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There are more than 300,000 hand-painted tin soldiers in the Plassenburg Zinnfiguren Museum in the Plassenburg Castle near Kulmbach, Germany 2012
I've always wondered why.Why do we make those choices ? Or what if we don't choose at all. You have to step aside and think deeply at what exactly you really want, or just, simply why. Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with.
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In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
By Lt-Col. John McCrae, Canadian Expeditionary Force, WW1.
I was introduced to the poetry of Wilfred Owen, perhaps the best known of the Great War's poets - by an English teacher who was one of those exceptional presenters of his subject who manage to - without apparent effort - immediately command the respect of even unruly classes of youngsters.
He was James McKay, of Dunfermline High School. I didn't become a convert to poetry generally, but to that of only a few writers. I regret in these latter years of my life that I haven't read more of it, but the seeds Mr McKay sowed all those decades past haven't expired just yet. It was under his guidance that I learned to love this mongrel language of ours, and to cherish its marvels and its wonderful effectiveness in the conveyance of the smallest nuance of inference.
Explore #168, July 13th, 2009
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From the vault.
Taken in Warwick, a long long time ago.
Well, at least one part of the image is from Warwick. The Clouds come from my 'cloud stock library' I've not tried this before, so I thought I'd give it a go, its simple really.
The trick is to use shots taken from a similar angle and shooting conditions etc.
Did you pick it?
Would you know if I didn't tell you?
Enjoy.
- Canon 400D (taken before the upgrade)
- ISO 100, f13, 1/125, 20mm.
- Sigma 10-20 lens
Processing
- Layer masking using two images.
- Blended one of my stock cloud shots with a shot of these fields.
Music
"Strawberry Fields Forever" is a song by the English rock band The Beatles. Recorded at the end of 1966, the song was written by John Lennon during the filming of How I Won The War and is formally credited to the Lennon/McCartney songwriting team. It is named after a Salvation Army house in Beaconsfield Road, Woolton, Liverpool where Lennon played as a child.
The Flower?
Apparently its is a weed, more info here.
Tracing the West Fork of Duck Creek brought me to this colorful field outside Dexter City Ohio. The creek is on the left side of this photo with I-77 just beyond.
Flower Fields in bloom, Carlsbad, California
For more to see in Carlsbad watch YouTube video www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJHm_FYy4HQ
showing my sister around, driving as hard as my old VW golf could get...my first drive experience in Germany - love the area's of unlimited speed!!! :)
Red buildings are former tobacco warehouses of the Wills tobacco company. Field in the foreground is a deer park, now part of Council's Ashton Court Estate, formerly the grounds of the Smyth family, local cotton tycoons.
Mayfield is a 25 acre Organic Lavender Farm in Surrey, less than 15 miles from Central London. Its a Really beautiful place to spend an afternoon.
It was the best of all possible days, in the best of all possible worlds.
The Flower Fields
Carlsbad, CA.
This is going to be Wisconsin new high speed mass Transit system.We had to scale back the rich needed a tax break
Taken one early morning on my way to work, I couldn't resist the view as it looked like a sea of gold, this was taken with the compact as the slr is too heavy to log around all day ! An opportunist picture...
The only photoshopped element is the framing, the rest is as it came out of the camera, a very lucky shot !
Kupkówka pospolita / Cocksfoot (Dactylis glomerata L.)
"Don't be afraid, land; rejoice and be glad, for the Lord has done great things.
Don't be afraid, wild animals, for the wilderness pastures have turned green, the trees bear their fruit, and the fig tree and grapevine yield their riches." Joel 2
green grains grain field nature bokeh blur macro close-up canon colors color colorful vibrant contrast summer spring sun light lights bright
Our latest, limited edition, hand-printed field notes collection! Circus themed!
Limited to a run of 32
This image: For more than a century, astronomers have categorized galaxies near and far, both by comparing their shapes by eye and precisely measuring their properties with data known as spectra. For example, Edwin Hubble created the Hubble Tuning Fork in 1926 to begin to sort the shapes and sizes of nearby galaxies, showing that many are spirals and ellipticals.
As telescopes’ instruments have become increasingly more sensitive, it is easier to more accurately classify their shapes. New data from the James Webb Space Telescope have added nuances to astronomers’ classifications. Since Webb observes in infrared light, many more extremely distant galaxies appear in its images. Plus, the images are finely detailed, allowing researchers to identify if there are additional areas of star formation – or confirm they aren’t present.
A team led by Viraj Pandya, a NASA Hubble Fellow at Columbia University in New York, recently analyzed hundreds of distant galaxies in Webb’s Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey. CEERS intentionally covers much of the same area as the Hubble Space Telescope’s Extended Groth Strip, which was one of the five fields used to create the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS). This allowed them to double-check Webb’s results where the telescopes’ observations overlap.
“Our analysis of Webb’s galaxies was very consistent with galaxies in the Hubble Space Telescope catalog,” Pandya confirmed. “Two sets of data allowed us to fully vet our models as we ran our analysis, and better understand and categorize galaxies that only Webb detected.” The team began their analysis by sorting the galaxies into broad classes based on similar characteristics. (They did not classify each galaxy’s individual appearance since that would require detailed information from data known as spectra.)
They found an array of odd shapes when the universe was 600 million to 6 billion years old. The galaxy shapes that dominate look flat and elongated, like pool noodles or surfboards. These two galaxy types make up approximately 50 to 80% of all the distant galaxies they studied – a surprise, since these shapes are rare closer to home.
Other galaxies Webb detected appear round but also flattened, like frisbees. The least populated category is made up of galaxies that are shaped like spheres or volleyballs.
Webb’s data also resolved a riddle that was introduced by the Hubble Space Telescope’s observations decades ago. Why do so many distant galaxies appear like long lines? Was there more to the galaxies that didn’t appear in its images? Webb answered this in short order: Hubble hasn’t missed anything.
“Webb confirmed what Hubble has long shown us, but in greater detail in infrared light,” Pandya said. “Their combined observations show that in the early universe, many more galaxies appear flat and elongated. This has profound implications, since we usually assume that galaxies like our own Milky Way started out as disks, but that may not be the case.”
Why do galaxies have such different shapes early in the history of the universe? This question remains unanswered for now, but research is underway to better understand how galaxies evolved over all of cosmic time.
Read more: www.nasa.gov/missions/webb/webb-shows-many-early-galaxies...
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Steve Finkelstein (UT Austin), Micaela Bagley (UT Austin), Rebecca Larson (UT Austin)
Image description: In the far-left column are two galaxies that have been magnified. The top left galaxy appears circular and light pink with a slightly whiter central region, taking up less than one-sixth of the box. The bottom galaxy is elongated, stretching almost from top left to bottom right. It has a white line at the center that has a pink outline that transitions into bluish edges at far left and right. Thin lines from each magnified galaxy point to their appearances in the broader field. The top galaxy appears as a tiny dot at the upper center, and the bottom galaxy toward the left. Thousands of galaxies appear across most of this view, which is set against the black background of space. There are many overlapping objects at various distances. They include large, blue foreground stars, with Webb’s signature eight-pointed diffraction spikes, and white and pink spiral and elliptical galaxies. Numerous tiny red dots appear throughout the scene. This is a portion of a vast survey known as CEERS.