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The theme of the week is "Prime" and since the moderators gave us some latitude on how to define the theme - I took it. This is the first time we've gone camping as a family (hence the PRIME-ary camping trip).
Interesting degree of difficulty here... its our first time camping (as I mentioned) in a brand new large 10-man tent (which I didn't bother to heed advice of other campers and have a trial set-up at home) in a downpour of rain in the mountains. That being said - we got it done and the four of us high-fived our accomplishment. (took us about an hour)
I also brought a tall pop up tent so we could put it over the fire-pit and still have a raging fire in the rain - gotta have a fire..
I took this picture of Myra, Zack and Drew (you can see them in the tent) after the rain slowed down in the night..
Prince Albert National Park in central Saskatchewan, Canada and is located 200 kilometres north of Saskatoon. Though declared a national park March 24, 1927, it had its official opening ceremonies on August 10, 1928 performed by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. The park is open all year but the most visited period is from May to September.
Some good light seen on my way to work. It looks Photoshopped but all I did is converted the RAW and cropped to web size. About 30 seconds work. The back lighting on the sheep does it all. In the background a farmer on his tractor working the fields probably for many hours. Such are the true men in New Zealand.
Have a good weekend!
Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti 1519 - 1594) - San Marco frees the slave from the torture of torture (also called "miracle of the slave" (1548) - 416 cm × 544 cm - Exhibition of the young Tintoretto Galleria dell'Accademia - Venice
Il dipinto riprende il miracolo di San Marco nel quale il Santo interviene per salvare uno schiavo che stava per essere martirizzato dal padrone pagano, che lo aveva sorpreso a venerare le sue reliquie.
La scena si svolge sotto una pergola e sullo sfondo si vede una piazza e alle sue spalle un giardino. La prospettiva converge verso il centro e la linea dell'orizzonte è posta in alto come se lo spettatore osservasse da una posizione soprelevata.
I personaggi principali sono tre: lo schiavo a terra con gli strumenti di tortura spezzati, un vecchio sulla destra al quale vengono mostrati gli strumenti e San Marco in alto visibile solo dallo spettatore e non dai protagonisti del dipinto.
La folla è rappresentata con un movimento che va da sinistra verso destra: i personaggi di sinistra si sporgono per vedere, quelli di destra si ritraggono.
Il colore nei primi piani è violento e pastoso per dare volume ai corpi, mentre sullo sfondo è più tenue per rendere maggiore l'effetto prospettico.
Ma la vera protagonista è la luce che assume intensità diverse nelle varie zone del dipinto; è vivace e naturale nel paesaggio dello sfondo, cupa sotto la pergola dove sta avvenendo la tragedia, è innaturale e divina attorno a San Marco.
In quest'opera, pur essendo una delle prime realizzate dall'autore, è già evidente l'abilità di Tintoretto nell'uso della luce; essa mette in evidenza i personaggi e li proietta nello spazio scenico del quadro.
The painting takes up the miracle of San Marco in which the saint intervenes to save a slave who was about to be martyred by the pagan master, who had caught him venerating his relics.
The scene takes place under a pergola and in the background you can see a square and behind it a garden. The perspective converges towards the center and the horizon line is placed at the top as if the viewer were observing from an elevated position.
The main characters are three: the slave on the ground with broken instruments of torture, an old man on the right to whom the instruments are shown and San Marco on top visible only by the spectator and not by the protagonists of the painting.
The crowd is represented with a movement that goes from left to right: the characters on the left lean out to see, the ones on the right withdraw.
The color in the foregrounds is violent and mellow to give volume to the bodies, while in the background it is more subtle to render the perspective effect greater.
But the real protagonist is the light that takes on different intensities in the various areas of the painting; it is lively and natural in the landscape of the background, dark under the pergola where the tragedy is taking place, it is unnatural and divine around San Marco.
In this work, despite being one of the first made by the author, Tintoretto's ability to use light is already evident; it highlights the characters and projects them into the scenic space of the painting.
A sight that saddened me when we were walking along to Bolton's Bench is this derelict hotel. It's hard to imagine why it's not still open and thriving in such a great location in the New Forest between the shops of Lyndhurst and Bolton's Bench. Some background info below.
The origins of the present structure date back to the 19th century, when George Buck built it as a home for him and his wife.
It later passed into the possession of Richard Fitzgeorge de Stacpoole, 1st Duc de Stacpoole. Stacpoole ran a local smuggling ring from the house and in 1847 newspapers reported he barricaded himself in the property when it was raided by authorities.
Later in the 19th century the mansion became a home for railway entrepreneur Charles Castleman, and it was not until 1895 that it was sold as the Grand Hotel. During the works to convert it into a hotel, construction workers said they could see the face of Duc de Stacpoole staring through the windows of the house.
Fitzgeorge is also said to haunt the hotel every year on the date of his death. Legend has it that music can be heard in parts of the building from the annual ball he holds for the dead.
Perhaps one of the hotel's most famous guests was Arthur Conan Doyle, who became a regular visitor. He also sketched out designs for a third storey extension and a new façade to the building. These plans were later made into a reality when an extension to the hotel was made using his designs.
This historical significance was used by campaigners to try and halt the development by Hoburne after Conan Doyle's sketched from 1912 were unearthed. Olivia Stockdale, conservation adviser for the Victorian Society, said the sketches were "the only known surviving example of Conan Doyle’s solo architectural work and a tangible representation of his spiritualist beliefs.
"This bizarre yet fascinating feature should be protected and championed in a redevelopment scheme not swept away."
In 1970 the property was renamed as the Lyndhurst Park Hotel and had extensions added to develop it into a 60-bed hotel.
Notable guests who reportedly stayed at the hotel over the years include Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, pop royalty The Beatles and Lord Carnarvon of Highclere Castle.
Since 2014 the hotel has laid empty and parts of the building started to collapse in 2020.
An update: A major scheme to redevelop the site of the derelict Lyndhurst Park Hotel has secured planning permission for 79 new homes.
African Violet: The Second Generation - Canon EOS 1D Mark II and Canon EF STM 1:1.8 50mm Prime - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
The LEGO City energy plant is safe, now that Optimus Prime has arrived. Better luck next time, Decepticons.
Optimus Prime is articulated at the shoulders, elbows, hips, and knees, and features his trademark ion blaster. His truck mode carries two minifigures sitting side-by-side and features his classic G1 trailer (which, I'll be honest, is just a giant brick...but it looks good).
Get the instructions here: rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-68365/Flashback_Bricks/autobot-o...
A quick little build of Raxus Prime that I worked on throughout the day today, I think it came out pretty nice.
Enjoy!
Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
1 Corinthians 13:7
I went out to take this image with my Fuji X-S10 and learnt a valuable lesson. I forgot to disable IBIS so the image was quite blurry and didn't turn out expected. The lighting was amazing though so I couldn't help but share it anyway!
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A sweet little trio of sparrows from earlier in the Summer. Happy Fence Friday, my friends, I'm dashing out the door but will catch up with you later this afternoon. :)
The badlands surrounding the Little Missouri River in North Dakota are a prime example of erosion's effects upon the various sedimentary layers and variably dense matierials contained within. Not only does one find different layers of sediment from the ancient sea that once existed here but also countless hoodoos and iron oxide-laden formations that were once embedded within softer materials that have long since eroded away. The cannonball concretions found in the north unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park are good examples, formed thousands or even millions of years ago by pore water that moved in miniscule spaces, deposting various minerals that sometimes collected around a nucleus. If you want to read more, follow the link below:
geologyscience.com/gallery/geological-wonders/cannonball-...
I've been experimenting with different features available in my Olympus E-M1X and a handful of the Pro lenses, one of which is focus stacking. While one usually sees this technique used for macro images, it can also be quite handy for landscapes, for it takes a series of images at different focus points and ultimately blends the image set into one image with a depth of field that far exceeds the natural range of a lens. I cheated and post-processed the resulting .jpg file that is stacked and saved in-camera in addition to the original .raw files. Working with such features seemed approriate on a rather gray day at the park this past week. (2-6-2024)
Dimension 35 mm 1:2.8 Prime - 2 (of 7) - Canon EOS M (2012) and Fotodiox EOS-EOS M adapter with Dimension 35 mm 1:2.8 Prime (M42 mount) with Fotodiox M42-EOS Adapter - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
Canon primes with fieldmade.co stickers on the lenscaps.
Strobist info:
- Elinchrom ELB400 with 135cm Rotalux octa subject left
- bounce subject right
- Elinchrom Skyport HS Plus trigger
Lens stickers by Field Made
The leaves are starting to look past their prime as the 0600 PRS lumbers around Spirit Mountain Curve and under Boundary Ave. on Oct. 13, 2013.
Some of the power that CN assigns to the former Missabe seems past its prime too. This train stalled on Proctor Hill with engine problems and had to tie a bunch of brakes and bring the coal and limestone loads up the grade in two cuts.
Some locomotives past their prime makes for interesting for shooting around Duluth/Superior. Fall foliage past its prime means the long brown season is just ahead or maybe a short brown season and a long winter.
Prince Albert National Park in central Saskatchewan, Canada and is located 200 kilometres north of Saskatoon. Though declared a national park March 24, 1927, it had its official opening ceremonies on August 10, 1928 performed by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. The park is open all year but the most visited period is from May to September.