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The Court of the Lions (Spanish: Patio de los Leones) is the main courtyard of the Nasrid dynasty Palace of the Lions, in the heart of the Alhambra, the Moorish citadel formed by a complex of palaces, gardens and forts in Granada, Spain. It was commissioned by the Nasrid sultan Muhammed V of the Emirate of Granada in Al-Andalus. Its construction started in the second period of his reign, between 1362 and 1391 AD. The site is now part of the UNESCO World Heritage List.
The Courtyard of the Lions is an oblong courtyard, 35 m in length and 20 m in width, surrounded by a low gallery supported on 124 white marble columns. A pavilion projects into the courtyard at each extremity, with filigree walls and light domed roof, elaborately ornamented. The square is paved with coloured tiles, and the colonnade with white marble; while the walls are covered 1.5 m up from the ground with blue and yellow tiles, with a border above and below enamelled blue and gold. The columns supporting the roof and gallery are irregularly placed, with a view to artistic effect; and the general form of the piers, arches and pillars is most graceful. They are adorned by varieties of foliage, etc.; above each arch there is a large square of arabesques; and over the pillars is another square of filigree work. In the center of the courtyard is the celebrated Fountain of Lions, a magnificent alabaster basin supported by the figures of twelve lions in white marble. At present, the fountain is under restoration in an effort to preserve its integrity.
It has been argued by Georges Marçais that the spacing of columns and arches was set to the golden ratio, but there is no strong evidence that Muslim architects ever used it. Instead, as Antonio Fernández-Puertas postulates, the rectangles used in the construction may have been based on square roots and surds.
The structure of the courtyard, has, as it has been said, a direct influence of the Sevillian Patio de las Doncellas, but its meaning and origins trace their roots to early Islamic gardening, the courtyard divided in four parts, each one of them symbolizing one of the four parts of the world. Each part is irrigated by a water channel that symbolize the four rivers of Paradise. This courtyard is, therefore, an architectural materialization of Paradise, where the gardens, the water, and the columns form a conceptual and physical unity. The slender column forest have been said to represent the palm trees of an oasis in the desert, deeply related with Paradise in the Nasrid imagination. In the poem of Ibn Zamrak on the basin of the fountain, a further meaning is stated clearly: "The fountain is the Sultan, which smothers with his graces all his subjects and lands, as the water wets the gardens."
Nowadays the flower garden has been substituted by a dry garden of pebbles, in order not to affect the foundation of the palace with the watering. In Nasrid times, the floor of the quartered planting beds was slightly lower than the general level, and the visual effect was like a tapestry of flowers, as the top of the plants were cut to the same level of the courtyard, and these were carefully chosen to cover a host of color nuances.
Italien / Trentino - Burgruine Arco
View down to Arco
Blick hinunter nach Arco
Arco Castle (Italian: Castello di Arco, German: Schloss Arch) is a ruined castle located on a prominent spur high above Arco and the Sarca Valley in Trentino, northern Italy.
History
The exact date of its foundation is unknown but it existed at least after the year 1000 AD. The area around Arco was inhabited already before the Middle Ages, the castle was said to have been built by the citizens and only later becoming the property of the local nobles.
The counts of Arco (from Latin arcus, 'bow'), probably of Italian origin (a presumed kinship with the Bavarian counts of Bogen could not be established), were first mentioned in 1124 deed; they temporarily served as liensmen of the Trent prince-bishops. Though they were raised to comital (Grafen) status by the Hohenstaufen emperor Frederick II in 1221, they had to acknowledge the overlordship of the Meinhardiner princely counts of Tyrol in 1272.
The Counts of Arco were expelled by the Prince-Bishops of Trent in 1349, whereafter the castle fell to the Veronese noble house of Scaliger. Nevertheless, they regained the castle in a local uprising, and in 1413 further strengthened their position by obtaining the status of Imperial immediacy from the hands of Emperor Sigismund in 1413. However, in the long run, they could not prevail against the mighty House of Habsburg, rulers of Tyrol since 1363. Arco Castle was captured in 1579, and the counts had to submit to the Habsburgs in 1614. Their estates were officially seized by Emperor Leopold I in 1680.
The castle was later abandoned after a siege by French troops under General Duke Louis Joseph of Vendôme in the course of the War of the Spanish Succession in 1703. A careful restoration began 1986 and following others in more recent years restorations have found a number of frescoes depicting knights and court ladies of medieval times.
(Wikipedia)
Die Burgruine Arco oder Schloss Arch ist eine Burgruine oberhalb der Gemeinde Arco in der Provinz Trient in Norditalien, oberhalb des unteren Sarca-Tales.
Lage
Die Burgruine Arco liegt auf dem markanten Felsberg (273 m s.l.m.) oberhalb der Gemeinde Arco und des Sarcatales. Sie ist Teil eines nach Norden laufenden Felsrückens und vom nachfolgenden Berg Colodri durch eine tiefere Scharte getrennt. Der Burgberg fällt zum Sarcatal über einhundert Meter senkrecht ab, während der Felsen nach Süden und Westen sanfter ins Tal übergeht. Im Norden und Nordwesten sind die Felshänge wesentlich steiler. Strategisch sicherte die Burg das enge Sarcatal ab, welches neben dem Zugang über den Passo San Giovanni bei Nago-Torbole den zweiten Landzugang zum nördlichen Gardasee darstellt.
Die Burg ist aus dem Ort Arco über mehrere befestigte Wege in zirka zwanzig Minuten zu erreichen. Der Weg führt durch die Olivenhaine unterhalb der Burg. Es gibt auch einen Auf- bzw. Abstieg von Laghel, der in etwa der alten Burgstraße entspricht. Der Höhenunterschied beträgt 120 Meter.
Geschichte
Der Burgberg von Arco war schon vor dem Mittelalter besiedelt. Als gesichert gilt eine Nutzung des Berges als Burg durch einheimische Adlige um das Jahr 1000. Zu Füßen des Burgberges entwickelte sich westlich und südlich eine kleine Siedlung, der Ursprung der späteren Gemeinde Arco. Im Jahr 1196 erklärte Federico von Arco urkundlich, dass die Burg lehnfreies Gut der Bewohner von Arco sei. Das Adelsgeschlecht der Grafen von Arco machte sich wenig später zum alleinigen Besitzer der Burg. Im Jahr 1253 überließ Riprando von Arco den oberen Teil der Burg (Alte Burg) dem Ghibellinenführer Ezzelino III. da Romano, welcher den Burgteil an Sodigerio da Tito, Podestà von Trient, übergab. Nach Anerkennung der Lehnsherrschaft des Grafen Meinhard II. von Tirol im Jahr 1272 erlangten die Grafen von Arco die Burg zurück. Die Burg wurde während mehrerer mittelalterlicher Fehden belagert, so von den Herren Seiano, Lodron und den Truppen der Republik Venedig. Sie konnte von diesen jedoch nie eingenommen werden, sodass sie als uneinnehmbar galt.
Im Jahr 1349 vertrieb der Bischof von Trient die Grafen und übergab die Burg der Familie Scaligeri. Die veronesische Besatzung wurde jedoch durch einen Volksaufstand vertrieben und Graf Niccolo von Arco wurde wieder Herr über die Burg. Albrecht Dürer malte die Burg 1495 als Aquarell. Im Jahr 1542 wurde die Burg bei einem Feuer stark in Mitleidenschaft gezogen. Im Juli 1579 ließ Ferdinand II. in seiner Funktion als Erzherzog von Tirol die Burgen Arco und Penede bei Nago durch seine Truppen besetzen. Im Jahr 1614 konnten die Burggrafen von Arco nach Ende der Fehde (Capitolate) nach Arco zurückkehren, nachdem sie die Oberherrschaft des Erzherzogs anerkannten. Von 1665 bis 1675 führte Stefano Voltolino zahlreiche Restaurierungs- und Umbauarbeiten an der Burg durch. Im Jahr 1680 wurden die Grafen von Arco jedoch von Kaiser Leopold I. endgültig entmachtet. Im Spanischen Erbfolgekrieg konnte der französische General Vendôme das untere Sarcatal besetzen und belagerte auch die Burg. Nach heftigem Bombardement kapitulierte die Besatzung schließlich im August 1703. Danach verfiel die Burg schnell, und auch die Burggrafen von Arco verließen den Ort und teilten sich später in einen bayrischen und einen in Mantua ansässigen Zweig.
Im Jahr 1927 kaufte die Letzte der italienischen Linie, Gräfin Giovanna d'Arco, verheiratete Marchesa Guidi di Bagno, das Burggelände und wurde alleinige Besitzerin. Später ging das Burggelände in den Besitz der in Mantua ansässigen Stiftung der Familie Arco über. 1982 erwarb die Gemeinde Arco die Burg. Im Jahr 1986 leitete dann das Denkmalschutzamt der Provinz Trentino unter Leitung des Architekten Falvio Pontalti umfangreiche Sicherungs- und Renovierungsarbeiten ein. Die Burgtürme Großer Turm, Rengheraturm und der Turm nach Laghel wurden gesichert und der Mauerring konsolidiert. Ebenso wurden der alte Turnierplatz und die alte Burgstraße freigelegt. Bei Grabungen kamen auch die Überreste von zwei ehemalige Gebäuden sowie zwei Zisternen ans Tageslicht. In einem Gebäude konnten einige Fresken freigelegt und renoviert werden. Sie zeigen Szenen des Spieles mit Damen und Rittern.
Weiteres
An der Nordwestseite befindet sich ein Steineichenwäldchen.
In der steilen Ostseite des Burgberges wurden zwei extrem schwere Kletterwege erschlossen. Diese sind aber mittlerweile für das Klettern gesperrt worden.
(Wikipedia)
Las mariposas son llamadas Lepidopteros porque poseen escamas en sus alas. El color de las escamas se origina por dos mecanismos; el color pigmentario, dado por la acumulación de pigmentos en las cavidades de éstas; y el color estructural, que se produce por la difracción de la luz en la microestructura de las escamas, produciendo coloración iridiscente, que cambia según el ángulo de observación.
Nikon D850
Apilado 220 fotos
From the squirrel to the squiggly.
Fan vaulted ceiling, Bath Abbey.
Nikon D700 | Nikon 14-24@14mm | ƒ2.8 | 1/50s | ISO1600 | Handheld
Either way, my wife was pleased to see a road named after her.
As per Wikipedia the origin and meaning is: "Marilyn is a blend of the English given names Mary and Lynn. It began to be used in the 1920s, and it reached its peak of popularity in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s."
The origins of the village are uncertain even if the most reliable theories attest a fortification, around the IV century BC, by the Utiana tribe that occupied the upper and middle Basento valley. More certain news can be found in the tenth century when the fortified village was occupied by a band of Saracens led by the head Luca, a Greek who converted to Islam who made numerous raids in the neighboring towns until he was expelled from the intervention of Catepano. The castle was later enlarged by the Normans to ensure a better defense of the place against any raiders. The fortress, which is accessed by a staircase located near the last houses of the village, rests directly on the rock and dominates the village of Pietrapertosa.
Today, of the ancient fort, are visible part of the perimeter walls, the entrance arch built with large blocks that form a round arch, slightly lowered, a watch tower and some chambers incised in the rock. Some steps carved directly on the rock face, lead to an observatory with an arch made of sandstone. It seems clear that most of the excavations in the living rock must be attributed to the period of construction while the northern side of the castle has architectural elements that can be traced back to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the work of subsequent dominations.
"Assassin's Creed Origins"
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The palace had its origins in a single-storey structure without wings built for Alberto V d'Este (1385), a small retreat intended solely for suppers and diversions, as a sort of banqueting house, with an urban front and a garden front. As the equivalent of a Roman villa suburbana, the Palazzo Schifanoia long predated the first such pleasure villa built in Renaissance Rome, the Belvedere built for Nicholas V.
In 1452 Borso d'Este received the title of Duke for the imperial fiefs of Modena and Reggio Emilia that he held from Emperor Frederick III. The occasion for the cycle of frescoes was the expected investiture of Borso d'Este as Duke of Ferrara in 1471 by Pope Paul II. The subtext of the festivities embodied in the fresco cycle is the right ordering of mankind and nature under the good government of the Duke, the guarantor of peace and prosperity in the Este dominions. Under the commissions of Borso d'Este, the architect Pietro Benvenuto degli Ordini was called upon to develop a ducal apartment on an upper level, providing the building with a salone suitable for presentations of ambassadors and delegations, a counterpart of the governing structure of Ferrara housed in the former Palazzo della Ragione, destroyed in World War II. The palace was often used by Marfisa d'Este, a great patron of the arts.
There, in the Salone dei Mesi ("Hall of the Months"), Cosimo Tura's purely pagan cycle of the months presents the cycle of the year as an allegorical pageant with the appropriate Olympian gods presiding on their fanciful cars drawn by the beasts proper to each deity, with appropriate personifications of the constellations of the zodiac. The frescoes were realized circa 1469–70 by artisans of the d'Este household, the larger figures based on cartoons by Cosmé Tura, and the vignettes of the labors of the year and the activities of the Ferrarese court under the benevolent eye of Borso d'Este, flanked by astrological figures to designs by Francesco del Cossa and Ercole de' Roberti. The learned and elaborate scheme of the allegorical presentations must have come from the immediate circle of Borso d'Este, perhaps from the court astrologer, Pellegrino Prisciani, with some details drawn from Boccaccio's Genealogia deorum.
In the Sala delle Virtù ("Hall of Virtues") nearby, the sculptor Domenico di Paris painted the stucco reliefs in a frieze of putti and symbols of the Cardinal and Theological Virtues, under a painted compartmented ceiling.
The façade was originally decorated with a cornice of feigned battlements, its surface smoothly stuccoed and decorated with geometric designs of highly colorful imitation marbles, which have been lost, lending a somewhat dour public face to Palazzo Schifanoia that was not what Borso d'Este intended. The rich white marble entrance door survives, though its tinted colors have weathered away and art historians disagree whether it is to be attributed to the painter-designer Francesco del Cossa or to Biagio Rossetti. Above the arched door, flanked by pilasters, the Este arms are displayed and the unicorn, a symbol of ducal benevolence and the source of patronage. In 1493 the terracotta cornice was added to designs by Biagio Rossetti, who was also commissioned by Ercole I d'Este to extend the palace.
From the Salone dei Mesi the visitor once passed directly into the gardens reached by a monumental stair from the summer loggia, structures that were demolished in the 18th century. After the Este left Ferrara in 1598, the palazzo was inherited through successive heirs, eventually by the Tassoni family, its frescoes whitewashed over. Eventually, during administration of the duchy as part of the Papal States, with a Habsburg garrison, it became a tobacco warehouse and manufactory. When Palazzo Schifanoia came into the possession of the comune of Ferrara in the aftermath of World War I, only seven of the months in the Salone remained legible.
Palazzo Schifanoia forms part of the heritage of Ferrara conserved under the umbrella of the Musei Civici d'Arte Antica di Ferrara. The 14th and 15th century rooms contain collections of antiquities, a numismatic collection and medals cast by Pisanello and other Quattrocento artists to commemorate members of the Este family.
A snifter of brandy and a cluster of dry rowan berries against the dark background. The whole composition is backlit by candlelight. Everything presented on this photo is really natural. The brandy is of French origin, the rowan berries are naturally dried, the candlelight is the light of a candle. ) The texture was added artificially. Feel free to say your cheering and warming toast in the comment section under this great piece of art. Or just give a salute in the shape of a small star.
Camogli is a fishing village and tourist resort located on the west side of the peninsula of Portofino, on the Golfo Paradiso at the Riviera di Levante, in the Metropolitan City of Genoa, Liguria, northern Italy. As of 31 December 2011 its population was of 5,455. The name Camogli is of disputed but ancient origins. Camogli is one of the largest part of the Parco Naturale Regionale di Portofino, and a part of the Portofino Marine Protected Area.
In the late Middle Ages Camogli was a considerable seaport. In its heyday, its fleet consisted of hundreds of Tall Ships, and it was called the "city of a thousand white sails". In 1798 the city hosted a large contingent of Napoleon's fleet, which was then beaten in Egyptian waters of the Nile by Admiral Nelson. A prestigious naval college, Cristoforo Colombo, was founded in Camogli in 1874.
In 1880 the former fishing village had (in a population of 12,000) 500 registered ship captains. Camogli now lives mainly from tourism and is known for its colorful houses that line the beach. The house colors once helped the fishermen of Camogli find the way back to their port.
台南安南區 - 黃時鐘花 / 冬天的小園裡黃花依然成長
Before Tainan Annan District - Turnera ulmifolia / Yellow flowers still grow in the small garden in winter
Antes del districto de Tainan Annan - Turnera ulmifolia / Las flores amarillas todavía crecen en el pequeño jardín en invierno
台南安南区 - ターネラウルミフォリア / 冬でも小さな庭に黄色い花が咲きます
Vor Bezirk Tainan-Annan - Turnera ulmifolia / Im kleinen Garten wachsen im Winter noch gelbe Blumen
Avant zone de Tainan Annan - Turnera ulmifolia / Des fleurs jaunes poussent encore dans le petit jardin en hiver
Tainan Taiwan / Tainan Taiwán / 台灣台南
{See photos on black background/黑板觀看}
學名： Turnera ulmifolia
科別：時鐘花科 Turneraceae
英文：Sage Rose、Yellow Alder、Yellow Buttercups
原產地：中美洲墨西哥、西印度群島
Scientific name:Turnera ulmifolia
Section:Turneraceae
English name:Sage Rose、Yellow Alder、Yellow Buttercups
Country of Origin: Central America Mexico, West Indies
Melody 曲:JAPAN / Words 詞:Sheesen / Singing : Sheesen
{ 夢旅人 1990 Dream Traveler 1990 }
家住安南鹽溪邊
The family lives in nearby the Annan salt river
隔壁就是聽雨軒
The next door listens to the rain porch
一旦落日照大員
The sunset Shineing to the Taiwan at once
左岸青龍飛九天
The left bank white dragon flying in the sky
Askrigg - of Old Norse origin, askr (ash tree) and hryggr (ridge), meaning the ridge where ash trees grew .
It is impossible to describe God adequately, but here's some of what such a description might contain.
Thanks for looking? Isn't God a great artist/creator/architect?
The Mandarin drake (Aix galericulata) is known for its beautiful colors, but there are also various color mutations as white, apricot (or blonde) and black.
The most common of this rarity is the White Mandarin Duck. Although it is relatively unknown as the origin of this mutation. It is believed that those mutations also occur in nature, but that those birds usually do not survive for long because of their different coloration makes them stand out to predators.
In the wild, Mandarins can be found in northeast China, Korea, Japan and eastern Siberia.
The Mandarin Duck or just Mandarin, is a medium-sized perching duck, closely related to the Carolina Duck or North American Wood Duck (Aix sponsa). It is 41–49 cm long with a 65–75 cm wingspan.
De mandarijn eend (Aix galericulata) staat bekend om zijn prachtige kleuren, maar er zijn ook verschillende kleurmutaties als wit, abrikoos en zwart bekend.
De meest voorkomende van de kleurmutaties is de deze zeldzaamheid, de witte mandarijneend. Hoewel het onbekend is hoe de mutaties ontstaan, wordt er aangenomen dat de kleurvarianten ook in de natuur voorkomen, maar dat deze vogels niet lang leven omdat ze te veel opvallen bij roofdieren.
In het wild kunnen mandarijneenden worden gevonden in het noordoosten van China, Korea, Japan en oostelijk Siberië. De mandarijneend of gewoon mandarijn is een middelgrote eend, nauw verwant aan de Carolina-eend (Aix sponsa).
De vogel is 41 à 49 cm lang en heeft een vleugelspanwijdte van 65 à 75 cm.
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Morinda citrifolia, normalmente conhecida por noni (da língua havaiana), nono Taiti, aal (na língua Hindi), é uma pequena árvore da família das rubiaceae.
A morinda citrifolia é originária do sudeste asiático, tendo sido difundida pelo homem através da Ásia meridional, ilhas do oceano pacífico, polinésia francesa, Porto Rico, e mais recentemente a república dominicana.
O Taiti continua a ser o local de maior cultivo.
O noni cresce tanto em florestas tropicais, como em terrenos rochoso ou arenoso.
É tolerante a solo salinos e certas condições de seca.
É portanto, encontrado numa grande variedade de habitats: terreno vulcânico, ou mesmo em terreno calcário.
Pode crescer até 9 metros de altura e tem folhas finas simples, de coloração verde clara, com veias vincadas.
A planta dá flores e frutos durante todo o ano.
As flores são pequenas e brancas.
A fruta contém muitas sementes e tem um forte odor quando colhida, dai que seja por veze descrita como fruto do queijo ou fruto do vomito.
Quando surgem, apresenta cor verde, mudando para amarelo e por fim, quase branco, altura em que o fruto é colhido.
Apesar do seu cheiro classificado como desagradável, as pessoas alimentam-se desta fruta, quer cru, quer cozido.
Moradores do sudoeste da Ásia e os Aborígenes da Austrália ingerem a fruta cru com sal, ou cozida com especiária.
A planta é especialmente atrativa para as formigas - tecelãs ou tecedeiras, que fazem ninhos nas folhas desta planta, essas formigas protegem a planta de certos insetos parasitas.
Na China, Japão e Taiti, várias partes da árvores (folhas, flores e tronco) servem para tratamento de algumas doenças.
Pancheria ferruginea est un arbrisseau ou arbuste endémique de Nouvelle-Calédonie appartenant à la famille des Cunoniaceae. Il est présent dans le sud de la Grande Terre, où il pousse dans le maquis sur substrat ultramafique, parfois en lisière de forêt humide, depuis les basses jusqu'aux assez hautes altitudes.
Les jeunes pousses présentent une coloration brun-orangé à ferrugineuse, à l'origine du nom spécifique "ferruginea", avant de verdir progressivement.
Frutta di Sicilia
Il mandarino (Citrus reticulata Blanco) un albero da frutto appartenente alla famiglia delle Rutacee
È uno dei tre agrumi, assieme al cedro ed al pomelo, da cui si originano, per successivi incroci e ibridazioni, tutte le specie commestibili di agrumi oggi note.
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A l'origine, le Camí de Cavalls (« chemin des chevaux » en catalan) reliait les tours de guet, forteresses et canons établis le long des côtes de Minorque. Sa fonction primaire étant la défense et le contrôle de l’île, il était parcouru par des soldats montés sur des chevaux minorquins, d’où la désignation du chemin.
Tombé en désuétude, le sentier se dégrada, de nombreuses parties furent intégrées dans des propriétés privées. En décembre 2000, le parlement des Îles Baléares adopta la loi du Camí de Cavalls, qui considère le sentier comme « une réalité historique et culturelle du peuple de Minorque » et a pour objectif « d'établir un passage public sur le tracé original du Camí de Cavalls, dans le but de permettre son utilisation générale, libre et gratuite ». Le gouvernement s’attaqua alors à la restauration et au balisage de l’ensemble du sentier, permettant désormais de le parcourir à pied, à VTT ou à cheval.
Long de 186 km, le sentier est divisé en 20 tronçons, d’une longueur de 5 à 14 km chacun. Le sentier a été homologué comme GR 223 et est signalisé par des pieux en bois plantés tous les 50 m environ et par des panneaux d'information au début des étapes. Les plus de cent barrières à passer montrent que les activités traditionnelles, notamment l'élevage, continuent à être pratiquées tout autour du chemin.
Every tradition, every myth, is based on a grain of truth...
Recent evidence suggests that the easter bunny originated somewhere in what was once the supercontinent Gondwana, 2000 to 2000000000 years ago.
Several factors were important in the creation of the easter bunny story:
- dinosaurs would lay their eggs at this time of year
- their eggs were nutritious
- prehistoric man would be really hungry after a long winter
- being male and hungry predisposed him to making stupid decisions e.g.. stealing dinosaur eggs
- ancient megafauna like megarabbit were slow moving and easy to kill, but not as nutritious as dinosaur eggs
- if you wore megabunny ears like a hat, it would make you (prehistoric man) appear bigger and thus scarier to dinosaurs, increasing your chance of successfully stealing dinosaur eggs and surviving to procreate another day from 1:32544756485 to 1:7362486346
- prehistoric man had not yet mastered statistics or critical thought.
With these well documented facts put together, we can now appreciate how the story of the "easter bunny" and "easter eggs" came to be.
Ofcourse, like all stories, it has changed somewhat over the years, but the main message of Easter has remained the same - chocolate eggs taste better than real eggs, but are far less nutritious.
Happy hunting, and happy Easter!
E' uno dei misteri, irrisolti, più grandi e profondi dell'universo: come è nata la vita? esiste solo sulla terra?
Mentre continuano le ricerche in vari campi della scienza e della biologia, vi propongo oggi una foto di un resto di Supernova nella costellazione dei Gemelli: IC 443 vicino alla brillante stella Eta Geminorum (Propus) che si vede un pochino come un semicerchio bianco al bordo inferiore della immagine.
Cosa c'entra questa foto con la vita?
Ebbene, gli elementi chimici di cui siamo fatti noi, la terra e buona parte del sistema solare non erano presenti all'inizio dell'universo, ma sono stati letteralmente creati nei processi nucleari delle stelle più grandi. Queste stelle sono poi esplose, come Supernovae, e in queste immani esplosioni hanno lanciato nello spazio tutti i nuovi elementi che hanno loro stesse generato nel corso della loro vita.
Questa foto ritrae appunto il resto di una di queste esplosioni, avvenuta circa 30 mila anni fa.
Come sempre, foto scattata dalla città: 90 minuti con filtro sv220 e telescopio Newton 150mm/750 con correttore di coma 0,95x e camera ASI MC 533 Pro
Buona giornata
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#supernova #supernovaremnant #deepSky #cieloprofondo
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Julienrupt, le village... En contrebas les cités ouvrières où vivaient ma grand-mère et ses jeunes enfants, parmi lesquels ma mère, durant la guerre (WW2) ... Mon grand-père, combattant, était retenu prisonnier par le barbare germanique ... Je ne sais si les actuels résidents de ces bâtisses aujourd'hui rénovées savent que les caves ont longuement servi de logements protecteurs pendant les terribles bombardements à la fin de cette guerre ?...
Ainsi passe la vie ...
Lumix G & Olympus - 35.0mm f/9.0 1/400 ISO 200 ...
Tall stalks of liriope (pronounced: lih-RY-ə-pee), blooming wild, creek-side, at eventide.
Seminary Wood in Decatur Legacy Park
City of Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
18 August 2022
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▶ "Liriope muscari is a species of flowering plant from East Asia. Common names in English include big blue lilyturf, lilyturf, border grass, and monkey grass. It is invasive to North America and considered a threat to native wildlife. Being an easy plant to grow [however], it is one of the most popular garden ground-covers in the southeastern United States.
Liriope muscari typically grows 12 to 18 inches tall (30–45 cm) and features clumps of strap-like, arching, glossy, dark evergreen leaves to ½ inch wide (1.3 cm). The small, showy flowers occur on erect spikes with tiered whorls of dense, white to violet-purple flowers rising above the leaves in late summer. Flowers resemble those of grape hyacinth (Muscari), which is the origin of the specific epithet. Flowers develop into blackish berries which often persist into winter."
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Ornate Tree Lizard
Death Valley National Park
These lizards are found in the Southwest but primarily in Arizona and Nevada. How this small population arrived in Death Valley is not known
Muy buenas, hoy vuelvo para mi tierra, pegadito a la costa, y os dejo esta toma que realicé en el Parque Natural de Calblanque. En esta ocasión la idea la tenía clara, unir el efecto que produce la lana de acero con el entorno y aprovechar la vía láctea para realizar un encuadre completo.
Como siempre, en una sola toma, sin utilizar Photoshop, y realizando un procesado ligero en Lightroom. En esta ocasión, pude realizar la toma gracias a tener un objetivo completamente manual. Para los que estéis familiarizados con la fotografía nocturna, sabréis que la configuración de la cámara para sacar la vía láctea, es totalmente distinta a la configuración para lograr una correcta exposición de la lana de acero. Para lograrlo, tuve que jugar con la apertura, y solo pude hacerlo gracias a que el objetivo que utilicé es totalmente manual, y me permite cambiar la apertura una vez iniciada la toma.
Estos son los datos de la toma:
Canon 6D @ Samyang 14mm @ 40 seg. @ 6400 ISO @ F/2.8-22
Espero que os guste…
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A l'origine, le Haut-Kœnigsbourg est un château fort du XIIe siècle, qui a été remanié au XVe siècle. Il fut sous Guillaume II un symbole impérial allemand. Il se dresse sur la commune française d'Orschwiller dans le département du Bas-Rhin en Alsace.
Le nom actuel du château est l'adaptation du nom allemand Hochkönigsburg que l'on peut traduire par « haut-château du roi ».
I swirled the water around inside the bowl of this leaf to get this shot. This one was the most amusing--like it has a little mouth or something.
The original Origins