Winter Solstice by danob
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Description
The Earth is actually nearer the sun in January than it is in June -- by three million miles. Pretty much irrelevant to our planet. What causes the seasons is something completely different. The Earth leans slightly on its axis like a spinning top frozen in one off-kilter position. Astronomers have even pinpointed the precise angle of the tilt. It's 23 degrees and 27 minutes off the perpendicular to the plane of orbit. This planetary pose is what causes all the variety of our climate; all the drama and poetry of our seasons, since it determines how many hours and minutes each hemisphere receives precious sunlight
Comments (29)
fantastique !
What a cool play with photos, awesome results! Happy New Year!
Interesting creation and job. Like it! Aloha
glad you tried this again.....excellent creation..well done !!
This is a wildly surreal and creative image. Interesting info about the tilt that causes our seasons. Seems the 'tiilts' in life are always what cause the drama and poetry.:o) CC
Excellent work !! GORGEOUS!
Fantastic work! Excellent done!*****!
WOW - this is truly awesome!
magnifique!!
What a work of art .. awesome creation here!
Oh my!!! This is a fantastic and mind boggling composition. My compliments.
Hey great idea here Dan, looks very commercial....pro work! Aloha~
It also determines if a solar collector will work. Amazingly, there is as much sunlight at 60 degrees as there is at the tropics when the sun is shining. It's cloud cover that makes the difference in total sunlight hitting the ground. You just tip your array to subtend the same area. Do I seem to be contradictingdanob? I don't think so. I'm just adding what I experimented with after the ancients went to sleep.
Fantastic and wonderful creation Daniel....!!!!
Wowwww, so impressiv work and excellent composition color and texture !!! Excellent !!!
Wow! Very professional it looks like something you would see on TV superb! Cathy xoxoxo
Other style, and fantastic vision of two worlds in the same time... Really beautiful Danny, futurist place. I was asking me about the climate modification some hours ago. I've seen a report about the Polar Bears... who will die because of the reheating of the planet, and can't find anything to eat. It's terrible.... 40% of the Artic has disapeared in 20 years !!! In how many time the rest of the ice will resist ? All that really make me angry, we are all responsable of that, but too many persons don't want to change anything in they way of life. Crazy world ! what will we let to the children ? Oupsssssss sorry, it's not the time, and the place for that. It's your composition who make me think to that.
Hugs my friend
an excellent composition... I like the tech and time warp feeling I get from this one. very cool.
Very nice play with different photos.. well I suppose that is what I look at now..anyway its impressive.
What a fantastic creation, make me think of an enormous wind organ
And again a good work erland
so very creative, a bit sci-fi and scientific, thought-provoking and mysterious the world is indeed pretty amazing :)
I did a double-take when I saw this as I thought it must be one of Ges's uploads. It's a stunner, no idea how you did it but I'm glad you did! If I remember my astronomy correctly it was a massive planetary impact that caused the tilt in the axis, possibly the one that resulted in the moon being formed. What a boring place to live this would be without that catastrophic prehistorical event! No seasons, no tides....
Super impressive composition and great textures and colours on it..Beautiful work
Truly beautiful work on this image !! A wonderful explaination of the changing cause and effects . I like the effects that you personally added. !!~PERFECT~!!
very creative and different! love it, one of the layers reminds me of those diagrams of the earths magnetic field :)
B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L. 5+.
ooooh... I really like this very much! I found I must look back at it several times while reading your story that you added. :-) Very creative and original... excellent work Dan!! :-) Hope you had a Happy New Year and a wonderful Christmas.
Been away for way to long but had to come back to check out what you've been doing and....... Wow! Again I am impressed with your work. Awesome Image. maybe it is time I start creating Digital Art again..... Been side tracked with Music for quite awhile but miss doing my Art. You always have been one of my Favorites here at RO. Take Care...... Jim aka eX1 at FUNENDER.com