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...lest we would sift it down
into fractions, and facts –
certainties –
and what the soul is, also
I believe I will never quite know.
Though I play at the edges of knowing,
truly I know
our part is not knowing,
but looking, and touching, and loving,
which is the way I walked on,
softly,
through the pale-pink morning light.
[from "Bone" by Mary Oliver]
EXPLORE: Mar 3/13 #232
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inspired by Yoshiko Jinzegi and made from Angela Walters' Right Angles Panel from the Textures line by Art Gallery Fabrics
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadden_Sea
The Wadden Sea (Dutch: Waddenzee, German: Wattenmeer, Low German: Wattensee or Waddenzee, Danish: Vadehavet, West Frisian: Waadsee, North Frisian: di Heef) is an intertidal zone in the southeastern part of the North Sea. It lies between the coast of northwestern continental Europe and the range of Frisian Islands, forming a shallow body of water with tidal flats and wetlands. It is rich in biological diversity. In 2009, the Dutch and German parts of the Wadden Sea were inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List and the Danish part was added in June 2014.[1][2]
The Wadden Sea is one of the world's seas whose coastline has been most modified by humans,[3] via systems of dikes and causeways on the mainland and low-lying coastal islands. The Wadden Sea stretches from Den Helder in the Netherlands in the northwest, past the great river estuaries of Germany to its northern boundary at Skallingen north of Esbjerg in Denmark along a total length of some 500 km and a total area of about 10,000 km2. Within the Netherlands it is bounded from the IJsselmeer by the Afsluitdijk.
The islands in the Wadden Sea are called the Wadden Sea Islands or Frisian Islands, named after the Frisians. These are remnants of the once expansive and now submerged Doggerland. However, on the westernmost Dutch island, Texel, the Frisian language has not been spoken for centuries. The Danish Wadden Sea Islands have never been inhabited by Frisians. The outlying German island of Helgoland, although ethnically one of the Frisian Islands, is not situated in the Wadden Sea.
The German part of the Wadden Sea was the setting for the 1903 Erskine Childers novel The Riddle of the Sands.
Nature
Environment
The word wad is Dutch for "mud flat" (Low German and German: Watt, Danish: Vade). The area is typified by extensive tidal mud flats, deeper tidal trenches (tidal creeks) and the islands that are contained within this, a region continually contested by land and sea. The landscape has been formed for a great part by storm tides in the 10th to 14th centuries, overflowing and carrying away former peat land behind the coastal dunes. The present islands are a remnant of the former coastal dunes.
The islands are marked by dunes and wide, sandy beaches towards the North Sea and a low, tidal coast towards the Wadden Sea. The impact of waves and currents, carrying away sediments, is slowly changing the layout of the islands. For example, the islands of Vlieland and Ameland have moved eastwards through the centuries, having lost land on one side and grown on the other.
Fauna
The Wadden Sea is famous for its rich flora and fauna, especially birds. Hundreds of thousands of waders (shorebirds), ducks, and geese use the area as a migration stopover or wintering site, and it is also a rich habitat for gulls and terns.[4] However, the biodiversity of Wadden Sea today is only a fraction of what was seen before exploitation by humans; for birds, larger species such as geese,[5] eagles, flamingos, pelicans, and herons used to be common as well.[6] Some species that are regionally extinct are still available here.[7][8]
According to J. B. MacKinnon, larger fish including sturgeons, rays,[9] Atlantic salmon, brown trout, and others like lacuna snails and oyster beds that were once found elsewhere in the region have disappeared as well, as the actual size of the Wadden Sea was reduced to about 50% of the original sea, and nutrients from the river of Rhine no longer flow into the sea, resulting in about 90% of all the species which historically inhabited the Wadden Sea being at risk.[10]
Wadden Sea is an important habitat for two species of seals, harbor and grey seals. Harbour porpoises and Atlantic white-beaked dolphins (seasonally) which once were locally extinct but have re-colonized into the area, and these two are the only resident cetaceans in present days[11] while many other species have either disappeared or only visit seasonally or occasionally.[12][13] Nowadays, only 4 species of marine mammals above-mentioned could be counted as regular inhabitants of Wadden sea while many other species that experienced severe declines, habitat loss, and local or functional extinctions.[14] North Atlantic right whales and gray whales[15] were once seen in the region, using the shallow, calm waters for either feeding and breeding before they were completely wiped out by shore-based whaling.[16] These two species are now thought to be either extinct or remnant populations of which low-tens at best survive. One whale, possibly a right whale, was observed close to beaches on Texel in the West Frisian Islands and off Steenbanken, Schouwen-Duiveland in July 2005.[17] Recent increases in number of North Atlantic humpback whales and minke whales might have resulted in more visits and possible re-colonization by the species to the areas especially around Marsdiep.[18][19] Future recovery of once-extinct local bottlenose dolphins is also expected.[11]
Threats to the ecosystem
There are number of invasive species including algae, plants, and smaller organisms causing negative effects on native species introduced by human activities into North Sea coasts.
Conservation
Each of three countries has designated Ramsar sites in the region (see Wadden Sea National Parks).
Although the Wadden Sea is not yet listed as a transboundary Ramsar site, a great part of the Wadden Sea is protected in cooperation of all three countries. The governments of the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany have been working together since 1978 on the protection and conservation of the Wadden Sea. Co-operation covers management, monitoring and research, as well as political matters. Furthermore, in 1982, a Joint Declaration on the Protection of the Wadden Sea was agreed upon to co-ordinate activities and measures for the protection of the Wadden Sea. In 1997, a Trilateral Wadden Sea Plan was adopted.[21]
In 1986, the Waddensea Area was declared a biosphere reserve by UNESCO.[22]
In June 2009, the Wadden Sea (comprising the Dutch Wadden Sea Conservation Area and the German Wadden Sea National Parks of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein) was placed on the World Heritage list by UNESCO.[23] The Danish part was added to the site in 2014.
Recreation
Many of the islands have been popular seaside resorts since the 19th century.
Mudflat hiking, i.e., walking on the sandy flats at low tide, has become popular in the Wadden Sea.
It is also a popular region for pleasure boating.
Photographed at my home with Canon 100mm f2.8 lens + EF 12 II extension tube. Experimented with perspectives and dof. I was doing yard work and decided to take a break, or it might be more honest to say that I took a break from photography to do 15 minutes of yard work before these flowers begged to be photographed. IMG_0542
I was tempted to hold off on sharing these as bonus shots until next year... But what the heck, it's the holiday season man!
This is one of several bonus posts from The Battle For Gotham photoshoot!
(Uploaded December 2018)
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everybody!
2018 has been a crazy year for me! Having to do my best maintaining uploads while waiting on figures throughout the year, while also working two jobs on top of running the Patreon account!
If I thought I didn't have free time before, I'm impressed that I can get anything done at all! :P
Anyway, I'm sure you all remember last year I shared some of my favorite bonus posts from Patreon over the course of 2017. I felt like you all really enjoyed that, so here's only a teeny tiny fraction of what I've shared to Patreon in that time! (Plus a bit from the end of 2017)
If you like what I do, or the art that I put out to the world, I encourage you to join my Patreon page to see 100% of the work I put out there. It takes time and money and sweat and tears and blood (on more occasions than I'd like to admit) :P
If you too would like to be part of the club, be sure to join me over there and you'll get to see all of this stuff (plus more) as it's posted through-out the year! In 2019, I already have new projects scheduled including photoshoots for The Dark Knight Interrogation Room, More Dr Fate, Iron Man and Captain America, New Brickheadz, New Frontier Batman, Shazam etc... and these will be available to you first, plus bonus content for each of those uploads :)
So just think what you're missing out on! Think of what's to come! Help support the content you see here, and join some of our other flickr friends!
Here's a very special thanks and a happy holidays to all of you!
But a truly grateful thank you goes out to JamPotStudios, Phoenix Custom Bricks, Sara Ahh, Fan Xu, Metrix, | Jonathan |, DoctorLate28, ParisCustomBricks, Taylor Mazzone, My Mom, and of course a very special thank you to my first Patron (who's still with me today), Mr Anthony Scott himself! :)
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This image was created in the fraction of a second but took a while to prepare and get right. I set up 2 flash guns on a stand further up the tunnel fitting a blue gel to one flash and an orange to the other. Andy then vaped the smoke to provide the atmosphere for the shot. All it required then was to open the shutter and for me to leap into the air in pitch darkness and fire the flashguns with the remote trigger in my hand, job done.
It took quite a few attempts to get the positioning of the jump just right so the flash didn't fire directly into the lens and blow out the exposure so I was delighted to finally get a shot that worked exactly to plan. Straight out of camera shot done in one exposure.(Olympus EM-1 mk2 7-14mm f/2.8 pro 5secs f/6.3 @ 12mm)
#5380 - 2022 Day 266: When a fraction of an inch of movement change the picture, I kinda know it's worth playing with, even if it is only whilst waiting for the kettle to boil.
"Today, we're starting classes. Here is today's Math lesson: "There is a fine line that divides the numerator from the denominator, but only a fraction of people will get this."
The Flickr Lounge: Fraction
A fraction of the feeder, and we find the rare sight of two hummers eating side by side.
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“It must be admitted that a very large fraction of our time was spent in dressing and undressing. We were forever changing our clothes, a custom that necessitated travelling with a mountain of luggage.” – Lady Cynthia Asquith (English writer and socialite).
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 27th of November is “bags and suitcases”. Anyone who follows my photostream knows that I love and collect 1:12 size miniatures which I photograph in realistic scenes. The artifice of recreating in minute detail items in 1:12 scale always amazes me, and it’s amazing how the eye can be fooled. In this case, pardon the pun, I have a range of luggage, set in a scene outside an English country railway station in the 1920s, judging by the stylised L.N.E.R. advertisement in the background. The pieces of luggage include suitcases, a portmanteau, a travel de necessaire, a gladstone bag, two hat boxes a purse and a beaded handbag. All pieces except the beaded bag are made of leather, and all are artisan miniatures made, and in some cases aged, by hand.
The blue travel de necessaire (small travelling case) and its matching hatbox on which the straw hat decorated with ribbon, flowers and feathers is sitting are 1:12 artisan miniatures and made of blue kid leather which is so soft to the touch, and small metal handles, clasps and ornamentation. They have been purposely worn around their edges to give them age. The brown leather hatbox at the back against which the brown and gold umbrella is leaning is also a 1:12 artisan miniature and unlike the blue pieces, it is made to open and be fully functional and has a cream satin lining. All three pieces come from Doreen Jeffries’ Small Wonders Miniatures in England.
The gladstone bag in the foreground, the white and brown leather portmanteau and the large brown suitcase in the background are also made of deliberately aged leather with metal buckles and clips. The red handbag on top of the blue hat box is also a hand-made artisan piece of soft red kid leather, with a gold chain strap. All these pieces I acquired from The Dolls’ House Shop in the United Kingdom.
The beaded handbag is also a 1:12 artisan miniature. Hand crocheted, it is interwoven with antique blue glass beads that are two millimetres in diameter. The beads of the handle are three millimetres in length. It came from an online specialist store on E-Bay.
The taupe knitting (essential for a long railway journey) on the two long pins that serve as knitting needles is properly knitted and cast on. It was hand made by Mrs. Denton of Muffin Lodge in the United Kingdom.
The two furled 1920s umbrellas with the luggage are all 1:12 artisan pieces made of silk, with handles made from painted wood. There is also a gilt walking stick featuring a deer’s head for a handle, also a hand made artisan piece. They come from specialist artisan miniature makers in England.
The straw hat decorated with ribbon, faux silk flowers and white feathers was made by an unknown artisan and acquired from Doreen Jeffries’ Small Wonders Miniatures in England. The white straw Panama, also hand made, was acquired from a seller on E-Bay selling off part of their miniatures collection. 1:12 size miniature hats made to such exacting standards of quality and realism are often far more expensive than real hats are. When you think that it would sit comfortably on the tip of your index finger, yet it could cost in excess of $150.00 or £100.00, it is an extravagance. American artists seem to have the monopoly on this skill and some of the hats that I have seen or acquired over the years are remarkable.
British miniature artisan Ken Blythe was famous in miniature collectors’ circles mostly for the miniature books that he made: all being authentically replicated 1:12 scale miniatures of real volumes. I have quite a large representation of Ken Blythe’s work in my collection. However, he did not make books exclusively. He also made other small pieces like the two 1920s railway travel posters pinned to the wall in the background. The one on the left advertises travelling to the east coast via L.N.E.R., whilst the one on the right advertises the Flying Scotsman express train. To create something so authentic to the original in such detail and so clearly, really does make these miniature artisan pieces. Ken Blythe’s work is highly sought after by miniaturists around the world today and command high prices at auction for such tiny pieces, particularly now that he is no longer alive. I was fortunate enough to acquire pieces from Ken Blythe prior to his death about four years ago and through his estate courtesy of the generosity of his daughter and son-in-law. His legacy will live on with me and in my photography which I hope will please his daughter.
now I just need a huge design wall to figure out the layout! I'm not even sure I have a floor big enough.
Mammurok, the Last Mammoth Giant:
The story of the Mammoth Giants is a story of misery and sadness. Once a great race of majestic guardians, the Mammoth Giants of old have been whittled down to just a fraction of their once great might.
The Mammoth Giants are part of the ancient order of beings that walked the lands of Warscape before humans, dwarves, or even elves set foot upon the earth. Beings like the regal Dragons, the fierce Taurocaur, and the great Arachnids are a few of the same group. The Mammoth Giants, or the Mammuthu as they call themselves in their native tongue, roamed the Plains millennia before the Brayherd tainted the land with its vicious evil.
They were once colossal beasts, standing well over the height of the great pines and many times larger than even dragons. But the Mammuthu were not feared by the ancient beasts of the lands, for they were a peaceful race, tending and herding to the great mammoth herds that roamed the plains during this time.
However, all things of honor and goodness must come to an end in the world of Warcape, and the gentle giants could not escape this fate. As evil tainted the Plains and crept into the heart of the fierce predators like the Taurocaur, they became more vile and savage, able to kill their most fierce rival, the Mammoth Giants, by pure force of hatred alone. The evil spread, and its taint followed, the grasses begin to wither, the streams began to blacken and become stale. The Mammuthu, being a peaceful race, were ill prepared for such wanton destruction. Over the millennia, they were murdered one by one, until only a sole figure of their race remained.
Mammurok became the Last Mammoth Giant when he was but a young calf. His cow and bull were tending to the tame mammoth herds on the northern fringes of the Plains touching the edge of the Lycanthrol pine forest. Out of nowhere, a large Brayherd tribe led by a vicious Taurocaur savagely murdered the herd and Mammurok’s kin. Escaping through the pines, Mammurok bitterly clung to survival, forming into a hard and defiant mammoth giant.
Roaming the northern fringes of the Plains, Mammurok now shepherds the last few remaining tame mammoth herds that haven’t been taken and corrupted into feral beasts by the Brayherd. He is a solitary figure, never seeking out the comforts of community and home, always searching for more of his kind. When he must defend his herds, Mammurok hefts an old and decaying stone pillar, swinging it in wide arcs as he crushes his enemy to a pulp with every blow. Normally stoic and reserved, he is driven into a fit of uncontrollable rage when he comes across a Brayherd tribe, destroying everything in his path until his most hated foes are vanquished.
The last of a dying race, Mammurok’s story is doomed to failure, but that does not stop this sturdy giant from protecting his herds until his dying breath.
For a fraction of a second, through the four edges of the photo, I shared a moment with a stranger. I wonder if anything interesting flashed in his mind at that moment.
Zuiko 28/2.8, Neopan 1600
Vancouver, Canada
December, 2008
had to pin it up because there was an extra block in the 9th row and I needed to figure out which end to cut before attaching it. this bad boy is going to a long arm quilter tomorrow...it is far too big of a beast for my wee machine.
design is based on c_arkinson's baby quilt (see set for link)
I see thousand little frames, in a fraction of a minute
Every shade, every light, every sight so minute
What eyes see alas ! is not what I see
What I see alas ! is not what you see.
Eyes that behold a thousand dreams, so vivid
Every thought, every emotion, every desire, so vivid
Alas ! belongs to one tiny frame in a fraction of a minute
Still my thoughts, emotions, desire are so myself, though so minute
Eyes, window of my soul, see what I wish to see
I see in your eyes, reflection of my deep self, I wish to see
Eyes, devoid of light ponder the vision of light
In the light of the day, when I am open, partly blind, partly visible, for my soul
- Anuj Nair
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Le territoire de la commune de Sévérac-le-Château constitue une fraction sud du Massif central. Il est situé sur le plateau caussenard du même nom. Sévérac le château et à une altitude maximum de 1091 mètres.
The International Space Station passing between the Earth and the Moon. Photographed at 00:03 CDT on May 31, 2020 as the SpaceX Demo-2 Dragon capsule Endeavour approaches the station after launching 9 hours prior.
This transit lasted 0.61 seconds. Images captures on a Canon EOS R on 4K C-Log at 30 fps with individual frames exported as TIFF files and combined in Photoshop with a still image of the Moon. 1/1600sec, f8, ISO 1600.
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My submission to the "Your Worst Shot 2020" Flickr group.
It was a little difficult to determine what my "worst" shot was because I have thousands of outtakes from the year, but this image was my biggest disappointment. I had scouted the location by driving 3 hours a week prior to the transit time and arrived early to ensure my camera was all set up for the ISS transit. I timed the transit down to the fraction of a second with a countdown and once I checked my camera, it looked little more than a gnat flying across the face of the moon.
There's not much that I could have done to make it a better image as it all came down to how the space station was angling its solar arrays at the time, but that doesn't make the outcome any better.
Details best viewed in Original Size.
I captured the image of this diorama at the Mammals of North America at the American Museum of Natural History located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. According to Wikipedia, the American Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as AMNH) is one of the largest and most celebrated museums in the world. Located in park-like grounds across the street from Central Park, the Museum comprises 25 interconnected buildings that house 46 permanent exhibition halls, research laboratories, and its renowned library. The collections contain over 32 million specimens, of which only a small fraction can be displayed at any given time. The Museum has a scientific staff of more than 200, sponsors over 100 special field expeditions each year, and averages about five million visits annually.
A colleague and myself were asked to provide some software training to our colleagues in Lisbon, and grabbed the opportunity to visit that beautiful city, which I had never seen before. That was quite a bit of random walk tourism, which took us through all kind of areas, from the pretty to the glorious to those that have seen better day. This picture was taken last night in an area I'd definitely put in the latter category. We had a great time, took lots of pictures and saw only a fraction of what there is to see.
25mm f/1.8 APS-C "Greet Trim" CCTV lens at f/2
Thank you everyone for your visits, faves and comments, they are always appreciated :)
Corniglia is a frazione ("fraction") of the commune of Vernazza in the province of La Spezia, Liguria, northern Italy. Unlike the other localities of the Cinque Terre, Corniglia is not directly adjacent to the sea. Instead, it is on the top of a promontory about 100 metres high, surrounded on three sides by vineyards and terraces and the fourth side descends steeply to the sea. To reach Corniglia, it is necessary to climb the Lardarina, a long brick flight of steps composed of 33 flights with 382 steps or, otherwise follow a vehicular road that, from the station, leads to the village. Sometimes a small bus runs up and down here.
The village stretches along the main road, Fieschi Road, and the houses have one side facing this road and the other facing the sea. Corniglia is characterised by narrow roads and a terrace obtained in the rock from which all other four Cinque Terre's villages, two on one side and two on the other, can be seen. The town planning structure presents also original characteristics compared to those of the other villages: the houses are lower set, and only more recently higher, similar to those of the villages of the hinterland.
Corniglia is mentioned in a famous novella of Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron and in the novel The Invisible Circus by Jennifer Egan.
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The ground moves beneath their feet as if the earth hit the brakes for a fraction of a second and then ticked back into perpetual motion.
Dusty whimpers looking to the sky and Flit falls to her knees in the street following her gaze. The clouds dry-heave open and spit forth a shower of meteors...
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The day bolt struck the ground 11 times in a fraction of a second. The night anvil crawler was one of several and was perhaps the best. Taken (9/11). Taken at 240 fps.
It's funny when you look at a photograph, captured in a fraction of a second how it can belie reality... This to me looks quite peaceful but that day the rain was THUNDEROUS, I could hardly even see my brother through the cascades of water.
So psyched that I managed to capture raindrops :)
She works at the coffee shop of the Anglican church and guesthouse in the old city (Palestinian part) of Jerusalem.
I've heard only fractions of her story, 'here and there'.
She was born in Sudan. When she was a child her mother died. When she was ten years old, her family immigrated to Egypt. When she was thirteen, she stole across the border to Israel with her younger brother (three years younger than her). For three years they stayed in a shelter in Tel-Aviv. Now they live in the old city of JLM.
She speaks fluent English, Hebrew, and Arabic, and is full of charm. As far as I understand she is not in danger of being expelled from the country, but if she would leave (to visit her brothers in Egypt) she'll not be allowed to return…
If you ask me: she, like many other immigrants: is young, vital, strong by all means. She is a fortune to the state of IL. Sad for her country that she left it; and luck for IL that she is with us. Like often: the poor get poorer, and the rich get richer.
Psychologists often ask about risk factors, vulnerabilities, traumas people passed. Looking at her one can ask about resilient factors that enable her to be so happy, full of life, positive (at least from the little I know her) despite what she went through.
p.s.
she knows me rather well, and when I was approaching, knew I would start shooting her; and this what made her so amused.
The fraction of a second between landing and then taking off!
Photo taken in Okinawa, Japan.
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Last year, I gifted my son with my Sony Nex 7, because I found that I couldn't properly hold it with my zoom lens attached (18-200mm) and using a zoom has always been my preference. After giving it, and the kit lens, to him (he has to work a little harder to get my 18-200mm, lol) I realized how much I loved using this camera with the 50mm f/1.8 lens. Soooo....I purchased a used camera (for a fraction of the cost of my original) from B&H Photo.
I did go through some angst when opting to take only this camera, with this lens, to Mt. Dora rather than one of my others with longer focal lengths. It had been my experience in past visits that a zoom really came in handy.
It took a while to get used to the camera again, it's been a couple of years since using it...but I enjoy it.
Relying solely on a prime lens is a new experience for me...usually I'd also pack along my Nikon P7700 or my Sony RX100ii to have the telephoto capacity. The only time I really wished I'd had a zoom was when we were touring on the lake and passed an eagle's nest. A baby chick"s silhouette was barely discernible, but I'm going to post the shot anyway!
I'm thinking of getting a macro prime, but the 30mm that Sony has for their APS-C format hasn't gotten great reviews. If you have, or anyone you know has, used this lens, would love the feedback.
Sorry for "talking" too much!
Fraction of the universe - immaculate autumn reflection in the placid water of Hársas Lake.
Date: October 10, 2020 16:17
Temperature: 19°C (66°F)
Scott's spiraling irrigation line before putting it into the ground for the drip system.
Nothing like planting a fraction of 5-acres and then realizing that the 7 trees that were planted look like specks in the vastness of the yard.