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Visually the aurora appeared shades of gray, but the colors were easily visible on camera (and iPhone) displays. Big Dipper is in the upper right of photo with Little Dipper below, and Lyra in the lower left. Albert Kelly Park, Portland, Oregon OM20157
As you drive from Bournemouth along the Jurassic coast, you can visually feel the changing textures of the rocks. While Bournemouth is at the Eastern end, driving from there you will first reach the Old Harry Rocks just east of Studland. These magnificent sea stacks are made of calcium. As you move further west towards Exeter, you will eventually culminate your journey in Ladram Bay which is between the coastal towns of Budleigh Salterton and Sidmouth, on the south coast of Devon.
The “Otter Sandstone” is the richest source of Triassic reptile remains in Britain and one of the most important in the world. At the south-west end of the bay, the most common fossils in the sandstone are networks of vertical, tube-like carbonate petrifactions (rhizocretions): these represent the roots of plants that were able to survive in the harsh dry climate of the Triassic Period - Courtesy Wiki.
The pebble beach here is the best I have visited thus far. When we got there, it was already getting cold as the dusk approached and there was not one around...so I basically had these beautiful red rocks all to myself! That was such a beautiful evening. We completed our trip to the Jurassic Coast here and headed back home.
I will be on transit for a few days. So I wont be able to visit your streams. I will set myself up again and get back on flickr. Till then happy shooting and have a nice weekend!!
Thanks for viewing :)
A visually charming window display in one of the tourist shops in Le Castellet, a medieval village in the South of France. There are so many entertaining little details to look at here.
Visually indistinguishable from Western Wood Pewee, the two species are separated by geography and vocalization. Lake St. Clair.
One of the most visually stunning Inca ruins beside Machu Picchu is the Moray Agricultural Terraces. It's weird that this site is not on the typical tourist agenda, but we're glad we went. The site holds a series of concentric terraces that looks like an ancient Greek amphitheater, and it descends to a depth of approximately 150 meters. The circular bottom is so well drained that it never completely floods, no matter how plentiful the rain.
The most widely agreed theory about this site is that the Incas used it as an agricultural research station. Pollen studies indicate that soils from several region of the Andes, from tropical and sub-tropical areas, were imported by the Incas and deposited in each of the large circular basins. Seeds were then cultivated, studied, and likely sent throughout the Incan empire to improve yield in the harsh conditions of the Andes.
The Sculptor Galaxy is visually a very bright and quite big galaxy in the constellation Sculptor. It can be easily seen through binoculars.
It lies at a distance of around 11 milion light years away and is part of the Sculptor Group, one of the nearest galaxy groups to the Milky Way.
The globular cluster is NGC288 and lies at a distance of 30.000 light years from earth.
Image taken with monochrome Nikon D600 on a APM107/700 with Riccardi reducer and modified Nikon D600 on a TS Quadruplet 480/80, mounted on Fornax 51 and guided with MGEN.
Luminance 30x10min ISO400
RGB 30x10min ISO400
Location: Astrofarm Kiripotib, Namibia
A collection of faint nebulas in southern Cepheus, including the Wizard Nebula.
This visually faint emission nebula NGC 7380, aka the Wizard Nebula, is at left, while at right is Sharpless 2-135. In between is the famous variable and double star Delta Cephei. The orange star at far right is Zeta Cephei. To be precise, the star cluster embedded in the Wizard is actually NGC 7380, as discovered by Caroline Herschel. Photos reveal the nebula surrounding the cluster.
This is a stack of 8 x 8-minute exposures through the Borg 77mm f/4 astrograph and with the Canon EOS Ra red-sensitive mirrorless camera, at ISO 800. Stacked, aligned and processed in Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop 2020. No nebula or light pollution reduction filter was employed in taking the images. I shot this from home November 25, 2019 on a very fine if frosty autumn night. The last few exposures were shot through incoming high haze.
One of the most visually stunning Inca ruins is at Moray, an archaeological site in Peru approximately 50 km northwest of Cuzco and just west of the village of Maras. In a large bowl-like depression, is constructed a series of concentric terraces that looks like an ancient Greek amphitheater. The largest of these terraces are at the center – they are enormous in size, and descend to a depth of approximately 150 meter, leading to a circular bottom so well drained that it never completely floods, no matter how plentiful the rain.
The concentric terraces are split by multiple staircases that extend upward like spokes of a wheel and enable people to walk from the top to the bottom of the bowl. Six more terraces, in connected ellipses rather than perfect circles, surround the concentric heart of Moray, and eight terraced steps that cover only a fraction of the perimeter overlook the site. The purpose of these depressions is uncertain, but the most widely agreed theory is they used to serve as ‘agricultural research station’.*
*https://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/03/the-mysterious-moray-agricultural.html
M33 is visually the second largest galaxy observed in the Northern Hemisphere and can be seen by the naked eye in dark skies. It is 2.7 million ly from earth and named after the constellation Triangulum in which it sits near.
PI Workflow:
R (Drizzle / MMT Noise Reduction / MT Star Reduction / Deconvolution)
G/B (Drizzle / DBE / Debanding / MMT Noise Reduction / Linear Fit)
Ha/O (Drizzle / Debanding / DBE / MMT Noise Reduction / Linear Fit)
L (Drizzle / Deconvolution / Delinearize / HDRMT / LHE / CT)
RBGCombination
NBRGB Script
DBE
MaskedStretched / HT
Photoshop Workflow:
ColorEfex Pro / Detail Extraction
Curves
StarSpikes Pro to cleanup stars
Takahashi FSQ-106
Software Bisque MyT
QSI 683WSG-8
L 12x15min
R 8x15min
G 4x15min
B 7x15min
Ha 33x30min
Oii 13x30min
Total Integration Time = 30.75hrs
Data from Deepskywest Remote Observatory
The last of the Lothian open-top Wrightbus Gemini 3s has entered service. Seen on Princes Street on the Majestic Tour is 249 - SJ66LKO, which in my opinion is the most visually stunning of the thirty open-top Geminis and this is the one that was at the NEC last year.
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Photographed from Mississaugua, Ontario, Canada, between 23.00 and 23.23 EST (Moon altitude: 22°, declining to 18°)
* Temperature -10° C.
As the Moon revolves around planet Earth once a month, it frequently passes in front of (or "occults") stars, which suddenly blink off as the dark eastern limb (edge) of the Moon covers them, or suddenly reappear from behind the western limb as the Moon passes over them.
The observer who is located within a few kilometres of the northern or southern limits of the occultation path can see an amazing phenomenon: The stars will blink off and on as the mountains and valleys on the limb of the Moon cover and uncover the star over the course of several seconds or minutes.
On this very cold early March evening observers across Canada and the northeastern United States had the rare opportunity to see a grazing occultation of Aldebaran, the brightest star in the constellation Taurus (the Bull), and the 14th brightest star in the sky.
Here, in a series of exposures made during a 23-minute period, the Moon (just six hours before reaching its first quarter phase) approaches and passes by Aldebaran. Visually through our telescopes, we saw the star blink off and on, and fade once, during this exciting event.
Here is a photo of the equipment used to make this image (photo taken in Algonquin Park in July 2016):
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Nikon D810 camera body on Explore Scientific 152 mm (6") apochromatic refracting telescope, mounted on Astrophysics 1100GTO equatorial mount.
1200 mm focal length, f/8
Six identical exposures; each exposure:
* ISO 160, 1/160 sec.
Processed in Photoshop CS6
(brightness, contrast, colour desaturation, sharpening)
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This visually busy scene occurred mid summer of this year and was captured while standing in my backyard. I’m not certain why the vivid section of the rainbow was so abbreviated in these conditions, but it created something that looked almost like a bridge between the upper and lower clouds, which I thought looked pretty cool. Besides the clouds, rainbow and corn, there are two birds also caught in frame. The obvious one (just to the left of the rainbow) was a barn swallow and the other (perched on a cornstalk in the lower right quadrant) was a blue grosbeak.
Visually I like the silhouette of the man and his umbrella as he slowly but purposefully walks past the mannequins to his destination.
I changed the name to ‘Fitting In’ thanks to my friend Sara. This reference on one hand can be taken literally i.e. in relation to the subjects position between the mannequins. On the other hand, It can be taken as a symbolic representation. A protest about the ‘fitting in’ to superficial norms set by societies. How more superficial can a mannequin be? Who wants to conform? Who wants to ‘fit in’?
visually striking war memorial dedicated to soldiers of the Portuguese army who died during the Overseas War of 1961 to 1974. The Monumento Combatentes Ultramar memorial comprises of three distinctive sections; the flame, the monument and memorial wall.
The central flame burns continuously to signify the lasting memory of the dead soldiers while the names of each solider who died in the protracted African conflict are etched into the the three walls that surround the memorial. The artistic section of the Monumento Combatentes Ultramar include a shallow purpose built lake and two large angled pillars that jut out above the flame.
So I styled this outfit to be kindof a mix between Courney Shane from Jawbreaker, and a little bit of Cher from Clueless. I started out shooting it at a skate park, to lean into the 90s thing, but this area of the sim was more visually interesting.
Head: Lelutka Simone
Body: Maitreya Lara
Hair: TRUTH / Lady
Necklace & earrings: (Yummy) Crystal Ribbon set [tinted]
Top: .:villena:. - Choker Top (M) - Black
Skirt: .:villena:. - (Maitreya) - Buckle Waist Mini - Plaid Yellow
Hosiery: FnH Suspender Belt Stockings Fishnet
Shoes: Bowtique - Florette Heels [tinted]
Rings: (Yummy) Sea Treasures [tinted]
Location: Midnight Glory
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I share my photos in groups so more people can see them, but I do not appreciate copied & pasted, pre-made comments with ad images for said groups. It comes off as spammy advertisement, to me. If you found my image and you like it, please make your own original comment. Otherwise, it will be removed. I don't mean to seem ungrateful, but I also don't think it's a compliment to spam someone with group ad images.
canon 85mm 1.2 L
Bellevue, Saturday night.
i have always been fascinated by Blade Runner, the movie. Now i can admit being obsessed by it. It's been going on for years and years. analyzing the multiple layers of understanding of this movie, not only visually but philosophically of course, is like a habit of mine. It's a work of genius. a conjunction of multiple artistic choices that end up doing a masterpiece.
When i was working on Prince of Persia - Warrior within, back in 2004, i remember having listened to the Vangelis soundtrack non stop for about two months. probably 6 to 8 hours a day. and with years i ended up gathering ALL the different official as well as bootleg soundtracks that existed for the movies. i still listen to it a lot right now. it's in my car, on my ipad, on my imacs. it's everywhere!
Visual perfection to the point i would like to live in it, breathe in it. kind of awkward when you look at how creepy some of it is. but at the same time it's such a visual poetry based on crumbling cities, and human despair, that it has become a world of its own, the epitome of a futuristic "noir" genre.
Museum of Modern Art, Manhattan
Pointillism clearly influenced this painting, even though, unlike Seurat, Klimt never expressed an interest in utilizing optics in his work. Nine-tenths of The Park is a solid mass of foliage, thus if not for the tree trunks and strips of grass at the bottom, this composition would be wholly abstract. The painting's naturalistic elements are offset by Klimt's decorative mosaic of blue, green and yellow dots, which are rendered representational only with the aid of the work's lower section. This is a visually demanding work, and possibly one of Klimt's finest plein air paintings (although many of his landscapes were finished in the studio, all were begun in the open air). He painted these throughout his career, but to this day they are celebrated far less than his portraits.
Some pics for my Wardrobe post!
I really had a lot of fun putting this looks together. I really find the outfit, the makeup, and the hair to all be super beautiful on their own. Mixing them together makes me feel so sexy!
Full credits and more Wardrobe info at post: digitalregeneration.com/visually-organize-your-second-lif...
If you look at this part of this sky visually with a telescope, all you see is the open star cluster at the center. Taking a picture with a hydrogen-alpha filter and a CCD camera reveals a lot more. There is an emission nebula associated with the star cluster, and there are many dark molecular clouds in the foreground. Those are regions where new stars are forming. I think one bears a resemblance to the Loch Ness monster or some long necked dinosaur.
Taken from my backyard in Long Beach, CA with a Celestron Edge HD 925 at 535 mm focal length with Hyperstar. An Atik 414-EX mono CCD camera was used with an Atik H-alpha filter and Optolong RGB filters. Most of the detail comes from the H-alpha filter with the RGB filters helping to get the star colors correct.
Hα filter - 42 240 s exposures
R filter - 72 45 s exposures
G filter - 61 45 s exposures
B filter - 55 45 s exposures
Preprocessing in Nebulosity with dark, bias, and flat frames; stacking, channel combination, and initial processing in PixInsight; final touches in Photoshop. It took a lot of work in PixInsight to get the right color mapped to all the detail in the nebula, but I think I found a combination that works.
North is at the left and west is at the top in this image.
A visually impaired man going up the stairs of La Grande Arche de la Défense in Paris.
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This is one of the most visually direct drawings in the “Living Machine” series. The drawing took first place in the fine arts division of the LPL Art of Planetary Science show 2015. As with other works in this series, this drawing explores themes of mimetic evolution, Lamarckian evolution and self-construction. A large organic spheroid creature (a “Plantimal”) mimics the form of a smaller more machine-like creature which it is carrying. The background is taken largely from a view of low mountains north of Interstate 8 near the Arizona-California border.simpler story more cleanly and directly.
This work was part of a solo show at Tucson's main library May 2019: pima.bibliocommons.com/events/5cc0d96b6d8db6450037c654
This image showcases one of the most visually distinctive locomotives ever to ride the American rails: the Pennsylvania Railroad Class T1. Designed during the peak of the Art Deco movement, its "Sharknose" styling remains an icon of industrial design.
Description
An imposing view of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) Class T1 duplex-drive steam locomotive. Captured in its signature "Brunswick Green" livery, the T1 was the PRR's final bold attempt to maintain steam supremacy against the rising tide of diesel power.
This specific engine, numbered 5534, displays the unmistakable Raymond Loewy-inspired "Sharknose" streamlining. The design wasn't just for show; these locomotives were built for high-speed passenger service, capable of whisking heavy express trains across the "Broad Way of Commerce" at speeds exceeding 100 mph.
The image highlights the unique 4-4-4-4 wheel arrangement, featuring two sets of cylinders driving two pairs of coupled driving wheels, all housed within a single rigid frame. While technically sophisticated, their power often led to "wheel slip," making them a challenge for even the most experienced engineers.
The Designer:
While the sleek external casing is often credited to famed industrial designer Raymond Loewy, it was a collaborative effort to reduce air resistance and give the PRR a "modern" look.
The Build:
A total of 52 T1s were produced between 1942 and 1946 (two prototypes by Baldwin Locomotive Works and 50 production units split between Baldwin and the PRR's own Altoona Works).
The Performance:
On paper, the T1 was a masterpiece, delivering massive horsepower. However, they were maintenance-heavy and arrived just as the railroad industry began a rapid transition to diesel-electric locomotives.
The Legacy:
Sadly, despite their futuristic looks and raw power, none of the original T1s were preserved; all were scrapped by 1956. Today, a non-profit group (The T1 Trust) is currently working to build a brand-new T1, No. 5550, from scratch.
This image is a historical reenactment made using AI and is based on the original advertising at the time.i made it as a tribute to the train and to become better at making these images, Some things in the image may have spelling mistakes or mechanical defects. AI programmes are evolving at quite a speed so i hope you enjoy it for what it is..
Although little changed visually, the sturdy timber and masonry buildings of the Fort Point neighborhood today house offices and condos rather than the manufacturing and warehousing activities of former maritime industries for which they were originally built in the 1900's. Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Aunque visualmente poco ha cambiado, los fuertes edificios de madera y albañilería del barrio Fort Point hoy son oficinas y condominios en lugar de las actividades de fabricación y almacenamiento de las viejas industrias marítimas para las cuales fueron construidos en el siglo XX. Boston, Massachusetts, Estados Unidos.
The visually spectacular red-crested cardinal is hard to miss. Also called the Brazilian cardinal, this South American species was introduced to Hawaii in the 1930s. Despite the resemblance and common name, the red-crested cardinal (Paroaria coronate) is not taxonomically classified as a cardinal.
March Point. Padilla Bay/Fidalgo Bay.
"The Washington population of the Black Oystercatcher is estimated to be roughly 400 birds. This number is probably not significantly different from the historical population, as these birds require fairly specialized habitat, which is not evenly distributed. Oystercatchers are highly vulnerable to human disturbance, oil spills, and pollution of the intertidal zone. Numbers of Black Oystercatchers on the outer coast may be higher than in the past, in part due to decreased human disturbance resulting from lighthouse automation. Numbers in inland areas, however, have declined in response to increased human activity. The Northern Pacific Coast Regional Shorebird Management Plan has identified the Black Oystercatcher as a regional species of high concern."
"The Black Oystercatcher is restricted in its range, never straying far from shores, in particular favoring rocky shorelines. It has been suggested that this bird is seen mostly on coastal stretches which have some quieter embayments, such as jetty protected areas. It forages in the intertidal zone, feeding on marine invertebrates, particularly molluscs such as mussels, limpets and chitons. It will also take crabs, isopods and barnacles. It hunts through the intertidal area, searching for food visually, often so close to the water's edge it has to fly up to avoid crashing surf. It uses its strong bill to dislodge food and pry shells open."
Visually seen and captured at 4:02 AM. Milky Way above the meteor. Mars is to the left of the Saguaro cactus and Saturn and Jupiter to the right of the cactus, all three planets in a straight line.
The meteor last 1-2 seconds and moved very fast. This is a 10 second exposure so the meteor is photographically less bright in appearance than the visual observation.
These visually striking hoodoos can be found in a remote section of Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. At least that's the case right now. Political bullshit keeps changing the size and borders of this national monument and it's very possible that this particular area may lose its protective status in the near future (if it hasn't already). Fortunately, the area is so remote that I doubt it really matters.
I wanted to travel to Morocco by boat in order to experiment visually the continent change from Europa to Africa. Only on land travelling make the passenger really feel the distance and the cultural evolution all along the way. Since I had previously visited Sevilla, Malaga was for me an obvious starting point for a short Morocco trip. Then I would go to gibraltar, Tarifa and take the boat for Tangier, my first Morocco city. The trip lasted 3 weeks until I reach south of Atlas Mountain Range, just before the desert.
The conclusion of my travel is that I could not recognize any Moroccan people anymore since I could realize that from north to south, and depending of the mountain side landscape, geography and people are totally different.
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tNo matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Long exposure attemption
On explore Mar 23, 2010 #362
Location:Mersing
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Two visually impaired students immerse themselves in a game of tactile chess, fingers feeling every piece and square. Their smiles reflect joy, intelligence, and determination beyond sight, proving that play and strategy have no boundaries.
Visually appealing trees, like anemic broccoli. They speak to me, although I can't tell what they're saying.
Photos taken in and around Keswick, Cumbria in early October 2015.
'Castlerigg Stone Circle is one of the most visually impressive prehistoric monuments in Britain, and is the most visited stone circle in Cumbria. Every year thousands of people visit it to look, photograph, draw and wonder why and when and by whom it was built. The stone circle is on the level top of a low hill with views across to Skiddaw, Blencathra and Lonscale Fell.'
A visually stunning drive along the Shaniko-Fossil Hwy near Antelope, Oregon. As you make your way over the mountainside, going east from Antelope to Clarno, you get your first view of the John Day Fossil Beds. A preview of what is to come.
I'm always looking for interesting things on my daily walks to capture for my Picture-of-the-Day for the 365 Group, and these sidewalk bumps, also known as "warning pavers" that are meant to assist visually impaired people really caught my eye.
These are 2 different pavers that are about a block apart and they're identical in every way, except one seems to be slightly more worn. However, the one on the left clearly looks like raised bumps, whereas the one of the right looks like depressions. It's a trick of the eye due to the angle of the sun and shadows!
See how easily amused I am....
The Blue Lake was created during the Otago gold mining era. It started as a hill and was reduced to a pit from which shafts and then hydraulic elevators brought up gravel for sluicing. In its day it was the deepest mining hole in the Southern Hemisphere. When mining stopped, it flooded full of water. The blue color of the lake is caused by the mineral content of the surrounding, visually striking cliffs.
► █░▓ ≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈ MILK POWDER FACTORY here visually partly blocked by the inland cruiser 'Viking Magni'. This passenger ship, ferry and cruise ship is sailing under the flag of Switzerland and is now in Germany, under way to Budapest. Her draught is 1,7 m. I noticed few passengers here, in spite of a warm day.
Most ships here use the other side (closer to me) when going upstream, but my hunch is that she's going to pick up her passengers in Arkelstad harbour and therefore getting ready on that side of the river. This stretch of the northern shore which she'a here blocking belongs to "Vreugdenhil Dairy Foods" (Nestlé) milk powder factory, with many a container ready for shipping. I would love to see it so close by from the river. Here it looks as if the factory stands on the upper deck of the cruiser.
The passengers on this cruiser belong to the generation that hardly knew about the milk powder. Now at the turn of XXI's century second quarter it has become a real quest to find a product without it in grocery stores. I do my best.
Lumix G90 / Lumix 12-35 mm f/2.8. —At 26mm (52mm full frame equivalent) and f/4.0 aperture priority. Shutter speed of 1/1300 sec. This is a sooc jpeg edited in Apple Photos 10.0, uncropped (4×3 format) and exported as 16-bit tiff. 'Green Gap' Smooth filter (~10%) in Flickr's online photo editor
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It is not a particularly visually interesting image today but I had around an hour until midnight to do something before the pumpkin turned back into a coach... wait, no, it is the other way around. Or is it? How do you know that when all the coaches turn to pumpkins the pumpkins do not also turn into coaches?
No, my real reason for not having anything overly creative is that I am still trying to catch up on lectures whilst trying to wrap my head around the fact that in something like nine weeks I have to have finished all of my assignments and trying to keep that straight in my head and not panicking whilst remembering that whilst everybody else in my class was celebrating for making it through three weeks of university today, I was celebrating making it through one.
I have been very bad at remembering and researching facts recently, so I apologise for that.
Did you know that according to a survey completed by the American Pie Council (I wonder how many Don McLean impressions people do around them) apple pie is America's go-to pie, with 19% of American's saying that it is their favourite? Pumpkin pie comes in second (13%).
A visually dim auroral arc across the northern sky, with the Milky Way at left in the northwestern sky, from Churchill, Manitoba, on February 14, 2018. Polaris is at top, left of centre. This illustrates the classic auroral oval across the north, centred due north at this longitude, below Polaris. ..This is a single exposure with the Sigma 14mm lens at f/1.8.
Sadly not a patch on previous times I've been. Visually less of everything across the board. It's clear reenactors, stall holders, vintage vehicles etc., have given it a miss in advance.
The event organisers [Pike and Shot] say 80% of the groups let them down. Cant blame the groups for the mass exodus. You're the organisers, they have supported this event for over 10 years. The fault is on your doorstep.
I was watching and listening to the fella firing up the Rolls Royce engine. He was furious to put it mildly (as seen in my video). He received a call to start it earlier than scheduled. He had to! He did with reluctance and was subsequently drowning out the singers nearby. When he challenged the staff about it they were not so sympathetic. Awful for him. To his credit he apologised to the small crowd of what happened that he was instructed to start the engine early. So for me, this was a live example of the organisers causing unrest as the event unfolded.
Having been to several 1940s events this year, this was the bottom of the pile. When I spoke with quite a few visitors and stall holders etc., they were expecting so much more, as in the past.
Singer: Miss Trixie Holiday
The other singer, not in this video, was Ricky Hunter. Decided not to include him in my video because he spent way too much time looking at his phone, playlist, drinking water, while singing, rather than entertain the crowd. He was a last minute guest singer anyway. He had not been invited for over 5 years.
Entrance fee was £10! (reduced to £4 very late on into the second day). No concessions. No signposting to the event. No map or itinerary. Limited parking. A bare bones event. Purely the fault of the organisers and Rufford Abbey Estate collectively.
Without Prejudice.
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image presents a visually striking collection of interstellar gas and dust. Named RCW 7, the nebula is located just over 5,300 light-years from Earth in the constellation Puppis.
Nebulae are areas rich in the raw material needed to form new stars. Under the influence of gravity, parts of these molecular clouds collapse until they coalesce into very young, developing stars, called protostars, which are still surrounded by spinning discs of leftover gas and dust. The protostars forming in RCW 7 are particularly massive, giving off strongly ionizing radiation and fierce stellar winds that transformed the nebula into a H II region.
H II regions are filled with hydrogen ions — H I refers to a normal hydrogen atom, while H II is hydrogen that lost its electron making it an ion. Ultraviolet radiation from the massive protostars excites the hydrogen in the nebula, causing it to emit light that gives this nebula its soft pinkish glow.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Tan (Chal
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Goliath. visually explores the theme of scale, emphasizing the contrast between the immense size of urban architecture and the relative smallness of individual human experience within these spaces. It is a study in contrasts: solidity and void, opacity and transparency, enormity and minutiae. Goliath. ultimately raises questions about the individual's place in the architectural colossus of the urban landscape.
Sadly not a patch on previous times I've been. Visually less of everything across the board. It's clear reenactors, stall holders, vintage vehicles etc., have given it a miss in advance.
The event organisers [Pike and Shot] say 80% of the groups let them down. Cant blame the groups for the mass exodus. You're the organisers, they have supported this event for over 10 years. The fault is on your doorstep.
I was watching and listening to the fella firing up the Rolls Royce engine. He was furious to put it mildly (as seen in my video). He received a call to start it earlier than scheduled. He had to! He did with reluctance and was subsequently drowning out the singers nearby. When he challenged the staff about it they were not so sympathetic. Awful for him. To his credit he apologised to the small crowd of what happened that he was instructed to start the engine early. So for me, this was a live example of the organisers causing unrest as the event unfolded.
Having been to several 1940s events this year, this was the bottom of the pile. When I spoke with quite a few visitors and stall holders etc., they were expecting so much more, as in the past.
Singer: Miss Trixie Holiday
The other singer, not in this video, was Ricky Hunter. Decided not to include him in my video because he spent way too much time looking at his phone, playlist, drinking water, while singing, rather than entertain the crowd. He was a last minute guest singer anyway. He had not been invited for over 5 years.
Entrance fee was £10! (reduced to £4 very late on into the second day). No concessions. No signposting to the event. No map or itinerary. Limited parking. A bare bones event. Purely the fault of the organisers and Rufford Abbey Estate collectively.
Without Prejudice.