Looking at this photo, you'd be excused if you though it was a bee. In fact, it is - but bee*s* as there are two of them!

The female European wool carder bee (Anthidium manicatum) use hairs from plants like this lamb's ear for the chambers of their offspring.

The males have figured this out and make a territory around suitable plants where they chase away everything else except females - and when the ladies come there for the hairs he jumps on top of them and mate with them!

He's not much for endurance though, it only takes a couple of seconds for him to complete the act, leaving the girl sitting there looking like she wondering what happened. Also, this obviously leaves very little time for me to see them getting it on, get in close with the camera, find focus and take the shot.

I've taken photos of these bees since 2010, but this year (2021) is the first time I've managed to capture them in the act - but here it is. If you want to see more of them - I have a dedicated album here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/albums/72157667862870066

Launched in 1860, at a time of empire and Britain’s dominance in trade and industry, Warrior was the pride of Queen Victoria’s fleet.

Powered by steam and sail, she was the largest, fastest and most powerful warship of her day and had a lasting influence on naval architecture and design. Work and life on board reflected both the changes the Royal Navy experienced as it evolved into a professional service and shifts in Victorian society.

Built to counter the latest French battleship, Warrior was, in her time, the ultimate deterrent. Yet by igniting a new era in naval technology, she soon became outdated. After 22 years’ service, Warrior’s hull was to be used as a depot, floating school and an oil jetty.

Painstakingly restored in Hartlepool and back home in Portsmouth since 1987, Warrior is a unique survivor of the once formidable Victorian Black Battlefleet and now serves as a museum ship, visitor attraction, popular private hire venue and more. www.hmswarrior.org

Today Warrior is the only surviving example of the 45 ironhulls built between 1861 and 1877. The Warrior Preservation Trust took charge of Warrior in 1979 and has carried out a truly stunning restoration considering the near fatal tragedy befalling her, when she was accidentally set on fire. They are now asking for donations to raise another £1 million to achieve the £4.2 million it will take to restore her failed bulwarks, in order to keep her watertight.

Class: Warrior Class Sail & Steam

Launched: 29 Dec 1860

At: Thames Iron Works & Shipbuilding Company, London, England

Commissioned: 1861

Length: 418 feet

Beam: 58 feet

Draft: 26 feet

Displacement: 9,210 tons

Maximum Speed: 13 knots under sail, 14.5 knots under steam

Armament: 26 muzzle-loading 68 pounders, 10 breech-loading 110 pounders

Complement: 705 men

Abridged from: www.solarnavigator.net/history/hms_warrior_figurehead.htm

The only lasting reminder of the canceled/postponed Munger rail connection is the relocation of the RC model airplane field and the permanent closure of access to it. This old farm access underpass which in recent years had a steel liner added due to the 100+ year old crumbling concrete, was the access to the airplane field just on the other side from this photo position. Now, this tunnel is only accessible via foot or horse. All road signs and mirrors (due to hairpin turns) have been removed, and nature is slowly taking over. Although it appeared some maintenance for horse access has occurred, or nature is slower than I thought it would be since 2014 when the airplane field was closed

P-38 Lightning with an F-35A Lightning II at Luke AFB.

«When a person experiences an irresistible desire to obey himself, objects. However, this does not last long; objects so imperiously crowded

Recognition of their powerful and lasting effects. He is convinced that in mutually beneficial relationships, as in all respects, and in diverse relationships, and in fact - the possibility of endless improvement, expressed in the forms of perception and reaction ...

But, unfortunately, it is rarely possible to meet the desired participation. A rational person who observes, precisely observes, analyzes, to a certain extent, which follows from ideas and leads back to it. In his labyrinth, he feels at home, without worries about the thread. a person cannot be rolled into a coin metal, cannot be counted, it seems a burdensome property; Everything that is in a personalized point of view can easily be united in a dead community.»

Yen, 1807

(I.V. Goethe. Selected Works on Natural History, pp. )

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While a high-speed line passes through the station, Leuven is not a stop on any high-speed route. Current expansion is limited because the Leuven station has reached the maximum set of rail and platforms possible, meaning any further expansion would require building an underground segment.

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This is not a great test, not a good test and yet maybe not a bad test. Two Cameras, well let us try that again,

Two Cameras, both alike in dignity

(From fair Tokyo, where we see the scene),

From ancient art breaks to new potential,

Where civil demand makes civil hands create.

From forth the fatal lineage of these Two Cameras

A pair of star-crossed developments show;

Whose true adventured brings lasting glory

Doth with their marked differences show progress.

The fateful passage of their brand brings love

And continuance of the ways of photography,

Which, but these mechanical offspring live on,

Is now the two photographs focus stacked;

The which, if you with patient eyes attend,

That here is a miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

Please forgive me above is a quick transformation of THE PROLOGUE as delivered by Chorus at the very start of, “Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate’s Daughter,” oh no not the fictional working title of the play that needs a dog for the comedy, no not that from the 1998 film, “Shakespeare in Love,” rather it is from, “The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet,” or “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet,” or the shorter title that now in great esteem is, “Romeo and Juliet.” The use of Shakespeare here is to introduce a Camera Shoot-out Comparison as a High Noon Showdown which offers a quick think of, “Romeo and Juliet – The Western,”and links ideas of tropes and memes including those of Camera Reviews and Head to Head Tests.

The two cameras are further detailed below.

Camera 1 Horseman VH 6x9 Medium Format Technical Camera

Camera 2

Camera 3 both the above film cameras were then used to mount a modern digital camera.

Sony α7R III 35mm full-frame camera, ILCE-7RM3, Sony Alpha A7R III ILCE7RM3.

The two lenses, marked as the same, but built years apart and they have small differences.

Newer Horseman Topcon Super ER 90mm f5.6 Seiko SLV Lens From JAPAN

Older Horseman Topcon Super ER 90mm f5.6 Seiko SLV Lens From JAPAN

A very good comparison could be entered into of these cameras and lenses. I took some pictures and focus stacked them. The first image included some errors so I thought of it as a Sick Rose. The second picture of the same Rose and lighting with a different perspective gives onlya little insight into a comparison. It has given me inspiration to create and share the following. I do not expect anyone to read through all this, I do hope that I can access it later on and that it might be the fuel to ignite further projects.

Everything has been put on hold to try to complete these images. I will find hydration and food soon. What follows was posted with corrections to Flickr on 02 / 09 / 2025. Today, 03 / 09 / 2025 I have the second image to share in three version. Yesterday was a focus stack of 8 photographs and today it is a focus stack of 7 photographs.

The nocturnal Invisible Worm cannot destroy the Crimson Bed of Joy. The Rose is The Rose and any visitation of either mortal malady, or momentous merriment is just the conditions, the ailments and the ebullience that make any Rose at anytime The Rose. Roses bloom and fade and become a part of the compost and the midden that fuels further burgeoning blossoms.

The redden crimson bed seems to be a target chosen by the Invisible Worm. Many roses last a season and are mulched back into the earth with their bright vibrant colours and deep rich heady perfumes being wondrous attractions and strong inspiration to those that will garden them in confined arrangements and to those that cut a bouquet, snip a corsages, trim out a boutonnière they are taking the flowering crowns to be pleasant for either the occasion, or the day and to those that take the heads to macerate them for perfume to all of those and those many, many more that draw and paint roses and make and wear them as garments and further still and more beyond to all those roses have a way in their display to bring a message of love and beauty in both sight and scent. The colour and fragrance, the blood the life force of The Rose can be the blood of adulthood that takes away the innocence of all of us delivering a new Rose with new adult perspective. William Blake in his views of delivered in Songs of Innocence and of Experience gives indications that the Innocence of Eden is lost to those that will not look for it and it is easily found by those that endeavour to cherish it, we are too easily deceived by the material engines working to constrain us into rigid life conventions allowing great harm to be delivered generation to generation as we stray from the goodly and godly way as he perceived it.

Having been a fan of William Blake and of wondering after and into his imaginings I have no wish to influence your own explorations. I believe that Blake saw society forming harsh rules and regulations that were to be mindlessly adhered to and also society was forming institutions that were to be revered with question. His notions of humans finding the path through creation to a return towards the Garden of Eden and of man building a world fulfilling his notions of humanity finding and following the intended ways of us as god’s creation.

I do not follow Blake’s visions as a guide to my life. His Poetry and his building of perception of divinity ready to receive us is not my way. The various enigmas in Blakian Divinity do lead me to Tokyo.

The Tōkyō Kōgaku Kikai K.K., (東京光学機械㈱, usually translated as Tokyo Optical Company, Ltd) are almost as much a source of research as is Blake. The Horseman Topcon Super ER 90mm f5.6 Seiko SLV Lens From JAPAN used here has had me looking at many records and returning more greatly confused than I had been before my pursuit of clarity about The TOPCON CORPORATION. Seiko

The 6x9cm Horseman Camera is stated as being introduced for Police use and then considered in further sales as a Press Camera. 120 film backs exist with several formats possible from 6x9cm, 6x8cm, 6x7cm, 6x6cm and 6x4.5cm. The 61mm wide 120 films can be held in light tight interchangeable backs each with their specific colour coded winding mechanism. The dark slide allows not just a change of emulsion from say either negative to positive, or monotone to colour and also a different frame format.

The 6x9cm camera back here held an adapter to connect to a Sony camera. The extension of the digital sensor from the position original film plane does bring issues especially for infinity focus. The small physical size of the digital sensor used here does open ideas of how much of the lens is being used and whether the digital sensor is testing the lens far beyond the original concept. I have ideas and answers that are still being challenged as I take more pictures.

Lens

Horseman Topcon Super ER 90mm f5.6 Seiko SLV Lens From JAPAN

Tokyo Kogaku, TOPCON CORPORATION, Topcor.

Tōkyō Kōgaku Kikai K.K., (東京光学機械㈱, usually translated as Tokyo Optical Company, Ltd).

Camera 1

Horseman VH 6x9cm Medium Format Technical Camera, also called a Field Camera, Press Camera and further. Some sellers list items relating to this camera as a Large Format Camera. There are Topcon Lenses for their own and other 35mm film cameras, for 6x9cm cameras and with larger image circles for other formats. The intended differences and imagined purposes do give character as well as technical constraints.

Camera 2

Sony α7R III 35mm full-frame camera, ILCE-7RM3, Sony Alpha A7R III ILCE7RM3.

Edit

There are Eight images stacked here in Adobe Photoshop.

The mysteries of Blake and the histories of cameras have brought a focus on dead rose. It has become mummified of sorts and that links to many more mysteries. I am still looking for more details in life, in literature, in history, in manufacture and in expression. I am glad to be involved in the experience of life and happy to think that an Eden of share and of care might be available and we can wander towards a better life for us all. That should be the last statement made, but I am adding that an Eden with Camera Libraries would be welcome.

If this and links do not answer questions then that is where I am continuing on from. On to more pictures and some research. On to enlightenment, that is the way open to us.

Scratch enlightenment just for now, instead maybe on to further edits and to trying to keep up with updates.

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The Sick Rose, William Blake

www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/sick-rose/

The Sick Rose by William Blake, Summary & Analysis

www.litcharts.com/poetry/william-blake/the-sick-rose

Sony α7R III 35mm full-frame camera with autofocus

ILCE-7RM3, Sony A7R III, Alpha, 7R III, ILCE-7RM3, ILCE7RM3,

www.sony.co.uk/electronics/interchangeable-lens-cameras/i...

CAMERA REVIEW : HORSEMAN VH

www.bnphoto.org/bnphoto/LFN/CamProf_HorsemanVH.htm

Camera-Wiki, “Tōkyō Kōgaku, later Topcon...”

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Horseman VH-R PDF MANUAL

www.cameramanuals.org/prof_pdf/horseman_vh-r.pdf

Horseman 985 – an earlier model

www.cameramanuals.org/prof_pdf/horseman_985.pdf

Horseman 980

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Camera Collecting and Restoration, Seikosha.

The Seikosha is a high quality, Japanese made shutter used on many Japanese rangefinder and TLR cameras. Minolta, Mamiya and Ricoh cameras often use this shutter or one of its variants. Several versions of the Seikosha and Seiko shutters were made.

pheugo.com/cameras/index.php?page=seikosha

Mamiya, yes but informative of Seikosha shitters.

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Seiko #0 Shutter in Bronica Lenses

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Romeo and Juliet

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Shakespeare in Love - From Wikipedia

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One of the last shots taken down in the Kelso area, this one just up the track from cottage. lovely evening sunset.

Hoping the feeling of Thanksgiving is lasting for my friends and family, even now that the holiday has passed.

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Today is the anniversary of my mom's death. I miss her so much. She was such a rock in my life. She never had a bad word to say about anyone. Always found good in everything. I will never forget her last day with us. My sis and I were at hospice with her for over a week. She didn't want us with her that day, it was like she knew. We would leave her room and come back. That last time, she saw angels on the end of her bed and we knew. A few hours later, she was gone. I miss you mom, even tho I know your angel is always looking down on us. God Bless.

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Panorama of a sunset falling behind the horizon as the day closes in Omaha.

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Lamnamkok NP, Chiang Rai, Thailand

Family : Vespidae

Subfamily : Vespinae

Species : Vespa velutina

Vespa velutina is a medium sized hornet with the queens typically measuring around 30mm in length while males are 24mm. Workers are smaller at around 20mm in length. It is an opportunistic hunter and can sustain itself from a number of different food sources from very small insects to dragonflies and grasshoppers. They are among the best hunters in the insect world and have amazing flight skills. The species has a long life cycle with the queens awakening from hibernation in late March or April and the colony lasting until the following January.

It is considered a pest in many areas as it has a special liking for honey bees and can wipe out whole colonies in a matter of hours. In Asia, the Eastern Honey Bee has evolved a strategy of avoiding hornets by rapid entry and exit from the hive and also by using another technique called thermo-balling. Up to 500 bees engulf the hornet in a ball. Vibrations produced by the mob of bees increases the temperature inside the ball to 47 degrees C, which is lethal to the hornet. Accidental importation into Europe has seen the species increase and spread, causing great concern to beekeepers as European bees are much easier prey than their Eastern counterparts.

All my insect pics are single, handheld shots of live insects in wild situations.

Stormy, the LaMancha goat, and Elyse, the animal care specialist, have a strong bond. Yesterday, I made a few portraits for Elyse to keep. My wife, Janice, likes this one best.

My new tripod came in so a little macro shot using some tubes and my sigma 50mm

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Realistic-HDR PROCESSED with IRET (Iris Range Enhancement Technology).

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Melasti Beach , Canggu

A card set for the Lasting Hearts card drive.

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This is a textured view of Big Ben as we emerge from the Westminster tube station.

Camera Sony Alpha NEX-7

Exposure 0.001 sec (1/1250)

Aperture f/2.8

Focal Length 16 mm

ISO Speed 100

Exposure Bias -1 EV

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North Buckeye, near Interstate 10 and Miller, west of Phoenix.

I really hate those long-lasting renders with the highest quality settings, but I believe these Tau deserved their right to be presented in a proper way :D Reference image can be found on this page, the other version seen there (with a huge plasma rifle) is also already finished, but I'm not quite fond of how it looks on renders... Thanks for your support, guys! Really hope you like it!

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This was shot a little over a month ago during a one day trip to Mount Baker, with my pal Jeff. We were hoping for a better sky that what we had, but hey, you have to work the scene regardless, right!?!

Having said that, I came away with a couple of shots that I am pretty happy. "Alpenglow", which you can see on my website here: www.howard-snyder.com/Gallery/Mountains/i-fHWQD24/0/L/Las... and now this one.

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we've known each other since birth! lol well, our parents knew each other before we were born. and i was 8 months old when my parents and i went to see her when she was born 18 years ago. of course, i'm not speaking from memory, but that's what our parents tell us!

but if i AM speaking from memory, we've been friends for more than 10 years, and still counting! :) we've lived in separate countries, separate provinces, districts and cities, but we're living in the same city again! and nothing has changed.

Crape Myrtle in blossom. These trees are all through the hood and have various colored blossoms.. They are very beautiful when in full bloom..

A lasting memento of Calgary's role as host of the 1988 Winter Olympics

It is currently used both for high performance athletic training and for recreational purposes by the general public. During the 1988 Winter Olympics, Canada Olympic Park was the primary venue for ski jumping, bobsleigh, and luge. In the summer, COP is used for mountain biking

Thanks to a $4 million expansion to the hill at COP (including the addition of a second high-speed quad chair lift and 100 vertical feet to hill), the city of Calgary is on the verge of becoming the only Canadian technical ski stop on the World Cup alpine circuit.

Djurgårdsbrunnskanalen, Stockholm. June 13, 2020.

Minolta Hi-Matic 7s, a red filter and a roll of Ilford HP5 plus pushed to iso 800, since I used the first part of it for indoor shots.

Developed with Ilfosol 3.

Nikon D4

LR

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Hofn, Iceland

Again on the drive from Hofn to Jökulsárlón. This is the lighting a photographer dreams about and the scenes a nature lover like myself smiles about. Would love to spend time hiking these mountains.

some of the autumn growth on this Hawthorn is still going

Taisetsu mountain range from Mt.Hakuun. Back are Mt.Hokuchin and mt.Ryoun. Taisetsu means "a lot of snow".

Fuji-Holga 120S ( www.flickr.com/photos/threepinner/22015924430/ ), Fujinar 75mm F3.5, Provia 100 expired, developed as described before ( 1st:Korectol 37DegC. 10min, 2nd BAN1), scanned with Plustek OptcFilm 120 + VueScan, edited with GIMP. You can see a hiker on the up left. This lens is made more than sixty years ago. Bigger sizes: www.flickr.com/photos/threepinner/51480026981/sizes/ up to 10000 × 9726 pixels compatible. Learn DIY development and upgrade to film !

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