voralog http://voralog.com Most recent posts at voralog posterous.com Sun, 20 Jun 2010 06:02:09 -0700 My version of iPad wallpaper http://voralog.com/my-version-of-ipad-wallpaper http://voralog.com/my-version-of-ipad-wallpaper So everyone who owns an iPad or has played with someone else's iPad knows the now famous wallpaper. It is amazing because of sheer tranquility and star trail.
Here it is as a reminder.

I found a similar spot and tried to make some variations with twists. Here they are

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/119092/Kirit-Sketch8x8.jpg http://posterous.com/people/kem1gHi8Br Kirit Vora voralog Kirit Vora Tue, 18 May 2010 04:00:52 -0700 A little house on Prairie http://voralog.com/a-little-house-on-prairie http://voralog.com/a-little-house-on-prairie

What a view for the backyard barbecue?

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/119092/Kirit-Sketch8x8.jpg http://posterous.com/people/kem1gHi8Br Kirit Vora voralog Kirit Vora Sun, 16 May 2010 14:55:58 -0700 Apocalypse now and here http://voralog.com/apocalypse-now-and-here http://voralog.com/apocalypse-now-and-here

Doomsday mushroom cloud
When we chartered a Cessna and went over closest to the belly of the beast we saw these, beautiful, dare I say white and black mushroom clouds against the backdrop of clear blue sky.
It reminded us of the first atomic test explosion in White Sands New mexico.
While it had eerie look of Armagaddon still I could not help love seeing the power of nature and felt like Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
You can see the Apocalypse or at least a trailer if you go close

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>> Right behind Eyjafjallajökull is a farm area.
> We went up on special glacier jeeps, like snow cats, with police and rescue team to look at the volcano from behind. When we arrived at the top we did see the backside of the volcano but we also saw this.
> If you look down, not for faint of heart, there is very deep canyon in glacier. The black is ash blue is the ice and rivers.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/119092/Kirit-Sketch8x8.jpg http://posterous.com/people/kem1gHi8Br Kirit Vora voralog Kirit Vora Sun, 16 May 2010 04:19:15 -0700 where eagles dare http://voralog.com/where-eagles-dare-2 http://voralog.com/where-eagles-dare-2

Right behind Eyjafjallajökull is a farm area.
We went up on special glacier jeeps, like snow cats, with police and rescue team to look at the volcano from behind. When we arrived at the top we did see the backside of the volcano but we also saw this.
If you look down, not for faint of heart, there is very deep canyon in glacier. The black is ash blue is the ice and rivers.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/119092/Kirit-Sketch8x8.jpg http://posterous.com/people/kem1gHi8Br Kirit Vora voralog Kirit Vora Sat, 15 May 2010 03:25:42 -0700 Dante's Inferno - Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland http://voralog.com/dantes-inferno-eyjafjallajokull-iceland http://voralog.com/dantes-inferno-eyjafjallajokull-iceland

The 2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull are a sequence of volcanic events at Eyjafjöll in Iceland which, although they were not huge in volcanic terms, caused enormous disruption to air travel across western and northern Europe over an initial period of 6 days in April 2010. Additional localised disruption continues into May 2010.

Seismic activity started at the end of 2009 and gradually increased in intensity until on 20 March 2010, a small eruption started that was rated as a 1 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index.[1]

Beginning on 14 April 2010, the eruption entered a second phase and created an ash cloud that led to the closure of most of Europe's IFR airspace from 15 April until 20 April 2010. Consequently, a very high proportion of flights within, to, and from Europe were cancelled, creating the highest level of air travel disruption since the Second World War.

The second phase of the eruption started on 14 April 2010 and resulted in an estimated 140 million cubic metres (180,000,000 cu yd) of ejected tephra. The ash plume rose to a height of approximately 9 kilometres (30,000 ft), which rates the explosive power of the eruption as a 4 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index.[2]



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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/119092/Kirit-Sketch8x8.jpg http://posterous.com/people/kem1gHi8Br Kirit Vora voralog Kirit Vora Thu, 13 May 2010 11:42:15 -0700 Icelandic Horse http://voralog.com/icelandic-horse-1 http://voralog.com/icelandic-horse-1
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The Icelandic horse is a breed of horse developed in Iceland. Although the horses are small, at times pony-sized, most registries for the Icelandic refer to it as a horse. Icelandic horses are late-developers, but are also long-lived and hardy. In their native country they have few diseases; Icelandic law prevents horses from being imported into the country and exported animals are not allowed to return. The Icelandic displays two gaits in addition to the typical walk, trot, and canter/gallop commonly displayed by other breeds. The only breed of horse in Iceland, they are also popular internationally, and sizable populations exist in Europe and North America. The breed is still used for traditional farm work in its native country, as well as for leisure, showing, and racing.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/119092/Kirit-Sketch8x8.jpg http://posterous.com/people/kem1gHi8Br Kirit Vora voralog Kirit Vora Thu, 13 May 2010 11:42:00 -0700 Icelandic Horse http://voralog.com/icelandic-horse-0 http://voralog.com/icelandic-horse-0
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The Icelandic horse is a breed of horse developed in Iceland. Although the horses are small, at times pony-sized, most registries for the Icelandic refer to it as a horse. Icelandic horses are late-developers, but are also long-lived and hardy. In their native country they have few diseases; Icelandic law prevents horses from being imported into the country and exported animals are not allowed to return. The Icelandic displays two gaits in addition to the typical walk, trot, and canter/gallop commonly displayed by other breeds. The only breed of horse in Iceland, they are also popular internationally, and sizable populations exist in Europe and North America. The breed is still used for traditional farm work in its native country, as well as for leisure, showing, and racing.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/119092/Kirit-Sketch8x8.jpg http://posterous.com/people/kem1gHi8Br Kirit Vora voralog Kirit Vora Thu, 13 May 2010 11:40:34 -0700 Icelandic Horse http://voralog.com/icelandic-horse http://voralog.com/icelandic-horse
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The Icelandic horse is a breed of horse developed in Iceland. Although the horses are small, at times pony-sized, most registries for the Icelandic refer to it as a horse. Icelandic horses are late-developers, but are also long-lived and hardy. In their native country they have few diseases; Icelandic law prevents horses from being imported into the country and exported animals are not allowed to return. The Icelandic displays two gaits in addition to the typical walk, trot, and canter/gallop commonly displayed by other breeds. The only breed of horse in Iceland, they are also popular internationally, and sizable populations exist in Europe and North America. The breed is still used for traditional farm work in its native country, as well as for leisure, showing, and racing.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/119092/Kirit-Sketch8x8.jpg http://posterous.com/people/kem1gHi8Br Kirit Vora voralog Kirit Vora Thu, 13 May 2010 05:26:17 -0700 Fire and Ice Eyjafjallajokull http://voralog.com/fire-and-ice-eyjafjallajokull-1 http://voralog.com/fire-and-ice-eyjafjallajokull-1



This epitomizes our recent visit to erupting Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland


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This epitomizes our recent visit to erupting Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland

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This epitomizes our recent visit to erupting Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/119092/Kirit-Sketch8x8.jpg http://posterous.com/people/kem1gHi8Br Kirit Vora voralog Kirit Vora Sat, 03 Apr 2010 13:18:09 -0700 Me and my iPad http://voralog.com/me-and-my-ipad http://voralog.com/me-and-my-ipad After journeying from Shenzhen China, Hong Kong, Anchorage Alaska, Louisville, KY to Romulus MI finally my iPad is in my warm hands and it is staying there for a long long time.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/119092/Kirit-Sketch8x8.jpg http://posterous.com/people/kem1gHi8Br Kirit Vora voralog Kirit Vora Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:50:25 -0700 Pidgeon point Light House, Pescadaro California http://voralog.com/pidgeon-point-light-house-pescadaro-californi http://voralog.com/pidgeon-point-light-house-pescadaro-californi

Perched on a cliff on the central California coast, 50 miles south of San Francisco, the 115-foot Pigeon Point Lighthouse, one of the tallest lighthouses in America, has been guiding mariners since 1872. Its five-wick lard oil lamp, and first-order Fresnel lens, comprised of 1,008 prisms, was first lit at sunset, November 15, 1872. The lens stands 16 feet tall, 6 feet in diameter, and weighs 8,000 pounds. It sits in a lantern room that had been constructed at the Lighthouse Service's general depot in New York before being shipped around the Horn. Although the original Fresnel lens is no longer in use, the lighthouse is still an active U.S. Coast Guard aid to navigation using a 24 inch Aero Beacon.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/119092/Kirit-Sketch8x8.jpg http://posterous.com/people/kem1gHi8Br Kirit Vora voralog Kirit Vora Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:52:38 -0700 Sunrise in Tiburon http://voralog.com/sunrise-in-tiburon http://voralog.com/sunrise-in-tiburon

Tiburon is an incorporated town in Marin County, California. It occupies most of the Tiburon Peninsula, which reaches south into the San Francisco Bay. The smaller city of Belvedere (formerly a separate island) occupies the south-east part of the peninsula and is contiguous with Tiburon. Tiburon is bordered by Corte Madera to the north and Mill Valley to the west, but is otherwise surrounded by the Bay.

The city's name derives from the Spanish word tiburón, which means "shark". The name was first given to the peninsula on which the city is situated, and probably inspired by the prevalence of locally native leopard sharks in the surrounding waters. Tiburon was formerly the southern terminus of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad. This railroad carried freight, mostly lumber, to the town for transfer to barges for shipping to cities around San Francisco Bay. It is now a commuter and tourist town, linked by fast ferry services to San Francisco and with a concentration of restaurants and clothes shops. It is the nearest mainland point to Angel Island and a regular ferry service connects to the island.

The former railroad right of way now forms part of the San Francisco Bay Trail, used by hikers and cyclists. Within the Tiburon town limits, the rail trail passes through the Richardson Bay Park and next to the Audubon Society's Richardson Bay Sanctuary. These provide excellent opportunities for observing wildlife.

The sunrise in Tiburon is spectacular. It is the secret Monte Carlo of America.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/119092/Kirit-Sketch8x8.jpg http://posterous.com/people/kem1gHi8Br Kirit Vora voralog Kirit Vora Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:46:29 -0800 Death Valley Ballad http://voralog.com/death-valley-ballad http://voralog.com/death-valley-ballad

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/119092/Kirit-Sketch8x8.jpg http://posterous.com/people/kem1gHi8Br Kirit Vora voralog Kirit Vora Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:17:07 -0800 Badwaters, Death Valley Ca http://voralog.com/badwaters-death-valley-ca http://voralog.com/badwaters-death-valley-ca The low, salty pool at Badwater, just beside the main park road is probably the best known and most visited place in Death Valley. The actual lowest point (-282 feet) is located several miles from the road and is not easily accessible - in fact its position varies, but a sign in front of the pool proclaims it too to have an elevation of -282 feet, and it is here that everyone comes to take photographs. An enlarged parking area and other new facilities were constructed in fall 2003 to cope with the ever increasing visitor numbers at the site.

Sea Level: There is not much else to see apart from an orientation table, identifying many of the surrounding mountains. High in the rocky cliffs above the road, another sign reads 'SEA LEVEL', giving a good indication of just how low the land is. Far above this, the overlook at Dante's Peak has imposing views over Badwater and the surrounding desert.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/119092/Kirit-Sketch8x8.jpg http://posterous.com/people/kem1gHi8Br Kirit Vora voralog Kirit Vora Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:07:20 -0800 Changing winter sky on Frozen Upper Long Lake http://voralog.com/changing-winter-sky-on-frozen-upper-long-lake http://voralog.com/changing-winter-sky-on-frozen-upper-long-lake

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/119092/Kirit-Sketch8x8.jpg http://posterous.com/people/kem1gHi8Br Kirit Vora voralog Kirit Vora Sun, 07 Feb 2010 06:20:35 -0800 View from the lake http://voralog.com/view-from-the-lake http://voralog.com/view-from-the-lake
Michigan living is not all that bad as others think
Yesterday, while there was 2 feet of snow on east coast, major mudslide in southern california, thatks to El Niño, this as the view from the lake at 4 PM.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/119092/Kirit-Sketch8x8.jpg http://posterous.com/people/kem1gHi8Br Kirit Vora voralog Kirit Vora Sun, 07 Feb 2010 06:02:00 -0800 Michigan living in winter http://voralog.com/michigan-living-in-winter http://voralog.com/michigan-living-in-winter
Michigan living is not all that bad as others think
Yesterday, while there was 2 feet of snow on east coast, major mudslide in southern california, thatks to El Niño, this as the sunset on our lake.

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