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I believe that none of the digital photographers nowadays will shoot the scene or subject with only one take. There is always bracketing. Bracketing on exposure. Bracketing on aperture and more important bracketing on composition.
I took a few shots of the same artist in Gastown with minor adjustment of composition. This one was taken with a little more distance from him (relative to the one posted yesterday). More surrounding is included in the frame. More depth of background is included (Same aperture gives you more depth when you move away from your subject).
We can see he is in a crowded tourist area but yet he is concentrated on his drawing.
And I also have this presented in colour. What do you think?
Gastown, downtown Vancouver. June 2017.
Fuji X-Pro2
Fuji XF 90mm F2 lens
PRO Negative High Film Simulation
Weak Grain Effect
Fall weekends in Pennsylvania finds passenger trains running all over the Reading and Northern system. On this soggy Saturday in addition to the big trip from North Reading behind steam locomotive 2102, the railroad was running eight LGSR trips from Jim Thorpe into the gorge, a round trip down from Pittston and a round trip from Pottsville.
The latter is what is seen here after arriving from Pottsville with three RBMN Budd RDCs which were led south by SD40-2 3052 (I'm not sure why they weren't running on their own power). After adding RBMN 2012 (GP38-2 blt. Sep. 1979 as high hood SOU 5256) to the north end and boarding passengers they are on the move departing the yard at MP 78.3 on modern day RBMN's Reading Division mainline.
Home of the RBMN's corporate offices, dispatching center, locomotive shop, and covered train shed for their OCS equipment Port Clinton is a railfan's delight with props galore like this Reading Anthracite sign and the historic signal bridge that was saved and reinstalled here (if anyone knows where it was originally I'd love to know). Now fully equipped with a CTC signaled mainline there was virtually nothing here in 1996 when the RBMN chose this site for their new centralized headquarters and shop complex. When the Reading Cluster was acquired from Conrail in 1990 the only thing to be found in this spot was a lonely unsignaled switch in the middle of the woods.
Port Clinton, Pennsylvania
Saturday October 14, 2023
Bracket fungi are sturdy things. A bit of snow doesn't harm this one clinging to its host Birch.
Still a few days yet but hope everyone has a super duper Christmas :)))))
Bracket Fungi produce shelf- or bracket-shaped or occasionally circular fruiting bodies called conks that lie in a close planar grouping of separate or interconnected horizontal rows.They are mainly found on trees (living and dead) and coarse woody debris, and may resemble mushrooms
Dryad's saddle. Considered a bracket fungus, yet it is an edible annual mushroom. Can grow in quite large clusters. Plays an important role in decomposing and recycling trees.
Growing on a living beech tree in Epping Forest. As far as I can tell this is a species of Ganoderma, probably Ganoderma applanatum.
3 bracketed shots at 2 stops. Tonemapped with Photomatix Pro 3.2. Deliberately left a low level of noise in to give it a grainy effect. I like how the water came out.
Looking for an ID. I love the red drops, which aren't typical of the possible species. Stacked photo. Bola Creek, Royal NP, Australia.
The Security Building is a historic site in downtown Miami, Florida. It is located at 117 Northeast 1st Avenue. On January 4, 1989, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The building has 16 floors with a height of 225 feet (69 m) and was built from 1926 to 1927.
The Dade County Security Company was organized in 1901 and moved to a nearby headquarters in 1923. By the mid-1920s the company needed a larger headquarters. In 1921, the Dade County Security Company had acquired the McKinnon Hotel which occupied a mid-block parcel on Northeast 1st Avenue and renamed it the Security Hotel. Dade Security had considered adding stories atop the hotel but opted in 1925 to raze the hotel and construct a new headquarters on the same site under the direction of architect Robert Greenfield.
Construction on the Security Building began in 1926. The building was known as the Security Building from its opening in 1927 until 1945. Upon opening, the first level and mezzanine were devoted to banking offices. The floors above provided 275 office suites and were reached by four "high speed" elevators.
The Security Building faces west onto NE 1st Avenue. It is located in mid-block with buildings on either side. Those buildings are considerably shorter than the Security Building. The building maintains a zero-foot (0 m) setback, and the entry doors open directly onto the sidewalk. There are no landscape features on the property. The building is composed of a main block parallel to the street, and a second block connected perpendicularly that extends to the east.
With only a 50-foot (15 m) frontage, the architect made a grand statement by creating an almost temple-like base, consisting of the first three stories. Engaged pilasters, that also frame the center bay, articulate the corners creating three distinct bays. Spandrels between the floors are bronze and feature relief ornament. The pilasters carry the entablature, with the name “Security Building” in incised letters. A dentilled molding ornaments the cornice that terminates this division of the building.
The fourth floor begins the transition to the high-rise portion of the building. Stone panels with a similar relief accent the corners and separate the bays. Above the windows of the fourth floor is another projecting element, a stringcourse that is ornamented with a guilloche pattern in relief.
Floors five through 13 continue the three bays with window arrangements that are grouped in pairs on each of the end bays, and are grouped in three in the center bay, emphasizing the importance of the center bay to the entire composition. The windows are a metal casement type.
Security Building (Miami) South and West Facades, top floors with mansard roof and cupola.
The 14th and 15th floors function as the base for the great mansard roof, which terminates the building. To balance the composition, the two floors are treated as if they were one by the use of a round arch at the 15th floor that is carried by the pilasters of the 14th floor, so that the two floors are visually united.
A bracketed cornice separates the building from the roof form that is so decidedly different from roof treatments in Miami during this period. A mansard roof is a double-pitched roof with a steep upper slope. The mansard roof was named for architect Francois Mansart (1598–1666). Mansart worked in the 17th century and introduced the roof form that extended attic space to provide additional usable area. The mansard roof is a character-defining feature of the Second Empire style that was named after Napoleon III, who took on major building projects in Paris during the 18th century.
The mansard roof of the Security Building is clad in copper and terminates in a series of antefixae. A series of arches containing windows and serving as dormers penetrates the roof. Bull's-eye windows are placed between the arched windows. An eight-sided cupola that extends from the center of the roof is fenestrated on each side with a multi-paned arched window. The dome of the cupola also is clad in copper.
The north and south ends of the building are not ornamented. The windows are a metal casement type. The quoining on the corners of the west elevation is repeated in the north and south elevations of the building. The extension to the east is flat-roofed and is terminated by a defined cornice. The majority of the wall surface contains windows that are either square or rectangular in shape. They contain metal casement windows.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Building_(Miami,_Florida)
miami-history.com/security-building-in-downtown-miami/
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Birch Bracket Fungus / piptoporus betulinus. Morley, Derbyshire. 07/10/20.
'UNDERSIDE.'
A very impressive bracket fungus I found in early October growing out from a dead Silver Birch trunk. Not quite the largest I've ever come across (width of about 24cms), but certainly one of the most attractive with that thick, rounded, undulating margin.
The old bracket post signal at Deshler...the slide scanner did not like the "gray ghost" paint, but you get the general idea.
A cluster of bracket fungi on a fallen tree at Prince William Forest National Park, VA, USA.
Google Lens IDs these as likely resinous polypores (Ischnoderma resinosum), also known as the late fall polypore or benzoin bracket. The cap is velvety with a "ripple effect" of reddish and darker brownish colors; the youngest growth near the margin is whitish. When young, the consistency is soft and spongy, but it becomes tough and leathery as it ages. The underside has small pores that are whitish when young but bruise brown when handled.
Bracket Fungi taken Yeadon Tarn
Simple, aerobic organisms (such as mildews, molds, mushrooms, smuts, toadstools, and yeast) which (1) unlike bacteria can grow in low moisture and low pH environments, and have their genetic material bound in a membrane, (2) unlike plants do not have roots or leaves, do not contain chlorophyll, and do not produce their own food, but obtain nourishment from dead organic matter.
Focus-bracketed macro image of the pore structure on the underside of a bracket fungus on silver birch.
It is also named as Shelf Fungi, are among the many groups of fungi that comprise the phylum Basidiomycota. Characteristically, they produce shelf- or bracket-shaped fruiting bodies called conks that lie in a close planar grouping of separate or interconnected horizontal rows. Brackets can range from only a single row of a few caps, to dozens of rows of caps that can weigh several hundred pounds.
They are mainly found on trees (living and dead) and coarse woody debris, and may resemble mushrooms. Bracket fungi often grow in semi-circular shapes, looking like trees or wood. They can be parasitic, saprotrophic, or both.
Some species of bracket fungi are cultivated for human consumption or medicinal use.They can also be used as a wick in an oil/fat lamp.
Info Source: Wikipedia, 2013.
Photo taken: Tyresta Park, Stockholm
Only 20 kilometres from the centre of Stockholm lies one of the most unspoilt areas of natural beauty in central Sweden – Tyresta National Park and Nature Reserve.
Spotted this stunning bracket fungus thriving on a mossy log deep in the woods. Its layered shelf-like form, rich brown top, and crisp white rim make it look like nature’s own sculpture. Bonus: two tiny white puffballs nearby add a magical touch to the scene. Forest fungi never fail to impress!