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Old horseshoe thrown over a barbwire fence framing a barn and silo.
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Dear William; Well honey its been 9 days I have been down here in the submersible, I’m studying the dolphins this month. I wish you were here to see them all interacting, its just amazing. They dont seem to be bothered with my presence anymore. / Ive been studying these beautiful creatures daily and the team wants to test their certain abilities and game behavior. We placed large cubed objects on the floor of the ocean to which they could be tested for long extended periods of time. It didnt take long until they did accept the objects, or even the lights going on when they entered them. Our little friends appeared to love this one in front of me the most and are joyously entertaining themselves daily with little games like, who can could turn through the cube the quickest. The elders are less likely to join in but remain near by. Perhaps their knowledge of such non sea elements are considered a breach of territory or considered a possible threat. / Well I better get back to work….Talk soon! / . / . / . / Journal Entry: June 12th, 2012 / Day 9…. / Quadrant 8 / Subjects: Ling’s Pod / Time: 2:34pm / Grouping: Ling’s pod has remained since dropping the cubes. No other pods have appeared. / Territorial Issues: Ling appears watchful of outside interference, even small fish / Flashing Light Reactions: Adults still unsettled, young adults intriqued / Gaming: The young adults appear most engaged while others try but end quickly, still unsure why / Emotional Stress: None at this time / Time of Cubing Interactions: Mostly between 10am & 4:40pm, seems feeding schedules counter the play activity. ©2007 Lisa C. Weber / . / . / . / This image will be replace with a print version soon. Thank you for your patience. Lisa C. Weber
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A cold crisp morning in North Carolina, USA after an evening of lighly falling snow fell accross our area. /
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Minimalist abstract study of speeding cyclists, focusing more on the dynamics of the speed and motion of their movements / Oil on Stretched Canvas – No Airbrushing 37 X 59 inches / 94 X 150 cm contact my Agents at Gallery 112 / .....................................................................................
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Best Viewed Large All Rights Reserved / @ Julia Wright / Featured in Mandala group / Featured in Creative Spirits of Queensland / Featured in Creative Cards I’ve seen many moons through these wrinkled eyes / The years have made me old but they’ve made me wise / Now the white man lives where our rivers run For now better days have passed / We walk the streets of broken glass / Our people vanished as snow before the summer sun / Like dogs we were driven from this place / Such injustice, time will not erase / All these changes cannot be undone When you feel the anger inside of you / Hold your head high – let your aim be true / Though your heart beats like a drum / My native son Once there was a time my little one / Before the wagons – before the soldiers’ guns / When this land was ours as far as the eagle flies No white flag – no broken truce / With few words one can speak the truth – I don’t hear it / Time won’t heal it now With each new day that comes to pass / Will the great spirit free us all at last? / He said we were the chosen ones For all we had there’s nothin’ left / We won’t forgive – we can’t forget / You know that your day will come / My native son With each new day that comes to pass / Will the great spirit free us all at last? / What has happened can never be undone When I was young – not yet a man / The sun rose and set upon our land / We were the chosen ones / My native son Lyric’s by Bryan Adams
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this one deserves a dedication to my dear friend, Owlspook…aka to me as ‘Owl’...heheh…coming in for a ‘Landing’.... Apophysis 2.07beta – 6000×4500px thanks for the look, my friends! Serious Fun Studios ~ fractal art images and products Fractal Art Prints & Products by SBricker @ Zazzle fractal art by SBricker @ devientART
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Apo 3DHack
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Reprieve from the beating sun, / if only for an afternoon.. / #3 in my “Going Home” series. / Somewhere in Indiana, USA / 4.11.09 / / The journey continues.. / / Others in this series: / Traveling Man / Crossroads / Laminated Print / / / / / / Framed Print / /
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Never saw a Great Blue Heron catch a fish like this before. Canon 50D, Canon 70mm-200mm f/4 L lens.
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Taken in Franklin, Vermont
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The timbered bridge with autumn leaves
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Best Viewed Large All Rights Reserved / @ Julia Wright Hawaii, my native land / Golden thy sunlit strand / Waving the palm tree smiles / O’er seven isles The great Creator’s hand / Made thee the fairest land / Thy fiery mountain’s flame / Blazons thy fame Graceful thy dances gay / Hawaii hula hula heigh! / Nightly the southern breeze / Melodiously sings thro’ the trees Hawaii, my native land / Golden thy ocean strand / Red gleams the Madripore / Coral thy shore Firm stand thy rocks and reefs / Noble thy darkeyed chiefs / Thou, nature’s fairest shrine / My heart is thine Lyrics by Kapule Kenoa
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New additions to The Hidden Land Collection; best viewed larger but take a step or two back from the computer as I intended these for larger print applications :) 5 cm high Amethyst crystal; back & front lighting to create the front & interior of the “cave” /
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New additions to The Hidden Land Collection; best viewed larger but take a step or two back from the computer as I intended these for larger print applications :) The last of the series for the moment; until I build up my shots again :) This is Cinnabar. The crystals are translucent with adamantine lustre and recognizable by its bright scarlet coloration. It was used as the mineral pigment vermilion and is considered a rare mineral. As for the title, or the lack thereof, it’s not a case of running out of ideas, but finding the right one out of many. I’ll update when I’ve decided. If anybody has an idea, feel free to trow it my way. As with the entire collection, the only manipulations I used is a tweaking of tone curve, a bit in saturation and a bit in contrast to make the details more appreciable.
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Here’s another instalment tour into The Hidden Land. / As before, this collection features rocks and minerals highlighting their unique properties and formations. I always try to take as macro a shot as I can without loosing too much information about my subjects. With this series, I was handicapped as the specimens were behind glass cases; they were taken at the Australian Museum. I also only had what light was available there so positioning myself to get the best angles was key to capturing the images I wanted. Cerussite / The name is from the Latin cerussa, white lead.Cerussite crystallizes in the orthorhombic system and is isomorphous with aragonite. Like aragonite it is very frequently twinned, the compound crystals being pseudo-hexagonal in form. Three crystals are usually twinned together on two faces of the prism, producing six-rayed stellate groups with the individual crystals intercrossing at angles of nearly 60°. Crystals are of frequent occurrence and they usually have very bright and smooth faces. The mineral also occurs in compact granular masses, and sometimes in fibrous forms. The mineral is usually colorless or white, sometimes grey or greenish in tint and varies from transparent to translucent with an adamantine lustre. It is very brittle, and has a conchoidal fracture.The mineral may be readily recognized by its characteristic twinning, in conjunction with the adamantine lustre and high specific gravity. It dissolves with effervescence in dilute nitric acid. A blowpipe test will cause it to fuse very readily, and gives indications for lead.Both “white lead” and lead acetate have been used in cosmetics throughout history, though this practice has ceased in Western countries. / from: Wikipedia
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Influence of nature. Graceful curves. The wispy lines resambles branches and leaf motif on this piece. Enjoy it!
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I’m back to uploading more of my The Hidden Land collection. / These were also taken from the Australian Museum’s collection of rocks and minerals; the handicaps and limitations of the shots are the same – behind glass cases and limited lighting. As before, this collection features rocks and minerals highlighting their unique properties and formations. I always try to take as macro a shot as I can without loosing too much information about my subjects. Some post work was needed to bring out the textures and balance the lighting – Tone Curve, Saturation and Gamma. Best viewed larger…really Celestite / Celestine or celestite(SrSO4) is a mineral consisting of strontium sulfate. The mineral is named for its occasional delicate blue color. / Celestine occurs as crystals, and also in compact massive and fibrous forms. It is mostly found in sedimentary rocks, often associated with the minerals gypsum, anhydrite, and halite. / The mineral is found worldwide, usually in small quantities. Pale blue crystal specimens are found in Madagascar. / The bodies of Acantharea are made of celestine, unlike those of other radiolarians which are made of silica. / In carbonate marine sediments, burial dissolution is a recognised mechanism of celestine precipitation Celestine geode section. / The largest known celestine geode is located near the village of Put-in-Bay, Ohio on South Bass Island in Lake Erie. The geode is 35 feet in diameter at its widest point. It has been converted into a viewing cave, and the crystals which once composed the floor of the geode have been removed. The Crystal Cave has celestine crystals as wide as 18 inches across and weighing up to an estimated 300 lb. from: Wikipedia
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I’m back to uploading more of my The Hidden Land collection. / These were also taken from the Australian Museum’s collection of rocks and minerals; the handicaps and limitations of the shots are the same – behind glass cases and limited lighting. As before, this collection features rocks and minerals highlighting their unique properties and formations. I always try to take as macro a shot as I can without loosing too much information about my subjects. Some post work was needed to bring out the textures and balance the lighting – Tone Curve, Saturation and Gamma. Best viewed larger…really This image has Azurite (blue) and Malachite (green), two of my most favourite minerals. The variations in specimens has a wide range, from clear crystalline to fine-feathery structures to suede-like, but all having their characteristic colours. Azurite / Azurite is a soft, deep blue copper mineral produced by weathering of copper ore deposits. It is also known as Chessylite after the Chessy-les-Minesnear Lyon, France, where striking specimens have been found. The mineral has been known since ancient times, and was mentioned in Pliny the Elder’s Natural History under the Greek name kuanos (“deep blue,” root of English cyan) and the Latin name caeruleumThe blue of azurite is exceptionally deep and clear, and for that reason the mineral has tended to be associated since antiquity with the deep blue color of low-humidity desert and winter skies. The modern English name of the mineral reflects this association, since both azurite and azure are derived via Arabic from the Persian lazhward, an area known for its deposits of another deep blue stone, lapis lazuli (“stone of azure”).Azuritcrystals are monoclinic, and when large enough to be seen they appear as dark blue prismatic crystals. Azurite specimens are typically massive to nodular, and are often stalactitic in form. Specimens tend to lighten in color over time due to weathering of the specimen surface into malachite. Azurite is soft, with a Mohs hardness of only 3.5 to 4. The specific gravity of azurite is 3.77 to 3.89. Azurite is destroyed by heat, losing carbon dioxide and water to form black, powdery copper(II) oxide. Characteristic of a carbonate, specimens effervesce upon treatment with hydrochloric acid.Azurite was used as a blue pigment for centuries. Depending on the degree of fineness to which it was ground, and its basic content of copper carbonate, it gave a wide range of blues. It has been known as mountain blue or Armenian stone, in addition it was formerly known as Azurro Della Magna (from Italian). When mixed with oil it turns slightly green. When mixed with egg yolk it turns green-grey. It is also known by the names Blue Bice and Blue Verditer. Older examples of azurite pigment may show a more greenish tint due to weathering into malachite. Much azurite was mislabeled lapis lazuli, a term applied to many blue pigments. As chemical analysis of paintings from the Middle Ages improves, azurite is being recognized as a major source of the blues used by medieval painters. True lapis lazuli was chiefly supplied from Afghanistan during the Middle Ages while azurite was a common mineral in Europe at the time. Sizable deposits were found near Lyons, France. It was mined since the 12th century in Saxony, in the silver mines located there.Azurite was distinguished from (the much more expensive) purified natural ultramarine blue by heating (as described by Cennino D’Andrea Cennini). Ultramarine withstands heat, whereas azurite turns black (copper oxide). Gentle heating of azurite produces a deep blue pigment used in Japanese painting techniques.Azurite is used occasionally as beads and as jewelry, and also as an ornamental stone. However, its softness and tendency to lose its deep blue color as it weathers limit such uses. Heating destroys azurite easily, so all mounting of azurite specimens must be done at room temperature. Malachite reference is in The Hidden Land – Forest Canopy from: Wikipedia
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Abstract Macro / Should be viewed in larger / Dumpster art
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I’m back to uploading more of my The Hidden Land collection. / These were also taken from the Australian Museum’s collection of rocks and minerals; the handicaps and limitations of the shots are the same – behind glass cases and limited lighting. As before, this collection features rocks and minerals highlighting their unique properties and formations. I always try to take as macro a shot as I can without loosing too much information about my subjects. Some post work was needed to bring out the textures and balance the lighting – Tone Curve, Saturation and Gamma. Best viewed larger…really Corundum/Rudy or Saphire / Corundum is a crystalline form of aluminium oxide (Al2O3) with traces of iron, titanium and chromium.It is a rock-forming mineral. It is one of the naturally clear transparent materials, but can have different colors when impurities are present. Transparent specimens are used as gems, called ruby if red, while all other colors are called sapphire.The name corundum probably derived from the Sanskrit “kuruvinda” meaning “ruby”. / Due to corundum’s hardness (pure corundum is defined to have 9.0 Mohs), it can scratch almost every other mineral. It is commonly used as an abrasive, on everything from sandpaper to large machines used in machining metals, plastics and wood. Some emery is a mix of corundum and other substances, and the mix is less abrasive, with a lower average hardness near 8.0. / In addition to its hardness, corundum is unusual for its high density of 4.02 g/cm³, which is very high for a transparent mineral composed of the low atomic mass elements aluminium and oxygen. / Corundum for abrasives is mined in Zimbabwe, Russia, and India. Historically it was mined from deposits associated with dunites in North Carolina and from a nepheline syenite in Craigmont, Ontario.Emery grade corundum is found on the Greek island of Naxos and near Peekskill, New York. Abrasive corundum is synthetically manufactured from bauxite.In 1837 Gaudin made the first synthetic rubies by fusing alumina at a high temperature with a small amount of chromium as a pigment. In 1847 Ebelmen made white sapphire by fusing alumina in boric acid. In 1877 Frenic and Freil made crystal corundum from which small stones could be cut. Frimy and Auguste Verneuil manufactured artificial ruby by fusing BaF2 and Al2O3 with a little chromium at temperatures above 2000°C. In 1903 Verneuil announced he could produce synthetic rubies on a commercial scale using this flame fusion process.The Verneuil process allows the production of flawless single-crystal sapphires, rubies and other corundum gems of much larger size than normally found in nature. It is also possible to grow gem-quality synthetic corundum by flux-growth and hydrothermal synthesis. Because of the simplicity of the methods involved in corundum synthesis, large quantities of these crystals have become available on the market causing a significant reduction of price in recent years. Apart from ornamental uses, synthetic corundum is also used to produce mechanical parts (tubes, rods, bearings, and other machined parts), scratch-resistant optics, scratch-resistant watch crystals, instrument windows for satellites and spacecraft (because of its transparency from the UV to IR), and laser components. from: Wikipedia Info for the group Contrasting Perceptions / lush and barren, light and shadow, sheer cliffs and gentle hill
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Taken just East of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Sept 6/09 / Captured On 200ASA Kodak film w/ Canon AE-1 Program.
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This is the last batch of my The Hidden Land collection from the Australian Museum. As before, the handicaps and limitations of the shots are the same – behind glass cases and limited lighting. This collection features rocks and minerals highlighting their unique properties and formations. I always try to take as macro a shot as I can without loosing too much information about my subjects. Some post work was needed to bring out the textures and balance the lighting – Tone Curve, Saturation and Gamma. Best viewed larger…really Jaspilite; Banded Iron Formation / Banded iron formations (also known as banded ironstone formations or BIFs) are a distinctive type of rock often found in primordial (Precambrian) sedimentary rocks. The structures consist of repeated thin layers of iron oxides, either magnetite (Fe3O4) or hematite (Fe2O3), alternating with bands of iron-poor shale and chert. Some of the oldest known rock formations, formed over 3,700 million years ago, include banded iron layers,and the banded layers are a common feature in sediments for much of the Earth’s early history. The formations are abundant around the time of the Great oxygenation event,and become less common after 1.8 Ga.The reappearance of BIF conditions at 1,900 million years ago,and in association with Snowball Earth 750 million years ago, is problematic to explain. / The total amount of oxygen locked up in the banded iron beds is estimated to be perhaps twenty times the volume of oxygen present in the modern atmosphere. Banded iron beds are an important commercial source of iron ore, such as the Pilbara region of Western Australia and the Mesabi Range in Minnesota. / The conventional concept is that the banded iron layers were formed in sea water as the result of oxygen released by photosynthetic cyanobacteria (bluegreen algae), combining with dissolved iron in Earth’s oceans to form insoluble iron oxides, which precipitated out, forming a thin layer on the substrate, which may have been anoxic mud (forming shale and chert). Each band is similar to a varve, to the extent that the banding is assumed to result from cyclic variations in available oxygen. It is unclear whether these banded ironstone formations were seasonal, followed some feedback oscillation in the ocean’s complex system or followed some other cycle.It is assumed that initially the Earth started out with vast amounts of iron dissolved in the world’s acidic seas. Eventually, as photosynthetic organisms generated oxygen, the available iron in the Earth’s oceans was precipitated out as iron oxides.At the tipping point where the oceans became permanently oxygenated, small variations in oxygen production produced pulses of free oxygen in the surface waters, alternating with pulses of iron oxide deposition.Until 1992, / it was assumed that the rare, later (younger) banded iron deposits represent unusual conditions where oxygen was depleted locally and iron-rich waters could form then come into contact with oxygenated water. An alternate explanation of these later deposits is undergoing much discussion as part of the Snowball Earth hypothesis. This hypothesis states that an early equatorial supercontinent (Rodinia) was totally covered in an ice age (implying the whole planet was frozen at the surface to a depth of several kilometers). In this case the Earth’s free oxygen may have been nearly or totally depleted during a severe ice age circa 750 to 580 million years ago (mya). Dissolved iron then accumulated in the oxygen-poor oceans (from seafloor hydrothermal vents, say). Following the thawing of the Earth, the seas became oxygenated once more causing the precipitation of the iron. / Another mechanism for BIF-formatíon, also proposed in the context of the Snowball Earth discussion, is by deposition from metal-rich brines in the vicinity of hydrothermally active rift zones. / Alternatively, some geochemists suggest that BIFs could form by direct oxidation of iron by (non-photosynthetic) autotrophic microbes. from: Wikipedia
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