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For Mosaic Montage Monday theme of Fluid Forms is this montage of the young curled fern frond at the Dale Chihuly Exhibit at the Adelaide Botanic garden and an overlay of flowing lines and dots. Many of Dale Chihuly pieces exhibit flowing curls and curves too indicating fluidity. HMMM
A quick shot of the Orion Nebula (M42), one of my favourite celestial objects and a really satisfying target. I've been waiting a year for an opportunity to image this nebula again, this time with a polar alignment and guiding to enable much longer exposures than the 15 second subs I took last time and with a lower ISO to reduce noise. The next project with this is to either stitch two shots together or, better still, rotate the camera in order to fit both the Orion Nebula and the nearby Running Man Nebula into one frame.
13 x 4 minute exposures at 400 ISO
8 x dark frames
10 x flat frames
21 x bias/offset frames (subtracted from flat frames only)
Total exposure time - 52 minutes
Guided with PHD
Processed in Nebulosity, Maxim DL and Photoshop
Equipment
Celestron NexStar 127 SLT
GoTo AltAz mount with homemade wedge
Orion 50mm Mini Guide Scope
ZWO ASI120 MC guiding camera
Canon EOS 700D DSLR
[Wikipedia] The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way, being south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion. It is one of the brightest nebulae, and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky. M42 is located at a distance of 1,344 ± 20 light years and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. The M42 nebula is estimated to be 24 light years across. It has a mass of about 2000 times the mass of the Sun. Older texts frequently refer to the Orion Nebula as the Great Nebula in Orion or the Great Orion Nebula.
The Orion Nebula is one of the most scrutinized and photographed objects in the night sky, and is among the most intensely studied celestial features. The nebula has revealed much about the process of how stars and planetary systems are formed from collapsing clouds of gas and dust. Astronomers have directly observed protoplanetary disks, brown dwarfs, intense and turbulent motions of the gas, and the photo-ionizing effects of massive nearby stars in the nebula. [Wikipedia]
Taken this very evening at a fantastic Christmas market that I visited with friends. We bought beautiful handmade gifts & some yummy Indian food to take back to eat at their house; my first time trying dosa. For Saturday Self Challenge theme “light”.
76/100 : My 100x photos this year will all feature benches or chairs.
First experiments with a new form in the ever-evolving world of Pano-Sabotage photography that's been dubbed "MonitorPano". It's both a new turn for me and a return to a very old tactic I used in 2012 where I achieved coarse but provoking layers by photographing, with my Canon Rebel XS, my computers screen saver as it faded in and out between images in my photo files. The great thing was that the images didn't just click from one to the next like a slide show, they faded in and out over top of each other. There was always a "crossover" point where the two images would occupy the same amount of "presence" on the screen thereby becoming "fused" or "blended" ... in effect ... layered. A cruder version of Brian Enos Installation piece, "77 Million Paintings", perhaps, but using the same idea.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0_4rCfpNzw
By the time Apple brought out the next Operating System, they'd taken out that scrolling slide show feature from what was then "iPhoto" and re-dubbed it "Photos". It always amazes me how the Silicon Valley geeks always "improve" things by taking out unique and wonderful features. Gotta mow it all down to sameness and uniformity, I guess. Unique features are seen as "mistakes".
Liz Mack has asked, "How long will it take for Apple to 'correct' the algorithms that allow for Pano-Sabotage photography ?"
MonitorPano, even though being hotly used right now and to great effect has actually been around quietly for a few years now. Don of the PANO-vision group was actually one of the first Pano-Sabotage artists to start "pano-ing" his desktop screen, and has often produced some very unique work with this method. Recently, Bill Smith, Paul Ewing and Liz Mack have taken it up with a vengeance with striking results.
"Graph ET 1" is the first finished piece that I created using the same technique the Paul, Bill, Liz and Don use. All of us in "PANO-Vision" learn a lot from each other and each of us makes invaluable contributions to the groups knowledge and technique base by that sharing. In PANO, as well call it for short, it's not about competition. We thrive by sharing. Each of us grows by contributing to an ongoing and easy exchange.
"MonitorPano" is achieved by setting one's cell phone camera on "Pano", clicking it on, while focusing on the desktop monitor and using the other hand to tap the arrow right ( or left ) key to quickly jump from photo to photo while the cell phone hand is pano-sabotaging the whole "pass". Tricky, and it takes some co-ordination, but it can be quite surprising what results.
This image was created for the PANO-Vision Groups Summer Contest, "PANO to the Metal".
www.flickr.com/groups/2892788@N23/discuss/72157667684597037/
Image culled from SLR shots done in 2011 and
"MonitorPanoed" and processed June 6, 2018.
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© Richard S Warner ( Visionheart ) - 2018. All Rights Reserved. This image is not for use in any form without explicit, express, written permission.
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I am VERY proud to announce that I was chosen to be the feature artist of the "Kreative People" Group's Spring Gallery - Running until the end of June. I really must thank both abstractartangel77 and Xandram for bestowing me with this great honour. The link to the gallery appears below:
Please visit my Kreative People Highlight Gallery HERE
@Fotosöndag: Form kan vara vad som helst. Därför kom jag att fundera på, vilken form som kan vara avgörande för att fylla en funktion. Det första som dök upp var en "gammaldags" blyertspenna som måste formas med hjälp av en pennvässare för att fungera.
"Pombagira, Bombogira, Exú Mulher ou ainda Bomobonjira, são todas formas de a denominar. Em especial, é mais utilizada a denominação Pombagira que nos chega pela influência Banta (Angola). A Entidade Banta Aluvaiá-Pombagira que foi trazida de África durante o fluxo de escravos para o Brasil e então submetida à entidade Iorubana Exú, durante todo o processo de miscigenação que se desenvolveu no Brasil, sendo colocada e entendida como a sua vertente feminina.
O facto de esta ser uma entidade que é entendida e cultuada de diferentes formas por diversas nações do Candomblé, pela Umbanda e pela Kimbanda, prova desde logo que se tratou de um processo de adaptação não consensual que ainda hoje perdura.
No Candomblé mais tradicional, como o Ketu, estas entidades não são cultuadas. No Candomblé tradicional, cultua-se exclusivamente o Orixá Exú que é uma entidade masculina, cuja simbologia é unicamente fálica, e portanto nada tem de feminino. No entanto, as Pombagiras existem de facto, não são Orixás, mas assim mesmo, são cultuadas também no Candomblé, embora nas nações menos tradicionais.
Como membro do Candomblé Ketu, o conceito que formei sobre quem são as Pombagiras é simples: são seres do mundo astral, guerreiras tanto quanto Exú, que estão bem próximas da nossa esfera humana, algumas já reencarnaram e outras não. Convivi de perto com Maria Padilha. Tive oportunidade durante os anos de vê-la, assim como às outras que pertenciam a várias médiuns do terreiro, realizarem inúmeros trabalhos: ajudar a vencer obstáculos, a ser feliz no amor, vencer problemas de saúde de desarmonia conjugal, e muitas outros problemas que as pessoas tinham e sobre os quais lhe pediam auxílio.
Pombagira subdivide-se numa enorme legião onde cada qual tem o seu nome próprio, conforme a sua área de actividade. Temos a linha das que pertencem às encruzilhadas como Pomba Gira Rainha das 7 Encruzilhadas; a linha do cemitério liderada pela Pombagira da Calunga; a linha das ciganas, lideradas pela Pombagira Cigana; e a linha ligada aos locais ermos, liderada pela Pombagira, Maria Mulambo. Com relação às suas manifestações nos médiuns, normalmente como mulheres, as suas legiões podem adoptar nomes como Pombagira Rosa, mas pertencendo a esta ou àquela linha, liderada pela chefe correspondente.
Uma coisa é muito certa, todo e qualquer problema que colocamos nas mãos de qualquer uma delas tem solução. A sua força é guerreira, a sua vibração magnética é carregada de sensualidade e alegria, tanto que a sua chegada aos médiuns é sempre alegre, solta e sensual.
Exú tem ligação com a força sexual criativa, e a Pombagira por sua vez com a circulação dessa energia criativa existente na vida e no Universo. Lamentavelmente a sua reputação tornou-se péssima devido a erros de incorporação dos próprios médiuns, que por deturpações pessoais as transformaram em seres com fama de depravadas, libidinosas e cruéis.
O importante ao invocá-las é lembrar sempre que, são entidades complexas de personalidade forte, e que nunca perdoam uma falta de palavra dada. O importante também é não invocá-las para trazer prejuízo a outrem, porque elas o farão com certeza, mas a dívida kármica adquirida ficará por conta de quem pediu.
Quanto ao seu aspecto sensual, faz parte de sua polaridade, não querendo significar com isso depravação ou perversão. Até hoje não conheci nenhuma mulher que tenha deixado de ser honesta por culpa de qualquer uma delas."
Excerpt from uwaterloo.ca:
Description of the District
St. Clair Boulevard Heritage Conservation District runs along St. Clair Boulevard between Delaware Avenue and Cumberland Avenue. The district consists of 38 residential properties.
Cultural Heritage Value of the District
The Heritage Conservation District Planning Background Study and Plan discuss the value of the district:
“The St. Clair Park survey, registered in 1911, was one of a number of residential surveys laid out in Hamilton’s east end just after the turn of the century, a boom period for residential construction throughout the City. The St. Clair Park Survey formed part of a middle to upper class residential area comprising a number of surveys, which extended from King Street East to the foot of the escarpment and from Wentworth Street South to Gage Park.
As was common practice in Hamilton at the time, the St. Clair Park Survey has building restrictions in the form of restrictive covenants registered on deed to the lots. Restrictions on the cost, construction and setback of the house account to a large extent for the cohesive character of St. Clair Boulevard’s urban streetscape.
While the restrictive covenants associated with the St. Clair Park Survey has building restrictions on its social make-up, the social composition of St. Clair Boulevard was nevertheless very homogenous, comprising middle to upper-middle income families of Anglo-Saxon origins. In the course of its history the boulevard has attracted some of Hamilton’s most prominent citizens; notably, he well-known and highly-respected judge, William F Schwenger and the successful construction company manager, Ralph W. Cooper. The Boulevard is also noteworthy for its social stability, owning to the long-term residence of most of the homeowners and
continuous use of the houses as single-family dwellings”.
Designation of the District
The designation of St. Clair Boulevard was initiated by local residents following the designation of the adjacent St. Clair Avenue district. According to the Background Study and Plan, “a petition requesting designation of the area...signed by all 37 homeowners, was presented to LACAC at its December meeting
and was supported by this committee”.
The St. Clair Boulevard Heritage Conservation District is protected by By-law 92-140, passed in 1992.
We were driving and saw this phenomenal cloud- but it looked like a mushroom cloud! I have to admit I was somewhat fearful at first, even with the beauty of it!
One of the purest form on the planet earth is found here in the vastness of Greenland .there are still great stretches of coast which have never yet been approached by a surface vessel . This is a photo from Rypefjord East Greenland , and our schooner below .Aerail capture from an old drone in terms of quality with today . The scale of wilderness of Greenland is difficult to comprehend. ‘there’s nothing for miles and miles but miles and miles.”Rassmunsen was the only explorer to believe that the traverse has to be done from the East, across the Northwest Passage by dog sled. The Greenlandic anthropologist , together with his two crew mates, a woman called Arnarulunguak and a young man called Qaavigarsuak, left Greenland in 1921 on his fifth and by far the most ambitious Thule expedition. It was a three years dog sledding expedition across Arctic Canada and Alaska to Eastern Siberia. A big thank you to everyone who took time to comment and take a look at my photo. Much appreciated!
J'ai pris ces photos un matin, à 5h40, lorsque le soleil se levait..
I took these pictures a morning at 5:40am, during the sunrise
Julien Delfort ©
It's always a fun time when form and light hang out together.
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Common Wasp, Vespula vulgaris.
Queen wasps are around 20-25mm long and workers are 11-14mm.
The common wasp can be distinguished from other similar social wasps by the anchor-shaped mark on its face.
Widespread and common throughout Britain, especially in the south.
The common wasp usually forms large colonies below ground, but occasionally nests may be made in wall cavities, hollow trees and attics. Queens emerge from hibernation during the spring, and they search for a suitable location in which to start a new colony. She then begins to build the nest with chewed up wood pulp, which dries to make a papery substance. In each cell of a new nest, the queen lays a single egg, which hatches into a larvae in 5 to 8 days. After five moults over about 90 days (the length of time spent in each stage is determined by environmental conditions), each larva spins a silken cap over the cell and pupates. After about 80 days an adult worker wasp emerges. These workers eventually take over the care of the nest, and the queen's life is then devoted solely to egg laying.
At the end of autumn a number of eggs develop into new queens and males, which leave the nest and mate. The new queens seek out suitable places in which to hibernate, and the males and the old colony, including the old queen, die.
Despite their unfortunate reputation, wasps are actually important pollinators and pest controllers.
Fujinon 50/1.4
Sand of Plum Island contains deep purple and dark grey patches. It is due to high abundance of almandine-pyrope garnet, pyroxene augite, and magnetic minerals such as ilmenite and hematite. Epidote adds some greenish hue. The source of the minerals is a terminal moraine that contains huge boulders of igneous and metamorphic rocks and products of their decomposition.
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They are predicting rain overnight and into tomorrow. We had been cool all day until the wind shifted. That brought in humidity and the cloud bank you see here started to form. We will most likely get a thunder shower overnight. They are not calling for severe weather.
This is what happens during the autumn months. We will keep getting changes in wind direction. From the northeast, it will be cool, from the southwest it will bring in warmer moist air and when they meet, depending on conditions, all heck can break lose. it can be anything from constant rain and windy to tornadoes and gale force winds.
A Brooks Kingsnake (Lampropeltis getula brooksi) crawls across a trail in southern Florida.
Miami-Dade county, FL
Eine besondere Form der Abzweigstelle, die heutzutage äußerst selten geworden ist bei den europäischen Eisenbahnen, ist diese Betriebsstelle an der Schmalspurbahn Jindrichov Hradec bzw. an der durch Jindrichuv Hradec führende Normalspurstrecke. Hier mündet die bosnische Spur mit 760 mm in das Normaspurgleis mit 1435 mm und wird bis zum Bahnhot Jindrichuv Hradec als Dreischienengleis weitergeführt. Triebwagen M27 004 befährt gerade, von Kamenice nac Lipou kommend, den Abzweig.
(EN) Bath's coralblenny - (FR) Blennie de Bath
Ecsenius bathi black stripes form, Pura Island, Indonesia
This image shows Glasgow's weather in characteristic form to complete my west coast photo essay. As with the first of these images ( flic.kr/p/2qBbvJc ), this shot captures the essence of this station for me: in Glasgow’s case, busy, populated with exotic trains (from the perspective of a Sassenach), and raining!
The date is Wednesday, 28th March 1984 and an APT set waits to head south on what is likely to be the 0900 relief to Euston. The crowd of gentlemen striding towards the ticket barriers, many of who are lacking in appropriate outdoor attire, are presumably not railway enthusiasts given their lack of interest in the future of travel nor the distinctly Scottish class 27 to the left of the frame.
Unlike London Euston, Glasgow Central still has the grandeur and heritage of the Victorian era. While Euston’s period pieces were swept away in the white heat of 1960s progress, Glasgow Central has been sympathetically restored and, despite the rain, feels like a hospitable station appropriate for a great city.
Glasgow Central was not the original station for the west coast route in the city. The Caledonian Railway originally used the Townhead terminus, 1.5 miles to the northeast, then in November 1849, the new station of Buchanan Street was used. Growth led to the opening of Glasgow Central in 1879, immediately north of the river Clyde that the railway follows for the last 45 miles of its journey from London.
I trust that those that have followed my photo essay have enjoyed the ride. The west coast route is so varied and so long that it has been very easy to find disparate images from my collection. Selecting images for this essay has been challenging: I have been shooting trains on the route since the 1980s, and in the 21st century I still manage perhaps 30-40 images of the line every year. Furthermore, since I started collecting other photographer's images, it seems that the line was popular for others too!
Photograph by an unknown photographer, now part of my collection.
Seasonally dimorphic, the fall form of this species with strong lavender edging and predominantly orange coloration on the dorsal hind wings will overwinter as an adult. It will be one of the earliest butterflies to fly in spring and may even be encountered on warm winter days in early February. This butterfly does not rely on floral nectar, but prefers to sip flowing tree sap, carrion and dung. Male butterflies love to puddle and are notoriously territorial meeting any intruder that enters their territory.