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SBZ Unterschleißheim (Sehbehinderten- und Blinden-Zentrum Südbayern)
Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired
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.
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.
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 artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.”
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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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).
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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.
Most likely: Florida crown conch / king’s crown shell — Melongena corona species complex.
Both visible shells appear to be the same general type: the upper-left one shows the crown-like spiral top, while the large shell shows the side/body-whorl view with brown-and-cream banding and projecting shoulder knobs.
This is commonly called a “conch,” but taxonomically it is not a true conch in the Strombidae family; Melongena corona is placed in Melongenidae, the crown conches and allies.
Confidence: moderately high for crown conch / Melongena; lower for exact species because the aperture/underside and locality are not visible.
Description
The key visible traits are:
Heavy spiral gastropod shells
Glossy brown, chestnut, caramel, and cream-white banding
Knobby, crown-like shoulder projections
Low-to-moderate spire
Large inflated body whorl
Worn beach-shell surface, with sand in scratches and growth lines
These match published descriptions of crown conchs as brown-to-purple-to-white spiral shells with whorls ending in white spines or crown-like points.
Discussion
The large shell is not a banded tulip shell as the first impression might suggest. Banded tulips are smoother, more spindle-shaped, and have more regular spiral bands; your shell has heavier shoulder knobs/spines, which points more strongly to crown conch / king’s crown. The shell also does not look like a queen conch or Florida fighting conch, which usually show different lip/spire structure and lack this particular crown-like whorl pattern.
Crown conchs are marine predatory snails found around Florida and nearby Gulf/Atlantic coastal habitats. IFAS describes them as common on estuary-side beaches, reaching about five inches, and feeding on oysters, clams, and carrion.
Visual read of the image
The image works as a shell study because the sand repeats the same amber, white, gray, and brown tones as the shells. The large shell dominates the lower right, while the smaller shell in the upper left gives a second viewpoint and scale contrast. The white bands are important visually: they break up the dark brown mass and emphasize the spiral geometry.
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.
I was hoping for a glorious morning, but i had lots of clouds around 5am in the morning and for a moment i thought that luck was not on my side. But seeing first light coming from the clouds i thought about doing long exposures, putting more drama in the fast moving clouds with this as result.
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Camera; Canon EOS 1Ds mkIII
Lens; Canon 24-70mm 2.8L USM
Exposure; 10 sec
Aperture; f22
Filter; Singh-Ray Vari-ND + Lee Hard Edge 0.6 Grad
ISO; 50 RAW
Tripod; Gitzo 3541L
Ballhead; RRS BH-55 with B2 AS II clamp
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1:45 Scale NEZ Cassé LEGO Replica of the former CP1903, 1903 is the only Locomotive on the Medway fleet with this "Pikachu" color, that is what make her unique.
I called Her, because it was baptize with the female name "Eva"
The 1900 class locomotives were built by Sorefame in Portugal under licence from the French company Alsthom and are visually similar to SNCF Class CC 72000
Visually Impaired - Color Blind
Using LomoChrome film to raise awareness of the visually impaired. RZ67 - turquoise
I went to Africa and all I got was this new favourite piece of Catholic High Modernism – and one designed by a Belfast architect to boot.
Located in the heart of Joburg’s ‘edgy’ Hillbrow neighbourhood, so it gets few visitors, the Cathedral of Christ the King is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Johannesburg.
From the outside, the Cathedral is impressive for its sheer bulk and scale, but not perhaps the most visually exciting structure. Inside, the glory of the glass and its multi-coloured refractions are instantly striking, especially in early morning or late afternoon sun. The colours on the concrete give the impression of a painted interior of a medieval cathedral. All windows in the cathedral were executed by Patrick Pollen of Dublin.
The architect was Belfast-born Brian Gregory, who merits an entry in the online Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720-1940 as Patrick (Padraig) Bernard Gregory. Born in 1886, his parents had moved to Colorado by the time he was nine and had remained there for at least four years, but by the time of the 1911 Census his mother had returned to Belfast with three of her children and was living with her sister who ran a grocery business. He commenced independent practice in Belfast in 1906, and worked independently or in partnership in various city centre locations until his death in 1967.
The Dictionary of Irish Architects says of Gregory: “A committed Catholic, he designed many Catholic churches throughout Northern Ireland and was responsible for the original scheme for the Cathedral of Christ the King in Johannesburg. He also designed the altar cloth for the great mass which was celebrated in Phoenix Park at the Dublin Eucharistic Congress of 1932.”
The plans to build the cathedral were envisioned in 1937 by David O'Leary, the first South African-born Catholic Bishop of Johannesburg; due to the Second World War and, presumably, other factors, construction did not commence until 1958 under Bishop Whelan, with consecration taking place soon after in 1960.
Modern in its detailing and construction, the cathedral has a traditional Latin cross form with a 20-metre-high nave. transepts, crossing and sanctuary. The nave is 58 metres long and can seat 1,500 people with a further 130 in the gallery, which I was unable to access on my visit. The side chapels are flat-roofed single storey spaces that wrap around the perimeter of the nave. The building rises 25 metres from the pavement level on Saratoga Avenue. It is now behind high walls and there is security at the gate – very friendly security when we visited.
Liturgical foci – the altar, baptismal font and holy water fonts – are constructed in solid Botticino marble. The canopy over the high altar is constructed of edge-grained oregon pine with sapele mahogany fascias, in the form of a hyperbolic paraboloid supported on laminated sapele mahogany columns
The organ is a fine instrument but currently out of action needing repair, and the Cathedral is actively seeking a relatively local organ-builder capable of repairing it.
Christ the King is, as I have already noted, located in one of Johannesburg’s tougher corners. We arrived ‘on spec’ having read on other blogs (which I can no longer find) that there was secure on-site car parking and the Cathedral was open during the day. We were welcomed as we arrived by the car park security and the cathedral was indeed open – unfortunately we were the only visitors during the whole half hour we were there, at about 4 o’clock on a humid early December afternoon. When I started flashing my camera around, the site manager did ask who we were and said it would have been better if we had cleared the visit with the diocesan office beforehand, although he was happy enough for me to keep taking photos.
And if you’d like to take a guided walking tour of Hillbrow, Dlala Nje at Ponte Tower offer one every day—I have meant to do it on my last three visits to Joburg but never quite managed it. Perhaps next time!
This description incorporates, with gratitude, text from the English Wikipedia and the online Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720-1940.
The monolith that visually best sums up Cape Kiwanda and Pacific City. It’s iconic, but it shouldn’t be confused with the Haystack Rock at Cannon Beach to the north.
Often, as you approach Pacific City on 101 just before the junction to town, you can see this rock in the distance, appearing as if it floats in the air.
One story has it that the original name of the rock was Chief Kiawanda Rock, named after the head of the local tribe - actually called the Nestugga (as opposed to Nestucca, which stuck to various area landmarks).
The most visually striking building in the 200 block of E. Front St. is this Victorian Romanesque-style structure designed by Bloomington architect George Miller and completed in 1886. For seventy years the building was the home of the Higgins, Jung and Kleinau Monument Co.
Designed by Bloomington architect George H. Miller in Victorian Romanesque-style, the building was constructed for Civil War veteran Hamer J. Higgins. The name "H. J. Higgins & Co. Marble Works" is clearly visible above the center bay of second-story windows.317
Code named ADO67 this was visually similar to the Austin 1800 (ADO17), but where that car drove the front wheels this larger car was rear wheel drive.
2019 Basingstoke Festival of Transport
Visually, I was pleased at how the lines of the most prominent iceberg followed the coastline from this point of view.
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.
A relaxing and visually attractive way to walk from a car park down to the Seafront.
Dappled light coming through the trees, the sound of the adjoining stream and a well maintained path.
Filey is between Scarborough and Bridlington on the East Coast of Yorkshire but is more refined and relaxing than either of those two.
This ravine would be called a Chine if down south or on the Isle of Wight.
A fly-mimicking weevil (Hoplocopturus sp.) from the Ecuadorian rainforest. Most cases of insect mimicry involve the imitation of a toxic or distasteful species as a model, so the reason for this beetle to appear like an entirely edible fly is not immediately apparent. However, entomologists studying these insects suggest that because flies are so agile and quick, most visually-oriented predators (particularly birds) probably learn to avoid wasting their time pursuing them, hence the incentive for this “evasive mimicry”. Sumaco Napo-Galeras National Park, Napo, Ecuador.
Castlerigg Stone Circle, Lake District, Cumbria
Some backgound information:
Castlerigg Stone Circle near Keswick is one of the most visually impressive prehistoric monuments in Britain. The plateau of Chestnut Hill, on which the monument stands, forms the raised centre of a natural amphitheatre created by the surrounding fells. From within the circle it is possible to see some of the highest peaks in Cumbria: Helvellyn, Skiddaw, Grasmoor and Blencathra.
The stones are of a local metamorphic slate, set in a flattened circle, measuring 32.6m at its widest and 29.5m at its narrowest. The heaviest stone has been estimated to weigh around 16 tons and the tallest stone measures approximately 2.3m high. The circle was probably constructed around 3200 BC (Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age), making it one of the earliest stone circles in Britain.
Current thinking has linked Castlerigg with the Neolithic Langdale axe industry in the nearby Langdale fells, with the circle acting as a meeting place where these axes were traded or exchanged. Ritually deposited stone axes are frequently found all over Britain, suggesting that their use went far beyond their mundane practical capabilities. Because of this, any exchange or trading of stone axes may not have been possible without first taking part in a ritual or ceremony. Castlerigg stone circle could have been the space in which these rituals and ceremonies were enacted.
34/52 Choose your favourite poem and try to represent a line of it visually.
I don't have a favorite poem, but I do love music and the lyrics to some of my favorite songs are close to my heart. One of my favourites is Crush, by the Dave Matthews Band. When I saw Glen, sitting at the edge of lake, taking in the beauty of our surroundings, I was filled with so much love for him. It was his idea to drive to the mountains after work and have dinner beside the lake in the mountains. It was a romantic evening, just the two of us. The lyrics are written from a man to a woman, but the sentiment is the same either way.
"Crush"
Crazy how it feels tonight
Crazy how you make it all alright love
You crush me with the things you do
I do for you anything too
Sitting smoking feeling high
In this moment it feels so right
Lovely lady
I am at your feet
God I want you so badly
I wonder this
Could tomorrow be
So wondrous as you there sleeping
Let's go drive 'till morning comes
Watch the sunrise to fill our souls up
Drink some wine 'till we get drunk
It's crazy I'm thinking
Just knowing that the world is round
Here I'm dancing on the ground
Am I right side up or upside down
Is this real or am I dreaming
Lovely lady
Let me drink you please
I won't spill a drop I promise you
Lying under this spell you cast on me
Each moment
The more I love you
Crush me
Come on
It's crazy I'm thinking
Just knowing that the world is round
Here I'm dancing on the ground
Am I right side up or upside down
Is it real or am I dreaming
Lovely lady
I will treat you sweetly
Adore you I mean you crush me
It's times like these
When my faith I feel
And I know how I love you
Come on
Lady
It's crazy I'm thinking
Just as long as you're around
And here I'll be dancing on the ground
Am I right side up or upside down
To each other we'll be facing
By love we'll beat back the pain we've found
You know
I mean to tell you all the things I've been thinking deep inside
My friend
With each moment the more I love you
Crush me
Come on
So much you have given love
That I would give you back again and again
Meaning I'll hold you
And please let me always
This visually frenetic kitchen is another Armstrong linoleum ad. Published in 1948 in American Home magazine, it offers some of the design excesses that typify the Post WWII period. Still, even with too much rapid eye movement, there are lots of useful ideas for organizing 21st century kitchens.
entrance to a visually sumptuous staircase at the art gallery of ontario. i remember the day the gehry unveiled the prototypes to Toronto; I was in the audience for the media release. Frank explained how significant the building had been in his own life, and that his contribution to it was meant make the journey of investigating art represented in its new structure and gallery layouts.
The stair feature was both the first sign of this that would greet you as you enter the proscenium and "look up at this crazy stairway".
Years later, from this view in particular it makes give the sense of leaving one's existing horizons for new ideas or adventures.
Not visually spectacular, but after three months travelling in South America, with its fair share of stray dogs, this place was quite a surprise.
It's a park in Central Lima that is a sanctuary for stray cats. Volunteers feed the cats and they can be adopted. They all seem pretty happy with the deal.
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.
Suffolk Sportscars is dedicated to production of the visually exact reproduction of the legendary Jaguar SS100. It is a true and pure Jaguar, fully recognised and accepted by all the Jaguar car clubs around the world.
The Jaguar SS100 was originally designed in 1935 by William Lyons, the founder of Jaguar Cars Limited. You will find a history of the Jaguar SS100 within this section.
The Jaguar SS100 is one of the most important cars ever produced in England. It marked the high point of English sports car design before the start of World War 2. When the leading motoring writers of Europe selected their choice of the 100 most important cars of the 20th century, they included the legendary Jaguar SS100. As only 314 were ever made this is certainly an achievement. Every serious book about sports cars includes articles and photographs of the Jaguar SS100. This landmark car acted as the mainspring for the development of the remarkable lineage of post war Jaguar sports cars.
We have now made well over 200 of our Suffolk SS100 Jaguar reproductions and are well on our way to achieving my ambition to make as many as William Lyons. We hope that this website will give you the confidence in our products and that you may take the opportunity to come and visit us at Woodbridge. I can tell you that even after 20 years of making the SS100, I still get a smile and goosebumps whenever I'm ready to go for a drive. The overall shape and stying of the car is evocative of the golden age of great pre-war sports cars.
Now we combine all the superb visuality of the car with modern brakes, steering, power and safety to meet the demand of today's driver.
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 the most stunning of Lothian's 30 open-top buses is 249 - SJ66LKO in its advert for Edinburgh's landmarks.
I do lots of kinds of photography that never show up on Flickr. There is actually quite a narrow range of types of photography that are generally appreciated here. Specialty or specialized stuff is not well received, So be it.
From time to time -- not so often -- I like to just show different things. This is a Quaker Oats switch engine, given a bit of processing treatment. Some like this sort of thing, many don't. I do.
Rather understated visually, but I like these distant galaxy fields, especially considering this is taken through an 8" scope (ie, these are pretty far and faint fuzzies...).
Constellation: Perseus (Per) · Contains: IC 312 · NGC 1259 · NGC 1260 · NGC 1264 · NGC 1265 · NGC 1267 · NGC 1268 · NGC 1270 · NGC 1271 · NGC 1272 · NGC 1273 · NGC 1274 · NGC 1275 · NGC 1277 · NGC 1278 · NGC 1281 · NGC 1282 · NGC 1283 · NGC 1293 · NGC 1294 · Perseus A
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Meade Starfinder 8
Imaging cameras: ZWO ASI1600 cooled mono
Mounts: Losmandy GM-8
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Svbony 60mm guidescope
Guiding cameras: ZWO ASI120MM
Software: Nighttime Imaging ‘N’ Astronomy · Open Guiding PHD2 Guiding · Astro Pixel Processor · Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop CS4
Accessory: GSO 2" Coma Corrector · Baader MPCC coma corrector · OnStep GoTo Controller · Rigel Systems Focuser
Dates:Aug. 27, 2021
Frames: 274x75" (5h 42' 30")
Integration: 5h 42' 30"
Avg. Moon age: 19.64 days
Avg. Moon phase: 75.48%
Basic astrometry details
Astrometry.net job: 4935903
Resolution: 2342x1742
Data source: Backyard
Wolves can communicate visually through a wide variety of expressions and moods ranging from subtle signals, such as a slight shift in weight, to more obvious ones, such as rolling on their backs to indicate complete submission.[82]
* Dominance – A dominant wolf stands stiff legged and tall. The ears are erect and forward, and the hackles bristle slightly. Often the tail is held vertically and curled toward the back. This display asserts the wolf's rank to others in the pack. A dominant wolf may stare at a submissive one, pin it to the ground, "ride up" on its shoulders, or even stand on its hind legs.
* Submission (active) – During active submission, the entire body is lowered, and the lips and ears are drawn back. Sometimes active submission is accompanied by muzzle licking, or the rapid thrusting out of the tongue and lowering of the hindquarters. The tail is placed down, or halfway or fully between the legs, and the muzzle often points up to the more dominant animal. The back may be partly arched as the submissive wolf humbles itself to its superior; a more arched back and more tucked tail indicate a greater level of submission.
* Submission (passive) – Passive submission is more intense than active submission. The wolf rolls on its back and exposes its vulnerable throat and underside. The paws are drawn into the body. This posture is often accompanied by whimpering.
* Anger – An angry wolf's ears are erect, and its fur bristles. The lips may curl up or pull back, and the incisors are displayed. The wolf may also arch its back, lash out, or snarl.
* Fear – A frightened wolf attempts to make itself look small and less conspicuous; the ears flatten against the head, and the tail may be tucked between the legs, as with a submissive wolf. There may also be whimpering or barks of fear, and the wolf may arch its back.
* Defensive – A defensive wolf flattens its ears against its head.
* Aggression – An aggressive wolf snarls and its fur bristles. The wolf may crouch, ready to attack if necessary.
* Suspicion – Pulling back of the ears shows a wolf is suspicious. The wolf also narrows its eyes. The tail of a wolf that senses danger points straight out, parallel to the ground.
* Relaxation – A relaxed wolf's tail points straight down, and the wolf may rest sphinx-like or on its side. The wolf may also wag its tail. The further down the tail droops, the more relaxed the wolf is.
* Tension – An aroused wolf's tail points straight out, and the wolf may crouch as if ready to spring.
* Happiness – As dogs do, a wolf may wag its tail if in a joyful mood. The tongue may roll out of the mouth.
* Hunting – A wolf that is hunting is tensed, and therefore the tail is horizontal and straight.
* Playfulness – A playful wolf holds its tail high and wags it. The wolf may frolic and dance around, or bow by placing the front of its body down to the ground, while holding the rear high, sometimes wagged. This resembles the playful behavior of domestic dogs.
A visually striking collection of interstellar gas and dust is the focus of this week's Hubble Picture of the Week. Named RCW 7, the nebula is located just over 5300 light-years from Earth in the constellation Puppis.
Nebulae are areas of space that are 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 protostars, surrounded by spinning discs of leftover gas and dust. In the case of RCW 7, the protostars forming here are particularly massive, giving off strongly ionising radiation and fierce stellar winds that have transformed it into what is known as a H II region.
H II regions are filled with hydrogen ions — where H I refers to a normal hydrogen atom, H II is hydrogen that has lost its electron. The ultraviolet radiation from the massive protostars excites the hydrogen, causing it to emit light and giving this nebula its soft pinkish glow. Here Hubble is studying a particular massive protostellar binary named IRAS 07299-1651, still in its glowing cocoon of gas in the curling clouds towards the top of the nebula. To expose this star and its siblings, this image was captured using the Wide Field Camera 3 in near-infrared light. The massive protostars here are brightest in ultraviolet light, but they emit plenty of infrared light which can pass through much of the gas and dust around them and be seen by Hubble. Many of the other, larger-looking stars in this image are not part of the nebula, but sit between it and our Solar System.
The creation of an H II region marks the beginning of the end for a molecular cloud. Over only a few million years, the radiation and winds from the massive stars gradually disperse the gas — even more so as the most massive stars come to the end of their lives in supernova explosions. Only a fraction of the gas will be incorporated into new stars in this nebula, with the rest being spread throughout the galaxy to eventually form new molecular clouds.
[Image Description: Clouds of gas and dust with many stars. The clouds form a flat blue background towards the bottom, and become more thick and smoky towards the top. They are lit on one side by stars in the nebula. A thick arc of gas and dust reaches around from the top, where it is brightly lit by many stars in and around it, to the bottom where it is dark and obscuring. Other large stars lie between the clouds and the viewer.]
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Tan (Chalmers University & University of Virginia), R. Fedriani (Institute for Astrophysics of Andalusia)
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Day 152
I don't know how visually appealing this is, but it's just a fun photo :) That would be my brother and cousin.
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Strobist Info:
SB-900 camera left shot into silver reflective umbrella w/ 1/2 CTO
430EX II camera right shot through umbrella
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."
As visually complicated as the ABANDONED CADILLAC photo might appear, it really was a fairly simple setup, right on my kitchen table.
[ here's the finished photo:]
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I've had that bridge model for some time and wanted to use it in a different way.
After I placed it on the "road surface" the whole scene fell into place because the piers of the structure seemed to make a stronger statement than the iron works.
After that decision, It was a just a question of what era to represent.
When lighting the set, it was immediately clear that a dramatic over head source was the way to go. The pattern of the girders falling on the automobiles defined the story.
An interesting aspect of that lighting was it created an odd flattening of the background; there was no sense depth, even though the backdrop was over 3 feet away.
Edge of a sand dune, lit by early morning sun. I've been thinking a lot about transition zones, lately: how visually dynamic they can be. This applies equally to major transitions - for example, the coastal intertidal zone, where land meets sea - and very small scale transitions, such as the place where a sand dune abruptly drops away from light into shadow.
This image, very simple, makes use of contrasts found along the edge of the dune. Colour contrast, contrast of light and dark, directional contrast (the foreground lines vs the background lines). All of nature, all of life on earth is in continual flux. That old suggestion from the counter-culture of the Sixties, "go with the flow", is actually pretty good advice. Following the lines of light and shadow in the temporary transition zone between night and day, I saw these elements and knew how to photograph them. It wasn't an intellectual construct; it was gut response. No rules. Going with the flow.
Photographed in the Great Sand Hills, south of Sceptre, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2009 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
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