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Silfra is a rift formed in the divergent tectonic boundary between the North American and Eurasian plates and is located in the Þingvallavatn Lake in the Þingvellir National Park in Iceland.
The plates drift about 2 cm (0.79 in) farther apart every year, building up tension between the plates and the earth mass above. This tension is relieved through periodic major earthquakes at approximately ten year intervals, which have caused cracks and fissures to form in Þingvellir valley; Silfra lies at the rim of the Þingvallavatn Lake and is one of the largest and deepest of these fissures.
The Silfra fissure intercepts a major aquifer, which feeds multiple springs at its base. Boulders and rocks falling into the widening cracks have formed caves within the fissures.
The Arecaceae are a botanical family of perennial plants. Their growth form can be climbers, shrubs, tree-like and stemless plants, all commonly known as palms. Those having a tree-like form are colloquially called palm trees. They are flowering plants, a family in the monocot order Arecales. Currently 181 genera with around 2600 species are known, most of them restricted to tropical and subtropical climates. Most palms are distinguished by their large, compound, evergreen leaves, known as fronds, arranged at the top of an unbranched stem. However, palms exhibit an enormous diversity in physical characteristics and inhabit nearly every type of habitat within their range, from rainforests to deserts.
Palms are among the best known and most extensively cultivated plant families. They have been important to humans throughout much of history. Many common products and foods are derived from palms. In contemporary times, palms are also widely used in landscaping, making them one of the most economically important plants. In many historical cultures, because of their importance as food, palms were symbols for such ideas as victory, peace, and fertility. For inhabitants of cooler climates today, palms symbolize the tropics and vacations. Most palms are native to tropical and subtropical climates. Palms thrive in moist and hot climates but can be found in a variety of different habitats. Their diversity is highest in wet, lowland forests. South America, the Caribbean, and areas of the south Pacific and southern Asia are regions of concentration. Colombia may have the highest number of palm species in one country. 36744
A week on and the frog embryos are developing into tadpole form (can be seen clearer if enlarged). Fascinating & wonderful to observe.
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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.
so much fun, hugs my friend
happy sliderssunday!
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La mayor parte del término se extiende sobre terreno cretácico. En esta meseta caliza, la erosión del río Turia ha creado una hoz y el Salto de Chulilla, de 160 metros de profundidad y 10 metros de anchura. La vegetación está formada por pinares (carrasco) y monte bajo mediterráneo. En cuanto a la fauna, las especies más importantes son las rapaces, tanto diurnas como nocturnas, la perdiz, el conejo, la liebre, zorro, tejón, garduña, gineta y jabalí. En el Turia habitan barbos y truchas.
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.
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.
Today's forms of money have developed from primitive money, e.g. B. mussels or rice, which were accepted as a means of exchange in business life. Money initially belonged to the cultic and legal sphere and referred to "that with which one can repay or pay penance and sacrifices". Only after the 14th century did it assume its current meaning as a "coined currency". From the middle of the 19th century, the gold standard existed in many countries, promising the exchange of legal tender (coins, banknotes) for a fixed amount of gold. By the 1930s almost all major states had abandoned the gold standard. Instead of such a standard, monetary policy measures were taken by the central banks to ensure price stability.
Partial excerpt from: (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geld#Etymologie)
Geld, auch benannt als:
Cash (englisch für „Bargeld“)
Kies (jiddisch kis, „Geldbeutel“)
Mäuse (jiddisch meus, „Geld“)
Moneten (lateinisch moneta, „Münze“; vgl. engl. money)
Moos (jiddisch und rotwelsch moos, mous (Plural), „Geld“)
Penunze (berlinisch Penunse, von polnisch pieniądze, aus dem Westgermanischen, verwandt mit althochdeutsch pfenning)
Zaster (rotwelsch saster, „Eisen“)
Kohle
Asche
Pulver (gemeint ist Zündpulver; vgl. sein Geld verpulvern, veraltet: verzünden)
Kröten, Mücken
Entwickelt haben sich die heutigen Geldformen aus Primitivgeld, z. B. Muscheln oder Reis, die im Geschäftsleben als Tauschmittel akzeptiert wurden. Geld gehörte anfangs zur kultischen und rechtlichen Sphäre und bezeichnete „das, womit man Buße und Opfer erstatten bzw. entrichten kann“. Erst nach dem 14. Jahrhundert nahm es seine aktuelle Bedeutung als „geprägtes Zahlungsmittel“ an. Ab Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts existierte in vielen Ländern der Goldstandard, bei dem der Umtausch von gesetzlichen Zahlungsmitteln (Münzen, Banknoten) in eine feststehende Menge Gold versprochen wurde. Um 1930 haben fast alle größeren Staaten den Goldstandard aufgegeben. An die Stelle eines solchen Standards traten geldpolitische Maßnahmen der Notenbanken, die eine Preisniveaustabilität sicherstellen sollten.
Teilweise Auszug aus: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geld#Etymologie
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It is really hard to beat this spot in Tremont at any time of year. The trees lean in over the river and form a vaulted canopy. In the fall, that canopy turns gold, yellow, red, and orange. Natures stained glass windows in natures cathedral.
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Milan Noir
D’une taille moyenne (55-72 cm de long pour une envergure jusqu’à 180 cm), il est globalement brun chocolat. Il faut ajouter à cela de nombreuses nuances, notamment pour la tête, généralement clairsemée de zones plus claires1. Le bec, crochu, est jaune, ou jaune terminé de sombre. Les pattes (dont les serres) sont jaunes avec des ongles grands sombres. Les juvéniles sont plus claires et présentent plus de zones claires au sein de la robe brune2. En vol, le milan noir a les ailes coudées. La queue est alors peu échancrée, mais bien triangulaire, formant un V. Ce vol est souvent circulaire, en hauteur, afin de repérer la zone, notamment pour s’alimenter. C’est un oiseau carnivore.
L'espèce peut être observée dans de nombreux types d'habitat. Néanmoins, sa préférence va aux vallées de montagnes et aux terrains bas. Le site choisi doit tenir compte de deux impératifs : premièrement, la présence de grands arbres ou d'escarpements rocheux favorables à la nidification ; deuxièmement la proximité de cours d'eau, de lacs ou d'étangs qui sont nécessaires à son approvisionnement et à son alimentation. Le Milan noir peut également stationner en bordure des villes.
Swallowtail, southwest France this summer. I liked the way the insect and the leaf have the same shape and pattern
L’ossuaire date du 17ème siècle. Il était incorporé au cimetière situé autour de l’église. L’enclos paroissial étant désaffecté, l’ossuaire gênant la circulation, les Allemands voulurent le raser, il a aussi été déplacé en 1941/1942. Il s’agit d’une tombe collective utilisée avant la Révolution. A l’époque de la construction de l’ossuaire, le cimetière était un lieu de vie, une foire où avaient lieu des manifestations joyeuses. Cet ossuaire est en granit, d’architecture lourde, la toiture est en dalle de pierre et l’ouverture décorée de 2 collerettes.
En 1861, le curé-doyen de Plélan, l’Abbé Morin, souhaita rassembler ces trois croix pour édifier un calvaire, destiné aux processions de la Fête-Dieu. On éleva donc une butte mi-circulaire maintenue par une murette avec une rampe de terre pour l’accès sur une terre marécageuse au niveau de l’actuelle salle des fêtes. Lors de la construction de la salle des fêtes, les 3 croix furent déplacées d’une vingtaine de mètres sur la route de Saint-Maudez (actuelle médiathèque). Cette nouvelle localisation à côté d’un transformateur électrique fit polémique et en 1971 la municipalité ordonna un nouveau transfert, près du cimetière.
Les 2 croix latérales sont des croix dite « pattées », ce sont en fait des croix latines dont les branches s’élargissent aux extrémités. Elles encadrent la troisième croix, plus curieuse, en forme de croix de Lorraine à double traverse, dont le fut est légèrement galbé. Les socles de ces croix, plus anciens, furent choisis sur le chemin de l’Etrat (la route de Corseul à Vannes).
L'ossuaire du xviie siècle, qui était autrefois adossé au mur du cimetière et a été déplacé en 1937. Inscrit au titre des Monuments historiques en 1926.
Ravens and crows together form the genus Corvus in the corvid family (Corvidae). The larger representatives are referred to as "ravens", the smaller ones as "crows". However, this is not a taxonomic classification. The genus includes 42 species, which are distributed almost worldwide and are missing only in South America. In Europe, the common raven, the carrion crow (carrion crow and hooded crow) and the rook occur. As a naturalized neozoon, the crow has also been breeding in the Netherlands since the late 1990s.
Ravens and crows are among the largest species within the order of passerines: the two largest representatives of the genus are the common raven (Corvus crassirostris) and the common raven (Corvus corax), each of which has a body length of between 60 and 70 cm and a body weight of up to Can reach 1.5 kg and are therefore the largest passerine birds ever.
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Raben und Krähen bilden zusammen die Gattung Corvus in der Familie der Rabenvögel (Corvidae). Die größeren Vertreter werden als „Raben“, die kleineren als „Krähen“ bezeichnet. Hierbei handelt es sich jedoch nicht um eine taxonomische Einteilung. Die Gattung umfasst 42 Arten, die fast weltweit verbreitet sind und nur in Südamerika fehlen. In Europa kommen der Kolkrabe, die Aaskrähe (Rabenkrähe und Nebelkrähe) und die Saatkrähe vor. Als eingebürgertes Neozoon brütet zudem die Glanzkrähe seit Ende der 1990er Jahre in den Niederlanden.
Raben und Krähen zählen zu den größten Arten innerhalb der Ordnung der Sperlingsvögel: Die beiden größten Vertreter der Gattung sind der Erzrabe (Corvus crassirostris) und der Kolkrabe (Corvus corax), die jeweils eine Körperlänge zwischen 60 und 70 cm und ein Körpergewicht von bis zu 1,5 kg erreichen können und damit die größten Sperlingsvögel überhaupt sind.
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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.
In Hermannspiegel war noch ein netter Fotograf aus der Schweiz und wir redeten darüber das man kaum noch ein Taurus sieht. Kaum war dies ausgesprochen kam der erste Kandidat in Form von ES64 U2-072 der TXL mit dem Padborg - Verona Pendel an uns durch.
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!
Exotic! Coral like. Brilliant in color and form.
This is a strange one! The tree is very large and tall but the flowers all hang from stems 10 feet or so from the ground so it feels like they are growing on a vine attached to the tree rather than the tree itself! These are called cauliflorous... flowers that grow from the trunk.
"In the rainforests of South American, fruits of the Cannonball tree sway and clash in the wind, creating loud noises like artillery fire! These fruits really do resemble big, rusty cannonballs as they hang in clusters on the side of the tree attached to rope like tangles that emerge directly from the trunk.
The Cannonball tree’s beautifully complex and fragrant flowers resemble huge orchids. At night the flowers become particularly pungent in order to attract swift-flying pollinators. This particular Cannonball tree was collected in 1913 at Jamaica’s Hope Gardens and has flourished at Fairchild since it was planted here in 1938."
Couroupita guianensis, whose common names include Ayahuma and the Cannonball Tree, is an evergreen tree allied to the Brazil Nut (Bertholletia excelsa), and is native to tropical northern South America and to the southern Caribbean. In India it has been growing for the past two or three thousand years at least, as attested by textual records; hence it is possible that it is native to India also. It's part of the family Lecythidaceae and grows up to 25m (82ft) in height. The "Cannonball Tree" is so called because of its brown cannon-ball-like fruits. The majority of these trees outside their natural environment have been planted as a botanical curiosity, as they grow very large, distinctive flowers. Its flowers are orange, scarlet and pink in color, and form large bunches measuring up to 3m in length. They produce large spherical and woody fruits ranging from 15 to 24cm in diameter, containing up to 200 or 300 seeds apiece.
Cannonball Tree, Couroupita guianensis
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami, FL
inspired by Barbara Hepworth!
ODC CONFUCIUS OR CONFUSION SAYS 17 - 23 January
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"Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it."
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And did you know
That every flake of snow
That forms so high
In the grey winter sky
And falls so far
Is a bright six-pointed star?
Each crystal grows
A flower as perfect as a rose.
Lace could never make
The patterns of a flake.
No brooch
Of figured silver could approach
Its delicate craftsmanship. And think:
Each pattern is distinct.
Of all the snowflakes floating there –
The million million in the air –
None is the same. Each star
Is newly forged, as faces are,
Shaped to its own design
Like yours and mine.
And yet… each one
Melts when its flight is done;
Holds frozen loveliness
A moment, even less;
Suspends itself in time –
And passes like a rhyme.
Snowflakes
-Clive Sansom
For Kreative People December Contest 57 Snow, Ice & Rain.
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The Autumn Gallery is open at Kreative People: Highlight Gallery
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To gain control of the world of space is certainly one of our tasks. The danger begins when in gaining power in the realm of space we forfeit all aspirations in the realm of time. There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
Nothing is more useful than power, nothing more frightful. We have often suffered from degradation by poverty; now we are threatened with degradation through power. There is happiness in the love of labor; there is misery in the love of gain. Many hearts and pitchers are broken at the fountain of profit. Selling himself into slavery to things, man becomes a utensil that is broken at the fountain.
AS CIVILIZATION ADVANCES, the sense of wonder almost necessarily declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information, but only for want of appreciation. The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.
-Thunder in the Soul To Be Known by God, Abraham Joshua Heschel
a forma di Angelo , trovato in un vecchio libro .. Pensiero di Rosa, una cara compagna di scuola, molto dolce, che non ho mai più rivisto.
Sono in contatto ancora con due mie compagne, ogni tanto ci sentiamo
Memory of your school mate Rosa 🌹
An old newspaper clipping with the shape of an angel
Excerpt from the plaque:
Red/Amber Sliced Descending Form by Harvey K. Littleton
Harvey K. Littleton was a pioneer in the use of glass as a material for sculpture. He was the first academic to set up a university glass program-at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1963-and he championed the introduction of glass into art school and university curriculums across the country and around the world.
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.
The light burns the skin, erases the lines, and eats away the contours. The legs are no longer a shape or a pose to look at: they become just white, raw substance squeezed between the color of the fabric. Matter is wiped out by the light to subtract the body from the hypocrisy of the outside gaze. It is a radical refusal to sell oneself to the dynamics of exhibitionism and provocation: the flesh becomes an anonymous and pure mass precisely to exist without the obligation to please or to excite
The bridge was designed by Chris Wilkinson of the architectural practice of Wilkinson Eyre. They describe the Arch as follows: "The design achieves visual complexity from geometric simplicity. The 25m high arch is parabolic in form, its trapezoidal section tapering in opposite directions in both plan and elevation. Two sets of cable stays are arranged to interlock and overlap, fanning out in opposite directions to create a set of planes which twist and change as the driver passes below."
The construction of the bridge formed part of the regeneration of the Hulme district of Manchester, both by re-establishing the former route of Stretford Road, which had been cut into two halves by the construction of Princess Road in 1969, and by providing a local landmark. It was opened on 10 May 1997 by Alex Ferguson.
Interesting naturally formed loop or naturally formed basketball hoop on some Stag horn sumac trees Duffins trail in Discovery bay , Martin’s photographs , cropped photograph , Ajax , Ontario , Canada , September 28. 2021
Interesting naturally formed loop
naturally formed basketball hoop
Beautiful sky , a view from the Lake Ontario waterfront park on lake driveway West
Waterfront Park
Teasels on the waterfront trail at Lake Ontario
September 2021
Stag horn Sumac tree
Hoop
Flowering succulent
Waterfront park
Sky
Flowering shrubs
Flowers
Large Oak tree
Information plaque
Fallen tree
canoe boat launch
Ontario
Ajax
Canada
Pickering
Martin’s photographs
Discovery Bay
Trees
Tall grasses
Sunset
March 2020
Favourites
IPhone XR
Squires Beach
Duffins Creek
Duffins Marsh
Waterfront Trail
Rotary Park
Lake Ontario
Rod iron fence
Bridge
Bridge across Duffins Creek
Twilight
Sticks
Stones
Fallen trees
Fallen tree
Fungi
Mushrooms
Cropped photograph
Beach
Reflections
Reflection
Dogwood
Tall grasses
River
Duffins marsh
Duffins creek
Duffins trail
IPhone 6s