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He diflected the .22 cal pellet and then just watched it fly by lol. ;-) but minus an arm. ;-(
Taken with a Panasonic FZ50 and a www.makezine.com/flashkit/
F-35C Lightning II carrier variant aircraft CF-2 is performing Jet Blast Deflector (JBD) tests at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey.
Layer-deflecting bright red concretion of haematitic chert (an iron-rich and silica-rich rock), which contains tubular and filamentous microfossils. This so-called jasperis in contact with a dark green volcanic rock in the top right and represents hydrothermal vent precipitates on the seafloor. Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt, Québec, Canada. Photo by Dominic Papineau
With a view of the flame trench and flame deflector below, NASA's mobile launcher (ML) atop crawler-transporter 2 arrives at Launch Pad 39B on Aug. 31, 2018, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The ML will undergo a fit check, followed by several days of systems testing. The 380-foot-tall mobile launcher is equipped with the crew access arm and several umbilicals that will provide power, environmental control, pneumatics, communication and electrical connections to NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft. Exploration Ground Systems is preparing the ground systems necessary to launch SLS and Orion on Exploration Mission-1, missions to the Moon and on to Mars. Photo credit: NASA/Cory Huston
A waxwing hunts for berries in a thicket at Old Moor nature reserve. I had to use manual focus to get this shot, as there were so many branches and twigs to deflect my focus
This is a test composite in preparation for my week 32 photograph: 32/52: Maisie(s) & Jack(s) Cover.
It is obviously a composite of five photographs.
Two lights took the background to white. Another two in strip boxes from the rear sides added the highlights to the sides of the subjects (When they weren't in the box!). A main light with beauty dish on from upper camera left and then a large fill light from on camera axis to lift the shadows in the box that were caused by the main light.
I ended up shooting at 80mm at f/16 to give me a little more room for the kids to move around and still be in focus.
Strobist:
Ranger A Head, A port at 7.0, 70cm white maxisoft with silver deflector and sock, upper camera left.
Ranger Quadra A Head, A port at 6.0, 135 Midi Octa with both diffusers, from on camera axis.
Ranger Quadra A Head, A port at 5.5, 130x50 strip with both diffusers, rear camera left
Ranger Quadra A Head, A port at 5.5, 130x50 strip with both diffusers, rear camera right
RX600, 5.5, 21cm reflector and barn doors, rear camera left to light white background.
RX600, 5.5, 21cm reflector and barn doors, rear camera right to light white background.
Triggered by Skyport Speed.
In my intellectual armor, I deflect all criticism and deny all emotion. With my regrets behind me, I balance love with duty and fail at both.
Mamiya RZ67 Pro II: Sekor C 110mm f/2.8 shot 1/60th @ f/5.6 on Ilford HP5+. Developed at 68 degrees for 9 minutes in DD-X. Scanned on an Epson V750 at 3200dpi, minimally processed in Lightroom 5/Photoshop CS5 (capture/output sharpen, contrast, patched a few nasty scratches off the books, etc)
The rough idea behind the series is to portray, in still life, the perspective and thoughts of an old, broken man looking back at hollow "triumphs" and seeing failures that seemed insignificant at the time loom large in his final days.
Although that seems a bit dark or macabre, I felt that the incredible detail contained in the large 6x7 negatives somehow mimics the saying "hindsight is 20/20"...and some memories become indelibly burned into our souls...certainly the fictional 'old man' has scars that are expressed here.
Part of the first roll ran through the RZ, thought I'd share the entire series with you.
When astronomers see something in the universe that at first glance seems like one-of-a-kind, it's bound to stir up a lot of excitement and attention. Enter comet 2I/Borisov. This mysterious visitor from the depths of space is the first identified comet to arrive here from another star. We don't know from where or when the comet started heading toward our Sun, but it won't hang around for long. The Sun's gravity is slightly deflecting its trajectory, but can't capture it because of the shape of its orbit and high velocity of about 100,000 miles per hour.
Telescopes around the world have been watching the fleeting visitor. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided the sharpest views as the comet skirts by our Sun. Since October the space telescope has been following the comet like a sports photographer following horses speeding around a racetrack. Hubble revealed that the heart of the comet, a loose agglomeration of ices and dust particles, is likely no more than about 3,200 feet across, about the length of nine football fields. Though comet Borisov is the first of its kind, no doubt there are many other comet vagabonds out there, plying the space between stars. Astronomers will eagerly be on the lookout for the next mysterious visitor from far beyond.
These two images, taken by Hubble, capture comet 2I/Borisov streaking though our solar system and on its way back to interstellar space. It is only the second interstellar object known to have passed through the solar system.
Nov. 16, 2019, photo (left)
The comet appears in front of a distant background spiral galaxy (2MASX J10500165-0152029). The galaxy's bright central core is smeared in the image because Hubble was tracking the comet. Comet Borisov was approximately 203 million miles from Earth in this exposure. Its tail of ejected dust streaks off to the upper right. The comet has been artificially colored blue to discriminate fine detail in the halo of dust, or coma, surrounding the central nucleus. It also helps to visually separate the comet from the background galaxy.
View Nov. 16 image (unannotated)
Dec. 9, 2019, photo (right)
Hubble revisited the comet shortly after its closest approach to the Sun where it received maximum heating after spending most of its life in frigid interstellar space. The comet also reached a breathtaking maximum speed of about 100,000 miles per hour. Comet Borisov is 185 million miles from Earth in this photo, near the inner edge of the asteroid belt but below it. The nucleus, an agglomeration of ices and dust, is still too small to be resolved. The bright central portion is a coma made up of dust leaving the surface. The comet will make its closest approach to Earth in late December at a distance of 180 million miles.
View Dec. 9 image (unannotated)
"Hubble gives us the best upper limit of the size of comet Borisov's nucleus, which is the really important part of the comet," said David Jewitt, a UCLA professor of planetary science and astronomy, whose team has captured the best and sharpest look at this first confirmed interstellar comet. "Surprisingly, our Hubble images show that its nucleus is more than 15 times smaller than earlier investigations suggested it might be. Our Hubble images show that the radius is smaller than half a kilometer. Knowing the size is potentially useful for beginning to estimate how common such objects may be in the solar system and our galaxy. Borisov is the first known interstellar comet, and we would like to learn how many others there are."
Crimean amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov discovered the comet on Aug. 30, 2019, and reported the position measurements to the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, working with the Minor Planet Center, computed an orbit for the comet, which shows that it came from elsewhere in our Milky Way galaxy, point of origin unknown.
Nevertheless, observations by numerous telescopes show that the comet's chemical composition is similar to the comets found inside our solar system, providing evidence that comets also form around other stars. By the middle of 2020 the comet will have already zoomed past Jupiter's distance of 500 million miles on its way back into the frozen abyss of interstellar space.
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between ESA (the European Space Agency) and NASA. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy in Washington, D.C. The Minor Planet Center and the Center for Near-Earth Orbit Studies are projects of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Observations Program of the Planetary Defense Coordination Office at NASA Headquarters.
For more information: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/interstellar-comet-2ibo...
Credits: NASA, ESA and D. Jewitt (UCLA)
Britannia Pacific 70027 "Rising Star" feeds herself on coal and water at Bescot on 17th March 1962 .
Kerri Schuh (USA) deflects the ball with her block above the net. Mackenzie Ponnet (USA) just hit the ball. P1440 Huntington Beach 2018, Women's Pool D Match.
“Final systems checkout for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Lunar Module (LM-6) are conducted in the Open Bay Area of the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building (MSOB). The LM-6 will be flown on the first lunar landing mission, Apollo 11. The Flight Crew is Neil A. Armstrong, commander, Michael Collins, command module pilot, and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., Lunar Module Pilot.”
The caption/description of this and the linked photos incorrectly refer to this Lunar Module as LM-6.
Note the absence of plume deflectors to the descent stage, which were a 'last minute' addition as a result of the thermal damage observed by the Astronauts during Apollo 9 & Apollo 10.
Although there appears to be no (available) precisely documented date of the installation, the following excellent discussion, specifically the post by "moonguyron", indicates it was after this "final systems checkout":
www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum29/HTML/001718.html
Credit: collectSPACE website
Nicholas Markeloff, responsible (with nameless others) for the addition of said plume deflectors. Thank you to you all and may you Rest In Peace:
airandspace.si.edu/support/wall-of-honor/nicholas-markeloff
Credit: NASM website
This neat pattern in the fireproof bricks is caused by the criss-crossing of the tracks used to move the flame deflectors under the launch stand.
Ford Pinto Station Wagon. It looks like this was the top of the line model. Woody, Sport Mirrors. Rear Wind Deflector. Luggage Rack. 4 on the Floor. Seen in Roundup,Montana.
Southern Strobist Club meet 18th April 2010 @ California Barn, Swanage, UK
Model - Emma Sutton
MUA's Racheal Platt ,Nicola Redman , Kristie Moles
Big thanks to Lotty for supplying all the wonderfull clothes.
Nikon D300 (manual, Srgb) iso 200 f/4 1/250th
Lens Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8 (DX=55mm (FX=82mm))
Elinchrom Quadra fitted with a 1m Rotalux softbox with diffuser
as main key light to right of model. power adjusted to achieve
an f/4 stop. Rotalux also fitted with Gold deflector
SB-800 set behind model within the barn and gridded to give a slight hair light
Lastolite Tri-Flip with sunfire reflector used to add some colour/tone to the models
Face...
All triggered via elinchrom skyport.
Sekonic Flash master L-358 used to take the light measurements....
Post Edit in Photoshop CS4
Many thanks to Howard from Southern strobists for setting the event up and the many models and MUA's for all the hard work & my two team mates Andy & Graham for making the day a buzz.......
Emerald Night Mod -- Removed the smoke deflectors and replaced all relevant parts with black counterparts. For an upcoming Emerald Night modification article in RAILBRICKS.
Bernice In B/W
Hans van Eijsden Photography, The Netherlands
Lens: Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM on full frame.
Light: Simple setup from the front-side with one Elinchrom ELB 400 through an Elinchrom Deep Octa with inner diffusor and metallic deflector.
Postprocessing: Some local adjustment curves, BW conversion, grain.
Portfolio: www.hansvaneijsden.com
Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/hansvaneijsdenphotography
After a day of hard work I took Sera Yosta, my most beautiful lens and my Elinchrom light outside to the streets of Amsterdam, just to see what light can do. The temperature was quite high here in The Netherlands, 14 degrees Celcius in mid-december! So, the perfect moment to make some simple clicks.
As light I used the ELB400 & Elinchrom Deep Octa with translucent deflector and inner diffuser.
Lens: Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM on full frame.
Hans van Eijsden Photography, The Netherlands
Postprocessing: Some local adjustment curves.
Portfolio: www.hansvaneijsden.com
Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/hansvaneijsdenphotography
After a day of hard work I took Sera Yosta, my most beautiful lens and my Elinchrom light outside to the streets of Amsterdam, just to see what light can do. The temperature was quite high here in The Netherlands, 14 degrees Celcius in mid-december! So, the perfect moment to make some simple clicks.
As light I used the ELB400 & Elinchrom Deep Octa with translucent deflector and inner diffuser.
Lens: Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM on full frame.
Hans van Eijsden Photography, The Netherlands
Postprocessing: Some local adjustment curves.
Portfolio: www.hansvaneijsden.com
Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/hansvaneijsdenphotography
PictionID:44585013 - Catalog:14_012579 - Title:Atlas Details: M7 FLAME DEFLECTOR - Filename:14_012579.TIF - - - Image from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
Model - Agata - model-mayhem
MUA's - Nicola Redman & Nicola iles
Setup - Nikon D300 / Nikon 85mm f/1.8 (equiv 127mm on a DX) @f/6.3
Elinchrom BX250ri fired thru a Elinchrom 1m rotalux softbox double diffused + silver deflector
Camera left raised to almost shoulder height aimed down at model
Directly oposite main light - Elinchrom Quadra with a 18cm reflector with honeycomb
aimed back up at model as a hairlight
This concept truck has, adjustable air deflector on the roof,air dam below the front bumper.faired in panniers enclosing the vehicle sides and deflectors between cab and trailer.date 1978 ?
The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale published by LD.
Medieval craftsmen must have realised when they were carefully carving the chimères that few people would ever get close enough to them to appreciate their skill and artistry.
The Notre-Dame Fire
On the 15th. April 2019, fire broke out in the attic beneath the cathedral's roof at 18:18. At 18:20 the fire alarm sounded and guards evacuated the cathedral. A guard was sent to investigate, but to the wrong location – the attic of the adjoining sacristy – where he found no fire. About fifteen minutes later the error was discovered, but by the time guards had climbed the three hundred steps to the cathedral attic the fire was well advanced.
The alarm system was not designed to automatically notify the fire brigade, which was summoned at 18:51 after the guards had returned. Firefighters arrived within ten minutes.
Fighting the Notre-Dame Fire
More than 400 firefighters were engaged. A hundred government employees along with police and municipal workers moved precious artefacts to safety via a human chain.
The fire was primarily fought from inside the structure, which was more dangerous for personnel, but reduced potential damage to the cathedral - applying water from outside risked deflecting flames and hot gases (at temperatures up to 800 °C) inwards. Deluge guns were used at lower-than-usual pressures to minimise damage to the cathedral and its contents. Water was supplied by pump-boat from the Seine.
Aerial firefighting was not used because water dropped from heights could have caused structural damage, and heated stone can crack if suddenly cooled. Helicopters were also not used because of dangerous updrafts, but drones were used for visual and thermal imaging, and robots for visual imaging and directing water streams. Molten lead falling from the roof posed a special hazard for firefighters.
By 18:52, smoke was visible from the outside; flames appeared within the next ten minutes. The spire of the cathedral collapsed at 19:50, creating a draft that slammed all the doors and sent a fireball through the attic. Firefighters then retreated from within the attic.
Shortly before the spire fell, the fire had spread to the wooden framework inside the north tower, which supported eight very large bells. Had the bells fallen, it was thought that the damage done as they fell could have collapsed the towers, and with them the entire cathedral.
At 20:30, firefighters abandoned attempts to extinguish the roof and concentrated on saving the towers, fighting from within and between the towers. By 21:45 the fire was under control.
Adjacent apartment buildings were evacuated due to concern about possible collapse, but on the 19th. April the fire brigade ruled out that risk. One firefighter and two police officers were injured.
Damage to Notre-Dame
Most of the wood/metal roof and the spire of the cathedral was destroyed, with about one third of the roof remaining. The remnants of the roof and spire fell atop the stone vault underneath, which forms the ceiling of the cathedral's interior. Some sections of this vaulting collapsed in turn, allowing debris from the burning roof to fall to the marble floor below, but most sections remained intact due to the use of rib vaulting, greatly reducing damage to the cathedral's interior and objects within.
The cathedral contained a large number of artworks, religious relics, and other irreplaceable treasures, including a crown of thorns said to be the one Jesus wore at his crucifixion. Other items were a purported piece of the cross on which Jesus was crucified, the Tunic of St. Louis, a pipe organ by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, and the 14th.-century Virgin of Paris statue.
Some artwork had been removed in preparation for the renovations, and most of the cathedral's sacred relics were held in the adjoining sacristy, which the fire did not reach; all the cathedral's relics survived. Many valuables that were not removed also survived.
Lead joints in some of the 19th.-century stained-glass windows melted, but the three major rose windows, dating back to the 13th. century, were undamaged. Several pews were destroyed, and the vaulted arches were blackened by smoke, though the cathedral's main cross and altar survived, along with the statues surrounding it.
Some paintings, apparently only smoke-damaged, are expected to be transported to the Louvre for restoration. The rooster-shaped reliquary atop the spire was found damaged but intact among the debris. The three pipe organs were not significantly damaged. The largest of the cathedral's bells, the bourdon, was also not damaged. The liturgical treasury of the cathedral and the "Grands Mays" paintings were moved to safety.
Environmental Damage
Airparif said that winds rapidly dispersed the smoke, carrying it away aloft along the Seine corridor. It did not find elevated levels of particulate air pollution at monitoring stations nearby. The Paris police stated that there was no danger from breathing the air around the fire.
The burned-down roof had been covered with over 400 metric tons of lead. Settling dust substantially raised surface lead levels in some places nearby, notably the cordoned-off area and places left open during the fire. Wet cleaning for surfaces and blood tests for children and pregnant women were recommended in the immediate area.
People working on the cathedral after the fire did not initially take the lead precautions required for their own protection; materials leaving the site were decontaminated, but some clothing was not, and some precautions were not correctly followed; as a result, the worksite failed some inspections and was temporarily shut down.
There was also more widespread contamination; testing, clean-up, and public health advisories were delayed for months, and the neighbourhood was not decontaminated for four months, prompting widespread criticism.
Reactions to the Notre-Dame Fire
President of France Emmanuel Macron, postponing a speech to address the Yellow Vests Movement planned for that evening, went to Notre-Dame and gave a brief address there. Numerous world religious and government leaders extended condolences.
Through the night of the fire and into the next day, people gathered along the Seine to hold vigils, sing and pray.
White tarpaulins over metal beams were quickly rigged to protect the interior from the elements. Nettings protect the de-stabilised exterior.
The following Sunday at Saint-Eustache Church, the Archbishop of Paris, Michel Aupetit, honoured the firefighters with the presentation of a book of scriptures saved from the fire.
Investigation Into The Notre-Dame Fire
On the 16th. April, the Paris prosecutor said that there was no evidence of a deliberate act.
The fire has been compared to the similar 1992 Windsor Castle fire and the Uppark fire, among others, and has raised old questions about the safety of similar structures and the techniques used to restore them. Renovation works increase the risk of fire, and a police source reported that they are looking into whether such work had caused this incident.
The renovations presented a fire risk from sparks, short-circuits, and heat from welding (roof repairs involved cutting, and welding lead sheets resting on timber). Normally, no electrical installations were allowed in the roof space due to the extreme fire risk.
The roof framing was of very dry timber, often powdery with age. After the fire, the architect responsible for fire safety at the cathedral acknowledged that the rate at which fire might spread had been underestimated, and experts said it was well known that a fire in the roof would be almost impossible to control.
Of the firms working on the restoration, a Europe Echafaudage team was the only one working there on the day of the fire; the company said no soldering or welding was underway before the fire. The scaffolding was receiving electrical supply for temporary elevators and lighting.
The roofers, Le Bras Frères, said it had followed procedure, and that none of its personnel were on site when the fire broke out. Time-lapse images taken by a camera installed by them showed smoke first rising from the base of the spire.
On the 25th. April, the structure was considered safe enough for investigators to enter. They unofficially stated that they were considering theories involving malfunction of electric bell-ringing apparatus, and cigarette ends discovered on the renovation scaffolding.
Le Bras Frères confirmed its workers had smoked cigarettes, contrary to regulations, but denied that a cigarette butt could have started the fire. The Paris prosecutor's office announced on the 26th. June that no evidence had been found to suggest a criminal motive.
The security employee monitoring the alarm system was new on the job, and was on a second eight-hour shift that day because his relief had not arrived. Additionally, the fire security system used confusing terminology in its referencing parts of the cathedral, which contributed to the initial confusion as to the location of the fire.
As of September, five months after the fire, investigators thought the cause of the fire was more likely an electrical fault than a cigarette. Determining the exact place in which the fire started was expected to take a great deal more time and work. By the 15th. April 2020, investigators stated:
"We believe the fire to have been
started by either a cigarette or a
short circuit in the electrical system".
Reconstruction of Notre-Dame Cathedral
On the night of the fire Macron said that the cathedral, which is owned by the state, would be rebuilt, and launched an international fundraising campaign. France's cathedrals have been owned by the state since 1905, and are not privately insured.
The heritage conservation organisation Fondation du Patrimoine estimated the damage in the hundreds of millions of euros, but losses from the fire are not expected to substantially impact the private insurance industry.
European art insurers stated that the cost would be similar to ongoing renovations at the Palace of Westminster in London, which currently is estimated to be around €7 billion.
This cost does not include damage to any of the artwork or artefacts within the cathedral. Any pieces on loan from other museums would have been insured, but the works owned by the cathedral would not have been insurable.
While Macron hoped the cathedral could be restored in time for the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, architects expect the work could take from twenty to forty years, as any new structure would need to balance restoring the look of the original building, using wood and stone sourced from the same regions used in the original construction, with the structural reinforcement required for preventing a similar disaster in the future.
There is discussion of whether to reconstruct the cathedral in modified form. Rebuilding the roof with titanium sheets and steel trusses has been suggested; other options include rebuilding in the original lead and wood, or rebuilding with modern materials not visible from the outside (like the reinforced concrete trusses at Reims Cathedral).
Another option would be to use a combination of restored old elements and newly designed ones. Chartres Cathedral was rebuilt with wrought iron trusses and copper sheeting after an 1836 fire.
French prime minister Édouard Philippe announced an architectural design competition for a new spire that would be:
"Adapted to the techniques
and the challenges of our era."
The spire replacement project has gathered a variety of designs and some controversy, particularly its legal exemption from environmental and heritage rules. After the design competition was announced, the French senate amended the government's restoration bill to require the roof to be restored to how it was before the fire.
On the 16th. July, 95 days after the fire, the law that will govern the restoration of the cathedral was finally approved by the French parliament. It recognises its UNESCO World Heritage Site status and the need to respect existing international charters and practices, to:
"Preserve the historic, artistic and architectural
history of the monument, and to limit any
derogations to the existing heritage, planning,
environmental and construction codes to a
minimum".
On the 15th. April 2020, Germany offered to restore some of the large clerestory windows located far above eye level with three expert tradesmen who specialize in rebuilding cathedrals. Monika Grütters, Germany's Commissioner for Culture was quoted as saying that her country would shoulder the costs.
As of the 30th. November all of the tangled scaffolding was removed from the spire area, and was therefore no longer a threat to the building.
The world will now have to wait for Notre-Dame de Paris to be restored to its former magnificence.
PictionID:44584951 - Catalog:14_012574 - Title:Atlas Details: M/7 Flame Deflector Test Run Date: 08/03/1960 - Filename:14_012574.TIF - - - Image from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
The Blacktron Raven is one of the smallest starfighters that come equipped with deflector shield technology.
This is the only surviving ex SR U Class from a batch that was rebuilt from an unsuccessful tank engine.
Scanned from a Kodachrome 64 transparency.
Toyota Corolla 2003 to 2006 Rain Deflectors installed on a Gen1 Toyota Prius.
Here you can see the permanent install. They are not a perfect fit, but they do work well enough for me anyhow.
What do you See?
"I do not think that 70 years is the time of a man or woman, nor that 70 millions of years is the time of man or woman, nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or anyone else."
--Walt Whitman
Saint Lucy decided at an early age that she did not want to be with a man; she preferred to give her self completely to God, though she lived in a time when it was not permitted to follow Christian beliefs. To deflect the attentions of a suitor who was captivated by the beauty of her eyes, she carved them out and sent them to him. Miraculously, she was still able to see--whether with new eyes that God gave her, as in some stories, or by some higher sight, as in others. I have chosen something along the middle path here, giving her the many eyes of a peacock's tail, which serves also as a sort of halo. Lucy also faithfully braved the dangers of guilt by association, regularly taking bread to the Christians that were already in hiding from the authorities. Eventually, she was denounced as a Christian by another spurned suitor, and after various failed attempts, the Roman soldiers succeeded at killing her.
The idea of sight coming from somewhere other than the eyes is one that can be found in many fables, tales, myths, and religions. There are those even in the current scientific community who spend their lives seeking out and testing those who claim to have some other sort of sight-- into the silent thoughts of others, into the future, across great distances, or into other realms where ghosts, angels, and demons reside. It is suggested that the earliest mention of such abilities is found in the Odyssey, but second sight is very common to the lore of the Scottish Highlands and the Icelandic sagas, and precognition is widely accepted among the Native Americans as well as tribes across South Africa and New Zealand.
In The Holographic Universe, Michael Talbot tells the following story about an event concerning a hypnotist his father had hired to entertain at a party and a family friend, named Tom, who agreed to play guinea pig for the evening:
"Tom proved to be a very good subject, and within seconds the hypnotist had him in a deep trance. He then proceeded with the usual tricks performed by stage hypnotists. He convinced Tom there was a giraffe in the room and had Tom gaping in wonder. He told Tom that a potato was really an apple and had Tom eat it with gusto. But the highlight of the evening was when he told Tom that when he came out of trance, his teenage daughter, Laura, would be completely invisible to him. Then, after having Laura stand directly in front of the chair in which Tom was sitting, the hypnotist awakened him and asked him if he could see her.
Tom looked around the room and his gaze appeared to pass right through his giggling daughter. 'No,' he replied...Then the hypnotist went behind Laura so he was hidden from Tom's view and pulled an object out of his pocket. He kept the object carefully concealed so that no one in the room could see it, and pressed it against the small of Laura's back. He asked Tom to identify the object. Tom leaned forward as if staring directly through Laura's stomach and said that it was a watch. The hypnotist nodded and asked if Tom could read the watch's inscription. Tom squinted as if struggling to make out the writing and recited both the name of the watch's owner (which happened to be a person unknown to any of us in the room) and the message. The hypnotist then revealed that the object was indeed a watch and passed it around the room so that everyone could see that Tom had read its inscription correctly." (141)
So, what was Tom seeing the watch with, then? Was he really seeing through his daughter? Or was he seeing the watch by seeing the thoughts in the hypnotist's head? What is that?
While working on this painting, I came across yet another story, this one about an autistic girl, who has of course been subjected to many recorded medical studies since her abilities were noticed. Blind from birth, this girl wanders around by herself without running into things by making little chirping noises which somehow act as a sonar, as in the case of bats.
In this icon of St. Lucy, I have chosen time as that which is being re-envisioned, or seen new. The various clock pieces come apart, reconfigure, and tumble about through space; some of them are organic, forming the labyrinths where the Christians Lucy must feed hide from the monsters, requiring her to find her way by following an inner radiance and sureness of step, that is, by faith and by transcending (thus the birds) her physical handicap.
The unique shovel-rim smoke deflector on V2 60813 At St Margaret's MPD (64A) on 12 March 1966. In the early 1950's this loco was based at Kings Cross (34A), but by the mid-1950's it had moved to St Margaret's 64A, where it remained until April 1966. It then moved to Dundee Tay Bridge and was withdrawn there in Novemeber 1966.
Model - Steph - Purestorm
Main Light -Elinchrom BX250ri fired thru 1m Deep Octa (internal diffuser and clear deflector only)
Rim Light - Elinchrom BX250ri with a 18cm reflector & honeycomb
Nikon D300 fitted with a Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8 lens @ f/8 45mm
B/W conversion AlienSkin Exposure 3
Another night portrait shot.
This time I had to shoot with both diffusors and silver deflector as the given ambient light was so weak that I couldn't dial down the Quadra any further.
So the light setup was one Quadra head into 70cm Deep Octa with silver deflector and both diffusors attached at minimal power as main light from camera right. The lights on the floor created this very subtle rim light on the left and spectacular highlights in the blured background.
1/60s f2.8 ISO1600 5D/ 70-200 2.8L IS II @125mm
“The first Saturn IB booster (S-IB-1) was placed in a static test stand at the NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center. The 1.6 million pound thrust booster arrived at the Center Sunday from New Orleans aboard the NASA barge “Palaemon.” It is scheduled to be static fired here at least twice before being shipped back to Michoud Operations for post-firing checks. The first firing is planed for early April. The booster is scheduled to be launched early next year from Cape Kennedy.”
Note also the F-1 engine tankage in the right-hand cell.
See/read also:
history.nasa.gov/MHR-5/part-6.htm
Taken either a moment before/after:
history.nasa.gov/MHR-5/Images/fig227.jpg
Also:
archive.org/details/MSFC-6520960
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On Great Eastern Highway, Northam. Carting grain to CBH Group Avon GrainS Storage Sheds.
There were heaps of these two trailer rigs carting grain in from the Northam Pithara Road today.
I am still interested in a better "bullet" backstop than my 45 degree Lexan deflector and started looking around for a source of bulletproof cloth.
At some point I thought about asking one of my co-workers (who is working on a bullet project) if he had any ideas. Much to my delight and surprise he told me that he had some cloth that he wasn't going to use and gave t to me.
He told me it was good stuff, 3D weave.
Today I cut out a small square (~8x8 inches) and mounted it on top of a piece of thick foam, backed by a piece of wood.
This is a picture of the shot. You can just see the little steel ball in the cavity.
It was a success. the ball was stopped by the fabric, which was stretched but unbroken. The foam was badly bruised and the wood was slightly dented.
Without the Kevlar, the wood would have been trashed...
I am not sure how it will work over lots of shots, but I want try try many layers with some sort of backdrop (Lexan maybe).
If it stands up to lots of hits, this may be a good solution. I think it will be useful regardless.
I got a small photographic part in the mail today that looks like a good thing. It's a E-mount to Nikon F mount adapter.
Last year I bought a Sony NEX-6 camera that I wanted to try to use for backpacking. They had announced the availability of a 10-18mm lens for this camera which would be my happy lens for backpacking.
I like wide angle.
The camera is an odd little beast, it was behaving in alarming ways so I returned it and got a replacement. The most alarming problem went away, but others remained, so I guess it's just what the camera is.
The kit lens, though, is a piece of crap. I have owned quite a few lenses and this is the first one that I ever been annoyed with.
It is really badly distorted at the wide end. The camera corrects it for the .jpg files, but when you import the RAW files to Lightroom, Wow....
I started to question the risk of buying the Sony wide angle (not a cheap lens).
Then I found out something I should have known. With it's super-short lens mount to sensor distance, virtually any other DSLR lens can be adapted to the E-mount. You loose automatic control of focus and f-stop, but for landscape work I have time to deal with that.
So i tried out the adapter today and I am enjoying it. the focus peaking feature of the Sony makes it easy to see when you are set and the ring on the adapter that adjusts the f-stop works fine.
It's great to have my good Nikon 10-24mm lens on the camera. I want to try out the 17-35mm lens later since it has a dedicated ring for f-stop that will eliminate guessing.
When I take it, I would take the kit lens and leave it on the body so that I could catch something fully automatic and have the wide angle/adapter in my backpack to use for slower events.
Cheers.
Hans van Eijsden Photography, The Netherlands
MUA: Martina Kató
Lens: Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM on full frame.
Light: Simple setup with one Elinchrom ELB 400 + HS Head through a Deep Octa with silver deflector and inner diffuser from the front-side, light from the back is ambient light. I shot in Hi-Sync Speed with the Elinchrom Skyport HS trigger, so I could open the lens completely to f/1.2.
Postprocessing: Some local adjustment curves, BW conversion, some local cloning, grain.
Portfolio: www.hansvaneijsden.com
Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/hansvaneijsdenphotography
Or is it, 'OLD SKOOL' on the bug deflector?
Bingham Transport, has two Western Stars in their fleet.
Travelling north, Great Northern Highway, Waddington.