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Abandoned Abused Street Dogs.
Alright here's the deal ....................
We're at The Spirit House, hot-dogs
have all been consumed and now
we've started in on the kibble.
Mickey's sitting next to me and yes
Mr Rocky's sitting on the other-side.
Mama "was" on the next step down
monitoring her two boys breakfast.
Mamas real good with mathematics.
One 4 you, 3 for me, and on it goes.
I've heard that 5 out of 4 people
have trouble doing fractions.
I'm still trying to round off
infinity, just saying ?
There's monkeys all around us jockeying
for position in case any kibble is spilled.
Mickey has a few pieces of kibble
right in front of him as does
Mama. Rocky has the bag.
Like a bolt of lightning a brave ape darts
in and grabs some of Mickeys kibble.
Bad Move ! Way Wrong !
Mama took off after said ape with
fire in her eyes an runs into traffic.
There was another dozen apes
in front of her but, by the time
the camera was raised to my
eye an the shutter was
pressed they had
vaporized !
As you can see here, they didn't want
any close quarter combat with Mama.
Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting.
The Hooligans were cared for, all is well.
Mama and I wandered through The DMZ.
Plan was to go back to The Dog Palace
and see if Miss Molly could be located.
We were 40-50 meters from the front gate
when Miss Molly came racing out. Bowed
and kissed Mamas Royal Cone then stood
up on her hind legs while dancing about ..;-)
She was singing, wiggling, full of excitement.
Mama basically ignores Miss Molly which is
slightly unusual, but it's their world not mine.
My position is, jungle journalist nothing more.
In a couple of days we might go
looking for that 3-D monkey printer.
Rumor has it, the monkey printer is in
an old decaying building that sits under
the Fat Sitting Buddha high up in the jungle.
That adventure will take some serious planning.
It just occurred to me that I'm not 20 yrs old
anymore.That was like 50 years ago, but
only seems like it was just yesterday.
Your on going support helps keep these abused
abandoned street dogs from suffering in pain
an agony while living a comfortable life
out here at The Monkey Temple.
Now the term, "comfortable life" was used,
which would never apply in the real world.
But as many of you already know,
this isn't the real world !
It's their world !
Thank You.
Jon&Crew.
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Blinked for Fractions•
Lightning illuminates memories of Tokyo•
Tokens of sweat and plumage•
Dissolve into laughter lines•
Credited with a sympathetic vote•
Smooth.
The kudos, the kudos.
Hard time up•
Scream the physical form•
That forces itself through these dawn lights•
Neon chased.
And I watch them silently.
Watching this•
Watching each other•
eyes glazed.
Through Tokyo nights•
Astounded•
And amazed.
Nikon F301 + 50mm 1.8
Kodak Portra 400
Hoya/Itorex lens filters, light leak
Unretouched lab scan
ODC Fraction
I am learning about fractals and this is one that I made in Frax. According to the measurement at the bottom of the screen it is 84%. Eighty-four Percent equates to 21/25. Maybe one day I'll figure out what it all means, but until I do I'm having a great time making them!
Sometimes, it's good to feel uncomfortable because it's a small fraction of a glimpse of what others go through all their lives. I was relieved on Tues. night that Alabama didn't elect a pedophile but that was largely thanks to women and men of color who voted for Doug Jones. White people by and large still voted for the pedophile, Roy Moore.
The Women's Rights ancestry in this country has unfortunately a history of wanting rights for white women and excluding women of color. Susan B. Anthony herself was racist even when Frederick Douglass made an effort to reach out to her on a human level. And now, buried in the same cemetery at Mount Hope in the city where I grew up (Rochester, NY), I imagine them comparing notes on the revolution and progression of this country and how we're still held back.
Not all white people but many white people are still holding us back in a big way. They hold us back in the way they vote. They hold us back in their lack of kindness and empathy. They hold us back in how they pander and condescend to minority voters when they need them and throw them out like trash when it comes to actual policies that represent all of their constituents, not just the NRA lobbyists or the corporate billionaires. And, in doing so, they hold the vast majority of Americans back, regardless of race or gender and we all suffer.
I've gone to quite a few protests in my day. I was so excited to move to the big city of Chicago back in 2001 because I wanted to be able to see more bands play and go to more museums and be part of artistic communities. Then, 911 happened and I found myself spending most of my energy protesting the Iraq war. Do you remember My Grief Is NOT a Cry For War? Yeah, I was one of those people and still am. Remember Not in My Name? I still feel that way.
But, as someone who has been to both well attended and poorly attended protests against war, public education budget cuts, and racism, the Women's March of 2017 was a new high for me. I had never seen over 250, 000+ people gathered at the same time all to support women's' rights. And, although the movement may have taken awhile to gain momentum and we've certainly lost so many civil rights with the Trump administration for so many humans, the most recent call to action from women speaking out against sexual abuse, rape, and overall power tripping sexism and misogyny is honestly something I have never before seen in my lifetime. Suddenly, men, even politicians, are starting to be careful of what they say and do....we still haven't hold Trump accountable but I do believe it's coming.
So, I was elated when I walked in the streets with so many women from so many backgrounds in my city, all united with their male friends, fathers, brothers, and partners with them in support last January and I hope that it's even bigger this year because we have some things to celebrate but we also have some things to mourn and work still needs to be done.
But, back to that photo...you know, the photo I was going to tell you about. It's the photo I deleted. The photo was of a Black Woman and she was holding up a sign she had written on and the sign said, in bold letters WHITE WOMEN VOTED FOR TRUMP. She wasn't the only one, either. I read an article about someone seeing this sign at either the same or a different rally. And, while there's an organization called Women For Trump headed by a white woman that for some reason CNN continues to interview, I wanted this day to be about empowerment and about women coming together. I wanted to give Susan B. Anthony the finger. I wanted to taunt her ghost. I wanted to tell her we'd come so far and that race no longer mattered, that women were stronger together, walking the streets.
Susan B. Anthony's ghost continues to laugh in my face. Even worse, I censored myself. I found that same woman in the 7,000+ photos I took during the march but I deleted the shot of her with that sign up because I felt that message was divisive and, to be blunt, it made me really uncomfortable. Why should I feel bad? I didn't vote for Trump! I support many children who are minorities! I give to charity every month! I wouldn't even vote for Hillary Clinton because she called Black People "Super predators" and I didn't want anyone like that in office. So, why should I feel bad? I felt bad because it's true, because I have white shame. And, over the months I've realized that Susan B. Anthony's ghost and I still will continue to spar. I've also come to terms with the fact that I do have white privilege and that it's ok to be uncomfortable and to be depressed because again, think of the men and women who have violence enacted on them every day by the system and by the police because of the color of their skin. My discomfort is laughable.
Tuesday, Susan B. Anthony was laughing again. She was laughing because white women continue to do the wrong thing. They continue to vote for pedophiles and against the progress of this country. The only people who really seem to want a truly great America are people of color and, if I could make a wish it is that we have only women of color in every government office position at every level for the next couple of hundred years. It's their time to be represented/ My guess is that America would be much better for it. We've already seen what the white man will do and it's pretty atrocious...isn't the definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results? It's time to acknowledge our collective insanity. Even though I believe Russia interfered in our election, we have to acknowledge that there's a racist tumor in the heads of many Americans like a deadly snake and it is making our whole country suffer. There is a partial American flag visible in the top right hand of the frame and that's pretty symbolic because there's only a small fraction of Americans represented by their elected officials at this time.
So, to Susan B. Anthony, I still think Frederick Douglass was the better human than you and, perhaps even more so, Anna Murray-Douglass his wife deserves to be more famous than you ever became as an early civil rights activist.
It's hard to admit our heroes were racist but, then again, we can always get new heroes.
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Geologische breuk. De diagonale lijn op de foto verwijst naar de deelstreep van een rekenkundige breuk zoals 1/2.
Er zijn ook een paar nogal ondiepe kolkgaatjes.
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Geological fault. The diagonal line in the picture refers to the division line of an arithmetic fraction like 1/2. The Dutch word ‘breuk’ means both fault and fraction.
There are also some rather undeep kolks.
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Flickr Lounge ~ Fraction
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A fraction of the more than 3000 jars that are brought together by Pater De Meyer in his work of art titled Coda. To be seen in Museum Voorlinden in Wassenaar.
Green Tiger Beetle, these took a bit of spotting today, they were hidden in the grasses and very quick, stopping for a fraction of a second and off again, not easy to photograph!
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A fraction of the feeder, and we find the rare sight of two hummers eating side by side.
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"La qualité esthétique signifie parler de nuances, quelquefois de fractions d'à peine un millimètre, de graduations très subtiles, ou de l'harmonie et de l'équilibre de plusieurs éléments visuels fonctionnant ensembles."
Dieter Rams
Here are two captures taken within fraction of second of each other ... accidentally snapped off the second capture and it was so fast after the first that the flash did not go off. I think someone bumped me on the dance floor :)
In any case the flash not going off really shows how dark it was there on the dance floor ... and it is just amazing that the camera and speedlite are able to focus under such conditions allowing me to focus in on my Dad and daughter there on the dance floor. By bouncing the flash here off to the left wall and ceiling, it bounces back into the scene from the side, maintaining nice shadows. The higher ISO allows the remainder of the scene to expose just like it did without the flash that filled in the foreground and focus of the scene.
Had I captured this at lower ISO, the capture with the flash would have number one taken more energy and been draining my speedlite batteries there quicker for the exposure needed, and the background would have been very dark there behind the dancers.
The combination of high ISO and bouncing the flash from the side worked pretty well I think.
It was also a blast to see my Dad out there busting some moves :)
Happy Father's Day!
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photography | blue
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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)
Wickham Place is the London home of Lord and Lady Southgate, their children and staff. Located in fashionable Belgravia it is a fine Georgian terrace house.
Today we are in Lady Southgate’s dressing room, which is adjunct to her bedroom, where poor Newman, Lady Southgate’s Lady’s Maid, is pulling out her hair with frustration. Lord and Lady Southgate have accepted the invitation to stay with friends at their country house in Worcestershire, and even though it is only a ‘Friday to Monday’ weekend party, there is a panoply of outfits and accountments that Newman must pack for Her Ladyship to wear across those three days.
“What’s the point of coming up to London for the Season if you are going to spend half of it visiting friends at their houses all over the English countryside?” Newman mutters as she looks about her despondently at the mounds of luggage that will need to be neatly filled with Her Ladyship’s clothes.
Lady Southgate’s dressing room is situated on the third floor of Wickham Place. It is light and airy with an east facing window, so it gets the morning sun whilst Newman sets her mistress’ hair each day, and Lady Southgate applies beauty products to maintain her creamy complexion. The dressing room is a feminine preserve and its décor reflects that along with the current fashion for whites and pastel colours in boudoirs. The wallpaper is a fashionable Edwardian pattern of birds, butterflies and pink camellias on a pale green background. Feminine Rococo paintings hang on the walls in antique gilt frames. The room contains light coloured furniture including wardrobes full of her ladyship’s clothes, full length mirrors, a white upholstered settee, several occasional tables, a Japanese floral painted screen, a Chippendale style salon chair upholstered in cream satin and a walnut Regency dressing table: a gift to Lady Southbank from her husband.
This year the FFF+ Group have decided to have a weekly challenge called “Snap Happy”. A different theme chosen by a member of the group each week, and the image is to be posted on the Monday of the week.
This week the theme, “fur and feathers” was chosen by Margaret, The Pocket Rocket.
Lady Southgate’s trunks ready to be packed with sable stoles and feather adorned picture hats seemed the perfect choice for the theme. However, this upper-class boudoir scene is different, for it is made up entirely of 1:12 size dollhouse miniatures. Some pieces come from my own childhood including the tallboy at the back of the room. Other items in this tableau I acquired as a teenager and as an adult through specialist doll shops, online dealers and artists who specialise in making 1:12 miniatures.
Fun things to look for in this tableaux include:
The three Edwardian picture hats (yes there are three) are what inspired me to photograph this scene for the “fur and feathers” theme. The black hat on the settee I have had since I was a teenager, and it was one of the first 1:12 artisan pieces I ever bought. The green and camel coloured hats in the foreground were a recent acquisition from an American miniatures collector who was divesting herself of some of her collection. All three hats are 1:12 artisan miniatures, are made just like real hats and are often far more expensive than real hats are. When you think that these would sit comfortably on your index finger, yet they could cost in excess of $150.00 or £100.00 each, they are 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. The black hat is made of woven straw dyed black and decorated with stiffened fans of black lace, black ribbon and feathers. The camel and green hats are both made of braid trimmed felt and are decorated with imitation fruit and flowers and hand dyed and shaped feathers.
The thick sable stole draped across the far end of the tallboy, near the tallboy, is actually a tail attached to one of my own vintage sable collars. I have artfully (with quite some planning and difficulty), placed it so you can only see the single tail, which is just the right size to be a luxurious stole for Lady Southgate!
The blue travelling case in the background and its matching hatbox in the foreground on which the camel hat 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 in which the green hat sits 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 four furled umbrellas are all 1:12 artisan pieces made of silk, satin and lace. Three have metal handles, whilst the yellow lace one is made from a toothpick with a tip affixed to its end. Three come from England whilst the salmon coloured one with the black pagoda top came from the same collection as the camel and green hats.
The grey pair of gloves on the metal inlaid box in the foreground was bought from the same London Doll House stockist that the black hat came from and they were bought at the same time. They are made of leather and are artisan pieces, cut and fashioned by hand with nail scissors. The canary yellow pair of gloves on top of the blue case in the background are also artisan pieces and are made of kid leather and are so light and soft. They come from Doreen Jeffries’ Small Wonders Miniatures in England.
The purple white polka dot mules are hand painted 1:12 lead miniatures that came from the same American collection as the green and camel coloured hats and the salmon parasol. The black Edwardian high boot in the bottom left hand corner is made of resin and comes from a specialist stockist of 1:12 miniatures in England.
On the right-hand side of the picture, sitting on the white Queen Anne style settee, is Lady Southgate’s glittering travelling jewellery case which is hinged, and is lined with black velvet. It contains a sparkling array of her jewels ready for the journey. Draped over the seat of the settee is a sparking “amethyst” necklace made of tiny strung faceted purple beads and a silver chain.
On top of a black portmanteau are two corset boxes: a Baleinine corset from Paris and a Warner Brothers Coraline Health Corset from New York. The corset was an essential beauty aide for any Victorian or Edwardian woman. It was only with the invention of the Flapper in the 1920s, that corsets fell out of fashion. In the late Nineteenth Century, Dr. Lucien Warner, a prominent American physician gave up his practice to begin a new career on the medical lecturing circuit, specializing in women’s health issues. Dr. Warner lectured about the effects of the corset. After seeing how little influence his lectures had on women’s attitudes, he returned to his New York home and began a different approach to fighting the ills caused by the corset. In 1873, he designed a corset that provided both the shape desired by women and the flexibility required to allow some movement and reduce injuries caused by previous designs. The next year, Lucien Warner and his brother Dr. Ira De Ver Warner gave up their medical practices and founded Warner Brothers Corset Manufacturers. Dr. Warner’s Coraline Health Corsets were made up of two pieces of cloth which were laced or clasped together. These revolutionary undergarments also featured shoulder straps and more flexible boning and lateral bust supports made of Coraline, a product of the fibers of the Mexican Ixtle plant. The success of the Warners’ designs had made the brothers millionaires and in 1894 they retired and turned control of the company over to De Ver’s son and the Warner Brothers partnership was changed to a corporation. Warner\'s business was still doing well under the management of Dr.De Var\'s son. He even added new types of corsets: a rust proof corset, a combination corset, and even a hose supporter. In 1913 the company made seven million US Dollars in sales. Then in 1913 Warner Brother\'s bought the patent for the brassier from Mary Phelps Jacobs, and they ended up making twelve point six million US Dollars by 1920.
The black portmanteau on which the two corset boxes sit is in fact a black leather ring box with gold tooling.
In the background is a Chinese screen dating from the 1930s featuring hand-painted soapstone panels of flowers. It is framed lacquered wood and is remarkably heavy for its size. The reverse features Chinese scenes with mountains and pagodas. Next to it stands a 1:12 Dutch tallboy which I bought from Hamley’s Toyshop in London when I was twelve years old. On the far right on a table stands a 1950s Limoges vase filled with pink hydrangeas. The vase is stamped with a small green Limoges mark to the bottom. This treasure I found in an overcrowded cabinet at the Mill Markets in Geelong.
Late September and these little beauty's are brigtening up the garden and the Buddleia bush.
Red Admiral Butterfly: -
The Red Admiral is a frequent visitor to gardens throughout the British Isles and one of our most well-known butterflies. This butterfly is unmistakable, with the velvety black wings intersected by striking red bands.
This butterfly is primarily a migrant to our shores, although sightings of individuals and immature stages in the first few months of the year, especially in the south of England, mean that this butterfly is now considered resident. This resident population is considered to only be a small fraction of the population seen in the British Isles, which gets topped up every year with migrants arriving in May and June that originate in central Europe. Unfortunately, most individuals are unable to survive our winter, especially in the cooler regions of the British Isles.
The number of adults seen in any one year is therefore dependent on the number of migrants reaching the British Isles and numbers fluctuate as a result. In some years this butterfly can be widespread and common, in others rather local and scarce. This is a widespread species and can be found anywhere in the British Isles, including Orkney and Shetland.
Courtesy: UK Butterflies website
Fractions of a second before impact and you can see that both Rams are definitely anticipating some major impact.
It is prime time right now for the Bighorn Rut in the Canadian Rockies and unfortunately... I am not there this time to be photographing it. Going through some of last years shots during the rut at least keeps me satiated a bit;)
I have refrained from tying my business of photography in with my Flickr account but enough people have inquired about my prints and cards and such that I felt it was time to start including that information here.
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Il matérialise une fraction Sud du Massif Central à une altitude comprise entre 600 et 1250 mètres. Le Larzac est le plus vaste et le plus méridional de tous. Ses limites naturelles sont souvent nettes et sont représentées par des cours d'eau qui contribuent à son érosion. Il s'étend au Nord-Est bordé par la rivière Dourbie qui le sépare du Causse Noir puis au Nord-Ouest bordé par la rivière Tarn qui le sépare du plateau du Lévézou. A l'ouest il atteint la dépression de Roquefort.
It materializes a portion of South Massif Central at an altitude between 600
and 1250 meters. Larzac is the largest and most southerly of all. His
Natural boundaries are often sharp and are represented by rivers that
contribute to its erosion. It extends north-east bordered by the river which Dourbie
separates the Black Causse and to the northwest bounded by the River Tarn, which separates the
Lévézou plateau. To the west it reaches depression Roquefort.
Domi
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Domenico Modugno Lu pisci spada Teatro 10 1964
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Acitrezza, a coastal town in eastern Sicily, a fraction of Acicastello (a town so called due to the presence of a gloomy and imposing Norman Castle which rises above the sea); Acitrezza has the prefix "Aci", which we find in nine municipalities in the province of Catania, a prefix that originates from an ancient legend that speaks of a love story between the shepherd boy Aci and the beautiful Nereid named Galatea, a marine divinity , but it is also a story of jealousy, in fact Galatea was desired by the terrible god Polyphemus (Ovid, in the XIII book of the Metamorphoses); Acitrezza is above all known to most, for having been the socio-cultural background for the novel "I Malavoglia" by the great realist writer Giovanni Verga, and for the film " The earth shakes" by the great director Luchino Visconti, a film always inspired by the novel "I Malavoglia ”; speaking of Giovanni Verga, born in Catania, I would like to underline that he was not only a famous writer, exponent of the Verismo literary current, but he was also a passionate photographer, whose photographic production was certainly influenced by his friend and writer Luigi Capuana: in Verga's photographs (for many years I have owned the book "Verga photographer") we find a particular attention to portraits (simple people, such as relatives, acquaintances, peasants, waitresses), photographs of urban and rural realities of Sicily of his time (a diatribe concerns whether or not these photographs were important cues for fueling his literary narrative production), but not only Sicily, there are photographs of landscapes such as the lakes in Lombardy, Bormio, Switzerland, which Verga visited starting from Milan where he lived for a long time. This introductory note, to talk about the photographs I took in Acitrezza on June 24th of this year: the first photos I post (in the slideshow, as in the photostream, they will be the last to appear) there are portraits of some very nice members of the Lega Navale di Acitrezza who performed in a very particular and unique musical performance using the shells of clearly exotic molluscs, I then made photographs of the particular coast of the sea that bathes Acitrezza, devoid of beaches, with the characteristic faraglioni (islands of the Cyclops), for which bathers to immerse themselves in its clear waters, must adapt to the presence of the rocks, or take advantage of the concrete "slides" created for launching or hauling boats, or taking advantage of the characteristic wooden scaffolding which, like stilt houses, overlook the rocks, allowing you to park comfortably a short distance from the sea water; however what prompted me to go to Acitrezza was the particular scenic representation held on the occasion of the Feast of San Giovanni on 24 June, a farcical representation that dates back to 1750, and seems to originate as a propitiatory rite for to fish for swordfishfish, such farce-representation takes the name of "U pisci a mari" (the fish in the sea), almost superfluous to underline how fishing for coastal towns such as Acitrezza (therefore also fishing for large Mediterranean fish, such as tuna and swordfish) has represented and represents an important source of livelihood, fishing that above all in the past (now it has become a rarity, something survives in the Strait of Messina) was carried out with the use of a long rod equipped with a harpoon with mobile and articulated fins (so as to prevent the rod from being unsarpooned by leveraging it), with typical boats of two types, the "luntru", equipped with a tree in the center of the boat, about three meters high, from whose top you can see the swordfish (which in the period between April and September it approaches the Calabrian and Sicilian coast of the Strait of Messina, it can be seen while it sails torpidly or even sleeps on the surface), the other type of boat is the "feluca" whose "modern" version includes, in addition to a very high lookout mast, the presence of a very long walkway that allows you to reach the swordfish above, which has not yet alarmed itself by hearing the engine of the boat still far away. In this "pantomime", a Swordfish-Man is symbolically captured with a spear, bright red fake "stage blood" is immediately sprinkled on his body, the joy among the fishermen is great, at the tip of the pier with the umbrella in hand there is the "Rais" (the Chief of the crew who has the task of signaling the presence of the Man-Fish) who rejoices, (this type of fishing has very ancient origins), the musical band has taken its place on a barge, with its music, brightens up the whole scene despite the bloody aspect that characterizes the scene, some photographs if not commented (and seen individually) could create a bit of bewilderment, looking at the smiling faces of the spectators one realizes that we are faced with a farce-representation, the Man-Fish, albeit "wounded", manages to squirm and regain his freedom by throwing himself into the water, the fishermen are in the throes of anger and despair, the Rais despairs, the capture and salvation for the Man-Fish takes place three times, after which the fishermen, now without prey and desperate, end their comedy by overturning the boat and thus ending up miserably in the water. The colors present in the feast of San Giovanni di Acitrezza are the colors red and yellow, colors that we find in the clothes of the fishermen, in the decorations and in the colors of the boat called San Giovanni, so even the devotees dress in red and yellow wearing the handkerchief or the yellow-red dress of St. John.
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Acitrezza, paese costiero della Sicilia orientale, frazione di Acicastello (paese così chiamato per la presenza di un tetro e imponente Castello Normanno che si erge sul mare); Acitrezza ha il prefisso “Aci”, che ritroviamo in nove comuni della provincia di Catania, prefisso che origina da un’antica leggenda che parla di una storia d’amore tra il pastorello Aci e la bellissima Nereide di nome Galatea, una una divinità marina, ma è anche una storia di gelosia, infatti Galatea era desiderata dal terribile dio Polifemo (Ovidio, nel XIII libro delle Metamorfosi); Acitrezza è soprattutto conosciuta ai più, per aver fatto da sfondo socio-culturale al romanzo “I Malavoglia” del grande scrittore verista Giovanni Verga, e al film “la terra trema” del grande regista Luchino Visconti, film ispirato sempre al romanzo “I Malavoglia”; a proposito di Giovanni Verga, nato a Catania, desidero sottolineare, che egli non fu solamente un famoso scrittore, esponente della corrente letteraria del Verismo, ma egli fu anche un appassionato fotografo, la cui produzione fotografica fu certamente influenzata dal suo amico e scrittore Luigi Capuana: nelle fotografia del Verga (da molti anni sono in possesso del libro ”Verga fotografo”) ritroviamo una particolare attenzione al ritratto (persone semplici, come parenti, conoscenti, contadini, cameriere), fotografie di realtà urbane e rurali della Sicilia del suo tempo (una diatriba riguarda se tali fotografie erano o meno importanti spunti per alimentare la sua produzione narrativa letteraria), ma non solo la Sicilia, ci sono fotografie di paesaggi come i laghi lombardi, di Bormio, della Svizzera, che Verga visitò partendo da Milano dove egli visse per molto tempo. Questa nota introduttiva, per parlare delle fotografie che ho realizzato ad Acitrezza il 24 giugno di quest’anno: le prime foto che posto (nello slideshow, come nel photostream, saranno le ultime ad apparire) ci sono i ritratti di alcuni simpaticissimi soci della Lega Navale di Acitrezza che si sono esibiti in una particolarissima ed unica performance musicale utilizzando le conchiglie di molluschi chiaramente esotici, ho poi realizzato fotografie della particolare costa del mare che bagna Acitrezza, priva di spiagge, coi caratteristici faraglioni (isole dei Ciclopi), per cui i bagnanti per immergersi nelle sue limpide acque, devono adattarsi alla presenza degli scogli, oppure approfittare di “scivole” in cemento create per la messa in acqua o l’alaggio delle barche, oppure usufruendo di caratteristiche impalcature in legno che, come palafitte, sovrastano le rocce, consentendo di stazionare comodamente a poca distanza dall’acqua del mare; però quello che mi ha spinto a recarmi ad Acitrezza è stata la particolare rappresentazione scenica che si tiene in occasione della Festa di San Giovanni il 24 giugno, rappresentazione farsesca che risale al 1750, e sembra originare come rito propiziatorio per la pesce al pescespada, tale rappresentazione-farsa prende il nome di “U pisci a mari” (il pesce nel mare), quasi superfluo sottolineare di come la pesca per paesi costieri come Acitrezza (quindi anche la pesca ai grandi pesci del Mediterraneo, come tonni e pescespada) ha rappresentato e rappresenta una importante fonte di sostentamento, pesca che soprattutto in passato (ora è diventata una rarità, qualcosa sopravvive nello stretto di Messina) veniva eseguita con l’utilizzo di una lunga asta dotata di un arpione ad alette mobili e snodabile (in modo da impedire che l’asta, facendo leva, potesse disarpionarsi), con barche tipiche di due tipi, il “luntru” , dotata di un albero nel centro della barca, alto circa tre metri, dalla cui sommità si avvista il pescespada (che nel periodo tra aprile e settembre si avvicina alla costa calabrese e siciliana dello stretto di Messina, lo si può avvistare mentre naviga torpidamente od addirittura riposa in superficie), l’altro tipo di barca è la “feluca” la cui versione “moderna” prevede oltre ad un’altissimo albero di avvistamento, la presenza di una lunghissima passerella che consente di giungere sopra il pescespada, il quale ancora non si è messo in allarme sentendo il motore della barca ancora distante. In questa “pantomima”, un Uomo-Pescespada viene catturato simbolicamente con una fiocina, del finto “sangue di scena” color rosso vivo viene subito cosparso sul suo corpo, la gioia tra i pescatori è grande, sulla punta del molo con l’ombrello in mano c’è il “Rais” (il Capo dell’equipaggio che ha il compito di segnalare la presenza dell’Uomo-Pesce) che esulta, (questo tipo di pesca ha origini antichissime), la banda musicale ha preso posto su di un barcone, con la sua musica rallegra tutta la scena nonostante l’aspetto comunque cruento che caratterizza la scena, qualche fotografia se non commentata (e vista singolarmente) potrebbe creare un po’ di sconcerto, guardando i visi sorridenti degli spettatori ci si rende conto che ci si trova davanti ad una rappresentazione-farsa, l’Uomo-Pesce seppur “ferito” riesce a dimenarsi ed a riguadagnare la libertà gettandosi in acqua, i pescatori sono in preda alla rabbia ed allo sconforto, il Rais si dispera, la cattura e la salvezza per l’Uomo-Pesce avviene tre volte, dopodiché i pescatori, oramai senza più preda e disperati terminano la loro commedia rovesciando la barca e finendo quindi miseramente in acqua. I colori presenti nella festa di San Giovanni di Acitrezza sono i colori rosso e giallo, colori che ritroviamo nei vestiti dei pescatori, negli addobbi e nei colori della barca detta di San Giovanni, così anche i devoti vestono di rosso e giallo indossando il fazzoletto od il vestito giallo-rosso di San Giovanni.
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Picture the scene: two gigantic black holes, each one a good fraction of the size of our Solar System spiralling around each other. Closer and closer they draw until they touch and merge into a single, even more gigantic gravitational prison.
But what would you actually see? For such a cataclysmic event, it might all take place with remarkable stealth because black holes by their very nature emit no light at all. Rather than light, it would be a different story if our eyes could see gravitational waves.
This is what the merger of two black holes would look like. It is a computer simulation of the gravitational waves that would ripple away from the titanic collision, a bit like the ripples on a pond when a pebble drops into the water.
In the case of gravitational waves, the disturbances are not in water but in the spacetime continuum. This is the mathematical ‘fabric' of space and time that Albert Einstein used to explain gravity.
Gravitational radiation has been indirectly observed but never seen directly. Its detection would open a whole new way of studying the Universe. As a result, astronomers are working on both ground-based and space-based detectors. And it is a real challenge.
Gravitational radiation is incredibly difficult to measure. The ripples cause atoms to ‘bob’ about to just 1 part in 1000 000 000 000 000 000 000. Building a detector to notice this is like measuring the distance from Earth to the Sun to the accuracy of the size of a hydrogen atom.
Following decades of technology development and experiments, detectors on the ground are nearing the required sensitivity. The first detections are expected in the next few years. But these detectors can see only half of the picture. The mass of the colliding black holes determines the frequency of the gravitational radiation.
The merger of small black holes, each about a few times the mass of the Sun, will create high-frequency gravitational waves that could be seen from the ground. But the giant black holes that sit at the heart of galaxies with masses of a million times that of the Sun will generate gravitational waves of much lower frequency. These cannot be detected with ground-based systems because seismic interference and other noise will overwhelm the signals. Hence, spaceborne observatories are needed.
ESA has selected the gravitational Universe as the focus for the third large mission in the Cosmic Vision plan, with a launch date of around 2034.
Unlocking the gravitational Universe will require a highly ambitious mission. In preparation, ESA will launch LISA-Pathfinder this November to test some of the essential technologies needed to build confidence in future spaceborne gravitational wave observatories.
This image is from a simulation of two black holes merging and the resulting emission of gravitational radiation, published by NASA in 2012.
Credit: NASA/C. Henze
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On final for 27 at London City Airport as Fraction Six Zero Two Alpha (NJE602A) from Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF)
27-09-2018
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iGcCWysGK0
'There's a fraction too much friction
There's a fraction too much friction
Holding on the bygone era
Everybody shout cos we're getting nearer
There's a fraction too much friction
What we need is some positive action
What we need is some positive thought'
Tim Finn
This is but a fraction of the whole work (I only had my macro lens with me that day).
Here is the link to see different photos of the entire work.
The Flickr Lounge-Fraction
We woke to a very cold 19'F but the sun was out...Yay! Took this of Shizandra whilst in repose.
Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
- William Gibson
This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba.
We do not remember days, what we remember of moments., The power of the still image is we can capture fractions of a second of time’s movement with stillness a revisit that moment of time’s march froward in the present moment we are in. Being inertial observers of time. This is what fascinates me the most about photography.
I shot this with the 24-200mm f/4-6.3 Nikkor lens. 1/250 of a second ISO 3600. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection by DxO.
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Just a fraction of a second too late to warn TK234 aka Mr. "I'm gonna moon the next person entering this room"...
"I find your lack of pants..... disturbing..."
(why didn't I think of this line - credit goes to Aron - thx!)
It's done and gifted! This quilt is high school graduation gift for my cousin (continuing a tradition my Grandma started). He liked it.
my design was inspired by this quilt:
Corniglia is a frazione ("fraction") of the comune 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.
Year 5 pupils of Yamsaard Rangsit School, shared their 'A Teaching Moment In Time 2014' photo. At 11 am sharp today, they were getting ready to learn dividing fractions. Thank you T. Pang.
This time other fraction, Wolfpack. This is one of my favourite nation of Lego Castle. Maybe that gatehouse will be a part of something bigger :) I want to build big fortress based on modular elements, which could be useable in other models. But I’m not sure that my computer has enough power, we will see ;)
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