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100 focus in-camera stack.
Cosmos bipinnatus, commonly called the garden cosmos, Mexican asteror cosmea, is a medium-sized flowering herbaceous plant in the daisy family Asteraceae, native to the Americas. The species and its varieties and cultivars are popular as ornamental plants in temperate climate gardens. Cosmos bipinnatus is an annual that is often considered half-hardy, although plants may reappear via self-sowing for several years. The plant height varies from 0.61–1.83–2.74 m. The cultivated varieties appear in shades of pink and purple as well as white. The branched stem is usually densely to occasionally occupied by fine, split up, rough trichomes, but some specimens are completely hairless. The petiole itself is inconspicuous, winged, 10 (rarely to 15) mm long, and sometimes the leaves are almost sessile. The very conspicuous cup-shaped inflorescences have a diameter of usually 5–7 cm and contain tongue and tubular flowers, which are surrounded by bracts. There are usually 8 outer bracts, and they are ovate to lanceolate-tail-shaped, 7-15 mm long, 3-5 mm wide. The inner bracts are ovate-lanceolate and 8-12 mm long. They are translucent with many black stripes and a clear edge up to 1 mm wide, sometimes with yellowish or pink pigments, the tip is ciliate. The sprout leaves have gold-yellow, thread-like tips and protrude between the tubular flowers. The broadened base of these spreader leaves is translucent, with a yellow line. The mostly eight ray florets are pink to violet or white colored, at the base may show noticeable stains caused by anthocyanin. The tongues are reversely ovate shaped, have a length of usually 20-35 mm and a width of usually 12-20 mm. The tips are almost dull and have three broad, wavy teeth. Below that, they are greatly rejuvenated. In the center of the flower baskets is a large number of tubular flowers (also called disc florets), whose overgrown petals are yellow, turn white in the lower part and reach a length of 5-6 mm. The anthers are brownish-black and about 3 mm long, at the tips are short-triangular, translucent attachments with a length of 0.5-0.8 mm. The branches of the stylus are short and rather dull, with a length of 0.5 mm.
South Stack Lighthouse, I am starting the Anglesey photos with this wonderful place, exceptional for birds, flowers and scenery.
First harvest of my own kiwis. They're very small (approx. 10mm in diameter) but delicious! Stack of 15 pictures
The South Stack Lighthouse has warned passing ships of the treacherous rocks below since its completion in 1809. The 91-foot (28m)-tall on South Stack was designed by Daniel Alexander and the main light is visible to vessels for 28 miles, and was designed to allow safe passage for ships on the treacherous Dublin-Holyhead-Liverpool sea route. It provided the first beacon along the northern coast of Anglesea for east-bound ships.It is followed by other lighthouses, fog horns and other markers at North Stack, Holyhead Breakwater, The Skerries, The Mice, Point Lynas and at the south-east tip of the island Trwyn Du. The lighthouse is now operated remotely by Trinity House.
Visitors can climb to the top of the lighthouse and tour the engine room and exhibition area.
PLEASE VIEW LARGE! As an added point of interest, there are exactly 400 steps down to reach the island!!
Two trains for the price of one... I want a refund.
A splitter train for the harbor rolls through Fullerton with just over fifteen-thousand feet of stacks between the front and rear knuckles. The first half of this PSR master piece and Alameda Corridor clogger is the Logistics Park, KS to Pier T Long Beach, CA (TTI/Hanjin), while the second half is from the same origin point but that half is destined for West Basin Container on the Los Angeles side.
Not my best focus stack, but this female cuckoo wasp was quivering and vibrating ever so slightly while also letting me get very close to her. No doubt sussing out another bee or wasp nest in which to lay her eggs like the bird she's named for. Those colors are absolutely real. They are so bright and metallic it's hard to believe they are not tiny robots. IRL she is less than 2cm long.
This amazing stack is at Cathedral Cove Beach, Coromandel Peninsula, NZ.
Very many thanks to Nick Twyford www.flickr.com/photos/67654596@N04
I spent a number of memorable days in his company visiting various locations around Coromandel.Peninsula and out to West coast beach's
On this occasion we trekked down to Cathedral Cove from Hahei with our torches at 0430hrs hoping to find an empty beach and catch a sunrise. Unfortunately no clouds.
A magical time..
f11 24mm iso100 79 sec
Filters B&W ND 110 and Lee 0.9s grad
A stack of white plastic garden chairs under some grain silos in the yard of a pet and grain supplies store.
These huge sea stacks are located at Duncansby Head, the far North Easterly point of the UK mainland, very close to John o Groats. I wasn't quite prepared for just how impressive they are in real life, they are magnificent. The beach there is fantastic for foregrounds which I've tried to capture the essence of here. The day wasn't the best for photography and so I waited until there was a hint of the coming twilight before I took the shot.
This was part of a curtailed trip doing the NC500 route and can be seen in my latest vlog here: youtu.be/AyCevz-0vUY
If you ignore the Walmart and Amazon containers, this could be a scene out of the late 90's: a pair of fakebonnets lead a stack train along former Santa Fe rails.
Instead it's 2024, and finding a decent-looking pair of matched red & silver paint is tough on a BNSF network that primary consists of orange. And yet, here's a Houston-bound stack train with such a consist rolling through Richmond, TX on BNSF's Galveston Subdivision. In a little over 30 miles they'll turn north at Alvin for the final 15 miles to BNSF's Houston intermodal terminal.
Q CHIPEA6 04A (Quality Intermodal- Chicago, IL to Pearland, TX)
BNSF Dash 9-44CW #707
BNSF Dash 9-44CW #743
Richmond, TX
January 6th, 2024
1 of many stacks can be found dotted around the Pembrokeshire coast.
I used a 25 Second exposure to blur the movement in the water.
Paddy Field ~ Mae Hia Area ~ Chiang Mai Province, Thailand
Nikon D5100, Tamron 18-270, ISO 200, f/10.0, 18mm, 1/80s
A double stack train for the Ports of LA and Long Beach is next in a long parade of westbounds at Verdemont. In the background, M-BARSDG rests on the main. Cargill's grain elevator is visible on the left side of the frame.
This 6x77s interval stacked image was lightened in Photoshop. Fire Skies are one of the best uses of this type of post-processing. In this equivalent 7.7 minutes elapsed time, the start and end of the fire sky is depicted.
This was taken from the following time lapse: www.flickr.com/photos/79387036@N07/49498158871/in/photost....
Screen saved from 4.5 minute 4K video using Fujifilm X-T5. Fireworks can be seen near the horizon.
This stacked image consisted of 18 images. Minimal post-processing was done. I selected the best bolts and used about 25%.
Picture of the day
An old Norwegian myth rule says you have to put another rock onto the stack if you don't want the trolls coming.
An old Norwegian hikers rule says you have to put another rock onto the stack to mark the path.
A new Norwegian tourist rule says you have to put another rock onto the stack if you like this place and want to come back.
A good starting point for a series of lots of Norway photos being uploaded in the next weeks.
The North end of the Salt Lake Valley is pictured with the Great Salt Lake and ever further mountains beyond.
This is a quick and dirty stacking of 21 lightning images. The quick part is to place the images in camera raw, reduce exposure so only lightning is clearly visible, save, then stack into Photoshop, lighten resulting image then lighten exposure as necessary to bring out the foreground.
This method avoids using masks for nearly each image in the stack. The downside is that some movement (leafs, clouds, cars, etc.) will not be fixed and sharp. That's the dirty side of this technique. Sometimes the images can tolerate less post-processing.
iLightningCam2 app was used for this night display.
For a really crazy stacking of lightning, see: www.flickr.com/photos/79387036@N07/34303851190/.
Picture of the Day
Moon as seen on 12th July 2014, Southern California.........
I like moon shots with minimum processing possible, no stacking and no much sharpening, that will make the beautiful shiny moon rough and with ugly texture...I really like moon photographs soft with its real details without exaggeration of surface details.
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In Explore, June 17, 2025
Inntel Hotels Amsterdam-Zaandam has been labelled the most bizarre hotel in the world by news channel CNN.
This typically Dutch building consists of a stack of almost seventy traditional detached Zaan houses in four different shades of Zaan green. Here, the present is connected to the past and tradition to innovation. Five different Zaan house types can be distinguished in the facade, from workers' houses to notary houses.
A striking exception is the blue house in the upper right corner, which refers to the painting "La Maison Bleue" by the famous French artist Claude Monet during his visit to the Zaan region in 1871.
Inntel Hotels Amsterdam-Zaandam is door nieuwszender CNN bestempeld als het meest bizarre hotel ter wereld.
Dit oer-Hollandse gebouw bestaat aan de buitenkant uit een opeenstapeling van bijna zeventig traditionele losse Zaanse huisjes in vier verschillende tinten Zaans groen.
Hier wordt heden verbonden met verleden en traditie met vernieuwing. Er zijn vijf verschillende Zaanse woningtypen te onderscheiden, van arbeidershuisjes tot notariswoningen.
Opvallend afwijkend is de knalblauwe woning in de rechterbovenhoek, deze verwijst naar het schilderij "La Maison Bleue" van de beroemde Franse kunstenaar Claude Monet tijdens zijn bezoek aan de Zaanstreek in 1871.
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This is a set of sport stacking cups. We have some world class stackers here in Heppenheim. Here you can see the world record by Robin Stangenberg from my hometown (please don't forget to come back to my picture and leave a comment ;-): player.broadbandvideo.com/asxgen.asp?ShowOrClip=c&Med...