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I'm not sure I follow the logic, but I'm willing to believe.
which is basically what true romance consists of.
FIRST ATTEMPTS at 'PANORAMAS' YO !! I learnt about it at Brentwood & District Photographic Club so rushed out in bad weather and had a go !
I have been attempting to get a photo of two of these cars together for some time.... This is so far the only time it's been remotely possible.
The Astra, a 1990 Starmist 1.4 is still taxed as well.
While attempting to chase the MILW 261, road construction halted everyone and the 261 sped ahead. The silver lining was at least being stuck by the railroad tracks, and this CP freight with a red barn leader made a sour situation slightly less salty. September 2008.
Just needing to paint, so out of my imagination I did these. Sadly my daffodils didn't bloom this year. Wonder what happened?
This was my first attempt at a pan shot. Could've been worse, but didn't have my settings adjusted quite right. The train wasn't going quite as fast as I thought it would and my shutter speed was probably a tad faster than it should've been. Oh well, here's 1225 steaming north towards Ashley!
Part of the Ben Crom Reservoir in the Mourne Mountains. The jagged peak in the Background is Slieve Bearnagh. My attempt at a selfie)
We are living through unprecedented times of collective suffering; this is a line in the sand where events after the crease will have little resemblance to those before. The streets outside are in turmoil from old human follies and new viral adversaries. Trying to explain these soul-stirring days to myself has been excruciatingly hard. Harder has it been to explain them to my ten-year-old –– and here I was, comically worried about the big sex-ed talk I would need to have with him someday! The world is boiling like the primitive cosmos where the darkness remains unpunctuated; it appears as if there are no beacons in sight.
So, where does one find solace during such malevolent turbulence? Gretel Ehrlich says (in her renowned book), one could find it in open spaces. Well, if one knows where to look, there are plenty of open spaces in a park near us – Yosemite. As you may know, Yosemite is a mental health asylum of some world-class repute. Since obscure times, it has cured numerous suffering souls, including a few luminaries who were primarily lunatics: Charles Weed, John Muir, Ansel Adams, and Fred Olmsted to name a few. It is located geographically in California's heart and spiritually in hearts of million other human beings who could be taxonomized as naturalists, activists, artists, environmentalists, visionaries, or, plain ordinary people, like, yours truly. When I am in Yosemite – or, find Yosemite in me – I perceive peace. You could say, Yosemite's wilderness is my totem of solitude, solace, and hope.
To most, Yosemite’s totem is the Half Dome – a giant granite monolith that stands in congruent humility with its surrounding rocks and clouds. It is unique among all Yosemite domes in having a sheer cliff and a steep vertical face (northwest side), which actually displays a human face in blockprint (a story for another day). Glaciers, time, and light have ebbed and flowed over the humpbacked dome for millions of years, but ‘Tis-sa-ack’ stands proud in deft defiance. The oft-pictured image of Half Dome – the one with the helmet curve, as Ansel put it – is from the West (Glacier point area). From our vantage point the other day, the iconic steward of the park displayed its unglamorous hind side, which features a prominent hump, the eastern sub-dome. In his National Geographic article, William Least Heat-Moon described this view of Half Dome as, “… watching a Shakespearean play from backstage, where old and familiar lines seem different, strange, new”.
Our contemporary times are somewhat similar... old and familiar ways of life now appear ‘different, strange, new’. In his letter to Ansel Adams in 1953, art historian Beaumont Newhall wrote, “In the face of all the present turmoil and unrest and unhappiness… what can a photographer, a writer, a curator do? …To make people aware of the eternal things, or show the relationship of man to nature… is a task that no one should consider insignificant… These are days when eloquent statements are needed”.
Eloquence is not my thing, but here above, you have my statement against everything that attempts to stir darkness in our societies, lives, minds, and hearts.
PS: The title is borrowed from Sylvia Plath’s sonnet Ennui, which was written in 1950s and published in 2006:
“The beast in Jamesian grove will never jump,
compelling hero’s dull career to crisis;
and when insouciant angels play God’s trump,
while bored arena crowds for once look eager,
hoping toward havoc, neither pleas nor prizes
shall coax from doom’s blank door lady or tiger.”
Attempting to avoid people, we are looking out across a field of beans as the Big Lad heads west.
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09/03/2021
Terra Cotta, KS
Another attempt at image stacking. Cognisys StackShot@150 microns manual+Nikon 105mm Macro+twin Nikon Speedlight SB-R200@1/8th output+lightbox+Zerene Stacker PMax.
Found the perfect lightbox - polystyrene tropical fish carry box - perfect. The stepping at 150 microns is probably to small; 55 images and the lower part is still not in focus. I need to determine DoF for this lens and look up stepping needed.
Milwaukee Brewer Brian Anderson tries in vain to catch home run by Baltimore Oriole Ramon Urias. Moment captured June 8th, 2023 at American Family Field in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (USA)
Happy Fence Friday (HFF)
Created for Angie's Animal Antics Challenge No 12 – Christmas
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created for: Kreative Peoples challenge 54
Original photo by: Abstractartangel
texture by Pareeerica
cat photo is the web
Okay partner, what do you think? This pouch is small - only 4 inches across. The bottom corners are boxed so it can stand on it's own but I put my hand in the picture to show the scale. The back is more AH owls and inside is lime green. I'm just not sure if it's "you" enough.....
One more week and I finish my last semester (5th year)! I finally got my portfolio finished and printed, looks awesome, I'll post a sample later on. I want to thank everyone for the wonderful and encouraging words that were left on my last post, I will definitely comment back when I finish next week, so exited. This pic is a little sample and first attempt on infrared pictures, hope you like! : D
Work and the pandemic derailed my two photo projects in 2021. I am still picking up the camera from time to time but the discipline necessary for a hobby has gone by the wayside of professional obligations and personal survival in these extraordinary days. I might be able to complete the 100x. Here are some more images of extraordinary light conditions
This is my first attempt to shoot food from above, I got a Speedlite Flash borrowed and was experimenting with it.
Since I never use flash to shoot food and I don't own a tripod that has an horizontal arm It's very difficult for me to shoot from above, but I kinda liked the result... Maybe it's time I bought a dedicated flash for myself.
History
The use of ropes for hunting, pulling, fastening, attaching, carrying, lifting, and climbing dates back to prehistoric times.
It is likely that the earliest "ropes" were naturally occurring lengths of plant fibre, such as vines, followed soon by the first attempts at twisting and braiding these strands together to form the first proper ropes in the modern sense of the word. The earliest evidence of suspected rope is a very small fragment of three-ply cord from a Neanderthal site dated 50,000 years ago.
This item was so small, it was only discovered and described with the help of a high power microscope. It is slightly thicker than the average thumb-nail, and would not stretch from edge-to-edge across a little finger-nail.
There are other ways fibres can twist in nature, without deliberate construction.
A tool dated between 35,000 and 40,000 years found in the Hohle Fels cave in south-western Germany has been identified as a means for making rope.
It is a 20 cm (8 in) strip of mammoth ivory with four holes drilled through it.
Each hole is lined with precisely cut spiral incisions.
The grooves on three of the holes spiral in a clockwise direction from each side of the strip.
The grooves on one hole spiral clockwise on one side, but counter-clockwise from the other side.
Plant fibres have been found on it that could have come from when they fed through the holes and the tool twisted, creating a single ply yarn. Fiber-making experiments with a replica found that the perforations served as effective guides for raw fibers, making it easier to make a strong, elastic rope than simply twisting fibers by hand spiral incisions would have tended to keep the fibres in place.
But the incisions cannot impart any twist to the fibres pulled through the holes.
Other 15,000-year-old objects with holes with spiral incisions, made from reindeer antler, found across Europe are thought to have been used to manipulate ropes, or perhaps some other purpose.
They were originally named "batons", and thought possibly to have been carried as badges of rank.
Impressions of cordage found on fired clay provide evidence of string and rope-making technology in Europe dating back 28,000 years.
Fossilized fragments of "probably two-ply laid rope of about 7 mm [0.28 in] diameter" were found in one of the caves at Lascaux, dating to approximately 15,000 BC.
The ancient Egyptians were probably the first civilization to develop special tools to make rope.
Egyptian rope dates back to 4000 to 3500 BC and was generally made of water reed fibres.
Other rope in antiquity was made from the fibres of date palms, flax, grass, papyrus, leather, or animal hair. The use of such ropes pulled by thousands of workers allowed the Egyptians to move the heavy stones required to build their monuments. Starting from approximately 2800 BC, rope made of hemp fibres was in use in China.
Rope and the craft of rope making spread throughout Asia, India, and Europe over the next several thousand years.
From the Middle Ages until the 18th century, in Europe ropes were constructed in ropewalks, very long buildings where strands the full length of the rope were spread out and then laid up or twisted together to form the rope.
The cable length was thus set by the length of the available rope walk. This is related to the unit of length termed cable length. This allowed for long ropes of up to 300 yards (270 m) long or longer to be made.
These long ropes were necessary in shipping as short ropes would require splicing to make them long enough to use for sheets and halyards.
The strongest form of splicing is the short splice, which doubles the cross-sectional area of the rope at the area of the splice, which would cause problems in running the line through pulleys.
Any splices narrow enough to maintain smooth running would be less able to support the required weight.
Rope intended for naval use would have a coloured yarn, known as the "rogue's yarn", included in the layup.
This enabled the source to be identified and to detect pilfering.
Leonardo da Vinci drew sketches of a concept for a ropemaking machine, but it was never built.
Remarkable feats of construction were accomplished using rope but without advanced technology:
In 1586, Domenico Fontana erected the 327 ton obelisk on Rome's Saint Peter's Square with a concerted effort of 900 men, 75 horses, and countless pulleys and meters of rope.
By the late 18th century several working machines had been built and patented.
Some rope is still made from natural fibres, such as coir and sisal, despite the dominance of synthetic fibres such as nylon and polypropylene, which have become increasingly popular since the 1950s.
Nylon was discovered in the late 1930s and was first introduced into fiber ropes during World War II.
Indeed, the first synthetic fiber ropes were small braided parachute cords and three-strand tow ropes for gliders, made of nylon during World War II.
In attempting to get star trail reflections over ponds - here is my attempt taken at Frensham Great pond - night sky too bright and also a mist crept in.
Well I've had one of the most soul-destroying photography days for ages...
Seem to be having focus problems again - this time with manual focus (where the focus seems drift). Took nearly 1000 shots today playing with water splashes and found the vast majority were not even close to sharp. This is one of the better ones.
Edited in Silver Efex Pro 2. Silly border added in PSE8 to cheer myself up. ;)
It was an attempt to create a long exposure in the mid-day using cheap welding protection glass in front of the lens as an ND filter.
Trouble is, the glass has uneven density thus this weird looking anomaly on the right of the frame. It was DIN 13, which I googled to be -16 EV's and I almost had it exposed correctly.
Another issue I had taking this one was a very strong wind and I was sure in 20 minutes of exposing it'll smudge everything, yet Linhof proved to be a tough box to swing around and I'm pretty happy with the texture on that small chapel on the island, given the fact that on a top of the wind I had a piece of a 0.75$ worth welding glass between the object and Nikkor-W.
On a technical note:
Linhof Technika III, Nikkor-W 5.6/135mm.
Adox CHS 100, shot at f/8&1/2, 20 minutes exposed, stand developed in Rodinal 1+75 for 1 hour at 20C (roughly or at least in the beginning)
So this is my first attempt at long exposure during the day, and to be honest it did not turn out quite like I wanted... Any remarks will be greatly appreciated.
As I didnt have a tripod, I just placed the camera on a bench, and used a timer (10 s), so that it wont move when I press the button.
As for the settings, it was a 1 s. exposure with f/32.0
Mainly because Im completely clueless as for this type of exposures, and Im trying to learn on my own mistakes:)
My attempt at Blackburn Bus Company 227 YJ16 DVR.
Late July 2016 saw the introduction of 18 new Optare Versas on Routes 6&7. The Versas largely replace Volvo B10BLE's which will no doubt end up elsewhere. This is also the second route to have the new diagonal livery of two colours applied, with Red Express X41 being the first, which I have also done a model of.
This model is a slightly older version of the versas's that are in operation in Blackburn, but they are more or less similar. This is the easiest model I've ever taken apart, with only one screw to take out underneath and the rest follows. This allowed the interior to be repainted as well. The blue colours mix well together and with the graphics, this model has turned out really nice, rather proud of it myself!
(If anybody needs any help with modelling just message me).