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Optimal time for sharks, but none have been seen here for a while, so if the waves are good, why not grab them before the crowds arrive!
"Dancing Debs Stay Fresh Till Dawn after a Woodbury Facial Cocktail" sounds, among other things, like a typing exercise without a z or an x.
This was the highlight and reason for my Southern Arizona Adventure 2024. This is stage 8 of 9.
I was lucky to secure permits for the once monthly photography tour of Kartchner Caverns. Kartchner Caverns State Park strictly forbids any cameras or cellphones in the Caverns. Except for one trip per month for 12 to 15 photographers currently $125. I planned a 4 day 3 night road trip around Southern Arizona anchored by my Kartchner Cavern permit.
I was expecting dark conditions. The State Park turned on all the lights in the Big Room. They don't like turning on all the lights since can cause an increase in algae. This is the reason they only have one photography tour a month.
I found myself adjusting my histograms to not clip the highlights. Adapt, Improvise, and Overcome. Next time I am going to bracket my shots. I almost wish I had brought a ND filter or tried a handheld GND filter.
I don't know speleothems so I won't even try to identify. If anyone can help me with the identification, I will appreciate it.
www.nps.gov/subjects/caves/speleothems.htm#:~:text=The%20...)%20when%20needed.
The features that arouse the greatest curiosity for most cave visitors are speleothems. These stone formations exhibit bizarre patterns and other-worldly forms, which give some caves a wonderland appearance. Caves vary widely in their displays of speleothems because of differences in temperature; overall wetness; and jointing, impurities, and structures in the rocks. In general, however, one thing caves do have in common is where speleothems form. Although the formation of caves typically takes place below the water table in the zone of saturation, the deposition of speleothems is not possible until caves are above the water table in the zone of aeration. As soon as the chamber is filled with air, the stage is set for the decoration phase of cave building to begin.
The term speleothem refers to the mode of occurrence of a mineral—i.e., its morphology or how it looks—in a cave, not its composition (Hill, 1997). For example, calcite, the most common cave mineral, is not a speleothem, but a calcite stalactite is a speleothem. A stalactite may be made of other minerals, such as halite or gypsum.
Classifying speleothems is tricky because no two speleothems are exactly alike. Nevertheless, speleologists have taken three basic approaches: classification by morphology, classification by origin, and classification by crystallography. All three of these approaches have their problems (Hill, 1997), so cavers often take a more practical approach that primarily uses morphology (e.g., cave pearls) but includes whatever is known about origin (e.g., geysermites) and crystallography (e.g., spar) when needed.
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The Kartchner Caverns, rated one of the world's 10 most beautiful caves, is an eerie wonderland of stalactites and stalagmites still growing beneath the Whetstone Mountains 40 miles southeast of Tucson.
The limestone cave has 13,000 feet of passages and hundreds of formations built over the past 200,000 years, including some that are unique and world-renowned. It's a "living cave," with intricate formations that continue to grow as water seeps, drips and flows from the walls and slowly deposits the mineral calcium carbonate.
The caverns were discovered by amateur spelunkers Randy Tufts and Gary Tenen in 1974 on land owned by the Kartchner family. They kept the cave a secret until 1988, when the Kartchners sold it to the state to become a state park.
The highlights of the Big Room tour are a stretch of strawberry flowstone, which has been colored red by iron oxide (rust) in the water, and a maternity ward for 1,800 female cave myotis bats, with black grime on the ceiling where the bats hang and piles of guano on the floor. Visitors who look closely will see a bat's body embedded in one of the cave's formations.
Though not all are available on the tours, the caverns' unique features include a 21-foot, 2-inch soda straw that's one the world's largest (Throne Room), the world's most extensive formation of brushite moonmilk (Big Room), the first reported occurrence of "turnip" shields (Big Room), the first cave occurrence of "birdsnest" needle quartz formations (Big Room) and the remains of a Shasta ground sloth from the Pleistocene Age (Big Room).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kartchner_Caverns_State_Park
Kartchner Caverns State Park is a state park of Arizona, United States, featuring a show cave with 2.4 miles (3.9 km) of passages.[1] The park is located 9 miles (14 km) south of the town of Benson and west of the north-flowing San Pedro River. Long hidden from view, the caverns were discovered in 1974 by local cavers, assisted by state biologist Erick Campbell who helped in its preservation.
The park encompasses most of a down-dropped block of Palaeozoic rocks on the east flank of the Whetstone Mountains.
The caverns are carved out of limestone and filled with spectacular speleothems which have been growing for 50,000 years or longer, and are still growing. Careful and technical cave state park development and maintenance, initially established by founder Dr. Bruce Randall "Randy" Tufts, geologist, were designed to protect and preserve the cave system throughout the park's development, and for perpetuity.[3]
The two major features of the caverns accessible to the public are the Throne Room and the Big Room. The Throne Room contains one of the world's longest (21 ft 2 in (6.45 m))[5] soda straw stalactites and a 58-foot (18 m) high column called Kubla Khan, after the poem. The Big Room contains the world's most extensive formation of brushite moonmilk. Big Room cave tours are closed during the summer for several months (April 15 to October 15) each year because it is a nursery roost for cave bats, however the Throne Room tours remain open year-round.[8]
Other features publicly accessible within the caverns include Mud Flats, Rotunda Room, Strawberry Room, and Cul-de-sac Passage. Approximately 60% of the cave system is not open to the public.[9]
Many different cave formations can be found within the caves and the surrounding park. These include cave bacon, helictites, soda straws, stalactites, stalagmites and others.[12] Cave formations like the stalactites and stalagmites grow approximately a 16th of an inch every 100 years.[13]
Haiku thoughts:
Beneath earth's cool veil,
Stalactites in silence grow,
Whispers of stone deep.
Kartchner
Southern Arizona Adventure 2024
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On October 21, 2006, I asked my friend, Akemi Takeda who lives in New York City to take some photographs at the same approximate time as I would while living in Fujisawa-shi, Japan. The idea was simple. Without having any larger conceptual ideas or specific subject matter, we take a photograph each from own separate view points on the opposite side of the earth. We decided to think about things such as content and meaning as we shoot; we simply jumped into this project.
Since 2006 we have done this "Same Time" project and have put up the images on my blog once a week for four and half years.
Akemi and I have never discussed anything prior to the "Same Time" except when we take the photos. Even though the images are taken in two completely different locations: a big international city such as New York, US and a peaceful suburb of Fujisawa, Japan, the activity of putting 2 photos together with their only common feature "being same time" occasionally show some surprising and unexpected results. It is interesting to find various meanings and mysteries of human emotions that are reflected within each "same time" photo.
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Time check.
A business man rushes through the city during his lunch break. As the time slips away he takes the time for a time check.
Martin Place, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Have you ever been interrailing? Or ever considered doing so? I would recommend doing so. It's a great way to travel as it's environmentally friendly compared to traveling by flights. You also get a closer look on the individual countries geography and culture. In addition you'll surely meet other interrailers who either have been or are going to the same destination(s) as yourselves. Yes, it's quite consuming to travel by train, but it's totally worth it, considering what I've already written above. Starting with this photo, I'll share with you the moments I captured while interailing trough seven different countries, summer 2015. I hope you'll like it.
Time Matters
Miniature Handsewn Book
1.5" x 2"
Mixed media: paper glass, ink, acrylic
Catherine L. Mommsen
2011
In private collection, Iowa, USA
You may see inside pages here:
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www.flickr.com/photos/imajica1817/5737981314/in/photostream
Photo credits: Hippittee at onefortoday.blogspot.com/
Indein Temple (Shwe Inn Thein), Inle Lake, Myanmar / Burma.
Within the huge temple area at Indein there are hundreds of ancient stupas. It is assumed that they date from the 17th century. Today, most of them are ruins. Many are decorated with beautiful and sometimes well preserved (or restored) sculptures and reliefs.
Many thanks for your visits / comments / faves!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkKue_MEnkk&feature=related
Somewhere in time - Maksim Mrvica - Piano
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI-rGuVt4zo&feature=related
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Vor lauter Lauschen und Staunen sei still,
du mein tieftiefes Leben;
dass du weisst, was der Wind dir will,
eh noch die Birken beben.
Und wenn dir einmal das Schweigen sprach,
lass deine Sinne besiegen.
Jedem Hauche gib dich, gib nach,
er wird dich lieben und wiegen.
Und dann meine Seele sei weit, sei weit,
dass dir das Leben gelinge,
breite dich wie ein Federkleid
über die sinnenden Dinge.
Aus: Frühe Gedichte
Coffee I love.
Beautiful coffee shots I love too.
Are you?
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This is a photo of the new Bull's Garage after the original site was demolished due to the opening of RAF Swinderby.
A pub was demolished to make way for this garage which in the present day is the A46 Lincoln to Newark road.
I don't know how long the garage operated under the name Bull's Garage as in later years this became more of a service station between the two locations.
In 1989 this was a Heron filling station, later selling Elf before it closed around 1994 and was decomissioned.
The buildings still stand in the present day and has been home to a plumbing & heating company for some time.
In the early 2000's this road was made dual carriageway.
The site in the present day
www.google.com/maps/place/Green+Ln,+Lincoln/@53.1465521,-...
Thanks to Geoff Lloyd for permission to reproduce this photo.
Paul Farrows photo from 1989 as well as a recent photo from me are in the comments below.
~Time moves in one direction, memory in another.~
The Polaroid Model 320 was manufactured from 1969-1971, so the camera would be 41-43 years old as of 2010. Polaroid produced between 750,000 and 900,000 units at a retail price of $59.99.
Texture by: Frenchkiss.. stone Blush
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Malayan Tiger ..
Female .. This is beautiful Cinta the mother of our 3 tiger cubs who are in the nursery being cared for my the zoo staff. Cinta is pretty young and didn't show any interest in her cubs so the cubs had to be removed and placed in the nursery. Hopefully she'll do better when she has more cubs.
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Have a pleasant day everyone
Notes : Mayor Peter Quirk and Council staff lower the time capsule, to commemorate the passing of Halley's Comet, into the ground at Echo Point, Katoomba. The capsule is to be raised in 2062.
Mostly council engineers, partly identified as L to R, Henry Kullas; Mayor Peter Quirk; David Emerson, Blue Mountains Town Artist; (unknown) (unknown); Graham Price at back; (unknown); Bill Mills, right front; (unknown) ; Reg McBey at right back; musician Nigel Foote in True Blue top.
Format: B&W photograph
Location: now somewhere under the redeveloped Echo Point, Katoomba
Date range: March 1987
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library - library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/
Part of: Local Studies Collection - VF Time Capsules, VF Halley's Comet
Provenance: John Falloon
Links:
Halley's comet - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halley%27s_Comet
David Emerson - digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/6388