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The Old Port of Marseille is located at the end of the Canebière. It has been the natural harbour of Marseille since antiquity and is now the main popular place in Marseille, mainly pedestrian since 2013.
In 600, Greek settlers from Phocaea landed in the Lacydon, a rocky Mediterranean cove, now the site of the Old Port of Marseille. They set up a trading post or emporion in the hills on the northern shore. Until the nineteenth century the Old Port remained the centre of maritime activity in Marseille. In the Middle Ages the land at the far end of the port was used to cultivate hemp for the local manufacture of rope for mariners, which is the origin of the name of the main thoroughfare of Marseille, the Canebière.
Between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, quays were constructed under Louis XII and Louis XIII and an important shipyard for galleons put in place. Following a revolt against their governor by the citizens of Marseille, Louis XIV ordered the erection of the forts of St Jean and St Nicolas at the entrance to the harbour and established an arsenal and fleet in the Old Port itself. The notorious "arsenal des galères" was situated on the left side of the Old Port between the Cours Jean-Balard and the Cours Estienne-d'Orves: those condemned to be galley slaves in the royal war fleet were branded with the letters GAL.
According to John Murray, in 1854 the Old Port had a capacity of between 1,000 and 1,200 ships. Roughly 18,000 merchant ships passed through the port each year, carrying about 20 million barrels worth of freight; this represented a quarter of the trade in Liverpool at the time. The 6 metre depth of the harbour, however, proved problematic for steamships later in the century; much deeper docks had to be constructed at La Joliette. In World War II the Old Port was left in complete ruins. According to eye-witness accounts, in January 1943, the Nazis, aided by the French police, dynamited much of the historic old town and demolished the gigantic aerial ferry or "transbordeur", an engineering tour de force that had become a major landmark of Marseille, comparable to the Eiffel tower in Paris. This became known as the "Battle of Marseille". In 1948 Fernand Pouillon was put in charge of the reconstruction of the devastated old quarter.
Over time many port activities were moved out of the Old Port, when beginning in the 1840s new harbour moles, quays and the Docks were built along the quartier La Joliette, north-west to the Old Port. Over time new harbour installations were built further north-west along the coast, resulting in what is today the Grand Port Maritime de Marseille: continuous harbour installation as far as L'Estaque and the southern entrance to the Rove Tunnel, and "satellite" extensions around Fos-sur-Mer and along the shore of the Étang de Berre. The Old Port is used today as a marina, as a terminal for local boat trips and hosts a local fish market.
QUESTI ULTIMI GIORNI SONO STATI PROBLEMATICI E MI HANNO IMPEDITO DI DIEDICARMI ALLE TUE FOTOGRAFIE COME AVREI VOLUTO.
SPERO DI RECUPERARE AL PIU' PRESTO. CIAO, FELICE WEEKEND
THESE LAST FEW DAYS HAVE BEEN PROBLEMATIC AND HAVE PREVENTED ME FROM DIEDICATING MYSELF TO YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS AS I WOULD HAVE LIKED.
I HOPE TO CATCH UP SOON. CIAO AND, HAPPY WEEKEND
Kevin Richardson is wordly famous as The Lion Whisperer!!!
“ Kevin Richardson owns and operates the Kevin Richardson Wildlife Sanctuary, located an hour northeast of Johannesburg, South Africa. Richardson is a firm opponent of "canned hunting", which is the hunting of lions locked within an enclosed location, making them easier to hunt and kill. To help combat this problematic epidemic, he has a strict no breeding policy at his sanctuary to reduce the likelihood of his lions being bought and sold for that very purpose.
One of the most intriguing aspects of Richardson's sanctuary is his relationship with his lions, which include popular characters such as Meg, Amy and Bobcat. Kevin is known for interacting with them within the confines of his sanctuary, and on long enrichment walks throughout the game reserve. Unlike other game reserves and sanctuaries, Richardson does not allow his guests to go on these lion walks with him, as he knows that while his lions are well behaved for him, they are still dangerous animals, and the wild nature within will always be there. “
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Well, my old dream came true that Sunday of last November, when I finally experienced the closeness of some of Kevin’s lions!!! Unfortunately, Kevin did not appear personally during our very short tour, because it was a Sunday! But a really helpful and gentle young man replaced him perfectly!
It was a very warm day, and most of the lions were resting under the trees’ shadows or in their shelter, which gave our group of 4 tourists the opportunity to approach them serenely, and take pictures of them.
*****Here you can admire the ADORABLE Debbie, resting with her mate close to her shelter. In the video you perceive my voice speaking with Kevin's Sanctuary young guide .
❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdtJkZx8MJY ❤️(!!!!!!)
22 096 and 20 905 head 7X09 11.47 Old Dalby to West Ruislip approaching the Saltley Viaduct. The location was chosen due to it being a dull day and the shadows created by the lineside foliage, sorry forest, would have been problematic and so it was rather dull until the train came into view! Typical.... still some dappled sunlight.
The late 2000ss saw a variety of vehicles join the First Glasgow fleet from other parts of the First empire. 64812, a Northern Counties bodied Scania, was one of these which originated with Beeline. It is seen here in Glasgow City Centre following transfer to the training fleet.
By this time my Finepix 550 was starting to be problematic, as evidenced by the banding on the image and was replaced not long into the new year.
Cuore di Gesù (Caladium bicolor), è una specie del genere Caladium originaria dell'America Latina.
Viene coltivata come pianta d'appartamento per le sue grandi foglie a forma di cuore o lanceolate con macchie verdi, bianche, rosa e rosse. . È una specie invasiva problematica a Trinidad e Tobago , Guam , Micronesia , Palau , Hawaii e Filippine , e popolazioni naturalizzate si possono trovare nella maggior parte del resto dei tropici del mondo, tra cui Africa , subcontinente indiano , sud-est asiatico e Malesia.
Heart of Jesus (Caladium bicolor) is a species of the Caladium genus native to Latin America.
It is grown as a houseplant for its large, heart-shaped or lanceolate leaves with green, white, pink, and red spots. It is a problematic invasive species in Trinidad and Tobago, Guam, Micronesia, Palau, Hawaii, and the Philippines, and naturalized populations can be found in most of the rest of the world's tropics, including Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and Malaysia.
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Winter storm Noah brought about 7" of the most amazing variety of columns but unfortunately the ambient temperature at the ground was hovering around 33F so imaging anything was problematic.
At one point for about an hour it just dropped these pointy columns. I went to as low a magnification as I could to take this single frame image.
Taken in transmitted cross polarized light and reflected white light.
Next year I'll install a TEC chip to actively cool the sample stage for just such an occasion.
Emirates 412 to Christchurch (CHC/NZCH) getting up and away 34L Sydney Airport (SYD/YSSY) - smoke and heat were a little problematic given the bushfires about the place.
This was in North Derbyshire on the Moors in our epic journey to find the Surprise Corner of our childhood. Problematic heather again - the colour emerged very flat. I've tinkered with it so it’s as I remember,,,
Since I didn't move my camera all night I figured I should mess around with blending a couple of exposures. These shots were taken 35 minutes apart. Unfortunately, I took them using different apertures. I didn't think it would be problematic, but as it turned out, the change distorted the image just enough so that the edges of the frame don't quite line up right. I spent a bunch of time masking before I realized it. D'oh! I thought I was going to be able to make something awesome, but the quality is not there :(
I screwed up a few things, but learned a few things too. It's far from perfect, but I thought that I'd share it anyway, you know, for shits and giggles. :)
The Old Port of Marseille is located at the end of the Canebière. It has been the natural harbour of Marseille since antiquity and is now the main popular place in Marseille, mainly pedestrian since 2013.
In 600, Greek settlers from Phocaea landed in the Lacydon, a rocky Mediterranean cove, now the site of the Old Port of Marseille. They set up a trading post or emporion in the hills on the northern shore. Until the nineteenth century the Old Port remained the centre of maritime activity in Marseille. In the Middle Ages the land at the far end of the port was used to cultivate hemp for the local manufacture of rope for mariners, which is the origin of the name of the main thoroughfare of Marseille, the Canebière.
Between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, quays were constructed under Louis XII and Louis XIII and an important shipyard for galleons put in place. Following a revolt against their governor by the citizens of Marseille, Louis XIV ordered the erection of the forts of St Jean and St Nicolas at the entrance to the harbour and established an arsenal and fleet in the Old Port itself. The notorious "arsenal des galères" was situated on the left side of the Old Port between the Cours Jean-Balard and the Cours Estienne-d'Orves: those condemned to be galley slaves in the royal war fleet were branded with the letters GAL.
According to John Murray, in 1854 the Old Port had a capacity of between 1,000 and 1,200 ships. Roughly 18,000 merchant ships passed through the port each year, carrying about 20 million barrels worth of freight; this represented a quarter of the trade in Liverpool at the time. The 6 metre depth of the harbour, however, proved problematic for steamships later in the century; much deeper docks had to be constructed at La Joliette. In World War II the Old Port was left in complete ruins. According to eye-witness accounts, in January 1943, the Nazis, aided by the French police, dynamited much of the historic old town and demolished the gigantic aerial ferry or "transbordeur", an engineering tour de force that had become a major landmark of Marseille, comparable to the Eiffel tower in Paris. This became known as the "Battle of Marseille". In 1948 Fernand Pouillon was put in charge of the reconstruction of the devastated old quarter.
Over time many port activities were moved out of the Old Port, when beginning in the 1840s new harbour moles, quays and the Docks were built along the quartier La Joliette, north-west to the Old Port. Over time new harbour installations were built further north-west along the coast, resulting in what is today the Grand Port Maritime de Marseille: continuous harbour installation as far as L'Estaque and the southern entrance to the Rove Tunnel, and "satellite" extensions around Fos-sur-Mer and along the shore of the Étang de Berre. The Old Port is used today as a marina, as a terminal for local boat trips and hosts a local fish market.
DBS 66104 skirts the River Fowey at Golant on 19th May 2023 with 6P24 1525 Parkandillack to Fowey Dock Carne Point running 3hrs early.
A stay overnight in Fowey meant that the China clay had to be photographed - albeit having to be aware of the normal mega early running of the trains and the fact that they don't always run on a daily basis....for these things Real Time Trains was invented!
Unfortunately the weather wasn't brilliant although it did rule out any problematic westerly sun shading.
The flow has been running for many many years and shows no sign of stopping any time soon.
Likely thanks to the dry conditions this summer, we didn't get much in the way of autumn color this year. Luckily, it rained fiercely early this week. That at least gave us back some waterfalls. I went out yesterday with the goal of chasing waterfalls in mind.
I was also given this Nikon 1 J3, and wanted to see what it was capable of. The zoom lenses it came with seem to be potentially problematic, but this 10mm prime lens is quite nice. I'm kind of excited to look into adapting some C-mount manual lenses to it, now.
Nikon 1 J3
Nikkor CX 10mm f/2.8
Sometimes it takes a long time to see the beauty of a photo. Maybe I have to be in the right mood.
Finding photos is one of the pleasures to be had when sorting through your photo folders, which I have been doing for the past few days, seriously deleting stuff that is merely OK.
Backing up photos is a bit problematic, a few years ago I bought an external drive yet when I got a new computer, my new computer did not recognise it and when I plugged it in, the computer would just shut down. Now, I have to use my old computer as back up, which involves a lot of plugging USB sticks in.
This bird is parked on a photo prop adjacent to our pond and has paused for a look around before proceeding lower to drink and/or bathe. Its red breast is usually visible, and it the only Nuthatch with a white supercilium... no trouble with its species ID within this family. The sexes are more difficult... it's a matter of judging color intensity and contrast. Males typically have more intense coloring than females but the differences are subtle. I believe this one to be a first-year bird... that makes sex determination even more problematic. The sexes of the other Nuthatch families generally are not distinguishable in the field.
IMG_3148; Red-breasted Nuthatch
Okay, so that's Avery walking past a stand of ringless honey mushrooms, all blurred because it was in the shade and I had the Holga on bulb setting.
But...the "come back here" isn't about that...it's about inviting back the Flickr community (who may still have accounts here, but don't post here...instead mostly on IG or FB).
This is a very old song, since the migration over to FB, actually. I know, I know...there's an ease to post on IG/FB and Flickr takes a bit more work in different regards. But we all know those platforms are also problematic. Recently there's been a change at IG...and while I'm not sure exactly how it effects little old me, I do know that I'm tired of the feed. Yes, I can select "following" and only see those I'm following, but then I can't see stories and the feed still isn't chronological.
I've never used the mobile app for Flickr...that's not really what it's about for me. It's typically more mindful than that. I like that I'm not plugged in ALL the time. But I do miss the old camaraderie (not to diss my newer community here, however...I love y'all too!). Flickr is about the creative support and encouragement...the inspiration I feel from other photographers and artists. And it's less about faves and views and more about what I share with other like minded creative individuals.
My Flickr family was the first social media platform group I seriously took part in. It all started here. I maintain so many of those friends, both online and in person, starting nearly 18 years ago. That's saying something.
I know Flickr isn't as conducive to long discussions and threads, but neither is IG (FB maybe is more so). But it still offers a lot to us photogs.
I was on another nomadic National Park foray and I ended up in Twin Fall as a pitstop, not knowing such a beautiful set of waterfalls were closeby. I got out there early the next morning to beat the crowds and get some aerial shots. I'm finding myself gravitating back to black and white lately. I'm finding the greenish cast in water to be particular problematic, and black & white solves that problem.
Une photo que je considérais comme ratée et que je pensais effacer et puis finalement je lui trouve un certain charme.
La casquette que porte Rambo était supposée le protéger de la lumière (problème avec sa cataracte), mais elle ne tient pas bien sur la tête et ne protège pas vraiment, elle n'aura donc que l'intérêt de la photo.
A picture that I considered as failed and that I thought to erase but now I find it a certain charm.
The cap that Rambo wears was supposed to protect him from the light (problematic because of his cataract), but it does not fit well on the head and does not really protect, its only interest is for the photo.
Tokyo Tower is a communications and observation tower located in the Shiba-koen district of Minato, Tokyo, Japan. At 332.9 metres (1,092 ft), it is the second-tallest structure in Japan. The structure is an Eiffel Tower-inspired lattice tower that is painted white and international orange to comply with air safety regulations.
Built in 1958, the tower's main sources of revenue are tourism and antenna leasing. Over 150 million people have visited the tower since its opening. FootTown, a four-story building located directly under the tower, houses museums, restaurants and shops. Departing from there, guests can visit two observation decks. The two-story Main Observatory is located at 150 metres (490 ft), while the smaller Special Observatory reaches a height of 249.6 metres (819 ft).
The tower acts as a support structure for an antenna. Originally intended for television broadcasting, radio antennas were installed in 1961, but the tower is now used to broadcast signals for Japanese media outlets such as NHK, TBS and Fuji TV. Japan's planned digital television transition by July 2011 was problematic, however; Tokyo Tower's height, 332.9 m (1,092 ft) was not high enough to adequately support complete terrestrial digital broadcasting to the area. A taller digital broadcasting tower, known as Tokyo Skytree, was completed on February 29, 2012.
Just love the Minack Theatre in Porthcurno, West Cornwall.
We turned up just as it re-opened for socially-distanced performances.
Theatres up and down the land are in dire straits at the moment thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic and the Minack is no exception. However, being an open-air theatre, perched on the granite clifftops above the Atlantic Ocean, they might just be able to stage a few performances that other venues might find problematic.
303070 9708xx Glasgow Central
As soon as Scotrail was privatised it was announced that an order had gone in for a fleet of new EMU's to replace the aged 303's.
The Blue trains had been introduced in the 1960's when some of the lines north and south of the Clyde had been electrified. They had served the city well over the years now was their time to bow out.
However it was not as quick as Scotrail would have liked as the new trains (the Class 334's) were, as all new trains are, problematical.
The 303's lingured into the 21st century being finally replaced at the end of 2002.
Not long after the takeover 303070 heads into Glasgow Central with a train from the Cathcart Circle a service they had operated since the early 60's. August 1997
Couchiching Beach Park includes the town dock and sandy beach areas that attract many to Lake Couchiching each summer. This 14.5-acre park is home to many special events and features the historic Champlain Monument
—Controversy echoes from coast to coast with every toppling of yet another second-rate statue of a “problematic” figure from Canadian history. But few outsiders even noticed last year when the signature work of public art in the Ontario town of Orillia — a towering monument of dramatically posed bronze figures topped by French explorer Samuel de Champlain in full court dress, bestriding the New World like a Spanish Conquistador — quietly disappeared from the lakefront park it has dominated for most of a century.
The signallers are making use of the bi-directional signalling through Bath as 66001, doyen of the class, passes Sydney Gardens with 6C03, 0933 Northolt-Severnside Suez (Avonmouth) domestic waste train on 30 December, 2022. Introduced in 1998, some 480 of the class were eventually delivered for use in the UK, replacing or displacing a huge number of former BR machines. The ‘binliner’ has returned to its Bath route, with its problematic climb towards Filton, while engineering work takes place at Bristol Parkway.
Commonly known as common water hyacinth, is an aquatic plant native to the Amazon basin, and is often a highly problematic invasive species outside its native range. It is the sole species of Pontederia subg.
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Been battling a headache for days...now a problematic tooth has taken a turn for the worse and it has been double pain for me...trying to smile, in spite of how I feel at the moment...Thank you to everyone who has given me well wishes these past days...so very appreciated.
Thank you for your visit too! Have a great day/evening.
This took quite a bit of post-process rescuing, actually… the light was very hard and much contrastier than this final result (which is much more how it looked to the naked eye). Shadow noise was particularly problematic as a result of the aggressive shadow lifting, and given I used Lightroom and it sucks at noise reduction.
Amtrak train 301, the southbound State House behind F40PH 295, tiptoes down the Terminal Railroad Association's Merchant's District High Line along the riverfront in the Laclede's Landing district of St. Louis, Missouri, USA, 11 June 1982. The Mississippi River is at flood stage, making escape for the cars parked on Loenore K. Sullivan Boulevard (or Wharf Street) problematic. The stationary riverboat "Belle Angeline" and the Martin Luther King Bridge frame the scene.
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"There is something / problematic for politicians: / in order to serve / our inner wishes, / to comfort our fears, / beat our enemies, / to this aim, / the politicians need to bribe, / to deal and wheel, / lie and betray. // Only then / will we trust / our beloved leaders / and re-elect."
Hope the demonstration to fight climate change will turn matters to the good.
(Amsterdam, 29-11-2015)
Jay, 23, was born in Germany, and had been living in Königstein for years. Due to his father's bussiness, a Samsung product designer, he had to travel around and transfer to different school in several countries in his adolescence.In his 10, he was back to korea to get into middle school. He couldn't speak any korean at that time 'cause German was his first language, and he said those school kids were teasing him all the time. One day he told his dad " I wanna have a Korean passport, I wanna become a real korean." But the price to get a passport is 2-year-long milatary service when he comes 20. After getting his citizenship, he went to school told his friends"I'm a real korean, I have to serve milatary service as you guys!" even though kids not really teasing his outsider identity, he's still fighting with kids and messing around. Afterward, His father got a mission in Japan, Jay came with his father to come to Japan and spent 2 years in middle school there. A same problem--language, he became a totally outsider again. Then, He moved back to korea with his family, and to countinue his high school educaton and musical school. However, He's still a trouble maker in school. Like many upper-middle-class parents to deal with problematic kids, the solution is to send them to America to learn how to live on his own, and expected him to become a independ person, and to be responsible for himself. When he first arrived in Seatle, he know nothing about English, an outsider again, but in next 5 years he found his passion in jazz, and got the scholarship in New School. Currently he's a full-time student and playing Jazz gigs as a partime job in New York City, he's also producing music for several Korean Pop singers.
The hike to Rummel Lake is a bit of a grind: steep and winding, without decent views. The lake is nice enough once you get there, if you have energy left to enjoy it. Light is problematical, as the trail winds through bear habitat and has many blind corners, so you don't want to be there when the bears are active (which is right when the light is best for photography).
This panorama was stitched from 72 bracketed photographs with PTGUI Pro, tone-mapped with Photomatix, and touched up in Aperture.
Original size: 18250 × 9125 (166.5 MP; 197 MB).
Location: Rummel Lake, Peter Lougheed Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada
I'd prefer to keep personal matters just that...personal. But circumstances sometimes make that problematic. For instance, when many people notice and complain that dear Daisy seems to have been given a pass on something rather important. In this case, keeping her nails nicely polished for her Mistress. Two choices present themselves for my consideration when that happens. Either keep the explanation private and allow people to think I've gone inexplicably soft....or tell the truth. Sorry Miss Daisy...but the truth will out. I can't have my reputation sullied to such a grave extent, can I? 😉
No, I haven't gone soft. Daisy was diagnosed a while back with a nail fungus....and since the treatment is lengthy, and can be impeded by the use of nail lacquers...poor Daisy will simply have to do without until further notice. 😖
Searching for a meal while trying not to become a meal himself, this Ring-necked Pheasant tiptoes past my rolling car blind. Often I am forced to shoot slightly down, which can be problematic, but here a little roadside embankment formed a ridge to elevate my subject above eye level. And to my great approval and joy, the pheasant decided to strut toward me, atop this little rise. What luck! It felt like Christmas! And today is Christmas, which is why I think this is a good one to share. So Merry Christmas everyone, and to all a good day!
Photographed in wild, windblown Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2016 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
And for those of us who are a bit old school and like to mail actual Christmas cards out, in Canada this year it could be problematical.
Canada Post employees are into their first week of striking for better pay and work conditions. The post office wants to have mail delivery people work on weekends to keep up with the courier businesses but doesn't want to pay the time and a half rates. As it presently stands, it appears as if CUPW (Canadian Union of Postal Workers) and Canada Post (the government) are still far apart in the negotiations, which have been going on for a year now. The union finally got fed up after so long a negotiation going nowhere and called a strike last week.
I generally send e-cards for birthdays, anniversaries etc., but at Christmas, I like to send out real cards. Maybe just because it's a family tradition or maybe just for the fun of stringing them up. Guess we'll see if the strike gets resolved in time to send out cards.
As an aside, I will always support unions against government and corporate employers. Regrettably, most people seem to not appreciate the work unions have engaged in over the last couple of centuries to improve the working life of people, from wages, benefits, vacations, work hours, job safety etc.
We're Here looks at Counting the Days to Christmas today. Yes it's closing in fast.
This is the view of Barcelona in the evening from about 15-20 miles before commencing final approach for Runway 25R.
To get the focus of both instruments and scenery a very small aperture would have to be used which would be problematic in such low light. So I took two large aperture photographs in quick succession, one focussing on the instruments an done on the scenery then blended the two images to get this result.
From my day shooti8ng House Finches, I cam across an age old problem: focusing a bird in a thicket or in multiple branches. Admittedly, I do not have the "high-grade" Nikons or Canons, but even in my 35mm days, this was always problematic (and expensive with film). This is one of two where I was extremely careful, did not use burst mode, and lucked out. I sometimes think it's even more difficult than getting my tablet to recognize my bluetooth earbuds!
Btw, I am in complete agreement with James regarding the name of a House Finch. At the very least, with a male in breeding plumage and standing against a blue sky, the name should be a "Penthouse Finch" or "The Red Finch" except that the latter wouldn't apply to the female, but when has naming ever been spot on?
I always loved my 6927 - The functions of the collection and delivery of the tracking station were so amazing - but I always found the front end somewhat problematic. So I've spent way too long making it into more of a sort of moon-tug
(New AFOL after many years of darkness. Please let me know what you think!)
One of the rarer varieties of snowflakes – a radiating crossed plate cluster! I’ve only ever seen these on a handful of occasions and every time they have been in very cold weather.
Temperatures of -15C in the clouds with high humidity produce the biggest snowflakes, but I’ve seen these gems fall at -17C in the ground – and I know it would be colder up in the clouds where they form by at least a few degrees. Falling alongside columns, bullets rosettes and “ordinary” crossed plates, these clusters stand out as some of the most beautiful of the exotic types of snowflakes. So, how does this form?
A crossed plate would be one of the “branches” here, with the almost-6-o’clock branch being a great one to dissect. It’s in the group of “crystal twin” snowflake types which also include arrowhead snowflakes, with growth running along a central spine that branches radiate off of in up to four directions. Here we see some thicker branches running forward-to-back, and thinner branches top-to-bottom. These likely form from a molecular accident where a non-standard alignment of molecules in the crystal structure are allowed to repeat – still fitting together like the teeth on a zipper but playing by different rules.
Such accidents could be more common when you have a common point of nucleation that is a bit rough around the edges. That’s what creates the random arrangement of crossed plates jumping out in every random direction, as well as a few more standard plates growing thickly in the middle. It’s as if a bunch of crystals all set off from the same starting point in any old direction, but some of the paths were started with a different structure.
These are also incredibly difficult to photograph, as you might imagine. The depth of a single crossed plate can be problematic for focus stacking – how about this type of chaos? About twice the amount of time was required to bring this image to its best, partly because I have to jump around each branch independently to paint in fixes with layer masks from the automatic focus stacking algorithms. Since ice is transparent and we have so many different details competing for the same pixel space, it can be… frustrating. Still, worth the extra effort to include some of these more exotic crystals in this year’s snowflake series!
For a look at more unusual snowflakes and how they form, as well as the complete guide to make images like this yourself, pick up a copy of Sky Crystals: www.skycrystals.ca/ - the eBook is only CAD$19.99, but you might want to pick up one of the SEVEN remaining hardcover copies from the original print run of 3000.
Continuing efforts to get good results out of the Agifold. Somehow I don't want to give up on this camera. Despite it's odd appearance and clunky controls, it is actually a pleasure to use. Problems at present include the fact that my last attempt at fixing the bellows light leaks hasn't got all of them. Secondly, rewinding is problematic. It is ruffling up the lower edge of the 120 roll film during rewinding, to the extent that the roll gets slights gaps along the lower edge where a little light is getting in. Not quite far enough to get the main image area, but it is showing on the film edge.
With no film in, I watched the action of the spool carefully and it is essentially slightly too loose and therefore may not run straight. The carriage mechanism all seems okay, but the odd sprung steel retainers are possibly not as springy as they once were.
My next film will go in with a small copper washer over the engaging nodule on the lower side of the empty spool and maybe on the film side too. I am hoping this will make it run closer to the upper edge where the problem isn't occurring at all. All part of the fun of owning a camera made in England in the fifties.
Such a stark contrast to the ease and smoothness of the rewind process on my Mamiya TLR, but somehow I am still drawn to the Agifold more often.
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Years ago, I developed a series of pen-and-ink drawings of lake scenes. I printed them out, then used my pastels to add color to the print. They were laborious to create, and the pastel dust was problematical because it got onto the black ink parts. But they were fun to do, and no two were alike. At one time I set up at art fairs and put these out for sale.
This is an example of how they typically looked. [They do not photograph well, or I would upload more of them. The grain of the paper shows thru too much]
Redwood Grove, Humboldt Redwoods. © Copyright 2021 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
A dense grove of old- and new-growh coast redwoods, Humboldt Redwoods State Park.
When photographing new locations, there is a tension between knowing enough and knowing too much ahead of time. In most cases, some preparatory research about a place is useful — it lets you find your way to (and back from!) interesting locations, and it alerts you to their existence. On the other hand, knowing too much about a place limits opportunities to experience the feeling of “discovering” something unexpected. When we arrived at this grove near the end of an exploratory loop to the far Northern California coast, the unexpected stillness and quiet of this magnificent grove was magical.
Another tension concerns the best way(s) to interpret coast redwood forests in photographs. For me, the path usually lies somewhere between the (hopeless and uninteresting) idea of “capturing” supposed objective reality and fascinating and extravagantly subjective and even fantastical interpretations that may be problematic. I don’t think that there is a right answer, but extreme cases raise important questions. On this visit I focused on carefully considering what I see without the camera — how cool/warm the light appears in these places, how much detail can I really see, how much light is really in the scene. These observations inform how I render these subjects — and my thinking about the boundaries between what was there, how the camera “saw” it, and how I want you to see it.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
I took this pano during sunset in the Icelandic Highlands. I couldn’t use a tripod from this position and also had to do some focus stacking on the right part. The distortion was pretty problematic when I first merged all the shots, which became obvious because of all the water but I could make some local adjustments.
Olympus mju 9010 - f/3.9 - 1/4sec - 7mm - ISO 400
from some magazines:
Question:
"Is it normal to experience double vision after (too) much alcohol consumption ?"
"Sometimes when I have too many drinks, I get double vision. Why? It is particularly problematic watching late-night TV. Closing or covering one eye seems to fix it, so I'm considering getting an eye patch."
Answer:
"Yes, but I am surprised you even can remember that the next day."
"It's clear that acute alcohol ingestion does cause double vision," Bruce Martin, a physiology professor at Indiana University, tells.
"We think it has to do with the effects of the alcohol on the brain and the brain stem and the nerves that control your eye movements and tracking. It slows down the brain so you can't get the eyes tracking on something quickly. The time it takes to get your two eyes - their images - to fuse to give you a single image increases when you drink."
Professor Martin adds that this increase in the time it takes both eyes to fuse an image is a far more urgent issue in your car than on your couch, depending on your roommate's level of drunken hostility. "When things are coming into your vision suddenly, you want to be able to figure out where they are and how fast they're moving - quickly."
Covering one eye can help, he notes, "because then you don't have your brain comparing the two images. You just have the one image." Which makes you a perfect candidate for an eye patch - or, if the TV-show is boring, two."
After the withdrawal of WR individualistic loco types earlier in the year, it was time to re-focus on other regions of BR and try to savour other types. Unfortunately, the WR was not the only region to have to weed out classes of locos in that long pursuit of standardisation. Minority representation was one thing, unsuitability was something extra and unfortunately there were loco types which were withdrawn on account of their claimed unreliability.
Here at Blair Atholl, Class 25's rule the roost. Their predecessors, the Class 24's were from the same stable but were sound performers, you might say, and fairly numerous. Previous Type 2's were the NBL diesel electric version of the WR type.
NBL diesels have been much maligned, and whatever the true scale of the problem - or not maybe - Scottish Region has much remote areas of route operation where their locos need to be trustworthy.
It didn't take long for their early involvement with the NBL Type 2 to become problematical to the point where replacements were sought. Class 26 and 27 filled the void left by the removal of the NBL type and also the Claytons, after an attempt to re engine some in the hope of improvement.
The 24, 25, 26 and 27 locos gave sterling service and Class 40's with their extra power served well too. The 47's were kept at bay for years apart from the occasional service.
It is open to question as to the use of Type 2's in pairs to the extent practiced, on both freight and passenger work. Given the experiences of the Type 4's across BR which can be said to be mostly underwhelming, there wasn't much scope for avoiding such double heading.
In any event, there was always an apparent shortage of Type 4 locos, which were needed to be transferred to WR as replacements for the non standard types there. It took much longer than expected to force them out of action!
It would have been interesting to have seen what the Peaks could do and the WR Type 4's; given the speed constraints, the problems with the hydraulic locos bogie riding problem at speed, that wouldn't have mattered.
Maybe there really was an attitude towards the potential of the better hydraulics which prevented an experiment of their suitability for use in Scotland, and maybe elsewhere.
We can only wonder.
Bridges seem to be a bit thin on the ground in the Rough Bounds. You take your chances with the rivers and streams and hope there hasn't been too much rain I guess! This crossing was slightly problematic for me but only because of my daft choice of footwear (shoes rather than boots). Having got across though it was a gloriously Scottish scene looking back.
this is part of my "behind the curtain" series.
this was very difficult because my remote isn't being nice so i had to put my camera on self-timer and jump back into the water very quickly. i find that water shoots are among the most problematic.