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A lovely sunny Sunday morning down on the beach.

Also for #66 of the 365 treasure hunt "Rusty".

One of my first attempts to focus stacking

blogged

Andromeda Galaxy - M31 with M32 and M110 satellite galaxies. Sony A7S body attached to Starwave 102 refractor, image consists of 44 20 second exposures at ISO 3200. The images were stacked using DSS.

General Motors car stacked up waiting to be hauled off to the crusher. Many with good usable parts will be destroyed. I assume many of these cars were scrapped due to the high cost of transmission replacement or other costly repairs...None of them appeared to have been in any collisions.

Blue Island, Illinois

Cook County, USA

S-211 jets flying through Sacobia river just west of Clark Air Base in Pampanga with the Wing man on stack down position>.

P1090594 - Just for fun, what an hour to set up for one shot must have completely lost my marbles, well they certainly rolled around the counter top and floor after this see marble abstract below. Unable to get higher than three rows :)

Natural light (dull day limited sun)

SOOC

DMC G1 - Tamron 28-70mm 135-45 Close up, F16, manual focus, manual aperture

Free hand

Scavenger Challenge

2) How good is your balance? Make a precarious stack of objects and shoot before they fall.

9) Have you lost your marbles? One or many, prove you have at least one!

There was some discussion on the ICE Rail group today about the possibility of double-stacks on the IC&E via the Kansas City connection with KCS. One report said CP was making track adjustments under the CN (IC) bridge at Genoa to accommodate stacks.

I recalled photographing some UP overhead stack trains on the I&M Rail Link, and dug up this one of stacks coming under said bridge on 4-5-2000...so I'm not sure what work needed done if it was indeed for future stack traffic. Either way, this is interesting news...

South Stack Lighthouse was built by Trinity House in 1809, marking a tiny islet off Anglesey at the north west tip of Wales

Built

1809

Height of Tower

28 m

Height of light above Mean High Water

60 m

Automated

1983

Electrified

1938

Optic

1st Order six panel catadioptric rotating

Character

Fl 10s

Intensity

467,000 candela

Range of light

24 NM

Region

West

South Stack Rock lies separated from Holyhead Island by 30 metres of turbulent sea, surging to and fro in continuous motion. The coastline from the breakwater and around the south western shore is made of large granite cliffs rising sheer from the sea to 60 metres.

Origins

South Stack Lighthouse was first envisaged in 1665 when a petition for a patent to erect the lighthouse was presented to Charles II. The patent was not granted and it was not until 9 February 1809 that the first light appeared to mark the rock. The lighthouse was designed by Trinity House surveyor Daniel Alexander and originally fitted with Argand oil lamps and reflectors. Around 1840 a railway was installed by means of which a lantern with a subsidiary light could be lowered down the cliff to sea level when fog obscured the main light.

On 25 October 1859 it is said that the most severe storm of the century occurred, known as the 'Royal Charter' gale; and on that and the following day over 200 vessels were either driven ashore or totally wrecked with the loss of 800 lives.The steamship Royal Charter was among these, sinking within yards of help with the loss of almost 500 passengers and crew.

In the mid 1870s the lantern and lighting apparatus was replaced by a new lantern. In 1909 an early form of incandescent light was installed and in 1927 this was replaced by a more modern form of incandescent mantle burner. The station was electrified in 1938.

Automation

On 12 September 1984 the lighthouse was automated and the keepers withdrawn. The lighthouse is now monitored and controlled from Trinity House’s Planning Centre in Harwich, Essex.

Pile of stacked chairs in one of the windows of a chilehaus bar.

A southbound CN train with a long cut of double-stacked containers followed by an equally long cut of auto rack cars approaches the Amtrak station in Effingham, Illinois.

an endless stack of papers

South Stack lighthouse is located on a rocky islet off the east coast of Anglesey, north Wales. It was built in 1809, and is 28 metres tall, standing about 60 metres overall above sea level.

The lighthouse can be visited, but only by descending - and the ascending - the 400 steps down the steep cliff face. The surrounding cliffs are used by thousands of sea birds, particularly guillemots, as nesting sites.

reversed 28mm f2.8 Ai-s 26 images stacked

Gold mesh antique watch fob

blogged: chezbeeperbebe.blogspot.com/2011/01/rumpelstiltskin-chall...

E-PL7 Fujian 35mm f1.7 CCTV

Working have been cutting up these rails, which are piled up next to the Chicago Line of Norfolk Southern west of Vermilion, Ohio.

A sea stack, covered in puffins (too small to see from here)

Peter Calaboyias, 2000, near Paterno Library, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, State College, Pennsylvania, USA, sculpture

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech - Processing: Elisabetta Bonora & Marco Faccin / aliveuniverse.today

Stackable Square Boxes

Folded by Marcela Brina

Designer: Tomoko Fuse

More details in: www.artisbellus.com/2015/01/origami-boxes-stackable-squar...

Focus stack merger of 14 images.

Fishs Eddy blogged at www.suchprettythings.typepad.com

For many years, the SP intermodal facility across the Mississippi from New Orleans sent and received many trains from California. This was just one of the more modern renditions, a Long Beach-bound stack train rolling on the Sunset Route through Houston. However, with the advent of PSR UP closed or downsized many of their smaller intermodal terminals. Avondale no longer sees trains of containers, though there are occasional cuts of well cars mixed in with manifest traffic.

IAVLB (Intermodal- Avondale, LA to Long Beach, CA)

NS ES-40DC #7571

UP SD70M #4157

Missouri City, TX

May 25th, 2014

Pile of stacked books on floor.

P made shedloads of pancakes. Cute little ones at that.

Each one was lovingly slathered with an equal amount of Nutella... I like cute little pancakes. They can hold a heck load of Nutella per surface area...

Sunset over the irish sea with South Stack in the foreground

103 stacked images of Iris Japonica. The lighting is natural window light.

I've been very impressed with the images John Hallmen produces using the Zerene Stacker software, so I decided to try it out. This is my 5th composite image and one that I'm very happy with. This is one of my favourite flowers and when it came into bloom this week, I had to use it as my subject .

I don't have the marvellous gear that John has but my Tamron macro lens has done ok with this one.

This is done using the Pmax method. There is a bit of halo-ing in places, but in all, it's a good image.

I hope you like it, thanks for looking.

To see the best that this program can do, check out John's stream & his images www.flickr.com/photos/johnhallmen/

C5106338LR-2

They all jumped up onto our leaders, had to get the photo quickly before the great collapse!

stacking of a couple photos from the other night at gharafa roundabout in doha. traffic was not too heavy so i stacked in order to emphasize the light trails.

Hannah and Ralf's Wedding - Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire - October 11th 2013

Focus stacking with Zerene Stacker; Each image is a stack of 10-13 exposures

so i'm not really sure why, but i'm getting a weird blur effect on some of these pictures. don't get me wrong, i like it, but i'd also like to understand it... i'm pretty sure it's the film as i just ran a pack of black and white through and every picture was sharp as a knife... is it the type of film (669) or the pack itself??? if anyone has any ideas, let me know.