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Even with all this weather
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Maximize all the pleasure
Maximizing the tulips that my daughter gave to me yesterday.
Thanks for visiting, stay safe. Ontario has put on an Emergency Brake and we are back on lockdown during this third wave!
Renamed - Maximizing capacity following the curves - conversion to B&W on my walk April 8, sculpted by the farmer 👍 and captured through my lens
Thank you for commenting, favoring and visiting me on this N°311 position in today's Explore celebrating patterns! (May 28, 2025) ... proud and happy to have been selected amongst all these other great photos today
As far as I can tell, sea otters have a well-refined process for eating crabs: (1) eat the legs first, so it can't run away (2) snap off and eat the claws second, so they won't pinch your face (3) pop off the carapace to eat all the insides and (4) rinse and repeat with new crabs until naptime. Sea otter and kelp crab, Monterey, California.
A very unique design that I had never seen before, a dual face searchlight that has all of the heads at different levels, despite direction they face. Still displaying a clear indication for CSX Q328, the train hustles through Grand Ledge, MI. as they prepare to stop and work Ensel Yard in Lansing before continuing east.
Haha, for sure, this is my favourite type of workout. EATING! xD
Such a great shot from Belchior Golotsutskov!!
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HUD Functions:
-- Eating Speed:
With this option, you can choose between 3 different speeds, which affect the speed between every fries. *Fast* 0 Seconds, *Medium* 10 Seconds, *Slow* 20 Seconds
-- Auto Eating:
-- When you turn this option ON, the avatar will eat the entire Package of Fries, and then the avatar will throw the package away, and the avatar will resume eating after grabbing a new package from his/her back pocket.
-- When you turn this OFF, the avatar won't eat any fries unless you manually click on the fries in the package.
-- Share with Friends:
-- Your friends can click on the RED part of the package to receive one *INVISIBLE* French Frie that they need to attach, and right after, they need to keep on the yellow part directly on the fries to eat one.
-- Particle FX:
-- In the first 20 fries, they are still HOT and produce a small hot vaper particle effect =).
-- RESET Function: This function will reset the French Fries from any state to a full package.
-- Chris Two Design's HUDs now have a minimized HUD, so please select the * - * Button at the top right Corner to Minimize or the * Square * Button to Maximize the HUD.
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******* FRENCH FRIES VIDEO TUTORIAL *******
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Historical image, 1908 (we think). Towards the end of every monsoon season, the fearsome seashore raiders of Kalimantaan descend from their cloud-covered mountains to raid villages up and down the coast, like fire ants on a Brazilian picnic. These ferocious tribespeople have perfected the art of instilling fear into their enemies whilst having found clever ways to maximize the loot.
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Image made using Grok - is a free AI assistant designed by xAI to maximize truth and objectivity.
Maximizing the tulips that my daughter gave to me yesterday.
Thanks for visiting, stay safe. Ontario has put on an Emergency Brake and we are back on lockdown during this third wave!
Maximize The Trip. On January 20, 2022, Amtrak 100 (P42DC, 50th Anniversary, Midnight Blue) brought Amtrak Train 43 (Pennsylvanian)/Norfolk Southern Corp 07T across the Susquehanna River over the Rockville Bridge in Marysville, Pennsylvanian. Both AMTK 100 and 108 had been operating on this route that week, bringing a lot of photographers trackside. Amtrak has added its 50th Anniversary logo to 7 locomotives in its fleet. A visit to the Bridgeview Bed & Breakfast was a great venue to capture the scene.
1997 John Deere 'Maximizer' 9400 walker combine harvester
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Nikon Nikkor 18-135mm 1:3.5-5.6 G ED-IF AF-S DX
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The Kingdom of Bhutan is a very unique country that time has largely forgotten. Tourism is highly regulated to minimize environmental impact and maximize citizen happiness. In fact, tourism has only been allowed since 1974. Bhutan is the world’s only carbon-negative country. There are no traffic lights or parking meters, the men wear their traditional Gho, woman the Kira. Despite being bordered by Goliath-sized India and China, Bhutan has so successfully maintained their distinct cultural identity.
The Bhutanese people are incredibly warm and hospitable, predominantly of Buddhist faith. One of their many treasures to be proud of is the Paro Taktsang Monastery (17th-century). Anyone is welcome to visit, however it’s a six hour return hike which honestly, I found very challenging largely due to the Himalayas elevation gain from 2,400m to 3,100m.
1997 John Deere 'Maximizer' 9400 walker combine
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I love these windows angled in such a way as to benefit from morning and evening sunlight. Located in Richmond Centre, BC.
A shot above Manhattan's Times Square at Night. Many combined exposures were used to maximize tonal range and detail. Moving electronic billboards were added individually, as their motion needed a still capture.
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Testing a6000 with canon 70-200f4L. Since my adaptor has no electronic contacts I had to "preset lens preset aperture to f16 to try maximize dof towards infinity.
The unbalanced weight of the combination revealed lots of errors when shutting. Definitively out of my comfort zone... great!
Learning to use a6000 focus aids tools for manual focusing.
The water wheel of the watermill the Mast in Vasse, Netherlands.
A top hammer mill are mainly found in streams with a weak current. To maximize the power of the water is a stream with a channel routed to the top as to flow the wheel. Sometimes there is also a mill pond built for the mill, a kind of reservoir, so that there is less water shortages caused by grinding.
The mill pond at the Watermill "The Mast" is on the other side of the road Vasse-Ootmarsum so that water flows under the road.
This is what we saw during our Bicycle tours in the Netherlands, where we have cycled through the beautiful landscape.
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Swarovski products are a high-quality form of glass made from quartz sand, soda, and minerals; the company moved to lead-free glass in 2012.
Swarovski uses special coatings to create unique effects like the "Aurora Borealis" (AB) effect, which gives the crystal a rainbow sheen. The company also has proprietary cuts, such as the Xilion cut, which is designed to maximize brilliance
I know I am going crazy for this minimalism when it comes to the maximum strength?
This stalk is less than 1 cm long and it has four drops on it i.e. two more than the last one. I was thinking it may not be as minimalistic as the last one? :o)
The meaning of minimalism is the meaninglessness and emptiness ….
Have a great Friday and great weekend! We will have rain through the days!
The hardest thing in photography is to create a simple image. – Anne Geddes
A male Red-bellied Woodpecker. Males have longer, wider-tipped tongues than females, possibly allowing a breeding pair to forage in slightly different places on their territory and maximize their use of available food. Our beautiful world, pass it on.
"Kreative Kollaboration" Challenge No. 1 found in the Kreative People group, on the front page;
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Thanks to plumnutz for the starter image which you can see in the first comment box below.
I do love a picnic! Best viewed in fullscreen on black.
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España - Huelva - Cortegana - Dehesa
ENGLISH
Dehesa is a multifunctional agro-sylvo-pastoral system (a type of agroforestry) and cultural landscape of southern and central Spain and southern Portugal, where it is known as montado. Dehesas may be private or communal property (usually belonging to the municipality). Used primarily for grazing, they produce a variety of products including non-timber forest products such as wild game, mushrooms, honey, cork, and firewood. The tree component is oaks, usually holm (Quercus ilex) and cork (Quercus suber). Other oaks, including melojo (Quercus pyrenaica) and quejigo (Quercus faginea), may be used to form dehesa, the species depending on geographical location and elevation. Dehesa is an anthropogenic system that provides not only a variety of foods, but also wildlife habitat for endangered species such as the Iberian lynx and the Spanish imperial eagle.
The dehesa is derived from the Mediterranean forest ecosystem, consisting of pastureland featuring herbaceous species for grazing and tree species belonging to the genus Quercus (oak), such as the holm oak (Quercus ilex sp. ballota), although other tree species such as beech and pine trees may also be present. Oaks are protected and pruned to produce acorns, which the famous black Iberian pigs feed on in the fall during the montanera. Ham produced from Iberian pigs fattened with acorns and air-dried at high elevations is known as Jamón ibérico, and sells for premium prices, especially if only acorns have been used for fattening.
There is debate about the origins and maintenance of the dehesa, and whether or not the oaks can reproduce adequately under the grazing densities now forced upon the dehesa or montado. Goats, cattle, and sheep also graze in dehesa. In a typical dehesa, oaks are managed to persist for about 250 years. If cork oaks are present, the cork is harvested about every 9 to 12 years, depending on the productivity of the site. The understory is usually cleared every 7 to 10 years, to prevent the takeover of the woodland by shrubs of the rock rose family (Cistaceae), often referred to as "jara", or by oak sprouts. Oaks are spaced to maximize light for the grasses in the understory, water use in the soils, and acorn production for pigs and game. Periodic hunts in the dehesa are known as the monteria. Groups attend a hunt at a private estate, and wait at hunting spots for game to be driven to them with dogs. They usually pay well for the privilege, and hunt wild boar, red deer and other species.
The dehesa system has great economic and social importance on the Iberian peninsula because of both the large amount of land involved and its importance in maintaining rural population levels. The major source of income for dehesa owners is usually cork, a sustainable product that supports this ancient production system and old growth oaks. High end ibérico pigs and sale of hunting rights also represent significant income sources.
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SPANISH
Dehesa es un bosque claro de encinas, alcornoques u otras especies, con estrato inferior de pastizales o matorrales, donde la actividad del ser humano ha sido intensa, y generalmente están destinados al mantenimiento del ganado, a la actividad cinegética y al aprovechamiento de otros productos forestales (leñas, corcho, setas etc.). Es un ejemplo típico de sistema agrosilvopastoral y típico de la zona occidental de la Península ibérica. Resulta así un ecosistema derivado del bosque mediterráneo, constituido por especies arbóreas del género Quercus (encina, alcornoque) u otras especies como hayas o pinos y el estrato herbáceo para pacer.
También se denomina con el término dehesa al tipo de gestión de fincas privadas destinadas a la explotación agro-ganadera sobre el bosque mediterráneo del que se obtienen múltiples recursos simultáneamente. Se trata de un ecosistema derivado de la actividad humana a partir del bosque de encinas, alcornoques, etc. Es la consecuencia de conquistar al bosque terrenos para destinarlos a pastizales. Pasa por una fase inicial en la que se aclara el bosque denso para pasar a una segunda fase de control de la vegetación leñosa y la estabilización de los pastizales.
El término dehesa viene del latín defesa (defensa), pues los primeros pobladores en la reconquista hacían vallados para proteger los rebaños alojados en ellas.
Su extensión varía mucho según qué autores, pero está entre los dos y los cuatro millones de hectáreas (entre 20 000 y 40 000 km2; principalmente en el suroeste y oeste: provincia de Córdoba, Salamanca, Extremadura, Huelva, Sierra Norte de Sevilla, piedemonte del Sistema Central en España (especialmente en la zona de Talavera de la Reina) y el Alentejo y Algarve en Portugal.
If you maximize the pic will notice a tracking metal ring in the left leg.
El Copal, Cartago, Costa Rica
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Since the birth of our daughter one year ago my time trackside has been limited to a a few short hours in the month. With sunny skies finally in the forecast, I stole a couple of hours after work to intercept westbound A411 near Lamont Alberta. With a short train behind the single SD75I, A 411's crew will make it into Edmonton in good time, while I head for home after making the most out of the short time I had on this fall evening.
Home of the famous and unusual spherical Moeraki Boulders. To maximize field of view, I took this image with a fisheye lens and was careful to tilt it so the horizon wasn't so curved. But now I wish I took some with an highly accentuated curve (like this) to make the world look like one giant boulder. That might have been fun!
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En este tercer capítulo, a lo largo de más de 2 horas, verás un procesado completo, de principio a fin, donde muestro como sacar el máximo partido de dos fotos usando técnicas de composición y de “time blending”. Durante el video te mostraré como fusionar distintas fotos realizadas en el mismo lugar pero con diferentes perspectivas y diferentes focales para maximizar el impacto visual en el resultado final. Tambien te mostraré diferentes técnicas para realzar y optimizar los detalles de la escena. El software utilizado en este video es Adobe Photoshop CC2018, junto a Adobe Camera Raw y Adobe Bridge, y el panel TK V6 (complatible con versiones anteriores)
Questo terzo capitolo della durata di 2H mostra l'intero processo starto to finish su come comporre ed editare due foto sfruttando le tecniche del time blending e del compositing. Durante il video mostrerò come unire diverse foto scattate nello stesso ambiente con focali e prospettive differenti fondendole insieme massimizzando l'impatto visuale della scena. Inoltre spiegherò diverse tecniche su come finalizzare e ottimizzare i dettagli della scena. I software utilizzati saranno PS CC2018 ACR Adobe Bridge e TK Pannel V6. ( le versioni precedenti sono compatibili)
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This third chapter is more than 2H long showing the entire process start to finish on how to compose and edit two pictures exploiting the techniques of Time Blending and Compositing. During the video, I will show how to blend multiple photos taken in the same environment with a different perspective and focal length maximizing the visual impact of the scene. I will explain also various techniques on how to refine and optimize the details in the scene. The software used are PS CC2018 ACR Adobe Bridge and TK Pannel V6 ( previous versions are compliant)
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Excerpt from brainproject.ca:
The Routine Ride
For many Torontonians, streetcars represent a part of their daily routine. They are a unique aspect of Toronto’s transportation system and are familiar to everyone in the city. Visually, they are a powerful symbol of how it becomes second nature for people to move around in big cities without thinking about it. Our commute is an example of something that becomes embedded in the subconscious of city dwellers and will not be easily erased from our memory.
Mental Vacation
Get ready for some sass on the beach! With its pops of colour and patterned textures, this mental Gaycation is a place where you can always see the sun, day or night. As an artist, Tyler likes to create artwork that is fun and visibly queer. He finds a lot of inspiration through artists like Keith Haring who are able to show reverence towards social issues while maintaining a sense of play. This artwork was made with acrylic paint, gouache and resin.
Love Me
Our complex, vital brains ask us for love: care through healthy habits and mental stimulation. A loved one, changed due to dementia, asks us for love: care through nurturing, understanding and patience.
Sweet Memories
“Sweet Memories” serves to recall the sweet moments – the time spent with family and friends, enjoying a concert, or simply laughing. “Sweet Memories” is a reminder to enjoy the memorable moments that will create stories spanning generations.
Silver Bloom
The human mind is beautiful and complex, yet chaotic and fragmented. Our entire reality is created inside our brains. As you move around the piece, it evolves and changes with the light. Broken mirror and crystals reflect, distort and animate the environment in which the work is placed. ”Silver Bloom” investigates the process of how our reality is constructed and affected by our environment, while simultaneously exploring the fragility of memory and brain health.
Chromatic Thoughts
The sculpture is composed of a structure of geometric lines interlaced with the shape of the human brain. In its interior are several multicoloured floating cubes showing the viewer a contrast between the lines of the structure, the different sizes of the cubes, and the combination of colours. Both the structure and the cubes are made of galvanized wire with acrylic paints.
Tracer
For this project, the artist began by looking at brain PET scans. She was mesmerized by the colours and patterns created, and how these interactions could be used for diagnosis. Sam used these images to create a pattern to cover the brain surface in sequins, and treated the sequins like pixels to try and recreate a sense of the image. There is a contrast between the shine and seduction of the sequins and the reality of the image you are presented with, thereby expanding on the dynamic between beauty and danger.
Fibonacci Einstein
Justin Blayney is inspired by people who maximize the use of their brain and use it to come up with new and innovative ways of thinking about the world around us; those who notice the patterns amongst us and use those patterns to help further our understanding of the universe. From that starting point, Justin decided to celebrate two great mathematicians, Albert Einstein and Fibonacci. The pixel pattern painting of Einstein uses the Fibonacci sequence, also known as the golden ratio, one of the amazing and naturally occurring patterns in this world.