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Miranda :
If by your art, my dearest father, you have
Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them.
The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch,
But that the sea, mounting to th' welkin’s cheek,
Dashes the fire out. Oh, I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer. A brave vessel
Who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her
Dashed all to pieces. Oh, the cry did knock
Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished.
Had I been any god of power, I would
Have sunk the sea within the earth or ere
It should the good ship so have swallowed and
The fraughting souls within her.
William Shakespeare, The Tempest (1610-1611)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678 – 1741), Four seasons - Presto from Summer, "The Storm" - Mari Samuelsen : youtu.be/nJTfG1MmMwQ
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Unaware of the adventures that their friend is having, and thoroughly exasperated by their total lack of success in securing help, Violet and Jaune decide to regroup and discuss their next move.
They walk along the surface of Moon 44, recounting each rejection, dismissal, and brush-off that they suffered at the hands of so many spacemen.
Excuse me...
Violet and Jaune are startled out of their reverie of shared misery by a friendly voice.
Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt, but I couldn't help overhearing that you are having trouble securing assistance to find...your missing ...friend, is it?
Thats right. answered Violet,
Are you saying that you can help us?
Violet and Jaune allow themselves the glimmer of hope that this stranger may be able to help finally find Pinky. But the man shakes his head.
No...I'm just a simple spaceman, I'm afraid. I need to get these greebles loaded onto my FRN18 rover and transported to base...
Their hopes are dashed just as quickly as they were raised.
...but I do know who can help.
You do?!
Certainly! You need to enlist the services of the Federation Search and Rescue Team.
Jaune and Violet exchange puzzled looks.
I've never heard of them.
Well, they are a new division, only recently formed. And, I might add, you are in luck, because I passed a squadron of them engaged in training exercises not far from here only a little while ago. If you hurry along, you may catch them! You'll know them by their bright orange uniforms, you can't miss 'em.
Charged with the hope of this news, Violet and Jaune thank the spaceman and trot quickly in the direction he indicated.
We will find you, Pinky! Violet thinks with renewed determination.
Seeing the ribbed ice cloud forming from my window I dashed out to a local vantage point to catch the clouds and the sunset. The ribbed clouds had deminished by the time I got there but I thought this was worth a shot.
When Jasper and I arrived into the small town of Elkhorn City, Kentucky after a perilous drive before daybreak, we thought we would be earlier than anyone else to the famous railfanning location of Pool Point. Those thoughts were very quickly dashed upon seeing over a dozen cars parked on the side of the road when we arrived. After some trouble finding the path down to the tunnel, we precariously walked over the several hundred foot ravine that the line crosses over and set up with about 25 or so other railfans gathered for this momentous occasion: the return of the CSX Santa Train after a 3 year absence due to the pandemic. With the trio of gorgeous B&O painted F40PHs on point, the train continues on its way to Kingsport.
Male Smooth Snake (Coronella austriaca). The Smooth snake is the United Kingdom's rarest native reptile; it is totally harmless to man. In the UK, the Smooth snake is a specialist of heathland, and native populations can be found only in the south of England; in the counties of Dorset, Hampshire, Surrey and West Sussex. Like most snakes, the Smooth snake will eat almost anything that it can catch and swallow, however; they are mostly associated with a reptilian diet. Smooth snakes grow to a length of about 60-70cm (exceptionally up to 80cm), and appear slimmer than our other native snakes. The Smooth snake is so named because it lacks the central keels, or ridges on its scales, unlike our native Adder and Grass snake. This adaptation means that it is not as swift as our other snakes, but is well suited to navigating dense vegetation. Due to this name, the very smooth Slow worm is often misreported as being a Smooth snake. Exceptional individuals have reached an age of almost 30 years in the wild. Although usually considered mute, Smooth snakes can emit a quiet short hiss when stressed, which is usually associated with a strike or sudden jerk of the fore-body. They do not emit prolonged warning hisses like the Adder and Grass snake. The Smooth snake is usually of a matt colouration; usually a dark grey or dull brown, although brick-red specimens are not uncommon. The dark, almost black dorsal markings are not immediately apparent, and are arranged along the back, from neck to tail, as pairs of dots, bars or dashed lines. There is usually a second pair of lines, one of each running along the flanks of the body, although these are frequently even less obvious than the dorsal markings.The top of the head always features a large dark heart-shaped marking, which is sometimes described as a 'butterfly'. There is a characteristic dark line on the side of the head, that runs across the eye. Unlike the venomous Adder, the Smooth snake has round pupils. Copy courtesy of Surrey ARG. Photograph taken by Nick Dobbs in Dorset under license as part of an official survey 18-08-2024
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Hey, everyone! i hope you are all safe and warm. The storm here, up to now has produced fairly strong winds and rain...and rolling surf with 11-13 ft waves. It only rained last night and into the wee hours and then it all seemed to settle down. The Weather Channel kept reporting that it was not over and that by this evening we might get a dusting to an inch of snow...and that the winds would be rocking once again.
Looks like they are correct! I dashed out while there was a lull to grab some shots of the angry sea, dressed like an Inuit in my michelin man coat and over the knee boots and a scarf and hood. The winds were harsh to say the least and had turned ...coming out of the northwest, relentlessly. my hands were numb!
Tonight around dinner time the snow briefly came whipping by on the increasing wind, then stopped. The wind has not. It is now up around 35mph...with gusts up around 40 or 45 and the house is vibrating. I am getting used to it! It is not totally unpleasant and is no longer alarming to me!!
Off to eat my dinner...and then relax...I have more painting to do tomorrow but i think for tonight i will curl up with a good book!!!
I stopped in another gallery yesterday ...and they want my work!
to say i am stunned and over the moon happy would be understating it!! SO...i am going to be printing and framing and painting and creating my brains out for awhile as i make a concrete plan for keeping them stocked! Go me...and thank you to my friends that have been steadfastly encouraging me to take a chance at that brass ring!
Stay warm and cozy...and safe!!
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The Grand Theater (1942-1960)
Del Paso Blvd
Sacramento, California
It was a church until about 10 years ago. Some 8 years ago, there were plans being talked about of reopening it as a dinner theater. Those dreams seem dashed now.
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Fog fills Yosemite Valley at dusk following an autumn storm. Yosemite Valley, California. October 28, 2016. © Copyright 2016 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Fog fills Yosemite Valley at dusk following an autumn storm
OK, I confess that sometimes I still stop at Tunnel View, and sometimes I do take my camera out, and I may even make a photograph. ;-) On this late-autumn evening I had been in the Valley for just an afternoon, on a day that had begun with quite heavy rainfall as I drove to Oakhurst for a meeting. The rain turned to showers with some breaks of sunlight as I drove to the Valley in the afternoon for a few hours of photography.
I photographed well up the Valley, working on clouds that were brushing past pinnacles and faces high on the granite walls. As the sunlight left that subject I packed up and started to head out of the Valley and back toward Oakhurst. I passed Tunnel View, and as I always do, I did a quick visual check to see what was going on. I got out of the car and walked to the overlook — there were almost no photographers left by this point, as it was well into the dusk blue hour light. It was quite dark, actually, though there was still residual light on the furthest peaks and on higher portions of the clouds, Drifting low clouds and fog almost filled the Valley itself. The fog was intriguing, so I dashed back to my vehicle, grabbed the camera and a lens and tripod, rushed back, and set up to make a few exposures in the failing light.
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A stop on our way to the airport...
We had some airline points that were going to be expiring and free hotel stays that were burning a hole in our pocket, so we dashed off to Victoria, British Columbia for a couple of days. No big plans, just to 'wallow' in a place that, in Canadian terms, is a little tropical.
Saw this blue jay chick wandering in our side yard earlier this afternoon. At first I thought he was an adult until I spotted his grey shoulder feather. His parents were actually over watching him from the tree. No wonder my wife told me she was startled by an adult blue jay that had dashed in front of her yesterday. I continued to watch the chick trying to climb up the retaining wall. I decided to roll a bing cherry in front of him but it was immediately gobbled up by one of his parents. I brought out my camera and took this shot of the schooling. This really made me smile.
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Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods: We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.
After leaving Algonquin, Oxtongue and Arrowhead parks behind, my goal was to reach Killarney before sunset. Never having been there before I knew things were going to be very tight time wise. I had no knowledge for good photo spots in the area so I tried to leave myself enough time to hopefully speak to some locals or rangers about where to shoot. I also had no idea how many sights would entice me to pull over along the way.
I resisted a few because the sky was starting to open up from the complete overcast that had ruined any sunrise. I wheeled into my hotel with very little time to spare and got some great advice from two ladies who worked at the hotel. It would turn out that they would look after me for the remainder of the weekend. They even packed me a lunch for the trail the next day.
At any rate, they mentioned a few good spots for sunrise and sunset and I dashed to the car as the sky was really starting to look promising. The area in this photo is actually near a suggested sunrise spot but when I saw the light show starting to unfold, I made a beeline over the granite shoreline to get to that great diagonal line of rocks being side lit by the setting sun.
I captured 2 frames before that foreground light disappeared and the main event of that gorgeous light dancing around in the clouds took center stage. I even got lucky enough to have sunlight filtering through a rain storm off to the left in the distance.
One extra frame with the Lee Big Stopper to soften out the water and I was off to try and find other spots before the show was over. Unfortunately nothing else really panned out that well but in the end, I believe this may be my favorite shot of the entire fall season, and certainly of this particular weekend.
Thanks for looking!
Carrying on the timeline from the trip, this is image 4 from Lindisfarne and probably the last for a while. This was a difficult choice as I had quite a few variations on this sunrise.
Following on from this, we dashed back to the car as it was parked on the main carpark and they do not like overnight parkers. Having escaped a ticket or telling off, we set of for the causeway and breakfast at the Lindisfarne inn cafe, highly recommended.
Lots of shorebirds searched in the shoreline for food after the rain. They all dashed by me. I was happy to capture this Willet in mid-stride.
Willet
Tringa semipalmata
Member of the Nature’s Spirit
Good Stewards of Nature
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I am helping my brother move house so that is why I have been so busy and not a great contact. I also had to watch an important rugby game so at half time I dashed out to take my photo - this postbox is on the corner near my brother's new place. I initially did not see the smiling face but when I did i thought it was quite cute. Another photos - another day ticked off!
I will try and catch up with you all soon!
Warm Spring days meant lots of lizard sightings in the Currawinya National Park.
Clockwise, there is the Sand Monitor (or Sand Goanna) a Shingleback lizard (often known as a Blue Tongue or Sleepy Lizard) and a Bearded Dragon.
The Sand Monitors dashed across the roads, while the Bearded Dragons often stood quite still. The Shinglebacks happily lay in the sunshine.
Another old upload from last summer. I'm really excited for spring and time to go out and shoot more frequently. I feel like I'm getting a bit stressed about not having more time to shoot for fun instead of school projects.
parked up at the Angel awaiting fellow mad people from wfc flickr to join me for sgwd einion gam trek and the skies were awesome - so we dived back in the car Keeping within the speed limit and drove up the road to Dinas rock out i Dashed to capture a fast moving sky - throwing the tripod cover on the ground in excitment.
5 shots later i was back in the car so i would not be late .
The Parish Church of Saint Mary
Bungay is a small pretty market town on the River Waveney in the English county of Suffolk, close to the border with Norfolk.
The church of St Mary sits in the town centre close to the market place and was originally built as the church to a Benedictine priory in the late 12th century. The main part of the present church dates from the 14th–15th century. The priory was closed in 1536 as a result of the dissolution of the monasteries and St Mary's became a parish church.
A large part of the priory building was destroyed by the 'Great Bungay Fire' of 1688, the fire destroyed a significant portion of the town, including many houses and buildings.
Ruins of the priory can be see today in the churchyard of St Mary, including a delicately carved 13th century doorway.
The church is now redundant and in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
A local legend states that in August 1577 during a thunderstorm an apparition appeared, consisting of a black Hell Hound which dashed around the church, attacking members of the congregation. It then suddenly disappeared and re-appeared in Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh 12 miles away, injuring members of the congregation there.
I put E to bed and dashed down to the seafront to catch the sunset. I was very glad that I did. The sky was even more dramatic after the sun went down.
(I'm still catching up from my holiday - unfortunately I don't live anywhere near the sea so when I am by the seaside I'm obsessed by shooting sunsets - should have made that clear!)
I had wasted my whole morning waiting to take a picture of the garbage truck coming down the street (work project).
When a text came in that the rebuilt SD75Is were on the way I got in my car and drove around looking for the garbage truck.
I found it and did my required photo taking. A look on ATCS revealed that the train was in Elk River.
My hopes to make it east of town were dashed so I set up on Eagle Lake Road as the headlights appeared.
The clouds gave way onto the nose as the train passed me, prime movers screaming with a long train in tow. 656 Axles.
I believe this train is the Northtown-Grand Forks, as they came east on the Grand Forks-Northtown last night.
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First of all...I'm super-psyched right now, because after two trips back to Nikon for repair, I finally have my 14-24mm lens back to me in a usable condition! It was pretty much unusable for astrophotography before, and I sent it back to Nikon once for a costly repair, only to get it back and realize it was still having issues. Now it looks great!
In the late summer night sky, Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter are all visible. Even with some clouds on the horizon obscuring the view, I still had good conditions last night in the Badlands for some astrophotography. I was also hoping to shoot a moonlit landscape after the moonrise, but that plan was dashed by clouds as well.
Technical details: this is a two-image composite. The foreground was captured during blue hour and then blended into the nighttime image. Since I was testing the 14-24, I went out with two tripods, and just switched between the two while I waited for full darkness.
Lizard Point is the most southerly point in Great Britain, infamous as a site of shipwrecks in the past and overlooking what is still one of the busiest shipping lands of the world.
Since 1751 there has been a lighthouse on Lizard Point, warning shipping of the dangers of this beautiful but treacherous coastline. Just offshore are the Man o' War rocks. Below the point is the Old Lifeboat House. The present lifeboat station is a few miles east of the headland. On the 10th November 1721, thirty years before the lighthouse was built, 15 of the crew of the Royal Anne Galley lost their lives when the vessel was dashed against the cliffs in a storm. They are buried in a mass grave on Pistol Meadow, the grass slope just west of the Old Lifeboat Slipway
A combination of the mild maritime climate and complex and unique geology has produced an area with a distinctive character, well known for its rare and unusual flora and where the famous call of the Cornish chough is never far away. The cliffs and farmland surrounding Lizard Point are incredibly rich in wildlife,
It is famous for the local serpentine stone, a unique metamorphic rock which is dark green veined with red and white. Serpentine ornaments were particularly fashionable in Victorian times and the village still has several serpentine turners working during the peak summer holiday season.
it's been a day of manly action, things getting done, power tools getting engaged and stuff, so after all that action I was wondering what the hell am I going to do about PaD, then certain Lynn
posted another installment of her Shocktober series, which made me think "why don't I ever get visited by monsters and things" and while I was having my well deserved beer and contemplating my monsterless existence light dimmed, air started to smell funny, Charlie the cat who was peacefully sleeping on his rug jumped up and dashed out through the cat door with loudest meow he ever meowed , and then slowly in the darkness this chap materialised and said "you want another beer?"
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Protector-312
Rank: ARC Sergeant
Nickname: Shogun
253rd legion, Pride of Mandalore
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//The gunship doors slid shut as killi hoisted himself onboard. The engine roared as the bird glided off, narrowly missing blaster shots. Shogun looked behind, mourning all that was lost. The troopers stood silently in the cabin, still in shock. Only interrupted by the voice of the pilot cackling on the com.
“New orders straight from the general, we’re heading 3 clicks north to the jedi temple.”
“Why? There’s nothing there.”
“Apparently, whatever attacked Bravo base ran in there.”
Shogun glanced at his squad. Then glanced back.
“Members of the 501st legion have already begun searching, they say the assailant has files on some ‘Ulic Qel-Droma’”
“Ulic Qel-Droma.”
After a period of silence, the gunship landed in the snow, sending a ripple of snow off of the cliff’s face. The doors of the gunship slid open, revealing shogun along with his men. Shogun stepped into the snow, sinking into the ground, and paused as his eyes dilated to the sea of white all around.
Shogun gestured with his hands. Corvus squad moved out.
Blunt walked into the temple, becoming drenched in darkness. He stepped in, eyes adjusting as he walked. He activated the floodlights on his helmet, along with the rest of his squad. He looked around, then paused and glanced into the abyss. Shogun was soon to follow, shifting to his right with visible confusion. Was that, laughter? Wind? Or silence.
A loud “CRASH!”
Shogun and his men stood still, paralised in fear. His hand shifted into a fist, signalling his men to move out. They dashed towards the origin of the sound, still echoing against the cavern walls. Shogun stopped, recognizing two members of the 501st standing straight ahead, then, he noticed something else. Directly above the troopers, a black cloaked figure, perched on the neck of a leaning statue.
“Troopers! Above you!”
The two troopers slightly arched back, not even having time to see the crimson red blade that sliced both heads clean off their bodies. The glowing blade retracted into the handle, along with the figure to the shadows. Shogun ran towards the bodies, necks still smoking from the heat of the saber, then looked towards the ground. Footsteps.//
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dashed up there to get a shot of it while the light was good (i.e. daytime light).
still a MAJOR work in progress.
not pretty but it's going to work.
still finding places for everything so everything is in it's place.
seriously needs a really good overhead pendant lamp (so i can work in the evenings)...researching what would need to be done to get an electrician in so we do it right. praying that happens soon.
after the rain storm, full of waterof the gorge dashed down the stream. The dark valley was a nice motif for the ink painting.
At Colvill Park near Red Wing, MN. The eagles were hunkered down in the trees far off. Then I heard a whistle blow and dashed to the tracks!
I got this photo in a hurry. I bet I raised a few security alarms too because of my unusual behavior.
I didn't have much time, so I had my wife drive nearby and park illegally on the curb for a few minutes. She wasn't a fan of that, but let's not talk about this right now. So, I jumped out of the car, hauled my tripod out of the trunk, and dashed across the green hill towards the memorial. I grabbed photos in a rushed way and dashed back to the car and sped away.
- Trey Ratcliff
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Copyright Susan Ogden
Out near the verrrrrrrry end of the dirt road, in the Alligator River Preserve, where i think they hide the bodies that they never want found, i came upon this wondrous “flock” or “gaggle” or whatever you call a group of butterflies, happily feeding on the weeds. There were dozens of them with voracious appetites feasting on a whole row of tall wildflowers.
This was by far the prettiest sight in this rather remote landscape of dead Loblolly pines and marsh weeds. Well..i did see a Quail or a Bob White or something that had the idea that it could escape my car by RUNNING full speed ahead of it instead of getting out of the dirt road and into the weeds and shrubbery on the side. After burning up a good distance running in front of the car it finally dashed off into the weeds, with it’s heart skipping beats i am sure!
Other than this i did not see any alligators, but i am assured they are there...waiting....for a dinner delivery..........
This Sparrowhawk briefly sat on our garden fence this morning. I dashed for my camera and only managed one shot before it flew off.
Hit L to view large on black.
Single exposure with no photoshop etc.
Could have been a damn expensive shot. I parked the Outlander on the otherside of a slope and started a few test shots when I noticed the headights were getting dimmer. I thought it was a bit strange as I was sure the vehicle didn't have this function so I walked back to the brow of the hill only to find the damn thing in the full grips of gravity sliding backwards down the slope ! In a panic I dashed to it, flung open the door and tried wrestle it to a standstill. Not a chance with walking boots on snow covered ice ! I had to step back and watch it slide away and eventually lose momentum as the track flattened out. Phew !
In camera CWB.
This is the kitchen in my grandmother's home. It has changed very little in my lifetime or since it was built in 1947 for that matter.
So much of my life centers around this very spot where I stood to take this picture. Early mornings when my grandmother would send me off to school with a hearty breakfast of pancakes and sausage. Evenings coming home exhausted from track practice to the welcoming smells of home cooking. Helping grandma wash dishes while we discussed the day's issues. Summers with friends tracking dripping water across the floor in our wet swimsuits as we dashed in to grab a popsicle. Preparing bedtime snacks with grandpa. He would smile and pat me on the head. Late night talks with my uncles over hamburgers. Countless family gatherings with more people crammed into this small space than you could imagine. Happy greetings. Hugs and long goodbyes (just to the left of the window is the door out to the driveway).
If these old walls,
If these old walls could speak
Of the things that they remember well,
Stories and faces dearly held
And also Phew!
Thought I had forgotten to take a shot and then remembered I snapped this as I dashed out for a coffee!
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ID
3310
Listing Date
8 October 1981
History
Probably built in the 1860s and the police station shown on this site in a map of Conwy in Black’s Guide to North Wales, 1869. It is also shown on the 1889 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A castellated 2-storey police station of grey pebble-dashed walls with dressed-stone quoins, dressings and bands, on a battered rendered plinth. The steep slate roof is behind an embattled parapet and coped gables on moulded kneelers, and has end stacks of brick on stone bases. The 3-bay front has an asymmetrical accent provided by an advanced gabled bay set back from the L end, which is under a crow-stepped gable with blank shield and pinnacle. A string course is between storeys. The central entrance has a heavy moulded surround and a replacement boarded door under an earlier overlight. Mullioned windows incorporate 2-pane margin-lit sashes to the ground floor, and shorter 1st-floor windows of 1 over 2 panes. The L-hand bay has 2-light windows. The central bay has an offset 2-light 1st-floor window, and the R-hand bay has a 2-light ground-floor window and single-light 1st-floor window. Between storeys the central and R-hand bay have a wide inscription tablet with 'Police Station' in raised letters. In the L-hand bay is a cast-iron street sign above the ground-floor window.
The 2-window L gable end to Bangor Road has 1-light windows to the outer sides. The 1-window R gable end to York Place has windows in each storey with sashes incorporating 2 lower panes. Set slightly back from the gable end is a lower 2-storey 3-window wing, with details similar to the main range but without embattlement, and with sashes of 1 over 2 panes. It has a panel door L of centre, and 2-light windows except for a single-light window upper R. Facing Bangor Road is another lower and shorter 2-storey 1-window rear wing, set slightly back from the gable end of the main range. It has small sash windows, of which the 1st-floor window has 2 panes in its lower sash. The rear of the building is enclosed by a high pebble-dashed yard wall with concrete embattlements and rendered quoins which, facing York Place, incorporates a panel door.
The forecourt has a ramp to the R side of the entrance and stone steps at the front to square panelled piers with shallow pyramid caps. A pebble-dashed parapet wall has freestone coping.
Reasons for Listing
Listed for its special architectural interest as a C19 police station of definite character, and for its contribution to the historical townscape of Lancaster Square.
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A place of hopes and dreams. Glenfinnan, site of the 1745 Jacobite rising, started by Prince Charles Edward Stuart ('Bonnie Prince Charlie'), who planned to march to London and claim the English throne.
Just eight months later, the dream was dashed at the Battle of Culloden, a bleak moor near Inverness.
Following the bloody battle, the 'Young Pretender' made his escape and passed by this spot again as he raced ahead of the Goverment troops out to try and catch him. It must have been a bittersweet and poignant moment as he headed for nearby Loch nan Uamh, where a French frigate was waiting to take him into exile.
Northern Territory, Australia
We spotted this lizard while driving through the Australian outback in the Northern Territory. When he realized he had been spotted, he dashed to the nearest tree stump. He was not happy we were taking pictures and, in an effort to scare us off, he raised his frill abruptly around his neck. The neck frill is simply a thin but extensive fold of skin surrounding the throat. When fully erected, the frill measured approximately 12 inches across and was an extraordinary orange and pink. Thankfully, the lizard stayed perched long enough for me to get this shot. Soon after, he folded his crest, climbed down from the stump, and walked away through the bush.
This was super hard to get a picture of.
It is still very windy here but the sunshine is strong too. I had to be really careful when making it to shelter it from the wind as it is (was) very fragile. I tried several times to make a new circle but the sticks are starting to change and thicken up and it was incredibly difficult to get it curve and to stay in place held with thorns. And the thorns I used were new and not strong and they snapped over and over again. It was very, very frustrating. Even when I had it completely assembled they still kept snapping and even while I was shooting it I kept having to replace the thorns holding the leaves on numerous times. And then the little circles kept falling off too!
I searched for a spot near home to set up the picture so that I could work out what to do ahead of time as it wasn't go to survive very long in the wind. I picked a place and dashed home to get my camera. We put a box over it to protect it from the wind but when we arrived where I had just been the sun had moved. Doh! Quickly I looked for another place - anywhere would do now!
Barking out orders and in a slight panic I asked my good-humoured (fortunately) partner to help me protect it while I got everything ready. It wasn't over yet! Many more times I replaced the thorns again and twisted it and tweaked it to get it right and then the sun moved again! Arrggghh I am going to miss the boat!
But finally everything was right and the shutter clicked away as I got the picture I wanted. Phew! Why did I try this on such a windy day! I must be mad!
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has imaged the inner workings of a dusty disk surrounding a nearby red dwarf star. These observations represent the first time the previously known disk has been imaged at these infrared wavelengths of light. They also provide clues to the composition of the disk.
These two images are of the dusty debris disk around AU Mic, a red dwarf star located 32 light-years away in the southern constellation Microscopium. Scientists used Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) to study AU Mic. NIRCam’s coronagraph, which blocked the intense light of the central star, allowed the team to study the region very close to the star. The location of the star, which is masked out, is marked by a white, graphical representation at the center of each image. The region blocked by the coronagraph is shown by a dashed circle.
Webb provided images at 3.56 microns (top, blue) and 4.44 microns (bottom, red). The team found that the disk was brighter at the shorter or “bluer” wavelength, likely meaning that it contains a lot of fine dust that is more efficient at scattering shorter wavelengths of light.
The NIRCam images allowed the researchers to trace the disk, which spans a diameter of 60 astronomical units (9 billion kilometers), as close to the star as 5 astronomical units (740 million kilometers) – the equivalent of Jupiter’s orbit in our solar system. The images were more detailed and brighter than the team expected, and scientists were able to image the disk closer to the star than expected.
While detecting the disk is significant, the team’s ultimate goal is to search for giant planets in wide orbits, similar to Jupiter, Saturn, or the ice giants of our solar system. Such worlds are very difficult to detect around distant stars using either the transit or radial velocity methods.
These results are being presented in a press conference at the 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society. The observations were obtained as part of Webb’s Guaranteed Time program 1184.
[Image Description: The visual shows two bright lines, representing the dusty debris disc around the red dwarf star AU Mic. The glowing line on top is blue, representing 3.56 microns and appears brighter, and the glowing line on bottom is red, representing 4.44 microns.]
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and K. Lawson (Goddard Space Flight Center), A. Pagan (STScI); CC BY 4.0