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When I first switched from digital to film photography, I remember thinking that it felt like agony to have to wait one whole day for my film to be developed and scanned. Now, I'm finding that it's actually good for me to wait weeks, even months, before really examining my photos. Doing that lets me emotionally detach from my photographs, so that I can look at them more objectively and not be swayed my own personal memory of what that day was like. Here's a photo that I made, maybe six months ago? It finally feels like it's time to post it.
This was my main objective of the day and although the cloud in the background would suggest I was lucky to get this in sun - not so as I didn't lose the sun once in the 80 minutes I spent here this morning with the cloud largely located to the north and west. I had got a slightly dodgy shot of 66 773 on this train running an hour late, wrong side for the sun, at Colchester yesterday just moments after stepping off the train from Chelmsford so I was keen to improve on it today. Actually the weather for once was way better than forecast.
"We found the barrels, but they're heavy as hell! It's gonna take us a while to get them up top."
I got these barrels from a guy on Instagram, gijoefan312. He does outstanding props, often using found materials. This photo is a little dark, but they're probably down in the depths of wherever, right?
Subjectively Objective #14.
An old pop up "Jayco J" camper. Lake Onalaska, Wisconsin, USA.
I'm very excited to show you a brand new conceptual series I've been shooting the past month! A nice change from my norm subject matter of travel, lifestyle, landscapes, models, and nature. Retro / old "gems" in simple environments. Subtle colors, angular uncluttered compositions.
I hope you enjoy...
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippi
Philippi (/fɪˈlɪpaɪ, ˈfɪləˌpaɪ/; Greek: Φίλιπποι, Philippoi) was a city in eastern Macedonia, established by Philip II in 356 BC and abandoned in the 14th century after the Ottoman conquest. The present municipality Filippoi is located near the ruins of the ancient city and it is part of the region of East Macedonia and Thrace in Kavalla Greece.
History
Philippi was established by the king of Macedon, Philip II, on the site of the Thasian colony of Krinides or Crenides (Κρηνἱδες, "Fountains"), near the head of the Aegean Sea at the foot of Mt. Orbelos about 8 miles north-west of Kavalla, on the northern border of the marsh that in Antiquity covered the entire plain separating it from the Pangaion hills to the south of Greece.
The objective of founding the town was to take control of the neighbouring gold mines and to establish a garrison at a strategic passage: the site controlled the route between Amphipolis and Neapolis, part of the great royal route which crosses Macedonia from the east to the west and which was reconstructed later by the Roman Empire as the Via Egnatia. Philip II endowed the new city with important fortifications, which partially blocked the passage between the swamp and Mt. Orbelos, and sent colonists to occupy it. Philip also had the marsh partially drained, as is attested by the writer Theophrastus. Philippi preserved its autonomy within the kingdom of Macedon and had its own political institutions (the Assembly of the demos). The discovery of new gold mines near the city, at Asyla, contributed to the wealth of the kingdom and Philip established a mint there. The city was finally fully integrated into the kingdom under Philip V.
The city remained. It contained 2,000 people. When the Romans destroyed the Antigonid dynasty of Macedon in 168 BC and divided it into four separate states (merides), it was Amphipolis and not Philippi that became the capital of the eastern Macedonian state.
Almost nothing is known about the city in this period, aside from the walls, the Greek theatre, the foundations of a house under the Roman forum and a little temple dedicated to a hero cult. This monument covers the tomb of a certain Exekestos, is possibly situated on the agora and is dedicated to the κτίστης (ktistès), the foundation hero of the city.
The Roman era
The city reappears in the sources during the Roman civil war that followed the assassination of Julius Caesar. His heirs Mark Antony and Octavian confronted the assassins of Caesar, Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus, at the Battle of Philippi on the plain to the west of the city during October in 42 BC. Antony and Octavian were victorious in this final battle against the partisans of the Republic. They released some of their veteran soldiers, probably from legion XXVIII and colonized them in the city, which was refounded as Colonia Victrix Philippensium. In 30 BC, Octavian became Roman emperor, reorganized the colony, and established more settlers there, veterans possibly from the Praetorian Guard and other Italians. The city was renamed Colonia Iulia Philippensis, and then Colonia Augusta Iulia Philippensis after January, 27 BC, when Octavian received the title Augustus from the Roman Senate.
Following this second renaming, and perhaps after the first, the territory of Philippi was centuriated (divided into squares of land) and distributed to the colonists. The city kept its Macedonian walls, and its general plan was modified only partially by the construction of a forum, a little to the east of the site of Greek agora. It was a "miniature Rome," under the municipal law of Rome and governed by two military officers, the duumviri, who were appointed directly from Rome.
The colony recognized its dependence on the mines that brought it its privileged position on the Via Egnatia. This wealth was shown by the many monuments that were particularly imposing considering the relatively small size of the urban area: the forum, laid out in two terraces on both sides of the main road, was constructed in several phases between the reigns of Claudius and Antoninus Pius, and the theatre was enlarged and expanded in order to hold Roman games. There is an abundance of Latin inscriptions testifying to the prosperity of the city.
The early Christian era
According to the New Testament, in AD 49 or 50, the city was visited by the apostle Paul (Acts 16:9-10). From the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 16:12) and the letter to the Philippians (Philippians 1:1), early Christians concluded that Paul had founded their community. Accompanied by Silas, Timothy and possibly Luke, the author of the Acts of the Apostles, Paul is believed to have preached for the first time on European soil in Philippi (Acts 16:12-40). According to the New Testament, Paul visited the city on two other occasions, in 56 and 57. The Epistle to the Philippians dates from around 61-62 and is believed to show the immediate effects of Paul's instruction.
The development of Christianity in Philippi is indicated by a letter from Polycarp of Smyrna addressed to the community in Philippi around AD 160 and by funerary inscriptions.
The first church described in the city is a small building that was probably originally a small prayer house. This Basilica of Paul, identified by a mosaic inscription on the pavement, is dated around 343 from a mention by the bishop Porphyrios, who was present at the Council of Serdica that year.
The prosperity of the city in the 5th and 6th centuries was attributed to Paul and to his ministry.[citation needed] As in other cities, many new ecclesiastical buildings were constructed at this time. Seven different churches were constructed in Philippi between the mid-4th century and the end of the 6th, some of which competed in size and decoration with the most beautiful buildings in Thessalonica, or those of Constantinople. The relationship of the plan and of the architectural decoration of Basilica B with Hagia Sophia and Saint Irene in Constantinople accorded a privileged place to this church in the history of early Christian art. The complex cathedral which took the place of the Basilica of Paul at the end of the 5th century, constructed around an octagonal church, also rivaled the churches of Constantinople.
In the same age, the fortifications of the city were rebuilt in order to better defend against the growing instability in the Balkans. In 473 CE, the city was besieged by the Ostrogoths, who were unable to take it but burned down the surrounding villages.
The Byzantine and Ottoman era
Already weakened by the Slavic invasions at the end of the 6th century, which ruined the agrarian economy of Macedonia and probably also by the Plague of Justinian in 547, the city was almost totally destroyed by an earthquake around 619, from which it never recovered. There was a small amount of activity there in the 7th century, but the city was now hardly more than a village.
The Byzantine Empire possibly maintained a garrison there, but in 838 the city was taken by the Bulgars under kavhan Isbul, who celebrated their victory with a monumental inscription on the stylobate in Basilica B, now partially in ruins. The site of Philippi was so strategically sound that the Byzantines attempted very soon to recapture it ca. 850. Several seals of civil servants and other Byzantine officials, dated to the first half of the 9th century, prove the presence of Byzantine armies in the city.
Around 969, Emperor Nicephorus II Phocas rebuilt the fortifications on the acropolis and in part of the city. These gradually helped weaken Bulgar power and strengthen the Byzantine presence in the area. In 1077, Bishop Basil Kartzimopoulos rebuilt part of the defenses inside the city. The city began to prosper once more, as witnessed by the Arab geographer Al Idrisi, who mentions it as a centre of business and wine production around 1150.
After a brief occupation by the Franks after the Fourth Crusade and the capture of Constantinople in 1204, the city was captured by the Serbs. Still, it remained a notable fortification on the route of the ancient Via Egnatia; in 1354, the pretender to the Byzantine throne, Matthew Cantacuzenus, was captured there by the Serbs.
The city was abandoned at an unknown date, but when the French traveller Pierre Belon visited it in the 16th century, there were nothing but ruins, used by the Turks as a quarry. The name of the city was preserved at first by a Turkish village on the nearby plain, Philibedjik (Filibecik, "Little Filibe" in Turkish), which has since disappeared and then by a Greek village in the mountains.
Archaeological excavation of the site
Noted or briefly described by 16th century travellers, the first archaeological description of the city was made in 1856 by Perrot, then in 1861 by Léon Heuzey and Henri Daumet in their famous Mission archéologique de Macédoine.[1] The first excavations did not begin until the summer of 1914, and were soon interrupted by the First World War. The excavations, carried out by the École française d'Athènes, were renewed in 1920 and continued until 1937. During this time the Greek theatre, the forum, Basilicas A and B, the baths and the walls were excavated. After the Second World War, Greek archaeologists returned to the site. From 1958 to 1978, the Société Archéologique, then the Service archéologique and the University of Thessalonica uncovered the bishop's quarter and the octagonal church, large private residences, a new basilica near the Museum and two others in the necropolis to the east of the city.
In the Bible
According to the New Testament, in AD 49 or 50 the apostle Paul visited the city, guided there by a vision (Acts 16:9-10). Accompanied by Silas, Timothy and possibly Luke, the author of the Acts of the Apostles, Paul preached for the first time on European soil in Philippi (Acts 16:12-40) and baptized Lydia, a purple dye merchant, in a river to the west of the city. While in Philippi, his exorcism of a demon from a slave girl caused a great uproar in the city, which led to the arrest of Paul and Silas and a public beating (Acts 16:16-24). An earthquake caused their prison to be opened. When the jailer awoke, he prepared to kill himself, thinking all the prisoners had escaped and knowing that he would be severely punished. Paul stopped him, indicating that all the prisoners were in fact still there. The jailer then became one of the first Christians in Europe (Acts 16:25-40).
Paul visited the city at least on two other occasions, in 56 and 57. The Epistle to the Philippians dates from around 61-62 and shows the immediate effects of Paul's instruction.
Images For Make A Plane Crash Photo
For a digital artist the picture is often a means to an end or a composition, its main objective is the transformation both visual and the sensations and feelings that can transmit.
The final composition is his work as a painter or a sculptor imagined, digital art is more than a computerized technique, transmits often imagination and a way of seeing the world, is itself artistic creation that is often unique and unrepeatable.
The beginning is the collection of photographic material for the composition you want to do or in this case the elements for built the composition; it is often necessary to transform them individually because not always have what we wanted.
- In this case the Bridge is the Vasco da Gama Bridge in Lisbon, photos taken in movement ; we can't stop for take photos.
- A bonfire capture.
- An old subsonic light attack aircraft LTV A-7 Corsair II in exposition in the Alcochete Shooting Range (Campo de Tiro de Alcochete) near Lisbon.
Sometimes some compositions need dozens of images and elements, but for this simple case i choose a few elements.
The final result you may see in the link below or in the first comment box.
A lovely couple met at the shelter of Grenairon (with their impressive dog not visible in this photo) . We will share a portion of the day, their destination being Le Buet and mine Le Cheval Blanc ..
Leur objectif
Un charmant couple de bivouaqueurs rencontré au refuge de Grenairon (avec leur impresionant chien alpiniste, non visible sur cette photo) . Nous partagerons une partie de la journée, leur destination étant Le Buet et le mien Le Cheval Blanc..
Tour du Ruan, Switzerland
Mount Burgess, 2,599 m (8,527 ft), is a mountain in Yoho National Park and is part of the Canadian Rockies. It is located in the southwest buttress of Burgess Pass in the Emerald River and Kicking Horse River Valleys. It was named in 1886 by astronomer Otto Koltz after Alexander MacKinnon Burgess, the Deputy Minister of the Interior at the time when Koltz worked for a railway construction. In 1892, James J. McArthur was the first to ascend this mountain. He was completing a survey of the lands adjacent to the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1909, geologist Charles D. Walcott discovered the Burgess Shale deposit of fossils with fine details on Mount Burgess. The Burgess Shale is a black shale fossil bed (Lagerstätte) named after nearby Burgess Pass, in which are found new and unique species, many in fact constituting entire new phyla of life, and even today some of these unique species have proven impossible to classify. The fossils are especially valuable because they include appendages and soft parts that are rarely preserved. At 508 million years (middle Cambrian) old, it is one of the earliest fossil beds containing soft-part imprints. The mountain has two summits. The lower north summit was named Walcott Peak in his honour. Between 1954 and 1971, Mount Burgess was featured on the back of the Canadian ten-dollar bill. In 1984, UNESCO declared the area a World Heritage Site.
Emerald Peak - Elevation: 2545 m - Emerald Peak forms part of the scenic backdrop that greets visitors to Emerald Lake near Field, BC. Although the peak is often ascended on snowshoes or skis in the winter, it also makes for a fine summer objective, offering easy scrambling to the false summit and moderate scrambling from there on.
Emerald Lake is located in Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada. It is the largest of Yoho's 61 lakes and ponds, as well as one of the park's premier tourist attractions. Emerald Lake Lodge, a high-end lodge perched on the edge of the lake, provides local accommodation. A 5.2 km (3.2 mi) hiking trail circuits the lake, the first half of which is accessible to wheelchairs and strollers. During the summer months, canoe rentals are available; in the winter, the lake is a popular cross country skiing destination.
The lake is enclosed by mountains of the President Range, as well as Mount Burgess and Wapta Mountain. This basin traps storms, causing frequent rain in summer and heavy snowfalls in winter. This influx of moisture works with the lake's low elevation to produce a unique selection of flora.
The short hike up and into Emerald Basin begins with an initial steeper component from the shoreline of the trail around world-famous Emerald Lake in Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada. Initial views of receding glaciers diminish as the easy hike continues into alpine terrain towards roaring white waterfalls amplified by echos from surrounding, formidable rock walls. Mountains are up close and personal. Views are breathtaking in this full sensory experience.
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The Valentine & Sons' Publishing Co., Ltd.
The earliest Canadian postcards published by Valentine & Sons were uncoloured collotypes of scenery along the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway north of Lake Superior and in the Rocky Mountains. Typically, Valentine postcards have a 6-digit serial number (###,###) on the view side with the initials “J.V.” in a circle adjacent to that number. The main series of numbering begins with a Halifax card as no. 100,000 and ends (as far as we know) with a postcard of Toronto as no. 115,981. There are also two short runs of numbers in the 400,000 range that are found on some cards from the Yukon Territory and a longer run of views from various parts of Canada that begins at 600,000 and continues past 602,000.
100,000 – 1905 (July)+
101,000 – 1906 (August)
102,000 – 1907 (January)
Link to everything you wanted to know about the - Valentine & Sons Publishing Co. - torontopostcardclub.com/canadian-postcard-publishers/vale...
Malheureusement, les heures d'ouverture ne correspondaient pas au timing de notre journée et nous n'avons pu visiter l'exposition en cours, cès lors nous sommes partis directement à Lille.
Ouvert depuis 1997, Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, installé dans un bâtiment réhabilité par l’architecte franco-américain Bernard Tschumi, propose au public tout au long de l’année de grandes expositions d’art contemporain, des programmations cinéma, des concerts, spectacles, conférences...
Le Fresnoy est également un lieu de formation artistique, audiovisuelle et multimédia de haut niveau, destiné à des étudiants avancés. L'objectif premier est de permettre à de jeunes créateurs de réaliser des œuvres avec des moyens techniques professionnels, sous la direction d'artistes reconnus et sans cloisonnement des moyens d'expression. Ces œuvres sont présentées chaque année lors de la manifestation Panorama.
Unfortunately, the opening hours did not correspond to the timing of our day and we were unable to visit the exhibition in progress, so we went directly to Lille.
Open since 1997, Le Fresnoy – National Studio of Contemporary Arts, housed in a building rehabilitated by the Franco-American architect Bernard Tschumi, offers the public throughout the year major exhibitions of contemporary art, cinema programs, concerts, shows, conferences...
Le Fresnoy is also a place of high-level artistic, audiovisual and multimedia training, intended for advanced students. The primary objective is to enable young creators to create works with professional technical means, under the direction of recognized artists and without compartmentalization of the means of expression. These works are presented each year during the Panorama event.
Close-up shot of scared mechanic observing the fight.
This is my entry for the public mission 20 of the 253rd Elite Legion RPG. Build time was four weeks.
Microscope lens setup. Effectively extension tubes and a extension tube to RMS cone adapter giving approx 160mm from focal plane to objective. A USB mini LED lamp fed from a rechargeable battery block (that goes in my pocket). The disc near then of the cone is actually a twin flash mount.
Parts. Sony A6000, Sony to EOS lens adapter, EOS to M42 adapter, M42 extension tubes, M42 to RMS cone, 4X 160mm microscope lens.
I already had these but obviously the adapters depend on the camera body in use but you need to get to M42 for the RMS adapter. The most common RMS adapter is a flat disc, if you use this you will need to use more M42 extension tubes.
For the RogueOlympics on www.RogeuBricks.de I built a camera with only 101 parts, which you can find on my stream.
I liked this first 101 parts MOC so much, that I decided to build it again - but then without part limit.
The camera itself is only build with LEGO parts and, the Nintendo set tiles fitting perfectly for the screen on the backside. Also the objektive is brick build in this one.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy
Normandy (French: Normandie, Norman: Normaundie, from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is one of the 18 regions of France, roughly referring to the historical Duchy of Normandy.
Normandy is divided into five administrative departments: Calvados, Eure, Manche, Orne, and Seine-Maritime. It covers 30,627 square kilometres (11,825 sq mi), comprising roughly 5% of the territory of metropolitan France. Its population of 3.37 million accounts for around 5% of the population of France. The inhabitants of Normandy are known as Normans, and the region is the historic homeland of the Norman language.
The historical region of Normandy comprised the present-day region of Normandy, as well as small areas now part of the departments of Mayenne and Sarthe. The Channel Islands (French: Îles Anglo-Normandes) are also historically part of Normandy; they cover 194 km² and comprise two bailiwicks: Guernsey and Jersey, which are British Crown dependencies over which Queen Elizabeth II reigns as Duke of Normandy.
Normandy's name comes from the settlement of the territory by mainly Danish and Norwegian Vikings ("Northmen") from the 9th century, and confirmed by treaty in the 10th century between King Charles III of France and the Viking jarl Rollo. For a century and a half following the Norman conquest of England in 1066, Normandy and England were linked by Norman and Frankish rulers.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of German-occupied France (and later Europe) from Nazi control, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front.
Planning for the operation began in 1943. In the months leading up to the invasion, the Allies conducted a substantial military deception, codenamed Operation Bodyguard, to mislead the Germans as to the date and location of the main Allied landings. The weather on D-Day was far from ideal and the operation had to be delayed 24 hours; a further postponement would have meant a delay of at least two weeks as the invasion planners had requirements for the phase of the moon, the tides, and the time of day that meant only a few days each month were deemed suitable. Adolf Hitler placed German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in command of German forces and of developing fortifications along the Atlantic Wall in anticipation of an Allied invasion.
The amphibious landings were preceded by extensive aerial and naval bombardment and an airborne assault—the landing of 24,000 US, British, and Canadian airborne troops shortly after midnight. Allied infantry and armoured divisions began landing on the coast of France at 06:30. The target 50-mile (80 km) stretch of the Normandy coast was divided into five sectors: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword. Strong winds blew the landing craft east of their intended positions, particularly at Utah and Omaha. The men landed under heavy fire from gun emplacements overlooking the beaches, and the shore was mined and covered with obstacles such as wooden stakes, metal tripods, and barbed wire, making the work of the beach-clearing teams difficult and dangerous. Casualties were heaviest at Omaha, with its high cliffs. At Gold, Juno, and Sword, several fortified towns were cleared in house-to-house fighting, and two major gun emplacements at Gold were disabled, using specialised tanks.
The Allies failed to achieve any of their goals on the first day. Carentan, St. Lô, and Bayeux remained in German hands, and Caen, a major objective, was not captured until 21 July. Only two of the beaches (Juno and Gold) were linked on the first day, and all five beachheads were not connected until 12 June; however, the operation gained a foothold which the Allies gradually expanded over the coming months. German casualties on D-Day have been estimated at 4,000 to 9,000 men. Allied casualties were at least 10,000, with 4,414 confirmed dead.
Museums, memorials, and war cemeteries in the area now host many visitors each year.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longues-sur-Mer_battery
The Longues-sur-Mer battery (in German: Marineküstenbatterie (MKB) Longues-sur-Mer) was a World War II German artillery battery constructed near the French village of Longues-sur-Mer in Normandy. The battery was sited on a 60 m (200 ft) cliff overlooking the sea and formed a part of Germany's Atlantic Wall coastal fortifications. It was located between the Allied landing beaches of Gold and Omaha and shelled both beaches on D-Day (6 June 1944). The battery was captured on June 7 and played no further part in the Normandy campaign.
The battery is the only one in Normandy to retain all its original guns in situ and was listed an historical monument in October 2001. It remains in a good state of conservation.
This comet was discovered by amateur astronomers, Don Machholz, Shigehisa Fujikawa, and Masayuki Iwamoto on November 7, 2018.
"Transient Object Followup Reports" on TCP J12192806-0211143
www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/unconf/followups/J12192806-02111...
The comet was drifting fast toward east or Sun. It had bright greenish coma and bluish short ion tail toward west northwest, but it was lacking in yellowish white coma. It was green up to the center on shorter exposure frames. We may be watching outburst and collapse of a very small comet. If it is under such situation, the greenish coma will expand rapidly.
A bright meteor passed over the frame. North is up, and west is to the left.
It is predicted to pass the perihelion on December 3.51, 2018.
equipment: Takahashi FSQ-106ED, F3 reducer 0.6x, and Canon EOS 5Dmk3-sp4, modified by Seo-san on Takahashi EM-200FG-Temma2Z BL, autoguided at the center of the condensation of the coma with William Optics Star 71mm f/4.9 Blue Edition, Stalightxpress Lodestar X2, and PHD2 Guiding
exposure: 4 times x 360 seconds, 6 x 240 sec, 3 x 120 sec, 3 x 60 sec, 6 x 15 sec, and 3 x 4 seconds at ISO 1,600 and f/3.0
The first exposure started at 19:20:50 November 10, 2018UTC.
The frame, 1,895 x 1,269 pixels was cropped of the original, 5,760 x 3,840 pixels, and the frame is comparable to a frame taken with a scope of focal length 970mm.
site: 1,250m above sea level at lat. 36 14 35 North and long. 138 36 22 East in near Uchiyama Farm Saku Nagano 長野県佐久市内山牧場付近.
SQM-L reached 21.11 at the night. Ambient temperature was around 4 degrees Celsius or 39 degrees Fahrenheit. Air humidity was very high, and equipment got wet badly including the objective lens of FSQ-106ED. I wiped it up with my handkercief before this imaging session.
10x objective, focus stacked.
Brian Tomlinson photography:
Website: www.bt-photography.co.uk
Instagram: www.instagram.com/bt_photo
The objective was to take a photo of something that represents you.
The subject is a book and glasses.
Well I view myself as an avid book reader so i felt that having a book in the picture was only right. Also, my glasses are also a big part of my personality, i feel like every accessory that i put on reflects my style and who i am.
"Shit just got real,
Right after my premotion I'm tasked with the hardest objective to date. Chasing Grievous. Yes, we have a Jedi, Yes we all are trained Repulic Commandos, but nothing, and I mean nothing, can prepare you for a task like this."
"We all new there was a high chance most of us wouldn't make it out alive. We all knew some of us wouldn't. So I honour of our past times we left our helmets at the entrance hole of the tunnels. They would either be Trophys for us to collect or our Gravestones. We all knew it was most likely going to be nuber two."
"Jude and I breched from the top, Hound from the side and Fy'Sha and the Jedi from the bottom. That would give us some advantage. We hastily blew the hatches and raced down. The two 'IG's were there, as intel had stated. Where was Grievous? I tasked my Squad with eliminating the IG's and the Jedi and Myself with Grievous. However in her shallow Jedi mind she felt she needed to help my Squad. Now I was left to fucking face Grievous alone."
"He came from nowhere, out of the shadows. A two and a half meter metal monster. His lightsaber glowing my face a gentle blue. He swung. I blocked with Beth and the Lightsaber fizzled out. Luckily I had coated all my armour and weapons with a layer of Cortosis Ore, which I "aquired" on Cularin. Grievoud grabbed my throat. Choking me. My vision began to fade. Sounds became sweeter and soothing. I was dying. I used my last reserve of energy to grab my Pistol and shoot Grievous in the chest. He stumbled back, His chest glowing red and he ran. The gunshot distracted the IG's and gave my Squad (+ Jedi) to destroy them quickly. We had survived. Long live the Republic" .
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For the 457th Corps
Objective 7: Photographic Styles
Type/style of photography: Still Life
The camera mode (P, Tv, Av, M): M
f stop used: f/5.6- Using this f stop, made it so that the candle in the candle holder was clear, but the top of the candle holder isn’t. Which I think makes it look interesting.
shutter speed used: 1/80- This shutter speed made it so that there was no camera shake, and the photo came out clear.
ISO used: 3200- Even though the noise isn’t too bad in this photo, I still should’ve used a smaller ISO, to prevent noise completely.
Focal length: 33.0mm- I used this focal length because I had a bigger set up, and I wanted everything in the photo, with a bit of room around the edge.
Nikon D60, Nikkor-H 85mm f/1.8 lens fitted with an Iscorama anamorphic compression module, with the objective from a junk Tele-Astranar 400mm f/6.8 lens reverse mounted on the Isco. Lighting provided by a SB-20 Speedlight flashed through a diffuser made from the bowl that comes in a frozen dinner. Working distance = 10".
This is a Nursery Web Spider I captured in a neighbor's garden shed and released on my pine pollen dusted Forsythia bush. The neighbor phoned me and begged me to come over and get rid of the largest spider she had ever seen. She sounded really upset, telling me she'd picked up a jacket that was left in the shed and the spider scurried out from under it, disappearing into a bunch of flower pots. I frequently have folks call to have me rid them of spiders and in almost all cases the size of the creature is grossly overestimated. I asked her how big it was and she assured me it was at least the size of a large mouse. After grabbing my usual "capture container" I went over to help her deal with this "creepy intruder". She showed me where the shed was, and from her back porch watched me as I went to work. I found the thing sitting atop a balled-up rag. Although it wasn't "large mouse" size, it was about as big as a small mouse, if you consider its largest dimension across the span of its legs. What made it appear even larger was the fact that it was exceedingly "plump", probably full of eggs. It was so fat that in walking about, its hindmost legs had begun to wear the hair off the sides of her abdomen. After quickly covering it with my small clear plastic container, because of the irregular surface of the rag, I had a bit of difficulty sliding a file card under the container to complete the capture without pinching one of its legs. She was captured without injury, and I went over to show her to the woman, who, upon seeing me walk toward her with the cup, went into the house, locked the outside door, and we had our conversation through the screen. She clearly didn't want this creature escaping confinement and getting into her house. She knows I capture some spiders that I encounter, photograph them, then release them into my back yard, and was worried that as soon as it was released it would make a bee-line for her garden shed. I assured her that she'd never see it again.
Here it's sitting in the exact spot it landed after I dumped it out of the cup. I had expected it to scoot away and hide, but it didn't. About 15 minutes later I looked out my kitchen window and could see it still sitting in the same spot. I fetched my camera and popped off a few shots using different close-up lenses, finishing up with one that provided almost no working distance, causing the spider to scoot away.
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The Fremantle Town Hall is an impressive two storey stuccoed building built in 1887 to accommodate the administrative and civic functions of the Fremantle Municipal Council.
The Fremantle Municipal Council, formed in 1871 from the Fremantle Town Trust, initially met in a variety of different locations in Fremantle. Having become a municipality, the Council set as a prime objective the procurement of a permanent town hall. In 1876, a site on the corner of South Terrace and Essex Street was selected and set aside for town hall purposes. Governor Robinson gave consent for the setting, together with his approval for the use of convict labour in its construction. He also authorised for plans and specifications to be provided free of charge by the Government, and stone for the building to be provided from the Government quarry. In addition he asked the Legislature to set aside £2000 as a grant towards the cost of construction.
Subsequently, Mr Thomas, the Government Engineer, prepared plans in June 1876 for a two storey building with entrances off both South Terrace and Essex Street. The buildings was to be dominated by a "handsome clock tower". On the upper floor was to be the main hall with a supper room, cloak rooms, and a lower floor of offices. Although this plan foundered due to Fremantle Council's financial position, and its desire to find a more central site, the fundamental design principles influenced the later designs. The principal requirements of the later design brief were similar to those of the original South Terrace scheme, apart from the relocation of the auditorium at ground level.
In 1876 the Trustees of St John's Church offered Fremantle Council part of their site in King's Square, together with a strip of land to enable the extension of High Street. Money to pay for the land was borrowed from the Marine Insurance Company and ownership vested in the Council on the 10th January 1878, although the Council did not take possession of the land until the 9th of September 1882. In April, 1881, a premium of £50 was offered for the best plans submitted by architects for a new town hall and municipal chambers. Plans by R. B. Lucas and Company of Adelaide were accepted and the premium paid. The buildings cost was to have been about £4000 on the South Terrace site, but the figure was revised up to £10 000 for the King's Square site. The project was ambitious and costly at a time when the population of Fremantle was only 3641, and would only increase to 20 444 by 1901. Part of the finance for the project was obtained in 1882, when the South Terrace site was sold, and the Government had previously promised a grant of £2000 towards the costs, however by 1884, it became apparent finance for the project could not be realised. In the meantime the plans submitted by Lucas and Company were rejected in favour of plans submitted by Melbourne architects Grainger and D'Ebro. Their plans were described as being "far superior to those already accepted by the Council." Concerned that the Government might withdraw its promised finance, the Council invited Grainger and D'Ebro to Fremantle to advise upon work that might reasonably be started immediately. Minor modifications to the plans were made, and building tenders called. All tenders exceeded the budget, further modifications were made to the plans, and tenders invited once more. Edward Keane was the only builder to tender; he submitted four separate prices ranging from £6200 for essential work carried out in stone, stuccoed with cement up to £9916 for the whole building. The Council resolved to proceed only with a portion of the work, comprising the auditorium, supper room, kitchen, and vestibule, at the lower price.
A loan was advertised to raise £1500 for the town hall. At a rate payer's meeting on the 4th of May 1884, Fremantle Council was urged to "take the necessary steps to complete the Town Hall building in its entirety in preference to the section at present arranged for." The Council agreed to raise an additional loan to cover the extra £5000 required. Loan money was raised by the issue of debentures for a ten year term at six per cent per annum. A contract was signed with Edward Keane on the 28th of May 1885, to complete the work for £9916. George Foreman, an architect, acted as Clerk of Works. The foundation stone was laid by Governor Broome on the 10th of September and the ceremony was celebrated with a banquet in the Oddfellows Hall opposite.
The Fremantle Town Hall was opened on the 22nd of June 1887, to coincide with the celebration of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. A grand opening ceremony was held, followed by a day of sport and a grand ball in the evening. On the following evening there was a children's fancy dress ball, which was marred by the murder of Councillor Snook by William Conroy, landlord of the Victoria Hotel. Subsequently, Conroy was hung at Perth Gaol, the last person to do so. Fremantle Town Hall soon served the various needs of the people of Fremantle. The Fremantle Telephone Exchange was accommodated in one of the rooms and the Presbyterians rented the supper room of the Town Hall for Church services and Sunday School from December 1887. The Hall, which could accommodate 3000 people, was the venue for a Grand Ball to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897. Press comments at the time stated "the new Town Hall lends very admirably to such festivities, ample space being available and every convenience in the numerous apartment which surround the tessellated open triangle in the centre of the building,” and, "...it is impossible to look around this spacious hall, without feeling it a fitting and striking monument to public zeal of a municipal body, which has to meet many demands from limited resources."
The Town Hall also drew favourable comment from interstate visitors. Two years after the opening it was described as "..a beautiful Town Hall..... and for elegance of appearance and extent of convenience is equal to similar buildings in Victoria." The final cost, including the clock, was £10 792. The architects' fees came to £604/18/3.16 The clock, similar to one installed in Liverpool in the previous year, was installed by William Hooper of Fremantle at a cost of £748/10/0. The chimes were described as "Cambridge chimes", similar to those in a Liverpool clock-tower.
In 1897 E. J. Clark designed and supervised alterations to the auditorium and added a balcony to the building, however the balcony was removed in 1927. In 1909 the main hall was leased to West's Pictures to show the latest innovation: moving pictures.
In the early 1960's the expanding needs and responsibilities of Fremantle Council placed pressure on existing accommodation. As a result a new administration building was commissioned, and built in 1963, to house some of the activities then in the Town Hall. The vacated rooms provided space for the State Electricity Commission in two rooms on the ground floor level, a cloak room and canteen. Two offices on William Street were converted to public lavatories and doorways cut to permit public access. An exhibition hall was
constructed to abut the building at the right of way. The new building diminished the importance of the old Town Hall entrance. On the first floor, former Council offices became committee rooms and the Council Chamber was refurbished. The building was also painted several times over the years, with the original finishes covered under the layers of paint.
This work has now been restored in keeping with the Conservation Plan produced by Considine and Griffiths, in 1985.
Source: Source: Government of Western Australia Heritage Council.
Very oxidized old stuff found in a forgotten box.
The time is passing and everything flows.
A focus stack of 25 shots with a Canon FD 50 old objective, mounted inverted on my Canon 200D.
My objective was to get a nice sunset in the clouds on the horizon. Not tonight!
So, I decided to do a little Photoshop on one of the church images and put the accent on the church. Like the detail, but would have liked it to be a bit lighter without loosing detail.
The Cathedral of the Holy Family is a cathedral of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. It is the mother church of the Diocese of Tulsa and is the seat of the bishop.
Woodland on the North Downs above Birling, Kent, UK.
Olympus OM4Ti, Kodak Portra 800
I've given up trying to be objective about my images. If I like it, I'll post it.
camera: 8x10 Burke & James
objective: Fujinon W 300mm f/5.6
light: 2 continuous light lamp with 50x70cm soft box
light meter: Gossen Spot-Master
film: 8x10 Fomapan 400 / 800 iso
film developing: Jobo CPE2 - Rodinal 1+40 - 24C° - 9 minute
fixer: Ilford Rapid Fixier
scanner: Epson Perfection 4990 Photo
Nikon D7000 + Nikon PB-6 + Nikon 4X finity microscope objective
2.5" ISO100
62 shots combined with ZERENE
One of the objectives of our short trip to Portugal was to bring my dad to his final resting place. My father loved Portugal and wanted to move here to live out his final years, but his and my mum’s health issues got in the way, preventing them from returning. I decided to give him the next best thing… an eternity in the Algarve.
That little white spot on the ground is the result of my clumsiness… or his rebel streak.
Rest in peace, Dad. XOXOXO
Urbex Benelux -
A farm is an area of land that is devoted primarily agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production.[1] The name is used for specialised units such as arable farms, vegetable farms, fruit farms, dairy, pig and poultry farms, and land used for the production of natural fibres, biofuel and other commodities. It includes ranches, feedlots, orchards, plantations and estates, smallholdings and hobby farms, and includes the farmhouse and agricultural buildings as well as the land. In modern times the term has been extended so as to include such industrial operations as wind farms and fish farms, both of which can operate on land or sea.
Euplectus brunneus (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae).
Studio work about the same beetle from the previous post. 150 shots takenwith a Nikon CF Plan 50x microscope objective at around 50x magnification. Stacked in Zerene Stacker.
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”Seriously Lisa.. do you like EVER stop think about ANYONE else than yourself?
What do you mean?
”Its just like..” (You say, squinting to the pictures) when you dress like that TOTALLY slutty, you like clearly send signals that help surpress women like total sexobjects! And like.. just because you are cheap, doesn't necessarily mean that all girls like.. you know, want to have sex. Do you like EVER stop to think about that!?”.
Well come to think of it, not really, but...
”And also the whole like slim line anorexia model thing, COME ON! Like anyone REALLY look like that. You're one of those, who like.. help force women into having these like totally unrealistic ideals. Lisa, you SERIOUSLY need to dress down and.. like,, gain some weight if ANYONE is EVER going to believe you are a real T-girl and not some.. some.. like.. roadside commercial or something. Get real! ”
But I do think of others, actually that is why I made the videoclip. I thought that you would like it!
”Again Lisa you're just... just SO inconsiderate, like that video is something ANY female would want to see! You like really made sure of that walking in stilettos in such way you deliberately make others out to be like.. inferior or something, But I suppose you like thrive on making other people feel bad about themself, like you have this superiority thing going. That's just precisely the distinct symptoms of like a psychopath or something, who like get off on taking advantage of the female sex.”
But actually an old lady passed as I was shooting the pictures. She did look curiously I must admit, but she didn't seem at all to be either offended or provoked. But of course I couldn't be entirely sure that....
”And like,, what if that had been an old man Lisa? Ever think about THAT!?”
How.. What do you mean...?
”Like if it had been an old man and he like.. saw you, and immediately had a stroke, brain hemorrhage or a heart attack, then it would be like.. YOUR fault Lisa, killing a person because you are this ”natural born ego”. Calling yourself a communist. Ha!”
But, I was just taking a walk testing my new red stilettos, because it is better taking them for a test walk before REALLY going out in them, to sort of test them ”Live” so to speak and...
”That´s another thing Lisa. RED STILETTOS!?! Like just how often do you walk down the street seeing girls stroll around in RED stilettos!? And you know why Lisa? Because red is like a REALLY adult female colour and having red stilettos is the same thing as to say ”Look at me I am extremely feminine and I like just HAVE to point that out” Now how OMEGA self centered is that now Lisa!?”
But, I think they are pretty!
”Me me me... think Lisa, there is like MANY more females than you in this world and you should like just know that you are like reflecting a degrading, humiliating, cheap view upon women and like that is TOTALLY disgraceful and you should be ashamed Lisa... really like.. guilty of betraying like.. like.. the entire population of women on earth. Effectively destroying everything that women has worked for like.. the last 100 years. Like you are taliban or something? Is that what the hair is really all about?”
I believe you indeed speak on behalf of most women and I must say I am truly sorry you feel that way.
”As if Lisa! Cause if you were like REALLY sorry you would stop dressing like a prostitute.”
But I like looking like a prostitute!
”And what if like.. some guy saw you on the street and.. like.. got turned on, and then he turn a corner seeing an ordinary girl, but like because you fucked with his head he rapes the girl and then she like has to suffer mentally like for life, because you just don´t give shit do you Lisa? Like... I am a ninja so FUCK the world... and like fuck all that women has fought for the last century because.. I want to look sexy. * Wuhuuu * ”
But don´t you see it is really a question about personal freedom and.. well individuality, I guess?
”I can clearly see that talking sense to you Lisa is like talking to a door. It's like.. you have just set your mind to obstruct everything that just has a scent of value and tradition. Just mention the word consideration and you feel personally attacked going straight into the defensive refusing to communicate. But have it your way Lisa, I will waste no more time. If you absolutely MUST stand out a slut in full public view, you are only prevented doing so by the common laws of solicitation . Feel free, I´m just like.. saying!”
Transvestit København Danmark
I took a week off work to head up to my friend's farm for awhile, and have caught some great subjects to try out extreme macro. As the hurricane approaches, this may be one of my last posts of insects for now, so I hope you've enjoyed my new experiments with microscope objectives, lens-reversing rings, and probe lenses.
Tiny shell photographed with a microscope using a 2,5x objective. Apprx 6 panels stitched in microsoft ICE. Had to drastically reduce the image size for uploading.
A present from my cat, who brought the shell inside stuck to her fur, so i realised i had a new subject to shoot. :)
Actually, not yet. This is just a closeup of a common orb spider found here in the southeastern US, Planet Earth. I never stop wondering what anthropoids' sensorium must be like.
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynae)
Family Araneidae (Orb Weavers)
Genus Wagneriana
Species tauricornis (Wagneriana tauricornis)
This was a live specimen that cooperated while I photographed it. I intended to return it to where I found it, but I turned my back for a moment and it disappeared. It's somewhere in the clutter of my studio. Maybe I'll find a beautiful orb web in there someday soon. I hope my wife doesn't find it first. She's has a spider phobia. Glad she loves me.
February 20, 2021; Leon County, Lutterloh, Florida.
Canon M6 MII; Raynox DCR-150 as tube lens (reversed); bellows; 3.7X microscope objective (L): reflected light using speedlites; WeMacro rail; Helicon Focus; PS.
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In response to several e-mail requests, here's nearly all of the battle scene found on the reverse side of a Clydesdale Bank one pound note, issued in 1982, and withdrawn in 1988. This was taken using the macro lens test rail shown in a photo posted previously. Here's the setup used, but with the projection lens mounted on the 105mm:
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For this larger area image the primary lens on the camera was a Nikon 105mm f/2.5 AI-S, aperture f/11, focused at infinity, with the objective from a Soligor 450mm f/8 telephoto lens reverse mounted on the 105mm. The Soligor (badly damaged... beyond repair) was bought cheap just for salvaging the objective. Using the Soligor objective required that the stage holding the banknote had to be moved back away from the camera almost to the limit of its travel. Lighting was provided by an overhead fluorescent lamp. Unlike the image produced by the 7 inch Kodak Projection Ektanon in a previous test, the Soligor does produce some softness in the extreme corners of the photo, but not to a degree where it's objectionable.
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