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Last year when visiting with my daughter and her husband out in Nevada, Tom & I took the day to explore to see what we could find. I had heard of a band of wild horses in the area, so we thought why not try ... and lo and behold, we found them. The ones that we found were roaming the hillside, probably about a dozen of them. It was not my first encounter with wild horses ... but one that ignited my passion for them collectively.
I found something special in seeing the young following along with the older ones. They just seemed so innocent and loving, as they learned the way of the wild.
Happy Hump Day everyone! Thanks for stopping by.
© 2018 Debbie Tubridy / TNWA Photography
Marina Bay is a bay near Central Area in the southern part of Singapore, and lies to the east of the Downtown Core. Marina Bay is set to be a 24/7 destination with endless opportunities for people to “explore new living and lifestyle options, exchange new ideas and information for business, and be entertained by rich leisure and cultural experiences”. It is here where the most innovative facilities and infrastructure such as the underground “common services tunnel” are built and where mega activities take place.
The URA Master Plan for Marina Bay aims to encourage a mix of uses for this area, including commercial, residential, hotel and entertainment, to ensure that the area remains vibrant round the clock. All developments in the area aim to promote the 3 premises of Explore, Exchange and Entertain:
Explore – New living options. Numerous high-end residential developments are in the pipeline, including One Shenton and Marina Bay Residences which will complement The Sail @ Marina Bay to provide a seamless work-live environment at the heart of the city.
Exchange - Hub for global business. When completed, Marina Bay will double the size of the existing financial district, further cementing Singapore’s position as one of Asia's leading financial centres. It will provide 2.82 million square metres of office space, equivalent to the office space within Hong Kong's main business district, Central.
Entertain - Kaleidoscope of activities. In 2010, the opening of Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort provided more entertainment options to the area, along with the other existing entertainment and shopping districts like Esplanade, Suntec City, Marina Square, Raffles City Shopping Centre.
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Even in broad daylight abandoned vessels give me the willies. I was able to overcome my fear long enough to capture a few images of the ominous hulk of the ghost ship Joker in Willapa Harbor. While I was there I was sure that the slippery dock was going to send me tumbling into the dark waters by the ruined hull or that the mooring lines would coil around me like the filaments of spider web.
Abandoned vessels are a problem in the waterways of Washington state. Michael A. Schueler described the situation in his article 'A Sinking Feeling: The Problem of Abandoned Boats in Washington Waterways." Seattle Journal of Environmental Law Vol. 4 : Iss. 1, Article 8. Available at: digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/sjel/vol4/iss1/8
Schueler wrote:
In 2012, the Deep Sea, a 128-foot vessel known to be derelict, was moved to Penn Cove, Washington, and left to rot near vulnerable oyster beds.
After a few days, the Deep Sea caught fire and sunk, causing significant damage to local wildlife and the local economy, and costing the state millions to cleanup.
The Deep Sea is one of hundreds of boats that have been abandoned in Washington waters and though the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is making some progress in removing derelict and abandoned boats from Washington’s waterways, the progress is slow and cannot keep up with the need, due in no small part to the amount of abandoned boats and the Department’s budget constraints.
Between 2012 and 2014 there has continuously been over one
hundred boats left abandoned or derelict in Washington waters. Should any of these boats sink, these vessels all pose significant environmental risks, due to contaminants commonly found on ships, including excess fuel, lead paint, and asbestos.
Between January 2012 and November 2012, the state removed 23 of the 226 vessels listed on the DNR’s list of abandoned and derelict vessels. In this same time period, however, 18 vessels were added to the DNR’s list. As of publication, 153 vessels are still on the DNR’s list, including numerous ships over 100 feet in length.
The DNR’s Derelict Vessel Removal Program operates on a scant $750,000 budget each year.
Dismantling even one large vessel can cost more than the entire budget. Small fishing ships, among the cheapest of vessels to remove, can still cost between $5,000 and $10,0005 to remove, with one recently costing $7,600 in Gig Harbor.
Assuming each boat’s removal cost is as little as $7,600, the DNR would be able to remove less than 100 vessels a year—less than two-thirds of the currently maintained list of derelict and abandoned ships. However, many abandoned or derelict ships in Washington that are far larger than small fishing vessels and are far costlier remove. Compounding this problem further, many boats removed from the list end up back on the list for a second or third time.
With this budgetary limitation, the DNR will be unable to remove
the existing boats this season, or keep up with the ships added to the list this year, digging the state into a deeper hole and adding additional liability to Washington's economy and environment.
Many of the ships on the DNR’s list are “large vessels” containing
pollutants that can cause significant environmental damage and require significant funding to properly cleanup.
During a flyover of the Columbia River to look into the growing problem of abandoned and derelict vessels, then Governors Gregoire of Washington and Kitzhaber of Oregon noted approximately 40 vessels on the Columbia River between Washington and Oregon.
Of these vessels at least half fall into the category of large ships, “between 100 and 181 feet long.” One of these vessels, the LST-1166 is 373 feet long and would likely require “legislative action” to remove.
Many of these boats contain large amounts of fuel and other environmental pollutants including PCBs, copper wiring, lead paint and asbestos insulation. These pollutants can
cause significant environmental damage if released into the environment and also can cost the state millions in cleanup costs.
For example, the cleanup of the Crocket in 2011 cost the state nearly $24 million in removal and cleanup costs when it was broken apart.
Given its current budget constraints, Washington cannot endure cleanup costs similar to this, especially considering that there may be 20 or more ships that could cost this much. There will likely be more boats abandoned in the coming year as the recession continues, increasing the likelihood of further environmental damage.
As more and more of these ships continue to fall into derelict status and are abandoned, Washington takes a huge gamble in letting these ships sink. Each large ship left unattended could cost the state tens of millions of dollars and poses significant environmental risks to local waterways and wildlife should the vessel sink.
The Third Place
The “Grand Stair” at the newly redesigned and renovated National Arts Centre in Ottawa. Seemingly, this grand stair - with its riser seating - has become a popular third place (a social environment distinct from the home - the first place, and the workplace - the second place) for students’ and professionals alike - many of whom were engaged in social and/or personal activities during our visit.
"Originally opened in 1969, a two-years belated centennial birthday gift to Canada, and designed by Fred Lebensold of Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold, Sise, the existing building was a brutalist masterpiece." Today, the main public areas of the building - the atrium and mezzanine levels - are airy light-filled spaces, which overlook Confederation Square and the Chateau Laurier - in short, the view is magnificent.
Source: spacing.ca/ottawa/2017/07/05/review-national-arts-centre-...
Strobist:
studio: 90cm octa from above, 70x40 softbox downside up fill
outdoor: EL Ranger with 40x40 softbox left, 40x90 stripe right fil
Nikon D3x
Victorian cobbles dating back to the arrival of the adjacent railway cutting (1876), beside Bow Church Station.
LR3832 © Joe O'Malley 2020
This small tree had a short life at the base of an acidic travertine cascade in Mammoth Hot Springs.
Just press L or click on the shot to see it on black background !!!
Photography is a play with light and shadows ... An effort to capture as accurately as possible the miniscule amount of light that exists in the atmosphere, transforming the objects that it showers into a meaningful, visually interesting image ... And last but not least, photography is all about capturing something dead and serve a living, breathing, interesting to look at scene in its place ...
EXIF: NIKON D90 with Nikon Nikkor 18 - 55 lens, Manual Mode, f 25, ISO 200, focal length 46 mm, auto exposure mode, fine weather adjusted white balance, center weighted average light metering mode, HDR made by only 1 original RAW shot with shutter speed 1/25 s, managing to accurately convey the scene's lighting conditions to the viewer, flash didn't go off, no tripod ...
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Happy environment day! It is vitally important to understand that the responsibility of preserving and protecting it falls on us, due to its fragility and importance in all forms of life. All action in favor of this is significant, from the simplest. Let's become aware and take care of it, so that we can marvel at it for a long time to come! Photo of the front moraine of the Exploradores Glacier, an area in constant change due to the movements of this
But I say that the bird in the bush is so much prettier. We see it in it's natural environment. ️♀️ I loved this shot I got last year of a sparrow among the rose hips.
HBW :) playing around with water droplets :)
I've been tagged erm! well erm, erm, erm,....lol sounds like a GeorgeW moment
16 things..oh! Cheers Donna :P :)
1. I'm totally addicted to looking through lenses and scopes, really! some might say! ;)
2. I'm quite independant and thoroughly stubborn as is every Taurus and easily bribed with food :)
3. I love the month of May
4. I'll find any excuse to drive somewhere and have a day out and take photos.
5. I love English Bullmastiffs and I have three of them.
6. I love long lazy days outdoors in the sun, but it often rains here :(
7. I used to spend 24/7/365 in front of a computer and now only 18/6/365..working on it.
8. I need to discover the American continent north and south.
9. I'm very passionate about the environment and believe Global warming is a natural balance not a tax, Mans polution is not!
10. I love the fact that the first cars ran on water thats H2O not oil! scary stuff hey! ;)
11. I believe every man woman and child is entitled to food, a dry bed and a standard of life and care worldwide, the UN is a farce, Bill Gates rocks!
12. I love perfection and things that just work, Henry Ford was a complete heratic to engineering (Built in Obsolescence = Wrong!. )
13. I have a lot of friends who think I'm just plain crazy. oh! :)
14. I don't care what people think as I have rhino skin and very selective hearing :P
15. I love Film Noire and watch them all the time :)
16. I believe in total karma in all things :)
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If anyone can suggest a good strobe setup let me know :)
I am re-posting this photo of a Golden Whistler to illustrate the dense sticky thicket this bird was hiding in, on Callum Brae, May 2013.
This site is a narrow strip of dense bushes and sticks between a boundary fence and a track. It is home to the following species of small birds:
Fairy wrens
Red-browed finch
White eared honeyeater
Speckled warbler......(threatened species, I think)
Eastern spinebill
Yellow-faced honeyeater
Fuscous honeyeater
Leaden Flycatcher
Buff-rumped thornbill
Yellow-rumped thornbill
Striated thornbill
Weebill
White browed scrubwren
White-throated treecreeper
Silvereye
Grey fantail
Scarlet robin
Rufous whistler
Golden whistler
Sacred kingfisher.
Althought the Kingfisher just passes through from time to time, without living in the bushes.
On Callum Brae there would not be another single area of that size that could boast such a variety or density of small birds.
Yesterday morning two men with a large mechanical borer came in and drilled a series of holes along the fence line which they said were “test” holes for ACTEW.
Assuming either an electricity line or water pipe is to be taken along that fence line, it can only be done with the destruction of all of the abovementioned habitat, and dispersal of the small birds. Birds driven out of habitat that is especially suitable for breeding and cover will not necessarily find alternative accommodation, so to speak, and may cease to breed and inhabit the general area.
An impending further decline of bird numbers in the ACT.
Fig. 51 (p. 134) - A representation of the art of dying in Savonarola’s book ‘Predica dell’arte del bene morire’ (Firenze, 1504). The two-division of life and death is superimposed on a four-division of heaven and earth.
Pp. 267 - 268 in: Vision of Four Notions - Marten Kuilman (unpublished). 'Visions of Four Notions' is the second book of a quadrilogue by Marten Kuilman. The book deals primarily with the theoretical aspects of quadralectic thinking. It was completed in November 2001:
The introduction of das Geviert (the four-fold), in the later works of Martin Heidegger (Vorträge und Aufsätze, 1954), pointed to the interplay of heaven and earth, the holy and the mortal. He saw these four entities as the main constituencies in the creation of space and Being. His visualisation of the four-fold, as a meeting place for man and nature, is a strong reminder to the picture of the ‘art of dying’ in Girolamo Savonarola’s book ‘Predica dell’arte del bene morire’ (see p. 134; fig. 51). This symmetrical woodcut – shaped at the Pivotal Point of the European cultural history (Chapter 6.1; fig. 66; p. 188) – has exactly the components, which Heidegger saw as the ‘world’ (das bauende Hervorbringen).
The boundary between heaven and earth is right in the middle. The Death emphasizes the opposition by pointing his arms to the signs quasu (now written as quassu, an (Italian) adverb meaning ‘up here’ or ‘on high’) and quagiu (now quaggiu, translated as ‘down here’, on earth). The contrast between holy and mortal is envisaged in God and the angels, in the upper half, and Satan (as the fallen angel Lucifer) and the devils in the lower half. These two oppositional pairs (heaven-earth and holy-mortal) represent the basic qualities of any communication in place and time (or in their operational disguises as division and movement).
Heidegger’s Geviert has, although covered in a blanket of hard-to-under-stand terms (‘penetrating the thickets of Heidegger’s terminological jungle’), a strong analogy with Savonarola’s ‘art of dying’. Both renderings try to construct, despite a time gap of 450 years, a ‘life-monument’, which is able to surpass the black-and-white setting of life (and death). The composition of (four) quadrants gives room for a broader picture of reality-itself:
1. God sits in heaven, in a circle of clouds. The blessing figure, surrounded by nine angels (the muses?) amidst stars, is framed in a mandorla with four angels. This holy place bears all the characteristics of the First Quadrant, the invisible invisibility of the quadralectic mind.
2. The holy circle shines its light into a rather empty sky. Only two angels populate this part of the picture, floating on a cloud. Their gestures indicate an invitation to the mortals below. The symmetry of the figures is probably a reference to the First Division, in this case a two-division. They form, together with God in heaven, a trinity in quasu. The invisible visibility of the division-environment is characteristic for the Second Quadrant.
3. The dualism of Life and Death reaches its zenith in the world of the mortal. The richly dressed nobleman, with his purse strapped to his belt, has an encounter with Death. The man tries to plea his innocence, but death is merciless pointing to heaven. It is time to leave the quagui. Two devils are ready to assist the departure of this earth. They form, together with the mortal and the death, a curious quaternity in quagiu. The visible visibility of the Third Quadrant is a place of limitations.
4. The sad cry of victory by a troubled Lucifer, roaring in the half-circle of the earth, represents the opposite face (of power) in the lower quarter of the picture. Four devils surround the Devil, while he is crushing two unlucky mortals. It seems as if there is no mercy in this place of darkness. A comparison with the visible invisibility of the quadralectic Fourth Quadrant might be appropriate here, but it should be noted, that the emphasis is very much on the oppositional aspects.
Earth Day, celebrated April 22, is a day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's environment...[Wikipedia]
♫ Planet Earth Forever - Jo Blankenburg
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Of the three Salinas Missions, Quarai enjoyed access to streams and endured the longest. However, enduring drought and human strife led to its abandonment by both Spaniards and pueblo peoples in 1677. Permanent human habitation would not return to the Estancia Basin until the early 19th century.
Quarai No. 7 in my Salinas Pueblo Missions album.
Saving the world from extinction with permaculture farming... auraionline.com/2017/04/09/saving-the-world-from-extincti...
Scholven Power Station is a E.ON owned coal-fired power station in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Its installed output capacity of 2300 MW it is one of the most powerful coal-fired power stations in Europe.
Source: Wikipedia
"Why are you taking a photograph of a Power Plant", my wife asked, well the answer is that as ironic as it seems these Power Plants, as inextricably linked to environmental concerns as they are actually do have aesthetic appeal. There is an abundance of different shapes and colour within the plant that on a fine day one cannot fail to recognise it's magnetism. Now I will agree that not all Power Plants have this appeal, but I believe this one in South Wales does.
Combating climate change and making the planet greener and cleaner is an issue for everyone. Climate change is no longer a distant, futuristic scenario, but an immediate threat. How times have changed since World Environment Day was launched by the United Nations General Assembly 36 years ago. We wonder if they considered then that today climate change, global warming, natural disasters and the effects of global climate change --- deforestation, desertification, flooding, sea-level rise, beach erosion and other environmental impacts would have such an impact on world hunger and poverty.
Climate change is expected to put an estimated 50 million more people at risk of hunger and water stress by 2020. By 2050 a third of the people on Earth may lack a clean, secure source of water. It poses a serious threat to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), especially during a period of global economic recession, when resources needed to cope with climate change may be reassigned.
Poor people in developing countries are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The negative impacts on their crop yields are already being felt and will be increasingly severe. Climate change is likely to affect forest expansion and migration, and exacerbate threats to biodiversity resulting from land use/cover change and population pressure. Marine and coastal ecosystems are likely to be affected by sea level rise and temperature increases. Human health will also be adversely affected. Rising temperatures and rainfall variability had led to more climate-induced diseases and heat stress. Experts predict climate change-related stresses -- including disasters, food and water shortages and conflicts over scarce resources -- could permanently uproot 200 to 250 million people by mid-century. In many countries defence forces might find themselves torn between humanitarian relief operations and guarding their borders against climate refugees, as climate change and scarce resources, forcing millions of climate refugees across the borders.
United Nations demographers estimate that the world’s population will grow from today’s 6.7 billion people to somewhere between 7.8 billion and 10.8 billion by 2050. The solutions of global warming, climate refugees, extreme poverty and high levels of population growth will require entirely new relationships between the world’s human and natural systems. The world has yet to figure out how it will deal with global warming, changing rainfall patterns, melting glaciers, rising sea-levels and climate refugees.
According to new technique and research our planet's continents were arranged 2.5 billion years ago. We are homo consumens of the earth and very young specie still trying to understand the mysteries of nature and in our ignorance we have destroyed it. Climate change offers humanity no second chances. Only rich countries can break the deadlock crippling international climate negotiations and prevent the world lurching into climate disaster. We should find a way to measure the general well-being of the people and planet rather than just raw economic growth.
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Like the carbon footprint, water footprints are one of the latest methods scientists and policy makers are using to assess humanity's impact on the planet. And now businesses are starting to use water footprinting as well.
You can calculate your water footprint “here”.
Your Planet Needs You!
Unite to Combat Climate Change!
Encourage Slower Population Growth!
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Photo: Firoz Ahmad Firoz
This is another shot of the abandoned Towitta homestead (closer and later in the morning) I have not decided which works better, so I add this image so you can compare and contrast it to the other image.
See comments below for other image.
Palpatine is planning another secret mission for his elite group of hand picked troopers, Paplatine's Alpha Niner Tactical Squadron, and has ordered Stormtrooper Bruce to prepare another survival skills class within the week. STB gathers up his friends and drags them across the galaxy, searching uncharted planets for the best hostile environment available.
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Stormtrooper Bruce: OK guys, this place has possibilities. There's snow to melt for water, trees to provide wood for burning and shelter, and animal tracks - so there's game. But still, this might not be challenging enough for those fancy pants.
TK-432: Are you joking? Dis place is horrible! I'm frreeezin. I tink my enviromentl adjustr is brokin. Cant even talk.
Boba Fett: Dude. You can't be calling The P's elite group "fancy pants." If they hear you, they'll put their special skills to work and make you disappear. Forever!
STB: For the last time, it's P.A.N.T.S. And they love being called Palpatine's Fancy Pants.
TK-432: It's betr than beein calld Palpateens undrpants.
TK-1110: Knowing you, there's an hidden insult in there by calling them fancy pants. Right?
STB: What? No way. Would I do that?
Fett: Guys, we can debate what to call them later. What do you think about this planet? Let's make a decision so we can get off of here!
TK-432: Its horrrrbl. It'z the fourth plantae we'b visstde. I wanna leave. Kan't feel mi lips.
TK-1110: I'm with Mumbles here, this is the worst one you've dragged us to. First the desert one, then the water one, the double gravity one and now this ice box that goes on forever. For the love of the Emperor, why are we even here? Can't you, Mr Survival Skills Master, pick something suitable on your own?
STB: Actually, I do think this is the best one. I just needed to see which one would test your limits and make all of you start whining. And this is it! Geez, you're all such a bunch of babies.
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