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LaM-Lille Métropole Musée d'Art moderne, d'Art contemporain et d'Art brut. Villeneuve d'Ascq.
2020 ©MichelleCourteau
For Macro Mondays Group
Subject: Vowel - O is for Orchid
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The challenge for this week was to photograph something that started with A, E, I, O or U. I chose this beautiful orchid which was a gift from a friend. This orchid bloom measures 3" across in total and less than 3" appears in this photo. HMM, everyone ! !
So this shot was pure luck. Was on an aircraft flying from Dubai to Heathrow and following the flight path on screen. Noticed we were going through Turkey so opened the blinds and saw this at 36000 feet up. Had to try take the shot and even though some clarity lost through the window it was just a beautiful sight and had to share!
Ararat is located at Agri in eastern Turkey near the Armenian and Iranian borders. The summit of Mt. Ararat is 5,165 meters above sea level. It is higher than any mountain in the continental United States except for Alaska or in Europe outside the Caucasus.
Ararat is a dormant volcano; the last eruption was on June 2, 1840. At present the upper third of the mountain is covered with snow all the time; the last hundred meters of snow at the top have turned to ice. For climbers on the mountain, fresh running water is available after the sun has been up a while to melt the snow, but it is cut off in the late afternoon when cold air has overcome the heat of the sun. Below the snow the slopes are covered with great blocks of black basalt rock, some as large as village houses.
Over the years various groups have explored Ararat in the hopes of finding remains of Noah's Ark. Both Josephus in about 70 A.D. and Marco Polo about 1300 A.D. mention its existence on the mountain, but their reports are based on others' accounts. Josephus remarks that its remains are on display for all to see without need of an organised exploration. In more recent years many groups have hunted for it there. The possibility that ancient fables are historical fact is intriguing, and each new discovery of truth in previously discredited records gives additional strength to continuing the search for archaeological confirmation.
However, the problems of establishing exactly what the biblical record in this case means are serious ones that need to be settled even before one accepts this particular high mountain as the right place to look for the ark. In itself even that ignores the possibility that Noah and his family used up the ark in bits and pieces to build their new homes, a fate that has destroyed many other famous structures in the Near East since.
The story of Noah's ark, as it is told in the Bible, is a reworking of an earlier Babylonian myth recorded in the Gilgamesh Epic. The hero of the earlier version is one Utnapishtim, the favorite of Ea, the god of wisdom. It seems probable that the Babylonian story was based on an unusually devastating flood in the Euphrates (Firat) River basin, and that the ark in it grounded on the slopes of one of the Zagros mountains. The biblical word that we read as "Ararat" could as well be read "Urartu"; the text has merely "rrt" and the proper vowels must be supplied.
Urartu was the name of a historical kingdom, but the word also meant "a land far away" and "a place in the north." So, while Buyuk Agri Dagi is a spectacular mountain and not a difficult one to climb for those experienced in high altitude exercise, it still seems less than likely that Noah's Ark will be found there. That doubt does not detract from the continuing interest in it, nor from the important achievements of archaeologists in deepening our understanding of the Old Testament.
Start of the day in the Smoky Mountains
You can see the 'smoke' rising out of the valleys.
According to the National Park Service:
The Smokies got their name from the Cherokee people. They called it “Shaconage” (shah-con-ah-jey) which means “place of the blue smoke.” The name comes from the blue mist that floats above the peaks of the mountains.
Into the 24th folder of the catching up project. This folder had 7 subfolders. This photo from June 2017.
Sanderlings
It was an extremely windy day and these sanderlings dug into the sand at the edge of the water and stayed out of the wind. The wind was at their backs.
Hand painted wooden owl and it's mirrored reflection.
A vowel is a syllabic speech sound pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract. Vowels are one of the two principal classes of speech sounds, the other being the consonant. Vowels vary in quality, in loudness and also in quantity (length). They are usually voiced and are closely involved in prosodic variation such as tone, intonation and stress.
The word vowel comes from the Latin word vocalis, meaning "vocal". In English, the word vowel is commonly used to refer both to vowel sounds and to the written symbols that represent them (a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y).
Eunoia is the shortest English word containing all five main vowel graphemes.
In rhetoric, eunoia, in ancient Greek 'well mind; beautiful thinking' is the goodwill a speaker cultivates between themselves and their audience, a condition of receptivity. In Book VIII of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle uses the term to refer to the kind and benevolent feelings of goodwill a spouse has which form the basis for the ethical foundation of human life. Cicero translates εὔνοιᾰ with the Latin word benevolentia.
It is also a rarely used medical term referring to a state of normal mental health.
Euouae, at six letters long, is the longest English word consisting only of vowels, and, also, the word with the most consecutive vowels. Euouae : medieval musical term which indicates the vowels of the syllables of "seculorum Amen," which ends the "Gloria Patri."
Owls are birds from the order Strigiformes which includes over 200 species of mostly solitary and nocturnal birds of prey typified by an upright stance, a large, broad head, binocular vision, binaural hearing, sharp talons, and feathers adapted for silent flight. Exceptions include the diurnal northern hawk-owl and the gregarious burrowing owl.
Owls hunt mostly small mammals, insects, and other birds, although a few species specialize in hunting fish. They are found in all regions of the Earth except the polar ice caps and some remote islands.
Owls are divided into two families: the true (or typical) owl family, Strigidae, and the barn-owl family, Tytonidae.
Source Wikipedia.
TD : 0.4" f/8 ISO 100 @50mm
this is the oil painted Palm frond by artist Stefanie Nellett in Sebring FL. It's really much cooler in real life! This is what I took the macro shot of the eye for the Vowel theme for MACRO MONDAYS (next shot).
……Perhaps I could have gone for ‘a’ is for app but what we are actually looking at is the ‘icon’ rather than the app itself I thought! so ‘i’ is my chosen vowel for this weeks Macro Monday’s theme of ‘iSpy’ - each ‘icon’ square measures just 10mm on my iPhone for size comparator. Edited in Lightroom & NIK Color Efex Pro4 for added interest. HMM, Alan:-)…….(PS, like every other Grandparent - our Grandchild is on the screen, as you do😊)
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Helios 44-4 58mm
[Deadwool] Peak suit (tux)
Unorthodox Medusa Hair-
Visit this location at Scratch and Caramel's Vowel Renewal in Second Life
This week's theme for Macro Monday is iSpy, items beginning with a vowel.
I opened a previously unopened carton of eggs to discover white shelled eggs, quite unusual here in the UK for some reason. So I combined the shell with a brown one from the other carton !
Opal chips picked up as a souvenir of the mines in South Australia some years ago. These are basically the tailings from mining operations and would otherwise go completely to waste. For macro Mondays theme "Vowel". The image is slightly over one inch across (they are very small chips).
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Selective desaturation
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The USS Enterprise is once again being attacked by aliens within the Christmas Nebula ... located in a galaxy far far away :)
This a combination capture overlaid in Photoshop ... the saucer section is at f/16, and the remainder of the image is at f/2.8 to get that real explosive looking bokeh.
The f/16 version of this will most likely be posted for the Monday Macro theme ... though I have a few other ideas for this coming Monday's theme (starts with a vowel)
A tiny Origami
Happy Macro Mondays everyone!
Thank you for all your comments and faves.
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Joyeux Macro Mondays à tous!
Merci pour tous vos commentaires et favoris.
Late entry again. I like the golden star that I used last week and using it again.
Got these Alphabet beads (what can be better if I feature all the vowels) from my kids, placed then on the star. Used a turquoise plastic cup over them to give that reflection creating a slimy and retro feel :).
Hope you like it.
Poetical Revolt
Galerie des machines
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Iono Allen Machinima : vimeo.com/326238067
A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu : voyelles,
Je dirai quelque jour vos naissances latentes :
A, noir corset velu des mouches éclatantes
Qui bombinent autour des puanteurs cruelles,
Golfes d’ombre ; E, candeurs des vapeurs et des tentes,
Lances des glaciers fiers, rois blancs, frissons d’ombelles ;
I, pourpres, sang craché, rire des lèvres belles
Dans la colère ou les ivresses pénitentes ;
U, cycles, vibrements divins des mers virides,
Paix des pâtis semés d’animaux, paix des rides
Que l’alchimie imprime aux grands fronts studieux ;
O, suprême Clairon plein des strideurs étranges,
Silences traversés des Mondes et des Anges :
— O l’Oméga, rayon violet de Ses Yeux !
Vowels A Rimbaud
A Black, E white, I red, U green, O blue : vowels,
I shall tell, one day, of your mysterious origins:
A, black velvety jacket of brilliant flies
Which buzz around cruel smells,
Gulfs of shadow; E, whiteness of vapours and of tents,
Lances of proud glaciers, white kings, shivers of cow-parsley;
I, purples, spat blood, smile of beautiful lips
In anger or in the raptures of penitence;
U, waves, divine shudderings of viridian seas,
The peace of pastures dotted with animals, the peace of the furrows
Which alchemy prints on broad studious foreheads;
O, sublime Trumpet full of strange piercing sounds,
Silences crossed by Worlds and by Angels:
O the Omega, the violet ray of Her Eyes!
GROUP: MACRO MONDAYS
THEME: iSpy (something that begins with a vowel)
SUGBECT: ORCHID
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volevo scrivere una lettera per spiegare, senza mentire,
ma le parole mi si sono arrugginite nel mare verde della mente.
Cosi' ho barattato alcune vocali con caramelle al miele, mi sia piu' dolce il silenzio di questa muta muffa folle che tinge la mia bocca e i miei pensieri.
I wanted to write a letter to explain, without lying,
but the words were rusty in the green sea of the mind.
So I bartered some vowels with honey candy, to make more sweet this silent crazy mold covering my mouth and my thoughts
Abandoned Mental Hospital