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Playa de Porto, Cantabria, Spain.
Early morning brought a strong wind from the sea and the full show of force of an angry sea.
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Another photo of a portion of the wind chime to post back at The Photo Forum's green themed thread.
I listen to the wind
to the wind of my soul
Where I'll end up well I think,
only God really knows
I've sat upon the setting sun
But never, never never never
I never wanted water once
No, never, never, never
I listen to my words but
they fall far below
I let my music take me where
my heart wants to go
I swam upon the devil's lake
But never, never never never
I'll never make the same mistake
No, never, never, never
The transient beauty of the coast is intricately intertwined with the captivating patterns that emerge in the sand, crafted by the relentless forces of wind and wave. These natural sculptors shape the shoreline, leaving behind ephemeral masterpieces.
As the tides ebb and flow, they orchestrate a delicate dance with the sand. With each advancing wave, the water gently caresses the shore, carrying particles of sand along its journey. As the wave recedes, it relinquishes its cargo, depositing the grains in a meticulous arrangement. This cyclical process, repeated countless times, creates intricate patterns that stretch along the coastline.
The patterns left behind by the retreating tide mimic the ebb and flow of life itself. Swirling ripples, reminiscent of a miniature desert landscape, emerge as the water recedes, their graceful curves and undulating lines transforming the beach into a living work of art. The patterns are at once orderly and chaotic, with intricate geometrical formations intermingling with whimsical curves and asymmetrical shapes.
The wind, a silent artist in its own right, adds its touch to the sculpting process. As it sweeps across the coast, it whispers secrets to the sand, coaxing it to dance in its invisible embrace. The wind's gentle touch lifts fine particles from the beach, carrying them aloft in an intricate ballet. It sculpts the sand into delicate ripples, resembling the soft undulations of fabric.
The interplay between the wind and the tide results in an ever-changing landscape. The patterns shift and evolve, shaped by the combined forces of these elemental sculptors. Ripples become miniature mountains, rising and falling in a transient topography that mirrors the larger contours of the surrounding coast. Each gust of wind and every advancing or receding wave leaves its mark, etching new patterns and erasing old ones, in an eternal cycle of creation and destruction.
These ephemeral patterns serve as a reminder of the impermanence of existence and the transient nature of beauty, as each passing moment alters the landscape, erasing what once was and creating something new. The sands become a canvas for the symphony of time, a tangible reflection of the ever-changing nature of our lives.
The beauty of these fleeting patterns lies not only in their visual allure but also in the emotions they evoke. They inspire a sense of wonder and awe, inviting us to pause and appreciate the intricate designs that nature creates with such effortless grace. The patterns speak of the interconnectedness of all things, the harmonious interplay between the elements, and the constant flux that defines our existence.
In these patterns of nature, we find a profound lesson: that life, like the shifting sands, is ever-changing, and that true beauty lies not in permanence but in the appreciation of the fleeting moments that grace our journey.
The winding system. This system already adopted in Europe named 'Koepe' or Friction winding. This uses a single loop of wire rope, or two or more ropes in parallel, and a powered pulley or 'Koepe' wheel to wind rather than the standard drum. The system is thus balanced, needing less power for operation. It was invented in Germany in 1877 by Frederick Koepe.Here was one of the first post war examples of this system, but surprisingly, here the NCB went for ground based winders, rather than the by now more usual system of winders installed in towers over the shafts. This required the use of headframes, and the ones here have pulley wheels or 'sheaves' located one above the other being designed specifically for the Koepe winding system. The winding house contained the two electrically driven Koepe winders, and two motor generator sets to convert the local AC supply to DC. This configuration remained virtually unaltered until closure in 2003. The heapsteads are the two brick buildings beneath the headframes. The central winder house is a modern design of brick and glass. The two magnificent headframes, which were the tallest in the UK when built, standing at approximately 65m high.
The 1950s headgear and winder house were listed in 2000 as an "early example of the 'Koepe'
I shot this third McIntosh winter shot for my chilly series. Toward the McIntosh dairy barn, the windmill towers. The shot includes one outhouse. I kind of liked the lacy sky. We had little winter this year. I bailed because I expected this might be the one McIntosh open day with snow this winter. This winter's February is very far from normal here with the Koch C02 pump-fest into the atmosphere allotted the globe with the current 8% gain in moisture so expect rougher weather swings everywhere. We are at the warmest and driest February on record.
Boy, could those wood stoves in the house be comfortable on days like this! This snowy shot toward the northeast looks chilly but days like this can be quite mellow in the valley. I had to shot before I got near and tracked the snow up which is still clean here.
I swung by the Agricultural Heritage Center, The Lohr McIntosh Farm because they opened for first Saturdays throughout the winter. I decided I might not get another shot of winter for my Mac ag series. I loaded up with autumn captures this year in general but I need to switch back into the slim winter. The snowy day crowd was thin, except for the fellow who was there to exercise his kestrel, for the wintry day and even highway #66 was certainly slow. Considering all the pigeons that hang around the old structures, I question the kind of exercise the kestrel, a bird of prey, might be getting. I suspect that it may not be altogether legal to hunt on city and county parks. A year ago, I found some bald eagles hunting the Mac area, sometimes successfully.
I enclose the wind chimes indispensable in the summer of Japan, the accessory type with hand, and no animation which can be used as furniture.
・In touch sound on/off is possible.
・At TEXTUREHUD you can choose 10 different TEXTURE.
・You can choose the left hand type and the right hand type.
marketplace.secondlife.com/p/FrancFrancWind-chime/12165437
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日本の夏に欠かせない風鈴を、手で持つアクセサリータイプと、家具として使えるアニメーション無しを同封しました。
・タッチでサウンドのON、OFFの切り替えが出来ます。
・TEXTUREHUDで１０種類のTEXTUREを選べます。
・左手タイプと右手タイプが選べます。
This tree is at the edge of the dunes, overlooking the beach on the western shore of Lake Michigan.The winds come off the lake, shaping both the dunes and the trees that border them. I love the shape of this evergreen and have taken many photos of it over the years.
Against a rocky shore and rising tide, the wind-swept mangrove holds its ground. A simple picture of quiet confidence.
A powerful skyline
May look strange,
You’d better get used to it as
This comes on future’s winds of change.
Poem: Jan Elemans
2019
Windpark Nijmegen.
The Netherlands
Trees on a windy day.
Well this was a fun playtime for Sliders Sunday.
The idea and the implementation were relatively simple, but by the time I explain it, you won't be convinced. That will be my fault though in trying to document what I ended up doing :(
And the whole reason for explaining things is to try and encourage other folk to have fun too. Kind of shooting myself with my own rifle...
The idea: trees in woods move a surprising amount on windy days. It's scary looking up and seeing a big beech swaying by ten or twenty feet above your head. Take a series of shots looking up and stack them as a kind of multiple-exposure just to show what goes on.
The implementation: point camera up and hold the shutter in continuous burst mode. This is nine images stacked thuswise.
First mistake: the burst just took over a second according to the camera metadata so not much movement (a tree swaying takes several seconds) - but enough! You can see that the higher thinner branches move more so their patterns are more spread out giving a brushlike effect.
Stacked in Affinity Photo which is really easy. You could also do it in Photoshop.
I actually stacked it five different ways using different mathematical operators (I was just thinking: try them all and pick the ones with pretty colours - AP gives you a preview just mousing over the operator list).
Second mistake: to be honest, that’s overkill. Most of the individual stacking operators produced intriguing results by themselves. I was just trying to make the fun last longer :)
Blended the layers together using different blend modes. Again just keep adding the different stack versions and go for a blend mode that looks pretty or interesting. The Minimum version of the stack gave you nine images of each branch like a rake brush effect which I liked so I emphasised that.
So that got us the basic result. The rest was just finishing.
There seemed to be a problem with the end product - there was a quite a lot of grainy pixelation (inherent in some of the blend modes). So I used a Maximum Blur filter at a low resolution to clump up the pixels a bit. More painterly that way, or so the thinking went...
Then a Curves adjustment in LAB mode to brighten the image and increase the contrast, enhance the colours (the basic strange colours came out of some of the stacking variants, but stacking tends to reduce contrast and saturation too so I tried to counter that).
Then two tweaks I feel naked without: sharpening (with Unsharp Mask) and a vignette (slight dark one here).
And we are done. And I have had fun. And you are exhausted :(
As usual for this group I shall post a link to one of the in-camera originals that were stacked, in the first comment.
Thank you for taking time to look. Especially at one of these Sliders Sundays strange manifestations of captured imagery…
I hope you enjoy it! Happy Sliders Sunday :)
[For what it's worth here are the details of the blended layers, all at 100% opacity.
Base layer: Range operator (Normal);
Next layer: Median operator, Difference blend;
Next: Outlier operator, Negation blend;
Next: Maximum operator, Negation blend;
Top: Minimum operator, Luminosity blend. This was the one with that most emphasised all the stripey branches :)
]
"When the winds of March are wakening the crocuses and crickets,
Did you ever find a fairy near some budding little thickets,...
And when she sees you creeping up to get a closer peek
She tumbles through the daffodils, a playing hide and seek."
~Marjorie Barrows
A lone windsock downwind of Fishers Peak state Park, in Trinidad, Colorado.
With grasslands to the east and foothills and mountains to the west, Fishers Peak in the BG serves as an important corridor for wildlife such as elk, mule deer, white-tailed deer, black bear and mountain lion. With an elevation of 9,633 feet, it is an easy but "don't kid yourself" hilly hike to the summit.
Quando i primi raggi di sole illuminano le cime innevate sferzate dal vento, lo spettacolo è assicurato... magia della natura
Laura Rabachin's photos on Flickriver
♫ "Scorpions - Wind Of Change ♫
Grazie a tutti per le visite e commenti.
Oh, my love
To whom I cannot come with any gift
Of body or of soul, I pass and go...
But sometimes when you hear blown back to you
My wistful, far-off singing touched with tears,
Know that I sang for you alone to hear.
And that I wondered if the wind would bring
To him who tuned my heart its distant song.
from from "The sea"
by
sara teasdale