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Location: Seattle, WA, USA
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Mount Rainier is the highest mountain of the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest, and the highest mountain in the state of Washington. It is a large active stratovolcano located 54 miles (87 km) southeast of Seattle. It is the most topographically prominent mountain in the contiguous United States and the Cascade Volcanic Arc, with a summit elevation of 14,411 ft (4,392 m). Mt. Rainier is considered one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world, and it is on the Decade Volcano list. Because of its large amount of glacial ice, Mt. Rainier could potentially produce massive lahars that could threaten the entire Puyallup River valley.
Mount Rainier was first known by the Native Americans as Talol, or Tacoma or Tahoma, from the Lushootseed word [təqʷúʔbəʔ] ("mother of waters") spoken by the Puyallup. Another interpretation is that "Tacoma" means "larger than Mount Baker". This comes from the Skagit "Ta", larger, plus "Koma (Kulshan)", Mount Baker. Other names originally used include Tahoma, Tacobeh, and Pooskaus. The current name was given by George Vancouver, who named it in honor of his friend, Rear Admiral Peter Rainier. The map of the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804-1806 refers to it as "Mt. Regniere".
Although "Rainier" had been considered the official name of the mountain, Theodore Winthrop, in his posthumously published 1862 travel book The Canoe and the Saddle, referred to the mountain as "Tacoma" and for a time, both names were used interchangeably, although "Mt. Tacoma" was preferred in the city of Tacoma.
In 1890, the United States Board on Geographic Names declared that the mountain would be known as "Rainier". Following this in 1897, the Pacific Forest Reserve became the Mount Rainier Forest Reserve, and the national park was established three years later. Despite this, there was still a movement to change the mountain's name to "Tacoma" and Congress was still considering a resolution to change the name as late as 1924.
In the excitement leading up to Super Bowl XLVIII, John Hickenlooper, Governor of Colorado, named 53 mountains after the 53 members of the Denver Broncos. In response, the Washington State Senate passed a resolution on Friday, January 31, 2014, temporarily renaming the mountain Mount Seattle Seahawks. The resolution expired on midnight Monday, February 3, 2014.
This heron sat frozen on this branch for the longest time with his eye on potential prey in the creek below!
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The Maine coast has always fascinated me, ever since I visited my grandparents there as a boy, and then later when I moved there myself, and even later yet when I went back to visit my parents there when they were still alive. I've never been anywhere where the sea and coast had such a dramatic relationship, the moods changing quite dramatically sometimes in a short while. In my business that would be referred to as emotionally labile. Not sure that makes a very good title for an photograph, but it is hard not to feel the scene as well as see it when I'm there.
Flamingo Gardens in Davie, Florida is a fun place to take a stroll with a camera. Like many commercial gardens, there's a spot just perfect for outdoor weddings. Anticipating the next day's nuptials, florists began decorating. This peacock decided to add to the atmosphere with its colorful plumage. Not sure if he attended the actual event!
Positive and Negative Space Study â„–3
Boeing KC-97G Stratocruiser, Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona.
The mining company built the mine in seven stories so that the process could use gravity to move the ore through different stages of processing.
It is said that this is one of the most beautiful beaches in the world. Guess they were right, though its full potential can only be seen during sunrise/sunset ! So make sure you don't miss it ;)
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"...In physics, potential energy is the energy possessed by a body by virtue of its position relative to others..."
Alagna Valsesia, Italy.
From the settlement of Alpe Stofful Superiore, view toward the mountain peak called Monte Torru (the highest summit on the right) and the ridge of Corno D’Otro.
The triangular shape in the foreground is the roof of one of the ancient buildings of the settlement, made of stones and covered by the snow.
Dall’Alpe Stofful Superiore, vista verso il Monte Torru, a destra, e la cresta del Corno d’Otro. La sagoma trinagolare in primo piano è il tetto di una baita sepolto dalla neve.
"... In fisica, l'energia potenziale di un oggetto è l'energia che esso possiede a causa della sua posizione in un campo di forze..."
Arranged for the Macro Monday theme "Four" this might be a winning hand ... or not.
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Can't believe how lucky I was today to get the chance to photograph these beautiful birds. I've been in search of them for weeks and weeks with no luck. A few wildlife photo friends have been tipping me off about their whereabouts and previous sightings, but every time I visited these locations they were nowhere to be seen or heard. After all this previous effort, as I was walking my dog this morning about 10 minutes away from my house, all of a sudden I heard a flock of Waxwings in a nearby fruit bush. Of course this one time I bumped into them by chance I didn't have my camera with me, so I dashed home, expecting them to be gone when I returned. Luckily when I got back they were still there, where I spent just under an hour photographing them eating berries and fruit in the lovely sunshine. I was able to get close and they didn't seem threatened by my presence at all. Also, I finally had a chance to use my new 600mm zoom lens camera to it's full potential....very pleased with these results.
Life starts small and grows. Cones hold seeds that become giant trees and young fawns grow to become strong bucks. New life has so much potential.
Blythe a Day - Patterns of Nature - 11/26/23
Joana Gentiana Blythe Doll
Hat and dress - Etsy
Cape and stockings made by me
Large deer - flea market find - Breyer set
Baby deer- a small shop on vacation
Tiny cones - from my yard
Soil- foam from Michael's Background - Calendar - Giant Redwood Trees in California
Jantar Standard Class sailplane, Estrella Sailport, Arizona. September 1977. This particular Jantar was just one year old at the time. Scanned from Kodachrome transparency.
Well, strictly speaking this scene is a sunset, so one could question the title and the attached meaning... But it was a radiant Umbrian sunset just after a long, powerful thunderstorm, so I will stick to my idea.
As the WHO has declared the state of pandemic Covid-19 is spreading everywhere and is reaping its dreadful harvest, bringing whole nations and economies to their knees. Believe me, it is even possible that the darkest hour is still to come. But I think that this incredible planetary experience has the potential to change our way to live. We have taken for granted too many beautiful, precious things (and beware, when you take something for granted you are lessening it). This humble, unaware virus is teaching us values we had drowned in our running digital hedonism - solidarity, self-sacrifice, collaboration. It is teaching us the fundamental value of truth and of scientific research. It is reminding us that we are just a small part of a wonderfully complex world - and that we are not nearly as powerful as we like to think to be. After all, the immediate means to limit infection are exactly the same as they were for the epidemics of the past - quarantine, avoiding close contact with one another, clean your hands frequently, limitations to gatherings, public events, and so on (and everything is worsened and sped up by our global network of transportation). On the other hand science, unavoidably, needs time to find real solutions. So we are experiencing a new sense of being frail - something we used to think of as a relic of the past.
I believe that this pandemic will change everything, more than a war: this is not an enemy endowed with evil projects for mankind but, rather, a natural phenomenon which is putting us in the right perspective in the world. So I believe that this pandemic will change everything. But, in the meantime, we have to manage to get out of these dark times. I would like to dedicate this photo to the people who are suffering because of this ordeal, and to the heroic people who is wrestling with the effects of the infection*: my humble contribute to remember that the darkest hour - whenever it will come - is just before the dawn.
* Sadly in Italy we have seen a growing trend of threats and assaults to physicians during the last years. Many people doubted the good faith of physicians, scientists and medicine in general. I'd guess that this tide is quickly changing.
This photo is closely related to my A neverending story. To be precise, it has been captured some 5 minutes earlier. This view, however, is somewhat narrower and, after a bit of cropping in the foreground, lays a greater emphasis on the glorious cloudscape.
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.7/0/+1.7 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4. RAW files has been processed with Darktable.
A good contribution to the post-processing of part of the foreground came from a cool trick by Boris Hajdukovic I have found rather serendipitously on the web. I have cloned out an obnoxious young olive tree at the center of the foreground dancing a bit too freely in the residual wind.
I am afraid that colours and tones of this picture might be pretty close to the edge of looking overdone (this seems to be an inherent feature of the bracketings I captured of this sunset, since I always post-process from scratch). It all depends on your screen, of course: the picture looks safely good my HP screen, but I am afraid that it can easily look a bit over-the-top on other screens.
Now we know that a picture cannot possibly look right on every screen - the factors affecting the results are simply too many, including largely unpredictable ones, such as personal display settings. Admittedly one should not think too much about this, but when a photo is close to the critical boundary one should struggle to find the better balance between what she would like the photo to be and the risk of looking overdone. Since this photo is important to me, I would be grateful for comments about this matter, to help me realise if I have to downtone it :-)
Thank you very much in advance!
What lies before us and what lies behind us are tiny compared to what lies within us
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is the second sunrise we had in Enchantments during our 4 day 3 nights backpacking trip back in early Oct when larches were in peak condition, and this was again another memorizing one to us.
I scouted this location first in Aug during my one-day through hike. Back then the weather was terrible but I knew this location has so much potential to be epic under the right condition. The day before we shoot this sunrise, we came back again to reconfirm the route to get here and in the next morning we arrived at this spot 25 minutes before sunrise. This image represents the best moment from that morning when the sun rose and lit up the larches in front of us, and it gives you an idea of how amazing the Enchantments core zone is during fall time.
A classic British-built, circa 1952-1954 Austin A40 Somerset 4-door saloon, [GS4]. Spotted in Yorkshire, U.K. A nice potential project car.
Sixth build in my Iron Builder round against Eann, only one red cauldron... gotta reverse this trend...
Day 2 of vignweek as well. Felt like the prompt really favored me. A buoy had been one of my very first ideas for the seed part and I've always wanted to build a dynamic wave too. Waves, however, are hard. I'm happy with the overall shape, but I feel like it looks a little blocky on a vignette.
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It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential.
Harold Bloom
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The above photo was taken by ' grego! ' on flickr. He told me he was there and posted the photo right away to flickr. A NYC friend, Yolanda told me about this online shortly after this happened today. ( I don't have television or watch it all so I'm glad Yolanda told me and I could see some photos on flickr.)
I used to live in the NYC area and as a pilot and avid traveler this event and photo was important enough to me to re-post it.
As a commercial pilot myself, I can appreciate what happened and I've got a pretty good guess of what went through the pilots mind. The first thought was to turn around and get back to the airport OR is there some other airport runway closer. But based on the tradeoff of altitude for airspeed he correctly calculated that ditching in the water is the safest bet. One complicating factor is that the pilot wants to save not only the people but also the aircraft. The boss is not happy when the aircraft worth many buko bucks is a total loss.
SO, although the pilot might have been an even bigger hero to save the plane AND the people, and even to prevent them from getting wet and cold, IF he got it back to the airport, the gamble might be deadly if it didnt work. So he correctly made the descion to knowingly destroy the aircraft in the hopes of saving the people. Well done!
Compare that to the poor Airliner pilot who ran out of fuel and crashed the commercial jet into the ground on Long Island some years back. Both pilots had an emergency situation, what a comparison. (Although the comparison is not fair because there was no pilot error leading to the destruction of the above aircraft.)
I had a simlar aircraft emergency flying a single engine airplane in Florida near Pensacola. My engine died mid-flight and I had to do an emergency landing with no power in a rural field. Both myself and the aircraft survived that potentially fatal incident.
In another similar incident in which I had to land the balloon in a small forest, the envelope (fabric part) got all caught up in the tree branches. There was at least a few thousand $$ or more in damage to it. BUT, I was correct not try to be a hero and save the aircraft AND the people. The passengers really do come first. I was so glad that I took the 'hit' of major aircraft damage, but at least the safety of my passengers was NEVER in doubt.
There was a potential of a very colorful sky this evening ... but alas no grand slam of a sky resulted here at least on the east side of Baltimore. It was a very long day at work so it was good that I was too tired to head off to a pretty spot for sunset as it turned out to be not so colorful.
So just like baseball, taking long exposures needs practice, so where better to go than five minutes from my door to the local school and baseball field. Been wanting to take a long exposure with a ball field anyway, so a couple minutes behind the lens after a long day felt like the thing to do.
I took one shot with the 9 Stop ND at f/20, and the histogram looked well at 240 seconds. While taking that shot I got the idea to "fill the bases" for the next long exposure. As it was getting darker I reduced to f/11 for the same 240 seconds, and then ran out to each base and stood there for about 60 seconds each counting in my head and posing at the base creating a ghost runner. This was all done in this one 240 second capture. I ran so fast between the bases you could not see me ... actually I walked quickly, still being invisible to the sensor.
So it was a grand slam sunset after all ;))
When I explained this capture to Ms. Krach, see just wanted to know when I got home if anyone we knew saw me at the bases posing like an idiot, shaking her head.