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Some unsavory things are lurking in the Dog Leg Tunnel
Lightpainting with friends on Cockatoo Island.
Published on my Birthday !!
This is my 18th submission for the October 2012 A month in Pictures project.
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My complete set of pictures for this challenge can be found here - MY OCTOBER 2012 SET
Well yesterday I took some pictures of the burning bus in Chelmsford City centre - see my pictures from yesterday HERE and HERE also
I contacted the Essex Chronicle news desk and met up with one of their people - and gave them a couple of my shots and guess what they have published one of them along with the story and some quotes from myself - I also got my name against my picture as well !!!!
My picture is the main one at the top !!
Essex Chronicle - Page 11 on Thursday 18th October 2012
Original picture
Nikon D7000
Nikon 35mm lens
F3.5 @ 1/40 second exposure
ISO 1250 (yes really)
Published shot from this shoot, Beach edition of Prestige Models Magazine (Manchester, UK-based publisher).
My Matheran, Kandhala point shot was published in NWT Magazine, Netherlands.
NWT is like the Nat Geo of Netherlands said the publishers. Here is the shot of the same from the copy sent to me.
Translation of the article in English [excuse the bad English, it's because of Google translate!!]
The day
crustal
collapsed
On the west coast of India,
the city of Mumbai, is
a haunted landscape.
Broken Lines by cleaning it the
soils, and earthquakes
is the order of the day. Boiling water
bubbling up from the depths, in order to
culminate in the numerous hot springs that
rich region.
These are the remnants of a turbulent
event. Deeper in the interior
towering walls of volcanic supply
basalt proof that this whole
region between 68 and 64 million years ago
periods of intense volcanic activity
has gone through. And what kind of activity:
the turbulent region, called the Deccan
Stage, comprises some 500,000 square
kilometer - or almost as much as France.
Nobody knows what happened. The
Deccan Traps are far from
any tectonic plate boundaries, natural
slits in the crust through which lava
usually a path to the surface
opens. Nowhere else in the world
volcanism on this scale can be found.
Still more are on our planet,
Although smaller, but equally mysterious
'Hotspots'. These are places of volcanic
activity, often far removed
are the plate boundaries, such as smoking
volcanoes of Hawaii or the bubbling
geysers of Yellowstone Park in the U.S.
state of Wyoming.
Geologists generally accept that the
history of such places
be traced to events deep
in the mantle. Hotspots could arise
because the mantle, the hot
layer of rock under Earth's crust, which protrudes
In a so-called 'mantle plume'.
But it seems that this is not the whole
story. Sometimes volcanic activity
help from above - literally.
Hindu
It was at the end of the sixties
When oil companies for the west coast of
India found it strange thing in the rock
under the seabed. Sediments
for millions of years
deposited on the ocean bed forms
usually rocks reminiscent
to a layered cake: the deeper you dig,
the older the layer. That was indeed the
case in the holes off
Mumbai - up to about seven kilometers
depth. There, in a rock layer 65 million years ago was deposed, was the neat
sequence of layers abruptly. Among
lay a layer of crushed rock,
followed by a layer of solidified volcanic
lava of less than one kilometer thick.
Something as dramatic, researchers
when she landed the Deccan Traps
themselves further studied. The solidified
alternating layers of lava that sometimes
by sedimentary rocks: a sign that
the volcanic activity in this area
from about 68 million years ago transformed
was not continuous. It was not
too catastrophic: fossils that researchers
in the deposition of the quiet success
periods found it, show that
Local dinosaurs made reasonable
between all the tumult asserted.
But trapped in layers of lava about
65 million years old - the time when the
dinosaurs abruptly vanished from the earth
- Are colossal peaks of a lava
fundamentally different composition. The
peaks up to twelve kilometers high, so
their peaks over the landscape.
The lava from which they exist is very
alkaline and rich in iridium, an element
these are rare in the crust, but
frequently found in meteorites.
Nature Scheerder
For the Indian-American paleontologist
Sankar Chatterjee of Texas
Technical University in Lubbock was
clear. In 1992 he announced to the
scientific community: the whole basin
off the coast of Mumbai was in fact
a giant underwater crater
of about 500 km across. The
crater must have formed when a meteorite
40 km diameter of 65 million
years ago, collapsed to the ground (see also
NWT, December 2009). Chatterjee mentioned
the crater to Shiva, the Hindu
of destruction and renewal. The
researcher saw the crater as large
brother of Chicxulub, a crater 180
kilometers in diameter under the Mexican
Yucatan Peninsula, which is exactly
same time arose.
That was certainly stir
care. The aftermath of the Chicxulub impact
According to the current theories
After all the dinosaurs and a whole range
tie the other animals did.
As Chatterjee was right, it would mean
the impact of Mexico not the whole
story.
Most geologists were not
convinced. To start, the Shiva crater
simply too great. Although
giant meteorite impacts in the early
days of the solar system frequently
occurred, the absence of
recent large impact craters on Mercury,
Venus and Mars on that day long ago
over. "The surface of this
planets tells us that objects larger
than thirty kilometers in the last three
one billion years no longer have impacts
causes, "says planetary geologist Peter
Schultz of Brown University in Rhode
Island in the U.S..
Chatterjee, in turn, suggests that there
objects are indeed the correct
size floating around the universe. As
the "Earth shearer" 1036 called Ganymede,
which closely by NASA in the
being watched, though he is happy
not on a collision course with Earth. Moreover,
Chatterjee points out that studies on a 'put'
show the Earth's gravity field
the coast of India. That suggests to
Chatterjee here that a meteorite
stamped from the southeast,
an angle of 15 degrees
of the earth's surface. The object would
crustal spot a whole have
washed away and part of the
deeper mantle have scraped.
Hence the huge lumps
alkaline, rich in iridium, melted
rock.
That was not all. The shock of the
impact, the volcanic eruptions
were already in the area were in progress,
have greatly intensified. "A lava stream
was a swirling mass, says
Chatterjee. This 'normal' lava washed
The iridium-rich lava mass impact,
making the astonishing mountain chain structure
was that you today
still see.
Yet the theory has a weakness: they
which does not explain the volcanic
activity in the region was going on in
first emerged. Many
paleo scientists, including Chatterjee,
believe that activity from
was a hotspot currently active
under the island of Reunion in the Indian
Ocean. That would be 68 million years Hotspot
have suffered from the Deccan Traps
located before the shift in
continents ensured that India
moved.
Nevertheless, it remains a heretical suggestion
that volcanic activity, meteor impacts
could accelerate. Nevertheless,
the Deccan Traps in more
researchers even without Shiva impact
may be raised by violence
from space.
To understand this, we need many
thousands of kilometers north watch
the icy permafrost of Siberia. Here
there is another large
accumulation of volcanic rock that has
as enigmatic as the Deccan Plateau.
Moreover, this accumulation, with a
area of approximately 2 million square
kilometer, another roughly four times
large. This 'Siberian stairs' contain
lava slabs up to three kilometers thick. And
they were once raised at a
event that occurred some 251 million years
ago took place.
Geochemist Asish Basu of the University
of Rochester in New York became
fascinated, not least
because the age of the lava mountains
corresponds to the heaviest
uitsterfgolf ever hit the earth, the
called Permian-Triassic extinction, which
More than half of all the then existing
animal families disappeared from the earth
(See also NWT, July / August 2008).
Where did such an enormous amount
lava in such a short time? Basu
studied the chemical composition
the rock to find out,
and came across a surprise. The lava
contained an unusually high concentration
of the isotope helium-3, generally the
signature of the rocks from deep bowels of the earth. "Something had put
ensured that deep mantle material
had come up, but we knew
not what, "says Basu.
Impacts, perhaps? Basu knew Chatterjees
research, and it was
tempting to establish a link
between the two huge lavavloeden that
Both took place around a massive
uitsterfgolf. So Basu traveled to India to
helium have been there and analysis on the rock
to perform. He came back with
abnormal result was the same.
Pressure Wave
For Basu made it a mystery
only increased. Around the Siberian
lava flow was no sign of an impact to
find. Moreover, he was anything but
Shiva believes that the site anyway
an impact crater.
His inspiration was clear that it did
did not matter. "A large impact that
then the world would the planet ever
have shaken, and a pressure wave
have caused existing
volcanic activity deep in the mantle would
strengthen, "he says. If that were the case,
did not matter whether the site or Shiva
not an impact crater. An impact which
the world, the volcanism of the
Deccan Traps have caused. It was
even obvious that the renowned
Yucatán-impact did it.
What makes the simple physics
plausible scenario. Pressure Waves
Earthquakes move extremely
well through the interior of the earth:
seismographs in Europe and the U.S. capture
For example, regular vibrations of
quakes in China, thousands of kilometers
away. A super strong pressure wave
as resulting from a giant impact
may well be enough to
awakening volcanoes and magma chambers
together to slosh. Mild or
dormant volcanoes, this would be activated
be.
To make plausible the idea had
Basu need proof of a major meteor impact
which occurred 251 million years ago
- Rather than in Siberia, but simply
somewhere on earth. That kept him
occupied until 2003 when he and his colleagues
251 million years old soil sample
hands were close to the Earth's crust Beardmore
in Hawaii actually intact
for prehistoric meteor violence. Of
what is happening at Yellowstone Park,
We know even less: here is in any
case does not prove that there is
been an impact.
Other hotspots that another
story. Take the ontong-Java Plateau,
an undersea mountain range on the lava
seabed of the western Pacific,
north of the Solomon Islands.
The area was about 125 million years
recently active, and the upper layers of the
mantle come up here.
A plausible explanation is that a
impact crustal broke, then
molten material from the depth up
could come in the form of an eruption
came out. The escape of
much material from the depth, the
have weakened crust, resulting
the mantle bulge that today
perceive (Earth and Planetary Science
Letters, January 30, 2004).
The debate will take a rage,
but one thing seems certain: the days
that geologists influences from above
ignored seem numbered. "The idea that
impacts can cause volcanism
is very plausible, "says Hansen. "Geologists
are not naturally inclined to
impacts to think, maybe even
psychological reasons. We are sure
trained to observe things that
from inside the planet. "To then
also random meteors
to carry, making an already complicated
issue even more complex.
But ultimately, Hansen said "we
anywhere if we only planet
try to understand when we look
and ears shut. "n
glacier in Antarctica. Trapped in
rock they found specks suspected
much in meteorite fragments.
They published an article in which they
discovery explained in detail, plus the
exciting implication that the two largest
volcanic events of the
past one billion years emerged as possible
by a meteorite impact (Science,
November 2003).
This caused quite a stir.
"Much of the criticism came from people
who thought that meteorite fragments
not long continue to exist, "says
Eric Tohver of the University of Western
Australia. Meteorites are predominantly
of metal and were therefore a
geological moment to rust away,
even if they are buried in rock.
So there was something wrong with the date,
the critics thought.
Not baffled, went Basu
and his colleagues continue to study.
In March this year they presented at
a conference for planetary scientists
what they considered the decisive
evidence: more meteorite fragments,
this time imprisoned in stony clay
which also were the little fossil fragments
dated at 251 million years.
Clay absorbs water, thus attracting
moisture away and gives the dry environment
the meteorite fragments
protected against corrosion.
Psychological
And what about elsewhere? Impacts would
For example, the hotspots of Hawaii and
Yellowstone explain? Vicki
Hansen, a planetary geologist from the
University of Minnesota, holds the
possibility, but doubt.
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CUTE CALF: The camera's glass eye drew the curiosity of this two-day-old Charolais calf at Deerwood.
Picked up my copy of the new Colchester Zoo souvenir guide today featuring this image taken by yours truly. Well happy!
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L’11 marzo 2016, la band romana Stanley Rubik avrà il privilegio di aprire la prima tappa del “Lunga Attesa Tour” dei Marlene Kuntz che si terrà al Fabrique di Milano, uno degli eventi di TIMmusic Onstage Awards Week in collaborazione con Rai Radio2.
Solo pochi mesi fa i Marlene Kuntz decidevano di coinvolgere altri musicisti in un’appassionante iniziativa: mettendo a disposizione il testo del brano che ha dato il titolo al loro ultimo lavoro discografico, “Lunga attesa”, chiedevano ad altri creativi di qualunque genere e tipologia di musicare le immaginifiche parole di Cristiano Godano. I giornalisti di Ondarock, Onstage e Rockol avrebbero poi ascoltato le versioni pubblicate e scelto i brani migliori.
Le tre versioni vincitrici, rispettivamente “Versione più originale”, “Miglior arrangiamento” e “Miglior esecuzione”, hanno visto i Respiro primeggiare per l’originalità della loro.
1) Miglior arrangiamento: Stanley Rubik (scelti da Ondarock).
2) Versione più originale: Respiro (scelta da Onstage).
3) Miglior esecuzione: Astral Week (scelti da Rockol).
Gli Astral Week sono una band alternative rock con base a Roma. Nascono nel 2013 dall’incontro di quattro dei membri fondatori degliYour Hero (gruppo cardine nel panorama post-hardcore italiano, in attività dal 2005 al 2010) con Jacopo Volpe, attuale batterista anche dei Vanilla Sky (pop-punk band di rilievo internazionale).
I musicisti appartenenti a queste due realtà distinte, sono cuciti assieme negli Astral Week con un unico filo conduttore: una passione per la musica sbocciata sin dall’infazia, legata alle leggende del rock blues, del funky e del rock psichedelico degli anni ’60, ’70 e ’80.
Anche il nome “Astral Week”, citazione del secondo album di Van Morrison (Astral Weeks, 1968), allude all’intento di reinterpretare le sonorità tanto care ai membri del gruppo ma troppo spesso messe da parte nella loro precedente carriera. Alla riscoperta delle proprie radici culturali e alla ricerca di un sound fresco e caratteristico, decidono quindi di unire l’esperienza acquisita dopo annidi registrazioni, pubblicazioni di album, tour in giro per il mondo e partecipazioni a festival insieme ad artisti di fama mondiale. Il risultato è un mix tra riff e melodie decisamente rock blues, ritmiche decise a volte riconducibili al funky o all’hip hop e varie intrusioni psichedeliche. Tutto questo è avvolto in un suono garage potente e ricercato ma pur sempre pervaso da un gusto pop nelle strutture e nelle melodie.
Ermanno Finotti - Lead Vocals
Valerio Brunori - Guitar, Vocals
Federico Nardelli - Guitar, Vocals
Dario Gambioli - Bass, Vocals
This just came in the mail today - Popular Photography's latest photo book. And lookie lookie, this photo made the cut. Awesome!
The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale that was published by Lichtenstern & Harari. The card has an undivided back.
Qaitbay
Sultan Abu Al-Nasr Sayf ad-Din Al-Ashraf Qaitbay (Arabic: السلطان أبو النصر سيف الدين الأشرف قايتباي), otherwise known as Kait Bey was born circa 1416/1418.
He was the eighteenth Burji Mamluk Sultan of Egypt from 1468–1496 C.E. He was Circassian by birth, and was purchased by the ninth sultan Barsbay (1422 to 1438) before being freed by the eleventh Sultan Jaqmaq (1438 to 1453).
During his reign, Qaitbay stabilized the Mamluk state and economy, consolidated the northern boundaries of the Sultanate with the Ottoman Empire, engaged in trade with other countries, and emerged as a great patron of art and architecture.
In fact, although Qaitbay fought sixteen military campaigns, he is best remembered for the spectacular building projects that he sponsored, leaving his mark as an architectural patron on Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, Damascus, Aleppo, Alexandria, and every quarter of Cairo.
Qaitbay - The Early Years
Qaitbay was born in Great Circassia of the Caucasus. His skill in archery and horsemanship attracted the attention of a slave merchant who purchased him and brought him to Cairo when he was already over twenty years of age. He was quickly purchased by the reigning sultan Barsbay and became a member of the palace guard.
He was freed by Barsbay's successor, Jaqmaq, after learning that Qaitbay was a descendant of Al-Ashraf Musa Abu'l-Fath al-Muzaffar ad-Din, and appointed the third executive secretary.
Under the reigns of Sayf ad-Din Inal, Khushqadam and Yilbay, he was further promoted through the Mamluk military hierarchy, eventually becoming taqaddimat alf, commander of a thousand Mamluks.
Under the Sultan Timurbugha, Qaitbay was appointed atabak, or field marshal of the entire Mamluk army. During this period, Qaitbay amassed a considerable personal fortune which would enable him to exercise substantial acts of beneficence as sultan without draining the royal treasury.
Accession
The reign of Timurbugha lasted less than two months, as he was dethroned in a palace coup on the 30th. January 1468. Qaitbay was proposed as a compromise candidate acceptable to the various court factions.
Despite some apparent reluctance, he was enthroned on the 31st. January 1468. Qaitbay insisted that Timurbugha be granted an honorable retirement, instead of the enforced exile usually imposed on dethroned sovereigns.
He did, however, exile the leaders of the coup, and created a new ruling council composed of his own followers and veteran courtiers who had fallen into disgrace under his predecessors.
Yashbak min Mahdi was appointed dawadar, or executive secretary, and Azbak min Tutkh was named atabak; the two men would remain Qaitbay's closest advisors until the ends of their careers, despite their profound dislike for each other.
In general Qaitbay seems to have pursued a policy of appointing rivals to posts of equal authority, thus preventing any single subordinate from acquiring too much power and maintaining the ability to settle all disputes via his own autocratic authority.
Qaitbay's Early Reign
Qaitbay's first major challenge was the insurrection of Shah Suwar, leader of a small Turkmen dynasty, the Dhu'l-Qadrids, in eastern Anatolia.
A first expedition against the upstart was soundly defeated, and Suwar threatened to invade Syria. A second Mamluk army was sent in 1469 under the leadership of Azbak, but was likewise defeated.
Not until 1471 did a third expedition, this time commanded by Yashbak, succeed in routing Suwar's army. In 1473, Suwar was captured and led back to Cairo, together with his brothers; the prisoners were drawn and quartered and their remains were hung from Bab Zuwayla.
Qaitbay's reign was also marked by trade with other countries. Excavations in the late 1800's and early 1900's at over fourteen sites in the vicinity of Borama in modern-day Somalia unearthed coins derived from Qaitbay. Most of these finds were sent to the British Museum in London.
Consolidation of Power
Following the defeat of Suwar, Qaitbay set about purging his court of opposing factions and installing his own Mamluks in all positions of power. He frequently went on excursions, ostentatiously leaving the Citadel with limited guards to display his trust in his subordinates and the populace.
He traveled throughout his reign, visiting Alexandria, Damascus, and Aleppo, among other cities, and personally inspecting his many building projects.
In 1472 he performed the Hajj to Mecca. He was struck by the poverty of the citizens of Medina, and devoted a substantial portion of his private fortune to the alleviation of their plight. Through such measures Qaitbay gained a reputation for piety, charity, and royal self-confidence.
The Ottoman-Mamluk War
In 1480 Yashbak led an army against the Aq Qoyunlu dynasty in Mesopotamia, but was soundly defeated while attacking Urfa, taken prisoner, and executed. These events foreshadowed a longer military engagement with the far more powerful Ottoman Empire in Anatolia.
In 1485 Ottoman armies began to campaign on the Mamluk frontier, and an expedition was dispatched from Cairo to confront them. These Mamluk troops won a surprising victory in 1486 near Adana.
A temporary truce ensued, but in 1487 the Ottomans reoccupied Adana, only to be defeated once more by a massive Mamluk army. As Turkish expansion in the western Mediterranean represented an increased threat to the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, Ferdinand II of Aragon made a temporary alliance with the Mamluks against the Ottomans from 1488 until 1491, shipping wheat and offering a fleet of 50 caravels to oppose the Ottomans.
In 1491 a final truce was signed that would last through the remaining reigns of Qaitbay and the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II. Qaitbay's ability to enforce a peace with the greatest military power in the Muslim world further enhanced his prestige at home and abroad.
Qaitbay's Final Years
The end of Qaitbay's reign was marred by increasing unrest among his troops and a decline in his personal health, including a riding accident that left him comatose for days.
Many of his most trusted officials died, and were replaced by far less scrupulous upstarts; a long period of palace intrigue ensued.
In 1492 the plague returned to Cairo, and claimed 200,000 lives. Qaitbay's health became markedly poor in 1494, and his court, now lacking a figure of central authority, was weakened by infighting, factionalism, and purges.
Qaitbay died on the 8th. August 1496 aged 77 - 80, and was interred in the spectacular mausoleum attached to his mosque in Cairo's Northern Cemetery which he had built during his lifetime.
He was succeeded by his son, an-Nasir Muhammad.
Qaitbay's Legacy
Qaitbay's reign was the happy culmination of the Burji Mamluk dynasty. It was a period of political stability, military success, and prosperity, and Qaitbay's contemporaries admired him as a defender of traditional Mamluk values.
At the same time, he could be criticized for his failure to innovate in the face of new challenges.
Following Qaitbay's death, the Mamluk state descended into a prolonged succession crisis lasting for five years until the accession of Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghawri.
Architectural Patronage
Today Qaitbay is best known for his wide-ranging architectural patronage. At least 230 monuments, either surviving or mentioned in contemporary sources, are associated with his reign.
In Egypt, Qaitbay's buildings are found throughout Cairo, as well as in Alexandria and Rosetta; in Syria he sponsored projects in Aleppo and Damascus; in addition, he was responsible for the construction of madrasas and fountains in Jerusalem and Gaza, which still stand – most notably the Fountain of Qayt Bay and al-Ashrafiyya Madrasa.
On the Arabian peninsula, Qaitbay sponsored the restoration of mosques and the construction of madrasas, fountains and hostels in Mecca and Medina.
After a serious fire struck the Mosque of the Prophet in Medina in 1481, the building, including the Tomb of the Prophet, was extensively renewed through Qaitbay's patronage.
One of Qaitbay's largest building projects in Cairo was his funerary complex in the Northern Cemetery, which included his mausoleum, a mosque/madrasa, a maq'ad (reception hall), and various auxiliary structures and functions attached to it. It is considered a masterpiece of late Mamluk architecture, and is featured today on Egypt's 1 pound note.
His other contributions in Cairo include a Wikala at Bab al-Nasr, a Wikala-Sabil-Kuttab near al-Azhar Mosque, a Sabil-Kuttab on Saliba street, a madrasa-mosque at Qal'at al-Kabsh, a mosque on Rhoda Island, and a palace that is now incorporated into the Bayt Al-Razzaz palace.
Other amirs and patrons also built notable projects under his reign, such as the Mosque of Amir Qijmas al-Ishaqi, which feature the same refined architectural style of his time.
In Alexandria he notably built a fortress on the site of the ruined Pharos, now known as the Citadel of Qaitbay.
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Photograph taken at an altitude of One hundred and fifty one metres at 14.39pm on Thursday May 9th 2024, off the A470 at Gilfach Nature Reserve on the Afon Marteg in Rhayader, Mid Wales.
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I got one of my photos published in this magazine: Landscape Trades .
It's in April's edition and it will be available online in May =)
I'm really proud and excited about it :)
Big thanks to Melissa Steep (art director).