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Dawn Greets Block Island
For my birthday I spend the weekend on Block Island, a small island off the southern coast of Rhode Island. On the first afternoon I scouted out this beach, and thought it just might be a nice place to watch the sunrise.
I hit the streets at 4 am and had a very nice and peaceful walk along to beach, looking for just the perfect spot. The rock made for a nice foreground. I setup my camera, cranked up my music and watched Mother Nature do her beautiful work. I consider myself blessed to be witness to mornings like this.
Enjoy!
As many of you may have noticed, I love the water. Put me near the coast and I could happily take photos all day long. I never get tired of the way the water moves along beach, and was fascinated by this scene on Block Island
Enjoy!
Victoria asked for this specific style of block and provided the grey fabric. She said that there were no limits on what fabrics we could use. It's a wonderful way to use up small but precious pieces of fabric. She gave us the option of adding something to the center if we wanted and I noticed a definite pink/birdy theme in my fabrics. The appliqued bird is from here. (It's the fifth time I've used this bird in a bee block...I'm kind of in love!)
This "pinwheel" block is called Counterspun. I could see doing each blade in a different fabric, or varying them more, for a really fun quilt.
All building blocks in nature have one thing in common, math. Science utilizes math to explain the universe (Mathematical Universe Hypothesis), to model protein structures, and to even claim that our universe is just a computer simulation (Simulation Hypothesis). What will 2025 bring?
A Montana Rail Link Engineer signs the Block Register at Sappington, Montana. MRL's Harrison Branch (6th Subdivision) is Block Register Territory. Trains or maintenance-of-way crews must sign this register book prior to occupying the track. If no one else is registered, they fill out the required information to gain sole occupancy of the main track. If someone is already registered, they must contact that person and reach an understanding that the limits will be occupied jointly, and both must operate at restricted speed.
Part of: Augen Borgen - Borrowing Eyes
Merge:
DMC-G2 - P1420194 9.7.2012 Weidenhütte Steinhofgründe
DMC-G2 - P1520712 22.11.2012 Bark, Pötzleinsdorfer Park
Beresford Contracting Foden Alpha tipper NX06DAU.
This former Plasmor & Translift brick and block lorry was a surprise find on a quiet Peak District back road.
The walls of the school I attended through junior high (middle school for the kids out there), build in the mid '50s, were build out of fired blocks like these. But push button light switch inside the first door on the right tells me that the building is older than that.
Well yeah, this is one block up from Main Street Ventura close to where I do my laundry and about three block away from Ventura High School in a pretty rough neighborhood (not! :-))
Music: Morcheeba - Otherwise right click and open in new window/tab
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All my public photos are free for personal use
In case your interested here's a sample of my convoluted workflow:
1. +2,0,-2 RAW (sometimes JPEG) files loaded into Photomatix and processed using the detail enhancer.
2. Base Photomatix Settings:
Main:
> Strength - 85 or less
> Saturation - 65
> Light smoothing - High (The further right, the more realistic)
> Luminosity - 0 (adjust based on the picture)
Tabs:
Tone
> White point - 2% (adjust up/down based on picture)
> Black point - .5% (adjust up/down based on picture)
> Gamma - 1.00 (adjust up/down based on picture)
Color
> Temp - 0
> Highlights - 3
> Shadows - 0
Micro
> Contrast - 10
> Smoothing - 15
S/H
> Highlights - 18 (adjust up/down based on picture)
> Shadows - 18
> Clipping - 18
The light smoothing is the most powerful adjustment, so play with that setting first then adjust the others until you get the right look,
If your sky is a dull gray increase the S/H tab, “Highlights” up a bit
If you have to much light “halos” increase your “Luminosity” and the “White Point” settings.
3. Save as a TIFF file.
4. Open in "The Gimp" and re-size (save as____.tiff)
5. Make a layer copy.
6. Do an auto "levels" and see what it does, if it's cool I'll merge it down if not I'll play around with the setting and opacity then merge.
7. Make another layer copy.
8. Use the "local contrast enhance" script at about 50%, then adjust the opacity to fine tune it, then merge it down.
9. Make another layer copy.
10. Use the "vivid color" script and play with the opacity to fine tune it, then merge it down.
11. Save (still as a tiff) and close the picture.
12. Open in Photoshop (I have and old version and only use it to run the Topaz plug-ins)
13. Run the Topaz Adjust plug-in filter and see what the various presets do.............
14. Run the Topaz Denoise filter.
15. Save (still a tiff)
16. Open the original file (unaltered JPEG or RAW) in "The Gimp"
17. Re-size this to match the modified tiff file (don't worry about keeping the aspect ratio)
18. Drag the modified tiff file in as a layer (it will completely hide the unmodified version) then merge it down, this will recover the lost EXIF information.
19. Use the "smart eg sharpen" script at default settings (it makes it own layer copy) then play with the opacity to fine tune it, then merge it down.
20. Do a "save as" as a jpeg, and it's ready for Flickr!
Nice clean SP Tunnel Motor 8340 leads an array of power blocking Scott St. in Franklin Park IL. in February 1991.