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En las comunicaciones inalámbricas un canal con fading es un canal de comunicación que experimenta desvanecimiento. El fading es la variación en la atenuación que experimenta una señal y depende de múltiples variables, estas variables pueden ser por la propagación multitrayecto, el clima (en especial la lluvia), la posición geográfica, los obstáculos naturales o artificiales y la frecuencia de operación del sistema.
Al hacer esta captura urbana y en base a esto que he comentado, se me ocurrió hacer a la imagen esta edicíón un tanto particular.
In wireless communications, a fading channel is a communication channel that experiences signal loss. Fading is the variation in attenuation experienced by a signal and depends on multiple variables, these variables can be due to multipath propagation, weather (especially rain), geographical position, natural or artificial obstacles and the system operating frequency.
When making this urban capture and based on this that I have commented, it occurred to me to make this somewhat particular edition to the image.
Cámara Nikon D850 con lente Nikkor 24-120 F4/G-VR editada con Camera Raw y Photoshop CC 2019.
Recomiendo hacer doble click sobre la imagen y ver en grande.
I recommend see in larger, clicking double on the imagen.
attenuated the light with ND8+ND16 filters (forgot some ND filters with stronger attenuation T_T)
The nearest lighthouse from my home, again :-)
many thanks for all of your visits and comments, my friends and visitors.
Happy Bench Monday!!
HBM!!
This is a great place. Kinda reminds me of going out to my grand fathers farm, except for the beer..:) Here's what there website says.
Jester King is an authentic farmhouse brewery committed to making wild ales and spontaneously fermented beers that reflect the unique character of our location in the beautiful Texas Hill Country. Like the small farmhouse breweries that inspired us, we pursue beer making that involves time, patience, unique fermentation, full attenuation, and refermentation in the serving vessel. We use water from our well, locally grown and malted grains, and native wild yeast to make beer with a sense of place unique to our brewery.
Easy to dribble but probably hard to spit with such a lengthy and attenuated appendage. Long-billed Curlew working the edges of a tidal pool on the beach at Bolivar Flats.
#MacroMondays
#iSpy
"The most pious man may not live in peace if he does not please his wicked neighbour." Friedrich Schiller, Wilhelm Tell IV 3
Neighbours, construction noise, traffic noise... cities are loud. So what can you do to regain some peace of mind? Earplugs are an option :) All earplugs have one thing in common – whether you use the orange or yellow foam cones, the classic wax earplugs, or the somewhat more sophisticatedly shaped earplugs with a filter such as the ones in my image – all of them will muffle noise up to a maximum of 30 dB. Normally, I use foam cones if I want to block out some noise for work or falling asleep, but the cones have a slight tendency to fall out, especially when I use them for sleeping. It will be seen, if these "Sleep+" earplugs in my image will stay in place at night, or how well they attenuate noise (23 dB, according to the manufacturer), as I haven't used them, yet (of course I haven't – only for the photo 😉). In fact I've bought them especially for the iSpy theme, but also for later use.
These earplugs came in a really neat ice-blue, capsule-shaped aluminium container which I've used as background. Makeshift filters used for the colourful light were the yellow plastic bottle cap and the red chocolate box lid. The image is a focus stack made of 15 images, and I've used the final in-camera JPG as starting point for the other processing steps. In DXO, I softened the background, and enhanced the micro contrast on the plugs with the "Local Adjustments" tool, and in the general settings I enhanced the vibrancy. Next I went into Analog Efex to achieve a softer, slightly matte look (after all, this is all about tranquility). And even though these silicone earplugs are brand new, I had to do quite some lint cleaning with the healing brush in PS.
HMM, Everyone, and stay safe and healthy (and relaxed) :)
"Es kann der Frömmste nicht in Frieden bleiben...
...wenn es dem bösen Nachbar nicht gefällt." Das wusste schon Friedrich Schiller (Wilhelm Tell IV 3, 1804). Abhilfe bei lauten Nachbarn, aber auch bei Straßen-, Bau- und sonstigem städtischen Lärm können Ohrstöpsel schaffen, zumindest bis zu 30 dB. Dabei ist es völlig egal, ob man nun die gelben oder orangefarbenen Schaumstoffkegel, die klassischen Wachskügelchen oder aufwendiger geformte und mit Filter versehene Stöpsel wie die in meinem MM-Foto verwendet (und letztere schaffen laut Hersteller sogar "nur" eine Schalldämpfung von 23 dB). Eigentlich nehme ich immer die einfachen Schaumstoffkegel, um Störendes bei der Arbeit oder beim Einschlafen abzudämpfen, die Kegel haben allerdings den Nachteil, dass sie, insbesondere beim Einschlafen, gerne aus den Ohren rutschen – und dann ist es mit der Ruhe dahin. Ob diese "Sleep+"-Ohrstöpsel nun bequemer sind und vor allen Dingen besser an Ort und Stelle bleiben als die weichen Schaumstoffteile, kann ich noch genau so wenig beurteilen wie ihre Lärm abdämpfenden Eigenschaften. Denn natürlich habe ich sie bislang nur für das Foto verwendet (und in der Tat extra für das Thema gekauft, aber natürlich werde ich sie dann auch benutzen) :)
Die Ohrstöpsel wurden in einer schicken, eisblauen Aluminiumkapsel geliefert, die ich hier auch als Hintergrund verwendet habe. Angestrahlt habe ich die kleine Szene von links mit einer mit der gelben Plastikflaschenverschlusskappe bestückten LED-Lampe und von rechts habe ich vor die zweite Lampe den roten Deckel einer Mon-Cherie-Packung gestellt – meine Klassiker unter den "Farbfiltern" :) Technisch ist das Foto ein Stacking aus 15 Fotos (in der Kamera erstellt). In DXO PhotoLab 4 habe ich allgemein die Schärfe und die Dynamik erhöht und mit dem "Lokale Anpassungen"-Werkzeug den Hintergrund weicher gemacht (Schieber "Bokeh" auf Anschlag) sowie den Mikrokontrast bei den Stöpseln erhöht. Analog Efex sorgte dann für einen weicheren, leicht matten Look – schließlich geht es ja hier um Ruhe :)
Habt eine entspannte Sommerwoche und passt weiter gut auf Euch auf, liebe Flickr-Freunde :)
A cute cat, strong, sweet and warm.
When she mutes she is barely heard,
So tender and discreet is his timbre;
No matter how much his voice calms or rumbles,
It is always rich and deep.
Here is their warmth and their secret.
That voice, which springs and leaks
In my darkest backgrounds,
It fills me like a large verse
And I rejoice as a love potion.
She attenuates the most cruel evils
And stops all ecstasy;
To say the longest sentences,
He does not need words.
No, he is not the violin, instrument
Perfect, biting my heart,
But does, more royally,
Sound your most vibrant string
That your voice, mysterious cat,
Seraphic cat, strange cat,
In whom everything is, as in an angel,
As subtle as harmonious.
Un lindo gato, fuerte, dulce y tibio.
Cuando maúlla se le oye apenas,
Tan tierno y discreto es su timbre;
Por más que su voz se apacigua o retumba,
Es siempre rica y profunda.
He ahí su calidez y su secreto.
Esa voz, que brota y se filtra
En mis fondos más tenebrosos,
Me llena como un verso numeroso
Y me regocija como una pócima de amor.
Ella atenúa los más crueles males
Y detiene todos los éxtasis;
Para decir las frases más largas,
No necesita palabras.
No, él no es el violín, instrumento
perfecto, que muerde mi corazón,
pero hace, más regiamente,
Sonar su cuerda más vibrante
Que tu voz, gato misterioso,
Seráfico gato, gato extraño,
En quien todo es, como en un ángel,
Tan sutil como armonioso.
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The Doornroosje pop concert venue was built on the former TPG location in the centre of Nijmegen. Above the two halls there is accommodation for 350 students. A unique combination in which maximum attention was devoted to sound attenuation.
see previous 1-4
21-dicembre-2019: the current month followed the trend of November with mild temperatures and further abundant rains, although a little less close to each other.
The rare (here) Libeccio wind reappeared (from S/W towards N/E), it is the ONLY one that succeed to "inflate" the sea of the Gulf of Trieste up to force 4 on the Douglas scale (waves up to 3-4m) taking a line that crosses 3-400km of open sea.
On 21 december 2019 there was a tasting with waves up to 2 meters high for the curiosity of many to see this narrow and protected stretch of the Adriatic sea so angry!
In the photo the small storm is attenuating and long open lens make the sea "softer".
Primula vulgaris, the common primrose, is a species of flowering plant in the family Primulaceae, native to western and southern Europe, northwest Africa, and parts of southwest Asia. The common name is primrose, or occasionally common primrose or English primrose to distinguish it from other Primula species also called primroses. None of these are closely related to the evening primroses (genus Oenothera). Primula vulgaris is a perennial growing 10–30 cm tall, with a basal rosette of leaves which are more-or-less evergreen in favoured habitats. It flowers in early spring in the northern hemisphere (February–April) on slopes and meadows. The leaves are 5–25 cm long and 2–6 cm broad, often heavily wrinkled, with an irregularly crenate to dentate margin. The leaf blade is gradually attenuated towards the base and unevenly toothed. The single stem, extremely short, is hidden in the centre of the leaf rosette. The delicately scented flowers are 2–4 cm in diameter, borne singly on short slender stems. The flowers are typically pale yellow, though white or pink forms are often seen in nature. The flowers are actinomorphic with a superior ovary which later forms a capsule opening by valves to release the small black seeds. The native range of P. vulgaris encompasses western and southern Europe. In the north, the distribution area extends from central Norway near the Faroe Islands via the British Isles, Denmark, northern Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France to southern Portugal in the south and the tip of North Africa in Algeria. To the east, the range extends through the southern European peninsulas to the Crimea, Balkans, Syria, Turkey and Armenia. z2_573
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this week in the trona remix
# auroral remix
# Collaborative CPP project -- original photography by Mr. TRONA/Matthew W. Beale [US] and Denim/Donna Dobbin [Canada]
"... in blue twilight ..."
Sombrero de hasta 10 cm de diámetro, inicialmente acampanado, después umbonado, con la cutícula seca, de un color de amarillo ocráceo a anaranjado.
Láminas del mismo color que el sombrero o algo más pálido, separadas, arqueadas y muy decurrentes.
Pie atenuado hacia la base, del color de las láminas, a menudo casi blanquecino, lleno y fibriloso.
Carne de color blanquecino, compacta, de olor agradable. Habitat su nombre hace referencia, pratensis, de los prados Hat up to 10 cm in diameter, initially flared after umbonate, with dry cuticle, color yellow ocher to orange.
Sheets of the same color as the hat or something paler, separated, arched and very decurrent.
Pie attenuated towards the base color of the sheets, often almost white, full and fibrillar.
Flesh whitish, compact color, pleasant odor. Habitat its name refers, pratensis, meadows
Another straight Pano-Sabotage shot from a very fruitful session on May 15, 2018.
No photo manipulation was used. Tweaks of colour saturation and cast, a bit of extra contrast and the attenuation of overly bright highlights and that's it.
Image Shot May 15, 2018.
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I am VERY proud to announce that I was chosen to be the feature artist of the "Kreative People" Group's Spring Gallery - Running until the end of June. I really must thank both abstractartangel77 and Xandram for bestowing me with this great honour. The link to the gallery appears below:
Please visit my Kreative People Highlight Gallery HERE
There's a lot going on here that probably requires a explanation.
1.. The top half of the frame is the original shot of a Small Skipper Butterfly, taken with a Nikon L840 set in "Colour Select" which is obviously beige-orange.
2.. I flipped the shot vertically and added the ripples using a free Internet download called "Ribbet".. look in the Sandbox section for "Ripples"
3.. I made a collage out of the two shots, using another free download called Irfan-View, going to the "Effects" Subsection...Cylindrical Effect to give a slight attenuation to the ripples.
It's much easier than it sounds.... But basically take a photo, flip it vertically and rename.. make a collage of both.
One of my main targets for 2022 was to finally capture the daylight GWR sleeper at Trerulefoot having never attempted the shot, despite it being on the bucket list for several years. Thankfully this was achieved around the summer solstice; some nice hazy morning light attenuating the slightly backlit front panel which full sunlight can substantially darken, but doesn't look too bad here.
57605 "Totnes Castle" meanders through the Cornish countryside with the 1C50 23.45 (Thurs) Paddington-Penzance “Night Riviera” shortly after 6am. Another ridiculously early start from Somerset that was rewarded.
Taken with the assistance of a pole.
... Look After Your Ears!
For Macro Mondays - Safety.
As an Audio Engineer my ears are my life and work. Hence I use 32-48dB attenuators regularly to ensure I don't damage my hearing.
Ear Credit : Louise (eldest daughter)
Happy Macro Monday!
On Day 3 (part 1) of some extreme social distancing / camping / hiking with my son in Kansas we found a lot of snakes and lizards and some cool eastern birds also.
Slender Glass lizard (Ophisaurus attenuates)
One of the animals I was really hoping to see on this trip is the glass lizard which is a kind of legless lizard that lives in the great plains. To the casual observer these might look like snakes because of their lack of legs but there are some key differences between lizards and snakes that help you to know these are in fact lizards. Primarily, lizards can close their eyes. Snakes do not have eyelids and cannot close their eyes. They may have clear protective scales over their eyes but they don't have eyelids. Secondly, snakes do not have ears wheras lizards do. There are additional differences but If you look at this portrait of a legless lizard you can see that it does have ears and I have plenty of shots where it was closing its eyes but I prefer images with their eyes open. This was a really big individual that I found under a rock. We found another one a short while later.
There are two species of typical crow in Florida both black in colour: the American crow and the fish crow (C. ossifragus). The American crow has a more attenuated structure and longer bill.
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Massive art piece adorns Highway 1 through North Vancouver
Colours inspired by Lynn Valley flora and fauna. [With its 623 panels it is probably the largest single piece of public art on the North Shore. Highway 1 connects Metro Vancouver to the North Shore, the Horseshoe Bay Ferry Terminal and Highway 99. ].
Hwy Noise Barrier Art Project
Artist Rebecca Bayer's Merge is a 366-metre-long shock of colour stretching along Highway 1 between Mountain Highway and Fern Street. It is one of the final pieces of the $200-million Lower Lynn Improvement Project, intended to shield the Inter River neighbourhood from highway noise.
Bayer chose the 20 different colours specifically because they are found in the flora, fauna and landmarks from the Lynn Valley area. Bayer consulted with the Lynn Canyon Ecology Centre to match colours with individual species like the red-backed salamander, Pacific chorus frog and licorice fern. She then tried out different permutations to come up with the pattern that exists there today. www.google.com/search?q=colourful+fence+along+highway+1+i...
Sarcandra glabra is an herb native to Southeast Asia. It is also known as herba sarcandrae or glabrous sarcandra herb.
Aromatic oils may be extracted from the leaves. This extract may reduce immunologic attenuation due to stress, in mice.
HBW!
Many thanks for your visit, most appreciated.
As the water dries up in Olney Pond at Brazoria NWR there has been lots more pink on display at the refuge. During a recent visit we were treated to more than 40 Roseate Spoonbills sweeping their unique beaks back and forth in the remaining puddles. Tiny fish seem to be the food of choice at the moment but I am sure they are eating anything they can catch. It certainly is a lot of fun to see the feeding frenzy of all the waders exploiting the brief opportunity for easy meals but it is a little bitter-sweet. If past experience is any indication, once the water dries up the activity in the refuge will be seriously attenuated. It reminds me of my first rule of bird photography, take advantage of the opportunity right away because it won’t last.
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Platalea ajaja
“He did not want to die like a sick man. He did not want his sickness to be what it is so often, an attenuation, a transition to death. What he really wanted was the encounter between his life - a life filled with blood and health - and death. He stood, dragged a chair over to the window and sat down in it, huddling in his blankets. Through the thin curtains, in the places where the material did not fall in folds, he saw the stars. He breathed heavily for a long time, and gripped the arms of his chair to control his trembling hands. He would reconquer his lucidity if he could. "It could be done, " he was thinking. And he was thinking, too, that the gas was still on in the kitchen. "It could be done," he thought again. Lucidity too was a long patience. Everything could be won, earned, acquired. He struck his fist on the arm of the chair. A man is not born strong, weak, or decisive. He becomes strong, he becomes lucid. Fate is not in man but around him. Then he realized he was crying. A strange weakness, a kind of cowardice born of his sickness gave way to tears, to childishness.”
Non c’è tristezza che, camminando, non si attenui e lentamente si sciolga.
There is no sadness that, by walking, does not become attenuated and slowly melts.
(Romano Battaglia)
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Canon 350D, 18-55mm lens
Another shot from my saturday excursion last weekend with the fisheye. Since there was still quite a bit of light I was only able to keep the shutter open for just over 30 seconds each time.
I think I want one of these lenses now.
Best viewed on black.
Sometimes you prepare for something as best you can and conditions go against you. And then there are times when you arrive at a location and get the conditions you wanted; mistiness, light and you even accidentally time it to coincide with slackwater meaning the river looks like a millpond. You feel like the only person around in a city which has strangely gone quiet...
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Un sentiero che si snoda in un bosco di alti bamboo così suggestivo per come la luce si diffonde attenuandosi e assumendo una tonalità rasserenante
On a path that winds through a forest of tall bamboo so suggestive for how the light spreads, attenuating and taking on a shade of a soft and soothing green
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I seem to be doing a long line of 'trees in mist', as a subject. There is something pleasing about the gradual attenuation of detail and clarity.
I remember sitting on a train passing through south Wales, perhaps fifteen years ago. It was misty, foggy even, outside, and as the train rolled on, the landscape loomed in and out of sight. It was the first time that I understood the notions of 'mystery' and 'otherworldliness' in the landscape of a country so very steeped in lore. With whole trees emerging and vanishing from the grey, giving no warning and leaving no trace, the strange space between worlds seemed so entirely plausible.
Enough romantic musing.
Trees, very real trees, in mist. Blenheim Park, Oxon, not Wales; February 2021, not Winter 2007. Pentax SPII, Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 35mm. Rollei RPX 400 @ 400 in ID-11.
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25-April-2024: the last day of the cold advection of April 2024.
Inside the forest of Mount Snežnik the orographic and recurring Bora/Burja wind is attenuated, but on the mounts that come out and surround the forest it can be felt well and insistently, so much so that in many of these areas the tall trees grow with forms of dwarfism and/or twisted.
In recent years the frequency and intensity of this powerful and cold local wind have decreased following changes in meteorological trends, which means that in the affected areas the winters are milder (as a sensation on the skin in addition to the evident Global Warming ) and snow is only occasional.
The Bora accompanied by precipitations, generally within an occluded front sent by a Mediterranean LP, lowered the snow level by dragging and by forced evaporation of the water on the ground and in fall, furthermore, by blowing for several consecutive days and repeatedly during the winter (and not only) kept an extended snow cover on the Karst ground for longer and generated other opportunities for what were the classic Dinaric and north-eastern Adriatic snowstorms (or blizzards).
0 % Crop. Rock Bunting
Medium-size but relatively slim bunting, with long, thin tail contributing to more attenuated outline than any other congener. Shares rufous-buff ground-color to plumage with five other Emberiza, best distinguished by rather small, lead-colored bill, strong head pattern of blackish crown-stripes and complete black surround to ear-coverts on greyish ground, and strongly rufous rump. Terrestrial, rarely far from rocks. One call distinctive. Sexes dissimilar, some seasonal variation in male.
Cloister
Built in the 17th century, it has a double cloister composed of thirty-six semicircular arches supported by rectangular pillars (nine per side), the upper cloister is closed by balconies. The sobriety of the cloister is attenuated by the sculptural decoration of the wainscots and the keys of the arches with vegetal decoration and fantastic animals.
Monastery of Ucles, Cuenca, Spain
Claustro
Construido en el siglo XVII, posee un doble claustro compuesto por treinta y seis arcos de medio punto apoyados en pilares rectangulares (nueve por lado), el claustro superior esta cerrado por balcones. La sobriedad del claustro queda atenuada por la decoración escultórica de las enjutas y las claves de los arcos con decoración vegetal y animales fantásticos.
Monasterio de Ucles, Cuenca, España
This beech bud is long and narrow with a sharply pointed tip. In botanical terms, it is narrowly ellipsoid in shape. Other terms that might apply include acuminate (prolonged into a very acute point) and attenuate (drawn out gradually to a slender tapering apex).
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Another sanderling on the beach at RSPB Titchwell. When I first arrived on the beach the light was fantastic but it only lasted about half an hour until a large black cloud rolled in. This did attenuate the light though allowing for different photos (like the ones I've already uploaded) with no shadows or highlights
Varanasi (Inde) - En ce début d’après-midi, une chape de chaleur s’est abattue sur les rives du Gange. Malgré le soleil, plutôt que d’emprunter les ruelles ombragées de la ville pour rejoindre mon hôtel, je choisi de longer le fleuve. Habituellement très animés, les quais sont désertés. La chaleur a fait fuir les pèlerins. Seules quelques personnes tentent de trouver un peu de repos et de fraîcheurs sous les parasols qui ont été déployés. La réverbération du soleil sur l’eau, diffuse la lumière et atténue les contrastes qui restent acceptables pour la photo.
The Gaths in full sun
Varanasi (India) - At the beginning of the afternoon, a blanket of heat has fallen on the banks of the Ganges. Despite the sun, rather than taking the shaded alleys of the city to return to my hotel, I choose to follow the river. Usually very lively, the quays are deserted. The heat scared the pilgrims away. Only a few people try to find a little rest and coolness under the parasols that have been deployed. The reflection of the sun on the water, diffuses the light and attenuates the contrasts which remain acceptable for the photo.
The tiny shorebird (middle of shot)
Little Stint (Calidris minuta)
with extensive range across Europe, Africa, and Asia. Very rare vagrant in North America. All ages show dark legs and a straight, fine-tipped bill. Adults in breeding plumage are variably flushed with bright rusty orange on the head, neck sides, and upper-parts, usually brightest in mid- to late-summer. Compared with breeding Red-necked Stint, note white throat and more uniformly bright wing coverts and scapulars on Little. Juveniles are typically quite bright and neatly patterned above, often with bold white stripes or "braces" down the back, and have very black-centred wing coverts and tertials. Non-breeding birds rather plain pale grey and extremely difficult to separate from other small “peeps”. Note bill shape and overall structure. Temminck’s has longer tail and more crouched posture; Red-necked has slightly shorter bill and legs and more attenuated wings. Found in fresh and brackish wetland habitats. Occurs locally in flocks; elsewhere singles travel with flocks of other waders
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Whiskered Tern flock (Chlidonias hybrida) 7984
Small buoyant tern. Breeding adult has distinctive dark smoky grey body and contrasting white cheeks (can look like broad white "whiskers" in flight) underneath a black cap. Non-breeding plumage pale silvery grey overall with a faded shadow of the cap; juvenile has dark-checkered back. Note rather stout bill (albeit thinner than Gull-billed Tern) and square tail; compare to Common, Roseate, and Arctic Terns. Feeds by picking from surface, not splash-diving like typical terns. Common around wetlands, lakes, and rivers.
I was given these books years ago by my grandfather (now sadly deceased), "Marvels Of The Universe Volumes I & II - A Popular Work On The Marvels Of The Heavens, The Earth, Plant Life, Animal Life, The Mighty Deep". I cannot find a publication date anywhere in the books, but a brief internet search suggests they are from 1913, which is the year my grandfather was born.
They are absolutely beautiful books in amazing condition, with incredibly detailed illustrations, some colour plates, and lots of photographs. The entries are written by a host of scientific dignitaries of the time, and are fascinating in terms of the language as much as the content, not what we would think of now as scientific language, but wonderfully descriptive. For example, the entry for "Waterspouts" contains the following section:
"On looking upward, immediately above this movement of the waters will be seen a corresponding excitement in a cloud, from which will presently descend a dark tube, much like the trunk of some mighty elephant, swaying about as it lengthens, until at last it joins the mound of water beneath and establishes a connection between sea and sky. Now, in obedience to who knows what centrifugal impulse, the water of the sea rushes upwards with a roar which may be heard five hundred yards away. The cloud above grows black, menacing, monstrous. In a few minutes, some mysterious operator has signalled that the one hundred thousand tons or so of water received above is sufficient for the cloud to bear, and immediately the connecting tube begins to dwindle, until soon it ceases to exist and its attenuated length is absorbed into the black bosom above."
Very dark very red bottle of red wine. First idea was to light trough the bottle and put some vitamin tablets in there. To make a a long story short, not enough light inside the bottles neck, boring photo.
Next set up, lightning the bottle from behind, also to get some more light for focusing, at the end of this story, I liked the setup and light testing photo better then the photos with flash.
Was testing the attenuation of the light with a strong flash light. Body no light, neck very little light, trough the bottom, this are the light reflexes you see.
On the outer surface the rough ring is are adhesive residue from the necks coating, or maybe roughened glass..
Color changes due to transmission troghh colored glass.