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Actually an egg, hard boiled, taken with an iPhone on the window sill, sitting on a towel. Modified in Gimp; Texture added to duplicate image then faded a little. Another layer added to darken with a brush, another to add the stars using a star shaped pencil and slightly blurred. Afterwards I ate the egg; but that's art.
Actually the checkout line goes in the opposite direction. If you could just turn around and join the others...that would be great.
A wrecked Panzer I tank in the Eastern Front during the Second World War in Russia. This was actually a shot that did made it into the final brickfilm set in the Eastern Front about a girl selling matchsticks, what connects this conflict with a girl selling matchsticks can be found in the brickfilm; ''Lego War: The Little Match Girl'' wich I put the link of it in the description below.
This shot depicts a wrecked German Panzer I tank which crashed against a electrical pole in the streets of an unknown Russian town that got affected in the Eastern Front. The Pz I was widely used during the German invasion of Russia.
This shot was also part of a empty battle scene.
I'm overall pretty pleased how this shot turned out.
Custom PZ. I: Brickmania
Custom gear/weapons: Brickarms
Link to the project:
An idea for a conveyor belt. There's actually no belt, just bearings in the floor and I have no idea what it's called.
How Meteors Are Actually Formed
TK-1110: "Great Shot! I think this one went farther than that previous rock."
TK-420: "Nah, I think I hooked that shot. It will burn up like all the others."
TK-ID 10 T: "We better finish up. Vader wants us back at the clubhouse before the moon turns dark."
{{Voice from the sky: "That's no moon!"}}
National Meteor Watch Day Is June 30
National Meteor Watch Day is observed every year on June 30th. Also known as National Meteor Day, on a cloudless night, people turn their eyes to the heavens in hopes of spotting the glow of a falling star.
Daily there are millions of meteors that occur in the Earth’s atmosphere.
When space debris, such as pieces of rock, enter the earth’s atmosphere the friction causes the surrounding air to become scorching hot. This “shooting star” streaking through the sky surrounded by flaming hot air is a meteor.
The majority of the meteoroids that cause meteors are only the size of a pebble.
Meteors sometimes occur in showers. It’s an excellent time to plan for a meteor-watching party. Whether we catch a few stray falling stars or witness an entire meteor shower, this day calls for an evening with friends and family under the stars. Identify the constellations while waiting to make a wish or two. Sounds like a romantic night, as well.
In the Northern Hemisphere, one of the most active meteor showers is the Perseids. Named after the constellation Perseus where the majority of the activity takes place, particles released by the comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle cause the meteors to shower down onto the earth. One of the most impressive meteor showers in the Northern Hemisphere, the Perseids put on dazzling displays. Some years, on a clear night with a new moon, sky watchers view more than one meteor per minute! The Perseids are active from mid-July to late August.
Meteors are usually observed at night and are visible when they are about 34 to 70 miles above the Earth, and they often disintegrated at about 31 to 51 miles above. Their glow time is usually about a second.
Despite a large number of meteors we see, a small percent of meteoroids hit the Earth’s atmosphere and then skip back into space.
The chemical composition and the speed of the meteoroid will cause different hues to the light. Possible colors and elements producing them include:
Orange/yellow (sodium)
Yellow (iron)
Blue/green (copper)
Purple (potassium)
Red (silicate)
How to Observe National Meteor Watching Day
Plan your night. Gather some friends together, a blanket and find a place far from the city lights on a cloudless night.
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We're halfway through 2020!
Model: Tania d'Anconia
Photographer: Justin Bonaparte
Actually ... the thrifted part is the inspiration striped material that was repurposed from two pillow shams from Value Village.
My thanks to everyone with the ideas on thread and quilting pattern suggestions.
This is actually a quilt we will keep! And it has found a home on the sofa in the cabin living room.
Tutorial at: shinersview.blogspot.com/2010/01/tutorial-corner-block-qu...
Blogged at: shinersview.blogspot.com/2010/01/corner-block-quilt.html
Mark is not actually a menace, although he did a great job of portraying one! Wet plate collodion has a way of making even the nicest people look menacing, and I think this has to do with the fact that only UV light (no reds or yellows) is recorded on the plate. The three-second exposure also made for a serious portrait.
Thanks to Mark for all his patience, and for bringing the barrel-aged Old Rasputin XIV Imperial Stout for a nice pairing with our waffle breakfast!
8x10 wet plate collodion ambrotype (scanned on a flatbed scanner)
3-second exposure
11.25" Voigtlander Petzval lens from 1857 (wide open at F4.6)
Kodak Master View 8x10 camera
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About Wet Plate Collodion:
Wet plate collodion is a 19th-century photographic process invented in 1851. It was the third photographic process (Daguerreotype was the first, Calotype was the second), and used throughout the civil war. Wet plate collodion was the most popular form of photography from the 1850's into the 1870's.
Wet plate collodion is a process of hand-coating a plate of glass or metal with salted collodion and then sensitizing the plate in a solution of silver nitrate, making the plate light sensitive. The plate is then transferred (in a darkroom) to a light-tight holder, and then to a nearby camera while still wet. The image is exposed using a view camera (of any size). Exposures need a lot of light, and the plate is only sensitive to UV light (no reds or yellows) and has an ISO of less than 1 (yes, one).
After exposure, the holder is taken into a darkroom, the plate removed, and a developing solution poured over the plate. It is then hand developed, stopped, and rinsed. At this point, the plate can be taken out of the darkoom. The image appears as a negative until a fixing agent poured over the plate turns it into a positive. For an ambrotype (wet plate collodion on glass), the silver is a creamy color, so the image appears as a negative if viewed against a bright white and a positive if viewed with a black background. Ambrotypes can be made specifically for use as glass negatives as well (for contact printing). For a tintype (on metal), the plate is pre-coated with a black background, and the final collodion image appears as a positive. The final step of the process is varnishing the plate to protect the silver from tarnishing.
Actually, it's Thryallis, also called Golden Showers (Galphimia Glauca). Photographed at the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden in early fall.
Developed using Darktable 3.6.0. A light texture was added with Photoshop.
Actually one of the easiest species to photograph. They perch readily and don't seem to mind a lens being pointed at them.
This is one of the pictures of my recent sunset photo that i still have because it was saved in the other hard disk.
Actually these are white. Manipulated the neutrals and whites in selective coloring (Photoshop) to give them an eerie green glow. I think these grow on Krypton....
Submitted to 7 DOS, Green in Nature, Wild Wednesday.
Actually just an admiring bystander...
A Grey Hawk (Buteo plagiatus) scopes out the terrain with its sharp eyes. These hawks occur from South America north to extreme southern Arizona and Texas, in habitats ranging from thorn scrub to tropical forests. Their prey consists primarily of small rodents and reptiles. This obliging bird was part of a raptor demonstration at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum.
Actually the rest of the flock had just flown off.
Taken shooting upwards to the top of a shingle bank witth the Male Snow Bunting stood on the ridge.
I quite like the strange perspective this creates, but some people may not :-)
Taken earlier this year in Norfolk. Hopefully I will get some more shots of these fabulous birds over the winter, but very few about at the moment.
well, its the last but one, brownhorse 365. I'm actually getting quite sad. But all good things must come to an end.
Here is a selection of props that have been used over the year. your welcome to put a note on items if you can spot them. I can't actually believe how much stuff i've accumulated, and this isn't even all of it.
Please come back tomorrow, as i plan on saying goodbye properly and on telling you some of my plans for the future.
d200, nikkor 18-200mm, SB800 & Sb600 on full power though umbrella, and a lounge full of junk that i'm too tired to clear up, i just hope mrs brownhorse doesn't see it!!!!
Actually, she's probably counting to ten. I had asked her about which button does what on the phone for about the hundredth time, and she was doing her best not to get testy with me. Hey, what can I say...technology just isn't my forte. Or.....perhaps it was a test. You never know...and neither does Daisy. 😜
Here, as promised :), are some more pictures of my T-65 X wing. As stated before, this model started its life as a copy of Mike Psiaki’s incredible design. However, having rebuilt and tweaked it countless times, I feel its around 95% my own design. With that out the way, I’m happy to present my finished X wing. It features working S-foils, landing gear and two small storage compartments behind the cockpit.
Since the first photo I uploaded, I’ve tweaked the display stand so that it’s a little more streamlined and tried to take photos that are actually in focus :P Hope you enjoy!
Any C&C welcome!
Actually, im not really sure if these are berries or not. Not even bigger than half of the tip of my pinky finger. :)
Pretty interesting though. I should be studying for the long tests on monday. BUT, i felt like i needed to go to the park and relax.
Actually this is a Yellowstone Snow-coach Tour Bus. But when I saw the children climbing a board I couldn't resist.
'Actually,' she said, 'I'm separated.'
A class of dizziness palpable from the high stool the other side of me.
'I'm sorry to hear that,' whispered Mr Kelliher, decorous again after his cheeky intrusion.
'Ah,' she said. 'It's the way things work out sometimes.'
We nodded, the three men, sombre as owls. We nodded as though the cruel variables of love were hardly news to us. We nodded as though we'd each known heartbreak and the ache of a lost love, as though we'd each walked the Castle Walk, at four in the morning, in cold rain, with the collars turned up against a lonely wind. Oh what we wouldn't have given for broken hearts.
Excerpt from Breakfast Wine, from There are little kingdoms, a great collection of short stories by Kevin Barry.
Explore #94, 17th Oct '08! My highest Explore yet. View large.
Actually turned out harder than I anticipated to capture a drop of water. Taken for a new 1 month of photo challenges by creative live.
Wat Phra That Lampang Luang is a remarkable example of a fortress monastery, or wiang. When approaching the site, the first impression the visitor has are of the tall, imposing walls that surround the site. The wat actually saw battle in the early 18th century as a result of an incident between Burmese troops and a local Man of Merit who was killed near here. After the incident, the Burmese troops took up residence in the fortified monastery. A local fighter named Thippachak rose in arms against the Burmese here with 300 men, gaining access to the monastery via a water channel in the rear. The site where he killed the Burmese commander, Tao Maha Yot, can still be seen as the bullet holes remain in the railings.
Apart from the chedi and the main viharn, there are a half dozen other principal structures of note. Among these is Viharn Nam Tam, which is thought to be the oldest surviving wooden religious building in Thailand. The fame of the site, and its preservation throughout the centuries, is largely due to the belief that the historical Buddha visited here about 2,500 years ago and donated a lock of his hair, which is now enshrined in the chedi.
I have been exploring sections of the old Lincoln Highway here in the west and finding tons of interesting things about the first transcontinental "highway" (actually more of a route than an actual highway) in the United States. In those days there was not much infrastructure, including gas stations, to support brave travelers but there were several of what could be called a very early and really crude "motel." These Black and Orange camp cabins are located on the edge of Fort Bridger, Wyoming, a major crossroads for roads, railroads and covered wagon trails in the early west. Uinta County, Wyoming.
Actually, we called him Daddy .....never "Father, Dad, or Pops." Those names did not seem to fit him. He was our leader, our example, our provider--definitely the man of the house. I have few tangible reminders of Daddy, but many great memories and life lessons learned. I recently picked up this old booklet entitled simply "Time". He used this and similar books to record his hours worked (primarily in construction) and to calculate his weekly wages. Times were hard back then, but Daddy managed to raise 7 children on meager wages. We never seemed to lack necessities. What we lacked in "extras" was made up many times over with love and nurturing.
Happy Fathers Day, Daddy.
(Viewed Large, you might be able to see that the drawing on the cover of a sundial. It has a small inscription "Tempest Fugit" or "time flies". Indeed, it does.)
Actually, out of the grass, but that's not as dramatic sounding... :)
She was sleeping underneath the water willows and I (barely) spotted her with my binoculars, and I was hoping that I'd find one. Since she was mostly in the shade I had to adjust my camera's exposure to 'see' in the darker areas, then, she came out and surprised me, so my shade settings luckily worked in the brighter daylight. Usually that is not the case, but I was praying... :)
I say, "she" because this Bobcat has at least one kitten in there too, I saw the kitten from a distance sitting upright out in the open, it was too far away to get good shots of it, it was at least 300 feet (91.44 meters) away when I spotted it.
Usually, when I see a grown Bobcat they look all weary and disheveled, but this one seemed to be all healthy looking and doing just fine, even though it was sweltering at the time.
They have a very hard life, so it made me feel good that this one at least looks like it's living the good life. :)
Thanks to my wife, this was shot on my 41st wedding anniversary! :)
I said to her the night before, "What do you want to do on our anniversary?",
she said,
"Whatever you want to do..."
So there I was, camera in hand out taking pictures!
Woo-hoo!
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Village Creek Drying Beds (Ft. Worth, Texas)
Bobcat (Lynx rufus)
actually, the waves were really flat that day and most of those in the water had to wait patiently for something resembling a wave to roll in. this was one of the better waves seen that day.
better viewed large (no kidding, this time!)
Well, actually i was heading for Spokane when this landscape came in front of me after passing a hilltop. It's taken on road 2 between Wilbur and Creston in Washington State...
Some of you might have seen the colour version some time ago on an other place, but let's bring up a b&w for a chance.
Enjoy...
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Took me literally all day to edit this (dumb computer) but given the circumstances I actually kinda like how it turned out, hope you do too! Just got done making the dress for the other theme so imma take the picture soon!:D
Actually, nothing cooking or being prepared at the moment but I guess something will be happening when my wife returns from her shopping!!
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Actually there were two of them flirting and chasing each other around making getting pictures kinda difficult.
Actually seeing service this time round, another Yutong demonstrator is about with NCT, doing the same as the eCitaro did when that was here... Not a lot!!
Catching up with this in service is certainly a challenge as it only does a couple of sporadic trips in the late morning and early afternoon due to the folks in the training school getting their hands on it, and they tend to finish before it gets dark.
999 is seen on Upper Parliament Street having just set off on an additional 7 to Gamston via Trent Bridge, West Bridgford and Abbey Park.
Actually it's just sketch for bigger series.
It's quite interesting location with unique character. This young forest is placed on small hills shaped by glacier. Probably these hills saved this place from deforestation, this kind of terrain is very difficult for agricultural activity, especially in this part of central Poland where everywhere around go on many tens of kilometres big flats of Lodz Plateau.
The colors and aesthetics often associated with the 1980s are actually an homage to the interior design trends of the 1920s, when the building and this bathroom were built. Much like in the 80s, the bright colors of the 20s reflected reckless optimism and new advances in manufacturing technology.
(Interior design in the 90s was similarly influenced by technological advances, particularly in paint. For example, suddenly you could make anything that would sit still long enough look like it was made of granite.
Actually, a rather gruesome scene. I didn't even notice the spider there when I was shooting the fly, nor the tiny yellow mite on the fly's leg. I did notice the odd angle of the fly's head and the exaggerated distance between abdominal segments, though, and figured out that it was an entomopathogenic fungus victim. It does look a bit like the spider deployed a decoy to make other flies think there's some good reason to stop here...
I figure Arachtober is a good time to post this one!
I believe the fungus is Entomophthora muscae
SERC Bug Blitz
Edgewater, Anne Arundel Co, MD
6 June 2015