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The current owner Willie Shepherd, who is well into his eighties, originally traded two sacks of potatoes for this sweet (at the time) ride.
Nikon D600 on Bogen/Manfrotto carbon fiber tripod.
Rokinon/Samyang 8mm f/3.5mm fisheye lens, "shaved" for maximum field on the D600's full-frame sensor.
Built-in interval timer (I messed up the difficult time settings, thus the gaps in the trails, which I've now convinced myself are nice ;-) )
Exposures:
107 exposures of 30 seconds each
Unintentional time gaps between each set of 9 exposures
f/3.5
ISO1600
The exposures were all "stitched" with StarStaX by Marcus Enzweiler, a wonderful free program (give him a little money if you can):
www.markus-enzweiler.de/software/software.html
I then post-processed in Nikon ViewNX 2, a free and decent program for basic image enhancement.
This 1918 Communist propaganda poster from the Russian civil war serves as yet another reminder that tyrannical regimes throughout history have always sought to disarm their populations through gun control.
In October 1918, the Council of People’s Commissars (the Communist government) ordered citizens to surrender all firearms, ammunition, and sabres, having first mandated registration of all weapons six months earlier. Just like the Nazis, Communist Party members were exempt from the ban.
A 1920 decree then imposed a minimum six month prison sentence for any non-Communist possessing a weapon. After the civil war, possession became punishable with three months hard labor plus fines. After Stalin came to power, he made possession of unlawful firearms a crime punishable by death.
With Russians almost universally disarmed, Stalin was given free reign to carry out one of history’s most brutal prolonged genocide, with tens of millions of people executed or starved to death in the three decades that followed, a model subsequently mimicked in China and Cambodia.
This poster should remind us that brutal dictatorships have almost always been preceded by widespread gun confiscation, and to allow leftists to claim otherwise in the pursuit of their contemporary political agenda is an insult to the historical record.
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This large and ancient metal lathe is located in Lookout, California, in Lassen County, Big Valley. This is in the boonies of Northern CA.
The label reads:
The Muller Lathe
Built by
The Bradford Mill Co.
Cincinatti, Ohio
USA
The size is as follows, roughly measured:
Swing over bed: 20"
Swing over carriage: unknown
Four-jaw chuck diameter: 18"
Bed length: 12 feet
Bed width, center to center across the outer two ways: 16”
Maximum workpiece length, center to center: 8 feet
It may have been built in the 1886-1901 era, from what I've learned so far.
It is owned by a fine older gentleman named Willie. He owns a LARGE property full of old tractors, cars, trucks, bulldozers and vehicles of varied and sundry description. My girlfriend Zoe bought a 1955 Carpenter (1954 GMC based) school bus from him, and he towed it the 17 miles to our Ranch with his old tractor on public roads:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vihuX5mIFSA
Photos of the bus can be seen in another set of mine:
www.flickr.com/photos/darronb/sets/72157635098965316/
Willie also renovates and runs old steam engines. His tools are basic and in, umm, often less than pretty condition.
I believe he told me that despite its condition, having been outside for many years, this lathe was still in occasional use, wonder of wonders. I expect that it could be restored to its former glory by a man willing and able to put a LOT of time and/or money into it. I plan to list it for sale soon, online. If nothing else, it makes a magnificent lawn ornament.
Almost all of the images in this set were 3-exp HDRs, processed with Photomatix. The camera was a Nikon D50.
More info on Bradford lathes:
My first thought, when I saw this sign nailed to a fence adjacent to a well traveled walking path, was how foolish it is to advertise you have guns in your home; it potentially makes this home a target for anyone of a larcenous nature who may feel in need of a gun. Most break-ins occur when no one is home, and the advertised gun then provides no security at all; just temptation.
Anyway, happy Fenced Friday.
I bought this very slightly used Phoenix 650-1300mm f/8-f/16 T-mount lens from an eBay seller. It cost only $80
The lens was made by Samyang in Korea, and is sold under many brand names, such as:
Bower, Falcon, Opteka, Phoenix, Polar, Pro-Optic, Vivitar, Walimex and Rokinon
I have a beat-up 3X Vivitar teleconverter for the Nikon F mount, which I will try with the Samyang at some point, just for fun. Three stops of light reduction will likely be rather challenging to use- the Samyang is f/16 at the long end, meaning the 3X Vivitar would make it an f/45! Also, effective focal length would go to 3,900mm. On a 1.5X crop factor DSLR, this would go to 5,850mm, yikes!
It may be that with the lens at 650mm and f/8, the camera will record as much real subject resolution as with the lens at 1350mm and f/16. There is no diaphragm in the lens, so these apertures are all that are available (Focal lengths in between the two extremes will have commensurate apertures). So if subject res. is no better at 1300mm than 650mm, then always shooting at 650mm will give two stops faster aperture for faster shutter speeds and/or lower ISO, and a much wider field of view, which can be cropped to offer similar subject detail.
Focal length changes are made by loosening a lock ring on the lens barrel, then extending or retracting the lens. It looks rather weird at full extension (1300mm), as seen here. The camera body is a Nikon D600, which looks rather small in comparison.
This is a control dial on 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.
We live on a 640-acre ranch in the high desert, in Big Valley, California.
We decided to lay down a new gravel floor in our crude 1930s garage. The gravel is often called "Cinders", and is actually pumice from a long-past volcanic eruption.
All of the "stuff" on the floor/ground needed to be moved out or over to make way. Now that this side is done, back over we'll go with some of the stuff, and out with the rest to prepare for the second half to be graveled.
This image was made with my Rokinon 8mm f/3.5 fisheye lens at f/5.6, mounted on my Nikon D600 DSLR. ISO100.
The yellow light in the rafters came from my Nikon SB-600 Speedlite with a knock-off Sto-Fen CTO in place (Not sure if 1/2 or full).
I had the rig on a tripod, and shot 4 or 5 frames at 3-stop intervals, then combined in Photomatix, and tweaked with Nikon Capture NX-D beta.
The resulting image was then "defished" in PTGui, trial version (thus the watermarks).
In very good condition.
Found in Big Valley, California.
It was unearthed by a burrowing animal, and found on the loose soil by the burrow entrance.
On the same site as the stone with grinding cavities.
My messy workbench.
Six exposure HDR image.
Red Lee reloading press. Red Craftsman bench vise. Jet benchtop drill press. Two-axis machining vise on drill press table. Kennedy machinist's toolbox.
The little box to the right of the drill press with the glowing red LED display is a VFD (Variable Frequency Drive). It runs a three-phase motor, and allows my drill press to be easily changed from very low speed, all the way to 3600RPM in one smooth turn of the speed knob.