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7/4 @sevenfour.bsky.social · Nov 16

young Philip Glass

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Steven Burgschweiger @naturlustdmf.bsky.social · Jan 15

~When the sun and wind meet~

Why this picture title? The picture showed me what is possible when wind and sun meet. This morning the wind whipped waves onto the water and the sun.

SONY ILCE-7M4, FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter
2s, F/51, ISO 100, 669mm

#photography #creativ #icm

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 1d

A poem for today.

From The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry: bookshop.org/a/862/9781582430379

#poetry #booksky #writing

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Marika @trickysurname.bsky.social · 1d

This is just fantastic!

"I'm a Barbie girl" again, but in the style of 6 classical composers 🎹 🎤 - Josep Castanyer Alonso

YouTube video by Josep Castanyer Alonso

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Paul G Photography 📷 @paulgsphotos.bsky.social · 7d

Roker Lighthouse 📷

It's been a windy day here, but the winds seem to have eased now. Tomorrow we'll be heading to the coast. Hopefully some big waves at high tide, this was last year's storm
#lighthouse
#photography
#photohour
#Landscape
#LandscapePhotography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin

A huge wave crashes into the pier sending a wall of water into the sky towering above Roker Lighthouse.

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Christoph Fischer @beautysurroundsyou.com · 5d

The beauty of soft lines, of meandering lines...

#photography #landscapephotography #landscape #travel #nature #naturephotography #bluesky #sunrise #sunset

There is an infinite beauty to moving water, waiting to be discovered! The purple of a winter evening's twilight is softly reflected in the fast moving waters of the St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Canada.

Ripples of sand on the top crest of a coastal dune in Namibia catch the last light of day, while wind blown sand further down glows golden as it is lifted into the light.

A harmonious interplay of lines, shape, textures and tones, as the first light of day touches the ridge lines of a coastal dune. It was mesmerizing to see how the scene transformed as the light crept into the shadows.

For a short lived moment, the soft light of the morning sun draws beautiful, dreamy bands of satin across the tips of these otherwise inconspicuous dunes in Namibia's mesmerizing Sossusvlei region.

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Paul Killeen @pkilleenphoto.bsky.social · Apr 13

'Delicate'

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · Sep 11

🔭 The Umbra of Earth

Image Credit & Copyright: Wang Letian (Eyes at Night)

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The dark, inner shadow of planet Earth is called the umbra. Shaped like a cone extending into space, it has a circular cross section most easily seen during a lunar eclipse. And on the night of September 7/8 the Full Moon passed near the center of Earth's umbral cone, entertaining eclipse watchers around much of our fair planet, including parts of Antarctica, Australia, Asia, Europe, and Africa. Recorded from Zhangjiakou City, China, this timelapse composite image uses successive pictures from the total lunar eclipse, progressing left to right, to reveal the curved cross-section of the umbral shadow sliding across the Moon. Sunlight scattered by the atmosphere into Earth's umbra causes the lunar surface to appear reddened during totality. But close to the umbra's edge, the limb of the eclipsed Moon shows a distinct blue hue. The blue eclipsed moonlight originates as rays of sunlight pass through layers high in the upper stratosphere, colored by ozone that scatters red light and transmits blue. In the total phase of this leisurely lunar eclipse, the Moon was completely within the Earth's umbra for about 83 minutes.

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · Sep 9

#NowPlaying noisy stuff. Back when, for a time at least, record labels took a break from putting unflattering photos of awkward-looking musicians and composers on the covers of classical albums.

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 28d

🔭 Star Trails over One-Mile Radio Telescope

Image Credit & Copyright: Joao Yordanov Serralheiro

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The steerable 60 foot diameter dish antenna of the One-Mile Telescope at Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cambridge, UK, is pointing skyward in this evocative night-skyscape. To capture the dramatic scene, consecutive 30 second exposures were recorded over a period of 90 minutes. Combined, the exposures reveal a background of gracefully arcing star trails that reflect planet Earth's daily rotation on its axis. The North Celestial Pole, the extension of Earth's axis of rotation into space, points near Polaris, the North Star. That's the bright star that creates the short trail near the center of the concentric arcs. But the historic One-Mile Telescope array also relied on planet Earth's rotation to operate. Exploring the universe at radio wavelengths, it was the first radio telescope to use Earth-rotation aperture synthesis. That technique uses the rotation of the Earth to change the relative orientation of the telescope array and celestial radio sources to create radio maps of the sky at a resolution better than that of the human eye.

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Paul’s Pics @paulspics.bsky.social · Sep 6

Skellig Michael and Little Skellig and Sailboat

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekJforJetBlack
#Photography #Ireland

Photo (not B&W) of Skellig Michael and Little Skellig off the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland
Shot from about 12 kilometres away with a 600mm
It was shrouded in passing rain storms with intermittent sunlight shining silver off the North Atlantic.

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · Sep 6

🔭 Sardinia Sunset

Image Credit & Copyright: Lorenzo Busilacchi

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When the sun sets on September 7, the Full Moon will rise. And on that date denizens around much of our fair planet, including parts of Antarctica, Australia, Asia, Europe, and Africa can witness a total lunar eclipse, with the Moon completely immersed in Earth's shadow. As the bright Full Moon first enters Earth's shadow it will darken, finally taking on a reddish hue during the total eclipse phase. In fact, the color of the Moon during a total lunar eclipse is due to reddened light from sunrises and sunsets around planet Earth. The reddened sunlight is scattered by a dense atmosphere into the planet's otherwise dark central shadow. When the sun set on August 22, this telephoto snapshot of red skies, blue sea, and the Mangiabarche Lighthouse was captured from Sant'Antioco, Sardinia, Italy.

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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · Sep 8

Bach | Erbarme dich, mein Gott from St Matthew Passion BWV 244 | Netherlands Bach Society youtu.be/Zry9dpM1_n4?... #music

Bach - Erbarme dich, mein Gott from St Matthew Passion BWV 244 | Netherlands Bach Society

YouTube video by Netherlands Bach Society

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Christoph Fischer @beautysurroundsyou.com · Sep 8

Deep in the arid lands of northern Namibia, a miraculous artery of water traces the western and central border to Angola, and graces one of our planet's most beautiful waterfalls in a desert environment.

#bluesky #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #naturephotography #travel #nature

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Roger Kristiansen @rogerkristiansen.bsky.social · Dec 1

There is little that can compare with a beautiful sunset by the sea.. The calm of the ocean sounds and watching the sun setting behind the horizon..

#sunset #naturephotography

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@dlp. @umadlp.bsky.social · Sep 6

Ophelia and Hamlet Streets, Pittsburgh, by W. Eugene Smith, c.1955.

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Joanna Wyld @joannawyld.bsky.social · Sep 1

September

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R. Strauss: 4 Letzte Lieder, TrV 296: No. 2, September

YouTube video by Jessye Norman - Topic

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · Aug 30

🔭 A Two Percent Moon

Image Credit & Copyright: Marina Prol

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A young crescent moon can be hard to see. That's because when the Moon shows it's crescent phase (young or old) it can never be far from the Sun in planet Earth's sky. And even though the sky is still bright, a slender sunlit lunar crescent is cleary visible in this early evening skyscape. The telephoto snapshot was captured on August 24, with the Moon very near the western horizon at sunset. Seen in a narrow crescent phase about 1.5 days old, the visible sunlit portion is a mere two percent of the surface of the Moon's familiar nearside. At the Canary Islands Space Centre, a steerable radio dish for communication with spacecraft is titled in the direction of the two percent Moon. The sunset sky's pastel pinkish coloring is partly due to fine sand and dust from the Sahara Desert blown by the prevailing winds.

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@dlp. @umadlp.bsky.social · Sep 3

Claudio Abbado, Luigi Nono and Maurizio Pollini, ca. 1970s.

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AstroBin @astrobin.com · Sep 1

AstroBin's Image of the Day: "IREC 122, LBN 420, NGC7197, NGC7223" by Joshua Carter
www.astrobin.com/lgwc6v/
#astrophotography

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · Aug 11

At a gallery where an artist has one of her paintings displayed for the first time…

ART CRITIC: Would you like to hear my professional opinion on your painting?
ARTIST: Sure
ART CRITIC: It’s pretty much worthless
ARTIST: That’s okay, you can tell me anyway

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Insula Dulcamara @insuladulcamara.bsky.social · Aug 24

Mood

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Composers Doing Normal Shit @normalcomposers.bsky.social · May 5

Virgil Thomson and his pants relaxing with a drink.

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Anthony Princiotti @tonyprinciotti.bsky.social · May 18

As Mahler lay dying, he thought about Schoenberg, whose music he championed against great opposition despite often finding it inscrutable. "What will happen to Schoenberg?", he said. "If I die, he will have nobody left. Who will protect him from the mob?"

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · May 18

'Strolling on Manhattan Bridge, New York City'
Neal Boenzi, 1953

solitary figure dwarfed by bridge as they walk along heading of into the mist.

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