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Saturdays' Sun was rather visually boring, hence the title :)
Bright rim aside - it's a deconvolution artifact - this is how the Sun looks like if observed visually through Hα interference filtering telescope.
WARNING! Sun is dangerous, use proper filters for observing and imaging!
Aquisition time: JD 2456717.886007 (01.03.2014 13:15:51 MSK).
Image orientation: inverted (west is left and North is down)
Equipment:
Canon EOS 60D (unmodded) coupled to Coronado PST via Baader Planetarium Hyperion Zoom 8-24 mm Mark III click-stop system eyepiece and Baader Planetarium M43-to-T2 conversion ring and mounted on photo-tripod.
Aperture 40 mm
Native focal length 400 mm
Projection zoom setting: 20 mm.
Effective focal length ~900 mm
Tv = 1/30 seconds
Av (effective) = NA
ISO 800
Exposures: 74 (all in :)
Processing: images were converted to monochrome and exported as 8-bit .TIFFs. Images were assembled into stack in ImageJ and saved as .AVI. AVI was processed in Autostakkert!2.
Resulting image was subjected to Richardson-Lucy deconvolution in AstraImage 3.0 (Cauchy type PSF, size 2,8 units, 10 iterations). Deconvolve image was tonmapped in Luminance HDR (QTPFSGUI) using Mantiuk'06 operator with contrast factor 0,3 and pre-gamma 0,515.
Contrast enchancement, high-pass filtering and coloration made in Photoshop.
Image was scaled down to have Solar disk equals to 1265 pixels in diameter to compensate oversampling.
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.
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Circa 1960, a striking, visually textured view of a proposed Lockheed/Lockheed-Hughes Space Logistics, Maintenance and Rescue (SLOMAR) vehicle.
Fascinating & incredibly informative discussion, with additional depictions of this, and other proposals within the SLOMAR concept/project, at the superlative SECRET PROJECTS website.
In fact, the attachment labeled “Lockheed SLOMAR”, as part of a May 27, 2010 post by user “Skybolt” is the exact diagram/silhouette of the artist’s concept.
Also, I think this design was referred to as an ‘arrow-wing’ in one of the documents...and they were apparently folded in for launch! In fact, two hinge/‘fold’ lines are indeed visible on the near side wing. A LOT of GREAT stuff here:
www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/slomar.4190/
Credit: SECRET PROJECTS website
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Credit: Graeme Thomson/Pinterest
The spacecraft has a dark, stealthy & ominous look to it. Enhanced by the apparent ‘window’ covering panels - possibly for ascent phase protection? - still in place.
It’s like something that might be in the Dark Knight’s arsenal. Or a scene from a 1950s sci-fi movie.
To complete the scene, a rather exotic and alien looking planetary landscape below, which to me, looks a lot like ~1960 Mars. With canals & polar cap?
No artist's signature unfortunately, and it doesn't look like any artist's style that I kid myself to be familiar with.
Nesta foto temos uma galáxia, nomeada pelo catálogo de objetos celestes New General Catalog como NGC 4945. Visualmente ela fica na constelação do Centauro, perto do Cruzeiro do Sul, e é visível com telescópio sob um céu de campo. Sua distância é de algo como 12 ou 13 milhões de anos-luz de nós (para comparação, o Sol está a pouco mais de 8 minutos-luz). Mas na foto há outras galáxias, como uma próxima da borda superior, catalogada como NGC 4976. Há pelo menos outras três, bem menores, na foto.
In this photo we have a galaxy, the NGC 4945 according to the New General Catalog of celestial objetcs. Visually it lies in the constellation Centaurus, near the Southern Cross, and it is seen with a telescope under dark skies. Its distance is something like 12 or 13 million light-years (for comparison, our Sun lies at slightly more than 8 light-minutes). But there are other galaxies in the photo, such as a galaxy near the upper border, catalogued as NGC 4976. There are at least three other smaller galaxies.
Probably my favourite movie ever. Visually beautiful and full of atmosphere, this was my biggest inspiration for the Dark Isle Saga along side Rareware's Donkey Kong Country trilogy on the Snes. So i'd be lying if I said I hadn't been planning to do this for a while now and have one scene complete and another nearly finished.
I'm looking at 8 mocs for this and maybe a few extra's. So far I have planned the following scenes:
The Windmill
Van Tassle's Manor House
The Tree Of The Dead
The Witches Cave in the woods
Large complete Sleepy Hollow Village
They are the more bigger mocs and obviously the complete village is gonna be huge and probably something I will take to shows this year. Ive been wanting to build another village for ages now, so will really be going all out on that one. I have managed to get some plans of the original village design to work from, so should be lots of fun!
Hopefully going to post the first moc next month BUT they wont be in order as they appear in the movie. Mainly because I need that new Lego pumpkin head for a few scenes and its not out yet.
So if there's any other fans of this movie among you, rest assured I shall do my best to do it justice.
West Kelowna is a visually stunning community and a four-seasons playground, located on the western shores and hillsides of Okanagan Lake.
The Westside (as the locals like to call it) has always been appreciated for its quiet beaches, rolling hills of orchards, and fantastic outdoor activities.
West Kelowna has a diverse economy, which includes agriculture, construction, finance, food and retail services, light industry, lumber manufacturing, technology, tourism and world renowned wineries.
The Kelowna Bridge over Okanagan Lake
The building of the original Kelowna bridge was one of the most important milestones in the history of Kelowna not only for it's economic development, but also for a vital social link, by opening transportation to the South Okanagan and beyond.
Built in 1958, the Okanagan Lake Bridge was also referred to as the Kelowna Floating Bridge. The bridge served as a major landmark and a primary north-south highway corridor in the province of BC, and an important link from the Pacific Northwest United States to British Columbia and north on to Alaska.
The bridge itself was a pontoon bridge, or floating bridge that contained a vertical lift span which could open up to allow boats to pass under it.
Pontoons would support the bridge deck floating on the water. According to history, floating bridges have been around since the 11th century .
Historically, from the mid 1880's to the mid 1930's, Sternwheelers such as the SS Okanagan and the SS York provided transportation to people and goods down and across Okanagan Lake. From the mid-30's, until the original Kelowna bridge was built, ferries would carry vehicles across Okanagan Lake from Kelowna to Westbank, BC, now known as West Kelowna.
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The Grand Canyon is known for its visually overwhelming size and its intricate and colorful landscape. Geologically, it is significant because of the thick sequence of ancient rocks that are well preserved and exposed in the walls of the canyon. These rock layers record much of the early geologic history of the North American continent.
Nearly two billion years of Earth's geological history have been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layer after layer of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted. While some aspects about the history of incision of the canyon are debated by geologists, several recent studies support the hypothesis that the Colorado River established its course through the area about 5 to 6 million years ago. Since that time, the Colorado River has driven the down-cutting of the tributaries and retreat of the cliffs, simultaneously deepening and widening the canyon.
For thousands of years, the area has been continuously inhabited by Native Americans, who built settlements within the canyon and its many caves. The Pueblo people considered the Grand Canyon a holy site, and made pilgrimages to it. The first European known to have viewed the Grand Canyon was García López de Cárdenas from Spain, who arrived in 1540.
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt visited the Grand Canyon in 1903. An avid outdoorsman and staunch conservationist, Roosevelt established the Grand Canyon Game Preserve on November 28, 1906. Livestock grazing was reduced, but predators such as mountain lions, eagles, and wolves were eradicated. Roosevelt along with other members of his conservation group, the Boone and Crockett Club helped form the National Parks Association, which in turn lobbied for the Antiquities Act of 1906 which gave Roosevelt the power to create national monuments. Once the act was passed, Roosevelt immediately added adjacent national forest lands and redesignated the preserve a U.S. National Monument on January 11,1908. Opponents such as land and mining claim holders blocked efforts to reclassify the monument as a U.S. National Park for 11 years. Grand Canyon National Park was finally established as the 17th U.S. National Park by an Act of Congress signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on February 26, 1919.
The Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide and attains a depth of over a mile (6,093 feet or 1,857 meters).(wiki) Arizona, USA
Visually Impaired - Color Blind
Using LomoChrome film to raise awareness of the visually impaired. RZ67 - turquoise
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 inspired by the techniques of scratching or rubbing initiated by the Surrealists (such as Max Ernst), the "Fibergraphy" is a technique to transcribe volumes with the same tool (the laser) across great distances.
Mixed with several LP techniques, the result is a confusion of distances and volumes; a reinterpretation of the space bringing these on a single plane blurring the perception of existing visual cues.
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S'inspirant visuellement des techniques de grattage ou de frottage initiés par les surréalistes (tel que Max Ernst), la "Fibergraphy" est une technique consistant à retranscrire des volumes avec un même outil (le laser) au travers de grandes distances.
Mélangé à plusieurs techniques de LP, il en résulte une confusion des distances et des volumes ; une réinterpretation de l'espace ramenant ces derniers sur un seul et même plan brouillant ainsi la perception des repères visuels existants.
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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.
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.
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 striking war memorial dedicated to soldiers of the Portuguese army who died during the Overseas War of 1961 to 1974. The Monumento Combatentes Ultramar memorial comprises of three distinctive sections; the flame, the monument and memorial wall.
The central flame burns continuously to signify the lasting memory of the dead soldiers while the names of each solider who died in the protracted African conflict are etched into the the three walls that surround the memorial. The artistic section of the Monumento Combatentes Ultramar include a shallow purpose built lake and two large angled pillars that jut out above the flame.
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.
Boletus pinophilus ---- Pine Bolete ---- Pinewood king bolete ----
Der Kiefern- oder Rothütige Steinpilz[1] (Boletus pinophilus) ist ein Ständerpilz aus der Gattung Dickröhrlinge. Der Kiefern-Steinpilz bildet große Fruchtkörper mit Hutdurchmessern von 8–25, in Ausnahmefällen bis 30 cm sowie 4–12 cm langen, 2–6 cm dicken Stielen. Der Hut ist halbkugelig bis polsterförmig und bleibt auch bei alten Exemplaren meist stark gewölbt, seine Farbe reicht von dunkel braunrot bis purpurrot, die Randzone ist glatt und wellig-runzelig, selten weiß. Die Röhren sind anfangs weiß und werden bei zunehmender Reife schnell gelb und später grüngelb. Der dicke, bauchige Stiel ist nuss- bis rötlichbraun, längsfaserig, das den Stiel bedeckende feine Netz ist an der Stielspitze weißlich, darunter hellbräunlich. Das Fleisch ist weiß, unter der Hutoberseite gelegentlich weinrötlich, bei Bruch oder im Anschnitt nicht verfärbend und ohne besonderen Geruch. Wie alle Arten der Gattung Boletus ist der Kiefern-Steinpilz ein Mykorrhiza-Pilz. In der Regel ist er mit Kiefern vergesellschaftet, sehr selten werden auch Funde unter Fichten gemeldet. Er besiedelt Kiefernwälder oder Wälder, in denen Kiefern eingestreut sind, er benötigt nährstoffarme, saure bis neutrale, sandige, trockene bis mäßig frische Böden. Auch wenn einzelne Exemplare schon relativ früh im Jahr (ab Juni) gefunden werden können, liegt die Hauptfruktifikationszeit im frühen Herbst. --------------------------
Boletus pinophilus, commonly known as the pine bolete or pinewood king bolete, is a basidiomycete fungus of the genus Boletus found throughout Europe. For many years, Boletus pinophilus was considered a subspecies or form of the porcini mushroom B. edulis. In 2008, B. pinophilus in western North America were reclassified as a new species, Boletus rex-veris. Boletus pinophilus is edible, and may be preserved and cooked.
The fungus grows predominantly in coniferous forests, forming symbiotic ectomycorrhizal associations with living trees by enveloping the tree's underground roots with sheaths of fungal tissue. The fungus produces spore-bearing fruit bodies above ground in summer and autumn. The large, edible fruiting bodies known as mushrooms appear under pine trees, generally in summer and autumn. It has a matte brown to maroon-coloured cap and its stem is often large and swollen, and the overall colour may have an orange-red tinge. As with other boletes, the size of the fruiting body is variable.
The fruiting body has a convex-shaped cap, at first small in relation to its stipe, expanding in volume as it matures. The skin of the cap is dry, matte and can be coloured from maroon to chocolate brown with a reddish tint. These characteristics distinguish it visually from relatives such as Boletus edulis, Boletus reticulatus and Boletus aereus. The young, immature cap may have a pale pink colour and a white, powdery flush. Measuring 4–10 cm (1.6–4 in) tall by 3–8 (1.2–2.2–in) cm wide, the bulbous stipe is often large, swollen and imposing, bearing a network. The overall colour may have an orange-red tinge which is more obvious in the lowest parts, although this is also common in other species. As with all boletes, the size of the fruiting body can be very variable. The cap diameter can be as much as 30 cm (12 in) and stem height 15 cm (6 in), but cap diameter 50 cm (20 in) and stem 25 cm (10 in) are reported. [9][14]
Like other boletes, Boletus pinophilus has small pores on the underside of its cap rather than gills. These are coloured white at first, becoming yellow with age and olivaceous-brown at full maturity. The spores are cylindric-ellipsoid, smooth, with oil drops and dimensions 15.5–20 by 4.5–5.5 µm. They produce an olive-brown spore print.
The Boletus pinophilus is edible,[20][21][22] and may be used fresh, preserved, dried and cooked in a manner similar to that of other edible boletes.[20][21] It is highly regarded and can be quite expensive in central Mexico, and is often sold dried there.[23] The flesh is white, soft in mature specimens and does not change colour upon bruising. The taste and smell is pleasant.[20] People of La Malinche have likened the flavour to pork and pork crackling.[23] It is easily misidentified as the porcini Boletus edulis, due to the similar habitat and appearance.
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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.
The exhibition at Gasometer Oberhausen celebrates in visually stunning images the life of plants and animals – the highlight is a 20 metre large terrestrial globe in the gigantic interior.
Detail of the Screen Colonnade highlighting the ellipsoidal section of the columns. The long axis has almost the same diameter as the large spirally-fluted columns of the Marble Court, while the short axis corresponds to the smaller columns of the pavilions. Thus in dimensions as well as visually, the Screen Colonnade was carefully related to the Marble Court.
Until the fifth century, the screen colonnade structure stood as described. Then a Byzantine rubble wall was built between the columns up to the first storey level. Three central entrances were made between the four central columns, and the column bases were partially hacked away to make the doors. This change radically altered the concept of the architectural unit; where there had been one long colonnade through which the Marble Court could be seen or entered at any point, now all movement was funneled through an axial center.
Source: Nancy L. Hirschland, "The Head-Capitals of Sardis"
Sardis, The Screen Colonnade and the Marble Court
4th January is World Braille Day. Braille is a system of writing that enables blind and visually impaired people to read and write. I learned Braille 10 years ago and I've been using it regularly ever since. It's a fantastic system that makes reading and writing a uniquely tactile experience that enriches your life in a way that nothing else can. Next time you hold a box of medicine with a Braille label on it in your hand or walk by a tactile sign, feel the Braille under your fingertips and you'll feel something magical! I think that sometimes, we just depend too much on our eyes and on the visual. Exploring the world through our other senses (touch and hearing) therefore offers a whole new level of experiencing the world.
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Tomorrow is 15th October, which is White Cane Safety Day. "The mission of White Cane Day is to educate the world about blindness and how the blind and visually impaired can live and work independently while giving back to their communities, to celebrate the abilities and successes achieved by blind people in a sighted world and to honor the many contributions being made by the blind and visually impaired. " (www.whitecaneday.org)
When you lose your sight, white cane becomes a big part of your life. It offers you independence and enables you to travel safely. While it looks simple, the white cane is actually quite a sophisticated tool. Firstly, it enables you to feel what's in front of you when you walk. Secondly, it alerts you to a change in the ground surface with sound (the tip of the cane makes different sounds when you drag it across different kinds of surfaces). Thirdly, it lets the people around you know that you're blind or partially sighted.
However, instead of embracing the chance of independence and safety offered by the white cane, many blind or visually impaired people feel embarrassed and refuse to use it. They prefer to rely on other people's help to get around. That is so unnecessary. White cane is a wonderful tool that gives you back some of the independence you had before losing sight.
And, finally, here's some information on my new white cane that you can see on the photo. I got it a few days ago and it's great! It's a folding cane, it folds into 4 parts (three parts are white and one is red). The handle is made of black rubber, which offers a very good and solid grip. The cane has a marshmallow tip, which spins around, offering good tactile and audio information about the ground surface. The tip is made of a sturdy material, which doesn't wear out easily, but can easily be replaced when it does. The cane itself is made of aluminum, which means that it is sturdy and light. A tough elastic connects the cane parts inside the cane. This means that I just have to grab the handle and let the rest of the cane "drop down" and the elastic makes the parts "jump" together and connect instantly so that the cane can be used immediately.
So, to sum things up:
If you suffer from sight loss or blindness, don't hesitate to talk to your doctor about the possibility of getting a white cane! You might have to go through a mobility training to learn to use the white cane correctly first, but after that you will be able to move around independently and safely. And that's the most important thing!
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Visually Impaired faded color / less contrast / not as sharp.
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Visually inspired by the techniques of scratching or rubbing initiated by the Surrealists (such as Max Ernst), the "Fibergraphy" is a technique to transcribe volumes with the same tool (the laser) across great distances.
Mixed with several LP techniques, the result is a confusion of distances and volumes; a reinterpretation of the space bringing these on a single plane blurring the perception of existing visual cues.
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S'inspirant visuellement des techniques de grattage ou de frottage initiés par les surréalistes (tel que Max Ernst), la "Fibergraphy" est une technique consistant à retranscrire des volumes avec un même outil (le laser) au travers de grandes distances.
Mélangé à plusieurs techniques de LP, il en résulte une confusion des distances et des volumes ; une réinterpretation de l'espace ramenant ces derniers sur un seul et même plan brouillant ainsi la perception des repères visuels existants.
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Maybe slightly visually confusing at first, this fisheye shot of the Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, London includes in the foreground a mirror used by visitors to look at the ceiling without straining their necks.
During this years #Photo24London event I made a quick trip out to Greenwich on the Sunday morning before hot-footing it back to the Covent Garden finish line.
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The Sunday evening, double headed Tesco express with 68004 "Rapid" and 68020 "Reliance" passes the old Rylands Crossing on the approaches to Wigan North Western.
Vegetation clearance has made this location somewhat suitable for the odd southbound afternoon / early evening shot.
The spot is also known as Rylands Sidings and Whitley Crossing. The whole area has a fascinating history and pretty much all of it is long gone. Smoke and Steam at Whitley
The location was once an actual foot crossing and this top notch photo visually explains why the foot crossing was replaced with an overbridge: Rylands / Whitley Crossing
4M48 14:43 Mossend Euroterminal to Daventry Drs (Tesco)
10/07/2016
Wheels Up Private Jets opb Mountain Aviation opf Ryan Air Cessna Citation X N938TX cn 750-0183 IAD - Flight WUP938 fly by number two to visually verify that the nose gear did not retract - About 30 minutes later this aircraft landed on runway 1C scrapping some paint on the nose
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'd never intended to post these photos. 'Always wanted the Zeppelin print to just stand on it's own as a mysterious little pinhole "gem".
However,
Nine months ago while I was in the hospital undergoing chemotherapy and my stem cell transplant, 3 stooges set out to diss and debunk the Zeppelin image as not a pinhole image but, photoshopped (ugh). So, now in my defense (like, I should even have to...)
The location: Denver Public Works Building. I was attracted to this building from it's original construction. With it's German industrial look and saluting stormtroopers sculpture on the bridge, it seemed only right to have some form of airship in the image. I'd originally thought of an Albatros DIII (german biplane) or an Me-262 (german jet) but always fancied dirigibles.
The Zeppelin: LZ 129 Hindenburg 1:720 scale (about 13 inches or 33cm long) Revell 04802
The Boom (to suspend the zeppelin): Made of wood strips, angle aluminum, hardware, monofilament and mounted on a tripod.
The Camera: Polaroid pinhole conversion. 35mm focal length with 9mm rise. I converted this camera specifically for this project. Can be seen here.
Film: Polaroid Type 665 positive/negative.
Other notes: I had to pack everything in on my bike as the location was accessible by bike path only.
Total time and expense to final neg.: I'd rather not think about it.
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Back to the stooges: kevinolson44, Airships and SouthWestDreams. You can read their comments here or at the Zeppelin image.
By the way, not one of them have a single pinhole image in their photostream.
kevinolson44 says:
The last Zeppelin that looked like this was destroyed in 1940. Please explain how you managed to photograph it in 2006.
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Stefan G. Pro User says:
Very adequate way to capture a Zeppelin!
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kevinolson44 says:
Doesn't anyone want to know how he shot this in 2006? Zeppelins like this no longer exist and have not existed in this form in 69 years! Also judging by the size of the "Zeppelin" in the shot it appears to be over the river. Where's the reflection in the water? Come on people, this is obviously Photoshop'd.
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Gary M Pro User says:
Looks like many of the blimps that fly over the NYC/NJ area to me. Just looks like a fabulous pinhole camera image to me.
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rustman Pro User says:
8^)
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Airships Pro User says:
Sorry to spoil anyone's fun, but this is not a pinhole photograph taken in 2006, or any photograph taken in 2006.
The airship in this image looks nothing at all like a modern blimp. According to the shape of its hull, its size, and the location and design of its control gondola and engine cars, if this is a real airship at all (as opposed to a model or a computer generated image) it can only be one of two airships ever built, either the LZ-129 Hindenburg, or its near sister, the LZ-130 Graf Zeppelin II (and in either case, with the swastika flags digitally removed from the vertical stabilzers). The Hindenburg crashed in 1937, and the LZ-130 was dismantled in 1940.
It is still a very cool image, and I like it a lot, but it was made with Photoshop, not an oatmeal box.
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Gary M Pro User says:
www.modern-airships.info/en/home.html The blimp is moving since it is a pinhole camera image. Probally a several second exposure. I see several ships posted that look similar in the link i posted. I hope the photographer chimes in on the discussion. I see nothing fake.
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Airships Pro User says:
@ Gary:
This photo is almost certainly a fake.
Unless the photographer somehow came across a very large,
historically accurate, and flyable remote-control model (and I believe
I would be aware of any such model in existence), this is not a
pinhole photograph, but a digitally (or otherwise artificially)
contrived creation, using a photograph of the LZ-129 Hindenburg or its near sister ship, LZ-130. The zeppelin in this image can be no other ship.
Take a look for yourself.
Enlarge the photo. (Click "All Sizes").
And here is a photograph, and a drawing, of Hindenburg for comparison:
www.airships.net/wp-content/uploads/lz129-pro file.jpg
www.airships.net/wp-content/uploads/hindenb-f light051web.jpg
LZ-129
Now, look slightly to the left of the control car in the "pinhole photo." On both sides of the hull; you will see the "ledge" that was the promenade area on "A Deck" of the Hindenburg.
www.airships.net/wp-content/uploads/passenger s-arriving-1...
www.airships.net/hindenburg/interiors
Next, look a little father aft; you will see the four engine cars of the Hindenburg, two on either side of the hull.
www.airships.net/hindenburg/design-tec hnology)
Compare the engine cars in the "pinhole photo" to the engine cars in the photo and drawing of Hindenburg.
You said that you see blimps which look similar in the link you posted, but no modern airship (and none of the airships depicted in the link you posted) have external engine cars, nor could they structurally support them.
Now, look at the whole hull; you will see lines running the length of the hull, from bow to stern, which were the longitudinal girders of Hindenburg's internal duralumin frame.
FInally, look at the stern, at the shape of the fins, and also compare the size of the fins to the overall size of the hull, to get a sense of the length of the ship; Hindenburg was four times longer than the largest modern blimp.
The zeppelin in the "pinhole photo" is either the LZ-129 (destroyed in 1937) or the LZ-130 (dismantled in 1940); it can be no other airship.
I still think this is a great image, and my congratulations to its creator; he has a great artistic sense, and some great technical skills.
But it's not a pinhole photo.
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Henry [6*3=?] Pro User says:
A fake ? So what ? It's a wonderful picture *a*n*y*w*a*y
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Airships Pro User says:
@ Henry... as I said at the end of my post. :-)
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kevinolson44 says:
@ Airships
Thanks for making this clear that the photo was a Photoshop creation. It annoys me that so many people bought into this fake. Does anyone really believe that there's a giant Zeppelin flying around in Colorado or Nebraska? And with no visible name anywhere to be seen? Wouldn't the presence of this draw a crowd? The bridge is completely deserted. Check any photos of actual Zeppelins and there are people crowding the rooftops to get a look. Wake up everyone!
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guruveee says:
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Pinholers, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
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B.l.u.e.S.k.y. Pro User says:
fantastic... real or unreal...=))))
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bob merco Pro User says:
Fuck em czak. this is one of your best. !!!
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lepoSs says:
well the so long and never ending debate about photography = reality...
I really appreciate your picture from any way you did it.
It's poetic, futuristic (yes!), so well processed and even... neo-post-avantgardist ;-)
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sixtåriis Pro User says:
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called je ne regrette rien (by invitation), and we'd love to have this added to the group!
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SouthWestDreams Pro User says:
masterful! I can't imagine this scene looking better expressed any other way
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skellum Pro User says:
damn, very cool, such a sharp image with apinhole
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D.Ingraham Pro User says:
Had to revisit this one. One of your more epic shots.
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D.Ingraham Pro User says:
Had to revisit this one. a real masterpiece.
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kevinolson44 says:
If a photographer claims to have photographed something, pinhole camera or otherwise, and it turns out to be a Photoshop creation, he should say so. Since these airships don't exist it goes without saying that this is a Photoshop creation.
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SouthWestDreams Pro User says:
Sad lie. I am revising my post from a masterful photo to a masterful CREATION. You need not have deceived and lied to enhance the image.
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The Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and is said to be the most visually stunning government building in Washington, D.C. It serves as the research arm of Congress and is the largest library in the world with more than 162 million items.
Unknown but visually dramatic growth on the bark of a fallen cherry tree, seen in early October, in coastal northeastern Massachusetts. This may be a jelly fungus, possibly Exidia recisa, which is said to grow on willows or oaks.
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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 Goose Fair is adorned with amazing artwork which possibly gets overlooked. In 2022 I created a short video focusing on it, check it out!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ix1jE9Nt80
These series of photos were taken 28 Sept 2023, the day before the official opening of the fair. People were busy making final adjustments to rides, checking electrics, stock of foods, drinks, gifts and so on.
The Nottingham Goose Fair is an annual travelling funfair held at the Forest Recreation Ground here in Nottingham. This year, 2023, it runs for 10 days, usually it's 3 days.
Album: Goose Fair. Nottingham
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We recently visited the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park. In addition to the amazing battleship there are many military airplanes on display. I was absolutely fascinated with the SR-71 Blackbird. Visually and operationally, this is an extraordinary aircraft! I was inspired to honor it by creating a series of photo-art pieces. In these pictures, the photos of the SR-71 were taken by me; either of the airplane on display at the park or a model airplane which I bought. The aerial shots of the earth were downloaded from NASA's website.
Interesting info about this beautiful bird:
The SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft flew missions at speeds beyond 2,000 mph and could survey the ground from 80,000 feet!! This extreme height allowed the aircraft to avoid interceptor fighter jets or missiles. The SR-71 is covered with a special black paint to absorb radar and camouflage the bird against dark skies, which inspired the Air Force to give it the official "Blackbird" name. To withstand the friction-generated heat at Mach 3+, the frame is made of titanium composite and the tires have been impregnated with aluminum and are filled with nitrogen. In the 1960s when this plane was built, computerized equipment was non-existent, thus the cockpit and flight systems were all analog.
A total of 3,551 mission sorties were flown to spy on military installations, troop movements and nuclear silos during the cold war.
The use of satellites for space surveillance and the growing danger of more effective air defense caused the Air Force to end SR-71 operations in 1990. On it's last flight it set a speed record by flying from Los Angeles to Washington DC in 1 hour, 4 minutes, 20 seconds!
Visually, the Cutlass most resembles the F/A-137D Longsword interceptor, used by the West Terrastralian Air Force (WTAF). Unlike its Air Force counterpart however, the Cutlass features folding wings, strengthened landing gear and an arrester hook. These modifications come at a cost, however; the Cutlass was forced to sacrifice one of is weapon hardpoints to save weight. Nevertheless, those that fly it have only praise to direct towards their mount.
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.
YouTube:
Rufford Abbey At War. Nottingham. Sept 2019
The Ancient Lakes area is a series of lakes that visually transcend a person back in time to the Ice age and the formation of Lake Bonneville cataclysmic events of the earth shifting over hot spots like Yellowstone Park hundreds of miles to the south east. Colossal Basalt columnar rock line the entire area in spectacular heated exchanges of wild geological formations that are visual and easily photographed. Some Jaw dropping events took place in this area including the culmination of the Last Horse Roundup of 1906-1912... where over 5,000 wild horses were stashed in wait for shipment to North Dakota as Remounts... for War efforts.
I have always been interested in visual things and consider myself a visually orientated person. As a kid I draw a lot and later on my path led me into graphics design, which I learned without formal education (I'm sure that's actually a pretty common in these days, but I highly respect those who have had some sort of formal education to it, because they learn their craft in a broader cultural and societal perspectives). I’ve played with painting, 3D-modelling and so on. Naturally one would think that I would have gone into photography pretty early. I was, but there were more than one false start before I got seriously started with it which was pretty late. Most of my false starts were related to using real film and analog cameras, but there were other reasons too.
I still have couple of rolls of film in our fridge from the old days. Color films plus B&W stuff, which I don’t have much use for. Now when I look back I can recognize three different reasons why I didn't get it started with photography. First reason was the film. Being a youngster of digital age I didn't glue at all with analog cameras which seniors where trying to introduce me into. Film just didn't fit in into paradigm of digital which I had learned working with computers, software, files etc. And most of the early digital cameras I tried were compromised. With them I only learned what I cannot do, like try to take pictures indoors without built in flash. Photography felt pretty difficult and full of 'physical problems' which were non-existent in digital world. Second reason was that I never had many photography friends that I could share my experiences and enthusiasm. My interest in photography was hibernating until one of my close friends bought a pretty serious DSLR-camera. Together we learned to do panoramas, HDR-pictures and all sort of other experiments which guided me back into photography, but this time through a backdoor called post processing. Finally the third reason why I didn't start photography earlier was that I didn't recognize my need to photograph and capture life in its uniqueness. Only after Aura was born I realized that life was very much worth of photographing it.
I can live with the first two reasons, but the third is something I find myself sometimes regretting. In some ways we are just stories which we are able to tell of ourselves. There isn’t a lot of pictures of me and my life when I was younger. If I only had started earlier I would have all sort of photographs of my life – a different and larger repertoire which to use for telling a story of myself.
Year of the Alpha – 365 Days of Sony Alpha Photography: www.yearofthealpha.com
When the planets of our solar system aggregated from the primordial dust and ice swirling in a disc around the sun, some crazy things happened. We are used to the relatively stable result, 4.6 billion years later, but in the early days, some planetoids collided cataclysmically; others were flung out of our solar system entirely, to the lifeless void of deep space.
These dense iron meteorites contain the molten metal cores of some planetary body that ended in a mighty kaboom. We know it was big because a molten iron core appears when a planetoid is big enough to have enough gravity to fractionate the elements of the periodic table, with the heavier iron-loving elements migrating to the core and a different subset of the periodic table (e.g., Si, Al, Ca, Na, Mg) constituting the outer mantle and crust. We have never drilled to the molten core of Earth, or even deep into our mantle, but these remnants of planets past are representative of what we would expect to find in the Earth’s core and mantle.
Two big iron meteorites arrived this week, this 45 lb Sericho Pallasite from Kenya and a 127 lb heavy metal barbell from Argentina (Campo del Cielo). Pallasites are an incredible potpourri of shattered mantle in a dollop of molten metal core. They can only form in space where the absence of gravity allows the lighter gemstones to remain scattered throughout the heavy metal matrix (on Earth, they would segregate by density). Those crystal gems are olivine (peridot) and this example shows an array of colors from honey to burnt orange to dark green.
The Campo from Argentina is a deeper core sample, so to speak, of pure molten core of a destroyed planetoid. If we were to look at the metal crystalline patterns inside, we would see something beautiful, an interwoven 3D nest of interlocking shards, a metal crystallization that also could not be made on Earth, but for a different reason: they have to cool very, very slowly, over 10 million years! In the insulating vacuum of space, the motel metal cools slowly as it radiates heat (no conduction or convection).
If this all sounds like a rare event, it is. 2% of meteorites in the Met Bull are irons, and only 0.2% are Pallasites, the most visually beautiful of space rocks, IMHO.
When an iron meteorite is forged into a tool or weapon, the extraterrestrial crystal patterns remain, but become stretched and distorted. The patterns usually cannot be fully eliminated by blacksmithing, even through extensive working. When a knife or tool is forged from meteoric iron and then polished, the patterns appear in the surface of the metal. In ancient times before the invention of steel, these iron-nickel alloys were like advanced alien technology, and probably were the origin of folkloric beliefs about magic swords and vorpal blades. Even King Tut was buried with his meteorite dagger.
There is much going on in this Sericho Pallasite — a meteoritic medley. Transluscent olivine gems across the color spectrum. And the metal matrix has large Farringtonite inclusions (beige) and Chromite (flat black, bottom center). Rounded upper lip is shaped from oriented entry through the Earth's atmosphere. 45 lbs, 31x25x15cm.
Based on isotope analysis at ETH Zürich, this meteorite spent the last 130-160 million years free floating in space before intersecting Earth's orbit.
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."