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This is piece of plywood I use when I paint on paper on the easel...You can see the ghost outline of many pieces of paper that have been clamped on this wood... Now its becoming a work of abstract art in its own right.
I'll be out of town for a few days... see you all next week.
" The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? "
Edgar Allan Poe
Created for Weekly Photoshop Contest
Week#463 Victorian Alleyway
Thanks to Rubyblossom for profiding the Original Alleyway picture
www.flickr.com/photos/rubyblossom/20237657830/in/pool-pscomp
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This historic mansion played a pivotal role during and after the Battle of Franklin on Nov 30, 1864. It became the largest of many field hospitals for tending the wounded and dying soldiers. Over 1750 Confederate soldiers lost their lives in this battle, including four Generals who were laid out for viewing on the back porch (bottom photo) for several hours after the battle. The parking area and approach is toward the back of the house (also bottom pic). The third photo shows the ghost outline of the original building built in 1815, which stayed attached to the 1826 mansion until it was destroyed by a tornado in 1909. If you are a fan of historical fiction, The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks is a fabulous telling of the McGavock family story and their role during and after the battle.
I will call this a (relatively) short "test shot" of some star and planet trails. There was scattered cloud cover, and after 33 minutes, I had to terminate the exposure so as to avoid having the view of the celestial objects obscured by the light associated with an approaching bank of thick clouds. In a developed area such as this, clouds reflect the ambient light from things on the ground, and this light can wash out any other features in the sky region of a long exposure photograph.
For several weeks now, I have been fine tuning my procedures and looking for an opportunity to get a shot with a minimum exposure length of 90 minutes or so. On this morning, I packed up and walked away well short of this, but trying to convince myself that the shot could still be worth posting. If nothing else, I have used the shot to provide the opportunity to post various notes on the gear used, the protocol used when shooting, and the post-processing carried out.
The star trails in the shot are "anchored" by the view of the buildings in the Kingston Foreshore development that line the edge of Lake Burley Griffin. The prominent red light was on top of a crane being used in the ongoing building activities.
Reflections of the building and street lights were recoding in the long exposure photograph, and they covered a broad areas of the lake surface. The apparent spread of these reflections was a consequence of the gentle breeze that was generating ripples. Reflections from the lights were reaching the camera from much larger areas than would be the case if the lake surface had been still.
The South Celestial Pole was located out-of-frame, beyond the top right corner. The trails appear to be circling around this point.
The brightest trail, seen in the lower left quadrant, belonged to Venus. The remaining trails were from stars from the Scorpius and various lesser constellations. The Southern Cross was sadly just out of frame above the upper edge.
Did anyone else see the crazy trails produced by moths flying around the light in the lower right quadrant? Or the hundreds of ghost outlines of me as I paced up and down along the path trying to keep warm during the long exposure?
I was impressed with the improvement in low-light performance of the iPhone 6s Plus in comparison with the iPhone 5s that was the iPhone model that I used when last taking star trail photographs. The improvements have been in both the hardware and the capabilities of the camera apps (e.g., NightCap Pro). I estimate that I could image star trails down to brightness magnitude 2-3 with my iPhone 5s and that I am seeing star trails down to brightness magnitude 4 with the iPhone 6s Plus before they are obliterated by high ISO speckle noise. Of course, it would never be fair to compare the results here with what could be obtained by dedicated cameras that have notable low light performance such as the Sony a7S. I am most certainly not saying that the iPhone is a serious rival to these cameras! It is still impressive to me, not least because it can image objects in low light that are dimmer than I can see unaided.
Barton, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
[ Various reminder and documentary notes follow ... ]
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MeFOTO "Backpacker" tripod
www.mefoto.com/products/backpacker.aspx
MeFOTO "SideKick360 Plus" mount
www.mefoto.com/products/sidekick360plus.aspx
Miniature Twin Lens Reflex (TLR) bluetooth wireless remote shutter trigger.
gizmon.com/tlr-camera-bluetooth-shutter/
Battery drain was approximately 25% per hour
NightCap Pro iOS camera replacement app ...
- Select "light trail" mode for all photographs.
- Don't forget to capture low-noise photographs before or after the main shot to serve as possible backdrops for the star trails.
- Don't forget to take one or more "dark frames" using the same camera replacement app and settings as the long exposure. These frames are shot whilst blocking out all light from reaching the sensor via the camera lens. "Dark frames" are used during post-processing to compensate for the bias and offset characteristics of the response from each of the sensor elements (pixels).
- Manually select and fix the focus, exposure time, ISO, and temperature of the frames used by this app to build up the light trails.
- The iPhone 6s Plus camera has a fixed aperture of f2.2 and fixed focal length of 4.15mm, equivalent to 29mm for a camera with a full-frame 35mm sensor.
- The focus was set at infinity.
- The maximum exposure time of 1/3 seconds was used.
- An ISO of 2000 was used, but I would suggest using 1000 or 800 next time.
- Select a white balance value of approximately 3200K (because I prefer a "cool" blue tint in these type of photographs).
*** Processing ...
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iPhone 6s Plus - The photographs were taken with the back-facing camera on an iPhone 6s Plus.
NightCap Pro - This camera replacement app was used in Star Trail mode to capture the star trail and dark frames, each with 4032 x 3024 pixels (12MP).
iExplorer - Used the iExplorer Mac OS-X app (by Macroplant) to transfer the images from my iPhone6s Plus via Lightning-USB cable to my MacBook Air 11".
photoFXlab - I used this Mac OS-X app to access the Topaz Simplify and DeNoise plugins. These plugins significantly outperform my "go-to" apps for noise reduction on iOS devices (e.g., Noiseware, Photogene, Photoshop Express). The noise in this case is high ISO speckle luminance and chroma noise.
Topaz Simplify 4 - Detail Removal and Enhancement - "Dust Removal III" preset.
Topaz DeNoise 5 - Used the "JPEG - light" preset with various custom settings (Clean Color 1.0, Grain 0.2) N.B., I did not add grain to the dark frame image.)
PhotoSync - Transferred the images to my iPad Mini (with retina) to continue the post-processing and posting activities.
Image Blender - Loaded the star trails and dark frame images, and output an image using 100% of the "Difference" blend mode.
Filterstorm Neue - Performed a temperature adjustment using the eyedropper tool to select an area that I considered should be a pure gray color.
Snapseed - Performed overall lighting adjustments. Applied a custom "Glamour Glow" filter. Used Selective lighting adjustments to reduce the brightness of the top right corner region. Added a small amount of dark vignette to reduce the brightness across the top edge.
ExifEditor - Transferred the EXIF data from the original star trail photograph to the final image.
pUniverse (Pocket Universe) - I used this iOS app to identify various celestial features in the image.
For something a little different with this latest view from the hill, I thought I would rough in the approximate locations of the outer front and north walls of the old store, denoted by the rough (very rough in some spots!) yellow lines. I believe the front wall face location to be very close to correct, again per the reference, but I think the walls were actually somewhat higher in real life, and the gable location is *very* approximate, and somewhat on the too small side as well. I also attempted to show where the bottom of the walls would be (remember, the elevation was graded down on the left, north end), although that's yet another thing that should be taken with a grain of salt, as they say!
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Kroger, 2016-built, Commerce St. at Mt. Pleasant Rd., Hernando, MS
Ghost outline of the original 1815 building which stayed attached to the 1826 mansion until it was destroyed by a tornado in 1909.
The 2023 remodel of the Southaven Walmart is assumed to be complete. While only faintly visible in this photo, there's a bit of "irregularity" where some of those blue tiles over the entrances were replaced, at least from this somewhat distant vantage point. It's all good though, as it serves as a relic of sorts of the past naming scheme(s) that have been right above the doors. And even cooler (for us, probably not so much for Walmart!) - a ghost outline from the previous "Walmart *" (wording + spark) logo arrangement can still be seen as well in the upper center of the front! Again, really hard to make out zooming in on my photo, but quite visible in person. Hopefully they'll not insist on getting that stuff fixed!
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Walmart, 1998-built, Southcrest Pkwy near Goodman Rd., Southaven, MS
On my final day in Denver, I finally succeeded in taking a panorama shot of the enormous and impressive hotel lobby area without having a whole swag of ghosted outlines as people went about their business.
The panorama option in the native Apple Camera app on my iPhone 6 does a pretty good job within its limitations - a single row or column of photographs, and reasonably uniform lighting. Sure, there are stitching artifacts, but not bad overall.
I was standing in the Strata Bar (a combination of a Cocktail and Sports Bar). Left to right, some of the more notable features ...
- The lobby entrance area.
- The reception counter.
- Perks 24 hour Cafe.
- 'The Climbers' sculpture (Bill Starke).
- Escalators / elevators up to the function levels.
- A glimpse through the window of the 'Bubba Gump Shrimp Co' restaurant across the street (www.bubbagump.com/locations/denver/).
Hyatt Regency Denver
Hyatt Regency Denver, Denver, Colorado, US.
iPhone 6 - Photographs taken with the back-facing camera on an iPhone 6.
Camera - The native Apple Camera app was used to capture this panorama (11312 x 3030 pixels).
Photoshop Express - Various lighting adjustments carried out. Noise Reduction and Sharpening filters applied.
ExifEditor - EXIF data from the of the original photographs transferred to the final image.
(Filed as 201502??_iPadMiniRetina ??? Camera-PhotoshopExpress-ExifEditor.JPG)
Construction, Week 43
Can't leave the parking lot without one last look at what's now been uncovered by the fence hubbub. It's not often you see parking lot innards, lol! I'm not sure what exactly is under the asphalt – concrete, maybe? super tightly-packed dirt?? – but almost certainly it was used to heighten the elevation of the current store. As we've discussed all too often, the new store isn't dealing with building as high up as its predecessor. In this shot you can also see a ghost outline of where a base of the fence once stood.
(c) 2016 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
Gee thanks Kroger, for blocking my picture with your silly signs! This is the meat and seafood counter, again in the Tupelo MS Kroger that as of mid-August 2013 still had it's original Albertsons decor. Also in Tupelo, it looked like there were ghost outlines of old tile in some parts of the floor; but if so, they had become so faded and worn it was hard to tell for certain.
This area of the store in Horn Lake looked drastically different once the Schnucks hack job was done on it! I never got a really good picture of this counter in Horn Lake during the Schnucks corrugation abomination phase, but it can be seen in the distance in this shot: flic.kr/p/e7CVpA
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Kroger, late 90's/early 00's built (as Albertsons), W. Main St. at N. Park St., Tupelo MS
The photo linked in my previous pic (and 2007 Google street views) show there was once a faux mansard roof, on the front building at least, and possibly around the entire complex. It must have been removed after the Mexican place remodeled, as witnessed by the outline up there where the dark brown meets the white part right at the roofline. That white "fill-in" area must be added space for the Mexican restaurant. The Medical Clinic added on circa 2013 as well, and did a complete re-bricking of the building on their side, per the city building codes in the Hernando "Walmart District". I surely hope that's not really what they call this neighborhood(!), but Walmart is just across the street one block over.
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Former Rodeway Inn (probable), 1975-76 built, E. Commerce St. near McIngvale Rd., Hernando MS
halloween white ghost outline shape
download the original at creepyhalloweenimages.com/free_halloween_photos/ghosts/sl...
McKenna Square Park, in Washington Heights at St. Nicholas and 165th Street. Completed 1985. I've seen a couple of different attributions for this; my attempt to sort these out would be that the space and plantings were done by the city's Bureau of Open Space Design (led here by Lee Weintraub), and the little Postmodern follies are the work of HPD Architects. Note ghost-outline of traditional building, rendered in "modern" materials (painted white steel, glass block) with particular accents in undisguised historical language: the columns supporting the ghost pediment, displaced from the main folly, and then the miniature Pantheonic gazebo at the center. One thinks of Venturi and Scott Brown's Franklin Court of 1976. It's cute!
6000 Locomotive Association ex BR Mk1 CK coach, M15829 being rubbed down in preparation of its repaint into Maroon livery at the Bulmer Railway Centre, 23rd February 1986. The ghost outlines of the three different number positions (at least) that the coach carried in Blue/Grey livery can be made out in this photo.
6000 Locomotive Association ex BR Mk1 CK coach, M15829 being rubbed down in preparation of its repaint into Maroon livery at the Bulmer Railway Centre, 23rd February 1986. A close up of the positioning of the number and lining for both its original Blood & Custard and later Maroon liveries. The top corner of the "M" for the Blood & Custard livery number can just be seen behind the maroon "M", as can the ghost outlines of the numbers under the maroon ones.
This screen capture from the assessor's site shows a 2011 aerial flyover with property and street outlines still overlaid from the early-mid 90's of the neighborhood (and major street) that once were. At the top of the photo is Winchester Rd. The ghost outline of a road running north-south (left side) is the old alignment of Swinnea Rd. Note that former home locations close to old Swinnea had already been obliterated in airport buyouts in the 80's and later a runway was built right over the old Swinnea Rd. alignment. The road running north-south in the right of the photo is present-day Swinnea Rd.
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Former east Oakhaven neighborhood, Winchester at New Swinnea Rd., Memphis
The original layout can be glimpsed from the ghosted outlines on the panelling - particularly the seat back.
The refurbishment of the Russell Street entrance to the Grand Hyatt Melbourne has finally been completed. Standing sentry and enhancing the setting perfectly are “The Guardians” (Bruce Armstrong - 2008 - Mixed Media), a stately pair of stylized birds bearing an Aztec feel.
Grand Hyatt Melbourne
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
iPhone 4 - Photograph taken with the camera on an iPhone 4.
Average Camera Pro - AvgCamPro - The photograph is the result of stacking 16 separate images that were acquired by this app automatically over a period of approximately 30 seconds.
Frontview - Image perspective altered using a trapezoidal crop.
Snapseed - Selective lighting tool used to reduce the saturation of portions of the image lit by fluorescent lights. These lights give off a distinctive green color in digital images. The faint, ghosted outline of a passing car’s taillight removed from the bottom right portion of the image. Structure and Ambience filters applied. Overall lighting adjustments performed. Image cropped.
iResize - Image resized to 2592 x 1936 pixels.
PaintShopPro - Digital camera speckle noise attenuated (80% fine, 40% medium and 80% large scale, 60% blend). Saturation increased slightly.
(Filed as 20120907_iPad3 035 AvgCamPro-Frontview-Snapseed-iResize-PaintShopProX4-DNR-80408060-S.JPG)
Here's a rare sight: three c. 1870 Italianate brick cottage that remain relatively intact. You can see a ghost outline of a porch on the example on the right but it's anyone's guess if it was an original porch or not. Provided local historical resources have an early photo of this Cottage row it might show original porches or a lack thereof. Sometimes local companies built identical housing for employees and that could be the case here although whatever company was connected to them is long defunct. Too bad no effort has been apparently made to preserve these rare survivors. I can only hope steps are taken for their preservation before they are gone.
The concrete Perimeter Track runs around the entire Airfield Site, on its northern side it cuts around the edge of Mathams Wood and it is here that it retains its original full width, Mathams Wood was the name chosen to identify the ALG when the site first became operational in World War One.
The Airfield was originally used during World War Two as a night landing ground for Fighter Aircraft of the Home Defence Squadrons protecting London against attacks from German Airships. During the inter-war period it was occasionally used for glider and civilian flying until 1937 when it became Mathams Wood Advanced Landing Ground (named after the nearby wooded area) In 1940 it was renamed RAF Sawbridgeworth after correspondence between the 2(AC) Squadron (and station) Commanding Officer Wing Commander A. J. W. Geddes and the Air Ministry in London. It ceased active operations in 1944 and, after a number of Ground-Based Units operated from the site, it was finally closed in mid-1946 and safeguarding relinquished by the RAF in May 1956.
A large field west of Shingle Hall farm was used as an Emergency Night Landing Ground for No. 39 (Home Defence) Squadron which was based at RAF North Weald in Essex and, although little used, was in operation from April 1916 until November 1918. A short-lived civilian gliding club operated from the Shingle Hall site in 1928, and the British Hospitals Air Pageant visited what then became known locally as the 'Spellbrook Flying Ground' on the 17th of May 1933 to give a flying display and passenger rides in their Aircraft to the visiting public. Additionally, Army Co-operation Squadrons of the RAF used another area of farmland near to Mathams Wood, a wooded area to the north of Blounts Farm, as a Landing Ground for 'resident' field training exercises in 1937.
After the retreat from France in 1940 by the British Expeditionary Force the Commanding Officer of 2 (Army Cooperation) Squadron investigated the possibility of the Squadron settling at Mathams Wood ALG as no base, permanent or otherwise, had been allocated to the Squadron. Thus 2 (AC) Squadron was the unit that established the location for the World War Two Airfield that eventually became designated RAF Sawbridgeworth. Apart from operating the Westland Lysander on its normal reconnaissance duties for the Army the Squadron was also responsible for the initial selection and training of pilots to be used by the Special Operations Executive to insert agents into Occupied France.
The majority of Operations from RAF Sawbridgeworth Airfield were Photo-Reconnaissance Missions and generally linked to Army requests for Battlefield Coverage, but once equipped with the faster North American Mustang Mk 1 & 1a, and when the German V-Weapon Programme intensified, more and more sorties were flown against these Targets and various Radar Installations prior to the Allied invasion of Occupied France. As well as 2 (AC) Squadron, who were based here between June 1940 and April 1944, with their Station Offices at Shingle Hall, many other squadrons operated from the airfield during World War Two, as below :-
> No. 2 Squadron RAF
> No. 4 Squadron RAF
> No. 16 Squadron RAF
> No. 63 Squadron RAF
> No. 80 Squadron RAF
> No. 126 Squadron RAF
> No. 168 Squadron RAF
> No. 170 Squadron RAF
> No. 182 Squadron RAF
> No. 231 Squadron RAF
> No. 239 Squadron RAF
> No. 241 Squadron RAF
> No. 268 Squadron RAF
> No. 613 Squadron RAF
> No. 652 Squadron RAF
> No. 809 Squadron FAA
> No. 1495 (Target Towing) Flight RAF
> Nos. 3 & 247 Maintenance Units RAF
Although cropspraying by air of the farm and other local fields was carried out by aircraft temporarily based on part of the remaining concrete Perimeter Track from 1959 until 1983 this was the only aerial activity carried out postwar from the Airfield. A number of Pillboxes and Personnel Shelters are the only indication that there used to be anything here to do with the Military. The Control Tower was demolished in 1953 and the Sommerfeld Tracking reinforcement to the Grass Runways taken up to allow the land to be farmed again. Over a period of time the sole 'T2' and the 'Blister' Hangars were removed, the last surviving Blister Hangar being blown down in the October 1987 gales (this was the Hangar that Harry Roberts, a criminal who with two others murdered three police officers near Wormwood Scrubs Prison in August 1966, was found hiding in after a 96-day manhunt, the longest in police history) Modern aerial shots of the Airfield show the 'ghost' outlines of the reinforced Grass Runways, similar to what can be seen at nearby RAF Hunsdon and RAF Matching Airfields, albeit they had 'Hard' surfacing. The most visible indication of the extent of the Airfield is the concrete Perimeter Track that is still visible for about 85% of its original length.
In outlying areas to the main Airfield site some of the Airfield Buildings still exist, such as the Sick Quarters Site that has become a small Industrial Estate. Other buildings have been absorbed into the land-owning farm to become agricultural buildings, whilst the Gymnasium from the Communal Site was moved into Sawbridgeworth town Post-War, where it is now the town's Memorial Hall. At the instigation of the Hertfordshire Airfield Memorials Group, who are keen to record aviation history throughout the county, a Memorial to the Wartime use of the Airfield was erected and dedicated on the 14th of May 2006 at the original Shingle Hall entrance to the Airfield.
Every time that I look at this photo, my eye is drawn to the unusual balloon - one that is shaped like a very large glass of beer! It was a perfect morning for the balloons - clear skies and cool temperatures. I snapped a few shots looking up Sydney Avenue towards (new) Parliament House. I had that feeling that there would be one or two decent ones amongst them and I'm pretty happy with the composition of this one.
Barton, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
iPhone 6 - Photographs taken with the back-facing camera on an iPhone 6.
PureShot - A bracketed set of 3 images was acquired, with each of the images having different exposure settings.
MobileHDR - Combined the 3 images into a single HDR image.
SKRWT - Image straightened before applying a trapezoidal crop to change the apparent perspective.
Snapseed - Image cropped to 16:9 format.
BigPhoto - Image resized to 3264 x 1836 pixels.
Snapseed - Applied the Structure and Ambiance filters. Modified the Overall Lighting.
Handy Photo - Used the retouching tool to remove the ghosted outline of a bird in flight that was just to the right of centre.
SimplyB&W - Transformed the image to a pair of B&W images using the red and green filters.
Superimpose - Combined the pair of B&W images using the Darken blend option.
Snapseed - Applied Overall lighting adjustments.
Pixlr - Applied 3 vignettes (Horizon, Soft, and Small).
Photoshop Express - Applied the De-Noise and Sharpening filters.
ExifEditor - EXIF data from one of the original photographs transferred to the final image.
(Filed as 201503??_iPadMiniRetina ??? PureShot-MobileHDR-SKRWT-Snapseed-BigPhoto-HandyPhoto-SimplyB&W-Superimpose-Pixlr-PhotoshopExpress-ExifEditor.JPG)
I like the way lizards generally hold still while you shoot them .. except i discovered that they like to bob their heads just as I shoot so I often end up with a ghost outline of their head too .. here he was pretty well-behaved
The concrete Perimeter Track runs around the entire Airfield Site, on its northern side it cuts around the edge of Mathams Wood and it is here that it retains its original full width, Mathams Wood was the name chosen to identify the ALG when the site first became operational in World War One.
The Airfield was originally used during World War Two as a night landing ground for Fighter Aircraft of the Home Defence Squadrons protecting London against attacks from German Airships. During the inter-war period it was occasionally used for glider and civilian flying until 1937 when it became Mathams Wood Advanced Landing Ground (named after the nearby wooded area) In 1940 it was renamed RAF Sawbridgeworth after correspondence between the 2(AC) Squadron (and station) Commanding Officer Wing Commander A. J. W. Geddes and the Air Ministry in London. It ceased active operations in 1944 and, after a number of Ground-Based Units operated from the site, it was finally closed in mid-1946 and safeguarding relinquished by the RAF in May 1956.
A large field west of Shingle Hall farm was used as an Emergency Night Landing Ground for No. 39 (Home Defence) Squadron which was based at RAF North Weald in Essex and, although little used, was in operation from April 1916 until November 1918. A short-lived civilian gliding club operated from the Shingle Hall site in 1928, and the British Hospitals Air Pageant visited what then became known locally as the 'Spellbrook Flying Ground' on the 17th of May 1933 to give a flying display and passenger rides in their Aircraft to the visiting public. Additionally, Army Co-operation Squadrons of the RAF used another area of farmland near to Mathams Wood, a wooded area to the north of Blounts Farm, as a Landing Ground for 'resident' field training exercises in 1937.
After the retreat from France in 1940 by the British Expeditionary Force the Commanding Officer of 2 (Army Cooperation) Squadron investigated the possibility of the Squadron settling at Mathams Wood ALG as no base, permanent or otherwise, had been allocated to the Squadron. Thus 2 (AC) Squadron was the unit that established the location for the World War Two Airfield that eventually became designated RAF Sawbridgeworth. Apart from operating the Westland Lysander on its normal reconnaissance duties for the Army the Squadron was also responsible for the initial selection and training of pilots to be used by the Special Operations Executive to insert agents into Occupied France.
The majority of Operations from RAF Sawbridgeworth Airfield were Photo-Reconnaissance Missions and generally linked to Army requests for Battlefield Coverage, but once equipped with the faster North American Mustang Mk 1 & 1a, and when the German V-Weapon Programme intensified, more and more sorties were flown against these Targets and various Radar Installations prior to the Allied invasion of Occupied France. As well as 2 (AC) Squadron, who were based here between June 1940 and April 1944, with their Station Offices at Shingle Hall, many other squadrons operated from the airfield during World War Two, as below :-
> No. 2 Squadron RAF
> No. 4 Squadron RAF
> No. 16 Squadron RAF
> No. 63 Squadron RAF
> No. 80 Squadron RAF
> No. 126 Squadron RAF
> No. 168 Squadron RAF
> No. 170 Squadron RAF
> No. 182 Squadron RAF
> No. 231 Squadron RAF
> No. 239 Squadron RAF
> No. 241 Squadron RAF
> No. 268 Squadron RAF
> No. 613 Squadron RAF
> No. 652 Squadron RAF
> No. 809 Squadron FAA
> No. 1495 (Target Towing) Flight RAF
> Nos. 3 & 247 Maintenance Units RAF
Although cropspraying by air of the farm and other local fields was carried out by aircraft temporarily based on part of the remaining concrete Perimeter Track from 1959 until 1983 this was the only aerial activity carried out postwar from the Airfield. A number of Pillboxes and Personnel Shelters are the only indication that there used to be anything here to do with the Military. The Control Tower was demolished in 1953 and the Sommerfeld Tracking reinforcement to the Grass Runways taken up to allow the land to be farmed again. Over a period of time the sole 'T2' and the 'Blister' Hangars were removed, the last surviving Blister Hangar being blown down in the October 1987 gales (this was the Hangar that Harry Roberts, a criminal who with two others murdered three police officers near Wormwood Scrubs Prison in August 1966, was found hiding in after a 96-day manhunt, the longest in police history) Modern aerial shots of the Airfield show the 'ghost' outlines of the reinforced Grass Runways, similar to what can be seen at nearby RAF Hunsdon and RAF Matching Airfields, albeit they had 'Hard' surfacing. The most visible indication of the extent of the Airfield is the concrete Perimeter Track that is still visible for about 85% of its original length.
In outlying areas to the main Airfield site some of the Airfield Buildings still exist, such as the Sick Quarters Site that has become a small Industrial Estate. Other buildings have been absorbed into the land-owning farm to become agricultural buildings, whilst the Gymnasium from the Communal Site was moved into Sawbridgeworth town Post-War, where it is now the town's Memorial Hall. At the instigation of the Hertfordshire Airfield Memorials Group, who are keen to record aviation history throughout the county, a Memorial to the Wartime use of the Airfield was erected and dedicated on the 14th of May 2006 at the original Shingle Hall entrance to the Airfield.
A taste of what is to come tomorrow when I've had some sleep, done all my stuff at Uni and got out of this drunken state I'm currently in.
The idea for this was the work of Thomas Bridge. I merely took the pictures. We had been messing about with torches on top of a car park for ages then this happens.
More, and better, to follow. :)
Looking from Bowen Drive across Lake Burley Griffin towards the dawn sky.
I would like to know why some dawn skies are golden-orange in color, whilst others are red? A bit of a mystery to me!
For the observant ... I note that the image blending process used in MobileHDR for the three input images taken at time intervals of approximately 1 second left three semi-transparent (ghosted) outlines for a person walking along the foreshore path. Quite charming rather than disturbing!
Barton, ACT, Australia.
Phone 5 - Photographs taken with the camera on an iPhone 5.
PureShot - A series of 3 images taken with different exposure settings.
MobileHDR - Combined the 3 PureShot images into an HDR composite image.
Filterstorm - Used the Clone and Sharpening tools to retouch some of the blending artifacts.
Snapseed - Structure and Ambience filters applied. Overall lighting adjustments carried out. Selective lighting adjustments also carried out.
Laminar - Cropped the image and resized to 3264 x 1836 pixels.
Photo fx - Grape Color-Grad filter applied.
Photoshop Express - Noise reduction and Sharpening filters applied with manual settings.
Pixlr Express Plus - Applied a small amount of vignette.
ExifEditor - EXIF data from one of the original photographs transferred to the final image.
(Filed as 20130614_iPad3 015 PureShot-MobileHDR-Filterstorm-Snapseed-Laminar-PhotoFx-PhotoshopExpress-PixlrExpressPlus-ExifEditor.JPG)
The concrete Perimeter Track runs around the entire Airfield Site, on its northern side it cuts around the edge of Mathams Wood and it is here that it retains its original full width, Mathams Wood was the name chosen to identify the ALG when the site first became operational in World War One.
The Airfield was originally used during World War Two as a night landing ground for Fighter Aircraft of the Home Defence Squadrons protecting London against attacks from German Airships. During the inter-war period it was occasionally used for glider and civilian flying until 1937 when it became Mathams Wood Advanced Landing Ground (named after the nearby wooded area) In 1940 it was renamed RAF Sawbridgeworth after correspondence between the 2(AC) Squadron (and station) Commanding Officer Wing Commander A. J. W. Geddes and the Air Ministry in London. It ceased active operations in 1944 and, after a number of Ground-Based Units operated from the site, it was finally closed in mid-1946 and safeguarding relinquished by the RAF in May 1956.
A large field west of Shingle Hall farm was used as an Emergency Night Landing Ground for No. 39 (Home Defence) Squadron which was based at RAF North Weald in Essex and, although little used, was in operation from April 1916 until November 1918. A short-lived civilian gliding club operated from the Shingle Hall site in 1928, and the British Hospitals Air Pageant visited what then became known locally as the 'Spellbrook Flying Ground' on the 17th of May 1933 to give a flying display and passenger rides in their Aircraft to the visiting public. Additionally, Army Co-operation Squadrons of the RAF used another area of farmland near to Mathams Wood, a wooded area to the north of Blounts Farm, as a Landing Ground for 'resident' field training exercises in 1937.
After the retreat from France in 1940 by the British Expeditionary Force the Commanding Officer of 2 (Army Cooperation) Squadron investigated the possibility of the Squadron settling at Mathams Wood ALG as no base, permanent or otherwise, had been allocated to the Squadron. Thus 2 (AC) Squadron was the unit that established the location for the World War Two Airfield that eventually became designated RAF Sawbridgeworth. Apart from operating the Westland Lysander on its normal reconnaissance duties for the Army the Squadron was also responsible for the initial selection and training of pilots to be used by the Special Operations Executive to insert agents into Occupied France.
The majority of Operations from RAF Sawbridgeworth Airfield were Photo-Reconnaissance Missions and generally linked to Army requests for Battlefield Coverage, but once equipped with the faster North American Mustang Mk 1 & 1a, and when the German V-Weapon Programme intensified, more and more sorties were flown against these Targets and various Radar Installations prior to the Allied invasion of Occupied France. As well as 2 (AC) Squadron, who were based here between June 1940 and April 1944, with their Station Offices at Shingle Hall, many other squadrons operated from the airfield during World War Two, as below :-
> No. 2 Squadron RAF
> No. 4 Squadron RAF
> No. 16 Squadron RAF
> No. 63 Squadron RAF
> No. 80 Squadron RAF
> No. 126 Squadron RAF
> No. 168 Squadron RAF
> No. 170 Squadron RAF
> No. 182 Squadron RAF
> No. 231 Squadron RAF
> No. 239 Squadron RAF
> No. 241 Squadron RAF
> No. 268 Squadron RAF
> No. 613 Squadron RAF
> No. 652 Squadron RAF
> No. 809 Squadron FAA
> No. 1495 (Target Towing) Flight RAF
> Nos. 3 & 247 Maintenance Units RAF
Although cropspraying by air of the farm and other local fields was carried out by aircraft temporarily based on part of the remaining concrete Perimeter Track from 1959 until 1983 this was the only aerial activity carried out postwar from the Airfield. A number of Pillboxes and Personnel Shelters are the only indication that there used to be anything here to do with the Military. The Control Tower was demolished in 1953 and the Sommerfeld Tracking reinforcement to the Grass Runways taken up to allow the land to be farmed again. Over a period of time the sole 'T2' and the 'Blister' Hangars were removed, the last surviving Blister Hangar being blown down in the October 1987 gales (this was the Hangar that Harry Roberts, a criminal who with two others murdered three police officers near Wormwood Scrubs Prison in August 1966, was found hiding in after a 96-day manhunt, the longest in police history) Modern aerial shots of the Airfield show the 'ghost' outlines of the reinforced Grass Runways, similar to what can be seen at nearby RAF Hunsdon and RAF Matching Airfields, albeit they had 'Hard' surfacing. The most visible indication of the extent of the Airfield is the concrete Perimeter Track that is still visible for about 85% of its original length.
In outlying areas to the main Airfield site some of the Airfield Buildings still exist, such as the Sick Quarters Site that has become a small Industrial Estate. Other buildings have been absorbed into the land-owning farm to become agricultural buildings, whilst the Gymnasium from the Communal Site was moved into Sawbridgeworth town Post-War, where it is now the town's Memorial Hall. At the instigation of the Hertfordshire Airfield Memorials Group, who are keen to record aviation history throughout the county, a Memorial to the Wartime use of the Airfield was erected and dedicated on the 14th of May 2006 at the original Shingle Hall entrance to the Airfield.
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Man, I really drilled that pumpkin.
The bit I used for the ghost outline was too small to photograph well, but I thought it looked nice in person.
7068 Machine shop- Georgia State Railroad Museum, 655 Louisville Rd., Savannah, Chatham, GA. April 10, 2013. Decimal degrees: 32.076220, -81.100771
"Machine Shop"
"The courtyard in front of you is actually the remains of the Machine Shop. Note its walls and foundations that supported various machines. Can you find the 'ghost' outline on the wall inside the doorway marking where the stairs once were?
The Central of George railroad built this shop between 1851-1855. A second story (A) was added in 1876. Machinists working here milled metal by threading pipes and bolts, drilling holes, and planing items to various sizes. The machinists also finished iron objects made in the Blacksmith Shop and repaired items such as train wheels. The wheel lathe, drill press, smaller lathes, and metal planers were powered by a line shaft from the boiler Room. The curved wall (B) by the front of the Machine Shop marks the edge of the original 1850s Roundhouse."
Upper left photo:
"This photograph shows the shop years after the complex closed, but prior to its destruction by Hurricane David in 1979."
Lower left drawing:
"The letters indicate the same areas on the photograph above as on this map."
Lower right hand corner:
"Hourly and Monthly Wages for Machinists
-1917 - 50.5 cents ($103.02 a month)
-1920 - 85 cents ($173.40 a month)
-1921 - 77 cents ($157.08 a month)
-1922 - 70 cents ($142.80 a month)"
A bird flew into the window here at work, I don't know when.
It was very challenging to get a photo of its impression, because it is very faint and I am working with a snapshot camera. I finally tricked the camera to stay in focus, then took a reference photo so that I could later reduce the intensity of the background and create contrast. However, the tree is moving in the wind and perfect subtraction is not possible.
Still, you can now see the ghostly image of the bird, including its wing tip in the upper right.