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Scarab Beetle artifact lost by the Ancient Egyptians and found by modern archeologists... For the Macro Mondays Group. Topic: Lost/Found. HMM
The Pleiades (also known as the Seven Sisters, the Little Hen, or by the acronym M45 in Charles Messier's catalog) is an open cluster visible in the constellation of Taurus. This cluster is quite close (440 light years) and has several stars visible to the naked eye. In urban environments, only four or five of the brightest stars can be seen, in a darker place even twelve. All the components are surrounded by light reflection nebulae, observable especially in long exposure photographs taken with telescopes of considerable size.
It is noteworthy that the stars of the Pleiades are really close to each other, have a common origin and are linked by gravity.
Given their distance, the stars visible between the Pleiades are much hotter than normal, and this is reflected in their color: they are blue or white giants; the cluster actually has hundreds of other stars, many of which are too far away and cold to be seen with the naked eye. The Pleiades are a young cluster, with an estimated age of about 100 million years and a predicted life of only another 250 million years, since the stars are too far apart.
Because of their brightness and proximity to each other, the brightest stars of the Pleiades have been known since ancient times: they are mentioned, for example, by Homer and Ptolemy. The Nebra disk, a bronze artifact from 1600 BC found in the summer of 1999 in Nebra, Germany, is one of the oldest known representations of the cosmos: in this disk the Pleiades are the third clearly distinguishable celestial object after the Sun and the Moon.
Since it was discovered that stars are celestial bodies similar to the Sun, it was hypothesized that some were somehow linked to each other. Thanks to the study of proper motion and the scientific determination of the distances of the stars, it became clear that the Pleiades are indeed gravitationally linked and that they have a common origin.
The Pleiades cluster is located north of the celestial equator, therefore in the Northern Hemisphere; its declination is about 24°N, so it is close enough to the celestial equator to be observable from all populated areas of the Earth, up to the Antarctic Circle. North of the Arctic Circle they appear circumpolar, while one degree north of the Tropic of Cancer they can be observed at the zenith. In the Northern Hemisphere the cluster dominates the evening sky from mid-autumn to early spring, in the Southern Hemisphere it is typical of the summer sky.
9 hours of shooting with a color camera, l-pro filter and apochromatic triplet
A friend of mine had this. I think he found it somewhere in New Mexico or Arizona. It's just under an inch long.
BNSF 8321 shoves under one of the few remaining ATSF artifacts along the BNSF Marceline Sub. Here BNSF 8321 is the rear DPU on a stack train headed west under the signal bridge east of Marceline. The head end can barely be seen climbing the next hill into Marceline, Mo.
EXPLORED:
In a world where almost everything
have been provided with a short cut...
more convenience in transportation,
faster and effective tellecommunication,
instant dietary meal consumptions,
more dynamic and fluid informations via net,
quick and easy guides of doing things
and not to mention the market globalization
available at everyone's disposal....
It is worthwhile
to stop,
look around,
and be thankful
for the small blessings
we've taken for granted....
God bless!
Working on a project about things I brought over from Hong Kong when I was a kid. In the process of selecting the objects to be photographed, and experimenting with lighting it using household lamps in the garage. I'll have a chance to photograph them with actual studio equipment in a studio class.
Working on a project about things I brought over from Hong Kong when I was a kid. In the process of selecting the objects to be photographed, and experimenting with lighting it using household lamps in the garage. I'll have a chance to photograph them with actual studio equipment in a studio class.
Symbolic form and function
In his 1984 winning bid for the creation of the Canadian Museum of Civilization (now renamed the Canadian Museum of History) Canadian Architect Douglas Cardinal stated the following:
“The museum will be a symbolic form. It will speak of the emergence of this continent, its forms sculptured by the winds, the rivers, the glaciers. It will speak of the emergence of man from the melting glaciers; of man and woman living in harmony with the forces of nature and evolving with them. It will show the way in which man first learned to cope with the environment, then mastered it and shaped it to the needs of his own goals and aspirations. It will depict man as a creature of the earth who knows his tremendous power to change his environment, yet understands that he must live in harmony with it... The building itself should truly aspire to be an artifact of our time, a celebration of man's evolution and achievement. It should point optimistically to the future, promising man's continued growth to a higher form of life, exploring not just this continent or planet but outer space as well. It should endeavour to be a spiritual act, and should demand from all those contributing to its design and construction the very best of their endeavours.”
His vision convinced the selection committee that he was the right architect for the job, “of all the submissions, his seemed to achieve the best balance between the relationship of the museum to the land, and the relationship of humans to that environment.”
The Museum subsequently opened in 1989 and quickly became Canada’s most visited museum.
Source: www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/cmc/architecture/tou...
This one ran into some technical issues. I had to lower the camera more to get a straight on view. It ended up catching some of the edge of the table and not enough of the board in the front. Had to extend it in Photoshop, took the dark area from the top to add to the space in the front. I think if I slide the black board down more, I will get more space in the front. But it still might not be enough.
Photo of some of the collections at the St. Louis Science Center.
The collections are remnants of when the museum started at a Natural History and Science Museum. They are now stored in a non-public site and used occasionally for displays.
This weeks theme for Macro Monday is: The English alphabet is made up of 26 letters, 5 of which are vowels (a, e, i, o, u) and the rest of which are consonants.
So, for this week’s macro theme we will be photographing something that starts with a vowel (the letter a, e, i, o, u). This can be the subject (eg apple, egg, umbrella) or an adjective (eg instant coffee, orange wool – the ‘i’ in instant and the ‘o’ for orange meet the rules of the theme, therefore photographs would be accepted. Equally, any object starting with a vowel is accepted too; it does not have to have an adjective, it can simply be something starting with a, e, i, o or u.
On my travels I have always looked for 'special' decorations to hang on our Christmas tree. Ideally it should have some sentimental value.
Of all those we have collected our Christmas cactus from Arizona is my favourite. We came across it on our second big road trip around the SouthWest of the USA. We found it at our next stop after The Grand Canyon South Rim, a place called Cameron Trading Post, a name that evokes the Wild West. Sure enough it is filled with native American stuff. And if I had had my way I would have walked out with a full Indian Chief feather headdress, but my wife said I looked ridiculous. Fortunately I found the little cactus decoration and was satisfied enough with that. It's over 20 years old already.
"Made of wood"
©Kingsley Davis
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For decade after, strange alien artifacts continued to wash up on the shore. Children would poke at them with sticks, but none of it was worth the trouble of dragging home. Sometimes they would lie on the beach for days darkening in the sun; at other times the tide would take them back.
Old loved steering wheels at Horopito motors.
Horopito Motors, also known as "Smash Palace". Part working car mechanics, part museum. If you are into rusty and crusty (or want used car parts) it is a great place to spend several hours photographing!
Now we're getting into newer works. I took my time on this one because sweet jesus look at how much of mess the original is. I mean it looks cool but the twisted mishmash of cables and electronics on the floor and walls would be hell to replicate 1-to-1, so I didn't. I think I get the point across regardless. My biggest regret is that the Waveshaper logo ended up blocking out a printed piece there that had HAL 9000 on it. Ah well. Now, how am I gonna tackle Data Source?...
Limeburners Bay is a broad and sandy estuarine inlet with high conservation values, located on the northern shore of Corio Bay where Hovells Creek enters from its primarily rural catchment..
The Bay is characterised by open, shallow tidal water, which supports a high diversity of birdlife, with particular species giving the area status under the internationally recognised Ramsar Convention..
Limeburners Bay has been included in the Werribee-Avalon area listed as a Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention; Limeburners has been given a State Significance rating under this listing.