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Lacking a drone, the best way to get a shot like this is to stand atop a ruined 15th Century castle, as I did. Seen from Easkey Castle, Co. Sligo, Ireland.
By the way, 'angular momentum' has nothing whatsoever to do with this image, other than it sounded like a cool title.
General Electric Building, también conocido como 570 Lexington Avenue, entre la Avenida Lexington y la calle 51, Midtown Manhattan, Nueva York. 1931, de los arquitectos Cross & Cross (John Walter Cross y Eliot Cross)
Crossing Bristo Square at the University during the Fringe. I looked up for a moment from the frenzy of loud activity going on in the square and noticed this modern addition was catching the last of the evening light. with shadows growing.
I wanted a better angle, but the square below was packed with pop-up spots for the Fringe, so this was the only angle I could get that avoided getting those in the shot, as I just wanted the architecture and that evening light on the window patterns, in mono, so I had to zoom and angle and frame to get it.
Excerpt from vangoghmuseum.nl:
No fewer than 35 of them are known. They tell us that he had red hair, green eyes and an angular face. Yet each of those faces is different. Vincent himself wrote:
‘People say – and I’m quite willing to believe it – that it’s difficult to know oneself – but it’s not easy to paint oneself either.’
Vincent produced his self-portraits because he wanted to practise painting people.
The majority of them – over 25 – were done while he was in Paris (1886–88). He was short of money in that period and struggled to find models. So the artist chose the simplest solution and painted himself.
Vincent often presented himself as restrained and serious in his self-portraits, with a look of concentration on his face.
All the same, something of Vincent’s personality can be found in each self-portrait. He described the last one he did in Paris as ‘quite unkempt and sad’ [...] something like, say, the face of – death’. That’s how he felt at the time: mentally and physically exhausted.
On 23 December 1888, Vincent cut off his left ear in a state of total confusion. It would be the first of a series of mental breakdowns. He was reluctant to discuss the incident in his letters, but he did ‘report’ on it in two self-portraits.
Vincent did not portray himself as a sick, broken man for the sake of effect or to arouse pity. He was convinced that painting would help him to heal. ‘I retain all good hope’, he wrote to Theo.
The self-portraits put a face to the man who became the archetype of the artist as tortured genius. The yellow straw hat is now firmly associated with Vincent and his love of the sun and the colour yellow.
Canon EOS 6D - f/10.0 - 1/80sec - 100 mm - ISO 1250
I did plant this tree in 1981, it is now the king of my garden. (see photo in the first comment)
This photo is taken in the fall, just before the leaves are beginning to fall.
more Ginkgo photos in this album:
www.flickr.com/photos/77411963@N07/albums/72157677861035565
- Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba), also spelled gingko and known as the maidenhair tree, is a unique species of tree with no close living relatives. The ginkgo is a living fossil, as a unique species recognisably similar to fossils dating back 270 million years. Native to China, the tree is widely cultivated and introduced early in human history, and has various uses as a food and in traditional medicine.
Ginkgos are large trees, normally reaching a height of 20–35 m (66–115 feet), with some specimens in China being over 50 m (164 feet). The tree has an angular crown and long, somewhat erratic branches, and is usually deep rooted and resistant to wind and snow damage. Young trees are often tall and slender, and sparsely branched; the crown becomes broader as the tree ages. During autumn, the leaves turn a bright yellow, then fall, sometimes within a short space of time (one to 15 days). A combination of resistance to disease, insect-resistant wood and the ability to form aerial roots and sprouts makes ginkgos long-lived, with some specimens claimed to be more than 2,500 years old.
The leaves are unique among seed plants, being fan-shaped with veins radiating out into the leaf blade, sometimes bifurcating (splitting), but never anastomosing to form a network. Two veins enter the leaf blade at the base and fork repeatedly in two; this is known as dichotomous venation. The leaves are usually 5–10 cm (2-4 in), but sometimes up to 15 cm (6 in) long. The old popular name "maidenhair tree" is because the leaves resemble some of the pinnae of the maidenhair fern, Adiantum capillus-veneris.
Ginkgos are dioecious, with separate sexes, some trees being female and others being male.
Although Ginkgo biloba and other species of the genus were once widespread throughout the world, their range shrank until by two million years ago, it was restricted to a small area of China. For centuries, it was thought to be extinct in the wild.
The ginkgo is classified in its own division, the Ginkgophyta, comprising the single class Ginkgoopsida, order Ginkgoales, family Ginkgoaceae, genus Ginkgo and is the only extant species within this group. It is one of the best-known examples of a living fossil, because Ginkgoales other than G. biloba are not known from the fossil record after the Pliocene.
Ginkgo has long been cultivated in China; some planted trees at temples are believed to be over 1,500 years old. The first record of Europeans encountering it is in 1690 in Japanese temple gardens, where the tree was seen by the German botanist Engelbert Kaempfer. Because of its status in Buddhism and Confucianism, the ginkgo is also widely planted in Korea and parts of Japan; in both areas, some naturalization has occurred, with ginkgos seeding into natural forests.
Utrecht (The Netherlands) has the Ginkgo seen as one of the oldest trees outside China and Japan, planted between 1730-1767? as a young tree or grown from seed taken to Europe by VOC-ships from the Isle of Deshima (as a result of Kaempfers discovery of the Ginkgo).
This is my grandfather's stopwatch.
Each clock hand has a different angular velocity.
The seconds hand, perform one revolution every 1 minute: FAST;
The minutes hand, perform one revolution every 60 minutes: MEDIUM;
The hours hand, perform one revolution every 720 minutes: SLOW.
For Flickr group "Our Daily Challenge", theme: "FAST N SLOW"
21.12.2017 355/365
This is a HDR photo of a blue, plastic recycling garbage bag, back lit by light from the window. I love how the DOF, or perhaps a slight movement of the plastic bag, has imparted a soft focus to some parts of the image, while other areas have a crisp, angular quality.
In capturing this architectural detail, I wanted to strip away all distractions and focus purely on the power of geometric form. Working in black and white allowed me to emphasize the stark contrast between light and shadow, creating a nearly abstract composition from a concrete architectural element. The diagonal positioning was intentional - I wanted to create a sense of upward movement, as if the structure was reaching toward the darkened sky. I carefully positioned myself to capture the repetitive pattern of the architectural fins, using them as leading lines to draw the viewer's eye through the frame. The moody sky and careful processing help create a sense of drama and scale. My goal was to transform what might be seen as a simple architectural detail into a striking geometric study that blurs the line between documentary and fine art photography. The interplay of light across the repeated elements was crucial in bringing depth and dimensionality to what could otherwise have been a flat pattern. This image represents my ongoing exploration of how architectural photography can transcend simple documentation to become abstract art while still maintaining its connection to the built environment.
I found this odd-shaped little spider guarding her egg sac which is carefully wrapped in a leaf. Tmarus Genus (a type of crab spider). She looks similar to this Tmarus angulatus on bugguide: bugguide.net/node/view/261562/bgpage
Found in a field down the street in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Id corrections appreciated.
My #35 spider for this year.