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As a final slide in my Flickr stats analysis, here are the things that I have found that drive high view counts:
Explore can drive really high counts, especially getting in the top 10.
The Flickr Blog galleries also get tons of views. I like getting in these galleries because there is a person curating the gallery. And the images follow a theme. I think these Flickr blog galleries are my favorite feature for browsing new photos. I also often post my photos in the comments section of galleries when I like the theme.
Search terms can drive views, but the only one that has gotten a really high count is World War II.
Finally, being used to illustrate blogs is always fun. I use the Common Attribution license and that makes it easy for blogs and news sites to use my photos. I have found some really interesting blogs by seeing them in my stats referral section. My most popular blog photo is the Drone and Moon photo. Drones with cameras have been very topical over the last year. Also my photo of the Crooked House on the beach gets used in environmental blogs. There have been others used along the way too.
I hope you enjoyed my Flickr analysis. This is the last of the PowerPoint slides, at least until next time. Back to the fun stuff.
Over the long march of biological and now technological evolution, we have finally reached a survival gate — we have enough computational power to model the trajectory all Near-Earth Objects (NEO's) that could threaten life on Earth. This was not possible in the year 2000, or any time over the prior millennia. We have made a million-fold improvement in computation in just the past 20 years. So, we can see the future and predict decades in advance of an impact event and then give the NEO a nudge such that it misses Earth entirely.
It’s not like the movies, where you have an asteroid on final approach and try to blow it up somehow (that just turns a rifle into a shotgun blast); instead, you launch a rocket to rear-end it and change its velocity ever so slightly. Integrated over years, that small delta-v makes all the difference. In short, asteroid defense does not end with a bang, but merely a nudge. That is, if you know what you are doing!
The non-profit B612 (with co-fiounding astronauts Ed Lu and Rusty Schweickart) did a webinar and demo of their ADAM simulation tool for calculating asteroid orbit propagation. They gave me permission to share the unpublished work of their Asteroid Institute tech team. Here's an unlisted video showing the sim seen here.
Rusty Schweickart, the first Lunar Module Pilot summarizes: “We live in a remarkable time in history. We can change the trajectory of the solar system, ever so slightly, and protect life on Earth"
Mapping the Final Frontier with ADAM (Asteroid Decision Analysis + Mapping):
The ADAM project runs on the Google Compute Engine to provide a cloud platform for large-scale orbital dynamics. Small errors in the initial velocity vector measurements can expand over decades to very different outcomes, especially when gravitational slingshots around the planets occur. So, they run thousands of Monte-Carlo simulations over an array of starting conditions, creating a distribution of points, as seen in the images here, some hitting Earth (red) or a near miss (green). The distribution of endpoints gives a probability of deep impact. As a heuristic patch to some insane computational complexity, we can calculate a probability for the long term, which narrows like a hurricane forecast cone to a certainly as time advances.
To reach an accuracy of a few kilometers over many decades, it’s not just the complexity of an n-body problem. They had to model effects such as the curvature of space-time due to General Relativity, the non-sphericity of the Sun, the gravitational asymmetry of the planets, moons and larger asteroids, as well as the non-isotropic thermal re-radiation from rotation of the asteroid.
So so the good news: we can do this today, and with each passing year of Moore's Law, we can look further into the future, moving from decades to a 100 years. The further you can see, and the more precisely, the easier the nudge becomes.
For input to the model you just need a series of at least three sample points (but more is better). And we are about to get a whole lot better at that. Starting in 2022, LSST will observe ~600,000 asteroids every night, and discover new asteroids at 10X today’s rate. This will accentuate the computation-bounded problem of using this torrent of data.
There is something poetic about the computational defense of humanity. And something that rhymes with history. The Space Race of the 60s was won computationally, not by brute force heavy-lift, which would have favored the Soviets.
Survival is computational. Intelligence allows us to see the future.
Side effects of being an over-thinker: simple things become complex, minor issues turn into grand dramas, you become a master of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, an expert at misinterpret people and what they say, there is always something to worry about, all your time is wasted on over-analysing everything and everyone. And nothing is ever good enough.
But you always have something to do.
... the decorator, teacher and psychologist inside me joined their forces and wrote a post analysing the beautiful style of the pictures seen above, all derived from the Ikea Family Live frlickr group
Thank you to Isis, Ana and Desiree for their contribution.
More.....actually much more here....you'll need a cup of tea in hand my dears ; )
Leica M6 TTL
Leica Summicron 35mm f/2 IV "King of Bokeh"
Fuji Neopan 400
Microphen 1+0
7.5 min 20°C
Scan from negative film
Self-analysis... One of my regular pastimes and something that naturally occurs through the process of drawing.
If you can, please spare the time to visit my current exhibition of drawings here on Flickr. Simply follow the link below. Thank you very much. Julian.
www.flickr.com/groups/globalworldawards/discuss/721576241...
-> of the direction of the spine in respectively norwegian, danish, english, american, german and italian bookdesign. All lie front up, which causes italian and german books to have their spine upside-down.
Full color infrared photo achieved by taking three images at different bands, one around 950-1000nm, one around 850nm and one around 720nm. Images were then mapped to RGB.
Full spectrum photo was achieved by combining the six total channels obtained by taking a normal color photograph and the three infrared ones.
Multispectral analysis was done by comparing the data from the six individual channels.
the different colors highlight areas with different chemical compositions. I don't have the precise instruments to measure but I think that turquoise represents areas with high concentrations of Iron(III) oxide.
The areas that appear blue in the infrared image also display a curious behavior, where they start absorbing more the deeper into IR you go, which is relatively rare.
Title: Technicians performing AA5 (sic) (Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer) sample analysis, Varian Techtron, 679 Springvale Road, Mulgrave
Author / Creator: Sievers, Wolfgang, 1913-2007 photographer.
Date: 1968.
Varian Techtron was the result of a merger between the Australian company Techtron and the American firm Varian Associates in 1967. The Springvale Road site (then in Springvale North, but now in Mulgrave) was established by Techtron and is still in use, but now as Agilent Technologies (which acquired Varian in 2009). Techtron Appliances was established in 1938 and it and its successor companies have produced a variety of electronic and analytic equipment for industry and scientific research, notably including Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometers (AAS) to CSIRO specifications.
See locale on Google Maps.
Subjects:
Varian Techtron Employees.
Atomic absorption spectroscopy Instruments.
Laboratory technicians.
Laboratories Victoria Mulgrave.
Gelatin silver prints.
Index terms:
Australia; Victoria; Wolfgang Sievers; Atomic absorption spectroscopy; Mulgrave; laboratory technicians; Varian Techrton
Notes:
Job number inscribed in pencil on reverse of image: 4014 G
Vintage print with the photographer's studio stamp on reverse.
Title taken from information supplied by Varian Australia, courtesy of the photographer.
Printed by Wolfgang Sievers at an unknown date from his negative made in 1968.
Copyright status: This work is in copyright
Conditions of use: Copyright restrictions apply.
For Copyright queries, please contact the National Library of Australia.
Source: SLV
Identifier(s): Accession no: H2000.195/225
Source / Donor: Purchased 2000.
Series / Collection: Wolfgang Sievers collection.
Link to online item:
handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/308700
Link to this record:
search.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/f/1fe7t3h/SLV_ROSETTAIE18...
search.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/f/1fe7t3h/SLV_VOYAGER1757334
bit.ly/2fKD98K This webinar will discuss how data-sharing platforms can create effective & seamless collaboration leading to better data quality and risk analysis.
"So often describe as a raving homicidal mad man, was actually a tortured soul crying out for love and acceptance. A lost injured child trying to make the world laugh at his antics..."
M6
I received 42 frames from my lab from my last roll with M6. The first frame on top left hand is considered unusable. Next was the one at the bottom left hand corner that I shot to kill off the counter. I think it looks good with some cropping on the right.
IMHO, 41 usable frames from a roll of 36 exposures film is a good return from my experience in shooting film. I think M6 has thin spacings between negatives and I managed my personal record of 41 frames from 36 exposures negative.
© copyrighted
[Trixoscelis Rondani 1856: 93 (IT: 6) spp]
Cfr. notes¹ over the above image.
NOTES
1. TBL 2.6 mm.
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Today's ODC made me stop and think about what I would say I'm good at. Nothing came to mind immediately Pretty sad. But then I started rethinking this question and with prodding from my husband chose some words to fit. First off, I really am good at Scrabble, but then of course I should be. I've played it way too many hours. I'm a great speller and am driven insane by misspelled words so this is somewhat of a curse. Editing comes natural to me--back to the spelling curse. My friends tell me I'm a great friend, and I'm seeking to be a really good Nana and photographer. So that's today's self-analysis. Hey, the ODC is better than going to a shrink.
ODC: A skill --something you're really good at
ANSH: a game in play
i've always loved drawing trees. When i was a teenager i used to sit in various parks in Grand Haven, Michigan, and draw the twist of branches and the wrinkles of bark. The texture and the endless variety amazes me still.
These trees were inspired by an analysis of my handwriting, done when i was also a teen. It was a very accurate analysis, pointing out the exact age i was when my parents divorced and which parent i leaned to most at varying times in my life. i still have a cassette tape of the analysis somewhere, but i no longer have a tape player.
At my first show, the Around the Coyote Festival in September of 2005, this was the first piece of art i ever sold. Jon Johnson took it from me and hung it expertly in his home.
Marker on watercolor.
February 2004 - 12 x 16
Sold.
is anal :-) Marty Indik. HBM!!
Queen butterfly, butterfly house, brookside gardens, wheaton, maryland
During the last days I went through all the photos I took during the last year and chose a few favourites. Based on these I analysed a bit, what kind of pictures I made and thought about that might change during 2025. Read my blog posts with the data and the pictures: marcelkapfer.photography/blog/2025/01/14/2024-review-anal...