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Blue hour shot of the Shard taken from the public viewing platform above the Thames Path near to London Bridge.
I spent so much time concentrating on this shot that I was completely oblivious to the illuminated Tower Bridge lifting to let a tall ship pass.
Thanks goes to James Beard, who made me aware of this great little viewing platform through his photostream.
These incised small polygons within larger polygons are like a reversed version of the raised salt polygons in Death Valley's Badwater Basin.
Pingos are ice-cored hills, 3–50 m (10–165 ft) high and 30–1,000 m (98–3,281 ft) in diameter. They are typically conical in shape and grow and persist only in permafrost environments, such as the Arctic. The Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula is an area with a marine tundra environment on the shores of the Arctic Ocean with the greatest concentration of pingos in the world. In the foreground, you can see ice-wedge polygons. In winter the cold causes frozen soil to shrink, and cracks form (similar to drying mud). In spring meltwater seeps down into the cracks. It freezes and expands when the still-frozen soil chills it. The frozen water forms wedges of ice in the soil. The ice wedges tend to increase in size year after year. When ice wedges connect, they can form tundra polygons. These polygons are most striking when viewed from the air.
Dropping Rectangles at the Washington State Convention Center. Different shapes just like different traits of people.
Die begehbare Skulptur auf der Halde Duhamel bei Ensdorf steht für Tradition und Zukunft der Industrieregion Saar.
The accessible sculpture Saar Polygon is a symbol of history and future of the industrial region Saar.
Badwater Basin, Death Valley California
The salt flats of Badwater Basin are remixed with every major rainstorm. The different amounts of water, drying time, dirt, and salt give rise to different results. My guess here is that the dirt didn’t have time to settle out and so is more visible in these irregular and imperfect polygons.
Il fait super beau à Dubaï et la ville est magnifique. Les magasins regorgent de petits trésors, à l'image de ce plafond tapissé de polygones à profusion.
The exterior of the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris. Fabulous museum, well worse a long visit.
Thank you everyone for your visits, faves and comments, they are always appreciated :)
Today's special: right-angled triangles, polygons, perfect squares...
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Au menu de la deuxième leçon: triangle rectangle, polygone, carré parfait...
1st lesson 1 // Leçon 1: www.flickr.com/photos/regisa/26671420961/in/dateposted/
"Lol... C'est samedi, c'est dur de nous faire faire de la géométrie ce jour là , Maître !!! ;))" // "It's Saturday and it's hard to make us work our geometry today, teacher !" (SOPHIE C. / www.flickr.com/photos/26450367@N04/)
"Terrific image !" // "Superbe image !" (Joe KEELEY / www.flickr.com/photos/keo6/ )
Handmade abstract art
Mixed media: colored pencils, clear blender, sparkly marker
Image completed 5/2/20
Digital mat added. 11X14 inches matted.
In Explore 5/4/20. Thanks for the views, faves, and comments.
This image from the Gordii Dorsum region of Mars shows a large area covered with polygonal ridges in an almost geometric pattern.
The ridges may have originally been dunes which hardened (indurated) through the action of an unknown process. Groundwater might have been involved.
Image cutout is less than 5 km (3 mi) top to bottom across and the spacecraft altitude was 278 km (173 mi). For full observation details including images with scale bars, visit the source link.
www.uahirise.org/ESP_017348_1910
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona
The Saar Polygon in Ensdorf, Saarland is a monument commemorating the coal mining industry in Saarland, which ended in June 2012.
I've got a lot of different salt polygon pictures from Death Valley! Here's one taken before sunrise, with the crescent moon setting behind the Amargosa Range. The colors here are good, but about 10 minutes after this shot, the colors were amazing (I'll post the picture within the next several weeks). These were the best polygons I could find anywhere in the valley, even after extensive searching. Before the trip, I naively assumed that the salt polygons were easy to find year-round, because of the abundance of pictures around the internet. Wrong! Apparently recent rains destroyed the easily-accessible shapes. I hiked around Badwater Basin and also down to Cottonball Basin, with no luck (these were the 2 spots that most people indicated for salt shapes). My last shot was to explore north of the West Side Road, and with some serendipity I happened across these polygons!
Death Valley itself is really amazing. The bedrock beneath the Amargosa and Panamint Mountains folds beneath the basin, and over time thousands of feet of sediment has collected. The use of gravimeters has shown that the bedrock is more than 9000 ft beneath Badwater Basin, with layers of salt, silt, clay, and dirt filling up the space. Death Valley is actually a basin - water comes in, but doesn't exit; thus, huge amounts of sediments collect here.