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…How pretty are your pink flamingos!
Yes, us weird Floridians and our weird Christmas decorations. For all kinds of crazy Florida-themed knickknacks, Bealls Department Store is a great place to find them (which is where I spotted this flamingo tree). However, if pink flamingos are just a bit too tacky for your tree…
Explored! - December 25, 2017 - #193
This image of galaxy cluster Abell S1063 was part of the Hubble Space Telescope's Frontier Fields project, which combined the power of natural "gravitational lenses" in space with Hubble's ability to create long-exposure deep field images.
Gravitational lenses occur when the immense gravity of massive galaxy clusters magnifies and distorts the light from objects behind them. This makes it possible to see objects far beyond the reach of normal telescopes.
Because light takes time to travel through vast space, the cluster of galaxies that make up Abell S1063 appears as it did 4 billion years ago. But Abell S1063 also allows astronomers to explore an earlier time, with at least one background galaxy appearing as it did just a billion years after the Big Bang.
Astronomers identified 16 background galaxies whose light has been distorted by the cluster’s gravity, causing multiple images of them. The gravity of the matter in the cluster, including normal and dark matter, causes this distortion. These types of observations help astronomers improve models of the distribution of matter in the cluster, key to understanding the mysterious nature of dark matter.
Observations of Abell S1063 also helped astronomers realize that the starlight in the cluster could be used to trace its distribution of dark matter. For a depiction of this, visit: hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2018/news-2018-56.html
Abell S1063 is located in the constellation Grus.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz (STScI)
For more information, visit: hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2016/news-2016-28.html
The Kiwi Rail passenger train that traverses the North Island Main Trunk line, is principally provided for the tourist market. The "Northern Explorer" as it is now called has received new-build modern passenger carriages recently and has become increasingly popular, with fully-booked trains becoming the norm in peak season. Contrary to this, the timetable frequency has been reduced in recent times with northbound departures from Wellington on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. The southbound service from Auckland runs on Mondays Thursdays and Saturdays.
The train is seen here at Thorndon ,shortly after departure from Wellington Railway Station, hauled by a DFB class locomotive in "patched" former Toll Rail livery.
Here is my third and final entry to the tips and bricks contest, a microscale build of set 497 Galaxy Explorer. I made sure to include every detail, from the ship to the base and satellite, to even the small rover. It does fit inside the 20x20x20 requirement, and I made sure that the ship does not extend past the base, which is 20 studs long. This was also my first attempt using a new editing software called gimp.
Thanks for checking it out!
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Canon 6d / 70-200mm canon
Baracoa is a municipality and city in Guantánamo Province near the eastern tip of Cuba. It was founded by the first governor of Cuba, the Spanish conquistador Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar in August 15 of 1511. It is the oldest Spanish settlement in Cuba and was its first capital (the basis for its nickname Ciudad Primada, "First City").
Baracoa is located on the spot where Christopher Columbus landed in Cuba on his first voyage. It is thought that the name stems from the indigenous Arauaca language word meaning "the presence of the sea."
Baracoa lies on the Bay of Honey (Bahía de Miel) and is surrounded by a wide mountain range (including the Sierra del Purial), which causes it to be quite isolated, apart from a single mountain road built in the 1960s.
The original inhabitants of the island were Taíno. They were eradicated by the Spanish all over Cuba except here and this is the only place where descendants still live. A local hero is Hatuey, who fled from the Spanish in Hispaniola and raised a Taíno army to fight the Spanish in Cuba. According to the story Hatuey was betrayed by a member of his group and sentenced to burn at the stake. It is said that just before he died a Catholic priest tried to convert him so he would attain salvation; Hatuey asked the priest if Heaven was the place where the dead Spanish go. When he received an answer in the affirmative he told the priest that he'd rather go to Hell.
On October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus landed in Cuba in a place he named Porto Santo. It is generally assumed from his description that this was Baracoa, although there are also claims it was Gibara. But Columbus also described a nearby table mountain, which is almost certainly nearby El Yunque. He wrote in his logbook ... the most beautiful place in the world ...I heard the birds sing that they will never ever leave this place....
The remote location at the eastern end of the Cuban island has kept the influence of mass tourism quite low, despite the idyllic location. Baracoa can be reached by bus from Santiago de Cuba (4 hours) or by plane from Havana (2 hours).
(Wikipedia)
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It took us some time to reach the outpost of Baracoa that is located in the far east of Cuba. It's a different world than rest of the island: less crowded, vibrant, with tropical forest and magnificent scenery around. Maybe not that attractive at the first sight, however far much more magical after a deeper exploration.
Yumurí Canyon is a lush, tropical gorge and an unexpectedly impressive sight to say the least, with walls at points measuring nearly 200 m from the canyon floor. Its eponymous river, dotted with deep natural swimming pools, is neither deep nor particularly fast flowing, making it ideal for exploring the near-complete seclusion of eastern Cuba either via rowboat or on foot.
I've always admired the color and shapes of orchids, and for me, they make an interesting subject.
I place a YN560 in a 24 inch softbox cameral left at 9 o'clock and a YN560-II in identical softbox camera right at 3 o'clock for even lighting and then handheld a Strobie 130 fitted with a grid behind the flower at 11 o'clock for a little backlighting. All strobes, in manual mode, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other plants, flowers, or fruit that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. In the description for that set, I list resources that I've used to learn how to light with off camera flash. www.flickr.com/photos/9422
Other photos of mine that have been selected for Explore can be seen here. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157618630302105/. How pictures are selected for Explore is beyond my understanding.
I am in my 30s now.
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1. Sunny moments of life...., 2. Heavens above..., 3. Up close, 4. Hard at work..., 5. Treasure hunt, 6. Buzz, 7. I am sorry, 8. Laws of attraction,
9. The unexpected guest..., 10. Over the hedge, 11. Bison mother, 12. Job hopping..., 13. Perfect landing, 14. Give thy light...., 15. I am not scary...., 16. Watch your steps...,
17. Street Puppies, 18. Lost, 19. Lets grow together..., 20. Busy boy..., 21. Colors, 22. So the butterflies..., 23. Monkey business, 24. Weed,
25. Guess the name of this insect !!, 26. Butterfly, 27. After impact, 28. Deekshabhoomi Nagpur, 29. Sunset, 30. Full moon - Panasonic Lumix FZ 28
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#193 :O !
thanks flickr :D
sooc,
so when we were raking today we had to fill the trailer woth leaves, and this little flower was in there all alone with a bunch of leaves.
poor flower. ):
THIS MADE EXPLORE AT #166 - 14 MAY 2007 ☺ many thanks everybody!! ☺
..this is my first go at trying to be "good" at this hehe so bee kind ;-) but no seriously I could do with your constructive criticism..is this in focus right? I know it won't be perfect but atleast it's a start :) looks very cool in large - see 'Bee Happy!' On Black