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As the head of the IT organization, my responsibilities are acquisition and management of the computer systems, networks and software, developing instructional material and teaching computer related classes.
I am also the Second Vice President and a part of the management of the Center.
Michel Desvigne is no doubt the most high-profile French landscape architect working today. He collaborates with architects like Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, Ieoh Ming Pei, Herzog and de Meuron, and Jean Nouvel, and his projects are synonymous with a strong strategic and conceptual component, influenced by insights from geography. Traffic projects also play an important role in his work—they underscore the competence of landscape architecture in matters of city planning.
This thematic monograph documents the key elements of Desvigne’s work in individual chapters: processes of transformation, geography, territory, urban structures, and public squares. Each of these themes is vividly illustrated by selected projects, including the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, the French Ministry of Culture in Paris, and Keio University in Tokyo.
With the help of the Highmark Healthy High Five School Challenge grant, the Intermediate School was able to purchase equipment and technology to help kids become more physically fit -- including Dance Dance Revolution.
(Ardea intermedia)
This picture is a little darker than I intended as I haven't calibrated the new iMac yet.
If it looks ok to you and you have a calibrated screen, let me know.
There is a vignette applied to this picture.
This heron was perched on a boat moored in Ross Creek in Townsville. Identification was based on size - I've seen several great egrets and they were much bigger
My photo walk of July 29, 2023, Lyon, France, district of La Croix Rousse, with my Pentacon Praktica VLC3 camera, a German 35mm SLR of the 70's fitted here with a normal lens Pentacon "electric" 1:1.8 f=50mm.
For this session, I loaded an Ilford HP5+ 36-exposure film and I fitted for all the views a 49mm pale yellow (coefficient. x1.5) screw-on filter on the lens.
I exposed the film at 400 ISO for the Praktica CdS cell that gave similar measuring compared to my trusted Minolta Autometer III with 250 ISO setting to compensate the filter absorption. The Autometer III Minolta light meter was fitted with a 10° finder for selective measurements privileging the shadow areas but I mostly used the camera measuring that is quite reliable.
Focusing was done using the Pentacon focusing screen with a central stigmometer.
Shutter speeds from 1/1000s to 1/125s and f/16 to f/5.6 were used along the session between 2pm and 4PM and a very changing light due to clouds passing by.
Place Colbert, July 29, 2023
69001 Lyon
France
After exposure, the film was revealed using Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developper at dilution 1+25 and 20°C for 6 min. The film was then digitalized using a Sony A7 body fitted to a Minolta Slide Duplicator installed on a Minolta Auto Bellows III with a lens Minolta Bellow Macro Rokkor 50mm f/3.5. The RAW files obtained were processed without intermediate files in LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures.
All views (plus some smartphone documentary pictures) of the film are presented in the dedicated album either in the printed framed versions and unframed full-size jpeg
About the camera :
The Praktica VLC is of the 3rd generation (VLC3, 1978-1981) and was manufactured by "VEB Pentacon" (formally Zeiss-Ikon) in Dresden, Germany. It came with a number of orignal Pentacon accessories including, a shade hood for its normal lens Pentacon "electric Multi-coated" 1:1,8 f=50mm, a waist finder, a loup magnification finder, and the regular pentaprism. There are also 6 different focusing screens, the Pentacon hot shoe for a flash, lens and body caps, and a Praktica ever-ready case.
The camera has a CdS photometric circuitry powered by an unusual 4.5V battery that I replaced by a set of 3 LR44 alkaline batteries in series. As the ASAHI PENTAX Spomatic SP, the bridge circuit is insensitive to the voltage difference. To be independent of the finders, the cell is functioning behind the mirror as in the Topcon Super D or the Miranda Auto Sensorex EE.
This Praktica operates at full aperture using an electrical transmission of the aperture using 3 contacts on the M42 lens mount. It could however operates any non electric M42 lenses at real aperture too by acting on the rotary switch at the top left. As for the other Praktica of the L series the shutter is made of vertical steel curtains making the X-flash synchro at about 1/125 s.
Overall Pentacon produced 85 000 Praktica VLC between 1974 and 1981 among about 3 millions of Praktica "L" (LLC MTL TL L etc).