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Which Way Home? -
Getting lost is easy. Getting out is hard. On the less beaten path, it’s my fault for not tying yellow ribbons around trees. Four computers can fail in the same way simultaneously; imagine legs two of a kind synchronizing at sea. My faltering feet points north but my unsure mind deviates to the south. Each is telling me to make different choices. If only there are no forks in the unmarked track. If only they make one brand of toothpaste.
Until at last! My decision seems made on a U-turn, but a strange glimpse hooded by shrubs pulled me back. Oh look! It’s a lithe spider who stitched himself on the bottom of leaves. Beauty, always seem to show when you take notice. Endowed with the sweet color of sour lemon, his pointy butt stood out with uniqueness unparalleled. How could something so tiny and unimportant be so appealing? Like how a Himalayan vulture takes a morbid interest on the corpse of a zebra, the task of averting my gaze proves too mighty. The pastel spider remained still… despite being eyed all over.
After a mere hesitation or two, I decided to cough up the urgent question. It hurts to ask a spider for help but in this case, pride will have to step to the side.
“Hi, I’ve lost myself in the garden of Eden,” the words tumble out from my lips straight upon the static being.
I spoke the next statement with a stuttering voice, “Could you point me in the right direction of the Eastern exit?”
As if not comprehending, the unmoving spider said nothing. Did he not want to talk to me? The awkward silence made me feel foolish. Perhaps too many lost soles barge into his realm so he’s sick of being a compass. What happened next was totally beyond imagination. The spider facing me began to swivel laterally and after that crane his ducky tail slowly skywards, halting at exactly 43 degree angle.
“That way,” his indicating tail fingered the North-west direction.
Looking on in plain bewilderment, my vision blurs as sweat filled up my eyes. A rush of emotion came out of nowhere. I gulped the lump in my throat and muttered a feeble thank. Where the arrow points, I follow.
Some spiders, no matter how beautiful, just say hi and take their leave. This one is the unforgettable type. His unspoken communication made an impact on my life. We have to be lost to eventually find where we belong. I wouldn’t understand if not for this spider. The carefree forest where one can fall asleep anywhere is truly where I fit and feel right.
Scanned IR lith print.
Rolleiflex T w/ Tessar 75 mm/f3.5 + Rollei IR filter.
Sept 12, 2024.
Rollei IR 400 in Adonal 1+100, semistand 1 h.
Same neg, different paper:
Lith printed on Fomabrom Variant IV 123 BO and developed in Moersch Easy Lith (25A+25B+40D+100OB+H2Oqs900).
Se 1+9 30 sec.
These are the differences between warmtone and coldtone lithable papers.
The Fomabrom Variant IV 123 BO was a "short living" attempt by Foma to make a paper which could be used for Bromoil (and maybe replace the original cold tone FB Variant IV 123, which was a very good lithable paper).
This one was good for both bromoil and lith printing :-).
When lithing coldtone papers, you want the "pepper" to appear. It's by far not as colourful as warmtone papers. But on the other hand not so "high contrasty", so you can get more b&w nuances from the process. Which, btw, is much slower than the warmtone lith process. Expect exposure times to be around 5 min and developing times up to or above 20 (!) min. That of course depends on your "soup".
This was perhaps too much boring information, but if I can pass the knowledge ahead to coming b&w analog printers, it's worth it :-). And I'm of course not taking credit of any knowledge that Wolfgang Moersch possesses. Almost everything I've learned comes from him. Kudos, Wolfgang.
Film - double exposure.
Scan of a lith print, no photoshop here. Kodak TRI-X film - double exposed toy camera image. Printed with LD20 on EMAKS paper. © Diane Kaye 2009
a pretty a day
(and every fades)
is here and away
(but born are maids
to flower an hour
in all,all)
o yes to flower
until so blithe
a doer a wooer
some limber and lithe
some very fine mower
a tall;tall
some jerry so very
(and nellie and fan)
some handsomest harry
(and sally and nan
they tremble and cower
so pale:pale)
for betty was born
to never say nay
but lucy could learn
and lily could pray
and fewer were shyer
than doll. doll
poem by E.E.Cummings
I have not been well and failed to keep up with everything. My edits have been ill with me. The Witches’ Stone always fills me with commemoration and remembrance of times not so long gone when Witch Hunts were after witches so upsettingly so that we still use the term Witch Hunt no more than ever for a falsely fuelled over active hunt often with vicious entanglements and outcomes.
The Witches’ Stone is on the East of Spott village and Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone is at the West of the village. In the village at the Church you can find The Jougs. From standing stone in the East past central stone church to a commemorative stone in the West there are three superb historic lithic sites. The Church has been a focal site to inspire and to contain history of the area and along with local archives there are some superb historic collections, myriad connections, and local recollections.
There are three tall Standing Stones near Spott, Easter Broomhouse, Pencraig Hill and Kirklandhill Standing Stones. Their placement in the landscape of natural bounties and hill forts is a key to some of the smaller monuments, This coastal area is full of life from the sea and the land and the stones stretch into the sky that keeps the seas calm and the lands fertile.
© PHH Sykes 2024
phhsykes@gmail.com
Witches' Stone, Spott
canmore.org.uk/site/57667/witches-stone-spott
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1492/easter_broomhouse_...
Easter Broomhouse - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Scotland in East Lothian
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6706
Spott Church
www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/spott-parish-chu...
Welcome to Belhaven and Spott Parish Church
Witches' Stone, Spott
canmore.org.uk/site/57667/witches-stone-spott
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
canmore.org.uk/site/57622/easter-broomhouse
Pencraig Hill Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
canmore.org.uk/site/56240/pencraig-hill
Witches' Stone, Spott
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/6453/witches_stone.html
Witches' Stone, Spott
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=8239
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1492/easter_broomhouse_...
Pencraig Hill Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1494/pencraig_hill_stan...
Pencraig Hill Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6703
Kirklandhill Standing Stone
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1493/kirklandhill_stand...
Full video youtu.be/JefNZWhRBkY
An Otter is a small Carnivorous mammal. It is semiaquatic.
It is a better swimmer because it has a lithe & slender body with short legs and a long flattened tail which enables it to propel gracefully in water.
It's main food is fish though it sometimes feeds on snakes and other small invertebrates
Read more about ** Otters**, you will find it interesting.
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Another view over Yukon's disappearing past. At least the mountains remain steadfast and unchanging over the scale of time which we would recognise. Those great lithic mounds looked the same when these buildings were erected as they do now and they will remain the same long after these structures are gone. For us mortals, everything gives way to senescence and decay. Every dog has his day, and even memories will, in due course, evaporate, riding the wake of the people, places and things that formed them. . .
Photo taken with the Olympus OM-D E-M1 and M.Zuiko 40-150mm f/2.8 Pro hand held. All raw conversion and post processing carried out using DxO PhotoLab 6.1.1.
These pictures from 2024 were taken on one of my best days. The Witches' Stone just at the edge of the village of Spott is a good memorial of bad times and deeds. The Witches’ Stone always fills me with commemoration and remembrance of times not so long gone when Witch Hunts were after witches so upsettingly so that we still use the term Witch Hunt now more than ever for a falsely fuelled over active hunt often with vicious entanglements and outcomes.
The Witches’ Stone is on the East of Spott village and Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone is at the West of the village. In the village at the Church you can find The Jougs. From standing stone in the East past central stone church to a commemorative stone in the West there are three superb historic lithic sites. The Church has been a focal site to inspire and to contain history of the area and along with local archives there are some superb historic collections, myriad connections, and local recollections.
There are three tall Standing Stones near Spott, Easter Broomhouse, Pencraig Hill and Kirklandhill Standing Stones. Their placement in the landscape of natural bounties and hill forts is a key to some of the smaller monuments, This coastal area is full of life from the sea and the land and the stones stretch into the sky that keeps the seas calm and the lands fertile.
© PHH Sykes 2024 and 2025
phhsykes@gmail.com
Witches of Scotland is a campaign for justice; for a legal pardon, an apology and national monument for the thousands of people – mostly women - that were convicted of witchcraft and executed between 1563 and 1736 in Scotland.
The Witches of Scotland Limited. This tartan can be worn by anyone.
www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails?ref=14651
Witches of Scotland podcast
Claire Mitchell QC and Zoe Venditozzi, Author co-host the Witches of Scotland podcast. Over the forthcoming weeks we hope to bring you interviews from those who know about the history, law and stories of those accused of witchcraft. Join our mailing list and we will let you know when a new podcast is out.
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Witches' Stone, Spott
canmore.org.uk/site/57667/witches-stone-spott
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1492/easter_broomhouse_...
Easter Broomhouse - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Scotland in East Lothian
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6706
Spott Church
www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/spott-parish-chu...
Welcome to Belhaven and Spott Parish Church
Witches' Stone, Spott
canmore.org.uk/site/57667/witches-stone-spott
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
canmore.org.uk/site/57622/easter-broomhouse
Pencraig Hill Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
canmore.org.uk/site/56240/pencraig-hill
Witches' Stone, Spott
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/6453/witches_stone.html
Witches' Stone, Spott
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=8239
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1492/easter_broomhouse_...
Pencraig Hill Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1494/pencraig_hill_stan...
Pencraig Hill Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6703
Kirklandhill Standing Stone
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1493/kirklandhill_stand...
In October 2020, NASA confirmed the existence of molecular water near Clavius, at concentrations of up to 412 parts per million.[1] Several ways have been suggested. The water could be trapped into tiny beadlike structures in the soil that form out of the high heat created by micrometeorite impacts.[2] The water might also be sheltered between lunar soil grains. Another possibility is from very small asteroid strikes, such as a rubble pile from a much more massive "parent" asteroid collision. Pulled apart in its descent to the lunar surface similar to Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, and hitting the surface in a modest dispersal area with a small mass at low, oblique impact angle and bouncing could allow some water to remain in the lithic matrix. The carbonaceous chondrite class is often water-rich, and the CI sub group are as much as 22% water.
Volcanic gases rises from the active lava lake in "Overlook Crater " that lies within the Halema‘uma‘u Crater on Kīlauea's summit on the Island of Hawai'i. This eruptive stage start with earthquake and fumerolic activitiy in late 2007. Increasing gas emission rates in early 2008 produced high concentrations of sulfur dioxide around the Halema‘uma‘u parking lot. For this reason, the National Park closed the western portion of Crater Rim Drive to the public on February 20, 2008. The first signs of change on the surface occurred on March 12, 2008, when a fumarolic area abruptly appeared on the south wall of Halema‘uma‘u, directly below the Halema‘uma‘u Overlook. This fumarolic area, emitting a thick gas plume, enlarged over subsequent days and was incandescent (glowing) at night.
At 2:58 am on the morning of March 19, 2008 an earthquake was measured, The quake was coincident with collapse of the fumarolic area near the overlook. A new, small crater formed from this collapse, which was also associated with an explosive eruption of lithic blocks. The new crater was informally called the "Overlook crater". Over the next few years the eruption continued with a lava lake forming in the crater. The level of the lava lake flucuated with time. It wasn't until 2017, however, that lava spilled from the crater on to the floor of its host, the the Halema‘uma‘u Crater. So far there has been continous eruptive activity from 2008 until this photo was taken in Dec 2017.
Halema‘uma‘u Crater is clearly seen in the photo. The "Overlook Crater" is inside the older crater and is not visible in this view. The photo was taken from Uwekahuma Bluff just south of the Jaggar Museum in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park.
There is a Vulcan and a Lithic Heart at the centre of the images depending which two are meeting in the middle. The Vulcan Heart is a Vulcanised Tyre Heart and the Lithic Heart is made by the Stones coming together. The reflections bring about some excellent wyrd wonders.
There is a Grass Heart and Shadow Heart too. Everyone needs Picnic Heart and a Calm Heart. Well at least I think that we all need a Picnic Heart and a Calm Heart.
[Oh yes and there is a Shadow Dove flying along the centre too, that is it is a Shadow Dove unless you see it as a young cow in which there is a Shadow Coo in the centre grazing not ascending.]
Final point to be made is a suggestion that the metal balance in some of the pictures looks very Dragon Like. Please note Dragon Like, not a Dragon, just an echo calling and falling through the seasons and over the years. Once seen the Dragon Like resemblance is an image to reflect upon especially so with Dragon Lore mentioning the sleepy long slumbers of such mythic beast. In those legendary snooze times surely there might be a little flaking and descaling as fresh ‘solid feathers’, not squalid fetters, regrow, well I am happy to suggest so.
From out the earth it came and return back into it is going.
© PHH Sykes 2024
phhsykes@gmail.com
Westray Heritage Centre
St. Johannis-Kirche/Meldorfer Dom Dithmarschen SH
“Steps” by Hermann Hesse
As every blossom wilts and every youth
Yields to age, so blooms every step of life,
So too blooms every wisdom and every virtue
In its time and may not last forever.
The heart must at all of life’s calls
Be ready to part and begin anew,
So that it may, with courage and without grief,
Give itself to new engagements.
In every beginning lives a magic,
Protecting us and helping us to live.
Lithely and cheerfully should we stride from room to room,
On none hang like we would a home,
The spirit of the world wants not to fetter or restrict us,
Rather to lift us step by step, to expand us.
We barely arrive in a phase of life
And already complacency threatens.
Only he who is ready to break off and travel
May break from crippling habituation.
Perhaps even the hour of death
Will dispatch to us fresh and new,
Life’s call to us will never end…
Well then, my heart, be and fare well!
“Stufen” von Hermann Hesse
Wie jede Blüte welkt und jede Jugend
Dem Alter weicht, blüht jede Lebensstufe,
Blüht jede Weisheit auch und jede Tugend
Zu ihrer Zeit und darf nicht ewig dauern.
Es muß das Herz bei jedem Lebensrufe
Bereit zum Abschied sein und Neubeginne,
Um sich in Tapferkeit und ohne Trauern
In andre, neue Bindungen zu geben.
Und jedem Anfang wohnt ein Zauber inne,
Der uns beschützt und der uns hilft, zu leben.
Wir sollen heiter Raum um Raum durchschreiten,
An keinem wie an einer Heimat hängen,
Der Welgeist will nicht fesseln uns und engen,
Er will uns Stuf’ um Stufe heben, weiten.
Kaum sind wir heimisch einem Lebenskreise
Und traulich eingewohnt, so droht Erschlaffen,
Nur wer bereit zu Aufbruch ist und Reise,
Mag lähmender Gewöhnung sich entraffen.
Es wird vielleicht auch noch die Todesstunde
Uns neuen Räumen jung entgegen senden,
Des Lebens Ruf an uns wird niemals enden…
Wohlan denn, Herz, nimm Abschied und gesunde!
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Originating from the back alleys of Singapore, the Singapura is a spectacular and unique breed. I believe this "little" one here is already a mother to a few batches of kittens and it is astonishing how she managed to stay so lithe and charming. :-)
I hung around for 45 minutes, just enough for one round of the judging (hence the same pair of hands for this set). The judge was Japanese and dressed up like a cowgirl which was ... intriguing. It was great exchanging pleasantries with a number of familiar faces.
My new strategy will be to stay near the judging rings and shoot from there since for the rest of the time, the cats will be in their cages and taking photos will be rather troublesome. I will probably try a diffused flash next time round. All photos were taken without flash for this set. WB was set to AWB and on hindsight should had been set otherwise. Needed to adjust levels in PS to make the colours look "correct".
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Otters are one of our top predators, feeding mainly on fish, waterbirds, amphibians and crustaceans. Otters have their cubs in underground burrows, known as a 'holt'. Excellent and lithe swimmers, the young are in the water by 10 weeks of age. Otters are well suited to a life on the water as they have webbed feet, dense fur to keep them warm and can close their ears and nose when underwater.
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A reinterpretation of an older negative. Back in August, I uploaded a toned scan of this negative, titled Petals.
Recently, I finally made my first steps in lith printing. I wanted to experiment with the lith process for quite a long time now but never really got around to it until now.
I've had my fair share of difficulties at first, which made it a bit frustrating. Ludwig Römer was a massive help here as he answered all my questions and explained everything to me. Thanks!
Once I saw the image on this print forming, I knew all the trouble was well worth it. I'll experiment with lith printing a lot more, it offers so much!
The paper used here had a lot of white blotches all over it. All the papers in the box have them, it seems. It's also fogged which makes it unsuitable for regular development but doesn't matter for lith!
Kodak Polymax RC with Moersch Easy Lith 1+10
Nikon F3 + AF Nikkor 50mm f1.8 + Kodak Tri-X Pan 400
HOYA Yellow Filter (if I remember correctly)
Expiry date: 1990s (?)
Exposure index: 160
Scanned on a Heidelberg/Linotype-Hell Saphir Ultra II using Vuescan.
Rolleiflex T w/Tessar 75 mm/f3.5 + Rollei IR filter.
Rollei IR 400 in Rodinal 1+100, semistand 1 h.
Lith printed on "old" lithable Fomatone MG 133 and developed in Moersch Easy Lith (15A+15B+H2Oqs700).
Untoned.
3rd print in the lith soup, exp 90 sec and developing time 10 min. Guess I was too cheap regarding lith chemicals for this session, but even if the colours aren't there, the IR mood is. I especially like the compressed view of the road on the other end of the bridge.
The soils of the valley floor consist of the Sheppard series, Sheppard, gypsic substratum, and Torriorthents.
The Sheppard series consists of very deep, somewhat excessively drained soils that formed in eolian material derived from sandstone. Sheppard soils are on structural benches, alluvial fans, dunes on structural benches, and terraces. Slopes range from 0 to 60 percent. Mean annual precipitation is about 9 inches and the mean annual air temperature is about 54 degrees F.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Mixed, mesic Typic Torripsamments (No diagnostic features)
USE AND VEGETATION: These soils are used for livestock grazing. Potential vegetation is Mormon-tea, Indian ricegrass, galleta, and Russian thistle.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Southeast Utah, northern New Mexico, northern Arizona, and southwest Colorado. LRR D, MLRA 35. This series is of large extent.
The Sheppard, gypsic substratum phase soils are similar to Sheppard soils except they have a gypsic horizon below a depth of about 40 inches and lithic bedrock at a depth of 40 to 60 inches. Sheppard soils typically have no restrictive features within 80 inches.
For a detailed description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/S/SHEPPARD.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#sheppard
Torriorthents are the dry Orthents of cool to hot, arid regions. They have an aridic (or torric) moisture regime and a temperature regime warmer than cryic. Generally, they are neutral or calcareous and are on moderate to very steep slopes. A few are on gentle slopes. Many of the gently sloping soils are on rock pediments, are very shallow, have a sandy-skeletal particle-size class, or are salty. Others are on fans where sediments are recent but have little organic carbon. The vegetation on Torriorthents commonly is sparse and consists mostly of xerophytic shrubs and ephemeral grasses and forbs. The vegetation on a few of the soils is saltgrass. Torriorthents are used mainly for grazing. They are extensive in the Western United States.
For additional information about soil classification using Soil Taxonomy, visit:
sites.google.com/site/dinpuithai/Home
For more information about describing soils using the USDA-Field Book for Describing and Sampling Soils, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/nrcs142p2_052523...
I'm the flying dog
Yuki, Swedish white elkhound.
Hunting spitz, not recognised by the FCI
The Svensk vit älghund (Swedish White Elkhound) was not recognised by the Swedish KC until 1998 although the breed goes back to a litter born in 1942. The breed is an exeptionally good hunting dog mainly for elk but also for bear and lynx. The type is like the Jämthund both regarding size and proportions. Body rectangular and harmonious, lithe and with good reach of neck. The tail should be high set and carried in a loose curve over the back. The colour is white, but a shade of light yellow is tolerated. Ideal height at withers for males is 56 cm (22 inches), and for females it is 53 cm (21 inches).
Tea time at home, testing a new chubby shape.
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Credits :
💕Dress/Jacket: REBORN Feat. Axolotl – MIKAYLA Fur Jacket and Dress NEW @ Reborn Event :
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Body : REBORN by eBODY @ Reborn Event
Juicy boobs : REBORN feat Axolotl - Juicy Boobs @ Reborn Event
Juicy Rolls : REBORN - Juicy Rolls @ Reborn Event
Skin : Nuve. Eve skin Porcelain - Lelutka Evo X
Head skin : Nuve. Lexie skin Porcelain - Lelutka Evo X
Boobs shadow : [RA] Boobie Shading - add me
Boobs blush : .Aitne. Boobs Blush (BOM)
Head : Lelutka EvoX Avalon
Eyes : Leopard Eyes pack by Madame Noir
Mascara : Nuve. Michelle eyeshadows Evo X 8 (grey)
Lipstick : Nuve. Bubblegum Lipgloss 2 - Evo X
Hair : RAMA.SALON - Joy Hair 'Colors Pack'
Nails : BLOOM - ACRYLIC NAILS
Mug : Lavish / Mug+Teabag
The Ibizan Hound is a lithe and leggy visitor from the dawn of civilization, bred as a rabbit courser on the rocky shores of Spain's Balearic Islands. World-class sprinters and leapers, Ibizans need ample space to air out their engines.
A digital artwork I did of a pair of Ibizan Hounds. The Ibizan Hound is a lean, agile dog of the hound family. There are two hair types of the breed: smooth and wire. The more commonly seen type is the smooth as seen in the artwork.
TREES
What trees try to say
in their slow silence, their vague murmuring,
the sense they have, there where they are,
the reverence, the resonance, the transparency
and the bright and shadowy accents of an airy phrase.
And the shade and the leaves are the innocence of an idea
that between water and space turned itself to lithe integrity.
Beneath the magic breath of the light they are transparent boats.
I don’t know if it’s air or blood budding from their boughs.
I hear the finest foam of their green throats.
I am not, never will be, far from that pure water
and those ancient lamps of hidden isles.
What pure serenity of memory, what horizons
surrounding the silent well! It is a song in sleep
and the wind and light are the breath of a child
who upon a bough of a tree embraces the world.
Antonio Ramos Rosa
Translation: Alexis Levitin
Otters are one of our top predators, feeding mainly on fish, waterbirds, amphibians and crustaceans. Otters have their cubs in underground burrows, known as a 'holt'. Excellent and lithe swimmers, the young are in the water by 10 weeks of age. Otters are well suited to a life on the water as they have webbed feet, dense fur to keep them warm and can close their ears and nose when underwater.
Eruption of Stromboli 790 m.a.s.l., Italy
Stromboli is a small island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, containing one of the most active volcanoes of the world. It is one of the Aeolian Islands, a volcanic archipelago north of Sicily. Stromboli stands approximately 918 m high above sea level. There are two craters at the summit with 6 active vents. Stromboli is remarkable because of the length of time for which it has been in almost continuous eruption. For at least the last 2,000 years, the same pattern of eruption has been maintained, in which explosions occur at the summit craters at intervals of minutes to hours, right now approximately 15 Eruptions per hour. This type of very mild explosive eruption is known as Strombolian activity when observed at other volcanoes. Eruptions from the summit craters typically result in few second-lasting mild energetic burst emitting ash, incandescent lava fragments and lithic blocks up to few hundred meter high.
Happy 2015 Everyone!!
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I started riding motorcycles on a lightly-used Kawasaki Ninja 250, but a few months later I traded it in for a used Ducati Monster 620 dark, which I will always remember as a lithe nimble back road companion. My Ducati is long gone now, but I still stop to photograph them :))
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Benjamin Franklin Pkwy Philadelphia PA
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Olympus E-M5 camera
Olympus 12-40/2.8 lens
Nik Dfine2
Nik RAW pre-sharpen
MacPhun Intensify Pro
Fotor
A lith print ode to my Oregon friend Travis Doane.
Dear Travis,
It's now been 4 years since you sent me this treasure of old lithable papers from big USA to small Sweden. This kind act of yours sends a message to all the world - we belong together and should not fight. And for me it's a treasure of old lithable papers I would never get hold of otherwise. This day I have gone through the remaining papers and - as to my ability - have made prints that are supposed to be as streamlined as possible from a given negative. But of course there's always the influence of "human variability" when it comes to snatch point and so forth...
Anyways, I hope you understand my gratitude for this possibility. Have a great rest of the year 2023, Travis and may we have lith contact for many years to come.
Best/Johan
Scanned lith print.
Mamiya 645 ProTL w/ M-S 45 mm/f2,8. Early morning of April 22, 2023.
Fomapan 200 @ iso 100, dev in Rodinal 1+100, semistand 1 h.
Lith printed and developed in Moersch SE5 (25A+25B+some OB+700H2O).
Untoned.
TREES
What trees try to say
in their slow silence, their vague murmuring,
the sense they have, there where they are,
the reverence, the resonance, the transparency
and the bright and shadowy accents of an airy phrase.
And the shade and the leaves are the innocence of an idea
that between water and space turned itself to lithe integrity.
Beneath the magic breath of the light they are transparent boats.
I don’t know if it’s air or blood budding from their boughs.
I hear the finest foam of their green throats.
I am not, never will be, far from that pure water
and those ancient lamps of hidden isles.
What pure serenity of memory, what horizons
surrounding the silent well! It is a song in sleep
and the wind and light are the breath of a child
who upon a bough of a tree embraces the world.
Antonio Ramos Rosa
Translation: Alexis Levitin
A surprising daytime appearance of an Otter in our river - especially when I happened to be there with my camera!. I think that the fish it had caught was a Rudd and it looked to be quite large, maybe over 1lb. The otter swam for about 50 yards, much of that distance under water and it went into dense reeds on the opposite bank to me where it proceeded to eat its catch
The elusive otter is one of our top predators, feeding mainly on fish (particularly eels and salmonids), waterbirds, amphibians and crustaceans. Otters have their cubs in underground burrows, known as 'holts'. Excellent and lithe swimmers, the young are in the water by 10 weeks of age. Otters are well suited to a life on the water as they have webbed feet, dense fur to keep them warm, and can close their ears and nose when underwater. They require clean rivers, with an abundant source of food and plenty of vegetation to hide their secluded holts.
Statistics
Length: 60-80cm
Tail: 32-56cm
Weight: 6-8kg
Average lifespan: 5-10 years
Conservation status
A rare but widespread species, now found throughout the country but absent from parts of central and southern England, the Isle of Man, the Isles of Scilly and the Channel Islands. Otters are protected in the UK under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981. Otters are a priority Species under the UK Post-2010 Biodiversity Framework and is a European Protected Species under Annex IV of the European Habitats Directive. Listed as Near Threatened on the global IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Scanned 2nd Pass Lith Print.
Mamiya 645 ProTL w/ M-S 45 mm/f2.8.
April 27, 2025.
Fomapan 100 in Rodinal 1+100, semistand 1 h.
Lith printed on Foma Retrobrom 151 Sp.
Moersch Easy Lith (15A+15B+100Old Brown+H2Oqs700).
Untoned.
Bleached in Moersch Copper Bleach for Lith Redevelopment.
Redeveloped in Moersch Easy Lith (2A+2B+700H2O).
Untoned.
The 2nd pass lith process allows you to make lith prints on almost every paper (even ones that are not "lithable" papers per se).
Some strange black snowballs here.
Jaxie is a lithe little young gal who is done being a mother and ready to be a star on her own. She likes to hang out with people, getting petted or just sitting near them. Although she is still fairly high energy, so won't simmer down in one place for long. She really digs the laser pointer, and likes playing with wand toys. She gets along fine with other cats, although there is a bit of extra 'diplomacy' when she deals with another female cat (she has plenty of confidence!) This pretty kitty found a new home 19 June 2016.
elprobadordesl.blogspot.nl/2017/12/surprise.html
LOCATION: Wynn's Winter Wonderland, Beauty Forest: