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Weekend feels good, doesn’t it? I usually don’t share my frustrations here because this is supposed to be my fun space! I’m making an exemption this time because this morning I went for a sunrise and literally had to drive around for 40min to find a way to access the waterfront and see the sunrise because ridiculous people that run this city think that for some reason spending time near lake from 5-6am is not safe and from 6-11pm it is!!! “CROOK” county is overwhelmed with crime and corruption and on top of everything it cost us an arm and a leg to live here but we spend time and resources for 2 police cars on every beach entrance chasing people that want to take a breath or exercise away #chicagomajor !!! At the end I had to tune out all that over the top nonsense and I found a way to enjoy the morning. Shooting IR was a perfect way to go after 6am 😶 What do you think?
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Is it already over? Judging by today’s temperature it certainly feels like it! But I’ve heard that there is some more snow coming in this weekend so we should all get ready for some more shooting and fun. This is the early morning shot from Saturday at the N.Avenue Beach. What do you think?
Bridge lifting anyone? Ever since I came to Chicago I’ve been planning to capture this event and every year I forget! Finally after multiple reminders by the people I know and a few device reminders I got out with my wife to photograph the event today and we had a blast. Since we did’t know how the schedule works and how fast they will open the bridges we had to run around, real hard! I’m very excited to share this with you. What do you think?
Small change of perspective can be a great thing, right? Soft evening light was just beautiful that evening from the south side. Amazing sky textures were forming quickly. The wind painted sky was done using one of the Sony apps. I shot that night different variations of the sky, water and the city and mixed them together for the final result. What do you think?
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The Tank Museum, Bovington, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Friday 23rd June 2023.
About the photograph.
Why the title called Eyeing in my Direction, you may wonder.
Well, I have a different shot of this same tank, and the same re-enactors playing the tank crew, and in this photo, the guy on the left was looking at another tank as they went past each other. I called it Eyeing the Other Tank.
You can view it here:
This time, in the above photo, I noticed that guy is looking generally towards my area. He’s not actually looking at me, simply looking towards the people around me, so I thought to call this one Eyeing in my Direction, as if it’s like a sequel to the other one I uploaded long ago.
Anyway…
The tank he rides is a 1950s British manufactured military tank called Centurion.
I did not buy a programme guide while I attended the TANKFEST event, which is a military vehicles re-enactment show, so I don’t have the information available at hand from a programme guide. I tried Google, but too often the result can be too general, and never very narrowed down.
The best I could work out from doing some research is that, this is possibility any variation from the Mark 7 onwards to the Mark 13.
If you look at the standing guy, note his hands resting on the two funnel-shaped objects, looking like a sci-fi robot eyes.
Those two objects are part an infrared equipment, which according to Internet, is found on the Mk 7 onwards.
This Centurion tank seen in the photograph, had been named Batavier either by the original crew or by the private owner.
This tank was part of the Royal Netherlands Army.
During the 1950s, the British exported about 500 Centurion Mark 3 tanks to the Netherlands, paid for by the United States as part of the Mutual Defense Assistance Act. Many of them were then upgraded to Mark 5, and the Netherlands also got some Mark 7 variations too.
They were then replaced with Leopard 1 and later the Leopard 2 main battle tanks during the 1970s and 1980s. Many of the Centurion Mk 5 and Mk 7 tanks were later sent to the United States as the US paid for them.
The Centurion main battle tank started life in 1943, when the British government’s War Office asked the department that designs tanks, to make a new heavy cruiser tank, and should withstand the German’s 88mm guns. The requirement was designation as A41.
Prototypes were built around middle of 1944, and tests were carried out, the Centurion did well, and full production started in November 1945, and the tanks entered service with the British Army in 1946.
The Centurion tank may be too late for the Second World War, however the tanks did saw combat in the Korean War.
Australia also used the Centurion tanks in combat during the Vietnam War.
The Centurion tanks also saw various combat in the Middle East with various nations that bought the exported tanks.
By around the 1960s, the British Army started replacing the Centurion tanks with their new Chieftain tanks.
About TANKFEST and The Tank Museum.
The Tank Museum is found next to the British Army military base, simply called Bovington Camp, and is used by various tank regiments.
The writer Rudyard Kipling once visited Bovington in 1923, and saw some damaged tanks left from the First World War. He recommended that a museum should be set up.
However the museum was simply a shed, and was not open to the public until about 1947, when the museum was finally set up.
By about 1982, the museum was expanded and modernized, it housed many various different tanks in the Exhibition halls, along with working tanks which are often show in the live action arena.
The museum also has the only working German Tiger I tank, known as Tiger 131.
TANKFEST is an annual live action re-enactment event showing off various working tanks in staged display, in the museum’s showground.
For more information, just Google “TANKFEST, The Tank Museum, Bovington.”
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I feel like I caught the golden hour just right in this shot. The trees are lit up like a matchstick – a brilliant gold against a serene blue sky. It's one of those infrared photographs that turns the familiar into something magical. This is the kind of moment that reminds me why I love photography – always a new angle, always a different perspective to uncover. Looking forward to a new season!
How are you enjoying this beautiful weather? Now that it’s finally warm, we took a trip to the nearby wood preserve to relax and capture some shots. It’s the perfect time for infrared photography! If you’re interested in learning the ins and outs of this technique, let’s get in touch. Enjoy the sunshine!
Saturn is gift-wrapped in vivid colors to celebrate Hubble's 8th anniversary in orbit. Actually, this false-color image, taken January 4, 1998, shows the planet's reflected infrared light. This infrared view provides detailed information on the clouds and hazes in Saturn's atmosphere.
The blue colors indicate a clear atmosphere down to a main cloud layer. Different shadings of blue indicate variations in the cloud particles, in size or chemical composition. The cloud particles are believed to be ammonia ice crystals. Most of the northern hemisphere that is visible above the rings is relatively clear. The dark region around the south pole at the bottom indicates a big hole in the main cloud layer.
The green and yellow colors indicate a haze above the main cloud layer. The haze is thin where the colors are green but thick where they are yellow. Most of the southern hemisphere (the lower part of Saturn) is quite hazy. These layers are aligned with latitude lines, due to Saturn's east-west winds.
The red and orange colors indicate clouds reaching up high into the atmosphere. Red clouds are even higher than orange clouds. The densest regions of two storms near Saturn's equator appear white. On Earth, the storms with the highest clouds are also found in tropical latitudes. The smaller storm on the left is about as large as the Earth, and larger storms have been recorded on Saturn in 1990 and 1994.
The rings, made up of chunks of ice, are as white as images of ice taken in visible light. However, in the infrared, water absorption causes various colorations. The most obvious is the brown color of the innermost ring. The rings cast their shadow onto Saturn. The bright line seen within this shadow is sunlight shining through the Cassini Division, the separation between the two bright rings. It is best observed on the left side, just above the rings. This view is possible due to a rare geometry during the observation. An accurate investigation of the ring's shadow also shows sunlight shining through the Encke Gap, a thin division very close to the outer edge of the ring system.
Two of Saturn's satellites are visible, Dione in the lower left and Tethys in the upper right. Tethys is just ending its transit across the disk of Saturn. They appear in different colors, yellow and green, indicating different conditions on their icy surfaces.
For more information, visit: hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1998/news-1998-18.html
Credit: Erich Karkoschka (University of Arizona) and NASA
In this Hubble Space Telescope view, the Horsehead Nebula, a popular target for amateur astronomers, appears in infrared wavelengths. The nebula, shadowy in optical light, appears transparent and ethereal when seen in the infrared, represented here with visible shades. The rich tapestry of the Horsehead Nebula pops out against the backdrop of Milky Way stars and distant galaxies that are easily seen in infrared light.
The backlit wisps along the Horsehead's upper ridge are being illuminated by Sigma Orionis, a young five-star system just off the top of the Hubble image. A harsh ultraviolet glare from one of these bright stars is slowly evaporating the nebula. Along the nebula's top ridge, two fledgling stars peek out from their now-exposed nurseries.
Gas clouds surrounding the Horsehead have already dissipated, but the tip of the jutting pillar contains a slightly higher density of hydrogen and helium, laced with dust. This casts a shadow that protects material behind it from being photo-evaporated, and a pillar structure forms. Astronomers estimate that the Horsehead formation has about five million years left before it too disintegrates.
For more information, visit:
hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/3869-Image
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
The arm of a saguaro cactus and the desert sky. Shot in digital infrared with a Canon D60 in the Sabino Canyon National Recreation Area, in the Coronado National Forest at Tucson, Arizona.
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False color infrared. The colors are intense enough, however, that you might initially assume that that it's just a normal, color photograph. That is very much not the case.
Have you tried Shoreline Sightseeing Boat Tours while visiting Chicago? If not, there is no time like today! New season is open and you get to experience the city from a different perspective. Big shoutout to the crew for organizing this event for us. Everything that day came trough including this moody weather. What do you think?
Astronomers used the Hubble Space telescope to revisit one of its most iconic subjects, the so-called "Pillars of Creation" in the Eagle Nebula (M16). Three towers of gas and dust, standing light-years tall, are giving birth to new stars, buried within their dusty spires.
The pillars became famous after Hubble first imaged them in 1995 using the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. The features were observed again in late 2014 with that instrument's more advanced replacement, the Wide Field Camera 3. With its higher resolution, the new camera provides a sharper view of the pillars and also presents a wider vista, showing the base of the pillars and more of the region surrounding them.
In addition, the new observations captured a portrait of the pillars in infrared light, as well as in visible light. The longer wavelengths of infrared light pass more easily through the dusty environs, allowing us to see more of the wispy details and the stars normally hidden inside or behind the pillars when viewed in visible light.
By comparing Hubble's original image of the pillars to the new one, astronomers also noticed changes in a jet-like feature shooting away from one of the newborn stars within the pillars. The jet grew 60 billion miles longer in the time between observations, suggesting material in the jet was traveling at a speed of about 450,000 miles per hour.
Such observations of the details and changes in the pillars of the Eagle Nebula, and of observations near and far throughout the universe, have been made possible by Hubble’s viewpoint beyond Earth's atmosphere, by its technical upgrades over the years, and the longevity of its career.
For more information please visit:
hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2015/news-2015-01.html
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.” - Anais Nin
Looking like an apparition rising from whitecaps of interstellar foam, the iconic Horsehead Nebula has graced astronomy books ever since its discovery over a century ago. The nebula is a favorite target for amateur and professional astronomers.
In this Hubble Space Telescope view, the nebula appears in a different light, as seen in infrared wavelengths. The nebula, shadowy in optical light, appears transparent and ethereal when seen in the infrared, represented here with visible shades. The rich tapestry of the Horsehead Nebula pops out against the backdrop of Milky Way stars and distant galaxies that are easily seen in infrared light.
The backlit wisps along the Horsehead's upper ridge are being illuminated by Sigma Orionis, a young five-star system just off the top of the Hubble image. A harsh ultraviolet glare from one of these bright stars is slowly evaporating the nebula. Along the nebula's top ridge, two fledgling stars peek out from their now-exposed nurseries.
Gas clouds surrounding the Horsehead have already dissipated, but the tip of the jutting pillar contains a slightly higher density of hydrogen and helium, laced with dust. This casts a shadow that protects material behind it from being photo-evaporated, and a pillar structure forms. Astronomers estimate that the Horsehead formation has about five million years left before it too disintegrates.
The Horsehead Nebula is part of a much larger complex in the constellation Orion. Known collectively as the Orion Molecular Cloud, it also houses other famous objects such as the Great Orion Nebula (M42), the Flame Nebula, and Barnard's Loop. At about 1,500 light-years away, this complex is one of the nearest and most easily photographed regions in which massive stars are being formed.
For more information, please visit:
hubblesite.org/image/3165/news_release/2013-12
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Now, there may be some of you out there who will proclaim, with a great deal of certainty, that this is not truly an infrared photo. To a degree, you are right, to the same degree, however, you are wrong.
You see, I made a filter for my lens out of a series of photographic gels. These gels, when layered correctly, are quite dark. When sufficient light is available, such as in bright daylight, it is possible to see through all the different gels. You see, the gels actually filter out most of the other colors of visible light except for those on the far end of the red spectrum. You see, we are capable of seeing just a bit of infrared as the infrared range overlaps with visible light's red range. Eliminating all other light ranges, permits the very small range of infrared visible to us to stand out. And that, my friends, is this picture. Now, it's not night vision, I just want to clear that up. And it's not a thermal image where you can see heat emanating from a warm body. Rather, this is the infrared light being scattered across a brightly-lit area.
The lighter the surface of the object in infrared, the more infrared light that is being scattered off of it. The darker the object, the more infrared that is simply absorbed. So, when you look at the previous photo and then at this photo, perhaps you can see what is more reflective of infrared light and what is more likely to absorb it.
"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence."
- Ansel Adams
“What struck me, as I walked up and down the history of painting, was how much it was about fading light, and that the history of painting is also the history of the loss of light. For slowly but surely… the light is squeezed out of painting to become finally a mere candle-flicker. A world once full of light becomes a world of shadows.”
– Ian McKeever
An infrared version.
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Death Valley National Park
California, USA
Mamiya 7II
Mamiya N 210mm f/8 L
Rollei Infrared 400
Developed and scanned at Photoworks, San Francisco, California