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After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well. Albert Einstein
macro monday / paint the moon - let's do 52 = negative space
"To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis."
-Henri Cartier-Bresson
hi, we're back from a fabulous trip to Amsterdam,
jet-lagged and sleep-deprived...
BIG thanks to you Mister HWM Z-man, huub zeeman
an absolute pleasure meeting and hanging out.
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The Greek-Catholic Episcopal Palace from Oradea, located in the Union Square, takes its present form in 1905. The architect of the palace was Rimanóczy
Kálmán Jr., the most important architect from the 1900- 1912 period.
Until the first decade of the 20th century another baroque-style building was in its place – the seat of the Romanian Church United with Rome. In 1778 it was added another floor, and after the fire of 1836 it was rebuilt. Between 1874 and 1875 a new wing was built on Mihai Pavel Street, and the late baroque façade was modified by master Imre János.
Bishop Demetrie Radu ordered architect Rimanóczy Kálmán Jr. the design of the present appearance of the palace. The demolition works of the old building (preserving some parts of the old one) began on 10th of August 1903, and the building was inaugurated on 11th of July 1905.
BNSF 4047 & 683 lead V LPCROB4 18B past the newly (re-)opened Santa Fe depot in Fort Madison, Iowa. For the first time in several decades, passenger trains are once again utilizing this classic AT&SF structure (Southwest Chief, Amtrak train Nos. 3 and 4). Taken on the BNSF Chillicothe Subdivision on 12/19/21.
When it was time to setup for an evening shot, the sun was teasing me with light. Although present and to my left, it was timidly hiding behind a low cloud. It seemed to mock me with its faint glow, provoking a shot, then just as quickly hiding, as if playing some game.
However, I knew the chance for side lighting would come because the clouds had vacated the horizon. I composed the shot with the use of tiny puddles in the mud. They appear disproportionate to the scene with the lens inches away. But lead the viewer in. Then for a moment the canceled becomes the revealed, and the side lighting changes the scene, helping shapes take form.
The Scotrail 0925 Dundee to Edinburgh departs Dundee on a Sunday morning, with a three car Turbostar 170 247 leading and a two car Sprinter 158 734 trailing
Swallowtail, southwest France this summer. I liked the way the insect and the leaf have the same shape and pattern
Fantasia di forme e colori nel blu cm 70x90
Questa opera è creata con più tavole sovrapposte .
La cornice è parte integrante della stessa tavola
OPERA REALIZZATA INTERAMENTE A MANO, INCISA SU TAVOLA DI LEGNO, DIPINTA CON COLORI ACRILICI, TECNICA MISTA PARTICOLARE E DIFFICOLTOSA .VUOI VEDERE TUTTE LE MIE OPERE??? www.nonsolopennelli.com
hand carved painiting on a wood table pictured with acrylic colours
So many beautiful orchid varieties in Singapore's Botanic Gardens.
HD PENTAX-DA 55-300mm f4.5-6.3 PLM
Con forma de castillo es, en realidad, un monumento dedicado a Cristóbal Colón y su llegada al Nuevo Mundo en un particular homenaje al descubrimiento de América. Fue construido por el Dr. Esteban Martín y Martín entre los años 1987 y 1994. Se encuentra situado en Benalmádena, Málaga.
El Castillo de Colomares es una fantasía arquitectónica que recoge diversos estilos.
Se trata de un pequeño castillo realizado y construido por un hombre de nuestro tiempo. Toda una obra arquitectónica gótica realizada en los años 80.
Es un lugar de obligada visita en Benalmádena por lo que enseña y por ver una obra fruto de la tenacidad y el esfuerzo humano.
RVYC was formed in 1903 as the Vancouver Yacht Club, receiving its Royal Warrant in 1906.
[...]. Our Coal Harbour home port is nestled into the shores of Stanley Park, a stone's throw from the cycling path, park trails, and downtown Vancouver - our floating restaurant there, the Mermaid Inn serves breakfast and lunch daily. The vistas over the bay from the Star & Dragon patio or the Marine Lounge's Upper Deck have given us the nickname of having the best view in Vancouver. www.royalvan.com/about
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Inicialmente la fiesta de la Candelaria o de la Luz tuvo su origen en el Oriente con el nombre del Encuentro, posteriormente se extendió al Occidente en el siglo VI, llegando a celebrarse en Roma con un carácter penitencial.
Aunque según otros investigadores, esta fiesta tuvo su origen en la antigua Roma, donde la procesión de las candelas formaba parte de la fiesta de las Lupercales.
Su fiesta se celebra, según el calendario o santoral católico, el 2 de febrero en recuerdo al pasaje bíblico de la Presentación del Niño Jesús en el Templo de Jerusalén (Lc 2;22-39) y la purificación de la Virgen María después del parto, para cumplir la prescripción de la Ley del Antiguo Testamento
(Lev 12;1-8).
La fiesta es conocida y celebrada con diversos nombres: la Presentación del Señor, la Purificación de María, la fiesta de la Luz y la fiesta de las Candelas; todos estos nombres expresan el significado de la fiesta.
Cristo la Luz del mundo presentada por su Madre en el Templo viene a iluminar a todos como la vela o las candelas, de donde se deriva el nombre de Candelaria.
Tras la aparición de la Virgen en Canarias y a su identificación iconográfica con este acontecimiento bíblico, la fiesta empezó a celebrarse con un carácter mariano en el año 1497, cuando el conquistador de Tenerife, Alonso Fernández de Lugo celebró la primera Fiesta de Las Candelas (ya como Virgen María de La Candelaria), coincidiendo con la Fiesta de la Purificación.
Más tarde esta advocación mariana y su fiesta sería llevada a varias naciones americanas de mano de los emigrantes canarios. y donde también ostenta el cargo canónico de Patrona de Canarias.
En Tenerife (lugar de su aparición) se celebra tanto el 2 de febrero como el 15 de agosto (esta última fecha, por estar vinculada al día de su aparición).
El 2 de febrero es fiesta en la isla de Tenerife, mientras que el 15 de agosto lo es en toda Canarias.
En las fechas cercanas al 2 de febrero y al 15 de agosto (días de su fiesta), la imagen es bajada en secreto del camarín hasta colocarla en un trono procesional repujado en plata.
Mientras la Virgen está en su trono procesional se coloca en un lateral de la nave central de la basílica, justo debajo de la cúpula. Allí la Virgen permanece más cerca de sus fieles hasta que termina su fiesta, cuando regresa de nuevo al camarín.
La comunidad hindú de Tenerife también venera a la Virgen de Candelaria. Esta comunidad le ha regalado a la Virgen de Candelaria multitud de mantos ricamente bordados.
Tanto la Basílica de la Candelaria como la Virgen tienen la categoría de Bien de Interés Cultural, declarada como tal por el Gobierno de Canarias.
En 1991 tuvo lugar el hermanamiento de la Villa Mariana de Candelaria con la Villa Mariana de Teror (Gran Canaria), hecho que es considerado como trascendental en la historia religiosa, cultural y social de Canarias.
Esto se debió principalmente a que en ambas villas se veneran las dos imágenes marianas más populares del archipiélago canario: la Virgen de Candelaria y la Virgen del Pino.
Desde entonces una representación municipal de Teror encabezada por el alcalde acude y participa en las Fiestas de la Virgen de Candelaria en Agosto.
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Digital paint with Art History Brush + 9 texture + love
The secret of my little painted from a photo still life is easy to discover ... love the little things, the need for light and color ... love the textures and brushstrokes digital ..... my little world!
SOOC in low light and high ASA to emphasize a minimalistic subject. I so enjoy YouTube and often try and learn different approaches. The channel most enjoyable for myself is Andrew Banner.
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inspired by Barbara Hepworth!
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"Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it."
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The Cup Plant had a busy day. First the female Zabulon Skipper visited this morning. Then this black form female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail stayed on the plant for several hours--even during prolonged drizzle.
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An interior view of the Western Concourse at King’s Cross Station in London, looking up into the semi circular steel and glass diagrid roof supported by a central tapered funnel and 16 branching tree-form structural steel columns.
Designed by John McAslan + Partners with Arup, the concourse opened in 2012 as the centrepiece of the station’s major redevelopment and became Europe’s largest single-span station structure at the time.
The Western Concourse is part of the transformation of the Grade I listed King’s Cross station, originally designed by Lewis Cubitt in 1852, combining restored Victorian railway architecture with a dramatic contemporary roof that acts as the new public heart of the station. The tree-like steel supports radiate across the space like a canopy, creating a sense of movement, openness and structural elegance that has made the concourse one of London’s best-known transport interiors.
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King’s Cross Station Western Concourse London: Tree-Form Columns and Steel Diagrid Roof
Beautiful world
Temperature just around zero degrees Celcius.
Hair ice (also known as ice wool or frost beard) is a type of ice that forms on dead wood and takes the shape of fine, silky hair. It is somewhat uncommon, and has been reported mostly at latitudes between 45 and 55°N in broadleaf forests. The meteorologist and discoverer of continental drift, Alfred Wegener, described hair ice on wet dead wood in 1918, assuming some specific fungi as the catalyst, a theory mostly confirmed by Gerhart Wagner and Christian Mätzler in 2005. In 2015, the fungus Exidiopsis effusa was identified as key to the formation of hair ice.
Formation
Hair ice forms on moist, rotting wood from broadleaf trees when temperatures are slightly under 0 °C (32 °F) and the air is humid. Each of the smooth, silky hairs has a diameter of about 0.02 mm and a length of up to 20 centimetres (7.9 in). The hairs are brittle, but take the shape of curls and waves. They can maintain their shape for hours and sometimes days. This long lifetime indicates that something is preventing the small ice crystals from recrystallizing into larger ones, since recrystallization normally occurs very quickly at temperatures near 0 °C.
The hairs appear to root at the mouth of wood rays (never on the bark), and their thickness is similar to the diameter of the wood ray channels. A piece of wood that produces hair ice once may continue to produce it over several years.
In 2015, German and Swiss scientists identified the fungus Exidiopsis effusa as key to the formation of hair ice. The fungus was found on every hair ice sample examined by the researchers, and disabling the fungus with fungicide or hot water prevented hair ice formation.[1] The fungus shapes the ice into fine hairs through an uncertain mechanism and likely stabilizes it by providing a recrystallization inhibitor similar to antifreeze proteins.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_ice
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Cheveux de glace
Les cheveux de glace, ou chevelure de glace, sont le phénomène d'apparition de glace sous forme de filaments très fins, par temps de gel, à partir de morceaux de bois mort ou d'autre végétaux. Le phénomène est comparable mais distinct des pipkrakes, issues du sol et plus grossières. Les cheveux de glace sont différents du givre par leur apparence comme par leur formation.
Formation
La formation des cheveux de glace se produit dans des conditions météorologiques particulières : par gel modéré et lorsque le sol, très humide, n'est pas encore gelé. Le phénomène est rare et s'observe plutôt dans les sites ombragés et tôt le matin.
Les cheveux de glace apparaissent sur des végétaux particuliers, comme le bois mort de hêtre ou de chêne. Leur observation donne à penser que l'eau contenue dans le bois est expulsée à travers les pores du bois par son expansion à l'approche du point de congélation, et gèle sous forme de fils très fin au contact de l'air. Le mécanisme pourrait néanmoins être plus complexe et être lié à la présence de champignons sur ces bois en décomposition; en 2015, le champignon Exidiopsis effusa (en) a été identifié comme essentiel à ce mécanisme. La poussée de ces fils de glace peut avoir une force suffisante pour repousser l'écorce d'un bois mort. La formation est très fragile, elle se détruit au toucher ou au souffle et disparait naturellement par fonte ou sublimation si elle est exposée au soleil.
Historique
En 1918 Alfred Wegener évoque que le mycélium sur le bois en décomposition contribue au phénomène. En 2014, Christian Mäztler, physicien de l’université de Berne associé à Diana Hofmann, chimiste et Gisela Preuss, biologiste ont élucidé le mystère de leur formation.
Source: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheveux_de_glace
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Haareis, manchmal auch Eiswolle genannt, besteht aus feinen Eisnadeln, die sich bei geeigneten Bedingungen auf morschem und feuchtem Totholz bilden können. Anders als Hydrometeore (zum Beispiel Raureifkristalle) entsteht Haareis aus dem im Holz enthaltenen Wasser, nicht aus Luftfeuchtigkeit.
Ähnlich aussehende und häufig nicht genau unterschiedene Phänomene sind Bandeis (engl. ice ribbons, ice flowers) an Pflanzenstängeln und Kammeis (engl. needle ice) am Boden, die beide jedoch anders gebildet werden.
Entstehung
Wissenschaftlich ist die Entstehung des nur selten zu beobachtenden Haareises noch wenig erforscht. 1918 beschrieb der Meteorologe Alfred Wegener Haareis auf nassem Totholz. Er vermutete einen „schimmelartigen Pilz“ als Auslöser, was jedoch von anderen Wissenschaftlern angezweifelt wurde, die rein physikalische Prozesse wie bei der Entstehung von Kammeis als Ursache annahmen.
Eine biophysikalische Studie von Gerhart Wagner und Christian Mätzler bestätigte 2008 Wegeners Vermutung weitgehend. Demnach wird Haareis durch das Myzel winteraktiver Pilze (u. a. Schlauch- und Ständerpilze) ausgelöst, deren aerober Stoffwechsel (Dissimilation) Gase produziert, die das im Holz vorhandene leicht unterkühlte Wasser an die Oberfläche verdrängen. Dort gefriert es und wird durch nachdrängende, beim Austritt aus dem Holz ebenfalls gefrierende Flüssigkeit weitergeschoben. Dies geschieht ausschließlich bei Temperaturen knapp unter dem Gefrierpunkt, wenn das Wasser im Holz noch nicht gefroren ist, es an der geringfügig kälteren Umgebungsluft jedoch gefriert. Eine Randbedingung für die Haareisbildung ist außerdem hohe Luftfeuchtigkeit: Wenn die Luft nicht mit Wasserdampf gesättigt ist, sublimieren die feinen Eiskristalle kurz nach ihrer Bildung an der Holzoberfläche, so dass keine langen Haareiskristalle entstehen können. Eine Reproduktion von Haareis ist in Versuchen solange möglich, wie das Pilzmyzel im Holzkörper nicht abgetötet wird.
Quelle: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haareis
An artistic rendering of a macro view of a Pop It Topper bubble fidget toy. The frame represents a span of two-inches across.
Those who are not familiar with Pop It Toppers can click the below link to a Wikipedia article about them (with pictures). The version I photographed (in its entirety) is a very small topper with only four bubbles on it.
Strobist info:
The scene was illuminated by two Nikon SB900 speedlights and a steady LED light. The SB900s were placed CL/CR and fired in Manual mode @ 1⁄32 power through 24" gridded soft boxes and triggered by PocketWizard Plus Xs. The LED was placed @ 11-o'clock.
Lens: Tokina AT - X M100 AF PRO D(AF 100mm f / 2.8 Macro) with 12mm + 20mm extension tubes attached.
There are two sea stacks that together form Drangarnir. These impressive natural formations have become a symbol of the Faroe Islands’ unspoiled landscapes and untamed wilderness. To me, they conjure visions of a dragon's back, rising up from the icy waters swirling along its base. It is a haven for birdlife and a bucket list item for photographer's fortunate enough to find themselves in this Viking wonderland.
For me, it was an experience of a lifetime and the fulfillment of a bucket list dream that all began with a tiny image I saw on Instagram of a grass roofed cottage. What an incredible privilege to photograph the immense Drangarnir sea stacks (the smaller one rises out of the ocean to a height of over 200 '), probably one of the most iconic formations of the Faroe Islands.
Unfortunately, it is also one of the more harrowing places to get to. If I wasn’t grey already, that day would have done it in spades. Thank God for great travel partners, and our gifted leader, Thomas Vikre, who guided us through the gauntlet of eel-slippery rocks, steep slopes ending abruptly into the North Atlantic, and high tides bouncing our Zodiac around like a ping pong ball. Honestly, I would have turned back each time if given a choice. I have no desire to “prove” myself, or conquer fears at this point in my life, but it was a one way street, so no way to turn back. And in the end, I am glad for that. The beauty and majesty of the place is really indescribable, and to stand in the midst of it was truly an “epic” 😉 experience for us all.
“You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.”
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