Eric Seale

A tan hot air balloon decorated with Pueblo tribal motifs rises into a crisp morning sky, rapidly distancing itself from balloons still on the field.

IPCC away!
Liftoff of the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center's hot air balloon at the 50th annual Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, 2022.

EXIF:
OM System OM-1 + 12-40mm f/2.8 II
ISO 200, 13mm, f/13, 1/80 sec

#AIBF #Albuquerque #NewMexico #hotAirBalloon #photography #omsystem

Brown floor tiles are glazed with a procession of stylized foxes dressed as friars.

Foxy Friars -- floor tiles showing foxes dressed as pilgrims; Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland.

#Ireland #Dublin #cathedral #omsystem #photography

A historic museum emerges from vegetation in botanical gardens.

The more-mundane visual spectrum view of the scene.

A building in a park becomes surrealistic when photographed with an infrared filter and post-processed. For this, I used a camera converted to full-spectrum use, added a 665nm infrared filter, and later swapped the red and blue channels. Now the vegetation is cotton-candy pink, and the sky a shade of slate.

Cotton Candy Museum -- the Botanic Museum at the Lund University Botanic Gardens; Lund, Sweden. Seen through a 665 nm IR filter and color-swapped.

#photography #665nm #infrared #sweden

The mushroom rocks, as seen from the Tundra Communities Trail that provides access to them.

A different perspective on these rocks, with tourist for scale.

Two large, vaguely mushroom-shaped boulders. From the plaque: "The rocks in these odd formations were born of fire and water. The dark-colored schist was originally sand, silt, and clay at the bottom of a long-departed sea. Molten magma from deep in the earth invaded the schist and gradually cooled into the lighter-colored granite. Mushroom shapes were formed when the granite stems eroded quicker than the schist caps."

Mushroom Rocks -- formed in an ancient seabed (see alt text), now 12,000 feet above sea level in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.

#photograph #geology #Colorado #RMNP #nature #outdoors

An adult female marmot watches from her perch atop a boulder, while one of her young meets her for a chat.

Mother and child reunion -- a young marmot returns to mom for a quick check-in; seen in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.

EXIF:
OM Systems OM-1 II + M.Zuiko 150-400mm f/4.5 lens
f/13, 438mm, 1/400 sec, ISO 2500

#omsystem #nature #wildlife #photography #marmots #Colorado #RMNP

Tour boat leaving the side of the cruise ship it's working with.

For a little scale, here's the same boat seen up close:

A substantial tour boat is dwarfed by the thickness of the glacier it is approaching.

Up against the ice -- a tour boat cruises along the face of Hubbard Glacier in Disenchantment Bay, Alaska.

OM Solutions OM-1II + M.Zuiko 40-150mm f/2.8 + MC-20

#Alaska #OMSystem #glacier #photograph #nature

The restored north face of a late Maya stepped pyramid on a clear, sunny day. Sadly, it's no longer climbable by visitors.

El Castillo

The north side of El Castillo (a.k.a., the Temple of Kukulkan); Chichén Itzá, México.

#Maya #Yucatán #México #ChichénItzá #photography #travel

A view filled with pointy hoodoos make it clear why this part of South Dakota is called "the badlands."

Stranger in a strange land

Hoodoos along "the wall" in the Badlands of South Dakota (Badlands National Park).

#badlands #landscape #photography #hoodoos #SouthDakota

So close, yet so far...

A Snow Leopard at the Denver Zoo watches visiting kids -- in a possibly hungry sort of way.

#SnowLeopard #DenverZoo #photography

also you all need to see this, because this is something I don't think *anybody* could predict for where this ad goes

What are YOU looking at? A crested pigeon, seen at the Edward Youde Aviary, Hong Kong.

#bird #nature #photography #crestedpigeon #hongkong

A columbine, with yellow and pale purple pedals, stands out in front of dark green vegetation.

In the front of its field -- seen in Aspen, Colorado.

#Aspen #Colorado #columbine #flower #photography

A bright yellow hot air balloon in the form of an enthusiastic, smiling face lights up the night when its burner is ignited.

A pretty bright guy -- seen at the 2013 Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta.

Olympus E-M5 + Lumix G Vario 12-35mm lens

#Albuquerque #NewMexico #AIBF #HotAirBalloon #night #photography

A stepped Maya pyramid shines in the morning sunlight. It's surrounded by green turf, backed by healthy foliage, and overseen by a blue sky with thin clouds.

Temple of the Inscriptions -- resting place of Pakal the Great, in the ancient Maya ruins of Palenque, Mexico.

Olympus E-M1 + M.Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8 lens

#Palenque #Mexico #Maya #ruins #photography #travel #OMSystem

I’m betting this one was written by a staffer. It’s grammatically correct, has no spelling issues, and isn’t in (the usual) all-caps.

No, they're saying that because with every additional observation of the asteroid, our knowledge of its position & velocity gets better. As that happens, we have more confidence that it will miss the Earth.

It could still hit the moon, and honestly, that'd be interesting to watch.

Thanks!

A mad jumble of variously-colored tulips and green turf line a creek through a forested stretch of park.

Just a little walk in the woods -- a calm yet colorful scene in Keukenhof Park, Netherlands.

Olympus OM-1 + M.Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8 II lens

#Keukenhof #Netherlands #travel #flowers #colors #photography #OMSystem

Mosaics, some faded, cover the domes and adjoining ceiling spaces of the Church of Saint Luke.

Things are looking up in Hosios Loukas -- the ceiling of the Hosios Loukas (Saint Luke) monastery, Greece.

Olympus E-M1 III + M.Zuiko 8-25mm f/4 lens

#HosiosLoukas #monastery #Greece #travel #photography #LookUp

This crown likely belonged to Anne of Bohemia, wife of King Richard II, who was deposed in 1399 by Henry IV. This is the oldest surviving crown of England -- and it's now on display in the Residenzmuseum in Munich, Germany.

A gold framework crown, inset with pearls and gemstones in shades of blue, pink, and magenta.

Crown of an English Queen -- the "Bohemian" or "Palatine" crown.

OM System OM-1 + M.Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8 lens

#crown #royalty #museum #Residenzmuseum #Munich #München #Germany #Deutschland #OMSystem #photography #museum #history

A small group of cranes are silhouetted against the evening's twilight as they descend to their pond.

Settling in for the evening -- Sandhill Cranes returning to their watery refuge for safety during the night. Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico, USA.

OM System OM-1 II + M.Zuiko 150-400mm + MC-14

#BosqueDelApacheNWR #NewMexico #birds #nature #wildlife #photography #OMSystem

I can imagine that happening, easily.

No, image doesn't show Project 2025's "plan for women" The screenshot claimed the conservative policy proposal's "plan for women" could be found on page 432.

Snopes says baloney:

www.snopes.com/fact-check/p...

No, image doesn't show Project 2025's "plan for women" The screenshot claimed the conservative policy proposal's "plan for women" could be found on page 432.

Actually, P2025 is bad -- but not *that* bad (at least explicitly). See Snopes:

www.snopes.com/fact-check/p...

Absolutely! They're particularly nice if the winds aren't screaming around Vik -- on our last trip, we had to make an unscheduled overnight stay just north of there to wait out the winds.

A tiny set of fresh footprints (possibly left by a mouse) cross larger / more-degraded footprints (likely left by a person) on the side of a sand dune.

Their paths crossed -- seen at Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado.

Olympus E-M1 + M.Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8 lens

#GreatSandDunes #Colorado #nature #wildlife #photography #footprints #OMSystem