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At the Davenport Crack where the sunset that I was hoping for got lost in all the clouds…
Happy Sunday!
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The tree branches are my own photography.
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P1310140 - Purple Sunbird - Br plumage - Size - 10 cm
# 295 - 13 July '18 - 18:18 (12:48 GMT)
At - Barnighad - Uttarakhand - Western Himalayas - ~1000m (3280 ft) Altitude.
Purple Sunbird (Cinnyris asiaticus) is a small sunbird. Like other sunbirds they feed mainly on nectar, although they will also take insects, especially when feeding young. They have a fast and direct flight and can take nectar by hovering like a hummingbird but often perch at the base of flowers.
DO YOU KNOW - Around 50 percent of Orangutans have fractured bones, due to falling out of trees on a regular basis.
Happy birding 🐬
This is a close-up of a cracked and splintered board that was part of a hoarding surrounding a demolition sight.
In the deep stillness of the night,
I look out over this city
it has just rained
and fog lies among
glistering pillars of iron and glass
I smile amused by how
the Los Angeles skyline looks like Gotham.
THE WEEKEND CHALLENGE -
B&W Shadows Red Isolation as detail.
It was taken on the northwestern edge of Spitsbergen, in the Svalbard archipelago, not far from the receding snout of the Aavatsmarkbreen glacier — a place where the Arctic breathes in whispers and fractures. The date was late August, the season of deceptive warmth when the midnight sun hovers low and the ice begins to bleed.
The formation in the photograph is not solid rock, as some might think at first glance, but the collapsed mouth of a subglacial tunnel, formed by meltwater carving through the glacier’s underbelly. Years of pressure and refreezing sculpted those contoured ridges — layers of ancient snowfall compressed into dense, cerulean ice. The faint cyan glow inside the cave isn’t artificial; it’s scattered light refracting through air bubbles trapped millennia ago when mammoths still roamed the Siberian steppe.
The air inside smells faintly metallic, like cold iron and salt. It’s utterly still, except for the slow, rhythmic crack of thawing ice — a sound like distant gunfire, echoing across the bay. On calm days, the sea around the ice gate mirrors the sky in a sheet of mercury grey. On others, the wind funnels through the arch, producing a low hum, as if the glacier itself were exhaling.
Scientists who mapped this region in 2023 used drones to capture melt patterns here. They found that the ice retreated 37 meters in just two years — a rate almost double that of the previous decade. Beneath this particular overhang, water temperatures measured 1.4°C above the long-term average, enough to weaken the internal structure. Within a few seasons, this cathedral of ice will collapse into the fjord and drift into oblivion, another silent casualty of warming currents from the West Spitsbergen Current, which brings Atlantic heat ever closer to the pole.
Image originally generated with DALL-E, then enhanced through upscaling in Leonardo AI and finally refined with Topaz Gigapixel AI.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
Kahlil Gibran
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Just a bit of color blending with the Monarch wing and a fractured reflection I came across in NYC a few years back. All the best on this fine Sunday, Happy Slider Sunday.
Near the summit of Black Point (6959 ft.) is an area cracked with deep (30 - 50 Ft.) fissures. Thirteen thousand years ago this was a Volcano beneath a shallow ice age lake. The water levels dropped and the volcano became an island and then a peninsula. Parts of the sides of the fissures are covered with a layer of crystalline tufa (Thinolitic tufa). In the background are the Sierra Nevada Mountains and a portion of Mono lake can be seen. Mono county, California, U.S.A.
As with my previous photograph, "Fractured Reality I", this has been reassembled from the sections of yesterday's photograph of ancient rocks. They are similar, but noticeably different.
Cityscape created for Award Tree's "Scaped and Abstract" challenge; and for Glow's "Painted Cities" challenge.
Going back to happier days, I've uploaded quite a few sunset photos, from this place, but until now, no SUNRISE photos, so here are 3 in one day.
On a more pessimistic note, I went back to the doctor today, and even though my bone fractures are healing, I have serious ligament damage which requires my right leg to be non weight bearing for 4 more WEEKS! This means I will miss the foliage season entirely this year, and be stuck in a wheelchair for another month :-(((
Autumn storms sweep Morecambe Bay leaving a dramatic backdrop to this fractured rock on the summit of Holmepark Fell.
I spent the evening dodging showers in the hope of capturing some of the drama around sunset. This boulder with the riven structure, created by years of weathering on this exposed limestone plateau, provided a nice bit of foreground interest as the rain swept Silverdale and Arnside in the distance.
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Real de Catorce, San Luis Potosi state, Mexico, at twilight, it was getting dark and my mind was preoccupied by the prospect of going down the steep slippery stone trail in the dark, thankfully I did NOT end up in a Mexican hospital with a fractured ankle this time. Happy Monday to everyone.
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A macro photo of an etched CD.
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