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Lesser kudu are forest antelopes found in East Africa. The females and juveniles have a reddish-brown coat, while the males become yellowish grey or darker after the age of 2 years. Males have a prominent black crest of hair on the neck. One long white stripe runs along the back, with 11-14 white stripes branching towards the sides. A black stripe runs from each eye to the nose and a white one from each eye to the center of the dark face. There is also a chevron between the eyes. The area around the lips is white, the throat has white patches, and two white spots appear on each side of the lower jaw. The underparts are completely white, while the slender legs are tawny and have black and white patches. Horns are present only on males and are dark brown and tipped with white in color
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Unusual bush fires in Australian 2019 summer caused havoc, significant air pollution and dark skies. Penetrating sunshine interaction with produced dramatic colours. 31007
Unusual bush fires in Australian 2019 late spring/summer caused havoc, significant air pollution and dark skies. Penetrating sunshine interaction with air pollutants produced dramatic colours in rare composition particularly at sunset. 28776
I finally figured out where the Mysterious Lights & Smoke came from!
There're a bunch of oil & natural gas companies 5 long miles away! (These apartment houses are 1.5 mile from my location.)
Huh, Mulder & Scully must be so proud of me!!! 😜
They must have suspended the production since the February power outage for there was no smoke in the horizon and resumed only a couple of weeks ago.
Photo was taken prior to sunrise...
Unfortunately for the health of the environment, this is a full color image with no local manipulation of color. Note that the aperture is wide open, and the shutter speed is relatively slow - the darkness of the image is not due to a drastic reduction of exposure.
A Black-headed Ibis is seen flying over the left of the trees.
Aymanam, Kottayam, Kerala, India
Perhaps selling and allowing fireworks is a bad idea. Smoky skies due to a fire in Utah, started by fireworks.. Our air quality always suffers during July!
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Unfortunately due to air pollution and wildfires they eventually went into the water as we approached.
Another view that looking like flying up but actually went down backwards….
A shaft of late day light adds depth to the layers of granite peaks in Huangshan National Park (Yellow Mountains), a UNESCO World Heritage SIte. Its soaring granite cliffs and picturesque pine trees have had a significant influence in Chinese arts and literature, especially Chinese ink painting. Many of the peaks and old Huangshan pine trees have names.
30/07/2017 www.allenfotowild.com
Aymanam, Kottayam, Kerala, India
According to internet sources, this morning the particulate matter concentration in the air in Kottayam (PM2.5) is 21.5 µg/m^3. According to WHO guidelines, annual average concentrations of PM2.5 should not exceed 5 µg/m^3, while 24-hour average exposures should not exceed 15 µg/m^3 more than 3 - 4 days per year. I cut my morning walk short.
Reaching for the sky.
Quartzite sandstone pillar with evergreen trees at the top, Zhangiajie National Park, Hunan Province, China. Zhangiajie National Park is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Wulingyuan/Tianzishan. The pillars, many over 200 m high, and the diverse forests in this area provided the inspiration for the movie Avatar.
13/12/2017 www.allenfotowild.com
Mural von Innerfields am Lotsestieg 6 in Hamburg
Das Berliner Künstler-Trio Jakob Tory Bardou, Holger Weißflog und Veit Tempich
Entstehung des Murals vom 7. bis 11. September 2020
Das Urban Art Institute Hamburg kuratiert die Veranstaltungsreihe Walls Can Dance, welche großformatige Kunst in Hamburgs Süden bringt. Zwischen Sommer 2019 und Ende 2020 lassen national und international renommierte Urban Art Künstler die Wände tanzen und bringen mit großen Murals Farbe und Kunst in den Stadtteil.
Mural by Innerfields at Lotsestieg 6 in Hamburg
The Berlin artist trio Jakob Tory Bardou, Holger Weißflog and Veit Tempich
Creation of the mural from September 7th to 11th, 2020
The Urban Art Institute Hamburg curates the event series Walls Can Dance, which brings large-format art to the south of Hamburg. Between summer 2019 and the end of 2020, nationally and internationally renowned urban art artists will let the walls dance and bring color and art to the district with large murals.
A sunset over a power plant, where the fossil fuel past, the renewable future, and natural beauty meet.
Lignite smokes, wind turbines turn, the sun sets—a picture of energy and the future!
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Zwischen Glut und Zukunft
Ein Sonnenuntergang über einem Kraftwerk, wo die Vergangenheit der fossilen Brennstoffe, die Zukunft der erneuerbaren Energien und die Schönheit der Natur aufeinandertreffen.
Braunkohle raucht, Windräder drehen sich, die Sonne geht unter – ein Bild von Energie und Zukunft!
The quartzite sandstone pillars of Zhangiajie National Park in blue morning light, UNESCO World Heritage,Tianzhan, Wulingyuan Hunnan Province, China. There was thick air pollution throughout eastern China during my trip there, which obscured many of the landscape features and sucked the colour from distant landscapes, but, as in this case, also added atmosphere to an early morning image. This scenery provided inspiration for the movie Avatar.
10/12/2107 www.allenfotowild.com
Looking back on the past year on New Year's Eve of 1639, master distiller Peter Emilius must have been quite pleased. The canalised river in our photo, the Smal Weesp, had that year been joined with three other waterways as a barge canal connecting the Amstel River in Amsterdam to the Vecht at Weesp just beyond the bridge in the distance. And that was exactly what the distilleries of Weesp needed for the efficient transport of raw materials and their products, beer but especially high quality gin. A manuscript - the Onderricht van eenighe grove distilation - with Emilius' special recipe for good gin of 1630 is preserved in the local archive where it was relatively recently rediscovered.
Gin had been distilled from grain in the city of Amsterdam but its increased production at the beginning of the seventeenth century had much aggravated the stench pollution of the process. Distilleries were banned from the city and set up anew at Weesp - about 10 kms away. There the pure water of the Vecht River was an additional boon to both brewing and distilling.
More or less at the same time the Polish-Swedish Wars (1600-1629) caused international grain prices to skyrocket. The water authorities around Amsterdam decided to drain two lakes, the Bijlmermeer and the Diemermeer, and the new polder lands soon became grain fields. But that far less expensive grain had to be transported efficiently and to that end the new adjoining barge canal was useful. Moreover, it was also a quick way of public transport; there were four barges daily for that purpose with reasonably priced tickets.
Weesp's gin was much called for and the industry greatly expanded especially when the Dutch East Indies Trading Company (VOC) became a major customer to supply its huge fleet of trading ships. Distillation fell back though in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and gin production in Weesp failed. But in 2014 creative miller Christian Pfeiffer discovered Emilius' recipe and after trial and error was able to market Anker Weesp in 2015.
The windmill in the photo is called 't Haantje (=little rooster, cockerel). it's a mere facade and not a working mill, but pretty anyway. For a time in the nineteenth century it served as a grain mill.
Now for my G&T!
Aymanam, Kottayam, Kerala, India
Heavy atmospheric pollution causes the sun to rise as a yellow/orange sphere seen through the smog.
The air-quality index (AQI) in Kottayam is reported to be 103, and the PM 2.5 concentration is 7 times the WHO guideline. To put this in perspective, the AQI in New Delhi is ~250 today, and the PM 2.5 is 40 times the WHO guideline.
Two-image exposure blend (1/200 sec and 1/3200 sec).
The wildfires are in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan. I hope the air doesn't get orange and hard to breathe like a couple years ago. That was rough!!
Stricker Pond in Air Tinted by Smoke of Fossil Fool Forest Fires, Middleton, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA, July 16, 2023
27 Sep 1990, Abadan, Jazire-ye Abadan, Iran --- An Iranian soldier watches as smoke billows from multiple burning oil refineries in Abadan, Iran. Abadan, which contains a high concentration of oil fields and refineries, became a front-line city during the Iran-Iraq War, resulting in most of the city being destroyed by Iraqi attacks. --- Image by � Henri Bureau/Sygma/Corbis
Soft blue haze looks like “Smoky” over Great Smoky Mountaintops..
Great Smoky Mountain National Park.
Tennessee
An odd mix of a spring sunset and terrible air pollution caused by Havana's power plant resulted in a series of William Turner sunsets for the duration of my stay in the old city.
The city's power plant, lacking effective pollution control at the time, was burning very low grade bunker fuel that it was provided at a discount from Venezuela, in exchange for Cuban medical expertise and direct service in Venezuela. Ironical how selling healthcare resulted in creating a health hazard for the people of Havana.
The stack exhaust created a pall of ash that depending on the wind plumed over the city in a cloud or was blown either inland or out, towards the American coast.
Joseph Mallard William Turner lived and painted during a time of heavy industrialization in the UK and the rest of Europe, during which massive amounts of coal was burned to support industry and transportation. Knowing that and seeing the effect of fossil fuel ash in the atmosphere in Havana, goes along way to explaining the skies he painted.
~EXPLORE No. 235
This is very bad. I am highly against pollution near tourists places.
Do you know something you all??? The Water Plant is right on Niagara River. Not more then 50 yards away from the water plant, is a Chemical Plant. Quarter mile away is the sewage plant for the city. The plant that you see is half mile away from the water plant!
15 Miles up the river is Buffalo, NY. There are a lot of plants along Lake Erie and Niagara River between Buffalo and Niagara Falls, NY!!!!!!
You know what is funny? When you drive off Grand Island you see this site on the left when you enter the city of Niagara Falls, NY.
Behind Wal-Mart is the dump for the city garbage. Toronto, Canada brings garbage from there. Buffalo, NY brings garbage. The hill behind Wal Mart raises 4 inches every year with Garbage. Why do they have a garbage dump here in the city??? They should move it some wheres else.
There are a lot more bad things I am not telling coz I dont want to scare you visiting THE WATERFALLS OF POLLUTION!
Petrol and diesel vehicles are due to be banned from Britain's roads in 2035.
LR3816 © Joe O'Malley 2020
Lion Peak (Shizi Feng) to the left is one of the best places to photograph the sunrise in Huangshan National Park, so it is unbelievably crowded starting from the pre-dawn when photographers (predominantly Chinese) arrive to stake out their territory. In this image, taken from another viewpoint in the early morning light you can still see a few people at the top of the peak where they can look down on the "Stone Monkey Looking at the Sea' natural rock formation on the top of the nearby peak.
25/11/2017 www.allenfotowild.com
The granite cliffs and pinnacles of Huangshan National Park are almost silhouetted when seen though the mists (well actually mostly air pollution), which helps the eye concentrate on the fantastic shapes of this UNESCO World Heritage landscape.
26/07/2017 www.allenfotowild.com
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Kathmandu is a fascinating mixture of old and new. In this picture, the sun sets behind Swayambhunath Stupa, also known as the Monkey Temple. The pollution and haze covering Kathmandu valley make for spectacular sunsets, but makes also breathing a health hazard.
Duncan Rawlinson's series, "Visions of Canada Burning," presents a captivating visual testament of nature's ferocity through the lens of Canadian wildfires. Leveraging advanced AI tools, Rawlinson transforms his vision into vivid images that lay bare the raw power and tragic beauty of the wildfires. His technique brings forth a uniquely ethereal quality, casting a fresh perspective on the profound impact of these natural disasters. This innovative approach not only enhances the dramatic intensity of the subject but also bridges the gap between traditional photography and the evolving world of digital artistry. It's a compelling homage to nature's wild unpredictability and a stark reminder of its consequences.
In the Silicon Valley we currently have heavy air pollution due to many wildfires raging in northern California. The sky is orange-brown in day time, and the moon presents itself as an orange ball. We have HEPA air purifiers running at home, which makes the air breathable.
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Another freezing dawn on Fitzhall Heath.
The dark hill in the foreground is a 4500 year old late neolithic to early bronze age burial mound. Above it are the vapour trails caused by modern day man in his thunderous flying machines.
It occurred to me that the folk who built the ancient round barrow would have marvelled at this vapour streaked sky. A truly unnatural sight... that we now take for granted.
Canberra, Australia's capital city glows like a giant campfire in the night at over 100 kms away. Still the seeing at zenith and to the west was outstanding!
8:30 in the morning. We send the drone up to get the bad news. Smoke from the Beachie Creek, Lionshead and Riverside forest fires creeps into Oregon City, Oregon. We now have the most dangerous air on the planet. Imagine that. September 10, 2020.
Cornish, Maine.
Panorama of our sunset today from Highland Farms in Cornish.
There was an unusual amount of jet air traffic today that left our south western sky filled with persistent spreading contrails that took on a brownish hue at sunset, it looked like a massive amount of air pollution as the day came to an end.
At 6400 feet elevation, Beetle Rock in our Sequoia National Park overlooks the great San Joaquin Valley, a 250-mile long agricultural veggie basket bordered by mountains on three sides. I've always thought of the Valley as being very rural, but 3 million people live there, with 2 million cars. All that, plus agriculture and industry, contribute to a significant air pollution condition, compounded by weather and additional pollution from the Bay Area and Sacramento Valley. So when the lights came on during my night landscape efforts, I was amazed by the intensity and, too, the hazy filter at the horizon. That being said, it was a lovely clear warm evening to enjoy the stars and just feel small.