The Lion Nebula Sh2-132 is a faint emission nebula located in the constellation of Cepheus. Itโs 10,000 light years from earth. I captured it with my Askar FRA500 telescope, ZWO AM5 mount, and ASI2600MC Duo camera. ๐
#astrophotography #astronomy #naturephotography #nature #eastcoastkin #photography
Stormy seas with northerly winds blowing the black (brown) sand down the beach and into the breaking waves. Sunset light, so looks sepia.
Life in sepia...
Another one from that windy sunset at Vestri-Fellsjara beach at Jรถkulsรกrlรณn a few days ago.
#Iceland
Two Oaks, Geysers Road, Sonoma County, CA
โฆabove Geyserville, CA, these oaks are near the top of one of the iconic bike climbs in Sonoma County (2000โ in 4mi)
#photography #blackandwhite
#sonomacounty #landscape #bluesky #monochrome
#landscapephotography #naturephotography #blueskyartshow #two
It is good to have empathy. But spending all day feeling miserable about everything bad happening in the world will not make the problems disappear. It is okay to step back sometimes and take a moment to relax and enjoy life.
The Morgan Library & Museum
We love the edits Maurice Ravel made to this manuscript for La Valse!
Check it out (and browse more music manuscripts!): bit.ly/hFBN6K
Side note: Happy Birthday, Ravel!
Bands
A starfield is shown with a large circular blue ring in the center. In the ring's center is a bright blue spot. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
๐ญ Shapley 1: An Annular Planetary Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Peter Bresseler; Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II)
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Arp 245
AstroBin's Image of the Day: "Arp 245" by Wolfgang Promper
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#astrophotography
A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore a computer must never make a management decision.
Always a good time these days to repost this slide from an IBM internal presentation in 1979.
Pastel Dream
A morning rich in frost, fog, colors and clouds. And a tree. What a beautiful atmosphere.
Upper Bavaria, Germany
#landscapephotography #landschaftsfotografie #fog
Also known as The Fruit Was Never an Apple The print features a black and white woodcut style depicting two nude figures in a dense forest.
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In Paradise (also known as The Fruit Was Never an Apple), 1918
Above the Mist by Christopher Harrison Brightwell Barrow, Oxfordshire, England
The long shadow by Christopher Harrison Brightwell Barrow, Oxfordshire, England
I captured these one year ago today on the 1st March 2025. One of my most memorable mornings out in nature, where the conditions and light combined into the most spectacular photographs. It still feels like yesterday.
Thomas Hoepker, New York, 1983.
Mike Hewitt, A Flock of Starlings gather over the derelict West Pier in Brighton.
โAll art is a revolt against manโs fate.โ
Andrรฉ Malraux, โThe Voices of Silenceโ, 1951.
"Performance is an act of relationship-building with nature, with other musicians, with composers across history, and with listeners in the present moment (...) Fulfilment arises from commitment to the process not from the illusion of final arrival."
- Hector Scott
#classicalmusic
Waves break at sunrise, with a large stack behind.
Good morning from Reynisfjara. Thought I was going to get frostbitten fingers this morning as it's bitterly cold! But sunny and calm :)
#Iceland
A starfield is shown with an unusual orange object in the center. Surrounding this object are blue rings and four thick jets. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
๐ญ The Egg Nebula from the Hubble Telescope
Image Credit & Copyright: ESA/Hubble & NASA, B. Balick (U. Washington)
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Forget the time
Today's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #two. Here are two pitcher plants out in a bog in North Florida. They seem to be having a nice chat. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #pitcherplants #sarracenia #bogs #bogplants #botanicalart #Nikon #Lightroom
โYou told me to show you something worth seeing. I show you yourself.โ
In a spectacle of nature's infinite power, glorious Mount Fitz Roy, battered by furious winds, emerges from the clouds. Patagonia's mountains can be hidden for days, but when they clear, the beauty is endless!
#bluesky #photography #landscapephotography #nature #naturephotography #mountainmonday
Rationally I know I'm very much not immortal, but emotionally I keep adding new albums to my to-listen-to list as though I was ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Waves breaking under the moonlight ๐๐
๐ท Massimo Simigliani
๐Abruzzo, L'Aquila, Italy
Nonsense. It's not possible to steal AI technology. I know this because Google's own LLMs are built using a complete copy of my legal blog, and that's somehow not stealing because, as Google says, a complete copy of my legal blog is both trivial and utterly essential for their tech to work.
two poorly drawn cats standing side by side, each shown in profile. their symmetrical poses resemble ancient egyptian hieroglyph figures
two kittens sleeping on their backs on a wooden floor, positioned parallel to each other. one is an orange tabby and the other is gray and white; both have their front paws bent upward, creating a pose that resembles egyptian hieroglyph figures!
William Claxton Donald Byrd on the โAโ Train, New York City. 1959.
Black & white photo looking down a pier to a lighthouse. The sun casts long shadows from the piers railings across the cobbled walkway. Empty but for a single man bungled up in hat & coat with his hand shielding the sun from his eyes as he looks out to sea.
Books.
โข To the Lighthouse -Virginia Woolf
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBooks
Black and white houses in a blizzard with a little church showing in the distance. B&W photo too.
Sculpture in metal shaped like a Viking ship with pink skies.
Green river flowing through a column lined with basalt columns.
Layers and layers of mountains and sky with some vaguely pink light above. Overall the mountains look blue with the highest one which is snow-covered the furthest away.
Itโs #PortfolioDay so might as well share some favourite photos from #Iceland :)
One of my favorite finds from 2024 - recent snow transformed this desert landscape - when the snow melted, it made the soil wet, completely bringing out all the awesome textures.
