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a great flowery friday to you!
i am taking a break now due to two reasons: firstly, i am heading off on
vacation and secondly, the new layout gets on my nerves!
i totally dislike the black background, i miss the complexity of the
former layout and there are some other objects i am really upset about.
i really hope that this "bigger and brighter" thing will be modified into
a more user-friendly thing, otherwise i am not yet sure if i will go on
here.
there are plenty of other fish in the sea. ;)
have a good time!
The eighth in this little series. A complex literal dendrite structure played out in the branches that hide the glow of autumn in the beech trees behind. You can also play spot the pigeon in this one :)
I got a call from a good friend to go take pictures at a sheep operation. I was fascinated by the complexity and precision of the lambing operation that was taking place. This gentleman was operating the water truck and filling water troughs in all the various separating pens.
#AbFav_EARLY_AUTUMN_🍎
A grand celebration of Autumn.
My neighbour grows this lovely vine... it is now absolutely delightful.
They offered me some and I brought the leaves into the studio and made a few compositions.
First thing you see of course are the colours in this grapevine leaf... but then the eye gets drawn in to complexity of the texture, all the veins, the small bumps, little scars due to weather or ‘visitors’?
Wishing you a wonderful day and as always, thank you for visiting, Magda, (*_*)
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Merry Christmas everyone! I have a brand new hair out at Uber this month, so I hope you come try out a demo after you've stuffed your bellies full of yummy holiday food. There's currently a bug causing complexity issues with the hair. I've included a version of the hair without the style hud to allow you to reduce your complexity.
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I'll also be choosing bloggers for next month! Happy holidays! ❤️
COMPLEXITY
- turquoise, olive greens, greenish yellows,
I am feeling 100% better now. Crazy to think only a day ago I thought I was dying. just kidding, I can be dramatic
p.s. the feathers were from my Halloween costume this year- I went as a drunk peacock
In an effort to show the unlimited complexities of snowflakes, here is a simple star design, a common type of snowflake that falls by the trillions every year, but with a unique twist – colour in the center with a pattern that cannot be replicated exactly, ever again. Every snowflake is unique! View Large! (press the "L" key to turn on Lightbox mode!)
Snowflakes are complex creations. Governed by a few simple set of physics “rules”, add in the number of molecules required (many quintillion) and pseudo-random variations in temperature, humidity, wind speed, etc. and you’ve got a recipe for unique structures every time. No two snowflakes are ever alike. Some might look similar on the surface, but details reveal another story… and I’m glad I can showcase the details within this series. :)
The colour, for example, is produced by multiple layers of air and ice that evoke the phenomenon known as “thin film interference”. For those that have read these descriptions before, I’ll stop myself from sounding like a broken record. For those curious what the heck “thin film interference”, check out these pages of Sky Crystals for a very good explanation: skycrystals.ca/pages/optical-interference-pages.jpg
The patterns of colour are determined by the thickness of ice and air, and as these two variables change, so too does the resulting colour. The inner part of this snowflake has a “shield”, a top plate layer which is part of a fully-grown “capped column” crystal that might be contributing to this effect… but it only echoes the same idea: these are incredibly small, but incredibly complex things. Measuring roughly 1.5mm in diameter, this snowflake and trillions like it go completely unnoticed every year, but the result is the same in each one: untold complexity that results in untold beauty.
Of course, photographing these snowflakes can be quite difficult. Earlier this evening I was fortunate enough to be featured on another episode of the Jpeg2Raw video podcast and while I featured a fair amount of my work, this snowflakes was used as an example for my editing workflow. I’ll post a link to that episode when it goes live. And you’ll see what is involved in producing this final image. About three and a half hours were dedicated to this crystal, even though (only!) 24 layers were used in the focus stacking part of the process. Plenty of effort is placed into each image, in order to create a scientifically accurate and photographically beautiful image. Rarely do those two things run hand-in-hand!
This entire series of images is based on my love for science, and my love for photography. Snowflakes are perfect subject to bridge that gap, but my personal enjoyment isn’t enough. I wanted to share the experience of discovery with everyone, so I wrote and published a book called Sky Crystals: www.skycrystals.ca/ which details all of the science (in an easy-to-understand way) with all of the photographic techniques in exhaustive detail. Check it out if you have a love of nature, physics and photography like myself. Or check it out if you simply enjoy these images. :)
All is not what it seems : The MPV hasn't broken down and its not a DRS service either. Sadly the complexities of the modern railway just create additional expense and this is a prime example.
DB Cargo have the North West England, Borders and Scottish weed spray contract currently which during the Covid pandemic ran loco hauled to maintain social distancing between the crew but this year was to run as booked with a MPV unit. The problem is route knowledge and traction knowledge, so there are just two drivers left at Carlisle who sign MPV's one works for GBRF and one for DRS and now nobody at DB. Only DB drivers at Warrington, Mossend and Millerhill sign MPV's in the area covered. The previous day had seen the MPV run with an SLC-O driver from Birmingham conducted by a DB driver but on this day with nobody available to drive the MPV and DB experiencing a loco shortage the solution was to hire a DRS class 66 for the DB driver to drive using the JSD-Rail fitter (they man the MPV) to set it up for loco haulage.... How many people to change a light bulb !
The irony on the day is the loco DB Cargo hired from DRS was 66 108 (DB owned and leased to DRS) which covered the Kingmoor Yard pilot while the "pilot loco" was used to work the weed spray train. You couldn't make it up as that loco too was a DRS liveried class 66 hired from DB to DRS and back to DB, namely 66 091.
The ensemble is seen here at Wigton with 66 091 hauling MPV DR98911+DR98969 working 3Z18 12.05 Kingmoor Yard - Carnforth - Kingmoor Yard.
Just one of the many and varied complexities of being human. I know I have my own inclination to holding onto things in an impermanent universe and I know several people whose homes are filled with objects. Where do you draw the line between what's normal behavior and what isn't?
EXPLORE #398.MARCH 24,2009
“It doesn't matter how much you want.
What really matters is how much you want it.
The extent and complexity of the problem does
not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.”
Inspired by the Layers project. I wanted a dramatic scenario to add a conceptual layer as a puzzle as well as two literal layers. The layers of dictionaries was the initial 'layers of meaning' but then my overactive imagination took off. I added objects that suggested modern and ancient analytical thinking, even alchemy.
A Complex Beautiful Mesh Of Virtual Reality & Tech To Simplify Complexities Of Real Life - IMRAN™
Do you remember the movie Minority Report? Do you remember the days when airline travel was actually fun? Do you want to experience lots of things without danger or going broke?
All those things are coming together. Read on. I enjoyed a great article “Microsoft just revealed the future of Teams (You may love it, airlines won't)” by Chris Matyszczyk in ZDNet. Bad puns and tongue in cheek opinions on serious topics are what I am addicted to as well. 😉
I love technology, including Microsoft Teams that this article mentioned. (Full disclosure, my current {non-sales} day job is with helping global banks do modern work and collaboration using Teams and new tech). Microsoft just demoed some revolutionary new tools enabling holograms and VR to be used in real life and work. Then you’ll love Microsoft Mesh.
I have loved flying since my first trip as a solo-child traveler, at age 7 in Pakistan. And I have been a 3D & VR fan (View Master got me hooked on it) since childhood too.
Every year (except during the pandemic of course) I am able to fly airlines more and more but enjoy it less and less. Here’s why.
I LOVE the “flying in the air, looking out the window” part. I often ABHOR the “sitting in the plane as an airline passenger” part. IMHO, the biggest enemies of the joys of flying have been... drum roll... the airlines themselves.
So when my beloved technologies like computing, networking, software, user interfaces, and virtual reality converge it is a beautiful thing. If futuristic “Minority Report” type technology takes the "necessity of business" part out of airline travel, it is something I celebrate.
I bet I would travel a lot more — even at my own expense — if airlines became sources of unique, great, comfortable, fun customer experiences instead of learning how a UPS package feels packed on a truck. If only airlines learn the lesson that eventually all painful user experiences are replaced by alternates, and it’s their turn next. Maybe they will understand that the only way to survive is to provide customers such great experiences that they are willing to pay for it by choice, not necessity.
Check out youtu.be/Jd2GK0qDtRg . What do you think?
Imran Anwar
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ZDnet article: www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-just-revealed-the-future-... .
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A murmuration of starfish grasp the rock, laid bare to an epoch of low tide by the forsaking sea.
Interesting fact I learned about Starfish: They rely on a network of nerves that simply react to the environment. The central nervous system of a starfish consists of a radial nerve running the length of each ray and a circumoral nerve ring that connects the radial nerves. All environmental sensory information must go to the radial nerves, any memories must be stored in the radial nerves, and any decisions about what to do must be made in the radial nerves. And somehow, the five different radial nerves must coordinate those decisions if the starfish is going to get anywhere.
I am glad my life isn't as complicated as it seemingly is a starfish!
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Passion flower.
Amigos, I will still be posting to Flickr and checking your latest work, but now I'm becoming more active on Instagram - it's going to be the main social media platform for my images. It's where everybody is. Resistance is futile! Hope we can connect there as well: