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Panel Discussions: Lessons-learned from 15 years of experience of incorporating nuclear security systems and measures into overall security arrangements for major public events at the International Seminar on Nuclear Security Systems and Measures for Major Public Events – 15 Years of Experience: Challenges and Good Practices. Chengdu, China, 30 October 2019
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Scientific Secretary: Ms Elena Paladi, IAEA Nuclear Security Officer
Co-Scientiic Secretary: Mr Nigel Tottie, IAEA Senior Nuclear Security Officer
Chairman: Mr Steven Buntman, NNSA/DoE, USA
Rapporteur: Ms Inna Pletukhina, IAEA Outreach Officer
Facilitator: Facundo Deluchi, Argentina
PANELISTS:
Alexandre Mariano Feitosa, Brazil
Augustin Simo, Cameroon
Eric Gigou, France
Mario Cesar Mallaupoma Gutierrez, Peru
Steven Buntman,USA
Hong Nhat Duong, Viet Nam
Xu Zhenhua, China
Njakatovo Zafimanjato, Madagascar
Zul Helmi Bin Ghazali, Malaysia
Zarki Rachid, Morocco
Arenga Gallenero Abe, Philippines
Ahmed Zaid Saeed Binkashah Alshemeili, UAE
Arild Angelsen, Senior Associate CIFOR speak on Discussion Forum 4: 10 years of the Global Comparative Study on REDD+: What we’ve learned and where we go next?
Global Landscapes Forum, Bonn, Germany.
Photo by Pilar Valbuena/GLF
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The last wedding of the season (we had a busy summer), we're waiting for the bus to get to the party :-) Both of these couples got married earlier this summer, both close friends of ours. Told you we had a busy summer :D
Praktica MTL-3, Pentacon f2.8/29mm, dm Paradies 100 (possibly rebranded Kodak)
No one was harmed here... LOL
It just sounded like a robust conversation, if you know what I mean... :-)
Panel Discussions: Lessons-learned from 15 years of experience of incorporating nuclear security systems and measures into overall security arrangements for major public events at the International Seminar on Nuclear Security Systems and Measures for Major Public Events – 15 Years of Experience: Challenges and Good Practices. Chengdu, China, 30 October 2019
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Scientific Secretary: Ms Elena Paladi, IAEA Nuclear Security Officer
Co-Scientiic Secretary: Mr Nigel Tottie, IAEA Senior Nuclear Security Officer
Chairman: Mr Steven Buntman, NNSA/DoE, USA
Rapporteur: Ms Inna Pletukhina, IAEA Outreach Officer
Facilitator: Facundo Deluchi, Argentina
PANELISTS:
Alexandre Mariano Feitosa, Brazil
Augustin Simo, Cameroon
Eric Gigou, France
Mario Cesar Mallaupoma Gutierrez, Peru
Steven Buntman,USA
Hong Nhat Duong, Viet Nam
Xu Zhenhua, China
Njakatovo Zafimanjato, Madagascar
Zul Helmi Bin Ghazali, Malaysia
Zarki Rachid, Morocco
Arenga Gallenero Abe, Philippines
Ahmed Zaid Saeed Binkashah Alshemeili, UAE
Speakers of Discussion Forum 9: The Brazilian Forest Code and Sustainable Landscape Management in Brazilian Savannah.
Global Landscapes Forum, Bonn, Germany.
Photo by Pilar Valbuena/GLF
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There had been some discussion, prior to NEMF, about photographing the specimens. After speaking with Bill Yule about it, I conducted an experiment, a run at shooting as many samples as I could. I managed to photograph all the specimens that had been identified from Friday morning’s forays, only stopping when the afternoon foray samples started to come in, at which point I was ready to collapse anyway.
So here is what I did:
I came in to set up somewhere between 9:30 and 10:00 AM. I had a small table, a tripod with an attachment for my iPhone (4s, if that matters, point is, a state-of-the-art model is not necessary) that is pretty much the same spring-loaded holder you get on a selfie stick. I had two lights, just little gooseneck bedside clamp lamps from IKEA. The light was yellow, but one can correct these things in one fell swoop. If needed, better lights can be acquired.
I put the lamps, one on each side, on the backs of chairs spaced a little ways away from my table. I had also brought tuff-spun and other diffusion materials and even a blue gel, but decided against using them. The point here is speed and ease. Quick and dirty is fine as long as the visual data is captured. There is no point in developing a system if it is not feasible.
I brought a roll of gaffer’s tape. (Yeah, my lights were crap, but I had the good tape.) Once things are positioned the legs of the table and tripod and light stands (chairs) are taped down and the tripod is taped to the table. If the power cords are in traffic areas, they should also be taped down for safety and to secure the set up. As my iPhone is elderly, I keep it plugged into to the power, and this was taped up the leg of the tripod. The longer you shoot, the more tired you get, the more likely you are to knock into things, so this is helpful.
I had a plastic mat with a grid on it as a background, but did not use it because it was a dark green. I ended up stealing some cardboard boxes that had held envelopes from the office supplies; the insides were a bit closer to the 18% gray that would have been ideal. Grid not so necessary, but I did miss the ease of cleaning the plastic mat. The optimal background material in the future would be around 18% and a non-reflective plastic. Some mushrooms were wet and left marks on the plastic. The dirt brushed off easily with a small terrycloth rag.
The photo station was set up next to the door. I photographed samples after they had been IDed, usually after the printed labels had been made. But in order to keep up with the volume of specimens, I kept working when Teague & Dorothy & everyone else had gone to the meeting. At that time I photographed specimens that had been IDed, but not yet entered into the system. In any event, I was photographing the mushrooms with their hand-printed data labels as these were smaller and contained more information.
Such mushrooms photographed before being entered were replaced in the queue. As soon as specimens were photographed and labeled, they were put on trays to be moved to the display room. (Often I ended up moving them when a tray was filled and I was waiting on new mushrooms to shoot.)
I had NOT photographed mushroom samples like this before, so I am sure I was doing a lot of wheel re-invention. So I was, and am, open to suggestions in this context. One of the attendees who had clearly done mushroom photography before was put off by my rough & ready set up because of the obvious shadows. This, I take it, goes against the common aesthetic conventions of mushroom photography. But I was not taking beauty shots. And aesthetics are largely fashion. Shadows define form and texture. Form and texture are data, so I wanted shadows. Well, enough shadows to provide information, not to obscure information.
I shot hard for about five hours and then I was TOAST. I ain’t as young as I used to be. To do this on a convention scale, a team of shooters would be optimal. Moreover, I would like to have two photo stations set up so I could have one dedicated to shooting macro. iPhone macro adapters are the way to go, IMO.
As it was I had two levels. Most mushrooms I shot on a box, but for the larger ones to fit in the frame I removed the box. This dropped the surface down about five inches and allowed larger mushrooms to fit into the frame.
To set up a shot I would place the label under the camera. I tried to put them roughly in the same position each time. Some were crumpled. Flattening them wasted time. Optimally I would have set up a label-sized piece of non-reflective glass or plastic on the background, hinged with a bit of gaffer’s tape. This would have solved the positioning issues nicely.
The samples were removed from their boats (looking at them all day long left me with a terrible craving for fried clams, or at least French fries) by hand so as to leave most of the dirt in the boat. A few specimens I had to brush off. Mostly I did not bother. Probably the largest chunk of time was spent positioning. If I had more time, I would have split more caps in order to show top and bottom surfaces. Wouldn’t be a bad idea to split stems/stalks/stipes (whatever you call ‘em) when there are multiple specimens at hand.
I had selected a table height under the assumption that I would be sitting. Absurd. No time to sit. I was moving constantly from table to table moving specimens. The angle made the whole thing a bit physically punishing. I won’t make that mistake again! Ergonomics are key!
A strong suggestion for future foray photo inventories is to shoot the wee tiny ‘shrooms first. I got photos, albeit not macros, of the Mycenas and what all. But they were so dehydrated by the time I got them that they were worthless. On the bright side, this meant I didn’t feel so bad about not having macro capability. But even with a splendid macro set up, if the specimens look like shit, there’s not point. So a bit of a presort has to happened wherein the teeny tinies and the fragile stuff are bumped to the front of the queue.
And the iPhone is frickin’ brilliant for this. I love cameras. I’ve done a lot with point & shoots. I like nice fancy DSLRs as well, but they are not necessary for this sort of project. More than that, a real camera would be a hassle. The iPhone has the memory, the software, the touch screen and it fits in a pocket. It makes all of this feasible. A few tweaks to the set up and it will go very smoothly next time. If there were two shooters, it would be easy, a piece of cake.
The photos are not art shots, but they show the specimens. Not a bad first try, I think. Are these beautiful? Maybe not so much. Still, like my Dad used to always tell us, “Good enough is better than the best!”
Panel Discussions: Lessons-learned from 15 years of experience of incorporating nuclear security systems and measures into overall security arrangements for major public events at the International Seminar on Nuclear Security Systems and Measures for Major Public Events – 15 Years of Experience: Challenges and Good Practices. Chengdu, China, 30 October 2019
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Scientific Secretary: Ms Elena Paladi, IAEA Nuclear Security Officer
Co-Scientiic Secretary: Mr Nigel Tottie, IAEA Senior Nuclear Security Officer
Chairman: Mr Steven Buntman, NNSA/DoE, USA
Rapporteur: Ms Inna Pletukhina, IAEA Outreach Officer
Facilitator: Facundo Deluchi, Argentina
PANELISTS:
Alexandre Mariano Feitosa, Brazil
Augustin Simo, Cameroon
Eric Gigou, France
Mario Cesar Mallaupoma Gutierrez, Peru
Steven Buntman,USA
Hong Nhat Duong, Viet Nam
Xu Zhenhua, China
Njakatovo Zafimanjato, Madagascar
Zul Helmi Bin Ghazali, Malaysia
Zarki Rachid, Morocco
Arenga Gallenero Abe, Philippines
Ahmed Zaid Saeed Binkashah Alshemeili, UAE
Anne Halsall, Colin Barrett, Brad Larson, and Patrick McCarron during SecondConf's Saturday night panel discussion.
Panel Discussions: Lessons-learned from 15 years of experience of incorporating nuclear security systems and measures into overall security arrangements for major public events at the International Seminar on Nuclear Security Systems and Measures for Major Public Events – 15 Years of Experience: Challenges and Good Practices. Chengdu, China, 30 October 2019
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Scientific Secretary: Ms Elena Paladi, IAEA Nuclear Security Officer
Co-Scientiic Secretary: Mr Nigel Tottie, IAEA Senior Nuclear Security Officer
Chairman: Mr Steven Buntman, NNSA/DoE, USA
Rapporteur: Ms Inna Pletukhina, IAEA Outreach Officer
Facilitator: Facundo Deluchi, Argentina
PANELISTS:
Alexandre Mariano Feitosa, Brazil
Augustin Simo, Cameroon
Eric Gigou, France
Mario Cesar Mallaupoma Gutierrez, Peru
Steven Buntman,USA
Hong Nhat Duong, Viet Nam
Xu Zhenhua, China
Njakatovo Zafimanjato, Madagascar
Zul Helmi Bin Ghazali, Malaysia
Zarki Rachid, Morocco
Arenga Gallenero Abe, Philippines
Ahmed Zaid Saeed Binkashah Alshemeili, UAE
Panel discussion on nanotechnology with high school students, moderated by ABC TV's James O'Loghlin, at Science EXPOsed 20078
The Mint, Sydney, 2007
Panel discussion on nanotechnology with high school students, moderated by ABC TV's James O'Loghlin, at Science EXPOsed 20078
The Mint, Sydney, 2007
Panel Discussions: Lessons-learned from 15 years of experience of incorporating nuclear security systems and measures into overall security arrangements for major public events at the International Seminar on Nuclear Security Systems and Measures for Major Public Events – 15 Years of Experience: Challenges and Good Practices. Chengdu, China, 30 October 2019
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Scientific Secretary: Ms Elena Paladi, IAEA Nuclear Security Officer
Co-Scientiic Secretary: Mr Nigel Tottie, IAEA Senior Nuclear Security Officer
Chairman: Mr Steven Buntman, NNSA/DoE, USA
Rapporteur: Ms Inna Pletukhina, IAEA Outreach Officer
Facilitator: Facundo Deluchi, Argentina
PANELISTS:
Alexandre Mariano Feitosa, Brazil
Augustin Simo, Cameroon
Eric Gigou, France
Mario Cesar Mallaupoma Gutierrez, Peru
Steven Buntman,USA
Hong Nhat Duong, Viet Nam
Xu Zhenhua, China
Njakatovo Zafimanjato, Madagascar
Zul Helmi Bin Ghazali, Malaysia
Zarki Rachid, Morocco
Arenga Gallenero Abe, Philippines
Ahmed Zaid Saeed Binkashah Alshemeili, UAE
A vet from goverment livestock deparment is explaining about vaccines to FAO representatives in Maw Ya Wadi, Maungdaw township, Rakhine State, Myanmar.
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Panelists of brownbag discussion. CIFOR, Bogor, Indonesia.
Photo by Perdana Putra/CIFOR
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Panelists of brownbag discussion. CIFOR, Bogor, Indonesia.
Photo by Perdana Putra/CIFOR
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General Discussion 綜合討論
Panelists:
Mr. Jürgen Maier, Ms. Miwako Kurosaka, Dr. Halimaton, Mr. Robert Wise, Prof. Kuo-Yen Wei 魏國彥副執行長
Moderator: Dr. Chang-Yi Chang, Commissioner, IHDP- Global Change Change Commission, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
主持人：
張長義教授
Korapin Tohtubtiang of ILRI and Dr. Mai Van Hiep of the Vietnamese Department of Animal Health discuss Outcome Mapping at the recent Vietnam Team Outcome Mapping Follow Up Planning Session held in Ho Chi Minh City, May 28-29, 2012 as part of the EcoZD project (photo credit: ILRI/Andrew Nguyen).
Panel discussion on nanotechnology with high school students, moderated by ABC TV's James O'Loghlin, at Science EXPOsed 20078
The Mint, Sydney, 2007
Panel Discussions: Lessons-learned from 15 years of experience of incorporating nuclear security systems and measures into overall security arrangements for major public events at the International Seminar on Nuclear Security Systems and Measures for Major Public Events – 15 Years of Experience: Challenges and Good Practices. Chengdu, China, 30 October 2019
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Scientific Secretary: Ms Elena Paladi, IAEA Nuclear Security Officer
Co-Scientiic Secretary: Mr Nigel Tottie, IAEA Senior Nuclear Security Officer
Chairman: Mr Steven Buntman, NNSA/DoE, USA
Rapporteur: Ms Inna Pletukhina, IAEA Outreach Officer
Facilitator: Facundo Deluchi, Argentina
PANELISTS:
Alexandre Mariano Feitosa, Brazil
Augustin Simo, Cameroon
Eric Gigou, France
Mario Cesar Mallaupoma Gutierrez, Peru
Steven Buntman,USA
Hong Nhat Duong, Viet Nam
Xu Zhenhua, China
Njakatovo Zafimanjato, Madagascar
Zul Helmi Bin Ghazali, Malaysia
Zarki Rachid, Morocco
Arenga Gallenero Abe, Philippines
Ahmed Zaid Saeed Binkashah Alshemeili, UAE