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Carnival days, where demons are confronted; rites meet with evil spirits and masks pass-by with roles to enact calibrations of taboo and ideas of evil - these are all very human asides. A cathartic, 'pedagogic' and transgressional frame upside down and inside mankind's regular flow of chatter, concentration and laughter.
Man's past journeys through Ice ages, over arid deserts and across sea distances have included elements of unknown that can, and could kill or maim. A cultural and emotional outlet for cathartic shudders, for practiced courage, abject belittling and chip-shifted fear made sense for prehistory, native history and history.
The trap of a 'transport dragon' (an idea I promote in past posts) where clans crisscrossed the white of the reindeer landscape inside a tactical structure, asked for a suitable noise for the moment when predators such as circling cave lions approached for a final attack. The noise came as the spears from inside the transport dragon's light wood frame flew, and the noise was the scream. A real functional and terrified scream that became embedded inside the personality strategies of our species : finding the trigger for this scream being a career plot for some mischievous Youtubers and diverse film makers. There are arguments that the definition of Civilization is a point when humans can take hold of their emotions and control them - the rowdy and the noisy here being 'uncivilized'. With this logic, Romans elites who let others die for their spectacle and their power without a skip of the heart were 'civilized' rather than 'subhuman'. Contrast this with people who take to a full scream at the slightest creepy event - a surprise spider's web in the face, a fly that lands on an arm or a lizard that scurries under a table, and maybe we can see another end to a human spectrum of emotion. Here, the wealth of 'normal' human behaviours are within these extremes - able to be scarred and to scream, tempted to transgress into a 'Halloween' every now-and-then without loosing track with the serious side of being a studied and at times laughing character. Seeing Halloween as a carnival island of transgression that is rooted in our deep prehistories takes us to the above montage...
For this image I took a photograph from the permanent exhibition at the 'Le musée de la Castre' in Cannes. As far as I understand, this archaic demon masque was originally from Tibet. Whilst the profound details of the rites will greatly differ from today's international halloween (often reduced to knocking on doors and blackmailing for sweets) the most obvious difference is in the quality of the mask's production. This mask of fur and stitch is very old yet still 'alive'. A significant proportion of the world's Halloween masks (and the statistics of the number manufactured each year must be boggling) end up in bins as refuse once the night has disappeared to memory. Taking the time to make a demon mask that you bring out every year seems to be the better of the two options. Is it not time to find courage from native and prehistorical skill sets and fine tune our skills to make our own credible masks of temporal fear, screaming and horror? And the masks in the world's bins fall down 'staircases of culture' with Edvard Munch's 'Skrik' (The Scream) repeated as Wes Cravan's 'Scream' before being glutted as 'the plastic scream'. Guy Fawks is repeated as a nightmare of Churchill's 'V' (for Vendetta) before marching to join 'the plastic scream'. Heavy garden and market Pumpkins, so apt for winter soup and shimmering spooky glow, are pressed out in bright sheen as yet another 'plastic scream', and so on, and so on, and so on. It is one thing to enjoy a shared carnival of fear, but using plastic seems to add an element of nightmare that stays after the indigestion from the sweets has long gone away.
AJM 30.10.18
#467
Pentax K3 with a Takumar 50mm Macro plus copyright free images for the background montage.
Formerly with the Tangmere Aviation Museum, ex Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm BAe Sea Harrier F/A.2 ZA195/-710 is now with the South Wales Aviation Museum
The large checkerboard markings on her are photographic calibration marks, used when test firing various weapons - applied when she was used for this purpose at A & AEE Boscombe Down in Wiltshire
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23rd August 2021., Dublin Airport, Ireland
Conducting checks on the ILS system on the new runway at Dublin
Stamping head to fit in a hydraulic stamping press which was used for marking a volumetric calibrated brass tee-section diprod. The levers index the numerals, which are displayed the right way round to be read just below with the raised inverted numbers at 90 degrees. The tool coulb be slid sideways to mark the line.
The company I worked for (Chiltern Glass Fibres Ltd) engraved their diprods as glass fibre could not be stamped.
During the height of metrication in the 1980s over 1000 rods a week would converted from gallons to litres and dispatched. This included wooden rods for road tankers.
31233 Top 'n' tailing with 31465 power past the small gallery at Cossington working 3Z11 Old Dalby - Derby RTC after calibration on Monday 19th May 2014.
Calibrating the focus on the 70-200mm L. It was off a sizeable amount. We'll see if my images improve any.
"Once upon a hand
Drawin in the air
Hanging to a light
Suspended in a wave
Willing to illustrate
A divine paste
A name of the holy one
Allah the only one"
Hamad Al Falasi 2010
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This is true photography - the text has been calligraphered in the air during the exposure using a handheld torch- No photoshop here
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My Entry to Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Photo Competition - Didnt make it to the finals nor the exhibition
Im testing my new monitor calibration. How does it look? too bright too dark? is the green ok..let me know please...it will help me in my editing.
Happy Sunday everyone!!
Flight Calibration Services Ltd Irish registered Diamond DA42 Twinstar EI-TCN was calibrating navaids at Shannon this evening having been to Cork earlier.
Airline: Flight Calibration Services (FCS)
Aircraft: Diamond Aircraft Diamond DA-62
Registration: G-DVOR CN: 62.040
The recent calibration of my lenses. This lens, the 105mm was the most problematic to sort as it seemed to be all over the place. Very happy with this result.
Printing Color Management Offset Intaglio Test Proofs Measurement Workers Booth Light Industrial Use Print
From Brighton City (ESH)
Flight Calibration Services Ltd (FCSL) provides cost effective flight calibration
Now EI-TCN
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I tried the globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules again this year. This time I used the 1000 mm f/10 Maksutov-Cassegrain telephotolens MC MTO-11CA (nicknamed "Russentonne" or "russian barrel" due to its stocky look and its provenience), together with the Samsung NX30 and mounted onto the Star Adventurer tracking mount. It's actually quite daring to do this, particularly without guiding, since the mount is not really designed for such a long focal length. Nevertheless, I managed to get around 100 reasonably clear 30s subs (although with a woeful success rate of only about 1 out of 3, i.e., 300 acquired, 100 accepted).
Still, I think it was worth the effort. Sharpness is homogeneous and decent after some careful post-processing, and star colours come out nicely after photometric calibration, and -typical for this lens- without any chromatic aberration. The depth of the photo is not awesome with just short of one hour useful integration time, but the galaxy NGC6207 already starts to appear at the top left.
Image details:
Lens: MC MTO-11CA 1000 mm f/10
Camera: Samsung NX30
Mount: Skywatcher Star Adventurer
Guiding: no
Filter: none
Useful subs: 98x 30 s @ ISO3200 (out of 291)
Processing:
Stacking: Deep Sky Stacker with colour calib turned off
Post-processing: SiRiL, fitswork, Luminar 2018
Flight Calibration Services’ Irish registered Diamond DA62 EI-TCN approaching Gloucestershire Airport on 11th September 2024 while undertaking instrument landing system (ILS) calibration. ILS is a precision radio navigation system that provides short-range guidance to aircraft to allow them to approach a runway at night or in bad weather.
Dhol, a double ended drum and played with hand, is an extremely popular musical instrument during festivals here in the sub-continent. They kind off generate the "hook" for everyone to tap in rhythm. With festivities round the corner, the makers get busy !!!
© All rights reserved, don´t use this image without my permission. Contact me at debmalya86@gmail.com
"Once upon a hand
Drawing in the air
Hanging to a light
Suspended in a wave
Willing to illustrate
A divine paste
A name of the holy one
Allah the only one"
Hamad Al Falasi 2010
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This is true photography - the text has been calligraphered in the air during the exposure using a handheld torch- No photoshop here
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My Entry to Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Photo Competition - Didnt make it to the finals nor the exhibition
light oil products tank car model 15-1219 built by RM Rail Ruzkhimmash (code 1167), Ruzayevka, Republic of Mordovia, Russia
G-GBAS
Diamond DA62
Flight Calibration Services Ltd
London Stansted Airport (STN / EGSS)
11.3.17
Taxying out for departure.
Voigtländer Vitoret DR, 2nd roll, test after re-calibration of rangefinder
Kodak GC/Ultramax 400
Developed at home in Unicolor/Argentix
Scanned with Pakon F135
A section of seven Flickr posts looking at issues around having ritual spaces under the monolithic impressions of ancestors: examples from the Upper Ebro region of Spain.
The following introduction paragraph is from a recent paper (circa 2011) on the subject of artificial cave architecture in the upper Ebro. It lays out an example of the current calibration of thinking regarding the sites featured in this Flickr album:
"The existence of natural formations associated with traditions of Anchorites who lived in them, and cavities excavated in a rudimentary way from very ancient times is known, since this practice has been manifest since the Neolithic. However, it was in Late Antiquity and the beginning of the Middle Ages when the construction of these dwellings became widespread acquiring greater complexity and a religious character closely related to the beginnings of Christianity in Cantabria". Diana Vega Almazán, Universidad de Cantabria.
Finding a ball of multi-coloured twines and wanting to undo the knots to 'unlock' the original red, grey, blue and yellow threads is an image that carries over to the cave architectures of the upper Ebro. One twine is the Neolithic thread, another the greater Celtiberic, another the Late antiquity, another the Anchoite hermit cultures, another the Moorish and post Moorish influences and a last, small string for the Visigoth influence.
From the quoted opening text, you may expect a sense of architectural progress, with the lines of construction actualising over time, from the older 'rudimentary' examples to more modern elegance and 'complexity'. Here I differ: in this section I do not present the upper Ebro as a quiet 'archaic' landscape, rather a fundamental crossroads on a long spiritual line that crossed the Mediterranean sea and continued via the fluvial east-west of the 900km River Ebro, directing people, ideas, objects, protocols, conceptions and stories from as far as the Fertile Crescent via final channels to the Atlantic and from there on to the greater west coast.
Naturally, examples of early permanent architecture on the Upper Ebro that modified over time and ages will today look archaic, understanding that by the Neolithic, stone carving skills were capable of producing coherent shapes and forms both larger and smaller than the average size of a anchoritic hermit's space - which was around "3.7 to 4.6 m square, with three windows". By the bronze age, stone skills were producing elegant and enigmatic sites, and I offer the Chalcolithic 'boat havens' of Fontvieille as examples of technicity (these megasites are featured in recent posts and are also linked to a major fluvial highway and junction). By the Iron Age, examples of carved interiors were proto classical and controlled ornamentation was appearing. For the 'hermits' and Anchorites of, let's say the 3rd to 10th centuries, their 'return' to core human values were in opposition to the hyperbole of 'symbolic exteriors' typical of certain Roman and Feudal excesses - and with these ways of being, and we must even expect some early medieval examples to be more rudimentary than examples that were conceived during - for example, the pre-Roman Celtiberic period. Likewise, Anchorites and hermits may have found these pre-existing cave architectures to be in-keeping with their lifestyle, offering a late chapter of occupation and even modification for a site. We must also understand that some anchorite 'anchorholds' (as their small abodes could be known) may have grown, and today these examples may stand aside examples with far deeper pasts. Such is a knotted ball of string, that we may even expect to see examples built by institutional Feudal sources keen to syphon residual behaviours and beliefs and centralise power.
The monolithic sarcophagi (seen on the above 'roof') is currently measured in texts as being from early medieval dates, and as these Flickr posts continue, I hope to ease their date range back into late prehistory. In this series, I will be looking for elements that might signal pre-Christian belief systems, with this section of numbered posts looking at examples where ancestors are over the heads of worshipers and religious leaders, rather than under as is the norm for the Christian faith.
With simplicity guaranteed, Christian history may be seen to have passed through the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, Monastic and Neo-Missionary. I define the last category as being where individuals offer themselves as examples to their communities, often via highly measured lifestyles (Cathar, Hermit and Anchorites... ). For those interested in prehistory and the bridge between the late ages of prehistory and late Antiquity, both the early Monastic and the Neo-Missionary present categories that seem best able to hybridise with pre Christian belief systems.
A thought experiment: from an imaginary room signed 'Neo-Missionary' we may enter and open a hypothetical box titled 'Anchorite': inside we might expect to see another 'ball of multicoloured threads', with some lengths motivated exclusively by Christian texts, others motivated by the powers of ancient ritual sites and rites, and some by a mix of the two sources. Once again, another thread may work from within the category with the aim of shifting the belief system and its people towards centralised power models.
From this rich and varied vista we can now look at examples of old master paintings of hermits and their caves. All images from Wiki:
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AJM 27.11.20
Working 1Z10 to the Old Dalby Test Center for Calibration with TIC2 Colas Rail Class 37 37099 leads 37254 onto the old test line near Melton at dusk picking up the light from the train
The Lauingen Calibration Fountain is the oldest barrel Calibration Institute of the Free State of Bavaria.
Thanks to the commitment of the Culture Market Lauingen e.V., in the Upper Brunnental a very special facility is waiting for interested guests. The Lauingen Eichbrunnen is the oldest Barrel Calibration Institute in the Free State. Here, the capacity of barrels was officially recorded by the gauger. This was approximately the case, for example, as with the TÜV tests of our days. Thanks to the work of the Gauging Office, the trade in wine and beer also in the old days was protected from unfair practices. This was of particular importance in Lauingen. In 1755, the city had 19 breweries and 51 restaurants (today they are still 27) - in a city with around 11,000 inhabitants!).
In the year 1937 the Lauingen Calibration Fountain was released from its function, since it did not fulfill the then applicable guidelines.
Eichbrunnen
Der Lauinger Eichbrunnen ist die älteste Fasseichanstalt des Freistaats.
Dank des Engagements des Kulturmarkt Lauingen e.V. wartet im Oberen Brunnental eine ganz besondere Einrichtung auf interessierte Gäste. Der Lauinger Eichbrunnen ist die älteste Fasseichanstalt des Freistaats. Hier wurde das Fassungsvermögen von Fässern durch den Eichmeister amtlich festgehalten. Damit verhielt es sich etwa so wie mit den TÜV-Prüfungen unserer Tage. Dank der Arbeit des Eichamtes war der Handel mit Wein und Bier auch in alter Zeit vor unlauteren Machenschaften geschützt. Dies war in Lauingen von besonderer Bedeutung. Im Jahre 1755 hatte die Stadt 19 Brauereien und 51 Gaststätten (heute sind es derer immerhin noch 27 - in einer Stadt mit rund 11.000 Einwohnern!).
Im Jahre 1937 wurde der Lauinger Eichbrunnen von seiner Funktion entbunden, da er die damaligen Richtlinien nicht mehr erfüllte.
Berlin-Tegel Airport, Germany (EDDT/TXL),
May 10, 2014,
Flight Calibration Services, D-CFME, Beech 350 Super King Air, cn FL-627
Acquisition, Calibration- Mike Selby
Post-processing- Warren Keller
Telescope- CDK1000, CDK17
Mounts- Planewave
Camera- FLI PL16803
Filters: Chroma LRGB 2"
Software: StarKeeper.it Voyager
Location- Obstech, El Sauce, Chile
PixInsight 1.8.9, Photoshop 2025
Object description at www.billionsandbillions.com
Photo taken by Stefan Röhrich.
München-Riem
1978-07-13 (13 July 1978)
D-AFSD
Hawker Siddeley HS-748 Srs2/244
1656
Bundesanstalt für Flugsicherung (BFS, West German Flight Inspection)
BFS calibration aircraft parked in Riem’s Westpilz parking area. The wing above belongs to French Air Force Noratlas 340-VG.
BFS operated seven HS-748 (D-AFSD, D-AFSE, D-AFSF, D-AFSG, D-AFSH, D-AFSI, D-AFSJ). D-AFSD was delivered on 19 December 1969 and withdrawn from use in May 1982 to go on to Canada; it was still active in May 2016 as a bulk fuel tanker with Wasaya Airways. D-AFSE had already been wfu in January 1982, D-AFSG was sold to Air Inuit in July 89, while D-AFSF, -H, -I and -J flew on for BFS until 1997.
The measuring equipment inside D-AFSD weighed 2.5t and included receivers, multimeters, sensors, oscilloscopes, computers, frequency analyzers, television cameras, monitors and various evaluation and communication equipment. 47 antennas had to be installed on the aircraft to send and receive the signals necessary for measurement purposes alone. The measurement equipment was designed and installed in the aircraft by MBB Hamburg. The last HS-748 (D-AFSJ, c/n 1727) intended for the BFS was delivered on April 8, 1976.
Source: jabog32.de/yaja/gfms.html
Information on the Gemeinsame Flugvermessungsstelle GFMS at Lechfeld Air Base where this aircraft served can also be found under jabog32.de/yaja/gfms.html.
This airframe as N57910 at PIK on delivery to the US in 1984:
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C-GLTC with Inter City Airways at YYZ in 1986:
www.flickr.com/photos/steelhead2010/6847070395
This airframe as C-GLTC with Air Ontario at YYZ in ca. 1987:
www.flickr.com/photos/100672308@N07/31497333826
C-GLTC with Kelner Cargo in May 1990:
www.flickr.com/photos/33932332@N07/3264856543
C-GLTC with Wasaya Airways at Red Lake Airport/ON (YRL) in July 2001:
www.flickr.com/photos/steelhead2010/8272342590
C-GLTC with Wasaya Airways stored engineless at Thunder Bay (YQT) in July 2017:
canavbooks.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/blog-18-nw-ontario...
Scan from Kodachrome K25 slide.
Acquisition, Calibration- Mike Selby
Post-processing- Warren Keller
Telescope- CDK1000, CDK17
Mounts- Planewave
Camera- FLI PL16803
Filters: Chroma LRGB 2"
Software: StarKeeper.it Voyager
Location- Obstech, El Sauce, Chile
PixInsight 1.8.9, Photoshop 2023
Object description at www.billionsandbillions.com
A Gaia test image of the young star cluster NGC1818 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, taken as part of calibration and testing before the science phase of the mission begins. The field-of-view is 212 x 212 arcseconds and the image is approximately oriented with north up and east left. The integration time of the image was 2.85 seconds and the image covers an area less than 1% of the full Gaia field of view.
Gaia’s overall design is optimised for making precise position measurements and the primary mirrors of its twin telescopes are rectangular rather than round. To best match the images delivered by the telescopes, the pixels in Gaia’s focal plane detectors are then also rectangular. In order to produce this image of NGC1818, the image has been resampled onto square pixels. Furthermore, to maximise its sensitivity to very faint stars, Gaia’s main camera does not use filters and provides wide-band intensity data, not true-colour images. The false-colour scheme used here relates to intensity only. The real colours and spectral properties of the stars are measured by other Gaia instruments.
Credit: ESA/DPAC/Airbus DS
Read more: www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Gaia/Gaia_comes_...
D-CFMB Beech 350 Super KIng Air [FL-97] (Flight Calibration Services) Vienna-Schwechat~OE 13/09/2007