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10.01.15
“Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize we were alone? I had always known the sky was full of mysteries—but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Today I got up extra early to shoot during the sunrise only to find out that the sky was covered in clouds. I was a little disappointed because I had to think of something else. But I've been wanting to do another shot similar to day 92. Theres something super satisfying about it. I've also been wanting to shoot something for Concept Coloration this month but I've been so stumped on what to create (then I figured out what I wanted and had the weather turn me down). Seeing as I really wanted to do something for CC I made this instead. I love the light of the moon. It's like a comfort blanket for the night. So in the end this was my interpretation of this months theme "The Catalyst of Light". I also tried to use my own picture of the moon I took a few years back, but do to the camera I used I couldn't blow it up without losing the detail. So I found a nice on the the creative commons. So here are the two images I used that I found on the creative commons
www.flickr.com/photos/andyspicturesurl/4335281098
www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/15984763045/in/photolist-qmw69... (what a ridiculously long link)
I hope everyone is having an enjoyable weekend. I'm in the middle of painting my room all white. I will no longer have to deal with the pain of colour correcting green skin (my room use to be a vibrant basil green. I also went out to go but the last of my school supplies and the art store I went to had NOTHING I need. I was a little disappointed. I'll just have to wait until Monday to get everything from the bookstore on campus. At the end of the day all is well.
It was obviously a while since these points had been used as members of the support team free them to enable the 2-8-2 Borsig loco No.160 to run round the train, returning to Deraa from the Zeizun branch. Syria, October 2007. © David Hill.
Trona Pinnacles in Trona California. For those not familiar with this area it is located 30 miles outside of Ridgecrest California off Trona Road (hwy 178). You are not far from Death Valley here as Ballarat is only about 45 minutes up the road. So many remarkable locations in California to keep photographers busy!
young alpaca... very curious of the camera. I had to keep backing up so as to not get a nose print on my lens...
Look at the camera instead. A Red-winged Blackbird keeps watch over their nesting area, these birds nest in the reeds by the side of a lake, and the males keep watch for hawks from various vantage points along the shore, taking shifts. They're very cooperative, equally spaced out about 20 feet from each other, keeping watch right down the side of the lake.
232mm, f/5.6, 1/320, iso125
Jinty no. 47406 moves over the catch points to ready for it next working. Loughborough GCR Winter gala 25-01-20
A yucca backed by a small colorful alcove with layered sand and leached layers colored by iron and manganese laden water that percolated through the rock (see www.insilico.hu/liesegang/history/history.html ; thanks to Squirrel Girl cbk), lit by the low setting sun. South Coyote Buttes, Vermillion Cliffs National Monument, AZ
Thought about sticking with color for this shot but glad I decided to go with the monochromatic treatment
My wife and I set out to take some shots in golden light one late afternoon. However, clouds came up and it was darker than we had hoped. We spotted distant deer in a field adjacent to our location. We could never get close to this male still in velvet and the photo is heavily cropped. However, I can make out 5 points on the visible antler. One has to assume the other antler is symmetrical.
Squash, Melon, or Pumpkin Plants Sprouting On The Compost Pile
This fruit is being held up by a nearby cactus plant! It will be tricky to harvest.
A delicate tracery of dust and bright star clusters threads across this image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. In this image, from Webb’s MIRI instrument, the dusty structure of the spiral galaxy and glowing bubbles of gas containing newly-formed star clusters are particularly prominent. These bright tendrils of gas belong to the barred spiral galaxy NGC 5068, located around 17 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo.
This portrait of NGC 5068 is part of a campaign to create an astronomical treasure trove, a repository of observations of star formation in nearby galaxies. Previous gems from this collection can be seen here and here. These observations are particularly valuable to astronomers for two reasons. The first is because star formation underpins so many fields in astronomy, from the physics of the tenuous plasma that lies between stars to the evolution of entire galaxies. By observing the formation of stars in nearby galaxies, astronomers hope to kick-start major scientific advances with some of the first available data from Webb.
The second reason is that Webb’s observations build on other studies using telescopes including the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and some of the world’s most capable ground-based observatories. Webb collected images of 19 nearby star-forming galaxies which astronomers could then combine with catalogues from Hubble of 10 000 star clusters, spectroscopic mapping of 20 000 star-forming emission nebulae from the Very Large Telescope (VLT), and observations of 12 000 dark, dense molecular clouds identified by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). These observations span the electromagnetic spectrum and give astronomers an unprecedented opportunity to piece together the minutiae of star formation.
Three asteroid trails intrude into this image, visible as tiny blue-green-red dots. Asteroids appear in astronomical images such as these because they are much closer to the telescope than the distant target. As Webb captures several images of the astronomical object, the asteroid moves, so it shows up in a slightly different place in each frame. They are a little more noticeable in images such as this one from MIRI, because many stars are not as bright in mid-infrared wavelengths as they are in near-infrared or visible light, so asteroids are easier to see next to the stars. One trail lies just below the galaxy’s bar, and two more in the bottom-left corner - can you spot them?
More: esawebb.org/images/potm2305b/
Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-JWST Team
Image description: Webb’s mid-infrared image of barred spiral galaxy NGC 5068. The galaxy’s core and part of a spiral arm can be seen on a dark background. Web-like clumps and filaments of dust thread through it, represented by the color gray. They form an almost skeletal structure that follows the twist of the galaxy and its spiral arm. Large, glowing bubbles of gas, represented in red, are hidden in the dust. Relatively few bright stars are visible throughout. They are most concentrated in the galactic core, seen as a clump of blue points in the top left quadrant.
Still weeding through fall color photos I shot earlier in the season. This isn't a particular wonderful shot, but I did like the points of light in the background.
An older photo that I never got around to posting.
A tiny Coneflower just emerging out of its bud stage.
There seems to be lots of tension in this little photo. Is it because it is facing left rather than right?
Maybe the serrated leaf parts are pushing the eye backwards, or are bright petals creating a wall, blocking our way into the center?
Maybe it is the combination of all three.
Captured on iPhone with Olloclip Macro Lens, edited on iPad in Hipstamatic Oggl using
Wonder Lens AO Film combo.
The Southeast Quidditch Game Championship was held in New Orleans this past weekend, best two out of three. Gryffindor versus Slytherin. It was steamy hot for the games, much to the discomfort of watchers, through banana leaves and Mardi Gras beads at times, which seemed to create havoc in seeing or catching the Golden Snitch! Draco Malfoy proved to be a tough opponent, but in the end, Harry Potter led his team to victory in the Big Easy!
GO Gryffindor! :)
published in February edition of Photomagazine
, 39 points - silhouettes' theme
February 18 2008 49/336
43198, 098 and 097 call at Totnes. These three ex-GWR power cars are now under WCRC ownership. They were picking up a South Devon Railway pilotman who would conduct them onto SDR metals to collect some hired mk1’s whilst en route to Carnforth, but due to a points failure they were unable to do this, so departed east a couple of hours earlier than planned.