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" Under a trillion stars
We danced on top of cars
Took pictures of the stage
So far from where we are
They made me think of you
They made me think of you
Oh, lights go down
In the moment we're lost and found
And I just wanna be by your side
If these wings could fly
For the rest of our lives... "
- BIRDY -
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" Sunlight comes creeping in
Illuminates our skin
We watch the day go by
Stories of all we did
It made me think of you
It made me think of you
Under a trillion stars
We danced on top of cars
Took pictures of the stage
So far from where we are
It made me think of you
It made me think of you
Lights go down
In the moment we're lost and found
I just want to be by your side
If these wings could fly .. "
-BIRDY-
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The odds that you exist at all are basically zero.
The probability of your existing as you is about 1 in 400 trillion (Dr Ali Benazir, Harvard, 2011) !
Under a trillion stars
We danced on top of cars
Took pictures of the stage
So far from where we are
They made me think of you
They made me think of you
Oh lights go down
In the moment we're lost and found
And I just wanna be by your side
If these wings could fly
Oh damn these walls
In the moment we're ten feet tall
And how you told me after it all
We'd remember tonight
For the rest of our lives
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Sunlight comes creepin' in
Illuminates our skin
We watched the day go by
Stories of what we did
It made me think of you
*
Under a trillion stars
We danced on top of cars
Took pictures of the stage
So far from where we are
Oh, lights go down
In the moment, we're lost and found
I just wanna be by your side
If these wings could fly
For the rest of ours lives ...
Visit me here Taxi ---> Frogmore
Look up into a white pine, and with a little luck you’ll see the nests of bald eagles near Wild Walk. This is your chance to climb into one of those nests. It’s the highest point of Wild Walk, and you’re invited to rest here and look out across a forest that stretches as far as you can see. It’s home to trillions of lives, spinning away forever. We share this world with all those lives. It’s fascinating to sit in the nest of a great bird, and absorb the view and all it houses.
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One fine day i had a snap session with him. I make brutal art that day - to be honest, of course i didn´t. As always, I took one trillion snaps and then deleted almost all of them. He really has been so humble and kind, he was very patient with me. He always behaved like a gentelman.
Another time we had a conversation where he talked about not being perfect and facing life as best he can. That impressed me very much, because people in our "perfect world" are afraid of showing weakness and rarely talk about having flaws. I think that says everything about him as the human being.
Without art I would never have met him, so I'm thankful for this moments. His attitude towards life and his way of treating people well shows the truth in his heart. Always reach for the stars, my friend Arnno.
Location: [Grauland]
"Just as the body's trillions of cells renew every minute, our lives can be renewed at every level when we embrace the present moment as a limitless place"
"Allow yourself to connect with the creative energy that flows within you always.
Is like magic.
Every experience will begin to reveal your expanded potential for change
in ways that you can't even imagine"
Excerpts from the current 21-day meditation experience from Oprah & Deepak (it is being offered for free for a limited time) (hoping that may help someone as it is helping me too)
Wishing you all a joyful International Day of Happiness and beginning of Spring 🌸. Time to celebrate blossoming, natural beauty and renewal.
Contribution to the #PryceBloomofSpringCampaign
Thank you Lawrence D. for the invitation to join this campaign.
This turned out to be my last shot of the Milky Way at the Grand Canyon that I took. When I saw the extra bright shooting star and it explode while taking this 30 second exposure, I figured it could not get any better than this.
One in a trillion shot I think that it also was in the focal point perfectly for this capture.
Needless to say I had a big grin on my face when I returned to our cabin there on the north rim. Ms. Krach as usual was not that impressed ;)
"Hold me in your heart, it has been so long since i forgot what a warm home means"
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Under a trillion stars
We danced on top of cars
Took pictures of the stage
So far from where we are
They made me think of you
They made me think of you
"[...] viruses [...] since they are the basis of the evolutionary progression of the whole biological system where viruses and their hosts are constantly adapting to each other, either
gaining certain advantages or suffering considerable
losses. This is a continuous, ongoing process with a
varying rate [...]"
Blinov et al., Viral Component of the Human Genome
Molecular Biology, 2017, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 205–215
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"Viruses are the most abundant biological entities on earth, and recent estimates suggest more than 380 trillion of them (10 times the number of bacteria) inhabit us – seemingly without causing much harm at all."
microbiome.mit.edu/news-events/newsletter/#:~:text=Viruse....
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"The truth is we have an entire universe of flora and fauna inside of us that [...] Living inside every person are trillions of microorganisms like bacteria, viruses, fungi [...]"
Dr. Zack Bush
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Music:
"To and Fro" by Rebecca Saunders
Mono Lake is an ancient saline lake located at the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada in California. Home to trillions of brine shrimp, millions of birds, and world-famous tufa towers, its tributary streams also supply water to Los Angeles, nearly 350 miles to the south. After a successful legal fight stopped excessive diversions, ongoing advocacy has shown that balanced solutions mean enough water for both people and the environment.
Location: Private Estate
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The Ancient Warrior
~Paul Murdoch~
Lie still, ye bracken-covered giants, that sleep below the soil,
You patient, silent warriors; lie still and wait a while.
Ignore the prickles on your hide and wait beneath the stars.
Till days grow long and man subsides, you’ll never journey far.
The parasites that scratch and dig and burrow in your skin
Will soon fall off and perish, consumed by fires within.
Tis then you’ll shed your mantle and crack the hallowed rock,
Released, at last, to fight and die; no beast will stand the shock.
Remember, in that instant; in death’s unfair embrace
How you once fought and won, my friend, then left without a trace.
Remember as you fade away, a new life will begin.
Remember, as you turn to dust and ride on solar winds;
That you will gather, one more time, to fight another day.
A billion trillion miles for here, you’ll rise and creep and sway;
And as you cool and turn to stone beneath some distant sun
Lie still and rest another age; a new world has begun.
Let creatures walk and scramble; they’ll scratch and dig and bore.
Lie still my ancient warrior, and take your rest once more.
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Look up into a white pine, and with a little luck you’ll see the nests of bald eagles near Wild Walk. This is your chance to climb into one of those nests. It’s the highest point of Wild Walk, and you’re invited to rest here and look out across a forest that stretches as far as you can see. It’s home to trillions of lives, spinning away forever. We share this world with all those lives. It’s fascinating to sit in the nest of a great bird, and absorb the view and all it houses.
Given the advancement in Lightroom program since I took this capture back in 2015, I wanted to revisit and process with the sky capture feature for masking, and applying the dehaze to bring out more details within the sky and Milky Way.
That meteor was a very bright one to the eye. Once in a trillion shot ... right spot right time.
At times I wish I had had my Sigma 14mm f1/8 lens for this capture, as this was taken with the Canon 17/40mm f/4 lens. Hence this was captured at ISO 8000 and 30 seconds. So the movement in the stars is more than I am used to now versus the Sigma 14mm at f1.8, ISO 6400, and 10 seconds. That lens is a prime and much sharper than the 17mm as well.
But ... at 10 seconds, there is good chance I may have missed the meteor in the sky. So the 30 seconds may have allowed for this capture in the end after all.
Food for thought ...
It never stopped raining this weekend. These are a few of trillions of raindrops (no tripod ... I'd better use one.) Danke, Paul, für die Inspiration und Hilfe! Ich bin noch nicht so weit ... aber eines Tages vielleicht?
Mono Lake is an ancient saline lake located at the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada in California. Home to trillions of brine shrimp, millions of birds, and world-famous tufa towers, its tributary streams also supply water to Los Angeles, nearly 350 miles to the south. After a successful legal fight stopped excessive diversions, ongoing advocacy has shown that balanced solutions mean enough water for both people and the environment.
Location: BBBB SLStudio
Backdrop: "Darkwater"
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Night and Day
-M. Vijars-
Look - daytime as it's going greets the night-time with a glowing -
ruby, gold, vermillion (and in countless varied hues).
Watch, night-time draw it's curtain (while provocatively flirtin')
her twinkling of trillions advance slowly into view.
Countless aeons in their union daily celebrate communion
passing twice each revolution in their grand eternal dance
Sometimes balmy, sometimes cheery, sometimes stormy, cold and dreary
they continue on regardless in this powerful romance.
With their greetings and farewellings, sadly humans from their dwellings
watching the unfolding of the grandeur on display ...
failed to choose the highest accolade for the dancers in this promenade.
Well, the best that we came up with was quite simply – “Night” and “Day”.
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The Permian Basin is a large sedimentary basin in the southwestern part of the United States. The basin contains the Mid-continent oil field province. This sedimentary basin is located in western Texas and southeastern New Mexico. It reaches from just south of Lubbock, past Midland and Odessa, south nearly to the Rio Grande River in southern West Central Texas, and extending westward into the southeastern part of New Mexico. It is so named because it has one of the world's thickest deposits of rocks from the Permian geologic period. The greater Permian Basin comprises several component basins; of these, the Midland Basin is the largest, Delaware Basin is the second largest, and Marfa Basin is the smallest. The Permian Basin covers more than 86,000 square miles (220,000 km2),[1] and extends across an area approximately 250 miles (400 km) wide and 300 miles (480 km) long.[2]
The Permian Basin lends its name to a large oil and natural gas producing area, part of the Mid-Continent Oil Producing Area. Total production for that region up to the beginning of 1993 was over 14.9 billion barrels (2.37×109 m3). The Texas cities of Midland, Odessa and San Angelo serve as the headquarters for oil production activities in the basin.
The Permian Basin is also a major source of potassium salts (potash), which are mined from bedded deposits of sylvite and langbeinite in the Salado Formation of Permian age. Sylvite was discovered in drill cores in 1925, and production began in 1931. The mines are located in Lea and Eddy counties, New Mexico, and are operated by the room and pillar method. Halite (rock salt) is produced as a byproduct of potash mining.[3][4][5][6]
In 1917, J.A. Udden, a University of Texas geology professor, speculated that the Marathon Fold, associated with the Marathon Mountains, may extend northward. This fold theory was further elaborated on in 1918 by geologists R.A. Liddle and J.W. Beede. The potential structure was thought to be a potential trap for oil. Based on this Marathon Fold theory, and known oil seeps, test drilling commenced in the eastern Permian Basin.[35]
Oil reserves in the Permian Basin were first documented by W.H Abrams in Mitchell County, West Texas in 1920. The first commercial well was opened a year later in 1921, in the newly discovered Westbrook Oil Field in Mitchell County, at a depth of 2,498 feet (761 m). Initially, the Permian Basin was thought to have a bowl-like shape, with geological survey crews unable to study the inside of the basin due to a lack of outcrops. The next few years contained discoveries of multiple oil fields, such as the Big Lake oil field (1923), the World oil field (1925), the McCamey oil field (1925), the Hendrick oil field (1926), and the Yates Oil Field (1926). All of these discoveries were made by random drilling or surfacing mapping. Geophysical tests were vital in mapping the region, since tools such as seismographs and magnetometers were used to find anomalies in the area.[36][35]
By 1924, companies establishing regional geological offices in the basin included the California Company (Standard Oil of California), Gulf Oil, Humble (Standard Oil of New Jersey), Roxana (Shell Oil Company), Dixie Oil (Standard Oil of Indiana), Midwest Exploration (Standard Oil of Indiana), and The Texas Company.[35]
Due to distances and lack of pipes in which to move oil, deep drilling tests were few in the 1920s, since the costs were high. As a result, all the oil wells up to 1928 were less than 5,000 feet (1,500 m) or 6,000 feet (1,800 m) deep. However, in 1928, the No. I-B University discovery well found oil at 8,520 feet within the Ordovician formations of Big Lake. Exploration and development increased in the 1930s with the discovery of the Harper oil field (1933), the Goldsmith oil field (1934), the Foster oil field (1935), the Keystone oil field (1935), the Means oil field (1934), the Wasson oil field (1936–1937), and the Slaughter Field (1936). During World War II the need for oil in the US became urgent, justifying the high costs of deep oil drilling. This breakthrough led to major oil reservoirs being found in every geological formation from the Cambrian Period to the Permian Period. Significant discoveries included the Embrar oil field (1942), the TXL oil field (1944), the Dollarhide oil field (1945), and the Block 31 oil field (1945).[36][35]: 200–201, 230–231
In 1966, the production of the Permian Basin measured 600 million barrels of oil, along with 2.3 trillion cubic ft of gas, which totaled $2 billion. The production values steadily increased thanks to the installation of gas pipelines and oil refineries in the area, reaching a total production of over 14.9 billion barrels in 1993.
In addition to oil, one of the main commodities that is mined from the Permian Basin is potash, which was first discovered in the region in the late 1800s by geologist Johan August Udden. Early studies by Udden, and the presence of potash in the Santa Rita well between 1100 and 1700 feet, led to the United States Geological Survey exploring the area in search of potash, which was highly important during World War I as the US could no longer import it from Germany. By the mid 1960s, seven potash mines were operating on the New Mexico side of the Permian Basin.[36][37]
Current production
As of 2018, the Permian Basin has produced more than 33 billion barrels of oil, along with 118 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. This production accounts for 20% of US crude oil production and 7% of US dry natural gas production. While the production was thought to have peaked in the early 1970s, new technologies for oil extraction, such as hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, have increased production dramatically. Estimates from the Energy Information Administration have predicted that proven reserves in the Permian Basin still hold 5 billion barrels of oil and approximately 19 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.[38]
Environmental Concerns
By October 2019, the fossil-fuel executives said that until recently they had been making progress in cutting back on flaring, which is to burn natural gas.[39] Drilling companies focus on drilling and pumping oil, which is highly lucrative but the less-valuable gas which is pumped along with the oil, is considered to be a "byproduct".[39] During the current boom in the Permian oil fields, drilling for oil has "far outpaced pipeline construction" so the use of flaring has increased along with venting "natural gas and other potent greenhouse gases directly into the atmosphere", causing considerably larger greenhouse effect than flaring. Both practices are legal under states' legislation.[39] Most of the methane emitted comes from a small number of sources.[40] Satellite data show that 3.7% of gas produced from the Permian Basin is lost in leaks, equivalent to the consumption of 7 million Texas homes.[41] The price of natural gas was so cheap that smaller companies that have the pipeline capacity are choosing to flare rather than pay pipeline costs.[39]
This is a picture of the countryside I was born and raised in. It is now claimed to be the largest oil deposit in the world. Billions of dollars, thousands of companies, and thousands of jobs have come from here. But is it coming to and end? Only time will tell but it has sure been a part of history and made a significant impact on the world.
Loving County - Charlie Robison
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Sunset Blvd, LIve at Billy Bob's Texas - Charlie Robison
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFJ-l6bHTH8
My Hometown - Charlie Robison
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg1pYtoWL6c
Wave on Wave - Pat Green
Pic By Pammy
Taken At Apyr open mic Sim
In the middle of the night,
I'm lying in our bed.
Thinking of you and me in the universe.
Stars are moving like the night we met,
The earth is turning like the time we said.
In my mind I'm searching for you, billion miles away.
Why do I miss you so if you're just a spec of dust,
Floating endlessly amongst the billion stars?
Knowing that one day we may float apart,
Meeting each other in memories.
Why do I love you so if you're just a spec of dust,
Floating endlessly amongst the trillion stars?
Knowing that one day we may float apart,
Meeting each other in universe
Together again,not to be apart.
So.. ⠀
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The elemental composition of Earth is mostly iron, oxygen, silicon, magnesium, sulfur, nickel, calcium and sodium.⠀
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Of these, nothing more than tiny trace amounts have been discovered anywhere else in the universe.⠀
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Therefore, this remote Australian salt lake is in-fact, a vast sea of precious and galactically rare elements, floating amongst the trillions of planets and stars above it.⠀
1,000 litres of water pumped every second to keep the polder dry
This was one of the ‘big guns’ used in the battle against water. It is an improved version of earlier drainage mills and uses an Archimedean screw instead of a water wheel, enabling it to transfer around 60,000 litres of water a minute. Over its many decades of service this mill pumped trillions of litres of water from the Oostpolder in Groningen into a lake, the Zuidlaardermeer. At the back of the rotating cap is the fantail, which ensures that the mill turned to face into the wind. The mill’s brake is located inside the cap. This was operated from the outside by means of the rope hanging next to the fantail. In 1939 an electric pumping station took over the work of this mill. The mill was dismantled in 1953 and reconstructed at the museum a few years later.
Look up into a white pine, and with a little luck you’ll see the nests of bald eagles near Wild Walk. This is your chance to climb into one of those nests. It’s the highest point of Wild Walk, and you’re invited to rest here and look out across a forest that stretches as far as you can see. It’s home to trillions of lives, spinning away forever. We share this world with all those lives. It’s fascinating to sit in the nest of a great bird, and absorb the view and all it houses.
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Object: The Andromeda Galaxy – M31 (Oct. 2018)
(Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224)
The 4th and last time I am doing this target. I was visiting an old friend in Nova Scotia and I needed to come up with a wideband target quickly and M31 won out.
A large spiral galaxy in our “local group” of galaxies named for the mythological princess Andromeda and located in the constellation of the same name. The galaxy is estimated to be 2.5 million light years distant and is estimated to be 220,000 light years across with a halo weighing in at 1.23 trillion solar masses containing over a trillion suns within its boundaries. Interesting to note that while the light from the near side of M31 takes 2.5 million years to reach us, the light from the far side takes 220,000 more years to reach us which is longer than humans have existed on earth.
Acquisition Date: October 8th to October 14th 2018 Chester, Nova Scotia
- Telescope: Takahashi FSQ106EDXIII at f/5
- Mount: Astro-Physics AP1100
- Camera: Starlight Xpress Trius SX-46 (-20°C)
- Guiding: Starlight Xpress Maxi filterwheel OAG
- Guide camera: Starlight -Xpress Lodestar X2 mono
Filters:
Astrodon Gen II E Filters
Luminance: 25 x 300sec (125 min)
Red: 16 x 300sec (80 min)
Green: 14 x 300sec (70 min)
Blue: 20 x 300sec (100 min)
Total: 375 min (6.25 hours)
Highest Position - Explore #2 | 15.02.2009 (Trillion thanks everyone! :D)
The busiest period for me at work this week... real stress :'( so hopefully i can find the time to continue posting for the next few days. If there is no sign of me, don't worry too much.. i'm just dead from work! :P Anyway for those who have been my contacts since the day i started hdr, you will find this very familiar cos this shot was posted 9 mths ago when i first started hdr & it was the 2nd hdr which i've done. I've always loved this shot but technically it was not greatly processed back then. I've re-processed this & gave it a bit more punch & vibrancy. That's partly to help me with this monday blues too! :P Can't help it..colourful shot brings me joy! :))) Have a great start to the week!
View LARGE On Black to feel the heavenly shine
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About
The Langman Grove, Klemzig (Just 5 mins walk from where i live)
The shot
Standard 3 exposure shots (-1..0..+1EV) with tripod using the Canon EF-S 18-55mm lens
Photomatix
- Tonemapped generated HDR using detail enhancer option
Photoshop
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'curves' to increase the contrast
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'level' to adjust the darkness of the field
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (master) to decrease the overall saturation
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (yellows) to enhance the sunset
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (greens) to enhance the field
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'photo filter' (cool blues) to enhance the blue part of the sky
- Blended 1 layer mask effect of 0 EV shot to correct the leaves & branches movement
- Stamp cloned away some stained marks from the lens
- Used 'unsharp mask' (as always) on the background layer
You
All comments, criticism and tips for improvements are ( as always ) welcome
Music
Lionel Richie - Say You Say Me
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Look up into a white pine, and with a little luck you’ll see the nests of bald eagles near Wild Walk. This is your chance to climb into one of those nests. It’s the highest point of Wild Walk, and you’re invited to rest here and look out across a forest that stretches as far as you can see. It’s home to trillions of lives, spinning away forever. We share this world with all those lives. It’s fascinating to sit in the nest of a great bird, and absorb the view and all it houses.
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Look up into a white pine, and with a little luck you’ll see the nests of bald eagles near Wild Walk. This is your chance to climb into one of those nests. It’s the highest point of Wild Walk, and you’re invited to rest here and look out across a forest that stretches as far as you can see. It’s home to trillions of lives, spinning away forever. We share this world with all those lives. It’s fascinating to sit in the nest of a great bird, and absorb the view and all it houses.
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It seems obvious: every building has a builder. Nobody would look at this structure and conclude that it evolved through a series of random events, with no intelligent thought behind it.
Scientists estimate that the human body contains about 70 trillion cells. That's a remarkably big number. But what really amazes me, is that every one of those 70 trillion cells contains detailed coded instructions on how to build the whole body. That just screams "DESIGN"!
In his book, the Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins says of DNA:
This DNA can be regarded as a set of instructions for how to make a body, written in the A, T, C, G, alphabet of the nucleotides. It is as though, in every room of a gigantic building, there was a book-case containing the architect's plans for the entire building.
Dawkins denies that there is a God, yet admits that all living cells contain information (instructions), and even likens it to architect's plans.
If it is self-evident that a building has a builder, how much more obvious is it that all of creation must have a Creator?
For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God. (Hebrews 3:4)
can't figure out how to run efficient, accurate and fair elections?
Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., 2004
HGGT!! Protest Injustice! Resist!! Vote!!!
we voted early, tuesday morning...a 45 minute process from arrival to departure... well run...masks worn by all... a limited number of people inside the voting facility itself...Vote! Vote!! Vote!!!
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Dogs possess a sense of smell many times more sensitive than even the most advanced man-made instrument. Powerful enough to detect substances at concentrations of one part per trillion.................
Given this information I am hoping that Toby will Sniff out some good images for Tomorrows Macro Mondays...
From last year, Brood X, the Great Eastern Brood of 17-year cicadas. Genus Magicicada. I've heard numbers as high as a trillion insects. Maybe. This still doesn't allow you to hear the background noise which is pervasively produced by these insects.
Thanks for looking. Isn't God a great artist?
This is White Pocket at sunset in the red wave. I can imagine trillions of tons of debris moving slowly over this landscape etching out the finale design for us to enjoy. This is truly a photographers playground.
This is a three image Focus Stack
I was in the area attending a family wedding last week and if you find yourself in Whitby there are certain shots that must be done, even if they have been done a trillion times before. It's not easy concentrating on photography in the company of others (unless they are there for the same reason), however I was allowed 21 seconds on my own for this one.
Look, stars
are falling
broken, piecemeal,
chips of winter
light drifting down
over the city,
street lamps aglow,
so cold, darkening,
trucks and cars cough,
whine and slow
as ceaselessly
a trillion trillion
wings flutter softly
down onto roofs
and lawns and fill
trees with what seems
cloaks of white lace
invisible hands knit
as I sit and wait,
as I gaze upward
like a swimmer
undersea and then
the light changes
and the radio comes on
and the road ahead
begins ever so
imperceptibly
to vanish.
--M deO
M31 the Andromeda galaxy, can be found about 2.5 million light years distant. The galaxy contains 400 billion stars, though some estimates say up to a trillion stars. The galaxy is destined to crash into the milky way in the distant future. Does life exist, most likely it does.
This image, my best yet, is not an accurate representation of the true colour of the galaxy. But I can say the blue colour in the outer spiral arms are regions of young hot blue stars, whilst the orange central core area, is densely packed with much older yellow stars, these cannot be resolved, as they are to far away. The mass of foreground stars across the image all reside in our galaxy, the milky way. The smaller galaxies, at the bottom of the image M110 and M32 just left of centre are both gravitationally tied to the Andromeda Spiral.
61 images at iso 6400iso, at 25 seconds, stacked in deep sky stacker, with dark frames subtracted, 25 minutes in total. Canon 760D, 80mm F6 Refracter, on a driven mount, unguided.
What do dog noses have that humans don't? They possess up to 300 million olfactory receptors in their noses, compared to about six million in us. And the part of a dog's brain that is devoted to analyzing smells is about 40 times greater than ours. Dogs also have something called neophilia, which means they are attracted to new and interesting odors.
Dogs possess a sense of smell many times more sensitive than even the most advanced man-made instrument. Powerful enough to detect substances at concentrations of one part per trillion—a single drop of liquid in 20 Olympic-size swimming pools. With training, dogs can sniff out bombs and drugs, pursue suspects, and find dead bodies. And more and more, they’re being used experimentally to detect human disease—cancer, diabetes, tuberculosis, and now, malaria—from smell alone.
Dogs' noses also function quite differently than our own. When we inhale, we smell and breathe through the same airways within our nose. When dogs inhale, a fold of tissue just inside their nostril helps to separate these two functions.
When we exhale through our nose, we send the spent air out the way it came in, forcing out any incoming odors. When dogs exhale, the spent air exits through the slits in the sides of their noses. The manner in which the exhaled air swirls out actually helps usher new odors into the dog's nose. More importantly, it allows dogs to sniff more or less continuously.
We can't wiggle our nostrils independently. Dogs can. This, along with the fact that the so-called aerodynamic reach of each of their nostrils is smaller than the distance between the nostrils, helps them to determine which nostril an odor arrived in. This aids them in locating the source of smells—we've all seen dogs on an interesting scent weave back and forth across its invisible trail.
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Shenzhen was the first of the Special Economic Zones (SEZ) to be established by paramount leader Deng Xiaoping.
As a SEZ, Shenzhen is given the privilege to embrace market capitalism policies under the guise of "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics," unlike other cities in Mainland China which is based on a planned economy. As of 2018, Shenzhen has a nominal GDP of 2.42 trillion RMB (HK$2.87 trillion), which recently had surpassed neighboring Hong Kong's GDP of HK$2.85 trillion and Guangzhou's GDP of 2.29 trillion RMB (HK$2.68 trillion), making the economic output of Shenzhen the third largest out of Chinese cities, trailing behind Shanghai and Beijing. In addition, Shenzhen's GDP growth between 2016 and 2017 of 8.8% surpassed that of Hong Kong and Singapore, with 3.7% and 2.5% respectively. With a market capitalization of US$2.5 trillion as of 30 November 2018, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) is the 8th largest exchange in the world.
----[From wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhen#Special_Economic_Zone_(1980s–present) ]
When I moved to the Scottish Highlands a couple of years ago, I vowed to NEVER take a photo of Bow Fiddle Rock. Mainly because there are a hundred trillion photographs of it on the internet and I figured the world really could do without seeing another one.
Well, the problem is, I have no self-discipline. Put a family bag of Maynard's Wine Gums or an enormous Cadbury's Fruit n Nut Bar in front of me and I swear it'll be gone in minutes.
Hence, when I was passing through Portknochie the other day, my self discipline failed me again and I unsurprisingly found myself on Bow Fiddle Beach.
But, don't fear I've given myself a thorough bollocking and I promise never to do it again.....
The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is about 2.5 million light years away from earth and home to about one trillion stars!
Image taken with TS Star71/347mm apo & Atik 383l+ CCD-camera
Exposure: Luminance 10*600s, RGB 5*300s each, H-alpha 10*900s, total: 5h25