Thursday, 21 June, 2018

Photographs June 2015 4

Posted on Tuesday, 30 June, 2015Sunday, 20 August, 2017 by Zheluo Cai

Photography June 2015 4

The winners of the 6th International Earth and Sky Photo Contest on Dark Skies Importance have been announced. Organized by the World at Night, about 1000 entries were received, from 54 countries, and 839 of them were approved for the contest judging. The contest began in 2007, running annually. The first prize in Against the Lights category (and the overall contest winner) goes to Eric Nathan, for his image “Star Trails Above Table Mountain” taken in June 2014 from South Africa. “The image juxtaposes a moonlit Table Mountain and the star trails above it with the artificial lights of Cape Town, a stack of over nine hundred 30-second exposures,” explains Eric.

The Enchanted Forest Lyubov Trifonova

The Enchanted Forest Lyubov Trifonova

The Dome Sigurdur Brynjarsson

The Dome Sigurdur Brynjarsson

Star Trail Above Table Mountain Eric Nathan

Star Trail Above Table Mountain Eric Nathan

Strolls In The Star River Caren Zhao

Strolls In The Star River Caren Zhao

Star Trails Over Bromo Hui Chieh Teoh

Star Trails Over Bromo Hui Chieh Teoh

Night Sky Over Pyatigorsk Evyeny Trisko

Night Sky Over Pyatigorsk Evyeny Trisko

Moonlit Darklings Brad Goldpaint

Moonlit Darklings Brad Goldpaint

Bloodmoon Rises Over Chongqing Zhou Yannan

Bloodmoon Rises Over Chongqing Zhou Yannan

Above The Light Pollution Evgeny Trisko

Above The Light Pollution Evgeny Trisko

A Raising Of The Hackles Ben Coffman

A Raising Of The Hackles Ben Coffman

Credit: World At Night

Pillars of the Eagle Nebula in Infrared.
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, HLA; Processing: Lluís Romero. Newborn stars are forming in the Eagle Nebula. Gravitationally contracting in pillars of dense gas and dust, the intense radiation of these newly-formed bright stars is causing surrounding material to boil away. This image, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope in near-infrared light, allows the viewer to see through much of the thick dust that makes the pillars opaque in visible light. The giant structures are light years in length and dubbed informally the Pillars of Creation. Associated with the open star cluster M16, the Eagle Nebula lies about 6,500 light years away, towards the split constellation Serpens Cauda (the tail of the snake).

The Blackfoot Indians were a nation of American Indians with four distinctive tribes, one in Montana and the other in Alberta, Canada. Fierce buffalo hunters, this nomadic tribe followed their food source. With no experience in pottery, crafts or agriculture, they relied on the land. While natural food sources and small subsidized, the buffalo were their main source of food, clothing, shelter, tools and weapons. Today the surviving heirs still live on much of the Montana land they had long ago.

The flag of Malaysia is composed of a field of 14 alternating red and white stripes along the fly and a blue canton bearing a crescent and a 14-point star known as the Bintang Persekutuan (Federal Star). The 14 stripes, of equal width, represent the equal status in the federation of the 13 member states and the federal territories, while the 14 points of the star represent the unity between these entities. The crescent represents Islam, the country's state religion; the blue canton symbolises the unity of the Malaysian people; the yellow of the star and crescent is the royal colour of the Malay rulers. It was first raised on 16 September 1963.

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The self-portrait is an 1889 oil on canvas painting by the post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh. The picture was painted in September that year, shortly before he left Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in southern France. This self-portrait, which may have been his last, was one of about 40 van Gogh produced over a 10-year period. He would paint himself because he often lacked the money to pay for models. He took the painting with him to Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris, where he showed it to Dr Paul Gachet, who thought it was "absolutely fanatical." The Musée d'Orsay in Paris obtained the picture in 1986.

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