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Little muscari in a pot on my window and snow on my deck
lovely script texture by ellenvd www.flickr.com/photos/41904174@N06/5987509655/
While I was walking along the coast near Edinburgh one day last month, I came upon a couple of the bays where there were masses of small boulders which had been churned up by the recent high tides, and dumped along the strand line. I guess the average size was about a foot wide by 8 or 9 inches in height and width, but there was a lot variation. There were all colours and shapes, but they seemed to be mainly sedimentary sandstones and mudstones and some conglomerates. Amongst them were many of these - red sandstone with quartz seams running through them. I don't know what was written on them, but they looked to be saying something, to someone, somewhere.
(A geologist contact tells me the 'hieroglyphs' are most probably calcite, not quartz. Thanks Dwight.)
This week's theme for Mosaic Montage Monday was Script. I was looking for something that said Merry Christmas, but all I got was MC Courtyard! Script is getting harder to find these days. HMMM!
Idling the night away as the rear DPU for the mornings’s westbound 121, CP 7010 is seen resting at Siberia on Eastern Maine Railways mainline. Depending on train length, and if Irving will be running any trains in the morning before 121 departs, we will often shove our 121 across the bridge at Brownville Junction over to Siberia in order to facilitate an easy recrew, as well as not having to pull the train through the yard to depart.
CP 230 leans through a curve approaching Lovekin Siding.
Train: CP 230 with CP 7012 (SD70ACu) and KCSM 4732 (ES44AC).
CP Belleville Subdivision
Newtonville, ON
Two LED spotlights, Mitakon Speedmaster at F4; edited in Fujifilm's raw converter and in Luminar. Abstract it is, but clear is that the light increases from right to left, or decreases from left to right. You can read the image from both ends. Just like reading, say, Latin script and Hebrew script.
I had to squeeze in a very tight spot to get this view... I was not even sure if this shot came out or not. After processing, I was bit surprised to see all the hues of red...
Now for something completely different. There are 3 ways to achieve vortex star trails though all require some sort of composite because otherwise the foreground is distorted.
1) In camera, yes it can be done. This requires that you build a device attached to a motor and gears to grab the zoom ring and make tiny changes to the zoom through a sequence of star field shots. Nobody sells such a device so only DIY. For me, no way, my mechanical abilities are zilch.
2) Take a sequence of star trail images over an hour or two and then in software shrink the image as each layer is added to duplicate the in camera zooming using either Photoshop actions or a script.
3) Take one image of a star field and again use software to duplicate and shrink to get the effect. For this image I went for number 3 using a Photoshop Script which can be downloaded free from liketheocean.com/night-photography/scripts-to-make-your-s...
To get my star field I used a single image taken for a standard star trails shot in nearby Arundel a few years ago. As there were not enough stars for the best effect I used copy of selections to a new image and cloning to get a denser star field and leave out the foreground. The script was run after selecting vortex. The foreground was taken in Lanzarote on a coach tour round the National Park where no other vehicles are allowed. The area shown in the image is appropriately enough called Tranquillity valley. The foreground was layered onto the star trails and combined using a layer mask and brush and a selection for precision
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