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Today my two shots are taken in Redcliffe on the north side of Brisbane.
This image is in the suburb of Woody Point and the Ferris Wheel in the next shot is about a kilometre to the south (right) on the shoreline at Clontarf. The view looks out into what is essentially Bramble Bay which is a subset of the much larger Moreton Bay off South East Queensland.
National Geographic hailed this south-west view as an outstanding sunset scene several years ago. But only in summer when the sun is in the Southern Hemisphere sky.
In the distance is the D'Aigular Range which rings Brisbane's north on its western side while the bridge is the Ted Smout Memorial Bridge across the 2.7 kilometres wide estuary of the Pine River. On the far side of the bridge one enters Brisbane proper. The bridge is paralleled on the western side by the older Houghton Highway bridge.
If you consult google earth, all that may be much clearer!
3m 50 high and 1.85m wide to half a meter thick, the tell-tail lines of being a statue menhir are faded but present, and this megalith is hyperbolic when compared to many local examples and perhaps best comparable with another granite Statue Menhir several kilometres to the south: Menhir du Laouzeto, which is a good third smaller at 2,10 x 1,37 x 0,44 but is also finely shaped and smoothed and perhaps made by persons in contact with the Peyro Levado team. Today this statue menhir is positioned at the entrance to today's town of Lacaune-les-Bain and the attraction of vivid sources of water might be registered. It is presented on Wiki as the largest Statue Menhir in the world. It seems that it was originally discovered near a close by pot hole (trou de l’Aven). The statue menhir is under the Monts de Lacaunes - a series of similar highted peaks that afford views back north over Rance-group Statue Menhir country, and out towards the cliffs of Millau with its implied routes up to the Bondons menhir cluster. The views from the Lacaune summits also look south over the western peaks of the Pyrenees.
As far as I am aware, the last statue menhirs of the Rouergat group occur around 15km to the south, with the minor subset of 'Agout Statue Menhirs', otherwise the 'Monts de Lacaunes' sub group makes up the last substancial Rouergat group which perhaps has around 60 examples - many with a full range of details. There seems to be a buffer of land to the north with the statue menhirs perhaps retaining a culture within a human distance of rivers.
The peak of the Monts de Lacaunes that is pictured behind is known as the Roc de Montalet - 1259m and this is probably the largest Statue Menhir of mainland France.
AJ
Epcot's "Living With the Land" attraction.
Hydroponics is a subset of hydroculture, which is a method of growing plants without soil, by instead using mineral nutrient solutions in a water solvent. Terrestrial plants may be grown with only their roots exposed to the nutritious liquid, or the roots may be physically supported by an inert medium such as perlite, gravel, or other substrates.
The Prairie Warbler (Setophaga discolor), like the majority of other warblers, is highly migratory. However, a small subset of prairie warblers reside permanently in Florida's mangrove swamps, and they have evolved to be slightly larger than their nomadic brethren; they also have white spots on their tails.
Despite their name, they are not found in prairies, but usually in scrubby fields or forests, where they tend to their young. Often, they can be found on Christmas tree farms and, indeed, this handsome fellow was discovered on one. While he was the only one seen, many others were heard singing--Christmas carols?--in the pines!
The sun emitted a trio of mid-level solar flares on April 2-3, 2017. The first peaked at 4:02 a.m. EDT on April 2, the second peaked at 4:33 p.m. EDT on April 2, and the third peaked at 10:29 a.m. EDT on April 3. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured images of the three events. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however — when intense enough — they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel.
Learn more: go.nasa.gov/2oQVFju
Caption: NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare peaking at 10:29 a.m. EDT on April 3, 2017, as seen in the bright flash near the sun’s upper right edge. The image shows a subset of extreme ultraviolet light that highlights the extremely hot material in flares and which is typically colorized in teal.
Credits: NASA/SDO
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I recently took a co-worker of mine to Multnomah Falls for his first visit. He hadn't been before because he thought it was a longer hike in. I should him that it wasn't. Naturally it was a really busy day at the falls since it wasn't raining. I always find it fascinating to watch the behavior of photographers in public spots like this. It does run the gamut. Of course there are the photographers that feel like they are shooting you dirty looks for daring to photograph the same thing they are, as if their idea to photograph Multnomah Falls in autumn color was somehow unique to them. But they are just one subset. Another was the photographer who set up next to me and was doing his own thing til I pulled out my pinhole. He saw it and was immediately curious and asked me all about it. But I wasn't the only photographer in that pair with an interesting camera. He had a Nikon Coolpix I had never seen that had something like a 28-2000mm zoom lens on it. He demonstrated by zooming in on the rocks at the top of the falls. I was definitely impressed. We had a good conversation and we ended up friending each other on Instagram. Then there was the lady on the other side of him, who when she heard me explain my pinhole as my answer to the problem of dealing with water-spotted lenses loudly proclaimed that I sucked. She meant it as a joke, but it came out more than a bit obnoxious, which she doubled down a couple seconds later when she equally, loudly proclaimed that she was wondering how long til all the people on the bridge up above got out of her way, and she hoped the bridge collapsed on them. Me and the other photographer did our best to ignore her and I was secretly thankful that he was between her and me.
So yeah, it is an interesting experience to go into a crowded, loud, jostling spot like this and make images that are much quieter. To some degree, it mirrors my mindset while there and photography helps me find a bit of quiet even in busy places.
Anyway, I've been on a pano kick of late, so here is my third pano in a row but with a different camera.
Holga WPC
Kodak Ektar
Headquarters of Clan Campbell, the largest clan in Scotland. I am a member of the clan under the subset (sept) Campbell of Cawdor (as in Macbeth).
Inveraray is: Inver = mouth of and Aray is the river.
I had to carefully make my way across about 50 metres of the slimy boulder strewn river bed shielding my camera in case I fell and smashed it.
I've certainly never seen this before! Since newts (a somewhat more aquatic subset of salamanders) are somewhat toxic and have this orange belly to advertise that fact, I'm wondering how she did with this meal. Perhaps she'll pick something else from the menu next time!
I've never seen a salamander at my regular pond and a friend of mine who should know (thanks Karen!) tells me that any pond with fish will not have salamanders. This is a smaller pond, apparently without fish, where I also spotted the goslings. Hooded merganser hen with probably a rough-skinned newt, Siskiyou County, California
Too early, too cold? It's time to rise and shine. I've got work to do.
Observational understanding of the surrounding area through a deep, philosophical thought process. How to conquer this mountain. Formulating strategy utilizing what is given during the current situation.
The retina is a literal extension of your brain that transforms photons of light into neuronal signals. There are various organs in the ear canal that transform vibrations of air into spatial temporal patterns firing along a specialized nerve. There are also the raised buds on one's tongue, G-protein receptors on the tiny hairs inside one's nose. These are but a subset of touch. Sense receptors that cover the skin, bones, muscles, blood vessels, excetera, transmitting data on temperature; pressure; and pain. So you really only have three senses. But do continue to flatter yourself into thinking you have five. It's an advantage as these senses collaborate with the executive region of the brain.
concentrate on the blue water because the sky is kinda blown out (should of done hdr or used a GND) -- nevertheless I like the ways it looks, especially the blue water -- taken on the shores of Lake Huron.
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Heliconia, derived from the Greek word helikonios, is a genus of about 100 to 200 species of flowering plants which are native to the tropical Americas and Pacific Ocean islands west to Indonesia. Many species of Heliconia are found in rainforests or tropical wet forests of these regions. Common names for the genus include lobster-claws, wild plantains or false bird-of-paradise because of their close similarity to the bird-of-paradise flowers (Strelitzia). Collectively, these plants are also simply called Heliconias.
These plants range from 1 ½ to 15 feet tall depending on species. The simple leaves of these plants range from 6 inches to 10 feet. They are characteristically long, oblong, alternate, or growing opposite one another on non-woody petioles often longer than the leaf, often forming large clumps with age. Their flowers are produced on long, erect or drooping panicles, and consist of brightly colored waxy bracts with small true flowers peeping out. The growth habit of heliconias is similar to Canna, Strelitzia, and bananas, to which they are related. The flowers can be hues of reds, oranges, yellows, and greens. The plants typically flower during the wet season. The bracts protect the flowers; floral shape often limits pollination to a subset of hummingbirds.
Heliconias are grown for florists and as landscape plants in tropical regions all over the world. Heliconias need an abundance of water, sunlight, and soils rich in humus. The flower of H. psittacorum (Parrot Heliconia) is especially distinctive, its greenish-yellow flowers with black spots and red bracts are reminiscent of bright parrot plumage. Most commonly grown landscape Heliconia species include Heliconia augusta, H. bihai, H. brasiliensis, H. caribaea, H. latispatha, H. pendula, H. psittacorum, H. rostrata, H. schiediana, and H. wagneriana.
Heliconias are an important food source for forest hummingbirds, some of which (for example Rufous-breasted Hermit, Glaucis hirsuta) also use the plant for nesting. The Honduran White Bat, Ectophylla alba also lives in tents it makes from Heliconia leaves.
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
Heliconia, derived from the Greek word helikonios, is a genus of about 100 to 200 species of flowering plants native to the tropical Americas and the Pacific Ocean islands west to Indonesia. Many species of Heliconia are found in rainforests or tropical wet forests of these regions. Common names for the genus include lobster-claws, wild plantains or false bird-of-paradise. The last term refers to their close similarity to the bird-of-paradise flowers (Strelitzia). Collectively, these plants are also simply referred to as heliconias.
The Heliconia are a monophyletic genus in the family Heliconiaceae, but was formerly included in the family Musaceae, which includes the bananas (e.g., Musa, Ensete; Judd et al., 2007). However, the APG system of 1998, and its successor, the APG II system of 2003, confirms the Heliconiaceae as distinct and places them in the order Zingiberales, in the commelinid clade of monocots.
These herbaceous plants range from 0.5 to nearly 4.5 meters (1.5–15 feet) tall depending on the species (Berry and Kress, 1991). The simple leaves of these plants are 15–300 cm (6 in-10 ft). They are characteristically long, oblong, alternate, or growing opposite one another on non-woody petioles often longer than the leaf, often forming large clumps with age. Their flowers are produced on long, erect or drooping panicles, and consist of brightly colored waxy bracts, with small true flowers peeping out from the bracts. The growth habit of heliconias is similar to Canna, Strelitzia, and bananas, to which they are related.The flowers can be hues of reds, oranges, yellows, and greens, and are subtended by brightly colored bracts. The plants typically flower during the wet season. These bracts protect the flowers; floral shape often limits pollination to a subset of the hummingbirds in the region (Gilman and Meerow, 2007).
Heliconia Mildred, Heliconia mathiasiae 'Mildred'
Windows to the Tropics, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
This was taken at 42nd Street and the East River, looking across at the iconic Pepsi-Cola sign.
It's amazing (at least to someone of my generation) what you can learn from the Internet. I typed the following phrase into my Apple Safari web browser -- "when was the Pepsi billboard first installed on the East River?", and Google immediately gave me a list of several thousand Web pages, the first of which was a Mar 1, 2011 posting on the blog, "Icons of New York," by one Andrew Kay. The posting was titled "Neon Lights across the East River," and it told me that...
"When I take Sherlock for his evening walk to the end of East 52nd Street, the spectacular Pepsi-Cola sign across the East River always captivates me. The dramatic Art Deco script outlined in ruby-red neon reminds me of a legend about a famous River House applicant who didn’t make the grade.
"It was rumored that Joan Crawford had the Pepsi-Cola sign strategically planted in Long Island City—in full view of River House residents—as retaliation when her application was vetoed. The president of the co-op board at the time was Robert Woodruff, the former president of Coca-Cola. The actress was the widow of Pepsi CEO Alfred Steele and served on the board of directors. She was an early proponent of brand placement; and the gesture would have been a triumph. As tempting as it is to believe, the tale is pure fiction.
"Designed by the Artkraft Strauss Sign Corporation, which created many Times Square dazzlers, the sign had topped PepsiCo’s Hunters Point bottling plant since 1938. Capitals “P” and “C” stood approximately 44-feet high. Smaller letters ranged from 15-to-18-feet high. The logo was modernized in 1942 when a dash was inserted to replace the “double dot” colon, which appeared with the original Pepsi name.
If you want to read the rest of the story (which goes on for several more paragraphs), you can find it at
But in any case, it does confirm that the Pepsi sign has been an "icon of New York" since 1938. And Im pretty sure that if you kidnapped a New Yorker in some other part of the country ("but why would a New Yorker even want to go to some of the part of the country?" you're probably thinking. Shush, don't interrupt), blindfolded him, and put him down on the FDR Drive at 42nd Street before removing the blindfold, our intrepid New Yorker would slowly turn around, spot the sign, and shout, "I know where I am!"
And then he would be run over by the onrushing traffic up the FDR Drive.
C'est la vie ...
Note: I chose this as my "photo of the day" for Friday the 13th, Nov 13, 2015.
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This set of photos is based on a very simple concept: walk every block of Manhattan with a camera, and see what happens. To avoid missing anything, walk both sides of the street.
That's all there is to it …
Of course, if you wanted to be more ambitious, you could also walk the streets of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx. But that's more than I'm willing to commit to at this point, and I'll leave the remaining boroughs of New York City to other, more adventurous photographers.
Oh, actually, there's one more small detail: leave the photos alone for a month -- unedited, untouched, and unviewed. By the time I actually focus on the first of these "every-block" photos, I will have taken more than 8,000 images on the nearby streets of the Upper West Side -- plus another several thousand in Rome, Coney Island, and the various spots in NYC where I traditionally take photos. So I don't expect to be emotionally attached to any of the "every-block" photos, and hope that I'll be able to make an objective selection of the ones worth looking at.
As for the criteria that I've used to select the small subset of every-block photos that get uploaded to Flickr: there are three. First, I'll upload any photo that I think is "great," and where I hope the reaction of my Flickr-friends will be, "I have no idea when or where that photo was taken, but it's really a terrific picture!"
A second criterion has to do with place, and the third involves time. I'm hoping that I'll take some photos that clearly say, "This is New York!" to anyone who looks at it. Obviously, certain landscape icons like the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty would satisfy that criterion; but I'm hoping that I'll find other, more unexpected examples. I hope that I'll be able to take some shots that will make a "local" viewer say, "Well, even if that's not recognizable to someone from another part of the country, or another part of the world, I know that that's New York!" And there might be some photos where a "non-local" viewer might say, "I had no idea that there was anyplace in New York City that was so interesting/beautiful/ugly/spectacular."
As for the sense of time: I remember wandering around my neighborhood in 2005, photographing various shops, stores, restaurants, and business establishments -- and then casually looking at the photos about five years later, and being stunned by how much had changed. Little by little, store by store, day by day, things change … and when you've been around as long as I have, it's even more amazing to go back and look at the photos you took thirty or forty years ago, and ask yourself, "Was it really like that back then? Seriously, did people really wear bell-bottom jeans?"
So, with the expectation that I'll be looking at these every-block photos five or ten years from now (and maybe you will be, too), I'm going to be doing my best to capture scenes that convey the sense that they were taken in the year 2013 … or at least sometime in the decade of the 2010's (I have no idea what we're calling this decade yet). Or maybe they'll just say to us, "This is what it was like a dozen years after 9-11".
Movie posters are a trivial example of such a time-specific image; I've already taken a bunch, and I don't know if I'll ultimately decide that they're worth uploading. Women's fashion/styles are another obvious example of a time-specific phenomenon; and even though I'm definitely not a fashion expert, I suspected that I'll be able to look at some images ten years from now and mutter to myself, "Did we really wear shirts like that? Did women really wear those weird skirts that are short in the front, and long in the back? Did everyone in New York have a tattoo?"
Another example: I'm fascinated by the interactions that people have with their cellphones out on the street. It seems that everyone has one, which certainly wasn't true a decade ago; and it seems that everyone walks down the street with their eyes and their entire conscious attention riveted on this little box-like gadget, utterly oblivious about anything else that might be going on (among other things, that makes it very easy for me to photograph them without their even noticing, particularly if they've also got earphones so they can listen to music or carry on a phone conversation). But I can't help wondering whether this kind of social behavior will seem bizarre a decade from now … especially if our cellphones have become so miniaturized that they're incorporated into the glasses we wear, or implanted directly into our eyeballs.
If you have any suggestions about places that I should definitely visit to get some good photos, or if you'd like me to photograph you in your little corner of New York City, please let me know. You can send me a Flickr-mail message, or you can email me directly at ed-at-yourdon-dot-com
Stay tuned as the photo-walk continues, block by block ...
Heliconia, derived from the Greek word helikonios, is a genus of about 100 to 200 species of flowering plants which are native to the tropical Americas and Pacific Ocean islands west to Indonesia. Many species of Heliconia are found in rainforests or tropical wet forests of these regions. Common names for the genus include lobster-claws, wild plantains or false bird-of-paradise because of their close similarity to the bird-of-paradise flowers (Strelitzia). Collectively, these plants are also simply called Heliconias.
These plants range from 1 ½ to 15 feet tall depending on species. The simple leaves of these plants range from 6 inches to 10 feet. They are characteristically long, oblong, alternate, or growing opposite one another on non-woody petioles often longer than the leaf, often forming large clumps with age. Their flowers are produced on long, erect or drooping panicles, and consist of brightly colored waxy bracts with small true flowers peeping out. The growth habit of heliconias is similar to Canna, Strelitzia, and bananas, to which they are related. The flowers can be hues of reds, oranges, yellows, and greens. The plants typically flower during the wet season. The bracts protect the flowers; floral shape often limits pollination to a subset of hummingbirds.
Heliconias are grown for florists and as landscape plants in tropical regions all over the world. Heliconias need an abundance of water, sunlight, and soils rich in humus. The flower of H. psittacorum (Parrot Heliconia) is especially distinctive, its greenish-yellow flowers with black spots and red bracts are reminiscent of bright parrot plumage. Most commonly grown landscape Heliconia species include Heliconia augusta, H. bihai, H. brasiliensis, H. caribaea, H. latispatha, H. pendula, H. psittacorum, H. rostrata, H. schiediana, and H. wagneriana.
Heliconias are an important food source for forest hummingbirds, some of which (for example Rufous-breasted Hermit, Glaucis hirsuta) also use the plant for nesting. The Honduran White Bat, Ectophylla alba also lives in tents it makes from Heliconia leaves.
Heliconia psittacorum, Parrot Heliconia
Biscayne Park FL
72.1 lb. (32.2kg) Sericho with a 15 x 14” face. Pallasites are the most visually stunning meteorites IMHO.
When the planets of our solar system aggregated from the primordial dust and ice swirling in a disc around the sun, some crazy things happened. We are used to the relatively stable result, 4.6 billion years later, but in the early days, some planetoids collided cataclysmically; others were flung out of our solar system entirely, to the lifeless void of deep space.
These dense iron meteorites contain the molten metal cores of some planetary body that ended in a mighty kaboom. We know it was big because a molten iron core appears when a planetoid is big enough to have enough gravity to fractionate the elements of the periodic table, with the heavier iron-loving elements migrating to the core and a different subset of the periodic table (e.g., Si, Al, Ca, Na, Mg) constituting the outer mantle and crust. We have never drilled to the molten core of Earth, or even deep into our mantle, but these remnants of planets past are representative of what we would expect to find in the Earth’s core and mantle.
Pallasites are an incredible potpourri of shattered mantle in a dollop of molten metal core. They can only form in space where the absence of gravity allows the lighter gemstones to remain scattered throughout the heavy metal matrix (on Earth, they would segregate by density). Those crystal gems are olivine (and perhaps some peridot as we call it on Earth).
If we were to etch the metal with a weak acid (exposing the anisotropic crystalline patterns), we would see something beautiful, an interwoven 3D nest of interlocking shards, a metal crystallization that also could not be made on Earth, but for a different reason: they have to cool very, very slowly, over 10 million years! In the insulating vacuum of space, the motel metal cools slowly as it radiates heat (no conduction or convection).
If this all sounds like a rare event, it is. 2% of meteorites in the Met Bull are irons, and only 0.2% are Pallasites.
When an iron meteorite is forged into a tool or weapon, the extraterrestrial crystal patterns remain, but become stretched and distorted. The patterns usually cannot be fully eliminated by blacksmithing, even through extensive working. When a knife or tool is forged from meteoric iron and then polished, the patterns appear in the surface of the metal. In ancient times before the invention of steel, these iron-nickel alloys were like advanced alien technology, and probably were the origin of folkloric beliefs about magic swords and vorpal blades. Even King Tut was buried with his meteorite dagger.
There is much going on in this Sericho Pallasite — a meteoritic medley. Transluscent olivine gems across the color spectrum. And the metal matrix has large chromite inclusions (grey).
Based on isotope analysis at ETH Zürich, this meteorite spent the last 130-160 million years free floating in space before intersecting Earth's orbit.
A subset of the Seen Series devoted to George Floyd. All scenes are from Portland's Peninsula Park, the site of the city's first organized vigil gathering for George Floyd on Friday May 29, 2020.
These iPhone photos were made the next day as people continued to show their respect and express their sorrow, anger and grief.
Seen. A series of iPhone scenes from daily walks around Portland neighborhoods with the dogs.
where playing mother is more than a game. It's common for this subset of the culture to get married at 16 or even younger.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. If you wish to license them for commercial purposes, want to purchase prints or are interested in commissioning me to take photos, please send me a Flickr mail or visit my website, www.memoriesbymike.zenfolio.com/, for contact information. Thanks.]
Heliconia, derived from the Greek word helikonios, is a genus of about 100 to 200 species of flowering plants which are native to the tropical Americas and Pacific Ocean islands west to Indonesia. Many species of Heliconia are found in rainforests or tropical wet forests of these regions. Common names for the genus include lobster-claws, wild plantains or false bird-of-paradise because of their close similarity to the bird-of-paradise flowers (Strelitzia). Collectively, these plants are also simply called Heliconias.
These plants range from 1 ½ to 15 feet tall depending on species. The simple leaves of these plants range from 6 inches to 10 feet. They are characteristically long, oblong, alternate, or growing opposite one another on non-woody petioles often longer than the leaf, often forming large clumps with age. Their flowers are produced on long, erect or drooping panicles, and consist of brightly colored waxy bracts with small true flowers peeping out. The growth habit of heliconias is similar to Canna, Strelitzia, and bananas, to which they are related. The flowers can be hues of reds, oranges, yellows, and greens. The plants typically flower during the wet season. The bracts protect the flowers; floral shape often limits pollination to a subset of hummingbirds.
Heliconias are grown for florists and as landscape plants in tropical regions all over the world. Heliconias need an abundance of water, sunlight, and soils rich in humus. The flower of H. psittacorum (Parrot Heliconia) is especially distinctive, its greenish-yellow flowers with black spots and red bracts are reminiscent of bright parrot plumage. Most commonly grown landscape Heliconia species include Heliconia augusta, H. bihai, H. brasiliensis, H. caribaea, H. latispatha, H. pendula, H. psittacorum, H. rostrata, H. schiediana, and H. wagneriana.
Heliconias are an important food source for forest hummingbirds, some of which (for example Rufous-breasted Hermit, Glaucis hirsuta) also use the plant for nesting. The Honduran White Bat, Ectophylla alba also lives in tents it makes from Heliconia leaves.
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
Carl in his steampunk costume. The shooting was fun, thanks guys!
This picture is part of a 5 pictures series entitled “Headwear through space and time” . It has been realized with my friends : Hervé (www.flickr.com/photos/rvm35/), Bruno (www.flickr.com/photos/bruno_arnaldi/), Eric (www.flickr.com/photos/124270743@N03/) and Fabrice (www.flickr.com/photos/fabrice_lamarche.) . Special thanks to Carl J. who accepted to be our model and provider of costumes (you can see a subset of his own costumes in those pictures).
[Intentional Camera Movement]...
Part of my "SHIFTING SEASONS" series of ICM.
another of a series at same location through the seasons. This one in subset "QUORUM"
{ICM Quorum Spring 72res P1270712}
20 minutes after subset. The scene was fairly dark on the ground but the sky was exploding in a golden pink as the sun was far below those far mountains and shining up on the clouds. This may be the best twilight I have ever seen. Hand-held with the Leica Q2.
Ordo Myrtales Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl, Prir. Rostlin 233. 1820
Familia Onagraceae Juss., Gen. Pl. [Jussieu] 317. 1789
Subfamila Onagroideae W.L.Wagner & Hoch
Tribus
Tribus Epilobieae
Species
Zauschneria californica C. Presl 1831 [subsp. mexicana (C. Presl) P.H. Raven1962 ]
Epilobium canum (Greene) P.H. Raven ssp. mexicanum (C. Presl) P.H. Raven 1976 [1977]
cultivar: 'Olbrich’s Silver' also as orth. var. 'Olbrich Silver'
Marshall Olbrich's Hummingbird Fuchsia, or Hummingbird Trumpet
This cultivar selected by, and named after Marshal Olbrich, Western Hills Rare Plant Nursery near San Francisco.
"For the moment most them have been lumped together as Epilobium canum. We still prefer the older names that used Zauschneria and think that, with time, Zauschneria may come back." Bert Wilson
"Taxonomically speaking, they currently reside in the genus Epilobium, but these hummingbird-pollinated, late-summer to fallblooming, red-orange beauties form a distinct subset in that genus and are still readily known and sold under the generic epithet Zauschneria, which is much more fun to say—and unforgettable once heard. (Why grow a mere “Epilobium” when you could be growing something as dashing as “Zauschneria?”) Taxonomic issues aside, Zauschnerias are an especially diverse lot. "
Bart O’Brien
"Botanists, largely at the behest of Peter Raven [world authority on Onagraceae as well as the ultimate honcho of public gardening--and paleobotany while we're at it] was responsible I believe for the lumping of Zauschneria--for no doubt excellent reasons. I presume the DNA puts it in the middle of Epilobium (let's hope so anyway: otherwise the lumping really would be a hoax). I'm sure that there are many compelling reasons for the lumpification: and I don't really have a problem botanists shuffling things about (job security and all that!)--but it's obvious this little tribe is definitely working hard to distinguish itself from its wan, pink, mesophytic cousins. Let's fast forward a few million years--by then, these will be utterly dissimilar--much as birds are from extinct dinosaurs! Aha! I hear applause and accolades from the spheres: The botanists of the future agree..."
Panayoti Kelaidis
peix fresc? em vaig trobar la caixa buida, quina llastima, agost 2010
pescado fresco? me encontré la caja vacía, que lástima, agosto 2010
resh fish? I found the box empty, what a pity, August 2010
This was taken on 42nd Street, between Vanderbilt and Park Avenue
I'm pretty sure this was actually a tourist, rather than a New Yorker. And she decided to venture out into the street to get a photo of the Grand Central Terminal building.
And yes, she is using an iPhone. Gazillions of people do, every day. We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto, and this is the 21st century.
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This set of photos is based on a very simple concept: walk every block of Manhattan with a camera, and see what happens. To avoid missing anything, walk both sides of the street.
That's all there is to it …
Of course, if you wanted to be more ambitious, you could also walk the streets of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx. But that's more than I'm willing to commit to at this point, and I'll leave the remaining boroughs of New York City to other, more adventurous photographers.
Oh, actually, there's one more small detail: leave the photos alone for a month -- unedited, untouched, and unviewed. By the time I actually focus on the first of these "every-block" photos, I will have taken more than 8,000 images on the nearby streets of the Upper West Side -- plus another several thousand in Rome, Coney Island, and the various spots in NYC where I traditionally take photos. So I don't expect to be emotionally attached to any of the "every-block" photos, and hope that I'll be able to make an objective selection of the ones worth looking at.
As for the criteria that I've used to select the small subset of every-block photos that get uploaded to Flickr: there are three. First, I'll upload any photo that I think is "great," and where I hope the reaction of my Flickr-friends will be, "I have no idea when or where that photo was taken, but it's really a terrific picture!"
A second criterion has to do with place, and the third involves time. I'm hoping that I'll take some photos that clearly say, "This is New York!" to anyone who looks at it. Obviously, certain landscape icons like the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty would satisfy that criterion; but I'm hoping that I'll find other, more unexpected examples. I hope that I'll be able to take some shots that will make a "local" viewer say, "Well, even if that's not recognizable to someone from another part of the country, or another part of the world, I know that that's New York!" And there might be some photos where a "non-local" viewer might say, "I had no idea that there was anyplace in New York City that was so interesting/beautiful/ugly/spectacular."
As for the sense of time: I remember wandering around my neighborhood in 2005, photographing various shops, stores, restaurants, and business establishments -- and then casually looking at the photos about five years later, and being stunned by how much had changed. Little by little, store by store, day by day, things change … and when you've been around as long as I have, it's even more amazing to go back and look at the photos you took thirty or forty years ago, and ask yourself, "Was it really like that back then? Seriously, did people really wear bell-bottom jeans?"
So, with the expectation that I'll be looking at these every-block photos five or ten years from now (and maybe you will be, too), I'm going to be doing my best to capture scenes that convey the sense that they were taken in the year 2013 … or at least sometime in the decade of the 2010's (I have no idea what we're calling this decade yet). Or maybe they'll just say to us, "This is what it was like a dozen years after 9-11".
Movie posters are a trivial example of such a time-specific image; I've already taken a bunch, and I don't know if I'll ultimately decide that they're worth uploading. Women's fashion/styles are another obvious example of a time-specific phenomenon; and even though I'm definitely not a fashion expert, I suspected that I'll be able to look at some images ten years from now and mutter to myself, "Did we really wear shirts like that? Did women really wear those weird skirts that are short in the front, and long in the back? Did everyone in New York have a tattoo?"
Another example: I'm fascinated by the interactions that people have with their cellphones out on the street. It seems that everyone has one, which certainly wasn't true a decade ago; and it seems that everyone walks down the street with their eyes and their entire conscious attention riveted on this little box-like gadget, utterly oblivious about anything else that might be going on (among other things, that makes it very easy for me to photograph them without their even noticing, particularly if they've also got earphones so they can listen to music or carry on a phone conversation). But I can't help wondering whether this kind of social behavior will seem bizarre a decade from now … especially if our cellphones have become so miniaturized that they're incorporated into the glasses we wear, or implanted directly into our eyeballs.
If you have any suggestions about places that I should definitely visit to get some good photos, or if you'd like me to photograph you in your little corner of New York City, please let me know. You can send me a Flickr-mail message, or you can email me directly at ed-at-yourdon-dot-com
Stay tuned as the photo-walk continues, block by block ...
Heliconia, derived from the Greek word helikonios, is a genus of about 100 to 200 species of flowering plants which are native to the tropical Americas and Pacific Ocean islands west to Indonesia. Many species of Heliconia are found in rainforests or tropical wet forests of these regions. Common names for the genus include lobster-claws, wild plantains or false bird-of-paradise because of their close similarity to the bird-of-paradise flowers (Strelitzia). Collectively, these plants are also simply called Heliconias.
These plants range from 1 ½ to 15 feet tall depending on species. The simple leaves of these plants range from 6 inches to 10 feet. They are characteristically long, oblong, alternate, or growing opposite one another on non-woody petioles often longer than the leaf, often forming large clumps with age. Their flowers are produced on long, erect or drooping panicles, and consist of brightly colored waxy bracts with small true flowers peeping out. The growth habit of heliconias is similar to Canna, Strelitzia, and bananas, to which they are related. The flowers can be hues of reds, oranges, yellows, and greens. The plants typically flower during the wet season. The bracts protect the flowers; floral shape often limits pollination to a subset of hummingbirds.
Heliconias are grown for florists and as landscape plants in tropical regions all over the world. Heliconias need an abundance of water, sunlight, and soils rich in humus. The flower of H. psittacorum (Parrot Heliconia) is especially distinctive, its greenish-yellow flowers with black spots and red bracts are reminiscent of bright parrot plumage. Most commonly grown landscape Heliconia species include Heliconia augusta, H. bihai, H. brasiliensis, H. caribaea, H. latispatha, H. pendula, H. psittacorum, H. rostrata, H. schiediana, and H. wagneriana.
Heliconias are an important food source for forest hummingbirds, some of which (for example Rufous-breasted Hermit, Glaucis hirsuta) also use the plant for nesting. The Honduran White Bat, Ectophylla alba also lives in tents it makes from Heliconia leaves.
Heliconia psittacorum, Parrot Heliconia
Biscayne Park FL
Thunderset = Thunderstorm at Subset
Late day storms provided a great photo session. Strong storm on the left was in Wyoming while severe storm on the right was in Colorado.
A developing line of storms to the west blocked some sun on these large cells. Later, after dark, that line would produce an intense lightning display that I managed to capture: www.flickr.com/photos/79387036@N07/48651346221/in/datepos....
Mrs Doyle, Pauline McGlynn, Irish actor, a piece of art by "subset" in Temple Dublin, recently removed by Dublin City Council for breaching planning law. This and other quality art have been removed. I can't really understand the logic of spending so much time policing quality art on private property when other parts of the city are being neglected. We have a board walk along the Liffey which is so dirty the seagulls even avoid it. Lots of broken pavements are ignored. The list is endless. I am however delighted to have recorded some of this art before it was vandalised by DCC. Camera in this case Holga with Hp5 during the Repeal Referendum May 2018. I have also recorded them at night with the Hasselblad.
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
Le Moulin de la Galette is the title of several paintings made by Vincent van Gogh in 1886 of a windmill, the Moulin de la Galette, which was near Van Gogh and his brother Theo's apartment in Montmartre. The owners of the windmill maximized the view on the butte overlooking Paris, creating a terrace for viewing and a dance hall for entertainment.
The windmill paintings are a subset of paintings from Van Gogh's Montmartre series.
The landscape and windmills around Montmartre were the source of inspiration for a number of van Gogh's paintings. Moulin de la Galette, the windmill still mounted over the moved establishment, is located near the apartment that van Gogh shared with his brother Theo from 1886 until 1888. Built in 1622, it was originally called Blute-Fin and belonged to the Debray family in the 19th century. Van Gogh met artists such as Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Signac and Paul Gauguin who inspired him to incorporate Impressionism into his artwork. Among other things, this resulted in lighter, more colorful works of art.
Van Gogh uses the "picture plane" for dramatic effect. "How painters use the 'picture plane' is a telling measure," Harrison explains, "of the usually intended effects of their work and their disposition toward the spectator." Having the woman fill most of the pictorial space, she appears closer to the audience. Van Gogh further shadowed her face and gave her a "distant, unfocused" gaze. By also having the woman in close proximity, her emotional distance is "poignant".