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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..........
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.
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!)
Celebrating their 100th anniversary, General Motors assembled some of the most meaningful cars in their 100 year history for a cruise down Woodward. Driven by their owners from downtown Detroit at the RenCen to just past 14 mile on Woodward, the whole experience was surreal.
HELP: I need help tagging these wonderful cars! If you know the details on any of the vehicles photographed- please feel free to leave a tag, note, or comment to help refine the titles and descriptions.
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Today was Agent D's first day on the job. He was not expecting this much mayhem. But since he had decided to go all in with these MIB fellas, he had worked hard refining his BS meter for days like this.
He flung his bounty over his shoulder, gathered the folks into a circle, and ... *flash*.
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... 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 ]
Refining processing skills again with stockimages...:)
Thanks to NEOkeitaro for the stockimage:
neokeitaro.deviantart.com/art/3R-Stock-Steampunk-Instrume...
Great stuff there! i just love old mechanics like this...
Hope you like it!
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.
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.
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!
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।
The skies of the Atacama Desert rarely disappoint. I have been wanting to try a full Milky Way pano for a while and last night was the night. I will keep working to refine the technique although any night admiring a sight like this is time well spent!
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
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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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.
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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In Explore 6 Nov 2023. Best position: #447
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.
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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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...
Friday Flashback.
Tri-X 400, Minolta SRT.