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Circo Massimo, Rome
"This is the Circus that so impressed Dionysius of Halicarnassus, who described it in 7 BC as "one of the most beautiful and admirable structures in Rome" (III.68), measuring approximately 2,037 feet in length and 387 feet in width, and seating 150,000 (contemporary calculations suggest a width of 459 feet). Surrounding the track was the euripus, ten feet wide and ten feet deep, to protect spectators from the wild animals that were exhibited there before the construction of the Colosseum. Outside, says Dionysius, "there are entrances and ascents for the spectators at every shop, so that the countless thousands of people may enter and depart without inconvenience." Inhabited by cooks, astrologers, and prostitutes, it was in this arcade of wooden shops (tabernae) that the disastrous fire of AD 64 broke out during the reign of Nero (Tacitus, Annals, XV). Pliny the Elder considered the Circus to be one of the great buildings in the world, able to seat 250,000 persons (XXXVI.102), which must have included those who were able to view the arena from the slopes of the Aventine and Palatine hills." penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/circusm...
Overlooking Lake Nasser, the Great Temple of Ramses II and the Temple of Hathor, which together make up the Temples of Abu Simbel, are among the most famous and spectacular monuments in Egypt. In a modern marvel of engineering, which matches Ramses II's original construction for sheer audacity, the temple complex was saved from being swallowed by rising waters and lost forever after the building of the High Dam, by being moved lock, stock and barrel to the position it sits upon today.
Each temple had its own priest that represents the king in daily religious ceremonies. In theory, the Pharaoh would have been the only celebrant in daily religious ceremonies performed in different temples throughout Egypt. In reality, the high priest also played that role. To reach that position, an extensive education in art and science was necessary, like the one pharaoh had. Reading, writing, engineering, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, space measurement, time calculations, were all part of this learning. The priests of Heliopolis, for example, became guardians of sacred knowledge and earned the reputation of wise men.
Visited the much photographed Bow Fiddle Rock in Portknockie only a few hours ago. Surprisingly its only half an hour in the car from my house. With the weather being good and fast moving clouds, I was hoping for some sunset tones and some blurry skies. Also a good excuse for me to try out my new Hi-Tech 10 stop ND filter that Iv had in my kit bag for a few weeks now but no time to test it. I think i'm going to enjoy the 10 stop :-) This was taken 1 1/4 hour before sunset with the moon rising to the right of the camera. All my phone / photography apps paid off with me calculating sun, moon angles and elevation and tide prior to arriving. I used my tiny kit lens for this shot, havent used it in a while but was surprised by how it performed. First time I have used bulb and an ND calculation app for a landscape.
The main square in from of the Notre-Dame where one can see the zero point of the roads of France, that is to say the kilometric point 0 of the roads leaving the capital, which is used as a reference for the calculation of the distances with the other cities of France.
Every image tells a story but when viewing this image you'd never guess how it came to be.
I was on a mission to get to the North Algodones Dunes Wilderness in Southern California on the Mexican border before Sunset... I left Phoenix Az. early enough, I thought, to drive the 211 miles, but I had only been there one other time and I thought I would have plenty of time to shoot the Sunset and then some...I was a bit off in my calculation.
I barely made it in time to capture just a few images before the Sun was gone and I was left standing there in darkness. On any other night, like a Moonless night, that would have been fine, but it was a full moon, and the clouds of a storm was moving fast across the desert.
I am happy with the images I was able to capture. Next time, I'll make sure I have plenty of time to travel the two-lane, winding road to get there.
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Patience and Planning. The two ingredients that made this shot.
I've wanted this shot for 2 years now, but conditions must become optimal on multiple levels for it to fire.
The coast must have no fog. Do you know how rare that is, on the coast, late at night, during summer?
The tide must be one of the lowest of the year. Complete negative low tide. Small swell is also a big factor.
And finally, the Milky Way alignment window is very specific, so you must have your calculations precise or you will botch your attempt.
Everything came together last month and I called my good friend Josh Crites with the good news regarding weather. We drove down at 2:30am and scored until 4am. The bonus cherry on top was it was the first time we both had scored Shark Fin with no other photographers around. We shot the classic dead center cave comp first, then with 15 minutes left in our window to shoot we scooted towards the water and to the left, trying to get the entire Fin in the frame. This is the first cave shot of the Milky Way I've seen this far out and with so much Fin visible.
The green light to the right was a fishing boat throwing light from around the northern rim of the cove.
This shot is a blend.
Sky - 14 shots stacked.
14mm
f/2.2, 15 seconds, 8000iso
Cave foreground:
2 shots stacked
Main image: F/4, 10 minutes, iso 1250
Secondary image with me pointing at milky taken by Josh.
F/2, 20 seconds, 5000 iso
The Pyramid of Pharoah Khufu (2589-2566 BC). The nearby structures are ‘mastaba’ tombs of nobles.
We see now only the inner core structure. Originally there was a smooth white limestone casing – fragments remain in place at the base allowing calculation of its original height as 146m (481ft). The pyramid is rather accurately astronomically aligned. Over two million large stone blocks weighing a total of six million tonnes were quarried and dressed for the tomb's construction using copper tools and conscript labour.
Interior 'King's Chamber':
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More Egypt...
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Taken on Kodachrome II film
The Rodney Dangerfield of Birds
Tropical storm Isaias brought Long Island a stellar mix of hurricane winds and intense clouds. This juvenile gull didn’t mind human company or the weather. My cameras fill flash put a quick end to that. ✨
Note: I’m getting the dreaded gull evil eye. I could sense physics - wind velocity over last meal density calculations happening in his glances.
One more step and fire!
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Taken from Surrey Quays across the Thames. Combined 10 stop and 6 stop ND filters for a 6 minute exposure. My calculations on this failed and so took a few lengthy attempts to get the exposure right!
Sublime (from the Latin sublīmis) is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual, or artistic. The term especially refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement, or imitation.
This very accurately describes my thoughts as I viewed this scene at the end of my first visit to Yellowstone.
The most visited Cheese market in the Netherlands is the Edam market most likely due to its proximity to Amsterdam but it still has an authentic feel and a faithful recreation of a market day cut from history and displayed every summer Wednesday from 10:30am to 12:30pm.
Edam was granted the rights to hold a cheese market in 1520 and half a century later was granted the rights of a Kaaswaag or Weigh House, the Kaaswaag displayed in this image dates from 1778 and with the market square is one of the prettiest sights in Edam.
The market ceased commercial activities in 1922 when cheese production moved to factories only to be reopened in 1989 as an easy if not cheesy day trip for Amsterdam tourists.
The Wednesday show takes you through the process of bringing a load of cheese to market, the cheese master tastes the incoming load for quality by drilling a sample into a random wheel and this determines the price per measure from there the cheese is loaded onto de waag or the scale for measure and payment calculation.
I took this on Sept 14th, 2017 with my D750 and Nikon 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens at 28mm 1/20 sec f/11 ISO100 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia, Topaz , Luminar and DXO
Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress
I would characterize this as the most unexpected image taken on my 2016 trip to Newfoundland. I've always liked how the tones of the birds and surrounds play together in this shot, but the circumstances of acquiring it may be more interesting than the image itself. (at least to those who have tried bird photography!)
So me and a friend were lying prone on the chilly, damp Newfoundland stone, high above the Atlantic ocean as it sloshed and crashed at the bottom of the cliff face below. (So far below that I tried to stop thinking about how close we were to the edge of this rather precipitous fall) We had been waiting for a very shy puffin to emerge from its burrow for some 30 minutes, tripods set as low as possible. Yes, puffin image-acquiring had not yet lived up to the hype for us... not the ease of a Newfoundland tourist brochure, etc. But wildlife photography isn't supposed to be easy :)
So after a bit of prolonged discomfort and monotony, we were brought back into consciousness as we spotted two small birds flitting from rock-to-rock along the clifftops, generally headed right towards us. In fact they flew directly over our heads, and we craned our necks around to see if we could identify them. Well... they were perched directly behind us, maybe 15-ish feet away. Cedar Waxwings?? Can't really say that was on our birding radar. So there was a sort of moment where we are silently looking at each other like... should we? Dare we? I mean these are two skittish (typically) songbirds who have been in constant motion until perching nearby. In order to even attempt to photograph them we'll have to both sit up from our prone positions, get on the other side of our tripod, and swing two telephoto lenses 180 degrees around to point at these waxwings... 15 feet away. Surely they will bolt as soon as we even move with our noisy rain gear on. So we did our best ninja-crawl to reposition ourselves... they're still perched. Actually, they seemed quite interested and amused with us. These birds did not fly off for the next 5-10 minutes. I was flabbergasted. They sat perched for so long that we were finished taking frames before they got bored with us and took off. This is the part that I have always wondered about-- even though we were very close, the birds were not actually sharing the same ground. Difficult to describe the jagged nature of this clifftop edge, but they were basically sitting atop a sea stack that had a little separation from our area. Couldn't help but wonder if this was some kind of innate "bird calculation" that made them not as concerned with our clumsy movements.
Anyway, we slapped our foreheads in disbelief, turned back around, and the puffin emerged less than 15 minutes later. Sometimes it all works out! But with birds... yeah, rarely!
-Roy T. Bennett
I have been craving spring so badly. I blame my Flickr friends for posting their beautifully detailed butterflies and delicate flowers. Haha! Usually, around here, winter goes from at least November until May. By my calculations I will have to live vicariously through the rest of your spring and summer shots for another 3 months or so. Hopefully they will help me make it through my winter blues!
100 x Lensbaby 7/100
365: the 2022 Edition 25/365
In previous posted Denali images, I have mentioned the full-day Kantishna experience bus tour. This episode is a key reason why.
Although from a photographer's perspective, shooting from a bus full of tourists isn't ideal, the opportunity to see caribou, moose, grizzlies, and even lynx is unsurpassed.
Probably the most elusive mammal in Denali, the Canadian lynx predominantly preys on snowshoe hares, squirrels and ptarmigan. But, in this instance, when hyperphagia has its grips on the grizzlies, you can’t blame the lynx for doing the calculations on one of the two cubs near this sow.
None of these animals are the least bit interested in the busload of tourists behind them by about 100'. It's August and snow will come soon, meaning it's time to consume as many calories as possible before the lean months until the following spring. Within a couple of moments of this image, the sow picked up the scent of the lynx and went to investigate. The cubs hesitantly followed her, and the lynx disappeared....only to reappear again, coming from the brush where the most prominent of the two cubs in this image can be seen. During our brief stop to observe all of this, no interaction between the predators occurred, but I often wonder if the lynx ever plucked up more courage or decided the better option was to find something more manageable and less risky.
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#195 ⭐ September 21, 2021
She let go. Without a thought or a word, she let go.
She let go of the fear.
She let go of the judgments.
She let go of the confluence of opinions swarming around her head.
She let go of the committee of indecision within her.
She let go of all the ‘right’ reasons. Wholly and completely, without hesitation or worry, she just let go.
She didn’t ask anyone for advice.
She didn’t read a book on how to let go.
She didn’t search the scriptures.
She just let go.
She let go of all of the memories that held her back. She let go of all of the anxiety that kept her from moving forward.
She let go of the planning and all of the calculations about how to do it just right.
She didn’t promise to let go. She didn’t journal about it.
She didn’t write the projected date in her Day-Timer.
She didn’t check the weather report or read her daily horoscope.
She just let go.
She didn’t analyze whether she should let go.
She didn’t call her friends to discuss the matter.
She didn’t do a five-step Spiritual Mind Treatment.
She didn’t call the prayer line.
She didn’t utter one word.
She just let go.
No one was around when it happened. There was no applause or congratulations.
No one thanked her or praised her.
No one noticed a thing. Like a leaf falling from a tree, she just let go.
There was no effort.
There was no struggle. It wasn’t good and it wasn’t bad. It was what it was, and it is just that.
In the space of letting go, she let it all be. A small smile came over her face. A light breeze blew through her. And the sun and the moon shone forevermore.
Gothic ruins which inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula and go back in history to the abbess St Hild and early Christianity.
In 664 AD the Synod of Whitby was held to determine the calculation of the date of Easter after a dispute between Celtic and Roman Christian religions.
The original controls of the 250 foot steerable radio telescope.
At far right are the controls for tracking an astronomical object. Tracking to counter the Earth's rotation requires simultaneous movements in horizontal direction (azimuth) and vertical (altitude). The necessary calculations from astronomical to altazimuth coordinates were made by an intricate mechanical analogue computer on the same rack. Far cry from the computer and stepping motors now built into almost any amateur telescope.
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Bearings: www.flickr.com/photos/lesc/51939874049/in/photostream/
Vintage image from a Kodachrome II slide.
So here at my McDonald's like Hummingbird Ranch this guy refuses my sugar water and goes after the real stuff from one of our Aloe plants.
I'm cooking up 2 gallons of sugar water per day ( 4 to 1 ratio ) for my 16 different feeders got hanging around the house --- they consume their body weight in food per day or some 6 oz of nectar. I've seen calculations where one gallon feeds 750 birds per day so some 1,500 birds visit daily......yes it gets busy at the feeders especially dawn and dusk.....
Well I call Bullshit !!! see Social Distance image for much better info --- closer to 600 per day are fed.......
The pyramid is 30 m high, has a base edge length of 55 m and rises in nine pyramid steps. The stairways on all four sides include 365 steps. This number is made up as follows: Three flights of stairs have 91 steps and the northern flight of stairs has 92, resulting in 365. This calculation, which is supposed to refer to the days of the year, was already considered pure speculation by older authors.[1] In fact, the number of steps is the result of the restoration campaigns - the north and west sides were restored by the Mexican Dirección de Antropología (from 1923 under José Reygadas Vértiz), the east side by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (1979 under Peter J. Schmidt) ; the south side remained unrestored. The number of steps reached in this way varies between 91 and 93, if only because the terrain slopes slightly to the south.
they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye :-)
Winston Churchill
HBW!! Truth Matters!
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The Hawk Who Came Back
A Fable of Unwelcome Drama and Midday Meals
It began with a thud. Not the ordinary household kind—no cabinet slam, no dropped spoon. This was the unmistakable, hollow thump of bird versus glass. I’d heard it before, usually followed by a puff of feathers and a guilty silence.
So, like any responsible adult with a camera and questionable instincts, I went outside to investigate.
The dove was on the ground. Still. Intact, but dazed—the avian equivalent of seeing stars. There was no time to offer comfort or commentary because the air shifted. The temperature dropped, metaphorically if not literally. A shadow flicked past. And then a Cooper’s Hawk came straight at me.
Not near me. At me.
He wasn’t gliding. He wasn’t circling. He was coming like a winged torpedo with talons, no brakes, and a complete disregard for personal space.
I didn’t scream. I didn’t run. I simply raised my camera and calmly fired off a burst, because apparently, that's the hill I’d chosen to die on. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I wondered if this was how people in Renaissance paintings felt right before they became martyrs.
And then—at the last possible moment—the hawk swerved. Not out of politeness. Just out of sheer tactical calculation.
He vanished. I stood there blinking, pulse racing, half-expecting a soundtrack to kick in. I thought that was the end.
But of course, I knew better.
I went back inside—not out of fear, but out of respect. Lunch had been selected, and I wasn’t about to get between a hawk and his Uber Eats.
Sure enough, he returned. Silent. Surgical. Completely uninterested in me or my dramatic arc. He landed beside the dove, now formerly stunned and currently claimed, gave a quick glance around the yard like a checkout line scan, and lifted off again—meal in tow.
All that remained was a feather or two, a rattled human, and a camera full of proof that sometimes, you’re not the main character in your own backyard.
Moral:
If you’re in the way of a Cooper’s Hawk, you’re not the story. You’re scenery.
Couplet:
He missed me by inches, then circled around
Some takeout comes with a side of profound.
In this part of the world, these birds used to be migratory, leaving late fall and, when they returned in early spring, herald of the end of winter.
Now they are as likely to stay as to go, making some instinctive calculation with the berry crop - looks good for the winter, or not.
A smallish flock is residing in and around Mud Lake this winter. They have been fighting the Waxwings for the berry crop, and fighting each other - and the still hanging in Hermit Thrush - for access to a tiny patch of open water at the base of the ridge between Mud Lake and the Ottawa River.
The open water is very tiny, and more or less inexplicable: it is like a ditch across from the Lake, beside the road that runs across the north side of the Lake. It has been open water in the days of -30. This may have something to do with the fact that the water (which looks like it could fit in a couple of bathtubs) is full - full! - of tiny fish.
The Robins come by and pick a fish out of the water, drop it until it loses some of its vitality, and then swallow it whole. It is quite amazing to watch.
Among the Robins, there seems to be a dominant bird that patrols the open water, chasing away any competition. When on a very cold day I dropped by to see if I could find the Thrush, the Robin was unfazed, and stood its ground on a broken branch beside the pool of fish.
I don’t usually have Robins so unimpressed - not only did the bird not flush, it didn’t even look at me, maintaining its focus on other birds that might think of visiting the open water.
A sine bar consists of a hardened, precision ground body with two precision ground cylinders fixed at the ends. The distance between the centers of the cylinders is precisely controlled, and the top of the bar is parallel to a line through the centers of the two rollers. The dimension between the two rollers is chosen to be a whole number (for ease of later calculations) and forms the hypotenuse of a triangle when in use.
When a sine bar is placed on a level surface the top edge will be parallel to that surface. If one roller is raised by a known distance, usually using gauge blocks, then the top edge of the bar will be tilted by the same amount forming an angle that may be calculated by the application of the sine rule.
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Ebony: "Damn it, you're cutting it mighty close, hurry up!"
Easy there Big Guy, by my calculations we have 30 minutes to spare.
Thanks again Finn for hosting the "Eyes of March Two" group!
After shooting the RCP&E power in pouring rain in New Ulm, I saw that the storm was coming to an end just west of there. Some quick calculations with how fast the storm was moving, and trains speed, I figured I *might* get sunlight again in Sleepy Eye. As I pulled up to the grade crossing, the sun started to peek through the clouds, and lit up the entire area. The rain was still lingering, which created the rainbow in a PERFECT spot. Seconds later, the power came around the corner, and what you see was the end result.
I feel this is one of those once in a lifetime shots...everything came together perfectly, and right in the nick of time.
(...)No verte.
Poderte ver, saber que andas tan cerca,
que es probable el milagro de la suerte.
No verte.
Y el corazón y el cálculo y la brújula,
fracasando los tres. No hay quien te acierte.
No verte.
Miércoles, jueves, viernes, no encontrarte,
no respirar, no ser, no merecerte.
No verte.
Desesperadamente amar, amarte
y volver a nacer para quererte.
No verte.
Sí, nacer cada día. Todo es nuevo.
Nueva eres tú, mi vida, tú, mi muerte.
No verte.
Andar a tientas (y era mediodía)
con temor infinito de romperte.
No verte.
Oír tu voz, oler tu aroma, sueños,
ay, espejismos que el desierto invierte.
No verte.
Pensar que tú me huyes, me deseas,
querrías encontrarte en mí, perderte.
No verte.
Dos barcos en la mar, ciegas las velas.
¿Se besarán mañana sus estelas?
Poema "un día y otro día y otro día." de Gerardo Diego
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(...)
Not see you
You can see, know that you're so close,
that the miracle of luck is probable.
Not see you
And the heart and the calculation and the compass,
failing all three. No one guesses you.
Not see you
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, not finding you,
Do not breathe, do not be, do not deserve.
Not see you
Desperately love, love you
and being born again to love you.
Not see you
Yes, be born every day. Everything is new.
New you are, my life, you, my death.
Not see you
To grope (and it was noon)
with infinite fear of breaking you.
Not see you
Hear your voice, smell your scent, dreams,
Oh, mirages that the desert reverses.
Not see you
To think that you are running away from me, you want me,
You would want to find yourself in me, lose yourself.
Not see you
Two boats in the sea, blind the candles.
Will they kiss their stelae tomorrow?
Poem "one day and another day and another day." by Gerardo Diego
Boat run high and dry.
A three hour cruise ? :-)
Long distance zoom capture
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Weerbeer is trying to do some intricate calculations, but it is very difficult he says, because he forgot his glasses.
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Weerbeer probeert wat ingewikkelde berekeningen te maken, maar het is heel moeilijk zegt hij, omdat hij zijn bril is vergeten.
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So got angry at Adobe for all their strange idea of making me pay more. So here is some of my pictures edited through On1 and Aurora HDR. My personal calculation for the price of 7months of Adobe CC, I can buy On1, if I am not happy I can then go back at Adobe.
You will understand the title if you have had a look at my 2 previous uploads taken earlier on the same day.
This was my destination, Schiehallion, one of the most recognisable of Scotland's mountains because of its pyramidal shape when seen from Kinloch Rannoch. www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https://www.scottishgeolo...
Its shape led to it being chosen in the late 18th century for a mad and very difficult experiment to determine the weight of the earth. Interesting but not very useful for most of us!
However, the experiment led to something extremely valuable to hill-walkers ever since: contour lines. These were the result of one of the mathematicians, Charles Hutton who linked all the readings taken at a particular height (or contour) to enable the weight calculation to be made. So it became possible to see at a glance if the ground was steep and potentially dangerous/impassable (contour lines all crammed together), or not. Thank you, Mr. Hutton.
nb the top isn't yet in sight, it would take me another 45 mins from here.
My photo in the Weather Watcher 2013 Calendar from Old Farmer's Almanac Thank you Old Farmer's Almanac for licensing my work!
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Moonrise at Mono Lake, California. I arrived at my target site on Mono Lake with minutes to spare. My DeLorme PN-20 GPS has a Sun/Moon feature that confirmed the moon rise time, but it also shows a compass with the Sun and moon on it, so I could point the sun symbol towards the setting sun and there was an arrow pointing to the approximate place on the horizon where the moon would come up. I walked a couple of hundred yards until I could line that forecasted rise spot up with the tufa limestone structures that I wanted to shoot. By the way, you can get a Java program for cell phones that support Java that will do the same thing (most phones know your approximate location info from the position of local cell towers, some provide location based services using a GPS signal).
The moon started to peek out over the hills right on time, and I adjusted my tripod position maybe 6-12 feet to place the moon where I wanted it in the scene. I started with a 70-200mm lense and gradually worked my way up to a wide angle lens as the sunset darkened and spread across the sky.
I often bracket different development settings and tools to use on early edits during postprocessing so I can close in on the best settings and techniques for a given site and lighting conditions.
For this result I left the white balance "as shot", but I think the camera saw the scene differently and the actual event was a bit less blue (at least to my mind's perception... there's truly no such thing as "reality" when it comes to white balance and color perception). The light does of course shift more towards blue as sunsets progress, so it could well be my perception or my memory that varies from the event. The people who claim to produce an accurate copy of a given moment crack me up. Accurate to an electronic device, to one person, or to which people, and under which ambient lighting conditions? I don't believe that there is any consistency in color perception from person to person (let alone from the original event to viewing a representation of it under different lighting conditions). The whole claim is a farce. Must I "go with the flow" and pretend, or is it safe to observe that the "just as it happened" emperor truly has no clothes?
You can look up times for your next full moon rise (at sunset) and set (at dawn). On June 26, 2010 in Western states we you have the bonus of a penumbral lunar eclipse as the full moon sets to the west just before sunrise. The details and links to moon time calculation resources are provided here:
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Pumping station near Lemmer
The Woudagemaal was built at the end of the steam era. In the 19th and first half of the 20th century were in winter large parts of Friesland under water. To counteract flooding in Friesland, in 1913 decided to build a pumping station at Lemmer. It Woudagemaal was in 1920, opened by Queen Wilhelmina and has the largest working steam pumping station in the world still has a practical function in the Frisian water management.
STEAM, WATER AND ARCHITECTURE
The pumping station is named after ir. Dirk Frederik Wouda (1880-1961), then chief engineer of the Provincial Public Works. He was responsible for design and construction of the pumping station in the style of the Amsterdam School. The calculation of the mechanical installations were ir. Wouda assisted by Ir. JC Dijxhoorn (1862-1941) at the Technical University of Delft.
MONUMENT ON STEAM
Until the construction of the electric Hooglandgemaal in Stavoren (1966) it was pumping station used to control the level of the Frisian waters. The pumping station is now only in action at extremely high water.
In addition bucking this particular building is in other areas of great significance. The chimney with a height of more than sixty meters is a recognizable point (beacon) for boaters on the IJsselmeer. In addition, the building and the steam attractions for architecture or steam enthusiasts.
The structural and technical valuable Woudagemaal is a protected monument and is from 1998 on since 1977 UNESCO World Heritage Site .
I was having trouble with calculations for my LE due to the lens, so opted for a compilation of single photos. This is a stack of 13 photos. Bunga Beach. Aragunnu rocks are in the distance at the tip of the headland. A short walk here across a cow paddock as gates are locked to vehicles. Long beach south and plenty of rock pools to see. A small family group fishing this day otherwise not many around. Enter from Tathra-Bermagui Road and then second turn left on a gravel road. Drive slowly as lots of roos and cattle or, you could also run off the road as it is not built for speed.
www.amnesty.org.uk/deadly-force-police-violence-usa
Hundreds of men and women are killed by police every year across the United States. No-one knows exactly how many because the authorities do not count how many lives are lost.
From what information we do have, it seems that African American men are impacted the most by police use of lethal force. But many African American women have also died at the hands of the police.
All 50 US states and the District of Columbia fail to comply with international standards on police use of lethal force. Thirteen states also fail to meet the lower standards set by US constitutional law on the use of lethal force by law enforcement officers, while nine states and the District of Columbia have no laws at all on the use of lethal force – including Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
www.hrw.org/world-report/2019/country-chapters/united-states
The United States continued to move backward on human rights at home and abroad in the second year of President Donald Trump’s administration. With Trump’s Republican party controlling the legislative branch in 2018, his administration and Congress were able to pass laws, implement regulations, and carry out policies that violate or undermine human rights.
Racial disparities permeate every part of the US criminal justice system. Black people are 13 percent of the population but close to 40 percent of those in prisons. They are incarcerated at more than five times the rate of white people. Black people use illegal drugs at similar rates to white people, but suffer drug arrests at significantly higher rates.
Black people were 24% of those killed despite being only 13% of the population.
There were only 27 days in 2019 where police did not kill someone.
www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-b...
www.thehindu.com/data/data-how-badly-are-african-american...
Amsterdam - NDSM-Plein
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Everything involves science. How much a power generated with your punch? How fast you can slide from being hit? the momentum, the force?
Well, if you do not take the first step to find out, all these calculations are useless.
I haven’t been doing many experiments since my early Flickr days, mostly I’m afraid of alienating my followers, especially the ones who like my nature and macro. But, there are a lot of possibilities I might not know if I don’t actually stepping out.
“Il n'est pas prudent d'écarter de ses calculs un dragon vivant, quand on est près de lui.” ( J. R. R. Tolkien)
"It is not safe to exclude a living dragon from your calculations when you are near it." (J. R. R. Tolkien)
Twelve hues separated by 30° on the colour circle, each at brightnesses 125, 135 and 145, the 125 and 145 brightness blocks at 60 per cent opacity.
Although in each of the three blocks the twelve hues are all at the same brightness, they don’t necessarily look it.
Brightnesses calculated by my sRGB gamma calculation: Formulas for Calculating Pixel Brightness.
The title is a pun. There is a theory that space does not expand continuously or constantly but that it fluctuates. "UBC researchers Qingdi Wang and Bill Unruh tackle the question in a new study that tries to resolve a major incompatibility between quantum mechanics and Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
Wang’s calculations provide a completely new physical picture of the universe, one in which the space we live in is fluctuating wildly. At each point, it oscillates between expansion and contraction. As it swings back and forth, the two almost cancel each other but a very small net effect drives the universe to expand slowly at an accelerating rate. This is a new idea in a field where there hasn’t been a lot of new ideas.
“Space-time is not as static as it appears," This has been labelled Accordion theory.
science.ubc.ca/news/physicists-offer-new-accordion-theory...
For this photo I found a picture of space in the New Scientist June 2020 and quartered it and then made a concertina of the paper. 2.5" square.
Steel Rim V2 2022, open aperture 1.4. Clearly visible vignette, which only disappears completely at aperture 4 -5.6. But I love this lens with its 60-year-old calculation. It's vintage look :-)