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MAKE SURE YOUR SHOES ARE TIGHTLY PLACED ON THE QTIP ENDS..NOW THAT YOUR SHOES ARE SECURELY ON THE QTIP ENDS, YOU CAN PREPARE THE PAINT..FILL THE CONTAINER WITH ENOUGH PAINT FOR DIPPING..IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU ADD SOME WATER TO YOUR PAINT TO THIN OUT THE THICK CONCISTANCY..OTHERWISE YOU WILL HAVE A BLOB OF PAINT ON YOUR SHOES..STIR THE PAINT TO MINIMIZE BUBBLES WHICH ARE LITTLE POCKETS OF AIR IN THE LIQUID PAINT..NOW ITS GOING TO GET MESSY SO HAVE YOUR AREA SET UP FOR THAT..DIP BOTH SHOES WHICH SHOULD BOTH BE SET UP IN YOUR SHOE HANGER CONTRAPTION AT THIS POINT, ONE FIRST, THEN THE OTHER ONE IMMEDIATLY FOLLOWING THE FIRST..NOW HOLD UP OVER YOUR NEWSPAPER AREA, AND BLOW WITH YOUR MOUTH ANY EXCESS PAINT ON THE SHOE..DO THIS ALL AROUND BOTH SHOES..HOLDING ON TO THE QTIPS SHAKE ANY DROPS AT THE BOTTOM OFF......
When I heard it was going to be 87° Fahrenheit in Anza-Borrego Desert, I planned an impromptu trip to test out my desert hiking clothing. I assembled several pieces of clothing based on some internet searches.
I initially looked to the Persian Gulf states to see what they wore. The Qatari Guy and Mr Q had some helpful advice (Qtips) on Qatari Men's National Dress and Five Ways to Wear Your Ghitra. Mishal Al-Khodair has a great demonstration on How To Wear A Gutra. The thobe seemed like it would be too long and awkward for desert hiking where you may need to scramble over boulders so I opted from something a little shorter. In India, Pakistan and Afghanistan it is called a Kurta. Under the Kurta I wear white men's cotton pants. Both of these items were available from EastEssence in the United States.
Kurta: ME300-White, size medium
Pants: PTM8-White, size large (order one size larger, for the pants, as they run small and ignore the sizing chart that is completely inaccurate and generic).
The headdress was a little more complicated. I ordered a generic three-piece arab head set from Zarinas. The kufi (white cotton hat worn directly on hair or scalp) and gutra (white cloth) were great but the agal (black rope) came in extra large and was way too big for my small head. I ended up ordering the proper size agal online from Desertstore but the shipping was outrageous as it comes from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Nevertheless, I broke down and paid for the shipping that was as much as the item itself.
I wore my regular New Balance Minimus hiking shoes, nylon liner socks and Darn Tough No-Show light running socks.
If this get-up seems a little extreme, you can always opt for just the white cotton pants and a Badger Sportswear Men's B-Dry Long Sleeve Tee, White, Medium.
This system of clothing works in our dry desert climate because it is loose, allows air to circulate and retains moisture, slowing dehydration.
The headdress can be worn in different configurations. It consists of multiple thin layers when folded over, catches the air for air movement around your head and shields your shoulders from direct sun. The following excerpt helped me to understand this better.
Hold up two pieces of cloth in front of the sun, one black and one white, and see for yourself which passes more light. Dark cloth can be very thin and still block light effectively. Re-emission of energy from darker colors may be a little faster but I think other factors (see below) are much more significant. And don't kid yourself into thinking people in older cultures wear dumb clothing and somehow don't know any better. It tends to be the other way around: they wear what works and that gets incorporated into the culture.
Airflow and ambient humidity are the key concerns here, more than color. Cotton and linen are advantageous in the desert but not in the tropics because they retain moisture, slowing water transport away from the body and therefore slowing dehydration. You'll see outdoor workers in the desert US routinely wearing long-sleeve shirts and long pants in summer because the low humidity allows their sweat to cool them effectively even through all that fabric. The same workers in Hawaii or Florida can't do that.
The most important consideration is fabric mobility. Europeans tend to wear form-fitting garments that are wrapped around the body and don't move much, like shirt, pants, and hat. This traps hot air next to the body. Also, any fabric that's exposed to direct sunlight and touching your skin offers a heat-conduction path from sun to body. Head, shoulders, and hips tend to be hot spots. If the fabric isn't cooled by air circulation, reflecting sunlight away with pale colors is the only option but it doesn't really help much.
Desert-dwellers wear loose, hood-like head coverings (eg shemagh) and a flowing open-weave tent covering the rest. The only area of cloth directly exposed to sunlight that remains in constant contact with the body is the headband supporting the head/neck skirt. The head-skirt drapes over the shoulders and moves around so the robe covering the shoulders is not getting direct sunlight. The coolest attire (in more ways than one) would probably be a flowing, loosely-woven black linen hand-carried umbrella that reached almost to the ground: good air circulation, good shade, and no direct heat conduction. The burqa worn by women in some Islamic cultures approaches this.
Unfortunately, desert robes are not fashionable in North America, especially in the recent past. The best compromise that doesn't look too weird is probably a broad-brimmed hat with neck/shoulder skirt (skirt is key), over-sized long-sleeved shirt, and loose, flowing long pants. Sandals with socks are a fashion faux pas but great for keeping your feet cool and sun-protected. Less noticeable if your socks are the same color as the sandals. Finger-less gloves or garden gloves (like Foxgloves) are great for driving. Remember, this only works where humidity is very low.*
* Mojavean (edited by Charlie Brumbaugh). 2015. "Are dark or bright clothings preferable in the desert?" The Great Outdoors Stack Exchange. INTERNET QUESTION AND ANSWER SITE 2017-04-23. outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/5224/are-dark-or-bri...
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Christmas mouse on the new cat tree
BB knocked the Christmas mouse off the flower and is presently hunkered down on the flower herself.
Oh, Lordy, I’m a Qtip talking about her kitties!!
This little guy came from the drainage of a hot spring in Lassen County, California. The white fuzzy stuff he is resting on is a "Q-Tip", or an equivalent generic brand of swab.
I created this image with my old Nikon D50 DSLR. I used an inexpensive 10X microscope finite objective lens (160mm focal length), mounted on a stack of extension tubes with a Nikon to RMS adapter on the front end of the tube stack. There was no other lens- just the microscope objective- projecting an image directly onto the camera's 23.7 x 15.5mm image sensor.
I used Zerene Stacker to stack together 67 photos, combining them into the one you see here.
Each image was taken with the subject progressively farther from the lens. I used a micrometer stage from an old optical comparator to move the subject a smidgen before each new frame. Each smidgen was calibrated to allow some slight overlap for the depth of field, to prevent banding in the final image.
This allows the extremely shallow (about 12 microns, or 0.00047 inches) DOF to be compensated for, with special software than can "glue together" the individual 12-micron slices of sharp focus into a usable complete image.
The image as seen here was the complete frame from the camera (uncropped). At the 10X magnification of the microscope lens, that means that the subject fits into a frame that is 2.4mm across. So the critter is a hair under 2mm long, in "real life".
Lighting was provided exclusively by a 33-watt compact-fluorescent "circline" bulb in the ceiling of the kitchen where this image was created. Exposure time per frame was 2 seconds.
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Snowflake soap [:
Still life from a recent shoot that I love.
My friend Jenna made that soap and here is where you can buy her awesome soaps and more! They smell so good and are really pretty.
I'll be doing more photos of her soaps soon and I can't wait [:
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We took my father to the Philadelphia Flower Show to celebrate his eighty-seventh birthday. Having been into horticulture all his life, he loved the flowers. But, I think he had the most fun in the butterfly exhibit!
Guess what this is.
Guesses till date :
Radioactive Flower ! (::d::)
Sperm Cells (Raymond, Isolaes, busymommy) (ROTFLMAO) :)
Answer:
Top view of my box of earbuds (Q-Tips), placed on top of a torchlight
I'm discovering that the world of macro and close-up photography can be a great deal of fun. It's encouraging me to explore the beauty and complexity of a world that very often remains hidden from our sight. Ordinary and simple things, like this stack of Q-tips, take on a decidedly different appearance when viewed through the macro lens.
We were inspired by Saucy Dragonfly's photos (www.flickr.com/photos/saucydragonfly/). With the idea that grosser is always better, we adapted the technique and melted the marshmallow and then dipped the sticks into melted peanut butter chips. (You can shape the marshmallow a bit if you wet your fingers so it doesn't stick as you work with it). People had to dare each other to eat them. Mom even add a little red gel to some of them to make them look bloody. ICK!
ODC Theme: Topless (Non-human)
As I was setting up for this shot the song that was running through my head was "I Enjoy Being a Girl" from Flower Drum Song.
Taken in my bathroom with natural window light. :D
Her green plastic watering-can
For her fake Chinese rubber plant
In the fake plastic earth that she bought
From a rubber man in a town full of rubber plans
To get rid of itself, it wears her out
She lives with a broken man
A cracked polystyrene man
Who just crumbles and burns
He used to do surgery for girls in the eighties
But gravity always wins and it wears him out
She looks like the real thing
She tastes like the real thing
My fake plastic love
Agfa Standard (1926–1933) model 254
A vertical (non-self-erecting) folder fitted with Agfa Anastigmat Trilinear f/4.5 10.5cm (sn #487555) set in a Compur shutter (sn #2303643) in a unit-focusing helical mechanism.—The camera shoots 6x9 on 120 roll film.—The Trilinear is an ex Optische Anstalt A. Hch Rietzschel designed simple triplet lens which was apparently only fitted in the better quality units furnished with a Compur shutter (see serial number data).
The Agfa Standard came in six models: roll film 254 (120, 6x9) and 255 (116, 6 1/2 x 11) and plate 204 and 205. Models with telescopic viewfinder existed for roll film 264 (120, 6x9) and 265 (116, 6 1/2 x 11).
The f/4.5 version of the model 254 with the Compur shutter described here was the most expensive of the three lens options offered (f/7.7, f/6.3 and f/4.5), twice as expensive as the base model (French Francs 770 in the 1928 Catalogue of Omnium Photo, Paris).
This unit of model 254 would appear to date to 1933 (based on the serial number of the Compur shutter) and was most likely manufactured in the former Rietzschel factory München (Munich).—The camera carries the body serial code next to the film gate: HU61.
Kadlubek Catalogue nº 3262
McKeown 12th ed., 2005-2006, pp.36-7
The unit-focusing helical mechanism of these cameras is prone to seize up when the infamous Agfa green grease dries out. This was the case in this example. It was loosened by slowly heating the focussing area with a hair dryer until the grease had become malleable again and the focussing moved. The grease was then removed with Q-Tips and the mechanism re-lubricated with Silicon grease.
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First test of newly acquired "classic" Minolta MD 35-70 3.5 Macro with a 12mm extension ring added! Shot about 10 min ago at F11.
In the world of manual legacy lenses on modern cameras, zoom lenses are generally thought of as mostly crap. This one however is held in high regard. Prices on ebay range from about £50 to £150 ($60-$160). I got this one for £20 ($27) with issues: a stuck on filter and internal fungus. Both of which I fixed.
This is a cotton bud (swab), if you hadn't already guessed.
There is really nothing special here. Just me experimenting with still life assignments. What can I say? Practice makes perfect - right? :-)