Actual and Painted Sky
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African sky
Within a week we went from sub zero temperatures and snowy landscapes to springy 20° C with people walking around in t-shirts and shorts. But with this surge in temperature came another phenomenon which can be observed particularly during sunrise and sunset. Gone is the pink and orange glow instead the sky turns a dusky yellow.
The photos are not photoshopped (except for a little cropping). The last one is a close-up of the sun just before it dips behind the hills of the Palatium.
The reasons for these conditions is wind bringing sand from the Sahara to Europe. Dust from 3000 – 5000 km away is in the air and settling (thus, by the way, enriching our soil and has been doing so for hundreds of thousands years – thank you Afrika!). Here is a link to NASA showing this from high above: NASA.
Weekend Sky #18.
Always looking up
A colour collage for Värikollaasit with the theme of the jewel which is called chalcedon in English, and kalkedon in Finnish, and Chalzedon in German.
For more sparkling collages click here.
Sky
Linked to Simply Snaps: Simply Sky.
Sky
Linked to Simply Snaps: Simply Sky.
Crayola Colour Challenge – week 13
The thirteenth week of Tourmaline’s colour challenge: Colour Your World.
Other people’s colour photographs are linked here.
Phases of the moon
These are skylights in the four corner buildings of the mosque in the palace gardens in Schwetzingen, Germany. These are not proper skylights but fake windows in the dome of the roofs, showing different phases of the moon: quarter, half, three quarters and full moon. The Red Mosque was never intended as a place of worship but is considered a “folly” – a building which served no purpose but to be there and be beautiful. It was constructed at the end of the 18th century when all things Turkish were very fashionable. It combines elements of Eastern and Western architecture.
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