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The ceiling of St Paul's Cathedral in London, apparently depicting scenes of evolution.
"The images, painted by William Blake Richmond in 1890, could appear to depict the theory of evolution. Internet giant Google has been detailing every inch of the building using high-resolution cameras that have, for the first time, shown the 30 metre-high ceiling in great detail.
The cathedral's head of collections, Simon Carter, told The Times newspaper that the mosaic appears to support Darwin's theories about the survival of the fittest - which he said is shown through a depiction of a fish with teeth 'fighting for survival.' From the ground and looking up at the ceiling, Simon Carter, said that the fish image appeared to be a 'calm mill pond.' He added that when seen on Google images, though, the scene looked 'tumultuous'.
'The fish are writhing around, they have massive teeth, and are pretty scary.' He continued: 'With the fishes, it looks like they are struggling for survival. "It is red in tooth and claw. Richmond was obviously driving at something else.'
Simon Carter then went on to say how, when the mosaic was commissioned in 1890, Charles Darwin's theories were still controversial. At the time, the Church was still grappling with his work, The Origin of Species, that had been published 40 years prior. The Church of England apologised for dismissing the work and ideas of Darwin in 2008."
The #MacroMondays #evolution theme
An old key from my wife's collection, above a modern one.
This is a 3 image HDR photo taken through a 12mm extension tube. The background is simply a book with a silvered cover which has reflected the brightly covered tablecloth beneath the assemblage
HMM all.
Canon FD Macro 50mm and Canon EF Macro 100mm (Macro Mondays Evolution) taken with Canon Powershot G10
# 832 Saryozek - Almaty train
[KTZh Almaty depot / КТЖ ТЧ-28 Алматы] TEP33A-0004 / ТЭП33А-0004
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The tower as part of the Moscow International Business Center. It looks like two ribbons twisting around each other.
Over the years the shapes of many kanji characters have changed. Usually one kanji character can have at least two or three, (and usually more), meanings. Yikes! No wonder it's so hard for us foreigners learn. These kanjis at the Stone Forest in Xi'an are some of the early ones.
Macro monday theme: evolution.
Vinyl vs SD card. Well, nowadays you don't even need an SD card anymore, just stream the music you like. So in that sense this picture does not show the latest stage of the evolution (but streaming would be difficult to photograph).
Somehow it turned out to get the vinyl free of dust was a real challenge. I used a special brush and some antistatics but still there was quite some microscopic dust particles. Some of them I could remove with photoshop repair.
So the advantage of the SD card is clearyl it does not suffer from dust. However, it cannot compare in terms of album cover art.
Evolution by Daniel Arrhakis (2018)
With the music : Album: ''Infinity'' 2016
Publisher: Revolt Production Music
Composers: Philippe Briand and Gabriel Saban
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The giraffe is the perfect animal to teach people about evolution. Natural selection teaches us about small mutations and how these give individuals an advantage over time. Being able to reach food where no other animals can clearly is the favored trait of the giraffe. Surprisingly, they do not contain more vertebrae in their necks but instead each one is much larger - up to 11 inches each! Lake Manyara National Park in Africa is a great spot to see giraffes. A storm builds over on the horizon as a male and female move in synchronization to the next acacia tree.
DRS 68001 'Evolution' seen close to the end of its journey as it hauls in loaded ballast stone from Leicestershire through Carlisle station working 6C89 09:45 Mountsorrel Sidings-Carlisle N.Y. 02/05/2017.
Milky Way above they upper Evolution Valley. The moonrise wasn't far off, and the glow on the right comes across the mountains from the California central valley.
Off the John Muir Trail near mile 120.
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Hippeastrum, these plants are popularly but erroneously known as Amaryllis and are cultivars of bulbous plants in the family Amaryllidacea.
The botanical name Amaryllis is taken from a shepherdess in Virgil's pastoral "Eclogues"(An eclogue is a poem in a classical style on a pastoral subject.
Poems in the genre are sometimes also called bucolics. Virgilius wrote the Bucolica, consisting of 10 Eclogues).
As a flower symbol it has come to mean "Dramatic", which seems most fitting here!
Hippeastrum is a popular bulb flower for indoor growing, it is Greek for "horseman's star" (also known today as "knight's star").
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At the foot of the evolution giants looking south. This valley was described by Le Conte in 1904 and I bet it didn't look much different than this. Those rocks were deposited there thousands of years ago, by the original earth movers, and they haven't been much disturbed since. And hopefully it'll still look like this in another thousand.
In the background right center is the Goddard Divide, once thought to be insurmountable, well at least with animals. Well, mules, sssssh, the sheep herders knew about it before King in the 1860's. And the local tribes.... I digressllll
Your reading assignment for tonight is to go to
vault.sierraclub.org/history/bulletin/
and download an early bulletin, in this case Vol. #5 "The Evolution Group of Peaks" by J. N. Le Conte, pg. 229
and start learning some of the historic folklore of the area before you visit! And know that, despite the relocation of USDA Growing Zones, these valleys look pretty much the same as described.