#Azimuth 166

[thorsenmark]

The Fjords of Death Valley National Park by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While at a roadside pullout along Badwater Rd with a view looking to the south at ridges and towering peaks of the Amargosa Range in Death Valley National Park. What drew me into this the setting were those ridges and the way they seemingly towered thousands of feet above the almost flat basin of Badwater. They had a look up fjords like one might see in Alaska or Norway, but this was a dried up basin. So my focus in capturing this image was to include some of the nearby foreground and the basin leading up to those ridges, but angle my Nikon SLR camera to bring more of the ridges and skies above into the image. There was some noon-time haze present on the ridges, but I was able to use the ClearView Plus tool in DxO PhotoLab 6 to cut through and bring out some of the details.

[lpz-thegalaxystar]

Headcannons

Here I will put the Headcannons that occurred to me

Ratchet & Clank:

1.Charling has the surname of Tawlyn due to Ratchet doesn't know his surname.

2. Dr. Nefarious created Charling for another conquest attempt except when it went wrong, his butler Lawrence took care of Charling until Ratchet and his friends found out, the news, etc.

3.Charling is 166 tall with her ears stretched out, without them she is only 143, just 3 centimeters taller than her dad Ratchet.

4.Charling is just short for Chara Ling. Chara can mean both dear in Latin or it is also a flower , while Ling can mean Bell or Tree in Chinese , Which would be "dear bell , dear tree , bell flower or tree flower"

5. Dr Nefarious had put the name Charling because Ratchet wanted her to be called Aliceter (after Alister Azimuth) or Kadyn (after his father Kaden) , But Dr. Nefarious made the excuse that she is his creation and things like that. Only he let Ratchet give her the middle name, which is "Screw"

Pmatga:

1.Pac world is the only living planet in its galaxy and it is 17 light years from another galaxy

2.The resources of the netherworld are actually diamonds in the rough, it happens that Dr. bottocks heats the minerals too much, which causes them to break easily

3.There is a town in Pac world that its inhabitants have some marks similar to a tiger.

Crossover

1.Charling and Ratchet explored part of the Netherworld until there is a cave with a teleporter, beds, armor, everything to survive , They built it themselves

2.Charling can breathe in the Nether world due to her unknown mother's genes.

3.Charling loves the food of the Nether world, his favorite food is pizza with slugs something similar to pizza with anchovies or pizza with pineapple

4.A group of 40 lombaxes, 20 males and 20 females, immigrated to Pac World and moved to a town where 30 of them married each other while the other 10 married Pac Worlders from the town.Thanks to that, the pacombaxes were born.

5.The children of the pacombaxes have a fourth lombax in their DNA , they are capable of jumping twice as much , and if they have a tail they can have better balance.

5. Charling had to hide from the ghosts of the Underworld until she created her own holo disguise, only with the resources of the Underworld but it turns out that she did not know how to program the artifact.Which is why she would look like a ghost with cat ears and horns .

[andromeda1023]

Launcher for next space station crew in position for liftoff Friday

A Russian Soyuz rocket made a railroad journey Wednesday to its launch pad in Kazakhstan, two days before blastoff with a crew of three spaceflight veterans from the United States, Italy and Russia heading for the International Space Station.

The three-stage rocket departed an assembly building just after sunrise Wednesday on a special rail car for the journey to Launch Pad No. 1, the same mount from which Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin launched on the first piloted space mission in April 1961.

A hydraulic lift raised the Soyuz vertical before swing arms moved into place around the rocket. The launch structure containing the Soyuz booster then rotated to align with the planned launch azimuth.

Friday’s liftoff is scheduled for 1541 GMT (11:41 a.m. EDT; 9:41 p.m. Baikonur time). The three-man crew inside the Soyuz MS-05 capsule will head into orbit on a fast-track pursuit of the space station, with docking set for approximately 2200 GMT (6 p.m. EDT) with the research outpost’s Rassvet module.

Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy, 42, will occupy the Soyuz spacecraft’s center seat during Friday’s launch and docking. The Soyuz commander, a biochemist with a career in space medicine before his selection as a cosmonaut in 2003, is making his second trip to the space station after spending 166 days in orbit as a flight engineer on the Expedition 37 and 38 crews.

NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik will be the Soyuz MS-05 spaceship’s board engineer, assisting Ryazanskiy with cockpit duties during the six-hour voyage from liftoff to docking. The 49-year-old retired Marine Corps fighter pilot hails from Santa Monica, California, and logged nearly 11 days in orbit aboard the space shuttle Atlantis on a 2009 mission to the space station.

Bresnik will take command of the station’s Expedition 53 crew in September.

European Space Agency flight engineer Paolo Nespoli has 174 days of space experience on two previous missions, including a flight on the shuttle Discovery in 2007 and a long-duration stay on the space station in 2010 and 2011. Nespoli, 60, is a native of Milan and was a special forces operator in the Italian Army before working on several European space projects as an engineer.

More info and video:  https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/07/26/launcher-for-next-space-station-crew-in-position-for-liftoff-friday/

[thorsenmark]

I may not have gone where I intended to go (Jasper National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” - douglas adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul While at a roadside pullout along the Icefields Parkway at the Goats and Glacier Lookout in Jasper National Park. The view is looking to the south-southeast to the ridges and peaks of the Hooker Icefield with Mount Christie and Mount Brussels (Brussels Peak). My thought on composing this image was to angle my Nikon SLR, camera, slightly downward, creating a sweeping view across this mountain valley to the more distant ridges and peaks. I wanted to have them higher into the image and create more of a sense of grandeur with them. There would be a little bit of blue skies and clouds in the image, but most of that morning was overcast with just a little bit of blue skies coming out, so I felt I could minimize it and focus on the mountains to my front.

[thorsenmark]

Wide Appeal by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: At a roadside pullout along U.S. Route 64 with a view looking to the southeast to the monadnock and volcanic neck formation of Shiprock. In composing the image, I wanted to center Shiprock in the image and have a balanced, leveled-on view with the horizon. While doing some post-processing work with DxO PhotoLab 7, I decided to create a panoramic feel with a wide angle view after doing some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.

[thorsenmark]

Peaks Soar Into the Skies Above as I Stand in Awe (Banff National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the south while taking in views at a roadside pullout along the Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park. Which room into the setting was the way the peaks and ridges seemingly rose high above all the nearby forest around me. I decided to zoom in with the focal length and have as much of the visible mountains and nearby forest fill the image. A little bit of the roadway was included to add a sense of perspective for the setting.

[thorsenmark]

The Fjords of Death Valley National Park by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While at a roadside pullout along Badwater Rd with a view looking to the south at ridges and towering peaks of the Amargosa Range in Death Valley National Park. What drew me into this the setting were those ridges and the way they seemingly towered thousands of feet above the almost flat basin of Badwater. They had a look up fjords like one might see in Alaska or Norway, but this was a dried up basin. So my focus in capturing this image was to include some of the nearby foreground and the basin leading up to those ridges, but angle my Nikon SLR camera to bring more of the ridges and skies above into the image. There was some noon-time haze present on the ridges, but I was able to use the ClearView Plus tool in DxO PhotoLab 6 to cut through and bring out some of the details.

[thorsenmark]

Transmission Towers and Lines Along the Southern Edge of Indiana Dunes National Park by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While walking the Little Calumet River - Mnoke Prairie Trail with a view looking to the south across a re-developing prairie and woodland section in Indiana Dunes National Park. I decided to take advantage of the backdrop with the transmission towers and lines as kind of a conceptual contrast to the more wilderness or nature filled setting around me.

[thorsenmark]

Seeming to Be in a Field of Rubber Rabbitbrush (Mesa Verde National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the south while taking in views across a small field of rubber rabbitbrush present at the Mancos Valley Overlook in Mesa Verde National Park. My thought on composing this image was to use the LiveView LCD screen on my Nikon D850 SLR camera. I wanted to have the wildflowers all around me, but to include a depth in having them extend off the image edges. I felt that using the LiveView screen would allow me to hold the camera for that view but not have me disturb the wildflowers by getting in them using the optical viewfinder.

[thorsenmark]

Taking Stock of Beautiful Places with Shiprock by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the southeast while taking in views across the northern New Mexico high desert with a distant view to the Shiprock formation. This is at a roadside pullout along U.S. Route 64. With this image, I zoomed in with the focal length to include more of the surrounding landscape to add to the setting in the image captured. I also liked having a leveled-on view with the horizon in keeping a balance between the earth-tones in the lower portion of the image with the blues of the skies above.

[thorsenmark]

An Epic Reunion with Mount Rundle After So Many Years (Banff National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the south while walking around the Johnson Lake area in Banff National Park. My thought on composing this image was to take advantage of some framing with nearby and more distant trees. I felt that and the color contrasts would better bring out a focus with Mount Rundle. The rest was later making adjustments with control points in DxO PhotoLab 6 to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image. I decided to crop some of the foreground as it included parking area signs and such.

[thorsenmark]

Sky Replacement Around Shiprock by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: It was as I began working on the image in post-production that I then decided to once again try out the sky replacement setting in Photoshop with this image. The blue skies with the clouds definitely seemed appropriate for this northern New Mexico setting in what I had wanted to experience in person. So the skies are from an image I captured in Sonora, TX, a few years ago with the blue skies and clouds, but all else is captured with my Nikon D850 SLR camera in New Mexico. I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 7 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image. This location is at a roadside pullout along U.S. Route 64 with a view looking to the southeast to Shiprock off in the distance.

[thorsenmark]

My Refuge Amongst the Mountains of Jasper National Park by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While at an overlook pullout along the Icefields Parkway with a view looking to the south-southeast to the ridges and peaks of the Hooker Icefield with Mount Brussels (Brussels Peak) and Mount Christie. This is at the Goats and Glacier Lookout in Jasper National Park. With this image, I decided to zoom in with the focal length and have those glacial carved ridges and peaks fill the image from edge to edge with portions caught in the morning sunlight.

[thorsenmark]

It’s Always a Good Time to Explore Jasper National Park by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the south-southeast while taking in views across this glacier valley with the Athabasca River flowing by and then more distant ridges and peaks of the Hooker Icefield range with Mount Brussels (Brussels Peak) and Mount Christie. This is at the Goats and Glacier Lookout along the Icefields Parkway in Jasper National Park. As opposed to a wider angle, panoramic view, I decided to zoom in with the focal length and have much of the forest and mountains fill the image from edge to edge with a little bit of the mostly to partly cloudy skies above that had some glow from the rising sun.

[thorsenmark]

Tales and Adventures in Exploring Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While walking the Devils Garden and taking in view of hoodoos and other eroded formations present in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Thoughts on composing this image was to take advantage of the sandstone base and use that almost like a pedestal to raise the hoodoo and other formations into the image center. The overcast skies would be that backdrop and color contrast to complement the earth-tones in the hoodoos.