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An ant is holding onto a leaf, keeping itself dry and alive. The rapids can be tough, unforgiving and survival isn't given around the next bend of the stream. The stream of life, which is time. Like this ant we're just passengers and life is our vessel as we rush through time. Mostly the rapids of life flow in a fairly predictable way, sometimes slower, sometimes faster. That is until you reach a vortex. Those are the events in life that can decide whether you get pulled out of the ride or not. You can fight the Vortex and win, you can fight an loose too. There certainly is no guarantee. Sometimes the Vortex will pull you in, throw you around and spit you out again. Nevertheless, whenever you're in that Vortex, it feels like your taken out of the regular flow. It is like if time stops and all you do is fight for survival, this is your Dies Irae. There is no karma, no bad or good luck. It's only anymore or not anymore.
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Camera: Kiev 88
Lens: Mir-26b, 45mm/f3.5
Film: Fomopan 200iso
This is the result of the famous “polar vortex” that is currently in force in Europe on this rather original fountain in Tervueren, close to Brussels.
Voici le résultat du fameux vortex polaire qui sévit en Europe sur cette fontaine plus qu’originale à Tervueren (une commune proche de Bruxelles).
Spent too much time around the house yesterday, so I thought I'd have another go atone of these.
It is hard to believe that when we went out and took these shots, the dam capacity was close to empty, I heard it was sitting around 5% capacity, but i can't confirm that.
Irrespective, that I can't corroborate that, even in the underexposed foreground you can see it is quite low. However, it is now at 125% capacity and spilling!
Another shot from yesterday. Last winter we were hit by extreme cold weather due to a Polar Vortex, where a mass of Canadian air drops over the Great Lakes region. For the last two days we have been experiencing the summer time version of the same phenomenon, with temps 15 degrees below normal. It's fantastic!
29/08/2016, approaching Ijmuiden, Netherlands.
Keel laid on 15/03/3009, launched on 04/11/2009 and completed on 10/06/2010 by Astilleros Gondan S.A., Castropol, Spain (447), 839g.t., 445 dwt. & 73 tons bollard pull as :- 'Vortex'
for Solent Towage Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Østensjø Rederi AS of Haugesund, Norway.
Vessel is designed for escort operations, harbour work as well as ocean towage. It is equipped with oil recovery and fire fighting equipment (FiFi 1) & fully equipped for salvage in open waters.
Photos with permission of Willem Koper🔱
On 9 November 2005, 10 years ago today, ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft left Earth and began its 153-day journey to Venus. The craft then spent eight years studying the planet in detail before the mission came to an end in December 2014.
One of the mission aims was to observe the planet’s atmosphere continuously over long periods in a bid to understand its dynamic behaviour.
The atmosphere is the densest of all the terrestrial planets, and is composed almost entirely of carbon dioxide. The planet is also wrapped in a thick layer of cloud made mostly of sulphuric acid. This combination of greenhouse gas and perennial cloud layer led to an enormous greenhouse warming, leaving Venus’ surface extremely hot – just over 450ºC – and hidden from our eyes.
Although winds on the planet’s surface move very slowly, at a few kilometres per hour, the atmospheric density at this altitude is so great that they exert greater force than much faster winds would on Earth.
Winds at the 65 km-high cloud-tops, however, are a different story altogether. The higher-altitude winds whizz around at up to 400 km/h, some 60 times faster than the rotation of the planet itself. This causes some especially dynamic and fast-moving effects in the planet’s upper atmosphere, one of the most prominent being its ‘polar vortices’.
The polar vortices arise because there is more sunlight at lower latitudes. As gas at low latitudes heats it rises, and moves towards the poles, where cooler air sinks. The air converging on the pole accelerates sideways and spirals downwards, like water swirling around a plug hole.
In the centre of the polar vortex, sinking air pushes the clouds lower down by several kilometres, to altitudes where the atmospheric temperature is higher. The central ‘eye of the vortex’ can therefore be clearly seen by mapping thermal-infrared light, which shows the cloud-top temperature: the clouds at the core of the vortex are at a higher temperature, indicated by yellow tones, than the surrounding region, and therefore stand out clearly in these images.
Venus Express has shown that the polar vortices of Venus are among the most variable in the Solar System. This series of images of Venus’ south pole was taken with the VIRTIS instrument from February 2007 (top left) to April 2008 (bottom right).
The shape of this vortex core, which typically measures 2000–3000 km across, changes dramatically as it is buffeted by turbulent winds. It can resemble an ‘S’, a figure-of-eight, a spiral, an eye, and more, quickly morphing from one day to the next.
Each of the images in this frame is roughly 4000 km across.
Credit: ESA/VIRTIS-Venus Express/INAF-IAPS/LESIA-Obs. Paris/G. Piccioni
"The Polar Vortex"
The day of the Polar Vortex
Horizons by Phil Koch.
Lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
Day 44 of the Daily Photo Project
"The Vortex"
Sitting outside the Museum of Modern Art in Fort Worth, the Vortex is an instant attention getter both for its immense size and because the reverberating sounds it makes when inside.
Imagen en doble espejo compuesta y fusionada con Microsoft Paint de Windows; mejorada, arremolinda y ondulada con MGI PhotoSuite III SE/Image double mirror view composed and stitched with Microsoft Paint of Windows; enhanced, whirled and waved with MGI PhotoSuite III SE. Original vortex was linear and converging. EXIF data were lost when whirling made.
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This image was taken on the river above the fall in the image to the right of this one in my Photostream entitled Unknown River. This whole valley was so picturesque that it was difficult to pick any one composition. The valley below the falls eventually becomes less forested as it approaches the sea, and is a place that i will return to and explore. The vortex of surface bubbles was really what caught my eye, but the small cascades also leads nicely into the scene. Canon 6D, Canon 24-70mm f2.8L II USM, Lee Circular Polariser and 6 Stop ND - ISO100/f20/20sec
Early morning light painting is downtown Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada at 6:30 AM.
Downtown at Downing Place outside of the Moncton Public Library at Medavie Blue Cross Centre.
I came across an article online on how to construct a steel wool burning rig that allows you to create a vortex effect whilst doing a steel wool spin. I set to work and constructed a small mesh box, I bought a couple of doglead clips and connected them at each end of a standard gear cable from a mountain bike. The good thing about having the dog lead clip at the mesh box end is that it keeps the lid closed on the box but is also very fast to unclip allowing a fast refill of steel wool. I also fitted a small pipe to the cable that can be used as a variable point for spinning. This allows you to start spinning with a small arc and increase the arc as you walk towards the camera, therefore creating the Vortex. I done about ten spins tonight but liked this one the best. Cheers Derek :-)
Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus)
Esquimalt Lagoon, Colwood, BC
Dipping its beak into the water almost to its eyes and quickly pulling it out again has produced a turbulent vortex for this sandpiper to study.
Burble
HKD
Schwindelige Blicke
Er habe nur ein paar Einkäufe in der Großstadt erledigt und sei auf dem Weg nach Hause. Für ihn dauere die Zugfahrt nur noch ein paar Minuten, sagte er zu der ihm gegenüber sitzenden Frau, die ihren Säugling auf dem Schoß schaukelte und dem älteren Mann auf seine Fragen nach Alter und Geschlecht des Kindes geantwortet hatte, dass es ein Junge sei, genau acht Monate alt.
„Ein Junge!“ freute sich der Mann. „Ich bin Opa von vier Mädchen. Wie gern hätte ich auch einen Jungen. Aber was nicht ist, kann ja noch werden. Meine jüngste Tochter hat gerade erst geheiratet und freut sich auf Kinder.“
„Ich mich auch“, sagte die junge Mutter- „Ich möchte allerdings noch ein Mädchen.“
Die beiden unterhielten sich eine Weile über Kinder und der Mann gab Tipps zu ihrer Erziehung.
„Meine älteste Enkelin ist neun und geht noch regelmäßig mit mir im Wald spazieren. Sie ist überzeugt davon, dass dort kleine Wichte und Kobolde leben, die sie manchmal ärgern oder verzaubern.“
„Ihre Enkelin hat eine rege Phantasie“, sagte die Frau.
„Das kann man wohl sagen. Sie spricht mit Waldgeistern und schimpft mit ihnen, wenn sie ihr wieder Streiche spielen.“
Die Frau ließ sich ein paar Beispiele geben und fragte, ob alle seine Enkelinnen grundsätzlich einen Kontakt zu Naturgeistern hätten.
„In erster Linie nur Katja“, antwortete der Mann. „Die anderen haben keinen besonderen Draht zur magischen Welt. Sie sehen auch ganz normal.“
„Wie meinen Sie das?“
Der Mann erläuterte nun, dass seine Enkelin manchmal von einem schwindeligen Blick berichtet, wo sich alles ein wenig zu drehen scheint.
„Das machen dann die Kobolde“, sagte der Mann. „Das geht immer wieder schnell vorbei. Vor allem, wenn sie mit denen schimpft.“ Er lächelte und erzählte eine kleine Geschichte, wie er eines Tages durch den Wald ging und seine Enkelin etwas hinter ihm zurückgeblieben war.
„Plötzlich hörte ich sie schimpfen und diskutieren.“
Er habe sich umgedreht und noch deutlich gehört, wie sie sagte: Ich will das nicht wissen. Als sie dann zusammen weitergingen, habe er sie gefragt, was denn los gewesen sei und habe erfahren, dass sie wieder den schwindeligen Blick hatte.
„Sie konnte sehen, was ich in meiner Einkaufstasche hatte. Hier, es war dieser rote Beutel.“
Der Mann hielt die Tasche hoch.
„Katja sagte mir genau, was in dem Beutel war. Tee, Zucker und Haferflocken. Ich hatte diese Dinge tatsächlich unterwegs gekauft, während sie noch in der Schule war.“
„Ist das Hellsehen?“ fragte die Frau.
„Ich weiß es nicht“, entgegnete der Mann. „Meine Tochter hat einen Psychologen konsultiert und dieser hat sie beruhigt. Und tatsächlich gehen Katjas schwindelige Blicke immer weiter zurück. Vor zwei Jahren sprach sie noch alle paar Tage davon. Jetzt nur noch einmal im Monat. Wir haben uns daran gewöhnt und behandeln das irgendwie als normal.“
„Das geht von alleine weg?“ fragte die Frau.
„Mit wachsender Vernunft“, sagte der Mann. „Der Psychologe hat das mit der rechten und der linken Gehirnhälfte beschrieben. Visionen seien für kleine Kinder zum Teil noch möglich, weil die linke Gehirnhälfte die rechte noch nicht eingeholt hat. Wenn der Verstand diese Sachen nicht mehr für möglich hält, dann verschwinden sie ganz.“
„Wenn ihre Enkelin erwachsen ist, sind auch ihre Fähigkeiten verschwunden?“
„Meine Tochter hatte während ihrer Kindheit auch eine ausgeprägte Phantasie. Sie arbeitet jetzt halbe Tage in einer Anwaltskanzlei. Da geht es um reine Fakten und Gesetze. Sie ist sehr nüchtern geworden. Manchmal finde ich das etwas schade. Aber ich habe ja noch Katja und ihre gelegentlichen schwindeligen Blicke.“
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Digital art based on own photography and textures
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Thanks to Octopus777fish for letting me have a couple of his shots from last nights MCDP expo. Taken in the Glass creek drain. I was at home.
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On film - Night - No meter
I thought it was time for a little color so I've brought out this photo. I wasn't happy with the resolution of this composition on 135 so I shot it again at 6x7.
A few weeks ago I read an article about how surface patterns on soap bubbles are analogous to weather systems. Specifically, spirals on soap bubbles look a little like the vortices of hurricanes and tornadoes.
www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/10558231/Soap-bu...
I'm a long way off capturing really clear and high def vortices on bubbles yet. But it's encouraging to see this spiral existing without me having to work hard to create it.
I'd love to photograph a vortex very clearly and beautifully. Hopefully I'll manage it one day. So far, I'm just one step closer.....
P.S. The image quality is not great here. Only a few pixels to play with.
And if you haven't spotted the spiral, it is..... just above the centre of the bubble. I only spotted it myself because I have been carefully looking out for these vortices. I bet I've photographed them in the past without noticing.
The Jewel Rain Vortex is the world's tallest indoor waterfall located in Jewel Changi Airport, Singapore. It stands at a height of 40 meters (130 ft) and is surrounded by a lush forest setting.
Here are some interesting facts about the Jewel Rain Vortex:
a) It is made up of 7,000 pieces of glass.
b) The water that flows through the waterfall is recirculated, making it an environmentally friendly feature.
c) The waterfall is designed to create a cooling effect in the airport, making it more comfortable for passengers.