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Sunset at Russian Ridge Open Space Preserve, Central California.
Went for a hike yesterday and didn't see anyone else, despite being only a thirty minute drive from the Silicon Valley. I watched a few coyotes in a nearby meadow, and as the sun ducked behind the fog and clouds it got darn cold and darn windy, and my hands were so frozen I could barely press the shutter button.
a small copper butterfly at shocklach cheshire
the light was poor--hence the iso is higher than I would normally use
As Saturn climbs higher in the night sky, the clarity improves. With only a camera for imaging, it's amazing what can now be achieved. I'm off to New York state next week, where Saturn and Jupiter will be much higher in the sky...
The #MacroMondays #Timepieces theme
"If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations - then so much the worse for Maxwell's equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation - well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the Second Law of Thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.”
- Sir Arthur Eddington, Physicist.
Sir Arthur Eddington introduced us to The Arrow of Time. As we look into the future we see a universe which is gradually descending into disorder, expanding and cooling as it does so, ultimately to become a scattered collection of particles so far separated within an unimaginably vast nothingness that the probability of them ever again combining to create anything is zilch. That is indeed a depressing forecast of our destiny, but as the process will take about 10 trillion years (around 700x the current age of The Universe) there's no need to cancel your pro subs just yet. Conversely if we reverse The Arrow of Time (actually, we can't, by the way) we travel into our past, noticing greater order as the journey progresses. Ultimately we would reach The Big Bang when The Universe was simple and very highly ordered before its unimaginably rapid expansion an instant later.
HMM all - very deep for a Monday! Sir Arthur illustrates The Second Law of Thermodynamics which holds that entropy can never decrease as time passes. Although in theory it may remain constant, in practice it increases. But what is entropy?
The entropy of a system refers to the amount of order within it. Low entropy describes a high degree of order. For example, if we conceptually reduce your home, that pile of bricks or whatever, into its constituent atoms we can imagine that only a very few arrangements of those atoms would create your home, meaning that your home is a low entropy (ie highly ordered) system. There are vastly more ways those atoms could be arranged, but for most of those configurations there would be no structure whatsoever. Even if we consider configurations of bricks instead of atoms, the vast majority of possible configurations would be random piles of bricks rather than a house.
Conversely a pile of beach sand has a low level of order, representing high entropy. A pile of sand is a pile of sand. There are very many ways the grains of sand in a pile may be arranged to create any old pile and one pile of sand is pretty much the same as any other. However, if you put some in a bucket then threw it into the air, you would be very surprised if it landed in the form of a sand castle. But it could, proven by you instead flipping the bucket over in traditional seaside fashion, giving it a tap and carefully removing it, creating your sand castle. The grains therefore can make such a thing and could therefore land in just the right places even if you threw them into the air. But there are far many more configurations that they could take (most of which are unremarkable piles) so while a sand castle magically appearing from a load of airborne sand could theoretically happen, it is a vanishingly improbable event. Functionally speaking, the probability of such an event occurring is zero. If you left a formed sand castle alone, you'd see its entropy increase as it decays into an unremarkable high entropy pile of sand. Ultimately it will become just another part of the even higher entropy beach, demonstrating, during your hard earned summer holiday, a university level physics concept. I've never done a university physics course, he hastily clarifies, but I have done some reading on it.
I should say that it has been fairly pointed out to me that this model depends on one's world view. This is mine. It's a world view which led to the manufacture of transport options to get to beaches, buckets capable of creating sand castles, cameras, the internet and probes heading to the edges of The Solar System and ultimately beyond on precisely predetermined trajectories calculated using physics, so I think it has some evidence to support it. The background of the photo is the Christian creation story, Genesis 1. That's mine too.
In creating the image, I used a plain yellow background created in Photoshop over which I added a layer of a paving stone to provide texture, reducing its opacity to allow the yellow to colour it. Genesis followed, and finally a photo of a small pocket watch which I vandalised through the wonders of Photoshop, using much tiny deleting, moving and transforming, its parts disappearing into the future as it falls into disorder, following The Arrow of Time.
Grasmere, Cumbria
The Lake District, also commonly known as The Lakes, is a mountainous region in North West England. A popular holiday destination, it is famous not only for its lakes, forests, and mountains (or fells), but also for its associations with the early nineteenth-century poetry and writings of William Wordsworth and the other Lake Poets.
Historically shared by the counties of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, the Lake District now lies entirely within the modern county of Cumbria. All the land in England higher than three thousand feet above sea level lies within the National Park, including Scafell Pike, the highest mountain in England. It also contains the deepest and longest lakes in England, Wastwater and Windermere, respectively.
impressions @ higher level
view from top of Maintower, Frankfurt a.M.
Deutsche Bahn central administration building & Central Station,
the red light district in between
The Alpine chough or yellow-billed chough is a bird in the crow family, one of only two subspecies breed in high mountains from Spain eastwards through southern Europe and North Africa to Central Asia and Nepal, and it may nest at a higher altitude than any other bird.
Matterhorn Switzerland
The statue atop the Idaho Falls Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is visible through the trees on a frosty winter day in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Higher Ground
I'm so darn glad He let me try it again
'Cause my last time on Earth, I lived a whole world of sin
I'm so glad that I know more than I knew then
Going to keep on trying
'Til I reach my highest ground
Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder is in the Official Top 100 Motown Songs!
Our Daily Challenge ~ Motown ...
Stay Safe and Healthy Everyone!
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The ceiling of the main chapel in University of Saint Mary of the Lake, Munderlein, Illinois
Is there a fence Friday there?
International Mountain Day
11 December .Glaciers, vast reserves of ice and snow found across the planet, are far more than frozen landscapes - they are lifelines for ecosystems and communities, holding around 70 percent of the world's freshwater.
Their accelerated melting represents not only an environmental crisis but also a humanitarian one, threatening agriculture, clean energy, water security and billions of peoples’ lives. Their retreat, driven by rising global temperatures, is a stark indicator of the climate crisis. Melting glaciers and thawing permafrost increase risks such as floods, glacier lake outburst floods, landslides or enhanced erosion and sediment, endangering downstream populations and critical infrastructure. Kala Patthar is the spot for those who wish to see an up-close unobstructed view of Mount Everest. And at 5,643 meters, is higher than four of the seven summits. Because of the topography, the Lhotse wall blocks Everest from most vantage points. Mt Everest stood really tall from where i am . The right-most peak is Mt Nuptse (7,861 m/25,791 ft ) .Mt Everest (29,031 ft / 8,849m) is the visible peak behind the left ridge of Nuptse. Lho La ( 6,006 m/19,705 )located left to Everest .Self Photo , and many thanks to everyone who took the trouble to view comment or fave .
Our first foray into Crystal Ball Photography - we learnt some things during our shoot but we fairly happy with our results (we may need slightly higher aperture next time to get everything inside the ball in focus)
The "Manchester Wheel" circles above the crowds. Higher still is the trail of an airplane. Both are real and reflected in Selfridges (I think) windows. This is one of the few images on my photostream that I conceived beforehand, but I hadn't planned for the airplane trail (which I think adds something to the overall result)
I took quite a few variants of this, each from a slightly diffferent perspective. It seemed obvious to angle it so the line of the glass split the image exactly in two down the centre, with the airplane trails nicely joining up. But in the final analysis I much preferred this offset version.
Chosen for friendliness, toughness and smarts as the national bird of Canada by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.
globalnews.ca/news/3072432/the-gray-jay-has-been-named-ca...
You won't see this bird unless you go to the boreal forest or higher elevations of BC. And you won't find it anywhere outside of Canada. I encountered this friendly one on a hike near Whistler, BC, where he introduced himself as Whiskey Jack and attempted to steal my snack.
So Buttercup decided to do a drop in on the New dog bed and share it with Mr. Spock, even though there was an open bed right next to him.
The dark foreground are the hills of Tanay, then Laguna lake, interrupted by the peninsula of Angono, then returning to the rest of Laguna Lake, then Metro Manila with its skyline, then Manila Bay, then the mountains of Bataan peninsula.
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Pentax K-3 + HD DA 16-85/3.5-5.6 ED DC WR
Two former GM Fleetlines in the Finch fleet. HDB came from GM Buses South and still wears their Birkenhead and District blue and cream scheme. LJA on the right had previously been with Mayne and is in Finch's orange and cream.
Finch's yard, 27/06/1996.
This has turned out to be my 10,000th upload to Flickr, so now would seem an appropriate time to wish all viewers, past and present, all the very best for what will hopefully be a much better 2021. All the best, folks and thanks.
Posted 31/12/2020.