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This experiment was an attempt to recreate the fluorescence of chromium activated corundum (aka 'ruby'). Aluminum hydroxide was mixed with 1-4 drops of Cr(III) oxide in a basic solution. This was placed on a small amount of aluminum sulfate in an aluminum foil container and a bit of water was added.
The sample was then heated, first with a propane torch until the water was removed and then with a MAPP gas torch until the aluminum sulfate expanded into foam, trapping the aluminum hydroxide which was calcined into aluminum oxide by the torch's flame. (at least that was the plan)
Shown also is a natural ruby from Mysore, India.
See ruby excitation spectrum here (0.03% Cr):
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Contains:
Ruby (FL Red >GR,BL/UVa)
Ruby Foam (FL Red >GR,BL/UVabc)
Shown under white light.
Key:
WL = White light (halogen + LED)
FL = Fluoresces
PHOS = Phosphorescent
BL = 450nm, GR = 532nm
UVa = 368nm (LW), UVb = 311nm (MW), UVc = 254nm (SW)
'>' = "stimulated by:", '!' = "bright", '~' = "dim"
Ruby2
24 Dec 2016
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Processed using calibrated near-infrared methane absorption band (MT2, CB2) filtered images taken by Cassini on August 31 2017.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill
The Hague
April 2012
The Netherlands
Urban life in the Netherlands
Ricoh GRD IV
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When we visited the current GOMA art works which profiles art by Australian artists, we were totally in awe of an animated work by Deborah Kelly - Beastliness.
These two girls were similarly affected, and the moment needed capturing.
This work is described as:-
The second work, Beastliness 2011, is a fast-paced animation. Taking aesthetic cues from MTV as well as early twentieth-century collage, Kelly’s characters are uncanny fusions of animals, insects and women in a world of frenzied dancing. Kelly re-mythologises femininity, avoiding the stereotypes that constrain and demonise people for their difference.
Kelly’s strategy is to embrace diversity: these creatures represent many female forms, thoughts and experiences, and celebrate acceptance and freedom of expression.
I tried to figure out how to use the Canon 60D movie mode, but couldn't find it in the dimmed lighting. I know it is there, just needed to find the beast.
(Looked just now and found the movie mode button which has obviously been installed on my camera since Saturday while I was sleeping)
I am sure these girls had a story to tell later over coffee about what they interpreted from the display.
Speaking of movies, look at this music video with a DIFFERENCE
Story in a Picture Challenge
The Hague
March 2012
The Netherlands
This shot hopefully concludes my momentary lapse of weakness ;)
It gives you guys a nice impression of how some of my shots are taken.
I've been enjoying the sun for a few days, will get back to my books the day after tomorrow!
Urban life in the Netherlands
Ricoh GRD IV
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June 2012
The Netherlands
Candid shots in and around the Public Transport in The Netherlands
Ricoh GRD IV
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I was just pleased to get any sort of shot of this Neath & Cardiff Reliance / Cavalier, but I was less pleased to open the slide box and find a hole in the slide where the mould had eaten through it ! Luckily, it only touched the top of the roof, and I have done a reasonable repair on it - good enough for me.
Amazingly, it only had an 11-year service life, seeing virtually no use after N&C's absorption into South Wales Transport. It entered preservation in 1972, so has now spent nearly five times as long with various owners as it did earning a living ! Some of its owners, such as GM, who had it from 1986 to 1992, may have used it for bits of commercial work, but never on a full-time basis.
Depot, 18/6/86
Icebergs broken off from glaciers drift south on the east Greenland current. Evidence of Arctic warming is present in widespread melting of glaciers and sea ice. Melting of reflective snow and ice will reveal darker land and ocean, which will increase our planet's absorption of heat. This could lead to a feedback loop of further warming and melting.
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The Hague
April 2012
The Netherlands
Urban life in the Netherlands
Ricoh GRD IV
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June 2012
The Netherlands
Candid shots in and around the Public Transport in The Netherlands
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The Moon as a comet with a tail of sodium
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
The phenomenon, known since 1988, requires specific conditions:
1. Very clean atmosphere to avoid the diffusion of dust and water vapor.
2. Very high moon to reduce atmospheric absorption.
3. Moon close to first or last quarter.
4 - Use of selective filters capable of passing the line at 560nm.
Finding these conditions all together is not easy, but in March 25, 2026 I had them all, with mild weather around 14°C.
The first quarter is desirable because a sort of shadow is visible tangential to the direction of view.
More precisely, it is a tunnel in the fluorescent sodium tail because photoerosion does not occur on the non-illuminated side, being protected from solar radiation. This favors the recording of a darker trail, approximately the same diameter as the Moon. It's a test.
To have a good signal/noise ratio I performed the stack of 10 30s-shots at 3200 ISO and processed with PSP X8. I performed the alignment on stars.
Unfortunately, there is no way to avoid the reflections produced by optics and filters: it is the Moon!
A rich discussion of the lunar exosphere is in this paper:
Leblanc, F., Schmidt, C., Mangano, V. et al. Esosfere comparative di Na e K di Mercurio e della Luna. Space Sci Rev 218 , 2 (2022). doi.org/10.1007/s11214-022-00871-w
The information and annotations in the image are of scientific utility because they identify the subject and place it in a specific moment. They also indicate the subject of interest. The absence of such information makes the images useless.
Scheveningen/The Hague
May 2012
The Netherlands
Beachlife in the Netherlands
Ricoh GRD IV
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The tight framing of the ill-postured, tightly wound young woman makes a compelling image of readerly absorption.
The word Allah
The Semitic language which is spoken in the celestial spheres, is the language in which the angels and God address each other. Adam Safi-Allah spoke the same language in paradise. Adam and eve then came into the world and settled in Arabia. Their children also spoke the same language. Then as a result of the descendants of Adam spreading in the world, this language passed from Arabic, Persian, Latin and into English and God was then known by different names in the different languages. As Adam lived in Arabia, there are many words of the Semitic language which are still found in the Arabic language. God addressed the Prophets, Adam as Adam Safi-Allah, Noah as Nuh Nabi-Allah, Abraham as Ibraheem Khalil-Allah, Moses as Musa Kalim-Allah, Jesus as I’sa Ruh-Allah and Mohammed Rasul-Allah. All these titles, in the Semitic language were written on the Tablet before the arrival of the Prophets. This is why the Prophet Mohammed said: “I was a Prophet even before I came in to this world.”
Many people believe that the word Allah is a name given by Muslims, this is not so.
The Prophet Mohammed’s fathers name was Abd-Allah, at a time when Islam did not exist. Prior to the advent of Islam the Name Allah was announced with the title of every Prophet. When the souls were created, the first Name on their tongue was Allah and when the soul entered the body of Adam, it said, Ya-Allah, and only then it entered the body. Many religions understand this enigma and chant the Name Allah and many others because of doubt are deprived of the Name.
Any name which is used to point towards God is worthy of respect.
In other words, which points towards God. The mystical effect of the Name of God has been diversified due to the different names. Every letter of the alphabet has a separate numeric value. This is also a celestial knowledge. All the numeric values are connected with all of the human race. Occasionally the numeric values do not agree with the astronomical calculations as a result of which people become afflicted. Many people go to astrologers and experts of this knowledge and have charts prepared based on the stars. They name their children on this basis.
Just as the letters (a, b, j, d,) (1, 2, 3, 4) when added have the numerical value of ten. Similarly every name has a separate numeric value. As God has been given so many different names, this has caused a conflict between the numeric value of the different names. If all the people called upon God by the same name, then despite the fact that they would all have separate religions, they would all be united inwardly. They too, like Nanak Sahib and Baba Farid would then say:
“All the souls have been created by the light of God, even though their environment and communities are separate.”
The angels that are assigned tasks in the world are also taught the languages of the people of the world.
It is important for the people of every Prophet that they recite, chant and affirm the Title of their Prophet which was granted by God to the Prophet at his time, for the recognition, spiritual grace and purification of his people. The recital and affirmation should be in the same method and in the language of their Prophet.
The entry of any individual into any religion is subject to the condition that the individual accepts and affirms the Title of the Prophet of that religion. Just as the affirmation and the verbal vows are a condition of any marriage.
Entry into the heavens has been made subject to the acceptance and affirmation of the Titles of the Prophets. In the western world many Muslims and Christians have no knowledge of their Prophet’s Title furthermore many do not even know their Prophets original name (in the original language of the Prophet.)
People who only verbalize the affirmation of their Prophet’s Title rely upon their good deeds. Those that reject and do not affirm their Prophet’s Title are refused entry to paradise. Those individuals in whose hearts the affirmation of their Prophet’s Title has descended (entered) they will enter paradise without any accountability.
The revealed celestial Scriptures, whichever language they are in so long as they are in the original form, are a means to finding God. Where the texts and the translations that have been adulterated, just as adulterated flour is harmful for the stomach, the adulterated books have become harmful and people of the same religion and the same of Prophet have divided into so many sects.
To be sure of the straight and guided path it is better that you are guided by the Light (of God) also.
The method of producing light.
In prehistoric times stones would be rubbed together to make fire. Whereas a spark can also be produced by rubbing two metals together. In a similar way electricity is made from water. Similarly by the friction of the blood inside the human body, in other words electric energy is produced by the vibrating heartbeat. In every human being there is present, approximately one and a half volts of electricity due to which the body is energetic. As the heartbeat slows in old age, this reduces the electricity in the body and this in turn also causes a reduction of the energy level in the body.
Firstly, the heartbeat has to be made vibrant and pronounced. Some do this by dancing, some by sports and exercise and some people try to do this by meditating and chanting the Name of God Allah.
When the heartbeat becomes vibrant and pronounced then by chanting the Name Allah try to synchronize it with every heartbeat. Alternatively try to synchronize Allah with one heartbeat and Hu with the other. Some time by placing your hand on the heart and when you feel your heartbeat, again try to synchronize the Name Allah by chanting it with the rythm of the heartbeat and imagine that the Name Allah is entering the heart.
The chanting of Allah Hu is better and more effective but if anyone has an objection, or a fear of chanting Hu, then instead of being deprived one should solely use the Name Allah, repetitively in the chanting. It is beneficial for people who chant and practice this discipline and who read mantras to physically remain as clean as possible as the:
“disrespectful are unfulfilled and the respectful are fulfilled.”
The first method for producing light.
Write Allah on a paper in black ink, and do this exercise for as long as you wish on a daily basis. Soon thereafter, the Word Allah will be transported from the paper and hover over the eyes. Then with one-pointed concentration, attempt to transport the word from the eyes to the heart.
The second method for producing light.
Write Allah on a zero watt bulb, in yellow. Whilst you are awake or just before sleep, concentrate and try to absorb it into the eyes. When it appears on the eyes then try to transport it to the heart.
The third method for producing light.
This method is for those people who have perfect spiritual guides and teachers and who due to their spiritual connection are spiritually assisted by them.
Sit alone and imagine that your index finger is a pen. Using your finger and with your concentration, attempt to write Allah on your heart. Call upon your spiritual teacher (spiritually), so that he too may, hold your finger, and write Allah on your heart. Continue to do this exercise everyday, until you see Allah written on your heart.
By the first and second method, the Name Allah becomes inscribed on the heart, just as it was written and seen by you but when it becomes synchronized with the heartbeat, then it slowly starts to shine. In the synchronized method, the assistance of the spiritual teacher is provided and for this reason it is seen shining and well written on the heart right from the beginning.
Many Prophets and Saints have come into the world, and just for the sake of testing this, if you feel it appropriate, concentrate or call upon all of them when you are practicing your meditation.
Whilst concentrating on any Prophet or Saint, during your meditating practice, if the rhythm of your heartbeat increases, in its vibration or you feel an improvement then this means that your destiny (spiritual fruits) lies with that Prophet or Saint.
Thereafter it is beneficial to concentrate on that same person whenever you practice your meditation as spiritual grace is transferred in this way, because every Saint is spiritually connected to a Prophet, even if that Prophet is not physically living.
The spiritual fruit (grace) of every illuminated person is in the hands of one Saint or another. It is essential that the Saint is living. Sometimes a very fortunate person is gifted with celestial spiritual grace by a perfect Saint who is not living, but this is very rare. However Saints not living in our human realm can provide worldly spiritual grace and assistance to people from their tombs. This is known as Owaisi spiritual grace.
The recipients of such spiritual grace often get entangled in their spiritual insights, visions and dreams because the spiritual guide providing the assistance is in the spiritual realm and so too is Satan and the recognition of the two becomes difficult.
Along with the spiritual grace it is important to have knowledge, for which a living Saint is more appropriate. If a person (Saint) possesses spiritual grace but is without knowledge, that person is known as a Majzoob (Godly but abstracted due to the complete absorption into the Essence of God and who is not in full control of his faculties).
A person (Saint) having spiritual grace and knowledge is known as a Mehboob (literally, loved one). Such people (Saints) as a result of their knowledge provide worldly spiritual assistance as well as spiritual grace and benefit. Whereas the Majzoobs are known to provide worldly spiritual assistance to people by their unusual but accepted practices of shouting obscenities and poking people with their wooden sticks.
If any (Prophet or Saint) appears but does not help or assist you then put Gohar Shahi to the test.
You may belong to any religion, there is no condition in this respect as long as the individual is not eternally ill-fated.
Many people have received the spiritual grace of Qalb meditation from the Moon. This is obtained when there is a full Moon from the East. Look at it with concentration and when you see the image of Gohar Shahi on it say Allah, Allah, Allah three times and you will be blessed with this spiritual grace. Thereafter without any fear or reservation practice the meditation as described.
Believe (the fact) that the image on the Moon has spoken to many people in many different languages. You can try looking and speaking to it also.
About Muraqba
(transcendental meditation)
(Literally. journey. Meditation in which the soul leaves the human body)
Many people without having acquired the illumination of the spiritual entities (‘Lata’if/Shaktian’) and without attaining spiritual strength and prowess try to engage in this meditation. They either fail to reach the meditative state or become the subject of Satanic interference. This type of meditation is for illuminated people, whose spiritual entity of the self has been purified and the Qalb has been cleansed. The practice or attempt at this type of meditation is foolish no matter what type of physical worship is used to achieve this. To collect and gather the strength of the soul and the spiritual entities and then to travel to a place is what is known as meditation.
Sainthood is the one fourtieth part of Prophecy.
Every dream, meditative journey, inspiration or revelation of a Prophet is accurate and authentic and does not need verification. Only fourty out of a hundred dreams, meditative journeys, inspirations and revelations of Saints are accurate the remaining sixty percent are inaccurate.
God cannot be understood without knowledge
The lowest type of meditative journey is started only after the illumination and awakening of the spiritual entity of the Qalb. This is impossible without first achieving the meditation of the Qalb (meditation with the vibrating heartbeat synchronized with the Name Allah). It takes one jerk or shake to bring the person out of this meditative state and back to consciousness. The faculty of the augury (foretelling the future by reading verses or looking into designated books) is also connected to the Qalb.
The next stage is the meditative journey of the soul. It takes three jerks or shakes to return a person back to normality from this meditative state.
The third stage of the meditative journey is done by the spiritual entity, Anna and the soul together. The soul travels along with the spiritual entity Anna, to the realm of souls just as the Archangel Gabriel accompanied the Prophet Mohammed to the realm of souls.
People who are in this meditative state are sometimes even taken to be buried in their graves and they are unaware of this happening to them. Such a meditative state and journey was taken by the “Companions of the Cave” as a result of which they remained asleep in the cave for more than three hundred years.
When this meditative state and journey was undertaken by the Sheikh, Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani, in the jungle, the occupants of the jungle would regard the Sheikh as dead and would take him to a grave for burial but the meditative journey would break just before the burial (the Sheikh would return to consciousness).
How to recognize a special inspiration and revelation from God.
When a person has awakened and illuminated the spiritual entities in the chest and is worthy of receiving the rays of the Grace of God, then at that point God communicates with that person. God is All-Powerful and can do as he pleases and thus communicate with the human being in any way fit, but he has made a special method for his recognition so that his friends can be saved from the deception of Satan.
Firstly, text in the Semitic language appears on the seekers heart and its translation is seen in the language of the seekers mother-tongue. The text is white and shiny and the eyes close automatically and look at the text (internally). The text then passes the Qalb and moves towards the spiritual entity Sirri as a result of which it shines even more. Then the text moves towards the spiritual entity, Akhfa and from here it shines more and then moves onto the tongue. The voice then spontaneously starts to repeat that text.
If this inspiration is from Satan then an illuminated heart will dull the text and if the text is strong and prominent then the spiritual entities Sirri or Akhfa destroy that text. Further if due to the weakness of the spiritual entities the text does arrive at the tongue, then the voice will prevent it from being spoken into words.
This type of inspiration is for special types of Saints, whereas in respect of ordinary Saints, God sends messages to them through the angels or other spiritual entities. When the Archangel Gabriel accompanies the special and inspired text, this is known as revelation which is confined to the Prophets.
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Raganuga - Absorption in Pure Love
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Thank you for all your kind comments, my friends!
National Museum, Beijing
July 2012
China
Urban life
Ricoh GR Digital IV
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Processed using calibrated near-infrared methane absorption band (CB2, MT2) filtered images taken by Cassini on November 9 2007. Map projected.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill
Maximum light absorption.
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Tyndall, South Dakota (pop. ~1,000) has two significant European connections. The first is that the town, incorporated in 1879, was named after Irish physicist John Tyndall.
In 1859 Tyndall demonstrated with absorption spectroscopy that sunlight, which is predominantly visible light with short wavelengths, readily passes through most gases that compose the atmosphere, but that the longer wavelength infrared energy emitted by the Earth gets absorbed by those same gases (primarily water vapor). The difference in energy absorption is what keeps the Earth warm, and the increasing concentrations of gases like carbon dioxide and methane is what is causing the climate to warm.
For a long time it was believed that Tyndall was the discoverer of what became known as the "greenhouse effect" but more recently the work of American scientist Eunice Newton Foote was rediscovered. In 1856, three years before Tyndall, Foote noted that glass cylinders, when filled with air, hydrogen and carbon dioxide and placed in the sun, were warmest when filled with carbon dioxide and surmised that an atmosphere with more CO2 would result in a warmer climate. And that's your history of climate science lesson for today!
Anyway, as you can see, Tyndall has a very wide Main Street.
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 Hague
March 2012
The Netherlands
Urban life in the Netherlands
Ricoh GRD IV
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FOV: 6" wide.
This experiment was an attempt to recreate the fluorescence of chromium activated corundum (aka 'ruby'). Aluminum hydroxide was mixed with 1-4 drops of Cr(III) oxide in a basic solution. This was placed on a small amount of aluminum sulfate in an aluminum foil container and a bit of water was added.
The sample was then heated, first with a propane torch until the water was removed and then with a MAPP gas torch until the aluminum sulfate expanded into foam, trapping the aluminum hydroxide which was calcined into aluminum oxide by the torch's flame. (at least that was the plan)
Shown also is a natural ruby from Mysore, India.
See ruby excitation spectrum here (0.03% Cr):
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Contains:
Ruby (FL Red >GR,BL/UVa)
Ruby Foam (FL Red >GR,BL/UVabc)
Shown under UVa light.
Key:
WL = White light (halogen + LED)
FL = Fluoresces
PHOS = Phosphorescent
BL = 450nm, GR = 532nm
UVa = 368nm (LW), UVb = 311nm (MW), UVc = 254nm (SW)
'>' = "stimulated by:", '!' = "bright", '~' = "dim"
Ruby2
24 Dec 2016
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18 Watt Triple Output UV lamp from Polman Minerals - Way Too Cool UV lamps
Sprinter Leiden CS - The Hague CS
February 2013
On my new blog thecovertphotographer.wordpress.com i will be providing some background to some of my pictures. Here is the story that goes along with this particular shot: thecovertphotographer.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/rush-hour/
Candid shots in and around Public Transport
Ricoh GRD IV
“Light and dark, dry and wet, reflective and absorptive, these qualities give the different multiples of the painting a distinct visual rhythm. (…) The rhythms change with the light and with the position and movements of the viewer.”
Winston Roeth
In the summer of 2021, I had J-131, a radioactive iodine isotope with a half-life of eight days in my body. For the duration of its absorption by the body, or more precisely, the targeted destruction of parts of it and the excretion of the material by it, I was in radiation quarantine. Such, I had enough time to capture this for me probably unique moment of being in direct contact with radioactivity. Visualising this invisible phenomenon fascinated me. The result is a limited series of Polaroids that visualise the half-life and radiation of the material in the intensity of the respective results. I did not take photographs or paint with light (deriving from the greek wtó, Ypáeiv (photós graphein), photography initially means “light” and “to paint/write/draw” and refers to both the process and the result). I only shot with body fluids.
(this is a photograph with my mobile during an exhibition with a reflection of myself in the framed work)
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exposed without camera | Polaroid Type 52
The name "Red Forest" comes from the ginger-brown colour of the pine trees after they died following the absorption of high levels of radiation from the Chernobyl accident on 26 April 1986. In the post-disaster cleanup operations, the Red Forest was bulldozed and buried in "waste graveyards". The site of the Red Forest remains one of the most contaminated areas in the world today.
789, Beijing
July 2012
China
Nothing like a giant transformer to lay your head to rest against when tired
Ricoh GR Digital IV
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"Date: 2019. Artist: Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann. Medium: Marble stucco on plaster cast, natural pigments in egg tempera, gold foil.
The statue type known as Small Herculaneum Woman has survived in dozens of ancient marble replicas. This reconstruction is based on studies of the extensive color preserved on a replica found in Delos, which has been examined in ultraviolet, infrared, and raking light as well as with X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy and ultraviolet-visible absorption spectroscopy. Decorative elements on the undergarment were painted with a light Egyptian blue, and iron-based pigments in shades of red and brown were used for the hair and facial features. Green malachite survived in large areas of her mantle, blackened through fire.
"The Late Classical prototype of the so-called Small Herculaneum Woman is lost, but dozens of copies of the Hellenistic and Roman periods are preserved. The young woman, her hair composed of several strands woven together into a severe bun, wraps herself in a mantle that she draws tightly around her body with both hands. Beneath the mantle she wears a finely pleated undergarment and sandals with thick soles. The reconstruction was made in 2019, as part of a project financed by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research, "The university collection as living archive. Teaching and research at the intersection of materiality and communication." It is based on studies of the polychromy of a copy found in 1894 on Delos (National Archaeological Museum, Athens, inv. 1827). The cast was taken from the Roman copy that gives the statue type its nickname, discovered in 1706 in Herculaneum (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden inv. Hm 327).
The polychromy of the copy from Delos has been investigated on several occasions since 1982. The best-preserved colors are a light blue (Egyptian blue) for decorative elements of the under-garment and a whole palette of iron oxides in shades of red and brown, especially on the hair and face. The excavators at the end of the 19th century had already observed traces of a rich pink and violet. Traces of gilding and of a violet color, the result of corrosion, are preserved on the borders of the mantle.
Yellow pigment containing lead, as well as lead white and malachite that had been burned to a grey-black powder, could also be detected with the use of intensive scientific investigation. In ultraviolet light, bands of wave and ray patterns can be seen on the mantle. The reconstruction brings together all the colors that have been detected since the statue was excavated. The application of paint on the mantle makes especially clear what the sculptor's intentions were: the fine, greenish fabric is transparent wherever the garment is pulled tightly around the body. Thus, the flesh color of the arm and elbow, as well as the violet of the undergarment, shines through at the belly and right thigh.
The decoration of the dress hem with sea monsters and the pomegranate branch on the mantle hem are designed in analogy to robe depictions in vase painting of the 4th century BC and on Hellenistic sculpture."" - info from the Met.
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 Fifth Avenue, along the Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park on Manhattan's Upper East Side, is by area one of the world's largest art museums. A much smaller second location, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from medieval Europe.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 with its mission to bring art and art education to the American people. The museum's permanent collection consists of works of art from classical antiquity and ancient Egypt, paintings, and sculptures from nearly all the European masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern art. The Met maintains extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanian, Byzantine, and Islamic art. The museum is home to encyclopedic collections of musical instruments, costumes, and accessories, as well as antique weapons and armor from around the world. Several notable interiors, ranging from 1st-century Rome through modern American design, are installed in its galleries.
The Fifth Avenue building opened on March 30, 1880. In 2021, despite the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, the museum attracted 1,958,000 visitors, ranking fourth on the list of most-visited art museums in the world.
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over 300.46 square miles (778.2 km2), New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. The city is within the southern tip of New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area – the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous megacities, and over 58 million people live within 250 mi (400 km) of the city. New York City is a global cultural, financial, and media center with a significant influence on commerce, health care and life sciences, entertainment, research, technology, education, politics, tourism, dining, art, fashion, and sports. New York is the most photographed city in the world. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy, an established safe haven for global investors, and is sometimes described as the capital of the world." - info from Wikipedia.
The fall of 2022 I did my 3rd major cycling tour. I began my adventure in Montreal, Canada and finished in Savannah, GA. This tour took me through the oldest parts of Quebec and the 13 original US states. During this adventure I cycled 7,126 km over the course of 2.5 months and took more than 68,000 photos. As with my previous tours, a major focus was to photograph historic architecture.
Now on Instagram.
Explore #496—my first photo to make Explore! Thanks guys!
My favorite Ansel Adams photograph is "Clearing Winter Storm," and so I was desperately hoping for a storm when I visited Yosemite (even though I knew I'd never get a photo as good as Ansel's as I'm not that talented!). Luckily, on the third day, this storm rolled in and brought a ton of fog with it. The fog was pouring down El Capitan like waterfalls and spiraling through the trees on the valley floor. The view was so amazing I shot five rolls of film of the changing views, plus a few shots with the digital camera for some instant gratification. This is one of the digital shots; the film shots will be scanned over the next couple of days as there are a TON of rolls of film from the trip and developing and scanning them takes awhile...
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This photo is really just meant to be informative and educational for those that are curious about the Universe, and want to know how things work. As photographers we capture Photons after all, so here is a bit of the Physics behind the light that we love to capture.
This image shows the Electromagnetic Spectrum of light from the Sun, after traveling through Earth's blue Nitrogen rich skies (photographed through a Quantitative Spectroscope).
The nanometer scale in the Spectroscope shows the wavelengths of visible light, that range from 400 nm - 700 nm. Invisible light at shorter wavelengths (beyond violet) include Ultraviolet (UV), X-Ray and Gamma Ray. Longer wavelengths of light (beneath red) include Infrared, Microwave and Radio Waves.
About the Sun:
The Sun is a G-type Main-Sequence Yellow Dwarf (G2V) Star. Through the process of fusion, the Sun burns approximately 600 million tonnes (metric tons) of Hydrogen each second, turning it into 596 million tonnes of Helium. As the Hydrogen nuclei fuse, Photons are emitted, which in short is why the Sun shines (and all the other stars). The Hydrogen Atom is the simplest and most abundant element in the Universe (with only 1 Proton and 1 Electron).
Through the process of fusion, more complex elements are made at different stages of a star's life and death cycle. This is what Carl Sagan meant with one of his well known quotes from Cosmos, “The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
The Sun is roughly 150,000,000 km from Earth. The speed of light is 300,000 km/sec (186,000 miles/sec), which means that the light took just over 8 light-minutes (8 minutes and 26 seconds) to reach the Spectroscope in front of my camera lens.
Here is a very simplistic explanation of Spectroscopy, and how the Electromagnetic Light Spectrum is used in Astrophysics:
This image was photographed through a basic "High School Science Classroom" Quantitative Spectrometer (100 line resolution). With higher resolution Spectrometers on Telescopes, Astronomers can determine what chemical elements Stars and Planets are made of, as each chemical element has a unique light absorption fingerprint, that shows up as dark lines in the spectrum.
The amount that the absorption lines are shifted to red or blue (redshift and blueshift), is due to the Doppler effect and gives an indication if the celestial object is moving towards or away from us, and at what speed. This is how Scientists and Physicists know what the observable Universe is made of, and that the Universe is expanding.
More Info:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_line
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraunhofer_lines
www.space.com/25732-redshift-blueshift.html
science-edu.larc.nasa.gov/EDDOCS/Wavelengths_for_Colors.html
Interested in Science, Physics & Astronomy?
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The absorption of Robson’s into the United Glass Group in 1980 saw a strong phase of buying Scanias, a marque favoured by the United Group. A121 JLS Border Rebel was the first three-axle tractor unit in the Robson’s fleet. This tag-axle 6x2 was used on short-haul tipper work carrying ten loads a day of specialist silica sand used for glass-making. It may have been fitted with a day cab rather than the sleeper version depicted here (25-Oct-18).
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The Hague
May 2012
The Netherlands
Urban life in the Netherlands
Ricoh GRD IV
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Processed using calibrated near-infrared methane absorption band (CB2, MT2, MT3) filtered images of Saturn taken by Cassini on November 27 2012.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill
"Date: 2010. Artist: Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann. Medium: plaster cast, natural pigments in egg tempera.
As early as 1762, art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann used the well-preserved colors on the statue of Artemis from Pompeii as evidence that ancient marble sculpture was colorful. The wide range of pigments represented on the reconstruction was identified through ultraviolet-visible absorption spectroscopy, ultraviolet-induced visible luminescence, and visible-induced infrared luminescence. These include Egyptian blue; pink madder; kaolin mixed with lead white; orange and red ocher; hematite; cinnabar; umber; and two yellow pigments made from lead and ocher." - info from the Met.
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 Fifth Avenue, along the Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park on Manhattan's Upper East Side, is by area one of the world's largest art museums. A much smaller second location, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from medieval Europe.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 with its mission to bring art and art education to the American people. The museum's permanent collection consists of works of art from classical antiquity and ancient Egypt, paintings, and sculptures from nearly all the European masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern art. The Met maintains extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanian, Byzantine, and Islamic art. The museum is home to encyclopedic collections of musical instruments, costumes, and accessories, as well as antique weapons and armor from around the world. Several notable interiors, ranging from 1st-century Rome through modern American design, are installed in its galleries.
The Fifth Avenue building opened on March 30, 1880. In 2021, despite the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, the museum attracted 1,958,000 visitors, ranking fourth on the list of most-visited art museums in the world.
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over 300.46 square miles (778.2 km2), New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. The city is within the southern tip of New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area – the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous megacities, and over 58 million people live within 250 mi (400 km) of the city. New York City is a global cultural, financial, and media center with a significant influence on commerce, health care and life sciences, entertainment, research, technology, education, politics, tourism, dining, art, fashion, and sports. New York is the most photographed city in the world. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy, an established safe haven for global investors, and is sometimes described as the capital of the world." - info from Wikipedia.
The fall of 2022 I did my 3rd major cycling tour. I began my adventure in Montreal, Canada and finished in Savannah, GA. This tour took me through the oldest parts of Quebec and the 13 original US states. During this adventure I cycled 7,126 km over the course of 2.5 months and took more than 68,000 photos. As with my previous tours, a major focus was to photograph historic architecture.
Now on Instagram.
April 2012
The Netherlands
Candid shots in and around the Public Transport in The Netherlands
Ricoh GRD IV
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Scheveningen/The Hague
June 2012
The Netherlands
Beachlife in the Netherlands
Ricoh GRD IV
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