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Not done in 2020 in many places, controlled prairie burns seemed to be taking place in the past week. I was surprised to see this on a weekend since there are usually more people out and about. It didn't take long to burn through this Arboretum prairie. I'm looking forward to seeing the life that fills the prairies in 2021.
Fuego Controlado © Foc Controlat
Falla Trinquete / Fallas de Elda 2011
Elda (Alicante - Comunidad Valenciana - Pais Valencià - Spain)
Trying out the SA control on my RF100mm Macro. This lens has an SA (Spherical Aberration) control that changes the bokeh and the apparent sharpness of the image by adding a diffused soft-focus look as you change the control ring from -4, 0, +4 This is @ +4.
The OOF bubbles are actually water from a solar fountain in the foreground. + settings change the FG bokeh, and - settings change the BG bokeh. Either way softens the actual focus point
For me, I would take two shots if conditions allow, one with and one without SA, then in PS mask-out the SA subject to bring the non-SA subject into clear focus, leaving the background or foreground with the SA effect.
My 2 cents
In January 2015, the City of Broken Hill was included on the National Heritage Register. This register lists 106 other iconic landmarks such as the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Kakadu National Park, and the Australian Alps. Broken Hill is the first city to be listed. Extensive research and consultation with the Broken Hill community was a key part of the listing.
The National Heritage List is Australia’s pre-eminent heritage list recognising and protecting the nation’s most valued natural, indigenous, and historic heritage sites. Listing is the highest heritage honour in Australia and listed placed receive national attention and benefits from increased domestic and international tourism. Broken Hil has been assessed against the nine National Heritage Criteria, which include historic, aesthetic, and social values, creative and technical achievements, associations with significant peoples, and others.
The following is the Statement of Significance for the City of Broken Hill which was prepared as part of the listing process:
“The City of Broken Hill has outstanding significance to the nation for its role in creating enormous wealth, for its long, enduring and continuing mining operations, and the community’s deep and shared connection with Broken Hill as the isolated city in the desert, its outback landscape, the planned design and landscaping of the town, the regeneration areas and particularly the physical reminders of its mining origins such as the Line of Lode, the barren mullock heaps, tailings, skimps and slagheap escarpment and relict structures. It exhibits historic qualities in its ongoing mining operations since 1883, the current and relict mining infrastructure and its landscape setting. It is significant for its industrial past ….. together with its role as a pioneer in setting occupational health and safety standards.”
“It demonstrates the principal characteristics of a mining town in a remote location with extensive transport infrastructure and administrative connections to three state capitals and as a rare example of a place subject to Australia’s complex Federal system where differing administrative, social and economic influences are expressed in both tangible and intangible forms. It has social significance for its residents as a place of community pride, endurance, and as a remote mining community resilient to major social and economic change, Broken Hill has strong social significance for all Australians as a place where great wealth was created, as well as strong group associations with the Barrier Industrial Council. It exhibits outstanding aesthetic characteristics as a city in an arid desert setting, as the subject of interest for Australian artists, poets, film makers, TV producers and photographers.”
“It has significance as a place where outstanding technical achievement has occurred in refining ore for its minerals including the froth flotation process and the computer controlled on-stream analysis of slurries. Broken Hill is also important as a place of research potential to reveal further information on mineral deposits with its range of complex minerals. It is associated with person of great importance to Australia’s history, including Albert Morris (arid land regeneration), Charls Rasp (discoverer), Herbert Hoover (mining engineer), WL Baillieu, WA Robinson and MAE Mawby (industrialists), GD Delprat (metallurgist), Percy Brookfield and Eugene O’Neill (unionists). Broken Hill’s association with the Barrier Industrial Council as a group is also important.”
“The Broken Hill zinc-lead-silver ore deposit is one of the world’s largest ore bodies and contains an extraordinary array of minerals. It is geologically complex and has national scientific significance. The Broken Hill operation is significant for its immense size and unrecorded mineral species continue to be found. It contributes to an understanding of the formation of the Australian continent and more than 2, 300 million years of the earth’s history.”
The City of Broken Hill is delighted that the special heritage values of the city are recognised and celebrated nationally and internationally by this listing.
Wilyakali Country:
Wilyakali lies in the east of the state of South Australia, crossing into New South Wales, including the town of Broken Hill. The Wilyakali people traditionally visited the Paakantji people on the Menindee Lakes in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion each year.
The three Major language groups for the Broken Hill Region are the Paakantji, Mayyankapa, and Nyiimpaa.
Wilyakali and Danggali both lie east of the Ngadjuri language and north of the upper River Murray languages.
Wilyakali and Danggali are part of the Darling River Language Group or Paakantyi / Paakantji language group. This is a group of closely related languages in South Australia and New South Wales, which can be subdivided into two groups: the “Northern Dialects” and the “Southern Dialects.” Wilyakali and Danggali are both part of the “Southern Dialects.”
Other “Southern Dialects” include Pulaali, Southern Pankantyi, Pantyikali, Wanyuparlku and Marrawarra. Some of these languages have been recorded more than others. Although each language has its own distinguishing features, they are so similar they can be understood by speakers of other languages in this group. Therefore, the following reference list will include Southern Paakantyi references that may be helpful. The language name is noted in square brackets after each reference, when known.
Today the Wilyakali people are still the main Aboriginal group in Broken Hill, though there are a number of Aboriginal people that come from other language groups.
The Aboriginal people of Broken Hill have established working parties to pursue their vision of a better future. They continue to look after their traditional lands and are joint managers of the Mutawintji National Park which is the first national park handed back to the traditional owners in New South Wales. There are many strong elders who continue to maintain and pass on their traditional knowledge to their young people and, today, share their stories with the wider community.
Source: Broken Hill: A Guide to the Silver City by Elizabeth Vines, Mobile Language Team, & Aboriginal Housing Office.
"Form a gang, join a lofi band"
Resist the mainstream with your every action. Rearrange your life to extinguish all phony culture. Let who you are render the old world obsolete.
This scene reminded me of Marionette puppets controlled by strings
The art of kite flying contrasted against the brilliance of this golden, winter sunset.
**It is really quite amazing to see how close these people can stand together without having their strings become tangled up in the sky.
Garry Point Park
Steveston, Richmond
BC
Canada
Your views are always so very much appreciated. Thanks for visiting.
~Christie (Happiest by the River)
**Best experience in full screen. Thanks for peeking !
An AC inverter control panel (slightly less than 3" horizontally from edge to edge). This type of inverter, more commonly called a variable-frequency drive, is generally used as an efficient motor speed control in many commercial and industrial applications. Similar systems are used in microwave ovens, air-conditioning systems, EVs, and other consumer devices.
One downside to inverter technology is a distinctive, continuous high-pitched whine emitting from the motor. Noises like this are familiar to anyone who has taken a subway or a trolley using newer equipment.
In this instance, I am using a secondhand inverter and motor to power a 35mm projector, giving it variable speed capability and, more importantly, prolonging the time it takes to come up to full speed and slow down to a stop to minimize stress on the mechanism and film.
Interesting that the steering wheel on the Kaiwo Maru has no view of the water. Wonder if this is just a token display of what's on the bridge, but the brass and wood that make up the wheel are pretty impressive.
To see others' superb photos of the Kaiwo Maru during the 3 day
tall ship festival in Steveston--including the sailors up on the masts unfurling the sails--please go to this Gallery I created: www.flickr.com/photos/130881643@N04/galleries/72157681555...
The interceptor from Proxyon Industries is one of the most effective strikecraft in the royal fleet.
For optimal maneuverability, it boasts low moments of inertia along all axes and a fully diagonal inertia tensor.
For pitch and yaw control, it has been outfitted with three reaction wheels (of which one is allowed to fail).
For roll, lateral movement and desaturating the reaction wheels, 12 small RCS thrusters have been fitted.
The pilot is situated extremely close to the center of gravity of the craft to make sure the interceptor can rotate quickly without putting strain on the pilot due to centripetal forces.
Lastly, linear acceleration is accomplished by means of three standard Solovyov rocket engines.
The interceptor comes equipped with three auto-targeting small caliber rotary-autocannons, loaded with thermite rounds. These can be used both offensively and to target incoming missiles.
The placement and range of movement of these armaments provide full cover around the entire craft, no blind spots.
When a target is detected, at least two of the autocannons will be able to fire immediately, and depending on the situation, the interceptor will make slight attitude adjustments to be able to use the third autocannon as well.
Competitors might call these armaments flimsy, but thanks to the low momentum of the lighter rounds and high rate of fire, these weapons only cause a small, almost continuous thrust when firing, which is easily compensated for by the RCS thrusters. This in turn makes the interceptor very smooth and predictable to fly, even when in combat.
Built for the Real World +200 Starfighter contest.
Applying engineering knowledge to lego models is quite fun.
The red light used to aid night vision reminds me of the darkroom days. This is indeed an interior of a submarine in service 1944-1969. She is part of The Independence Seaport Museum in Philidelphia.
Tatiana Weston-Webb doing powerful turns in full control at Rocky Point on the North Shore. This season she's been performing well on the World Championship Tour (best of the best) as an injury replacement, and is also close to qualify for the next season.
A long-jawed orb weaver spider (Tetragnatha sp.) carrying a parasitoid wasp larva, likely an ichneumonid.
These remarkable larvae feed externally on the spider while chemically manipulating its behavior. Before pupation, the spider is induced to construct a modified web structure that protects the developing wasp larva, one of nature’s most extraordinary examples of parasite-driven behavioral control.
The larva gradually turns the spider into both a living food source and a chemically controlled puppet. One of many examples of evolution’s own “Neuralinks”.