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This one is the result of a combination of a focus stack of about six photos (I don‘t keep tabs on the number…) at f/8.
The beech and its intriguing roots elicited my attention here.
I used a polarisation filtre to reduce the reflection from the water in the ditch.
AWB 082-3317 7922 is a creation by artist Sven Augustijnen (2021)
Exhibition "Congoville" in the Middelheim open-air museum in Antwerp, Belgium.
Sven Augustijnen (1970) was born in Mechelen, Belgium, and he lives and works in Brussels. Working primarily in film and installation, Augustijnen’s practice has long been exploring political, historical, and social themes, constantly challenging the genre of the documentary and reflecting a wider interest in historiography and a predilection for the nature of storytelling.
This work is a ‘political ghost shrine’ for Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961), the first Prime Minister of the independent Congo.
Lumumba was assassinated by a coalition of Belgian, American and Katangese authorities, but to this day has still not been given a grave. The bicycle had been Lumumba’s preferred means of transportation. The sacks of charcoal and the tree to which the bicycle is attached refer to the tree against which he was executed along with two political companions, and which was probably reduced to ashes to cover all traces. But also, the piece imitates the bike riders carrying homemade charcoal, so common on contemporary Congolese roads. Augustijnen’s assemblage is titled after the airway freight number assigned to the shipment of these objects from the village in which Lumumba was assassinated to Belgium. In the end, the package never arrived. That loss, on the way from Africa to Europe, plus the seriality and anonymity of the administrative code, echo the ‘cold case’ of this murder, and in a broader sense of the Belgian-Congolese post-colonial history. [Source: Middelheimmuseum]
Very British early 1950s Morgan at Laguna Seca Vintage races. Since racers with headlights are required to have tape to reduce scatter of broken glass in case of accident, this was a wonderfully creative 'British Flag' solution. Clever!
The Orion constellation shot under Bortle 3 sky.
Equipment:
- Nikon D300 modified
- Nikkor AF-S 105mm f/1.4 ED
- Skywatcher StarAdventurer
Frames:
45 frames x 120sec at ISO 800.
Preprocessed in APP and Pixinsight and post-processed in Lightroom.
Old data, re-edited.
When I shot this the sun was behind the cloud and I could barely see the rays. I underexposed almost 3 stops to darken, which also brought out the orange in the sky. In Lightroom I increased the saturation of the orange and reduced the orange luminance to make it richer. Then increased contrast and highlight.
Since I shoot Raw, I also did the scene in B&W and I like both version.
Best light - Under expose by at least 2 stops. Brings out the colours and richness
The pics clearly show his right eye was markedly sunken and could impair his site, and perhaps the ability to accommodate distance was reduced.
A very late CN 149 is passing Turcot Ouest with, CN 2974, CN 2909 & a 508-axle long train, after reducing to 'only' 10,000 feet in the Port of Montreal.
TMB LZOS 152 + Riccardi Reducer @ F/6
Moravian G3 16200 + Chroma LRGB + Chroma Ha,[OIII] 8nm
Parallax Instruments HD200c
Ha: 40x300s bin 1x1
[OIII]: 18x300s bin 1x1
L: 25x300s bin 1x1
RGB: 10x300s bin 1x1
FWHM: 2-2.8"
Total exposure: 10h
Captured with Sequence Generator Pro
Processed with Pixinsight
Pueblo, CO - This solar project by Xcel Energy supports Colorado’s clean energy goal to reduce emissions statewide 26% by the end of this year(2025), 50% by 2030, and 90% by 2050. It's one of several solar projects in the state. This grid alone can power up to 50,000 homes.
I ran into this installation by accident, I was in the area to film a bulldozer pushing dirt (not kidding, sometimes I have the weirdest job assignments) but I found this far more captivating.
Pan Am’s PL-1 is rolling westbound along the former New Haven RR’s “Highland” route in Plymouth, CT, with interchange traffic for Waterbury. Historically this line was important enough to have been re-built two times through this area; first to add a second track and reduce number of curves and grades; and second to detour around the Hancock Brook flood control dam, which is one of many in the area built in the 1960’s by the US Army Corps of Engineers in response to destructive flooding in the region. By 2010 this end of the line was operated twice a week at best with only one steady customer left to the west, but this thankfully changed around 2016 with the opening of a construction debris transfer facility in Watertown and a new propane terminal in Plymouth (where the truck passing over the train is almost certainly coming from).
Handheld three exposures processed in Photomatix Pro, noise reduced in Topaz DeNoise 5, B & W effect and filter added in Silver Efex Pro 2 and completed work in Photoshop CS5.
22x600' RG
14x600', 18x300' B
19x1200' Ha
13.8h total
oakland, ca
january 2014
m42 with TMB92SS and TRF-2008 0.8x reducer (f=400mm)
STT-8300M with astrodon HaRGB filters
mach1GTO
equinox image
pixinsight
Just testing out the 100-400 II + 1.4x III combination. The lack of moveable autofocus points might be a problem with moving subjects, but fortunately this robin was content to pose. This is a circa 70% crop; the robin was about 5m away.
Edit to add: To clarify, the 1.4x Extender reduces AF to single point which remains movable, but one loses area AF and 61-point automatic AF. Which was fine for this robin but un-usable when I was photographing flying birds of prey a week later.
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Some of the contents of a large plastic box in our kitchen drawer where we put our recyclable items such as plastic bottles, magazines, flyers, food tins and drink cans. When it's full I take it out to the garage & tip everything in a big wheelie bin. This gets collected by a private company fortnightly, the other week they take our actual rubbish (trash) away, thankfully we don't produce much of that so often that wheelie bin only goes out once a month. Glass has to be taken to a bottle bank. I use to take gardening & bird watching magazines to our GP surgery for others to read but those days are gone.
We compost all our newspapers, cardboard packaging/toilet rolls etc & I reuse suitable plastic food trays to stand plant pots in. All available windowsills currently have trays with small pots containing tomato/chilli/pepper/courgette & sweetcorn seedlings, waiting for the current cold snap to pass so I can plant them out in the polytunnel.
For Macro Mondays theme "Trash" HMM!
Whakarewarewa (reduced version of Te Whakarewarewatanga O Te Ope Taua A Wahiao, meaning The gathering place for the war parties of Wahiao, often abbreviated to Whaka by locals) is a Rotorua semi-rural geothermal area in the Taupo Volcanic Zone of New Zealand. This was the site of the Māori fortress of Te Puia, first occupied around 1325, and known as an impenetrable stronghold never taken in battle. Māori have lived here ever since, taking full advantage of the geothermal activity in the valley for heating and cooking.
Te Pākira marae, Whakarewarewa Thermal Village, Rotorua, New Zealand
Just another frame from this fun trip last summer.
Amtrak Empire Service train 260 from Albany-Rensselaer to New York Penn Station pops out of the the 200 ft long west bore of Oscawana Tunnel on Main 2 of Metro North's Hudson Line at MP 36.8. Twenty nine year old P32AC-DM 709 still looks pretty sharp in its classic Phase III dress leading the standard five car Budd Amfleet consist.
This is the original New York Central Railroad mainline which opened between New York City and Albany in 1851 as the Hudson River Railroad, and the first tunnel here (the one at right that Main 1 passes thru) dates from the line's construction through here in 1849 while this one the train is emerging from with Mains 2 and 4 dates from 1912 when four tracks were installed (the original tunnel had two). In 1864 the Hudson River Railroad was purchased by Cornelius Vanderbilt along with the New York and Harlem. Meanwhile in 1853 Erastus Corning had assembled a plethora of small local lines as the New York Central Railroad running from Albany to Buffalo and in 1867 Vanderbilt merged it with his road to create the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad and the rest as they say is history.
By the 1950s as the railroad was showing signs of weakness but also modernizing under the leadership of A.E. Perlman. Around that era the four track mainline was equipped with CTC and reduced to three mains thru here. If anyone can fill me in on the exact dates of the changes here I'd be most grateful.
Hamlet of Crugers
Cortlandt, New York
Saturday August 3, 2024
Getting out & hiking into a place like this is always good for the mind, heart, & soul. At least it is for me! My son & two of my nephews went with me to Turkey Foot & Mize Mill Falls Saturday. Great day to be in the woods.
The theme for this week's Macro Mondays is "plastic". I became very aware of the issue of single-use plastic contaminating our oceans on visiting uninhabited areas of eastern Greenland last year and taking part in a beach clean-up - we collected dozens of items of throwaway plastic. It has become big news this year with the UK's proposal to ban plastic straws and cotton buds. For my macro entry I decided to take a picture of my water bottle, which I now use instead of buying bottled water - saving a lot of money as well as doing a small bit to save our oceans. So - this is "Plastic" for Macro Mondays. HMM! (field of view is under 2 inches)
And doubling up - my Day 23 entry for April 2018: A month in 30 pictures, and #23/100 for 100 x: The 2018 Edition - my x is macro with a dedicated macro lens.
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Stölma special, Folding camera kodak and Ektachrome 400X Professional Slide film (expired), crossprocessed. Double exposure.
I had to reduce som vibrance on this, cause it almost hurt my eyes.....:)
I shot this from the hotel in Boerne where we took refuge after losing all delivery of power and water at the house.
TRRA GP38-2 2001 leads the Polar Express Noirth through Saint Louis, MO. The bricks behind the unit are all that's left of a warehouse that burned down a few weeks prior.
Lunar image using SX 70 with mircoscope adapter on 12.5 inch f/6 newtonian reflector telecope F.L. 1960mm. Pizza box shutter used for this about 1/4 second shot. Blue 80A filter used dim image to bring out
details and reduce glare. Scanned image not nearly as clear as photo in hand.
The first clear night for some weeks!
17 x 4-minute exposures at f/4.5 and ISO 1600. Astro-modified Canon 600D and Canon 100mm f/2.8 lens piggybacked on a Celestron C8 telescope for tracking.
Frames stacked in Deep Sky Stacker software. Result post-processed to increase contrast, reduce noise and reduce colour gradients (caused by light pollution). I also used Noel Carboni's astronomy tools in Photoshop Elements to reduce the prominence of the stars (which otherwise dominate after stretching the contrast).
Speckled Forest Pit Viper- Bothriopsis bilineata
Ecuador
May 2016
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All that need to be said was BILINEATA! An incredibly beautiful viper, and one I had very much hoped to see. This was taken out in the rainforest despite looking like a studio shot. Studio shots aren't my favorite style but it works well to show off this snake.
*All my photos from now on will be downsized like crazy hence the reduced sharpness. Have found my photos being used in way too many places without permission or compensation so now will not be posting any sort of his res images.
Having his options severely reduced by the heavy snow this woodpecker eventually became a regular at our feeder (he knew it for months but ignored it). Still, it took me a few days to manage a shot without scaring him - got him today at the second attempt through the bathroom window.
World of Top Gear at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, is a unique exhibition of vehicles from every era of the hit television show. The TGV12 was motoring journalist Jeremy Clarkson’s car-based train that was featured in Series 17. It was made from a Jaguar XJS.
‘XJ12 596’ is the actual TGV12 ‘sports train’ driven by Clarkson during Top Gear’s valiant attempt to reduce the cost of railway travel using innovative car-based rolling stock. The ‘locomotive’ is little more than an old Jaguar convertible with some different wheels on it.