Les villes ont un aspect forcément tentaculaire depuis l’espace, mais leur développement parfois à vitesse grand V n’a rien d’une fatalité, même à l’heure du changement climatique. Les experts de la @UNFAO (oui, j’apprends beaucoup à leurs côtés à travers ma fonction d’ambassadeur :)) ont lancé l’an dernier l’initiative Villes vertes. Il s’agit d’accompagner les zones urbaines dans leur adaptation au changement climatique et faire en sorte qu’elles ne constituent pas des ogres de consommation énergétique. La solution passe sans surprise par la nature, à condition de suivre la bonne stratégie. 🌴 🌳🌴 🌳 Régulation de la température, filtrage de la pollution, absorption de CO2, augmentation de la biodiversité, apport de nourriture… En plantant les bons arbres aux bons endroits d’une ville, en prenant en compte les spécificités de la région du monde autant que celles du quartier en question, et bien sûr avec l’implication des communautés locales, on multiplie les bénéfices. 💪 #JournéeMondialeDeLaPopulation www.fao.org/green-cities-initiative/fr/

You can tell there’s steep terrain right off the coast, as the light takes sinuous roads up the mountains and hills close to Beirut. As always, life gathers close to coasts ad rivers. Cities seen from space are either grey at day or lit up at night. 55% of the world's population now live in urban areas, but there is no reason why they could not be green! Trees, plants and agriculture can co-exist in cities, on rooftops or in the streets. Often I focus my lens on nature because it is more striking, but cities should not break with the surrounding countryside. The @FAO launched the #GreenCities initiative to encourage large cities to become more sustainable and resilient, and better places to live. It’s all about turning the problem around and making it part of the solution. #WorldPopulationDay LINK

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

Chance Nkosi Gomez known initiated by H.H Swami Jyotirmayanda as Sri Govinda walks an integral yogic path in which photography is the primary creative field of expression. The medium was introduced during sophomore year of high school by educator Dr. Devin Marsh of Robert Morgan Educational Center. Coming into alignment with light, its nature and articulating the camera was the focus during that time. Thereafter while completing a Photographic Technology Degree, the realization of what made an image “striking” came to the foreground of the inner dialogue. These college years brought forth major absorption and reflection as an apprentice to photographer and educator Tony A. Chirinos of Miami Dade College. The process of working towards a singular idea of interest and thus building a series became the heading from here on while the camera aided in cultivating an adherence to the present moment. The viewfinder resembles a doorway to the unified field of consciousness in which line, shape, form, color, value, texture all dissolve. It is here that the yogi is reminded of sat-chit-ananda (the supreme reality as all-pervading; pure consciousness). As of May 2024 Govinda has completed his 300hr yoga teacher training program at Sattva Yoga Academy studying from Master Yogi Anand Mehrotra in Rishikesh, India, Himalayas. This has strengthened his personal Sadhana and allows one to carry and share ancient Vedic Technology leading others in ultimately directing their intellect to bloom into intuition. As awareness and self-realization grows so does the imagery that is all at once divine in the mastery of capturing and controlling light. Over the last seven years he has self-published six photographic books, Follow me i’ll be right behind you (2017), Sonata - Minimal Study (2018), Birds Singing Lies (2018), Rwanda (2019), Where does the body begin? (2019) & Swayam Jyotis (2023). Currently, Govinda is employed at the Leica Store Miami as a camera specialist and starting his journey as a practitioner of yoga ॐ

LEVELS OF ABSORPTION, 2004 by LAURA MAYOTTE

36”w x 20 1/2”h x 16”d

Handmade flax paper, handspun and dyed linen yarn, indigo dye.

Artist’s Statement

Levels of Absorption holds many meanings for me. Literal meanings, such as the actual absorption of the indigo dye on the pages and watermarks, and abstract meanings, such as (being a book form) how much knowledge we absorb over a lifetime, the fact that we never make use of our entire brain, that there is always room for more knowledge, learning and growth, and that also the tree-like shape adds to this idea of growth over time. All the sewing reflects the pathways of the brain and how we think; how everything is connected, how odd things can remind us of seemingly unrelated things, but they are all there and accessible. This sewing is also rather electricity-like in appearance, and metaphorically, referring to how fast our thoughts can be, our natural reflexes or responses to stimuli, and how knowledge gained over time can be instantly accessed once learned.

"The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images.

Is sign language the real language of Paradise?"

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The Hague

March 2012

The Netherlands

Urban life in the Netherlands

Ricoh GRD IV

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I always collect the beautiful bright red seeds of my African Coral Tree (Erythrina lysistemon).

Under 365nm Ultraviolet light, one seed stood out as it fluoresces in a different wavelength of light.

About Fluorescence:

Fluorescence is the phenomenon of absorption of electromagnetic radiation, typically from ultraviolet light, by a molecule and the subsequent emission of a photon at a lower energy (smaller frequency, longer wavelength).

The "why?" explanation:

The fluorescence of young seeds under UV light is often attributed to the presence of certain compounds, such as flavonoids or other phenolic compounds, which can absorb UV light and emit light at longer wavelengths, often in the visible range. These compounds may serve various functions in the seed, such as protection against UV damage or signaling for seed dispersal.

UV Lighting:

365nm Adaptalux UV Lighting Arm camera mounted on a Mini Pod:

Adaptalux Modular Macro Lighting System.

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Sheffield Joint Omnibus Committee unusually combined municipal and railway ownership of buses and services.

Sheffield’s fleet and its operational routes were split into three groups, Corporation, Joint & Railway Company . Two railway companies were involved prior to the 1948 formation of British Rail and joint operations with other operators made life in the Steel City even more unusual.

Even with these complications the committee had an enviable reputation for quality. Pictured is 654BWB, a Metro-Cammell bodied Leyland Atlantean PDR1 which was new to Shefield JOC in April 1962 as No.1354, along with 8 sisters (1350-1358).

In 1973 all 9 passed to South Yorkshire PTE (this one being renumbered 224) following that undertakings absorption of the JOC.

One vehicle from the batch, 657BWB, survives today, although it now bears no resemblance to the example we see here. In 1968 it was rebodied by Park Royal following extensive fire damage and is preserved at Sandtoft.

Here is Battleforce Athena's Lightning Bolt ground attack and fighter aircraft. It's a radically updated take on the A-10 Thunderbolt II, with faceted armor made of EM-absorptive materials to reduce EM cross section; advanced avionics, battlefield signal tracking, and target acquisition; and turreted dual autocannons replacing the A-10's single rotary cannon.

Several versions of the myth have survived from ancient sources. The classic version is by Ovid, found in book 3 of his Metamorphoses (completed 8 AD); this is the story of Narcissus and Echo. One day Narcissus was walking in the woods when Echo, an Oread (mountain nymph) saw him, fell deeply in love, and followed him. Narcissus sensed he was being followed and shouted "Who's there?". Echo repeated "Who's there?". She eventually revealed her identity and attempted to embrace him. He stepped away and told her to leave him alone. She was heartbroken and spent the rest of her life in lonely glens until nothing but an echo sound remained of her. Nemesis, the goddess of revenge, learned of this story and decided to punish Narcissus. She lured him to a pool where he saw his own reflection. He didn't realize it was only an image and fell in love with it. He eventually recognized that his love could not be reciprocated and committed suicide.

An earlier version ascribed to the poet Parthenius of Nicaea, composed around 50 BC, was recently rediscovered among the Oxyrhynchus papyri at Oxford.Like Ovid's version, it ends with Narcissus committing suicide. A version by Conon, a contemporary of Ovid, also ends in suicide (Narrations, 24). In it, a young man named Aminias fell in love with Narcissus, who had already spurned his male suitors. Narcissus also spurned him and gave him a sword. Aminias committed suicide at Narcissus's doorstep. He had prayed to the gods to give Narcissus a lesson for all the pain he provoked. Narcissus walked by a pool of water and decided to drink some. He saw his reflection, became entranced by it, and killed himself because he could not have his object of desire.[3] A century later the travel writer Pausanias recorded a novel variant of the story, in which Narcissus falls in love with his twin sister rather than himself (Guide to Greece, 9.31.7).

Influence on culture

Тhe myth of Narcissus has inspired artists for at least two thousand years, even before the Roman poet Ovid featured a version in book III of his Metamorphoses. This was followed in more recent centuries by other poets (e.g. Keats and Alfred Edward Housman) and painters (Caravaggio, Poussin, Turner, Dalí (see Metamorphosis of Narcissus), and Waterhouse).

Narcissus in literature : Narcissus by Gyula Benczúr In Stendhal's novel Le Rouge et le Noir (1830), there is a classic narcissist in the character of Mathilde. Says Prince Korasoff to Julien Sorel, the protagonist, with respect to his beloved girl:She looks at herself instead of looking at you, and so doesn't know you.During the two or three little outbursts of passion she has allowed herself in your favor, she has, by a great effort of imagination, seen in you the hero of her dreams, and not yourself as you really are.(Page 401, 1953 Penguin Edition, trans. Margaret R.B. Shaw).The myth had a decided influence on English Victorian homoerotic culture, via André Gide's study of the myth, Le Traité du Narcisse ('The Treatise of the Narcissus', 1891), and the only novel by Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist also starts with a story about Narcissus, found (we are told) by the alchemist in a book brought by someone in the caravan. The alchemist's (and Coelho's) source was very probably Hesketh Pearson's The Life of Oscar Wilde (1946) in which this story is recorded (Penguin edition, p. 217) as one of Wilde's inspired inventions. This version of the Narcissus story is based on Wilde's "The Disciple" from his "Poems in Prose (Wilde) ".Author and poet Rainer Maria Rilke visits the character and symbolism of Narcissus in several of his poems.Seamus Heaney references Narcissus in his poem "Personal Helicon" from his first collection "Death of a Naturalist":

"To stare, big-eyed Narcissus, into some spring

Is beneath all adult dignity."In Rick Riordan's Heroes of Olympus series, Narcissus appears as a minor antagonist in the third book The Mark of Athena.In the fantasy series Harry Potter, Narcissa Malfoy, a minor antagonist, is named for Narcissus.William Faulkner's character "Narcissa" in Sanctuary, sister of Horace Benbow, was also named after Narcissus. Throughout the novel, she allows the arrogant, pompous pressures of high-class society to overrule the unconditional love that she should have for her brother.Hermann Hesse's character "Narcissus" in "Narcissus and Goldmund" shares several of mythical Narcissus' traits, although his narcissism is based on his intellect rather than his physical beauty.A. E. Housman refers to the 'Greek Lad', Narcissus, in his poem Look not in my Eyes from A Shropshire Lad set to music by several English composers including George Butterworth. At the end of the poem stands a jonquil, a variety of daffodil, Narcissus Jonquilla, which like Narcissus looks sadly down into the water.Herman Melville references the myth of Narcissus in his novel Moby-Dick, in which Ishmael explains the myth as "the key to it all," referring to the greater theme of finding the essence of Truth through the physical world.On Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen's A Fada Oriana, the eponymous protagonist is punished with mortality for abandoning her duties in order to stare at herself in the surface of a river.

Narcissus on film

In the TV series Boardwalk Empire, a Dr. Narcisse (Valentin Narcisse) is introduced as a condescending intellectual.

Scottish-Canadian animator Norman McLaren finished his career with a short film named Narcissus, re-telling the Greek legend through ballet.Narcissus appears in the Disney adaptation of Hercules. In the film, he is portrayed as an Olympian god with purple skin.In the film Bab'Aziz, directed by Nacer Khemir, a Narcissus like character was portrayed by an ancient prince who sat by a pond for days after days and looked at the reflection of his own soul. He was referred to as 'The prince who contemplated his soul'.Pink Narcissus is an artistic film by James Bidgood about the fantasies of a hustler.The escape craft Ripley boards in the 1979 Ridley Scott film Alien is called the Narcissus.In the 2011 film Seeing Heaven, Narcissus is depicted in a painting - the character of the film also replicates the myth of Narcissus gazing at his own reflection. The film delves deeply into the main character (Paul) and the theme is loosely based on the myth of Narcissus, as all who look at Paul are transfixed by his beauty - just as all those who gazed upon Narcissus were transifixed with his beauty.

In music

National Medal Of Arts recipient Morten Lauridsen wrote a choral work entitled "Dirait-on" based on the poem by Rainer Maria Rilke."Supper's Ready" by Genesis (ca. 1972), a near-23-minute epic song laden with religious and mythological imagery, refers to the myth of Narcissus as follows: A young figure sits still by the pool / He's been stamped "Human Bacon" by some butchery tool / (He is you) / Social Security took care of this lad. / We watch in reverence, as Narcissus is turned to a flower. / A flower?. The movement is titled "How Dare I Be So Beautiful?".American rock band Tool made a subtle reference in their song "Reflection" from their third studio album Lateralus. Not only is the whole song a metaphor of the myth, but it also makes an explicit reference: And as I pull my head out I am without one doubt/ Don't want to be down here feeding my narcissism/ I must crucify the ego before it's far too late/ I pray the light lifts me out. The song combines elements of self-analysis and finding the right path, versus self-infatuation and absorption.Progressive metal band Threshold referenced the myth with an 11-minute epic titled "Narcissus", the closing track on their album Hypothetical. Greek metal band Septic Flesh recorded a song about Narcissus (called "Narcissus") on their album Communion."Narcissus in a Red Dress" by The Like was released on The Like EP and their album Release Me. The Canadian band Hedley has written a song about Narcissus (called "Narcissist"). One line goes He falls in love with his reflection in the glass / He can't resist who's staring back.Composer Nikolai Tcherepnin wrote his ballet "Narcisse et Echo, Op. 40 in 1911 for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and was danced by Nijinski. Uruguayan band El Cuarteto de Nos wrote the song "Me Amo" (I Love Myself) in which the chorus sings "como Narciso soy" (I am like Narcissus). In 2010, Swedish electronic artist pacific! released "Narcissus" an album and ballet staged in Gothenburg.[7] In 1994, composer Mark Applebaum composed Narcissus: Strata/Panacea for marimba solo. This work comprised one movement of the larger Janus Cycle, for mixed instrumentation.[8] In 1987, Thea Musgrave was commissioned by a consortium of four flutists for a solo work. She composed Narcissus for flute and digital delay.

In 1898 Havelock Ellis, an English sexologist, used the term "narcissus-like" in reference to excessive masturbation, whereby the person becomes his or her own sex object.In 1899, Paul Näche was the first person to use the term "narcissism" in a study of sexual perversions.

Otto Rank, in 1911, published the first psychoanalytical paper specifically concerned with narcissism, linking it to vanity and self-admiration.Sigmund Freud only published one paper exclusively devoted to narcissism in 1914, called "On Narcissism: An Introduction".One of the personality disorders is called narcissistic personality disorder.In Marilyn Manson's song Deep Six, One of the lines mentions his name, along with the Greek god Zeus.

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Narcissus was once walking by a lake or river and decided to drink some water; he saw his reflection in the water and was surprised by the beauty he saw; he became entranced by the reflection of himself.The myth of Narcissus is one of the most known Greek Myths, due to its uniqueness and moral tale; Narcissus, was the son of River God Cephisus and nymph Lyriope. He was known for his beauty and he was loved by God Apollo due to his extraordinary physique.The myth of Narcissus comes in two different versions, the Greek and the Greco-Roman version, as both Conon the Greek and Ovid, the Roman poet, wrote the story of Narcissus, enhancing it with different elements.According to Conon, Aminias, a young man fell in love with Narcissus, who had already spurned his male suitors. Aminias was also spurned by Narcissus who gave the unfortunate young man a sword. Aminias killed himself at Narcissus’ doorstep praying to the Gods to give Narcissus a lesson for all the pain he had provoked.Narcissus was once walking by a lake or river and decided to drink some water; he saw his reflection in the water and was surprised by the beauty he saw; he became entranced by the reflection of himself. He could not obtain the object of his desire though, and he died at the banks of the river or lake from his sorrow.The myth presented by Ovid the poet is slightly altered. According to this myth, Narcissus’ parents were worried because of the extraordinary beauty of the child and asked prophet Teiresias what to do, regarding their son’s futureTeiresias told them that the boy would grow old only if “he didn’t get to know himself”. When Narcissus was sixteen he was walking in the woods and Nymph Echo saw him and felt madly in love with him. She started following him and Narcissus asked “who’s there”, feeling someone after him.Echo responded “who’s there” and that went on for some time until Echo decided to show herself. She tried to embrace the boy who stepped away from Echo, telling her to leave him alone. Echo was left heartbroken and spent the rest of her life in glens; until nothing but an echo sound remained of her.Nemesis, though, the Goddess of Revenge, heard the story and decided to punish Narcissus. From this point the stories are similar; Narcissus sees himself in the pond and he is amazed by the beauty of the reflection. Once he figured out that his love could not be addressed, he killed himself.

Woods are protected by flood.

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Mainline 803 is an unusual Neoplan N416 integral single decker which had been assembled in Hellaby by importers Carlton PSV in 1988 and operated in the associated SUT fleet in Sheffield.

Following the absorption of the SUT fleet into Mainline it became fleet no 803 and was later transferred to Doncaster. It is seen on Askern Road in Bentley.

.... Thus prolonged infancy shapes human desires in two contradictory directions: on the one hand, on the subjective side, toward omnipotent indulgence in pleasure freed from the limitations of reality; on the other hand, on the objective side, toward powerless dependence on other people. The two tendencies come into conflict because the early experience of freedom and absorption in pleasure must succumb to the recognition of the reality-principle, in a capitulation enforced by parental authority under the threat of loss of parental love ...

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The general term ice age or, more precisely, glacial age denotes a geological period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in an expansion of continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. There have been at least four major ice ages in the Earth's past. Outside these periods, the Earth seems to have been ice-free even in high latitudes. There is evidence that greenhouse gas levels fell at the start of ice ages and rose during the retreat of the ice sheets, but it is difficult to establish cause and effect. Greenhouse gas levels may also have been affected by other factors which have been proposed as causes of ice ages, such as the movement of continents and vulcanism. Although the last glacial period ended more than 8,000 years ago, its effects can still be felt today. For example, the moving ice carved out landscape in Canada, Greenland, northern Eurasia and Antarctica. The erratic boulders, till, drumlins, eskers, fjords, kettle lakes, moraines, cirques, horns, etc., are typical features left behind by the glaciers. The Dutch IJsselmeer lake is covered with icerocks hummocks, caused by the cold weather of the passed days. At some places even higher than 6 meter!

Photo taken of hummocks at the IJsselmeer (Markermeer) near Uitdam. On the background you can see the skyline of Almere. A hummock is a boss or rounded knoll of ice rising above the general level of an ice-field, Hummocky ice is caused by slow and unequal pressure in the main body of the packed ice, and by unequal structure and temperature at a later period. Blue ice occurs when snow falls on the ice. The blue color is actually created for the same reason that water is blue, that is, its slight absorption of red light due to an overtone of the infrared OH stretching mode of the water molecule.

Een ijstijd of glaciatie is een geologisch tijdvak waarin ijskappen voorkomen. In het Engels wordt dit een periode van ice-house genoemd, als tegenhanger van een ijskaploze periode, de greenhouse ("broeikas"). Aangezien er gletsjers liggen op bijvoorbeeld Groenland of Antarctica, leven we tegenwoordig in een ijstijd. Men neemt aan dat dit in de gehele geologische geschiedenis van de Aarde minstens vijfmaal het geval is geweest, waarvan eenmaal zelfs zo sterk dat de ijskappen van de polen vrijwel tot aan de evenaar waren opgerukt. Ook zijn er periodes dat er aanzienlijke opwarming optrad waarbij die ijskappen grotendeels waren weggesmolten. Het klimaat op Aarde wordt beïnvloed door vele factoren, zoals de intensiteit van de zonnestraling, de ligging van de continenten, de continentverplaatsingen, vulkanisme, de zeestromen, de bedekking van het land door vegetatie, het weerkaatsingsvermogen van het aardoppervlak en vele kleine andere factoren. Met behulp van klimaatmodellen wordt door wetenschappers een reconstructie van het klimaat en de klimaatveranderingen in het verleden gemaakt. Alhoewel er een zekere consensus bestaat onder wetenschappers, zijn er nog vele onzekerheden en tegenstrijdigheden in dit onderzoek.

Hierboven een foto van kruiend ijs. Zoetwatermeren kunnen spectaculair bevriezen. Grotere meren zoals het IJsselmeer (IJmeer) hierboven hebben bijna altijd wel golven, en dit werkt directe bevriezing van het wateroppervlak tegen. Eerst vormen zich kleine ijsschotsen, die naar de kust drijven onder invloed van de wind. Deze schotsen vormen zo een ijsveld op het water dat de golven dempt, en uiteindelijk vriezen alle schotsen aan elkaar vast tot een massa. Voordat dit gebeurt schuren de schotsen voortdurend langs elkaar heen en schrapen zo stukjes ijs van elkaar af; elke schots krijgt zo een witte rand. Zulk ijs is dus totaal niet geschikt om op te schaatsen. Wanneer grotere delen van het meer bevriezen beginnen de platen, die soms een paar vierkante kilometer groot zijn, langzaam tegen elkaar te bewegen onder invloed van de wind en stroming. Dit heeft kruiend ijs tot gevolg: de ijsschotsen worden met kracht gebroken en op elkaar gestapeld langs de dijken langs het meer. Dit hoeft niet alleen bij dun ijs te gebeuren; soms kruit het ijs bij een dikte van meer dan 20 cm. De stapels ijs worden dan hoog, en het geluid is oorverdovend. Deze foto is genomen bij Uitdam met Almere aan de overkant van het Markermeer.

Bridge # 150 on the Leeds Liverpool canal, near to Foulridge. So named because Foulridge had a flourishing cottage industry of felt hat making from the 17th century.

The term "mad as a hatter" comes from the use of mercury in the production of felt hats in the 18th and 19th centuries, where absorption of mercury through the skin can cause neurological disorders.

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The Full Moon of June 24, 2021, colloquially called the "Strawberry Moon," just rising over the distant hill at McGregor Lake in southern Alberta. The disk of the Moon is flattened by atmospheric refraction and tinted golden from atmospheric absorption, as is the case for all rising and setting Moons, and Suns.

This is an exposure blend of two images: a long one for the sky and water, and a shorter one for the disk of the Moon, to prevent it from being overexposed. This was with the Canon EOS Ra and 200mm L lens and 1.4x Extender for 280mm focal length.

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The Milky Way lies diagnonally and appears very close to the constellation of Scorpius. They were both shining bright, as seen from Baros Pass, the highest mountain pass in Greece, at 6,237 ft (1901 m). At high altitudes there is less atmospheric absorption of the stars’ light prior to reaching the eye or the camera.

The galactic core was visible (20.6° above horizon) during a chilly night (on July 12, 2021 at 23:10’ hrs, 14℃︎). There are approximately four hundred billion (4×10¹¹) stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

Scorpius is a conspicuous southern constellation (marked by yellow lines) lying on the ecliptic between Sagittarius and Libra. It contains the bright stars Antares (aka “α Sco,” or “Alpha Scorpii”) and Shaula (“λ Sco,” or “Lambda Scorpii”). It also contains Scorpius XR-1, the strongest X-ray source in the sky (XR-1 is associated with the “V818 Sco” optically faint star).

Camera Settings:

Canon EOS RP

Sigma 24mm F1.4 DG HSM | Art 015

f/1.8 - ISO 2500 - 10 sec × 36 shots stacked

Leiden

The Netherlands

2013

Urban life in the Netherlands

Ricoh GR Digital IV

A punto de iniciar la Hora AZul (alrededor del crepúsculo náutico. Sol alrededor de 10° por debajo del horizonte).

Panorama achieved by fussion of three photos on AutoStitch via Windows Live Photo Gallery. Originals taken with a Canon PowerShot A570 IS. EXIF data were lost when fussion made.

Compare con una pano tomada desde el mismo sitio en septiembre 20, 2008

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