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Showing posts with label cumulus clouds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cumulus clouds. Show all posts
2013-04-18
2013-03-29
2012-09-23
Deviating from the norm
So, photography geeks will know the term chromatic aberration as the red and green ghosting that appears around the edges of high contrast images - due to the optical properties of most lenses, which refract frequencies of light at different rates, causing different colours to form different focal points in the recorded image.
In this case, maybe he just didn't get the memo that everyone else was dressing in blue..
2012-08-30
2012-08-27
2012-08-20
apricot blossoms
Apricot-tinged clouds bring up our under-appreciated word of the week:
apricate (v). To bask in the sunlight.
Two fine examples from the OED:
His lordship was wont to recreate himself in this place, to apricate and contemplate.(1697) Aubrey in Halliwell at Toms-of-Bedlam.
Not sunning, but mooning himself—apricating himself in the occasional moonbeams.(1839) T. De Quincey W. Wordsworth and R. Southey in Tait's Edinb. Mag. July 461/2.Feeling under apricated this summer?
2012-06-25
2012-06-22
2012-06-19
2012-06-09
2012-05-31
another triple murder in this sleepy city?
hmmm... clearly lewis + gin = unique approaches to fighting crime. A necessary response to the colin dexter effect: a murder rate more becoming of some (i.e., any) groaning metropolis, rather than little-old oxford. Stay tuned...
clue balloon: episodes 1, 2, 3 ... and more!
2012-01-09
2011-12-28
2011-12-17
2011-12-16
2011-12-15
2011-12-11
penumbral blush
Somewhat perplexing - according to the USNO data services the moon was to rise in total eclipse, one minute prior to sunset. How could the the planet I was on cast a shadow from the sun I could see in the sky, onto a satellite already visible in the same sky? Fortunately, the moon obliged, by being a few minutes late. A large hill may have had something to do with it...
2011-12-04
2011-12-02
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