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It is very important to be precise!
The assignment this week in Twitter Photochallenge is Self Portrait.
About:
Another creation from my basement. My Sigma 10-20mm was set on 10mm and placed on the floor, one strobe to the left a bit up and another to the right next to the camera.
In post process I realized that I had overexposed the hand, I tried to fix it, but I never got a decent result. Anyway this is me working the floor with a hobby knife :))
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caesar, to be precise. somehow, shakespeare sounds so much better now that i'm out of 7th grade. this shot is actually a great combo of julius caesar and romeo and juliet. anyway, i'll be gone for a week.....a week of solar showers, cabins with kerosene lamps, and my favorite: peeing in a bucket! hope you all get to do something equally special!
Savage Echoes.
Précises urgence affectée histoires vastes successions chaos grand poète radieux épuisé ennemis horreurs fatigue,
memoriam descendens ignotantia affectata miscalculations superaverunt fragmenta comminuit nave celeri animarum, exasperato leges praecepta de causis inmutata est,
kuzatuvlar massajlar suhbatlar tushuntirishlar joylar tashvishli qarshilik bo'ron yo'nalishlari qo'pol yo'ldoshlar ulkan tog ',
spargerea speranțelor puncte înspăimântătoare pericole neobișnuite conducerea orizontului tăierea mâinilor țipăt mizerie scăpare de fum,
realização de metas intervalos de dependência suspensos direitos recolhendo dobras direções circulares ajustando cursos pombos comparações,
vehementní opatření utvrzení stížností třepotání dojmy atmosférické anály komprese srdce,
持続的な症状満足のいく考慮事項ミラーを計算する比類のない凝縮計画優れた信頼性絶対的なパワーモルダリングシャドウニット.
Steve.D.Hammond.
...this is, to be precise, near Torrenieri, near the old Cassia road from Torrenieri to San Quirico d'Orcia (Tuscany, Italy). And this is taken from the same place where I took "Trees in morning light" (in a different season, summer vs. spring, of course, and other direction :))...
Used my D200 and the Nikkor 12-24 @ 24.
I think bigger is much better here...
Yup. it's really a trash bag. The person who did this was precise and meticulous with its placement in the can. Thank you.
...211 seconds of smoothness to be more precise...
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Kryžių kalnas, or the Hill of Crosses, (Lithuanian: Kryžių kalnas) is a site of pilgrimage about 12 km north of the city of Šiauliai in northern Lithuania. The precise origin of the practice of leaving crosses on the hill is uncertain, but it is believed that the first crosses were placed on the former hill fort after the 1831 Uprising in Poland, Lithuania, and other western regions of the Tsarist Empire. Over the generations, not only crosses and crucifixes, but statues of the Virgin Mary, carvings of Lithuanian patriots and thousands of tiny effigies and rosaries have been brought here by pilgrims. The exact number of crosses is unknown, but estimates put it at about 100,000 at present.
Over the generations, the place has come to signify the peaceful endurance of Lithuanian Catholicism despite the threats it faced throughout history. After the Third Partition of Poland in 1795, Lithuania became part of the Russian Empire. Poles and Lithuanians unsuccessfully rebelled against Russian authorities in 1831 and 1863. These two uprisings are connected with the beginnings of the hill: as families could not locate bodies of perished rebels, they started putting up symbolic crosses in their memory.
When the old political structure of Eastern Europe fell apart in 1918, Lithuania once again declared its independence. Throughout this time, the Hill of Crosses was used as a place for Lithuanians to pray for peace, for their country, and for the loved ones they had lost during the Wars of Independence.
The site took on a special significance during the years 1944–1990, when Lithuania was occupied by the Soviet Union. Continuing to travel to the hill and leave their tributes, Lithuanians used it to demonstrate their allegiance to their original identity, religion and heritage. It was a venue of peaceful resistance, although the Soviets worked hard to remove new crosses, and bulldozed the site at least three times (including attempts in 1963 and 1973). There were even rumors that the authorities planned to build a dam on the nearby Kulvė River, a tributary to Mūša, so that the hill would end up underwater.
On September 7, 1993, Pope John Paul II visited the Hill of Crosses, declaring it a place for hope, peace, love and sacrifice. In 2000 a Franciscan hermitage was opened nearby. The interior decoration draws links with La Verna, the mountain where St. Francis is said to have received his stigmata. The hill remains under nobody’s jurisdiction; therefore people are free to build crosses as they see fit.
Occasionally, significant parts of the site burn down in accidental fires. The site attracts pilgrims from across Europe, but especially Lithuania and Poland.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
A very precise reflection from lake surface at late evening after sunset. Could you tell if it's upside down?
"New Masters’ Houses
by Bruno Fioretti Marquez (2014)
After the Bauhauslers moved out in 1932 the Masters’ Houses were radically transformed by modifications. Gropius House and Moholy-Nagy House were destroyed in an air raid in the final days of WWII. In the GDR era a single-family home with a pitched roof was erected on the foundations of Gropius House, but this was demolished again later.
Architecture of imprecision
The gaps left behind in the ensemble of buildings were closed in 2014. A historically accurate reconstruction was rejected; Berlin-based architects Bruno Fioretti Marquez (BFM) created an ‘architecture of imprecision’ for the two demolished buildings. This evokes a deliberate sense of oscillation between specific historic state and reinterpretation.
Reopening ceremony
On 16 May 2014 Joachim Gauck, President of the Federal Republic of Germany, opened the new Dessau Masters’ Houses to the public. Internally, they demonstrate their distinctness. Emerging from the residential architecture designed by Walter Gropius in 1926 is an open spatial structure, which is used for exhibitions. [...]"
Whist today, the highest sedimentary mountains of Europe have precise names for each peak, in their Haut-Aragon region - with its local dialect Aragonaise, the Massif retains a single name, and a name so strong as to enter into the title of the national park, and a name so vivid that it asks to be looked at in the same category as mythical mountains and hills that may have held significance during chapters of the great ages of prehistory. The traditional name for today's Pico Añisclo, Cylindro and Mont Perdu is the 'Tres Serols' or three sisters. Whilst it is difficult to measure, many important prehistorical ritual sites were over-written by post Christian spiritual elements - the idea of crosses and chapels appropriating the space of gatherings for prechristian worship, rite and song.
Many high points on a horizon can be seen from foothills and planes, and with a 3355m summit, the scattered population that lived under its snow capped veils must have been culturally significant during all ages. and from a very long distance. Sedimentary landscapes can naturally provide high plateaus and shoulders for vistas (by contrast, ignious rock tends to point). With mixed densities of strata, mountains and hills often naturally tilt like vast sarcophagie - giants bodies held in rocky memory: ancestral myths and life forces. As with much of the deep rural on either side of the Pyrenees, stories of witches, giants and fairies are still just-about within aural-history's touching distance: now closer to a new glitz overlay with 'heroic fantasy 'and kitsch projecting false memory to the now exotic and vivid terms. 'Tres Serols' or 'Three sisters' has the unique scale and geology to generate enough myth for a mother earth and her sisters. Three proto angels lifting their heads to the stars, overseeing the very weather itself, the seasons and passing migrations.
Whilst mythologies from the Mesolithic and its slopes of time have long uncoupled from modern-man's train of thought, there is a further element that lets us measure the past significance of this loci. For multiple reasons it is unlikely that ancient pilgrimages took to the very summit of the Tres Serols - an intermediate glacier, the chance of sudden storms, technicity of hiking, and vertigo management all perhaps excluding the summit from being a general pilgrimage destination, and one should expect lowland populations to be drawn from time to time to a close viewing point rather than the very summit itself.
Normally, a major pagan loci should be met with attempts to Christianise - but here a cross on the summit would be invisible and an early chapel would have its foundations in snow. Christianisation of late prehistorical myths are perhaps detectable from the fifth century, with stories of Visigoths converting the three sisters to Christianity. Despite this story, evidence from around the mountains suggest that Christianity co existing with earlier spiritual and cultural traditions, and by implication ones that existed prior to the fifth century tale.
The Christianisation of pagan sites could come from benevolent directions, for example from those seeing it as a protective way of consolidating against Roman vacuity, from conviction and faith, or from a negative direction - the stigmatisation of local culture to remove points of local power to enable an unquestioned feudal domination and centralisation of wealth. From whichever direction the will to realign symbols came, the desire to Christianise a powerful and seemingly unChristianisable landscape icon may have found an outlet - and although the data is compressed by the folds of time, it is worth looking into.
Under the peaks of the three sisters - along the south wall of the Pineta Canyon, in the sierra d'as Zucas, are found a line of three similar peaks; three subordinate peaks of around 2781m so about 600m under the adjacent three sisters (see the above Flickr text box). These lesser peaks are the 'Roncha', 'Punchuda' and 'Plana', and from afar - especially when seen from the east (for example the important and ancient path over 'Le port de Plan') - they look to be an anticipation and primer for the three sisters. These three adjacent and smaller peaks are collectively known as the 'Tres Marias' and the col that passes aside is known as the 'Portillo de Tella' or passage in the direction of the village of Tella. Marias is Spanish for Mary or Marie-Madeleine, and here a Christianised name change within the parameters of an ancient myth is possible; and Tella, the destination of the named col, is neither large or that close, but does cluster both pagan and Christian gathering and pilgrimage (four adjacent ancient chapels, documented pagan rituals, a newly discovered chromlech and so on) - again possibly suggesting that the naming of the three subordinate and reflective peaks added a Christian regard on a dominant prechristian landscape symbol. Were the three mountains Roncha, Punchuda and Plana have been understood in prechristian legend as ladies in waiting of the three sisters? A depiction of the cycle of life in preparation and permanence? Christianised as the three Mary's, and on a path to the pilgrim destination of Tella (see adjacent posts) does look like it may be an example of an expected pragmatic juxtaposition of Christian symbols.
Here, the fact that the Tres Serols remained above Tres Marias and 'power' was not found to give the Tres Serols a direct Christian name, may indicate the strength of local belief and determination.
The importance of the village of Tella regarding its capacity to have been a pilgrimage destination and viewing point will be discussed in an adjacent post.
Other peaks on the panorama include:
Puntal de Bachaco 2317m
The hill's name translates to 'stroll of the hairy one' - with the personification perhaps closer to a 'wild character' than hairy as 'golden locks'. "Bachaco" is also used for a type of characterful insect. The peak is a little under the main snow line, so the vegetation may be a more scrubby than the higher kast and mountain meadow. A poorly frequented land will also be less grassy. It may also be that most valley based 'pilgrims' climbed to higher viewpoints and meeting-points on lower ridges and paths and that the people who strolled up this slope were met with a cul-du-sac of a cliff's edge and were stigmatised to be wild outsiders lacking in local knowledge (haircuts and style were important in the Celtiberic and the tools to fashon facial hair existed from the shards of the neolithic through to the bronze and iron blade). Beards can also be shaped.
The last mountain featured on the above panorama is the
'Pico la Pala Portañús' 2593m An unusual name in today's language that may simply refer to the crest.
For reference, the village and four ancient chapels of Tella are on pathways between the Bachaco and Portanus, and on pathways under and to the left of the same peaks, with the village itself still a good panorama to the left of the image. Once at Tella (1402m), there is a crest walk directly down to a lower valley (below 1000m) and from there, easy navigation to the foothills of the south. This clean north/south rise is also part of an ancient east/west pathway stretching from the Maladeta Massif to Jaca or from the central to eastern Pyrenees.
AJM 20.12.19
Promptly triggered by the truth?
Precise reality can be harsh for the feeble, frail, weak minds.
I can't find more dignified adjective to describe the uneducated
that want to remain ignorant and missing the essence of the truth.
Alex Jones’ InfoWars Sent To The Digital Gulag
Red Ice TV Published on 7 Aug 2018
www.youtube.com/watch?v=odLn3J_jtao
The biggest free speech battle in modern American history been initiated with the removal of Alex Jones and InfoWars from the Internet. Legislation and mass protests against the monopoly platforms that have banned Alex Jones from the internet is the only way forward.
Another species of Drosera seen in Manly Dam - not sure of the precise species name. This group is about to flower.
"Be the noble curator of your excellence, for
fate made you perfect. In all things, be precise:
standing, sitting, staring, walking, sniffing, eating,
sleeping, killing. Never look in mirrors,
which are windows for the insecure. Sleep
in a variety of comfortable places, which
were created for you alone. Make acquaintances,
never friends. The latter tend to cling.
All phenomena are potential enemies. Therefore,
stare, listen, listen, stare, sniff, stare, listen, sniff,
hide, stare, and listen. Never perform tricks. Leave
those to dogs, who need to be wanted and want
to be liked. Talk as necessary, but never just
to chit-chat. Crack the whip of feline fury as
you wish. Keep the blades of your four feet sharp
and retracted like long-held resentments. Let
your soul's motor idle and strum the taut cord
of your body. No one owns you.
God made you and likes you best. In a world
that's dubious, you are certain. You never
make mistakes. You are entitled to what
you want; otherwise, why would you want it?
No matter what else you may be undertaking,
never be reticent to stop and groom yourself,
for you are superb, and self-maintenance
doubles as self-admiration. You are a cat,
a form of beauty that enters stealthily,
naps, and agrees to be admired. You
are a cat. Everything is as it should be."
Hans Ostrom
Aujourd'hui il faisait beau donc les activités étaient de plein air, plus précisément le jardinage. Je vous avais concocté ce "diaporama court" de Lower Antelope Canyon, si vous voulez la version intégrale, activez le lien. Pour les deux, choisissez HD et plein écran, vous en aurez plein la vue!
ENGLISH :
Slideshow of Lower Antelope Canyon, with musical accompaniment by Carlos Nakai playing indian flute.
Today the weather was fine so activities were outdoor, specifically gardening. I concocted this "short slide" of Lower Antelope Canyon, if you want the full version, click the link. For both, choose HD and full screen, you will get dazzled!
Version longue-Long version youtube
Avec les Femmes à la fontaine, précisément datées de l’été 1921, le maître inaugure sa période néo-classique. Si le thème est cher aux peintres, il prend chez Picasso une symbolique particulière : la femme devenue mère est aussi la source de la vie
ENGLISH :
In the summer of 1921, Picasso stayed in the town of Fontainebleau, some time after the birth of Paul, the son he had with Olga Kokhlova. During this holiday, the park and the castle of Fontainebleau directly inspired the artist. With Women at the Fountain, precisely dated in the summer of 1921, the master opens his neo-classical period. If the theme is dear to painters, to Picasso it takes a special symbolic: the woman became mother is also the source of life
Thai dragon peppers, to be precise. These babies are about 50k-100k Scoville units (compare to habaneros at 100k-350k), and have a unique pain profile that is sharp and pulsing. They also have a pleasant fruity taste. They are good in anything spicy, but best when soaked in fish sauce, allowing the heat, salt, fruitiness and umami to complement each other.
I've seen then classified as both Capsicum frutescens and Capsicum annuum.
AKAs include Thai volcano pepper, facing-heaven pepper.
Usually they are green, ripening to red, but these also go through a purple phase, where they express anthocyanin (the same pigment as blueberries). Unfortunately, like many purple fruit and vegetables (like purple beans and purple asparagus), the purple turns green when cooked.
One thing to remember for those who are not fire eaters, if you get too much heat, drinking something usually won't help, unless it has sugar (this is why many commercial hot sauces add fruit or carrots).
Water helps while it's in your mouth, but when you swallow, the pain comes back. Capsaicin is a fat soluble molecule, so alcohol just spreads it around your mouth. Carbonation hits the same pain receptors as the capsaicin, so beer is probably the worst choice.
Milk is supposed to be a good cure, but I hate milk. Luckily, I have rarely had anything that was too hot for me.
I noticed Laura, or to be more precise her bright yellow jacket when she was having a break from her workplace nearby.
Laura is originally from Hull, Yorkshire, a fact which was given away by her lovely broad Yorkshire accent but has been living/working in London for around 5 years.
"I've got a bit of a blow-dry situation going on here!" said Laura when I had asked her to be part of my project. The weather was turning grim as we spoke and I feared she wouldn't wish to venture too far from the relative shelter of a nearby doorway but Laura was happy to walk a short distance to this nearby painted wall which I thought complemented the colour of her jacket.
Laura told me;
"I have just started in a new job, this is my first day today as a receptionist at a hairdressers. Its going well, its a lovely place, its a bit vintage and quirky, just like me!" she said with a smile.
What makes you happy?
"Me Mum's Yorkshire puddings and gravy!"
Thanks Laura!
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Its been a little bit (about 13 days to be precise) since I've uploaded Batman Years and before that, they weren't exactly steady.
Why is this? Well I'm sure many of you know and have the same problem, so I don't know if I have the right to complain. My major problem is school and time. Again, I know many of you have this exact same problem, soI'll keep it mainly to myself while we all suffer together.
But in terms of writing, I have the last 5 issues of Year Four planned(thats right, the finale is 5 issues) and I have most of it done. But after that I think I'm going to take a break. Not from writing, but from Batman. I've realized that I kind of burned myself out and I love writing Superman and soon Flash. I've also been thinking about writing Spiderman. So Batman will go on hiatus then reformation.
Superman is also on hiatus, because I need the Superman Lex Suit (reasons will be uploaded in an issue soon) and won't be getting that until Christmas.
Spiderman is on Hiatus because I want to wait until the new sets come out (I guess I could do a prequel). Though I really want to write Spiderman.
That leaves me with Flash. He is definitely my Holiday Special.
Next Up: Collaboration?
Not sure how easy it is to write with someone else. I may at least want to establish a collective universe with a couple people. Let me know if you're interested. I will be making a separate post about this.
Welp, thanks for looking at this. There will probably be a few more posts going into detail about this.
The primary amateur astronomy event for the past week has been the conjunction of Jupiter, Venus and Mars, best seen low in the eastern sky just before dawn. Conjunction has a precise definition, but in simple terms, it means that the planets were in close apparent location in the sky.
Venus is the brightest object in this photograph, near the centre right edge. It is flanked by Jupiter (above and to the left) and Mars (below and to the right). The planets were just below and to the right of the constellation of Leo. After consulting the pUniverse iOS app, I can identify the primary stars from this constellation - i.e., Regulus (just above the centre of the image) and Algieba (below and slightly to the left of centre). When I look closely, I can see several other unnamed stars. This image contains all of the objects with astronomical magnitude of 4 and brighter.
The shot was taken from the edge of the East Basin of Lake Burley Griffin. There was a gentle breeze producing ripples across the surface of the lake, making for the rather attractive reflections of the lights. The prominent column near the left edge is the Australian - American Memorial. It was completed early in 1954 and stands 74 m high. It is surrounded by offices that are occupied by the Department of Defence. Mount Pleasant is the highest of the hills- it is to the right of the buildings, at the bottom centre of the image.
I was very pleased to get this photo - I was already a few days late for the closest grouping of the planets, but even more importantly, the weather is set for a change with clouds and rain predicted for the next week or so.
The iPhone is extremely challenged in these conditions. It was actually far darker than this image would suggest. There are apps (e.g., NightCap Pro) that can capture and stack multiple frames to overcome the random noise in individual frames. The weakness in these apps, or at least the ones that I have found to date, is that they do not provide the option to manually focus. The iPhone can do this, it is simply that it hasn't been implemented in these apps. In this instance, I used an averaging time of around 20 seconds, with each frame shot with a shutter speed of 1/5 s, an ISO equivalent of 4000, and the fixed aperture of f2.2.
www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/observing-news/ven...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction_(astronomy)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%E2%80%93American_Memorial
Barton, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
iPhone 6s - Photograph taken with the back-facing camera on an iPhone 6s.
NightCap Pro - This camera app was used to capture the image (4032 x 3024 pixels) using Long Exposure mode, an averaging time of around 20 seconds.
FrontView - A trapezoidal crop was applied to change the apparent perspective.
Big Photo - The image was stretched to produce an image of 4032 x 3424 pixels
Photoshop Express - Cropped the image to square format (2858 x 2858 pixels).
Photogene - Chroma de-noising applied.
Photoshop Express - Applied Defog, vibrance, exposure, noise reduction, and sharpening adjustments to the image.
Pixlr - Added the Soft vignette to the image.
ExifEditor - Transferred the EXIF data from the original photographs to the final image.
San Lorenzo Maggiore is a church in Naples, Italy. It is located at the precise geographic center of the historic center of the ancient Greek-Roman city, at the intersection of via San Gregorio Armeno and via dei Tribunali. The name "San Lorenzo" may also refer to the new museum now opened on the premises, as well as to the ancient Roman market beneath the church itself, the Macellum of Naples.
The church's origins derive from the presence of the Franciscan order in Naples during the lifetime of St Francis of Assisi, himself. The site of the present church was to compensate the order for the loss of their earlier church on the grounds where Charles I of Anjou decided to build his new fortress, the Maschio Angioino in the late 13th century.
San Lorenzo actually is a church plus monastery. The new museum takes up the three floors above the courtyard and is given over to the entire history of the area that centers on San Lorenzo, beginning with classical archaeology and progressing to a chart display of historical shipping routes from Naples throughout Magna Grecia and the Roman Empire. The museum provides a detailed account of the local "city hall" that was demolished in order to put up the church in the 13th century and continues up past the Angevin period and into more recent history.
Beneath San Lorenzo, about half of an original Roman market has been excavated.The site has been open since 1992, the result of 25 years of painstaking excavation. The market place is the only large-scale Greek-Roman site excavated in the downtown area.
In this church Boccaccio met his beloved Fiammetta (1338) (Wikipedia)
ESA's star-surveying Gaia mission has released a treasure trove of new data as part of its ‘focused product release’. One of the new papers reveals more about 156 823 of the asteroids identified as part of Gaia DR3, the orbits of which are shown in this image. The new dataset pinpoints the positions of these rocky bodies over nearly double the previous timespan, making most of their orbits – based on Gaia observations alone – 20 times more precise.
This image utilises DR3 data to show the 156 823 asteroid orbits. The wider blue and yellow circles in the frame show planetary orbits, while the myriad colourful inner swirls are asteroids. The central region all lies within the orbit of Jupiter (blue circle). See more on these asteroids.
Alt-text: This image shows many looping and overlapping orbits encircling the Sun, all of different colours (to differentiate between asteroids). The centre of the image – representing an area within the orbit of Jupiter – is very densely packed with orbits, while the outer edges remain clearer, showing the background plane of the Milky Way.
Acknowledgements: Stefan Jordan, Toni Sagristà, Paolo Tanga; Gaia Sky (developed by Toni Sagristà); Gaia DR3 data
Credits: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
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Abandoned Abused Street Dogs.
Some unexpected things happened today
and we'll get to that soon enough. But first
by 5:45AM I was on the road heading in an
easterly direction. Towards Cambodia to be
more precise.
Warm with dry roads, this is good.Same on
the way home, this is also good .................;-)
Mama & Rocky met me at the gate, big toe
licking, crashing and overall loony toonies.
As we were going up the first set of steps
at The Dog Palace Broken Tail Puppy was
spotted laying in the weeds in the courtyard.
Usually he's zipping all around us waiting for
a head rub or a bowl of kibble, not today he
just watched us in route to The Bingo Room.
15 minutes later feed bags are packed and
off we go still heading in an easterly direction
towards the concrete walking bridge. Of course
both dogs race past me and are waiting on the far
side of the bridge. And yes the monkeys had split !
Legs The Zoomer is so excited to see me as she zips
past barely touching my hand, does a 180 degree turn
and does it again. That's how my morning starts out here
at The Monkey Temple. So what comes next ? Medication
time is what's next.Positioned myself on the wooden table
you've seen many times on The Nurse Nuns porch.Next to
me is Tinker Bell with her pink lizard tongue darting about as
if my ear is a bulls-eye.She did hit her target a couple of times.
One by one, all the dogs received their monthly medications.
Next stop is The Spirit House where the 3 Musketeers have
big fun consuming pieces of hot-dogs. Each piece is cut the
size of a nickel so this takes awhile and they love doing it.
Went down to The Hooligans Turf, fed them, medicated them
then headed back to pickup Mama waiting on the boundary.
Now this next part is a very first..Mama & I always walk back
to The Dog Palace for a rest. This time Mama wouldn't do it !
Figured she'd show up in due time but this one did puzzle me.
Before starting up the stairs at The Dog Palace I glanced over
at Broken Tail Puppy. His head was in a precarious position ?
Walking over to help him I could tell he was no longer with us.
Reached down an placed my hand on his chest. Slightly warm
but no breathing plus his tongue was hanging out, dull eyes.
BTP is now residing with others in the big kennel in the sky..;-(
R.I.P. - BTP, I'm Crying.
Mama finally showed up but she was peeking around the
corner for some time before she'd enter the court yard.
When she did enter, Mama laid down about 5 meters
from BTP with her head gently resting on her paws.
Alright, couple hours later I'm home where no# 1
tells me it's time to do another trap-line run.
Some of you may remember sometime back when I was
doing "trap-line runs" closer to our home. Remember ?
Well there's a local temple with 20-30 stray dogs
that we have been feeding and medicating
for the last 3 or 4 months. Cooked rice
with mixed fish plus odds an ends.
This afternoon no# 1 and a niece fed the dogs and washed
eleven new puppies that were covered with stinky stuff !
No# 1 gave me a pass this afternoon but expects my
participation in the near future. So far our niece has
been filling in for me but they need a photo man.
OK, enough for today, I'm burned out .......;-)
Thank You.
Jon&Crew.
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Not sure if this works,time to stop tweeking and post though before i go round the bend lol
original horse image Chunga-Stock
background made using this tut as ref
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Cyclon Pam to be precise ..who had already destroyed large parts of Vanuatu, the smallish Island in the South Pacific
if you have a spare Dollar or two, Oxfam or your Red Cross is working in the region helping those who are in dire need
www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&obje...
New Zealand's North Island got away with a black eye
www.stuff.co.nz/national/67382617/cyclone-pam-weakening-a...
I am not sure where the precise epicentre of redstart diversity is, but Qinghai Province in western China must be in contention for the prize. We saw eight species on the Oriental Bird Club's tour of the area, including highly prized rarities such as Przevalski's (Ala Shan) and Guldenstadt's (White-winged) Redstart.
This bird was singing enthusiastically in the dawn light from a fence post at a small farm in a forest clearing. We found such sites to be very good for photography, with an abundance of open perches, good light, under-eave nest crevices and lots of flies and grubs for birds to forage on.
Nimble and precise, Vastt uses his gravity defying powers to create mind-bending battlefields. His four wing daggers are perfect for up close combat, or can be guided from a distance to fall to their targets. Vastt's Mask of Durability protects him from even the heaviest of impacts and allows him to slice through the toughest materials.
Build Notes:
Just a quick guy for the upcoming Bionilug convention display. Also hey first MOC I've posted this year!
This was done with Inner Painting （内画）, also know as inner drawing or inside painted, is a Chinese art form. It involves glass bottles which have pictures and often calligraphy painted on the inside surface of the glass. The bottles are produced by manipulating a specialized paint brush through the neck of the bottle.
To paint the inside of the bottle, the artist must paint backwards. Concentration is crucial to make precise strokes. A skilled artist may complete a simple bottle in a week while something special may take a month or more. The best craftsmen will produce only a few bottles in a year.
Almost fourteen months after taking and posting this picture I have just sent a message to my fellow photographer who was with me and this Symbolic Venus on our journeys together. “The Queen of the North Isles,” has a subtle smile that is a great feature which delicately and determinedly calls out to each viewer and surely for certain we can imagine her with whatever colour eyes that we should wish? Something about figures with representations of living features brings out a character and even a purpose to us as we engage with them. When they are perceived as elder icons and potential treasures from historic ancestors our minds release great wondrous potential for them to be a certain something and to enliven our imagination opening up more visionary realms and adroitly granting continued access to more mental spaces and further possible places for them to have an influence within.
This small figure has attracted much attention and affection. The 4cm tall sandstone figure was discovered in 2009. The Historic Scotland dig was at the Links of Noltland Westray. Westray is known as, “The Queen O’ The Isles.” Also rendered as, “The Queen of the North Isles.” The figure after conservation and recording has been returned to Westray and is on show at the Westray Heritage Centre a museum, archive and information centre in the island’s main village of Pierowall.
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A Helios 44 2 58mm ƒ/2 lens was used to take this picture, further details below.
The Wallace Cave Rosslyn has been extended, locked and opened over the last several hundred of years. It is close to Prehistoric Carvings and may have been used by seasonal nomadic hunter gatherers all the way through William Wallace and the Wars for Independence all of the way through to modern history lovers and nature observers. The Wallace Cave is opposite to Rosslyn Chapel and Castle near the current Roslin Village. There are other Wallace and the one in Rosslyn Glen is not very large, there are other larger caves locally. The Westray Wife as figure might have been a toy like a doll, a sacred talisman and representation for playing games scratched into the ground, or even a religious figure for worship as a goddess. The resin moulded figure here from the Gift Shop at Westray Heritage Centre is serving a model for photography. In the links there is mention of there now being Four Westray Wives and there are links to The Brodgar Boy a similar prehistoric figure found at The Ness of Brodgar.
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Home of the Westray Wife
Westray Wife (also known as the Orkney Venus)
westraypapawestray.co.uk/westray-wifey/
The “Westray Wife” Neolithic carved figurine
westraycommunity.co.uk/history/
Westray Wife
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westray_Wife
News of the Third Figurine, I believe that there are now Four Figurines from the same archaeological investigation.
Third 5,000-year-old figurine found at Orkney dig
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland...
Meet the “Brodgar Boy”
orcadian.co.uk/meet-the-brodgar-boy/
The ‘Brodgar Boy’ emerges … but what was it?
www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/the-brodgar-boy-emerges-but-what-...
Helios-44 is a Soviet copy of the Carl Zeiss Biotar 58mm ƒ/2 lens produced under the Helios lens brand. The lens was made in the Soviet Union and Russia, primarily for the M42 lens mount.
Standard lens for small -format SLR cameras.
High-aperture six-lens anastigmat. Coated optics or multi-layer coating.
It was noted that the lens is distinguished by the precise coincidence of the visual and photographic planes of the image.
Helios-44, ZENIT CAMERA Archives,
Palmer, Alfred T.,, photographer.
The careful hands of women are trained in precise aircraft engine installation duties at Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.
1942 Oct.
1 transparency : color.
Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.
Subjects:
Douglas Aircraft Company
Airplane industry
Women--Employment
World War, 1939-1945
Assembly-line methods
United States--California--Long Beach
Format: Transparencies--Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-39 (DLC) 93845501
General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a35325
Call Number: LC-USW36-60
ESA’s double-spacecraft precision formation flying mission, Proba-3, is due to be launched from India on 4 December. The spacecraft pair will employ a set of positioning technologies to keep formation in space and this image shows the most precise: a laser shone from one platform to a retroreflector on the other. The reflected laser beam will provide positioning precision down to a single millimetre.
This infrared view of the reflected laser beam was acquired during on-ground calibration testing performed by ESA, MDA and Centre Spatial de Liège personnel which took place at Redwire Space in Kruibeke, Belgium, back in February.
The goal of the mission is to achieve artificial solar eclipses on demand, as Proba-3’s Occulter spacecraft casting a precisely-controlled shadow onto its Coronagraph spacecraft for six hours at time. To maintain the position of a shadow just 8 cm across on the Coronagraph satellite from the Occulter satellite around 150 m away, the two satellites rely on multiple sensors, including inter-satellite radio links, Global Navigation Satellite System receivers, visual imaging of LEDs and – for the most precise positioning at closest range – a laser metrology (or ‘measurement of measurement’) system.
The laser is seen being fired from the Occulter spacecraft towards the Coronagraph’s retroreflector, designed to reflect it back in precisely the same direction it originated from. In addition a set of Shadow Position Sensors located around the coronagraph aperture will ensure the shadow remains in the correct position.
This mission is being put together for ESA by a consortium led by Spain’s SENER, with participation by more than 29 companies from 14 countries. The Proba-3 platforms have been designed by Airbus Defence and Space in Spain and satellite integration by Redwire in Belgium. GMV in Spain is responsible for Proba-3’s formation flying subsystem while its main coronagraph instrument comes from Belgium’s Centre Spatial de Liège, CSL.
Proba-3 is due to be launched via PSLV-XL launcher by the Indian Space Research Organisation, ISRO. Follow the latest news from the Proba-3 team on the mission blog.
Credits: ESA - M. Pédoussaut / J. Versluys
I'm struggling to identify my precise movements on this afternoon, as my notes are sparse and I didn't have a current timetable. Often I found that by April stocks of the timetable book had sold out, with the new one coming into force in late May. No internet back then!
Anyhow, this is taken from the platform at the small halt here. The two locos in the yard appear to be 1042.545 and .517.
This place has a dark history, falling as it did in the Soviet zone of Austria, occupied from 1945-55 after which independence and neutrality for the country were agreed by the Allied powers. In the immediate aftermath of WW2 part of the works was taken over by the Soviet secret police (then NKVD), and used for torture and executions.
The precise function of this gear box is still not a settled matter among scholars who study such things and who know all about them. It either comes from a transportation device or a middle Asian cabbage dish.
She found solace in the gardens..the wolves were circling her court. Every step she took now would need to be calculated..precise. One false move and the world as she knew it could come crashing down...But she had a card up her sleeve that they wouldn't see coming.. she was determined to play this hand and come out as victor. Like the queen she was born to be.
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Shot near Calle Real, Goleta, CA
This shot is laden with my copyright watermarks (23 to be precise). Want to know why, then read on.
I am no pro-photographer, and I don't make money by selling my shots. The only reward I get for all the shots that I post here is the appreciation and comments that I get from you my friends and I am satisfied with that for now. I put a watermark to just let people know who took the shot, and I try hard to place it in locations that don't interfere with the subject of my shots. I have no problems with people using my shots, as long as they let me know about it and give me credit when they use my work. In fact on many occasions, I have given out non-watermarked photos of mine to complete strangers for use in their work, on the sole promise that they would give me credit when they use it.
Recently I found out about someone who was using my photo as his facebook profile picture. He had cleverly cropped out my copyright watermark from the image border. That particular shot had a lot of shares and likes on his page. While I was happy to see my shot do so well, I was saddened by the fact that all those people who liked my shot, wrote back comments and shared the pic didn't know that it was my creativity, and not his. Inspite of my polite request to give me credit for the shot that fellow didn't oblige. Finally last week I took the tough decision of complaining to Facebook about violation of copyright, and within hours the photo was removed. And with it all the shares, the likes and comments had also vanished. All he lost was that one profile pic. But I lost a chance of getting recognized by all those people who liked my work and shared it unknowingly :(
In view of these events I have decided to make it harder for people to crop and use my shots without my permission. Now you know the story behind the watermarks.
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ID
5744
Listing Date
19 July 1988
History
The precise date of the lighthouse is unknown, though a publication of 1871 suggests that it was built in 1850. If so, it may have been designed by J.M.Rendell who was the engineer who prepared the plans for the breakwater in 1845. However it has also been attributed to John Hawkshaw, the superintending engineer who completed the breakwater between 1857 and 1873.
Exterior
Square, tapering 3-storey masonry tower 19.2m high and ainted in black and white bands. Chamfered angles and stepped plinth. Raised surrounds to openings and matching recesses. Roll-moulding over ground floor; moulded cornice supports walkway around circular lantern. Lantern has latticework glazing and domed cap surmounted by weather vane and ball finial.
Reasons for Listing
An important component of the engineering works of the Holyhead Breakwater, and a very good example of an harbour light retaining its original character.
britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300005744-lighthouse-on-holy...