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...and trees line the unique park of Crathes Castle in Scotland. Have a nice time at Flickr
Akkurat geschnittene Hecken...
..und Bäume säumen den einzigartigen Park vom Crathes Castle in Schottland. Euch eine Schöne Zeit bei Flickr
No, it's not a double exposure. It's a reflection on the glass as I peered from outside with my camera through a window of a restored 19th-century farm house near Ringwood, Illinois.
Known as the Powers-Walker House, the home, built in 1854, features historically accurate furnishings, some of which you can see through the glass here. But the reflection also includes a picnic table with benches, so I'm calling this a Bench Monday shot. 😄
HBM
...and trees line the unique park of the
Drummond Gardens and Castle in Scotland,
north of Stirling.
Have a nice time with Flickr...
Akkurat geschnittene Hecken...
..und Bäume säumen den einzigartigen Park vom
Drummond Gardens und Castle in Schottland,
nördlich gelegen von Stirling.
Euch eine Schöne Zeit bei Flickr..
Emerald Damselfly :-
Damselflies are very difficult to ID accurately so we have made a best guess on their names to the best of our ability, we are happy to be corrected by anyone with more knowledge. (Gordon & Maureen)
Damselflies are insects in the sub-order Zygoptera (meaning "paired-wings"). All four wings are near enough equal in size and shape. They are usually small, weakly flying insects that stay close to the water margins or water surface. When at rest, most species hold their wings along the length of their abdomen. The Emerald Damselflies are an exception and usually hold their wings partly open when at rest. They are therefore known as Spreadwings in North America. The eyes are always separated, never touching. The larvae have external plates (lamellae) at the end of the abdomen, which act as accessory gills.
In Great Britain and Ireland there are about 20 species that may be encountered and a few that are now extinct. These species fall into 4 families and 9 genera. A partial taxonomic "tree" for the damselflies is shown below.
(Courtesy of the British Dragonfly Society website)
(or more accurately, close to the crest?) This Ruby-crowned Kinglet was lured in by our misting sprinkler a week ago or so. He does a great job of keeping his assets under wraps-- there is only a hint here of what he's got hidden away, and frankly it's more than I've been able to get an image of in the past. I've always wondered why on earth they were called 'ruby-crowned'... stay tuned for more! Glendale, Missouri
An accurate term which describes the pause of life in winter... Sometimes creating beauty
A song title by Bob Dylan
Making an accurate color print is not an easy job, but Studio Buitenhof knows how. The scans and giclee prints that Willem Jan van Wijgerden creates show a rare craftmanship.
M31 the Andromeda galaxy, can be found about 2.5 million light years distant. The galaxy contains 400 billion stars, though some estimates say up to a trillion stars. The galaxy is destined to crash into the milky way in the distant future. Does life exist, most likely it does.
This image, my best yet, is not an accurate representation of the true colour of the galaxy. But I can say the blue colour in the outer spiral arms are regions of young hot blue stars, whilst the orange central core area, is densely packed with much older yellow stars, these cannot be resolved, as they are to far away. The mass of foreground stars across the image all reside in our galaxy, the milky way. The smaller galaxies, at the bottom of the image M110 and M32 just left of centre are both gravitationally tied to the Andromeda Spiral.
61 images at iso 6400iso, at 25 seconds, stacked in deep sky stacker, with dark frames subtracted, 25 minutes in total. Canon 760D, 80mm F6 Refracter, on a driven mount, unguided.
It has been time to align the Q-Tips accurate. A couple minutes ago there was a huge mess in the bathroom. Gladly we got the tiny little helpers in our house :) Showtime for one of theme.
#macromondays #bathroom
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"The Great Gray Owl can accurately locate by ear its rodent prey under snow, plunging through the surface to grab the unsuspecting vole beneath. It has been reported to break through snow crust thick enough to support the weight of an 80 kg man." Birds of the World
I am not able to accurately describe the joy I feel having you by my side, that regardless of the distance, and the times when we disappear from each other, this friendship continues like the first time, I am not usually very corny with you but I adore you so much and thanks for putting up with my dramatism for almost nine years<3
Tucson, Arizona
A fairly accurate representation of how we felt after our moving sale this past Saturday. But, nothing daunted, we're forging ahead to move out by September 24th. May the angels send in their equivalent of the Marines to help with the mountain of tasks remaining to be done, lol. This rose is from a bouquet that I just didn't have time to photograph when it was in full bloom.
An accurate astronomical observatory.
Like other platforms on the island, including the lone moai of the Ahu Huri a Urenga, the Ahu Akivi was built following a precise astronomical orientation. In this way they controlled the change of seasons and the most appropriate times for agricultural tasks.
In Akivi the axis of the platform was oriented from north to south, getting the faces of the moai look exactly at the point where the sun sets during the equinox of the austral spring (September 21st) and their backs face the sun of the dawn during the autumn equinox (March 21st).
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The best time to visit and take pictures is at sunset, which is when the setting sun illuminates the seven statues and highlights their features.
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The legend of the seven explorers:
In the recent literature on Akivi, the seven statues of the platform are related with the seven young people who were sent to explore the island before its first colonization by King Hotu Matu’a.
A legend says that Hau Maka, the priest of Hotu Matu’a had a dream in which his soul flew across the ocean when he sighted the island. Next, he sent seven explorers sailing through the sea to locate the island, study its conditions and the best area to disembark.
Although the idea that the legend was remembered in stone is attractive, it seems that it can not be true. The moai statues belong to a quite late sculptural period, after the year 1440 AD and historians consider the hypothesis that the first settlers arrived on the island towards the fifth century, so they rule out a possible relationship between both facts.
The restoration that boosted Rapa Nui:
Ahu Akivi was the first ahu to be restored after a small group of islanders, at the request of Thor Heyerdahl, erected the statue of the Ahu Ature Huki on the beach of Anakena in 1956. As a member of that Norwegian expedition was the American anthropologist William Mulloy, who from then on would devote a large part of his life to studying the mysteries of Easter Island.
The reconstruction work in Ahu Akivi began in March 1960 and continued until October of that year. William Mulloy and his Chilean colleague Gonzalo Figueroa worked with an archeologic team of 25 Rapanui people in various phases of excavation and reconstruction. This was the first serious archaeological excavation and the first complete restoration of a ceremonial site in Rapa Nui.
The works were done with hardly any material means, they only used wooden poles, stones and a pair of oxen. But with perseverance, ingenuity and effort they achieved their goal. To raise and place the first moai, they used a stone ramp and two large wooden levers. This operation took a month. However, after perfecting the technique and with the experience gained, it took less than a week to raise the seventh statue.
When the work was finished, Father Sebastian Englert himself gave the blessing at a very emotional opening ceremony. After 150 years the islanders could observe again several moai standing on an ahu.
The restoration of Ahu Akivi is considered a turning point in Rapa Nui. From that moment, other works of restoration of more platforms began. The Ahu Akivi was followed by the ahu of Hanga Kio’e, Tahai, Anakena and Tongariki. The ancient platforms regained their former glory and the small and remote Easter Island attracted the attention of other researchers and travelers. And what is more important, it unleashed a true cultural renaissance, an economic development and a renewed sense of pride in being Rapanui.
This is a more accurate colour capture of the sedum flower than the purple my camera recorded in my last shot. I prefer the atmosphere of the purple but more light on this flower allowed slightly more dof (F4) and detail.
…. From Edgmond - our front garden to be perfectly accurate!! Jill complained that I chose the wrong rose as my shot of the day (see 1st comment box)! Was she rightI wonder? A phone shot taken in Apple RAW & edited in Lightroom. Apologies for the ear-worm….. Alan:-)
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This is an accurate depiction of the wonderful colour and reflective light of the Lake, which is a collapsed cave in central Kefalonia.
......Bread catching Gulls! HWW!
Happy Wing Wednesday :-)
They were great fun to watch and photograph as they swooped and bumped into each other while all diving for the piece of bread thrown into the air by my husband. ..... thank you hubby, always there to help me!! We only stayed at the reservoir for about an hour before the sun started it's decent and the temp dropped quickly! Brrrrrr and we made a sharp exit back to the car for a cup of our hot milky flasked coffee.....Mmmmm!
Belated seasons greetings to you all! Wishing you all a healthy and very happy 2017! xx
The Mochica culture was one of the few civilizations that made real portraits. These show particularly detailed and accurate features. The individuals depicted were members of the ruling elite, priests and distinguished craftsmen. The faces of the deities were also depicted. No portrait of a woman has, until now, been discovered.
Probably more accurately folded Earth- Raplee Ridge rises up as part of a major fold in Earth’s crust (monocline/anticline) with Comb Ridge (another major fold/ monocline) catching the sunset light in the distance. And of course on the left Mexican Hat glows in the last light, with the Cedar Mesa sandstone cap (sombrero) above the residual siltstones below.
The yellow section, far right was actually bluish, as was the dark area at the top. I haven't learned how to capture true color in such a situation with my iPhone. The rose-y color shown here is pretty true to life--it was an amazing sky, however brief.
Early Marsh Orchids / dactylorhiza incarnata. Swaddywell Pit, Cambridgeshire. 07/06/22.
'TOGETHERNESS.'
Swaddywell Pit has a small but significant colony of Early Marsh Orchids growing in just one damper area of grassland. This year numbers exceeded expectation with at least c36 flower spikes.
My visit was made specifically to see them and I timed it fairly accurately, as most were in prime condition. Another orchid 'first' for me and looking gorgeous in delicate baby-pink tones.
BEST VIEWED LARGE.
This image accurately reflects New York City weather over the last three Winter months. In my view, this nearly snowless, persistently grey, damp, bleak winter is, at least in part, a consequence of global climate change.
I try and give accurate information about the images I post but the complexity of the Sukhothai Historical Park rather defeated me. There are such a multitude of temple ruins it was hard to know when one began and ended. I think these Chedi are part of the Wat Mahathat they will be from the Fourteenth Century before Thailand existed as a state
Sukhothai Historical Park covers the ruins of Sukhothai, literally 'dawn of happiness', capital of the Sukhothai Kingdom in the 13th and 14th centuries, in north central Thailand. It is near the new city of Sukhothai,The city's walls form a rectangle about 1.2 square miles There are 193 ruins within the old city, including the remains of the royal palace and twenty-six temples, the largest being Wat Mahathat. It is a UNESCO it a World Heritage Site. Originally, Sukhothai was a Khmer empire's outpost named Sukhodaya. During the reign of Khmer Empire, the Khmers built some monuments there, several of them survived in Sukhothai Historical Park such as the Ta Pha Daeng shrine, Wat Phra Phai Luang, and Wat Sisawai.
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Agave species are more accurately described as monocarpic rosettes or multiannuals, since each individual rosette flowers only once and then dies; a small number of Agave species are polycarpic.
The succulent leaves of most Agave species have sharp marginal teeth, an extremely sharp terminal spine, and are very fibrous inside. The stout stem is usually extremely short, which may make the plant appear as though it is stemless.
Agave rosettes are mostly monocarpic, though some species are polycarpic. During flowering, a tall stem or "mast" which can grow to be 12 metres (40 feet) high, grows apically from the center of the rosette and bears a large number of short, tubular flowers and sometimes vegetatively produced bulbils (a form of asexual reproduction).
Agave, in Greek mythology, is the daughter of Cadmus who was the founder and first king of Thebes. Cadmus was the first Greek hero and, alongside Perseus and Bellerophon, the greatest hero and slayer of monsters before the days of Heracles. Commonly stated to be a Phoenician prince, son of king Agenor and queen Telephassa of Tyre and the brother of Phoenix, Cilix and Europa, he was originally sent by his royal parents to seek out and escort his sister Europa back to Tyre after she was abducted from the shores of Phoenicia by Zeus. Source Wikipedia.
TD : 1/40 f/2.8 ISO 100 @50 mm
You might not get this if you didn't watch the movie..
Sorry background is not accurate.
Based on a pic i saw on instagram.
I wanted a under wing shot of this stonechat to help with its id and I got a very flat clear image showing grey underneath . This image was no good for I.D. but a much nicer photograph . It still shows how pale this bird is compared to the normal Stonechats ............................................................./////........................................................................UPDATE 24 /12/ 16 This bird was proven to be a Stejneger's Stonechat Dungeness NNR, Kent: The possible Siberian Stonechat present 8th November-5th December has been proven as stejnegeri on DNA evidence . NOTE it is now doubted that the DNA result was accurate bringing the the validity of this bird ID into doubt
That is what a toddler once exclaimed to her father when she saw me walking by. I always fondly remembered that accurate description of Blanca. :)
This picture was taken in spring 2018 with the old twin lens Rolleiflex film camera. I feel like there is some kind of quality of the colors that only film can capture, so rich and so real.
Blanca has been doing well, continuing to get better and slowly building endurance back up.
Rolleiflex 3.5 F Planar
Kodak Portra 400
Developed and scanned by TheDarkroom.com
Exploring the historically accurate pergola in Queen Eleanor's Garden at Winchester Castle, Hampshire.
The gardens are an authentic recreation of a medieval garden in the times of Henry III (Eleanor's husband) and Edward I (her son). The arbour is a tunnelled pergola, with flowers, grapevines and honeysuckle.
2-shot HDR, taken with a Nikon D7000 and a Nikkor AFS DX 18-200mm F/3.5-5.6G lens, blended in Photomatix, and processed in GIMP and Photoscape.
So this is my 4th version of this fig. For this update all I did was repaint his shoulder pads/gauntlets onto black arms, to be accurate with his new Season 5 suit.
I'm really enjoying Arrow this season! It's been going downhill since season 2 but this season looks promising!
Approaching 7 months old here, I'd like to say he is relaxing but it's more accurate to say recharging. Just full of energy, wears me out at times.
Although the female House Finches can still be quite lovely, for me it is the males with their red colouring that I find most attractive. The amount of red and the intensity can vary quite a bit. This guy I think had the most intense red that I can remember seeing. Now in processing I will typically try to add snap to an image, and with a strong contrast colours can be made to be quite strong. In this case, in the end I actually reduced the saturation, which brought the colour back down to what I remember as being accurate. This guy had a lot of red, and it was very intense.
Cascada Paine, Torres Del Paine National Park, Patagonia, Chile.
La Cascada del Rio Paine (or more accurately La Cascada del Río Paine [con el accento]) seemed to be really more notable for its position before the scenic Paine Massif than it was as a waterfall. That was because we thought the cascade itself could have easily been construed as rapids as the Paine River or Río Paine was squeezed into a narrow rocky stretch where it turbulently tumbled and twisted its way into calmer waters.
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Pristine and very beautiful English Grandfather clock made in 1780 in Leeds, England, by master clock maker, Henry Brownbill. When this was made, George Washington was about to become the 1st President of the USA and the US was at war with England (Revolutionary War), It is still running perfectly and keeping accurate time after 240 years of faithful service and elegant beauty. Every part of this masterpiece of clock making (inside & out) was made by hand, from scratch. From the perfect gears & cogs inside, to the elegant cabinet work on the outside. Remember, too, that the wonderful color of the wood was enhanced with stain, etc. that also had to be hand made from berries and other natural growing things. You couldn’t go to a store and buy a can of wood stain. You had to make it.
This is no accurate now as this original part of town was pulled down in the early 1960/1970’s to build a duel carriageway through the town to add the growing number of motor vehicles. This alleyway off Fore Street would have continued to All Saints Church and the posh part of town. First time in this alleyway for me but an interesting number of 19th century original houses.