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Sunset over Big Valley, California (Lassen County).
We get a lot of good ones up here in the high desert.
Rusty 1955 Steelcraft school bus, built with a Carpenter body model D on what I believe is a 1954 GMC chassis. Date of delivery 11/54.
This 7-window (28 adult passengers or 42 wee ones).
The transmission is a four-speed manual. Brakes are power assisted drums, but steering is manual (unassisted).
The inline six-cylinder gasoline (petrol) engine develops all of a wimpy 115 horsepower (86 kilowatts).
Displacement is 270 cubic inch (4.4 liter).
GVWR is 14,500 pounds (6,577 Kilograms).
Driving it over the mountains will be a chore, to be sure (I think I can!, I think I can!).
A previous owner converted it into a motorhome / RV, complete with propane cylinders, refrigerator, sink, toilet, etc.
It is for sale, at the right price. We'll just have to see how attached to it we've become, depending on offers.
Or, we may get it running some day and drive it 170 miles over the hill to Burning Man, where it will be well suited as a camper / party bus.
54th self-portrait for 365 days.
SOOC
The always popular 2nd amendment. My boyfriend has the right to keep and bear arms and I have the right to pretend to be Miss America for an evening.
This wall divides the kitchen and bathroom in our house in Reno, and is the only one that is not built from solid wood panels, due to the need to carry the plumbing.
I bought a set of six square (plastic Cokin P knock-off) ND filters from a
Chinese eBay seller last July. Never tested 'em until today. I popped in the
graduated ND8 (3 stop), the darkest grad in the set. The set also came with
the plastic filter holder and a large set of metal adapter rings to fit many
lens filter thread sizes.
$17US, shipped, for the whole package.
I had to do a -1.5 stop exposure comp in the computer. It seems that the
camera gets a bit confused by the scene and overexposes. I'll set in-camera
next time.
This was shot with my Tokina 100mm f/2.8 macro lens, probably the sharpest one I own. When zoomed to 1:1 on screen, with and without the filter in place, there seems to be
little if any apparent resolution loss, despite the cheesy plastic filter
and the scratch I already made down the center of the filter by being a
dummy.
4/5/2014 Mike Orazzi | Staff
Participants listen to Connecticut Citizens Defense League President Scott Wilson during a CCDL gun rights rally at the Connecticut state capitol in Hartford, Saturday April 5, 2014, speaks out against the state's gun control law passed one year ago on April 4, 2013 restricting magazines to 10 rounds and prohibiting the sale of certain semi-automatic firearms, including the AR-15.
Video & Slideshow here: youtu.be/XbILfKZkMbs
3/20/2020 Mike Orazzi | Staff
Tammy Cyr talks with Raymond Marquis after he purchased a gun at Wolf's Indoor Range and Shooting Center in Bristol on Friday. Even though Marquis has a valid pistol permit, the process was delayed by the an overload at Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection because of high demand.
This baby bird fell from its nest in the rafters of our carport here in the high desert. It was set upon by various insects, and was slowly being consumed as I took this photograph. I'm not sure if it was still alive, but there was enough movement to assume so.
These are Jianisi PT-04TM 433MHz flash-trigger receivers. Some of these come with a PC sync jack on the side, in addition to the hot shoe. Mine came with only the hot shoe. Not a big deal- PC jacks are not very reliable, and PC cables are expensive and hard to find.
The receiver on the right is unmodified, and still has the hot shoe in place. I don't think it's a good idea to mount a flash on this hot shoe, as all that holds the shoe to the thin plastic radio receiver body are three tiny self-tapping screws. And the receiver itself is held to the tripod or light stand by a flexible bracket on it's base, making for a tall, shaky stack of trouble.
The better method is to remove the hot shoe entirely from the receiver, and install an inexpensive 1/8-inch (3.5mm) phone jack in it's place. This allows you to use a cheap, reliable, readily available mono or stereo audio patch cord to connect the receiver to your flash.
The receiver can be velcro-mounted to the flash body, or mounted to the light stand with a longer patch cord between it and the flash. Having the receiver at a convenient height, while the flash is up high on a light stand makes it easy to switch it on and off, or change batteries if needed.
The next photo in this set shows the internal view of this mod.
Here is a Strobist forum thread on this mod:
Very wide angle coverage, obviously. Too wide for most uses.
The flashhead was powered by a 4,000 w/s Norman 40/40 powerpack, turned down to minimum power.
Camera was set to ISO50 at f/22
This is my Kearney & Trecker horizontal milling machine. It was made during World War II, and was presumably used to produce parts for the war effort.
It has been sitting in my yard for quite a few years, and is missing some parts, some of which were sold to bring new life to other old K&T mills.
It will soon be scrapped, unless some intrepid parts scroungers save at least some relics from the aging derelict.
It weighs about 4,000 pounds, and is considered a baby of its type.
Adventures in Big Valley, California.
EZ's "new" stainless steel tub for hot spring soaking, plus a pink Daisy lever-action BB gun.
This is my Clausing model 5912 engine lathe.
I bought it used from a seller in SE New Hampshire in 2003. I brought it back here to Northern New York.
12.25-inch swing, 36-inches between centers.
It was originally equipped with a 1HP three-phase motor and a hydraulically-controlled variable-speed spindle drive. I am replacing the original drive and motor with a new three-phase 7.5HP direct-drive motor and a 480V VFD (Variable Frequency Drive).
Highly processed single-exposure pseudo-HDR image.
Part of the Milky Way, as seen through my beat-up old 50mm f/1.4 lens.
This was 25 "light" frames, plus 16 "darks" and a bunch of bias frames. All combined with DeepSkyStacker 3.3.2
Exposure data:
Nikon D600 DSLR
40-year-old 50mm manual-focus Nikkor-D lens at f/1.4 (wide open, so lots of coma)
Focused to infinity stop (no LiveView verification)
ISO 6,400
4 seconds per frame (1 min., 40 sec. total)
Mounted on a fixed tripod- no tracking, thus the relatively short 4 second exposures.
Antique lathe chuck, made by:
The D.E. Whiton Machine Company
New London, Connecticut
United States of America
7.5" four-jaw with L00 backplate spindle adapter.
Single-exposure pseudo-HDR.
Adventures in Big Valley, California.
EZ's "new" stainless steel tub for hot spring soaking, plus a pink Daisy lever-action BB gun.
After the 2014 bicycle art show in Reno, Nevada.
1983 Raleigh roadie with 27" frame and late model Raleigh aluminum-framed comfort bike.
This was my first time shooting fire dancers/spinners at night. Some post processing was required to get the results seen here.
I used my Nikon D600 with a Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 "APO" macro lens with internal focus motor ($100 used on eBay).
I have a bunch of other shots of the firedancers in this set- check 'em out if'n ya like this sort of thang.
I bought this USB flash drive from eBay seller garysin2008 on 11/29/09 for $13.87, with free shipping from China. What a bargain!, I thought, naively...
Little did I know that 85% of the flash memory being sold on eBay is of faked capacity. It took almost a month to arrive here in the USA.
After having some trouble getting the drive working well, I did some research, and discovered a German program called H2testw that can verify the actual capacity of a flash drive. Mine turned out to be a 4GB model that had been reprogrammed to report itself as 32GB. Some fakes are even worse, having less than 1GB actual capacity.
There is lots more information on this site:
As always, if the deal seems too good to be true, it probably is!
There are two more photos in this set, of the internals of this drive.
Please click on the following link to go to an alert page on SOSFakeFlash.com about fraudulent eBay seller garysin2008:
sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/garysin2008-urgent-...
Captured at a peace march / rally that I attended.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_24,_2005_anti-war_protest....
The single exposure was taken with an ancient Nikon 775 2MP point & shoot, then tone-mapped with Photomatix Pro.
This is my Kearney & Trecker horizontal milling machine. It was made during World War II, and was presumably used to produce parts for the war effort.
It has been sitting in my yard for quite a few years, and is missing some parts, some of which were sold to bring new life to other old K&T mills.
It will soon be scrapped, unless some intrepid parts scroungers save at least some relics from the aging derelict.