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The title, "The Zil" pulls my brain in the direction of a nice dark Italian red wine called the "The Zinfandel". How it could jump from "The Zil", a Russian military truck sat rotting in the woods of North Wales, to a nice glass of wine is hard to explain but I suspect some minds work differently to others. And I must point out, we see things differently too.
I recently looked a bit more closely at some pictures on flickr and thought they looked faded, too light, the colours not saturated enough. But when I looked at them on another PC they looked fine. And suddenly it has worried me. When I view my shots on my phone they seem darker and some of the detail is lost in the shadows. And that's what troubles me about this pic. I wanted it dark, but not too dark as there is a lot of detail in the shadows.
How do we know when our screen is set so that it gives the same amount of brilliance and contrast as someone else? Is there a test you can do to set your screen up to a common industry standard?
Answers please!
These pictures in this series were taken last Tuesday. At my hubby's work break I'll figure out how to get them off the server and up to this photostream with meta data and better than 72 dpi. This is wooden working puzzle that is a timer. It would run via rubber band if aligned but for the these shots I manually moved the larger gear down below that you can't see, subsequently moving the minute gear and the pendulum wheel at the top.
Emerald Lake in Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada showing off the startling blue/green water color so common in the Canadian Rockies. The unique water color is due to "rock flour": tiny particles of rock scraped off the mountains by glacial erosion which end up being suspended in the lake water below the glaciers.
I was meant to be meeting (well possibly) Jim,Simon and Iain at Brothers Water this morning but as fate would have it i got a bit sidetracked on the way there.I was less than 10 minutes drive away when i just had to stop on the shoreline of Ullswater.It was still quite dark but the distant snow topped peaks stood out like a row of lighthouse's and it was a scene i just had to try and capture.
This was the view looking from Glencoyne across Ullswater and down into the Patterdale valley with the sun hiding somewhere behind the fell to the left.The sky was once again cloudless,but at least it had a pinkish glow to add a touch of colour to the early morning.
Im sorry i missed you guys if you were further up the road but you will know there ain't no mobile signal up them parts so i couldn't even ring you :(
If you did go i hope you got some great shots and i'll catch up with you's in the Ramble group later today.
I hope everyone has a great weekend :)
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How to change your windlight/skybox in SANSAR. isabellecsite.com/2017/08/13/how-to-change-the-sky-in-san...
This image is a labor of love. Originally begun in 2022 and finally finished this year. It is comprised of images from 2 different telescopes, 2 different cameras, two types of binning, and 9 different exposure lengths. I had no idea how difficult it would be to marry all this data together. Finally, here it is.
Discovered in 1702 by the German astronomer Gottfried Kirch, M5 is one of the oldest globular clusters in the Milky Way galaxy. With an apparent magnitude of 6.7 and a location 25,000 light-years away in the constellation Serpens, M5 appears as a patch of light with a pair of binoculars and is best viewed during May.
A majority of M5’s stars formed more than 12 billion years ago, but there are some unexpected newcomers on the scene, adding some vitality to this aging population.
Stars in globular clusters are believed to form in the same stellar nursery and grow old together. The most massive stars age quickly, exhausting their fuel supply in less than a million years, and end their lives in spectacular supernova explosions. This process should have left the ancient cluster M5 with only old, low-mass stars.
Yet astronomers have spotted many young, blue stars amongst the ancient stars in this cluster. Astronomers think that these laggard youngsters, called blue stragglers, were created either by collisions between stars or other stellar interactions. Such events are easy to imagine in densely populated globular clusters, in which up to a few million stars are tightly packed together. Text from NASA/Goddard
Taken from Santa Rosa CA and Blue Canyon CA, May 2022 and June 2023.
Scopes: Tec 140 and Vixen VC200L (Courtesy of Larry Parker)
Cameras: QSI 683 and ASI 2600M
Mount: Paramount MYT
Processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop
L:R:G:B = 5.5h:1.5h:1.5h:1.5h:
M5 V2 is perhaps slightly better. V2 used a masked stretch, which made the stars smaller but resulted in a clouded overall look. In V3 I decided to go with a more conventional stretch for better clarity. Now in V4 I've used all my tricks, and its made a marked improvement.
See how it begun : www.flickr.com/photos/studiodobs/32464509084/in/photostream/
Created for the Challenge "Those Amazing Animals ..focus on Underwater"
www.flickr.com/groups/impressionists/discuss/721576785010...
TMI: Your Art & Nature Group : www.flickr.com/groups/impressionists
How to win your girl.
How to be romantic to your girl:
Dine her.
Call her.
Hug her.
Support her.
Hold her.
Surprise her.
Compliment her.
Smile to her.
Listen to her.
Laugh with her.
Cry with her.
Romance her.
Believe in her.
Cuddle with her.
Shop with her.
Give her jewelry.
Buy her flowers.
Hold her hand.
Write love letters to her.
Go to the end of the earth and back for her again.
How to win your man:
Show up naked and bring food.
a greeting the sun gives the mountains!” ~ John Muir
Beautiful but cold and windy morning at the top.
She is a beautiful girl with the mood in the photo captured light was great. Timeless black and white.
I'm posting more than my normal amount of photo's today because I'm going missing for a few days :-)
Not sure what to call it.. Hartsop Valley, Patterdale Valley ?????
Shirofugen cherry tree leaves.
These leaves and the tree whence they fell are something of a puzzle to me. The interesting thing is that they come not from the tree in my garden (about which I shall doubtless be waxing lyrical once again come May) but from a tree planted in public ground by a lane just down from where I live.
This particular tree is a much older one than the one I have and is in the splendour of its maturity. It has a gorgeous spreading habit: it’s about 30 feet or more wide and twenty tall.
The Shirofugen is an exquisite variety with pendular double flowers borne in profusion. Both the leaves and the flowers change colour in subtle and quite entrancing ways…
But how did this rather rare variety get to be planted in a public space? Usually the local authority will plant Kanzan cherries as they are a lot cheaper. These flower early and are much more upright and brighter pink. Nice trees but they are ubiquitously common and lack the spreading habit and the subtleties of the Shirofugen.
We may never know how it got there, but I’m glad it did :)
Some people think leaves die but I don't think they do really. The life is in the tree, and this is just its way of taking all the minerals back into its trunk and roots for winter (which is why the leaves change colour as the chlorophyll is broken down) and discarding its outer skin that’s served its purpose well for the year. All new next year!
And finally I will observe that piles of leaves are a pain to photograph, as hundreds of my ‘experiments’ over the years have happily proved :)
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image.
#Arachtober 3rd - Centruroides vittatus - Striped Bark Scorpion
First time finding a scorpion in our house yesterday afternoon, how fortuitous! Here's a sneak peek of our tiny visitor - possibly more shots to come later in the month.
A way of the past as Canada Post makes more pick up stations all over the country. I found this while looking for something else. You know I love ladybugs!
Hmmm, wouldn't want to have to count! Would rather just take in this wonderful view of saguaros literally as far as the eye can see with spring wildflowers intermxed to brighten up the landscape. This shot was taken near the base of Mount Lemmon as we began the accent up to 9,171' which took us through 6 different ecosystems. Here are a few more photos from that day: flic.kr/p/2pKgQ2K and flic.kr/p/2pKgaAR .
I worked in the garden this morning and planted a couple lilac trees, until the rain came. I just can’t clean anything else, at least for today, smiling, so I played. I sat down on the sofa and enjoyed a few hours of learning about digital painting on my photographs with @photoshop. How was the first part of your Thursday?
Fairburn Tank 42073 passes under the ornate Landing How Bridge shortly after leaving Lakeside Station at the southern end of Lake Windermere.
This was the final location of last Novembers Lakeside charter ran by Peter Van Campenhout.
Majestát Skalistých hor se snoubí s pohodlím cestování luxusním vlakem. Tak zní lákavá nabídka cesty jedním z luxusních vlaků. Nasednout do vlaku se dá přímo ve Vancouveru a na výběr je hned několik možností. Vyrazit se dá do národních parků Banff a Jasper, přičemž do parku Jasper můžete zvolit ze dvou různých tras. Jsou zde nabízené různé služby např. palubní jídla a pití, vlaky jedou pouze za světla, takže nikdo nepřijde o zajímavé přírodní scenérie, které lze pozorovat v panoramatických vozech, během jízdy je též podáván výklad. Cestující jsou přes noc ubytování v hotelech a pro zájemce jsou poskytovány i výlety do zajímavých cílů během cesty.
V osobních vozech najdeme od roku 2012 i Českou stopu a to v podobě sedadel, které dodala firma BorCad. Sedadla jsou elektricky ovládané a jejich dodávky pokračují, dokonce získaly i stejnojmenné označení jako název vlaku.
Osmnácti vozový vlak se dvěma stroji GP40 v čele vlaku (8011 a 8017), na snímku projíždí údolím řeky Thompson River a blíží se k městečku Lytton, to se nachází přibližně 260 kilometrů od Vancouveru. Díky své barevné kombinaci se vlak v krajině téměř oku ztrácí.
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The majesty of the Rocky Mountains is combined with the comfort of traveling by luxury train. That's how the tempting offer of a trip on one of the luxury trains sounds. You can board the train directly in Vancouver and there are several options to choose from. You can go to Banff and Jasper National Parks, and you can choose from two different routes to Jasper Park. Various services are offered here, e.g. on-board meals and drinks, the trains run only under lights, so no one misses the interesting natural scenery that can be observed in the panoramic cars, an explanation is also provided during the ride. Passengers are accommodated in hotels overnight, and for those interested, trips to interesting destinations are also provided during the trip.
Since 2012, passenger cars have also had a Czech footprint in the form of seats supplied by BorCad. The seats are electrically operated and their deliveries continue, they even got the same designation as the name of the train.
An eighteen-car train with two GP40 engines at the head of the train (8011 and 8017) is pictured passing through the Thompson River Valley and approaching the town of Lytton, located approximately 260 kilometers from Vancouver. Thanks to its color combination, the train almost disappears in the landscape.