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Quite by chance, as I clicked the exposure, a bird flew out of tree and the shot automagically composed itself! It looks like something from the Jurassic, a flying dinosaur with four wings.
What’s in an image? Sometimes quite a lot, more than meets the eye. I’m posting an image every two days or so.
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For the next few photos, I’m going to leave the series on our Irish holiday, and the series on Cirencester, and instead just focus on images I love (pun only slightly intended).
Let’s start with this photo of a sunset seen from my study window. Quite by chance, as I clicked the exposure, a bird flew out of a tree and then shot automagically composed itself! It looks like something from the Cretaceous, a flying dinosaur with four wings, or a raptor that’s just snatched some unlucky feathered prey. Anyone have other opinions on ID?
The intended subject was the sunset, it was very spectacular and deserved to be recorded. The clouds were luminous, truly breath-taking and the photo fails to do them justice. In my experience that’s often the case with sunsets, the contrasts are too wide so details are lost both in the brightest and darkest areas; to show those details you have to compromise on the contrast – you really do need both. The Earth’s atmosphere scatters short wavelength blue light and that’s why the sky appears blue and is darker at higher altitudes (most of the air is below). While at sunset or sunrise the light takes a long, grazing path to your eyes and the blue scattering along that path leaves mostly oranges and reds.
Favourites
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What’s in an image? Sometimes quite a lot, more than meets the eye.
I’m posting an image every day (or as often as I can). A photo, an image from the internet, a diagram or a map. Whatever takes my fancy.
What a blunder!
Well, what happened here? This is Blunder Lock on the Thames and Severn Canal at Stonehouse. When the canal was being built in the late 18th century, the engineer failed to follow the designer’s instructions and excavated this lock to an incorrect depth. For this and other issues, the engineer was later dismissed, and the lock became known as ‘Blunder Lock’. It’s a quirky name, but a good one! Click the image to enlarge it, you’ll see the name board on the far bank.
Going against a designer’s explicit instructions is always asking for trouble. In this example, the blunderer was dismissed, lost the canal contract, and no doubt missed out on future employment opportunities. This is surely something we all need to remember – an object lesson that applies in all walks of life! Following engineering instructions; following national and international law; and, for those of us who follow Jesus, obeying his command to love.
It should go without saying that all of this applies only to instructions that are good, wise, and intended to generate good outcomes.
Themed image collections
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Most of the photos I post here are my own. But yesterday’s image was from NASA, and today’s is a stunning view of the sunset from Rio de Janeiro and came from Wikimedia Commons. If you need a good quality, free to use image, look no further, it’s an excellent place to browse around. You will also find free to use sound files, documents and much more.
At first I was puzzled that the details say this is a sunset. Rio faces south and there’s a large, nearly landlocked bay, so this view was taken from a west-facing vantage point.
Themed image collections
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Journeys of Heart and Mind 
