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I finally gave in to the urge to buy a decent PS camera in the hope that I could find something I could take anywhere and still take a decent photo. I was quite realistic that nothing would come close to an SLR let alone my 5D mk II but after some research I decided on a Panasonic Lumix lx-3 which we could use for the kids too since my wife's IXY is getting long in the tooth.
My first afternoon out shooting and I was pretty impressed with the results. It is 24mm equivalent wide (which was a prerequisite minimum for me) and shoots Raw so I can still HDR. The results from single raw files are pretty nice all things considered. I'll bring the tripod out for some serious HDR on the weekend but given single RAW to HDR and PS noise would have to be the worst combination, I think today's results are a good sign.
White Tank at the Joshua Tree National Park
Even though smoke from the fires decreased the visibility, gazing at the stars and Perseid meteor shower was time well spent. I managed to capture a two meteors in this shot (there is a smaller one to the left of the larger one). This photo is a 4-row panorama consisting of 38 shots. The final image is roughly equivalent to a 187 megapixel photo taken with a 19mm f/1.0 lens.
EXIF
Nikon D600 with Nikon 50mm f/1.8 Series E
Exposure: 10 sec (x38)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO Speed: 12,800
Program:Manual
Lens:12-28mm f/4 G
F:11.0
Speed:10
ISO:100
Focal Length:12.0 mm (35 mm equivalent 18.0 mm)
Focus Mode:Manual
Shooting Mode:[3], IR Control
VR:Off
EV:-2/3
Metering Mode:Spot
WB:Auto1
Focus Distance:3.98 m
Dof:inf (0.56 m - inf)
The State Historical Museum, Red Square, Moscow, Russia at night.
The State Historical Museum in Moscow The imposing building that stands to your right if you enter Red Square through the Resurrection Gate is the State Historical Museum. The museum was opened in 1894, to mark the coronation of Aleksander III, and was the result of a 20-year-long project to consolidate various archaeological and anthropological collections into a single museum that told the story of the history of Russia according to the latest scientific methodology.
The building, which prompts mixed aesthetic reactions, is undeniably impressive. A mass of jagged towers and cornices, it is a typical example of Russian Revivalism, the Eastern equivalent of the Neo-Gothic movement. It was built by architect Vladimir Sherwood (whose father was an English engineer, hence the very un-Russian surname) on the site of the old Pharmacy Building, which was the original home of the Moscow University.
Title is a quote by Arwen (Lord of the Rings)
Music: Lord of the Rings - Evenstar - that scene is so romantic...
Shot:
Pentax K200D, Tamron 18-250, 18mm (35mm equivalent: 27mm), 33 Shots (Portrait mode) -2EV; 0EV +2EV, hand-held
Software used for this image:
Photomatix Pro 3 (Details Enhancer), Autopano Pro, Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Lightroom 2, iPhoto 09
OMG!! I think I used EVERY image processing software I have for this shot...
I processed the 33 images to 11 HDR images with Photomatix Pro. The 11 resulting images were then stitched together in Autopano Pro. Afterwards I further enhanced the image with good ol' CS3, Adobe Lightroom 2 and gave it the final touch with iPhoto 09.
Criticism is welcome and appreciated!
Program:Manual
Lens:70-300mm f/4-5.6 G VR
F:5.6
Speed:1/320
ISO:1400
Focal Length:130.0 mm (35 mm equivalent 195.0 mm)
Focus Mode:AF-C
AF Area:Dynamic Area (3D-tracking)
Shooting Mode:Single-Frame, Auto ISO
VR:On
EV:-1/3
Metering Mode:Multi-segment
WB:Auto1
Picture Control:Standard
Focus Distance:4.47 m
Dof:0.26 m (4.34 - 4.60)
HyperFocal:150.66 m
Program:Manual
Lens:70-300mm f/4-5.6 G VR
F:7.1
Speed:1/5
ISO:160
Focal Length:75.0 mm (35 mm equivalent 112.0 mm)
Focus Mode:AF-S
AF Area:Contrast-detect (normal area)
Shooting Mode:IR Control
VR:Off
EV:-1/3
Metering Mode:Spot
WB:Auto1
Focus Distance:1.68 m
Dof:0.14 m (1.61 - 1.75)
HyperFocal:39.38 m
I have many thoughts on this image. One was timing so that my trip took place over a new moon, ensuring I'd have as dark a sky as possible in Big Bend National Park. The next was to better appreciate the ephemeris apps. What I mean is the difference between reading and the app showing the center of the Milky Way being below the horizon especially in the latter month during a year. Then I saw and overheard someone pointing out the Milky Way being above in the skies...something was not adding up, needless to say! Then I realized the difference with the center of the Milky Way and the continuation in the skies with the long spiral arms. The next is to have an article saved or ready with camera settings to capture and later process any night image of the skies above. I found this to assist me, but there are many (photo.stackexchange.com/questions/43028/how-to-have-color...).
To the image itself, this is in the parking area at the Chisos Mountain Lodge looking to the southwest. The mountain outline is of Ward Mountain. Some of the trees in the lower portion are those in nearby hills which I found helpful for focusing (a note on that: one can use Live View or the equivalent to also focus). The EXIF data will show I kept the shutter open for 30 seconds and used a Nikon in camera setting to minimize long exposure noise which added an additional 30 seconds.
Lastly, those skies were truly beautiful!
The standing stones at Duddo are North Northumberland's equivalent of Stonehenge and are carbon dated at 4,200 years old.
The stones are shrouded in mystery and exude a very special atmosphere.
Program:Aperture-priority AE
F:5.6
Speed:1/160
ISO:400
Focal Length:105.0 mm (35 mm equivalent 157.0 mm)
Metering Mode:Spot
WB:Manual
HyperFocal:97.97 m
Program:Manual
Lens:24-70mm f/2.8 G VR
F:3.2
Speed:1/2500
ISO:100
Focal Length:55.0 mm (35 mm equivalent 82.0 mm)
AF Fine Tune Adj:+11
Focus Mode:AF-C
AF Area:Dynamic Area (3D-tracking)
Shooting Mode:Single-Frame, Auto ISO
VR:On
EV:-1/3
Metering Mode:Spot
WB:Auto1
Picture Control:Standard
Focus Distance:3.98 m
Dof:0.67 m (3.67 - 4.34)
HyperFocal:46.91 m
Assemblage de 6 photos prises à une focale équivalente à 34 mm avec un trépied.
"Hommage à quatre des frères Casadesus qui se sont distingués dans l'histoire de la musique en France : Francis (1870-1954), compositeur et chef d'orchestre ; Robert (1878-1940), compositeur d'opérettes ; Henri (1879-1947), virtuose de l'alto et de la viole d'amour ; Marcel, violoncelliste, mort au champ d'honneur le 10 octobre 1914."
Elle avait été dénommée place des Quatre Frères Casadesus par arrêté du 27 avril 1973. Précédemment, partie de la rue Simon Dereure et, antérieurement, rue de l'Abreuvoir prolongée.
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75018 PARIS
This photo was taken at the Riverside, an area in downtown Phnom Penh where the Tonle Sap and the Mekong Rivers converge, brimming with historic landmarks, including Wat Ounalom and The Royal Palace.
There's also a bar district, known for its outdoor patio cafes, restaurants, hotels and hipster nightlife. As such, the Riverside is popular with tourists from around the world, who come here to relax, eat, drink and generally have fun.
And, like other S.E. Asian countries, wherever you find lots of tourists, you'll also find people (of all ages) hawking souvenirs, snacks, postcards, handmade jewelry etc.
The boy in the photo above was selling lotus seeds; a local snack food that goes well with beer. I bought some, of course, and he agreed to let me snap a photo. Judging from the money in the bag he's holding, he was having a pretty good day.
PS: The pinkish colored 5,000 Riel banknote clearly visible in the bag is equivalent to roughly $1.25 U.S.
Program:Manual
Lens:70-300mm f/4-5.6 G VR
F:5.6
Speed:1/250
ISO:220
Focal Length:300.0 mm (35 mm equivalent 450.0 mm)
Focus Mode:AF-C
AF Area:Dynamic Area (3D-tracking)
Shooting Mode:Single-Frame, Auto ISO
VR:On
EV:-1/3
Metering Mode:Spot
WB:Auto1
Focus Distance:6.68 m
Dof:0.11 m (6.63 - 6.74)
HyperFocal:802.33 m
57306 approaches Huntingdon with former Greater Anglia "Electrostar" EMUs 379020 and 379029 in tow. The working is 5Q77 08.40 Worksop Down Yard - Hornsey EMU Depot, and the train is passing under the A141 road bridge over Great Stukeley Railway Cutting.
This was the first of these moves I'd managed to photograph. Having been off lease for two years, in March 2024 the thirty-strong fleet, now in warm storage at Worksop but with regular trips to Doncaster to connect to a 25kV supply, was sold by Akiem to Porterbrook; Porterbrook was to lease them to Govia Thameslink Railway to replace the 387s on Great Northern services (with the 387s being transferred to the Southern operation). However, units were not only being moved from Worksop to Hornsey - some of those already brought south were taken back to Worksop.
I'd not been here for a few years, and was surprised at how much the bushes on the cutting side had grown - and one in particular, near the bottom, is already tall enough that it is a problem if you stand wider. I've previously used a 50mm lens here (equivalent to 75mm on a full-frame camera), but after the train had set off from Peterborough I decided to change to a wider lens so I could include the whole of the bridge (I usually lose the extreme right) and more of the sky - but this meant cropping the image. I think using a 50mm lens might actually have been better...
As can be seen, there was lots of cloud around, but there was a reasonable clearance at the train's booked time - and the train was on time. But I think the sun was only a minute or two away from going behind a medium-sized but quite thick cloud, so I was quite lucky!
Visit Brian Carter's Non-Transport Pics to see my photos of landscapes, buildings, bridges, sunsets, rainbows and more.
A butcher shop in Takayama, Japan, built in a western style.
Built (1936): Nishida Kiyoshi
Why the Japanese equivalent of Pinocchio is up there...no idea.
Retiro Park, Madrid, Spain
I have chosen a b/w image to emphasize the nineteenth-century feeling of this wonderful symmetric building. In the background some of the objects of the art installation of Danh Vō.
From Wikipedia: The Palacio de Cristal ("Crystal Palace") is a glass and metal structure located in Madrid's Buen Retiro Park. It was built in 1887 to exhibit flora and fauna from the Philippines. The architect was Ricardo Velázquez Bosco.
The Palacio de Cristal, in the shape of a Greek cross, is made almost entirely of glass set in an iron framework on a brick base, which is decorated with ceramics. Its cupola makes the structure over 22 metres high. The architecture was influenced by the glass and iron structural techniques of Joseph Paxton (who was responsible for London's Crystal Palace and also for greenhouses such as the Palm House at Kew Gardens).
The structure was designed in a way that would allow it to be re-erected on another site (as happened to the equivalent building in London). However, the building has remained on the original site, next to a lake, and has been restored to its original appearance. It is no longer used as a greenhouse, and is currently used for art exhibits.
In Explore / explored at 21 April 2016, uploaded 20 April
Jupiter and Saturn are much closer now. This shot is taken with the Nikon P900 at an equivalent of around 1500mm handheld. I had huge trouble focussing correctly, and so I had to focus lock on the crescent moon which was bright enough to allow the autofocus to work very accurately and then recompose the shot to the planets. I exposed to try to catch some detail on Jupiter's surface and also not blow out Saturn into a white blob. That is why none of Jupiter's moons are showing in this image. Not much detail showed, I think mainly due to the planets being low in the sky and were affected by atmospherics from the low angle. Still, I was very happy to get the two together with a hint of a band on Jupiter and the rings of Saturn defined from the planet itself. This could be my last shot of the event as the weather is not looking good for a couple more nights now.
Program:Manual
Lens:AF-S DX VR Zoom-Nikkor 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G ED
F:8.0
Speed:1/200
ISO:160
Focal Length:18.0 mm (35 mm equivalent 27.0 mm)
Focus Mode:AF-A
AF Area:Dynamic Area
Shooting Mode:Single-Frame, [3]
VR:On
WB:Auto
Flash:Normal
Flash type:Optional,TTL
Focus Distance:5.62 m
Dof:inf (1.49 m - inf)
HyperFocal:2.02 m
I'm auctioning a 20x20 inch (or equivalent metallic) print of ANY 1 image on my photostream to help the people of Haïti.
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Crow in the spotlight ...
Sony ILCE-7R
300mm F2.8 G
The mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) is a perching duck species found in East Asia. It is medium-sized, at 41–49 cm (16–19 in) long with a 65–75 cm (26–30 in) wingspan. It is closely related to the North American wood duck, the only other member of the genus Aix. Aix is an Ancient Greek word used by Aristotle to refer to an unknown diving bird, and galericulata is the Latin for a wig, derived from galerum, a cap or bonnet.
The adult male is a striking and unmistakable bird. It has a red bill, large white crescent above the eye and reddish face and "whiskers". The breast is purple with two vertical white bars, and the flanks ruddy, with two orange "sails" at the back. The female is similar to female wood duck, with a white eye-ring and stripe running back from the eye, but is paler below, has a small white flank stripe, and a pale tip to its bill.
Both the males and females have crests, but the crest is more pronounced on the male.
Like many other species of ducks, the male undergoes a moult after the mating season into eclipse plumage. When in eclipse plumage, the male looks similar to the female, but can be told apart by their bright yellow-orange beak, lack of any crest, and a less-pronounced eye-stripe.
Mandarin ducklings are almost identical in appearance to wood ducklings, and very similar to mallard ducklings. The ducklings can be distinguished from mallard ducklings because the eye-stripe of mandarin ducklings (and wood ducklings) stops at the eye, while in mallard ducklings it reaches all the way to the bill.
The hooded crow (Corvus cornix) (also called hoodie is a Eurasian bird species in the Corvus genus. Widely distributed, it is also known locally as Scotch crow and Danish crow. In Ireland it is called grey crow, just as in the Slavic languages and in Danish. In German it is called "mist crow" ("Nebelkrähe"). Found across Northern, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, as well as parts of the Middle East, it is an ashy grey bird with black head, throat, wings, tail, and thigh feathers, as well as a black bill, eyes, and feet. Like other corvids, it is an omnivorous and opportunistic forager and feeder.
It is so similar in morphology and habits to the carrion crow (Corvus corone), for many years they were considered by most authorities to be geographical races of one species. Hybridization observed where their ranges overlapped added weight to this view. However, since 2002, the hooded crow has been elevated to full species status after closer observation; the hybridisation was less than expected and hybrids had decreased vigour. Within the hooded crow species, four subspecies are recognized, with one, the Mesopotamian crow, possibly distinct enough to warrant species status itself.
Except for the head, throat, wings, tail, and thigh feathers, which are black and mostly glossy, the plumage is ash-grey, the dark shafts giving it a streaky appearance. The bill and legs are black; the iris dark brown. Only one moult occurs, in autumn, as in other crow species. The male is the larger bird, otherwise the sexes are alike. Their flight is slow and heavy and usually straight. Their length varies from 48 to 52 cm (19 to 20 in). When first hatched, the young are much blacker than the parents. Juveniles have duller plumage with bluish or greyish eyes and initially a red mouth. Wingspan is 98 cm (39 in) and weight is on average 510 g.
The mallard or wild duck (Anas platyrhynchos) is a dabbling duck which breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and has been introduced to New Zealand, Australia, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, the Falkland Islands and South Africa. This duck belongs to the subfamily Anatinae of the waterfowl family Anatidae.
The male birds (drakes) have a glossy green head and are grey on wings and belly, while the females (hens or ducks) have mainly brown-speckled plumage. Both sexes have an area of white-bordered black speculum feathers which commonly also include iridescent blue feathers especially among males. Mallards live in wetlands, eat water plants and small animals, and are social animals preferring to congregate in groups or flocks of varying sizes. This species is the main ancestor of most breeds of domesticated ducks.
The mallard is a medium-sized waterfowl species although it is often slightly heavier than most other dabbling ducks. It is 50–65 cm (20–26 in) long (of which the body makes up around two-thirds), has a wingspan of 81–98 cm (32–39 in),[16] and weighs 0.72–1.58 kg (1.6–3.5 lb). Among standard measurements, the wing chord is 25.7 to 30.6 cm (10.1 to 12.0 in), the bill is 4.4 to 6.1 cm (1.7 to 2.4 in) and the tarsus is 4.1 to 4.8 cm (1.6 to 1.9 in).
The breeding male mallard is unmistakable, with a glossy bottle-green head and white collar which demarcates the head from the purple-tinged brown breast, grey brown wings, and a pale grey belly. The rear of the male is black, with the dark tail having white borders. The bill of the male is a yellowish orange tipped with black while that of the female is generally darker ranging from black to mottled orange. The female mallard is predominantly mottled with each individual feather showing sharp contrast from buff to very dark brown, a coloration shared by most female dabbling ducks, and has buff cheeks, eyebrow, throat and neck with a darker crown and eye-stripe.
Owing to their highly 'malleable' genetic code, Mallards can display a large amount of variation, as seen here with this female, who displays faded or 'apricot' plumage.
Both male and female mallards have distinct iridescent purple blue speculum feathers edged with white, prominent in flight or at rest, though temporarily shed during the annual summer moult. Upon hatching, the plumage colouring of the duckling is yellow on the underside and face (with streaks by the eyes) and black on the back (with some yellow spots) all the way to the top and back of the head. Its legs and bill are also black. As it nears a month in age, the duckling's plumage will start becoming drab, looking more like the female (though its plumage is more streaked) and its legs will lose their dark grey colouring. Two months after hatching, the fledgling period has ended and the duckling is now a juvenile. Between three and four months of age, the juvenile can finally begin flying as its wings are fully developed for flight (which can be confirmed by the sight of purple speculum feathers). Its bill will soon lose its dark grey colouring and its sex can finally be distinguished visually by three factors. The bill colouring is yellow in males, black and orange for females. The breast feathers are reddish-brown for males, brown for females. The centre tail feather is curled for males (called a drake feather), straight for females.[citation needed]
During the final period of maturity leading up to adulthood (6–10 months of age), the plumage of female juveniles remains the same while the plumage of male juveniles slowly changes to its characteristic colours.[citation needed] This plumage change also applies to adult mallard males when they transition in and out of their non-breeding eclipse plumage at the beginning and the end of the summer moulting period. The adulthood age for mallards is 14 months and the average life expectancy is 3 years, but they can live to twenty.
In captivity, domestic ducks come in wild-type plumages, white, and other colours. Most of these colour variants are also known in domestic mallards not bred as livestock, but kept as pets, aviary birds, etc., where they are rare but increasing in availability.
A noisy species, the female has a deeper quack stereotypically associated with ducks. Male mallards also make a sound which is phonetically similar to that of the female, but it is a deep and raspy sound which can also sound like mek or whak. When incubating a nest, or when offspring are present, Females vocalise differently, making a call which sounds like a truncated version of the usual quack. They will also hiss if the nest or their offspring are threatened or interfered with.
The mallard is a rare example of both Allen's Rule and Bergmann's Rule in birds. Bergmann's Rule, which states that polar forms tend to be larger than related ones from warmer climates, has numerous examples in birds. Allen's Rule says that appendages like ears tend to be smaller in polar forms to minimize heat loss, and larger in tropical and desert equivalents to facilitate heat diffusion, and that the polar taxa are stockier overall. Examples of this rule in birds are rare, as they lack external ears. However, the bill of ducks is very well supplied with blood vessels and is vulnerable to cold.[citation needed]
Due to the malleability of the mallard's genetic code, which gives it its vast interbreeding capability, mutations in the genes that decide plumage colour are very common and have resulted in a wide variety of hybrids such as Brewer's duck (mallard × gadwall, Anas strepera).
Source:
Wikipedia
Personal choice of course. We visited four years ago and again this year and to us it’s like food enthusiast running a restaurant. We are just normal people but it is special to us. The location is amazing on the Pulteney Bridge, the staff are friendly and the food so special. To us the meal is not cheap, however they source their food locally, produce meals of a real quality so in our mind it is a fine location and fair price to eat a meal that is equivalent in photographic terms as a fine art image.
The picture was taken with a 35mm setting on the Ricoh GRiii,
I brahmani dell'epoca vedica seguirono l'esempio di Prajapati, che aveva duellato a lungo con Morte., rivaleggiando con lei nei sacrifici - e stava per abbandonare la partita, sfibrato, inadeguato, quando gli balenò la SAMPAD, l'equivalenza numerica, geometria impressa sulla luce, e allora vide che la vasta dispersione di ciò che viveva, ma soprattutto moriva, poteva articolarsi in rapporti che non si deterioravano. Ciò che la mente vede, quando coglie un nesso, lo vede per sempre. La mente può rovinare, insieme con il corpo che la sostiene, ma il rapporto sussiste, indelebile. Creando un edificio fatto di connessioni credettero, come già il loro avo Prajapati, di avere sconfitto Morte. Si convinsero che il male è inesattezza. Così morirono più tranquilli.
(R.Calasso, da "KA")
40mm equivalent.
Spent about twelve days travelling through Eastern Europe by coach. Brought along my Olympus EM5 and some lenses. 9th-20th Dec 2019 .
Camera shoulder bag : Sirui Slinglite 8.
Backup camera: Olympus Stylus SH-60
Program:Manual
Lens:105mm f/2.8 G VR
F:8.0
Speed:1/160
ISO:2000
Focal Length:105.0 mm (35 mm equivalent 157.0 mm)
Focus Mode:AF-C
AF Area:Dynamic Area (3D-tracking)
Shooting Mode:Single-Frame, Auto ISO
VR:On
WB:Auto1
Flash:Normal
Flash type:Optional,TTL
Focus Distance:0.42 m
Dof:0.004 m (0.420 - 0.424)
HyperFocal:68.58 m
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équivalence focale
500mm
+ tc 1.4 = 700mm
+ crop aps-c 1.6 = 1120mm
+ recadrage image 5472 > 2200 px (rapport de 2,49)
= au total > 2786mm
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distance du sujet: 384 400 km
temps que met la lumière pour parcourir cette distance: 1,26 secondes
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brut de raw, aucun traitement ajouté, tout curseurs au centre, sauf netteté au max, pas de débruitage pour éviter tout lissage des détails, pris sur monopode, objectif avec stabilisateur activé
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je reste étonné devant la qualité du matos qui permet ce genre de pdv, prise sans aucune précaution particulière...
Esta mariposa, se parece a la célebre "Papilio machaon", pero no lo es. Hay también otros dos nombres científicos que son equivalentes: "Iphiclides podalirius" y "Iphiclides feisthamelii" . También hay dos nombre populares para llamarla: "chupaleche" y "podalirio".
Quien tenga interés por la información sobre esta mariposa puede acceder a www.asturnatura.com/familia/papilionidae.html, donde obtendrá una información general de especies similares, y una información particular sobre ésta en waste.ideal.es/iphiclidespodalirius.htm.
A donde yo acudí para deshacer este entuerto de nombres científicos.
Gracias por vuestras visitas y comentarios.
Feliz semana.
These are crowns, they were regularly minted in the nineteenth century and worth five shillings (equivalent to about £25 today). Nowadays they are only minted to commemorate special occasions. These are all post decimal coins and have a face value of twenty-five pence each. Formerly one was able to get them from banks at face value and I have spent them in shops – they usually created some interest as they are handsome coins 1½ inches across.
However, the value of the newer ones has been increased to five pounds and they are now only available in special packs at well above face value 😟
The Macro Mondays group has chosen Currency today.
The plan to build a tower 300 metres high was conceived as part of preparations for the World's Fair of 1889.
The wager was to "study the possibility of erecting an iron tower on the Champ-de-Mars with a square base, 125 metres across and 300 metres tall". Selected from among 107 projects, it was that of Gustave Eiffel, an entrepreneur, Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier, both engineers, and Stephen Sauvestre, an architect, that was accepted.
Emile Nouguier and Maurice Koechlin, the two chief engineers in Eiffel's company, had the idea for a very tall tower in June 1884. It was to be designed like a large pylon with four columns of lattice work girders, separated at the base and coming together at the top, and joined to each other by more metal girders at regular intervals.
The tower project was a bold extension of this principle up to a height of 300 metres - equivalent to the symbolic figure of 1000 feet. On September 18 1884 Eiffel registered a patent "for a new configuration allowing the construction of metal supports and pylons capable of exceeding a height of 300 metres".
In order to make the project more acceptable to public opinion, Nouguier and Koechlin commissioned the architect Stephen Sauvestre to work on the project's appearance.
The curvature of the uprights is mathematically determined to offer the most efficient wind resistance possible. As Gustave Eiffel himself explains: All the cutting force of the wind passes into the interior of the leading edge uprights. Lines drawn tangential to each upright with the point of each tangent at the same height, will always intersect at a second point, which is exactly the point through which passes the flow resultant from the action of the wind on that part of the tower support situated above the two points in question. Before coming together at the high pinnacle, the uprights appear to burst out of the ground, and in a way to be shaped by the action of the wind.
All the elements were prepared in Eiffel’s factory located at Levallois-Perret on the outskirts of Paris. Each of the 18,000 pieces used to construct the Tower were specifically designed and calculated, traced out to an accuracy of a tenth of a millimetre and then put together forming new pieces around five metres each. A team of constructors, who had worked on the great metal viaduct projects, were responsible for the 150 to 300 workers on site assembling this gigantic erector set.
It only took five months to build the foundations and twenty-one to finish assembling the metal pieces of the Tower.
Considering the rudimentary means available at that period, this could be considered record speed. The assembly of the Tower was a marvel of precision, as all chroniclers of the period agree. The construction work began in January 1887 and was finished on March 31, 1889. On the narrow platform at the top, Eiffel received his decoration from the Legion of Honour.
Even before the end of its construction, the Tower was already at the heart of much debate. Enveloped in criticism from the biggest names in the world of Art and Literature, the Tower managed to stand its ground and achieve the success it deserved.
Various pamphlets and articles were published throughout the year of 1886, le 14 février 1887, la protestation des Artistes. Other satirists pushed the violent diatribe even further, hurling insults like : "this truly tragic street lamp" (Léon Bloy), "this belfry skeleton" (Paul Verlaine), "this mast of iron gymnasium apparatus, incomplete, confused and deformed" (François Coppée), "this high and skinny pyramid of iron ladders, this giant ungainly skeleton upon a base that looks built to carry a colossal monument of Cyclops, but which just peters out into a ridiculous thin shape like a factory chimney" (Maupassant), "a half-built factory pipe, a carcass waiting to be fleshed out with freestone or brick, a funnel-shaped grill, a hole-riddled suppository" (Joris-Karl Huysmans).
Once the Tower was finished the criticism burnt itself out in the presence of the completed masterpiece, and in the light of the enormous popular success with which it was greeted. It received two million visitors during the World's Fair of 1889
Pretty much the toad-equivalents of the Dendrobatid poison frogs, harlequin toads (Atelopus spp.) are similarly brightly colored, day-active, and highly toxic. They also comprise one of the most endangered groups of amphibians in the neotropics, with many species listed as Critically Endangered and others presumed extinct in the wild. Aside from habitat loss and threats from introduced species, they appear particularly susceptible to the amphibian-killing chytrid fungus, which has completely wiped out many wild populations. This Atelopus spurrelli is endemic to the Chocóan rainforest of coastal Colombia.
Capitolo 4: BUONANOTTE, L'AVANA
Il Campidoglio - L'Avana
Album completo: www.flickr.com/photos/stefanoparadossi/sets/7215765188719...
L'Avana (in spagnolo La Habana ; nome completo: San Cristóbal de La Habana) è la capitale di Cuba e, con una popolazione di 2,2 milioni di abitanti, la più grande città dei Caraibi.
Il Campidoglio (Capitolio Nacional) è un imponente edificio costruito nel 1929 a L'Avana, sotto la direzione dell'architetto Eugenio Raynieri Piedra.
La costruzione dell'edificio, iniziò nel marzo del 1926 e fu inaugurato, due anni e cinquanta giorni dopo, il 20 maggio del 1929.
Il suo costo fu di 17 milioni di Pesos dell'epoca, equivalenti alla stessa quantità di dollari dell'epoca. Divenuto uno dei simboli di Cuba, ai tempi del presidente Fulgencio Batista era la sede ufficiale della Camera dei Rappresentanti e del Senato cubano, poi dopo la rivoluzione cubana del 1959, divenne sede del Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología y Medio Ambiente (CITMA).
(fonte wikipedia)
The so called "redondel" equivalent of roundabout in the UK, in the beginning of Av El Espino, in San Salvador, now in the dry season. It is a modern "composition" with different vines climbing up and a place used by the birds in the afternoon.
Los redondeles están muy presentes en el paisajismo de San Salvador. Este es el de Av El Espino, moderno y lleno de enredaderas.
Este redondo, ou redondel em linguagem local recebeu um lindo tratamento paisagístico, com torres q foram recobertas por trepadeiras de flores. Na primavera é muito bonito e mesmo agora na seca se vê bem também. A preferencia é de quem vem por dentro. A gente se acostuma...
Is smoke equivalent to a neutral density filter? I suppose it depends on the particle size distribution of the soot and other particulates in the smoke.
The evening solar disk is seen in Tucson, Arizona, descending and disappearing into the smoke from California and Colorado forest fires.
17:30:03 Mountain Time
Uploaded almost 14 years ago to the day since the photo was taken.
North side, view, recent snowfall,
Garden Village, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
The Canon PowerShot S95's 6.0–22.5 mm lens is equivalent to 28–105 mm in 35 mm format.
28 mm,
Program:Manual
Lens:24-70mm f/2.8 G VR
F:3.2
Speed:1/250
ISO:1400
Focal Length:70.0 mm (35 mm equivalent 105.0 mm)
AF Fine Tune Adj:+11
Focus Mode:AF-C
AF Area:Dynamic Area (3D-tracking)
Shooting Mode:Single-Frame, [3], Auto ISO
VR:On
EV:-2/3
Metering Mode:Multi-segment
WB:Auto1
Picture Control:Standard
Focus Distance:0.79 m
Dof:0.015 m (0.787 - 0.802)
HyperFocal:76.44 m
Program:Manual
Lens:35mm f/1.8 G
F:2.2
Speed:1/500
ISO:250
Focal Length:35.0 mm (35 mm equivalent 52.0 mm)
AF Fine Tune Adj:+4
Focus Mode:AF-C
AF Area:Dynamic Area (3D-tracking)
Shooting Mode:Single-Frame, Auto ISO
VR:Off
EV:-1/3
Metering Mode:Multi-segment
WB:Auto1
Picture Control:Standard
Focus Distance:0.50 m
Dof:0.017 m (0.493 - 0.510)
HyperFocal:27.53 m
Program:Manual
Lens:12-28mm f/4 G
F:10.0
Speed:1/50
ISO:110
Focal Length:12.0 mm (35 mm equivalent 18.0 mm)
Focus Mode:AF-C
AF Area:Dynamic Area (3D-tracking)
Shooting Mode:Single-Frame, Auto ISO
VR:Off
EV:-2/3
Metering Mode:Multi-segment
WB:Auto1
Focus Distance:3.98 m
Dof:inf (0.61 m - inf)
HyperFocal:0.72 m
for Macro Mondays - theme 'Zodiac'
The water-filled wine glass serves as "Piscis eye" lens
(The equivalent for Aquarius in the Dutch language is 'Waterman" )
(Oui, je sais : d'une part, cette phrase ne parle pas de la rotation de la Terre sur elle-même, mais de la rotation de la Terre autour du soleil. D'autre part, je sais que cette phrase est très certainement apocryphe, les braises des bûchers étant rarement froides à l'époque de Galilée)
Et pourtant, elle tourne !
Et voici une façon simple de montrer que la Terre tourne sur elle-même : prenez une photo sur un trépied fixe, adoptez un temps d'exposition plutôt long.... et attendez le résultat !
Veuillez pardonner la netteté et le grain contestables de cet essai, réalisé dans la nuit du 24 au 25 juin dernier, au belvédère des Avaloirs. C'était un premier essai, et ce n'est qu'après de longues tergiversations que je me suis décidé à la travailler un peu, sachant le gros souci de grain et de pixels chauds que cette image posait.
Quoi qu'il en soit, mine de rien, c'est en constatant le faible mouvement des étoiles à un équivalent 16mm plein format, pour un temps de pose pourtant peu anecdotique, qu'on se rend compte de la raison pour laquelle il n'a pas été immédiatement évident pour le commun des mortels (on ne parlera pas de ces geeks qui, dès l'Antiquité, levaient les yeux au ciel) d'imaginer la rotation de la Terre sur son axe.
The Castle was the home of some of Marietta’s most prominent and influential citizens. The property was leased as early as 1808 by a potter and his family, making it one of the earliest pottery manufacturing sites in the entire Northwest Territory.
The Gothic Revival house was built in 1855 for $10,000 (equivalent to roughly $275,000 today) and a carriage house was completed just three years later.
DSCF8176 R1
Zuiko 70-300 mm (équivalent 140-600 mm)
Le point focus est fait sur l’œil. J'ai cadré trop serré et malheureusement cela eu pour effet de couper le bas des pattes du papillon : en macro, avec cette forte focale le sujet tremble beaucoup dans le viseur, rapport macro 1/1 à fond de focale, distance minimum de mise au point 96 cm à 300 mm (équivalent 600 mm full frame).
Assemblage de trois photos prises avec une focale équivalente à 80 mm sans trépied à travers un filet de protection.
Paris
EXPLORED!!
COOLPIX P7000
42.6mm (200mm equivalent)
Aperture Priority
Built-in ND Filter: ON
ƒ/8 @ 8 sec
ISO: 100
Nikon Capture NX2
Nik Tonal Contrast
Nik Skylight
Nik Sharpener
I was recently in Jacksonville, FL for business. The hotel I stayed at had this pretty nice man-made waterfall just behind the main lobby.
One of my bosses, asked that I make a picture of it for him to use on a thank-you card.
Once done with the standard processing, I tweeked it a bit using both Capture NX2 and Nik Color Efex 3.
During the capture process, I wanted a bit more shutter drag. In the set-up menu, I found the Built-in ND filter. Using the "ON" setting... not the "AUTO" setting... I was able to pull my shutter speeds down from 1.6 sec to 8 sec.
Cool feature.
Here is a link to the image as it came out of the camera:
www.flickr.com/groups/p7000/discuss/72157627255958708/#co...
Program:Aperture-priority AE
Lens:18-105mm f/3.5-5.6 G VR
F:11.0
Speed:0.5
ISO:100
Focal Length:66.0 mm (35 mm equivalent 99.0 mm)
Focus Mode:Manual
Shooting Mode:[3], Exposure Bracketing, IR Control
VR:Off
Metering Mode:Multi-segment
WB:Auto1
Picture Control:Standard
Focus Distance:0.79 m
Dof:0.06 m (0.77 - 0.82)
HyperFocal:19.77 m