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"WHEN STARS ALIGN!" is a figurative reference to everything that went right with this photo: tack sharpness, correct colors, dramatic light-and-shadows elements, action-stopping shutter speed setting! I've taken a lot of BIF (birds in flight) shots but never got "everything right in one shot" until this one!
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Regulus, Jupiter, Venus and Alfa Centau... Romeo :D
Canon 6d + Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 + Fotopro MGA-684N
Aligned Chimneys. Burano, Italy. Digital Pastel artwork by Donna Corless.
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The passage way at the South Western Cairn at Balnuaran of Clava is focused on the sky. Many chambered cairns are aligned either with the position of the Sun, Moon, or the planet Venus. The Sun and Moon alignments bring about a living calendar to any aligned chambered cairn. Such alignments are more easily recorded without the cairns. The Sun and Moon alignment seems set into the stone structures for the use of the cairns beyond clocks and calendars to generate the identity of the structure in the design. These impressive monumental communal structures were open and visited by their constructors for several hundreds of years. Later they were filled in possibly when a new way of worship and reverence was found and so the old sacred sites were closed. The cairns in their large size seem set to hold great importance for many people and yet their small passages and chambers are only available for either small groups, or individuals. The light from the Solstice Sun gives a direct beam along the passage and into the chamber at the day chosen with the Summer longest day and Winter shortest day having positions on the horizon at dawn and at sunset available for the builders to set their structure around. Those that took part in interior ceremony could be experiencing a rite of passage and from their inner seclusion they could be greeted by the Sun entering in at a significant moment and then by all that were gathered around the large monuments as the adorants came back to the community after their isolation.
I remember from a few decades ago the stones at the rear of the chamber being brought to life by the Sun when it shone straight along the passage. This light dancing on a stone with either quartz, or granite in could be the first light for the adorant to see after days of fasting, maybe of eating ceremonial food and of intense meditation so that the light in the stone shone to show life in the bone of the land the stone that would be the collection place for the cleaned bones of the dead as markers of belonging and signs of knowing all returning to the glowering Sun, to the finding of the murmuring of the Moon and to the awakening to the stellar shimmering the stars.
The highlighted section of the chamber could be the projection screen of the tomb. After a period of darkness in the chamber the light returning through projection focused along the passage would dance on the projection screen stones and with a tone from the human voice the dust in the passage could be seen to move in and out of waves and lozenge shapes forming transient structures in the moving dust and light. The light held such delicate structures possible only for a short while along the alignment at either dawn, or sunset and the shapes would slow and cease as the light source moved away from the direct alignment in matter of minutes. These waves and lozenge shapes are were carved into the stones of some chambered cairns leaving a record in the stone on the bone of the land a presentation hammered into the stone that was home to the ancestors and the shaping of the returning regenerating medium that as it wore down gave vital nutrients to the next new growth that through roots and shoots, seeds and flowers would break down the stones into sparkling sands and grits echoing the steady progressions and predictable processions of the lights of the camp fires shining out with hope and potential in the sky above.
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Clava Cairns Near Inverness, IV2 5EU
www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/clava-c...
A Visitors’ Guide to Balnuaran of Clava a prehistoric cemetery
www.archhighland.org.uk/userfiles/file/Sites/Historic%20S...
Balnuaran Of Clava, South-west
canmore.org.uk/site/14279/balnuaran-of-clava-south-west
Highland Historic Environment Record
Clàr Àrainneachd Eachdraidheil na Gàidhealtachd
Senok Beach, Kelantan
shot from a gently rocking boat. i have aligned the images best as i could, but at certain parts it still shows. nonetheless i like this image so here it is, for your viewing pleasure :)
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Drew Harris（Canadian, 1960 - ）
Mixed media on canvas
92 x 122 cm
www.christies.com/lotfinder/paintings/drew-harris-align-2...
Estimate : 30,000 - 45,000 HKD
Price Realized : 37,500 HKD
Christie's
Asian 20th Century Art, Day Sale
HK, 29 Nov 2015
Aligning the navigational sensor was another challenge with all the angles involved, and there's still a gap. But I'm quite happy with the greebles. I'm especially proud of the circular structure on the upper right. That's made with element 58846, and has 20 spokes. No cheating either, it's totally buildable.
Le palais de l'Harmonie suprême est le plus vaste de la Cité interdite, il est face à une cour de 30 000 m2 qui peut contenir jusqu'à 100 000 personnes.
Les plus importantes cérémonies de l'Empire s'y déroulaient : le nouvel an lunaire, le solstice d'hiver, les mariages et anniversaires, les naissances impériales, la publication des reçus aux examens, ...
La cour est traversée par la voie de l'Empereur, pavée de grandes dalles. Lors des cérémonies officielles, les hauts fonctionnaires comme les diplomates s'agenouillaient et étaient alignés selon un ordre strict.
Photo of oil droplets from the oil & water macro abstract photography assignment captured via Minolta MD Macro Rokkor-X 100mm F/4 lens. Inside the creative halls of the 494 ∞ Labs. Early December 2020.
Exposure Time: 1/8 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/8 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 6078 K * Film Plug-In: Fuji Velvia 50 * Adaptor: 1:1 Extension Tube
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Nineteen Eighty-Four ....?
in my citylife Series ...
Taken Sept 5, 2017
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Today's VIS image shows a small portion of the immense lava flows that originated from Arsia Mons. Arsia Mons is the southernmost of the three large aligned volcanoes in the Tharsis region. Arsia Mons' last eruption was 10s of million years ago. The different surface textures are created by differences in the lava viscosity and cooling rates. The lobate margins of each flow can be traced back to the start of each flow -- or to the point where they are covered by younger flows. Flows in Daedalia Planum can be as long as 180 km (111 miles). For comparison the longest Hawaiian lava flow is only 51 km (~31 miles) long. The total area of Daedalia Planum is 2.9 million square km – more than four times the size of Texas.
This martian scene spans 17 x 62 kilometers (11 x 38 miles). To see where on Mars this area lies, and to download high-resolution versions of the image go to themis.asu.edu/zoom-20220719a
See the Red Planet Report at redplanet.asu.edu for updates on Mars research and exploration. For more about Mars geology, check out the Mars-ePedia: marsed.asu.edu/marsepedia
For the latest THEMIS Mars images as received by mission scientists, see themis.asu.edu/livefrommars. To learn more about the THEMIS camera and its Mars images, see themis.asu.edu
This image is in the public domain and may be republished free of charge. If used, please credit it as NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State University.
While i saw these people sitting outside a shop, I felt that the patterns on the door shutter aligned with the spiritual ash powder on their foreheads.
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