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Boots: Dr Martens
Skirt: from the now-closed local 'alternative' shop.. you know the type, that smells of incense and sells Green Day hoodies (..when I was a teen.. maybe not now?) and those plastic bracelets.
Sweater: Given to my sister by her friend's sister and then to me
Neckerchief: ebay
Pinafore: 60s vintage, Secondhand Rose in Worcester
Tights: Tesco, I think. Maybe Sainsbury's.
Face: all my own, kiddo. All my own.
From my Kayak series: www.flickr.com/photos/louiselindsay/sets/72157625999689606/
One of my favorite places at sunset and twilight. A sepia version below, but here I think the twilight colors add something.
All critiques very welcome
Adding a poem to accompany this image
Mind Wanting More
Only a beige slat of sun
above the horizon, like a shade pulled
not quite down. Otherwise,
clouds. Sea rippled here and
there. Birds reluctant to fly.
The mind wants a shaft of sun to
stir the grey porridge of clouds,
an osprey to stitch sea to sky
with its barred wings, some dramatic
music: a symphony, perhaps
a Chinese gong.
But the mind always
wants more than it has --
one more bright day of sun,
one more clear night in bed
with the moon; one more hour
to get the words right; one
more chance for the heart in hiding
to emerge from its thicket
in dried grasses -- as if this quiet day
with its tentative light weren't enough,
as if joy weren't strewn all around.
~ Holly Hughes ~
(American Zen A Gathering of Poets)
Taken 12/30/11, Uploaded 3/22/12, 2011 12 30_zSepia10pctPicnikTASpicOverlay19pctScreen8pct FloridaBay_9495 copy
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Had a bad day today. My Canon 100-400 jammed and has been sent off to Canon. It will be gone 6-8 weeks for repairs. It's my most used lens and I will miss it.
I took this shot in the fall at Algonquin. It's one of those shots I debated posting. You can tell me what you think - I hope you like it!
Staying up half of last night to finish this book, I was again struck by the really nice page design at the start of each chapter for this series. The flower backdrop is noticable but not distracting, even where it lies under the text.
Give yourself bonus points if you can recognise the book. This is number two in a trilogy (I bought number one a couple of months ago when in the US and two and three arrived from Amazon yesterday). Will write a full review when I've finished number three, which I'm saving for a plane trip next week. For now, I just wanted to note the design whilst I remembered.
(Note, also, the interesting chapter title.)
Updated (much later): My review of these books is here.
The subtle Emission Nebula, IC 417, with the embedded Open Cluster, Stock 8, is located at the center of a celestial-Y with the outer ends of the Y consisting of M36, M38 and the Flying Minnow Asterism. This was my last drawing for the night, and it turned out to give me the most trouble.
I usually predate my observations/drawings by doing at least some background work. This often makes the object come alive in my mind when observing it, but once at the telescope I strive to be open-minded as to what I am seeing and realize that observational biases can easily creep in. Before drawing/observing a Celestial Object, a balance must be reached, in knowing enough not to miss something interesting or important, but on the other hand not to develop preconceived notions about what it will look like. One often “falsely” sees what one is looking for when dealing with objects on the fringe of visibility. If I had not researched into IC 417 and Stock 8, there is a good chance that I would not recognize that it consisted of both an Open Cluster and an Emission Nebula.
I struggled with IC 417 and Stock 8, because they did not appear as I had expected. To begin with, in older star atlases, Stock 8 is out of position with IC 417. Even when this is corrected for, the given sizes of the cluster and nebula were far greater than what appeared in the eyepiece. Most likely, this was due to literature measurements of the nebula and open cluster using far larger telescopes or photographic images. Whatever the reason, the cluster appeared so much smaller than I expected, that at first, I did not recognize it. The nebula, IC 417, was even worse. I expected, using a nebula filter, to see it spreading large in my field-of-view. Separating the sub-resolved star-haze of the open cluster (Stock 8) and the haze of the nebula (IC 417) around it was not possible visually from my backyard without the use of nebula filters. The only way that I was sure both were present was by using an Oxygen-3 filter that enhanced the nebula and diminished the Open Cluster. By switching between no-filters and nebula filters, I was finally able to separate both in the eyepiece (even though they are at the same location). One final note; in my drawing the sizes of both Stock 8 and IC 417 are my estimates done visually using a 6-inch refractor from suburbia. I realize that they are far smaller than what is recorded in the literature.
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I can't help but sit and stare and wonder how this shot came together so well front to back. Kudos fate, kudos.
Duluth, MN
MD: 許寶
Photographer: Edwin Setiawan
Place: NTU
Date: 2011/09/10
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Bruno with lead in mouth - a walk perhaps? If he looks a little bedraggled, he'd just had his first bath since we re-homed him!
I was out early on my last day in Miami and was caught in an unexpected shower. As the sky cleared and the sun began to rise I realized the skyline was visible from my spot. Pleasant surprise.
Our hike was later in the day, and we were losing light quickly. I just love how the rays were hitting the dried grasses.
Single image taken from Philadelphia, TN on 21 Aug 2017.
We had the clearest sky on the Mid-to-eastern USA at 8% cloud cover.
Taken with 8inch Celestron (Cassegrain) telescope and Canon 650D (T3i).