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Journeying along the path of the white trail. The beauty of the sun to my eyes never fails.
Prince Harbinger.
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In photography, bokeh is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in out-of-focus parts of an image. Bokeh has also been defined as the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light. Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause very different bokeh effects. Some lens designs blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce distracting or unpleasant blurring (good and bokeh, respectively). Photographers may deliberately use a shallow focus technique to create images with prominent out-of-focus regions, accentuating their lens's bokeh.
Bokeh is often most visible around small background highlights, such as specular reflections and light sources, which is why it is often associated with such areas. However, bokeh is not limited to highlights; blur occurs in all regions of an image which are outside the depth of field.
The term comes from the Japanese word boke (暈け or ボケ), which means blur or haze, or boke-aji (ボケ味), the blur quality. This is derived as a noun form of the verb bokeru, which is written in several ways, with additional meanings and nuances: 暈ける refers to being blurry, hazy or out-of-focus, whereas the 惚ける and 呆ける spellings refer to being mentally hazy, befuddled, childish, senile, or playing stupid. Jisaboke (時差ボケ) (literally, time difference fog) is the term for jet lag. Nebokeru (寝ぼける ) is a verb denoting the actions or condition of someone who is half-asleep, or nodding off. Tobokeru means playing dumb, and toboketa kao refers to a poker face. The related term bokashi (暈かし) means intentional blurring or gradation; that is a noun form of the transitive verb bokasu 暈す which means to make something blurry, rather than to be blurry.
The English spelling bokeh was popularized in 1997 in Photo Techniques magazine, when Mike Johnston, the editor at the time, commissioned three papers on the topic for the May/June 1997 issue; he altered the spelling to suggest the correct pronunciation to English speakers, saying it is properly pronounced with bo as in bone and ke as in Kenneth, with equal stress on either syllable. The spellings bokeh and boke have both been in use since at least 1996, when Merklinger had suggested or Bokeh if you prefer. The term bokeh has appeared in photography books as early as 1998. It is sometimes pronounced /ˈboʊkə/ BOH-kə.
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In 1910 stock broker William Porter built the colossal granite mansion “Foxcroft” on the top of Fox Hill, selected for the commanding views it afforded. In 1911, while traveling back to New York after a weekend at Foxcroft, Porter was killed in an automobile accident. He was survived by his wife Ruth Halliwell Porter, who was returning from a European vacation aboard the Lusitania at the time of the crash.
In 1913, Ruth married Warren Van Slyke and renamed their part-time retreat the Van Slyke Castle. When Warren died in 1925, Ruth moved to the castle permanently and remained there until her death in 1940. On March 1, 1949, the Castle was purchased by Celeste and Robin MacFadden, who subsequently sold to Suzanne S. Christie on July 2, 1951. Between 1951 and 1962, Suzanne S. Christie was to become Suzanne S. O’Sullivan then Suzanne Noyes Brussel. As strange as it may seem, Suzanne (who was the sole owner) abandoned the mansion between husbands, and left it to the mercy of the elements. In 1959, the magnificent structure was reduced to ruins in a fire of undetermined origin.
On August 18, 1978, Suzanne Brussel sold the ruins to Bruce Ademski of the Ademski and Van Saun Home Improvement Company. Ademski then subdivided the 15.9 acre parcel into three 5 acre lots. On February 22, 1980 the State of New Jersey filed a “Declaration of Taking;” which informed Ademski that his lots would soon be seized by the NJDEP at a non-negotiable price. Shortly after the receipt of this document, Ademski’s lots became part of Ramapo Mountain State Forest.
In the early part of the 20th century, Clifford MacEvoy purchased about 2600-acres of what would become Ramapo Mountain State Forest. In 1976 the area became state lands using Green Acres and federal funds. The majority of Park acreage was conveyed by the trustee of the Clifford MacEvoy estate to the State of New Jersey to be included as part of the existing Ramapo State Forest.
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The Palisades Cliffs are the eastern edge of a long, low mountain ridge that rises along the western shore of the Hudson River for more than 40 miles, from Staten Island north to Haverstraw, New York. The 12-mile section of the cliffs contained in the Palisades Interstate Park in New Jersey is roughly in the middle of this long ridgeline.
The name “Palisades” was given to the cliffs because they are formed from vertical columns of rock that resemble a stockade-type fence, or palisade. (A Native American name for these cliffs was Wee-Awk-En: “rocks-that-look-like-trees.”)
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The Galápagos tortoise complex or Galápagos giant tortoise complex is a species complex of 15 very large tortoise species in the genus Chelonoidis. They are the largest living species of tortoise, with some modern Galápagos tortoises weighing up to 417 kg. With lifespans in the wild of over 100 years, they are one of the longest-lived vertebrates. Captive Galapagos tortoises can live up to 177 years. For example, a captive individual, Harriet, lived for at least 175 years. Spanish explorers, who discovered the islands in the 16th century, named them after the Spanish galápago, meaning "tortoise".
Higher classification: Geochelone
Scientific name: Geochelone nigra
Order: Turtle
Genus: Chelonoidis
Family: Tortoise
Class: Reptile
Suborder: Cryptodira
Biological rank: Species
Subspecies: Chelonoidis nigra darwini · Chelonoidis nigra chathamensis · Chelonoidis nigra hoodensis
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Una tarde que tuve libre, de las pocas que tengo al cabo del año, me acerqué a esta localización. Hacía unos meses ya había estado por lo que sabía que me iba a gustar. La mar estaba calentita ese día y el cielo fue de esos amenazantes, de hecho llovía, y con zonas del horizonte despejado. No me pude acercar todo lo que quise a la escena precisamente por la fuerza con la que pegaba así que tiramos un poco de zoom. Se nota que me gustan las cascadas, no?. Tuve un momento bastante mejor un rato antes, pero tuve que cambiar de sitio porque en ese lado no había quien aguantara de las arremetidas del mar
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It's always pleasant to see these flowers during Spring season.😌🌸
Cercis canadensis, the eastern redbud, is a large deciduous shrub or small tree, native to eastern North America from southern Michigan south to central Mexico, east to New Jersey. Species thrive as far west as California and as far north as southern Ontario, roughly corresponding to USDA hardiness zone 6b. It is the state tree of Oklahoma.
Higher classification: Cercis
Scientific name: Cercis canadensis
Family: Fabaceae
Order: Fabales
Class: Magnoliopsida
Biological rank: Species
Subspecies: Cercis canadensis var. texensis · Cercis canadensis subsp. texensis · Cercis canadensis var. orbiculata · Cercis canadensis var. canadensis · Ce…
Symbol of: Oklahoma
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The brown anole, also known as the Bahaman anole or De la Sagra's Anole, is a lizard native to Cuba and the Bahamas. It has been widely introduced elsewhere, by being sold as a pet lizard, and is now found in Florida and as far north in the United States as southern Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Hawaii, and Southern California. It has also been introduced to other Caribbean islands and Taiwan in Asia.
Scientific name: Anolis sagrei
Phylum: Chordate
Class: Reptile
Order: Squamata
Family: Dactyloidae
Genus: Anolis
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The spider species Argiope aurantia is commonly known as the yellow garden spider, black and yellow garden spider, golden garden spider, writing spider, zigzag spider, zipper spider, black and yellow argiope, corn spider, Steeler spider, or McKinley spider. The species was first described by Hippolyte Lucas in 1833. It is common to the contiguous United States, Hawaii, southern Canada, Mexico, and Central America. It has distinctive yellow and black markings on the abdomen and a mostly white cephalothorax. Its scientific Latin name translates to "gilded silver-face". The body length of males range from 5–9 mm; females range from 19–28 mm. These spiders may bite if disturbed or harassed, but the venom is harmless to non-allergic humans, roughly equivalent to a bumblebee sting in intensity.
Scientific name: Argiope aurantia
Genus: Argiope
Order: Spider
Family: Orb-weaver Spider
Suborder: Opisthothelae
Class: Arachnid
Biological rank: Species
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Me había fijado alguna vez al pasar por él en los rápidos y caídas que tenía debajo. Investigando un poco pude encontrar cómo bajar para encuadrarlo. Eso si, la postura y el sitio donde tuve que poner el trípode fueron cuanto menos curiosas. La verdad es que sonará raro, pero es uno de los encuadres que más me ha gustado de todos lo que llevo haciendo estos últimos años.
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The brown anole, also known as the Bahaman anole or De la Sagra's Anole, is a lizard native to Cuba and the Bahamas. It has been widely introduced elsewhere, by being sold as a pet lizard, and is now found in Florida and as far north in the United States as southern Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Hawaii, and Southern California. It has also been introduced to other Caribbean islands and Taiwan in Asia.
Scientific name: Anolis sagrei
Phylum: Chordate
Class: Reptile
Order: Squamata
Family: Dactyloidae
Genus: Anolis
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Un atardecer que me dio por ir a buscar olas chocando contra las rocas me encontré con un montón de flores al borde de los acantilados, y claro, no me pude resistir.
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