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The elegant Christmas Tree installed in front of Torre Picasso, precisely in the center of Pablo Picasso Square.
I liked the spheric balls framing the tree, therefore I though it could be a great perspective.
I hope you like this picture.
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Enjoy a great Thursday!
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El Árbol de Navidad en la Plaza de Pablo Picasso, Centro Financiero de Azca, Madrid, España
El elegante árbol de Navidad instalado frente a la Torre Picasso, justo en el centro de la Plaza Pablo Picasso.
Me gustaron las esferas metálicas que enmarcaban el árbol, así que pensé que podría ser una perspectiva genial.
Espero que os guste esta foto.
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¡Pasad un buen jueves!
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The general term ice age or, more precisely, glacial age denotes a geological period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in an expansion of continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. There have been at least four major ice ages in the Earth's past. Outside these periods, the Earth seems to have been ice-free even in high latitudes. There is evidence that greenhouse gas levels fell at the start of ice ages and rose during the retreat of the ice sheets, but it is difficult to establish cause and effect. Greenhouse gas levels may also have been affected by other factors which have been proposed as causes of ice ages, such as the movement of continents and vulcanism. Although the last glacial period ended more than 8,000 years ago, its effects can still be felt today. For example, the moving ice carved out landscape in Canada, Greenland, northern Eurasia and Antarctica. The erratic boulders, till, drumlins, eskers, fjords, kettle lakes, moraines, cirques, horns, etc., are typical features left behind by the glaciers.
Photo taken inside a hummock taken at the IJsselmeer (IJmeer) near Amsterdam. A hummock is a boss or rounded knoll of ice rising above the general level of an ice-field, Hummocky ice is caused by slow and unequal pressure in the main body of the packed ice, and by unequal structure and temperature at a later period. Blue ice occurs when snow falls on the ice. The blue color is actually created for the same reason that water is blue, that is, its slight absorption of red light due to an overtone of the infrared OH stretching mode of the water molecule.
Een ijstijd of glaciatie is een geologisch tijdvak waarin ijskappen voorkomen. In het Engels wordt dit een periode van ice-house genoemd, als tegenhanger van een ijskaploze periode, de greenhouse ("broeikas"). Aangezien er gletsjers liggen op bijvoorbeeld Groenland of Antarctica, leven we tegenwoordig in een ijstijd. Men neemt aan dat dit in de gehele geologische geschiedenis van de Aarde minstens vijfmaal het geval is geweest, waarvan eenmaal zelfs zo sterk dat de ijskappen van de polen vrijwel tot aan de evenaar waren opgerukt. Ook zijn er periodes dat er aanzienlijke opwarming optrad waarbij die ijskappen grotendeels waren weggesmolten. Het klimaat op Aarde wordt beïnvloed door vele factoren, zoals de intensiteit van de zonnestraling, de ligging van de continenten, de continentverplaatsingen, vulkanisme, de zeestromen, de bedekking van het land door vegetatie, het weerkaatsingsvermogen van het aardoppervlak en vele kleine andere factoren. Met behulp van klimaatmodellen wordt door wetenschappers een reconstructie van het klimaat en de klimaatveranderingen in het verleden gemaakt. Alhoewel er een zekere consensus bestaat onder wetenschappers, zijn er nog vele onzekerheden en tegenstrijdigheden in dit onderzoek.
Hierboven een foto van kruiend ijs. Zoetwatermeren kunnen spectaculair bevriezen. Grotere meren zoals het IJsselmeer (IJmeer) hierboven hebben bijna altijd wel golven, en dit werkt directe bevriezing van het wateroppervlak tegen. Eerst vormen zich kleine ijsschotsen, die naar de kust drijven onder invloed van de wind. Deze schotsen vormen zo een ijsveld op het water dat de golven dempt, en uiteindelijk vriezen alle schotsen aan elkaar vast tot een massa. Voordat dit gebeurt schuren de schotsen voortdurend langs elkaar heen en schrapen zo stukjes ijs van elkaar af; elke schots krijgt zo een witte rand. Zulk ijs is dus totaal niet geschikt om op te schaatsen. Wanneer grotere delen van het meer bevriezen beginnen de platen, die soms een paar vierkante kilometer groot zijn, langzaam tegen elkaar te bewegen onder invloed van de wind en stroming. Dit heeft kruiend ijs tot gevolg: de ijsschotsen worden met kracht gebroken en op elkaar gestapeld langs de dijken langs het meer. Dit hoeft niet alleen bij dun ijs te gebeuren; soms kruit het ijs bij een dikte van meer dan 20 cm. De stapels ijs worden dan hoog, en het geluid is oorverdovend.
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have for the first time precisely measured the distance to one of the oldest objects in the universe, a collection of stars born shortly after the big bang.
This new, refined distance yardstick provides an independent estimate for the age of the universe. The new measurement also will help astronomers improve models of stellar evolution. Star clusters are the key ingredient in stellar models because the stars in each grouping are at the same distance, have the same age, and have the same chemical composition. They therefore constitute a single stellar population to study.
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and T. Brown and S. Casertano (STScI) ; Acknowledgement: NASA, ESA, and J. Anderson (STScI)
Operations image of the week:
In order to precisely deliver the Schiaparelli landing demonstrator module to the martian surface and then insert ExoMars/TGO into orbit around the Red Planet, it’s necessary to pin down the spacecraft’s location to within just a few hundred metres at a distance of more than 150 million km.
To achieve this amazing level of accuracy, ESA experts are making use of ‘quasars’ – the most luminous objects in the Universe – as ‘calibrators’ in a technique known as Delta-Differential One-Way Ranging, or delta-DOR.
Until recently, quasars were only poorly understood. These objects can emit 1000 times the energy of our entire Milky Way galaxy from a volume that it not much bigger than our Solar System, making them fearfully powerful.
They are fuelled by supermassive black holes – which are many, many times more massive than our Sun – feeding on matter at the centre of their host galaxies. In addition to their extreme luminosity, their extreme distance means that, seen from Earth, they appear to be fixed in the sky and their positions can be mapped with high precision, making them very useful as reference points for spacecraft navigation.
In the delta-DOR technique, radio signals from ExoMars/TGO are being received by two widely separated deep-space ground stations, one, say, at New Norcia, Western Australia, and one at Cebreros, Spain, and the difference in the times of signal arrival is precisely measured.
Next, errors due to current conditions in Earth’s atmosphere (which affect all radio signals passing through) are derived by simultaneously tracking radio signals from a quasar. Engineers can apply these as corrections to the signal received from ExoMars/TGO, delivering a significantly more accurate fix on its position.
On Wednesday this week, ESA ground stations began the first of many delta-DOR observations that will be used to precisely locate ExoMars/TGO, using quasar P1514-24, seen inset in an image of ESA's deep-space tracking station at Malargüe, Argentina, above.
Delta-DOR observations will be increasingly performed as the journey to Mars enters the crucial phases, enabling flight dynamics teams to generate precise instructions for thruster burns and separation timing and to assess manoeuvre performance.
“In October, in the final critical week before Mars arrival, teams will be conducting two delta-DOR observations daily,” says Mattia Mercolino, responsible for delta-DOR activities at ESOC, ESA’s operations centre in Darmstadt, Germany.
“It’s an excellent example of critical, real-time teamwork between the flight dynamics experts, the ground station operators, the ExoMars mission controllers and our delta-DOR team, and it would be much more difficult to get to Mars without this expertise.”
How precisely will we know ExoMars/TGO’s location?
“The current set of delta-DOR observations will enable us to locate the spacecraft to less than 1000 m when it’s near Mars, a distance of slightly more than 150 million km from Earth,” says Mattia.
“This is comparable to detecting from the location of an object in Singapore from Darmstadt, to about 5 cm precision.”
“In future, with currently planned technology improvements, we should be able to get the accuracy down to just 150 m at 150 million km.”
Credit: Estrack image: ESA/D. Pazos – Quasar P1514-24 inset image: Rami Rekola, Univerity of Turku, 2001
Photo taken by Andreas Rink, slide kindly provided for scanning by Florian Weiß.
München-Riem
1981-08-12 (12 August 1981)
HB-ABD
Nord 262B-11
4
Rhineair
HB-ABD is taxiing to Riem’s runway 25 for take-off. Precisely nine years earlier, on 12 August 1972, this airframe had been noted at the airport as F-BLHS with Rousseau Aviation.
This 1964 built Nord 262B flew with Air Inter from 1964, then Rousseau Aviation, TAT Touraine Air Transport as F-BLHS, Rhineair as HB-ABD, CAL Compagnie Aerienne du Languedoc and Air Littoral as F-GBEI and Trans Service Airlift as 9Q-CCR. (Source: rzjets.net).
Rhineair (the former Air Sea Service) operated scheduled services between Basle and Munich using N262s, but ceased operations in August 1981 (source: airlines-airliners.de). This must have been one of the last flights. The last report I have of HB-ABD at Riem is from 21 August 1981.
Information on Air Sea Service and Rhineair (in German):
www.airlines-airliners.de/airlines/air_sea_service.htm
www.airlines-airliners.de/airlines/rhineair.htm
This airframe as F-BLHS with Air Inter:
www.airlines-airliners.de/airliners/nord262/f_blhs_2.jpg
F-BLHS with Touraine Air Transport (TAT/Rousseau Aviation titles) in ca. 1975:
www.airlines-airliners.de/airliners/nord262/f_blhs.jpg
F-BLHS with Touraine Air Transport at BSL in April 1977:
imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/9/7/1/0108179.jpg
F-BLHS with Touraine Air Transport at ORY in September 1978 (later colours):
www.flickr.com/photos/avi_phot_nrw/48279317887
This airframe as F-GBEI with Compagnie Aerienne du Languedoc (CAL) at CDG in July 1986:
imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/1/5/8/0669851.jpg
F-GBEI with Air Littoral colours/CAL titles in February 1988:
www.flickr.com/photos/steelhead2010/8573481519
Scan from Kodachrome slide.
More precisely evening light on Hamilton Falls off the High Sierra Trail in an area named Valhalla in Sequoia National Parks. Yes there is more than extremely big trees and Mt Whitney in the park. This was the view from our Day 1 camp site on my recent backpacking trip. Traveling light is a necessity for this old body, so the I-Phone had to suffice. While this may not be Viking heaven, it is home to more waterfalls than can be counted! Amazing trip.
The petrol station here disappeared precisely between July 2015 and September 2016. In July 2015 it was there and operating, by September 2016 nothing was left, just a barren site awaiting redevelopment. Since then nothing has happened and the site is now overgrown with bushes and small trees, so I'm guessing site contamination would be the reason for the delay. It does seem a bit mad that a perfectly good service station could be removed in this way and razed to the ground only for nothing more to happen.
Here in September 2000 it was a busy and thriving site with cars queuing to buy fuel, presumably due to the shortages in that precise point in time.
www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.7499354,-1.2664778,3a,75y,288.8...
matt krueger aka dj tarquin
it should be noted that he has a pink feather in his hat that precisely matches his pink pocket square and tie.
(or is that the time! ??) My friend Malcolm Martin & I passed this heading to the railway station after a long day tramping about Edinburgh taking photos, knackered but happy.
The Aqueduct of Segovia (or more precisely, the aqueduct bridge) is a Roman aqueduct and one of the most significant and best-preserved ancient monuments left on the Iberian Peninsula. It is located in Spain and is the foremost symbol of Segovia, as evidenced by its presence on the city's coat of arms.
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The general term ice age or, more precisely, "glacial age" denotes a geological period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in an expansion of continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. There have been at least four major ice ages in the Earth's past. Outside these periods, the Earth seems to have been ice-free even in high latitudes. There is evidence that greenhouse gas levels fell at the start of ice ages and rose during the retreat of the ice sheets, but it is difficult to establish cause and effect (see the notes above on the role of weathering). Greenhouse gas levels may also have been affected by other factors which have been proposed as causes of ice ages, such as the movement of continents and vulcanism. Although the last glacial period ended more than 8,000 years ago, its effects can still be felt today. For example, the moving ice carved out landscape in Canada, Greenland, northern Eurasia and Antarctica. The erratic boulders, till, drumlins, eskers, fjords, kettle lakes, moraines, cirques, horns, etc., are typical features left behind by the glaciers. This is the Marken lighthouse, given its name due to its shape ('paard' means 'horse' in dutch). The original was built in 1700, then reconstructed on top of the early foundations in 1839. It's still in use today.
Photo of hummocks taken at the lighthouse of Marken. A hummock is a boss or rounded knoll of ice rising above the general level of an ice-field, Hummocky ice is caused by slow and unequal pressure in the main body of the packed ice, and by unequal structure and temperature at a later period.
Een ijstijd of glaciatie is een geologisch tijdvak waarin ijskappen voorkomen. In het Engels wordt dit een periode van ice-house genoemd, als tegenhanger van een ijskaploze periode, de greenhouse ("broeikas"). Aangezien er gletsjers liggen op bijvoorbeeld Groenland of Antarctica, leven we tegenwoordig in een ijstijd. Men neemt aan dat dit in de gehele geologische geschiedenis van de Aarde minstens vijfmaal het geval is geweest, waarvan eenmaal zelfs zo sterk dat de ijskappen van de polen vrijwel tot aan de evenaar waren opgerukt. Ook zijn er periodes dat er aanzienlijke opwarming optrad waarbij die ijskappen grotendeels waren weggesmolten. Het klimaat op Aarde wordt beïnvloed door vele factoren, zoals de intensiteit van de zonnestraling, de ligging van de continenten, de continentverplaatsingen, vulkanisme, de zeestromen, de bedekking van het land door vegetatie, het weerkaatsingsvermogen van het aardoppervlak en vele kleine andere factoren. Met behulp van klimaatmodellen wordt door wetenschappers een reconstructie van het klimaat en de klimaatveranderingen in het verleden gemaakt. Alhoewel er een zekere consensus bestaat onder wetenschappers, zijn er nog vele onzekerheden en tegenstrijdigheden in dit onderzoek.
Hierboven een foto van kruiend ijs. Zoetwatermeren kunnen spectaculair bevriezen. Grotere meren zoals het IJsselmeer (IJmeer) hierboven hebben bijna altijd wel golven, en dit werkt directe bevriezing van het wateroppervlak tegen. Eerst vormen zich kleine ijsschotsen, die naar de kust drijven onder invloed van de wind. Deze schotsen vormen zo een ijsveld op het water dat de golven dempt, en uiteindelijk vriezen alle schotsen aan elkaar vast tot een massa. Voordat dit gebeurt schuren de schotsen voortdurend langs elkaar heen en schrapen zo stukjes ijs van elkaar af; elke schots krijgt zo een witte rand. Zulk ijs is dus totaal niet geschikt om op te schaatsen. Wanneer grotere delen van het meer bevriezen beginnen de platen, die soms een paar vierkante kilometer groot zijn, langzaam tegen elkaar te bewegen onder invloed van de wind en stroming. Dit heeft kruiend ijs tot gevolg: de ijsschotsen worden met kracht gebroken en op elkaar gestapeld langs de dijken langs het meer. Dit hoeft niet alleen bij dun ijs te gebeuren; soms kruit het ijs bij een dikte van meer dan 20 cm. De stapels ijs worden dan hoog, en het geluid is oorverdovend. Het Paard van Marken is een vuurtoren van Marken. De vuurtoren is gebouwd in 1839 en staat op de oostelijke punt van het eiland. De toren heeft een hoogte van 16 meter en een lichtbereik van 16,7 km.
The Golden Gate bridge has been painted, since its construction, in orange, and more precisely in international orange. The choice of this color is due to Irving Morrow, who nevertheless met with strong criticism from officials, who found the idea ridiculous. The other paintings proposed, namely steel gray (close to that of the neighboring Bay Bridge), the aluminum color were not selected, Morrow judging that orange fit perfectly with the various elements of the bay. The United States Navy had even proposed to paint the bridge yellow, with black stripes to facilitate visibility from ships crossing the bay, but Morrow never gave up his original idea, and the bridge was painted orange, which is one of his most characteristic features
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Le pont du Golden Gate est peint, depuis sa construction, en orange, et plus précisément en orange international. Le choix de cette couleur est dû à Irving Morrow, qui rencontra pourtant de vives critiques de la part des officiels, qui trouvaient l'idée ridicule. Les autres peintures proposées, à savoir le gris acier (proche de celui du Bay Bridge voisin), la couleur aluminium ne furent pas retenues, Morrow jugeant que l'orange s'accordait parfaitement avec les divers éléments de la baie. L'United States Navy avait même proposé de peindre le pont en jaune, avec des rayures noires pour faciliter la visibilité depuis des navires traversant la baie, mais Morrow ne renonça jamais à son idée première, et le pont fut peint en orange, ce qui constitue d'ailleurs l'un de ses traits les plus caractéristiques
All life on earth depends upon the sun. Light energy is literally our life source. In 5 billion more years our sun will die. Of course life on earth will have ceased well before that final event. But rather than dwell on the obvious (all things must die), we should celebrate the fact that the sun is also responsible for providing the conditions by which all life on earth exists.
This is precisely what this little video animation celebrates. "Sol" is the Latin name we give to our sun. "Quanta" are packets of energy in physics (singular "quantum"), and in terms of the sun's light we receive quanta of photons. I still think Physics was the most important subject I ever learned in school.
The music is from Gustav Mahler's celebrated Symphony #5 In C Sharp Minor, The Rondo.
* The photo used in this video was taken with the Nikon Coolpix 5900 in January 2007.
Phyllorhiza punctata
Originaria dell’Australia. Nel 2009 un esemplare è stato visto per la prima volta lungo le coste italiane, precisamente all’isola di Tavolara, in Sardegna.
A native of Australia. In 2009, a specimen was seen for the first time along the Italian coast, precisely Tavolara Island, Sardinia.
Welcome to another edition of "Collecting with Bill"! We're glad you could join us today. Now, I'm sure that many of you are familiar with some of the other "collected" things I've posted. You may even be saying, "uh, Bill...this is just a bunch of mixed-up parts." That, my friend, is precisely the point. In the process of building the airplanes I've featured, I often come up with planes that, for one reason or another, just didn't work out. If I think that I may at some point find a good use for it - in replacement of or in addition to a model I'm working on; as material to see how well a paint or a decal will go with what I'm building; turning something into a "custom tricked out" model that deviates from what is historically accurate...there have been several instances where I went to the junkyard and found the perfect answer to a difficult problem. One of the things I enjoy most about building models is finding the solution to a completely unexpected problem. I've found that having a "go-to" spot for unusual situations pays off again and again.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin
Dublin (Irish: Baile Átha Cliath) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. It is on the east coast of Ireland, in the province of Leinster, at the mouth of the River Liffey, and is bordered on the south by the Wicklow Mountains. It has an urban area population of 1,173,179, while the population of the Dublin Region (formerly County Dublin), as of 2016, was 1,347,359, and the population of the Greater Dublin area was 1,904,806.
There is archaeological debate regarding precisely where Dublin was established by the Gaels in or before the 7th century AD. Later expanded as a Viking settlement, the Kingdom of Dublin, the city became Ireland's principal settlement following the Norman invasion. The city expanded rapidly from the 17th century and was briefly the second largest city in the British Empire before the Acts of Union in 1800. Following the partition of Ireland in 1922, Dublin became the capital of the Irish Free State, later renamed Ireland.
Dublin is a historical and contemporary centre for education, the arts, administration and industry. As of 2018 the city was listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) as a global city, with a ranking of "Alpha −", which places it amongst the top thirty cities in the world.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Liffey
The River Liffey (Irish: An Life) is a river in Ireland, which flows through the centre of Dublin. Its major tributaries include the River Dodder, the River Poddle and the River Camac. The river supplies much of Dublin's water and a range of recreational activities.
Lovely old former Naval Research Laboratory's Grumman S-2D Tracker, BuAer No.149240/240 preserved at the Naval Test Centre Museum, Patuxent River, Maryland back in 2002
Scanned Kodak 35mm Transparency
37371 comes off the Romsey branch at precisely 09:40 and heads for (I guess) Fawley on a cold and misty February morning.
Oil trains used to frequent Eastleigh on a regular basis but, alas, underground pipelines have made this traffic a thing of the past.
37371 remained in traffic until November 1999. She was cut up at the CDRC at Wigan Springs during June 2001. RIP.
The carpenter cut the wood precisely on angles. The public did not approve and crucified the guy.
Size: 12x12 inches
Paintings for sale: www.shawnshawn.co/store/p205/Wood_Compostion_IV.html
Newsletter: www.shawnshawn.co/Site/Contact.html
Art Code: AA01188
Art of the Real
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The general term ice age or, more precisely, glacial age denotes a geological period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in an expansion of continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. There have been at least four major ice ages in the Earth's past. Outside these periods, the Earth seems to have been ice-free even in high latitudes. There is evidence that greenhouse gas levels fell at the start of ice ages and rose during the retreat of the ice sheets, but it is difficult to establish cause and effect. Greenhouse gas levels may also have been affected by other factors which have been proposed as causes of ice ages, such as the movement of continents and vulcanism. Although the last glacial period ended more than 8,000 years ago, its effects can still be felt today. For example, the moving ice carved out landscape in Canada, Greenland, northern Eurasia and Antarctica. The erratic boulders, till, drumlins, eskers, fjords, kettle lakes, moraines, cirques, horns, etc., are typical features left behind by the glaciers. The Dutch IJsselmeer lake is covered with icerocks hummocks, caused by the cold weather of the passed days. At some places even higher than 6 meter!
Photo taken inside a hummock taken at the IJsselmeer (IJmeer) near Amsterdam. A hummock is a boss or rounded knoll of ice rising above the general level of an ice-field, Hummocky ice is caused by slow and unequal pressure in the main body of the packed ice, and by unequal structure and temperature at a later period. Blue ice occurs when snow falls on the ice. The blue color is actually created for the same reason that water is blue, that is, its slight absorption of red light due to an overtone of the infrared OH stretching mode of the water molecule.
Een ijstijd of glaciatie is een geologisch tijdvak waarin ijskappen voorkomen. In het Engels wordt dit een periode van ice-house genoemd, als tegenhanger van een ijskaploze periode, de greenhouse ("broeikas"). Aangezien er gletsjers liggen op bijvoorbeeld Groenland of Antarctica, leven we tegenwoordig in een ijstijd. Men neemt aan dat dit in de gehele geologische geschiedenis van de Aarde minstens vijfmaal het geval is geweest, waarvan eenmaal zelfs zo sterk dat de ijskappen van de polen vrijwel tot aan de evenaar waren opgerukt. Ook zijn er periodes dat er aanzienlijke opwarming optrad waarbij die ijskappen grotendeels waren weggesmolten. Het klimaat op Aarde wordt beïnvloed door vele factoren, zoals de intensiteit van de zonnestraling, de ligging van de continenten, de continentverplaatsingen, vulkanisme, de zeestromen, de bedekking van het land door vegetatie, het weerkaatsingsvermogen van het aardoppervlak en vele kleine andere factoren. Met behulp van klimaatmodellen wordt door wetenschappers een reconstructie van het klimaat en de klimaatveranderingen in het verleden gemaakt. Alhoewel er een zekere consensus bestaat onder wetenschappers, zijn er nog vele onzekerheden en tegenstrijdigheden in dit onderzoek.
Hierboven een foto van kruiend ijs. Zoetwatermeren kunnen spectaculair bevriezen. Grotere meren zoals het IJsselmeer (IJmeer) hierboven hebben bijna altijd wel golven, en dit werkt directe bevriezing van het wateroppervlak tegen. Eerst vormen zich kleine ijsschotsen, die naar de kust drijven onder invloed van de wind. Deze schotsen vormen zo een ijsveld op het water dat de golven dempt, en uiteindelijk vriezen alle schotsen aan elkaar vast tot een massa. Voordat dit gebeurt schuren de schotsen voortdurend langs elkaar heen en schrapen zo stukjes ijs van elkaar af; elke schots krijgt zo een witte rand. Zulk ijs is dus totaal niet geschikt om op te schaatsen. Wanneer grotere delen van het meer bevriezen beginnen de platen, die soms een paar vierkante kilometer groot zijn, langzaam tegen elkaar te bewegen onder invloed van de wind en stroming. Dit heeft kruiend ijs tot gevolg: de ijsschotsen worden met kracht gebroken en op elkaar gestapeld langs de dijken langs het meer. Dit hoeft niet alleen bij dun ijs te gebeuren; soms kruit het ijs bij een dikte van meer dan 20 cm. De stapels ijs worden dan hoog, en het geluid is oorverdovend. Dit weekend gingen honderden mensen het IJsselmeer op om het indrukwekkende kruiende ijs te bekijken. Op sommige plekken klommen de mensen zes meter omhoog.
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).
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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.
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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).
Today after the Moonrise at night, precisely at 10-29-50 pm, over the Sea at Tiruvanmiyur - Chennai, India.
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Camera - Canon EOS 7D
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Closed for the Season, wait a minute it's summer, just precisely when is ice cream in season?
Feeling a little less than myself I realized it had been a few weeks since I had shot a Polaroid image. The light this evening and a closed ice cream stand was just what the doctor ordered. Yes I feel much better now.
Film: Polaroid Time Zero exp. 11/06
This batch of expired TZ is close to perfect in color rendition, a truly beautiful film.
Camera: Polaroid Alpha1 SE
Image by: Leslie Lazenby
14 June 2013, Route 12, Fostoria, OH
Engl.:
This year, the sky continues to gift us with beautiful scenes. Among them, I'd like to highlight the visits of comets. In October, I remember two bright ones (one easily visible even with the naked eye, the other accessible through ordinary binoculars). And these comets could be seen during a single visit to the night sky immediately after sunset. Never before have I been able to observe and photograph two bright visitors to our sky during a single astronomical outing. One of them is featured in this astrolandscape. Can you find it? Yes, the comet wasn't lost even against the backdrop of the vast Milky Way. And if you don't see the comet right away, then pay attention to two bright "pointers": first, a meteor traced its path from the birch branches on the right, precisely in the direction of the comet. Second, a satellite left a bright blue trail (a very unusual color for satellite tracks) from the Milky Way to the left, also in the direction of the comet. Now, have you spotted the tailed guest closer to the horizon? Meet a comet discovered this year, even in the astroscape (meaning it's quite bright and large), named C/2025 A6 (Lemmon). I observed it in October and November. I uploaded two telescopic photos to Flickr, which show the comet's interesting transformation: in October, it was green, but in early November, it turned red (while retaining the emerald color of its "eyes"). I'm offering two links to photos showing the transformation of comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) – see the first comments to this photo.
Not visible in the astroscape is a smaller, but also very bright (visible with binoculars) comet, C/2025 R2 (SWAN). It could be found to the right of the Milky Way, and it was also discovered in 2025. A link to a photo taken through a telescope is provided in the first comments to the current photo.
In the second ten days of November, another comet, C/2025 K1 (Atlas), captured everyone's attention. The comet isn't as bright or large, but it also has a distinct tail and color (it's the second red comet). However, it wasn't the tail or color that drew so much attention to this comet, but the fact that, right before the observers' eyes, the comet's nucleus split into several pieces. Astronomers around the world are debating how many fragments there are. Some count three, others more. I counted five 😉 I invite you to conduct a nuclear inspection – using a separate photo (see links in the first comments).
And what about the much-talked-about interstellar comet 3I (Atlas)? Yes, I have already started photographing this rare guest, but while the comet is approaching Earth, I continue to accumulate material, hoping that the best photos are yet to be taken.
Rus.:
В этом году небо продолжает одаривать нас красивыми картинами. Отмечу среди них визиты комет. В октябре мне запомнились две яркие (одну можно было легко увидеть даже и невооружённым взглядом, вторая была доступна в обычный бинокль). И кометы эти можно было увидеть за один визит к ночному небу сразу после заката. Никогда ранее мне не удавалось за один астровыезд наблюдать и фотографировать сразу две яркие гостьи нашего неба. Одна из них представлена на этом астропейзаже. Найдёте? Да, комета не потерялась даже на фоне огромного Млечного Пути. А если не нашли комету сразу, то обратите внимание на два ярких “указателя”: во-первых, метеор прочертивший свой путь от веток берёзы справа точно в направлении кометы. Во-вторых, спутник, оставивший яркий голубой след (очень необычный цвет для треков спутников) от Млечного Пути справа и тоже в направлении к комете. Теперь увидели хвостатую гостью ближе к горизонту?
Знакомьтесь, найденная даже на астропейзаже (т.е. весьма яркая и большая) комета была открыта в текущем году и получила наименование C/2025 A6 (Lemmon). Наблюдал за ней в октябре и ноябре. И загрузил на Flickr два фото, полученных через телескоп, которые отражают интересную трансформацию кометы: в октябре она была зелёной, а в начале ноября превратилась в рыжую (сохранив при этом изумрудный цвет «глаз»). Предлагаю две ссылки на фото о трансформации кометы C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) – см. в первых комментариях к данному фото.
На астропейзаже не видна меньшая по размеру, но тоже весьма яркая (доступная для обзора в бинокль) комета C/2025 R2 (SWAN). Найти её можно было справа от Млечного Пути, и она также была открыта в 2025 году. Ссылка на фото, полученное через телескоп представлена в первых комментариях к текущему фото.
А во второй декаде ноября внимание приковала к себе ещё одна комета – C/2025 K1 (Atlas). Комета не столь яркая и большая, но тоже обладающая выраженным хвостом и цветом (это вторая рыжая комета). Однако не хвост и не цвет заставили пристально рассматривать эту комету, а то, что прямо на глазах наблюдателей ядро кометы разделилось на несколько частей. Астрономы всего мира спорят, сколько же всего фрагментов распада. Кто-то насчитал три, а кто-то и больше. Я насчитал пять 😉 Приглашаю и Вас провести ядерную инспекцию – по отдельному фото (см. ссылки в первых комментариях).
А как же нашумевшая межзвёздная комета 3I (Atlas)? Да, я уже начал фотографировать эту редчайшую гостью, но, пока комета приближается к Земле, продолжаю накапливать материал, надеясь, что наилучшие фото ещё предстоит сделать.
Tech.details-brief: 30frames per 20sec. ISO6400 + ground (30sec F/4 ISO800) + partial frames from stack with satellite and meteor
Is it a coincidence that the appearance of this spider precisely matches that of the raft of insect (probably Hemipteran) eggs on a bamboo leaf? The eggs themselves are very common locally across all vegetation, but could the spider genuinely have evolved to take refuge amidst them? And why? True bug eggs are regularly and uniquely parasitised by certain species of parasitoid wasps, so is this an ambush set to suit a fussy palate (or at least a guaranteed feed)?
Pu'er, Yunnan, China
In mid-September 2024, Jupiter, the king of the planets, stood regally within the constellation Taurus. From a precisely chosen vantage point, this image captures the gas giant perfectly aligned above Aiguille du Dru, one of the most iconic spires in the Chamonix Valley. Aiguille means "needle" in French, an apt name for this dramatic peak that calls to mind medieval philosophers debating how many angels can dance on a needle's point. I may not have the answer to that, but this image proves there's certainly space for a king.
As any monarch should be, Jupiter is surrounded by his celestial court. Moving clockwise from the left, you’ll spot the Flaming Star Nebula, the California Nebula, the Pleiades, and the Hyades star clusters. Wisps of dark molecular clouds from our Milky Way weave through the scene, along with several more distant clusters - and even Uranus, hidden among the stars for those who know where to look.
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Canon EOS-R, astro-modified by EOS 4Astro
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L ll @ 35mm
IDAS NBZ filter with Canon EF-EOS R drop-in adapter
iOptron SkyTracker Pro
Sunwayfoto T2840CK tripod
Planned with PlanIt Pro
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Stack of 3x 60s @ ISO3200
Sky:
Panorama of 2 panels each a stack of 7x 90s @ ISO1600, clear filter & 3x 180s @ ISO6400, IDAS NBZ
Another shot from last Saturday's trip to Havergate Island, off the Suffolk coast.
Havergate is well known for its hares and I had been looking forward to the trip for weeks - but with a dismal forecast and precisely zero hares seen after two hours of searching my spirits were beginning to drop.
Thanks again to Kip Loades for organising the trip - I don't think either of us were optimistic as we sheltered from the pouring rain and squinted at a distant spoonbill (that might as well have been on another planet!)
Anyway, 30 minutes later and the skies cleared and we found our first hare - Happy Days :o)
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Apenas três letras bastam para compor o seu nome. No entanto, é de todos os nomes o mais DOCE, o mais SUAVE, o mais SUBLIME, o mais BELO, o mais LEMBRADO; é o que mais emoção desperta; é o nome que dizemos quando aprendemos a balbuciar e que ainda lembramos quando, coberto de cabelos brancos, já vemos raiar a aurora do Dia Eterno!
Este NOME é - M Ã E !
Por isso, dedico as minhas flores preferidas a todas as mâes do Mundo e incluo-me nesta homenagem, porque faz hoje,precisamente, 37 anos que recebi essa benção - a de ser MÃE.
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Only three letters are enough to make his name. However, all names is the sweetest, the softest, most sublime, the most beautiful, most remember, is what arouses more emotion, is the name we say when we learn to babble and still remember when, covered with white hair, as we break the dawn of Eternal Day!
This name is - MOTHER!
Therefore, I dedicate my favorite flowers to all mothers in the world and I include myself in this tribute. Precisely 37 years ago I received this blessing - to be MOTHER!
Abandoned garage in the Death Valley National Park, California. Located precisely at the Death Valley Junction in front of the Amargosa cafe.
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Today (June 28, 2014) it is precisely a hundred years since the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo - which would lead to the outbreak of the First World War, or the Great War a month later. And the death of millions. Many of whom were buried as unidentified.
This is a shot from the Serre road cemetery no. 1 for Commonwealth soldiers (yes, there is a cemetery no. 2, just a few hundred metres away - and a French cemetery in between them). It is not a big cemetery - actually rather small. It is the final resting place for 2,426 men... Of these 1,728 has a stone with the inscription "A soldier of the Great War - Known unto God".
For this picture I needed a lot of patience since the wind was constantly blowing and hence I wasn't able to precisely focus onto the bellflowers. Anyway, I managed to get a reasonably sharp shot which I quite like. Hope you like it too!
Tadpoles with legs, mosquito larvae doing the shuck & jive, insects that precisely jump across floating leaves…
Protea is both the botanical name and the English common name of a genus of South African flowering plants, sometimes also called sugarbushes (Afrikaans: suikerbos) or Fynbos. In local tradition, the Protea flower represents change and hope.
The genus Protea was named in 1735 by Carl Linnaeus after the Greek god Proteus, who could change his form at will because they have such a wide variety of forms. Linnaeus's genus was formed by merging a number of genera previously published by Herman Boerhaave, although precisely which of Boerhaave's genera were included in Linnaeus's Protea varied with each of Linnaeus's publications.
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"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
An elderly Dani woman with a sharpened fire-hardened digging stick pauses for a moment from work in an elaborate sweet potato garden near her 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.
Mourning and Finger Mutilation
The segments of two fingers on each hand were cut off as a child as a traditional form of sacrificial grieving or mourning for a close relative who had died. Most females above the age of about ten have lost four to six fingers in connection with funerals and efforts at impressing, placating or driving away the ghost of the deceased.
Finger mutilation or the traditional practice of chopping fingers off at the first joint is now officially banned, although it seems likely that this longstanding neolithic cultural practice continues today in a few isolated pockets of the region.
Ethnographic accounts indicate that daily life for a woman in Dani culture is largely limited to a routine of drudgery that appears to have a sullen or depressive effect on most women.
The Gardens
The Grand Valley Dani are accomplished gardeners and pig farmers with a neolithic (late Stone Age) culture and technology. They rely on polished stone adzes and axes, sharpened pig tusks, bamboo knives, and fire-hardened digging sticks - tools that are gradually being replaced with iron and steel.
The gardens involve complex mazes of sophisticated irrigation ditches cut deeply across the fertile grand valley floor. The sweet potato (over 70 varieties) accounts for about 90% of their diet. Digging sticks are used to weed and maintain the gardens. Both men and women spend most of their working lives in the gardens.
First Contact
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 the Grand Valley Dani was established in 1938 during American-led botanical and zoological explorations the central highlands, less than sixty years before this photograph was taken.
Today, about 50,000 Dani live in small compound clusters or settlements scattered across the fertile and densely-populated "Grand Valley" of the Balim River (about 40 miles long by 10 miles wide) in West Papua's central highlands.
High resolution Noritsu Koki QSS digital film scan, shot with a compact Pentax point-and-shoot film camera. Film developed in a Sulawesi street-corner shophouse, circa 1996.
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Ethnographic efforts at demystifying Dani Neolithic cultural practices and ritualized inter-clan warfare in the region are associated with the early ground-breaking Harvard-Peabody Expedition of 1961-63. 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).
•Filmmaker Robert Gardner’s classic social documentary, “Dead Birds” (1965).
•Writer Peter Matthiessen’s gripping first-hand accounts in “Under the Mountain Wall: A Chronicle of Two Seasons in Stone Age New Guinea,” Viking Press (1962).
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Well, ya know, not precisely red but still red .. Spotted right out the window this morning early - grabbed a few shot before he/she bolted!
At the time when I took this, it was unimagineable that Markoldendorf station and the railway would sadly be no more precisely two decades later. On 3rd October 1982, DR Class 24 2-6-0 No.24 083 pauses at Markoldendorf station heading the last service of the day, the 16:00 Einbeck to Dassel special during its visit to the Ilmebahn private secondary railway in Lower Saxony for the annual Einbecker Bürgerfest (also known as the Owl Festival). This station had last seen passenger services in 1975, and at this time in 1982 there were still regular freight trains on the railway, albeit entirely diesel-hauled since 1962. The section of line over which the train is about to pass, was closed in 2002.
The station area as it is now:
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The Redspot Duke, Dophla evelina, is a species of brush-footed butterfly found in Asia.
Male upperside somewhat dark metallic green. Fore wing : cell with two median sinuous short black transverse lines with a crimson spot between them, two similar lines beyond, one before, one after apex of cell; followed by a dark irregular transverse shading between the veins; apex of wing broadly and termen narrowly edged with an obscure dark shading. Hind wing with a slender black loop in cell; very obscure discal and sub terminal dark macular bands and the anterior third of the wing purplish.
Underside sap-green, largely suffused with plumbeous grey. Fore wing has the transverse black slender lines and crimson spot as on the upperside ; a very obscure subterminal series of dark spots parallel to terminal margin. Hindwing has three crimson spots encircled by slender black loops near base, and a very obscure subterminal series of dark spots in continuation of that on the fore wing, but obsolescent posteriorly. Antennae brown; head with a crimson streak behind the eyes; thorax and abdomen greenish brown, beneath greyish.
Female very similar, with precisely similar markings above and below, but the ground-colour on upperside paler and especially pale on the terminal halves of the wings, in contrast with the darker basal portions.
or, more precisely, what's left of it.
"The remaining ruins of the abbey are now in the care of Historic Environment Scotland. The remaining intact part of the Abbey is used by the Church of Scotland as the local parish church. The church contains stained glass in the main east window by the Edinburgh company of Ballantyne & Son, plus several modern stained glass windows." (Wikipedia)
Mainau, Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland.
Mainau es una isla de Alemania, localizada en el Lago de Constanza y más precisamente en la parte noroccidental conocida como lago de Überlingen (Überlinger See). La isla está conectada por el sur con la tierra firme mediante un puente.
Mainau se encuentra comprendida en el territorio comunal de la ciudad de Constanza y de hecho la mejor forma de llegar a la misma es por medio del transporte urbano de esta ciudad, que tiene una línea de autobús con parada en el acceso a la isla. Ésta es un importante destino turístico gracias a su suave clima, merced al cual alberga una vegetación muy rica en especies, incluso subtropicales y tropicales.
La entrada a la isla se hace previo pago, pero su cuidada vegetación, los millones de flores que la decoran (como es evidente, fundamentalmente en los meses de primavera y verano), sus invernaderos de palmas y de mariposas - en el cual estas sobrevuelan libremente a los visitantes y son de gran variedad y grandes tamaños -, su espacio con variados tipos de columpios complejos, y su pequeña zona con diferentes animales, junto a otros detalles, son de un interés objetivo.
De acuerdo con todo lo anterior, el lugar también es denominado La isla de las flores.
Mainau is an island in Germany, located on Lake Constance and more precisely in the northwestern part known as Lake Überlingen (Überlinger See). The island is connected by the south with the mainland by means of a bridge.
Mainau is included in the communal territory of the city of Constanza and in fact the best way to get there is through the urban transport of this city, which has a bus line with stop at the access to the island. This is an important tourist destination thanks to its mild climate, thanks to which it shelters a vegetation very rich in species, even subtropical and tropical.
The entrance to the island is made after payment, but its careful vegetation, the millions of flowers that decorate it (as is evident, mainly in the months of spring and summer), its greenhouses of palms and butterflies - in which they fly over freely to visitors and they are of great variety and size - their space with varied types of complex swings, and their small area with different animals, together with other details, are of an objective interest.
In agreement with all the previous thing, the place also is denominated the island of the flowers.
Norwegen / Buskerud - Hallingskarvet-Nationalpark
On the way to Prestholtskarvet.
Auf dem Weg zum 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)
Lightning flares over Kihei. One of the final few days of our last vacation, and this. After an hour and a half of watching this, I suddenly realized I should have been shooting the lightening.
This was the last strike of the evening - just barely caught it. Try looking up close!
Semi-related: I made up prints of this from Adorama & just got 'em back yesterday. If you like this, you should see the print in a full 11x17" size. The metallic print took my breath away!
This early arriving Hummer is one of several males that are fighting over control of the nectar feeder just below. They now compete with breath-taking high-speed aerial sky dives to impress the feeding females and get their attention (for breeding). This flight action is both visually and audibly impressive! It's still very early morning, and the sunlight is heavily filtered by the tall forest growth to the east. Although I have the sun at my back, the gorgets will not display full red iridescence until it gets a little brighter. In this shot you can get only a hint of the vibrant wine-red color to come with later more intense sunlight! This dazzling display is then based more on iridescence than pigment colors... but the sun angle has to be correct. The experienced males know how to precisely position themselves relative to sun angle to awe the ladies.
IMG_6347; Broad-tailed Hummingbird