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This week marks the 1-year anniversary of my weekly (if not traveling) photo postings on Flickr. Wow, time has flown by quickly! My family will be growing soon so hopefully I’ll have time to continue this weekly tradition. If anything it might just mean I need to process more photos at once rather than more spread out like I currently do.
Another cool bit of news is I recently learned that Asklens.com has chosen me to be the focus of their next Photographer Spotlight series after finding my work here on Flickr! These are the same guys behind the very useful howmuchblur.com site. That was a surprising bit of news and I’m honored to have been chosen. It’s certainly a nice way to commemorate the 1-year anniversary :) Here's the article and interview: Asklens.com - Photographer Spotlight: Denny Yang.
Lastly, some have asked if I’m on Facebook and I am. You can find me on Facebook at www.facebook.com/dennyang.
Now onto this week’s picture. The Supermoon of November 14, 2016 was said to be the closest the Moon has been to Earth since January of 1948. On that day, the Moon was 30% brighter and 14% bigger than an average full moon. This phenomenon occurs when a full or new moon coincides with its closest approach to Earth, its perigee, and is a result of the Moon’s elliptical orbit around the Earth.
Before photographing, I had brainstormed interesting landmarks around Dallas that would showcase the size and shape of the Supermoon. The round ball of the Reunion Tower with the Dallas skyline won out. Obviously many people had similar ideas though as there were around 30 photographers shooting the skyline that night. Upon arrival I realized that the Moon would be smaller than I imagined next to the ball of Reunion Tower. Maybe seeing too many Photoshopped images of giant moons over a city had warped my expectations. Nonetheless it was a nice non-muddy night and I definitely learned my lesson and parked closer this time. The last time I was there shooting for the picture “Dallas Fire and Ice Sunset” I had to walk roughly 20 minutes over extremely muddy paths to get to my shooting location.
This was my first experience shooting with the Sony 70-300mm and I must say that the focal range is pretty nice to have in a single lens. This is actually the longest native zoom currently available for Sony full-frame E-mount and I’d say the lens is pretty sharp especially stopped down. Not super-sharp like the G-Masters or some Zeiss primes, but sharp enough for most applications.
Looking up at the corner of Wacker Avenue and Franklin Street in Chicago's Loop, the elliptical shaped building on the left is the Hyatt Center. The building in the middle, located one block back, is the Franklin Center and the building on the right is 111 South Wacker.
Nikon D5100, Tamron 18-270, ISO 200, f/10.0, 23mm, 1/60s
My Photo has just been chosen as the group banner for this group "Photografia Principiantes" and I am really honoured; {www.flickr.com/groups/2576888@N24/ }
This hidden gem, spans the Avonmore River on a quiet country road near Glendalough, Co. Wicklow.
Build around 1700, it is const ructed of local granite of triple arched elliptical design. It still carries traffic every day which is a wonderful testament to the craftsmen who built it all those years ago.
Derrybawn is Gaeilic and means " White Oaks".
The white oak refers to the "Sessile Oak" and there would have been a forest of them here years ago. They were cut down by the English in Elizabeth 1st reign to build the British fleet.
I have a photo here of the last one that is remaing. A pity as they are really magnificent trees and who are we to destroy such wonderful, living and breathing wonders of nature.
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Pat.
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Big pipe leading over the Mittlere-Isar-Kanal near Unterföhring.
On it's lenght of 64 km the Mittlere-Isar-Kanal supplies in total 7 run-of-the-river power stations with water. It begins at the Stauwehr Oberföhring in Munich.
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On the elliptic southern ramp of the Arnulfsteg bridge. The Arnulfsteg is a new pedestrians bridge, crossing the railway tracks that lead to the central train station.
Here is the same ramp from below.
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A nearly 360° panorama taken at the southern end of the Arnulfsteg, a new pedestrians bridge, crossing the railway tracks that lead to the central train station.
The bridge in the center, to the left is the lift for disabled, also the staircase, to the right is the long elliptical ramp for cyclists.
You may want to view this in XXL!
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Epiphytic or terrestrial orchids with cylindrical rhizome from which the fleshy noodle-like roots grow. Pseudobulbs can be conical, spindle-shaped or cylindrical; with upright growth; one or two leaves growing from the top of them. The leaves can be oblong, lanceolate or elliptical, somewhat fleshy, with smooth margin. The inflorescence is a terminal raceme with few or several flowers. Flowers have sepals and petals free from each other; the lip or labellum (lowermost petal), usually has a different coloration and shape from the rest of the flower and covers in part the flower column forming a tube. There are four polliniums (bag-like organs that contain pollen). The fruit is a capsule with many small seeds.[
THE THINGS THAT SEPARATE US...
Two small planets rotate on an elliptical axis without ever meeting. But in the evening, as soon as they realign at the closest point, if nothing else they can see each other, along with everything that divides them ...
La iglesia de San Antonio de los Alemanes, fundada como iglesia de San Antonio de los Portugueses, es una iglesia situada en el distrito Centro de Madrid (España). Constituye un ejemplo claro del barroco madrileño. Se emplearon en su construcción materiales de bajo coste como el ladrillo y el yeso, con una fachada sobria y chapitel. La principal novedad de esta iglesia es su planta elíptica, una de las pocas que hay en España, así como el hecho de que está enteramente pintada al fresco, tanto la cúpula como las paredes.
The church of San Antonio of the Germans, founded as a church of San Antonio de los Portugueses, is a church located in the center of Madrid (Spain) district. It is a clear example of Baroque Madrid. They were used in the construction of low cost materials such as brick and plaster, with a sober facade and spire. The main novelty of this church is its elliptical plant, one of the few in Spain, as well as the fact that it is entirely frescoed both the dome and the walls.
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Taken Leeds Liverpool Canal Bingley. West Yorkshire.
This Grade II Listed stone built bridge is contemporary with the canal (c.1773). The towpath crosses to the opposite bank across this bridge. The arch over the waterway is elliptical and has chamfered voussoirs. The parapets have shallow triangular copings which are held together by iron staples.
The curve in the elliptic southern ramp of the Arnulfsteg as seen from below. The Arnulfsteg is a new pedestrians bridge, crossing the railway tracks that lead to the central train station.
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The amphitheatre was probably first built between about AD 50 and 70 at the eastern edge of the Roman town Calleva Atrebatum. The arena now has an elliptical plan with two opposing entrances on the longer, north-south axis and two small rooms recessed into the seating bank on the east-west axis. It measures about 45 by 39 metres.
Prato della Valle is a 90,000 square meter elliptical square in Padova, . It is the largest square in Italy, and one of the largest in Europe.
Looking up inside Shanghai Hesheng International Plaza (上海合生国际广场), aka "Hopson One" (合生汇), a shopping mall located on the rather futuristic designed Wujiaochang square.
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This was taken inside the Hallgrímskirkja Bell Tower in Reykjavík, Iceland. #Reykjavík #Iceland #Hallgrímskirkja #church #Belltower #elliptical
Cattleya is a genus of orchids from Costa Rica south to Argentina. The genus is abbreviated C in trade journals. Epiphytic or terrestrial orchids with cylindrical rhizome from which the fleshy noodle-like roots grow. Pseudobulbs can be conical, spindle-shaped or cylindrical; with upright growth; one or two leaves growing from the top of them. The leaves can be oblong, lanceolate or elliptical, somewhat fleshy, with smooth margin. The inflorescence is a terminal raceme with few or several flowers. Flowers have sepals and petals free from each other; the lip or labellum (lowermost petal), usually has a different coloration and shape from the rest of the flower and covers in part the flower column forming a tube. There are four polliniums (bag-like organs that contain pollen). The fruit is a capsule with many small seeds. 56087
Macro Monday
Theme: Pink
Size: Less than 3x3 inches
The subject is a pink plastic cutlery strainer from Ikea with small elliptical holes for water drainage in its base.
The bigger diameter of the hole is 8mm.
I stuck a pinkish pin head into the drainage hole. If you look carefully you could see the pin shadow.
You can also see all the scarring marks on the plastic.
I deliver the bubbles into the hole by blowing with a straw.
Only one light source of natural light at 12 o'clock.
I have turned the image upside down for better effect.
Many thanks for your visit, comments and faves...it is always appreciated..
Peaceful MM
The amphitheatre was probably first built between about AD 50 and 70 at the eastern edge of the Roman town Calleva Atrebatum. The arena now has an elliptical plan with two opposing entrances on the longer, north-south axis and two small rooms recessed into the seating bank on the east-west axis. It measures about 45 by 39 metres.
Soil from the area of the arena, whose surface lies some 2 metres below the original ground level, was used to build up the seating banks. At first the inner faces of the banks were retained by an almost circular timber revetment, a wall which may have had the additional function of supporting timber terracing for spectators.
In the third century, after modifications and periods of disuse, the arena was refurbished and the timber revetment was replaced by a wall of flint and brown ironstone, the lower courses of which remain. Originally about 3 metres high it also served to support seating arrangements which continued to be of wood.
On the east and west sides are semi-circular niches which were probably once vaulted. There is no evidence as to how they were used, but similar recesses elsewhere have contained altars to Nemesis (fate). Alternatively, they may have served as refuges for participants in the games held in the arena. Images and diagrams of the amphitheatre.
The banks of the seats in the amphitheatre provided space for between 4,500 and 9,000 spectators. No evidence survives of the sort of activities which took place here, but gladiatorial combat and shows using wild beasts were popular, but expensive, forms of entertainment elsewhere in the Roman empire. Blood sports using bulls, dogs and bears are possibilities at Silchester. Public executions also took place in amphitheatres.
Lindy Lee
Secret World of a Starlight Ember 2020
stainless steel, LED
The Kerridge Foundation in memory of Maureen Anne Kerridge AM
The shape of A Secret World of a Starlight Ember is egg-like: eggs are about beginnings – the beginning of life itself. During the day, the work reflects the pageantry of life around it. People are reflected in it, dissolving into the reflections of the harbour, the buildings, the sky, emphasising how humans are part of nature. At night, the work emanates light – shimmering like star dust, throwing shadows beneath it. The work hovers in space, drawing people toward it, transforming the public space.
‘I'm intrigued by this beautiful reality that we still receive the light of stars that were born and died millions of years ago. For me, that is a beautiful analogy of life; our lives our finite, even the stars are finite. Each life has a resonance and has this ripple effect that goes on beyond us. Secret World of a Starlight Ember represents each and every one of us; the secret world is our secret lives in every moment that we exist … We ripple out into the world and the world ripples into us. And that's how life is formed, that's the dynamism of life.’
This is the same tree as my previous post just a different point of view. Joshua Tree National Park, California.
Under the Wanka, or monolith, it was found a collective tomb of Cañari origin.
It has eleven individual corpses with abundant offerings like ceramics, copper, pins, and spondylus shell beads. The main body is a woman of high status, probably a Cañari priestess. The tomb dates back from 1100 AD and 1500 AD (Antonio Fresco).
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To the south of the entire monumental complex of Ingapirca is this sector, extremely important not only for its ceremonial historical significance of having been a Cañari temple, and depositary in its central square of a multiple burial with rich funerary content, but also for its curious implementation previously planned to accommodate the natural topography of the land. It is an architectural unit that, looking at it in the aerial photo, its entire floor resembles a huge ogival arch reclining from East to West, or also a trapezoid whose major base is straight, while the minor closes with a wall of semi-elliptical containment.
The nucleus of this unit is defined by a rectangular square (12m x 8.60m) from where 6 enclosures that were built around it were accessed. In that square or Kancha of Ingapirca - Ecuador there is still evidence of a circular floor (4 m2), paved with boulders and associated with a stone trail or stop wanka (1.50m high) that indicate the exact site below of which the Cañaris had buried 11 individuals with their offerings of ceramics, copper, shell (Spondylus), bone and deer antler. This collective tomb, according to the studies carried out, would be related to the Cañari Cashaloma Tradition and probably be a high-ranking woman and her ten companions slaughtered so that they remain her eternal faithful servants.
El templete elíptico de El Capricho, que desde las primeras décadas del siglo XIX contiene una escultura del dios Baco, es una las construcciones más destacables y hermosas del parque de la Alameda de Osuna, declarado en 1934 Jardín Artístico, hoy Bien de Interés Cultural como Jardín Histórico.
Fue realizado entre 1786 y 1789
El Capricho's elliptical shrine with the sculpture of the god Bacchus. It was built between 1786 and 1789.
The flip side to yesterday's story....;-)
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A supermoon is the coincidence of a full moon or a new moon with the closest approach the Moon makes to the Earth on its elliptical orbit, resulting in the largest apparent size of the lunar disk as seen from Earth. Thus, there should logically be only one per year (this was it), but I reckon marketing demands have resulted in a few more being assigned the designation. In fact, there are 5 in 2014: two in January; one in July; this one; and another in September. Convenient how three fall consecutively during the vacation months. I personally believe its a ploy by big oil to induce additional driving. Before you know it, every moon will be super.
Technically this phenomenon is called a perigee-syzygy...a term never used because no one can pronounce it. On the other hand an apogee-syzygy is called in popular parlance a "micromoon"...also a term never used for the same reason AND because no one cares about it. (To wit, have you ever heard anyone say, "Hey, Helen...don't forget about the micromoon tonight." I didn't think so...)
This Spitfire has had its elliptical wing tips removed to improve roll rate at low level. It is not an LF model which had a modified supercharger to improve engine performance at low level. LFs often had their wing tips removed too, for the same reason, but absence of wing tips is not definitive of LF models. From 1942, this Spitfire served with RAF No 310 (Czech) squadron, hence the additional Czech roundel. This weekend was to be the Shuttleworth air show, now cancelled, so this picture is from last year's show.
Other areas of the site include Pilaloma which was a small plain located in the south-eastern end of the temple. Here, the Incas built enclosures in a space defined by a semi-elliptical wall. In front of Pilaloma are five circular structures used to store various bulk resources.
Pilaloma has been dated as the oldest structure of Ingapirca.
Italia, Emilia-Romagna, Ferrara, Primavera 2023
Ferrara è una città dell'Emilia-Romagna, nel nord Italia. Il paese presenta strade larghe e numerosi palazzi risalenti al Rinascimento, quando ospitò la corte degli Estensi. Per la sua bellezza e importanza culturale, è stato designato dall'UNESCO come Patrimonio dell'Umanità. Il pittoresco cortile noto come La Rotonda Foschini è parte integrante dello storico Teatro Comunale di Ferrara. Questa ripresa della Rotonda Foschini, rivolta verso l'alto, mostra con grande effetto la sua strana forma ellittica e chiarisce perché questa parte del Teatro ha fornito ispirazione ai fotografi nel corso dei decenni. Fu costruita nel 1797.
Ferrara is a city in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy. The town has broad streets and numerous palaces dating from the Renaissance, when it hosted the court of the House of Este. For its beauty and cultural importance, it has been designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. The picturesque courtyard known as La Rotonda Foschini is an integral part of Ferrara’s historic Teatro Comunale. This upward-looking shot of the Rotonda Foschini shows off its strange, elliptical shape to great effect and makes it clear why this part of the Teatro has provided inspiration for photographers through the decades. It was built in 1797.
NGC 1316 is a lenticular/elliptical galaxy in the Fornax constellation, around 60 million light years from earth.
What you're looking at here is very likely the result of a past merger/collision of multiple smaller galaxies roughly 3 billion years ago. So how do we know that? There's a few telltale signs:
- First of all, lets establish that lenticular/elliptical galaxies tend to be very "quiet". They've used up most of their material in past star formation, so very little new star formation is happening. Their core regions tend to be relatively uneventful compared to other galaxies as well.
- In the case of NGC 1316, it's anything but "quiet". When observing it in in the radiowave end of the spectrum, it's in fact one of the most powerful emission sources in the entire night sky. These emissions are triggered by large amounts of material falling into the galaxy's central supermassive black hole. The fact that this material is even there to begin with is a good indication that it had to come from elsewhere (galactic merger).
- Visually, the above can be seen to an extent by the dark dust lanes near the galactic core as well (the dark orange/brown structures in the center).
- The halo around the galaxy (the thin glow-like structure far around it) is quite a bit larger than one would expect, hinting at past gravitational interactions that flung out large amounts of stars/gas.
Image acquisition details:
21x1200" Luminance
15x1200" Red
15x1200" Green
15x1200" Blue
6x1800" HA
Eucharis are evergreen bulbous perennials with long-stalked, lance-shaped or elliptic leaves, and erect stems bearing umbels of fragrant white flowers, daffodil-like, with a cup surrounded by spreading 6 petals.
Eucharis amazonica is a bulbous perennial to 75cm, with narrowly elliptic leaves and erect stems bearing an umbel of fragrant white flowers, the stamens united at the base to form a cup.
The English name Amazon lily is used for both species, but is also used for the genus Eucharis as a whole (and for other genera). Despite the common name, it is not closely related to the true lilies.
“Amazon Lily Nest” — это аромат для женщин, он принадлежит к группе цветочные. Amazon Lily выпущен в 2012 году. Парфюмер: Christophe Laudamiel. Верхние ноты: Лайм, Танжерин и Бергамот; средняя нота: Лилия; базовые ноты: Высушенная древесина, плавник и Белый мускус.
The most important building, not only of the monumental complex of Ingapirca but also of the entire North of the Inca Empire was and is this elliptical Temple whose major axis is 37.10 m by 12.36 m of the minor and 4.10 m Tall. It has 11 parallel rows whose perfectly joined joints and sores present a careful work of padded and overlapping ashlars according to the traditional norms of classical Cuzco architecture. Its construction was due to a process of adaptation of the elliptical design conceived by the Inca architect on the outcrop of a rock that stood out in that place at the top of a deep ravine. This rock was shaped like an ellipse and proceeded to coat it with those symmetrically carved blocks.
Although the external parts of the joints have a perfect union, internally you can check the use of mortar based on a clay with a high cement content and that exists only in Ingapirca which, due to its presentation and color, the farmers follow calling with the quichua terminology of "quillucaca" (yellow droppings). The temple is linked to the Ceremonial Square through a ramp that ascends to a trapezoidal door in the center of the major axis, on its south side. When passing this door, one encounters a beautiful typically Inca niche and the wall of the evil called "guard body", so it must be turned to the sides where two small opposite stairways arise that allow to reach the temple platform. From there the view is wonderful because the entire Hatun Cañar Valley is dominated and the ruins of the monument are appreciated.
The elliptical platform is divided in its central part by the presence of two enclosures whose fronts face opposite, one towards the east and the other towards the west. These two rooms are separated by a mediating wall with evidence of trapezoidal niches or niches; while in its north and south walls, which end in tall gables, two niches the size of a man appear and match the entrance doors to each enclosure. This building with two opposite environments and without windows is considered the sanctuary of the sun. In the opinion of the archaeastronomic scholars, through its doors the rays of the rising sun (eastern room) and the west (western room) entered the niches of the mediating wall, indicating periods of illumination and shadow according to the periodic variations in the output and sunset of the star king. According to Ziólkowski's experiments, the eastern room would have been illuminated in the period of the December solstice, while the western one in the June solstice, a phenomenon interpreted by Aboriginal priests and sages to announce their feasts and the beginning of sowing and harvesting respectively in the fields.
On the northern part of the Temple, that is, in Barranco, four retaining walls, now restored and consolidated, stand out, giving it a total contrast with the south side; because while in this sector everything is flat and accessible, in Barranco everything is pending and rugged. These contrasts generate in the visitor two different attitudes: the one of security and the other of anguish and vertigo. In any case, the danger is annulled with the presence of an extraordinary Inca wall that extends from the Ellipse to the West, separating the cozy spaces of the Akllahuasi from those inaccessible from the precipice. It is the wall that still keeps intact the original finish of its carvers and builders from five hundred years ago.
Morinda latibractea is a tall shrub or small tree 3-5 m tall. Leaves are broadly elliptic to oval shaped 8-15 x 3-5, with pointed tips.
Morinda latibracteata is endemic to the rock islands of Belau (Palau). There are between 50 to 80 species of Morinda, mostly in the old-world tropics. All Morinda flowers are heterostylous, meaning flowers have variable style length to prevent self-fertilization.
Common Names:
In Palau: kesengelengel
Morinda latibractea, Rubiaceae
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
Messier 105 (upper) is an elliptical galaxy belonging to the Leo group and is at a distance of 30 million light years from Earth. The neighbouring lenticular galaxy NGC3371 also belongs to the Leo group. NGC 3373 which is at a distance of 54 million light years and is blueish in colour lies in the background.
Canon EOS 60D Ha Modified @ ISO 1600.
100x30 sec unguided subs with calibration frames added.
Celestron C11 at f6.3.
Tracked on a Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 mount.
Imaged from suburbia.
Processed in APP and finished off in LR.
Messier 81 (also known as NGC 3031 ) is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major.
Messier 81 was first discovered by Johann Elert Bode on December 31, 1774. Consequently, the galaxy is sometimes referred to as "Bodes Galaxy".
Messier 82 (also knows as NGC 3034) is a starburst galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major.
Messier 82 is commonly referred to as the Cigar Galaxy.
Ursa Major is approximately 11.7 million light years from Earth. The distance from M81 to M82 is 150,000 light years.
M81 and M82 are best seen during the spring.
Equipment:
Astro-Tech AT80EDT f/6 ED Triple Refractor Telescope
Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro Computerized GoTo Telescope Mount
Orion 50mm Helical Guide Scope & StarShoot AutoGuider
Orion 38mm clear-aperture Field Flattener
PHD2 Guiding Software
Astronomy Tool Actions
Thank you for your comments,
Gemma
A large rounded evergreen tree with glossy dark green leaves that are leathery oblong-elliptic and are rusty-brown beneath, the large cup-shaped cream like flowers are highly fragrant which will often bloom in late summer and autumn. Can sometimes be known as the Southern Magnolia or Bull Bay. Native to Southern United States, from Virginia to central Florida and west to East Texas.
A starfighter that performs best in elliptical planetary gravity assited maneuvers. A highly unusual straighter made from tablesraps and old partly disassembled mocs. Rebuilt the main wing section about six times and still not totally satisfied.
The Quezon Memorial Monument and Shrine within the Quezon Memorial Circle at dusk, a park in Quezon City (in honor of Manuel Quezon, President of the Commonwealth Government after whom the city was named), Metro Manila, Republic of the Philippines looking south.
the setting sun lights the pier and the old trees by lake Mälaren.../ Elliptiskt...aftonsolen lyser upp kajen och de gamla träden vid Mälaren.../Elíptica...el sol poniente ilumina el muelle y los añosos árboles junto al lago Mälaren...(DSC_4251-3)
El templete elíptico de El Capricho, que desde las primeras décadas del siglo XIX contiene una escultura del dios Baco, es una las construcciones más destacables y hermosas del parque de la Alameda de Osuna, declarado en 1934 Jardín Artístico, hoy Bien de Interés Cultural como Jardín Histórico.
Fue realizado entre 1786 y 1789
El Capricho's elliptical shrine with the sculpture of the god Bacchus. It was built between 1786 and 1789.