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Metal footbridge over the Meuse in Seraing, Belgium.
Vous avez aimé Charleroi ? Vous adorerez Seraing!
Fomapan 100 R09 (Rodinal) 1+50 15'
After our overnight on the island of Niadub, we explored the nearby island of Chicheme, a smaller island with fewer residents, beautiful beaches and nice snorkeling. This picture was taken during our short stay on Chicheme.
The San Blas islands are a group of islands in the archipelago de San Blas, located in the Northwest of Panama facing the Caribbean Sea. San Blas is an autonomous territory in Panama formally called Kuna Yala. sanblas-islands.com
So here is my new look at the Great Nebula in Orion, this time made with narrowband filters and mapped color. Because the nebula is so bright a good image is possible with only seconds of integration - even in my bright skies here in Phoenix. But because it is so bright, it is also an opportunity to study the detailed structures of the nebula by making very long integrations. So this image was created from nearly 30 hours of integration time over several nights. That cluster of bright, young stars in the blue (oxygen emission) part of the nebula is the Trapezium cluster, the center of a stellar nursery where new stars are being born. These stars are lighting up the entire nebula which is roughly 25 light years in diameter - in angle, about the size of two Moons in Earth’s sky.
I feel so lucky that an infinitesimally small fraction of the photons created in this nebula travelled for such a long time (1500 years) through space and found their way into my tiny 6 inch telescope and onto my camera’s sensor. They subsequently produced an electronic signal that was recorded on a bit of silicon and finally rendered into an image viewable by our eyes and brains by even more silicon based devices. This all seems like a miracle to me.
And when we look at the image overall we see colors representing the different kinds of atoms in this amazing structure. These colors are not the colors we would see with our eyes if we were in a spaceship close enough to see colors with our unaided eyes. This image was made by assigning red, green, and blue colors to monochrome images made through filters that admit only a very specific color. Those filters are designed to pass photons coming from the atoms of sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen. In the image here, yellow is a mixture of hydrogen and sulfur, red is mostly sulfur, and blue and shades of blue is oxygen. The molecular clouds and dust in the sky background are mostly a reddish brown.
After a much needed break with all the temple images, I'm back with more. This is another very famous temple called Ta Phrom and what is interesting about this temple is that it is bang in the midst of thick forest, so much so that some of the trees actually grow along the temple structures and have their roots creeping all across.
Once again, a vertorama to capture the entire tree + the structure in one image. The treatment is a little bit different. I really wish I had someone (my wife) posing there in front of it but that area was barricaded and nobody could go close.
Thanks once again for your visit and comments. Have a beautiful day my friends!
The Texas Centennial Exposition was not only a celebration of Texas independence, but also of Texas and Western culture. The 1936-37 Exposition was also a festival of architecture, which embraced the then-new International style of architecture. Traditionally, worlds fairs are the testing grounds for new ideas in building design; Dallas and its Exposition architects chose to reflect the style of the Exposition Des Arts Decoratifs in Paris in 1925. They were also influenced by the recently completed "Century of Progress" in Chicago (1933-34), where the International style of architecture was prominently displayed.
The significance of Fair Park also extends beyond the architectural theme of the remaining buildings. Fair Park is one of the largest intact grouping of Exposition buildings remaining in the United States. Most World's Fairs or Exposition grounds in the United States have been demolished, except for one or two exceptional buildings. However, many of the original 1936 buildings and open spaces remain today from the Texas Centennial Exposition, even though several were constructed as "temporary" structures.
Fair Park is also significant in terms of urban design, open space design, and artwork and sculpture. The Exposition architecture expressed monumentality in design, but this was reinforced by the open spaces and landscaping that the buildings were sited around. The grounds were planned on two landscape design themes: a Beaux Arts theme that involved grand plazas and vistas that intersected or were terminated by major buildings, and a pastoral theme that used winding paths, random landscaping, and building siting to create a very informal atmosphere. The majority of these open spaces, both formal and informal, exist today in one of America's most well-planned parks. Four major open space areas (and their buildings) still remain: Esplanade of State (Grand Plaza—Esplanade of State—Texas Court of Honor); Agrarian Parkway and The Chute; Federal Concourse (Federal Concourse—Constitution Place—Stadium Plaza); and the Lagoon and Centennial Drive. These spaces combine to create a series of monumental spaces, formal vistas, landscaping, and pastoral images unparalleled in a planned park in Texas and the Southwest.
The sculptures, murals, and other artwork remaining from the Exposition are also significant. Often intended to be "temporary" artwork, they reinforced the monumentality of the buildings and the open space design in Fair Park. Many of the artists studied in Paris; their work remains in exterior spaces as sculpture and murals, and inside many of the buildings in the Park.
The Continental Oil/Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) House was designed by W.R. Brown and constructed in 1936 for the Texas Centennial Exposition as the company's "Hospitality House". Visitors to the Exposition could sit & rest on the verandah of the house or visit the travel bureau inside, which was there to help folks find out about and get to other Centennial events across Texas. In 1938, after the Centennial Exposition and subsequent Pan-American Exposition, the Continental Oil Company donated the house to the Daughters of the American Revolution. This 2-story house in Southern Colonial Plantation style features a 2-story front porch supported by six columns and a balustraded deck over the porch. Inside are historical exhibits and displays of various artifacts donated by or belonging to D.A.R. members. One of the more interesting things to see is a Republic of Texas land grant signed by Sam Houston. On one wall hangs a picture frame full of old buttons and badges dating from around the turn of the century. Among these is an original "Quanah Route Day" badge bearing a likeness of Chief Parker. There are also State Fair badges dating back to 1888 and political buttons picturing Teddy Roosevelt and other politicians of his era.
The Texas Centennial Exposition Buildings (or more commonly referred to as Fair Park or Site of Texas State Fairs) was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on September 24, 1986 for its long standing history described above and includes The Women's Museum above. Most all of the information above was found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration and can be viewed here:
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Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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The TV and radio transmitter mast at Alexandra Palace, used for the BBC's first TV broadcasts in 1936 and still in use today. In London, UK
Taken August 2020
Storms Across America - Minnesota: Day 4/7
This is the shelf cloud, as I described it yesterday. Very dramatic with excellent structure. This may go down as the best structured shelf cloud I've ever seen.
We're sitting immediately South of Fergus Falls, looking southward as it surged quickly eastward and towards us.
June 18, 2009
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The rainforest is a giant trove of mysteries. When zooming into the micro world, I saw natural creations which appear so man-made, that they have to be showcased here as nature's smallest architects. This post will showcase the log cabin, jungle tent, cage fortress, poop barricade, and the mysterious web tower.
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Lori pointed out some swirling action in the waterfall (and rainbow colors). It was difficult to capture in still images, but I switched to video and caught it in a certain portion of the waterfall's structure. The rainbow moved fairly fast at this magnification, requiring frequent recomposition. I'll upload the video (convert it to MPEG) when time permits.
July 17, 2022
Severe/Tornado Warned Storm between Liberty - Tuxford SK Canada
Insane storm structure as I stood near North Grove looking West
This day’s forecasting was a challenge! I was seeing a couple different options. One being Weyburn and South (which ended up having a nice storm and dropped a Tornado) and another setup around Raymore. I chose Raymore region and away I went.
Sat in crazy muggy 30+ Degree heat while waiting, and waiting and waiting.
Boundaries forming all over, including my spot! Line of clouds would form and then die off. Form and then die off, over and over again.
Nothing was happening.
The Storms South of Weyburn began to fire up. My side .... still nothing.
Finally, around 5 pm North of Lucky Lake (to my West) a storm began to form on Radar. I waiting to see what direction it was taking and also was cautious of “jumping the gun” aka heading to the storm and missing a storm at my spot.
I let it run a few radar scans and then away I went!
Around 6:30 pm it was looking insane on radar as I was right around Liberty trying to get more South as it was moving straight East at me, and it sucks trying to get storm photos when you are cored in hail and rain and can’t see anything haha.
7 pm, I was heading towards Craik as photos on twitter began to pop up of the beautiful storm structure happening between Grainland, Central Butte &Tugaske (also showing rotation on radar).
7:15 pm I was still working my way South while also trying NOT to get cored in this system as I made my way towards Chamberlain.
7:37 pm I was near North Grove looking West at some INSANE storm structure !!!!
After enjoying that for some time, blasted further South to not get stuck within the core.
I headed towards Tuxford where around 8 pm I found myself in front on an angry lowering with my anemometer clocking wind speeds from 110 - 121 km !!!!
From there, I was too far back to ever catch up to the storm that now is just moving, so sat back and watched the beautiful system from the back end as it made it’s way East towards Manitoba.
What a hell of a beautiful chase day!!!
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