Sloane Square - Homage to Tony Day

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Sloane Square - Homage to Tony Day

Image by an untrained eye
April 26th, 2008 - London, England

This was intended as a homage to the wonderful pictures taken in the London underground by Tony Day - a.k.a. silvertony45 - who was one of my very first contacts on Flickr. An excellent example is this picture. Somehow, though, it never felt quite right. It doesn't have the extraordinary luminosity of Tony's tube pictures - though admittedly, his were taken in actual underground stations, whereas Sloane Square is overground, so I suppose that's not entirely surprising. But nor does it have the crispness one might expect from a shot taken in natural daylight. Which is why it's sat in my maybe-list for over a year. I like to think the Leica D-Lux 4 I have now would make a better fist of it.

It looks best on black, I think.

Waddya mean it's the end of the world as we know it!!!!!

Image by law_keven
Highest Explore Position #369 ~ On September 10th 2008.

Prairie Dog - Wingham Wildlife Park, Kent, England - Sunday August 10th 2008.
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Yup...apparently it's the end of the world...ney universe as we know it tomorrow, so this may be my last EVER post....lol...:O))
In a 17 mile lab at CERN on the French/Swiss boarder tomorrow, scientists will attempt to discover the Higgs bolson particle ~ see below ~ apparently...as Oasis once said..."some might say"...that in doing so they will open up a black hole into which we will all disappear..So in which case, what are you going to do with your last day on earth tomorrow???

The Higgs boson or BEH Mechanism, popularised as the "God Particle", is a hypothetical massive scalar elementary particle predicted to exist by the Standard Model of particle physics; it is the only Standard Model particle not yet observed. Experimental observation would elucidate how otherwise massless elementary particles nevertheless manage to construct mass in matter. More specifically, the Higgs boson would explain the difference between the massless photon and the relatively massive W and Z bosons. Elementary particle masses, and the differences between electromagnetism (caused by the photon) and the weak force (caused by the W and Z bosons), are critical to many aspects of the structure of microscopic (and hence macroscopic) matter; thus, if it exists, the Higgs boson is an integral and pervasive component of the material world.

As of yet, no experiment has directly detected the existence of the Higgs boson, but this may change as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN produces results. The Higgs mechanism, which gives mass to vector bosons, was theorized in August 1964 by François Englert and Robert Brout ("boson scalaire"), in October of the same year by Peter Higgs, working from the ideas of Philip Anderson, and independently by G. S. Guralnik, C. R. Hagen, and T. W. B. Kibble who worked out the results by the spring of 1963.The three papers written by Higgs, Brout, Englert, Guralnik, Hagen, and Kibble were each recognized as milestone papers by Physical Review Letters 50th anniversary celebration. Higgs proposed that the existence of a massive scalar particle could be a test of the theory, a remark added to his Physical Review letter at the suggestion of the referee. Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam were the first to apply the Higgs mechanism to the electroweak symmetry breaking. The electroweak theory predicts a neutral particle whose mass is not far from the W and Z bosons.

Kitty Feeding Time Bokeh...HBW2...:O)))

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Highest Explore Position #346 ~ On August 21st 2008

Scottish Wildcat - British Wildlife Centre, Surrey, England - Sunday August 17th 2008.
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Well, this time the weather was better, not great, but better...and I finally got a half decent shot of these Big Kitties...:O)))
This was taken during feeding time...he was about to eat a lil ducky....a Kitty has to eat I guess...:O)))
This shot was taken through mesh, so isn't as clear as it could have been, but it's a whole lot better then the last one I got, so it's a step forward I guess...:O)))
I hope your all having a wonderful Bokeh Wednesday...:O))

Learn all about the Scottish Wildcats here - www.scottishwildcats.co.uk/

From the above website ~ Scotland's Cat; 400 and counting...

Far back in the history of Scotland clans formed together under the image of the wildcat and fought wars for the independence of the land. Today less than 400 Scottish wildcats remain in the wild and the extinction of Britain's last large mammal predator could come within the next decade.

Welcome to the home of the Scottish Wildcat Association, a new charitable organisation dedicated to protecting and conserving Britain's only remaining wild species of feline; the Scottish wildcat.

No angry tabby or feral the wildcat is a genuine wild species of feline; it was here long before we were and long before the domestic cat had even evolved! The Scottish wildcat is infamously the only wild animal to be completely untameable, even when captive reared; they may look a little like your pet cat but these are incredibly tough superpredators, sometimes called the Tiger of the Highlands.

Sadly, our wildcat is critically endangered with only 400 individuals remaining in the wild and barely a handful in the captive breeding population. Currently acting as advocates for the wildcat to the general public and media, in the near future we plan full charitable registration and the launch of a number of campaigns to raise awareness of this extinction threat and of the ways to prevent it. We are also already supporting scientific research, helping gather eye witness sightings for the official SNH wildcat survey, and maintain close relations with the captive breeding program and encouraging wildlife parks and breeders to sign up to it.