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This is a spherical view of St Etheldreda's Chapel in Ely Cathedral, an Anglican cathedral in the city of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. The chapel is a shrine to the Saxon queen Etheldreda who founded a monastery on the site in 673. The present building dates back to 1083, and it was granted cathedral status in 1109. The east end of the cathedral, which contains this chapel, the Presbytery and the High Altar, was completed in 1252.
The cathedral is the seat of the Bishop of Ely and a suffragan bishop, the Bishop of Huntingdon. Architecturally it is outstanding both for its scale and stylistic details. Having been built in a monumental Romanesque style, the galilee porch, lady chapel and choir were rebuilt in an exuberant Decorated Gothic style.
I created this spherical panorama by taking 9 frames with a fisheye lens and stitching them together to form a 188 megapixel image that covers the entire 360˚ view, from floor to ceiling. Each frame was taken with 5 bracketed exposures to capture the full dynamic range from the bright windows to the dark corners. I transformed the spherical panorama to the 2D rectangle you see here using stereographic projection.
Ref: en.wikipedia.org
This is a spherical view of St Etheldreda's Chapel in Ely Cathedral, an Anglican cathedral in the city of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. The chapel is a shrine to the Saxon queen Etheldreda who founded a monastery on the site in 673. The present building dates back to 1083, and it was granted cathedral status in 1109. The east end of the cathedral, which contains this chapel, the Presbytery and the High Altar, was completed in 1252.
The cathedral is the seat of the Bishop of Ely and a suffragan bishop, the Bishop of Huntingdon. Architecturally it is outstanding both for its scale and stylistic details. Having been built in a monumental Romanesque style, the galilee porch, lady chapel and choir were rebuilt in an exuberant Decorated Gothic style.
I created this spherical panorama by taking 9 frames with a fisheye lens and stitching them together to form a 188 megapixel image that covers the entire 360˚ view, from floor to ceiling. Each frame was taken with 5 bracketed exposures to capture the full dynamic range from the bright windows to the dark corners. I transformed the spherical panorama to the 2D rectangle you see here using stereographic projection.
Ref: en.wikipedia.org
One of the nicest sunrises I've seen in years. There was so much color in the sky I had to stitch multiple images together to get one wide enough. That's Broken Top mountain in the background in the Central Oregon Cascades.
Apophysis7X created: If you steal the graphics, please make a donation to the programmers of Apophysis! ;-) They deserve it!
The Fernsehturm Berlin (Berlin Television Tower) was the reason for being at the Alexanderplatz but we were too early for our pre-booked tickets to the viewing platform. That's why we discovered the "Rotes Rathaus" and we had some time to look around.
Kugeldistel
/ Macro / Spezial bokeh / Blitzfotografie / Gegenlicht / High Key / Pastell / Hintergrund Stahlwolle - Fotografie
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Ball thistle
/ Macro / Special Bokeh / Flash Photography / Back Light / High Key / Pastel / Background Steel Wool - Photography
Moremi Game Reserve
Okavango Delta
Botswana
The Little Bee-eater (Merops pusillus) is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family Meropidae. It is resident in much of sub-Saharan Africa. It should not be confused with the Little Green Bee-eater, Merops orientalis. Migration is limited to seasonal movements depending on rainfall patterns.
This species, like other bee-eaters, is a richly coloured, slender bird. It has green upper parts, yellow throat, black gorget, and rich brown upper breast fading to buffish ocre on the belly. The wings are green and brown, and the beak is black.
It reaches a length of 15–17 cm, which makes it the smallest African bee-eater. Sexes are alike. Often silent, their call is a soft "seep."
This is an abundant and tame bird, familiar throughout its range. There have been estimated to be between 60-80 million Little Bee-eaters.
It breeds in open country with bushes, preferably near water. Just as the name suggests, bee-eaters predominantly eat insects, especially bees, wasps and hornets, which are caught in the air by sorties from an open perch.
This species often hunts from low perches, maybe only a metre or less high. Before eating its meal, a bee-eater removes the sting by repeatedly hitting the insect on a hard surface.
Unlike most bee-eaters, these are solitary nesters, making a tunnel in sandy banks, or sometimes in the entrance to an Aardvark den. They lay 4 to 6 spherical white eggs. Both the male and the female take care of the eggs. These birds roost communally, lined up on a tree branch. – Wikipedia
A large steel ball is placed upon the convergence point of some lines that radiate outwards from the centre.
L'architecte Antony Gibbon a donné une touche d'élégance à cette cabane douillette, en concevant une escapade hivernale de rêve.
Son projet, Burl Treehouse , s'inscrit dans la mission de Gibbon de marier innovation et durabilité dans des conceptions qui laissent les réflecteurs à leur environnement naturel.
S'inspirant de formes organiques, le concept Burl Treehouse nous rappelle que le design minimaliste n'a pas besoin d'être sobre, mais peut au contraire servir de véhicule à la fantaisie.
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Architect Antony Gibbon has given a stylish twist to the cozy treehouse, conceiving a dreamy winter getaway.
His project, Burl Treehouse, follows Gibbon's mission to marry innovation with sustainability in designs that cede the reflectors to their natural surroundings.
Drawing from organic shapes, the Burl Treehouse concept reminds us that minimalist design doesn't have to be sober, but can instead serve as a vehicle for whimsy.
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bert flugelman’s ‘the spheres’, popularly known as ‘the mall’s balls’, and arguably the most well known meeting point in the city, rundle mall, adelaide, south australia
iphone 16, snapseed
This spherical panorama was taken in the Presbytery at Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire, England. Architecturally, the cathedral is outstanding both for its scale and stylistic details. Having been built originally in a monumental Romanesque style, the galilee porch, lady chapel and choir were rebuilt in an exuberant Decorated Gothic style. The present building dates back to 1083, and it was granted cathedral status in 1109.
The east end of the cathedral, shown here, was completed in 1252. The Presbytery was built to house the shrine of St Etheldreda, the founder of the original monastery that occupied this site from 673. The shrine attracted pilgrims for centuries until it was destroyed in the Reformation. At the top of the image you can see the ornately carved wooden choir stalls. Above them are the organ pipe console and the 14th century central octagon tower lantern. If you look closely you can also see the finely decorated Victorian ceiling of the nave leading off into the distance beyond the octagon tower.
Following the roof down towards the bottom of the image leads us to the great east window of St Etheldreda's Chapel and, below this, the glowing High Altar. On the right is an example of one of the beautiful Victorian stained glass windows that surround the Presbytery.
Ref: en.wikipedia.org
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Brown Honeyeater
Scientific Name: Lichmera indistincta
Description: The Brown Honeyeater is a medium-small pale grey-brown honeyeater with a distinctive yellow tuft behind its eye. It also has yellow to olive wing patches and tail panels. It is pale grey below, darker olive brown above and has a long curved black bill. Young birds are paler with more yellow colouring and a yellow gape (open bill). It has a fast, undulating flight and is seen either singly, in pairs or small flocks in flowering trees and shrubs.
Similar species: The Brown Honeyeater is similar to the Dusky Honeyeater, Myzomela obscura, in size and shape, but this species is much darker brown and lacks the tuft behind the eye and the yellowish wing patches. It could also be confused with females or young birds of the Scarlet Honeyeater, M. sanguinolenta, or Red-headed Honeyeater, M. erythrocephala, but these are smaller with shorter tails, lack the eye tuft, often have a reddish face and have very different calls.
Distribution: The Brown Honeyeater is widespread in Australia, from south-western Australia across the Top End to Queensland, and through New South Wales on the eastern side of the Great Dividing Range to Swansea in the Hunter Region. It is rarely seen southwards from Lake Macquarie to the Parramatta River, Sydney, but is regularly recorded in suitable habitats such as Homebush Bay and Kurnell in small numbers, and is a vagrant to the Illawarra region. It is found west of the Great Dividing Range in New South Wales to Tamworth and Gunnedah and south-west to Hillston. The Brown Honeyeater is also found in Bali and the Lesser Sundas, Indonesia, Aru Island and in parts of Papua New Guinea.
Habitat: The Brown Honeyeater is found in a wide range of wooded habitats, usually near water. It is often found in mangroves and woodlands or dense forests along waterways. It can also be found in mallee, spinifex woodlands, low dense shrublands, heaths and saltmarshes, as well as in monsoon forests or rainforests in the Top End. It is common in parks, gardens and street trees in urban areas as well as on farms and in remnant vegetation along roadsides.
Seasonal movements: Nomadic or partly nomadic in response to flowering of food plants. Some seasonal movements in parts of its range.
Feeding: The Brown Honeyeater feeds on nectar and insects, foraging at all heights in trees and shrubs. It may be seen in mixed flocks with other honeyeaters. In Western Australia, these include the Singing Honeyeater, White-fronted Honeyeater and the Red Wattlebird, while in the Top End it is often seen with the Dusky Honeyeater. However, it will be displaced at bird feeders by larger birds.
Breeding: During the breeding season, male Brown Honeyeaters defend a nesting territory by singing from tall trees and they stand guard while the female builds the nest and lays the eggs. The small neat cup-nest is made from fine bark, grasses and plant down, bound with spiders web, and is slung by the rim in a shrub, fern or tree at up to 5 m from the ground and is usually very well-hidden by thick foliage. Only the female incubates, but both sexes feed the young. Nest predators include Pied Currawongs, snakes and cats. Brush Cuckoos, Pallid Cuckoos,Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoos and Shining Bronze-Cuckoos will parasitise nests.
Calls: Clear, ringing, musical: 'whit, whit, whitchit'
Minimum Size: 12cm
Maximum Size: 16cm
Average size: 14cm
Average weight: 11g
Breeding season: April to November in north; June to February in south
Clutch Size: 2 to 3 eggs
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net)
Wilga - attracts a lot of honeyeaters in flower and red-tailed black cockatoos when the fruit comes - Geijera parviflora, commonly known as wilga, is a species of shrub or small tree in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to inland parts of eastern Australia. It has drooping branches, linear to narrow lance-shaped leaves, small white flowers in loose panicles and spherical fruit containing a shiny black seed. (Source: Wikipedia)
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Water droplets on the petals of Purslane (Portulaca oleracea). Spherical grains of pollen on the right. Macro.
A new tack. I wanted to push myself out of my usual method and bring in raw sources from outside of my own back catalogue and use free images from the internet. Courtesy of Bing I picked a selection of "spheres" in a variety of modelling effects ( those that make the 2D image look 3D, such as shadows and highlights etc ). From there I based my image on them.
In this case I used spheres in the 3 basic, primary colours and manipulated from there. Hence the title.
Image created May 20, 2022
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