After the success of the DC-3, Douglas Aircraft began looking into a four-engined airliner with true transcontinental range—as successful as the DC-3 was, it still had to make an average of five stops between New York and Los Angeles. Douglas wanted an aircraft that would need at most one stop, if that. United Airlines was interested in such an aircraft, and Douglas built the DC-4E to United’s requirements: this was a 42-seat airliner with a triple-tail unit and a wide fuselage for passenger comfort.

 

While the DC-4E had promise, it was also technically complicated, and both United and the other launch customer, Eastern Airlines, rejected it after its first flight in June 1938. Douglas then designed a simpler, slightly smaller and more streamlined aircraft, with a single tail and longer nose. This new version, simply designated DC-4, met the airlines’ requirements, but before it could enter revenue service, the attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into the war, and the DC-4 production line was immediately converted to building aircraft for the US Army Air Force as the C-54 Skymaster.

 

While not as widespread, as produced, or as versatile as the C-47 Skytrain, the C-54 had longer range and could carry more passengers. Some were used as purely cargo aircraft, but most served as passenger transports: it was the only USAAF cargo aircraft that could fly nonstop over the Atlantic to England. 1170 were built during the war.

 

After the end of the war, Douglas built a further 72 DC-4s before switching to the larger and more advanced DC-6; it was unnecessary to build more, as the USAAF released half of the C-54 fleet as surplus. Like the C-47, these were rapidly bought by airlines, namely Pan American, who inaugurated transatlantic service in January 1946. Enough remained in the newly independent US Air Force to become the primary transport aircraft, alongside the C-47, for the balance of the 1940s and well into the 1950s.

 

The Skymaster’s defining moment came in 1948 during the Berlin Airlift. Following the Airlift, the C-54 remained in service, though it was replaced in the transport role by the C-119 Flying Boxcar and the C-130 Hercules. C-54s were used extensively to fly personnel to the Korean War, and were still used both as executive transports and search-and-air rescue coordination aircraft during Vietnam. The last aircraft were withdrawn in 1974. 27 other air forces also used C-54s at one time or another. Today, about 40 C-54s are left, with half that number flyable; 14 are flown by Buffalo Airways of Canada, supplying research stations and mining camps in the Northwest Territories. A few have been converted to firefighting aircraft.

 

World War II forced President Franklin D. Roosevelt to travel more than any other President before him, and by necessity of time and distance, it required him to fly. This was difficult, because the USAAF lacked long-range aircraft. Roosevelt had used a converted B-24 Liberator and Pan American's Boeing 314 Clippers, but both were interim solutions at best--especially given Roosevelt's disability, which required him to be carried to and from the aircraft. The President needed a dedicated transport.

 

With this in mind, Douglas built the only C-54C Skymaster, which used the fuselage of the C-54A but the wings of the C-54B, which extended the range of the C model. Dubbed Project 51, the aircraft was extensively modified for Roosevelt's use. Since there was no way he could climb the stairs, the President was provided with an elevator in the rear fuselage, which could accommodate Roosevelt in his wheelchair. The interior was laid out so Roosevelt could easily move throughout the cabin, and even into the cockpit to chat with the pilots. A stateroom was provided for the President, as well as a conference room.

 

When the C-54C arrived in Washington DC in January 1945, it was formally referred to as the "Flying White House," but the press referred to it as the "Sacred Cow." The latter name, much to the consternation of the USAAF (but the amusement of Roosevelt) stuck. As it turned out, Roosevelt would only use the "Sacred Cow" once, to fly to the Yalta Conference in February 1945; he died two months later. Harry Truman would continue to use the C-54C until 1948, when it was replaced by the more advanced VC-118 version of the DC-6. Much of the modifications made for Roosevelt were removed during Truman's use of the aircraft.

 

After its Presidential duties, the "Sacred Cow" remained in service as an executive transport for the USAF, and was retired in 1961. However, it was then almost forgotten in storage until 1983 when it was dismantled and shipped to the National Museum of the USAF. It was finally put on display in 1995 after a decade of restoration.

 

Since the "Sacred Cow" was a wartime aircraft, efforts were made to keep it anonymous; as a result, it never received a special paint job as later Presidential aircraft: it was simply finished in bare metal. Today it sits in between Truman's "Independence" and Kennedy's SAM 26000, looking like it just rolled off the assembly line. It is open to the public, and it is quite something to be in the same aircraft where one of the greatest Presidents in American history once was.

 

Note the "box" underneath the rear of the aircraft--that is Roosevelt's elevator.

In 1947, the US Navy issued a requirement for a delta-winged aircraft that could quickly reach altitudes of 50,000 feet, to act as a fleet defense interceptor. The delta wing was still only a concept, but Douglas went to its chief designer, Ed Heinemann, to meet the Navy requirement. As usual, Heinemann came through: the F4D Skyray took to the skies in 1951.

 

It was a radical aircraft for its time. The delta wings gave it plenty of lift and good handling characteristics, but also meant for a high approach speed when returning to the carrier. Engine problems plagued the aircraft; even when these were cured, fuel consumption was higher than anticipated. The cockpit was not ergonomic, and while the Skyray was in theory supersonic, it breached the sound barrier through brute force, according to its pilots, making for a very bumpy ride.

 

The "Ford" (for F4D) may not have been well liked, but it did meet the Navy's requirement, with honors: nothing could climb with it. The F4D could go from zero to 50,000 feet in just over two minutes, and owned the time-to-climb record for almost a decade. Once it was equipped with missiles, the Skyray was one of the best interceptors in service. So good was the F4D that the Navy formed a special interceptor squadron, VFAW-3, that was tasked with defense of the United States and subordinate to the USAF.

 

The Skyray's biggest problem was that it came at a time when aviation was moving so fast that it was obsolete by the time it reached the fleet in 1956. With the F-4 Phantom II and the F-8 Crusader much better fighter platforms, the F4D was retired in 1964, only six years after entering service. It was briefly designated F-6A (to avoid confusion with the F-4) between 1962 and 1964.

 

Bureau Number 134936 is a F4D-1 delivered to the US Navy in 1957, serving with VF-102 ("Diamondbacks") aboard the USS Forrestal (CV-59). This proved to be the only squadron 134936 would serve with; when VF-102 reequipped with F-4B Phantom IIs in 1963, 134936 would be sent to NARTU Olathe, Kansas, as a training aircraft.

 

Sometime soon after that, 134936 was retired permanently, and donated to the Emily Griffith Training School in Denver, Colorado as a ground instructional airframe. As the F4D was clearly obsolete for even that by 1981, the school finally donated 134936 to the Pueblo Weisbrod Museum. The aircraft went through restoration work and was returned to display in 2009.

 

Before last year, I'd never seen a "Ford" in person, but now I can say I've seen two in as many years. 134936 looks great; the museum did a superb job in restoration.

Because of the vagaries of legal requirements, we had to take delivery in the US, so here we are in the Walmart in Michigan, moving all of our possessions from one Roadtrek to the other. Needless to say, all this loading and unloading made the local busybodies suspicious, so they called the local cops on us, who were very nice once they realized we weren't some international smuggling gang, we just looked like one.

Nearly 1,000 Students to Participate in WSSU Commencement on May 15

 

WINSTON-SALEM, NC -- Christina Wareâs story is one of the many inspiring testimonials of the nearly 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students from near and afar who are expected to participate in Winston-Salem State Universityâs commencement ceremony on Friday, May 15, at 9:45 a.m., at Bowman Gray Stadium, 1250 South Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive.

  

Academy Award-winning recording artist, activist and actor Common will be the keynote speaker. There are no guest limits or ticket requirements for the ceremony.

  

It is conceivable that Wareâs story of work ethic, undeniable spirit and enthusiasm encapsulates the sentiment of her graduating 2015 classmates.

  

Ware, 43, of Winston-Salem, is quite active on and off campus as a mentor to other students, a member of the non-traditional student organization, the first president of Epsilon Chapter 130 of Tau Sigma National Honor Society at WSSU, a wife and proud mother of two. She is also legally blind. She wants to blaze trails, set examples and raise the bar for others with disabilities.

  

âIn 2007, I lost my eyesight. After a six-month pity party, I decided to continue my education and make a difference for others. Since 2008, I have spent every day of my life proving to society that having a disability does not mean we are weak. I am now an advocate for persons with disabilities,â Ware, a business major, said, "We are not handicapped, we are handy capable!"

  

Ware, who can be described as always pleasant and having an unlimited enthusiasm for life, says every day alive is like Christmas. She demands to be treated like everyone else and has been noted to say, âI may physically fall, but mentally I can get back up and pull a 4.0 semester.â After graduation she wants to start a Kosher/Halal foods business and become active on community boards.

  

The China Connection

 

From the City of Harbin, the capital and largest city of the Heilongjiang province of the People's Republic of China, WSSU Master of Arts in the Teaching of English as a Second Language and Applied Linguistics students Yaowen Xing and Chunling Zhang have found a second home at WSSU and in Winston-Salem. They perhaps have come the farthest distance attend the university.

 

With a population of more than five million people, Harbin is situated in the northeast region of China so close to Russia that only the Songhua River separates the two countries. Nicknamed the Ice City, the average winter temperature is -3.5 °F with annual lows hitting -31.0 °F. Itâs no wonder the students say the warmer weather here in the Piedmont Triad has not been lost in translation with them and itâs one of the things they enjoy.

 

âWe really love the weather in North Carolina, especially the long summer time, since our hometown is so cold with snow for almost 6 months of the year,â Xing, 30, noted. âWe also love the people at WSSU and the faculty who all are nice and it has been a really good experience.â

 

Xing and Zhang, 35, are in America as part of a Chinese education immersion program to help exchange the cultures between China and America. They enjoy working as cultural ambassadors to students in both the cultures. The two came to the U.S. in 2013 and have been teaching at Konnoak Elementary school during the early hours and studying and researching later in the day. âComing to America was a dream for me after learning about it through books, movies and music, and my time here it has been amazing,â Xing said.

 

Zhang, said she didnât know much about WSSU or Historically Black Colleges or Universities (HBCUâs), but after a short time here she knew WSSU would be was special part of life. âI have met many African- Americans who have been friendly and helpful. I now can say I truly have many black friends,â Zhang said. She and Xing have taken advantage of the HBCU experience. They have been often seen attending evening lectures and presentations, sports events, musical and visual arts events. With their WSSU master degrees they will return to China one day in the future to make an impact on teaching and the quality of education there.

  

The All-In Approach

 

Olivia N. Sedwick, 21, a political science major from Indianapolis, has taken âthe all-in approach" to her WSSU experience. The current WSSU student government president (SGA), honorâs student and champion athlete, chose WSSU over other schools she could have attended.

  

Featured in a USA Today article highlighting the HBCU experience released last June, Sedwick is quoted as saying about WSSU, âI fell in love with the school.â She says, âWe talked about things that I had never had the chance to before coming from a predominantly white high school.â

 

Liking the intellectual and social environment, she was comfortable becoming involved around campus. In her first year, a walk-on athlete for the womenâs track and field team, she was a 2013 CIAA Indoor Womenâs Track and Field All-Conference competitor and the WSSU womenâs shot put record holder until earlier this year, although she never competed in the throws until coming to college. In her second year she served as the sophomore class vice president while also being appointed to serve on many committees throughout the university. In that same year, she was a delegate to the UNC Association of Student Governments (UNCASG), representing WSSU students on a state-wide level. At the end of that year, she became the first African-American female elected senior vice president of UNCASG and served in that capacity for the entirety of her third year while being active as the chief of staff for the WSSU student government association that year also. Toward the end of her term in UNCASG, she decided to run for student body president and has served as the voice of the students for the duration of her last year. With all of her activities, she has maintained a 3.95 GPA throughout her time in college.

 

Sedwick has been selected as a UNC General Administration Presidential Intern, which begins in July. Upon completion of the prestigious one-year appointment, Sedwick plans to attend Howard University School of Law.

 

A Drum Major who will March for a Noble Cause

Willie Davis, 22, a social work major from Fayetteville, N.C., who has led WSSUâs Red Sea of Sound Marching Band as a drum major for his senior year, will now march to lead the charge for helping veterans and their families cope with typical and unique challenges of serving in military. Davis will be one of four Cadets with the distinct honor of being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant U.S. in the U.S. Army during this yearâs commencement ceremony. Despite that professionally Davis will help vets, military and families with things like dealing with emotions, he said, âI donât think I will be ready for the commissioning part (of commencement) emotionally.â

 

Readiness for Davis is an understatement. The youngest of three siblings, who was age 10 when his father died, Davis has been an A average student throughout life. He was in the top ten of his high school class and the first generation in his family to attend college. At WSSU, besides maintaining high academic achievement and serving in the U.S. Army ROTC, Davis has been active with the WSSU Band, the University Choir, a Campus Ambassador, a mentor to freshmen students, vice president of the WSSU chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi National Honorary Band Fraternity, a Veterans Helping Veterans Heal intern and a member of Galilee Missionary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem.

  

After graduation, Davis is going to graduate school at the University of South Carolina. He plans to complete that program in one year and begin his military duties. As a clinical social worker, his responsibilities may range from clinical counseling, crisis intervention, disaster relief, critical event debriefing, teaching and training, supervision, research, administration, consultation and policy development in various military settings. He wants to specialize in helping military veterans who suffer from different traumas such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), paranoid schizophrenia and other conditions.

This photo satisfies the 2D requirement, I shot this photo at the statue in red square at UW. I wanted to create a silhouette effect with the statue so I took the photo at a direction where the light wasn’t aiming at the statue. I also used a lower ISO (100) and higher aperture (f/10) to create a darker photo. I also used light room to further decrease the exposure.

I set my camera on the tripod and set the timer at 2s to capture this photo. The light source I chose was just the LED light from my smartphone. The shutter speed was set at 10s so that I would be able to draw the heart shape in a reasonable time, while aperture was set at f/4.5 to allow for more light and less depth of field.

 

For image processing, I used black and white setting for this photo since the background has lots of colors which might be distracting, and what I wanted viewers to pay attention to the most in this photo is the white heart shape created by the long exposure setting.

Ursa Majorette, Halloween 2010. Snazzy pals Cinnamon & Andrew throw the best Halloween parties. This year's theme was Mash-ups. Two things/people mashed together like Anne Frank Zappa.

I came up with a thousand ideas I didn't like. Requirements:

 

- comfort

- use stuff I already had

- be quickly, visually getable

 

I ended up totally rocking 1 and 2. 3... Less so. The first person to try to guess my costume said it was "too thinky." Yeah, not the first or last time I'm called too thinky.

The morning of the party I finally got an idea I could get psyched about + could be done easily by 8:00 pm that night. Ursa Majorette. It was composed of:

 

[ ] Awesome orange jacket I got in MN in September. I painted the brass buttons red with nail polish. After I bought the jacket I looked down at the receipt. The style was calling "Brandy Military."

[ ] Black velvet vest

[ ] Handmade skirt with Ursa Major/Big Dipper on it. I bought the black sparkle denim about 8 years ago. I always held off on sewing with it b/c I thought the sparkles would flake off and be messy. It appears I was wrong. Will make a jumper dress out of the remainder.

[ ] Black knee high boots with tassels attached. I made these tassels maybe a dozen years ago.

[ ] Black tights

[ ] Baton made from dowel, black tape, red paint, styrofoam balls on the ends, covered in tape.

[ ] More eye makeup than I even wear, plus dark lips and silver sparkles in my hair, like the skirt. I felt like a superhero making the skirt, but applying my eye makeup brought me back down to Earth.

 

THE BEST PART: The only two things I bought for this costume was a zipper for the skirt and a dowel. Total: $5.04

The party was super fun. My costume was a hit, though no one "got it" right away. Yes, too thinky. I thought more people would remember the Latin name for the Big Dipper. I was wrong. But it turned out all right.

View these great Flickr sets from friends at the party to see more magnificent mash-ups:jimaizatchudeadhorse

This shot also meets requirement 3: Outdoor Available Light Portrait. Since it was quite bright on that day, using f/1.4, I set my shutter speed at 1/3200 sec to well expose the photo. This is a candid shot on the Red Square but somehow she looked at the camera with some confusion and mysterious smile. The vignetting of this photo highlighted the subject. I didn't perfectly level the photo since I found the position of her head and body was interesting. The sunshine towards her served as key light and reflection on the bricks as fill light. Cropped and added vignetting in Ps afterwards.

Requirement 2: An Outdoor Night Scene of Architecture

 

Again more lucky imaging at 1/30, but this time I took two photos, one focused on the lamppost and the other the moon. Since I shot this handheld I couldn't just shot stopped down, so I blended the moon into the in focus picture.

 

I did so in Photoshop, opened both photos as layers, put the one with the moon on top and used a mask to erase the lamppost parts, leaving the in-focus moon.

The requirement for an aerodrome at Stow Maries originated in the Government response to German Zeppelin airship and Gotha fixed- wing bomber attacks on the British mainland during the First World War.

 

The first aircraft to arrive at the new aerodrome in September 1916 belonged to ‘B’ Flight, 37 (Home Defence) Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. The Squadron was charged with the eastern aerial defence of the capital. The Headquarters Flight moved into ‘The Grange’, Woodham Mortimer. ‘A’ Flight was despatched to Rochford (now Southend Airport) and ‘C’ Flight to Gardeners Farm, Goldhanger.

 

In the earliest part of its existence the accommodation consisted of wooden hutting and tents. The buildings now present on the airfield are later additions when the possibility still existed of the aerodrome being made permanent.

 

The first commanding officer of Stow Maries Aerodrome was Lieutenant Claude Ridley. Educated at St Pauls School, London, he was barely 20 years of age but had already seen service with the Royal Flying Corps on the Western Front.

 

Following a period of organisation and training at Stow Maries the first recorded operational flight took place from the aerodrome on the night of 23rd/24th May 1917 when Ridley (now promoted to Captain) and Lieutenant G Keddie were ordered aloft in response to a large Zeppelin raid targeting London. They scored no success on that occasion but as time went on the amount of operational flights grew as did the aircraft establishment of the station.

 

Both day and night patrols are recorded but it was to be ‘C’ Flight at Goldhanger that claimed the Squadrons first confirmed destruction of an enemy machine, when during the early hours of 17th June 1917, 2nd Lieutenant L. P Watkins was credited with the downing of Zeppelin L48 at Theberton in Suffolk. This was to be the last Zeppelin brought down in Great Britain during the war.

 

One of the stations busiest days was 7th July 1917 when aircraft were ordered after a formation of twenty two Gotha bombers heading for London. Stow Maries pilots engaged the enemy aircraft in a running fight and scored several hits. Fire was returned however and the ground crews found a number of bullet holes in the returning aircraft.

 

In the summer of 1917 ‘A’ Flight was posted from Rochford to Stow Maries effectively doubling the size of the station. At the same time the stations first commander Claude Ridley departed to form a new Squadron at Rochford.

 

Day and night patrols continued but it was the fragility of the aircraft of the period and the inexperience of the young pilots that caused the loss of aircrew from the station. June 1917 saw the loss of 2nd Lieutenant Roy Mouritzen from Western Australia in a flying accident and July of the same year serious injury to Captain E Cotterill through engine failure. Captain B Quinan crashed at Woodham Walter on a training flight and was severely injured. He died in July 1918.

 

1918 saw continued losses at the aerodrome, Captain A Kynoch in an aerial collision at night, Lieutenant E Nicholls in another flying accident on the aerodrome and finally 2nd Lieutenant C Milburn in an accident near the edge of the flying field.

 

Lieutenant Nicholls and 2nd Lieutenants Mouritzen and Milburn are buried in the churchyard of St Mary and St Margaret, Stow Maries, as is Stow’s first commanding officer, Claude Ridley who died as a Wing Commander during the second World War, from natural causes.

 

During the latter half of 1918 building continued and the aerodrome took on the familiar form it still holds today. The Headquarters Flight moved in from Woodham Mortimer and Stow Maries became a very busy place. An RAF survey at this time recorded 219 personnel and 16 aircraft. Completion of the aerodrome was scheduled for December 1918 but the war ended in November and some of the buildings were never completed.

 

‘C’ Flight moved to Stow Maries from Goldhanger in February 1919 bringing the total staffing levels to around 300 personnel and 24 aircraft, the first time the whole Squadron had been located at one Station. It signalled the end for the Essex aerodrome however and the following month the Squadron moved to Biggin Hill in Kent, leaving the site empty

 

The site returned to agriculture and only in 1940 did an RAF aircraft return to the airfield when a 242 Squadron Hurricane force landed with combat damage.

 

The following years have seen the buildings used for both agriculture and accommodation. They now find themselves subject of a sympathetic restoration project to restore the aerodrome to its former glory.

During World War II, the combatant navies of the world tended to have specialized carrier aircraft for each role—dive bombing, torpedo bombing, scout aircraft, and fighters. By 1944, the US Navy was considering combining at least the first two into a single aircraft. The Navy then duly issued a requirement for a single-seat torpedo bomber that could also be used as a dive bomber. Several companies responded, with Douglas reworking an earlier, three-seat design to the XBTD-1, designed by already legendary aircraft designer Ed Heinemann. At first, the USN ordered over 600 aircraft, then cancelled the order as the war began winding down.

 

Heinemann realized that, war or not, the Navy would still need something to replace the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver and Grumman TBF Avenger then in service, and persisted with the XBTD-1. What resulted was a completely new aircraft, but it interested the Navy enough that they ordered 25 of the new XBT2D-1, which first flew in March 1945. It would be too late for World War II service, but other than some structural problems discovered in testing, the new design was nearly viceless in handling, speed, and armament. The Navy put it into full production to replace their wartime dive and torpedo bombers as the AD-1 Skyraider, which entered the fleet in November 1946.

 

For a single-engined, single-pilot aircraft, the Skyraider was fairly large, but it was fairly simple to fly, easy to maintain, robust, and carried plenty of ordnance; Heinemann had replaced the earlier design’s internal bomb bay with a large number of hardpoints. It quickly replaced nearly all the US Navy’s wartime aircraft, leaving it and the Corsair as the last wartime aircraft in service by 1948. Its pilots nicknamed it the “Able Dog,” a play on the then-phoentic alphabet designation for the aircraft, but it also referred to the AD’s superb record. The Skyraider had also shown a lot of growth potential: the last 15 AD-1s were converted to two-seat AD-1Q electronic warfare aircraft with two crew, and three crew would be added to the AD-4W early warning aircraft.

 

By 1950, most US Navy units were using improved AD-3 and AD-4 aircraft in attack squadrons, with uprated engines and slightly different landing gear and cockpit arrangements as compared with earlier AD-1s. The Navy was planning on ending Skyraider production in favor of jet aircraft. The Korean War that broke out that year changed that: the USS Valley Forge’s AD-4s were the first US Navy aircraft to see combat during the war.

 

The Navy learned that the AD had an advantage over the jet fighter-bombers of the time, such as the McDonnell F2H Banshee and Grumman F9F Panther: it could stay in the air longer since it did not have a fuel-thirsty jet engine, it could go slow enough to bring in ordnance very close to troops in contact, and it could carry more ordnance over a longer range. It also had proven itself able to complete missions the jets could not, such as destroy well-built bridges with 2000-pound bombs and use torpedoes against North Korea’s dams. Skyraiders saw service throughout the Korean War, and were simply known as the “Blue Plane” by its Communist opponents—a compliment considering that all US Navy aircraft were painted blue during the war. The Navy reconsidered replacement of the AD, and instead had Douglas not only continue production, but increase it, as well as build more advanced versions in the AD-5/AD-6 series. These would later be redesignated A-1, and serve throughout the Vietnam War, until finally replaced in the late 1960s by the A-4 Skyhawk and A-7 Corsair II.

 

This AD-4N (A-1D), BuNo 127007, is displayed on the hangar deck of USS Yorktown (CVS-10), and depicts an aircraft of VA-65 ("Fighting Tigers"), which flew off the ship in the early 1950s. It is painted in overall midnight blue, standard Navy colors for the time period. The "M" was the Yorktown's tailcode through the 1950s. The AD-4N was the nightfighter version of the AD-4, and carried a three-man crew.

 

Satisfies requirement 4: Repeated patterns

 

I took this photo in Seattle Public Lirary and I think this pattern is interesting because you will see and perspect different patterns when you seeing. I think the one I shot is like Japanese style wave according to the color and pattern. And my friends that is like fish scale.

 

I used 16mm focal length, aperture size of f/4.0, 1/60 shutter speed and ISO 0f 250.

 

Photo processed through Darktable and I Increased contrast and saturation to get the sharp contrast look.

Chism Beach Golden Hour

 

Shot with a high exposure, 1/25, small aperture, 22.0, to get the golden light and to get enough light in the shot as the sun was going down.

 

In post, I turned up the saturation of the blue of the water to contrast the green and gold of the grass and sunlight respectively.

This photo satisfy requirement 3. I took this photo to focus on the 3-D form of the mannequin dressed in a feather attire. I shot this image indoors so I had the settings to ISO 6400 and aperture of f/3.5 to make sure it wasn't too dark. In Adobe LR, I lowered the exposure and increased the contrast and highlights to bring out the form. I also changed the color grading to emphasize the purple, orange, and pink tones of the mannequin's outfit.

Lockheed began work on the L-329 in response to a USAF requirement for an executive aircraft and navigation trainer. Although the requirement was cancelled, Lockheed saw an opportunity to break into the executive jet market, and persisted with the design. Though originally intended to be powered by twin Bristol-Siddeley Orpheus turbojets, Lockheed was unable to acquire a license to produce the Orpheus; as a result, the engines were switched to four Pratt and Whitney JT12s to produce the L-1329. Slipper tanks were added to the wings to increase range in the final JetStar design, which first flew in 1961.

 

The JetStar achieved moderate success. It was faster and more comfortable than most executive jets (the latter due to its deep fuselage), but also heavier, louder and more expensive to operate. The USAF in particular liked the design and bought it as the C-140, which served for almost 30 years; some were deployed to Vietnam and used as "Scatback" fast couriers. Later variants included the JetStar II, which switched out the turbojets for quieter and more fuel efficient turbofans. Though 204 were built, only a comparative few remain in service today due to its weight and expense to operate.

 

This VC-140B joined the USAF in 1961 as 61-2492 and served strictly with the 89th Military Airlift Wing at Andrews AFB, Maryland, as an executive transport for high-ranking government officials and the President of the United States. In situations where flying the larger VC-137 was uneconomical, the Presidents might fly a VC-140B instead; if so, the aircraft used the callsign "Air Force One." (Lyndon Johnson liked to joke that the VC-140s should be called "Air Force One-Half.") 2492 served Presidents Johnson through Reagan before it was retired with the majority of the JetStar fleet in 1987. It was donated to the National Museum of the USAF soon thereafter.

 

As a Presidential fleet aircraft, it carries the same blue, white and gold scheme used by the larger VC-137s and VC-25s, with a Presidential seal on the nose and large "United States of America" titles. The condition of this aircraft is immaculate, which is to be expected!

" The approval given last week by the VoG Planning Committee to gas-drilling activity showed a disgraceful bias towards the company Coastal Oil & Gas. The officers let the company get away with minimal information and falsely ignoring the toxic waste water and radioactive sludges likely to be produced.

 

Both the officers and the Natural Resources Agency ignored flooding risks and environmental impacts as allegedly short-term, yet the precautionary principle and environmental impact (EIA) regulations do cover short-term harm.

 

The VoG officers quoted the Llandow inquiry decision. Yet no other authority takes that seriously, as the Vale Council failed to make a proper case on drilling noise disturbance and local water supplies at risk. They accepted noise levels used for regulating quarrying (nighttime quarry working excluded) to apply to all-night drilling for gas; they ignored the WHO (World Health Organisation) 30 decibel level for disturbance to sleep.

 

The Vale's new LDP does give the chance to write into our local plan strong requirements on shale-gas drilling. Official support for this comes in EU Commission and European parliament resolutions both saying that EIA should apply to all shale gas activities.

 

At the committee on 3rd October, Councillors pressed the VoG officer to assure them that extracting shale gas would require EIA, but he was not even ready to promise this.

 

Building a strong policy into the LDP will enable us to stand up to pro-fracking interests and the hands-off Welsh Government, who see only profits from exploitation.

 

Basic to this policy should be requiring EIA and normal restrictions on night-time noise for 'unconventional' gas exploration as well as its exploitation. It should also mandate the precautionary principle is to be used until all questions on pollution and gas leakage have been satisfied. "

 

Max Wallis

Barry & Vale Friends of the Earth

14 Robert Street, Barry

  

Because it is test drilling. There will be stimulation (fracking) to test the productivity.

 

The Llantrthyd application is for “gas testing”

The ‘supporting information’ does not explain this protracted process anywhere, but it involves pumping of water with chemicals to “stimulate” the release of gas. At Balcombe, Cuadrilla use the word “stimulation” to describe this gas-testing process, but Coastal Oil&Gas’s Supporting Information refers to ’stimulation’ only in:

the shale gas boom in recent years has been due to modern technology in stimulation techniques to create extensive artificial fractures around well bores.

 

The BBC denial refers only to this use of the term.

 

See supporting information here vogonline.planning-register.co.uk/PlaRecord.aspx?AppNo=20...

 

Ref: Application for Planning Permission.

 

7. Waste Storage and Collection

Do the plans incorporate areas to store and aid the collection of waste? Yes

 

please provide details:

 

The drilling cuttings will be placed in a skip and disposed of at a licensed facility. Any waste water will be tankered to a licensed treatment plant.

 

Planning Application Details for : 2013/00335/FUL

vogonline.planning-register.co.uk/PlaRecord.aspx?AppNo=20...

 

Dangerous levels of radioactivity found at fracking waste site in Pennsylvania. This area is a high Radon area, the waste material will be deal with how and where?

 

www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/02/dangerous-rad...

 

What is the Minerals Planning Authority (MPA) for Wales criteria for determining if a Environmental Impact Assesment (EIA) is required and what have their assessments been for all fracking applications in Wales.

 

The MPA determines if an EIA is required. When an operator wishes to drill an exploration well, their first step is to negotiate access with landowners for the drilling pad area and the surface under which any drilling extends. Permission must also be obtained from the Coal Authority if the well encroaches on coal seams. Then the operator needs to seek planning permission from the MPA. The operator must obtain the appropriate environmental authorisation/permit from the Natural Resources Wales (NRW).

 

The MPA will determine if an EIA is required, such assessments are required if the scale of the operations meets certain' thresholds', or if, depending on their nature, scale and location, they may have significant environmental impacts. If an EIA is required, it must be completed by the applicant and submitted to the MPA before the MPA decides on planning permission.

 

There is a bill being put to EU Parliament on 8th October to get this amended so that it is mandatory for EIAs to be carried out for both the exploration and production phases of all unconventional fossil fuel projects.

 

I recommend you write to your local MEP’s and ask them to support amendments 31 and 79 in the Zanoni report and that they reject amendment 112 which excludes exploration phase from mandatory EIAs.

 

On top of this the Government is planning to amend UK planning laws so that fracking companies don’t need to notify you if they plan to frack under your property. Given that in the states people struggle to sell their houses if they have been fracked under as they can’t get insurance and thus mortgages and we live in old coal mining areas prone to subsidence this could be an issue for valley property.

 

The whole of the Vale needs to realise the potential scale if shale gas is to be viable here, how many wells, lorries, polluted water (10,000 to 30,000 tonnes per well), gas pipes, infrastuctures to be put into place? The whole of the Vale is pretty much available for fracking license, are the communities there aware of this? What is Alun Cairns MP (conservative) for the Vale of Glamorgan doing, and Jane Hutt Labour AM for The Vale Of Glamorgan doing to help these communities?

 

I felt that site visit was pointless, the planning officers and councilors had already made their minds up.

 

Please Attend:

Tomorrows Planning C'ttee, THURSDAY, 3RD OCTOBER, 2013 AT 6.00 P.M. Venue COMMITTEE ROOM 2, CIVIC OFFICES. Holton Rd, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan.

www.facebook.com/events/204260026421416/?ref_newsfeed_sto...

  

Todays site meeting www.llantrithyd.com/

 

Llantrithyd 'Villagers Against Drilling' The Vale of Glamorgan

 

Frack Free Wales www.facebook.com/groups/394027893948761/

 

Future fracking fears as south Wales drilling bids considered (with my photos) www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-24376142

  

Twitter @nspugh twitter.com/nspugh

  

Because it is test drilling. There will be stimulation (fracking) to test the productivity.

 

The Llantrthyd application is for “gas testing”

The ‘supporting information’ does not explain this protracted process anywhere, but it involves pumping of water with chemicals to “stimulate” the release of gas. At Balcombe, Cuadrilla use the word “stimulation” to describe this gas-testing process, but Coastal Oil&Gas’s Supporting Information refers to ’stimulation’ only in:

the shale gas boom in recent years has been due to modern technology in stimulation techniques to create extensive artificial fractures around well bores.

 

The BBC denial refers only to this use of the term.

 

See supporting information here vogonline.planning-register.co.uk/PlaRecord.aspx?AppNo=20...

 

Ref: Application for Planning Permission.

 

7. Waste Storage and Collection

Do the plans incorporate areas to store and aid the collection of waste? Yes

 

please provide details:

 

The drilling cuttings will be placed in a skip and disposed of at a licensed facility. Any waste water will be tankered to a licensed treatment plant.

 

Planning Application Details for : 2013/00335/FUL

vogonline.planning-register.co.uk/PlaRecord.aspx?AppNo=20...

 

Dangerous levels of radioactivity found at fracking waste site in Pennsylvania. This area is a high Radon area, the waste material will be deal with how and where?

 

www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/02/dangerous-rad...

 

What is the Minerals Planning Authority (MPA) for Wales criteria for determining if a Environmental Impact Assesment (EIA) is required and what have their assessments been for all fracking applications in Wales.

 

The MPA determines if an EIA is required. When an operator wishes to drill an exploration well, their first step is to negotiate access with landowners for the drilling pad area and the surface under which any drilling extends. Permission must also be obtained from the Coal Authority if the well encroaches on coal seams. Then the operator needs to seek planning permission from the MPA. The operator must obtain the appropriate environmental authorisation/permit from the Natural Resources Wales (NRW).

 

The MPA will determine if an EIA is required, such assessments are required if the scale of the operations meets certain' thresholds', or if, depending on their nature, scale and location, they may have significant environmental impacts. If an EIA is required, it must be completed by the applicant and submitted to the MPA before the MPA decides on planning permission.

 

There is a bill being put to EU Parliament on 8th October to get this amended so that it is mandatory for EIAs to be carried out for both the exploration and production phases of all unconventional fossil fuel projects.

 

I recommend you write to your local MEP’s and ask them to support amendments 31 and 79 in the Zanoni report and that they reject amendment 112 which excludes exploration phase from mandatory EIAs.

 

On top of this the Government is planning to amend UK planning laws so that fracking companies don’t need to notify you if they plan to frack under your property. Given that in the states people struggle to sell their houses if they have been fracked under as they can’t get insurance and thus mortgages and we live in old coal mining areas prone to subsidence this could be an issue for valley property.

 

The whole of the Vale needs to realise the potential scale if shale gas is to be viable here, how many wells, lorries, polluted water (10,000 to 30,000 tonnes per well), gas pipes, infrastuctures to be put into place? The whole of the Vale is pretty much available for fracking license, are the communities there aware of this? What is Alun Cairns MP (conservative) for the Vale of Glamorgan doing, and Jane Hutt Labour AM for The Vale Of Glamorgan doing to help these communities?

 

I felt that site visit was pointless, the planning officers and councilors had already made their minds up.

 

Please Attend:

Tomorrows Planning C'ttee, THURSDAY, 3RD OCTOBER, 2013 AT 6.00 P.M. Venue COMMITTEE ROOM 2, CIVIC OFFICES. Holton Rd, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan.

www.facebook.com/events/204260026421416/?ref_newsfeed_sto...

  

Todays site meeting www.llantrithyd.com/

 

Llantrithyd 'Villagers Against Drilling' The Vale of Glamorgan

 

Frack Free Wales www.facebook.com/groups/394027893948761/

 

Future fracking fears as south Wales drilling bids considered (with my photos) www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-24376142

  

Twitter @nspugh twitter.com/nspugh

Requirement 5: poor composition

For this photo, I used aperture priority mode to regulate depth of field. I used aperture of f/11.0 and ISO of 320 to get enough light and not overexpose the picture. To break the composition rules, I tilted the camera so that the horizon isn’t leveled.

In post-production, I reduced the lights to reduce the sky's exposure.

 

Earth Designs Garden Design and Build were asked to created a landscape and propose garden design in Stoke Newington, London here are the details of the project.

 

The Urban Courtyard Garden in Stoke Newington, London N5

 

BRIEF:

 

The clients had already made great strides to clear the garden in this ground floor flat, and in the process had actually lowered the level of the garden and removed several tons of soil. The main area of the space is bordered on two sides by a Victorian brick wall, sturdy and sound yet weathered and full of character, with a sideway running down one side of an extension on the original Victorian house.

At first, the clients had no specific requirements for the space, other than it be low maintenance and contain some large, leafy, architectural plants. However, they were keen to have quite a hands-on approach to the design and build process, and the original design was modified by them in consultation with Earth Designs several times both before and during construction.

 

SOLUTION:

 

With this design the aim was to create a simple and elegant space, suitable for both formal and informal dining and entertaining. The main area of the garden was framed on three sides by waist high raised beds with white rendered retaining walls, with a lower raised bed, also with white rendered walls, running three quarters of the length of the sideway.

 

A section of the rendered walls of this lower bed formed the supports for a bench seat, left hollow inside with a hinged decking lid for waterproof garden storage. A bespoke wooden pergola, upon which evergreen Clematis Armandii and 'Vitis Brant' vine was trained, was constructed over the low bed and bench seat to provide a sense of seclusion and demarcation between this area and the garden proper.

 

Throughout the garden the floor was laid with natural grey slate tile in a diamond pattern, edged with a straight run of slate tiles specially selected for their amber and copper hues.

 

Bold architectural planting complemented the simple design perfectly, concentrating mainly on big leafy greens and soft ferns with a selection of textures and shades of green. Several evergreen shrubs were chosen to hold interest during the winter months, while grasses and hostas will steal the show throughout the summer.

 

Lighting in this space is designed to ensure that this is a truly nocturnal garden. 12 white eyelids inserted into the main raised beds will flood the paving below in an elegant and aesthetically pleasing manner. Low-voltage spotlights in the raised beds

are carefully placed to illuminate the foliage to its best advantage while creating a gentle ambient glow across the beds. Finally, up/down lighters positioned on the crossbeams of the pergola provide light to the sideway and create a dramatic

and intriguing entrance into the garden.

 

TESTIMONIAL:

 

"Just a short note to say that I am absolutely thrilled with Earth Designs' work on my garden.

 

From design through to construction and snagging, Earth Designs provided an excellent service in respect of which I have no complaints.

 

I would commend them to any potential client as a friendly, efficient, and highly competent company, and thank them for all their hard work on my own garden."

 

If you dig this and would like to find out more about this or any of other of our designs, please stop by our web-site and have a look at our work.

 

Earth Designs is a bespoke London Garden Design and build company specialising in classic, funky and urban contemporary garden design.

 

Our Landscape and Garden build teams cover London, Essex and parts of South East England, while garden designs are available nationwide.

Please visit www.earthdesigns.co.uk to see our full portfolio. If you would like a garden designer in London or have an idea of what you want and are looking for a landscaper London to come and visit your garden, please get in touch.

 

Follow our Bespoke Garden Design and Build and Blog to see what we get up to week by week, our free design clinic as well as tips and products we recommend for your garden projects www.earthdesigns.co.uk/blog/.

 

Earth Designs is located in East London, but has built gardens in Essex , gardens in Hertfordshire Hertfordshire and all over the South East. Earth Designs was formed by Katrina Wells in Spring 2003 and has since gone from strength to strength to develop a considerable portfolio of garden projects. Katrina, who is our Senior Garden Designer, has travelled all over the UK designing gardens. However we can design worldwide either through our postal garden design service or by consultation with our senior garden designer. Recent worldwide projects have included garden designs in Romania. Katrina’s husband. Matt, heads up the build side of the company, creating a unique service for all our clients.

 

If you a not a UK resident, but would like an Earth Designs garden, Earth Designs has a worldwide design service through our Garden Design Postal Design Vouchers. If you are looking for an unique birthday present or original anniversary present and would like to buy one of our Garden Design Gift Vouchers for yourself or as a present please our sister site www.gardenpresents.co.uk. We do also design outside of the UK, please contact us for details.

  

Home Loan Requirements

The A-6 Intruder was designed to serve two roles: one, to replace the aging A-1 Skyraider and supplement the A-4 Skyhawk in the carrier-based strike role, and two, to give the US Navy a genuine all-weather strike aircraft. The requirement was issued in 1957, and Grumman’s A2F-1 design selected, with the first flight in 1960. In 1962, just before fleet entry in 1963, the Intruder was redesignated A-6A.

 

The A-6 was designed to hit targets with pinpoint accuracy in adverse weather, day or night, similar to what the USAF would later require for the F-111 Aardvark. For this reason, it was built around the Digital Integrated Attack/Navigation Equipment (DIANE), which used three radar systems to constantly update the INS and provide attack data to the bombardier/navigator sitting in the right seat. The system proved very complicated and it would be some years before it was perfected. Since the weather and night would be the Intruder’s primary defense, no internal armament equipped the aircraft, though it could carry an impressive 18,000 pound warload.

 

The Intruder was committed early to the Vietnam War, which showed up the flaws in the DIANE system and a more lethal one in the bomb delivery system, which had a tendency to set off the bombs prematurely, destroying the aircraft. Gradually improvements were made, and despite the loss of 84 Intruders over Vietnam, it proved to be extremely effective: until the bugs were ironed out of the F-111A in 1971, the A-6 remained the only American aircraft that could attack during the monsoon season.

 

Specialized A-6Bs were also produced specifically for Iron Hand defense suppression missions, and A-6Cs for anti-truck operations on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. All three variants were replaced by the A-6E beginning in 1971: this replaced DIANE with a more advanced solid-state computer and the three radars with a single AN/APQ-148 multimode radar.

 

A-6s would find themselves once more heavily employed during the First Gulf War, flying 4700 sorties for the loss of four aircraft; its final roles would find it supporting Marines in Somalia in 1991 and UN forces in Bosnia in 1995. By that time, surviving A-6Es had been partially upgraded to allow them to fire all newer guided weapons in the inventory (namely the AGM-84 Harpoon, AGM-65 Maverick, and AGM-88 HARM), while most of the fleet also received composite wings.

 

Grumman further proposed an updated version designated A-6F, with new avionics and engines, but the US Navy rejected this in favor of replacing the Intruder with first the cancelled stealthy A-12A Avenger II, then the F/A-18C/D Hornet. The last A-6E left US Navy service by Feburary 1997; the US Marine Corps had retired theirs in 1993. Older, non-modified aircraft were sunk as an artificial reef off Florida; others remain at AMARC for scrapping.

 

As the Navy's carrier-based electronic warfare aircraft began to age, namely the EA-1F Skyraider and the EKA-3B Skywarrior, a replacement needed to be found. Initially, the ALQ-99 electronics suite was installed in a standard A-6 Intruder airframe as the EA-6A, but the aircraft was somewhat limited and workload was heavier for a two-man crew, especially in combat. EA-6As did see combat in Vietnam with the US Marine Corps, but something better was clearly needed. The result was the lengthened EA-6B Prowler, which upgraded the electronics suite considerably and also added two more crewmembers to reduce workload and increase effectiveness. The EA-6B first flew in May 1968, and entered US Navy and Marine service in 1971. This relegated the EA-6As to mostly Reserve units until it was retired in 1993. Only 28 A models were built, and at least four are known to survive in museums.

 

Bureau Number 156984 was a purpose-built EA-6A rather than a conversion, and joined the Navy in 1969. Details about its service are sparse, other than it served for a time in the 1970s with VAQ-209 ("Star Warriors") at NAS Whidbey Island, Washington, was the first EA-6A to be upgraded to near EA-6B standard in the mid-1980s, and retired with VAQ-33 ("Firebirds") at NAS Key West, Florida in 1992. Apparently there was some consideration of expending it as a range target, but instead it was saved for preservation, and by 2002 it had been donated to the Mid-America Museum of Aviation and Transportation at Sioux City, Iowa.

 

156984 could use some restoration, as the markings have faded and rust has broken out on the airframe. It is positioned at the entrance of the Mid-America Museum. When my friend and I visited in June 2020, the museum was closed due to coronavirus, but we were able to photograph through the fence. My friend's picture is better than mine, so he allowed me to use his...

  

Just a little bit of "Las Vegas Nevada" theme.

I shot this over a black background,

Shutter 1.0 Sec

ISO 200

F/5.3

View down in the conservatory. Contrast of road and stadium with nature. Interesting picture because when you're down there the view over the water is the main view but its only about 160 degrees so it makes sense that it is less than half of the 360 degree photo

To take this photo, I looked straight up at this abandoned movie theater and then click my camera. Because it was a sunny day, I adjusted my camera settings to have a dimmer light, having an aperture of f/8.3. This satisfy requirement 1 because the lights on the theater create a vertical line that vanishes. This photo was only possible due to placing my camera upward rather than straight forward.

This photo fulfills requirement 3. This photo was taken outside with the subject under the available outdoor ambient lighting. The fill light is the sun which is shining on the right side of the subject. The fill light is the remaining ambient light. This results in the subject's right side being illuminated clearly with shadows on the left side, but still somewhat illuminated. I took this photo with aperture set to f/5.0 and shutter speed set to 1/800 because it was bright outside and I wanted the subject to be well exposed rather than overexposed. I imported the photo into Lightroom and I adjusted the white balance to more similar to be slightly cooler and lowered the exposure very slightly.

Springbock. Pilanesberg Game Reserve. South Africa. Aug/2019

 

The springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis) is a medium-sized antelope found mainly in southern and southwestern Africa. The sole member of the genus Antidorcas, this bovid was first described by the German zoologist Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann in 1780. Three subspecies are identified. A slender, long-legged antelope, the springbok reaches 71 to 86 cm (28 to 34 in) at the shoulder and weighs between 27 and 42 kg (60 and 93 lb). Both sexes have a pair of black, 35-to-50 cm (14-to-20 in) long horns that curve backwards. The springbok is characterised by a white face, a dark stripe running from the eyes to the mouth, a light-brown coat marked by a reddish-brown stripe that runs from the upper fore leg to the buttocks across the flanks like the Thomson's gazelle, and a white rump flap.

Active mainly at dawn and dusk, springbok form harems (mixed-sex herds). In earlier times, springbok of the Kalahari desert and Karoo migrated in large numbers across the countryside, a practice known as trekbokken. A feature unique to the springbok is pronking, in which the springbok performs multiple leaps into the air, up to 2 m (6.6 ft) above the ground, in a stiff-legged posture, with the back bowed and the white flap lifted. Primarily a browser, the springbok feeds on shrubs and succulents; this antelope can live without drinking water for years, meeting its requirements through eating succulent vegetation. Breeding takes place year-round, and peaks in the rainy season, when forage is most abundant. A single calf is born after a five- to six-month-long pregnancy; weaning occurs at nearly six months of age, and the calf leaves its mother a few months later.

Springbok inhabit the dry areas of south and southwestern Africa. The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resourcesclassifies the springbok as a least concern species. No major threats to the long-term survival of the species are known; the springbok, in fact, is one of the few antelope species considered to have an expanding population. They are popular game animals, and are valued for their meat and skin. The springbok is the national animal of South Africa.

Source: Wikipedia

 

A cabra-de-leque (Antidorcas marsupialis) é uma pequena gazela castanha e branca, com cerca de 75 cm de altura que habita as savanas de Áfricaaustral: vivem na Namíbia, sul de Angola, Botswana e África do Sul. Os machos atingem o peso de até 50 kg e as fêmeas 37 kg.

O seu nome comum em português refere-se à característica destes animais poderem levantar uma prega de pele que possuem nos quartos traseiros até à cauda, exibindo um ostensivo 'leque' de pelos brancos e emitindo um doce odor floral. Fazem isso com frequência, quer estejam assustadas ou apenas para se exibirem. A listra preta deu origem ao nome científico marsupialis. Na Namíbia, Botswana e África do Sul o nome do animal é springbok, do africâner, significando spring = salto + bok = cabra. Este nome refere-se aos saltos que estes animais dão, saltando na vertical com as quatro patas simultaneamente, como se nestas tivessem molas. Realizam estes saltos quer a partir da posição parada ou em corrida.

Era um animal muito comum, formando algumas das maiores manadas de mamíferos já documentadas (chegando mesmo a formar manadas de mais de 10 milhões de animais), mas os seus números têm vindo a decrescer desde o século XIX devido à caça e à ocupação das terras para cultivo. Continuam a ser bastante comuns especialmente em reservas de caça, juntando-se com frequência às manadas de gnus e de órix.

É um animal muito rápido, podendo atingir velocidades na ordem dos 90 km/h e mudar de direcção com muita facilidade. Porém, para poder escapar a predadores como a chita e o leão recorre ainda à fuga exibicionista conseguindo aparentemente bons resultados.

 

Fonte: Wikipedia

 

This photo fulfills requirement 4. I found a building with a simple background so that it wouldn't distract from the main focus of the image. Then i set up my camera on a tripod with a fast shutter speed to capture the movement and put it on burst mode to capture multiple shots of my backflip. I had a friend hold down the button to take the photos. In post production I cut myself out from all of the images, put them together into one, and reduced the opacity except for the one in the middle to convey motion.

Alcatraz. San Francisco, California. April/2018

 

The Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary or United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island (often just referred to as Alcatraz or the Rock) was a maximum high-security federal prison on Alcatraz Island, 1.25 miles (2.01 km) off the coast of San Francisco, California, which operated from August 11, 1934, until March 21, 1963.

The main prison building was built in 1910–1912 during its time as a United States Army military prison; Alcatraz had been the site of a citadel since the 1860s. The United States Disciplinary Barracks, Pacific Branch on Alcatraz was acquired by the United States Department of Justice on October 12, 1933, and the island became a prison of the Federal Bureau of Prisons in August 1934 after the buildings were modernized to meet the requirements of a top-notch security prison. Given this high security and the location of Alcatraz in the cold waters and strong currents of San Francisco Bay, the prison operators believed Alcatraz to be escape-proof and America's strongest prison.

Alcatraz was designed to hold prisoners who continuously caused trouble at other federal prisons. One of the world's most notorious and best known prisons over the years, Alcatraz housed some 1,576 of America's most ruthless criminals including Al Capone, Robert Franklin Stroud(the "Birdman of Alcatraz"), George "Machine Gun" Kelly, Bumpy Johnson, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Mickey Cohen, Arthur R. "Doc" Barker, Whitey Bulger, and Alvin "Creepy" Karpis (who served more time at Alcatraz than any other inmate). It also provided housing for the Bureau of Prisons' staff and their families. A total of 36 prisoners made 14 escape attempts during the 29 years of the prison's existence, the most notable of which were the violent escape attempt of May 1946 known as the "Battle of Alcatraz", and the arguably successful "Escape from Alcatraz" by Frank Morris, John Anglin, and Clarence Anglin in June 1962 in one of the most intricate escapes ever devised. Faced with high maintenance costs and a poor reputation, Alcatraz closed on March 21, 1963.

The three-story cellhouse included the main four blocks of the jail, A-block, B-block, C-block, and D-block, the warden's office, visitation room, the library, and the barber shop. The prison cells typically measured 9 feet (2.7 m) by 5 feet (1.5 m) and 7 feet (2.1 m) high. The cells were primitive and lacked privacy, with a bed, a desk and a washbasin and toilet on the back wall, with few furnishings except a blanket. African-Americans were segregated from the rest in cell designation due to racial abuse being prevalent. D-Block housed the worst inmates and five cells at the end of it were designated as "The Hole", where badly behaving prisoners would be sent for periods of punishment, often brutally so. The dining hall and kitchen lay off the main building in an extended part where both prisoners and staff would eat three meals a day together. The Alcatraz Hospital was above the dining hall.

Corridors of the prison were named after major American streets such as Broadway and Michigan Avenue. Working at the prison was considered a privilege for inmates and many of the better inmates were employed in the Model Industries Building and New Industries Building during the day, actively involved in providing for the military in jobs such as sewing and woodwork and performing various maintenance and laundry chores.

Today the penitentiary is a public museum and one of San Francisco's major tourist attractions, attracting some 1.5 million visitors annually. The former prison is now operated by the National Park Service's Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and the badly eroded buildings of the former prison have been subject to restoration works in recent times and maintained

 

Source: Wikipedia

Alcatraz é uma ilha localizada no meio da Baía de São Francisco na Califórnia, Estados Unidos. Inicialmente foi utilizada como base militar, e somente mais tarde foi convertida em uma prisão de segurança máxima. Atualmente, é um ponto turístico operado pelo National Park Service junto com a Área de Recreação Golden Gate.

Alcatraz foi uma base militar de 1850 a 1930. Posteriormente, foi adquirida pelo Departamento de Justiça dos Estados Unidos, em 12 de outubro de 1933, quando sofreu a conversão. Em 1 de janeiro de 1934, foi re-inaugurada como uma Prisão Federal. Durante seus 29 anos de existência, a prisão alojou alguns dos maiores criminosos norte-americanos. A prisão foi fechada em 21 de março de 1963, menos de um ano após a primeira fuga realizada na prisão. O governo alegou que o complexo foi fechado devido ao seu alto custo de manutenção, e ao fato de que não garantia uma total segurança, em relação às prisões mais modernas. Era mais fácil e mais barato construir uma prisão nova do que melhorar as condições de Alcatraz.

Em 1969, um grupo de nativos norte-americanos criou um movimento que ocupou a ilha, baseando-se num tratado federal de 1868, que permitia que os nativos utilizassem todo o território que o governo não usava ativamente . Após quase dois anos de ocupação, o governo os retirou da ilha.

Durante 29 anos, a prisão de Alcatraz nunca registrou oficialmente fugas bem sucedidas de prisioneiros. Em todas as tentativas, os fugitivos foram mortos ou afogavam-se nas águas da baia de São Francisco. Três fugitivos, Frank Morris, e os irmãos John e Clarence Anglin, desapareceram das sua celas em 11 de Junho de 1962. Somente algumas provas foram encontradas, e elas levam a crer que os prisioneiros morreram, mas, oficialmente, ainda estão listados como desaparecidos e provavelmente afogados. Em 1979 foi feito um filme sobre essa fuga com Clint Eastwood chamado Escape from Alcatraz. A história chegou a ser testada no programa "Mythbusters-Os Caçadores de Mitos" no episódio Fuga de Alcatraz.

Em outubro de 2015 documentário do canal "History" foi divulgado, onde foram apresentadas novas evidências que indicam que os irmãos Anglin não somente sobreviveram, como mantiveram contato com sua família e teriam fugido para o Brasil.

Fonte: Wikipedia

   

This picture satisfies requirement 1- selfie. When I am planning this picture, I tried to come up with a way to capture my current state at home and Zoom, obviously, is the one thing that I am interacting with the most in this new reality. So I set up a Zoom call and tuned in with my computer, iPad, and my phone, and I also tried to utilize the gallery view to have as many views of myself as possible. It is interesting how there were four different cameras in this picture, including the camera I was holding. Thee key light in this picture is a lamp that I placed to the left of myself, and the fill light includes the light bouncing back from the wall on my right, and the screen light of the devices. I took this in manual mode and had to use a higher ISO to enable a faster shutter speed and minimize hand-held shaking. For post processing, I increased the contrast to darken the background and added post-crop vignetting to emphasize the subject.

I took this photo with my Canon EOS Rebel T6 to fulfill Requirement 5. Because I couldn't get into Denny Hall, I stood in the corner of the little hallway right before the front door, and I took 7 pictures overlapping one another. Afterwards, I used PTGUI to create a panorama and tie the photos together. Subsequently cropping them and adjusting the exposure and contrast with Lightroom.

I made use of my youngest brother's comic collection at home for this requirement. At the beginning of the day before going out for an official shooting day, I went in my brother's room and happened to notice the colorful bookshelf with famous children's books like Dog Man or Diary of a Wimpy Kid and decided to make it one of my photos for the assignment.

 

The room at that moment was pretty dark, so I decided to change the ISO to 8000 manually. In order to compensate for the grain, I did some post-processing to smoothen the photo. Beside that, I also increase saturation for most of the colors in picture to better demonstrate the concept of the effect of color as one of the elements of design.

This photo meets requirement 1. I underexposed the picture by shrinking the aperture, decreasing the shutter speed and decreasing the ISO.

I took this photo at home with natural light coming from window on the right hand side meets requirement 2. It is a cloudy day so the light is soft. I took photo of a man smoking cigarets. By using fast shutter speed 1/320 in order to catch the smoke. A high ISO to keep exposure correct since the light in the room is dark. We can see the key and fill light are both from the light outside window. It makes the left side face darker.

 

i use lightroom to adjust afterwards. I increase the contrast a little bit to increase the light effect. I also adjust the white balance to make the picture warmer.

This photo satisfies requirement 1. It is underexposed which makes the walk way pop up. The aperture was set at f/13 to reduce the amount of light that came in and achieve this underexpose effect. However, the ISO was auto adjusted to a high number and thus there are a lot of noises in the picture.

This photo satisfies requirement 5. When playing poker I noticed a common color of red present in the chips and the cards. To isolate the color of red, I went ahead and eliminated the saturation of every other color in Lightroom. I also went ahead and increased the saturation of the red color to emphasize it. The aperture of this photo is small to have a low depth of field (allowing the user to focus on the midground). Unfortunately I think I ended up losing this hand.

I took this photo with my Canon EOS Rebel T6 to fulfill Requirement 1. Unlike the picture with Denny Hall where I made sure all of the vertical lines on the windows were parallel, I went closer to the building, and tilted my camera upwards to create a vanishing point. Though the vanishing point isn't as blatantly obvious as the picture of the pillars in Red Square, you can tell that the lines on the windows aren't parallel and will eventually reach a point where they will meet.

I used a large aperture (f/8.0) and a small ISO to stop the photo from being grainy and noisy. Afterwards, I adjusted the contrast and clarity with Lightroom.

The Yass Courier (NSW : 1857 - 1929) | Mon 11 Nov 1918 | Page 2

 

ALL SAINTS.

LAYING FOUNDATION STONE OF THE NEW CHURCH AT MURRUMBATEMAN.

 

The foundation stone of All Saints' Memorial Church at Murrumbateman will be laid by Major-General Parnell, C.M.G., the Commandant of Duntroon Military College, on Sunday afternoon next, 17th instant. The Bishop has also arranged to be present at the service instead of the Ven. Archdeacon Ward, and will motor over from Duntroon for that purpose. The service commences at 3 p m., and will be an interesting one; all official representatives have been invited; the Yass Band will conduct the music, and St. Clement's choir will attend. Returned soldiers are asked to attend in uniform to form a guard of honor, and out of respect to their fallen comrades. By advertisement it will be seen that all are cordially invited to be present. A collection will be taken up and placed upon the stone in aid of a fund to furnish the interior. The church is of handsome design, consisting a nave, vestry, apex, tower and spire, aud will be one of the architectural features of the district. It is the design of Mr. T. L. Thompson, architect. The cost of the whole building is defrayed by two anonymous donors as a memorial to all who have died in the war.

 

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The Yass Courier (NSW : 1857 - 1929) | Mon 28 Apr 1919 | Page 3

 

AAll Saints' Church.

 

A beautiful Church and a most inspiriting service, was the general opinion expressed in oonnection with the consecration of All Saints' Church at Murrumbateman yesterday. A Guard of Honor of Cadets from Duntroon College was formed at the Church entrance, and at the appointed hour His Lordship Bishop Radford with clergy and surpliced choir, approached the door, where he was received by Messrs. W. T. Merriman and C. M. E. Vallance (church wardens). The former read the petition asking for the consecration of the Church ,and the ceremony was then proceeded with. The Church was opened entirely free of debt, a fact on which His Lordship congratulated the parishioners. He urged them to regard the Church as the centre of fellowship, the school of faith, and the shrine of worship. At the afternoon's service 39 candidates were confirmed. At both services the Church was filled, quite 200 persons being present on each occasion. At the conclusion of the confirmation service prizes were presented to the winners of the Sunday School competitions for the Diocese of Goulburn. Hyacinth Hollingworth secured the Bishop's prize and Vera Martin the Archdeacon's prize. Certificates were presented to the others Mrs. Vallance presented each child with a small book as a memento of the occasion. The church was artistically decorated, and with its elaborate furnishing presented a very handsome appearance.

 

Among the visitors were Major-General and Mrs. Parnell. The parish church was represented by its wardens, Messrs. D. H. Bucknell, A. A. Edwards, and T. L. Thompson.

 

Many members of St. Clement's choir helped in the musical portion of the service, Mr. A. E. Fletcher presided at the organ

 

The church is a decidedly ornate one, and was erected at a cost of about £1100. It was donated by Mr. W. T. Merriman and Mrs G. Vallance. Mr T. L. Thompson was the architect, and Mr. D. L. Lawrence, of Yass, the contractor. The work has taken about six month's to complete. The church consists of nave, sanctuary, vestry and porch, with turret. It is built of brick and tiled with Wunderlich Marseillaise tiling. The ceiling is of Wunderlich Ceilyte with effective diamond shaped panels, and the building is plastered inside in white stucco. The seats are of Richmond River pine, likewise the altar, readieg desk, &c. These were made by the contractor. The rest of the furniture was supplied by the Church Stores, Sydney. The building will seat about 150 persons. It has been faithfully built, and redounds to the credit of the contractor. The Anglicans of Murrumbateman, thanks to the generosity of the donors, have now a handsome church, and one that will meet the requirements of the locality for very many years to come.

USAF Serial: 51-13730

 

From Wikipedia:

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_B-36_Peacemaker

 

The Convair B-36 "Peacemaker"[N 1] is a strategic bomber built by Convair and operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) from 1949 to 1959. The B-36 is the largest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft ever built. It had the longest wingspan of any combat aircraft ever built, at 230 ft (70.1 m). The B-36 was the first bomber capable of delivering any of the nuclear weapons in the U.S. arsenal from inside its four bomb bays without aircraft modifications. With a range of 10,000 mi (16,000 km) and a maximum payload of 87,200 lb (39,600 kg), the B-36 was capable of intercontinental flight without refuelling.

 

Entering service in 1948, the B-36 was the primary nuclear weapons delivery vehicle of Strategic Air Command (SAC) until it was replaced by the jet-powered Boeing B-52 Stratofortress beginning in 1955. All but four aircraft have been scrapped.

 

The genesis of the B-36 can be traced to early 1941, prior to the entry of the United States into World War II. At the time, the threat existed that Britain might fall to the German "Blitz", making a strategic bombing effort by the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) against Germany impossible with the aircraft of the time.

 

The United States would need a new class of bomber that would reach Europe and return to bases in North America, necessitating a combat range of at least 5,700 miles (9,200 km), the length of a Gander, Newfoundland–Berlin round trip. The USAAC therefore sought a bomber of truly intercontinental range, similar to the German Reichsluftfahrtministerium's (RLM) ultralong-range Amerikabomber program, the subject of a 33-page proposal submitted to Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering on 12 May 1942.

 

The USAAC sent out the initial request on 11 April 1941, asking for a 450 mph (720 km/h) top speed, a 275 mph (443 km/h) cruising speed, a service ceiling of 45,000 ft (14,000 m), beyond the range of ground-based anti-aircraft fire, and a maximum range of 12,000 miles (19,000 km) at 25,000 ft (7,600 m). These requirements proved too demanding for any short-term design—far exceeding the technology of the day— so on 19 August 1941, they were reduced to a maximum range of 10,000 mi (16,000 km), an effective combat radius of 4,000 mi (6,400 km) with a 10,000 lb (4,500 kg) bombload, a cruising speed between 240 and 300 mph (390 and 480 km/h), and a service ceiling of 40,000 ft (12,000 m); above the maximum effective altitude of Nazi Germany's anti-aircraft guns, save for the rarely deployed 12.8 cm FlaK 40 heavy flak cannon.

 

The B-36 took shape as an aircraft of immense proportions. It was two-thirds longer than the previous "superbomber", the B-29. The wingspan and tail height of the B-36 exceeded those of the 1960s Soviet Union's Antonov An-22 Antheus military transport, the largest ever propeller-driven aircraft put into production. Only with the advent of the Boeing 747 and the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, both designed two decades later, did American aircraft capable of lifting a heavier payload become commonplace.

 

The wings of the B-36 were large even when compared with present-day aircraft, exceeding, for example, those of the C-5 Galaxy, and enabled the B-36 to carry enough fuel to fly the intended long missions without refueling. The maximum thickness of the wing, measured perpendicular to the chord, was 7.5 feet (2.3 m), containing a crawlspace that allowed access to the engines. The wing area permitted cruising altitudes well above the operating ceiling of any 1940s-era operational piston and jet-turbine fighters. Most versions of the B-36 could cruise at over 40,000 feet (12,000 m). B-36 mission logs commonly recorded mock attacks against U.S. cities while flying at 49,000 feet (15,000 m).[citation needed] In 1954, the turrets and other nonessential equipment were removed (not entirely unlike the earlier Silverplate program for the atomic bomb-carrying "specialist" B-29s) that resulted in a "featherweight" configuration believed to have resulted in a top speed of 423 miles per hour (681 km/h), and cruise at 50,000 feet (15,000 m) and dash at over 55,000 feet (17,000 m), perhaps even higher.

 

The B-36, including its GRB-36, RB-36, and XC-99 variants, was in USAF service as part of the SAC from 1948 to 1959. The RB-36 variants of the B-36 were used for reconnaissance during the Cold War with the Soviet Union and the B-36 bomber variants conducted training and test operations and stood ground and airborne alert, but the latter variants were never used offensively as bombers against hostile forces; it never fired a shot in combat.

  

Photo by Eric Friedebach

This photo satisfies Requirement 2.

 

I took this photo using a Sony ILCE-7 Viltrox 85mm F1.8 with an aperture of f/2.8, a focal length of 85.0 mm, an exposure time of 1/100, and an ISO of 640.

 

This is the photo of my friend standing near the backdoor of a storage house. The key light was the light coming through the wide backdoor to the upper right of my friend and there is also light source created by the reflector placed on the ground that became a fill light and lightened up the neck and the area between the lips and the chin of my friends.

 

I did basic color processing to this image in Lightroom.

This photo satisfies Requirement 5.

 

I took this photo using a Sony ILCE-7 Viltrox 85mm F1.8 with an aperture of f/2.8, a focal length of 85.0 mm, an exposure time of 1/100, and an ISO of 640.

 

I made this photo from two photos. One photo was the image of an unknown white flower taken by me and another photo was the photo of my friend (see Requirement 2 of this homework). I first rotated my friend's photo. Then, I chose some available frames to pile up the picture. Each small picture in this photo was processed through some apps on my phone and also through Photoshop. I wanted to create a scene that looks like many versions of my friend in parallel worlds are contemplating at the same time, which caused the space and time to collapse.

 

Note: I was in Vietnam, which is 14 hours earlier than PST time, so this photo was uploaded on June 1st, 2021 according to PST time.

This photo taken at the Olympic national park satisfies requirements 2. There was a lot of star but no moonlight that night. So in order to get a bright image, i set the aperture to f1.4 and the exposure for 30s. While i set ISO to 800 so that there will not too many noise in this photo. While the shutter speed is 30s, the camera shake will be a great significance. So i set my camera on a tripod and use the sony camera app on IPhone to take the photo so that i prevent the shake and get a good image. I use Lightroom to do the post process by changing the color temperature and increasing saturation, contrast and sharpness. The raw photo was also attached in this album.

May 28

 

This isn't really the end. If you've been paying attention to the dates, you'll notice this one isn't chronological like all the rest. But I have a clear memory of you saying “there are no hard and fast rules to photography”, so I'm pretty sure I have the license to cheat here.

 

I asked for your advice on what to do with this photo – more than any of my others I couldn’t nail down the story I wanted to tell through my edits. You told me that sometimes, "you just have to make a choice". I ended up deciding on this black & white close crop because I felt it communicated individuality more than my other two versions, and honestly, I think it does it well. The close crop focuses the eye to the subject suspended in empty space, the black & white maintains a sense of intricacy while melding the bright red roses together into a unified gnarled mess, and the subject’s petals are opening to the left – opposed to the natural sweep of an English reader’s eyes...

 

Curiously, the more I mused over which to include in my final cut, the less difference any of it seemed to make. The story I see in every version of this photo is of my friend Ryan propping me up by the knees on a very short (yet surprisingly steep) hill so that I could take an artsy photo looking up from under a bush. There's nothing I could do in post that would communicate the silliness, vulnerability, and patience that are all present in my personal story for this photo.

 

I don't know if that's what you had in mind, but I think it has to be my final conclusion. I truly can't thank you enough, Bruce, for giving me an excuse to make memories and the means to beautifully encode them.

This photo satisfies requirement 2. I took it off the bridge next to the E1 parking lot, using an f/8 aperture with a 2 second shutter speed in order to create a blurred motion of only the cars lights as the subject. The ISO was also set to 100 to reduce light and noise so the picture was not over-exposed.

I took this photo in discovery park and satisfies requirement 1 & 3. I put steel wool into a whisk and connected by a rope. And then i rotate the rope. I set my camera to manual control mode so i can control all the settings. I set aperture to f/2.8 because it is pretty dark in the discovery park. And then i set shutter speed to 30s, which gives me a plenty of time to do the light painting. Then i set iso to 125 to get a less noise photo. I did the post process with my iPhone. I used snapseed and vscocam to do the post process by increasing sharpness, contrast and saturation and add purple to the shadow.

 

I incorporated subtle motion blur in this photo to capture the feeling of someone typing quickly on a keyboard. To do so, I used a shutter speed of 1/25. I chose to use a speed that wasn't too long since I wanted the main subject (the hands) to have a slight blur yet still retain a recognizable outline/shape.

 

The smaller f-stop number (5.0) gives an increase in the aperture diameter to get a shorter depth of field, which places attention on the hands and the keyboard. I went for this effect since the background was fairly boring and uninteresting.

The goal of this photo is to showcase the most pure and fundamental tools of a cook and it fulfills REQUIREMENT 1 because it is overexposed to the extent that it is near all white. This photo was taken using a tripod with a plastic cutting board on top of a cream colored lounge chair as the background. A timed shutter was used so that I could pose with both hands in the photo. Because this lens is adapted the aperture data is wrong. The slow shutter speed and aperture (either 2.8 or 4.0 I think) were chosen to lower the ISO and achieve an overexposed look. In post, the photo was converted to b/w and exposure adjustments were made to bring more contrast to the shadows and brighten the highlights further.

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