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Found these two at the tops of some tall grasses early last Saturday morning and for a good hour I struggled to get the shot I was after. They weren't quite perpendicular so no matter what aperture I used I wasn't getting them both sharp. It was a little frustrating so at times I would wander off and find other butterflies - yesterdays brown argus was from one such interlude. I came back as a little light was starting to fall on them and as they woke they got a bit agitated by each others presence and moved slightly - this time they lined up nicely and I was able to get off a few shots. Within a minute or two they had opened up and started squabbling properly.
Edit: I've just noticed the shutter speed for this and being hand held it's a bit of a fluke that it's come out well.
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On a recent trip to Boston, one of the top attractions for me was this set of sculptures called Harbor Fog. Getting this image was funny. Normally I spend my time behind the camera almost like a statue myself. Here, that was not the case. The lighting and 'fog' was motion activated. So you have to interact with these sculptures in order to get them to spew fog. So I would set up the camera and then run through them to set them off. I had other people with me, and they did a fair amount of running too. There was some science behind how you approached them and how much fog they put out. I admit, I don't think we ever figured it out. Anyway, we looked like around of silly gents continually running around like chickens with our heads cut off.
It has been fun to watch the area around these sculptures grow over time. For a long time the trees were new and the images around them have grown a lot. In the winter this scene looks much different, more stark. You almost have to shoot it in the summer to get the framing. I tried several different lens combos to make the Custom House building it bigger and smaller. In the end, I would have liked it bigger, but it kind of distracted when it was. In the end I liked these proportions better. Naturally, this is a blend of several images, to add as much fog as I could. I wished there was more, but these sculptures are tricky. Here is some info on these from wiki:
Harbor Fog, stilled buoys dream of a lost harbor, is a responsive sensor-activated interactive contemporary public sculptural environment located in Boston along the main pedestrian walkway of Wharf District Park Parcel 17, on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway. The first permanent public artwork along the Greenway, the concept was selected through a competition for commission by the Mass Highway Department, and integrated into site construction in collaboration with engineers during building of the Central Artery/Tunnel Project (Big Dig).
The sculpture is constructed of three column forms fabricated from stainless steel and bronze, that reference the shape of buoys, each column contains multiple fog nozzles, LED light sources, motion sensors, and sound systems. The sculptural columns are surrounded by a boat-shaped outline of granite seawall blocks, salvaged from landfill containing 18th century piers that were discovered during sub-surface highway construction. The 2000 lb granite seawall blocks are elevated on stainless steel supports that allow the fog to travel under the blocks, and openings between the elevated blocks allow passage into the interior space. Multiple motion sensors on top of the vertical columns register pedestrian activity that is transmitted to a computer processor to control changing sequences of fog, light, and sound.
The technology that operates the sculpture is maintained by the non-profit Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy.
Een van de leukste activiteiten van het afgelopen jaar: het tramfeest in Gent t.g.v. het vijftigjarige bestaan van de PCC's daar. De optochtdeelnemers staan gereed op het terrein van de stelplaats.
A very French flavour to the 1976 RAF Biggin Hill 'Battle of Britain' Airshow included these two Aeronavle Dassault Etendard IVM's No.5 and No.66 behind
Note also - out there in the murk - a RAF Hercules on approach
Scanned from a dire Ilford FP4 B&W Negative taken on a day where the weather was mostly less than conducive to photography
This abandoned space off Baker Street tube station was once thought to be the gents toilets, off the waiting room just outside. The old Victorian tiles are still visible through the muck and the grime of the decades giving hints to what was once here.
Het vijftigjarig jubileum van de PCC in Gent werd op 10 juli passend gevierd met een optocht van de vier nog bestaande vertegenwoordigers (wagen 01 als oudste uiteraard voorop), en daarna ritten voor het publiek. De stoet passeert het Gravensteen - dat is iets ouder en dateert in zijn huidige vorm uit het eind van de 12 eeuw.