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Per comporre un paesaggio e raccontare una storia bastano talvolta pochi elementi. Nella Maremma di Grosseto una
ondulazione coltivata a grano, una vecchia e sofferente quercia e una nuvola raccontano una storia antica. Raccontano di una foresta estinta e di generazioni di agricoltori all'aratro, alla semina e alla falce. Raccontano del tempo che sembra essersi fermato e dell'estinzione dei contadini ..... ..
Der Sekretär musste eine (kleine) Reparatur an seinem geschätzten alten Oszilloskop vornehmen. Und als er es schon offen auf dem Tisch hatte, konnte er nicht anders, als das Innenleben zu portraitieren.
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Secretary had to make a (minor) repair to his valued old oscilloscope. And when he already had it open on the table, he couldn't help but portray the inside.
For Smile on Saturday 'Tabletop Game Components' theme. Have a good weekend you wonderful folks out there.
HOBBY: Computing, as in building computers, repairing, and any electronics. Never toss an electronic or computing component even if deader than the proverbial doornail. My husband is the expert. I’m trying to learn.
WHAT: Light-emitting diodes (LED) pre-cut (or before sizing) in/on a breadboard. Yes, shallow depth of field. By choice!
FOCAL POINT: Third from left LED in front row.
LIGHTING: Components are in a soft box lighted on two sides by standing Photogenic StudioMax lights triggered by an off-camera SB 800 strobe at 1/64 power.
SIZE: The breadboard (base with holes) measures 2 in / 5.08 cm), and with the negative/unused space equals about 2.5 in / 6.35 cm.
The height including negative/unused space measures 1.75 in / 4.45 cm.
Thanks for looking!
Douro Valley, Portugal
One of the classic Douro riverside quintas, Senhora da Ribeira was acquired by George Warre for Dow’s in 1890. Since then, Senhora da Ribeira has been a fundamental component of Dow’s Vintage Ports. A small chapel dedicated to the ‘Lady of the River’ (literally Senhora da Ribeira) has stood on the site for centuries and gave the quinta its name.
Senhora da Ribeira is set in the remote, hot, dry Douro Superior and commands a magnificent position on the north bank, overlooking a broad sweep of the Douro River, directly opposite Quinta do Vesúvio. Andrew James Symington and his family loved to walk in the ruggedly beautiful hill country around Senhora da Ribeira, having travelled upriver from Bomfim by train and boat, a tradition kept alive by his descendants.
The Senhora da Ribeira wines are made at the property’s specialist winery where the grapes are trodden and fermented in modern lagares.
This beast of a fence has wood, barbed wire, heaven metal and other components, too. Visually, it was a kick!
A pencil lead consists of a part graphite and a part clay. The hardness of a pencil is determined by the composition of these components. Pencils with a lot of clay and little graphite have a higher hardness than pencils with little clay and a lot of graphite.
Pencils have codes that indicate the hardness. HB is an average office pencil. 9H is very hard (a lot of clay and little graphite) and 9B is very soft (a lot of graphite and little clay).
Pencils with a high degree of hardness are extremely suitable for very fine drawing, with thin lines such as technical drawing. The softer pencils are especially popular among artists for sketching, for example for creating shadows and dark areas.
www.quantore.com/advies-en-inspiratie/schrijven-en-tekene...
The beauty here arises from the interplay of perfectly normal physical and biological processes:
Sunlight is scattered by the moist morning air. Tiny water droplets in the mist primarily deflect the short-wavelength components of the light, while warm, yellow-gold light remains dominant. This creates the soft rays and the warm color palette. At the same time, leaves, grass, and water absorb and reflect light differently, creating contrasts and depth.
Our brains perceive this as "beautiful" because they have an evolutionarily positive response to patterns such as smooth transitions, natural symmetries, and color harmonies—for millions of years, these signaled safe, life-friendly environments.
In short: Physics shapes the light, biology shapes the landscape, and our brains create beauty from it.
Unser Gehirn schafft Schönheit
Die Schönheit entsteht hier aus dem Zusammenspiel ganz normaler physikalischer und biologischer Prozesse:
Das Sonnenlicht wird durch die feuchte Morgenluft gestreut. Winzige Wassertröpfchen im Nebel lenken vor allem die kurzwelligen Anteile des Lichts um, während warmes, gelb-goldenes Licht dominanter bleibt. Dadurch entstehen die weichen Strahlen und die warme Farbpalette. Gleichzeitig absorbieren und reflektieren Blätter, Gras und Wasser Licht unterschiedlich, was Kontraste und Tiefe erzeugt.
Unser Gehirn empfindet das als „schön“, weil es auf Muster wie sanfte Übergänge, natürliche Symmetrien und Farbharmonien evolutionär positiv reagiert – sie signalisierten über Millionen Jahre hinweg sichere, lebensfreundliche Umgebungen.
Kurz gesagt: Physik formt das Licht, Biologie formt die Landschaft, und unser Gehirn macht daraus Schönheit.
Belgian Air Component F-16AM X-Tiger departs for a sortie during Ex Cobra Warrior at RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire, March 2023.
In rock climbing, chocks are passive metal wedges placed in rock cracks to protect traditional climbers from falls. There are various types, including these small ones used in technical artificial (Class 6) climbing. These routes are physically demanding and lack traditional handholds and footholds, requiring climbers to use ropes, specialized equipment, and engineering skills. The chocks shown here are passive, since there are no moving parts. There are also active chocks which do have moving components.
Hexentrics, Macro, Macro Mondays, Rock Climbing, Sport, Tabletop
Dimension reference: 1 3/4" (i.e., 45 mm) Wide X 2 1/4" (58 mm) High.
Join the Group / one door a week / Donderdag /Thursday
Het hoofdbestanddeel moet een hele deur zijn /geen personen
The main component has to be a door / No persons
Año Nuevo Chino 2026, Fort Pienc, Barcelona.
La celebración del año nuevo chino se celebra desde hace ya diez años y ha arraigado con fuerza en la ciudad, donde viven más de 20.200 personas de origen chino. La china, es de hecho la cuarta nacionalidad más grande residente en la ciudad de Barcelona. El dinamismo de su tejido asociativo y el componente intercultural de la celebración del año nuevo, que comparten numerosas entidades de los barrios de la ciudad, lo ha convertido en una cita muy señalada en el calendario festivo barcelonés.
The celebration of the Chinese New Year has been celebrated for ten years and has become firmly established in the city, where more than 20,200 people of Chinese origin live. Chinese is in fact the fourth largest nationality residing in the city of Barcelona. The dynamism of its associative fabric and the intercultural component of the New Year celebration, which is shared by numerous entities in the city's neighborhoods, has made it a very important event in the Barcelona festive calendar.
In this shot of Copper Island, the cloud I saw from a distance plays a major part. As it was forming I raced to a familiar spot to catch it at just the right time. Copper Island is left as a silhouette, and makes the shot more about shapes than the nature it captures.
A typical day of railfanning the C&NW... chase an eastbound in low winter light for 50 miles, get to the top of Arcadia Hill, shoot a couple of westbounds, find one you like, and chase him back to Mo Valley. Simpler times...
In the 1970's Union Pacific would add CCS leaders to C&NW trains at Fremont. The story I heard somewhere at work was shortly after the C&NW GP50's were delivered they were equipped with UP CCS components from retired/stored UP DD40's. So these GP50's were a common sight on Overland Route trains east of North Platte thru the early 1990's until being bumped by UP Dash 8's and SD60/60M deliveries that were dual equipped with CCS and ATC. I never got tired of shooting GP50's as the MoPac fleet was a daily sight when I was in Texarkana.
3-19-1988
"Right now, my focus is on British complicity in Israel's genocide. Britain continues to sell crucial components for Israel's F35 jets, which are slaughtering the people of Gaza.
Israeli soldiers are trained on British soil, and British nationals freely serve in the IDF while it commits heinous war crimes. Britain shares intelligence with Israel, flies RAF surveillance jets over Gaza. Annual trade between the two countries is worth £6bn a year - with Britain refusing to impose sweeping sanctions." - Owen Jones - www.owenjones.news/p/labour-just-banned-me?utm_campaign=p... ▪️ "When I tried to challenge [Emily] Thornberry, she tried the classic politician’s tactic of filibustering rather than answering the question. She then claimed she had only been supporting a temporary siege, admitting her position was a “mistake” - the first regret I’ve heard her expressed about what she said - and claiming that she had been told in confidence that Israel would only mount a limited Entebbe-style raid to rescue the hostages.
This was despite Israeli leaders and officials making clear their genocidal intent from day one, as I wrote at the time. She refused to say who told her this - and the claim that someone of influence was lying to British shadow ministers about Israel’s intentions is clearly newsworthy. She refused to divulge who, but a functioning media would try and investigate what she was talking about." Owen Jones▪️▪️▪️▪️HOLY GHOST ZONE, Blackpool
Bagan, also spelled Pagan, on the banks of the Irrawaddy River, is home to the largest area of Buddhist temples, pagodas, stupas and ruins in the world with many dating from the 11th and 12th centuries. The shape and construction of each building is highly significant in Buddhism with each component part taking on spiritual meaning.
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Bagan, located on the banks of the Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) River, is home to the largest and densest concentration of Buddhist temples, pagodas, stupas and ruins in the world with many dating from the 11th and 12th centuries. The shape and construction of each building is highly significant in Buddhism with each component part taking on spiritual meaning.
With regards to tour comparison between this immense archeological site and the other significant archeological gem of Southeast Asia, the Angkor sites, this analogy may be helpful:
Angkor ruins are like a Chinese Lauriat banquet where food is presented in spectacular servings with a suspenseful wait between items which are hidden beneath curtains of forests. On the other hand, Bagan is served in Spanish Tapas style, the ingredients exposed to the customer and shown in small bite-size servings, with the next attraction close and visible at hand, in shorter intervals.
Another analogy between Angkor and Bagan Sites when distinguishing temple structures is through their stupa and spire shapes.
What makes the temples look romantic is the process of graceful aging. For some reason, there are no windbreakers around as shown by the barren, desert-dry mountain range to the west past the river, spinning occasional micro twisters that spawn loose dust particles everywhere from the eroded earth to the structures. This phenomenon had peeled off so much the stucco coating of the temples to reveal the brick structural blocks with its rusty, reddish, and sometimes golden brown-like patina when hit by the sun's rays.
Erosion is a significant threat to this area, not only the wind chipping away the buildings' plastering but also water from the mighty Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) River threatens the riverbanks. The strong river current has already washed away half of the area of Old Bagan. It used to be a rectangular-shaped piece of enclave protected by a perimeter wall. Now what remains is roughly the triangular eastern half part.
Other images of Bagan which make a lasting impression to tourists aside from the spire-fringed skyline; stupas sporting that tumbledown look yet crowned with glitter-studded golden miter-like sikaras; the ubiquitous pair of ferocious stone lions flanking a temple's door; the spiky and lacy eave fascia woodcarvings lining a monastery's ascending tiers of roofs; tall palmyras or toddy palms with willowy trunks, bougainvilleas, exotic cotton trees, and the likes bringing life to the arid landscape and abandoned ruins; squirrels playfully and acrobatically scampering on the walls and pediments of temples; horse drawn carriages lazily carrying drop-jawed tourists; sleepy moving grandfather's bullock carts grinding on a dust-choked trail; not to mention the garbage left around, stray dogs loitering, longyi clad men spitting betel chews in copious amounts everywhere, overgrown weeds and the pestering dust.
Excerpt from winterstations.com:
Throughout history, humankind has always strived to learn and be inspired by nature to engage in new experiences and provide a better life for themselves and others. Nature is the source of inspiration for architects, artists and scientists. It’s our origin and destination. Including not only external environments such as clouds, trees, sea, mountains and animals, but also buildings, components and materials. By building structures with forms familiar to us, creating two-dimensional graphics, and architecture with thickness, depth and volume, it can complement nature and be part of it. The Epitonium creates a beautiful, functional landscape. This idea causes natural shelters to become a refuge. The design is inspired by epitonium, a type of seashell, and is in great harmony with its location.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa or simply the Tower of Pisa (on the right) is the campanile, or freestanding bell tower, of The Pisa Cathedral (on the left), known worldwide for its unintended tilt to one side. The tower's tilt began during construction, caused by an inadequate foundation on ground too soft on one side to properly support the structure's weight. The tilt increased in the decades before the structure was completed, and gradually increased until the structure was stabilized (and the tilt partially corrected) by efforts in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Construction of the tower occurred in three stages across 199 years, from 1173 to 1372.
These two buildings, together with two other religious edifices close-by (The Baptistery and The Monumental Cemetery - not included in this photo), are the dominant components of Square of Miracles, formally known as Cathedral Square, which in 1987 was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [Source: Wikipedia]
Taken at Square of Miracles, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy as part of a series of excursion tours during my Mediterranean Cruise
Edited by Knobby Plastic. Sorry for the re-post, but it looks a lot better now. =)
Blade design inspired by TheBrick's Ceremonial Dagger.
Built for the Build Your Own Weapons Contest over at the LCN
Migmatites have undergone partial melting with one or more minerals in a liquid state (usually the lightly colored feldspar and quartz) and the rest (dark colored minerals) remaining in a solid to semi-solid state. These two components are mixed to form a migmatite. Here, both metamorphism and mixing are the result of subducting oceanic mud sediment from the passive margin of ancient North America into an oceanic trench, exposing the mud both to heat and pressure. This happened about 1.7 billion years ago.
This is a amphibolitic migmatite, about 100cm across
It does have a besom! Created in Photoshop from lots of different components - going back to my iPad!
AL MATTINO UNA BELLA SPREMUTA DI ARANCIA E MELOGRANO.
Il succo d’arancia possiede grandi proprietà, dato che in esso i componenti dell’agrume sono molto più concentrati. Proprio per questo il succo d’arancia risulta più terapeutico del frutto stesso.
Bere 1 spremuta d’arancia al giorno è quindi un’ottima abitudine. Merito delle sue proprietà, che ci permettono di soddisfare buona parte del fabbisogno giornaliero di Vitamina C, indispensabile per prevenire i raffreddori di stagione. Ma non solo, sono molti gli effetti benefici della spremuta. Senza dimenticare che apporta poi poche calorie, con 33 kcal per 100g, l’arancia è infatti ideale anche per chi è a dieta.
Another C&S Chinese Red SD9 in the Rice Yard's diesel service tracks. At first appearance I thought the 841 was out of service due to the missing Gyra-Light components and fuel filler cap. But then I notice the classification lights are on, so my assumptions may be incorrect.
Kodacolor Negative by Bob Black - John Black Collection. 3460