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He spent most of the time in his small room, helping his family by painting clay pots. Raghu is a man with intellectual disability who lives in a pottery village of Bangladesh.
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:
259 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.
Rusty 1955 Steelcraft school bus, built with a Carpenter body model D on what I believe is a 1954 GMC chassis. Date of delivery 11/54.
This 7-window (28 adult passengers or 42 wee ones).
The transmission is a four-speed manual. Brakes are power assisted drums, but steering is manual (unassisted).
The inline six-cylinder gasoline (petrol) engine develops all of a wimpy 115 horsepower (86 kilowatts).
Displacement is 270 cubic inch (4.4 liter).
GVWR is 14,500 pounds (6,577 Kilograms).
Driving it over the mountains will be a chore, to be sure (I think I can!, I think I can!).
A previous owner converted it into a motorhome / RV, complete with propane cylinders, refrigerator, sink, toilet, etc.
It is for sale, at the right price. We'll just have to see how attached to it we've become, depending on offers.
Or, we may get it running some day and drive it 170 miles over the hill to Burning Man, where it will be well suited as a camper / party bus.
The rocket hood ornament is a rare factory option.
Rusty 1955 Steelcraft school bus, built with a Carpenter body model D on what I believe is a 1954 GMC chassis. Date of delivery 11/54.
This 7-window (28 adult passengers or 42 wee ones).
The transmission is a four-speed manual. Brakes are power assisted drums, but steering is manual (unassisted).
The inline six-cylinder gasoline (petrol) engine develops all of a wimpy 115 horsepower (86 kilowatts).
Displacement is 270 cubic inch (4.4 liter).
GVWR is 14,500 pounds (6,577 Kilograms).
Driving it over the mountains will be a chore, to be sure (I think I can!, I think I can!).
A previous owner converted it into a motorhome / RV, complete with propane cylinders, refrigerator, sink, toilet, etc.
It is for sale, at the right price. We'll just have to see how attached to it we've become, depending on offers.
Or, we may get it running some day and drive it 170 miles over the hill to Burning Man, where it will be well suited as a camper / party bus.
The rocket hood ornament is a rare factory option.
The photos in this album are of the property, possessions and projects of a fine older gentleman named Willie Shepherd.
He owns a LARGE property in Lookout, California. It is 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. For years Willie has been showing and demonstrating his equipment for anyone interested.
Many of the images in this set were 3-exp HDRs, processed with Photomatix. The camera was a Nikon D600.
Taken at the October 24th, 2012 campaign event of Governor Mitt Romney at Reno, Nevada.
It was very challenging to get decent shots of the event. A dark arena, long distance to subject requiring a long (shaky) slow lens and then a heavy crop, plus crazy mixed white balance lighting conspired to keep me on my toes.
It was amusing to watch the iPhone/Android crowd attempt to grab pics and video of their guy. Most of their shots were VERY blurry and had disturbing colors, like an impressionist painting of a bad LSD trip (oh, wait, I just remembered where we were...)
Rusty 1955 Steelcraft school bus, built with a Carpenter body model D on what I believe is a 1954 GMC chassis. Date of delivery 11/54.
This 7-window (28 adult passengers or 42 wee ones).
The transmission is a four-speed manual. Brakes are power assisted drums, but steering is manual (unassisted).
The inline six-cylinder gasoline (petrol) engine develops all of a wimpy 115 horsepower (86 kilowatts).
Displacement is 270 cubic inch (4.4 liter).
GVWR is 14,500 pounds (6,577 Kilograms).
Driving it over the mountains will be a chore, to be sure (I think I can!, I think I can!).
A previous owner converted it into a motorhome / RV, complete with propane cylinders, refrigerator, sink, toilet, etc.
It is for sale, at the right price. We'll just have to see how attached to it we've become, depending on offers.
Or, we may get it running some day and drive it 170 miles over the hill to Burning Man, where it will be well suited as a camper / party bus.
The rocket hood ornament is a rare factory option.
A 770-millisecond exposure of the April 14th, 2014 lunar eclipse, as seen from Big Valley, California, just a few feet from our hot well-fed outdoor tubs.
The bright star to the right is Spica, the brightest star in the constellation Virgo, and the 15th brightest star in the night sky. It is a blue giant and a variable star of the Beta Cephei type located 260 light years from Earth. Apparent magnitude is +1.04
As you can see on the Moon, there are plenty of jpg artifacts. They are not seen in the original .NEF ("RAW") image.
I have some HDR sets of various stages of the eclipse, but have not yet been able to align and stack them properly with the software I have.
I used a very cheap 650-1300mm "telephoto" lens on my Nikon D600. The very heavy rig was mounted on a too-light carbon fiber tripod, run all the way up so I could see the viewfinder and LCD while keeping my 6'6" frame from creaking under a back-bending load.
I had to keep the tripod out on the lawn, further wiggling things up, due to the risk of one of my slightly tipsy naked companions tripping on the obstruction in the dark, should I have left it on the concrete slab with the tubs.
Next time, I hope to have my massive concrete foundation and pier completed, which should be steady as a rock, relatively speaking.
This nest was built in the rafters of our steel carport. Mama was quite wary of me, but a very cheap infrared remote for the tripod-mounted camera, and a less obtrusive place for me to sit helped greatly.
Nikon D600
Sigma 70-300mm macro lens with internal focus motor
Nikon SB-600 flash (on camera)
Bogen/Manfrotto carbon fiber tripod with pistol-grip ballhead
Rusty 1955 Steelcraft school bus, built with a Carpenter body model D on what I believe is a 1954 GMC chassis. Date of delivery 11/54.
This 7-window (28 adult passengers or 42 wee ones).
The transmission is a four-speed manual. Brakes are power assisted drums, but steering is manual (unassisted).
The inline six-cylinder gasoline (petrol) engine develops all of a wimpy 115 horsepower (86 kilowatts).
Displacement is 270 cubic inch (4.4 liter).
GVWR is 14,500 pounds (6,577 Kilograms).
Driving it over the mountains will be a chore, to be sure (I think I can!, I think I can!).
A previous owner converted it into a motorhome / RV, complete with propane cylinders, refrigerator, sink, toilet, etc.
It is for sale, at the right price. We'll just have to see how attached to it we've become, depending on offers.
Or, we may get it running some day and drive it 170 miles over the hill to Burning Man, where it will be well suited as a camper / party bus.
The rocket hood ornament is a rare factory option.
This is a composite image, "stacked" from many sequential exposures. Each exposure was 30 seconds long (the longest my camera can do without using "bulb" mode). Lens was a 35mm Nikon at F/1.8. ISO was set at 400 to boost the brightness of the stars, and capture fainter ones, too. The trees are a bit "soft", due to the shallow depth of field of the fast lens, which was focused at infinity.
I would have made more exposures, but the fully charged (and old) battery died after 189 exposures. I had the camera in repeat mode, and simply rubber banded the shutter button down to enable instant repeats after each 30-second exposure.
I used StarStax, a free and very good program.
I created a timelapse video of this same stack. It can be seen here.
Rusty 1955 Steelcraft school bus, built with a Carpenter body model D on what I believe is a 1954 GMC chassis. Date of delivery 11/54.
This 7-window (28 adult passengers or 42 wee ones).
The transmission is a four-speed manual. Brakes are power assisted drums, but steering is manual (unassisted).
The inline six-cylinder gasoline (petrol) engine develops all of a wimpy 115 horsepower (86 kilowatts).
Displacement is 270 cubic inch (4.4 liter).
GVWR is 14,500 pounds (6,577 Kilograms).
Driving it over the mountains will be a chore, to be sure (I think I can!, I think I can!).
A previous owner converted it into a motorhome / RV, complete with propane cylinders, refrigerator, sink, toilet, etc.
It is for sale, at the right price. We'll just have to see how attached to it we've become, depending on offers.
Or, we may get it running some day and drive it 170 miles over the hill to Burning Man, where it will be well suited as a camper / party bus.
The photos in this album are of the property, possessions and projects of a fine older gentleman named Willie Shepherd.
He owns a LARGE property in Lookout, California. It is 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. For years Willie has been showing and demonstrating his equipment for anyone interested.
Many of the images in this set were 3-exp HDRs, processed with Photomatix. The camera was a Nikon D600.
He saw me laying on the floor taking pictures of him so he layed down the exact same way. Such a little ham!
07 March 2014
This little guy came from the drainage of a hot spring in Lassen County, California. The white fuzzy stuff he is resting on is a "Q-Tip", or an equivalent generic brand of swab.
I created this image with my old Nikon D50 DSLR. I used an inexpensive 10X microscope finite objective lens (160mm focal length), mounted on a stack of extension tubes with a Nikon to RMS adapter on the front end of the tube stack. There was no other lens- just the microscope objective- projecting an image directly onto the camera's 23.7 x 15.5mm image sensor.
I used Zerene Stacker to stack together 67 photos, combining them into the one you see here.
Each image was taken with the subject progressively farther from the lens. I used a micrometer stage from an old optical comparator to move the subject a smidgen before each new frame. Each smidgen was calibrated to allow some slight overlap for the depth of field, to prevent banding in the final image.
This allows the extremely shallow (about 12 microns, or 0.00047 inches) DOF to be compensated for, with special software than can "glue together" the individual 12-micron slices of sharp focus into a usable complete image.
The image as seen here was the complete frame from the camera (uncropped). At the 10X magnification of the microscope lens, that means that the subject fits into a frame that is 2.4mm across. So the critter is a hair under 2mm long, in "real life".
Lighting was provided exclusively by a 33-watt compact-fluorescent "circline" bulb in the ceiling of the kitchen where this image was created. Exposure time per frame was 2 seconds.
Click here to read the Wikipedia entry about Springtails.
Magnitude was 1.1 when it appeared at the horizon on the left, increasing to a peak of -4.2 before it faded out at the right. Visible pass time was 6 minutes, 49 seconds.
The fainter red lines are airplanes.
My camera was eager to go out and shoot something today, chomping at the bit, in fact.
I couldn't go out, so I assembled this rig just to keep the camera distracted. It's been trying to find focus ever since, and has forgotten all about the Autumn foliage....
From left to right, the components are:
Nikon D50 DSLR
11mm "PRO" brand auto extension tube (Pre AI)
"PRO" brand bellows at full extension
18mm "PRO" brand auto extension tube (Pre AI)
36mm "PRO" brand auto extension tube (Pre AI)
128mm stack of cheap eBay threaded extension tubes
17mm stack of eBay extension tube male and female lens sockets, screwed directly together
14mm Nikon Extension Ring E2 (Pre AI)
Nikon 70-300mm G lens (at full schwing zoom and focus extension)
Nikon HB-26 lens hood