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Not quite sure what happened with this shot but it looked rather foggy so I have altered the contrast to sharpen the image.
Photographed at Lake Ellesmere, Canterbury, New Zealand.
Huahou are renowned for their almost military precision in the way they feed together like an avian military marching demonstration, everyone in line and all doping the same action at the same time! Compare the stance of the huahou at the front to the much more diverse and loose stand of godwits behind.
The larger birds in the background of this shot are bar-tailed godwit, another Arctic wader that migrates across the globe to New Zealand.
Lesser (or Red) knots are the second most numerous Arctic wader to reach New Zealand. Between 45,000 and 70,000 reach New Zealand each summer and about 4,000 – 8,000 over winter.
Adult red knots reach New Zealand in September – October from their breeding grounds on the Chukutski Peninsula of eastern Siberia after four to five flights down through eastern Asia and Australia or Irian Jaya. Many juveniles stop in Australia before moving on to New Zealand in their second year.
The return journey from New Zealand starting in March – April is apparently mainly through staging areas in the Gulf of Carpentaria and New Guinea and then on to the coast of China or Korea.
“Red knots in non-breeding plumage are one of the least distinctive waders, which is why lone birds are often mistaken for other invariably much rarer species. Grey above and white below apart from some light barring on the breast and sides, they have some pale barring on the rump and uppertail coverts. The legs range in colour from mustard, as in young birds, to blackish in adults. They are gregarious, roosting and feeding in dense flocks. In breeding plumage, red knots are much more impressive. Their breast and underparts becomes rich red-orange, which in some birds spreads up around the face and head, and their upperpart feathers become grey or blackish with red spots or notches and white tips.
Prescott Fairfield seen here removing the dents in the left cowl of my 2013 Vespa GTS 300
I'm totally happy with the job he did removing the dents in my scooter...the dents wet the result of Helen playing ketch with our Rottweiler puppy...she was throwing a brush head, and it mistakenly hit the scooter
A peep on Modern Vespa suggested I call a local who does dent removal. I had no idea there was tradesmen doing this type of work, but sure enough, Prescott came through and made it look like it never happened. Thanks Prescott!
You can get a hold of Prescott at:
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This is why you don't hire an electrical engineer to do a mechanical engineer's job. (Hey, it worked! Sort of...)
Stena Precision Ro-Ro cargo ferry moored at Twelve Quays South before going into Cammell Laird wetbasin later that night. She will once again become Seatruck
IMO: 9506239
MMSI: 235092453
Call Sign: 2FMI8
Flag: Great Britain
AIS Vessel Type: Cargo - Hazard A (Major)
Gross Tonnage: 19722
Deadweight: 5600 t
Length Overall x Breadth Extreme: 142m × 25m
Year Built: 2012
Status: Active
Registered owner: SEATRUCK FERRIES FOUR LTD
Ship manager: SEATRUCK FERRIES LTD
Shipayrd: Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, Germany
Hull Number: 752
Contract date: 2008-02-26
Keel laid: 2012-01-16
Launch: 2012-03-16
Date of build: 2012-06-29
This is a photograph from the 1st running of the Carbury GAA 10KM Run which was held in Derrinturn, Carbury, Co. Kildare, Ireland on Sunday 28th July 2013 at 12:00. The race was organised by the GAA club and sponsored by various businesses in the locality. The race was very well organised with excellent stewarding and support. Well done to everyone involved.
Electronic Timing and Event Management were provided by Precision Timing [www.precisiontiming.net/result/racetimer]
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Overall Race Summary
Participants: There was about 60 participants
Weather: There was hot July sunshine for the duration of the race. There was little or no breeze.
Course: The race starts and finishes at Carbury GAA clubhouse. The race starts and heads southwards along the Sli na Slainte to the main Edenderry Road (R403) at Windmill Cross and proceeds along 'The Back Road' to the Grand Canal at Ticknevin Bridge where the course turns sharply and back to head northwards along the Bog Road to meet the R403 again. Finally for the last 2 KM the race passes through the westerly end of Derrinturn village before following the road to Carbury GAA for the finish. Overall the route is reasonably flat with the only significant rise at the Canal bridge near 5KM.
Location Map: Start/finish and registration takes place at Carbury GAA (see this Google Streetview Location for directions goo.gl/maps/3P18U)
Refreshments: There was a very impressive selection of refreshments including soup and sandwiches in the GAA Clubhouse afterwards.
Some Useful Links
The Carbury GAA 10KM 2013 Race Route: www.endomondo.com/routes/206214909
Start, finish, and registration: goo.gl/maps/3P18U (Google Satellite View)
Race results for 2013 will be available at: www.precisiontiming.net/result/racetimer
Pictures of Carbury's famous Castle (www.flickr.com/photos/64422062@N04/8024181883/, www.flickr.com/photos/mickoreilly/4269932957/, www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/8671658169/)
Carbury Wikipedia Page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbury
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Being extremely silly testing my ability to precisely toss and spin my camera. The object of the experiment was to match the spin of the ceiling fan blades so that they appear non moving while everything else moves.
This is the "film d'essai" (test film) of my newly-arrived FOCA PF2B, a French range-finder 35mm camera manufactured in 1948.
The finder of the camera is quite foggy and, while the range-finder is indeed operating, it is almost impossible to use it for focusing and even framing is uncomfortable. When necessary (distances bellow ca 5-6m), exact distances were measured using a LASER meter and reporting the result to the camera distance scale. Due to the same finder problem, I used my external FOCA Universel finder during all the test.
The focal shutter operates smoothly at all settings from B to 1/1000s .
The camera was loaded with an Rollei Superpan 200 (Agfa Aviphot 200) 36-exposure film. It was exposed for 200 ISO using an Autometer III Minolta lightmeter fitted with a 10° finder for selective measurements privileging the shadow areas. The Oplar lens was equipped with a generic 1A push-on 42mm protective filter and a generic cylindrical shade hood.
Rollei Superpan 200 (i.e. Agfa Aviphot 200) is a super-panchromatic film coated on a thin polyester teraphtalate (PET) base with a water-soluble black anti-halation coat on the back that should be removed by two or three presoaking bathes before developing. The film sensitivity is extended to the near infrared to 780 nm.
Montée Bonafous, May 17, 2023
69001 Lyon
France
After exposure, the film was revealed using Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developper at dilution 1+25 and 20°C for 8min. The film was then digitalized using a Sony A7 body fitted to a Minolta Slide Duplicator installed on a Minolta Auto Bellows III with a lens Minolta Bellow Macro Rokkor 50mm f/3.5. I used here for the first time a new light LED source (NEEWER RGB61 Mini portable LED light). The RAW files obtained were processed without intermediate files in LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures.
All views of the film are presented in the dedicated album either in the printed framed versions and unframed full-size jpeg accompanied by some documentary smartphone Vivio Y76 color pictures.
About the camera :
This Foca PF2B is an early series (circa 1948) of the Foca PF2B 35mm range-finder camera appeared in 1947. The PF2B model of Foca has the 36mm screw mount of other Foca PF (PF standing for "Petit Format"). Foca camera's were constructed in France by the company "Optique & Precision de Levallois" (OPL) in the OPL factory of Chateaudun (Eure) starting from 1946. This factory still exists under the name of SAFRAN a French company producing aerospace devices and systems.
The camera is equipped with a collapsible OPLAR lens 1:3.5 f=5cm.
The American Precision Museum in Windsor, Vermont is a really neat museum of the mechanical arts set in a former armory.
Being extremely silly testing my ability to precisely toss and spin my camera. The object of the experiment was to match the spin of the ceiling fan blades so that they appear non moving while everything else moves.
My photo walk of July 13, 2023, Lyon, France with my FOCA Universel "R", a French range-finder 35mm camera of the 50's fitted here with the Oplar wide-angle lens 1:3.5 f=3.5cm.
My leading idea was to test the black-and-white Adox film CHS 100 II. Adox is one of the oldest photographic products brand in Germany since 1860. Adox CHS 100 II is a very technical film composed of a mix of two emulsions, one ortho and another panchromatic. The resulting sensitivity profile is then bit particular with a drop around 500 nm between blue and green colors. The emulsion is coated on a clear 100 micron polyester teraphtalate (PET) base with two different anti-halation layer, a black one on the film back and a violet one between the PET base and the emulsion mix. This anti-halation are removed par two pre-soaking water bathes of 2min at the temperature of the processing (20°C).
For the whole film the Oplar lens was equipped with a 42mm push-on Foca DYMA filter which was an exclusive filter produced by the French company Optique & Précision de Levallois. Its amber color is in fact resulting of a complex absorption spectrum with several minima in the visible domain due to the use of neodymium in the filter glass. The blue sky is attenuated and yellow tone are nicely separated.
It exposed the 100 ISO film for 32 ISO to compensate the recommended DYMA filter absorption (coefficient. x3.5) using an Autometer III Minolta light meter fitted with a 10° finder for selective measurements privileging the shadow areas. The Oplar 35mm lens was equipped with Minolta D42KA cylindrical shade hood.
Since the Foca Universel R has a finder covering the field only of a normal 50mm lens, framing was achieved using the external Foca multi-focal finder that includes miniature lenses on a rotating touret corresponding the 35, 50, 90 and 135 mm fields.
Focusing was done using the body coupled range-finder that is the characteristic of the "Universel" Foca camera's that couple the range finder to any available OPL Foca lenses with the bayonet mount.
Shutter speeds from 1/100s to 1/40s and f/4 to f/8 were used along the session between 2pm and 4PM and a very bright sunlight.
Montée de la Grande Côte, July 13, 2023
69001 Lyon
France
After exposure, the film was revealed using Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developper at dilution 1+50 and 20°C for 13 min. The film was then digitalized using a Sony A7 body fitted to a Minolta Slide Duplicator installed on a Minolta Auto Bellows III with a lens Minolta Bellow Macro Rokkor 50mm f/3.5. The RAW files obtained were processed without intermediate files in LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures.
All views of the film are presented in the dedicated album either in the printed framed versions and unframed full-size jpeg.
About the camera :
The Foca Universel "R" is the late series (circa 1956-1962) of the Foca Universel 35mm range-finder camera appeared in 1950 and produced until 1956. The Universel model of FOCa was fitted with a bayonet mount instead of the 36mm screw mount of other Foca PF (PF standing for "Petit Format"). Foca camera's were constructed in France by the company "Optique & Precision de Levallois" (OPL) in the OPL factory of Chateaudun (Eure) starting from 1947. This factory still exists under the name of SAFRAN a French company producing aerospace devices and systems. This exemplary of Foca Universel R was likely manufactured in 1959 or 1960.
The camera is normally equipped with the collapsible OPLAREX lens 1:1.9 f=5cm with the OPL bayonet mount and here with an OPLAR 1:3.5 f=3.5cm wide-angle lens.