View allAll Photos Tagged precisely
This started as a bit of playtime using Affinity on the iPaddle when on holiday, then morphed into a Sunday Sliders mangle.
The source image was a three-icm multiple exposure in-camera using the camera’s Lighten blend option. It’s of a rusty corrugated tin fence with a slight jiggle and two bigger horizontal ICM movements. The Lighten blend gave a curious mix of blurred horizontal and textured still lines which persist to the final version. The symmetry was corrected using a Perspective filter.
The result was processed twice, once in colour and once in high-contrast black and white. This latter monochrome layer was then blended back over the colour layer using Luminosity blend mode. All the colour came through but used the high contrast tonality of the B&W layer.
It’s not enough, I cried. (Or, more precisely, an ‘ I wonder what happens if…’ moment occurred.)
The crisscross was made by duplicating the resulting look and then rotating it (and resizing it to fit over the original). The rotated layer was blended over the original using Multiply which increased the contrast. The rest was just balancing the tones and colours and adding a slight light vignette.
Thanks for looking. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Sliders Sunday and 100x :)
This scene is precisely what I seek in a good summer holiday - to find myself in the middle of nowhere with an open road and blue skies.
Middle of Nowhere, Nevada USA
(July 24, 2012)
Most citizens of Eisenach, a former communist town in central Germany, know precisely how their long-running Bach legacy began. They tell the tale of the Hungarian miller Vitus Bach who, fleeing persecution for his Lutheran beliefs in the 16th century, ended up in Eisenach, where his religion's founder, Martin Luther had spent his childhood and translated the New Testament.
Around a century later, in 1685, Johann Sebastian Bach was born. His father, Ambrosius Bach, was the town musician and Bach junior often accompanied him to the town hall tower where twice a day he played sonatas, dances and chorales on his trumpet.
Eisenach is now launching a campaign to publicise its association with the most famous of all baroque musicians after decades during which the composer was hijacked by various ideologies, including nazism and communism.
- The Guardian 7/4/07
Nature. The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. Oh, the passion for research and the joy of discovery!
Ad in the Farragut West Metro station for Bally Total Fitness Gyms, using a very modified parody of the Washington Metro map style.
Washington, DC / September 24, 2008
My wife did a remarkable job of staying precisely still for the 13-second exposure that was needed for this shot. The Atlantic Ocean was anything but calm, but such is the beauty of long exposures. The post-rain clouds were deadly, and were balanced against the foreground using two stacked 1-stop GND filters and a 3-stop ND filter.
ISO 100, F11, 13-second exposure, Canon L-Series 17-40MM @25MM. Tripod.
Join me on Facebook: www.facebook.com/davebroshaphotography
Back from a holiday from France and more precisely Brittany and parts of Normandy, the first week a lot of clouds and rain, unfortunately the sun broke through here at this world famous heritage site and then disappeared for the rest of the afternoon....
This 360° panorama was captured from the Atacama Desert in Chile, one of the most suitable places on Earth for astronomical observation, and more precisely from the European Observatory of "La Silla". Note that the dome in the foreground is the home of the TRAPPIST Telescope, which discovered the famous system of 7-earth-size exoplanets around a red-dwarf star called TRAPPIST-1!)
Anyway, this image not only shows the Milky Way spanning over the entire field of view but also an impressive amount of strange colorful wave-like structures in the whole sky!
This orange/red light emitted at 85 km altitude (and higher) does not originate from artificial light pollution or high altitude clouds.
This rare phenomenon called Airglow is entirely natural and originates from an interaction between the Ultra-violet light of our Sun and the particles of the upper layers of the atmosphere.
During the day, the highly energetic UV light of the sun hits the atoms of oxygen, sodium, nitrogen...etc of the Earth's atmosphere. This absorption of energy puts them in an excited state that only waits for an external process to be able to release this excess of energy.
Using Chemiluminescence, the atoms of the atmosphere are slowly releasing this absorbed UV-llight into visible light, before going back to their stable energy state.
The emission of light, whose color depends on the chemical element involved in the reaction (oxygen for red airglow, sodium for green airglow), continues even during night-time when the sun has set for few hours.
As a fluid, Airglow follows the air flow of the atmosphere and the variation of gravity field caused by the topography of the ground, which produces the so-called "gravity waves" (not gravitational waves!).
These gravity waves are what make the main spatial feature of airglow in the sky: wave-like and ripple-like structures, with strong inhomogeneities.
Red and orange airglow (even a little bit of green) were very strong during that night in Chile! Even though this natural phenomenon is very common in this region of the world, it is usually not as intense as it was during that night!
You can also spot the zodiacal light, a tilted cone of blue light starting from the lower horizon and extending to the galactic center.
This leads to a new definition of what a high-quality sky for stargazing really is: not a dark-sky but a sky under which the rarest and the dimmest natural phenomena can be seen, revealing the true colors of the sky!
The two photographers next to the TRAPPIST observatory are Norédine and Olivia, two astronomy social enthusiasts of our group of 8 which was chosen by ESO to participate to its #MeeESO event.
The other observatories visible in this image are (from right to left) : the Danish 0.5-meter telescope, the ESO-0.5-meter telescope, the ESO-1.52-meter telescope and finally the tiny illuminated dome in the top horizon is the huge ESO-3.6-meter telescope.
17 images were captured and stitched together to form this 360° panoramic view. Neither photo blending/digital art nor over-exaggerated colors/contrasts. The success of this panorama holds in the fact that I used an ultra wide angle lens : a Sigma 14 mm F/1.8 which enabled me to capture far less images and to spend far less time than if I had used a standard lens (35 mm focal length).
TECHNICAL DETAILS
📷 Canon 6D + Sigma Art 14 mm + Standard Tripod
→ Single 20 seconds exposure
→ ISO 6400
→ 14 mm
→ f/1.8
→ 17-image stitching to make this 360 panorama
→ No photo blending, each image of this panoram is a "one-shot".
Softwares: Dxo Optics pro 9 for noise reduction / Microsoft ICE for panorama / Photoshop/Lightroom for all the edits.
Learning how to love is like learning how to tie your shoes...and that’s precisely why I wear slippers.
-- Jarod Kintz
Time is never time at all
You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth
And our lives are forever changed
We will never be the same
The more you change the less you feel
Believe, believe in me, believe
That life can change, that you're not stuck in vain
We're not the same, we're different tonight
Tonight, so bright
Tonight
And you know you're never sure
But you're sure you could be right
If you held yourself up to the light
And the embers never fade in your city by the lake
The place where you were born
Believe, believe in me, believe
In the resolute urgency of now
And if you believe there's not a chance tonight
Tonight, so bright tonight
We'll crucify the insincere tonight
We'll make things right, we'll feel it all tonight
We'll find a way to offer up the night tonight
The indescribable moments of your life tonight
The impossible is possible tonight
Believe in me as I believe in you, tonight
This song (or more precisely the video) was always playing every time I turned VH1 on . . . So I let it play thousands of time. And today I ran into it again, and it gave me chills.
What is it that feeling when you reach your mid thirties & you keep waking up with the same feeling every morning as if something in your life is off. You have education, traveled half of the world, mortgage & more education, and yet something is off. Is it too early for mid-life crisis ? I should blame it on Covid & riots, but then again it came before they did. I’m surrounded by so many people, and yet all I want to do is read somewhere by the water & not be disturbed by other sounds.
The current Via dell'Inferno was known in the 15th century as Via di Nostra Signora dell'Avesa, after the church of the same name, which was now number 3 and of which traces of a fresco (seriously degraded and defaced by remarkably stupid vandals) remain under the portico.
Between the 16th and 17th centuries, Inferno was a toponym that referred not only to the current Via dell'Inferno, but also to Via dei Giudei, and the reason for this name was explained precisely by the presence of the Jewish ghetto, which meant that the inhabitants of this area were destined for Hell.
However, the toponym, documented as early as the beginning of the 15th century, is much older than the creation of the ghetto in this area (mid-16th century).
The Inferno, documented at the beginning of the 15th century, is said to be near the butchers' shops of the Mercato di Mezzo, where the pig skinning shop was located, described in the Galleria Giovanni Acquaderni entry, and already operational at the end of the 14th century.
The Napoleonic reform of 1801 attributed the street name Inferno to this street, which was confirmed as Via Inferno with the reform of 1873/78.
From what we've seen, it's clear that Inferno did not originate from the presence of the Jews, given that the name is much older than the creation of the ghetto.
Instead, it seems that the skinning shop (or skinning shop) played an important role in the birth of the name Inferno: the first documents mentioning Inferno, as we've just seen, refer to the existing butchers' shops, or rather, the skinning shop that was already operational in the final years of the 14th century. The skinning mill exploited the waters of the Aposa stream, which were evidently used to eliminate the stinking waste from the slaughterhouse.
It is likely that it was precisely the infernal stench emanating from the waste from the skinning mill and carried by the waters of the Aposa, which ran uncovered alongside Via dell'Inferno until the 19th century, that gave rise to the toponym (place name) Inferno, later becoming an odonym (street name).
---------------------------------------------------------
La actual Via dell'Inferno se conocía en el siglo XV como Via di Nostra Signora dell'Avesa, por la iglesia del mismo nombre, que entonces era el número 3 y de la que aún se conservan restos de un fresco (gravemente deteriorado y desfigurado por vándalos increíblemente ineptos) bajo el pórtico.
Entre los siglos XVI y XVII, Inferno era un topónimo que se refería no solo a la actual Via dell'Inferno, sino también a Via dei Giudei, y el motivo de este nombre se explicaba precisamente por la presencia del gueto judío, lo que significaba que los habitantes de esta zona estaban destinados al infierno.
Sin embargo, el topónimo, documentado ya a principios del siglo XV, es mucho más antiguo que la creación del gueto en esta zona (mediados del siglo XVI).
Se dice que la calle Inferno, documentada a principios del siglo XV, se encontraba cerca de las carnicerías del Mercato di Mezzo, donde estaba ubicada la desolladora de cerdos, descrita en la entrada de la Galleria Giovanni Acquaderni, y que ya estaba en funcionamiento a finales del siglo XIV.
La reforma napoleónica de 1801 atribuyó el nombre de calle Inferno a esta calle, que se confirmó como Via Inferno con la reforma de 1873/78.
Por lo que hemos visto, es evidente que el nombre Inferno no se originó por la presencia judía, dado que es mucho más antiguo que la creación del gueto.
En cambio, parece que la desolladora desempeñó un papel importante en el origen del nombre Inferno: los primeros documentos que mencionan Inferno, como acabamos de ver, se refieren a las carnicerías existentes, o más bien, a la desolladora que ya estaba en funcionamiento a finales del siglo XIV. La fábrica de desollar aprovechaba las aguas del arroyo Aposa, que evidentemente se utilizaban para eliminar los fétidos desechos del matadero.
Es probable que fuera precisamente el hedor infernal que emanaba de los desechos de la fábrica de desollar y que era transportado por las aguas del Aposa, que corría al descubierto junto a la Via dell'Inferno hasta el siglo XIX, lo que dio origen al topónimo «Inferno», que más tarde se convirtió en nombre de calle.
---------------------------------------------------------
L'attuale via dell'Inferno era nota nel XV secolo come via di Nostra Signora dell'Avesa, dalla chiesa omonima che era all'odierno numero 3 e di cui si conserva traccia di affresco (assai degradato e deturpato da vandali di rilevante stupidità) sotto al portico.
Tra XVI e XVII secolo, Inferno era toponimo che indicava non solo l’attuale via dell’Inferno, ma anche via dei Giudei, e si spiegava la ragione di tale nome, appunto, con la presenza del ghetto ebraico, per cui gli abitanti di questa zona erano destinati all’Inferno.
Senonchè il toponimo, documentato già all’inizio del XV secolo, è molto più antico della creazione del ghetto in questa zona (metà del XVI secolo).
L’Inferno documentato all’inizio del XV secolo è detto essere vicino alle beccarie del Mercato di Mezzo, dove era lo scorticatoio dei maiali, descritto nella scheda di Galleria Giovanni Acquaderni, e già operativo alla fine del XIV secolo.
La riforma napoleonica del 1801 attribuì l’odonimo Inferno a questa via, confermato in via Inferno con la riforma nel 1873/78.
Da quanto visto, è evidente che Inferno non originò dalla presenza degli Ebrei, visto che l'odonimo è parecchio più antico della creazione del ghetto.
Sembra invece che lo scorticatoio (o pellatoio) abbia avuto parte importante per la nascita dell'odonimo Inferno: i primi documenti che citano Inferno, si è visto poc’anzi, fanno riferimento alle beccarie (macellerie) esistenti, ovvero al pellatoio che era già operativo negli ultimi anni del XIV secolo. Il pellatoio sfruttava le acque del torrente Aposa che evidentemente venivano usate per eliminare gli scarti ammorbanti del macello.
E’ probabile che sia stato proprio il fetore ... infernale emanato dagli scarti del pellatoio e trascinati dalle acque dell'Aposa, che correva scoperto a fianco di via dell'Inferno fino al XIX secolo ad originare il toponimo (nome di luogo) Inferno, per poi diventare odonimo (nome di via).
I liked this one because of how my new camera focuses so precisely. My old camera stopped focusing at all, by the end, and for a couple of years before that, it was a struggle to get anything to focus.
But my new camera is a joy when it comes to focusing. I was focusing on the little tombstone near the tree, shining in the light, and it is so clear you can read the name on it! I was a good 60 yards away, probably.
Anyway, another one from Spring Grove cemetery and arboretum, a couple of weeks ago when there were still leaves on the trees.
That's precisely the type of guy your mother warned you for! Even though he drives a bourgious Opel Kadett. Somewhere along the nice Italian Alpine lakes perhaps?
Edit: location is Portofino, Italy.
Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment
Das Wenigste gerade, das Leiseste, einer Eidechse Rascheln,
ein Hauch, ein Husch, ein Augenblick
(Friedrich Nietzsche)
---
I spotted this Monarch on two straight days, in precisely the same place. It was significantly damaged, and fluttered about more than flew. Still, it moved from blossom to blossom. The power of nature's programming.
Leica x1
it's good being back on Flickr. Photography, and more precisely the art of composition and framing is so valuable not only for my photography side, but also "de facto" for my concept art side.
i could spend hours trying to define and improve a compo within photoshop. and photography does help a lot. framing a scene in a snap, doing the best choice in order to get a theme or a subject speak to the eye is an excitement in so many ways.
oh and it's fun having a photo in Explore. like in the good old days.
thanks Steven for pointing that out.
Night shot taken on June 13th 2012, at 11:23 p.m. portraying a sector of the Milky Way (precisely the Great Rift) heading south, right over the mountains Levanne north faces.
On the right is visible the constellation Scorpius, with the red supergiant Antares.
Location: Nivolet (2.641 m), Gran Paradiso National Park, Italy
The slight light pollution comes from two dams below and the area of Ceresole Reale.
In the foreground, a bit in the dark, you can see the last curve of the street that reaches the summit of this alpine pass.
Actually this area is called "belvedere", which means viewpoint.
Obviously the road is available only during spring/summer (with some quite correct traffic restrictions on weekends). During autumn/winter everything is submerged in snow and ice.
I will have to return soon to this dreamy place, to wander with snowshoes, alone, into the white silent immensity.
_____________________
©Roberto Bertero, All Rights Reserved. This image is not available for use on websites, blogs or other media without the explicit written permission of the photographer.
Nature. The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. Oh, the passion for research and the joy of discovery!
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
This is precisely what we must prevent: being satisfied that it is over and attempt to patch up one's life, without demanding responsibility, because nothing we have lived will ever end if we are satisfied with having obtained a free time that can be revoked in any moment. We will have to find the jailers.
Taking cover behind the rock, Tuman prepares to pounce on his brother Lev at precisely the right moment, taking full advantage of the element of surprise.
Tuman, one of the two male Amur Leopard Cubs born to mom Satka 4-26-20, at 3 months old, taken on 8-2-20
Let it be their size, or their colour, or their number that be the thing that lends itself to the inevitable awe when the penny drops that these lgiants actually live. Their struggle to propagate and thrive is precisely that which is the function of our lives. They draw breath from the same air that we breath. We live with and beside them and, yet, we aren't conscious of the life in them.
Not precisely a 45 degree view but close.
House On The Rock, Wisconson, USA
SLR Magic 25mm f1.4 Cine
Norwegen / Buskerud - Hallingskarvet-Nationalpark
On the way back from Prestholtskarvet.
Auf dem Weg zurück vom Prestholtskarvet.
Hallingskarvet National Park (Norwegian: Hallingskarvet nasjonalpark) is a national park in central Norway that was established by the government on 22 December 2006. The park is located in the municipalities of Hol (Buskerud county), Ulvik and Aurland (both in Vestland county). More precisely, the park comprises the Hallingskarv plateau and the high mountain areas to the west of it. It includes the Vargebreen glacier as well as the valleys of Såtedalen, Lengjedalen, Ynglesdalen, and parts of Raggsteindalen.
The national park covers 450 square kilometres (170 sq mi) of the Hallingskarvet mountain range and hosts large stocks of wild reindeer, an important factor in the establishment of the park. The highest point in the national park is Folarskardnuten which reaches an elevation of 1,933 metres (6,342 ft) above sea level.
The landscape of Hallingskarvet was shaped by multiple ice ages. The park shows the geological history and the connection between this history and the variation in the species living there. It includes areas of special value and which are home to threatened or vulnerable species such as Draba cacuminum (whitlow-grass) and Botrychium lanceolatum (lance-leaf grapefern).
The Bergen Line runs along the southern boundary of the park. There is no road access to the southern side of the park, so Finse Station, a stop on the railway line, is one of the few ways that people can access this part of the park. The Norwegian County Road 50 runs near the northern boundary of the park.
Protection and use
The main objective of this national park is to preserve a large, unique, and largely untouched area in order to protect the landscape and the biome with its ecosystem, species and populations of, amongst others, the wild reindeer. The protection is designed to safeguard a characteristic element needed to understand the geological history of the Norwegian landscape. It is also designed to protect valuable elements of the cultural heritage.
The park is open to the traditional forms of outdoor activities which require little or no technical means.
Name
The first element is halling (inhabitant of the Hallingdal valley) and the last is the finite form of skarv (mountain or mountainous area without vegetation).
(Wikipedia)
Der Hallingskarvet-Nationalpark (norwegisch Hallingskarvet nasjonalpark) ist ein südnorwegischer Nationalpark. Er umfasst das Hallingskarvet-Hochplateau und erstreckt sich über das Gebiet der Gemeinden Hol (Provinz Buskerud), Ulvik und Aurland (Provinz Vestland) gehört.
Gegründet wurde der Park am 22. Dezember 2006, um die dortige große, unverwechselbare und nahezu unberührte Bergregion, die Artenvielfalt von Flora und Fauna und die dort heimischen Bergrentiere zu schützen. Der Park grenzt an das Naturschutzgebiet Skaupsjøen/Hardangerjøkulen und das Biotop Finse.
Im Süden des Parkes führen sowohl die Bergenbahn als auch die Reichsstraße 7 vorbei.
Geologie, Landschaft und Geografie
Der Nationalpark umfasst größtenteils das Hallingskarvethochplateau, welches aufgrund der Kaledonischen Orogenese entstand. Das vorherrschende Gesteinsmaterial der Bergkette ist präkambrisches Pluton.
Der höchste Berg ist der Folarskardnuten mit 1.933 m. Im Hallingskarvet befindet sich auch Norwegens höchster See, der Flakavatnet, welcher auf 1.453 m Höhe liegt.
Flora
Die Pflanzenwelt gestaltet sich mit über 300 verschiedenen Arten sehr vielfältig. Die am weitesten verbreiteten Pflanzen sind der Weiße Silberwurz, Knöllchen-Knöterich und Herbst-Löwenzahn. In den höheren Lagen kommen vor allem Dreiblatt-Binsen, Polarsimsen, Moosheide und Gletscher-Hahnenfuß vor.
Fauna
Im Park gibt es an größeren Säugetieren Bergrentiere, Elche, Rehe, Polarfüchse und Schneehasen. Nördlich des Parks leben zudem Vielfraße.
Die größten Greifvögel sind Steinadler, Gerfalke, Turmfalke und Raufußbussard. Der Kolkrabe ist im Hallingskarvet ebenfalls heimisch.
Kulturerbe
Im Nationalpark wurden verschiedene Jagdutensilien gefunden, die auf eine prähistorische/historische Nutzung der Berge als Jagd- und/oder Siedlungsgebiet schließen lassen.
Im 17. bis 19. Jahrhundert lag der Park entlang einer wichtigen Handelsroute. Einfache Übernachtungshütten, sog. lægre, zeugen noch heute davon. Im Jahre 1880 ließ der englische Graf Lord Garvagh eine steinerne Jagdhütte, die Lordehytta, errichten, um in der näheren Umgebung auf Rentierjagd zu gehen.
Verwaltung und Tourismus
Der Norwegische Wanderverein unterhält im Park die Hütten Finsehytta im Süden und Geiterygghytta im Norden. Private Unterkünfte gibt es im Raggsteindalen und bei Haugastøl. Zwischen den Hütten gibt es markierte Wanderwege.
Zwischen Finse und Ustaoset verläuft ein Stück des Skarverennet durch den Park. Im Süden des Parks verläuft zudem der Rallarvegen.
(Wikipedia)
[...] No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone [...]
-- Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
Nikon D200, Samyang 8mm, f/3.5 fisheye, 8mm - f/10 - 1/160s HDR 5xp +2/-2EV
Madrid, Spain (June, 2019)
The autumnal equinox arrives precisely at 4:21 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015 in the U.S.A. People celebrate this moment across the world because that is exactly the time when the sun passes directly over the equator.
What time will the equinox be where I live?
Eastern Daylight Time: 4:21 a.m.
Central Daylight Time: 3:21 a.m.
Mountain Daylight Time: 2:21 a.m.
Pacific Daylight Time: 1:21 a.m.
For everywhere else around the world, convert your time here.
Ukrainians!
All our defenders!
Today I want to say special words of gratitude. Gratitude to all our people who defend our state, defend independence.
Ukraine held out after a full-scale attack by Russia. Ukraine managed to unite the world around the struggle for freedom. Ukraine managed to liberate a significant part of the territory the Russian troops invaded. Ukraine liberates people from Russian captivity.
And Ukraine managed to change the course of the war so that every occupier, even the most inadequate one, felt that we can win and are moving towards victory.
I am thankful to everyone who fights and works for this! For the sake of our victory.
It is precisely to the fact of Ukrainian strength that the leadership of Russia reacts, changing tactics and trying to draw even more Russian citizens and resources into the war.
Russia's decision on mobilization is a frank admission that their regular army, which has been prepared for decades to take over a foreign country, did not withstand and crumbled. And now, due to mobilization, Russia's war against Ukraine for the majority of Russian citizens is not something on TV or on the Internet, but something that has entered every Russian home.
I’ve held a meeting of the Staff of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief today. The questions are clear. Frontline. Provision of our military. And new threats created by Russia.
I will note right away: any decisions of the Russian leadership do not change anything for Ukraine. We should care only about our tasks. This is the liberation of our country, the protection of our people and the mobilization of global support for the implementation of our tasks.
Diplomatic mobilization of the entire international community is now taking place.
The circle of those who support us now is not limited to our traditional partners and those who openly supported our state after February 24. Now almost everyone supports us - this is the reaction to new Russian escalation steps.
In particular, the farce with the preparation of sham referenda in the occupied territory demonstrates what happened in 2014 in Crimea and Donbas.
And I am grateful to everyone in the world who supported us. Who clearly condemned another Russian lie.
Grateful to President Biden and all American friends. To President Macron, Chancellor Scholz, the President of Finland and all our Polish brothers, the Baltic states, Mr. Borrell, Mrs. Ursula von der Leyen, Charles Michel, the OSCE and all Europeans from Iceland to Romania, who will never be deceived by Russia again.
I am thankful to Britain for the support! Türkiye! Thank you Canada! Thanks also to all those who now privately express their support for Ukraine.
When Russia declares that it supposedly wants negotiations, but announces mobilization... When Russia knows Ukraine's clear position about the impossibility of a diplomatic process after Russia holds any sham referenda...
Everything is clear to everyone. Russia itself buries the prospect of negotiations with its own hands.
I will explain to the Russians what is happening in Russian.
Protests against mobilization took place in the cities of Russia - albeit not massive, but they took place. And they take place. And this is an indicator. Not only in Moscow and St. Petersburg. We know the real mood in the regions of Russia.
We see that people in Dagestan, in Buryatia, in other national republics and regions of Russia understand that they were simply thrown. Thrown to death.
Why, for example, Dagestanis or anyone else should die in the Kharkiv region or near Donetsk? Because one person in Russia decided so - for all the citizens of Russia. There is no other reason. That’s what he wants.
You are already accomplices in all these crimes, murders and torture of Ukrainians.
Because you were silent. Because you are silent.
And now it's time for you to choose. For men in Russia, this is a choice to die or live, to become a cripple or to preserve health. For women in Russia, the choice is to lose their husbands, sons, grandchildren forever, or still try to protect them from death, from war, from one person.
Just think about the number of people they want to take away!
We know for sure that the conscription letters for 300,000 people were printed and signed in advance, even before this decision on mobilization appeared. Our intelligence has proven it. But the Russian leadership is preparing to take up to a million men into the army - this is the key thing they are now silent about.
We know that they will take everyone indiscriminately. Not only the military in the reserve, but any men. Anyone who will be so intimidated that he will be more afraid of avoiding war than of dying in war.
55 thousand Russian soldiers died in this war in six months. Tens of thousands are wounded and maimed. Want more? No? Then protest. Fight back. Run away. Or surrender to Ukrainian captivity. These are options for you to survive.
Russian mothers! Have no doubt that the children of the top officials of your state will not be sent to the war against Ukraine. Those who make decisions in your country take care of their children. And they do not even bury your children.
And we return ours.
A very important briefing was held today. Head of the Office Yermak, Head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Budanov, Head of the Security Service Maliuk, Minister of Internal Affairs Monastyrskyi. They told the details of our operation to release 215 warriors, the details of the exchange. We do everything so that society and the world can see how Ukraine protects people and basic human values.
Once again, I congratulate 215 families and our entire country on the return of the heroes.
I am thankful to everyone who helps Ukraine!
Eternal glory to all who fight for Ukraine!
Glory to our indomitable and brave people!
Glory to Ukraine!
He's a pedigree Highland Cow - and he has got an incredible haircut if you ask me.
He lives in Scotland - to be precisely he lives in Kilmahog which is here.
btw: Hamish was featured on the blog of the Breathtaking Group. Thanks for that!
© All rights to these photos and descriptions are reserved. Any use of this work requires my prior written permission.
~~~
"To possess the world in the form of images is, precisely, to re-experience the unreality and remoteness of the the real."
Susan Sontag, On Photography
Young Mursi mother with ornamental clay lip-plate. Semi-nomadic pastoral settlement situated on the upper bank of the Mago River, a tributary that joins the essential Omo River in a remote corner of southwestern Ethiopia.
On the meaning of lip-plates in Mursi culture and society
The Mursi are one of the last groups in Africa where women still wear large wooden or clay plates in their lower lips. Most Mursi women wear lip-plates as an aesthetic symbol of cultural pride and identity, signifying passage to womanhood/adulthood.
The labrets are worn more frequently by unmarried or newly wed women and are generally worn when serving men food or during important ritual events (weddings, men's duelling competitions, communal dances, safari photo-ops).
Cow-horn designs are engraved along the borders of this labret, signifying Mursi dependance on cattle herding for their livelihood.
Debunking popular myths
Contrary to popular opinion among travellers and other passing strangers, ethnographers found little or no connection between the size of a woman’s lip-plate and the size of her bridewealth (cattle, guns).
Anthropologists and ethnographers have debunked another popular myth. They found no evidence that the labret originated as a deliberate attempt to disfigure and make women less attractive to slave traders, yet this myth seems to surface regularly in accounts by both amateur and professional photographers, Safari tourists, and bloggers alike.
The Mursi and Mursiland
Most Mursi live in small settlements dispersed across Mursiland, a remote territory of about thirty by eighty kilometres between the Omo and Mago Rivers in southwestern Ethiopia, a day or two overland to the borders with South Sudan and northern Kenya.
The terrain varies from a volcanic plain dominated by a range of hills and a major watershed to a riverine forest, wooded grasslands and thorny bushland thickets. The climate is harsh and unstable with low rainfall and daily temperatures regularly exceeding 40°C in the shade during the dry season.
The Mursi are semi-nomadic farmers and herders who depend on shifting hoe-cultivation (mostly drought-resistant varieties of sorghum) and cattle herding for their livelihood. They number less than ten thousand today.
~~~
Definitive ethnographic accounts on the meaning of lip-plates in Mursi culture and society include:
* David Turton, "Lip plates and the people who take photographs: uneasy encounters between Mursi and tourists in southern Ethiopia", Anthropology Today, 20:3, 3-8, 2004.
* Shauna Latosky, "Reflections on the lip-plates of Mursi women as a source of stigma and self-esteem", in Ivo Strecker and Jean Lydall (eds.) The perils of face: Essays on cultural contact, respect and self-esteem in southern Ethiopia, Mainzer Beiträge zur Afrika-Forschung, Lit Verlag, Berlin, 2006, pp. 371-386.
The current Via dell'Inferno was known in the 15th century as Via di Nostra Signora dell'Avesa, after the church of the same name, which was now number 3 and of which traces of a fresco (seriously degraded and defaced by remarkably stupid vandals) remain under the portico.
Between the 16th and 17th centuries, Inferno was a toponym that referred not only to the current Via dell'Inferno, but also to Via dei Giudei, and the reason for this name was explained precisely by the presence of the Jewish ghetto, which meant that the inhabitants of this area were destined for Hell.
However, the toponym, documented as early as the beginning of the 15th century, is much older than the creation of the ghetto in this area (mid-16th century).
The Inferno, documented at the beginning of the 15th century, is said to be near the butchers' shops of the Mercato di Mezzo, where the pig skinning shop was located, described in the Galleria Giovanni Acquaderni entry, and already operational at the end of the 14th century.
The Napoleonic reform of 1801 attributed the street name Inferno to this street, which was confirmed as Via Inferno with the reform of 1873/78.
From what we've seen, it's clear that Inferno did not originate from the presence of the Jews, given that the name is much older than the creation of the ghetto.
Instead, it seems that the skinning shop (or skinning shop) played an important role in the birth of the name Inferno: the first documents mentioning Inferno, as we've just seen, refer to the existing butchers' shops, or rather, the skinning shop that was already operational in the final years of the 14th century. The skinning mill exploited the waters of the Aposa stream, which were evidently used to eliminate the stinking waste from the slaughterhouse.
It is likely that it was precisely the infernal stench emanating from the waste from the skinning mill and carried by the waters of the Aposa, which ran uncovered alongside Via dell'Inferno until the 19th century, that gave rise to the toponym (place name) Inferno, later becoming an odonym (street name).
---------------------------------------------------------
La actual Via dell'Inferno se conocía en el siglo XV como Via di Nostra Signora dell'Avesa, por la iglesia del mismo nombre, que entonces era el número 3 y de la que aún se conservan restos de un fresco (gravemente deteriorado y desfigurado por vándalos increíblemente ineptos) bajo el pórtico.
Entre los siglos XVI y XVII, Inferno era un topónimo que se refería no solo a la actual Via dell'Inferno, sino también a Via dei Giudei, y el motivo de este nombre se explicaba precisamente por la presencia del gueto judío, lo que significaba que los habitantes de esta zona estaban destinados al infierno.
Sin embargo, el topónimo, documentado ya a principios del siglo XV, es mucho más antiguo que la creación del gueto en esta zona (mediados del siglo XVI).
Se dice que la calle Inferno, documentada a principios del siglo XV, se encontraba cerca de las carnicerías del Mercato di Mezzo, donde estaba ubicada la desolladora de cerdos, descrita en la entrada de la Galleria Giovanni Acquaderni, y que ya estaba en funcionamiento a finales del siglo XIV.
La reforma napoleónica de 1801 atribuyó el nombre de calle Inferno a esta calle, que se confirmó como Via Inferno con la reforma de 1873/78.
Por lo que hemos visto, es evidente que el nombre Inferno no se originó por la presencia judía, dado que es mucho más antiguo que la creación del gueto.
En cambio, parece que la desolladora desempeñó un papel importante en el origen del nombre Inferno: los primeros documentos que mencionan Inferno, como acabamos de ver, se refieren a las carnicerías existentes, o más bien, a la desolladora que ya estaba en funcionamiento a finales del siglo XIV. La fábrica de desollar aprovechaba las aguas del arroyo Aposa, que evidentemente se utilizaban para eliminar los fétidos desechos del matadero.
Es probable que fuera precisamente el hedor infernal que emanaba de los desechos de la fábrica de desollar y que era transportado por las aguas del Aposa, que corría al descubierto junto a la Via dell'Inferno hasta el siglo XIX, lo que dio origen al topónimo «Inferno», que más tarde se convirtió en nombre de calle.
---------------------------------------------------------
L'attuale via dell'Inferno era nota nel XV secolo come via di Nostra Signora dell'Avesa, dalla chiesa omonima che era all'odierno numero 3 e di cui si conserva traccia di affresco (assai degradato e deturpato da vandali di rilevante stupidità) sotto al portico.
Tra XVI e XVII secolo, Inferno era toponimo che indicava non solo l’attuale via dell’Inferno, ma anche via dei Giudei, e si spiegava la ragione di tale nome, appunto, con la presenza del ghetto ebraico, per cui gli abitanti di questa zona erano destinati all’Inferno.
Senonchè il toponimo, documentato già all’inizio del XV secolo, è molto più antico della creazione del ghetto in questa zona (metà del XVI secolo).
L’Inferno documentato all’inizio del XV secolo è detto essere vicino alle beccarie del Mercato di Mezzo, dove era lo scorticatoio dei maiali, descritto nella scheda di Galleria Giovanni Acquaderni, e già operativo alla fine del XIV secolo.
La riforma napoleonica del 1801 attribuì l’odonimo Inferno a questa via, confermato in via Inferno con la riforma nel 1873/78.
Da quanto visto, è evidente che Inferno non originò dalla presenza degli Ebrei, visto che l'odonimo è parecchio più antico della creazione del ghetto.
Sembra invece che lo scorticatoio (o pellatoio) abbia avuto parte importante per la nascita dell'odonimo Inferno: i primi documenti che citano Inferno, si è visto poc’anzi, fanno riferimento alle beccarie (macellerie) esistenti, ovvero al pellatoio che era già operativo negli ultimi anni del XIV secolo. Il pellatoio sfruttava le acque del torrente Aposa che evidentemente venivano usate per eliminare gli scarti ammorbanti del macello.
E’ probabile che sia stato proprio il fetore ... infernale emanato dagli scarti del pellatoio e trascinati dalle acque dell'Aposa, che correva scoperto a fianco di via dell'Inferno fino al XIX secolo ad originare il toponimo (nome di luogo) Inferno, per poi diventare odonimo (nome di via).
© National Geographic Yourshot (Editor's Favourite, August 2018). Story and assignment: “Rethinking Portraiture.”
"To possess the world in the form of images is, precisely, to re-experience the unreality and remoteness of the the real." Susan Sontag, On Photography
A married Dani woman with carrying net prepares for a pig feast inside the oval courtyard of a traditional fortress-like compound high in a remote corner of West Papua's central highlands, 1600m/5200ft above sea level - Grand Valley of the Balim River, Irian Jaya, Indonesia.
A Dani warrior appears in the faded backdrop as he prepares for a ritualized mock battle that will take place outside the compound. He is adorned with an upturned boar’s tusk nose piece, bird-of-paradise plumes, arm bands of dog fur, white clay body markings, and the iconic koteka or penis gourd – all part of traditional Dani ornamentation and battle dress.
The indigenous peoples of West Papua migrated from southeast Asia and the Australian continent about 30,000 to 50,000 years ago during the Ice Age when sea levels were lower and distances between islands shorter. Western "first contact” with West Papua's Grand Valley Dani was established in 1938 during American-led botanical and zoological expeditions to the central highlands, less than sixty years before this photograph was taken.
High resolution Noritsu Koki QSS digital film scan, shot with a compact semi-automatic Pentax point-and-shoot film camera, circa 1996.
© All rights to these photos and descriptions are reserved and protected by international copyright laws. Any use of this work requires my prior written permission.
~~~
Ethnographic efforts at demystifying Dani neolithic cultural practices and ritualized warfare in the region are associated with the early ground-breaking 1961 Harvard-Peabody Expedition. They include anthropologist Karl Heider’s accounts in “The Dugum Dani: A Papuan Culture in the Highlands of West New Guinea,” Aldine Publishing (1970) and “Grand Valley Dani: Peaceful Warriors” (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology), Wadsworth Publishing (1996); also filmmaker Robert Gardner’s classic ethnographic documentary, “Dead Birds” (1965) and Peter Matthiessen’s “Under the Mountain Wall: A Chronicle of Two Seasons in Stone Age New Guinea,” Viking Press (1962).
Stroboscope.
I thought I would try and avoid meters and rules for this week’s Macro Mondays group’s theme measurement, mainly because I had done them before.
This is the device on my vinyl record turntable for making sure it is rotating at precisely the right speed. This is important because the pitch that the recorded music is played is directly proportional to the rotation rate of the record.
Old high-end turntables like this one had a direct drive motor on which the speed could be finely adjusted to correct any change.
The table’s stroboscope is a light of regularly fluctuating brightness shining onto the spinning plate. The fluctuations are caused by the mains alternating current which in the UK fluctuates at 50 cycles a second, though in America and some other countries with lower voltages the electricity fluctuates at 60 cycles to carry more power in compensation.
In the picture you can see four rings around the spinning table. The rings are all made as a string of black and white blocks a bit like Morse code.
In daylight all four would be equally blurred but in the light of the stroboscope you can see the third ring outwards is seen as black and white blocks. That’s because the lamp is only lighting the blocks when they are in one position, and is dim while they move on to the next position, taking the place of the block in front of it. Minor deviations from the target speed cause the blocks to move slowly around, and you can then adjust the motor speed until they still.
There are four rings, two for the two turntable speeds (for singles and LPs) for each of the two electricity alternating rates (50 and 60 cycles per second). A neon bulb is used because it fluctuates in brightness much more during the alternating current cycle than a hot filament would, which explains the orange colour. The bulb lights a plastic prism which directs the light down by inner reflection.
In physics omega is often used as the symbol for angular velocity (rotation speed) hence the title.
The image is just over two inches in total width, so within the group limits. The device is not interested in measuring the size of the deviation, just whether it exists and in which direction so that it can be eliminated.
Thank you for taking time to look. I hope you enjoy the image! Happy Macro Mondays :)
[Tripod mount; remote release; self-lit. The shutter speed was limited to show the blur.
A focus stack of eight images in Affinity Photo (not enough really for this aperture as you can see by the bands of softness in the turntable plinth surface; I should have used a smaller aperture).
A bit of tidying up from stacking artefacts around the prism edge.
A little tweaking in Curves LAB mode for colour and luminosity.
Finally sharpened using Unsharp Mask.
Yep, a dark vignette would be entirely pointless (though I was tempted!) :) ]
The spirit of Alpen Fest (Livigno) is precisely to bring the public closer to what are the origins of a territory that today presents itself as a modern alpine resort, but which has its roots in agricultural work and in close contact with animals, especially cows
This is Gulf of Trieste, or more precisely part of it which can be seen from Trieste's Faro della Vittoria and leads towards Grignano and Miramare Castle. Entire Gulf of Trieste is shared by Italy, Slovenia and Croatia - in fact entire Slovenian sea is part of it - and it would be a bit complicated to try to take a picture of it with my smartphone.
Yesterday I had a city walk in beautiful sunshine in my beloved birthplace Hamburg. More precisely in the HafenCity with adjacent Speicherstadt. I brought my ND filters with me. See the result ...
Rural American Scenes
Many small rural towns are faced with living in a food desert. Often no grocery stores exist in the town, or if there is one, it is very old with a poor selection of quality food. Residents are forced to travel out of town in order to buy food for their families.
For some context, though this is unacceptable for any town in the United States, keep in mind people are starving to death in many locations on earth as I type these words. While politicians in the United States compete to get their 5 minutes of fame on TV each day, riling up voters and citizens with "issues" that are "dire", the starving people throughout the world are most likely the LAST thing on these politician's minds, or on the minds of most Americans.
In many instances, Americans, many who call themselves evangelical Christians, have become fixated on themselves, adopting an "America First" fascination that has little to no resemblance of the type of character and concern for others that Christ called his followers to embrace. The irony is blatantly obvious, yet completely unnoticed by these same people, which is precisely as Christ noted it would be.
Morgantown, IN
2023
© James Rice, All Rights Reserved
Leica M6 TTL, 0.72
28mm Summaron
Ilford FP4+
Developed: The Darkroom Photo Lab, San Clemente, CA
The city of Petra, capital of the Nabataean Arabs, is one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world.
t is not known precisely when Petra was built, but the city began to prosper as the capital of the Nabataean Empire from the 1st century BC, which grew rich through trade in frankincense, myrrh, and spices.
Petra was later annexed to the Roman Empire and continued to thrive until a large earthquake in 363 AD destroyed much of the city in the 4th century AD.
The earthquake combined with changes in trade routes, eventually led to the downfall of the city which was ultimately abandoned.
Petra is also known as the rose-red city, a name it gets from the wonderful colour of the rock from which many of the city’s structures were carved.
The Nabataeans buried their dead in intricate tombs that were cut out of the mountain sides and the city also had temples, a theater, and following the Roman annexation and later the Byzantine influence, a colonnaded street and churches.
In addition to the magnificent remains of the Nabataean city, human settlement and land use for over 10,000 years can be traced in Petra, where great natural, cultural, archaeological and geological features merge.
On December 6, 1985, Petra was designated a World Heritage Site.
X Oh dear not precisely sure where this . Taken on the Pennines in the Oldham area . It was back in October when the colours of the trees were beginning to turn. Struck me as quite attractive wherever it is
THANKS FOR YOUR VISIT HAVE A GREAT DAY
When one sees him washing in precisely the same way as a house cat, it becomes particularly obvious that Pavan really isn't a domestic cat: the massive (claw-filled) paws and elongated muzzle are those of a powerful hunter.
[Image reached no.129 in Flickr Explore on 06/11/14! Thanks!]
I can't remember precisely where in the city of Buenos Aires I took this photo. I stayed there for five weeks, and it was a regular habit of mine to walk for hours around her many streets, soaking in the sights and stopping occasionally for media lunas and espresso. This church wall caught my attention, with the delicate shadows from the tree dancing across the face of Mary.