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[Girl warblers of Magee] Plumed in drab hues, the female warblers are inconspicuous both visually and vocally. Seen at Magee Marsh.
[Initially mistaken for a Pine Siskin!]
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
I wish you all a very good day and thanks for all your kind words, time, comments and likes. Very much appreciated. Magda, (*_*)
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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.
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
Marsh tit (Poecile palustris).
Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Visually impaired. Monocular vision.
Animal in wildlife.
Verde & Company Limited.
Georgian era buildings, East London.
Shut down due to greedy, disproportionate rate increases.
LR2172
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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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.
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.
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.
driving on a narrow, elevated freeway through these massive flooded forests were absolutely unreal. the rainfall the state of Ceara had received just prior to my arrival was the most in 50 years. these forests were sogged in 4 feet of water and nothing but the steady sun of the newly arrived dry season to dry them out. they went for miles and miles, and were visually spectacular.
Waiting for an eclipse.
One of the most popular and visually rewarding megalithic sites in Wales, Pentre Ifan is a splendid dolmen with a huge capstone delicately poised on three uprights. Once known as Arthurs' Quoit, 'Pentre Ifan' means 'Ivan's Village'.
Description -This monument dates from around 4,000 - 3,500 BC and was unusually oriented opening to the south, standing on the slope of a ridge commanding extensive views over the Nevern Valley and Fishguard Bay. What we see today is but a fragment of the original structure,
The capstone weighs over 16 tons; it is 5m (16ft 6in) long and 2.4m (8ft) off the ground. The stones of the chamber are all of local igneous rock; on the portal stone there is a faint decorative cup-mark.
Excavations in 1936-7 and 1958-9 showed that the dolmen originally lay within a shallow oval pit, and that the trapezoidal mound of earth covering it was up to 36m (120ft) long. The semi-circular façade, as in the Irish passage mounds/court-tombs, was marked by two upright stones on either side of the south-facing portal. The forecourt was blocked with rows of tightly wedged stones; some of the original kerbstones around the barrow can still be seen. Within the cairn were a number of enigmatic features: a slumped stone, deliberately felled before the cairn was built, an irregular line of small stone-holes and a pit with signs of burning.
Cranes are visually the most defining element of the harbour. This Europa-haven shot was taken from a Spido tourboat during the TrekEarth Rotterdam meet..
Another shot from one of the most visually stunning shows that I have ever seen. It features two members of 'Kataklo', an athletic dance group from Italy, composed entirely of former Olympic gymnasts.
I became friendly with the show's producer (Angella Kwon) during last year's Edinburgh Fringe, having previously met (and become friendly with) her sister Boram (who currently studies at my old university in Stirling) during the 2005 Fringe. Both are South Korean and Angella was producing two South Korean shows at this year's Edinburgh Fringe...and also Kataklo.
We were having lunch, the day before the last Kataklo show (I had only seen them perform on the Royal Mile) when Angella kindly invited me along and asked me to take photographs. I could not have taken this shot with my old camera. This (and several others like this) were taken at 3200 ISO, hand held with a shutter speed of 1/20th of a second (I just love image stabilisation) and relying on autofocus. I love my Canon EOS-5D!
As I have previously mentioned, one of my friends, Ken Campbell, has a progressive rock group called 'Crooked Mouth'. At the moment, he is preparing their second album (called 'Hold in the Sun') for release. I will be providing photographs for the CD, the idea being to produce a photo that represents each different song. However, one of these shots is a candidate for the CD cover. You can find out more about Crooked Mouth and hear some samples (and even order their first CD!) here: Crooked Mouth
If you like this shot, please have a look at my Kataklo set.
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! :)
Reflections have always visually fascinated me, they show us a world that's just like ours, except that it's not quite .. Fortunately living in London, I expect I'll have plenty of opportunities to look through their looking glass.
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.
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.
24 Kislèv - 3 Tevèt 5776
December 6 - 14, 2015
Hanukkah 5776 in Synagogue
The photo is part of my photographic exhibition featuring 21 laminated panels. The images of the exhibit represent the symbols of Jewish festivals throughout the year.
The exhibition has been shown in various places.
See on flickr : "Light and Tradition"
www.flickr.com/photos/studiodobs/albums/72157689952244162
Hanukkah, in Hebrew: חֲנֻכָּה, usually spelled חנוכה, the Festival of Lights or Feast of Dedication, is a Jewish holiday, commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple (the Second Temple) in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire, in 165 BC.
Hanukkah is observed for eight nights and days, starting on the 25th day of Kislev according to the Hebrew calendar, which may occur at any time from late November to late December in the Gregorian calendar.
When the Second Temple in Jerusalem was looted and services stopped, Judaism was outlawed. In 167 BC Antiochus ordered an altar to Zeus erected in the Temple. He banned brit milah (circumcision) and ordered pigs to be sacrificed at the altar of the temple .
Antiochus's actions provoked a large-scale revolt. Mattityahu, a Jewish priest, and his five sons Jochanan, Simeon, Eleazar,Jonathan, and Judah led a rebellion against Antiochus. Judah became known as Yehuda HaMakabi ("Judah the Hammer").
By 166 BC Mattathias had died, and Judah took his place as leader. By 165 BC the Jewish revolt against the Seleucid monarchy was successful. The Temple was liberated and rededicated. The festival of Hanukkah was instituted to celebrate this event.
Judah ordered the Temple to be cleansed, a new altar to be built in place of the polluted one and new holy vessels to be made. According to the Talmud, unadulterated and undefiled pure olive oil, with the seal of the kohen gadol (high priest), was needed for the menorah in the Temple, which was required to burn throughout the night every night.
The story goes that one flask was found with only enough oil to burn for one day, yet it burned for eight days, the time needed to prepare a fresh supply of kosher oil for the menorah. An eight-day festival was declared by the Jewish sages to commemorate this miracle.
Nowadays, the Festival is observed by the kindling of the lights of a unique candelabrum, the nine-branched menorah called hanukkiah, one additional light on each night of the holiday, progressing to eight on the final night. The typical menorah consists of eight branches with an additional visually distinct branch. The extra light, with which the others are lit, is called "shamash" (Hebrew: שמש, "attendant") and is given a distinct location, usually above or below the rest.
Chanukkah, Hannukkah o Chanukkà, (in ebraico חנוכה o חֲנֻכָּה) è una festività ebraica, conosciuta anche con il nome di Festa delle Luci o Festa dei Lumi.
In ebraico la parola chanukkah significa "inaugurazione" o "dedica", è infatti la festa che commemora la consacrazione di un nuovo altare, che venne inaugurato, il giorno 25 del mese di Kislev, nel Tempio di Gerusalemme, dopo la liberazione della Giudea dall'occupazione Siriana ellenica di Antioco IV Epifane, nel II secolo a.C.
I Maccabei dovettero ripulire il Tempio dagli idoli e costruire un nuovo altare perché quello precedente era stato profanato.
Al giorno d'oggi, la festività dura otto giorni ed è caratterizzata dall'accensione dei lumi di un particolare candelabro a nove braccia chiamato chanukkiah.
La prima candela va accesa al tramonto del 25 Kislev ed ogni successivo giorno della festa, si accende un'ulteriore candela. La candela centrale, chiamata Shammash (bidello, servitore), viene accesa per prima e serve ad accendere le altre, quindi deve rimanere sempre accesa.
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.
SBZ Unterschleißheim (Sehbehinderten- und Blinden-Zentrum Südbayern)
Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired
The visually-stunning James B. Hunt Jr. library on the campus of North Carolina State University, my grad-school alma mater
This wide view of our Moon’s landscape spans the region from 37° North to the lunar North Pole. It is full of visually and geologically interesting features. Let’s take a tour…
Let’s start with the crater at lower right, with the distinct outer rampart, the lava-filled crater floor, and two craters entirely enclosed within the crater floor. This is Cassini crater. The larger of the two craters inside the main basin is Cassini A. Notice that the Cassini A crater has a heart shape in this lighting (Andrew Planck describes it as a tear drop). Also note the relatively bright patch in the mountains above Cassini. This is a feature known as Cassini K. A meteor impact here dug a 3.47 km wide crater here (not resolved in this photo), and the light material is likely the subsurface material excavated and ejected by the impact. It must be relatively recent, as it has not had time to be weathered and darkened by long exposure to solar radiation.
The arc of mountains above Cassini are the Montes Alpes. These mountains are part of the outer basin ring surrounding Mare Imbrium, the vast lava plain filling the lower center and left of this photo. The mountains disappear in the darkness at the lunar terminator, just beyond the large circular walled plain of Plato crater. A keen eye might detect three or four craterlets in Plato’s interior. Less acuity is needed to detect the meandering crack extending from Plato’s eastern rim, Rimae Plato, running eastward and northward into a second lava sea known as Mare Frigoris which marks the outer limits of the Montes Alpes. To the east of Plato Crater a broad slash can be seen cutting through the Montes Alpes. This is the Alpine Valley, a graben feature, or “stretch mark” in the Moon’s crust, a place where the Moon’s surface stretched apart, and the ground surface fell into the resultant gap. Another close look reveals another thin crack running the length of the Alpine Valley. Detecting this crack and the craterlets in Plato are the two of the aspects of this photo which please me. Not that they are great achievements in imaging, but they are like trophies for me.
To the left of Cassini Crater a lonely mountain rises 2.3 kilometers above the floor of Mare Imbrium. This is Mons Piton. It may be part of a mostly buried inner ring of mountains surrounding the Imbrium Basin. Other isolated peaks and the larger mountain complexes below Plato (the Montes Teneriffe) also seem to be part of this inner ring. Below Mons Piton, near the bottom of the image right of center is an oddly shaped hill. Once, this feature was called Piton Gamma (not very interesting, that), but the name was dropped from the official lunar nomenclature in 1973 and now the feature is officially nameless. Recently the lunar and astrophotographer Robert Reeves has championed the unofficial designation “Thor’s Hammer”. Even the quickest of looks will convince a viewer of the aptness of this name.
Returning to the North, consider Mare Frigoris. This long, narrow lunar sea spans most of the northern portion of the visible face of the Moon. That makes it sort of an oddball among the great lunar seas. The others appear roughly circular and fill basins on the Moon. Current thought regards Mare Frigoris as a relic of a great fissuring episode in the history of the Moon’s nearside crust. Staggering volumes of lava flowed from these rifts covering much of the nearside face of the Moon, creating not only Mare Frigoris, but also the vast Oceanus Procellarum.
North of Mare Frigoris, above Plato crater, is an irregular ring of hills. Its western extent touches the lunar terminator. It encloses a jumbled and block-strewn basin that is barely distinguishable among the myriad craters of the lunar north. As an Alabamian, this crater stands out to me for its name: this is Birmingham. East of Birmingham a larger diamond-shaped plain is seen. This is W. Bond crater. The crater sitting astride its southwestern face is Timaeus, and the smaller crater within the eastern point of the diamond is W.Bond B. Crossing the center of the diamond roughly horizontally is a hairline crack marking an officially unnamed rille, otherwise widely known as Rima W.Bond. Imaging this is another of the small personal “woo-hoo!”s of this photograph.
Above W. Bond lies a mid-sized walled-plain crater known as Barrow crater. Barrow Crater abuts on its northeastern side the larger multi-lobed lava plain called Meton (it always resembles a clover to me). On its northwestern side Barrow touches another large lava plain called Goldschmidt. Note the impressive shadows cast by the higher portions of Goldschmidt’s eastern rim. Goldschmidt’s western rim has been destroyed by a younger crater; this one has a well-defined rampart on its eastern side which intrudes onto Goldschmidt’s basin, and its high western rampart peaks brightly reflect the light of the rising sun. This is Anaxagoras crater, one of the most recent generation of lunar craters. It retains a system of bright rays. These rays are best seen when the Sun strikes the Moon more directly, but they are evident in this photo as the lighter streaks of material sprayed across Meton, Barrow and W. Bond craters.
Lastly, we skip to the top of the Moon, to the point where the illuminated limb of the Moon meets the lunar terminator. Here lunar features are very difficult to sort out due to extreme foreshortening effects. Broad round craters are visible only as thin ovals. The very topmost trace of illuminated ridges seen here are actually high points of features from the far side of the Moon. They are seen because the Moon, on day this photo was taken, was leaning with its North Pole slightly towards the Earth. In that uppermost corner of the Moon, one of those long thin ellipses can be seen emerging from the dark beyond the terminator and extending eastward, its northernmost rim illuminated just inside those high points from the other side. This ellipse is the crater Peary. Its interior is almost constantly hidden from the light of the Sun. Over its northernmost rim, just below the point where the Moon’s northern limb touches the lunar terminator, lies the Moon’s North Pole. It is amidst the perpetually gloomy voids carved into this polar region, like similar regions at the Moon’s South Pole, that humankind dreams of establishing a permanent base. NASA, like the space programs of other countries, has begun recruiting the class of astronauts that will be tasked with this remarkable feat of exploration. Within our lifetimes. Within this decade.
Celestron EdgeHD 8 telescope, ZWO ASI290MM monochrome camera, Celestron Advanced VX mount.
Pre-processing of 1133 frame .ser file with PIPP. Best 25% of those video frames stacked with AutoStakkert 3, wavelets processing with Registax 6, and final processing in Photoshop CC 2020.
Image taken February 2, 2020.
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 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.
The visually monotonous Alexander's (renamed as Vidzemes, popularly called Matīsa) Market was opened in 1902. With one of the pavilions for the meat trade, which was the first and largest indoor market hall in Riga at that time, and the other hall for the sale of other products, the Alexander Market became the first market in the city with well-equipped pavilions at that time. The Alexander Market was the only market that allowed the sale of fresh meat all year round. The architect of the Alexander Market complex was the second city architect of Riga, Reinhold Schmaeling (1840-1917).
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.
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.
Built on a visually important junction on the corner of Foregate Street and overlooked by Chester's famous clock.
Built in 1921 for the Manchester and Liverpool District Bank Ltd. it is a late example of the black and white revival which in turn was part of the wider Tudor Revival that had been fashionable since the middle of the 19th century. Not simply a pastiche, the building is timber-framed and beautifully finished inside and out.
First let me say, this widefield perspective does ZERO justice to the actual totality seen visually on scene. The actual totally eclipsed Sun dominates the sky - and one's rapt gaze - in a way not evidenced by this puny depiction here. So OK, just so you know that.
I went to Solartown in Madras, OR to catch the eclipse, opting for the "Daytripper" overnight parking, mainly because I hadn't made any other viable plan. And it was, literally, a farm turned into a parking lot with some 6000 vehicles (an estimate I heard) packed together. When you're a landscape photographer, a parking lot is NOT where you want to be shooting. So before heading into Solartown early Sunday morning, I scouted around and found this site adorned with several gnarly trees on a back road amidst otherwise flat and featureless farmland. As for Solartown, I sweated it out all day Sunday and slept there Sunday night but couldn't wait to escape the throngs, which I did before 6 a.m. on eclipse day (after waiting in line behind 25 people to use the porta-potty at 5:30 a.m! Yeah, TMI.).
For this shot, I took an exposure every three minutes with a solar filter on a zoom lens set at 35mm. Then, of course, I took off the filter during totality and shot a couple sets of five different auto-bracketed exposures covering a wide range of shutter speeds, to make sure I got one or more with proper exposure (since it's hard to know the proper exposure for a totally eclipsed Sun in advance). The shot of the totally eclipsed Sun with the foreground was a 2-second exposure. Then I layered in the 25 other Sun shots (1/500th second each) in Photoshop with a quick stacking method. I opted not to do the "other side" of the sequence after totality, because to do that I would have had to use a shorter focal length, maybe 24mm or 28mm, to fit it all in, and the solar disks would have been even tinier.
I'm amazed I even had the presence of mind to work the camera during totality at all. Because when I glanced up and caught the surreal sight of the first diamond ring, it took a team of wild horses, as it were, to tear my gaze away and get to work! What a gorgeous, spine tingling spectacle.
And well worth the nearly 7-hour drive from Madras back to Bend. Which normally takes less than 1 hour.
Visually, this composition reminds me of a magic wand. It's a fitting metaphor, perhaps, because a total eclipse certainly does cast a wondrous spell on all who witness it.
This picture was taken kind of as a spur-of-the-moment thing. I was setting up the crayons in the background for a different picture, and a friend of mine came into the lounge and started to build the "lincoln log" crayon tower that you see here. I liked the way that everything looked from this angle - so here's a picture :-)
I think that this is one of the most visually interesting pictures that I have ever taken. I am very pleased with the way that it turned out.
Click here for a behind-the-scenes look at this picture!
(December 2, 2007: This picture was featured in an entry of Marion Boddy-Evans' Painting Blog at About.com)
(August 3, 2009: This picture was featured in a blog post titled "Where Do Good Ideas Come From?" on Ewan McIntosh's blog)
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I was with my CWC friends at the Little Flower convent in chennai last year for their sports day. This school is for the Hearing and Visually Impaired.
Those children were unable to see through their eyes or hear through their ears but the did everything through their heart :) It was so inspiring to see these children participate in all the sports activities which the normal children would do. They had the willingness to compete, the enthusiasm, the happiness and everything more than the normal children.
They were definitely one step ahead!
I pray god to give them a great life!
This is NOT an effect done in Photoshop. I used the "zoom burst" technique to capture the sense of speed.
Well… here is a seven-image panorama that will probably get very little attention here on Flickr… it’s not as visually exciting as a sunrise (or sunset) Vertorama… and this particular subject has been shot so many times that it’s absolutely impossible to find an original composition!!
This is “Morant’s Curve”… made famous by Nicholas Morant… who was employed by the Canadian Pacific Railways as their “special photographer”. Over his 50 year career, Nicholas took many thousands of photos from all over Canada… not just of trains… but of anything else in Canadian Pacific's corporate field of endeavour. One of his favourite locations for taking photographs was the S-curve on the CPR main line just east of Lake Louise. He took so many photos at this site that it soon became known to railroaders on the CPR as “Morant's Curve”.
Our small group arrived at this location shortly after lunch… hoping to get some decent photos of the train as it passed. There was only one guy at the viewpoint when we arrived… a dedicated “train-spotter” from the UK… who admitted that he’d been waiting for at least 45 minutes without seeing any trains passing by! I chatted to him for a few minutes while I was setting up my camera and tripod… but he’d had enough of waiting… and pretty soon he gave up and drove off.
The one thing that is inevitable when a group of photographers are gathered around their tripods and taking photos of something… is that every single passing car will stop and look at what you are all shooting! Within ten minutes of our stopping here… we had attracted a fairly decent crowd… everyone with their cameras out… and hoping that we knew something that they didn’t. The most popular question that I was asked that day was… “do you know what time the next train will arrive?” LOL… we didn’t have a clue… we were trying to be as patient as possible… while sweating copiously in the hot midday sun (I can’t really speak for everyone else… but I was sweating like a pig)!!
I was really in panorama-mode that day… I’d only just figured out exactly how to assemble and calibrate my new (Panosaurus) panoramic head… and I was ready to finally put it to the test! But then it suddenly dawned on me… duh… how will I manage to take a panorama of a moving train?? Unless I manage to capture the entire train in one single frame… I’d never catch it in the same position in successive frames… so my pano would be ruined! This called for a change of plan… so I waited for some nice light… snapped the seven images for this pano (without the train)… and then packed away my pano-head again. So now I was focused on shooting this as a Vertorama… waiting for the train to enter the foreground for the first image… and then capturing the mountains and sky afterwards as the second image. After waiting for well over an hour... we finally heard the sound of an approaching train! We all jumped to attention, switched on our cameras… and waited for the perfect moment! I managed to get at least twenty shots of the train as it passed by… and then I quickly recomposed and shot the sky image too. Yeah… all that waiting paid off in the end… we finally got the shots that we were hoping to get!!
However… when I returned home from Canada and started processing my photos… I noticed that the light in the panorama that I’d shot earlier… looked very similar to the light that we had while the train was passing! I also noticed that the focal length of my panorama shots was exactly the same focal length that I’d used for my Vertorama images! That made me wonder whether it would be possible for me to cut the train out from the Vertorama image and paste it into the stitched panorama? As you can see… my plan worked a treat… everything fitted together perfectly!!
There are plenty of details in this panorama... I can really recommend viewing it large.
Nikon D300, Sigma 18-200mm at 36mm, aperture of f14, with a 1/200th second exposure.