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A moment suspended, uncertain, instinctive. I glimpsed movement behind the reeds, barely registering the Yellow-billed Spoonbill descending nearby. I just pressed that button...
(Platalea flavipes)
Built between 1872 & 1878, it was gutted by fire in 1922, however the exterior was saved. Recent repairs during the summer of 2013 have just terminated in time for the fall seasonal attractions. It is a historic member of the Second Empire style of architecture.
Construit entre 1872 et 1878, cette perle de la Mairie de Montréal à été incendié en 1922, mais l'extérieure a été sauvé. Des réparations importantes ont finalements terminés pour l'été 2013...juste à temps pour la saison des touristes.
Every year, mostly between the months of December and January, hordes of photographers descend on an obscure stretch of coastline located at the end of a dodgy road in Big Sur to capture the setting sun through a natural archway on Pfeiffer Beach. This was taken last year after I almost bottomed out my Prius trying to get get from PCH down to the parking area after the road was heavily damaged by one of the rare rainstorms we had. For more information on shooting the Keyhole Arch including compositional ideas and logistical concerns, please feel free to check out my new article up today at : The Resonant Landscape
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Had to wait until full moon was on this side of High Rise building to take this shot. I liked the lit window and the twinkling lights of city below. While other shots of the moon gave me more definition, I liked this more atmospheric rendition; sort of romantic and to me all full moons are!
FUNGIE FOREVER - Between Worlds
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Fungie, the wild, solitary, friendly, male, bottlenose dolphin, who is resident since 1983(!) in the beautiful mouth of Dingle Harbour in Co. Kerry - Ireland.
This single dolphin has brought so many smiles of joy and so much happiness and comfort to thousands and thousands of visitors from all over the world.
With plenty of fresh fish coming in with the tides and the Atlantic Ocean, just a few tailflips away, Fungie has the best of both worlds here. He is not fed, he catches his own fish, and he has never been trained! He loves the interaction with people and with boats and welcomes everyone! Fungie has a mind of his own and the freedom to do whatever he wants.
After heavy rain the area between the trees flooded and provided perfect reflections
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A view of the stunning Central Park, with the Reservoir and the Great Lawn in the background. From the Top of the Rock, you now have to look for the best angle between massive skyscrapers (in this case, the MOMA Tower on the left and the Solow Building on the right).
Uma vista do deslumbrante Central Park, com o Reservatório e o Great Lawn lá ao fundo. A partir do Top of the Rock, agora é preciso procurar o melhor ângulo entre gigantescos arranha-céus.
We had mixed weather in Northampton today. A cloudy start, and an ideal opportunity to photograph some pubs along Welly Road that I had been meaning to, or hand`t done for some time. 'The Old House' 'Crown and Cushion' are best suited to a dull day. So, of course, when I get there, the sun comes out. I go away, it goes dull again, I return, as does the sun. I decided to give up. Then, an outdoor lunch as it was dry. Until it started to tip it down................. Yes, one of those days!
Here is a view of 'The Leaps' section of the River Nene (Pronounced NeNN) in Northampton. I couldn`t resist a shot with the clouds and light such as this. Nice to see an angler here also, and not one of those filthy EE scum that catch coarse fish to feed their families. I often used to fish here back in the day when I was a professional fisherman, it was especially good in the cold winter months.
The dwellings in the middle of this picture have been built on the grounds of the old cattle market.
10th November 2016
He stood on the edge of the world, a lone figure suspended between sky and stone. Before him sprawled New Zealand's Southern Alps, their peaks — Poseidon, Sarpedon, Amphion — rising like silent arguments carved from light and ice. The glacier unfurled its pale tongue, an ancient current arrested mid-sentence, its surface rippled with the memory of motion. The air shimmered, crystalline and unrepentant, a cold clarity that cut to the marrow.
Lake Agnes lay below, a still pool, dark and sharp as polished obsidian. It absorbed the landscape without a ripple, the reflection a perfect inversion—mountains upside down, the sky swallowed by earth. The scene was a paradox: immensity caught in a whisper, time paused on the brink of collapse. He felt the grass brittle beneath his boots, the wind threading through the crevices of his jacket—a touch neither warm nor cruel, merely indifferent.
For three days he had wrestled through the entrails of the land. The rainforest had closed around him with a suffocating lushness, roots coiling like serpents beneath the moss. Streams foamed with a glacial bite, the waters quick and thoughtless, bruising his ankles as he waded through. Thorned thickets tore at his skin with the intimacy of old grudges. He climbed slopes slick with rain, his body folded into painful angles, the horizon always receding. When he reached this place, the fog had been thick enough to erase the contours of the world. His tent had trembled in the night winds, the cold seeping in like an unwelcome thought.
But then dawn came, unburdened and lucid. The veil lifted, and the mountains revealed themselves in their raw articulation. They did not posture or proclaim—they simply were, immutable and unscripted. The glacier’s silence was more profound than any roar; the peaks did not loom so much as exist beyond scale.
Here, in this distilled emptiness, the trivial machinery of the world he had fled seemed absurd. The restless striving, the ceaseless revolutions of ambition and vanity—all of it shrank to the size of a pebble lost in a chasm. There was no wheel here to turn, no circuit to complete. Only the landscape, bare and relentless in its honesty.
He filled his lungs, the air sharp enough to taste. It was an act of quiet rebellion, this deliberate witnessing. In that breath, he found not freedom, but a dissolution of need. The lines between man and mountain wavered, softened by the sheer scale of indifference. If he stayed long enough, perhaps he too would become part of this tableau—his form dissolving into lichen and shadow, his presence no more than a pause in the wilderness’s endless thought.
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Those in-between days we dwell around in no man's land, when Christmas is gone and the new year is yet to be upon us, are the perfect excuse to go full on goblin mode. They're about comfort over fashion, although my avi still manages to look reasonably stylish in his casual sweater and sweatpants combo.
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Katunayaka / Sri Lanka
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Sunrise long exposure at Bronte beach pool, Sydney.
Nikon D800 & Nikkor 16-35mm, Formatt 10 stop filter. PP in PS CC using Nik Software and luminosity masks.
Here is the continuation of my large summer-2018 project.
I had imaged this region for about 13 nights altogether between July and October 2018. You can call me crazy, using so many nights for just one object, in a region where clear nights are rare :) But I really wanted to see if I could catch this beautiful Supernova remnant, and I'm glad it succeeded :)
Recently Pixinsight was supplied with the new Starnet++ module, which you can use to completely separate the stars from the background. I used this software to enhance the very weak nebulosity and was astonished to see how much more could be drawn from the background compared to the processing I did last year. All other processing was performed using Astropixelprocessor and photoshop.
Supernova remnants (SNR) are formed when a large star ends its life in a supernova explosion. About 300 of these remnants are currently known in our galaxy. One of the most famous remnants, the Veil Nebula, is located in the constellation of Cygnus. Although this is the most famous one in this constellation, it’s not the only SNR. Cygnus contains several obscure SNR’s, among which SNR 65.3+5.7 (also known as SNR 65.2+5.7).
SNR G65.3+5.7 was discovered by Gull et al. (1977) during an OIII survey of the Milky Way. Some parts of this SNR were already catalogued by Stewart Sharpless in his SH2 catalog as SH2-91, SH2-94 and SH2-96, but they were not recognized as being part of a bigger structure at that time. The idea that they could be part of a larger SNR was postulated by Sidney van den Bergh in 1960, but it took until 1977 for this to be confirmed.
This is one of the larger SNR in the sky spanning a region of roughly 4.0x3.3 degrees. Mavromatakis et al. (2002) determined the age of the SNR to be 20.000-25.000 years and the distance about 2.600 – 3.200 lightyears. The shell has a diameter of roughly 230 lightyears! This SNR is a predominantly OIII shell with also some H-alpha signal.
This supernova shell is quite weak and there are hardly any high-resolution images of this region. In the internet maybe 5-10 deep images of this shell can be found and, in most cases, they don’t cover the entire shell or the resolution is quite low because it was done by using photo lenses at short focal lengths. That’s why I decided to see if I could try to image the entire shell using my equipment, a TMB92 refractor in combination with a QSI583ws ccd camera. Because of its large size I needed to make a 3x3 mosaic to cover the whole region.
As so many nights were already necessary to cover the region in OIII I didn’t succeed in grabbing the H-alpha data, but on the internet I found the MDWsurvey (mdwskysurvey.org) initiated by David Mittelman (†), Dennis di Cicco, and Sean Walker (MDW). This is a marvelous project with the goal to image the entire northern sky in H-alpha at a resolution of 3.17”/pixel. I contacted them and told them of my effort to grab imagery of this SNR and they were very kind to provide me with the H-alpha imagery of this region, so that the entire SNR could be brought into view in reasonable high resolution.
This bicolor image shows a combination of about 53h of OIII data (made by myself) and 20 hours of Ha-data (made by the MDW survey) in a single image. In this way the full span of the shell can be seen in all its glory.
Image info:
H-alpha (astrodon 3nm, mdwskysurvey.org):
Telescope: Astro-physics AP130mm starfire
Camera: Fli Proline 16803
5 frames of 12x1200s each
OIII (astrodon 3nm):
Telescope: TMB92SS
Camera: QSI583ws
9 frames, 158 x 1200s total