Along US101 just south of Santa Barbara you will find US1, and this is the place to park if you got an RV! So many large and small RVs had parked here, just on the beautiful coastline with a glorious sunset!
This girl majored in Psychology at the same university I got my degree so we are fellow alumni, and I hope she makes it big as a model someday because I think she has the looks and talent to succeed. She has a nice face and beauty in this shot.
I really like the capture of the beautiful legs of this sexy model in this portrait. Of course the gorgeous body and face and expression and the white shirt and skirt and skin color in contrast to the cement and outdoors in the park and the ground are also things I like about this picture. I like her black high heel as well and her blue eyes and long brunette hair.
This Red-Whiskered Bulbul was the boldest I met on my trip.
Other Bulbuls used to fly away the moment I got them into focus. This one stayed put while my camera shot a thousand pictures on continuous mode. I wanted a shot of her taking off and flying away, but this one didn't!
However, she gave me this expansive demonstration of her wings and beauty.
A behind-the-scenes look at how cosplayers bring their favorite characters from Japanese anime, comic books and video games to lifePhotographs and story by Joseph Chi Lin
Strobist Info:
1* 600 watt light into 1.5x1.5 meter softbox, camera right, high.
1* 400 watt light into 1x1 meter softbox, camera left, low.
2* 400 watt lights shot at seamless backdrop for backlight.
Radio transmitter was outta juice, didn't have any replacement batteries for it, so I used my Sigma DG-530 bounced off the ceiling to trigger the big boys.
Body: Canon 400D
Lens: Canon 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM
Focal Length: 24mm
F Stop: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/160
ISO: 100
Strobist Info:
1* 600 watt light into 1.5x1.5 meter softbox, camera right, high.
1* 400 watt light into 1x1 meter softbox, camera left, low.
2* 400 watt lights shot at seamless backdrop for backlight.
Radio transmitter was outta juice, didn't have any replacement batteries for it, so I used my Sigma DG-530 bounced off the ceiling to trigger the big boys.
Body: Canon 400D
Lens: Canon 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM
Focal Length: 88mm
F Stop: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/160
ISO: 100
Strobist Info:
1* 600 watt light into 1.5x1.5 meter softbox, camera right, high.
1* 400 watt light into 1x1 meter softbox, camera left, low.
2* 400 watt lights shot at seamless backdrop for backlight.
Radio transmitter was outta juice, didn't have any replacement batteries for it, so I used my Sigma DG-530 bounced off the ceiling to trigger the big boys.
Body: Canon 400D
Lens: Canon 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM
Focal Length: 24mm
F Stop: f/10.0
Shutter: 1/125
ISO: 100
Strobist Info:
1* 600 watt light into 1.5x1.5 meter softbox, camera right, high.
1* 400 watt light into 1x1 meter softbox, camera left, low.
2* 400 watt lights behind model as backlights/rimlights.
(Reuters) - A migrant woman from Myanmar covers her face as she is seen behind a picture of Thai Royal family in a crowded minority settlement in the town of Mahachai near Bangkok early March 11, 2010. Right groups have raised concern about the February 28 deadline for more than a million migrant workers to start a process to verify their nationality, or face possible deportation from Thailand. Rights groups said the process is complicated, prohibitively expensive and unrealistic particularly for migrants from military-ruled Myanmar, many of whom enter Thailand illegally and may have trouble getting cooperation from home country in the verification process. Millions of migrant workers are a key source of manual labour in the $264-billion economy, Southeast Asia's second-biggest, employed widely in the construction, tourism and manufacturing sectors. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj (THAILAND - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS EMPLOYMENT BUSINESS)
(AFP/Getty Images) - WASP pilot Elaine Danforth Harmon (R) greets guests during a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony at the US Capitol. The ceremony was held to honor the pioneering but long-overlooked role played by the Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASP) in WWII.(AFP/Getty Images/Mark Wilson)
(AFP/File) - Australian tourism authorities are seeking five foreign couples to take part in what is touted as the world's longest, and most extraordinary, taxi ride. In a nine-week journey over some 11,000 kilometres of road, five couples would travel the state in the back of a taxi.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)
(AP) - Duane Kelly, member of the Kansas City School Board, reacts during a meeting of the board, Wednesday, March 10, 2010, in Kansas City, Mo. The Kansas City school board voted Wednesday night to close nearly half the district's schools in a desperate bid to stay afloat. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga)
(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama (L) waves to visitors and walks with Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) (R) as they depart from the White House in Washington, March 10, 2010. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
(AP) - Carlos, a 7-year-old boy who called 911 during a home invasion robbery as armed robbers threatened his parents poses with the dispatcher, Monique Patino, who took his call at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's dispatch center, Wednesday March 10, 2010 in Norwalk, Calif. At a news conference Wednesday, the boy, identified only as Carlos, told reporters he remained calm during the ordeal because his mother used to make him practice dialing 911 in case of emergencies. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
(Reuters) - Lifetime Honorary Chairman of Telefonos de Mexico Carlos Slim Helu participates in the Wall St. Journal CEO Council on "Rebuilding Global Prosperity" in Washington November 16, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
(AP) - President Barack Obama speaks at St. Charles High School in St. Charles, Mo., about health care reform Wednesday, March 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
(AFP/File) - Seal meat with a cocoa sauce served at The Islands restaurant in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Lawmakers, a beauty queen and guests crammed into Canada's parliamentary restaurant to dine on seal meat Wednesday to show solidarity with hunters fighting a European ban on seal products.(AFP/File/Clement Sabourin)
(AP) - After receiving the Congressional Gold Medal, Marguerite McCreery of Portsmouth, Va. is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 10, 2010, after the ceremony with, from left, her son Earl, daughter Judy, Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va., daughter Meg, daughter Maude, and her grandson U.S. Coast Guard Lt JG Bradley Clemons, right. Former members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, the first women in to fly America's military aircraft, were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)
(AP) - In this photo taken March 9, 2010, Raymond Cirimele, 55, displays his Costco membership card outside his home in Chicago. Cirimele is one of at least 245 people in 44 states who have been sickened by a recent salmonella outbreak. Investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe every time they buy groceries and followed the trail of grocery purchases to a Rhode Island company that makes salami, then zeroed in on the pepper used to season the meat. He said no one asked for his shopper card data, but he would have provided it if someone had. 'I don't have any secrets, so I'm not worried about it,' he said. 'It's kind of like the whole airport security and all that. I'd rather fly on a safe plane.' (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
(AP) - Beverly Beesemyer, of Beverly Hills, Calif. holds her Congressional Gold Medal following a presentation ceremony honoring Women Airforce Service Pilots, Wednesday, March 10, 2010, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
(AP) - A 2005 Toyota Prius, which was in an accident, is seen at a police station in Harrison, New York, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. The driver of the Toyota Prius told police that the car accelerated on its own, then lurched down a driveway, across a road and into a stone wall.(AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
(AP) - This undated publicity image provided by A&E shows actor Corey Haim, left, who appeared in the A&E reality TV show 'The Two Coreys' with his friend Corey Feldman, right. Haim, a 1980s teen heartthrob for his roles in 'Lucas' and 'The Lost Boys' whose career was blighted by drug abuse, died Wednesday March 10, 2010. He was 38. (AP Photo/Courtesy AETN, L. Pief Weyman) NO SALES. MANDATORY CREDIT
(AP) - A 1987 photo provided by Warner Brothers shows Corey Haim, left, and Jason Patric in a photo from the movie 'The Lost Boys'. Haim, a 1980s teen heartthrob for his roles in 'Lucas' and 'The Lost Boys' whose career was blighted by drug abuse, died Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, Los Angeles County coroner's Lt. Cheryl MacWillie said. He was 38. (AP Photo/Warner Brothers)
(AP) - FILE - In this 1987 file publicity image provided by Warner Bros., actor Corey Haim is shown. Haim, a 1980s teen heartthrob for his roles in 'Lucas' and 'The Lost Boys' whose career was blighted by drug abuse, died Wednesday, March 10, 2010. He was 38. (AP Photo/Warner Bros., File)
(AP) - Don't stop with a great boxed brownie mix. Keep going till you get a brownie that makes you yell OMG. These crispy rice treat brownies layer two favorite treats, then top them with M&M studded chocolate. (AP Photo/Larry Crowe)
(AP) - Don't stop with a great boxed brownie mix. Keep going till you get a brownie that makes you yell OMG. Salted caramel crunch brownies ooze caramel between a top layer of pretzel and peanut-filled chocolate and a bottom layer of moist brownie. (AP Photo/Larry Crowe)
(AP) - A baby King penguin (aptenodytes patagonicus) seen with a King penguin, in Basel Zoo, Switzerland, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Keystone/ Georgios Kefalas)
(AFP/File) - An engineering student soothes Yotaro, a robot which emulates a real baby at Tsukuba University in Japan. Yotaro's face, made of soft translucent silicon with a rosy hue, is backlit by a projector connected to a computer to simulate crying, sneezing, sleeping and smiling, while a speaker can let out bursts of baby giggles.(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi)
(AP) - FILE - In this Oct. 17, 2008 file photo, Tex, a Tasmanian Devil, sits in his enclosure at Sydney's Taronga Zoo. Australian scientists say Wednesday, March 10, 2010, they have found a colony of Tasmanian devils that are genetically different from their peers and so far resistant to the face cancer that has decimated the population. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)
(AP) - A view of scaffolding inside the Peruzzi Chapel of Florence's Basilica di Santa Croce, during a media tour, in Florence, Italy, Wednesday, March 9, 2010. According to researchers working on a study on Giotto's painting techniques inside the Basilica, sponsored by the Getty Foundation, with the use of ultraviolet rays they discovered Giotto's original drawings beneath his murals in the chapel. The ultraviolet rays, which capture organic materials like egg tempera and oil which Giotto used, unveiled colors, marks and brightness not visible in natural light. (AP Photo)
(AP) - Orang-utan Schubbi reacts in the new Asia enclosure at the zoo in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. He is leader of a group of seven apes, who moved into their new home last week. After 10 years the close to nature 'Zoom Erlebniswelt' is now completed. The reconstruction of the old zoo into a modern appropriate to the species habitat cost euro 95 million ($125 million). (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
(AP) - In this Monday, March 8, 2010 photo released by the Colorado Department of Transportation, a portion of a 17-mile stretch of Interstate 70, which has been closed after a rock slide, is shown in Glenwood Springs, Colo. The slide struck around midnight Sunday near the Hanging Lake Tunnel in Glenwood Canyon, a deep and narrow chasm about 110 miles west of Denver, the Colorado Department of Transportation said. (AP Photo/Colorado Department of Transportation)
(AP) - In this photo released by the Wildlife Conservation Society, a western spotted skunk peeks out from between the rocks at the Bronx Zoo in New York, Friday, March 5, 2010. Normally native to western North America, this new arrival makes her home in the Bronx Zoo's 'Mouse House.' (AP Photo/WCS, Julie Larsen Maher)
(AP) - First Lady Michelle Obama joins kids at a free soccer clinic as part of her campaign to improve fitness and combat obesity in children, Friday, March 5, 2010, in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
(AFP/DDP/File) - A police car is pictured in Germany in 2009. A woman in Germany phoned police after hearing "suspicious noises" in her flat, but much to her embarrassment officers found the source was a vibrator, authorities said Friday.(AFP/DDP/File/Sascha Schuermann)
(AFP graphic) - Fact file on the historic relationship between Turkey and Armenia. Turkey has recalled its ambassador after US lawmakers voted to brand as "genocide" the killing of Armenians by Ottoman forces during World War I.(AFP graphic)
(AP) - A ring-tailed Lemur plays with a family member at the Spring River Zoo in Roswell, N.M. on Thursday, March 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Roswell Daily Record, Mark Wilson)
(AP) - The new Hispano Suiza shows the trunk in the front at the public opening of the Geneva Motor Show in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, March 4, 2010. About 250 exhibitors from 30 countries, showing 100 car premieres at the Auto Show until March 14. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
(AFP/Graphic) - A graphic comparing the average per capita health care cost and life expectancy in the developed world. US President Barack Obama pressed Congress Wednesday to hold a final vote in the next few weeks on his historic health care overhaul, with or without support from his Republican foes.(AFP/Graphic)
(AP) - Manufacturer Lumeneo shows the just 86 centimeter wide electric car Smera at the Geneva Motor Show in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, March 3, 2010. About 250 exhibitors from 30 countries, showing 100 car premieres at the Auto Show until March 14. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
(Reuters) - The new Saab 9-5 model is displayed on the exhibition stand during the second media day of the 80th Geneva Car Show at the Palexpo in Geneva March 3, 2010. Carmakers will be keen to show off new green technologies at the Geneva Auto Show, opening this week, as economic uncertainties and waning scrapping schemes make forecasting sales trends difficult. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse (SWITZERLAND - Tags: TRANSPORT BUSINESS)
(AP) - The relaunched brand Hispano Suiza shows their XIOV luxury model at the Geneva Motor Show in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, March 2, 2010. About 250 exhibitors from 30 countries, showing 100 car premieres at the Auto Show until March 14. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
(AP) - The new Lumeneo Smera is shown during the press day at the 80th Geneva International Motor Show, Tuesday, March 2, 2010, in Geneva, Switzerland. The Motor Show will open its gates to public from 4 to 14 of March, presenting over 1000 brands with more than 100 World and European firsts. (AP Photo/Keystone/Martial Trezzini)
(AP) - In this photo released by the San Diego Zoo on March 1, 2010 showing San Diego Zoo animal keepers guiding Galapagos tortoises toward a trailer that would move the giant reptiles, weighing 400 to 600 pounds, to temporary quarters while their exhibit is being remodeled. This will be the first time some estimated to be up to 130 years old, will be out of public view in decades. Some of the Gal‡pagos tortoises arrived at the Zoo in 1928 as adults and have lived in San Diego ever since. The tortoises will return to their exhibit in the summer after a renovation to the habitat . (AP Photo/Ken Bohn, San Diego Zoo) NO SALES
(AFP/File) - Persian leopard cubs. Iran has promised to donate two wild leopards to Russia, officials said Sunday, bringing closer the aim of settling the rare animals near the 2014 Winter Olympics host city of Sochi.(AFP/File/Attila Kisbenedek)
(Reuters) - Slap-sole shoes, probably Italian, mid-17th century, are seen on display in the "On a Pedestal: From Renaissance Chopines to Baroque Heels" exhibition at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, January 7, 2010. REUTERS/Mark Blinch
(Reuters) - One-month-old South China tiger cub Niuniu is seen at a zoo in Luoyang, Henan province, February 20, 2010. The Chinese New Year began on February 14th and according to the Lunar calendar, it is the Year of the Tiger. REUTERS/China Daily (CHINA - Tags: ANIMALS SOCIETY) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA
(Reuters) - Lolo, a black Jaguar, plays with her newborn spotted cub inside their cage at Jordan's zoo in Yaduda February 16, 2010. The two-month-old cub made his first public appearance on Tuesday after being born to Lolo and Falah, who originate from South America. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji (JORDAN - Tags: SOCIETY ANIMALS IMAGES OF THE DAY)
(Reuters) - Lolo, a black Jaguar, plays with her newborn spotted cub inside their cage at Jordan's zoo in Yaduda February 16, 2010. The two-month-old cub made his first public appearance on Tuesday after being born to Lolo and Falah, who originate from South America. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji (JORDAN - Tags: SOCIETY ANIMALS)
(Reuters) - Tigers take a bow in front to visitors during a performance to celebrate the Chinese New Year at a zoo in Fuzhou, Fujian province February 15, 2010. The tigers have been trained by keepers to perform for visitors to the zoo during Chinese New Year celebrations which began on February 14 and according to the Lunar calendar will be the Year of the Tiger. Picture taken February 15, 2010. REUTERS/China Daily (CHINA - Tags: SOCIETY) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA
(Reuters) - Dog handlers talk while grooming Solo, a Bichon Frise, during the first day of the 2010 Westminster Dog Show in New York February 15, 2010. REUTERS/Jeff Zelevansky (UNITED STATES - Tags: ANIMALS SOCIETY)
(AP) - Siberian tigers sit up gesturing to visitors during a show at a zoo on the second day of the Lunar New Year in Fuzhou in southeast China's Fujian province, Monday, Feb. 15, 2010. Millions of Chinese celebrated the Lunar New Year of the Tiger which began on Sunday. (AP Photo)
(AP) - Baby tigers share the nipples of a pig mother with baby pigs at the Sri Racha Tiger Zoo in Chonburi province, southeastern Thailand Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
This image shows a stack of layers on the floor of an impact crater roughly 30 kilometers across. Many of the layers appear to be extremely thin, and barely resolved.
In broad view, it is clear that the deposit is eroding into a series of ridges, likely due to the wind. Below the ridges, additional dark-toned layered deposits crop out. These exhibit a variety of textures, some of which may be due to transport of material.
The light ridges are often capped by thin dark layers, and similar layers are exposed on the flanks of the ridges. These layers are likely harder than the rest of the material, and so armor the surface against erosion. They are shedding boulders which roll down the slope, as shown in the subimage. Although these cap layers are relatively resistant, the boulders do not seem to accumulate at the base of the slope, so it is likely that they also disintegrate relatively quickly.
The subimage itself is 250 meters wide. The light is from the left. Boulders are visible on the slopes of the ridges along with thin dark layers including the cap layer, but they are absent on the spurs where the resistant cover has been eroded. This demonstrates that the boulders come only from the dark layers, and are not embedded in the rest of the deposit.
The Orion Nebula reveals many of its hidden secrets in a dramatic image taken by ESO’s new VISTA survey telescope. The telescope’s huge field of view can show the full splendour of the whole nebula and VISTA’s infrared vision also allows it to peer deeply into dusty regions that are normally hidden and expose the curious behaviour of the very active young stars buried there.
VISTA — the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy — is the latest addition to ESO’s Paranal Observatory (eso0949). It is the largest survey telescope in the world and is dedicated to mapping the sky at infrared wavelengths. The large (4.1-metre) mirror, wide field of view and very sensitive detectors make VISTA a unique instrument. This dramatic new image of the Orion Nebula illustrates VISTA’s remarkable powers.
The Orion Nebula is a vast stellar nursery lying about 1350 light-years from Earth. Although the nebula is spectacular when seen through an ordinary telescope, what can be seen using visible light is only a small part of a cloud of gas in which stars are forming. Most of the action is deeply embedded in dust clouds and to see what is really happening astronomers need to use telescopes with detectors sensitive to the longer wavelength radiation that can penetrate the dust. VISTA has imaged the Orion Nebula at wavelengths about twice as long as can be detected by the human eye.
As in the many visible light pictures of this object, the new wide field VISTA image shows the familiar bat-like form of the nebula in the centre of the picture as well as the fascinating surrounding area. At the very heart of this region lie the four bright stars forming the Trapezium, a group of very hot young stars pumping out fierce ultraviolet radiation that is clearing the surrounding region and making the gas glow. However, observing in the infrared allows VISTA to reveal many other young stars in this central region that cannot be seen in visible light.
Looking to the region above the centre of the picture, curious red features appear that are completely invisible except in the infrared. Many of these are very young stars that are still growing and are seen through the dusty clouds from which they form. These youthful stars eject streams of gas with typical speeds of 700 000 km/hour and many of the red features highlight the places where these gas streams collide with the surrounding gas, causing emission from excited molecules and atoms in the gas. There are also a few faint, red features below the Orion Nebula in the image, showing that stars form there too, but with much less vigour. These strange features are of great interest to astronomers studying the birth and youth of stars.
This new image shows the power of the VISTA telescope to image wide areas of sky quickly and deeply in the near-infrared part of the spectrum. The telescope is just starting to survey the sky and astronomers are anticipating a rich harvest of science from this unique ESO facility.
Credits:
European Southern Observatory, Paranal Observatory
(AP) - In this picture made available by the Rome Bioparco Zoo, a macaque monkey holds a snowflake, at left, during a copious snowfall at the Rome Bioparco Zoo, Friday, Feb. 12, 2010. A rare snow coated Rome Friday, dusting church domes but making slick cobblestones treacherous. Romans awoke Friday to thick flakes falling from the sky. Snow stuck for about a half-hour at higher elevations, like the ancient Janiculum hill, where children, unused to walking to school in snow, stepped hesitantly on sidewalks. (AP Photo/Rome Bioparco Zoo)
(Reuters) - A giraffe foal tries to stand shortly after being born at Aalborg zoo in northern Jutland February 11, 2010. REUTERS/Henning Bagger/Scanpix (DENMARK - Tags: ANIMALS SOCIETY IMAGES OF THE DAY) DENMARK OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN DENMARK
(AP) - A billboard along Interstate 35, taken on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010 in Wyoming, Minn., carries an image of former President George W. Bush and reads 'Miss me yet?'. Office manager Beverly Master of Schubert and Hoey Outdoor Advertising in Minneapolis says the message was purchased by a group of small business owners and people from the Twin Cities area who want to remain anonymous. (AP Photo/Minnesota Public Radio, Bob Collins) MANDATORY CREDIT
NASA, ESA, and M. Buie (Southwest Research Institute)
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This is the most detailed view to date of the entire surface of the dwarf planet Pluto, as constructed from multiple NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs taken from 2002 to 2003.
Hubble’s view isn’t sharp enough to see craters or mountains, if they exist on the surface, but Hubble reveals a complex-looking and variegated world with white, dark-orange, and charcoal-black terrain. The overall color is believed to be a result of ultraviolet radiation from the distant Sun breaking up methane that is present on Pluto’s surface, leaving behind a dark, molasses-colored, carbon-rich residue.
The center disk (180 degrees) has a mysterious bright spot that is unusually rich in carbon monoxide frost. This region will be photographed in the highest possible detail when NASA’s New Horizons probe flies by Pluto in 2015.
The Hubble images are a few pixels wide. But through a technique called dithering, multiple, slightly offset pictures can be combined through computer-image processing to synthesize a higher-resolution view than could be seen in a single exposure. This series of pictures took four years and 20 computers operating continuously and simultaneously to accomplish.
Martian landforms have been shaped by winds, water, lava flow, seasonal icing and other forces over millennia. This view shows color variations in bright layered deposits on a plateau near Juventae Chasma in the Valles Marineris region of Mars. A brown mantle covers portions of the bright deposits. Researchers have found that these bright layered deposits contain opaline silica and iron sulfates.
This TerraSAR-X image shows a thunderstorm cell with unusually heavy rainfall off the Caribbean coast of Panama, visible across in the upper half of this image as a blurred area. The scene recorded here extends over an area of about 18 by 64 kilometres and was generated in dual-polarisation mode, a method that substantially increases the information content of an image.
The colours are created by superimposing two separate images (red and green) of the same area taken simultaneously in this mode using two signals having different polarisation settings, together with a third image (blue) which is calculated from the difference between the original images. Now, the different reflection mechanisms become visible – the green colouration indicates a surface reflection, where the radar signal is being reflected straight back to the antenna. Red tones indicate a double reflection, and there is virtually no indication of this in the scene depicted here, since it occurs primarily in urban areas. Blue tones can be seen in the area of the thunderstorm cell, and are designated as ‘volume scatter’ because the signal is reflected back to the radar antenna by a multiplicity of individual raindrops and hailstones.
What lights up the Flame Nebula? Fifteen hundred light years away towards the constellation of Orion lies a nebula which, from its glow and dark dust lanes, appears, on the left, like a billowing fire. But fire, the rapid acquisition of oxygen, is not what makes this Flame glow. Rather the bright star Alnitak, the easternmost star in the Belt of Orion visible just above the nebula, shines energetic light into the Flame that knocks electrons away from the great clouds of hydrogen gas that reside there. Much of the glow results when the electrons and ionized hydrogen recombine. The above false-color picture of the Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) was taken in infraredlight, where a young star cluster becomes visible. The Flame Nebula is part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, a star-forming region that includes the famous Horsehead Nebula, visible above on the far right.
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This infrared snapshot of a region in the constellation Carina near the Milky Way was taken shortly after NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) ejected its cover. The “first-light” picture shows thousands of stars and covers an area three times the size of the moon. WISE will take more than a million similar pictures covering the whole sky.
The image was captured as the spacecraft stared in a fixed direction, in order to help calibrate its pointing system. The mission’s survey will be done while the satellite continuously scans the sky, and an internal scan mirror counteracts the motion to create freeze-frame images. The team is working now to match the motions of the spacecraft and the scan mirror precisely.
This eight-second exposure shows infrared light from three of WISE’s four wavelength bands: Blue, green and red correspond to 3.4, 4.6, and 12 microns, respectively.
This false-color subimage shows the north polar layered deposits at top and darker materials at bottom exposed in a scarp at the head of Chasma Boreale, a large canyon eroded into the layered deposits.
The polar layered deposits appear red because of dust mixed within them, but are ice-rich as indicated by previous observations. The water ice in the layered deposits is probably responsible for the pattern of fractures seen near the top of the scarp.
The darker material below the layered deposits may have been deposited as sand dunes, as indicated by the cross-bedding (truncation of curved lines) seen near the middle of the scarp. It appears that brighter, ice-rich layers were deposited between the dark dunes in places.
Exposures such as these are useful in understanding the recent climate variations that are likely recorded in the polar layered deposits.
Aptly-named Mojave Crater in the Xanthe Terra region has alluvial fans that look remarkably similar to landforms in the Mojave Desert of southeastern California and portions of Nevada and Arizona.
Alluvial fans are fan-shaped deposits of water-transported material (alluvium). They typically form at the base of hills or mountains where there is a marked break, or flattening of slope.
They typically deposit big rocks near their mouths (close to the mountains) and smaller rocks at greater distances. Alluvial fans form as a result of heavy desert downpours, typically thundershowers. Because deserts are poorly vegetated, heavy and short-lived downpours create a great deal of erosion and nearby deposition.
There are fans inside and around the outsides of Mojave crater on Mars that perfectly match the morphology of alluvial fans on Earth, with the exception of a few small impact craters dotting this Martian landscape.
Channels begin at the apex of topographic ridges, consistent with precipitation as the source of water, rather than groundwater. This remarkable landscape was first discovered from Mars Orbital Camera images. Mars researchers have suggested that impact-induced atmospheric precipitation may have created these unique landscapes.
This HiRISE image at up to 29 cm/pixel scale supports the alluvial fan interpretation, in particular by showing that the sizes of the largest rocks decrease away from the mouths of the fans.
While freedom is a wonderful thing, sometimes the constraints of a medium or the circumstances in which work is created can serve as the springboard to something remarkable. Just think of Michaelangelo's frescos in the Sistine Chapel, one of the most demanding of media. While he had no choice but to work quickly on a large scale before the pigment-impregnated plaster dried, a contemporary French artist has chosen to paint tiny portraits within the space of a few minutes... on Paris subway tickets.
So you've been ogling the 3D capabilities of Photoshop CS3 Extended but there's no sign of an upgrade? In fact, you may be watching the 3D train leave the station with that helpless feeling of once again falling behind. You know you could extend the scope of the graphics and documents you're currently creating by adding 3D content. But how? The good news is that the cross-platform DAZ Studio provides a simple, free way to begin incorporating 3D into your Photoshop workflow.
The release of Adobe's new Media Player has made quite a splash this week but those in the creative community using the firm's design tools have received an extra treat, in the form of the simultaneously-launched Adobe TV site.
While not yet announced, the FontStruct site, created by noted font vendor FontShop, is already attracting attention from those eager to try out its font-creation capabilities, as well as download fonts from the galleries.
Marion Bataille is a French illustrator who has provided the imagery both for her own books and those of others, including a volume of Surrealist poetry geared to younger readers. The clip above shows her latest book, ABC3D, in action, with video being the perfect medium to demonstrate the kinetic apects of her inventive pop-up alphabet.
If you need to display digital content in such a way that it just can't be overlooked, the traditional approach is to move to bigger and bigger displays. But once you've covered every wall with screens, things start to get a little banal. What's needed is the ability to let content escape the confines of the screen and inhabit the three-dimensional space of the viewer. A novel approach to this is provided by the PufferSphere, from Scottish firm Pufferfish.
Most publishers of art and design books don't extend their relationship with their authors beyond distributing the books and sending the occasional royalty check. But one German publisher is showing that more is possible to bring creative projects to the attention of a wider audience via inhouse-created video.
A fixation on light and electricity has moved British Artist, Richard Box, to create some mesmerizing installation art pieces which he has had documented by various photographers on his Website.
The focus on Box's Site right now is is a series which illustrates an installation whereby Box erected more than a thousand fluorescent tubes by planting them in the ground beneath a large electrical pylon. The photographs show the the lights illuminated only by the magnetic field being generated by the pylon and overhead electricity cables.
Let's face it, the applications in Adobe's Creative Suite are not always employed for work that most of us would care to define as "creative." But Adobe couldn't really call it the Ugly Banners For My Company Suite or the Painfully Dull Marketing Flyer Suite, now could it? No, if you use Adobe's Suite, the pixie dust of creativity will simply alight magically on your work and if not... well, I guess you just weren't that creative in the first place.
"The Bubblegum Sequencer is a physical step sequencer that lets you create drumloops by arranging colored balls on a tangible surface. It generates MIDI events and can be used as an input device to control audio hardware and software. Finally, people can't claim anymore that electronic music isn't handmade."
Okay the name is annoying—we're long past the point where any new product or technology should have a lower-case letter i slapped in front of it—but once you get past that, iPaper provides an interesting approach to displaying documents on the web. Whether it's PDF, Word, PowerPoint or other formats, this is yet another example of Adobe Flash contining its relentless march unabated, swallowing all media types in its path.
While here in the West we think of some chefs as artists, access to the rarefied dishes they create remains restricted to the happy few. But why shouldn't more of what's on our plate be consciously designed? As is often the case, the Japanese are way ahead of us aesthetically, having created centuries ago the practice of eating cold dishes from compartmentalized boxes, known as bento.
Has the domination of Photoshop completely killed vector illustration? While Illustrator remains a graphics application that's difficult to love, the use of vector-based imagery has been making something of a comeback. Fueling this are a number of boutique content creators, amongst them Kapitza.
Italian Graphic Designer Simone Legno has made more than a mark for himself in the Pop Art world recently with his Japaneseque, Tokidoki brand.
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GREAT MOMENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY #21 -- July 30, 1917
On this day, New York City hotel detectives burst in and caught then-
Senator Warren G. Harding in bed with an underage girl. He bought them
off with a $20 bribe, and later remarked thankfully, "I thought I
wouldn't get out of that under $1000!" Always one to learn from his
mistakes, in later years President Harding carried on his affairs in a
tiny closet in the White House Cabinet Room while Secret Service men
stood lookout.
