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SOUTH CHINA SEA (June 17, 2015) Sailors assigned to Surface Warfare Mission Package, Detachment 4, currently embarked aboard the littoral combat ship USS Fort Worth (LCS 3), clear spaces during a visit, board, search and seizure drill. Currently on a 16-month rotational deployment in support of the Indo-Asia-Pacific Rebalance, Fort Worth is a fast and agile warship tailor-made to patrol the region’s littorals and work hull-to-hull with partner navies, providing 7th Fleet with the flexible capabilities it needs now and in the future. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Joe Bishop)
Billboard advertisement for Microsoft Surface at Hurstville station, Sydney.
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This is an evening shot of the fire pit at the hotel where I stayed in Lake Tahoe.
It was deceptively difficult to get a good exposure here - there is a real tendency to blow out the highlights.
Nikon D300 w/ Nikon 35mm 1.8.
Ancient Greek Figurine.
Investigation of the surface of ancient sculpture shows that it was often painted in a variety of different colours. In the past some collectors, and even museum curators, preferred to show ancient stone statues as clean, white and pristine. Unfortunately, cleaning the statues removed important evidence.
Traces of colour can still be seen on this winged cherub. It is hollow, with a round vent hole in the small of the back. Fully moulded, wings made separately & attached. DECORATION: white slip overall, orange on flesh, blue & pink on feathers of wings & pink on cloak & necklaces. Plump figure in flight, wings outstretched, feet off the ground. Wears short cloak over right shoulder, right hand on hip; left arm bent forward at elbow. Chubby face, jaw length wavy hair; two necklaces.
Acc. no. 40239 (Ancient Worlds, The Manchester Museum)
Glaciers are rivers of ice. Ice is a mineral (H2O). Glacial ice is a rock (technically, a metamorphic rock). Despite being solid, ice does flow under certain conditions at the Earth’s surface. Occasionally, Earth experiences Ice Ages, during which extensive ice sheets cover and move over significant portions of the Earth’s surface. As ice moves over landmasses, it erodes underlying rocks and picks up small to large pieces of debris. This debris accumulates at the base of the ice sheet and scrapes bedrock as the glacier moves, resulting in glacial scratches (glacial striations) (= thin scratch lines on rock) and glacial grooves (= large channels incised in rock).
The world-class glacial grooves seen here were incised on Devonian fossiliferous limestone during the Pleistocene (= last Ice Age).
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From public signage:
GLACIAL GROOVES STATE MEMORIAL
Welcome to the Glacial Grooves State Memorial. This memorial, consisting of three and one-half acres on Kelleys Island, has been administered by the Ohio Historical Society since 1932.
Impressive in size and shape, these glacial grooves are of great geologic significance as well. Approximately 25,000 years ago, when the climate was much cooler and wetter, a great continental glacier flowed from Canada into northern Ohio. After the climate warmed and the ice melted (about 10,000 years ago), this island retained a spectacular reminder of the glacier’s presence here -- these huge glacial grooves, which had been carved in the limestone bedrock by the action of the advancing glacier.
Due to their size and ease of accessibility, these are the most famous glacial grooves in the world. Since this formation was discovered over a century ago, it has been an object of fascination to students, vacationers, and scientists alike. Geologists have studied these grooves for many years in an effort to determine exactly how they were carved by the glacier. Several theories have been proposed, but there is still no entirely satisfactory explanation.
THE OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY 1977
OTHER GROOVES
Have you noticed any other glacial grooves on Kelleys Island? There are still more grooves, mostly smaller than those featured here, to be found throughout the island area as well as on the mainland. Several examples of grooves, striations, and planed surfaces may be found in the Kelleys Island State Park along the north shore of the island just north of the Glacial Grooves State Memorial. Some very spectacular grooves which were destroyed during quarrying operations on the island were called the “Great Grooves”. These grooves extended for at least 2,000 feet with maximum measurements estimated at 15 feet in depth and 30 feet in width.
ISLAND HISTORY
The human history of Kelleys Island is estimated to extend back to the early 1600s. There is evidence that during that time the island was the home of at least two Indian villages, probably of the Erie (or Cat) nation, which was annihilated by the Iroquois in 1665. The petroglyphs of Inscription Rock, on the south shore of the island, were probably carved over a period of years by the Eries and may describe certain important events in their history.
A man named Cunningham is believed to have been the first white man to inhabit the island, living here from about 1800 until about 1812.
The island became the property of the Connecticut Land Company in about 1817 and was divided into 13 lots which were given to stockholders in the Company. In 1833 the Kelley brothers, Datus and Irad, immigrants to the Cleveland area from Connecticut, began to buy the parcels of land and soon owned the entire island. The Kelleys and their families began developing the island and its industries - wine-making, quarrying, logging, fruit-growing, and fishing - as well as encouraging the cultural enrichment of the inhabitants.
Eventually the island, previously known as Cunningham Island, or island No. 6, became known as Kelleys Island.
BEDROCK JOINTS
The straight cracks running across the grooves are called joints. Joints usually form in sedimentary rocks, such as this limestone, as a result of the application or release of pressure on the bedrock. It is not known exactly how these joints were formed, but we can be fairly certain that some pressure change occurring before the advance of the glacier responsible for the grooves was a major factor in the formation of the joints.
FOSSILS
The fossils found in the bedrock of Kelleys Island are the remains of plants and animals which lived in Ohio many thousands of years ago when the area was covered by a shallow saltwater ocean. When these marine organisms died, they settled to the bottom where they became embedded in soft sediments. Later, as these sediments hardened into limestone bedrock, the remains of the organisms were preserved in place. Fossils of many kinds are very abundant in the limestone of Kelleys Island, and can be seen almost everywhere if you look very closely.
Fossils are very useful to scientists in the study of early life forms, climate, environment, evolution, and the relative ages of different rock layers.
THE QUARRY [= adjacent to this site]
This quarry is one of several now-abandoned quarries to be found on Kelleys Island. At one time quarrying was a major industry on the island and the fine quality limestone found here was highly valued for its many uses. It was cut to shape for buildings, removed in large blocks for the construction of piers and breakwaters, burned to make lime, and crushed for use as flux in the production of steel.
Kilns and crushers were built on the island in the early 1900s and the industry reached its peak in 1918. By this time most of the quarries were owned by the Kelleys Island Lime and Transport Company. By 1941, however, most of the quarries had closed due to the opening of quarries in Michigan which could supply limestone less expensively.
One unfortunate aspect of the old quarrying industry was the destruction of many very spectacular grooves, some of which were more impressive than the ones exposed here today.
The long vertical marks on the quarry walls were made by the drills used in quarrying operations. Before the use of machine drills and explosives, the holes were hand-drilled and pieces of green wood were packed into the holes. Water was then poured into the holes and the wood absorbed the water and expanded. The resulting pressure caused large sections of the rock to be broken loose from the quarry wall.
THE TRIBUTARY
Notice the small branch of the grooves extending away from the main grooves. Although no one knows for certain just how this feature was formed, it is sometimes cited as an argument in favor of the theory that the grooves were formed as glacial ice reshaped an earlier stream channel. If this were the case, this branch would represent a tributary stream which once flowed into the main stream, represented by the main grooves. The glacial ice, which is quite plastic at its base, would have molded itself to the existing stream channel. While confining most of its grinding and rasping to the channels of this former stream and its tributaries, it widened, smoothed, and deepened the channel, thus giving it its present shape and form.
According to one theory, the tremendous grinding force resulting from the convergence of ice and a large concentration of debris in the confined space of the stream channel produced the extensive grooving seen here.
GROOVE DETAILS
The grooves, which for the most part are straight, are marked in many places with some very interesting details. The most noticeable in this spot is the tortuous winding of some of the smaller grooves and scratches, possibly due to pre-glacial or sub-glacial stream flow. This features was also noticed in some of the photographs of the “Great Grooves”, and others that have now been destroyed.
There are sections where the rock seems to be undercut, and places where the formations indicate that the ice flowed around melon-shaped knobs, possibly due to some obstruction such as broken joints in the bedrock. In many places you may notice small grooves superimposed on larger grooves. It is common to see very fine scratches or striations on the limestone, probably caused by the scraping of sand parrticles in the glacier’s base.
When the grooves were uncovered for the first time, after thousands of years under several feet of soil and debris, a high polish was noticed on some of the rocks. This polish was most likely procued by the scraping of clay. Soon after the rock was exposed the polish disappeared due to weathering. Weathering also caused the pitted effect noticed on some parts of the grooves. It is believed that these pitted areas were exposed to the weather once before, many years ago, and were later covered again until the most recent exposure was made.
All these details are helpful to scientists in determining how the ice sculpted the grooves. Many clues are provided here, but the challenge lies in their correct interpretation.
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Stratigraphy: Columbus Limestone, Eifelian Stage, lower Middle Devonian
Locality: Glacial Grooves State Park, northwestern Kelleys Island, western Lake Erie, Ohio, USA
We decided to go for a city break rather than sun in Tenerife again this September. Other than a few days in the North East we haven’t been away since last March and wanted a change and hopefully some sun. The problem is getting flights from the north of England to the places we want to go to. We chose Valencia as we could fly from East Midlands – which was still a pain to get to as it involved the most notorious stretch of the M1 at five in the morning. In the end we had a fairly good journey, the new Ryanair business class pre-booked scheme worked quite well and bang on time as usual. It was dull when we landed with storms forecast all week, the sky was bright grey – the kiss of death to the photography I had in mind. I was full of cold and wishing I was at work. It did rain but it was overnight on our first night and didn’t affect us. There has been a drought for eleven months apparently and it rained on our first day there! The forecast storms didn’t materialise in Valencia but they got it elsewhere.
Over the course of a Monday to Sunday week we covered 75 miles on foot and saw most of the best of Valencia – The City of Bell Towers. The Old City covers a pretty large area in a very confusing layout. There was a lot of referring to maps – even compass readings! – a first in a city for us. The problem with photography in Valencia is that most of the famous and attractive building are closely built around, some have poor quality housing built on to them. Most photographs have to be taken from an extreme angle looking up. There are no high points as it is pan flat, there are a small number of buildings where you can pay to go up on to the roof for a better view and we went up them – more than once!
The modern buildings of The City of Arts and Sciences – ( Ciutat de Las Arts I de les Ciencies ) are what the city has more recently become famous for, with tourists arriving by the coachload all day until late at night. They must be photographed millions of times a month. We went during the day and stayed till dark one evening, I gave it my best shot but a first time visit is always a compromise between ambition and realism, time dictates that we have to move on to the next destination. I travelled with a full size tripod – another first – I forgot to take it with me to TCoAaS! so It was time to wind up the ISO, again! Needless to say I never used the tripod.
On a day when rain was forecast but it stayed fine, albeit a bit dull, we went to the Bioparc north west of the city, a zoo by another name. There are many claims made for this place, were you can appear to walk alongside some very large animals, including, elephants, lions, giraffe, rhino, gorillas and many types of monkey to name a few. It is laid out in different geographical regions and there is very little between you and the animals, in some cases there is nothing, you enter the enclosure through a double door arrangement and the monkeys are around you. It gets rave reviews and we stayed for most of the day. The animals it has to be said gave the appearance of extreme boredom and frustration and I felt quite sorry for them.
The course of The River Turia was altered after a major flood in the 50’s. The new river runs west of the city flanked by a motorway. The old river, which is massive, deep and very wide between ancient walls, I can’t imagine how it flooded, has been turned into a park that is five miles long. There is an athletics track, football pitches, cycle paths, restaurants, numerous kids parks, ponds, fountains, loads of bridges, historic and modern. At the western end closest to the sea sits The City of Arts and Sciences – in the river bed. Where it meets the sea there is Valencia’s urban Formula One racetrack finishing in the massive marina built for The Americas Cup. The race track is in use as roadways complete with fully removable street furniture, kerbs, bollards, lights, islands and crossings, everything is just sat on the surface ready to be moved.
We found the beach almost by accident, we were desperate for food after putting in a lot of miles and the afternoon was ticking by. What a beach, 100’s of metres wide and stretching as far as the eye could see with a massive promenade. The hard thing was choosing, out of the dozens of restaurants, all next door to each other, all serving traditional Paella – rabbit and chicken – as well as seafood, we don’t eat seafood and it constituted 90% of the menu in most places. Every restaurant does a fixed price dish of the day, with a few choices, three courses and a drink. Some times this was our only meal besides making the most of the continental breakfast at the hotel. We had a fair few bar stops with the local wine being cheap and pleasant it would have been a shame not to, there would have been a one woman riot – or strike!
On our final day, a Sunday, we were out of bed and down for breakfast at 7.45 as usual, the place was deserted barring a waiter. We walked out of the door at 8.30 – in to the middle of a mass road race with many thousands of runners, one of a series that take place in Valencia – apparently! We struggled to find out the distance, possibly 10km. The finish was just around the corner so off we went with the camera gear, taking photos of random runners and groups. There was a TV crew filming it and some local celebrity (I think) commentating. Next we came across some sort of wandering religious and musical event. Some sort of ritual was played out over the course of Sunday morning in various locations, it involved catholic priests and religious buildings and another film crew. The Catholic tourists and locals were filling the (many) churches for Sunday mass. Amongst all of this we had seen men walking around in Arab style dress – the ones in black looked like the ones from ISIS currently beheading people – all carrying guns. A bit disconcerting. We assumed that there had been some sort of battle enactment. We were wrong, it hadn’t happened yet. A while later, about 11.30 we could hear banging, fireworks? No it was our friends with the guns. We were caught up in total mayhem, around 60 men randomly firing muskets with some sort of blank rounds, the noise, smoke and flames from the muzzles were incredible. We were about to climb the Torres de Serranos which is where, unbeknown to us, the grand, and deafening, finale was going to be. We could feel the blast in our faces on top of the tower. Yet again there was a film camera in attendance. I couldn’t get close ups but I got a good overview and shot my first video with the 5D, my first in 5 years of owning a DLSR with the capability. I usually use my phone ( I used my phone as well). Later in the day there was a bullfight taking place, the ring was almost next to our hotel, in the end we had other things to do and gave it a miss, it was certainly a busy Sunday in the city centre, whether it’s the norm or not I don’t know.
There is a tram system in Valencia but it goes from the port area into the newer part of the city on the north side, it wouldn’t be feasible to serve the historic old city really. A quick internet search told me that there are 55,000 university students in the city, a pretty big number. I think a lot of the campus is on the north side and served by the tram although there is a massive fleet of buses as well. There is a massive, very impressive market building , with 100’s of stalls that would make a photo project on its own, beautiful on the inside and out but very difficult to get decent photos of the exterior other than detail shots owing to the closeness of other buildings and the sheer size of it. Across town, another market has been beautifully renovated and is full of bars and restaurants and a bit of a destination in its own right.
A downside was the all too typical shafting by the taxi drivers who use every trick in the book to side step the official tariffs and rob you. The taxi from the airport had a “broken” meter and on the way home we were driven 22 km instead of the nine that is the actual distance. Some of them seem to view tourists as cash cows to be robbed at all costs. I emailed the Marriot hotel as they ordered the taxi, needless to say no answer from Marriot – they’ve had their money. We didn’t get the rip off treatment in the bars etc. that we experienced in Rome, prices are very fair on most things, certainly considering the city location.
All in all we had a good trip and can highly recommend Valencia.
Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 2m LIDAR Composite Digital Surface Model (DSM).
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FLARE
kinetic ambient reflection membrane
FLARE is a pneumatic building facade system. The FLARE system consists of a number of tiltable metal flake bodies. An infinite array of flakes can be mounted on any building or wall surface in a modular system of multiplied 4x4 FLARE units. Each metal flake reflects the bright sky or sunlight when in vertical standby position. When the flake is tilted downwards by a computer controlled pneumatic piston, its face is shaded from the sky light and this way appears as a dark pixel. By reflecting ambient or direct sunlight the individual flakes of the FLARE system act like pixels formed by natural light. The system is controlled by a computer to form any kind of surface animation. Sensor systems inside and outside the building communicate the buildings activity directly to the FLARE system which acts as the buildings lateral line. FLARE turns the building facade into a penetrable membrane, breaking with all conventions of the building surface as a static skin.
manufacturer: WHITEvoid interactive art & design Berlin
materials: aluminium, pneumatic pistons
special features: computer controllable, DMX protocol
country: Germany
e-mail: flare@whitevoid.com
website: www.flare-facade.com / www.whitevoid.com
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This is how I remove the scum effectively:
Every other evening, after the lighting period I lift the lily pipe out so that it breaks the surface and pushes bubbles of air in the water. These bubbles get trapped under the thin surface-film, this way forming a thick foam in a couple of minutes. The foam can then be easily removed using a regular fishnet, so the water can breathe for another day or two.
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Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 2m LIDAR Composite Digital Surface Model (DSM).
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same shot as 6 but with a different lighting effect.
similar to the physical changes to the sculpture, lighting cold be a dynamic element that respond to the user on site and environmental changes.
Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 0.50m LIDAR Composite Digital Surface Model (DSM).
Data supplied by Environment Agency under the Open Government License agreement. For details please go to: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/v...
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February 6, 2017
I was at a youth basketball game the other night and these bright pink fish caught my eye outside the gym entrance. Their reflections in the surface of the tank were intense and made for an interesting composition.
(365 Days Project 37/365)
Brewster, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
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