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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.
The Torre del Mangia is a tower in Siena, in the Tuscany region of Italy. Built in 1338-1348, it is located in the Piazza del Campo, Siena's main square, next to the Palazzo Pubblico (Town Hall). When built it was one of the tallest secular towers in medieval Italy. At 102 m it is second tallest after Cremona's Torrazzo (112 m (367 ft)), the Asinelli tower in Bologna at 97 m being It emulates Islamic architecture with its square minaret design, pointed arches and striking height. The tower was built to be exactly the same height as Siena Cathedral as a sign that the church and the state had equal power.
The name refers to its first bellringer, Giovanni di Balduccio, nicknamed Mangiaguadagni (‘Profit eater’) either for his spendthrift tendency, idleness or gluttony.
The tower has visually distinct levels, from the top:
a short pale-gray upper loggia
a marble (uppermost) structure.
a stone section that flares out slightly
a long red brick shaft
A marble loggia at the base of the tower where it meets the Piazza del Campo, known as the Cappella di Piazza, was added in 1352 to fulfil a vow to the Holy Virgin by Sienese survivors of the Black Death. The corner pilasters attained their current form in 1378, the sculptures decorating them being executed in 1378-1382 by Mariano d'Angelo Romanelli e Bartolomeo di Tommé. The simple wooden ceiling once covering the loggia was replaced by the current Renaissance marble vault in 1461-1468 by Antonio Federighi, also responsible for the bizarre decorations of the coronation. In 1537-1539 Il Sodoma painted a fresco above the altar, now housed in the town museum in the Palazzo Pubblico.
The upper-middle part in stone was built by Agostino di Giovanni to the design of one Mastro Lippo pittore, probably identifiable with Lippo Memmi. It consists of a parapet resting on corbels. The pronounced petal-like arches between the corbels have led writers to describe the structure as a tulip or lily.
The clock on the lower part of the shaft was added in 1360. There are three bells, the largest one is called the "Sunto" - an abbreviation of assunto, a reference to the assumption of the Virgin. The bell plays a notable role in the celebrations of the Palio.
The walls of the tower are approximately 3 m (9.8 ft) thick on each side.
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.
Triumph Spitfire Mk.II (1965-67) Engine 1147cc S4 OHV
Production 37,409
Registration Number KNV 549 E (Northamptonshire)
TRIUMPH ALBUM
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The Triumph Spitfire was produced as a small sportscar by Triumph over five generations between 1962-80. Originally designed by Italian designer Giovanni Michelotti and introduced at the 1962 London Motor Show (Earls Court). Developed on a shortened variant of the Triumph Herald saloon/sedan's chassis, the Spitfire shared the Herald's running gear and Standard SC engine. It was manufactured at the Standard-Triumph Canley works, with approximately 315,000 produced over 18 years
The Mark II was introduced in March 1965, visually simular to the Mark 1, with a retuned engine, featuring a revised camshaft profile, water-heated intake manifold, and tubular exhaust manifold, increasing power to 67 bhp. The coil-spring design clutch of the Mark I was replaced with a Borg & Beck diaphragm spring clutch. Exterior trim featured a new grille and badges, and the interior featured revised seats, while carpeting replaced the original rubber mats.
Its base price was £550, against £505 and £515, for the BMC Austin Healey Sprite and MG Midget.
It was claimed to have a top speed of 96mph with a 0-60mph time of 14.8 seconds which was considered lively
Diolch am 82,391,602 o olygfeydd anhygoel, mae pob un yn cael ei werthfawrogi'n fawr.
Thanks for 82,391,602 amazing views, every one is greatly appreciated.
Shot 05.06.2021. at Bicester Heritage Centre, Bicester, Oxon. 146-330
A Dark Beauty from the Southern Sky
This deep image captures the stunning dark nebulae and reflection clouds of the Corona Australis molecular complex, one of the nearest and most visually striking star-forming regions in the sky. Located roughly 420 light-years away, this region is a dramatic mix of dark dust filaments, blue reflection nebulae, and scattered young stars.
Prominently featured is NGC 6729, a blue reflection/emission nebula surrounding young variable stars R CrA and T CrA, which are still in the early stages of stellar evolution. The intricate brownish dust lanes weaving across the frame obscure background starlight and trace the structure of cold molecular gas, a raw material for future star formation. Nearby lies the globular cluster NGC 6723, providing a striking contrast to the dusty clouds.
The Corona Australis molecular cloud complex lies only ~420 light-years away, making it one of the nearest regions of low-mass star formation. NGC 6729, near R CrA, is home to several Herbig-Haro objects (HH 96, HH 97, HH 100, etc.), an energetic jets and outflows from newborn stars colliding with surrounding gas and dust. These shocks are key indicators of ongoing accretion and stellar birth.
NGC 6723 is a globular cluster consisting of tens of thousands of ancient stars gravitationally bound in a spherical halo. It likely formed during the earliest stages of the Milky Way’s assembly, making it more than 30 times older than the young stars in the Corona Australis cloud just a few degrees away on the sky.
Although the cluster visually appears embedded in the same dusty field, NGC 6723 lies much farther in the background, behind the Corona Australis dark cloud, it lies ~28,400 light-years aways.
Captured remotely from the southern skies using Martin Pugh’s observatory in Australia. Fully remote operation via N.I.N.A., managed as part of our SkyFlux Team rental.
This project reflects the power of remote astrophotography, planned, executed, and processed from thousands of kilometers away. The depth and detail of this image were made possible by combining meticulous planning with access to a dark southern site and using advanced PixInsight workflow.
4-panel mosaic
Each panel: 120x300s (10 Hours)
Equipment: SharpStar AP140PH, 10Micro HPS1000, ASI 6200 OSC
Control & Acquisition: Remote operation via N.I.N.A. (SkyFlux Team)
Entirely processed in PixInsight.
Processing & copyright: Leo Shatz
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.
If anything is visually in people’s minds when thinking about India, it’s likely the Taj Mahal. It was built by a king for his queen, where she now is memorialized. What’s less well known is that several generations before a queen had erected a very similar structure for her king husband, only done in red brick rather than marble. It’s believed this one was the model for the Taj.
Visually appealing trees, like anemic broccoli. They speak to me, although I can't tell what they're saying.
Visually observed as well. The meteor emerges from the "Y" radiant directly above. Mars (with red color) is above the Saguaro cactus and Saturn and Jupiter to the upper right. These meteors often show nice color as captured in this one. Shortly after this the sky brightened, the coyotes howl to welcome the dawn and meteor observing is over.
The color of this meteor is typical of this shower that shows well against the predawn sky.
At one week old, a downy manu-o-Kū hatchling visually explores the world around its nest. The manu-o-Kū is an arboreal nesting pelagic seabird that doesn’t construct a nest; instead using a flat or hollow or fork in the tree to keep the egg from rolling away. The hatchling uses its strong, clawed, semipalmate feet to cling to the swaying tree branch that will be its home until fledging. This one is nesting in a monkeypod tree adjacent to a building in urban Honolulu that provides an opportunity for a cropped telephoto image. Parents alternate fishing and feeding duties leaving the chick unattended for up to several hours. Adults fish up to 120 miles offshore and provision the chick with fresh whole fish or squid rather than devouring then regurgitating a meal. This avian behavior was known to Polynesian voyagers and other seafarers. A landfall that may be out of view over the horizon could be located by following these birds conveying their catch back to their nestling.
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.
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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.
Photographed at Lake Ndutu, Tanzania from a safari vehicle - no cover
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The female is the one that's closer to the camera.
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From Wikipedia: The tawny eagle (Aquila rapax) is a large bird of prey. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae. It was once considered to be closely related to the migratory steppe eagle, Aquila nipalensis, and the two forms have previously been treated as conspecific. They were split based on pronounced differences in morphology and anatomy; two molecular studies, each based on a very small number of genes, indicate that the species are distinct, but disagree over how closely related they are.
It breeds in most of Africa both north and south of the Sahara Desert and across tropical southwestern Asia to India. It is a resident breeder which lays one to three eggs in a stick nest in a tree or crag or on the ground.
Throughout its range, it favours open dry habitats such as desert, semidesert, steppes, or savannah plains.
Description:
This eagle's gape extendsonly to below the middle of the eye.
This is a large eagle, although it is one of the smaller species in the genus Aquila. It is 60–75 cm (24–30 in) in length and has a wingspan of 159–190 cm (63–75 in). Weight can range from 1.6 to 3 kg (3.5 to 6.6 lb). It has tawny upperparts and blackish flight feathers and tail. The lower back is very pale. This species is smaller and paler than the steppe eagle, and it does not share that species' pale throat.
Immature birds show less contrast than adults, but both show a range of variation in plumage colour.
Behaviour:
The tawny eagle's diet is largely fresh carrion of all kinds, but it kills small mammals up to the size of a rabbit, reptiles, and birds up to the size of guineafowl. It also steals food from other raptors.
The call of the tawny eagle is a crow-like barking, but it is rather a silent bird except in display.
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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 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..
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.
how visually literate are you??? LOL
These are the bottoms of colour felt pens/ colour markers!
Sometimes I just have some fun in the studio and play with some props...
A bit more info here:
Lee Newman patented a felt-tipped marking pen in 1910.
A marker pen, fineliner, marking pen, felt-tip marker, felt-tip pen, flow marker, texta (in Australia), sketch pen (in India) or koki (in South Africa), feutre (in FRANCE),is a pen which has its own ink-source and a tip made of porous, pressed fibers such as felt.
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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.
A visually stunning, futuristic mall with huge potential, featuring unique attractions like an indoor tram, and a large ice rink.
КОНСТАНТИН ЮОН - В Сергиевом Посаде
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Location: Glinka National Museum Consortium of Musical Culture, Museum-apartment of Nikolay Golovanov, Moscow, Russia.
Sources: goskatalog.ru/portal/#/collections?id=4854506
www.artcyclopedia.ru/1911_v_sergievom_posade_1911_chs-yuo...
ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%83%D0%B7%D0%B5%D0%B9-%D...
It becomes clear that Konstantin Yuon painted several variants of the painting "Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius" visually indistinguishable by plot.
A small-format version of the painting was auctioned by Sotheby's in 2010: www.flickr.com/photos/140907479@N08/52582261730/in/datepo....
A painting with a similar subject, created a year later (which you see here), is in the collection of the Russian musician Nikolay Golovanov.
And the most famous version of the painting "Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius", dated 1910, is kept in the Russian Museum: rusmuseumvrm.ru/data/collections/painting/19_20/zh-5829/i...
Rus: Становится понятно, что Константином Юоном было написано несколько вариантов картины "Троице-Сергиева Лавра зимой" визуально малоотличимых по сюжету.
Малоформатный вариант картины оказался на торгах Сотбис в 2010 году: www.flickr.com/photos/140907479@N08/52582261730/in/datepo....
Картина с аналогичным сюжетом, созданная годом позже (которую вы видите здесь), находится в собрании российского музыканта Николая Голованова.
А наиболее известный вариант картины "Троицкая Лавра зимой", датированный 1910 годом, хранится в Русском музее: rusmuseumvrm.ru/data/collections/painting/19_20/zh-5829/i...
This early arriving Hummer is one of several males that are fighting over the nectar feeder just below. They now compete with breath-taking high-speed aerial sky dives to impress the feeding females and get their attention (for breeding). This flight action is both visually and audibly impressive! It's still very early morning, and the sunlight is heavily filtered by the tall forest growth to the east. Although I have the sun at my back, the gorgets will not display full red iridescence until it gets a little brighter. In this shot you can get quite a hint of the vibrant wine-red color to come with later more intense sunlight! This dazzling display is then based more on iridescence than pigment colors... but the sun angle has to be correct. The experienced males know how to precisely position themselves relative to sun angle to awe the ladies.
IMG_5850; Broad-tailed Hummingbird
Resident, winter visitor from Iceland and passage migrant (birds on passage from Scandinavia/the Baltic breeding areas to west African wintering areas). Highest numbers occur during the early autumn, when there is overlap of the populations.
Identification
As the name suggests, its most distinctive feature is the leg colour - bright red. A common wader of wetlands throughout the country, though mainly coastal estuaries in winter. A generally mouse brown bird with dark streaking. Bill medium length and straight, reddish at the base. Legs relatively long. Can occur in quite large numbers at the larger estuaries.
Voice
An hyterical, piercing "tew…hoo, tew…hoo", always loud - often scaring other birds away. Persisitent "tew.. tew...tew.." at breeding grounds.
Diet
Detect prey visually and feed mostly during the day along the upper shore of estuaries and along muddy river channels. Feed singly or in small groups, and their prey consists mostly of Hydrobia sp., Corophium sp. and nereid worms
Breeding
Nests on the ground in grassy tussock, in wet, marshy areas and occasionally heather. Adults often keep guard standing on fence posts or high rocks. Breeds mainly in midlands (especially Shannon Callows) and northern half of the country, but not commonly anywhere in Ireland.
Wintering
Winters all around the coasts of Ireland, Britain and many European countries. Favours mudflats, large estuaries and inlets. Smaller numbers at inland lakes and large rivers.
Visually similar to Yellow-bellied Sapsucker of the East, this woodpecker was long considered a subspecies thereof and split only in 1998. Strawberry Butte.
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.
A rather visually confusing photo of the inverted pyramid at the Louvre.
I've visited the Louvre many times over the past 30 years but this was my first visit since purchasing my 8mm Samyang fisheye lens. I enjoyed the creative options the new lens gave me and I think it's helped capture the vast scale of the I.M.Pei designed glass pyramid.
Click here for more photos taken at the Louvre over the years : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157624005753007
From Wikipedia : "By 1874, the Louvre Palace had achieved its present form of an almost rectangular structure with the Sully Wing to the east containing the Cour Carrée (Square Court) and the oldest parts of the Louvre; and two wings which wrap the Cour Napoléon, the Richelieu Wing to the north and the Denon Wing, which borders the Seine to the south.
In 1983, French President François Mitterrand proposed, as one of his Grands Projets, the Grand Louvre plan to renovate the building and relocate the Finance Ministry, allowing displays throughout the building. Architect I. M. Pei was awarded the project and proposed a glass pyramid to stand over a new entrance in the main court, the Cour Napoléon. The pyramid and its underground lobby were inaugurated on 15 October 1988 and the Louvre Pyramid was completed in 1989. The second phase of the Grand Louvre plan, La Pyramide Inversée (The Inverted Pyramid), was completed in 1993. As of 2002, attendance had doubled since completion."
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► █░▓ ≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈ 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.
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Marsh tit (Poecile palustris).
Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Visually impaired. Monocular vision.
Animal in wildlife.
This image is probably one of the most personal, and visually meaningful, images I've ever posted.
A perfect storm of stress, depression, illness and a severe lack of sleep over a period of several weeks culminated in putting my head into one of the scariest places it's ever been in, and appropriately enough whilst on a 3 day holiday sabbatical in the mountains of Snowdonia last week. They were 3 days I hope I never have to experience the like of which again. The sense of isolation, of disjointedness from the world around me, of not even being sure who I was anymore was emotionally and mentally excruciating. The nights were the worst, unable to sleep I experienced the full depth of myself while at the same time feeling so terrifyingly distant from everything in existence. Identity and reality fractured, insanity beckoned…
Strangely enough, as much as it scared me, it was finding my depth that was my saviour, that and the love of a woman who reached down into my personal hell, gently pulled me out and helped me see the light again, inner and outer. If she hadn't been there to listen to my ramblings, my fears, and to comfort me in the darkest moments, I dread to think what the consequences for my mental health would have been.
I've thought long and hard about revealing such a personal experience here on flickr, but ultimately I'm willingly to do so if it helps just one person going through something similar to take a risk and reach out and talk to someone they trust implicitly, and maybe you who read this with a sound mind could extend a hand to someone who you know is going through their own personal hell and be the spar they cling onto in their storm tossed ocean, and slowly but surely carry them back to the safety of the shore. Don't worry, you don't have to come up with answers to their issues, it's enough to lend an ear to their fears. I tried to deal it with by myself but badly crashed and burned. I kept quiet because of pride, fear and the belief that no one could help me. They can. Find that person you trust, and talk, talk like there's no tomorrow, don't leave it until you're hanging on by your fingernails like I did.
This image was done completely out of spontaneous boredom and I feel it's become quite successful visually. The model in the image adores angels and fairies so I thought it would be a nice gesture to create something she would like visually and once I began I just got carried away and created a full edit. Hope you are all enjoying your summer.
Visually and aurally, it's a shame the two EMD locos weren't leading, but one shouldn't complain even when the Train Gods provide a subawesome foursome.
DXC 5454 DXC 5241 DFB 7241 DC 4012, train 925, Deborah, SIMT 23 Jan 2017
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.
Visually a descendent of the SP1 Striker, but sized more like the Galactic Peacekeeper.
I'm still not totally sure about that cagelike take on the prisoner transport pod, but it mostly works.
And I actually managed semi-retractable undercarriage.
I’ve always enjoyed how waterfalls become transformed with slower shutter speeds, with blurring water showing smooth lines and a visually beautiful appeal that we can’t see with our own eyes. I put these images in the same category of “the unseen world” that most of my work fits into, and the equipment to do this doesn’t need to be extreme!
I was lucky that this small portion of the Krushuna Waterfall in Bulgaria was in shadow, since I wasn’t properly prepared for waterfall photography. I’d normally carry a neutral density filter with me to get this effect more easily, but this was shot with only a Lumix GX9 and the 12-32mm compact kit lens. ISO 200, F/18, and the resulting shutter speed was 1/4th of a second. I normally like to get a little closer to a full second-long exposure, but the water was quite calm and cooperative at longer exposures. I’m scratching my head to figure out why I didn’t shoot at ISO 100 though!
A neutral density filter would block some of the light from entering the lens without me having to resort to such a small aperture. This can be useful for video when you want a wide aperture, but a shutter speed around 1/25 or 1/50 sec to match your framerate. For stills, ND filters allow for you to more effectively blur things like water or clouds without compromising on other camera settings. An aperture of F/18 might begin to introduce diffraction and limit my resolution for an image such as this, but you work with what’s in your bag, and I was traveling light!
Any issues with diffraction would be negated by the fact that this is a three-shot vertical panorama. The increase in resolution by shooting it as a panorama would more than make up for any shortcomings elsewhere. Knowing that a certain amount of post-processing would be required, I sat down with the image for a couple of hours and really fine-tuned the look and feel.
Images like this can feel flat right out of the camera. Spending some time with classic dodge and burn tools in Photoshop can help add a little extra depth and contrast to the image, and the more localized you make the adjustments the better the end results. The water textures were enhanced using the Structure slider in ON1 Photo RAW which I am MUCH preferring to the clarity adjustment in Lightroom / Camera Raw. Subtle details pop without feeling overdone, especially in shadow areas. Dial this structure enhancement over just the areas that need it, and you’re on your way to a better image.
On a tripod at these slower shutter speeds, but the rest of the equipment was as minimal as could be. Just a small travel camera and one of the least expensive lenses I could pair with it. Even a more expensive lens would not have avoided the time in post-processing to make this image sing, and I’m pretty happy with the results!
I need to go through more of these Bulgaria photos before they fall off my radar and winter subjects grab all my attention! :)
The visually-stunning James B. Hunt Jr. library on the campus of North Carolina State University, my grad-school alma mater
#ABFAV_graphic_minimalism
how visually literate are you??? LOL
These are the bottoms of colour felt pens/ colour markers!
Sometimes I just have some fun in the studio and play with some tools...
Have a wonderful day, filled with love and beauty, M, (*_*)
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Angkor Wat is visually, architecturally and artistically breathtaking. It is a massive three-tiered pyramid crowned by five lotus-like towers rising 65 meters from ground level. Angkor Wat is the centerpiece of any visit to the temples of Angkor.
The most visually powerful element of the building is its successful circular viewing point, which is located on the corner, in the narrow angle formed by the confluence of the two streets; a four-storey cylindrical body with a spectacular gallery of arches on a curved portico on the second body, inspired by ancient Arab minarets, and crowned with a striking dome of polychrome glazed tiles recovered from the original, previously replaced by a crenellated body. In addition to the success of this composition, the careful chromatic study is noteworthy, based on the combination of red brick panels with other smooth ones in cream colour; the sections covered with polychrome ceramic, and the white stripes with reliefs of vases and grotesques .
Designed by the architect José Espiau y Muñoz in 1914 for La Adriática insurance company, it is a beautiful example of eclectic architecture, combining elements of Islamic origin with others of Plateresque style and others clearly regionalist. The building which opened in 1922, was built at the height of the construction boom in the city of Seville on the occasion of the opening and widening of Avenida de la Constitución in preparation for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929.