Excerpt from www.thetreemuseum.ca/pages/history.php:

The Tree Museum was established in 1997 and is a site set on the pre Cambrian shield amidst the cottage county-side of Muskoka. It is located on Ryde Lake near the town of Gravenhurst, Ontario. The site is undeveloped and includes both waterfront and forest. For the participating artists, this opportunity represents a rare occasion to realize major outdoor artworks in an uncultivated environment.

1998-2019, artists, both National and International, have created unique projects relating to the site of the Tree Museum. These works engage the complex reality of the relationship between man and nature; adoration, reliance, and exploitation. Collectively, the projects explore concepts of identity, memory and territory in respect to nature and natural processes, while underscoring the imbalance that characterizes our current relationship to the environment.

We are also cognisant of our responsibility as conservators of the land where the work is created. Eighty percent of the pathways are temporary and as the work disappears, or is removed, so too is all evidence of its presence. Some of the works are permanent and others are of a transitory nature, with the elements and nature determining their life span. We tread very lightly on the land.

don't relate to you

I don't relate to you, no

'Cause I'd never treat me this shitty

You made me hate this city

And I don't talk shit about you on the internet

Never told anyone anything bad

'Cause that shit's embarrassing, you were my everything

And all that you did was make me fucking sad

So don't waste the time I don't have

And don't try to make me feel bad

I could talk about every time that you showed up on time

But I'd have an empty line 'cause you never did

Never paid any mind to my mother or friends

So I shut 'em all out for you 'cause I was a kid

"It don't get no better

My tongue writing you letters

Feeling you get wetter

We'll be making love until the morning after

And I can feel your tide slowly rising

As I'm sipping from your water fountain

We gon' flood the bed, take it to the ground

While I'm in your ocean baby, hold my head down.

I wanna drown in it, drown in it..Yeah, baby.

Drown in it, drown in it..Just take me under.

Drown in it, drown in it...Under your waters, girl.

Drown in it, drown in it. I won't ever come up, oh." - Chris Brown ♫

Some people believe that there is no such thing as “true love” they believe that love is nothing but an illusion designed by social expectations. These people believe that love ultimately turns into pain and despair. This idea in some ways is true. Love is not eternal it will come to an end one way or another, but the aspect that separates true love from illusion, is the way love ends. “True Love” is much too powerful to be destroyed by Human imperfection; it may only be destroyed by a force equal to the power of love. Diotima believed that “Love is wanting to posses the good forever” In other words love is the desire to be immortal and the only way that we are able to obtain immortality is through reproduction, and since the act of reproduction is a form of sexual love, then sexual love is in fact a vital part of “True love”. Sexual love is not eternal. This lust for pleasure will soon fade, but the part of love that is immortal, is a plutonic love. You can relate this theory to the birth of love that Diotima talks about. She says that love was born by a mortal mother and immortal father. The mother represents the sexual love, the lust for pleasure. The father represents the plutonic love that is immortal. Plutonic love is defined as a true friendship, the purest of all relationships. A true plutonic love will never die; it transcends time, space, and even death.

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Relating to

Derived from

Living matter

Your early life experiences have had deeply painful impacts upon your brain, your mind and how you see and relate to things, experiences and people. Your layers upon layers of deeply traumatic experiences have led you to see through tear covered glasses. Though you have faced pain-filled misunderstandings and further harm as a result of some people seeing through their rose colored glasses and acting accordingly, there is still value, truth and importance in your perspective. Just because some people are critical of your thoughts, ideas and viewpoints is not an indication you are wrong, too messed up, crazy or bad. You have a gift of seeing things from a vantage point some people will not understand or may choose to invalidate. It’s ok to be who God created you to be.

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A few weeks ago I went outside in the rain to take some pictures and while enjoying my time outside I got soaked by the falling rain. I am new to the world of wearing glasses. At nearly 40 years old I’ve never needed to wear glasses and though I still have 20/20 vision I needed to start wearing glasses 6 months ago. Just before coming back into the house on that rainy day I realized my glasses had raindrops all over them. This transition to wearing glasses has felt like a huge change for me and little things like tiny raindrops on my glasses really changes my perspective and disturbs my vision—slowly over time I’m trying to learn to “see through” the spots on my lenses and it’s still not as clear as all the years I didn’t need to wear glasses. When this happened it reminded me of the concept of seeing the world through tear covered glasses and it seemed like almost the opposite of seeing through rose colored glasses and what an impact these filters can have on us and those around us.

sagittal - Relating to or denoting the suture on top of the skull which runs between the parietal bones in a front to back direction.

The story relates that Bishop Aubert (Saint-Aubert) of the city of Avranches, founded a shrine in 708 at Mont-Tombe (former name of Mont Saint-Michel), after three apparitions of the archangel Saint Michael (Saint-Michel in French) . Consecrated in 709, the church has since never ceased to attract visitors and pilgrims from all over the world. The architecture of Mont Saint Michel and its bay make it the most frequented tourist site in Normandy and the second most frequented in France after Paris

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: of, relating to, or suitable for the country : RURAL

rustic rolling farmland

2

a

: made of the rough limbs of trees

rustic furniture

b

: finished by rusticating

a rustic joint in masonry

3

a

: characteristic of or resembling country people

b

: lacking in social graces or polish

4

: appropriate to the country (as in plainness or sturdiness)

heavy rustic boots

Excerpt from www.thetreemuseum.ca/pages/history.php:

The Tree Museum was established in 1997 and is a site set on the pre Cambrian shield amidst the cottage county-side of Muskoka. It is located on Ryde Lake near the town of Gravenhurst, Ontario. The site is undeveloped and includes both waterfront and forest. For the participating artists, this opportunity represents a rare occasion to realize major outdoor artworks in an uncultivated environment.

1998-2019, artists, both National and International, have created unique projects relating to the site of the Tree Museum. These works engage the complex reality of the relationship between man and nature; adoration, reliance, and exploitation. Collectively, the projects explore concepts of identity, memory and territory in respect to nature and natural processes, while underscoring the imbalance that characterizes our current relationship to the environment.

We are also cognisant of our responsibility as conservators of the land where the work is created. Eighty percent of the pathways are temporary and as the work disappears, or is removed, so too is all evidence of its presence. Some of the works are permanent and others are of a transitory nature, with the elements and nature determining their life span. We tread very lightly on the land.

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Wow...how I relate to this passage:

Through spiritual exchanges with Tibetan Buddhists during his retreat in Darjeeling, near the majestic mountain of Kanchenjunga, Merton saw that there was “another side of the mountain.” 103 For him, the mountain was a symbol of that which he had sought on his pilgrimage to Asia. He realized that “God speaks, and God is to be heard, not only on Sinai, not only in my own heart, but in the voice of the stranger” on the other side of the mountain.

-Thomas Merton’s encounter with Buddhism and beyond: his interreligious dialogue, inter-monastic exchanges, and their legacy / Jaechan Anselmo Park, OSB.

“The full beauty of the mountain is not seen until you too consent to the impossible paradox: it is and is not. When nothing more needs to be said, the smoke of ideas clears, the mountain is SEEN.”

-Thomas Merton, AJ, 156–157 (Asian Journal)

Saint Evangelist Luke on a sail under the images of the prophets (from left to right Ezekiel, Isaiah, Aaron).

Artist Ivan Yizhakevich (1864-1963).

Ezekiel, also spelled Ezechiel, was an Israelite priest.

The Book of Ezekiel, relating his visions and acts, is named after him.

The Abrahamic religions acknowledge Ezekiel as a prophet. According to the narrative, Ezekiel prophesied the destruction of Judah's capital city Jerusalem. Then in 587 BCE, the Babylonian empire conquered Jerusalem, destroyed Solomon's Temple, and sent the Jewish upper classes into the Babylonian captivity.

However, Ezekiel also prophesied the eventual restoration of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel. It is believed he died around 570 BCE; Ezekiel's Tomb is the most important Jewish religious site in Mesopotamia. Three decades later in 539 BCE, the Persian empire conquered Babylon and the Edict of Cyrus repatriated the Jews in the return to Zion.

The name "Ezekiel" means "God is strong" or "God strengthens" in Hebrew.

Isaiah - one of the biblical prophets, coming from a noble Jewish priestly family, was born in Jerusalem around 765 BC. e. He prophesied in Hebrew. Isaiah is notable primarily for its prophecies about the Messiah.

Aaron - according to Abrahamic religions, he was a prophet, a high priest, and the elder brother of Moses. Knowledge of Aaron, along with his brother Moses, exclusively comes from religious texts, such as the Bible and the Quran.

Святий Євангеліст Лука на вітрилі під зображеннями пророків (зліва направо Єзекіїль, Ісая, Аарон).

Художник Іван Їжакевич (1864-1963).

Святий апостол і євангелист Лука походив з Антіохії Сирійської. Чоловіком він був дуже ученим, добре знав лікарську справу. Згідно з переданням, яке збереглося у греків і знайшло своє відображення у їхніх Мінеях, а звідти перейшло і до наших церковних книг, святий Лука був одним із сімдесяти учнів. Це йому і Клеопі дорогою до Емауса об’явився Христос Спаситель після свого Воскресення.

/Кость Маркович, Кафедра Сакрального мистецтва Львівської національної академії мистецтв, «Святий Апостол i Євангелист Лука». Християнський голос N 20, 2018/

Єзекіїль - у християнстві шанується як святий у літургічному календарі Східної Православної Церкви — і тих Східних Католицьких Церков, які наслідують візантійський обряд.

Святий Бонавентура витлумачив твердження Єзекіїля про «закриту браму» як пророцтво про Втілення: «брама» означають Діву Марію, а «князь» належить до Ісуса. Це одне із читань на вечірні у великі свята Богородиці у Східних Православних та Візантійських Католицьких Церквах: «Ніхто не може увійти до Раю, окрім як через Марію, як через двері». Образ дає основу концепції, що Бог дав Марію людству як «Врата Небесні» (звідси посвята церков і монастирів, ідея також викладена у молитві Salve Regina ( Радуйся, Свята Королева ).

Ісая - один із біблійних пророків, походець зі знатної єврейської священицької родини, народився в Єрусалимі близько 765 року до нашої ери. Він пророкував на івриті. Книга Ісаї примітна насамперед своїми пророцтвами про Месію.

Книга Ісаї багаторазово цитується авторами Нового Завіту. В Євангелії від Іоанна говориться, що Ісайя «бачив славу Ісуса і говорив про Нього».

Григорій Ніський (бл. 335–395) вважав, що пророк Ісайя «знав досконаліше, ніж всі інші, таємницю релігії Євангелія». Ієронім (бл. 342–420) також вихваляє пророка Ісайю, кажучи: «Він був більше євангелістом, ніж пророком, тому що він описував усі Таїнства Церкви Христової так живо, що можна було подумати, що він не пророкував про майбутнє, а скоріше писав історію минулих подій».

Нащадками Аарона були батько і мати Іоанна Хрестителя праведні Захарія (оскільки він був священиком) та Єлисавета (Лк. 1:5). Апостол Павло говорить про те, що священство Аарона минуще, «бо з ним пов'язаний закон» (Євр. 7:11), йому на зміну йде Ісус Христос – священик за чином Мелхиседека. У православ'ї Аарона згадують у Тиждень святих предків.

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The title relates to the previous photo. The event from which this picture comes, was the first one organized by Pomeranian Railfans Society with the old Ganz-MÁVAG's SN61-183. The journey took one day and covered some used and unused railway lines in North-Western Poland. Here, the diesel motor car in Złocieniec, before depart to Grotniki Drawskie. October 28, 2000.

Złocieniec is a knot point station built in 1877 and originally named Falkenburg, with the suffix (Pommern) added later. It used to have a steam locomotive depot for three locomotives to serve the two railway lines 210 (Chojnice - Runowo Pomorskie) and 410 (Grotniki Drawskie - Choszczno), which meet here, with the latter originally running from Grzmiąca, 61 kilometers further.

Photo by Jarek / Chester

Tytuł nawiązuje do poprzedniego zdjęcia. To natomiast pochodzi z pierwszej imprezy zorganizowanej przez Pomorskie Towarzystwo Miłośników Kolei Żelaznych z udziałem szczecińskiego SN61-183 (ex-189). Jako że to była pierwsza impreza, potrwała "tylko" jeden dzień i obejmowała linie w woj. zachodniopomorskim. Na fotce "ganz" w Złocieńcu, przed odjazdem do Grotnik Drawskich. 29 października 2000 r.

Fot. Jarek / Chester

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What does one do when they have a lackluster bird photo and an equally lackluster farm photo? Then combine them of course. Then you photoshop them to death -- adding texture, Topaz AND Nik and a nice sky overlay as the cherry on top.

Then you play with it in every different combination -- black and white, color, half and half

- whatever. . .

These were the kind of trees that in certain light were bright white -- which was every time I was driving by on a mission. But when I came with my camera -- NOT. You can relate, I'm sure . . .

I cannot relate the story behind this little scene, all I can do is to relate the circumstance.

I was enjoying my early morning walk to fetch the morning newspapers when this odd picture leapt into my vision. It was much too early for the site workers to have started their days work though.

...I guess you can say that I relate to it.

It relates to 18th Century. As of the time of transfer to the museum, the house was the oldest in the village and belonged to Oros family. The house has two premises: house and mudroom. It is one of the most ancient types of house planning in Zakarpattia. Walls of the house are constructed with wide oak cut blocks. Its high four-sloping roof is covered with straw.

This house is the oldest Zakarpattia house in our museum. It displays specific features of national building in valley of Tereblia-river and the middle reaches of Tysa River. The house’s area is 35.4 square meters.

Look at the exterior of the hut:

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Характерною ознакою житла лемків (етнографічної групи українського народу), як і бойків, були білий та синій кольори.

Хата із с. Теребля, Тячівського району Закарпатської області

Датується XVIII ст. На час перенесення до музею хата була найстарішою в селі і належала родині Оросів. Хата дводільна: хата, сіни – є одним із давніх варіантів планування житла на Закарпатті. Стіни хати складені з широких дубових колених брусів. Високий чотирисхилий дах вкритий соломою.

Це найстаріша хата Закарпаття в експозиції нашого музею. Вона розкриває особливості народного будівництва у долині ріки Теребля та середньої течії річки Тиси. Площа хати — 35, 4 кв.м.

Орос Ярослав (родина з Тячівського району) - журналіст, відомий у літературі як ідеолог українського арійства:

“Ментально і культурно українці належать до західної цивілізації. Сучасний конфлікт із Росією — насправді цивілізаційний конфлікт. Війна на Донбасі — це війна між західною цивілізацією та азійською, виразником якої є сучасна Росія. Захоплюючись мужністю у відстоюванні європейських цінностей під час Революції гідності, сучасний французький філософ Бернар-Анрі Леві сказав: «Я французький громадянин, я — європейський федераліст, але сьогодні на Майдані, який нагадав Європі про її першочергові покликання, я також українець».

Фактично Леві у такий спосіб потрактував ідею Освальда Шпенґлера про старіння європейської культури («Присмерк Європи»). Україна, Литва, Польща — надія старої Європи, її свіжа енергія. У питанні європейських цінностей і свободи ми готові воювати і покласти за це життя, а Західна Європа до цього вже не готова.

Вона занадто розбещена комфортом і достатком. Ідея арійства допоможе нам бути сильнішими, сміливішими, енергійнішими — компенсувати покірність, століттями нав’язувану російським православ’ям. Арійство не заперечує християнську любов чи мораль, а повертає до першо¬джерел. Сучасне українське суспільство хоче бути цивілізованим, культурно й економічно конкурентним. І арійство — та духовна сила, що допоможе нам такими стати.”

/Урядовий кур’єр, 9 листопада 2024./

Of or relating to the pleasant aspects of the countryside and country life

GhostWorks Texture Competition #42

Texture with thanks to Skeletal Mess

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Art - Layers and vignette

What does is mean when you see a blue jay?

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What blue jays symbolize. Blue jays relate to everything from strength to confidence to communication, depending on the context in which you see them.

The blue jay is a passerine bird in the family Corvidae, native to eastern North America. It lives in most of the eastern and central United States; some eastern populations may be migratory. Resident populations are also in Newfoundland, Canada; breeding populations are found across southern Canada. Wikipedia

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These naval cliff pantings were an interesting find. As far as I can tell they depict the relief of the siege in 1943 with the arrival of the SS Ohio tanker and accompanying navel support. There is a date of 1986 adjacent to one of these paintings. Perhaps that relates to the date they were painted.

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Location: Luanes World

Looe Island is off the coast of West Looe in the south-east of Cornwall. It is a nature reserve, and glass-bottomed boats travel out from Looe so that visitors can enjoy seeing the underwater world. In years gone by the island was a place of Christian pilgrimage, and folk tales relate that the boy Jesus once travelled here with his uncle, Joseph of Arimethea, who was a merchant. I have come across similar tales in other parts of Cornwall.

I can relate. While on vacation getting in some 25-30 thousand steps in a day, it can be a challenge sometimes to be cordial.

The Tour métallique de Fourvière ("Metallic tower of Fourvière"), a landmark of Lyon, France, is a steel framework tower which bears a striking resemblance to the Eiffel Tower, which predates it by three years. With a height of 101 m (331 ft), previously 85.9 m (282 ft) before installation of the TV broadcasting antenna, and weighing 210 tons, the "metallic tower" was built between 1892 and 1894.

Definition by Merriam-Webster: of, relating to, or being a mechanism in which data is represented by continuously variable physical quantities.

How does this relate to us??? It's Everything we see, hear, taste, touch, and smell. A continuous stream of information to our senses.

This capture is a point on my stream of consciousness which I have just shared with you (thus making it a part of your stream of consciousness).

Dumfries & Galloway

Scotland

A feeling likely every single one of us can relate to right now! I am definitely feeling a bit antsy, particularly wanting to get back out and head out for multiple days exploring and photographing our wonderful natural world. However, looks like I need to content myself with the digital form only for now (together with some walks around the neighborhood). This was from a visit to Boardman Tree Farm in Oregon a few years ago. It was a popular stop for photographers in the fall to shoot the rows of aspen, but sadly it was sold and the last trees harvested and converted to farmland.

This particular crop was from a much larger pano I took (9 or 10 frames wide I think). I was just experimenting, and when I got it on the computer some of the most interesting symmetries got lost in the wider angle but cropping it down made it more pleasing and also made the "bars" at the end of this row visible. I thought that was an interesting little detail.

It has in fact been a delight for me to spend time with my family in recent weeks, and I feel in some ways like it's made up for at least a little bit of the time I missed traveling for the job when the girls were younger. I am realizing just how disruptive the constant business travel was, not just to me but to our whole family. We have a practice now of stating what we appreciate and are grateful for at dinner each night which I think has been helpful. I am extremely grateful for such a loving and wonderful family. They have kept a fantastic sense of humor and a warm and cooperative spirit in a time when it's easy to let anxiety consume one's emotions. I hope everyone is able to find some light and color in their lives right now.

Stay safe!

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I am sure all of you can relate to the feeling of waiting for a moment or a photo opportunity for months and years and then feeling giddy with joy (and quite overwhelmed) when it actually arrives. For me that was Kenya. I am sure you guys have deduced that by now, based on my endless rambling, but moving on!

Not only have a dreamt of taking photos of the great African wilderness for years but in my little head I have dreamt about that ‘moment’ when all the elements come together and I KNOW I have taken a good shot. There is no greater joy than that moment is there? My trip was filled with several such moments including the one above. Would you believe that this herd is right outside our lodge - Ol Tukai, less than 200 m away? Look at them marching without a care in world. And look at that adorable baby, with its trunk, totally out of control! It is the very definition of surreal. I have said it a million times and I will say it again, Amboseli, your place in my heart cannot be taken by any other!

Explored : 5th January 2015

Iglesia de San Juan de Rabanera, Soria.

La iglesia de San Juan de Rabanera es uno de los monumentos del románico castellano que posee la ciudad de Soria (España). En su interior custodia dos impresionantes Crucifijos. El del altar mayor, conocido popularmente como Cristo del Olvido o Cillerero, es románico y procede de la antigua iglesia del Monasterio de San Polo; el otro, denominado Cristo del Perdón, se encuentra en el crucero enmarcado por un retablo-marco barroco. Es del siglo XVII y está atribuido a Manuel Pereira.

La iglesia cuenta con una soberbia portada, pero no es propia sino cedida. En efecto, ante el estado de ruina irreversible en que se encontraba la iglesia de San Nicolás de la misma ciudad de Soria, se decidió en 1908 trasladar su portada a la iglesia de San Juan de Rabanera donde hoy luce. Consta de cuatro arquivoltas lisas, excepto la interior, que apoyan sobre capiteles decorados con escenas pertenecientes al Nuevo Testamento (los cuatro de la izquierda) y relativos a la vida de San Nicolás (los de la derecha). El tímpano, de muy meritoria labor, representa un grupo de siete figuras de las que la central es la del santo mitrado en posición sedente. Esta portada puede ser de principios del siglo XIII.

The church of San Juan de Rabanera is one of the monuments of Castilian Romanesque that owns the city of Soria (Spain). Inside he holds two impressive Crucifixes. The one of the high altar, popularly known as Christ of Olvido or Cillerero, is Romanesque and comes from the old church of the Monastery of San Polo; The other one, denominated Christ of the Forgiveness, is in the cruise framed by a baroque landmark retablo. It is of the seventeenth century and is attributed to Manuel Pereira.

The church has a superb cover, but it is not proper but ceded. In fact, in view of the irreversible ruin where the church of San Nicolás was located in the same city of Soria, it was decided in 1908 to move its cover to the church of San Juan de Rabanera where it now shines. It consists of four smooth archivolts, except the interior, which support on capitals decorated with scenes from the New Testament (the four from the left) and relating to the life of St. Nicholas (those on the right). The eardrum, of very meritorious work, represents a group of seven figures of which the central one is the one of the mitred saint in a sedentary position. This cover may be from the beginning of the thirteenth century.

I chose this name as the definition relates to regions beyond our earth/celestial and heavenly and it also happens to be the soundtrack that was used in the video I created (music by Stelladrone) see here on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MKCZJYChmE

Captured using a QHY600 60 Megapixel Full Frame Monochrome CMOS camera mounted on the Takahashi 130 FSQ that we have the honor of beta testing for QHYCCD.

This setup is available immediately for people wanting to subscribe to Grand Mesa Observatory's system 1.

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Some of the objects visible include NGC4438-NGC4435 are known as The Eyes Galaxies and are among the most prominently featured Galaxies in this image lying at a distance of around 52 Million Light Years from us. 3 galaxies from the messier catalogue M87, M86 and M84, 52 galaxies from the NGC-IC catalogues, but you have to zoom in to see the over 600 distant galaxies from the PGC catalogue.

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Astrobin: www.astrobin.com/m3s2ui/

Captured bin 2x2 over 2 nights in April 2021 for a total acquisition time of 14 hours.

Technical Details

Captured and processed by: Terry Hancock

Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado

Dates of Capture April 3rd and 8th 2021

LUM 216 min 108 x 120 sec

RED 210 min 105 x 120 sec

GREEN 218 min 109 x 120 sec

BLUE 198 min 99 x 120 sec

Filters by Chroma

Camera: QHY600 Monochrome CMOS Photographic version

Gain 60, Offset 76 in Read Mode Photographic 16 bit, bin 2x2

Calibrated with Dark, Bias and Flat Frames

Optics: Walter Holloway's Takahashi FSQ 130 APO Refractor @ F5

Mount: Paramount ME

Image Scale:2.39 arcsec/pix

Image Scale: 2x2 = 2.38 arcsec/pix

Field of View: 3d 7' 41.0" x 2d 3' 5.3 (127.3 x 190.1 arcmin)

Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6, Pre Processing in Pixinsight and Post Processing in Photoshop CC

Explore Dec 16, 2015 #66

In 1943 Dutch artist M. C. Escher created a reptile lithograph that depicts a desk on which there is a drawing of a pattern of reptiles. The reptiles come to life and crawl around the desk, over the objects on it and eventually re-enter the drawing.

Escher would love the colors and patterns here! The Common Agama, Red-headed Rock Agama, or Rainbow Agama (Agama agama) is a species of lizard from the Agamidae family, found in most of Subsaharan Africa.

It can often be seen in the heat of the day. In the breeding season, the males develop dramatically colorful markings, the head and neck and tail turning bright orange, and the body dark blue. Outside of the breeding season, the male is a plain brown. The females and juveniles are always more cryptically marked. This lizard can be found climbing rocks and walls. Its primary source of food is insects.

The males are territorial, claiming small to medium patches of land which they defend against other mature males. Juveniles and females reside within the territories unchallenged. The mature males become agitated when confronting each other; nodding vigorously, arching, skipping sideways, and clashing tails. The loser is chased out of the territory.

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL

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RELATES TO LEEDS TOTW: STAIRS (John Fotohouse Jan 2009)

Alas, she will never resemble my dear departed friend.

www.flickr.com/photos/jamesw-bell/292288524/

Though she looked quite interesting with these lights and shadows!

March 04, 2016

Fabular:

[fab-yuh-ler]

adjective

1. of or relating to a story, novel, or the like written in the form of a fable.

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So the focus in the chickadee isn't as sharp as it could be, but the wings are stunning and I couldn't resist using this as my photo of the day.

One of Scott's favourite things to do in Ottawa is to visit Mer Bleue and feed the chickadees. They'll perch on your fingers and take seed right from the palm of your hands. It's a lot of fun to be so close to the birds.

It wasn't as cold as it could have been so we spent quite a bit of time out on the trails.

Anyway, hope everyone has had a good day.

Click "L" for a larger view.

A long exposure here relates to the tired weather beaten lighthouse situated at the end of Neist Point on the extreme Western tip of the Isle of Skye.

This iconic landmark is quite dishevelled when you get up close to it. I spent some time exploring this location on a recent trip to the island. This was the best of several attempts at a long exposure shot from the top of the cliffs. The wind was gusting and despite my best efforts to try and keep the tripod and camera steady the wind was winning!

You can make out the Island of Uist in the Outer Hebrides on the far horizon.

So this was snagged from my phone. Took this photo a while back. Have you ever wondered what people's lives are. Where they are going? What are they thinking? Just to look onto their lives and try to relate. Never know who has it harder than you. Always stay small my boyfriend tells me. And it's true. Once you get too big you make mistakes and you fall hard. REAL hard. Karma has a way of down sizing you again. I have always tried to stay small. So much to learn experience ya know. You can never be too wise they say.

Another Image relating to History. This is a statue of Queen Victoria holding her regalia. In the background is an example from the centre of Birmingham of the sort of buildings of visual power that she managed to lead over decades.

This video “MIX 9” is another selection of images, both graphic, design and Photographic. The idea is to show the range of styles and techniques from right across my wide range of styles. It is followed in my Photostream by individual images taken from the video, but shown as single images at full size. These will appear on my photostream spread over the following week.

There are more examples of these Mixes on my portfolio website :-

pleech96.wixsite.com/portfolio

Tales of history relate that Dinajpur derived its name from Raja Dinaj or Dinaraj, founder of the Dinajpur Rajbari. But others say that after usurping the Ilyas Shahi rule, the famous Raja Ganesh of the early 15th century was the real founder of this house for a brief period. At the end of the 17th century Srimanta Dutta Chaudhury became the zamindar of Dinajpur and after him, his sister's son Sukhdeva Ghosh inherited the property as Srimanta's son had a premature death. Sukhdeva's son Prannath Ray became famous and powerful and began the construction of the famous Kantanagar Nava-Ratna Temple, now known as the Kantajir Mandir, one of the most precious heritage structures.

It is difficult to conceive what the main palace block looked like when it was young and bold. Wild leaves and veins have wrapped the building like octopus tendrils while the skeleton and naked brick structures give a horrid look as the ageing plaster is almost worn out of the walls. In different parts of the building, structural girders are exposed while there is no roof above. Still from his historical study and the remaining ruins, Dr Nazimuddin Ahmed gave a vivid description of the structures in one of his publications published in 1986.

"The imposing façade of the two-storey palace, facing east has a broad frontage of about 150 feet. The central part carrying a 10 feet wide verandah above is projected prominently. The front projection has a series of elegant Ionic columns in pairs with round shafts on the upper floor.

"The parapet is plain except for a curved plaque-wall in the centre, bearing in relief, two elephants standing face to face and holding a crown. Above and below it are some indistinct English letters. On either side of the balcony a broad spiral masonry staircase leads up to the upper storey. The roof of the 15 feet wide balcony collapsed.

"Immediately behind the balcony a large hall (50"X20") originally flagged with white marble stone and flanked by two 10" wide verandahs on the east and west is roofed over with massive iron girders. The lofty 25 feet high roof is in a highly disintegrating condition. On its north there is another smaller (30"X 20") hall and on the south a broad corridor leads to the inner quadrangle of residential quarters."

If the bricks could paint or write the tales of the Rajbari and its inhabitants, what a book could have been written! But with the silent walls, the palace has now grown old and inexpressive. It has faced not only the cruelty of time but also the ravages of nature like the 1897 earthquake that had left it badly damaged. Although the palace was largely rebuilt by Maharaja Sir Girijanath Ray Bahadur, time has not spared it from its claws. It is up to us now whether we would at least let the ruins remain and let our future generations see them and let their imagination flow back to the past and touch our heritage.

other pictures from the set Dinajpur Rajbari .... Discovering the hidden glory

His Golden Touch

One day, as Ovid relates in Metamorphoses XI, Dionysus found that his old schoolmaster and foster father, the satyr Silenus, was missing. The old satyr had been drinking wine and wandered away drunk, to be found by some Phrygian peasants who carried him to their king, Midas (alternatively, Silenus passed out in Midas' rose garden). Midas recognized him and treated him hospitably, entertaining him for ten days and nights with politeness, while Silenus delighted Midas and his friends with stories and songs. On the eleventh day, he brought Silenus back to Dionysus in Lydia. Dionysus offered Midas his choice of whatever reward he wished for. Midas asked that whatever he might touch should be changed into gold.

Midas rejoiced in his new power, which he hastened to put to the test. He touched an oak twig and a stone; both turned to gold. Overjoyed, as soon as he got home, he touched every rose in the rose garden, and all became gold. He ordered the servants to set a feast on the table. Upon discovering how even the food and drink turned into gold in his hands, he regretted his wish and cursed it. Claudian states in his In Rufinem: "So Midas, king of Lydia, swelled at first with pride when he found he could transform everything he touched to gold; but when he beheld his food grow rigid and his drink harden into golden ice then he understood that this gift was a bane and in his loathing for gold, cursed his prayer."

Loup des bois . Gray Wolf

Shot at Parc Omega which is a ten-kilometer nature roadway in Montebello, Quebec.

From the Middle Ages, beetroot was used as a treatment for a variety of conditions, especially illnesses relating to digestion and the blood.

adj. *Nocturnal:

1. belonging to or active during the night

2. of or during or relating to the night

3. of or relating to or occurring in the night

Nocturnal Stillness. Honfleur, Normandie,France.

PixQuote:

"For me, content cannot be separated from form. By form, I mean the rigorous organisation of the interplay of surfaces, lines and values. It is in this organisation alone that our conceptions and emotions become concrete and communicable."

-Henri-Cartier Bresson

Taking a photograph that you want is often a compromise between ISO, Shutter Speed, and Aperture.

Within each of those parameters they are a compromise.

ISO, relates to light sensitivity of the sensor or film and the higher it is the more electronic noise or grain will be composed with your photograph, which is distracting and renders a subject "fuzzy". I chose ISO800. ISO determines what Aperture to set.

With Shutter Speed, a photographer must consider the focal length and weight of the lens and overall balance or center-of-gravity of the camera body and lens combination and he or she would the intent of the image, that is, to stop all motion or leave sufficient motion-blur to show action. I chose 1/4,000 second, to freeze the motion of the bee's body in flight and leave sufficient motion-blur of the bee's wings to show it flying and suspended in air by the Lift and turbulence its wings generate. Shutter Speed determines what Aperture to set.

Aperture focuses the desired light onto the sensor or film. Aperture determines the amount of light that focuses onto the sensor or film. Aperture determines what ISO and Shutter Speed too set. Aperture determines the amount of Bokeh in the background. Aperture determines Depth of Field and at f/8.0 I was able to achieve sharp focus on the bee's body, as it flew toward me, but its head and bum are out of focus as are the flowers. Also, using too fine an Aperture setting, more sensor spots and dust and lens imperfections will appear in a photo, as well as diffraction, as well as needing a higher ISO and slower Shutter Speed.

Lastly, timing is everything. If I focused and released the shutter a millisecond sooner, the bee's head would be in focus, but it's body wouldn't be.

Some of these decisions can be made in advance of approaching your subject, but may not be accurate and would need to be adjusted.

A gentle reminder about copyright and intellectual property-

Ⓒ Cassidy Photography (All images in this Flickr portfolio)

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Another decade ago photo (2025 -> 2015). Another "Railfan Weekend" photo relating to NP 3617... which is on the other end of this train. (Look closely).

At the time, NP 3617 wasn't yet operational, so why not use a beautiful Soo Line FP7 to move the photo train around?

Soo 2500 was shoving hard moving the train to Palmers, the next photo location. Northern Pacific observation car "Rainier Club" and NP Caboose 1311 are along for the ride with the CN ore jennies.

Maybe someday there will be more railfan weekends... I have some ideas...