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Another day, another kairos overflowing with self-expression, self-reflection and possibly a touch of self-absorption.
So here's a question to you photographers: Do we add a piece of ourselves to every portrait we make? or does every subject add a little something to us? Discuss.
#anotherday #streetportraits #photographyastherapy #lookitupstacey
Poem.
The mercury greys, the tree-lined ebony silhouettes, deep indigo and silver-coated marbling, gleaming, beaming off the cloud-reflected bay-
Dazzles and spell-binds.
That precious God-given ambience of early dawn blinds us but etches blurred images of heavenly proportions to our senses.
The mesmerising light, the near-silent water’s edge only broken by the lilting call of the oyster-catcher or the muffled comments of stirring sailors aboard their dreamy yachts.
These familiar sounds, the salt-laden odours of a near-calm bay and the silent, gentle absorption of the sun’s rays rouses and energises a myriad of life-forms to a glorious new day.
To witness this scene is pure bliss.
To hear, feel and sense it, is almost indescribable.
Seeing inside the activity of an enlivened Exposure from the three-dimensional realm, to a digitized sensor absorption, transformed across a two-dimensionally captured reality.
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Please take your time... and enjoy it large on black
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.
Family outing... Cowry snails usually inhabit rocky and coral areas where they browse on algae, or encrusting invertebrates like sponges and bryozoans (diet varies with species). They are most active at night and conceal themselves in crevices during the day. In cowries, the spire (pointed end) of the shell is overgrown by the last whorl, resulting in a rounded, domed shape. The shell-producing mantle tissue has two special folds that extend outside the shell in the cowries. These mantle folds keep the shell clean and polished, and prevent boring or encrusting organisms from causing damage to the shell surface. The mantle is covered with frilly, branched projections called papillae. The functions of the papillae are not clear: they may provide camouflage for the animal by breaking up the snail’s outline; or may allow absorption of oxygen from the seawater. Found in Anilao, South Luzon, Philippines
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Steve.D.Hammond.
Firing the ever-impressive .50 BMG round from a rotary 5+1 magazine with chamber selector buttons, this bolt-action sniper rifle is best suited for a marksman that is often on the move.
The rifle's rugged construction, bipod and foregrip will help the marksman quickly take aim, further supported by the intelligent LIDAR-equipped scope that uses a long-range laser emitter to detect wind strength and direction as well as range to target. The scope then automatically calculates the bullet drop and wind interference with the round, and adjusts its crosshairs within the scope accordingly.
This system can also be switched off, as the scope is still manually adjustable through the D-Pad and the 2-slider, 3-button control system for precision finetuning as needed.
The muzzle brake helps mitigating recoil as well as redirecting the muzzle flash. The barrel (as well as the rest of the internals) has been cold hammer forged out of a titanium-vanadium alloy. This alloy is highly durable yet relatively light, and is also highly resistant to moisture.
The stock features a height-adjustable cheekrest, a semi-flexible buttpad for increased recoil absorption, a monopod that retracts inside the stock, and a few rubberized grip panels.
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CREDITS:
-Beck, for the shaded rails technique
-Matt 0.6, for his brilliant "How to Magpul" guide (I used the foregrip technique, specifically)
Poem.
The mercury greys, the tree-lined ebony silhouettes, deep indigo and silver-coated marbling, gleaming, beaming off the cloud-reflected bay-
Dazzles and spell-binds.
That precious God-given ambience of early dawn blinds us but etches blurred images of heavenly proportions to our senses.
The mesmerising light, the near-silent water’s edge only broken by the lilting call of the oyster-catcher or the muffled comments of stirring sailors aboard their dreamy yachts.
These familiar sounds, the salt-laden odours of a near-calm bay and the silent, gentle absorption of the sun’s rays rouses and energises a myriad of life-forms to a glorious new day.
To witness this scene is pure bliss.
To hear, feel and sense it, is almost indescribable.
One of the two former Montana Rail Link SW1200's recently acquired by Railway Service Contractors, Inc. basks in the sun outside the shop at the Fairfax District in Kansas City, KS. Mike Roberts bought a pair of MRL switchers following MRL's absorption by BNSF at the beginning of the year. Though any Montana Rail Link and Washington Companies logos and markings have been patched out, MRL blue is still a welcome sight here. This one was built in July of 1957 for the Northern Pacific as the NP No. 161, later passed to the Burlington Northern as the
In the background is the decommissioned Quindaro Power Station, which has been idle for a few years now. 3/9/24.
Astronomers have taken an inventory of the most deeply embedded ices in a cold molecular cloud to date. They used light from a background star, named NIR38, to illuminate the dark cloud called Chameleon I. Ices within the cloud absorbed certain wavelengths of infrared light, leaving spectral fingerprints called absorption lines. These lines indicate which substances are present within the molecular cloud.
These graphs show spectral data from three of the James Webb Space Telescope’s instruments. In addition to simple ices like water, the science team was able to identify frozen forms of a wide range of molecules, from carbon dioxide, ammonia, and methane, to the simplest complex organic molecule, methanol.
In addition to the identified molecules, the team found evidence for prebiotic molecules more complex than methanol (indicated in the lower-right panel). Although they didn't definitively attribute these signals to specific molecules, this proves for the first time that complex molecules form in the icy depths of molecular clouds before stars are born.
The upper panels and lower-left panel all show the background star’s brightness versus wavelength. A lower brightness indicates absorption by ices and other materials in the molecular cloud. The lower-right panel displays the optical depth, which is essentially a logarithmic measure of how much light from the background star gets absorbed by the ices in the cloud. It is used to highlight weaker spectral features of less abundant varieties of ice.
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and J. Olmsted (STScI), M. K. McClure (Leiden Observatory), K. Pontoppidan (STScI), N. Crouzet (Leiden University), and Z. Smith (Open University)
WR-134 is a Wolf Rayet star located in Cygnus. The star itself, located about 6000 light years from Earth, is surrounded by a Oxygen-dominated nebula that is being blown around by radiation and winds from the WR star itself. The star itself is about 5 times the radius of our sun and was one of the first three stars observed in Cygnus to have intense emission lines rather than continuous or absorption lines. This class of stars is now known as Wolf-Rayet stars.
This image is a HOO Bicolor image totaling about 34.7 hours of exposure time taken over 7 nights.
This image will eventually be mosaic'd with the Crescent Nebula, which I am current halfway done gathering data for.
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Equipment:
- Scope: AstroTech AT65EDQ Quad APO
- Mount: Rowan Belt Modded Orion Sirius EQ-G
- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI1600mm-Pro
- Guidescope: QHY MiniGuideScope
- Guide Cam: QHY5L-II Mono
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Software:
- EQMOD/StellariumScope for mount control
- APT for image capture and platesolving
- PHD2 for guiding
- PixInsight for Processing
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Acquisition:
- Location: Sugar Land, TX
- Gain: 200; Offset: 50; Camera @ -10C
- 195 x 300" Ha - Chroma 5nm
- 221 x 300" OIII - Chroma 3nm
- 30 flats, flat darks, and darks (from library) per session
- Nights: 7/30/20, 8/3/20, 8/4/20, 8/6/20, 8/7/20, 8/10/20, 8/11/20
- Total Integration Time: 34.7 Hours
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Processing (Apply to each Ha and OIII master):
- ImageIntegration
- DrizzleIntegration
- DynamicCrop to get rid of edges
- DBE
- Deconvolution
- Linear noise reduction via EZDenoise Script
- HistogramTransformation for Stretch
- HistogramTransformation for contrast
- CurvesTransformation to bring out nebulosity
- DarkStructureEnhance script (Ha only)
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Combining Ha and OIII Masters via the following Pixelmath Combination:
- R: iif(ha>.15,ha,(ha*.8)+(oiii*.2))
- G: iif(ha>0.5,1-(1-oiii)*(1-(ha-0.5)),oiii*(ha+0.5))
- B: iif(oiii>.1,oiii,(ha*.3)+(oiii*.2))
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Further Processing:
- Invert -> SCNR Green -> Invert back to remove magenta cast
- Export to Photoshop for slight color tweaking
- Bring back to PI for curves on hue and contrast
- Pushed nebulosity by creating a starless version of the image and then using the following Pixelmath Expression:
- 1- (1-$T)*(1-$T)
- Recombined this enhanced nebulosity version with the original version via the following Pixelmath Expression:
- F=0.4; (1- (1-$T)*(1-starless)*F)+($T*~F)
- Additional CurvesTransformation for contrast
- LocalHistogramEqualization on ring nebula with RangeMask
- Create star mask via Starnet++, binarize and convolute star mask
- MorphologicalTransformation to reduce star size
- CurvesTransformation to shift hue to red from rusty red
- Extract blue channel and apply ask a mask and use CurvesTransformation to emphasize the OIII emissions and balance some color
- Nonlinear noise reduction via ACDNR and luminance mask
- Final Export
The waning last quarter Moon rises in conjunction with the Pleiades star cluster, here coming out of a band of clouds just above the northeast horizon, with the Moon just a degree or two above the horizon.
This was the evening of August 25, 2024. Earthshine is just visible on the "dark side of the Moon." And yes, the sky really was that colour, as this was so low with the field lit by moonlight reddened by atmospheric absorption.
Technical:
This is a blend of 8 exposures taken in quick succession, from 30 seconds for the stars and base sky, to as short as 1/8-second for the lunar disk, blended with Lights1 luminosity masks created with Lumenzia extension panel in Photoshop. The exposure blending results in an image that better resembles what the eye could see in the scene with such a high dynamic range in brightness.
The Canon R5 was at ISO 1600 and on the Astro-Tech 90CFT refractor telescope at f/4.8 for a focal length of 430mm. It was on the Astro-Physics Mach1 mount tracking the sky at the sidereal rate. Thus the blurred clouds. Finishing touch glows and Orton-style effects added with Luminar Neo and Nik Color EFX.
This was such a hot day that for most of the time, this small copper was keeping its wings folded and pointing at the sun to reduce energy absorption and avoid over-heating. Eventually I managed a couple of shots with wings capturing light from the sun.
For me to observe, homeostasis in action.
With other small butterflies, on sunny days, I've been able to persuade them (esp. common blue) to open their wings by gradually shading them at a distance, then removing the shade.
Thanks to everyone who views, faves or comments on my pictures.
Bonsai Nihon Chaenomeles maulei - Sakura - It belongs to the rosaceae family.
An attempt to obtain a light painting outside in natural noon light, without using any torches/reflectors nor long exposure, just positioning the subject at its best to receive the last sun rays in a portion of the compo and to obtain in the rest a fairly good light absorption.
_MG_0566 edit OK DEF
©łwAE . All rights reserved
Narduris is a leader of Clan of Shadows, named Xymoorghor.
One of my biggest and favourite MOC, I ever build. This version was building over three weeks (with breaks). I know there is much work with it, but I decided to take photos, and show You, to know your opinion. Now, enjoy!
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Abilities and powers:
Heightened senses, great strength, icy gaze, the power capable of destroying everything (with a scepter), sensing the energy absorption capacity, the perfect warrior.
Character:
Hard, vindictive, violent, cunning, ruthless, brilliant strategist, an excellent commander, he will do anything for power and revenge.
Weapons:
Sceptre of Power (once), claws.
EN_ Surely the best known nebula of the sky in the world, and of course if its beauty is unmatched.
The Orion Nebula is a stellar nursery where new stars are forming at more than 1500 light years, full of emission, reflection and absorption nebulas located on the edge of a gigantic complex of molecular clouds, these colorful nebulae only represent a small difference of the richness of interstellar material of this galactic neighborhood. Inside this well-studied stellar nursery, astronomers have also identified what appear to be numerous young planetary systems, M42 is one of the brightest nebulae in the sky visible on the sword of the Orion hunter as a diffuse and dim star.
Captured on September 22, 2019 on the road to Yeso, Cajón del Maipo.
Exif:
Canon T5i, 25x10s
Iso 3200, f 6.3, 450 mm
Celestron Avx advanced and Sharpstar apo
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Nebulosa de Orión
Seguramente la nebulosa mas conocida del cielo en el mundo, y como no si su belleza es inigualable.
La nebulosa de Orión es una guardería estelar donde están formando nuevas estrellas a más de 1500 años de luz, plagada de nebulosas de emisión, reflexión y absorción situadas al borde de un complejo gigantesco de nubes moleculares, estas vistosas nebulosas tan solo representa una pequeña diferencia de la riqueza de material interestelar de este barrio galáctico. En el interior de esta bien estudiada guardería estelar, los astrónomos también han identificado lo que parecen ser numerosos sistemas planetarios jóvenes, M42 es una de las nebulosas mas brillantes del cielo visible en la espada del cazador Orión como una estrella difusa y tenue.
The animal in the photograph is a Marine Iguana.
Common name: Marine iguana
Scientific name: Amblyrhynchus cristatus
Family: Iguanidae
Endemic range: Galápagos Islands
Conservation status: Vulnerable (IUCN)
Confidence: High (distinct morphology unique to this species).
Detailed Description
Overall Form
The marine iguana is the only lizard species in the world adapted to a marine lifestyle. Adults typically measure 60–140 cm (2–4.5 ft) including the tail.
Key characteristics visible in the image:
1. Body posture
The iguana is lying flattened against the warm ground with limbs extended outward.
This “sprawled basking posture” maximizes heat absorption after swimming in cold ocean water.
2. Head
Short, blunt snout specialized for scraping algae from rocks.
Heavy armored scales and bony ridges across the skull.
Small nostrils positioned high on the snout.
Marine iguanas possess salt glands near the nose that expel excess salt from seawater ingestion (often seen sneezing salt crystals).
3. Dorsal crest
A row of triangular spines runs from the neck down the back toward the tail.
These spines are larger in males and used partly for display.
4. Skin texture
Thick, rough, bead-like scales.
Coloration here appears dark charcoal/black with greenish tones on the limbs.
Dark coloration aids rapid solar heating after diving.
During breeding seasons some populations develop red, green, or turquoise highlights.
5. Limbs
Strong, widely splayed forelimbs with long curved claws.
Adapted for gripping volcanic rock in surf zones.
6. Tail
Long, laterally compressed tail functioning as a propulsive swimming paddle.
Behavior Shown in the Image
The iguana is thermoregulating.
Marine iguanas dive into cold waters (often 10–18°C / 50–64°F) to graze on algae. After feeding they must:
Exit the water.
Flatten the body against warm rock or sand.
Absorb solar heat to raise body temperature.
The posture in the photo — limbs spread, belly pressed flat — is typical post-foraging basking behavior.
Diet
Marine iguanas are primarily herbivorous marine grazers.
Main foods:
Red algae
Green algae
Occasionally intertidal seaweed
Large males can dive 10–20 meters (33–66 ft) and remain underwater for 20–30 minutes.
Ecological Significance
Marine iguanas are a classic example of adaptive radiation in the Galápagos.
They evolved from land iguanas that colonized the islands millions of years ago and adapted to a marine feeding niche.
Major predators include:
Galápagos Hawk
Feral cats and dogs (on some islands)
Key Visual Traits for Identification
Blunt algae-scraping snout
Dorsal spiny crest
Thick armored scales
Flattened swimming tail
Dark coloration for solar heat absorption
Occurrence only in the Galápagos
These traits together uniquely identify the species.
Leica M6 Re-Issue / Leica 21mm Super-Elmar f/3.4 / Fuji 400 / Plustek 8300AI Scanner / Negative Lab Pro
Nkosi.artiste@gmail.com
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
The giant rock carving of King Decebalus is placed opposite an ancient memorial plaque, carved in the rock on the Serbian side of the river facing Romania. The plaque, known as the Tabula Traiana, records the completion of Trajan's military road along the Danube and thus commemorates the final defeat of Decebalus by Trajan in 105, and the absorption of the Dacian kingdom into the Roman Empire. But today Decebalus is resurrected and is once again confronting the Romans…
5 Oct 2015 | Lego Challenge 278/365
Some of you may have noticed that I've not been posting consistently recently. I can only blame it on the exam papers that I have to bring home to mark every night in order to meet the deadline. 180 scripts in 12 days, no pressure!
Every day I come across an answer so ridiculously brilliant, I wished I could award it marks for humour but I can't because there is a fine line between creativity and stupidity. So this whole week I'll be sharing some of these amazing responses in Lego form.
- Question 1 -
Metaphor question in comprehension passage: What does the author mean when he describes the selfie stick as a "lightning rod of narcissism"?
Student's answer: The author means that just as the "lightning rod" holds insurmountable power for the person wielding it, the selfie stick also possesses the powerful quality of self-absorption for the user.
Tamshui, Taipei City (Taiwan)
Taiwan
2013
Life in and around public transport
Nikon D7100 + 35mm 1.8
Latest blogpost: thecovertphotographer.wordpress.com
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
www.flickr.com/photos/jesusduarte/7158959659/in/photolist...
The Full Moon at the equinox, on March 20, 2019, reaching full phase only fours hours after the moment of the vernal equinox, and here captured rising very shortly before the moment of the Full Moon. I shot this while the Moon was still rising and in a deep blue sky, and tinted yellow from atmospheric absorption. Even so, this is a blend of short (for the Moon) and long (for the sky) exposures to capture the dynamic range.
All with the 105mm Traveler apo refractor and Canon 60Da camera at ISO 100.
For this Picture of the Week, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope turned its powerful eye towards an emission line galaxy called NGC 3749.
More information: www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1946a/
Credit:
ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Rosario et al.
Poem.
The mercury greys, the tree-lined ebony silhouettes, deep indigo and silver-coated marbling, gleaming, beaming off the cloud-reflected bay-
Dazzles and spell-binds.
That precious God-given ambience of early dawn blinds us but etches blurred images of heavenly proportions to our senses.
The mesmerising light, the near-silent water’s edge only broken by the lilting call of the oyster-catcher or the muffled comments of stirring sailors aboard their dreamy yachts.
These familiar sounds, the salt-laden odours of a near-calm bay and the silent, gentle absorption of the sun’s rays rouses and energises a myriad of life-forms to a glorious new day.
To witness this scene is pure bliss.
To hear, feel and sense it, is almost indescribable.
NGC2264 discovered in 1785.
"The cone's shape comes from a dark absorption nebula consisting of cold molecular hydrogen and dust in front of a faint emission nebula containing hydrogen ionized by S Monocerotis, the brightest star of NGC 2264. The faint nebula is approximately seven light-years long (with an apparent length of 10 arcminutes), and is 2,700 light-years away from Earth." Wikipedia
Imaged from Deep Sky West - Rowe New Mexico, using RCOS 14.5" Ritchey–Chrétien telescope f/9. 3340 mm focal length.
Transparency and Seeing very good to excellent.
February 2017.
LRGB 5.3: 8:4.6:4.3 hours.
Total exposure 22 hours.
Processed in Pixinsight, and Lightroom.
SBIG 16803 CCD,AO-X
Titan 1669 (NUW 669Y) joined the fleet with the absorption of Circle Line of Gloucester following takeover by Stagecoach. It moved to Swindon and was pictured at Wootton Bassett on the Chippenham service.
District 789, Beijing
July 2012
China
Urban life
Canon 550D
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I will remove them..
Absorption du bleu - Absorption of blue
La Chapelle-la-Reine (France), benne à gravats - dump rubble.
Фирменный поезд Двухэтажный состав 022Ч Санкт-Петербург — Мурманск
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 Hz 50 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)
Фирменный поезд Двухэтажный состав 022Ч Санкт-Петербург — Мурманск
"The Mountain Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. states of Maryland and West Virginia. The line runs from Cumberland, Maryland west to Grafton, West Virginia along the original Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road (B&O) main line. It was known as the West End Subdivision until the B&O's absorption into the Chessie System, and included the B&O's original crossing of the Allegheny Mountains. From Wiki
National Museum, Beijing
July 2012
China
Urban life
Canon 550D
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The Seestar S50 started this image at 10:00PM to 3:50 AM. During this time 976 ten-seconds subframes were taken. Of those 865 passed muster. The images were pieced together as a mosaic. Image right annotates some points of interest.
LdN refers to Lynds Catalog of Dark Nebulae. What is a dark nebula? (Wikipedia: A dark nebula or absorption nebula is a type of interstellar cloud, particularly molecular clouds, that is so dense that it obscures the visible wavelengths of light from objects behind it, such as background stars and emission or reflection nebulae. The extinction of the light is caused by interstellar dust grains in the coldest, densest parts of molecular clouds.)
Scheveningen/The Hague
June 2012
The Netherlands
Yet another contre jour-shot, just because i'm very happy with the light these last few days. It seems we might see a summer here in the Netherlands after all..
Beachlife in the Netherlands
Ricoh GRD IV
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