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Like most people, I have taken thousands of pics over the years. And just like most people even I have barely looked at them myself. This is an effort to pare them down to a small subset of interesting ones. So I will put up one a day until I run out of pics, or patience, or Tumblr. ©CC-BY-SA
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Gravity Waves .. [2 / 4]
Whipped up by wind on the shallow beach at Old Fisherman's Wharf, Monterey, CA.
Pet peeve: when someone says Gravity Wave when they mean Gravitational Wave. Gravitational waves are propagations of distortions in space-time. Gravity waves are waves generated at the interface of gravitationally stratified fluids.
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Gravity Waves .. [1 / 4]
Whipped up by strong winds, painterly light plays on the shallow sandy beach at Old Fisherman's Wharf, Monterey, CA.
Pet peeve: when someone says Gravity Wave when they mean Gravitational Wave. Gravitational waves are propagations of distortions in space-time. Gravity waves are waves generated at the interface of gravitationally stratified fluids.
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A turquoise pond in an offshoot of the Great Salt Lake Desert .. [2 / 2]
Near Garrison UT
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An offshoot of the Great Salt Lake Desert .. [1 / 2]
Near Garrison UT
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The Fisherman's Catch
Bronze sculpture by Jesse Corsaut at Old Fisherman's Wharf, Monterey, CA.
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Homeland, Blue and White
Sculpture at Peabody Essex museum, Salem, MA.
BOUKE DE VRIES
Born 1960, the Netherlands
Homeland, Blue and White, 2015 17th- and 18th-century Asian porcelain and Dutch delftware fragments
Tin-glazed earthenware was serious business for Dutch potters, who could not figure out how to replicate Asian porcelain. This locally produced ceramic looked like porcelain but cost less and sold well. By the 1650s tin-glazed earthenware was made primarily in Delft, hence the name "delftware."
This map by Dutch artist and ceramics conservator Bouke de Vries visualizes the porcelain craze that swept the Netherlands in the 1600s. Fragments of porcelain and delftware cover every bit of the country, reflecting ceramics' importance in the Netherlands and the mania it fueled.
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A thousand years and a thousand again: from shard to Shard .. [2 / 2]
Roman era city walls of Londonium on the left, with the modern day Shard looming in the background at right. On the premises of the Tower of London, London, UK.
ROMAN CITY WALL
The Roman city wall of London was built in the late 2nd or early 3rd century. A small turret on the inner side of the wall marked a change in its direction at this point. Later an external bastion replaced the internal turret.
William the Conqueror used the Roman Wall here to form the eastern side of his castle. In the 12th century the Wardrobe Tower was built on the remains of the late Roman bastion. Subsequently a large medieval building was built running northwards enclosing a narrow court between it and the White Tower.
The building was demolished in 1879.
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Remnant .. [1 / 2]
All that is left of Roman era city walls of Londonium, on the premises of the Tower of London, London, UK.
ROMAN CITY WALL
The Roman city wall of London was built in the late 2nd or early 3rd century. A small turret on the inner side of the wall marked a change in its direction at this point. Later an external bastion replaced the internal turret.
William the Conqueror used the Roman Wall here to form the eastern side of his castle. In the 12th century the Wardrobe Tower was built on the remains of the late Roman bastion. Subsequently a large medieval building was built running northwards enclosing a narrow court between it and the White Tower.
The building was demolished in 1879.
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The Maltese Cannon
On the premises of the Tower of London, London, UK.
Cast Iron 12-pounder Gun
This gun, which weighs 5¾ tons (5842 kg), was commissioned by the Knights of Malta. It is richly decorated with a variety of images representing the Order's religious and humanitarian role. It was brought to England around 1800 and transferred from the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich to the Tower in 1962.
John Hall of Dartford, Kent, made the gun carriage in 1827 on the orders of the Duke of Wellington, Master General of the Ordnance. It shows the arms of Malta and scenes from the island's history. An iron quoin in the shape of a Maltese dog supports the gun's breech.
The gun and carriage were conserved at Royal Armouries Fort Nelson in 2003-4.
Probably Flemish, dated 1607. Carriage, British 1827
Panorama put together with Luminar. Prominent foreground signage removed with Pixelmator.
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Saint Peter's Square
Vatican City.
360° panorama created from a video using Luminar.
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Battle of Køge Bay
Subject guessed at. Artist unknown. Seen on a wall in Lynnfield, MA.
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Still Life: Window with a View
Is the view of the outside or the inside? A corridor in a hotel has views to spare, at Bad Endorf, Bavaria.
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ObShadow .. [3 / 3]
Every time there is a solar eclipse, it is obligatory to show a picture of the pinhole distortions of the shadows through trees. This one, from April 8, 2024, happened before the leaves came back, so the distortions you see are a little more otherworldly.
Coaticook, QC.
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Every time there is a solar eclipse, it is obligatory to show a picture of the pinhole distortions of the shadows through trees. This one, from April 8, 2024, happened before the leaves came back, so the distortions you see are a little more otherworldly.
Coaticook, QC.
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ObShadow .. [1 / 3]
Every time there is a solar eclipse, it is obligatory to show a picture of the pinhole distortions of the shadows through trees. This one, from April 8, 2024, happened before the leaves came back, so the distortions you see are a little more otherworldly.
Coaticook, QC.
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2024 Apr 8
HDR composite of five different frames with exposures ranging from 1/10000 s to 1/80 s. Manually recentered using ds9 and spatial scale corrected using IDL, then pushed through Photomatix to combine the frames. The striations are real, they are caused by the magnetic fields threading through the corona.
As seen from Coaticook, QC.
Compare and contrast with the Aug 21, 2017 eclipse -- 1, 2, 3. To me the 2024 one looked much darker, more glittery, a gothic silvery cold faerie fire. Whether it was the season or the location or the cold air, it had a distinctly different character. Honestly, the Sun looked furious. If we didn't know what was happening, it is clear that human sacrifices would have been seriously contemplated.
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Totality or Bust
There is no camera in existence that can truly capture the Real Thing™. The best we can do is describe the elephant in its parts like the blind men. This is a video that shows the moment of totality of the 2024 Apr 8 eclipse, you can see how rapid the event is. The diamond ring flared into such brilliance that even the eye could barely comprehend it, the poor camera sensors have no chance.
That's Venus in mid sky. Mars and Saturn are also supposed to be visible low on the horizon, but the high clouds in the far distance seem to be blocking them off.
Coaticook, QC.
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