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For this series, addressing Macro Monday's "Egg" topic, I've got inspired by the Easter tradition of blowing eggs empty and decorating them.
I've made a tiny pin hole on the pointy end of the egg and a bigger one on the other side, in order to empty it. I've then inserted a candle wick through the top hole and poured some melted wax through the bottom end, until the egg shell was filled.
Then it was play time! 😊
I wish you all an "eggcellent" week and a Happy Macro Mondays!
Sunset over a backcountry lake | Sierra Nevada mountains
UPDATE 05.30.2012: I gave this photo a rare bump to the front of my stream because I've done enough reworking on it to render the scene more realistically (thanks to Peter Luxem's always great suggestions) that I think it's worth a second look. What do you think? Here is the original file I uploaded yesterday, which looks almost silly to me now.
I woke up on this beautiful July morning to blue skies and cozy temperatures.
A few hours later, it was pouring and hailing as thunder bellowed across the sky, lightning pierced the jagged peaks, and winds assaulted trees and whipped right through my two jackets. I had nine miles left to hike for the day – with 45 pounds on my back, I should add -- and this was not going to stop me! The feeling of vulnerability only made the scenery more humbling. When I finally arrived at these lakes and selected my campsite, there was nobody else at the lake and I hadn’t seen another person all afternoon.
Just before sunset, as often happens in the mountains when the warm layer of air near the ground rapidly weakens, the skies began to clear. But would they clear enough?! The clouds soon vanished to the west and it became evident that an incredible light show was on its way to the east…just where the light would be headed!
A few minutes later, every cloud you see in this sky turned pink; the most dramatic sky I’ve ever seen. I could feel the fire igniting the depths of my heart, clearing my mind and making me ready as ever to see another day. I'll post that one soon... (but if you don't want to wait, *cough* it's always on my website ;)
I don’t think I realized quite how special this light was until I looked back through my photos from the two-week trip and realized that this was one of the only days I had much in the way of clouds in the right place at the right time. I’ve been able to look through those photos and almost completely re-live my trip. I hope you’re able to live a little of it through this one.
I’m titling this one “Ignition” both for the fiery feel and because I constantly need to remind myself to keep my own fire burning as I find myself perpetually overwhelmed in these last few weeks of the school year…we can make it through!!
Thanks very much for your visit; I always appreciate hearing (er…reading) your thoughts. Will stop by lots of your streams after I get a little sleep :)
~ Jeff
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23 March 2013
Keflavik, Iceland
Corporal Corey Mitchell and Corporal Christian Parker supervise the start on a McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) CF-18 Hornet (official military designation CF-188) aircraft before takeoff during Operation IGNITION 2013.
Operation IGNITION is Canada’s periodic participation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Airborne Surveillance and Interception Capabilities to meet Iceland's Peacetime Preparedness Needs, which is a NATO operation conducted to patrol Iceland’s airspace.
Known as Task Force Iceland, the Canadian Armed Forces contingent comprises about 160 personnel and includes a detachment of six McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) CF-18 Hornets (official military designation CF-188) jet fighters plus a support element located at Keflavik Air Base.
CF-18 jets fly over Iceland during OP IGNITION 2013.
Des chasseurs CF18 survolent l’Islande, dans le cadre de l’Op Ignition 2013.
Photo: Cpl Pierre Habib
BN2013-0056-224
ورشة النادي العلمي
Camera: Nikon D300
Lens: Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D
Exposure: 1/100 sec
Aperture: f/14
ISO Speed: 200
The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard lifted off at 07:47 CEST from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA on 16 November 2022.
The most powerful rocket ever built sent NASA’s Orion spacecraft and ESA’s European Service Module (ESM) to a journey beyond the Moon and back. No crew will be on board Orion this time, and the spacecraft will be controlled by teams on Earth.
ESM provides for all astronauts’ basic needs, such as water, oxygen, nitrogen, temperature control, power and propulsion.
Much like a train engine pulls passenger carriages and supplies power, the European Service Module will take the Orion capsule to its destination and back.
Credits: ESA–S. Corvaja
Ignition of a match with flames and a little bit of smoke. A little raw image development and post-processing cleanup but otherwise it's as the camera captured it.
A CF-18 sits in front of an Icelandic hangar during OP Ignition.
Un CF18 est stationné devant un hangar islandais pendant l’opération Ignition.
Photo : Cpl Pierre Habib
BN2013-0056-06
While waiting for my megasquirt kit to arrive from the US, I started building the box of electronics to drive the individual ignition coils per spark plug (Coil on plug) used on the BMW M50 onwards engines. You can buy a 4 driver box from DIY AutoTune but it costs about $80 and I'd need 2 to cover the 6 cylinders.
Instead I've opted to build my own using the drivers from the original M54 ECU. Unfortunately they are in a TO-263/D2PAK surface mount package rather than the TO-220 BIP-373s that most of the Megasquirt builders use (but which would not be free). This makes soldering them up a bit more tricky in a DIY project. I'm not sure whether these are technically Darlington transistors or Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors (IGBT).
I'm using some Veroboard with the copper traces removed in key places (like the back of the transistor where the tab is actually the source (12V) so it needs isolating. The transistors are hot glued to the Veroboard.
I'm using a 100 ohm resistor on the base of each transistor. I think the Megasquirt may already have 200ohms on each signal line so this may not be needed but it shouldn't cause a problem either.
The soldering is a bit messy but then it always tends to be on these prototype boards
By igniting the first one, some 50+ rockets lined up here would explode simultaneously... like machine-gunfire!!
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For 9 days, each day another trade or profession will pay for shooting off the hundreds of rockets. the first ones at 6am - then 12 noon - then7pm.... and the Rocket-Castle at 11pm at night.
Yesterday was the Bricklayer's turn, always the loudest day of them all!! I went to the yard behind the church from where they'll be launching the rockets. This aparently is not for the public, it's a dangerous undertaking and the gates were closed behind the coheteros. And i was locked in with them, nobody has told me to leave... they let me take pictures!!!
All of a sudden i noticed 5 men were lighting up cigarettes, then the "supplier' brought bundles of rockets and the coheteros started lighting them with their cigarettes, holding them between two fingers until they had catched fire before letting go. This is a dangerous and critical moment, because almost instantly after ignition, a huge fire beam would shoot from the rocket to the ground and the rocket was launched... handheld!!! A total of 1300 rockets were shot up into the air, in a 30-minute time frame, accompanied by a concert of ringing church bells.
Most rockets were launched, as you see here, bare handed!! Others were launched all lined up and stuck in some wooden- or metal frame support. Thus, by igniting the first one, some 50+ rockets would explode simultaneously... like machine-gunfire, Wow, what an experience!!!! - I took a few hundred shots (in brackets), just to catch that beam of fire, but neither the fire-beam, nor the explosions of the rockets up in the blue sky showed up much on my images taken in broad daylight, just a lot of smoke. I will look for a night shot in my archives, where the beam of fire is very visible and impressive.
That's my little Buddha (background). I'm lighting a stick and a candle with a torch lighter. Part of my exercises to practice on the flame and depth of field photography. I used a Speedlite 430 EX II flash on E-TTL mode towards the ceiling and I adjusted my aperture and focus ong the flame. The narrow dof was achieved by my Sigma 30mm f/1.4.
I caught agelakis and Power Girl! playing with matches :-)
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6-Nov-07
cafe "Forum" (Talos Plaza)
Iraklion, Crete, Greece
Light that fire.
(I mean that metaphorically, in an artistic sense. Please obey all local fire-related laws.)
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