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Woodinville, WA - June, 2015
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2 Ettas on the table (cat/dog walk?)
Daily Dog Challenge: Work It!
Etta Dog doesn't think bubbles smell good enough to eat :)
Etta Girl LOVES Bubbles :)
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my new photo ( backyard with palm )
edit with adobe light room & adobe photoshop
i hope u like it .
My first attempt at photographing an animal in nature....I've got a lot to learn, but....I've gotta start somewhere....in this case...my backyard.. :-D
Lovely place to sit around with friends and family at this outdoor firepit with hanging chairs, pergola with lights, working fire, lots of poses for single and cuddles!
Today I got a chance to walk into the backyard of a building in the outskirt of the Mission District in San Francisco. These buildings have a very deep corridor that lead to their backyard. They are quite packed and I was surprised to see overgrown trees that were fighting for their spaces. As you can see from this photo, the tree branches are like a mesh. Some of these buildings are probably more than 70 years old.
another rose from the rose bushes in my backyard
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( I think this is one of those pictures that would look great with some nice text or poem or something in the lower right corner ...but I couldn't come up with anything ...)
when we get snow, our backyard becomes bird heaven as they wait their turn for the feeders
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Daily Pattern : Backyard
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This is my dream back yard!
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Had a few Common Grackles visiting the backyard today including one male that reminded me of a character from one of the Star Wars movies. Looked like he had way too much testosterone
We had a yearling deer die in our backyard which has attracted a lot of coyotes, ravens, and turkey vultures. Yesterday, we had a visit from this beautiful bobcat.
The far umbrella has little lights along the ribs. The one Henry is standing under is where I stand to play fetch with Toby - shooting down the length of the backyard.
When I was younger, I remember getting together with friends and playing with Star Wars figures in the backyard - I wanted to channel that nostalgia with this photo.
The #FlickrFriday #ChainedToTheSky challenge
This photo of the 9 day old moon was taken from the back yard using an adapter to attach the camera to a Newtonian telescope through a 2x magnifier (a Barlow lens for those who know about such things) which proved necessary to get a focus. That provided an effective focal length of 1300mm at f5. There is no facility to change aperture, so exposure could be controlled by shutter speed and ISO selection only. Atmospheric conditions, wind, the rotation of The Earth (yes, really!) and the focusing precision of the 'scope made it a more challenging project than expected. Trial and error, mainly the latter, demonstrated that the camera's metering was useless for this shot, and that blurring due to camera shake and (probably) the rotation of the Earth at such a high focal length had to be countered by a short shutter speed and therefore high ISO; and micro changes in focusing. The truly impressive shots of The Moon we see frequently involve motorised camera tripod mounts, which constantly move the 'scope in time with the change of The Moon's position in the sky, a large number of individual photos and focus stacking software, all rather beyond me and my modest kit.
The large darker areas are the lunar seas, the maria, although no water is involved. The dark matter are volcanic deposits from the time when the moon was volcanically active. Bottom right is The Sea of Crises, to its left The Sea of Fecundity, to the left of that, the Sea of Nectar, work up to The Sea of Tranquillity (made famous by Apollo 11 making the first landing there) and then the Sea of Serenity. All craters are named. In particular Crater Archimedes (diameter 83km) is obvious in the upper centre and Crater Plato (diameter 109km) is showing very well in the upper right. To the left of the photo within The Sea of Clouds is Crater Bullialdus (61km) together with two smaller craters, Bullialdus A (nearest) and B. Like many craters, Bullialdus has a complex system of peaks within it, which are just apparent here. Shadows cast by many of the the crater walls are evident across the photo, especially near the terminator where lunar day becomes night. Faint, long straight rays are present across various regions. These are ejecta, matter thrown outward from meteorite impacts.
The Moon has illuminated our night sky for around 4 billion years. It is believed to have formed when a Mars sized object (Theia) collided with the young Earth, obliterating itself and sending fragments of both bodies into orbit which coalesced under gravity to form The Moon. At one sixth the mass of its host planet, it is the largest satellite in those terms in the Solar System and fifth largest in absolute terms. Its great size relative to The Earth creates a fundamental relationship between the two bodies, and thereby between it and every form of life on the planet. Allow me to explain.
Before the collision it is believed that the axis of rotation of The Earth was, on average, perpendicular to the plane of its orbit around The Sun, although it was subject to a prominent wobble as a spinning top does. However, bear in mind that this wobble is very much in slow motion so far as our senses are concerned. One complete wobble takes millennia to complete. The Theia collision tilted the average angle of the axis of rotation to about 23 degrees from the perpendicular. The wobble which existed before is dampened in magnitude by The Moon's presence. The tilt causes the seasons in non tropical areas and the wobble causes, when assessed over many millennia, seasonal climatic variations which are far more gentle and less extreme than they would be in the absence of The Moon. That means that, over millennia, summers and winters naturally become milder or harsher in accordance with the magnitude of the wobble while being affected by many other factors too. Had Theia missed, the extra mass remaining on The Earth would have increased the force due to gravity we all experience. In other words, either we would be heavier for our present build or our design may have evolved differently to allow for this. Would we and our fellow species have evolved stronger muscles and the skeletons to accommodate them, or would we be smaller and lighter in our existing terms?
Land can only bear so much weight, so our highest mountains would be lower than we find them. Our ocean tides would be caused by The Sun only, and would therefore be far less extreme, the waters of our seas mixing less energetically. Our days would be less than 9 hours long because The Moon has gradually reduced the speed of Earth's rotation. Without it, our far shorter days would make the tides we have just considered more frequent, our seas and oceans perhaps obviously in constant flux as rivers are. The Coriolis Effect (rotating weather patterns on each side of The Equator caused by the rotation of The Earth) would be far more extreme, causing a correspondingly more energetic climate than the one we enjoy and increasingly battle with. Although the length of a year would be the same when measured in seconds, the thousand days in it would have resulted in far shorter periods of daylight and dark, although many more of them. This would would have affected the evolution of diurnal and nocturnal species. Indeed, would evolution have even selected a difference between them? How would photosynthesis have been affected, and what effect would that have had on plant growth and, through that, on the entire food chain?
To add another dimension too, the fact that the rotation of The Earth has slowed means that energy seems to have been lost from the Moon/Earth system. However, physics says that is impossible. Energy cannot simply disappear. The 'lost' energy has actually been transferred from slower rotation of The Earth to increased velocity of The Moon in its orbit. This presently causes it to drift a little less than 4cm centimetres further from The Earth every year which is roughly the rate at which our fingernails grow. Astronomers tell us that when it formed it was only about 27,000km from The Earth and that it would have appeared about 17x bigger in the sky than it does today had anybody been around to see it. The effects due to gravity on both bodies in those far-off times would have been very significant indeed. We are familiar with tidal forces upon water, but they also affect rock if strong enough. The gravitational effect of The Moon, billions of years ago, may have triggered seismic activity on the new Earth, affecting the shape of the land, and correspondingly there would have been regular moonquakes, the Earth being so much bigger.
Clearly all this means that The Moon is far more than a beautiful adornment to our night sky. It has affected evolution, maybe even allowing it. Given that it has, it provides us with stability in many meanings of the word. Would life even exist on Earth without it? Perhaps Jim, but not as we know it.