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Guarini's dome on the Capella della Sindone in the Palazzo Reale in Turin . Magnificently restored in the decades after the terrible fire of 1997.
Dedicated to Paul Ewing and Catness Grace for sparking the idea.
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I’m WFH this afternoon. I went to the kitchen to get another cuppa cawfee and came back to this. Apparently I’d been petting the mouse when I should have petted Someone Else. (In the background you can see my work-related trophies from the FDFFL and the Bugbear, whose job it is to eat software bugs.) Added to Happy Caturday for 10 July 2021 theme “Cats and Electronics.”
A macro view of a collection of glass beads. The frame represents a span of two-inches from top to bottom.
Strobist info:
The scene was illuminated by two Nikon SB900 speedlights positioned at 9- and 3-o'clock, 20-inches above and two-feet away from the beads. They were fired in Manual mode @ ¼ -power through Neewer 24" x 24" soft boxes.
The speedlights were triggered by three PocketWizard Plus X flash triggers.
Lens: Meyer Optik Görlitz Oreston (zebra) f1.8/50mm with a 36mm extension tube attached.
Seeing the world in black and white can offer a certain simplicity, like an old photograph capturing moments in stark contrast. It strips away the nuances, leaving behind a clarity that can be comforting. Yet, it's an incomplete portrayal of life's rich tapestry. Life, with its myriad shades of gray, is a symphony of complexities, emotions, and experiences. It's the vibrant hues that give depth to our existence, the subtle gradients that shape our understanding, and the colorful spectrum that makes every story uniquely human. While black and white may offer clarity, it's in embracing life's full spectrum that we truly appreciate its depth and beauty.
Persino un piccolo ruscello che rimbalza sulle rocce è un sistema incredibilmente difficile da descrivere da un punto di vista fisico e deterministico... eppure, sembra la cosa più semplice e banale da guardare ed ammirare.
Meraviglia del nostro universo.
#acqua #h2o #flow #flusso #gocce #droplets #rimbalzi #bouncing #streaks #lungaesposizione #ruscello #montagna #water
chaos or complex order .. which.
An image of light travelling through glass - single exposure, no Photoshop.
August is the month for gorgeous Hydrangeas. Lace-cap varieties are outstanding for their complex blooms. I love their starry centers.
"Life is short. Buy the Hydrangea." ~ Anonymous
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A little Cordoban Complexity from the back streets of Córdoba and the old town, it looked as if the lads were taking on removal duties. Enjoyed the layers and complexity with the variety of expressions and actions across the uncropped frame.
even though my eyeballs were having soo much fun focusing on all of the gorgeous rides at the auto show i couldn't help but admire the amazing details of the ceiling in the convention center. the intricacies and colors had me looking up quite often :)
The immense complexity of Tokyo unfolds beneath a sky heavy with evening cloud from the vantage of the first deck of the Tokyo Skytree, Japan.
Our family had never visited Japan and we opted to stay for a week tacked on to a family visit to Hong Kong, splitting our time between the mountains near Nagano and the incredible human hive that is Tokyo. The Tokyo Skytree is the second highest building in the world and still quite a bit shorter than the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. My youngest son is oddly fascinated with the world's tallest buildings, so we made time to ride the ridiculously fast elevator up to the eyrie above the city. It ascends 350 vertical meters in approximately 50 ear-popping seconds. There is a shorter, faster-moving queue maintained for foreign tourists, which is a very thoughtful gesture. However, the crowds packing the observation deck make one feel as if bees actually have quite a spacious arrangement. On this particular evening, the full moon was rising on the eastern side of the tower and the sun was setting on the western side. I had thought to photograph both phenomena but this proved impossible as the humanity was so dense and viscous that I could not navigate from one side to the other quickly enough to capture both photographs.
It was difficult for me to comprehend the reality of this many people in the same place. As of 2014 Tokyo is the largest city in the world with over 38 million people calling the greater megalopolis home. That's over 2,600 people in every square kilometer. The numbers simply transcend meaning to my mind.
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After a harrowing trip, never to be repeated, I am back in Lucca (Italy) and a new merry-go-round begins to spin
The adult humpback whale is generally 14–15 m (46–49 ft) long, though individuals up to 16–17 m (52–56 ft) long have been recorded. Females are usually 1–1.5 m (3 ft 3 in – 4 ft 11 in) longer than males.
The species can reach body masses of 40 metric tons (44 short tons). Calves are born at around 4.3 m (14 ft) long with a mass of 680 kg (1,500 lb)] The species has a bulky body with a thin rostrum and proportionally long flippers, each around one-third of its body length. It has a short dorsal fin that varies from nearly nonexistent to somewhat long and curved.
Like other rorquals, the humpback has grooves between the tip of the lower jaw and the navel. The grooves are relatively few in number in this species, ranging from 14 to 35. The upper jaw is lined with baleen plates, which number 540–800 in total and are black in color.
The dorsal or upper side of the animal is generally black; the ventral or underside has various levels of black and white coloration. Whales in the southern hemisphere tend to have more white pigmentation. The flippers can vary from all-white to white only on the undersurface. Some individuals may be all white, notably Migaloo who is a true albino. The varying color patterns and scars on the tail flukes distinguish individual animals.[
The end of the genital slit of the female is marked by a round feature, known as the hemispherical lobe, which visually distinguishes males and females.
Unique among large whales, humpbacks have bumps or tubercles on the head and front edge of the flippers; the tail fluke has a jagged trailing edge. The tubercles on the head are 5–10 cm (2.0–3.9 in) thick at the base and protrude up to 6.5 cm (2.6 in).
They are mostly hollow in the center, often containing at least one fragile hair that erupts 1–3 cm (0.39–1.18 in) from the skin and is 0.1 mm (0.0039 in) thick. The tubercles develop early in gestation and may have a sensory function, as they are rich in nerves. Sensory nerve cells in the skin are adapted to withstand the high water pressure of diving.
In one study, a humpback whale brain measured 22.4 cm (8.8 in) long and 18 cm (7.1 in) wide at the tips of the temporal lobes, and weighed around 4.6 kg (10 lb). The humpback's brain has a complexity similar to that of the brains of smaller whales and dolphins.
The structure of the eye indicates that eyesight is relatively poor, being only able to see silhouettes over long distances and finer details relatively close. Computer models of the middle ear suggest that the humpback can hear at frequencies between 15 Hz and 3 kHz "when stimulated at the tympanic membrane", and between 200 Hz and 9 kHz "if stimulated at the thinner region of the tympanic bone adjacent to the tympanic membrane". These ranges are consistent with their vocalization ranges.
As in all cetaceans, the respiratory tract of the humpback whale is connected to the blowholes and not to the mouth, although the species appears to be able to unlock the epiglottis and larynx and move them towards the oral cavity, allowing humpbacks to blow bubbles from their mouths. The vocal folds of the humpback are more horizontally positioned than those of land mammals which allows them to produce underwater calls. These calls are amplified by a laryngeal sac.
This image was taken at Reykjavik, Iceland
Few days ago I went photowalking down the streets of Mong Kok (western part of Kowloon, Hong Kong) and I really loved the complexity of the details in some corners. In this one they were preparing for a flea market.
3 Square Blocks cut from The Middle Slice Inverted and then Composited
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The Complexity of the Sunset
Interplanetary Travel
Youtube: The Moon Meditation
4K | Plutonia - Interplanetary Travel (Tunisia 🇹🇳)
Camera: Canon EOS Kiss X7i
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
Location: Outer space (space)
SINNESRAUSCH: ALICE Twisted World set out to follow traces of Alice on a curious journey through the rooms of the Upper Austrian Culture Quarter in Linz. The diversity and architectural complexity of the rooms form an ideal backdrop as a wonderworld.
Along the way from the cellar to the attic, inquisitive visitors of every age encounter fantastic, absurd, and dreamlike objects from thirty international artists.
Indeed - a wonderful experience!