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I first heard about this legendary lens in 2006, just as I was really getting serious doing photography. I was 20 and it was way out of my price range, and why would anyone want an old manual focus lens? The allure of this special lens and the way it renders the light the passes through it is just something special. I’ve kept my eye on the pricing of this lens since then. I’ve read countless blogs about how it is so special...I just couldn’t ever convince myself to pull the trigger and buy one.
Then one day this July I was reading a blog post about this lens, one I’d read 100 times before and I thought I’d check the prices. On eBay they were all going for what I was expecting and I thought to myself I’d check KEH Camera a very reputable used gear seller. To my surprise, they had one in stock. It was about ¼ less than what they were going for on eBay and KEH rated this one as “bargain” quality.
If you’ve ever bought from KEH you’ll know that their ratings are VERY generous. I thought I’d take the chance and if it was in poorer condition I’d send it back with their generous return policy. The lens arrived, glass in perfect condition, and a single scrape on the metal lens barrel, other than that it was in perfect condition.
So I kept it, and have just fallen in love with this lens. I’m so glad it lived up to all the hype and I love the images I’ve taken with it so far. I look forward to the ones I haven’t taken yet. This is one of those lenses I’ll never sell or part with.
Night after night... floating in warm waves of expectation. He always ends up here... with me
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In pristine condition, probably It just emerged from its Pupa,
Please see this video of Monarch emerging.
Leaderfoot Viaduct is a railway viaduct over the River Tweed in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK. It is situated 2.5 km east of Melrose.
The viaduct was opened on November 16, 1863 to carry the Berwickshire Railway, which connected Reston (on the East Coast Main Line between Berwick-upon-Tweed and Edinburgh) with St Boswells (on the Edinburgh to Carlisle "Waverley Line"), via Duns and Greenlaw. The engineers of the railway were Charles Jopp and Wylie & Peddie.
The arches, each of 13 metre (43 feet) span, are of brickwork, and the abutments, piers and walls are of rustic-faced red sandstone. Some later strengthening of the abutments and piers with old rails and buttresses on the southern valley side is very obvious. The railway was severed by flooding during August 1948, after which passenger trains never ran west of Duns. Freight trains continued to run across the viaduct as far as Greenlaw until July 19, 1965.
The viaduct is in good condition, having been renovated by Historic Scotland between 1992 and 1995. Good views of it can be obtained from Drygrange Bridge and the modern A68 road bridge immediately downriver. There has been talk of including the viaduct in the local footpath network but it is not normally open to the public, although access to the bridge is fairly easy for those who wish to go up.
16th August 2009.
1. Skinny scalp before (modeled by Sprinkles)
2. I rinsed and conditioned the skinny and set it on sponge rollers. I placed it under a portable fan to dry for several hours and left the rollers in overnight.
3. Rollers out, curls set (no products used, curls set tight and smooth)
4. Styled: finger fluffing and separating curls, no combing or brushing
Coltsfoot / tussilago farfara. Nottingham Canal, Cossall, Nottinghamshire. 30/03/21.
Part of a more extensive group of Coltsfoot growing on the bank of a disused canal. The bright yellow flowers were newly opened, so in prime condition.
Little did I know they would be heralding such a cold, wet Spring!
INSTRUCTIONS...
1. Carry this with you EVERYWHERE you go!
2. Follow the instructions on every page.
3. Order is not important.
4. Instructions are open to interpretation.
5. Experiment! (Work against your better judgement!)
WARNING: During the process of this book you will get dirty.
You may find yourself covered in paint,or any other number of foreign substances.
You will get wet.
You may be asked to do things you question.
You may grieve for the perfect state that you found your book in.
You may begin to see creative destruction everywhere.
You may begin to live more recklessly!
A walk around my local park in Balloch last week found the diverse naturalised and native trees in peak autumn condition. One of my favourites are the Japanese maples which can be found in abundance around the walled garden in the centre of the park.
DE-ICING
At time of taking photos there was either freezing rain or heavy snow. If you have any hints how to take better photos in these condition, please let me know.
Thanks
Stephen
Mint condition! A nice find.
That's all for this location, but in retrospect I think I should have spent more time here and checked a larger area. It's getting late in the season, but it will be on my list for next season to take another look at this area and some nearby sections that look similar.
The cutting-edge technology that keeps the Silverstone motor racing track in tip-top condition could be coming to Croydon. John Bownas spoke to the team hoping to bring it here.
Pot holes – we all hate ‘em, and Croydon certainly has its share.
But now, the borough’s highways team is taking a lead from the people responsible for maintaining Silverstone’s grand prix circuit.
New technology that is good enough for the world’s top racing drivers is being tested in Croydon to see if it is up to the council’s exacting standards.
If trials are successful, the infrared-powered Nu-Phalt repair system could become invaluable to Croydon’s road repair crews who would be the first in London to realise its potential benefits.
Apart from a significant possible cost saving, the biggest advantages that the new technique has over traditional methods are:
•speed: a typical 1 square metre repair can be completed in just 20 minutes; currently, the same job takes considerably longer, and would be only a temporary fix;
•durability: the infra-red triggered thermal bonding means that patch repairs are far more permanent and blend seamlessly into the surrounding road surface;
•environmentally friendly: the process starts by recycling the existing macadam and needs only a small amount of new material to top off the repair.
The council has recently announced a multi-million pound investment project to resurface many of its roads.
However, there will always be a need for fast and efficient repairs in those cases where small patches of tarmac work loose.
This can happen at any time of the year – although it is usually after spells of wet or cold weather that these small holes open up to create a real headache for motorists and cyclists.
In total, the council’s emergency repairs operation currently costs about £560k every year in manpower and materials – and that’s not including the money that is budgeted separately for the major road resurfacing schemes that we will be seeing a lot more of over the next few years.
Steve Iles is the council’s head of highways, and he knows better than anyone else in the borough just how big a task it is to stay on top of the thousands of road repairs that his teams have to carry out every year.
Talking to Your Croydon about this mammoth job and his hopes for the promising high-tech solution, he first ran through some of the big numbers involved.
“We’ve got nearly 3,000 roads in Croydon, and these all get inspected by the council at least twice a year.
“We look out for any problems that might have arisen since the last visit – and particularly any new holes or cracks that could pose a hazard.
“Since January our system’s logged nearly 5,000 new reports from both streetscene inspectors and those members of the public who phone or email to tell us about possible problems.”
In that same time we’ve managed to fill in or repair about 9,800 – but there’s still around 8,600 that we know about waiting to be fixed.
“That takes a lot of doing,” continued Steve, “I’ve got six full-time staff who spend the majority of their day out doing this sort of work.
“And when they can’t do road repairs, because of snow and ice, they drive the gritting lorries to try to keep the roads clear.”
Tony Whyatt is the highways engineer whose research into improved technology solutions has led to the trial of the Nu-Phalt system.
“I’m really optimistic about how this will save us time and money.
“We reuse most of the existing road material on-site and need to add only a small amount of fresh material to each repair.
“There’s no noisy compressors, and the system cuts the number of vehicles and staff involved in each repair.
“We also minimise disruption to traffic – which is good for drivers – and these repairs can be driven over again almost immediately they’re finished.”
Indeed, driving away from our meeting with Tony we drove over a number of holes that had just been filled – and the first thing we noticed was that we didn’t notice them at all.
The repaired road was as smooth as the day it was originally laid.
322/365....I'm grateful for air conditioning on a hot day (we arrived in Palm Springs today and I remembered what hot is!)....
...for my 30 days of gratitude project....
Some call the genre of photography I am involved with "street photography" because much of it occurs on streets, and other public places. A more accurate name for my genre of photography would be "life as it happens", or the "human condition".
Meeting a stranger is something I usually enjoy immensely and having the opportunity to make a photograph of them is certainly a privilege. Sometimes I wind up in discussions that last a while and sometimes we only exchange a word or two. And at times there are no words spoken -- only the eyes and expression do the talking. As I carry my camera -- this wonderful, tiny time machine -- I am always trying to be an ambassador of hope, joy, opportunity, kindness, acceptance, and understanding. I have come to realize that every human being, despite their lot in life -- whether they are rich or poor, educated or uneducated, old or young, healthy or sick, famous or unknown -- all of them, all of us, need a moment of validation that verifies in our souls we are someone, and we are on this planet for a reason. More important than these moments in time I am freezing with this tiny time machine I carry around with me, are the simple validations, an exchange of hope, a reason to live, that I can give away freely with no fear of running out of inventory. And whenever I share a gift of hope with someone, I find a deposit has been made in my account, in my soul, that is better than in my bank account. For this is the reason we all exist on this planet.
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The We're Here! gang is examining the Human Condition today. I'm quite out of condition, but we've converted one of the spare bedrooms into a gym, so...
The brilliant Australian conductor Simone Young once said that she has the condition whereby she can "see" musical notes as colours. This should not be surprising. Sound and light both come to us in waves. And wavelength (frequency) determines the pitch and colour of each. This condition is known as Chromesthesia.
Each of the seven notes on a musical scale can be represented by seven colours, and then we simply move up an octave.
• red-D.
• orange-E.
• yellow-F.
• green-G.
• blue -A.
• indigo-B.
• violet-C.
So that is all I have done here.
www.soundoflife.com/blogs/experiences/seeing-sound-hearin...
As you can plainly see, I don't try very hard to keep my MacBook Pro in mint condition. The bevels are unglued, the fans aren't as quiet, and as for the onions: I'm just lucky they haven't set the thing on fire.
Hamburg, Germany. 2008 to 2016.
Taken on 135, color negative film.
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Technical Notes: Contax G2, Zeiss 45mm. The film emulsion was probably Rossmann's house brand of a ASA400 film, made in Japan, likely relabeled Fuji film sold under the Rossmann brand. This film does not exist anymore. Scanned on a PrimeFilm XAs in RAW with VueScan Pro, then processed in Lightroom with Negative Lab Pro.