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Explore highest position: 90 on Sunday, June 29, 2008
After a couple of wonderful nights in Seattle we got the train up to Vancouver in Canada. Unfortunately we arrived to rain - the first rain of the holiday. We'd heard rumours that the weather was going to change to record highs and glorious sun but at that moment we didn't believe it.
We went over to Stanley Park and went to the Vancouver Aquarium on the first day. It was great fun!
I snapped this little fellow stuck to the side of one of the tanks on his own.
The Star of Hope is an old Shipwreck along the sands between Ainsdale and Formby.
Been waiting patiently for the right morning and tide for around 6 months now, Has to be right on an ebbing low tide, and some decent light with the morning sun in the right position so was pleased with the conditions this morning. For a wreck arround 130 years old, she is not in bad nick.
2 Lee ND Grads used on this 0.6 soft and 0.6 hard.....
Some info on this shipwreck for those interested
The Star of Hope flounded off the Mersey Estuary in 1883.
She was built at the Stephen and Forbes boatbuilding yard at Peterhead and was launched in 1865. In the late 1800's it was normal that Vessels would be expected in the Mersey given that they had been spotted rounding the top West corner of the Welsh coast and the details telegraphed to their owners :
The Southport visitor records :
A telegram says – The German Barque the Star of Hope was known to be off the Mersey, where distress flares were seen. Nothing has been heard of her since. A further report says the crew of the Star of Hope are aboard the Crosby light ship. The vessel must therefore be wrecked.
Highest Position in Explore #436
Thanks to gbenard for the crop suggestion
This is a shot of an ordinary pedestrian underpass in Munich - very ugly and lonesome, but I think that it offers nevertheless some potential for an interesting shot. Although ugly it's good fun to try to give such places an interesting look. The dark figure in the shot is actually myself and I just used the tripod + timer, no copy and paste here.
In Explore: #18 (best position )
Handleturer på Ikea er ikke akkurat forbundet med glede. Heller ikke denne gangen. Jeg hadde derfor tatt med fotosekken for å gjøre turen mer hyggelig. På vei til Oslo regnet det så ille at jeg ikke stoppet. På vei tilbake regnet det fortsatt i bøtter og spann, men jeg stoppet på ren trass. Planen var å ta bilder langs elvepromenaden i Drammen. Jeg dro innom en butikk for å få pose rundt kamera og var nok ikke særlig optimistisk i forhold til mulighetene. Tok noen bilder i trappen ned mot elva, men manglet en menneskeskikkelse. Da kom det en mann gående mot meg. Han kunne ikke norsk og dårlig engelsk, men han lot til å forstå at jeg ønsket at han skulle fortsette opp trappen. Jeg rakk tre-fire skudd hvorav ett satt som det skulle.
Dette er et bilde med stor grad av symmetri. Det er bare rekkverket og stolpen til venstre som gir en viss asymmetri. Dybdeskarpheten er bra til tross for en stor blender. Bildet gikk inn på topp 20 på Explore den 17. september 2013 og er mitt mest sette på Flickr noensinne, med nær 25.000.
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For me, shopping at Ikea is not associated with pleasure. Nor this time. I took my photobag with me to make the trip more enjoyable. On the way to Oslo it rained so bad that I did`nt stop. On the way back the rain still poured down, but I stopped of pure spite. I wanted to take pictures along the riverwalk in Drammen. Went to a store to get the plastic bag around the camera and was probably not very optimistic about the prospects. In the stairs down to the river I took some pictures. I lacked, however, a human form. Then a man came walking towards me. He could not Norwegian and talked bad English, but he seemed to understand that I wanted him to continue up the stairs. I managed three to four shots.
This is an image with a high degree of symmetry. The depth is good despite a large aperture. The picture went into the top 20 on Explore, and is my most viewed shot at Flickr.
Highest Position #191
Yes, a manual Superleggera ! Very rare...
And best config ever for it... Tom, there we go :P
Going to travel tomorrow, back in sunday, bye !
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My original intent for this day was to chase 23M west with the NS 1069 (Virginian HU) on the point. However, by the time I had gotten to Harrisburg, 23M was already half an hour ahead of me. Upset and just looking to kill an hour or so, I decided to head a little further west to Port Royal.
In the back of my mind I knew that the 62V had 8102 leading, but wasn't expecting it to show. Last week I had gotten burned waiting for 62V to come east because it had gotten held up in Altoona due to track work around Antis. After about 20 minutes of waiting, I heard clear as day on the scanner, "62V Clear Mifflin". I couldn't believe it. And now I can proudly say that I can check this shot off my photography bucket list!
Former N&W CPLs (color position light signals) on the NS H-line at Buena Vista in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley on April 30, 2010.
47772 stands at Stafford on 1Z46 Lancaster to Bristol Temple Meads positioning move for the Looe Brush tour tomorrow. 47826 was on the rear.
One of the many Glaciated rocks that can be found laying around the Cumbrian valleys .
This was one that can be found along the Honister pass .
I do find it fascinating to think that ice has moved these rocks , some are massive !
This one was prob six or seven feet hight and must easily weigh a tun or three :)
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her left shoulder is positioned higher so her arm should technically be a bit shorter...anatomically a bit challenging. as with a lot of AI images. BUT still overall visually pleasing. 😄
Do you feel "betrayed" when (if) you found out a photo was an Artificial "photo"... are we getting used to being "lied" too..
I for one think we are blurring the future. Can we trust what we see? Do you accept this "new" way of looking at things?
Things are likely to become yet more complex as use of artificial intelligence by artists becomes more widespread, and as the machines get better at producing creative works, further blurring the distinction between artwork that is made by a human and that made by a computer.
here a quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”
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A second Vertorama from the lake ( De put ) where I went last saturday.
I told I was going to write you a little vertorama tutorial when I had more of these under my belt, but now I think that the method will proof itself much faster if you all give it a try.
The little vertorama tutorial is down below.
The shot
2 x Standard 3 exposures HDR [-2,0,+2EV] in RAW/ISO100 at f/8 using the Sigma 10-20mm lens, on a tripod.
Photomatix
Tonemapped using the detail enhancer.
Vertorama stitching : the lazy bastard way.
As input you need two shots taken horizontally, one above the other with about 30% overlap, I've used 2 horizontal HDR shots taken at 11mm here but that ain't important, just rest assured that there ain't no problem with the widest shots.
So here is the photoshop part :
1) Load both shots into photoshop.
2) If there is too much difference in the colour or brightness of the shot you can alter
one of them to match the most pleasing of the two using the normal tools you
should know by now. This sure doesn't need to be an exact match.
3) Copy paste one of them into the other.
4) Rotate the canvas 90°
5) Select both layers
6) Select 'Edit>Auto-Align layers...' and be sure to select 'Cylindrical stitching'
7) Select 'Edit>Auto-Blend layers'
8) Rotate the canvas 90° in the opposite direction of the previous rotate.
9) Flatten the image.
Now all you have to do is a crop and do all other photoshop work you wish.
Hope it will work out for you too: quick and easy !
In fact this is so dead easy that you can poor this into a photoshop action (step 3 until 9 ) :
I sure did!
You might be wondering what that 90° rotating comes from, but it's plain stupid: the photoshop 'Cylindrical Stitching' algorithm was written to stitch shots taken horizontally, as a cylinder around the photographer, since we're producing Vertorama's here we just fool the algorithm by rotating our images 90°.
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All comments, criticism and tips for improvements are ( as always ) welcome.
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Telescope Model: Planewave CDK24
Aperture: 610 mm (24 inches)
Focal Length: 3962 mm
F-ratio: 6.5
Mount: Mathis MI-1000/1250 with absolute encoders
Minimum elevation: 30 degrees
Camera Specification
Model: FLI PL 9000 (spec sheet)
Pixel Size: 12 μm
Pixel Array: 3056 x 3056
Pixel Resolution: 0.62 arcsec/pixel
Cooling: -25 degrees in Summer, -30 degrees in Winter
Field of View: 31.8 x 31.8 arcmin
Filters(50mm square): Astrodon LRGB 2GEN, Ha (3nm), SII (3nm), OIII (3nm), Sloan r, Sloan g, Sloan i
Position angle: 359.36 degrees
Guiding
Off-Axis guider: Astrodon MonsterMOAG
Guiding camera: Starlight Xpress Ultrastar
Observatory name: El Sauce Observatory
Location: Río Hurtado, Coquimbo Region, Chile
Coordinates: 30.472529° S, 70.762999° W (Google maps)
Elevation: 1525 m
Average seeing: 1.3'' - 8''
Explore: Highest Position #322
The ruins of Duntulm castle sit on a promontory on the north coast of Trotternish, on the Isle of Skye
This hot air balloon shot is the 1st ever I took. I have taken altogether 40 shots in this project.
San Marino fire Dept; CA. was very helpful in allowing me to take the shot.
Taking hot air ballooon would need to observe the timing , position & the planning & composition.
You need to have good situation project management knowledge to have a good shot.
Allright men, according to our latest intell, Cobra abandoned this HQ 2 months ago....but keep your eyes open!
This place could be crawling with BATS and boobytraps!
The WHALE will keep it's position in case of early retreat...
Is it because of what happened in 1989 that the tian'an men square is full of security forces? Or maybe just a way to show that the people here has no reason to feel in danger? I would better consider the first option but I guess the official reason won't match with my guess...
This is China~~
Colas Rail class 37418 (37271) ''An Comunn Graidhealoch '' resplendent in its Highland Railway livery approaches Burgs Lane Bayston Hill with the 'network rail' railhead treatment tanks positioning move on route to Gloucester Horton Road from Coleham Yard where they had been stored for the last few weeks
Highest Position in Explore #161
So I was standing in front of this great stadium trying to take a decent shot. It was the coldest day of the year with -10C - for our friends from Siberia this might sound more like summer temperature, but I thought it was nevertheless uncomfortable. The Allianz Arena has been photographed billions of times, but if you live in Munich it is mandatory to have a shot of this great architecture in your set. I hope that you find this version nevertheless ok.
(to avoid confussion - the light cone on top is an effect and not real)
Highest position on Explore: 76 on Thursday, May 15, 2008
E' nei nostri momenti più bui che dobbiamo concentrarci per vedere la luce.
Aristotele Onassis
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Aristotle Onassis
If you thought dreadlocks can't be made with the sleek Saran hair... you're wrong! It just requires a lot of patience and a massive heap of tiny curls first. Here's how I'm making these tiny dreadlocks...
After doing the curls I take a small section of hair and divide it in two. I 'break' the curls by backcombing them, and then I twist the two strands individually in the same direction first and then twist them in the other direction around each other, and they lock in this position. It may help at this point to give the hair a hot water treatment, but I don't find it necessary. I open the hair twists and get two dreadlocks. I take a few individual hairs from the dread to tie them around the dread and make it harder and more secure. There will be some individual hair knots and broken hair as you can see here, but they will be easy to tuck inside the dread with a needle, or they can be just cut off.
This head is currenctly in all three phases: curls, twists and dreads. I'm going to leave a few small curls hanging randomly around the head, so that it will look like the dreadlocks were handmade, kind of like accidentally if you don't comb your hair. That's how I believe Layne made his dreadlocks, because it doesn't look like all-dreads in any of his pictures. So I'm happy with this method and will continue treating the whole head this way, but now I'm off to start repainting the face. ;-)
A very recognizable symbol of the Pennsylvania Railroad remains in service today in a location far away from a PRR served location. Union Switch & Signal was able to sell a couple of the H-2 pot signals to the Chicago & Illinois Midland for use with crossing warning indicators. This one is at Shops in Springfield, IL at the North Grand Ave crossing. Another one I recall was in Pekin, IL. ETTS may come one day when North Grand becomes a bridge over the NS and I&M diamond.
The pot is displaying the stop indication. Clear is displayed once the crossing warning devices have been activated. This signal does not appear to convey authority across the interlocking.
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Made to Explore! Highest position: 361 on Monday, June 2, 2008
Thanks to all of YOU :-))
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fascinating ... this little glow seems to be hopping in and out of explore ... now around 460 ... thought once it'd been in and was dropped it wouldn't pop back in ... strange goings on ... :-) ... thanks to all who are viewing and liking her!!!
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Fotografies de la zona de combats de la Batalla del Ebre (1938).
Els darrers i dramatics combats de la batalla es produiren en una posició vital per protegir la retirada del exèrcit republicà: Los Raimats, al nord de La Fatarella. Intuint la cabdal importancia d'aquesta posició, els republicans la fortificaren a consciencia, amb moltes trinxeres conectant vuit bunquers de formigó, la majoria per ametralladores però com a mínim un per un canó antitanc. L'assalt final començà el 14 de novembre: les tropes feixistes ocuparen La Fatarella i continuaren cap a Raimats amb molts tancs. El comandant alemany Gustav Trippe va morir allà. Els defensors de la XV Brigada perderen algunes posicións (Cota 554), però aguantaren, mentre la resta del exercit creuava l'Ebre per Flix i Riba-roja.
El 15 de novembre s'incrementà l'atac, amb molta artilleria i aviació. Els tancs T26 dispararen directament contra les troneres dels bunquers per matar els defensors. Això va permetre que la infanteria assaltés les darreres defenses de la Cota 562, morint casi tots els defensors. Riba-roja i Flix varen caure el dia 16, però l'exercit del Ebre no havia estat aniquilat.
Aquest bunquer, rebentat després de la guerra per aprofitar el ferro (com en la majoria de bunquers d'aquell moment), forma part de la primera linea de Los Raimats, que va caure el mateix dia 14.
La batalla de l'Ebre (25 juliol - 16 novembre de 1938) fou la més important i mortifera de la guerra civil espanyola. Hi ha que també la consideren també la més decisiva, però crec que per desgracia la guerra ja estava decidida de molt abans, com a minim des del trencament del front d'Aragó el 9 de març del mateix any.
Tot i que l'exèrcit republicà creuà l'Ebre el 25 de juliol del 1938 per molts punts entre Mequinensa i Amposta, la major part dels combats de la batalla es donaren a la Terra Alta, a la zona entre Vilalba dels Arcs, La Fatarella, Camposines i Gandesa, a més de la Serra de Pandols.
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This is part of the Ebro battlefield (1938), in Southern Catalonia.
The last and dramatic combats of the battle took place in a vital position to protect the retreat of the Republican Army: "Los Raimats", north of La Fatarella. Sensing the paramount importance of this position, the Republicans conscientiously fortified it, with many trenches connecting eight concrete bunkers, most armed with machine guns but at least one with an anti-tank gun. The final assault began on November 14: the fascist troops occupied La Fatarella and continued towards Raimats with many tanks. German Commander Gustav Trippe died in the first assault. The defenders of the XV Brigade lost some positions (hill 554, were this bunker stands), but held on, while the rest of the Republican Army crossed the Ebro by Flix and Riba-roja.
On 15th November the attack increased, with much artillery and aviation bombing. T26 tanks fired directly at the bunkers' embrasures, killing the defenders. This allowed the infantry to assault the last defenses of Hill 562, killing almost all the defenders. Riba-roja and Flix fell on the 16th, but the Ebro army had not been annihilated.
This bunker, blown up after the war to take advantage of the iron (as in most bunkers at the time), is part of the first line of Los Raimats, which fell on the 14th.
The Battle of the Ebro (July 25 - November 16, 1938) was the most important and deadlier of the Spanish Civil War. There are those who also consider it the most decisive, but I think that unfortunately the war was already decided long before, at least since the breaking of the front of Aragon on March 9 of the same year.
The battle began with the greatest offensive made by the Republican forces, when they crossed the river Ebro between Mequinensa and Amposta (especially between Riba-roja and Miravet), and advanced to the line La Pobla de Massaluca -Vilalba dels Arcs -Gandesa - Serra de Pandols . But in just 48 hours, the dazzling advance was stopped short. Then Franco decided to crush the republican forces hill by hill (with massive artillery and bomber barrages), in a battle of attrition identical to the First World War for which the Republicans had no resources or alternative, especially with the river behind them. The main assaults, which lasted from August 10 to October 29, were concentrated in a very small and devastated area: the triangle Vertex Gaeta - Corbera - Camposines.
Finally, a final offensive on October 30 occupied the ridge of the Serra de Cavalls, making the entire Republican bridgehead unsustainable, which managed, however, to withdraw in an orderly manner until November 16. But the damage was already done, and there were no forces left for a proper defense of Catalonia, which fell three months later. Then, fascist darkness.
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Amtrak 42/NS 04T with P42DC 96 leading passes under the signal bridge in Lilly, PA. These signals have their days numbered as PTC work continues just a few miles down the line.