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lightbulbs, vintage radio vaccuum tubes, polymer, brass, copper, anodized aluminum, swarovski stones
lightbulbs, vintage radio vaccuum tubes, polymer, brass, copper, anodized aluminum, swarovski stones
lightbulbs, vintage radio vaccuum tubes, polymer, brass, copper, anodized aluminum, swarovski stones
Filaments from the bulb of a high intensity microscope light focused onto the bench.
I was trying to be artistic. Could you please lie through your teeth and say how great this is otherwise Boab (Boab24) will make fun of me all day :-)
He says "I have issues" lol :-)
Close up on prominence at 3 meter of focal with a Daystar filter.
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lightbulbs, vintage radio vaccuum tubes, polymer, brass, copper, anodized aluminum, swarovski stones
What you see before you is the latest London location for Burger & Lobster (*fanfair* the global phenomenon!) I think this is number 9 though I may be wrong. These are the (Russian?) guys behind the Goodman steakhouses, and so you could say that they know a little something about meat, at the least! As for the aesthetic of the placeâ¦very American, I dunno if âCrabshackâ would be the right word, but the rustic wood, oldschool filament lamps and lobster cages on the walls come pretty close.
Itâs a strange one, this place, the menu basically has three mains - a whole lobster, a burger and what I guess is simply a lobster roll (cold lobster, warm meat - strong combination). No menu for food at all - you just pick one of the three. As your waiter/waitress may tell you - we âonly do three things, but we do them wellâ. Every meal comes with a side salad (tastes legit due to cheese and other unhealthy things) and a reasonable portion of fries (which are, dare I say, a dead ringer for those youâd get at McDonalds). Lobsters are sourced fresh from Nova Scotia and Maine (I think?), depending on season. As far as lobsters go, I have eaten lobsters all over the US and these areâ¦.pretty close to how I remember (ask for it steamed instead of grilled for full fishy lobster flavoursâ¦)
As this is a relatively new location, theyâre not quite as rammed as I hear the other ones can get (yet!). 3 hour queues? Apparently people will put up with such things. As for queuing up for 3 hours for a restaurant? I love food but you wonât see me doing that. Ever. Not ever. Spend more time waiting than eating? REALLY?! Who does that? OK, Iâll stop. Onto their pricing: £20 is a bit steep for a burger but for a lobster it feels like a bargain. Though the âno reservationâ system seems pretentious, the actual dining experience, thankfully, does not feel quite the same way. From what I saw, staff are super chill, and you eat off of trays instead of plates (which is either pretentious or unpretentious, I dunno). Idea: you could theoretically eat here âeconomicallyâ by getting a lobster to split between the two of you (provided you werenât hugely hungry). And buy more drinks and desserts. Said desserts and drinks are a...reasonable selection, reasonably priced - I suppose about average for London. They do quite a few cocktails, I think 17 last time I checked.
Part of the fun is, obviously, eating the lobster with the cracking tools they provide (your patience is rewarded by access to the delicious parts of the flesh hidden in the deep recesses of the exoskeleton). Eating lobster is actually not as hard, nor messy, as people think it is. You simply crack the joints with the dangerous implements they provide you (in this instance, the âWestmark Crackyâ, lol). This is a legit place to go with friends and loved ones - a lot of fun. It is, however, not a good place to take new business acquaintances or potential romantic connections. Eating with a bib whilst pieces of crustacean fly everywhere probably isnât a good look (though I could be wrong!). Before anyone asks, no, you donât get to choose which lobster youâre going to eat from the tanks (which I am grateful for - I donât think I am quite ready to confront the reality of choosing exactly what has to die to feed me. Goddamn...)
All in all, good food, nice location - none of this speedy table turnover and frenetic rushing I read about in some other reviews. So yeah, a somewhat minimalist approach to restaurateuring which delivers upon its promise of burger and/or lobster. If they keep their lobster pricing the same, I will most certainly be back. Well done to you, (possibly Russian) people of Burger and Lobster!
lightbulbs, vintage radio vaccuum tubes, polymer, brass, copper, anodized aluminum, swarovski stones
lightbulbs, vintage radio vaccuum tubes, polymer, brass, copper, anodized aluminum, swarovski stones
Shooting the filaments of multiple bulbs not that easy though. This was the best I could manage. Aperture could not go any smaller!
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Mosaic of 8 captures of the more active regions of the day, at 3 meters of focal lenght. Variable seeing.
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lightbulbs, vintage radio vaccuum tubes, polymer, brass, copper, anodized aluminum, swarovski stones
Close up on prominence at 3 meter of focal with a Daystar filter.
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Captures in hydrogen-alpha, The Sun 02.10.16. Equipment: Altair Astro 102ED scope, Daystar Quark Chromosphere filter, Altair Astro v1GPCAM mono. Stacked with AS2!, sharpened in Registax6 and post processed with Photoshop CC.
lightbulbs, vintage radio vaccuum tubes, polymer, brass, copper, anodized aluminum, swarovski stones
Two purple-gelled flashes (580EX (thanks, Alan!) and 580EXII) @ 1/16 to left and right with baffles to keep the background dark, triggered via ST-E2.
The significant change compared to previous efforts was dumping the softbox and using the flash direct, which allows winding back the flash power a bit.
lightbulbs, vintage radio vaccuum tubes, polymer, brass, copper, anodized aluminum, swarovski stones
lightbulbs, vintage radio vaccuum tubes, polymer, brass, copper, anodized aluminum, swarovski stones
Mosaic of 8 captures of the more active regions of the day, at 3 meters of focal lenght. Variable seeing.
Take a look also at my astronomy video channel.
lightbulbs, vintage radio vaccuum tubes, polymer, brass, copper, anodized aluminum, swarovski stones
These are the filaments in a black-light. A regular-shaped 75w bulb. Taken in a pitch-black room...this being the only light. Shot at 100mm and @ ~2-1/2 feet distance. The noisy looking area, around the upper whitish filament, is some marks(scuffs) on the bulb...it's 12 years old. ;) You can barely see the glass (at the bottom}, which goes into the socket. No filters(not even UV) or anything used.
The shot was actually focused very well (through the viewfinder) but it looks sort of badly focused...due to the heat being released. I found that i had to use a fast shutter-speed(i tried up to 1/4000)..as this little bulb throws a lot of heat..and therefore,convection. :(
I might retry it at macro distance(~1ft.), but the heat will likely be more of a problem as i get closer, though i won't have to crop. It didn't work out as well with my 70-200 @ 200mm from 4feet.
Must be viewed at large(100% crop), to see some coil details in the upper filament.
In the obvious next step from the straight lines of Pick-a-Stick, curves are plotted between the successive points in the strange attractor. The artist is of the opinion that the results are among the most beautiful available on pixelbrain so far, and has so far amassed several engrossed hours watching them emerge out of the darkness. (These, more than any so far, are worth launching the applets for...)
Created using Processing.
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lightbulbs, vintage radio vaccuum tubes, polymer, brass, copper, anodized aluminum, swarovski stones