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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland, captured in January 2025.
They may be wearing The North Face but Buchanan Street runs from north to south and gets a brief window of some spectacular low winter sun between the shadows.
If you look at my past few uploads you can see why I was so desperate to save the data on my failing HDD. While I am sad that my RAW files of these shots remain unrecovered at this time, at least I managed to save the processed JPGs.
Thank you so much for your comments and favourites on my photography. Take care and take photos.
Le tempeste dell’anima sono peggiori delle tempeste del cielo.
Proverbio africano
Un fulmine squarcia le nuvole minacciose e porta la tempesta sempre più vicina, mentre la laguna attende lo sferzare dei venti.
Porto Caleri, qualche tempo fa
#tempesta #tempest #storm #nuvole #clouds #lightning #fulmine #bolt #pioggia #rain #sigh #sospiro #elements #elementi
I don't understand why people do not understand the urgency and gravity of us facing extinction.
Extinction.
Coming towards the end of my 'pink' sunset shoot at Findhorn Bay the other evening, I turned to look down the Bay towards Kinloss and Forres. The contrast in colour between the 2 directions was extreme with only a few upper clouds hinting at the hues towards the north in an otherwise blue vista. The slightly thicker haar in this direction aded to the scene's tranquillity and I just about got away with the 5 second exposure to flatten the slightly rippled water.
Blue Ringtail Damselfly (Austrolestes annulosus)
When I was looking through the archives for yesterday I noticed that there was another creature facing the Damselfly in this image. I have no clue what the other creature is.
Sastrugi
Sastrugi, or zastrugi, are features formed by erosion of snow by wind. They are found in polar regions, and in snowy, wind-swept areas of temperate regions, such as frozen lakes or mountain ridges. Sastrugi are distinguished by upwind-facing points, resembling anvils, which move downwind as the surface erodes. These points usually lie along ridges parallel to the prevailing wind; they are steep on the windward side and sloping to the leeward side. Smaller irregularities of this type are known as ripples (small, ~10 mm high) or wind ridges.
Large sastrugi are troublesome to skiers and snowboarders. Traveling on the irregular surface of sastrugi can be very tiring, and can risk breaking equipment—ripples and waves are often undercut and the surface is hard and unforgiving, with constant minor topographic changes between ridge and trough.
Etymology
The words sastrugi and zastrugi are Russian-language plurals; the singular is zastruga. The form sastruga started as the German-language transliteration of the Russian word заструга (plural: заструги).
A Latin-type analogical singular sastrugus is used in various writings on exploration of the South Pole, including Robert Falcon Scott's expedition's diaries and Ernest Shackleton's The Heart of the Antarctic.
Formation mechanism
White and black colors on sastrugi are not lights and shadows, they demonstrate difference in radioreflectivity of snow deposits on the windward and leeward sides of a sastruga.
Under the action of steady wind, free snow particles accumulate and drift like the sand grains in barchan dunes, and the resulting drifting snow shapes are also popularly referred to as barchans. Inuit of Canada call them kalutoqaniq. When winds slacken, the drifted formations consolidate via sublimation and recrystallization. Subsequent winds erode kalutoqaniq into the sculptured forms of sastrugi. Inuit call large sculpturings kaioqlaq and small ripples tumarinyiq. Further erosion may turn kaioqlaq back into drifting kalutoqaniq. An intermediate stage of erosion is mapsuk, an overhanging shape. On the windward side of a ridge, the base erodes faster than the top, producing a shape like an anvil tip pointing upwind.
On sea ice
Sastrugi are more likely to form on first-year sea ice than on multiyear ice. First-year ice is smoother than multiyear ice, which allows the wind to pass uniformly over the surface without topographic obstructions. Except during the melt season, snow is dry and light in climates cold enough for sea ice, allowing the snow to be easily blown and create sastrugi parallel to the wind direction. The locations of sastrugi are fixed by March in the northern hemisphere and may be linked to the formation of melt ponds. Melt ponds are more likely to form in the depressions between sastrugi on first-year ice.
Source: Wikipedia
Remembering last winter, when it was a little colder...
Lonely tree in the Pyrénées.
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Facing new challenges is like exploring uncharted territory; there's excitement in every step forward! Lately, I've been leaning into them with open arms; it's like a rollercoaster ride filled with twists and turns; ups and downs.
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This is another sim that truly has the neatest little things to find. Another perfect photographers world.
Another photo club Project!! ♥
My favorite nursery has put everything on sale. I bought two of these red and white columbines for $2 each. I'll get years of beautiful blooms for just $4.
Taken @ Tyraina
“You broke me. There’s no denying it. You left me for dead; an empty shell, in human skin. And for as long as I can remember, I hated MYSELF for it. I truly believed, that was why I existed; that I was only made, to be abused. But through every painful moment of healing, I finally came to realize, that I was created, to bloom.”
I am meant to be more and its about time I live for me not you, not my past, not my mistakes. I am taking myself back. The chain is broken and I won't be anyone's punching bag anymore. I was created to BLOOM! I can be more.
Kamakura (鎌倉) is a seaside town facing the Sagami bay (相模湾), part of the Pacific Ocean. It has nice beaches. The one in the photo is called Yuigahama beach (由比ヶ浜).
Kamakura is located 70 km to the southwest of Tokyo, and it takes just one hour from Shinjuku and 25 minutes from Yokohama by train.
It looks like a wealthy seaside suburb but it is much older than Tokyo and Yokohama; it had been the capital of Japan from 1185 to 1333. Consequently, it offers more than what it appears. Presence of tourists is an evidence. I suppose they did not come to Kamakura for surfing.
"... you stand there so nice, in your blizzard of ice,
oh please let me come into the storm".
-- Leonard Cohen
Photo taken on the Iceline Trail, Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada
This is just a snapshot I took in our garden which didn't look special at the rear screen of my camera, but having a look at it on my computer I find the combination of colors and the painterly look beautiful (even if it is slightly less pronounced than in some of my last uploads). Hope you like it!
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