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I will tweak this style a little but have been wanting to use this fabric for something like this for a while :)
Fort-Dauphin (Madagascar) - Retour sur le marché. Intéressé depuis des années par le travail de force à travers le monde, je ne pouvais pas laisser passer le déchargement de ce camion. Le sac que l’homme porte sur son dos contient des objets en métal. Je l’ai compris en entendant les objets s’entrechoquer, mais je n’ai pu savoir de quoi il s’agissait.
En m’approchant pour affiner mon cadre j’ai remarqué dans la pénombre de la remorque, qu’il y avait des « passagers ». Il ne s’agissait pas de clandestins. Le chauffeurs, pour se faire un peu d’argent prend régulièrement des passagers qui ne sont pas trop pressés. La somme demandée est un peu moins chère qu’un taxi de brousse. Le chauffeur, à droite de la photo avec une cigarette à la main et un bob rouge sur la tête, m’a proposé moyennant une somme dérisoire de faire un bout de brousse avec lui. Il remontait sur Manakara. Je venais de faire la route en sens inverse en 4X4 quelques jours auparavant et mon dos en portait toujours les stigmates. J’ai donc décliné la proposition, d’autant que je n’avais plus rien à faire à Manakara.
Fort-Dauphin (Madagascar) - Return to the market. The bag the man carries on his back contains metal objects. I understood it when I heard the objects collide, but I couldn't figure out what it was.
As I approached to refine my frame I noticed in the dim light of the trailer that there were “passengers”. These were not illegal immigrants. The drivers, to make some money, regularly pick up passengers who are not in too much of a hurry. The amount requested is a little cheaper than a bush taxi. The driver, to the right of the photo with a cigarette in his hand and a red bucket hat on his head, offered to take me wherever I wanted for a pittance. He was going back to Manakara. I had just traveled the road in the opposite direction in a 4X4 a few days before and my back still bore the scars. So I declined the offer, especially since I had nothing more to do in Manakara.
L'Garçon refines his game...
Skippy was inspired by the following sophisticated creations:
Deadwool's Peak Suit, available at Monsieur Chic!
Zerkalo's Black Line Collection, available at Monsieur Chic!
Zerkalo's Memories Collection, available at Shiny Shabby!
Apple Fall's Country Hall, available at Shiny Shabby!
Apple Fall's Tournament Billiard's Table, available at Apple Fall!
Your car awaits...
Keep shining bright everyone!
P.S. If you look very closely, there are SHIPS!!! on my tie! Thank you Mister Masa for my favorite new blue tie!
Okay now that I am getting closer to refining this effect, I will be driving everyone crazy......... I have been striving for a diffused lighting for the highlights and i think i have stumbled on a 3rd party filter that produces the effect I want. It's a very subtle effect, barely noticeable by most, but I notice it.
Once again, the picture of the car was not taken (by a camera, that is) by me. Actually taken off the internet. Hope I don't get sued - but why should I. I'm not selling these pictures............yet!
Hope you enjoy..........
"During the first months on Atlas, we marked out mining fields and progressively established outposts close to each field, to operate and maintain the harvesters from. My parents were stationed at one of those outposts for maintenance duty. For the remaining years of my scholarship in The Ring, before joining service as a drone operator on the sun-side, I only saw them on rare occasions. One of those was the regular medical check they would undergo, as traces of the raw materials on the machinery they were taking care of could be toxic despite all protective equipment. Our med staff quickly discovered that, curiously, not everyone reacted to such exposure.
After refining the resources, command launched unmanned carriers in closely spaced intervals towards other star systems controlled by the confederation. Given Atlas' thin atmosphere and comparably low mass, our engineers had developed highly efficient launch systems early on, halving our colony's fuel expenses for exports. The saved budget was partially redirected towards local causes, the majority however was shoved into the pockets of the Confederation."
Part III of ATLAS, a collaboration hosted in The Workshop.
This scene, like all in this series, was captured entirely in camera. Screen background with complementary light on the left; brickbuilt forced perspective foreground.
Let me know what you think!
Ok....my first sketches are always rough, just playing with an idea. I refine it a little bit before I start the rendering. Then on tracing paper I very lightly will start with a single center line to use as a reference. I also draw a center line on my rough sketch to compare. The rough sketches are just a tad bigger than actual size but the rendering will be at least 3 to four times actual size. All first lines are drawn as lightly as possible.....and with a .3mm pencil that I keep fine sanded to a needlepoint. I use an eraser shield and an eraser a lot....but try to draw lines only once (ha!). I use a compass whenever a clean large circle or an arc is called for. I use plastic templates for smaller circles or arcs. I use a steel straight edge and have several french curves on hand. I try and keep my grubby, oily hands off the paper by covering areas already drawn with another sheet of clean paper. When all the lines are lightly drawn just the way I want them, I erase whatever extra marks I can find and air blast the residue off. Then I darken all the lines. Then I shade it. Then I hit the whole thing with the eraser again, and air blast it. Then I apply a very light spray of "Aussie Instant Freeze" hair spray. Now it's time to paint the back. With fine sable brushes I first paint only the areas which are "gold", being very careful not to go outside the lines, hee hee! Dry it thoroughly. Then I rather sloppily apply the other colors quickly so as not to disturb the gold layer. Dry thoroughly. For this job I then also returned to the front and applied tiny smudges (without any rubbing or blending) of a day-glo green oil pastel to the green stones for highlights and green, orange and a little blue for the opal's play of color. For this back-painted rendering to be successful, you must use at least tracing paper......but vellum is uber nice! From there on it's photoshop for color-enhancement and more cleanup. But the images above are how far I get by hand.
Turkey thief or no turkey thief, I decided that Peanut needed to have her home and private space back. So back up from the basement it came. When I brought it downstaris I had told Peanut that I couldn't afford the mortgage, but since she has been so unhappy for the last few months I would get a loan and refinance her home. Peanut is very content! She slept in her own home for the last two nights.
The pic doesn't have anything to do with the lyrics, but I thought it fitting since the song reminds me of Postman Pat.
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Gold teeth and a curse for this town were all in my mouth.
Only, i don't know how they got out, dear.
Turn me back into the pet that i was when we met.
I was happier then with no mind-set.
And if you'd 'a took to me like
A gull takes to the wind.
Well, i'd 'a jumped from my tree
And i'd a danced like the king of the eyesores
And the rest of our lives would 'a fared well.
New slang when you notice the stripes, the dirt in your fries.
Hope it's right when you die, old and bony.
Dawn breaks like a bull through the hall,
Never should have called
But my head's to the wall and i'm lonely.
And if you'd 'a took to me like
A gull takes to the wind.
Well, i'd 'a jumped from my tree
And i'd a danced like the kind of the eyesores
And the rest of our lives would 'a fared well.
God speed all the bakers at dawn may they all cut their thumbs,
And bleed into their buns 'till they melt away.
I'm looking in on the good life i might be doomed never to find.
Without a trust or flaming fields am i too dumb to refine?
And if you'd 'a took to me like
Well i'd a danced like the queen of the eyesores
And the rest of our lives would 'a fared well.
New Slang - The Shins
Just continuing to refine my techniques. The theme build for the car was inspired by Ruby's scythe from the web series RWBY. I may have a front shot coming, but it's heavily dependent on my mood since I kinda get bored when I spend too much time on a single car.
Before & After: www.artstation.com/artwork/kzJ4d
Vehicle: Toyota GT86 w/ Varis widebody kit & Rocket Bunny ducktail sitting on SSR MS1's.
Community wrap by: HernanLucena203 (based on the NFS No Limits design)
this is one from a while back of wee hannah great wee model with tons of presence, i have been trying out adobe cs5 refine edge and have been really impressed by it so far it still requires a bit of work but the results are worth it this image was an easy one to mask but i have done far harder with it and its prefoming well.
The Redstone Coke Oven Historic District is located outside Redstone, Colorado. It consists of the remaining coke ovens built at the end of the 19th century by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.
Two hundred were built, because the coal in the surrounding mountains was ideal for refining into coke. At their peak, they were producing almost 6 million tons a year. They were the largest at the time in Colorado.
Within ten years of their construction the ovens fell into disuse when the mines closed. Their support steel was removed during the scrap metal drives of World War II, and later they were used as living space by hippies who moved into Redstone.
Coke is a fuel with a high carbon content and few impurities, made by heating coal in the absence of air. In 1589, a patent was granted to Thomas Proctor and William Peterson for making iron and steel and melting lead with "earth-coal, sea-coal, turf, and peat". The patent contains a distinct allusion to the preparation of coal by "cooking". In 1590, a patent was granted to the Dean of York to "purify pit-coal and free it from its offensive Sulfurous smell". In 1627, a patent was granted to Sir John Hacket and Octavius de Strada for a method of rendering sea-coal and pit-coal as useful as charcoal for burning in houses, without offense by smell or smoke.
In 1603, Hugh Plat suggested that coal might be charred in a manner analogous to the way charcoal is produced from wood. This process was not employed until 1642, when coke was used for roasting malt in Derbyshire; previously, brewers had used wood, as uncoked coal cannot be used in brewing because its sulfurous fumes would impart a foul taste to the beer. It was considered an improvement in quality, and brought about an "alteration which all England admired"—the coke process allowed for a lighter roast of the malt, leading to the creation of what by the end of the 17th century was called pale ale.[4]
In 1709, Abraham Darby I established a coke-fired blast furnace to produce cast iron. Coke's superior crushing strength allowed blast furnaces to become taller and larger. The ensuing availability of inexpensive iron was one of the factors leading to the Industrial Revolution.
Coke was NOT used to make Coca Cola whose name refers to the initial addition of Cocaine!
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I know when I first got excited about photography, it was when I first invested in a serious underwater rig. I was using film and had no clue what I was doing. If I got a well exposed slide with a half way decent composition, I was ecstatic and I showed it to everyone I could. I printed 8x10s on my old Canon printer of a lot of mediocre images.
Fast forward seven years and I started my foray into landscape photography. Same thing. If I came home with some streaking water around a rock with a halfway decent sky that I tamed with my squeaky clean filters, I was stoked!
But time moves on. Skills improve, and the critical eye refines itself. Images that would have made me jump for joy a few years ago would now leave me feeling disappointed that I didn't create my *next* portfolio image.
While it is good to be self critical and always be striving for improvement, my words of advice are not to get too caught up in the "results" of your photographic endeavors. Instead focus on the journey, the "process" of photography. This means enjoying the drive or hike to get to your destination. Enjoy the company you keep or the solitude you seek. Soak in the sights, sounds, smells, and tactile sensations of your surroundings. Let all your senses experience the moment instead of letting the quality of the final images dictate your enjoyment.
Nikon D7000
Nikkor 12-24mm @ 14mm
1/13 sec, f9, ISO 200
Singh-Ray 3-stop reverse and LEE .9 Hard GNDs
Processed 90% in Lightroom 4 Beta and finished off in CS5. Loving LR4! It could change how I edit single exposure images such as this one.
After some refining. HDR shot of Tokyo from the Metro Building. I didn't want to have the "overboard" HDR effect, but more of a subtle enhancement; something that makes you pause and ponder.
***UPDATE 9/19/2007: I replaced the original shot with one that I think is much better, in between the original darker one and the lighter one, I think this is a lot clearer! I did some more fine-tuning and tweaking (especially with the color profile!)
Working on refining my technique with this fun form of macro photography.
This is a 20 image stack, each frame shot at f4. Getting the lighting right on this one was tough with so many drops in so many different places. In the end it was worth the work.
Shot using a Tokina AT-X 90mm f2.5 Macro lens and the AT-X 1:1 extender.
The Thomas Konverter, also known as the Thomas Pear was used in the production of steel using the Thomas-Gilchrist process. The Thomas process (also called the basic wind freshening process ) is a so-called blowing or wind freshening process in which air is blown into the liquid pig iron through floor nozzles of the converter (steel production), the Thomas pear.
In this process, the oxidation process , which lowers the carbon content ( refining ), provided enough heat to keep the steel liquid, so external heat supply was not necessary in the converters.
The Thomas pear was lined with an alkaline dolomite stone or dolomite tar mixture and was particularly suitable for processing phosphorus-rich iron.
... written by Wm Macfie to his brother John in Edinburgh regarding the family sugar refining businesses and life in general. 1831-1840
[ contents of these letters at - www.mawer.clara.net/letters.html ]
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I made this image a couple years ago on a spectacular winter day in the Island in the Sky district of Canyonlands National Park. It is a photo I visualized years ago, after hearing of inversions that pushed clouds into the canyon while sunlight and blue skies dominated overhead. On this morning the perfect conditions finally presented themselves. Using a 100-400mm lens, I was able to photograph the scene I'd visualized.
I imported the RAW image to Adobe Lightroom for initial processing, converted it to a TIFF and exported to Photoshop CS4 where I utilized several Nik Software plug-ins to refine the image. I used Viveza 2 and Color Efex Pro to give more definition to the clouds and Dfine to reduce some noise.
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Dipping a toe back into my photostream...
This is the second shot from my photoshoot with Mona. This one was done with the "beauty lighting" setup I had been refining at the time.
Strobist info: Main: Menik SW400 through 36" octabox on axis, with front diffusion panel removed; fill: white foamcore below model at chest height; edge lights: Yongnuo 460ii through 24"x36" umbrella-style softboxes, left and right behind model; background light: Yongnuo 460ii through small grid onto gray seamless.
More Strobist Portraits
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.
The United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company. Fairbanks Alaska. ca. 1985. Illinois Street supply yard.
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 mine has been shut down for years by this point but the refining of copper continued apace. A tidy pair of ex-Algoma Central GP38-2s has their outbound train put together and will soon begin the 77-mile trek across the length of the White Pine Sub.
December 22, 2002.
"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.
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.
Happy Mosaic Montage Monday!
10 years of refining the Surfer Girl MOC.
I don't know how many of you go through constant refinement of certain MOCs. I often start a MOC and wish there was a part in a specific color and I often have to either wait for me to obtain it or wait for Lego to produce it. So I put off updating it for years at a time. Other reason for updating is just improving my building skills and the dissatisfaction of my earlier version. I don't hide my old builds here on Flickr, as it captures my learning curve. So obviously my older builds will be of lesser quality, but such can be said for Lego's official sets from prior years/decades. Clearly Lego's building quality stems from the talented and passionate builders that once walked amongst us here on Flickr, that got recruited by Lego to elevate their set designs. Lego is lucky and may not realize just how much the Lego community has shaped the Lego product line. In my opinion all of the adult theme Lego sets are clearly a product of the talented AFOLs that went to work for Lego.
Will I continue updating this model, time will tell.
I am curious to know how many others go back and refine their MOCs, assuming you don't completely take them apart. I try to capture it in Studio software if it's not too large so that I can go back and update it later.
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
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।
I viewed the refinery from the Waterbird Regional Park, looking across the marsh and Interstate 680. It refines gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. It was built in 1915 by Shell Oil Company, and sold to PBF Energy in 2020.
It is in Martinez, California, about 12 miles from my home in Walnut Creek. It is just south of the San Joaquin-Sacramento River Delta. January 23, 2023
To hit with precision —
exactly where I meant,
exactly as I wished.
Simple?
Not at all.
Practice and repetition bring me closer to accuracy,
but before that, I must want it.
I must tune myself inward
and learn how to refine.
And even after I’ve learned and aligned —
from every strike
there will always rise the small, unwanted fragments,
the dust that drifts in the air.
Because wanting, planning, and aiming are never quite enough.
There will always be things
we didn’t plan for.
Viser et Affiner
Atteindre avec précision —
exactement où je l’avais voulu,
exactement comme je l’avais imaginé.
Simple ?
Pas vraiment.
La pratique et la répétition m’amènent vers plus de justesse,
mais avant cela, il faut désirer.
Il faut s’accorder de l’intérieur,
apprendre à affiner.
Et même après avoir appris et m’être aligné —
de chaque impact
s’élèveront toujours de petits fragments indésirés,
la poussière qui flotte dans l’air.
Car vouloir, planifier et viser ne suffisent jamais tout à fait.
Il y aura toujours des choses
que nous n’avions pas prévues.
Fairbanks Alaska. ca. 1985.
The United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company. Illinois Street supply yard.
I had a bit more time this afternoon to refine this build a bit. It is actually quite difficult to find photos and details on these ambulances.
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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