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'Created' for the Macro Monday Group who's theme this week is 'Shell'. This is a mollusc's eye view of the world - taken from inside a sea shell, looking out - with a little bit added! Wishing everyone a HMM and good week ahead!
≈ This is THE magazine.. the Santa Fe Art magazine..
i worked as their staff photographer for over 12 years...
it is wonderful to be published here again..
thanks to my dear friend the publisher Guy Cross
& to Barack Obama ≈
May the Best Man Win!
photo Jennifer Esperanza ©
Taken shortly after sunrise, the sun itself is partly obscured by cloud just above this frame. I manually focussed on the horizon.
Maybe it is just me, but feel like this draws me in - almost like you are out there bobbing around - click 'L' to see what I mean!
Titchwell beach, Norfolk.
The Sobani Tesseract construction super capital on the move with a battleship escort.
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I forgot to post this pic of the Tesseract in low light. It shows the glow of the EL Wire that runs through the hull. Only the background and the engines have been edited. The light emitted by the El Wire is not tweaked in any way.
So what is EL Wire? It stands for Electro luminescent Wire, this wiki article explains it very well ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroluminescent_wire
EL Wire can be found on ebay for example and requires a high frequency sequencer that is usually sold in the same shops as those that sell the Wire. 3m of El wire and the sequencer required for this build cost something like 15euros. The sequencers require 2 AA or 2 AAA betteries.
There are various kinds of EL wire with different effects, frequencies and colors. They also come in various diameters. The 3.2mm diameter kind is very close to the size of a lego 'bar' so it can be clipped into a minifig hand for example without stress on the brick.
I hope this helps!
From the concept shoot with hair colorist of the year Sue Pemberton. This is my personal spin on the image which has never seen the light of day.
COLORING:SUE PEMBERTON
STYLING:DAMIEN CARNEY
MODEL:LISA
i have not used my nikkor 18-200VR for quite a while and i thought i would take it for a spin last sunday. shot this in a park in a mall actually. the greenbelt park has the most awesome orchids and ferns in the city if you ask me. they must have cost a fortune to bring these living fossils into the center of the city. and they are thriving very well!
Out on the town with Sarah for drinks, dinner, drinks and more drinks. This is somewhere in the middle, when I'm very happy and not too far from sober.
We have met briefly before, but this is our first long evening together to get one another and it's amazing how many interests we share. We soon discovered people we both know in drab life.
It was a marvellous evening and I can't wait for the next.
I've always had a bit of a fascination for the oddities of railroading, so what makes this seemingly mundane shot fascinating?
This is just some unidentified Norfolk Southern switch job or local seen at the east end of NS' North Kansas City Yard beneath the Block 222 signals at MP S271.9 on NS' (ex NW, new Wabash) Kansas City District. This is joint trackage with BNSF's Brookfield Sub the ex Burlington mainline to Galesburg extending east all the way to Maxwell where the lines separate.
But while all that is interesting enough, the fascinating part to me is just that NS operates this far west. It is as odd as thinking about BNSF having a major terminal in Birmingham, AL and once reaching all the way to Pensacola, FL. Western Class 1s aren't supposed to be in Birmingham and eastern Class 1s aren't supposed to be in Kansas City, the Mississippi is the demarcation after all, isn't it?!
But just like the 1980 acquisition of the Frisco put the Burlington Northern and successor BNSF into those exotic locales so too did the Norfolk and Western's 1964 merger with the Nickel Plate and Wabash extend what would later become NS into places you'd least expect. The Wabash was a 3400 mile system stretching from Buffalo through the imaginary boundaries of St. Louis and Chicago and reaching decidedly 'western' road locations such ad Omaha, Des Moines, and Kansas City. The modest facility here known as Avondale Yard was the Wabash's western anchor and continues to serve as an important gateway for NS to this day.
NS 3228 seen here is a former Southern Railway high hood SD40-2 originally blt. Sep. 1973 and rblt. Jun. 2014 with this low knose 'admiral cab' at Altoona.
North Kansas City, Missouri
Monday September 6, 2021
Went out today for a little while to practice shooting moving birds. My lens 50-500 is heavy for me to hold freehand so I have to practice with it before going out to shoot eagles or osprey.
The Great Blue Herons are back in the area... a sure sign of Spring. Yippeee ... it's been a long winter.
Some strategic pruning has opened up the view of the northern portal of Bewdley Tunnel, which can now be obtained from the 'right side' of the fence. On 14th May 2022, D1015 'Western Champion' emerges from the tunnel, heading the SVR's 1345 Kidderminster - Bridgnorth service. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
MAKE magazine 09 is out, with my article on building this panoramic pinhole camera.
I'm officially "fringe technology" now, woowoo!
My old Flickr contacts might recognize this camera as a very cleaned-up version of this prototype. Optically the two cameras are identical (can you say "optically" about something that has no optics?) and sample photos from both are tagged pin-o-rama.
If you're new to pinhole cameras in general, there's a huge amount of information on the web: I recommend the nice folks at f295.org/ and the very helpful camera-design calculators at Mr. Pinhole; and Flickr's own homemade pinhole group.
See some of my other homebrew pinhole camera designs here.
Hey, many thanks to chippets for lending the camera used to take the MAKE construction shots; and also to my peeps in the Ann Arbor Crappy Camera Club for low-tech photo cameraderie.
EDIT: If you're coming here from the magazine, sorry about the references to "120mm" film throughout the article. That was mistake added during editing. "120" is an arbitrary film size designation from Kodak (dating from 1901!). Its actual width is about 63mm.
Made her portfolio to go with the top number 1 toy (out of 10 best for the year) I got for 2014: corsetkitten.com/blog/archives/6880
this freaks me out.
i went to the woods tonight.. it was kind of foggy/misty/rainy.
i don't know why i went.. as soon as i got there i wanted to
leave. ahaha i only like woods when it's sunny out.
otherwise i convince myself i am hearing freaky things that
are probably just squirrels chasing eachother around..
i am not even sure if i like this.. but i haven't done a B&W in a while. :)
I took this nearly a month ago, by golly.
I should post things quicker to the date I took them, otherwise I forget the details of the funny stories surrounding the event. (That's right, I just said it's an EVENT when I take photos)
Well....I suppose it's kind of like Venus' transit of the Sun, it happens twice in quick succession then NEVER AGAIN while you're alive.
Okay I exaggerate a lil... :)
I guess the main detail would be that I'm sitting in an EFFING PILE OF ASH, and it's all in my hair and crap.
I was throwing that shit around like a monkey at the zoo. ...Yeah, I had black bogeys for a week and a serious case of the sneezies after this. SERIOUS!
Other details would be that I smelled bad and almost got a nail in my foot from kicking the ash without looking. Luckily I got lucky with luck and lucked out on only stubbing my toe on it instead of allowing it to slide its tetanusy rustiness into my unvaccinated foot.
What else... hmm, my camera was on a fully extended tripod on top of a child-size picnic table, and when I was expanding the frame, I had no clue if I had taken enough photos or if I was even pointing the camera at the ANYTHING at all.
Luckily I lucked out with luck again on that one. :)
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There's a BEFORE AND AFTER on my Facebook page.
I also have a place for questions on Formspring.
I like to ask you questions that make you think about stuff and I like to answer questions that NOBODY ASKS ME QUESTIONS so that's not really an issue.
In the backyard I inspected the cork screw tree...given to me by my father...and the leaves are ready to break out!!!
If we can just get through that last roadblock of jumbled boulders, we'll be out of this place and back on a normal pathway again.
View large to see how ridiculously flat the trail becomes after this barricaded entry- or- exit way!
Kind of funny that this quick iPhone snap of my car in the snow made Explore vs other recent posts...
This macro shot was taken with Nikon D300s + Nikon AF 24-85mm F/2.8D macro lens.
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