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Another film image as I try to refine my scanning technique. Ilford PAN 400 film developed in Fotospeed FD10. To digitize it I photographed the negative on a lightbox at 0, +1 and +2 exposure compensation and combined them as an HDR in Lightroom. Each image was shot using an OM-1 in hi-res mode. After cropping, the image dimensions are 6094 x 9141 (56 megapixels). Further processed in Lightroom with Negative Lab Pro then some doging and burning in Photoshop.
"This autumn issue explores how refining our senses - taste, sight, sound, touch, and smell - enriches the experiences we have with each other."
Pretty excited about this volume, not only because it's beautiful & always exciting to receive in the mail, but because I got a chance to contribute. I, with the help of Eric, (who is honestly much better with words) wrote an essay about taking the time to slow down and enjoy brewing coffee in the morning. The essay is featured next to photos by the talented Chantelle Grady, who photographed a Kyoto drip coffee maker & a page with different old time brewing methods.
There's a few more shots on the blog as well, along with pictures of our homemade s'mores that turned out far better than I thought- I'll just say that graham cracker dough is stickier than I expected!
Fairbanks Alaska. ca. 1985.
The United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company. Illinois Street supply yard.
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This is my entry for this weeks Mosaic Montage Monday where the theme was Refine/Refined, I hope this is a close enough match to the theme given that each one of those little coloured balls on the Freckles sweets is pretty much just refined sugar.
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A farmer unloads raw salt at salt field yard in Chittagong, Bangladesh. This photo is taken in the destination of Banshkhali Upazila in the division of Chittagong in the country of Bangladesh.
The salt industry being one of the largest labor intensive cottage industries of Bangladesh absorbs largely around 5 million people directly or indirectly. The total value chain of the salt industry in Bangladesh involves largely two sub-sectoral activities namely-- the refining process which is operated by salt mills and the crude salt production process that involves a significant chunk of marginal farmers of coastal Bangladesh.
Among the farmers, farmers some are cultivating salt on their own lands while the other farmers are cultivating salt after taking the land as lease either directly from owners of the lands or through middle men. Local administration sources said a huge quantity of lands are being used for salt cultivation in Banshkhali this year.
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বাঁশখালীর উপকূল জুড়ে চলছে লবণ উৎপাদন। এখানকার বিভিন্ন ইউনিয়নে ৫০ হাজার লবণচাষি ১৫ হাজার হেক্টর জমিতে লবণ চাষ করছেন। অনেকে জমি মালিকের সঙ্গে চুক্তিতে চাষ করেন। উপজেলার কাথরিয়া, বাহারছড়া, সরল, গন্ডামারা, পুইছড়ি, শেখেরখীল, ছনুয়া ও খানখানাবাদ উপকূলীয় এলাকায় ব্যস্ত সময় পার করছেন তারা।
লবণ চাষিরা জানান, কাঠের রোলার দিয়ে মাঠ সমতল করার পর চারপাশে মাটির আইল দিয়ে ছোট ছোট প্লট তৈরি করা হয়। এরপর ছোট প্লটগুলো রোদে শুকিয়ে কালো বা নীল রঙের পলিথিন বিছিয়ে দেওয়া হয়।
জোয়ার এলে মাঠের মাঝখানে তৈরি করা নালা দিয়ে জমির প্লটে জমানো হয় সাগরের লবণাক্ত পানি। অনেকে ইঞ্জিনচালিত শ্যালো মেশিনও ব্যবহার করেন। এভাবে পানি সংগ্রহ করার পর ৪ থেকে ৫ দিন রোদে রাখা হয়।
কড়া রোদে পানি বাষ্পীভূত হয়ে চলে যায় আর লবণ পড়ে থাকে পলিথিনের ওপর। লবণ চাষ মূলত আবহাওয়ার ওপর নির্ভরশীল। একটু ঝড় বৃষ্টি হলেই উৎপাদন বন্ধ হয়ে যায়। কুয়াশাও লবণের জন্য ক্ষতিকর।
উৎপাদিত লবণ থেকে পানি সরে গেলে ব্যাপারীদের হাতে তুলে দেওয়া হয়। এই লবণ কিনে নিয়ে কারখানায় রিফাইনারি মেশিনের মাধ্যমে পরিশোধন শেষে বস্তা বা প্যাকেট ভর্তি করা হয়। পরে সেই লবণ চলে যায় বিভিন্ন স্থানে।
SiG-552 with x2 magnification red dot on top rail, 550 lumens flashlight, red dot sight for CQB and a grip on the sides.
.... Refining tactical
I have been refining a simple and reliable conversion of colour negatives to a positive as I find the automated scanner software doesn't give me what I want
I have tried various adjustments using levels in the scanner etc., but the method below seems reliable across a range of images
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My wife took this photo of me gawking up at the huge Kennecott Concentration Mill. The section in the foreground holds what is left of an ammonia leaching operation that was part of the initial refining process conducted before the ore was shipped to the lower 48 states to complete the refining.
In 1900, the “Bonanza Mine Outcrop,” in the Wrangell Mountains northeast of Valdez, Alaska, proved to be one of the richest copper deposits ever found. At the peak of operation, 200 to 300 people worked in the mining operation at Kennecott. The Kennecott Mines National Historic Landmark preserves some of the buildings remaining from the ore refining operation, including the giant Concentration Mill here.
(Source: National Park Service website)
Over its brief history, Kennecott Corporation, with support from J.P. Morgan, Guggenheim and other New York financiers, produced $200-300 million worth of copper and silver.
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Fairbanks Alaska. ca. 1985.
The United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company. Illinois Street supply yard.
In 1900, prospectors discovered magnificent green cliffs of exposed copper in the Wrangell Mountains northeast of Valdez, Alaska. Their discovery, the “Bonanza Mine Outcrop,” proved to be one of the richest copper deposits ever found. From 1911 to 1938, the Kennecott Copper Corporation extracted nearly $200 million worth of copper from nearby mines. At the peak of operation, approximately 300 people worked in the mill town and 200-300 in the mines. The Kennecott Mines National Historic Landmark preserves some of the buildings remaining from the ore refining operation, including the Concentration Mill seen in the background here. Today’s visitor can get a guided tour of the entire inside of this huge building as it clings to a steep mountainside.
Over its brief history, Kennecott Corporation, with support from J.P. Morgan, Guggenheim and other New York financiers, produced $200-300 million worth of copper and silver.
(Source: National Park Service website)
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Colonial Sugar Refining Co (CSR) 0-4-0ST No.19 is working the passenger service at Statfold Barn approaching Statfold Junction station, 5th April 2025.
Locomotive History
No.19 is a two foot gauge 0-4-0ST locomotive built in 1914 by Hudswell Clarke, Leeds (Works No. 1056} and supplied to the Colonial Sugar Refining Co (CSR) of Fiji. It was withdrawn in 1960 and put on static display at the mill apart from a brief return to steam in 1978 for the mill's 75th anniversary celebrations. It arrived at Statfold in May 2012 and was back in steam in the spring of 2013.
12.6.2021.
Statfold Barn Railway.
Hudswell Clarke (Leeds) 0-6-0 No 972 'Fiji' climbs to Statfold Junction with an afternoon passenger train.
Built in 1911 specifically to work in the sugar cane fields on the 2'- 0" gauge rail system of the Colonial Sugar Refining (CSR) Company Ltd in Fiji.
A Red squirrel refines his plan to clean out the bird feeder and to store seeds in our deck planter box. Bright eyes and nimble fingers are complete with a new winter coat in the bright morning sun.
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
This painting was made on an iPad Pro, with an Apple Pencil, using iColorama and Procreate. I moved back and forth, between these two apps, layering, compositing, masking, painting and refining color relationships. I saved versions as PNGs, to maintain image quality, and I tried to utilize the strengths of each app. Eventually, I arrived at at a moment of peace, when I feel harmony in what I have done. In this, it took several days, and several temporary conclusions, before I reached the end.
What I love about working in digital media, is that I can test ideas, change my mind, move in different directions, with so many choices. It is so nimble! It is, also, compelling, and exhausting. I miss the mandatory reflection time in having to weigh and imagine visual choices, and in literally having to wait for paint to dry, with natural media.
I had been working on a portrait for Claude Panneton, which took much longer than usual, and was relieved, satisfied, and happy to think it was finished. He is a mobile art friend, whose work I respect completely. I used several of his images, some of my own elements, and found images – an old Japanese print of fishes, textures, a butterfly etc. The first version, had a full portrait of Claude on the right side, and as often happens, I later realized that I liked the depth and magic of the background, on the left side, better than the fully realized foreground focus of the "subject".
I was selecting images for a competition, which a friend talked me into entering. Having asked Claude's permission, I was preparing to submit the piece. Out of the blue, I remembered a 2nd century A.D. doll, found in a sarcophagus of an 8 year old girl, in Rome. The doll was ivory. I had saved the image to a "someday" folder, a while ago, because she drew me – the sweetness and the sadness. Then, it is as if she had to be seen, urgently. After more hours of painting, masking and layering, she arrived, large, in color, renewed, clothed, and striding as if from her own vision, somber, thoughtful, and about to free herself from the puppeteer's strings. The articulated 2nd century doll came to life, becoming real, to me, as our dolls do, when we are children.
This one rare doll, survived, loved by a child who died more than 2000 years ago, and whose family had the grace to put her to rest, with love, with her toy. I felt respect for the maker of the doll, also, for the care and craftsmanship in her. The doll emerges, in this image, from fragments of dreams – doll becoming puppet-spirit – dwarfing the puppeteer. I felt a bridge of love.
I submitted the piece, in that state, to the competition, then, went on to work with it, for another full day. I was completely unaware of time, tweaking texture and tone until it arrived here. I had no good reason for doing this, other than being curious about where it would take me. I am as surprised as anyone.
What do these elements have in common –
Claude Panneton's eyes, puppeteers, Japanese prints of fish, a 2nd century A.D. ivory doll, a piece of a musical score, a butterfly, abstract space, textures, and colors?
For me, it is about connecting to love and beauty, pausing to reflect and appreciate the very non-linear ways our imaginations can bring the humanity of past into the present moment. It is humbling, challenging, and elevating, I stand in awe of the possibilities.
Refining hundreds of years ago was far from present processes and therefore there is a lot of copper left in the slag. The enormous heaps are part of the UNESCO heritage listing, but before that , people wanted to process them
to get the copper. Copper ore made possible a more than 3oo years mining venture beginning about 1645. Today Røros mining town is on Unesco's heritage list.
Chimneys, smokestacks, and flues huddled together at the Montana Refining Company refinery in Great Falls, Montana.
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Updates to the hands. Refining of the head, I like it a lot better now. Credit goes to Earo Okkonen for it's design.
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Tried to refine a similar photo I did by making each post spin fit inside the one before it. Guess there weren't enough steps in between to make this work.
Spin by Lo. 4 spins (though the fourth is barely visible).
**Due to complications, I will have to stop my 365. I'm going to start over again this summer.**
The Illinois Street warehouse/shop of the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company. Fairbanks Alaska. ca. 1985.
The USSRM provided equipment to its subsidiary the Fairbanks Exploration Company (F.E. Co) in support of gold mining operations outside of Fairbanks in the middle part of the last century.
www.asme.org/about-asme/engineering-history/landmarks/113...
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Tri-X 400, Minolta SRT.
Still refining my design aesthetic -- water color, hand lettering with images that evoke wanderlust for art and travel. This time the color palette is mint + pink/coral with pops of blue and yellow.
A Mobile Refining Vessel, built by Civilian Engineering Corporation. It carries a myriad of refining equipment, the main of which is a collider-reactor (the green structure protruding at the rear of the ship) designed to collide isogen and puzzleium, resulting in awesomium condensates.
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This was a rush build of a few hours, but lots of fun, especially considering I hadn't built anything significant in a while. It includes quite a few tablescraps, most noticeable being the collider-reactor itself.
The United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company. Fairbanks Alaska. ca. 1985.
Illinois Street warehouse/shop. The USSRM provided equipment to the Fairbanks Exploration Company (F.E. Co) in support of gold mining operations outside of Fairbanks in the middle part of the last century.
www.asme.org/about-asme/engineering-history/landmarks/113...
Friday Flashback.
Tri-X 400, Minolta SRT.
The site was formerly an oil re-refinery operated by Canadian Oil that was a fully owned subsidiary of Shell Oil Company. Re-refining services ceased operations several years ago and the site was taken over and revamped in the spring of 1999 by Quantex. It is currently operates as a waste treatment facility.
When Quantex assumed operations at the site there were approximately ten million litres of liquid waste that had been abandoned by the previous operators.
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