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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Purbeck
The Isle of Purbeck, not a true island but a peninsula, is in the county of Dorset, England. It is bordered by the English Channel to the south and east, where steep cliffs fall to the sea; and by the marshy lands of the River Frome and Poole Harbour to the north. Its western boundary is less well defined, with some medieval sources placing it at Flower's Barrow above Worbarrow Bay.[1] The most southerly point is St Alban's Head (archaically St. Aldhelm's Head). It is suffering erosion problems along the coast.
The whole of the Isle of Purbeck lies within the local government district of Purbeck, which is named after it. However the district extends significantly further north and west than the traditional boundary of the Isle of Purbeck along the River Frome.
In terms of natural landscape areas, the southern part of the Isle of Purbeck and the coastal strip as far as Ringstead Bay in the west, have been designated as National Character Area 136 - South Purbeck by Natural England. To the north are the Dorset Heaths and to the west, the Weymouth Lowlands.[
Geology
The geology of the Isle is complex. It has a discordant coastline along the east and concordant coastline along the south. The northern part is Eocene clay (Barton Beds), including significant deposits of Purbeck Ball Clay. Where the land rises to the sea there are several parallel strata of Jurassic rocks, including Portland limestone and the Purbeck beds. The latter include Purbeck Marble, a particularly hard limestone that can be polished (though mineralogically, it is not marble). A ridge of Cretaceous chalk runs along the peninsula creating the Purbeck Hills, part of the Southern England Chalk Formation that includes Salisbury Plain, the Dorset Downs and the Isle of Wight. The cliffs here are some of the most spectacular in England, and of great geological interest, both for the rock types and variety of landforms, notably Lulworth Cove and Durdle Door, and the coast is part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site because of the unique geology.
In the past quarrying of limestone was particularly concentrated around the western side of Swanage, the villages of Worth Matravers and Langton Matravers, and the cliffs along the coast between Swanage and St. Aldhelm's Head. The "caves" at Tilly Whim are former quarries, and Dancing Ledge, Seacombe and Winspit are other cliff-edge quarries. Stone was removed from the cliff quarries either by sea, or using horse carts to transport large blocks to Swanage. Many of England's most famous cathedrals are adorned with Purbeck marble, and much of London was rebuilt in Portland and Purbeck stone after the Great Fire of London.
By contrast, the principal ball clay workings were in the area between Corfe Castle and Wareham. Originally the clay was taken by pack horse to wharves on the River Frome and the south side of Poole Harbour. However in the first half of the 19th century the pack horses were replaced by horse-drawn tramways. With the coming of the railway from Wareham to Swanage, most ball clay was dispatched by rail, often to the Potteries district of Staffordshire.
Quarrying still takes place in Purbeck, with both Purbeck Ball Clay and limestones being transported from the area by road. There are now no functioning quarries of Purbeck Marble.
Wild flowers
The isle has the highest number of species of native and anciently introduced wild flowers of any area of comparable size in Britain.[3] This is largely due to the varied geology. The species most frequently sought is Early Spider Orchid (Ophrys sphegodes), which in Britain, is most common in Purbeck. Nearly 50,000 flowering spikes were counted in 2009. Late April is the best time, and the largest population is usually in the field to the west of Dancing Ledge. Smaller numbers can be seen on a shorter walk in Durlston Country Park. This orchid is the logo of the Dorset Wildlife Trust. Cowslip meadows (Primula veris and Primula deorum) are at their best shortly afterwards and Durlston Country Park has several large ones.
In early May several woods have carpets of Wild Garlic (Allium ursinum). King's Wood and Studland Wood, both owned by the National Trust, are good examples. At around the same time and later some Downs have carpets of yellow Horseshoe Vetch (Hippocrepis comosa) and blue Chalk Milkwort (Polygala calcarea). In late May the field near Old Harry Rocks has a carpet of yellow Kidney Vetch (Anthyllis vulneraria).
Blue and white flowers of Sheep's bit (Jasione montana) and pink and flowers of Sea Bindweed (Calystegia soldanella) lend colour to Studland dunes in June. Both Heath Spotted Orchid (Dactylorhiza maculata) and Southern Marsh Orchid (Dactylorhiza praetermissa) are frequent on Corfe Common that month, and Harebells (Campanula rotundifolia) and Purple Betony (Stachys officinalis) flowers add colour to the Common in July.
Dorset Heath (Erica ciliaris), the county flower, can be found in July and August in large numbers, especially on and around Hartland Moor, in damper parts of the heathland. Bog Asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum) gives displays of yellow flowers there in early July. Marsh Gentian (Gentiana pneumonanthe) is found less frequently in similar areas from mid August to mid September.[3]
Roman, Saxon and Norman
A number of Romano-British sites have been discovered and studied on the Isle of Purbeck, including a villa at Bucknowle Farm near Corfe Castle, excavated between 1976 and 1991.[4] The Kimmeridge shale of the isle was worked extensively during the Roman period, into jewellery, decorative panels and furniture.[5]
At the extreme southern tip of Purbeck is St Aldhelm's Chapel which is Norman work but built on a Pre-Conquest Christian site marked with a circular earthwork and some graves. In 1957 the body of a 13th century woman was found buried NNE of the chapel which suggests there may have been a hermitage in the area. In 2000 the whole chapel site was declared a Scheduled Ancient Monument. The precise function of the chapel building is disputed with suggestions that it may have been a religious retreat, a chantry for the souls of sailors who had drowned off St Aldhelm's Head or even a lighthouse or warning bell to warn sailors. Victorian restoration work of the chapel found signs that a beacon may have adorned the roof. The present cross on the roof is Victorian.
The town of Wareham retains its Saxon earth embankment wall and it churches have Saxon origins. One of these, St Martins-on-the-Walls was built in 1030 and today contains traces of medieval and later wall paintings.
At Corfe Castle village is the great castle which gives the village its modern name. The castle commands the strategic gap in the Purbeck Ridge. The present castle dates from after the Conquest of 1066 but this may replace Saxon work as the village was the place where Saxon King Edward the Martyr had been murdered in 978. The supposed place of his murder is traditionally on, or near, the castle mound. Corfe was one of the first English castles to be built in stone - at a time when earth and timber were the norm. This may have been due to the plentiful supply of good building stone in Purbeck.
Sir John Bankes bought the castle in 1635, and was the owner during the English Civil War. His wife, Lady Mary Bankes, led the defence of the castle when it was twice besieged by Parliamentarian forces. The first siege, in 1643, was unsuccessful, but by 1645 Corfe was one of the last remaining royalist strongholds in Southern England and fell to a siege ending in an assault. In March that year Corfe Castle was demolished ('slighted') on Parliament's orders. Owned by the National Trust, the castle is open to the public. It is protected as a Grade I listed building and a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The isle
A large part of the district is now designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), but a portion of the coast around Worbarrow Bay and the ghost village of Tyneham is still, after nearly 60 years, in the possession of the Ministry of Defence who use it as a training area. Lulworth Ranges are part of the Armoured Fighting Vehicles Gunnery School at Lulworth Camp. Tanks and other armoured vehicles are used in this area and shells are fired. Due to safety reasons, right of entry is only given when the army ranges are not in operation. Large red flags are flown and flashing warning lamps on Bindon Hill and St Alban's Head are lit when the ranges are in use.[6] At such times the entrance gates are locked and wardens patrol the area.
Other places of note are:
Swanage, at the eastern end of the peninsula, is a seaside resort. At one time it was linked by a branch railway line from Wareham; this was closed in 1972, but has now reopened as the Swanage Railway, a heritage railway.
Studland: This is a seaside village in its own sandy bay. Nearby, lying off-shore from The Foreland (also Handfast Point), are the chalk stacks named Old Harry Rocks: Old Harry and his Wife.
Poole Harbour is popular with yachtsmen; it contains Brownsea Island, the site of the first-ever Scout camp.
Corfe Castle is in the centre of the isle, with its picturesque village named after it.
Langton Matravers, which was once the home of several boys preparatory schools until 2007 when the Old Malthouse closed.
Kimmeridge Bay, with its fossil-rich Jurassic shale cliffs, and site of the oldest continually working oil well in the world.
A Shrimp Boat along the dock in Fernandina, Florida is getting ready to sail
Prompt: Create an ultra-realistic digital fine art painting of a classic shrimp boat docked at a rustic wooden pier in Fernandina, Florida. The shrimp boat, named “Pride,” is depicted with precise accuracy: a sturdy white hull with black and gold accents, bold black lettering on the bow, and tall, twin vertical outriggers reaching into the sky. The outriggers are weathered and rigged with cables, nets, and pulleys, clearly detailed with rust stains and working equipment.
The boat is moored alongside an aged pier made of rough, sea-worn wooden pilings, some tilting slightly, with green algae stains and barnacle growth. To the right of the boat is a weathered shack with pale yellow siding and a green metal roof, adding a touch of coastal character to the scene. A rusty metal gangway connects the boat to the dock.
In the background, calm coastal waters stretch toward a low, forested horizon. Replace the overcast sky with a bright blue sky filled with soft, wispy cirrus clouds, casting gentle daylight and soft reflections on the water’s surface.
This digital fine art was created using chatgpt Sora AI and Photoshop
Nautical Digital Art by Bouley on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61577319814351
Nautical Fine Art by Bouley on Pinterest: pin.it/7FfgkgmkK
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I’ve returned from Hertfordshire, Royston to be precise. We said our goodbye’s just before 8am and made it back home by 11:45. The keynote there is I didn’t have to stop for a pee, credit for that has to be down to the medication I’m on for my prostate, although as usual the cramp in my legs was giving me gyp. I filled the tank in Royston’s Tesco’s, it was 199.9p a litre, last time I filled up here in mid May it was 174p, but the kicker was that petrol was 186p, why the 13p differential. Jesse put on a brave face but was a little twisty, he doesn’t like to say goodbye to has Nonna and Nonno, but he had a treat lined up for this morning, a visit to the cinema (for the first time) to see Lightyear. We’ve been watching the trailers all week, I wish I could have been with him to see his little face. My visit was just timed right to catch the field next to my daughters full of Poppies and other meadow flora. This was the same field that was covered in Phacelia on our last visit. Although I took many a photo of this field of blooms this photo I’m posting is probably my favourite (so far) of the week, which includes my summer solstice jaunt up in Northumberland. I took this photo with a long lens on Saturday morning on the dog walk, it had the minimal feel I was looking for. I have a crazy lot of photo’s to sift through at the moment so I won’t be hard pushed to post a few this week. I hope you all have had a good weekend.
It's summer solstice night in Aix en Provence. A night for music coming from the town below, a night to watch the sky just above the head. Looking up at the Eagle nebula, M16, you could see creation at work. Creation with the sound of music and the music of creation.
61 shots of 20s through an Halpha filter superimposed after precise registration. 8" telescope
How often have we, as photographers, viewed a scene and attempted to duplicate it in our camera? More times than I care to remember. This scene of Larch Fir in bright sunlight surrounded by deep shadows is one of those scenes. In my minds-eye I see this scene as nature intended me to see it with all the degrees of light and shadows intertwining to form a beautiful image at that precise moment in time.
As an artist, who uses paint as their medium, they can mix their paints until they have just the right colors to express the feeling they saw in their minds eye. But, as photographers we must rely on our ability to use the correct exposures and then with our post processing software attempt too duplicate what we viewed in our minds eye. Post processing software has come a long ways since I first began my journey in digital photography and post processing and my knowledge continues to grow, but I often become discouraged when an image does not match what I feel I saw when I took the image.
So very often I feel I failed to convey that same feeling to the viewer and all my efforts are in vain.
Please take the time to view this image and try to see it as I saw it....
Ahi weaves precise slashes and pyroclastic strikes to form his unique eruptive fighting style, leaving only ash and obsidian in his wake.
Made some changes to Ahi. The shins have been replaced to be more sleek, and some of the torso colors have been changed to be less messy. Also, the sword blade is the correct color. The leg articulation is a lot better in this version, so he can actually pull off some neat poses.
There is no test drive in life. No trial and error. Every decision about family, work, relationship, and even hobby has to be precise and no turning back. Yes life is tough.
The following is just fictitious example for photography hobbyist but it could be any other serious hobby.
You spent thousands of dollars in the photo gear. You put a lot of time in learning the technicalities of the craft such as Photoshop and Lightroom. You shoot in all the weekends, holidays and even weekdays. This got to be serious and no fun shot or snapshots. After 10, 15 and 20 years, you still cannot get even one single shot close to Ansel Adams while your photo club friends and hundreds of thousands of photographers you met on Internet have surpassed the Ansel standard. You have to admit you have no talent on this but what would you do?
May be move on to next hobby like photo equipment collecting?
I saw the empty and ghostly roller-coaster in PNE. I think it may be a test drive. Does life have test drive?
Happy Wednesday!
While photographing Trinity something caught her eye, I took the photo at the precise moment she looked away. The "look" on her face is priceless !
Photo taken by Robert Samweber, slide kindly provided for scanning by Florian Weiß.
München-Riem
April 1982
G-BKAG
Boeing 727-217/Adv
21055/1117
Dan-Air London
G-BKAG was noted at Riem in this hybrid CP Air/Dan-Air colour scheme on 11 April 1982, probably the precise date for this shot. It was later reported here in full Dan-Air London colours on 11 September 1985, 30 June 1988 and July 1990 (probably visited more often than that).
Information from airhistory.net - thanks to Paul Seymour and Michael Röser:
Recently acquired from CP Air. Only the tail has been repainted into Dan-Air colours. New to CP Air as C-GCPA in 1975. To Dan-Air as G-BKAG in 1982 (frequently leased to Sun Country for winter season) then to Royale Airlines as C-GRYC in 1992. To Finova Capital and converted to a freighter then to All Canada Express as C-FACR in 1998. To Allied Air Cargo as 5N-RKY in 2005. Withdrawn from use at Lagos in 2013.
Registration details for this airframe:
rzjets.net/aircraft/?reg=108992
This airframe as C-GCPA at YYZ ca. late 1970s:
www.flickr.com/photos/100672308@N07/30032806283
G-BKAG with Sun County at LGW in 1985 (Dan-Air colours, Sun County titles):
www.flickr.com/photos/193816646@N08/53806349559
G-BKAG with Sun County at Henry E. Rohlsen Airport, St. Croix, in January 1987 (Dan-Air colours without logo, Sun County titles):
www.flickr.com/photos/baettig/50188261597
G-BKAG with Sun County at Saint Thomas, US Virgin Airlines, in April 1989 (Dan-Air colours, Sun County titles):
www.flickr.com/photos/keith_burton/41271466822
G-BKAG with Dan-Air ca. 1992 (final shortened titles):
www.flickr.com/photos/theoriginalzippy/50313279271
This airframe as C-GRYC at YVR ca. early 1990s:
www.flickr.com/photos/154191970@N03/46081122361
This airframe as C-FACR with All Canada Express at YVR in March 1999:
www.flickr.com/photos/20522601@N00/15488663211
This airframe as 5N-RKY with Allied Air Cargo at YHM in January 2007 (on delivery, All Canada Express colours and still wearing the Canadian flag):
www.flickr.com/photos/steelhead2010/6474160491
5N-RKY with Allied Air Cargo at LOS in February 2012:
www.flickr.com/photos/superspotter/6805814371
5N-RKY derelict at LOS in September 2013:
www.flickr.com/photos/superspotter/10594076844
Scan from Kodachrome slide.
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 Jurgaičiai or Domantai hill fort after the 1831 Uprising. 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 Catholic pilgrims. The exact number of crosses is unknown, but estimates put it at about 55,000 in 1990 and 100,000 in 2006.
It had been quite a while since I had a clear sky (since 06.11.2015, to be precise), so the Moon is again a great thing to shoot, just to be sure that the equipment is still in working conditions :)
Three datasets of 2000 frames taken with TIS DMK23 via 2x Barlow on Meade series 6000 80 mm f/6 triplet refractor were stacked in AS!2 (20% of rames were used), resulting images were stitched in MS ICE, deconvolved (AstraImage PRO 3.0, Richardson-Lucy algorythm, Cauchy-type PSF, 0,3 pixels, 9 iterations) and CLAHEd in ImageJ (127-255-2).
Upd @19.12.2015: this image is totally for full size viewing.
Convolutions by EZ3kiel (FR)
Convolutions is an action to wrap itself within itself or around another body.
The project molds the architectural facade of the National Museum of Singapore. It choreographs every part of the museum in a poetic ballet borrowed from technology where ancient and modern co-exist in great harmony. It proposes a new and contemporary look on the art of mapping by relying on a very precise use of the art of light and laser. The music composed by the French group EZ3kiel comes to illustrate, in a most precise way, the work of the images.
This installation contains strobe and flashing lights. Please exercise caution.
About the artist
Yann Nguema moved into artistic work in 1998 when he obtained a higher national diploma in visual arts with honors. The musician founded the EZ3kiel group in 1992 for which he developed an entire burgeoning visual production, which is now a reference in the industry.
He first gained recognition for his graphic work which has a very personal and poetic feel. He was tasked with the visual direction of the festival Transmusicales of Rennes from 2007 to 2011. His work focuses primarily around the performing arts, with constant research around the music and imagery.
He also introduced an interactive dimension into his creative process and productions by developing his own software. In 2009, he designed an exhibition The Poetic Mechanicals composing of 10 interactive machines combining technology and patrimony. It was displayed at the Palace of Discovery (in Paris, and at the Universal Exhibition in Shanghai. Yann designs many unique interactive installations which uses technology, research and poetry.
He is currently an ambassador artist for the Festival of Lights in Lyon.
Image courtesy of EZ3KIEL.
Or to be precise Nigella damascena, I saw this one in a garden and thought at first it may be an aquilegia but the leaves were wrong, Mr Google helped me out and now the big test is to see if the garden centre has any and if so, will it grow in my chalky soil in Ramsgate? The garden it was in looked like the topsoil had been replaced.
MY THANKS TO ALL WHO VISIT AND COMMENT IT IS APPRECIATED
Whenever I can, love to take a walk in this part of oporto city. This breakwater, especially, is in really beautiful place, where the river meets the sea. So sometimes the sea here is a bit dangerous and creates some waves that pass over the breakwater.
This was the precise moment that a big wave was hitting the breakwater, flooding it. After this shot had to run for cover :P but didn't run fast enough so came home all wet.. well, at least the picture was worth it and both me and the camera safely returned home. (this wasn't during a sea storm or something like that, it was just one especially big wave)
¿Cuántas ventanas hay en Manhattan?
First of all, there can be no precise figure for the number of windows in Manhattan, simply because there are no uniform buildings in Manhattan. But according to the New York Times, one can estimate that there are approximately 47,000 buildings of all kinds in Manhattan, depending on the source. However, even knowing this fact may not help, since the rest would be pure guesswork.
Another boss-impressing approach might be to estimate the rough number of square blocks in Manhattan — roughly 200 by 10. Next, subtract 150 square blocks for Central Park, which leaves 1,850. Then estimate the average number of windows on one floor per street block and the average windows per floor per avenue block – the Times suggest about 25 (times 2), and 75 (times 2), respectively. This rounds off to about 200 windows per block floor.
However, the next problem is coming up with an average building height – something that the City Planning Department doesn’t track. Again, the Times guesses an average of 10 stories, making 2,000 windows per square block. Add another 500 hundred or so for small inward facing windows, and multiply those 2,500 windows by 1,850 blocks: 4.6 million windows total.
And unfortunately that guess may be as close as any obsessive urbanite can get. [NYT]
En primer lugar, no puede haber una cifra precisa del número de ventanas en Manhattan, simplemente porque no hay edificios uniformes en Manhattan. Pero según el New York Times, se puede estimar que hay aproximadamente 47.000 edificios de todo tipo en Manhattan, según la fuente. Sin embargo, incluso conocer este hecho puede no ayudar, ya que el resto serían puras conjeturas.
Otro enfoque que impresionaría al jefe podría ser estimar el número aproximado de bloques cuadrados en Manhattan: aproximadamente 200 por 10. A continuación, reste 150 bloques cuadrados para Central Park, lo que deja 1850. Luego calcule el número promedio de ventanas en un piso por bloque de calle y el promedio de ventanas por piso por bloque de avenida: el Times sugiere alrededor de 25 (por 2) y 75 (por 2), respectivamente. Esto redondea a unas 200 ventanas por piso de bloque.
Sin embargo, el siguiente problema es encontrar una altura de construcción promedio, algo que el Departamento de Planificación de la Ciudad no rastrea. Nuevamente, el Times adivina un promedio de 10 pisos, haciendo 2,000 ventanas por bloque cuadrado. Agregue otras 500 o más para las ventanas pequeñas que miran hacia adentro y multiplique esas 2500 ventanas por 1850 bloques: 4,6 millones de ventanas en total.
Y, desafortunadamente, esa conjetura puede ser lo más cercano que cualquier urbanita obsesivo puede estar. [Nueva York]
Alicja Kwade a créé un cadre spatial composé de murs de béton, de miroirs doubles, de cadres métalliques vides qui convoque le motif du labyrinthe, et plus précisément du dédale. À l'échelle de l'architecture de la nef, cette construction génère un rapport à l'espace, au temps et à la destinée. L’artiste entend décupler notre attention, nous désorienter et mettre nos sens en éveil en perturbant nos repères. Un jeu de réflexions grandeur nature qui lui permet de matérialiser les concepts abstraits de temps et d'espace.Au sol, est disposé un ensemble de 16 sculptures que l'artiste a modélisé en s'inspirant du concept de la suite de « Suite de Fibonacci » : selon ce principe, chaque sculpture constitue la somme des deux précédentes.
Pour Alicja Kwade, cette oeuvre fonctionne telle une image qui serait en constante évolution, au gré des déplacements du visiteur. En choisissant de faire se refléter ou non les objets à l'intérieur du dédale, l’artiste pousse les images à se mouvoir, les formes à se transformer selon une logique de séquençage. Au-dessus de nos têtes plane la menace d’un inquiétant pendule en action, composé d’une horloge et d’une pierre, qui tournent dangereusement à quelques mètres au-dessus de nos têtes au bout de chaines. L’espace est envahi du son amplifié du « tic-tac » généré par l’horloge. Cette vibration sonore dans l’espace matérialise le temps qui passe. Il illustre le souhait de l’artiste de rendre palpable, visible, concrète, une notion aussi abstraite que le temps qui s’écoule inéluctablement. Il souligne également une idée d’infini et nous pose la question de l’instant présent. Où sommes nous ? Est-ce le pendule qui tourne ou est-ce la Terre sur laquelle nous évoluons sans nous en rendre compte ?
Alicja Kwade has created a space frame consisting of concrete walls, double mirrors, empty metal frames that conjure the labyrinth pattern, and more precisely the maze. On the scale of the architecture of the nave, this construction generates a relationship with space, time and destiny. The artist intends to multiply our attention, to disorient us and to awaken our senses by disturbing our bearings. A game of life-size reflections that allows him to materialize the abstract concepts of time and space.At the ground, is arranged a set of 16 sculptures that the artist has modeled, inspired by the concept of the suite of "Suite de Fibonacci ": according to this principle, each sculpture constitutes the sum of the two preceding ones.
For Alicja Kwade, this work works like an image that would be constantly evolving, as the visitor moves. By choosing to reflect or not the objects inside the maze, the artist pushes the images to move, shapes to be transformed according to a logic of sequencing. Above our heads hangs the menace of a disturbing pendulum in action, composed of a clock and a stone, which turn dangerously a few meters above our heads at the end of chains. The space is invaded by the amplified sound of the "ticking" generated by the clock. This sound vibration in space materializes the passing time. It illustrates the desire of the artist to make palpable, visible, concrete, a notion as abstract as the time that elapses inevitably. He also emphasizes an idea of infinity and asks us the question of the present moment. Where are we ? Is the pendulum spinning or is it the Earth on which we move without realizing it?
found this in my lab a few years ago ... fell in love with the shape and brought it home .. never thought I'd actually use it one day ;)
We're here : strange objects in your house
"Hummingbird - Painterly Portrait" by Patti Deters.
This is a close-up portrait of a female ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) perched at the end of a small branch. It is the males that have the red throat - females have white throat feathers, although they may occasionally sport a single red feather. Females have rounded tail feathers with white tips. This tiny little hummer can beat her wings about 53 times a second. She has very short legs that prevent her from walking or hopping - the best she can do is shuffle along a perch. But she is an exceptionally quick precise flyer and you can even hear the beat of the wings if you ever get close enough. If you like this wildlife nature artwork, please see more birds, animals, painterly and more at patti-deters.pixels.com/featured/hummingbird-painterly-po....
These guys are so precise!!! They do things in a formation that most pilots wouldn't even attempt on their own.
EXPLORE WITH A RANK OF 489 ON FEB 27, 2010.
THANKS EVERYONE!!!!!!
Blue Angels in the Diamond Formation doing a roll in the dirty configuration. So tight, so precise, beauty to watch.
That is certainly an apt description for these incredibly talented pilots. Watching the Blue Angels do their amazingly precise maneuvers in San Francisco is beyond Awesome! Let that be an inspiration for fulfilling any task you put your mind to: Be precise.
Have a fabulous weekend everyone!
— in San Francisco, California.
{Explore} Highest Position: 452 on Thursday, May 7, 2009
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
~ James Boswell
This is so true and it is what essentially builds a genuine friendship. A friend who isn't just there because it's convenient but especially when it's not. I have had friends like these before and I wish I still have them around.
Then again, we meet new people as we journey down the path we have chosen. We choose then again to dispense a drop of kindness... and another... and yet another... until we've once more found ourselves to that last drop that "which makes our heart run over."
Photo taken at the Chicago Botanical Garden with our Chicagoland Digital Photography Meetup Group on May 3rd.
And as I previously stated, I'm working my way up all your streams... I will get to yours eventually. It's just taking a good deal of time not because I feel like I'm dragging my feet but because I'm having a lot of fun browsing through all your amazing imagery (and most of the times, that includes reading the comments in your photos too... you'd be surprise how delightful that can get). As such, I can't go on to the next one without ever leaving a note of praise or approval (or a very light constructive critique if it's going to be helpful). A little more patience please and I do hope you don't tire of my unintelligible rantings!
HBW my Flickr Friends!
Precise, lightweight, and powerful; the BR-81 is an excellent rifle for any scenario. While lacking the capability of full-auto fire, the easily controlled tri-burst more than makes up for it.
Base models come equipped with an integral flashlight, however it can be replaced with a rail system if desired.
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Credit to Shockwave for the charging handle.
And to CN for the 203 inspiration.
I lost count of how many attempts I made before I finally had the courage to post this image. If I were to describe the workflow in one word, it would be “challenging”. The results were not what I had in my mind's eye, and that meant starting over. I had several features that I wanted to reveal in my final rendition. The most interesting are the subtle multiple halos of the galaxy, plus its bright extended halo, combined with the intricate darker structures throughout the galaxy.
NGC 5084 is a massive lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Virgo, approximately 80 million light-years away from Earth. It was discovered by the astronomer William Herschel in 1787 and lies in the Virgo II Cloud, a substructure of the Virgo Supercluster.
It is one of the most massive lenticular galaxies known and is believed to have an extensive dark matter halo, making it one of the most massive galaxies in the local universe. Its high mass-to-light ratio suggests that a significant portion of its total mass is not visible as normal, luminous matter (such as stars, gas, or dust). Instead, this indicates the presence of a large amount of dark matter or other unseen mass components.
Another striking feature is its extended halo and warped disk. These features suggest numerous accumulated mergers over time. Although there is no precise count of its past mergers, it is highly likely that NGC 5084 has absorbed multiple smaller galaxies throughout its history
Instruments:
Telescope: 10" Ritchey-Chrétien RCOS
Camera: SBIG STXL-11000 Mono
Mount: Astro-Physics AP-900
Focal Length: 2310.00 mm
Pixel size: 9.00 um
Resolution: 0.82 arcsec/pix
Exposures:
Lum 106 X 600
Red 24 X 380
Green 24 X 380
Blue 24 X 380
Total exposure: 25.25 Hours
Thanks for looking
This one is from a couple grids ago, February's to be precise. This grid, H5, straddled Hwy 30 just east of the St. Johns Bridge. It was an odd grid, with off-limits natural gas plants in one part, Forest Park in another, and a small patch of residential neighborhood tucked away like an afterthought. I am not sure what it must be like to live on Hwy 30. It seems like it would be noisy and dirty and backing out of your driveway must require a specific sort of nerve, but there are a few dozen homes found along this stretch. Many of them are a block or so off of the highway itself, but several are right up on it, like this one. I am not sure what story of action and violence this splattered mud is a remainder of, but it caught my eye as I walked along the short stretch of highway that enjoys a sidewalk. I was testing out a Canon AF35M from the shop that day and had loaded it with some Lomochrome Metropolis film. The camera was potentially faulty and the film has not proven a favorite of mine, so I was allowing myself plenty of liberty in snapping off shots and not taking my usual slow, methodical, careful approach. It is nice to change it up now and then, just as the Grid Project has been nice in getting me off my beaten paths and into some other areas of Portland I do not explore much.
Canon AF35M
Lomochrome Metropolis
Grid H5 - Portland Grid Project
Ektar ist a film that requires precise metering. Apparently, the old selenium meter on the Agfa Reflex is off by at least one stop.
Because of the resulting underexposure there is a colour shift and some loss of definition, which comes on top of the somewhat reduced sharpness of the triplet lens (the lens can do better than this). I'll have to keep that in mind for the next roll.
I didn't notice that on the previous roll because that was B&W and the film latitude absorbed the underexposure.
Agfa Optima Reflex 35mm TLR
Kodak Ektar 100 professional grade color negative film
Developed and scanned by www.meinfilmlab.de
Pallas's squirrel is a medium-sized tree squirrel, with a head-body length of 16 to 28 cm, and a tail 11 to 26 cm in length. Both sexes are of similar size and appearance, and weigh between 310 and 460 g sigfig=2. The colour of the pelt varies considerably between the many different subspecies, but is generally brownish on the upper body with a more reddish tint on the belly, and often with some black on the tail. The precise pattern and shades of the fur are often used to distinguish subspecies from one another, but make it difficult to distinguish the species as a whole from other, similarly variable, tree squirrel species. They are found throughout Greater China, India and South East Asia.
We saw lots of them in this park in Taipei on our first shore day in Taiwan. Interestingly they are an invasive species in the UK and they need to be reported if seen.
Radiant by artist Nicky Assmann (1980, lives and works in Rotterdam), in TENT. Radiant is a dynamic ‘mobile’ sculpture in which optical patterns and colour effects appear, due to a precise balance between space, form, movement and light.
Sian Pearl: You strike me as someone who could riff off of Virginia Woolf or F Scott Fitzgerald, or Alice Walker. You have a turn of phrase that is very precise.
Sian flatters me, of course.
What looks like an abstract sculpture is actually the laser equivalent of a tuning fork – to serve a new generation of space instruments.
“This is an ‘optical stabilising reference cavity’, through which laser light is contained between a pair of super-polished mirrors kept a precise distance apart,” explains ESA physicist Eamonn Murphy.
”This laser light is then used to lock the frequency of the laser – and prevent it drifting – in a similar principle to a tuning fork, as applied to musical instruments.”
Such lasers will serve at the heart of next-generation ‘optical atomic clocks’, improving on current microwave atomic clocks used for timing and navigation, as well as enabling ultrasensitive gravity detectors.
This 5 cm cube cavity was developed for ESA by the National Physical Laboratory, NPL, which is the national measurement institute of the UK, specialised in extremely precise measuring techniques.
NPL used ultra-low expansion glass, resistant to changing size with temperature. A pathway was then drilled through the middle, with mirrors placed at either end.
The working version of the cavity is enclosed in a vacuum chamber to prevent any disturbance by air molecules, followed by a thermal shroud to maintain its temperature to within a tiny fraction of a degree. It can then be placed on an acoustic damping baseplate to further isolate it from any microvibrations.
This effort began back in 2009 with three parallel projects within ESA’s Basic Technology Research Programme, working with the national measuring institutes France and Germany as well as the UK.
Expertise and elements from all the resulting designs will soon be incorporated into a new working prototype, supported through ESA’s General Support Technology Programme, which finalises hardware for space.
“Our aim is to deliver a six order-of-magnitude improvement in laser linewidth from initial laser performance,” adds Eamonn, “to maintain a stable drift-free frequency, insensitive to even minute accelerations.”
Credit: NPL
past studios, 2007 to be precise. Now the studio is more a desktop and a headspace. I see no difference. I still make large.
This was on the old Island 2000 Trust garage up along the Forest Road, sadly now demolished and gone forever.
There are, or to be more precise, there were, three castles on different islands within Loch Awe. The castles, although now ruined, are all still there, but only two of them now stand on islands. The Campbell castle of Kilchurn (visible in the distance on the right side of the far end of the loch, above the left end of the left island), is now on a headland, due to people fiddling around with the loch's outlet, which resulted in a lowering of the loch's water level. Innis Chonnell, also a Campbell castle, stands towards the southern end of the loch and the third stands among the trees of the right-hand of these two islands - Fraoch Eilean, sometimes abbreviated to Frechelan. Given the success I had yesterday flying out over Loch Ard, this was the first of four 'over water' excursions I made today!
There are two explanations for the island's name:
The first is that it is Gaelic for Heather Island.
The second is that the name relates back to the name of a hero from Celtic mythology. A young man named Fraoch heard that fruit, capable of restoring youth and curing hunger, grew on a Rowan tree on the island, so he went out to the island to get some for Mengo, the love of his life. He found the tree guarded by a serpant or dragon which was wrapped around its trunk, but succeeded in stealing some and returning to Mengo. He was then sent back to get the tree itself (which goes to show that 'enough was never enough' for women even back in those far-off days), but this time the dragon pursued him and in the ensuing battle, both Fraoch and the dragon were killed. (And presumably, and more importantly, the tree!) A cairn was raised on the spot where Fraoch fell and the island named in his honour.
Personally, I lean towards the second explanation!
I am regularly amazed at the precise focus of my Tamron 35 1.8 vc. So much fun to shoot shallow dof shots with this lens. Nice and versatile, too, as I spent this afternoon shooting wide dof street shots with it as well. I saw the potential of this crop at the time viewing the D610's lcd.
The one issue with this lens is the ca distortion. It took some work to reduce the bokeh fringing in this shot.
Pu'er, Yunnan, China
The precise silken pattern prelaid by the prepupal caterpillar on the exposed leaf is reminiscent of an orb-weaver spider's visibility enhancing stabilimentum. Perhaps it plays a similar role by making the pupa look larger than it is, breaking up its outline or, is indeed outright orb-weaver mimicry.
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C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) on October 13, 2024 17:20 UTC
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
Stack of shots on the comet's head. Three structures are recognizable in the coma and the shadow of the false nucleus in the antisolar direction.
Even a simple RGB decomposition can give us important information, such as the proportion of ions and dust. In the coma of C/2023 A3, for example, dust prevails but the ionized gases in the tail seem to be predominant.
The information and annotations in the image are of scientific utility because they identify the subject and place it in a precise moment. The absence of such information makes the images useless.
Convolutions by EZ3kiel (FR)
Convolutions is an action to wrap itself within itself or around another body.
The project molds the architectural facade of the National Museum of Singapore. It choreographs every part of the museum in a poetic ballet borrowed from technology where ancient and modern co-exist in great harmony. It proposes a new and contemporary look on the art of mapping by relying on a very precise use of the art of light and laser. The music composed by the French group EZ3kiel comes to illustrate, in a most precise way, the work of the images.
This installation contains strobe and flashing lights. Please exercise caution.
About the artist
Yann Nguema moved into artistic work in 1998 when he obtained a higher national diploma in visual arts with honors. The musician founded the EZ3kiel group in 1992 for which he developed an entire burgeoning visual production, which is now a reference in the industry.
He first gained recognition for his graphic work which has a very personal and poetic feel. He was tasked with the visual direction of the festival Transmusicales of Rennes from 2007 to 2011. His work focuses primarily around the performing arts, with constant research around the music and imagery.
He also introduced an interactive dimension into his creative process and productions by developing his own software. In 2009, he designed an exhibition The Poetic Mechanicals composing of 10 interactive machines combining technology and patrimony. It was displayed at the Palace of Discovery (in Paris, and at the Universal Exhibition in Shanghai. Yann designs many unique interactive installations which uses technology, research and poetry.
He is currently an ambassador artist for the Festival of Lights in Lyon.
Image courtesy of EZ3KIEL.
Brooks Saddles to be precise.
Protecting peoples derrière since 1866 ;)
Beautifully Comfortable and Long Lasting Bicycle Saddles.
The renowned quality of the saddles has made Brooks England a household name in the world of cycling. The slogan 'The Best For Riding’ describes exactly why their popularity has endured. The're committed to providing the very best in design and comfort by way of proven designs and contemporary technologies.
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Seen at The Vintage Retreat, Northampton.
Scan from an old print. In the photographer's experience in the 1960s up to 1968 Clayton Type 1 were never common in Cupar; here a pair of light engines with D8615 leading running north through Cupar station. No precise date is available but this would have been taken in 1966 not long after the locomotive was transferred from (Staveley) Barrow Hill to Haymarket.