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Slide from a set used to teach biology at Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School, Belleville, Ontario, possibly in the 1920s. The original boxes were labelled 'Junior' and 'Senior', but the contents appear to have been mixed up.
Donated to the Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County by Mike and Sue Mills in October 2015.
Great thing about compact 35mm cameras - take them anywhere, Nita enjoying the slide at Hunstanton, Norfolk
Olympus XA2 compact camera (50p from car boot sale).
Firstcall / Agfa Gevaert 400S b/w 35mm film.
Developed in Firstcall R09 (Rodinal-like).
Product Name: Bouncing Inflatable Slides
Product No: GB493
Size: 7mLx4mWx4.5mH
Pack: 121x72x72 cm
Weight: 128kg
Material: 0.55mm PLATO PVC Tarpaulin
Cert: CE, SGS, En14960, En71
Feature: High Durability, High Tear Strength, Fade Proof, Flame Retardant M2/B1, Anti-Mildew Treatment, Excellent UV-Resistance, Cold Weather Resistance, Waterproof, Anti-Static, Heat-Insulation
Contact Site:http://www.pangoinflatable.com/
Not just fit and finish, Pango make a second blower tube and hide it if not use. We make the two tubes on different of the bouncer so that could fit the power location. Looking down the road you will find you need a second inflation tube. We want to make sure clients could use the bouncer convenient.
Stronger Baffles
Baffles that are secured by a 840 denier material that provides the MAXIMUM strength of the internal baffling of every inflatables. This material upgrade is unmatched by anyone else in the industry. This material is key to the overall durability of the products we sell.
D Ring Expose
Take a close look at the construction of the "d" rings in the products we sell. A tether system is only as strong as its weakest link. Tether points on the inflatable are extremely durable. The "d" ring tethering System have been laboratory-tested and certified by Professional Engineers for use on all giant slides and all other types of inflatables.
Vinyl（PVCTarpaulin） Expose
At Pango Inflatable, the only products we sell are constructed from the finest coated vinyl. Unlike other vinyl producers, the Coated Vinyl are Lead-Free in addition to meeting the EN71 test by SGS. Lead-Free vinyl are a standard that has been that way since day one. Exposure to lead is dangerous to children. The products Pango Inflatable sell are safe from the effects of lead. As for durability, the materials are a weft inserted substrate, which makes any possible rips virtually impossible.
No Wax Surfaces
We provide removable sliding surfaces for every slides we made, While other only provide the normal vinyl, Inflatable vinyl is not naturally slippery, therefore, waxing has become a normal preparation for getting a slide ready for use. The removable sliding surface found the on the products we sell is a high polished urethane coating, which in turn reduces the need to wax.
Zipper with Flaps
Unlike others, Pango Inflatable sells products that are easy to use. For example, the deflation zipper utilizes a Velcro flap that covers the zipper, thus, less air is lost and zippers are not exposed to abrasion or mischief.
Blower Tube Strap
While most manufacturers tie their blower inflation tubes to the blower system, however, the products Pango Inflatable sells, utilizes a universal sleeve with a cinching Velcro strap. One- handed operation keeps the tube securely attached to the blower system.
Liquid Laminator
DWe do the Digital Printing in our factory, unlike most factory here in China, they do the printing outside and could not control the delivery time and the quality. igitally printed graphics are one thing, keeping those beautiful images durable as well scratch and fade resistant is quite another. Every digital image used within an inflatable sold by Pango Inflatable is clear-coated with a special liquid laminate that is vulcanized to the vinyl surface.
Finger-Safe Netting
Most bouncer manufacturers use 1" or 2" netting. A child bouncing can easily catch their fingers in that size of netting, thus serious injuries can happen. Only the Pango Inflatable could provide netting that even a small child's finger cannot penetrate. Yet, the netting is still transparent enough to allow for easy viewing.
Removable Covers
Virtually every area that your customers step, slide or climb upon is on a replaceable & easily removable vinyl cover. From climbing stairs, to entrance tunnel sleeves to sliding surfaces, Pango Inflatable only sells products that are designed for high-volume traffic.
Safety Door on Bouncers
Worried about children possibly falling out of a bouncer? Don't be. We got 3 points of reinforcement on the entrance of the bouncer which make the entrance very strong. Also we add the step outside the entrance following the AU and USA standards of jumping castle.
On-Staff Engineering and Designing
We do reinforce stitching at the fixion of D-ring. Four stitching line will share the tension of the bouncer. This made the D-ring last much longer and stronger. Other factory use other design of the fixion, but will not good for the tension sharing. Could find the differnce in the attached photos.
Cushion Designs
We do cushion between the wall and the base. When the kids bounce on the bouncer this parts bear most of the pressure, so this new design will make this parts much more strong and safety, while other factory only stitch to the base.
Slide produced by the Province of Ontario Picture Bureau, probably in the 1920s, for use in Ontario schools.
Donated to the Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County by Mike and Sue Mills in October 2015.
Preset: High Contrast Extreme B&W
Light by a flashlight on camera right, I was trying to get the slide to focus on my belly...not that successful.
Slide from a set used to teach biology at Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School, Belleville, Ontario, possibly in the 1920s. The original boxes were labelled 'Junior' and 'Senior', but the contents appear to have been mixed up.
Donated to the Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County by Mike and Sue Mills in October 2015.
At a Clearwater Threshers/Lakeland Flying Tigers game, the catcher misses an out at home.
Taken with a Canon A-1, FDn 135/2.8, and Kodak Ultramax 400.
Our house in Wigginton, visits from friends from Orewa in New Zealand. They were on a tour of Europe, having come to buy a new Mercedes and re-export it back home after the trip.
Found 126-format Kodachrome slide dated September 1967 showing two women sat on a wall, probably by a beach.
Slide produced by the Province of Ontario Picture Bureau, probably in the 1920s, for use in Ontario schools.
Donated to the Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County by Mike and Sue Mills in October 2015.
In late 2012 I found some important probable prehistoric rock art located in a tight space, viewing the main part was a little awkward, seeing the rest of the panel almost impossible.
No previous records of this rock art panel are known, it has been reported to the relevant heritage organisation - who say they are now investigating it.
I intended to return to the site to try and record it myself, but how to record it presented a particular problem. You can't see everything from a single photo as rocks block the view. In the restricted space larger cameras have difficulty focusing close enough to get any of the rockart in focus. In the restricted space measuring is difficult to produce a drawing, and parts of the panel are beyond reach. Laser scanning can work on rockart but not in this space (as far as I know). The rock is partially lit by natural light coming in from the side.
I decided the best option was to try and photograph with a compact camera (focuses closer) and rebuild in 3d using Agisoft PhotoScan (software which I already use for aerial imagery). I chose a Canon Ixus 310HS, it has a fast f2.0 lens and it is one of the few canon compacts which has an aperture diaphragm rather than a neutral density filter so I can stop the camera down to increase depth of field. I found the lens to be very susceptible to flare, the camera is touchscreen which makes control in the field a little awkward. I used CHDK (Canon Hack Development Kite) on the camera to manually control exposure and to provide and intervalometer to take a photo every few seconds.
The Camera Slider - at the time of building I didn't know what these were called and so didn't find anything from searching the internet. I built it out of odd pieces of aluminium that I had lying around. The slide rail is a piece of wooden baton with grooves in the end which a string runs through. By pulling on the string the slider moves along the baton. The camera mount/protection is mounted to the slider by a hinge because access is needed to the back of the camera to control it. The hinge in conjunction with a bicycle spoke which I threaded that acts as a stay which allows the camera to be set at different angles if needed. The camera is enclosed with protection around the lens so it cannot be accidentally bashed on rocks. A tripod quick-release plate was mounted to the centre of the baton/Slide rail. The baton/slide rail is 1.8 metres long.
How well does it work? OK for a first attempt.
If mounted on a tripod horizontally a single support in the middle is not enough to keep everything steady. Ideally a tripod/support is needed at each end.
Pulling a string to incrementally move a camera is very quickly becomes tedious especially when contorted in a tight space with a tripod and everything else.
A single rail, and a slider which isn't completely tight to the rail, means that the camera wobbles about and the slider occasionally jams.
Recording the rockart (April 2013), I found that slightly reflective aluminium affects to lighting of the photo, also as it is so close to the rock the extra camera protection cast slight shadows at times too. lighting conditions were changing outside too quickly for the time it took to do a single run with the slide bar. I got enough high quality photographs to rebuild in 3d the main most easily visible part of the rockart panel, however the peripheral areas which the camera was the closest or the lighting was challenging have not produced the quality of the result which I had hoped for.
More recently I have been looking at gravestones with the camera slider trying to model worn and difficult to read areas of text, then use artificial lighting in the computer to try and read them. I found that just holding the slide by in a vertical position against the ground I can get decent photos in relatively low light.
Even if I don't say where the rockart panel is I am unlikely to display the model of it or imagery on the internet before the relevant heritage organisation release their findings. I may upload a few pictures of modelled gravestones.
April 2014
London to Brighton HCVC run half way stop in Crawley.
Sunday 3 May 1987
Copyright Steve Guess MMXVIII
Camera:Nikon Coolpix S570
MISSION
Minimalism
Though never a self-proclaimed movement, Minimalism refers to painting or sculpture made with an extreme economy of means and reduced to the essentials of geometric abstraction. It applies to sculptural works by such artists as Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, John McCracken, Robert Morris, Richard Serra, Tony Smith, and Anne Truitt; to the shaped and striped canvases of Frank Stella; and to paintings by Jo Baer, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, and Robert Ryman. Minimalist art is generally characterized by precise, hard-edged, unitary geometric forms; rigid planes of color—usually cool hues or commercially mixed colors, or sometimes just a single color; nonhierarchical, mathematically regular compositions, often based on a grid; the reduction to pure self-referential form, emptied of all external references; and an anonymous surface appearance, without any gestural inflection. As a result of these formal attributes, this art has also been referred to as ABC art, Cool art, Imageless Pop, Literalist art, Object art, and Primary Structure art. Minimalist art shares Pop arts rejection of the artistic subjectivity and heroic gesture of Abstract Expressionism. In Minimal art what is important is the phenomenological basis of the viewers experience, how he or she perceives the internal relationships among the parts of the work and of the parts to the whole, as in the gestalt aspect of Morriss sculpture. The repetition of forms in Minimalist sculpture serves to emphasize the subtle differences in the perception of those forms in space and time as the spectators viewpoint shifts in time and space.
TECHNICAL
Exposure:0.002 sec (1/640)
Aperture:f/2.7
Focal Length:5 mm
ISO Speed:80
Exposure Bias:0 EV
Flash:Off, Did not fire
WIT
I went out yesterday to take pictures of both minimalism and Eggleston with my cousin, Courtney (Shadeauxe). Before we left, I took some pictures around the yard. This one is the underside of the little used slide in our front yard.
Minimalism was a difficult assignment for me because, unlike some, I don't like patterns. I prefer the wabi sabi, imperfect view on life. I think that that is why I was drawn to this picture. While it is minimalist in it's simplicity and geometric pattern, there are also anomalies that make it imperfect.
POST PROCESSING
Just a basic crop and straighten.
Found Agfachrome slide dated September 1993 showing a lady on a boat by the Niagara Falls. This person appears in quite a few slides, most recently THIS ONE.