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Valle de la Luna, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
Gustav Holst, Owain Arwel Hughes - The Planets, Op. 32: I. Mars, the Bringer of War
We extended our trip by one day to include two different parks that I haven't visited before. Goblin Valley State Park is just North of Capitol Reef National Park by an hour or so so I had to make the stop. It was early morning and the light was harsh, but I was still able to come away with a few keepers.
I was able to capture this gentleman standing among the goblins. It felt like a different world. One that I had dreamed of or seen on like Star Trek or some kind of Sci-Fi movie. I could only dream of far off planets like Mars.
Please, please press "L" to see more detail of this RoxX.
Groednertal - Passo di Gardena - Sellagruppe - Gruppo di Sella
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This is currently my all time favourite of my own pics. As you see, the weather conditions were not really fine. So I had the decision: run, run fast, or just run. I decided to run ;-) before I did it, I took five shots of this monumental rock in the middle of nowhere at 2.900m above sea level with a storm coming across. Hope, you enjoy!
On April 30 I had a lovely chat with friendly visitors from space and I even could sneek a peek into their cockpit and take an image of it ! You see the captain of the crew.
Unfortunaltely this space ship was too small for me to hop in myself ... but it was a fun encounter nonetheless !
Crazy Tuesday - theme of May 3rd, 2022: Made of Plastic
This is actually the plastic head of a reusable metal cocktail stick for finger food; taken in front of the keyboard of my tablet with internal lighting switched on; additional lighting with a coloured LED-light
[ taken with the manual Laowa 60mm 2x magnification lens @ about f/4; the "head"' is about 2.5 cm high ]
I will catch up in the evening ! :)
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Am 30. April hatte ich ein nettes Gespräch mit freundlichen Besuchern aus dem All und konnte sogar einen Blick in ihr Cockpit werfen und Aufnahmen davon machen ! Ihr seht den Kapitän der Crew.
Leider war das Raumschiff zu klein für mich, um einzusteigen ... dennoch: eine lustige Begegnung !
Crazy Tuesday - Thema: aus Plastik gemacht / Plastik
Das ist tatsächlich ein Cocktail-Spieß / Partyspießchen für Fingerfood (wiederverwendbar mit Metallspieß und witzigen Plastikfigürchen als Kopf; es sind insgesamt 8 verschiedene in der Packung), die Tastatur meines Tablets mit eingeschalteter Beleuchtung im Hintergrund und zusätzliche Beleuchtung durch farbiges (rotes) LED-Licht
I have high hopes that one day a Mars rover will uncover something like this set of fossilised terrestrial ammonites!
I created a few centimetres of Mars in our dining room with a block of fossils, LED lights and ground coffee. I now have a piece of ancient rock that smells of Starbucks.
Mars Animation photo...
Valles Marineris, Noctis Labirinthus and north polar cap are clearly visible. The volcanoes Olympus, Arsia, Pavonis and Ascraeus Mons can be seen on the center right.... on the upper left the thin film of Mars atmosphere is also visible.
The GREEN MARS project is in full swing. Already in September 2083 the first four shuttles with twenty technicians and scientists plus tons of building materials and technical equipment landed on Mars.
Within a few weeks, three residential units for 40 people each, a laboratory and a huge greenhouse were erected.
Nevertheless, there are always significant delays because our mission is constantly confronted with unpredictable situations and problems on the red planet.
Just one example: Of all things my living unit couldn’t be connected to the colonies power grid so far.
However, after five months without electricety the technicians provisionally pulled a cable from the generator in shuttle no. 3 across the greenhouse in which some plants are already - contrary to expectations - developing very well.
My current roommate, Prof. Elena Gagarina (a great-great-granddaughter of the cosmonaut Yuri Alexievich Gagarin), is very pleased, because she now can finally blow-dry her hair. I've tried to persuade Elena to take before and aft pics of her hairdo, but unfortunately she refused.
Realising yesterday that Mars Mission is fifteen years old meant I suddenly had to build another Claw Tank tribute. This one is moving away from the original set and into a more GI Joe design, big and chonk, equal parts aggressive and goofy. I had the large orange treaded WIP lying around for ages (a failed Hibernia digger) so most of that got remixed into this monstrosity.
Miles out in the desert on a primitive dirt road north of Hanksville, Utah is the Mars Desert Research Station. The volunteers here are preparing to live on Mars, whenever they get a chance to travel there.
Scientific breakthrough!
Documented with a photo - proof that there is water on Mars. ;)
Came to mind while eating one of these candy bars and washing it down with a glass of water...
Lighting: Single LED panel from above, slightly right. White paper as background and in front as reflector for the Mars bar.
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Valle de la Luna is a part of the Reserva Nacional los Flamencos and was declared a Nature Sanctuary in 1982 for its natural environment and strange lunar landscape, from which its name is derived.
The Atacama desert is also considered one of the driest places on earth, as some areas have not received a single drop of rain in hundreds of years, but last week. A prototype for a Mars rover was tested there by scientists because of the valley's dry and forbidding terrains.
Imagine this. Year 2056. Humans have long since established themselves on Mars and terraforming is starting to show resault. You are one of the crew members who has just arrived. At first sign of daylight, you climb up to the observation post in the bunker in which you live and this is what you see.
Or this; in 1840 they found nickel in this area. 10-15 man worked in a small mine nearby. The ore, that you see here, were stored and transported by horse to the sea during wintertime. It was then shipped to Great Britan and used in the productions of coins. The mine company was shut down after about 60 years of operation.
I spotted this duck making his way across a pond covered in a red weed, it didn't seem to bother it and I was very surprised at how quickly his trail was closed over again by the weed.
Reminded me of living on a red planet like Mars!
© Dominic Scott 2022
2550 AD. Mars is finally a colonized planet, scientists have managed to create an atmosphere where we humans can breathe normally and so explore new horizons as we can see it in this picture taken by an AI automated surveillance device, where a couple of young explorers enjoy a pleasurable ballad along the coastline.
TD : 1/400 f/8 ISO 100 @28 mm
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man, look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man, wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?
Cité radieuse, Marseille
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unité_d%27habitation
The Unité d'habitation is a modernist residential housing design principle developed by Le Corbusier...