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Merry Christmas to you and yours...
Remember, if Christmas isn't found in your heart , you won't find it under a tree....
Taken on IDIA Laboratories , by AM Radio
Bryce Canyon National Park
Panorama 11,896 x 4,800 pixels
Camera: Canon Eos 6D
Lens: EF24-105mmF/4L-IS-USM
Aperture: f/11.0
Focal Length: 58 mm
Shutter Speed: 1/160
ISO: 200
Another dive into my archives from 2018 as I have not been out shooting much over the past several weeks.
Evening shot of downtown Pittsburgh during the Christmas season. (A special place to be during the holidays).
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One from the archives
Yorkshire Dales - Lower Barn/ Embankment Female
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Lake Ullswater, Lake District, Cambria. England (UK).
Ullswater is the second largest lake in the English Lake District, being approximately nine miles (14.5 kilometres) long and 0.75 miles (1,2 km) wide with a maximum depth of slightly more than 60 metres (~200 ft). Many regard Ullswater as the most beautiful of the English lakes.
It is a typical Lake District narrow "ribbon lake" formed after the last ice age when a glacier scooped out the valley floor. When the glacier retreated, the deepened section filled with meltwater which became lake Ullswater.
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Recently I headed to Alviso to witness the sunset. The cloud cover was too dense in the west were the sun was settling. I took this long exposure after sunset, when the houses had lights on.
I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC2422_hdr1bal1d
It was taken on the northwestern edge of Spitsbergen, in the Svalbard archipelago, not far from the receding snout of the Aavatsmarkbreen glacier — a place where the Arctic breathes in whispers and fractures. The date was late August, the season of deceptive warmth when the midnight sun hovers low and the ice begins to bleed.
The formation in the photograph is not solid rock, as some might think at first glance, but the collapsed mouth of a subglacial tunnel, formed by meltwater carving through the glacier’s underbelly. Years of pressure and refreezing sculpted those contoured ridges — layers of ancient snowfall compressed into dense, cerulean ice. The faint cyan glow inside the cave isn’t artificial; it’s scattered light refracting through air bubbles trapped millennia ago when mammoths still roamed the Siberian steppe.
The air inside smells faintly metallic, like cold iron and salt. It’s utterly still, except for the slow, rhythmic crack of thawing ice — a sound like distant gunfire, echoing across the bay. On calm days, the sea around the ice gate mirrors the sky in a sheet of mercury grey. On others, the wind funnels through the arch, producing a low hum, as if the glacier itself were exhaling.
Scientists who mapped this region in 2023 used drones to capture melt patterns here. They found that the ice retreated 37 meters in just two years — a rate almost double that of the previous decade. Beneath this particular overhang, water temperatures measured 1.4°C above the long-term average, enough to weaken the internal structure. Within a few seasons, this cathedral of ice will collapse into the fjord and drift into oblivion, another silent casualty of warming currents from the West Spitsbergen Current, which brings Atlantic heat ever closer to the pole.
Image originally generated with DALL-E, then enhanced through upscaling in Leonardo AI and finally refined with Topaz Gigapixel AI.
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