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actually this picture is taken close to were I once lived as a kiddling, my old quarters or half of me, since I grew up some other places too, but one of them..
I am MushroomBrain I was born Once by a Vigin :)
actually this is just a resting posture. It is amazing how long people can rest in this position!!
en realidad es solo una postura de descanso. Es increible cuanto tiempo pueden estar en esta posición y descansar!!
Actually, it's not a river; it is a channel off of the Willamette River in Lane County, Oregon USA.(DSCN0587reflectionsfrombothsidesofriverinitflickr022616)
A true cosmopolitan, the Painted Lady actually spends winter in the north of Africa and summer in the north of Europe, e.g. Sweden! Each generation migrates around 1000 kilometres when they go north. They start when the north of Africa gets too hot in april, and fly through Europe. They fly at different heights from the ground, up to more than 1000 meters, in search for favourable winds. And after the summer in the north of Europe they migrate back to the north of Africa! The wings of this butterfly are intact and then it has hatched nearby - if they are broken at the edge, on the other hand, the butterfly has flown far.
One of the 140 butterfly species that appear in the Nordic countries. Latin: Vanessa cardui. Swedish: Tistelfjäril.
The Painted Lady has a migratory behaviour also in the United States.
Generated actually in Browser Synth - the web version and then copied the script back to Structure Synth to render the images.
Actually, there was a pair of hawks! One had made a kill and the other wanted to steal it. They are really bold in the neighborhood, even hard to scare away.
21 December 2015
Indiana
Actually one of the first tattoos I ever seen was Dopey Dwarf that older brother of my friend had tattooed on his forearm - that was prison job done in mid 70's. Here there is a whole collection of cartoon and cartoon alike characters. The Pluto face along with the skull continues on the inside part of the forearm. Done in 1964 at Białołęka Prison.
Żoliborz, Warszawa, Poland, August 2009
Digital, Mark II, 24-70 Canon Zoom Lens, 21 MgPx
Actually, this is a pruning scar on a MacFree apple tree in our orchard. A branch was nipped close to the trunk a few years back and the cut has grown to heal itself. Just to prove we live in a pretty pollution free area, the lichens(big and small) are growing around and on the scar. This is a second in the series that I am doing on the landscape of a fruit tree. The title of the series needs a little work yet. Got any ideas?
I made this image with my Pentax K3 and my Sigma 180mm macro. Processing was done with Aperture 3 and PS CS5. This is an extended depth of field image made from four shots in PS CS5.
Camera settings: ISO 200, aperture f/18, shutter varied, focal length 180mm
scar on an apple tree
evidence of a past pruning
looking like a moon crater
Image and haiku by John Henry Gremmer
Actually, I just got her today as a Christmas present. But she hasn't had any pictures. Shes a bad influence.
Actually I'm really beginning to love my carpet - A fairly lurid colour in truly TERRIBLE condition, but it's a great background for pretty much anything.
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When the National Geographic magazine advertised their special offer for yearly subscription (which in EU ordinarily costs about three to four times as much as in US and Canada, by the way), they also offered a digital camera with exclusive NG logo on it, "that you can always carry with you and never again miss that decisive photo opportunity" (or something in this style - unfortunately I didn't keep that advertisement).
There was also a photo of the camera - quite alike the upper left one here.
Shiny, isn't it? In front at least.
But don't be fooled - apart from the screws, no metal on it whatsoever (except those toxic heavy metals in its circuitry, that is).
So I thought: "Neat, I can give it to the kids and I won't need to worry about my trusty ol'e Canon A700, when they go on school trips and such". (BTW: the little A700 survived quite severe punishments in the past - not just from the kids, but I dropped it twice or thrice from over a metre height as well. So the casing is all scratched, bumpy and dented now, but it's still working perfectly, and I'm really fond of it - esp. when my heavy and bulky SLR is too impractical to use.)
Needless to say, I haven't expected much from this new NG gift-cam. Nevertheless, it turned out that NG forgot to mention a few features that would take the proverb "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth" to a whole new level.
Namely:
* Full VGA resolution of 640x480!
Yes, that's whole 300 kilo pixels people!
(Most phone-cams(!) sport ten times as much or more these days.)
* No button clutter! Actually there are just two buttons that let you use all the features.
Talk about user-friendly!
(On/Menu button and Shutter/Select button. Need I say more?)
* Single aperture. We don't wanna get too techie with you, dear user. One f-stop should be aplenty for every possible light - if not, check the manual.
(BTW: my pre-WW II Bilora sports two different apertures.)
* AVI video capture!
(Well ... no. Not really. It just says so in the manual.
Actually it takes a series of shots in QVGA res [320x240] with up to breathtaking five frames per second - most pocket p&s cams take VGA or more at 30 FPS. These photos then get converted to AVI format, when downloaded to a PC. No sound, of course.)
* Works as a web cam! In full VGA or QVGA resolution!
In VGA with jaw-dropping two frames per second, and QVGA no less than five FPS!
(Albeit with a terrible lag.
Probably web cam was what the sensor and lens were designed for in the first place - some 20 years ago, when ISPs couldn't provide you with a higher bandwidth anyway.)
* Fixed plastic lens. No focusing ever required!
Everything from 30cm (1') to infinity is as sharp as ... err ... as ... well, a large squishy ball of goo comes to mind.
(See the photo in the comment below.)
* Amazing optical viewfinder!
It covers virtually the whole view field of the sensor with almost no parallax shift (give or take 30% FoV) - including fancy kaleidoscope distortions around all four edges.
* No LCD for previews or as viewfinder substitute required. The LCD you can see on the back shows only number of remaining photos and seven (7!) "icons" for those advanced functions
(see the manual above about what those are.
Yes, the whole manual consists of one sheet of folded paper. Eight pagelets - including software installation and manual.)
* No memory card required! Everything is stored in internal memory - the whole whopping 25 photos in stunning 640x480 hi-res with low compression! Or even 274 photos in 320x240 with high compression!
(No I didn't even try using the latter. Of course the memory isn't flash, thus all photos are deleted when batteries are depleted or removed.)
* Beep function!
(The same beep when you either take a photo or chose a menu option - sounds just like the beeps on junk digital watches.)
* A small red LED in front!
Blinks when photo is taken.
(I haven't noticed any use for this whatsoever. Nor does the manual mention it.
But it's there.)
* Cheap, flimsy "Chinese" plastic - you'll never have to feel sorry when it gets scratched or something breaks off.
Look at that battery cover go, baby!
(I only plugged the USB cable in it twice and it felt like the whole thing would come apart if I do it just a few times more.)
* Powered by three AAA batteries!
Not included of course.
(Huh? WTF? My A700 takes two AA batteries, which last practically forever - way over 1000 photos anyway. Now why would I want to waste three perfectly good batteries for this? To up the whole amount of heavy metals when I dump it?)
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Which brings me to the question what to do with this piece of junk in the first place.
I can't even throw it in the trash can, since it's toxic waste.
Not to mention the COMPLETE WASTE of my precious time!
And that from the magazine, famous primarily for its photos and photographers?
Magazine, that almost any serious photographer would give a pinky finger to see hir photo on its cover?
Magazine, that require photos 1600 pixel wide (minimum) to upload on their web site, just to be considered for the "Your photo" section?
Magazine that (in its last issue) frowns upon Chinese use of natural resources and (in every issue) condemns dumping toxic waste in the environment?
Oh, and last but not least joke on subscriber's account:
It comes with limited 90 days warranty.
"NG will at it's option repair or replace it with identical or a camera of equivalent value" (which equals to ZERO in my humble opinion), but you have to "prepay all shipping charges, customs, taxes etc. when returning it ro WMG HKG Limited, Hong Kong" (and nowhere else!) for any warranty reason.
Now, why would I want to pay tens of Euros of postage to have this thing replaced with an equivalent piece of trash?
(Not to mention that the warranty actually EXPIRED during the four months(!) the delivery took - see the postage stamp.)
I just wonder how much the local waste-management facility will charge me to dump it there.
Shame on you NG!
Belive it or not it was actually Work Stuff that took me to Faversham today, and although I was well aware of this event going on, my time was limited as I had to get back to Dover, and this was the best I could do due to people constantly walking in front of me!
And be sure to check by my other acount: www.flickr.com/photos_user.gne?path=&nsid=77145939%40..., to see what else I saw very recently!!
Yes I'm back again.
However due to my main computer on which I edit my work being struck down with a big bad virus, this picture and all the others I am uploading, were Unedited but have now been replaced with Edited versions. So enjoy and Thanks for your patience and understanding.
I do still hate everything about this shit that is new Flickr and always will, but an inability to find another outlet for my work that is as easy for me to use as the Old BETTER Flickr was, has forced me back to Flickr, even though it goes against everything I believe in.
I don't generally have an opinion on my own work, I prefer to leave that to other people and so based on the positive responses to my work from the various friends I had made on Flickr prior to the changes I have decided to upload some more of my work as an experiment and to see what happens.
So make the most of me before they delete my acount: www.flickr.com/photos/69558134@N05/?details=1, to stop me complaining!!
This photo is a joint effort for sure! I had the idea, and Novak (N0vk) took the picture with my direction (and his suggestions). Then he taught me a lot about photoshop as we edited the photo together. I thought it was a fun picture project!
Actually, I have no idea what they are diving for. It's fun watching them!
Happy Wednesday (Thursday)/Mid-Week, Hump-Day, Everyone! I hope your week has been going well so fa.
Thank you all so much for the visit and for the kind comments and favs. They are very much appreciated!
This is actually a Canadian built Bolingbroke, RCAF serial ‘10201’, which is now fitted with a genuine MkI Blenhiem nose. It represents ‘L6739’, a MkI of 23sqn in September 1939.
This was its first Legends after it was rebuilt as a MkI.
2015 Flying Legends Airshow.
Duxford, Cambridgeshire, UK.
12-7-2015
The following info is from the Flying Legends website:-
“The Bristol Blenheim Mk.I is a truly unique British aircraft. As a type the aircrafts history is long and formative and an important milestone in the history of British aviation. Designed as a small airliner in the early 1930s by Frank Barnwell, Chief Designer of the Bristol Aircraft Company, it was funded by Lord Rothermere who named it ‘Britain First’. It proved much faster than the latest biplane fighters, with a speed of over 300mph, and Rothermere promptly donated it to the nation.
Barnwell then redesigned the aircraft as a bomber and it became the first stressed skin aircraft with hydraulic actuated undercarriage, flaps and turret to be accepted by the Royal Air Force. It was the fastest bomber of the day and it became the backbone of the RAFs light bomber force. At the start of WWII the RAF had 1089 Blenheim’s in service more than any other type.
The Blenheim bore the brunt of daylight operations during the early war years, whilst other bombers were switched to night operations, and the crews paid a heavy price. Many Blenheim’s were lost not only to fighters but to anti-aircraft fire especially when attacking ships. Even so it was well liked by its crews and Churchill paid homage to their bravery comparing them to the ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’.
The Blenheim was pressed into many roles for which it was not primarily designed, such as long range and night fighter duties. It became the first radar equipped night fighter and got the first kill using that equipment.
The first Blenheim project a Canadian licensed built MKIV, which they called Bolingbroke, was recovered in a derelict state and restored to fly after a twelve year rebuild by a small dedicated team led by a licensed aircraft engineer. It made its debut in May 1987 only to be destroyed in an accident exactly one month later, suffice to say that the accident was not due to a mechanical fault.
Determined not to be without a Blenheim another airframe was found and the same team gave themselves five years to complete the project with the aircraft flying in May 1993, it became the only flying example of a Blenheim representing the light bombers of the early war years. Flying for ten years from Duxford on behalf of the late Graham Warner, the aircraft was well known on the air show circuit and flew with great success building an enviable serviceability record amongst the vintage aircraft fraternity.
In August 2003 the aircraft suffered an accident whilst landing at Duxford, again through no mechanical fault with the aircraft, and suffered significant damage. The aircraft was dismantled with the ownership subsequently transferring to Blenheim (Duxford) Ltd in December 2003.
It was decided that the aircraft could be repaired and work started with a team jointly made up of full time staff and the original and some new volunteers. Initially work concentrated on the centre section and fuselage and it was at this stage a feasibility study was carried out to see if the aircraft could be converted to Blenheim MkI status. A MkI nose had come into possession of the team and it was realised that the production break at the rear of the fuselage was the same for all marks of Blenheim so the decision was made to go ahead with the conversion. The conversion did cause some headaches in that although the main fling controls are in the same position in the British and Canadian variants it is in the positioning of the ancillary controls such as throttles, pitch, carburetor and hydraulic controls, the positioning of instruments and the rerouting of hydraulic and electrical lines that would take time.
The MkI nose had been donated to the team and had an interesting history in its own right; it had been obtained by a Bristol employee Ralph Nelson after WWII and converted to a car. He had mounted it on an Austin Seven chassis and with help of colleagues completed the conversion. The car was battery powered and he drove the vehicle around Bristol until 1957 when it was damaged by fire. The conversion necessitated the nose being modified to create doors and interior fittings so basically destroyed the stress skin construction, so after jigging to maintain its integrity a considerable amount of manufacture of new airframe parts had to be carried out including reskinning. Fortunately Ralph had kept a considerable amount of the interior fittings and most of the control systems including the seat and these were refurbished and refitted.
A data plate in the nose revealed its build number and that it had been built by AVRO. Contact with Avro’s heritage Centre showed that the aircraft serial was L6739 being issued to 23 Squadron on 2nd September 1939. It fought throughout the Battle of Britain as a night fighter before being struck off charge in December 1940 after being damaged. Further research revealed that it had carried the codes YP-Q and a photo was found of it ground running at Wittering in February 1940. This has enabled the aircraft to be painted in the authentic colours worn in 1939-1940 and fitted with the MKI(f) gun pack.
The Mercury engines were overhauled in house being stripped down to their component parts and checked for wear and damage and reassembled. All ancillary items such as magnetos, carburettors, pumps and the many items that make up the engines examined and checked for airworthiness before being fitted.
After 11 years of painstaking work, on the 20th November 2014 Chief Pilot John Romain and James Gilmour as Flight Engineer took Blenheim MkI(f) on its maiden flight at Duxford for a successful 26 minute test flight, following some minor adjustments a further two test flights were carried out.
The Blenheim received its full Permit to fly at the end of 2014, enabling the aircraft to be ready for the 2015 season.”
actually i said "hmm" and "oh my" and "oh my goodness" before i bought the catalog, which was produced for the exhibition "Andrew Wyeth - Looking out, Looking in" now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC until November 30, 2014. big bonus: the catalog also references Sheeler and Hopper and their focus on windows. so what does my little photograph have to do with any of this? well, i got some windows there, and some concrete with texture that reminds me, and me alone, of the scumbling, abstract brushwork of Wyeth. so there.
actually it is my ooak jasmine ahha...i'd like to call it royal sparkles, I have gone overboard using starry sparkles for this one photo...I gave her different brows,green eye shadow and a smile.
I returned to Lac Rose / Lac Retba on the Cap Vert peninsula not far from Senegal's capital Dakar. The lake is separated from the Atlantic Ocean only by a narrow corridor of dunes, and is named for its pink waters, caused by Dunaliella salina algae. The algae produces a red pigment to assist in absorbing light. The color is particularly visible during the dry season (from November to June) and is less visible during the rainy season (July to October). some phtographs I have seen have made the lake look very pink, pinker than I have so far seen it, perhaps a result of the light, or of the photographer's tools. I look forward to visiting it again, not so much because of the colour but because of the people working on harvesting the salt. On my first visit I actually stayed by the lake for several days and walked around and spoke to some of the salt harvesters. In 2019 I had less time as my destination that day was further north.
Actually preserved, but looking the part coupled to an engineers' crane, 31108 stands in the yard at Eastleigh works the day before the 2009 open day.
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Actually it's a re-circulating creek with numerous waterfalls in the Nancy Rutchik Red Maple Rill.
Perhaps the most impressive feature of this two-acre garden is a fabulous collection of over 80 varieties of signature Japanese Maples planted along the stream.
This premier addition to the Arboretum was designed by Rowland Jackson of Newman, Jackson, Bieberstein, with construction services provided by The Beck Group. Key design elements of the Nancy Rutchik Red Maple Rill include a new entry off the Paseo de Flores and a large gathering plaza that overlooks a re-circulating creek and numerous waterfalls. Opened in fall 2011, this charming area also includes a series of paved walkways and a stone bridge connecting the Martin Rutchik Concert Stage to the Magnolia Allee. An especially large weeping Japanese maple, nearly 100 years old, anchors the center of the garden.
Actually, I only noticed the TDB doing this pic. It is just behind the top right hand corner of the rear door.
My processing skills aren't all that, try as i might i couldn't come up with anything i liked more than the sooc jpeg.
Actually went out too shoot today during golden hour. Unfortunately we got there too late so we didnt have that much time to shoot.
Comments, notes, and favs appreciated!
Actually it's the external wall of a rather dingy public toilet block in Portobello, but it's got this very charming mosaic to brighten the place up a bit.
Appenzeller Land, Switzerland
180 seconds exposure @ ISO 1,5
Zone System w/ dynamic range of 5 EV stops (shot at AEV14)
Finally got my long-time photo subject of choice on paper: a picturesque lake up high in the mountain ranges in the backyard of Säntis (which actually is the center right summit in the background of this photograph).
Camera: Harman TiTAN 4x5
Lightmeter: Sekonic L-508
Paper: Harman Direct Positive Paper FB Glossy
Developer: Ilfosol 3 1+14 20ºC 6m (normal time reduced by 20%, pre-washed)
Stop Bath: Ilfostop
Fixer: Rapid Fixer 1+4 5m
Recently, I've been swamped with an abundance of homework, projects, parties, etc. I've also been doing a lot of airsoft related things, and have been looking for good photo set-ups. Well, I've found some, so I should be much more active on Flickr, and ACF.
This is just a teaser... ;)
Actually, it's another puzzle from the same manufacturer as Sundays image, but it keeps with the theme that is developing this month...
What appears to be a CSX GP38-2 on L&N ancestry, is actually HLCX GP38-2 2591 on lease to the SP. If you look closely on the battery box under the cab, you can see the HLCX reporting marks.
Actually the camera has been operated by a friend of mine, 'cause in this case it's a KW Pilot Super 6x6 slr (produced between the 30s and the 40s) and doesn't have a self-timer...
Ilford HP5+ @ 800 in Rodinal, one of my favourite B&W combinations...