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The Hague
March 2012
The Netherlands
Urban life in the Netherlands
Ricoh GRD IV
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Culture and Congress Centre – CKK Jordanki, Torún, Poland
The architecture firm Menis Arquitectos led by spanish architect Fernando Menis has designed the Culture and Congress Centre – CKK Jordanki a contemporary concert hall in Torún, Poland.
CKK Jordanki is located within a green ring around the historic city centre, overlooking the Vistula River. Therefore, special care was took in designing the orientation and height of the volumes so that the presence of the new building establishes a harmonious relationship with the natural and built environment. Thus the building occupies half of the plot, the other half being dedicated to park and the height is kept as low as possible, to avoid blocking the view over the river. The visual effect achieved is that of a natural object, a rock embedded in a gently sloping meadow.
On the other hand, the materiality refers Torun’s Gothic legacy, an UNESCO protected city, in which almost all the façades of the old town boast of red brick. CKK Jordanki’s outside is made of white concrete in contrast to the cuts in the skin that give a glimpse of the red inner lining, made of crushed brick. The use of brick in Jordanki CKK is a contemporary reinterpretation of the traditional brick, is a reference to Torun’s façades, and ultimately to its cultural heritage.
The program is characterized by a great flexibility at such extent that a building, which according to the client’s brief, was meant to be only a concerts hall, ended up being a space for all kinds of concerts and events, within the same initial budget. First of all, the theatre space is able to adapt easily to different capacities. For instance you may join two rooms to act as the main theatre by moving the walls and changing the number of the easily removable seats. It is possible to hold several separate and simultaneous events. Secondly, thanks to its dynamic ceiling, the building can be tuned to effectively absorb symphonic performances, chamber, theatre, opera, and film and meet any acoustic requirements the theatre designer requires. Finally, the concert hall can open to the outside, allowing to join the interior stage with the park outside for outdoor performances.
Picado, used in the entire building, is a mix of concrete and other materials. At CKK Jordanki, it was mixed either with reclaimed red bricks from a local factory (Ceramsus) for the sound reflection effect; either with a volcanic reddish stone from China, for its sound absorption effect. The picado is an innovative technique, conceived by Fernando Menis, consisting of mixing concrete with other materials and break it afterwards. Besides achieving a rough expression, the picado allows excellent acoustics results. The first time Menis used it, was for Magma Art & Congress (Tenerife, Canary Islands, 2005), by mixing concrete with local volcanic stones. For the CKK Jordanki, the technique has been researched further, tested and certified by the Spanish and the Polish Building Research Institute -ITB, respectively. The red brick is present almost on all the façades of the city and its use in CKK Jordanki is Menis’s contemporary reinterpretation of this traditional material while a clear reference to the town’s cultural heritage.
The definition of the auditorium space and of its shapes was made through an interactive process, always in relation to acoustics, until reaching the final shape. The plastic properties of concrete allows its use in concert halls in many different ways because it allows you to control the geometry (liquid stone) and adapt its shape to the formwork so that you can control the first sound reflections the listener received. In addition, the surface treatment of the crushed brick and concrete mix, allowed us a kind of diffusion, very difficult to achieve with other materials.
The moving parts of the auditorium have an area ranging from 80 to 140 m², having a weight that varies according to the piece, from 11 to 20 Tn. Each of the pieces can move independently from 3 to 5 m in height, allowing adjustment of the geometry and volume of the hall, depending on the needs of each moment, transforming a volume of 8,200 m3 with a time reverberation of 1.85 seconds, into a volume of 6,800 m3, with a reverberation time reduced down to 1.35 seconds. By adding additional absorption you could reach a reverberation time of 1.2 seconds, which covers the entire range of possible activities: 1.85 seconds for symphonic music, 1.6 seconds for opera and 1.2 seconds for theatre.
Excerpt from vincentvangogh.org:
Van Gogh painted this picture of the popular Restaurant de la Sirene at Asnieres, an area in the northwestern suburbs of Paris that sat alongside the River Seine, It had originally been a rural area that took its name from the Latin for donkey, thought to refer to the local breeding of donkeys, but as Paris had grown and spread Asnieres became swallowed into the city.
By the time Van Gogh arrived in Paris Asnieres had a burgeoning population and was home to several large factories. It was also a fashionable place for day-trippers, and a number of artists frequented the area to point. Van Gogh painted several views of Asnieres, and was often accompanied on his trips by the young Signoc. This view of the restaurant reflects the artist's absorption of the Impressionist techniques, token to a different level. Van Gogh was less concerned with the fleeting effect of the atmosphere, and focused more on color, form and meaning in his work. At this time restaurant and cafe culture were at a high, and they often exhibited the works of contemporary painters.
Excerpt from arthive.com:
Perhaps it is no exaggeration to say that Vincent van Gogh was a regular at the brothels. In some periods of the artist's life, women of easy virtue was probably not the only one to whom he could turn for support and understanding. And get them, even for money. Frequent visits to prostitutes, of course, sad impact on the health of Vincent, however, these women often helped him in his work, becoming his models. The painting "the Brothel" was written in the autumn of 1888 when van Gogh lived in Arles. And, most likely, the worker of this institution played an important role in the fate of the artist.
- This is a Light Painting by Candlelight -
I handheld a candle in total darkness to paint these amazing huge callas with the light of its flame.
I conceived this technique as a new discipline in the LP, inspired at the Masters of Antiquity because I don't like to use electric nor electronic lighting. In this shot, I started panting from the bottom line, high-lighting the stems up to the flowers during a long exposure. Here, most of the efforts have been profused in doing my best to equally distribute the candle light, avoiding my own hands, arms and camera shadows, yet obtaining the wished Chiaroscuro with maximal attention to not 'burn' with excessive close light every flower, obtaining a fairly good light absorption.
The stems lead upwards until the corollas (or chalices) to celebrate their beauty & bountifulness.
Every calla looks to me like a ballerina wrapped in veils but each one has a different shape, hence the title.
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This is a monochrome rendering of my photo originally taken in colours.
I believe the B&W helps appreciating the leading lines of the lighted stems as well as the silhouettes of the Callas.
Camera in manual mode - Shot in darkness by painting each one of the flowers with the light of an handheld candle.
File name: DSCF5767 OK rif. Premier B&W render-Best VM DEFF
⚠️WARNING: As a pioneer of this technique, I need to add a warning: don't do it at home if you're not an expert
(so far, I know nope either than myself who does). High risk of fire !!🔥 Seriously !! Prefer to use well sheltered lanterns
with protected flames and leave them still on a stable surface without ever touching them !!
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Giraffe Day 2025/06/21
World Giraffe Day is an annual, worldwide event to create awareness and shed light on giraffe's Silent Extinction.
World Giraffe Day is an annual event initiated by the Giraffe Conservation Foundation to celebrate the tallest animal on the longest day (or night, depending on in which hemisphere you live!) of the year – 21 June – every year.
The ‘horns’ on a giraffe are more correctly known as ossicones – conical protrusions of bone that will grow throughout the life of a bull giraffe.
The giraffe is quite amazing. What kind of extra-strength apparatus does it take to pump blood up a 10-feet neck to the brain, then manage its flow below the heart, six feet to the hooves?
When a giraffe bends way down for a drink, why doesn't it faint from blood rushing to the brain? Why doesn't it stagger dizzily from a lack of blood to the brain when it stands back up?
A giraffe's super muscular heart is two feet long and weighs about 25 pounds. It pumps 16 gallons a minute. A remarkable network of veins and one-way valves prevent back-flow, keeping blood from rushing to the head. Blood vessels in the head are more elastic and may reserve some blood, which keeps the animal from fainting as it stands. Smaller red blood cells and capillaries all help make oxygen absorption quicker.
With gravity and a ton of weight sitting on four legs and hooves, why doesn't the giraffe have ballooning ankles?
NASA has studied this in developing gravity-suits for astronauts. Giraffes' legs have very strong, tight skin and tissue beneath. Rather like super compression stockings. Arteries are deep with thick, muscular walls.
A giraffe won't bleed heavily from a leg cut. It's interesting to note that while stroke and hardening of the arteries is seen in most mammals, it isn't a notable problem with the giraffe.
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Lydenburg Rural Area
South Africa
« Ce fut comme une immense maturation du cœur dans l’absorption d’une constante contemplation du vide et de sa blancheur. » (C.L.-C.)
Légère variante d'une autre.
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I finally present to you all… the Nemesis Collab! - a lego_factory_community collaboration
This is : Quark Crook
Nemesis of Jimi Stringer by EmsMocs
Intelligent, mad, and unyielding, a cyborg of manic proportions. Once a lead specialist in the field of particle accelerators, an unfortunate explosion would cost him his body and shatter his mind, but not his intellect, and the insane doctor could later augment himself and become “Quark Crook”!
The mad cyborg contains within his system of tubes and wires millions of unstable particles which route directly into his back-mounted particle accelerator he built onto himself. As well as the added benefit of absorption and dispersal of energy, the fully charged pack gives him a short time to control some forms of matter and gravity. He’s a living power house.
Von Nebula has obtained the blueprints for the Makuhero City Hero Factory facility! Now he’s begun recruiting his own army of Villains, making them even more dangerous in his evil structure!
New heroes are ready to face them and each of them has been given a specific villain to target… their NEMESIS!
I've never seen a group come up with an extended solar panel like this one. At first I was a bit concerned to think I had not gotten across that light travels in STRAIGHT lines! I knew they did not put a mirror in the tube to angle the light. Fortunately when I asked about their design they said it was to heat the air in the tube and send it into the box. I did not discuss the fact that heat rises... we'll review that another day!
This was more like what I wanted to see, and there can't have been many of these left by 1985. 3330 was the first of what would turn out to be the final batch of vehicles delivered to Wigan Corporation, before their absorption into GMPTE in 1974.
Although the combination of AN68 Atlantean and Northern Counties body was GMT's first choice, these were a bit different from the others ! They were GMT's oldest AN68s, having 'K' plates, they were GMT's only long AN68/2R chassis, and they were the only dual-door AN68s, with all the dual-door bodies ordered by GMT being on Fleetline chassis.
And there is also the small matter that this was the first production AN68 Atlantean, with chassis number 7200388. In fact, this batch (NEK 1-10K) took up 10 of the first 11 AN68s off the production line, with just one pesky Merseyside PTE one in the middle ! Shame it didn't get preserved ....
GMT Melverley Street depot, Wigan, 14/2/85
The Ayurvedic Sanskrit name of rock salt is “Saindhav lavan” . It is also known as “Halite”, which is a mineral of Sodium chloride.
It is rich in minerals. The benefits of rock salt have been described here.
Halite forms isometric crystals. The mineral is typically colorless or white, but may also be light blue, dark blue, purple, pink, red, orange, yellow or gray depending on the amount and type of impurities. It commonly occurs with other evaporite deposit minerals such as several of the sulfates, halides, and borates.
This salt enhances the taste of recipes in which it has been used.
Rock salt supplies minerals which are required by our body. Salt enhances water absorption, maintains PH and helps in movement of nutrients between tissue fluid and cells.
Apart from these functions, rock salt stabilizes blood pressure and also acts as an anti-oxidant.
It pacifies all the three doshas and is considered the healthiest form of salt in ayurveda.
An early morning snap across a low tide inlet in the Dingle Harbor (end of March) at the outset of what would-be an after-breakfast clockwise drive around Slea Head Drive.
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this photograph of solar evaporation ponds outside the city of Moab, Utah. There are 23 colorful ponds spread across 400 acres. They are part of a large operation to mine potassium chloride—more commonly referred to as muriate of potash (MOP)—from ore buried underground. MOP is in high demand as fertilizer because there are no easy substitutes for potassium, an essential nutrient for plant growth.
Each pond color indicates a different state of evaporation. The deep, royal blue color is due to a dye that is added to a full pond of potash brine and water in order to speed up the rate of heat absorption. The seafoam green colors indicate shallower waters (with less dye) that are well into the evaporation process. The tan colored ponds are nearly dry; salt crystals (the final product) are left over in the pond and ready for collection.
Image credit: NASA
Discovery!
The inaugural voyage of the S.P.I.D.E.R. Drone reveals substantial evidence for life on Mars, but Benny isn't so sure he wants to know much more about these lifeforms!
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The Solar-Powered Interstellar Drone for Extraterrestrial Research (S.P.I.D.E.R.) is finally completed at the 'Moonbase Celebration 50'.
With onboard intelligence, a formidable assortment of tools, and unlimited renewable power, this endlessly useful companion is sometimes referred to as 'GRAMPS' - Giant Robotic Assistant & Mobile Power Station (especially by arachnophobic astronauts).
Future missions will be accompanied by these units, to aid in planetoid habitability investigation and geo/bio research. Manipulator arms, coupled with highly advanced sensors allow this drone to examine samples, move debris, haul equipment, and even carry out rescue operations for astronauts in danger.
Fully capable of traversing uneven terrain, and repelling into crevaces with it's winch, this robotic research assistant can go just about anywhere on atmospheric and non-atmospheric terrestrial landscapes.
Prepare to give Space exploration a leg-up (or six!) and take your celestial crew to a whole new level of awesome adventure with a giant (robot) S.P.I.D.E.R. on board!
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This MOC has been a journey, developing a seamless transition through System and CCBS/Bionicle elements. With adjustable Greebles to simulate actuators. Fully articulated through each leg, the model is stable, poseable, and quite dynamic
The features include: adjustable solar arrays, whiskers, and rear hitches, poseable manipulator arms (3), legs with up to 12+ points of articulation each + working shock absorption, opening hatch to reveal central core, storage for a large assortment of space tools, and a working winch (which can support the full weight of the build).
Watch my video for a hands-on with the features: youtu.be/Q3HC0IzGPfc
Work-In-Progress shots, and more on my Insta @LEGO_stud
Thanks for checking it out, I hope you enjoy it!
P.S. It only has six legs because my wife has a limit to how many legs my robots can have ;) (it's got those arms, though!)
In addition to being beautiful, lotus is an impressively useful plant. The rhizomes, pips (the lotus version of the pistil?) seeds, stems and leaves are all edible. They can also be used in water treatment, remediating pollution, including sequestration of heavy metals (reductions from 80 to more than 90% has been observed in just one week). Those plants used for water treatment should probably not be eaten. They also soak up excess nitrogen, thereby suppressing algae growth and improving the oxygenation of the water in which they grow.
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aka sacred lotus and Indian lotus
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photographed on my way to the Juneteenth Celebration last month
This false-color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows clouds in Saturn's northern hemisphere. The view was produced by space imaging enthusiast Kevin M. Gill, who also happens to be an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The view was made using images taken by Cassini's wide-angle camera on July 20, 2016, using a combination of spectral filters sensitive to infrared light at 750, 727 and 619 nanometers.
Filters like these, which are sensitive to absorption and scattering of sunlight by methane in Saturn's atmosphere, have been useful throughout Cassini's mission for determining the structure and depth of cloud features in the atmosphere.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission, click here.
Sunset tonight looking north towards the Tiwis. There seems to be a faint green band going from the top right of the cloud to the left . It is in all the shots I took.
Possibly got something to do with this? I don't know.
optics.kulgun.net/GreenClouds/green_clouds.shtml
........The idea is that water is blue because is absorbed red light. If a thunderstorm contains enough water and is illuminated by sunlight which is reddish because the blue component has been scattered, such as at sunset, then the absorption of red light by the water will result in a green colour.
The Cone Nebula
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.
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The "breakthrough" route for Citybus franchised operations which has recently culminated (2023) in the absorption of the New World First franchise in the latest round of renewals, was the 12A, serving the MacDonnell Road area of the Mid-Levels on Hong Kong Island. This precursor to the initial tranche of Network 26 routes won in 1992, commenced the previous year and was operated by air-conditioned Leyland Olympians drawn from the growing fleet of the type being deployed on a range of Resident's Services, cross-border and other contract work. 186, new a few months earlier, is pictured on Des Voeux Road passing Chater Garden in this view from October 1992.
This image is copyright and must not be reproduced or downloaded without the permission of the photographer.
If you look closely, you'll see the swooshing lines of the car that backed out of the driveway on the left as I was taking this shot. Man, I thought the people in the car were gonna break their necks... swivelling and staring and glaring all suspiciously. They even stopped at one point, turned on their headlights, and pointed them at me for a few long seconds... (this was around 2pm.. not like I was skulking in the darkness; sheesh). I just stood there rolling my eyes, figuring "Oh well, I can always do another exposure after... or IF... they ever freakin' leave."
Turns out I liked this one just fine. Except for the big blob of overexposed fence on the left. That's where they shone their wretched headlights.
(Sometimes I wonder... in a fit of self-absorption.. why the rest of the world can't just FRO and let me shoot in peace.)
Flickr Lounge ~ Relax
Our Daily Challenge ~ Tabletop Photography
Most days I'll work through a Sudoku puzzle. It keeps the 'little grey cells' working and I find the absorption in working out a solution to be quite relaxing.
Thank you to everyone who pauses long enough to look at my photo. Any comments or Faves are very much appreciated.
Photographed in situ.
A common sight here in Australia, enjoying the similar climate to its native range of South Africa.
I wanted to grow this plant, especially to observe the development of these large, dynamic, eye-catching flowers.
But I learned over the years from gardening articles, seeing them in parks and friends who have them in their gardens - that they grow fast and are a nightmare to remove.
So, I have this one plant in a very large pot. A couple of years ago, I re-potted and was intrigued to see the roots. They are large, thick and tuberous looking - adapted for water absorption and storage.
The flowers emerge one at a time from the spathe, consist of three orange sepals and three purplish-blue or white petals. Two of the petals are joined together to form an arrow-like nectary. When the sunbirds sit to drink the nectar, the third petal opens to release the anther and cover their feet in pollen.
One tough, resilient and stunning plant.
The common name 'bird of paradise' is due to the resemblance of the open inflorescence to the display plumage and pose of certain species of bird-of-paradise. (The beak being downward, with wings open above and tail behind, as if in flight and reaching down in to a flower for nectar).
Strelitzia reginae, growing to 2 m or more in height. Leathery leaves up to 80 cm in length and 30 cm wide.
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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.
to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger
because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.
-Jack Kerouac
A friendly neighbourhood black-headed python. The head is black for better heat absorption and they tend to keep their bodies under cover and just have their heads out for warming them up
This is the total eclipse of the Moon of March 3, 2026, captured close to the time of the start of totality, or "U2.," with the Moon's southeastern limb still bright near the edge of the umbral shadow. The bright edge shows a band of blue, usually created by ozone absorption in Earth's upper atmosphere.
This was near "second contact" and so is sort of a "lunar diamond ring!"
This was from home in southern Alberta at about 4:04 am MST. The field is 3.8º by 2.5º. The Moon was in Leo and some of the field stars show up though none were bright near the Moon. The brightest is 56 Leonis at left at 6th magnitude.
However, it was about this time that high clouds were moving in from the west beginning to dim the Moon and dull the colours. Thus the glow around the Moon. Eventually the clouds won out and the Moon disappeared before the end of totality.
Technical:
This is a blend of 5 exposures from 1/2-second to 8 seconds, taken in rapid succession with Auto Exposure Bracketing, and blended with luminosity masks. This preserved detail in the bright limb while bringing out the darkened disk. All with the stock Canon R5 at ISO 400 on the Astro-Tech CFT90 refractor at f/6 (for 540mm focal length) with the First Light Optics 1x Flattener, and on the Sky-Watcher EQM-35 mount.
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“the moment with its absorption being the thing”
ex George Madden Martin, her Made in America (1935) : 22
A collection of bright star clusters and colourful nebulas on the border of Cassiopeia and Cepheus.
The prominent star cluster at left is Messier 52. The emission nebula to the lower right of it is NGC 7635, aka the Bubble Nebula; above and to the right of it is the small but intense nebula NGC 7538. At upper right of the frame is Sharpless 2-155, aka the Cave Nebula. The diffuse nebula at bottom is Sharpless 2-157, aka the Lobster Claw Nebula, with the small star cluster NGC 7510 near the end of one of its claws. The small star cluster at lower right made yellow by interstellar dust absorption is NGC 7419.
This is a stack of 8 x 8-minute exposures through the Borg 77mm f/4 astrograph and with the Canon EOS Ra red-sensitive mirrorless camera, at ISO 800. Stacked, aligned and processed in Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop 2020. No nebula or light pollution reduction filter was employed in taking the images. I shot this from home November 25, 2019 on a very fine if frosty autumn night. No special star masks were employed in processing to enhance star colours or process them separately.
Macro of a cut slab of labradorite seems to mimic the deep space images as seen from the various space telescopes. The light entering the feldspar crystals is reflected back out after absorbing all but the colors we observe in the mineral.
Pentax 67II, 105mm F2.4, KODAK PORTRA 400, developed by FRAME*
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For previous generations, the film camera was simply taken for granted. Everyone loaded their cameras, got their films developed and photos printed by photo studios. It was an era when people poured their energy into photography for its own sake.
However, while the number of snapshots has increased due to the spread of digital cameras and mobile phones, I feel that we are gradually losing that experience of absorption in photography itself. Recent cameras have become ever easier for people to use and have a wide variety of functions besides just taking photos. If it becomes no longer necessary even to focus my camera on an object with my own hands, I wonder what the photography of the future will be.
In film photography, you will certainly experience a feeling of excitement while you wait for your photos to develop. Perhaps you fear that you may not have taken the photo skillfully. Therefore, waiting to know if you succeeded or not is inconvenient and troublesome. But this waiting time is necessary. That is to say, it is a stance we take toward photography.
The reason we like film cameras is that film somehow creates an appealing atmosphere. At the same time, however, digital cameras are convenient and have many useful functions. Both approaches are valid are worthwhile. But this is not exactly what I want to talk about here. I do not simply want to revisit the now-familiar debate over film vs. digital photography.
Photography has the potential to capture the amount of time and conscious effort we put into it. It has nothing at all to do with analogue vs. digital methods. It depends on what you want to take pictures of, and what you aim to do. But if you enjoy photography, I may have a hint for how to think of it and spend your time doing it.
Even when we use digital cameras, we may later notice something different if we can just break the habit of looking at the photos as soon as we have taken them. This is neither meant as criticism of digital cameras, nor as praise of film cameras. I just think that we need to take the time to think deeply about the process of taking photos.
When I see decades-old photos which anonymous people took and left behind, I obtain a definite feeling of "something existed there". Today as well, when I release the shutter, I hope to take photos like those.
(Translated by Tetsuro Nohara, Peter McCamus)
The southbound DM&E Belle Fourche turn rounds a curve and passes above the city streets of Sturgis, SD on July 10, 2008.
The commodity producing the dust visible in this scene is bentonite. This substance has many industrial usages, including being a bonding agent in the production of taconite pellets, and in sand molds for iron and steel casting. Its absorptive properties are also used in clumping cat litter. This commodity is quarried in northwestern South Dakota, which makes it a major source of the DM&E's traffic.
Indi-Arms
Grendel Rifle, Series 01
The GR-01 is chambered in .50 Grendel as its name suggests. The rail system adds a side charging handle. The original charging handle is replaced with a cover. The stock has a recoil absorption system that acts in conjunction with the weighty rail system to dampen the heavy recoil of the Grendel round. An upside down, Osprey type integral suppressor is included.
based off of this: www.flickr.com/photos/pmguns/8233340781/in/dateposted/
Credit:
~SHC for the color idea
~Matt 0.6 for giving me the inspiration to do non-standard 0.6 colors
Alter Ego: Hope
Name: Callum Hammer
Allegiance: Hero
Powers:
* Super Strength and a mild healing factor
* Can absorb energy and project it from his body via beams he expels from the palms of his hands (he can also do this without energy absorption).
* He can blast the beams from his hands in a unique way which allows him to fly and run fast.
Weapons: None
Key Weakness: He relies quite heavily on his powers in combat, without them he's just a regular teenager.
Origin:
Callum was born with his parents abilities and often used them to flaunt and boast about at school, one day however he was overheard by a criminal working for the villain called "Plague" bragging about how powerful his beams of energy were. He was then abducted by a gang of crooks that took Callum to their underground fight club called "Brawlers" ran by Plague. He was then pinned to fight against other meta humans and was kept captive for weeks as their "Champion" until he broke out and fled. He then decided he'd take down Plague and help fellow meta humans by being a costumed hero calling himself Hope, which was the only thing that got him through Brawlers, hope that he would one day get revenge on Plague and save those still being held captive.
“He’s a small one,” the blue Piraka muttered.
“Might have to throw him back.”
Volatile, Relentless, Afflicted;
Once an expert marauder renowned for his cunning, everything was torn away from him by the Spear of Fusion – only the beast remained.
Though he retained his harpoon, Impact Vision, power absorption and heightened agility, Vezok now relies on instinct, striking hard and fast with the desperate fury of a wounded animal.
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[ Hakann, the Explosive ] [ old version ]
[ Vezon, the Disaster (Spear) ] [ (Scythe) ]
[ Toa Kongu, the Wrangler ] [ old version ]
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Vezok's (somewhat tragic) backstory gave me lots to work with!
His missing leg, hand, eye and teeth are meant to show physical loss from that incident, while introducing a pirate theme I was happy to double down on!
To distinguish him from the other Piraka I also added a larger tail, horns, and more animalistic proportions befitting 'The Beast'.
More photos are available on my:
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“What’s the matter?” Hakann said, smiling. “Afraid I’ll get rid of you so there’s one less to share the loot with? Actually, come to think of it, that’s not a bad –”
A bolt of energy shot from the point of the spear, striking Vezok. Startled, Hakann dropped the weapon.
Vezok screamed. His body felt like it was being torn in two, reassembled, and then ripped apart again. He fell to the floor in agony. The other Piraka stood and watched, not sure what to do or whether they wanted to be bothered to help.
In the time it takes a heartlight to flash once, it was over.
Vezok lay on the ground, groaning.
And beside him, another being was rising to its feet. He had not been there a second ago, but now he stood and looked down at Vezok with contempt.
“Get up,” he said.
“If I can, you can – after all, I am you and you are me, and won’t that be interesting? Of course, it would be easier if there were just one of us… maybe I should die? No, no, I have that wrong – maybe you should die.”
Vezok’s eyes flared to life. Thok met them and saw immediately that his fellow Piraka had changed.
Gone was the cold intelligence that had kept Vezok alive all these years, replaced by white-hot anger. (...)
Real Name: Walter "Wally" Larson
Height: 5'10 ft
Weight: 130 lbs
Powers/Abilities: Kinetic Energy Absorption, Radioactive Energy Absorption, Superhuman Durability, able to fire concussive blasts and Flight. (Enhanced Strength and Speed when Kinetic Energy is forced out)
Backstory or Bio or whatever:
Wally Larson always had powers. His parents died at a young age, so he was sent to an orphanage. At the orphanage, he was often bullied. However, he never felt pain. He was punched, kicked, pushed down the stairs, nothing. Maybe a bruise, but that's it. When he reached 15, the kinetic energy in his body filled up and it burst a huge blast the exploded the orphanage and killed over 50 children. He ran away and stole clothing and armor from sporting good stores. He made his armor and fought crime. Now, he has payed off his debt and continues to fight crime to this day.
This sparkling starfield, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys, contains the globular cluster ESO 520-21, a densely packed, roughly spherical collection of stars. The cluster, also known as Palomar 6, lies close to the center of the Milky Way, where interstellar gas and dust absorb starlight and make observations more challenging.
Interstellar absorption affects some wavelengths of light more than others, causing astronomical objects to appear redder than they actually are. This process, called “reddening,” makes it difficult to determine the properties of globular clusters close to the galactic center.
ESO 520-21 lies in the constellation Ophiuchus, near the celestial equator. Ophiuchus was one of the 48 constellations included in the writings of the second-century Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy, all of which are among the 88 constellations officially recognized by the International Astronomical Union today.
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, R. Cohen
Total lunar eclipse in 720nm infrared, nearing moon set, from Westborough, MA, 2022 November 08th. In visible/visual light, the moon here was almost not visible, but the IR absorption of the blue sky darkens the sky and enhances moon to background contrast.
Along the winding paths that wend their way through Trebah Gardens you'll come across the bamboo garden, where the wind plays tunes on the green swaying poles. The dance of dappled light and shadow is entrancing, and soothing, you have to slow down, pause, and absorb the magical world you've stepped into.
For full absorption you have to press 'L'.
Astronomical Spectroscope displayed during National Science Day 26 at Raman Research institute in Bengaluru.
An astronomical spectroscope splits light from celestial objects into its spectrum to analyze their physical properties. By studying emission or absorption lines in the spectrum, astronomers determine a star’s chemical composition, temperature, density, mass, distance, and radial velocity.
Many species of mushrooms seemingly appear overnight, growing or expanding rapidly. In reality all species of mushrooms take several days to form primordial mushroom fruit bodies, though they do expand rapidly by the absorption of fluids.
from Wikipedia
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