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Aerial morning view over Catalina Golf Course from the 10th tee. Catalina, South Coast, NSW, Australia.
This course in Baltimore County is adjacent to the center for MD agriculture and farm park which we visited last week - HTMT!
This migrant seemed to be all alone except it was hanging out with a black-necked stilt. (Also unusual for us, but a little less so.)
American Avocet, Recurvirostra americana
A view from Chambers Bay Golf Course and park in University Place, WA. These old cement structures are left over relics from the sand and gravel companies that were there for many decades. What a wise move to preserve the history and make the area even more interesting. Great photo ops for scenics and portraits as well.
The reason I edited this one was to try out Topaz' new upsizing software called AI Gigapixel. It is like Genuine Fractals and other software but this one uses artificial intelligence to make up the new pixels when upsizing and man does it ever work great!
So this was a huge crop that left less than 1500px to work with before uprezzing it to 2500 with AI Gigapixel. That gave me enough px to edit decently and reduce noise. I'll be using this workflow quite a bit and it opens up opportunities for low res files from the past or huge crops in the future. It would be a great way to prepare a file for a large print too.
Thank you for your warm and kind visits my amazing flickr friends. You are the best! :)
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WD 2-10-0 90775 departs Sheringham with the BR suburban set, during the Members and Shareholders weekend.
A spectacular trio of merging galaxies in the constellation Boötes takes centre stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. These three galaxies are set on a collision course and will eventually merge into a single larger galaxy, distorting one another’s spiral structure through mutual gravitational interaction in the process. An unrelated foreground galaxy appears to float serenely alongside the collision, and the smudged shapes of much more distant galaxies are visible in the background.
This colliding trio — known to astronomers as SDSSCGB 10189 — is a relatively rare combination of three large star-forming galaxies lying within only 50 000 light-years of one another. While that might sound like a safe distance, for galaxies this makes them extremely close neighbours! Our own galactic neighbours are much further away; Andromeda, the nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way, is more than 2.5 million light-years away from Earth.
This observation was designed to help astronomers understand the origin of the largest, most massive galaxies in the universe. These galactic behemoths are called Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) and — as the name suggests — are defined as the brightest galaxies in any given galaxy cluster. Astronomers suspect that BCGs form through the merger of large, gas-rich galaxies like the ones in this image. They turned to Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys to investigate this galactic trio in painstaking detail, hoping to shed light on the formation of the Universe’s most massive galaxies.
[Image description: Three galaxies stand together just right of centre. They are close enough that they appear to be merging into one. Their shapes are distorted, with strands of gas and dust running between them. Each is emitting a lot of light. Further to the left is an unconnected, dimmer spiral galaxy. The background is dark, with a few smaller, dim and faint galaxies and a couple of stars.]
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Sun; CC BY 4.0
Just out of the workshop...wheels are place-keepers (Open Pro rims will be swapped for more in keeping Module E) and drive train needs some "fettling".