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This man sharpens blades for income in Panijim, India. A customer waits for his scissors to be complete. Edited in Silver Efex
Taken for Our Daily Challenge, 8th March 2011, "sharp".
Sharp tips of pencils and a sharpener! :-D
Not sure which is the best - I couldn't get my white balance how I wanted it... so that made me lean a little bit toward the black and white version....
Finglas Back Garden 03-01-2021
[group] Tits and chickadees | [order] PASSERIFORMES | [family] Paridae | [latin] Parus major | [UK] Great Tit | [FR] Mesange charbonniere | [DE] Kohlmeise | [ES] Carbonero Comun | [NL] Koolmees | [IRL] Meantán mór
spanwidth min.: 22 cm
spanwidth max.: 25 cm
size min.: 13 cm
size max.: 15 cm
Breeding
incubation min.: 13 days
incubation max.: 14 days
fledging min.: 18 days
fledging max.: 14 days
broods 1
eggs min.: 8
eggs max.: 10
Ox-eye, Teacher Bird, Saw Sharpener, Black-headed Tomtit
One of Ireland's top-20 most widespread garden birds.
Status: Resident
Conservation Concern: Green-listed in Ireland. The European population has been evaluated as Secure.
Identification: The largest of the tit family. Striking black head with large white cheek patches and black band running down the centre of a bright yellow breast. Back yellowish- green, wings and tail silvery blue. In flight, white outer tail feathers show. When perched, a distinct white wingbar shows. Bill is pointed but stout, legs bluish-grey.
Similar Species: Blue Tit, Coal Tit.
Call: Typical song a loud, full "teacher, teacher" and many other variations. Call a scolding sound or a quiet, repeated " tew, tew tew".
Diet: Mainly insects, seeds and nuts. Will use peanut feeders and take scraps on bird tables.
Breeding: Breeds throughout Ireland - prefers broad-leaved woodland, but also in farmland, parks and gardens. Nests in cavity in tree or wall. Often choosing unusual site such as a pipe or letterbox. Readily uses nestboxes.
Wintering: Widespread.
Where to See: Common and widespread throughout Ireland.
Physical characteristics
Large tit, with quite long and broad tail, quite heavy and spiky bill, and rather large domed head. Body and tail like Sylvia warbler. Plumage basically blue-green above and yellow below, white-cheeked black head, black central stripe on underbody, and white wing-bar and tail edges. Sexes closely similar, some seasonal vareation.
Habitat
Breeds in west Palearctic from higher to lower middle latitudes, continental and oceanic, in coolest and warmest forest zones, from subarctic to Mediterranean, and marginally in steppe and semi-desert. Extralimitally in Asia extends deep into tropics. Able to ascend mountains to treeline exceptionally 1900 m. But is much more a lowland species, disliking pure coniferous forest, and preferring mixed types and preferring mixed types and more open or even fragmented and scattered tree cover may be less important than structure and density of undergrowth.
Other details
Parus major is a widespread resident across most of Europe, which accounts for less than half of its global range. Its European breeding population is extremely large (>46,000,000 pairs), and was stable between 1970-1990. Although there were declines in a handful of countries during 1990-2000, populations were stable across the vast majority of Europe, and the species remained stable overall.
Feeding
Wide variety of insects, especially Lepidoptera and Coleptera, also spiders. Significant amount of seeds and fruit in winter. In winter, forages in wide variety of sites but mainly below 6-7 m. In spring, feeding height generally rises suddenly to above 9 m when feeding on caterpillars. In winter, takes insects from bark, twigs, walls, and leaf litter, and may move nearer to human habitation to feed at bird-tables, etc.
Breeding
Laying begins April over most of west Palerctic, March-April in lowland areas in south, May in north. Nest is built in tree-hole or, if not available, in wall or other man-made structure of any kind. Nest consists of a foundation mainly of moss, often with some dry grass or other vegetable matter, thickly lined with hair, wool, and often feathers. Clutch is 3-18 eggs which are Incubated for 12-15 days, by female alone.
Migration
Resident over much of southern and central part of range and irregular eruptive migrant from northern areas, sometimes moving in huge numbers. Altitudinal migrant from some of highest breeding areas.
Original shot in 1970's on 35mm. I had seen him a few times before in the early morning but I did not have my camera with me - this time i did.
Just hangin' around with my workshop buddy - APSCO Pencil Sharpener
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Converted to B&W
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Familiarizing myself with Fujifilm Australia's review loaner X-Pro2 with Fujinon 35mm f/2 prime lens (35mm full frame equivalent focal length is 50mm). Processed with Adobe Photoshop CC2015 and Camera Raw, using Google Nik Collection's DFine for noise reduction and Nik Sharpener Pro for final sharpening. I applied the Classic Chrome analog film profile in Camera Raw.
It has been a long time since I owned a 50mm f/2 Summicron lens for my Leica M-Series analog rangefinder cameras and back then it was one of the least used lenses in my small but well-chosen collection of Leica optics. Consequently, I find I need to practise with this lens before making a series of photographs and videos over the loan period in order to best visualize what it can do. I am more familiar with how a 50mm equivalent lens works with my Panasonic Lumix GX8 using the EVF tilted up to simulate a Rolleiflex TLR camera with so-called normal lens,
I am more accustomed to the 50mm lens as a crucial component of a set of movie lenses, so may need to think more cinematically when making still images than I would normally, shooting in 16:9 format rather than 3:2.
Meanwhile I am writing up my wishlist for when I buy my own X-Pro2, perhaps starting off with an XF 23mm f/1.4 lens, then an XF 56mm f/1.2, then an XF 16mm f/1.4 or possibly an 18mm lens if Fujifilm chooses to update its current XF 18mm f/2 lens, which seems less sharp than its more modern lenses. I would add the XF 35mm f/2 lens somewhere amongst the latter lenses.
That would make for a classic set of 35mm full-frame equivalent focal lengths, roughly in this order - 35mm, 85mm, 24mm or 28mm, then 50mm.
My aim with the X-Pro2 is to rely on the camera's amazing HVVF/OVF viewfinder rather than resorting to the EVF, and use lenses that work well through the optical viewfinder. Perhaps I should drop into a camera store and find out whether the image from the 24mm equivalent lens, the XF 16mm f/1.4, can be fully seen without cropping within the OVF.
One of the many pleasures of non-DSLR cameras, I find, is that people in the street rarely if ever take notice of someone wielding one. Or if they do, they do not take their users at all seriously. I had an example of that this morning, in a coffee shop. The shopkeeper came over with our coffees, spotted the X-Pro2, laughed and asked me if this funny old camera was a new toy that i was playing with.
Specifically designed for sharpening mower blades, chipper blades and bush hog blades. Can be purchased with or without the pedestal. 1.5 x 60 belt. 1.5 x 60 36 grit Cubitron ceramic belt recommended.
This is a miniature colored pencil set that I got for Christmas. The pencils are about 1.75" (4.5 cm) long, and the set of 12 pencils fits in a little credit-card-sized case. The case also includes a sharpener and eraser.
Fun! :)
Find the pencils online at http://www.bcmini.com/id162.html
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Strobist
580EXII into white umbrella with yellow gel right high subject 430EXII at 1/2 aiming to the wall
this battery powered pencil sharpener looks like a small radio. pastel blue color and slant grooves date this to the mid-eighties -that Sanyo logo was used until 1987
for macromondays - "pairs"
and for macro up close and personal - "everyday object at home"
and everything is beautiful - macro mondays thread
pencil and sharpener
trying out a little backdrop setup I made out of an old (cloth) nappy and a 5 ream cardboard paper box. Very handy it is too.
Noone's tendered an explanation for why, screwed into the half-wall at the top of the stairs, there is an old-timey schoolhouse pencil sharpener. A more nervous sort of parent might fear a toddler's pencil-thin finger finding it's way into one of those holes while her brother mischeviously rotors the handle on the other end. I'm just grateful for the two minutes of entertainment it gives a preschooler, upon bringing home a Valentine-themed pencil, an honest-to-goodness wood and no. #2 graphite. And I try not to worry about how damned sharp the tip of that pencil gets.
Diecast FX4 taxi pencil sharpener (the hole is underneath). I have this in bronze (adjacent photo) and also a Routemaster bus in the same style: www.flickr.com/photos/adrianz-toyz/27960224548