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Milford Sound, a world heritage site in south island of New Zealand has been judged the world's top travel destination among international surveys and is acclaimed as New Zealand's most famous tourist destination. Rudyard Kipling had rightfully called it the eighth Wonder of the World. Collage of clouds, mountains, sea, waterfalls and serenity along with excellent infrastructure to explore, makes it an ideal set-up for poetic inspiration!
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Taken from a public park at the base of the bridge connecting Topsail Island to the mainland at Surf City, NC, USA.
Pure sound A30 Vacuum tube amplifier! Finally!
Lighting:
Camera left: Yongnuo Speedlite YN560 1/4 trough diffusion paper
Camera right: Yongnuo Speedlite YN560 1/4 trough diffusion paper
Above: Nikon SB900 1/16 bounced of roof
Original Artwork:
Cartoon Laughs (Spring 1963, # 3)
Published by Atlas Magazines, Inc., 1963
Artist: J. Osvaldo Laino, also known as simply “Laino”
Vladislav Delay
CD :
Vladislav Delay
Multila
Chain Reaction
CRD-09
Sounds . Sasu Ripatti
Chain Reaction . Moritz Von Oswald & Mark Ernestus
Postcard :
Studio Carreras
Philographics
Determinism
2014
Use Hearing Protection
GMA
Playing with 5D Mark II, some stobist stuff. Shot this one straight into JPEG, not much Photoshop.
Strobist description:
* Canon 5D Mark II 100/2.8f @ 2.8 1/125s
* Sunpak 5000 behind the speaker with blue gel into the wall
* Sunpak 5000 left ot he speaker with snoot shooting into a white sheet of paper right of the speaker
First time to the Isle of Skye for a wild camping trip with my eldest son for his 6th birthday. Fair to say we'll be back Skye is stunning. This view is towards Portree from Ben Tianavaig over sound of Raasay
The Sound Mirrors, also known as Acoustic Mirrors, Concrete Dishes, or Listening Ears, are large concrete structures designed as an early warning system for Britain to detect enemy aircraft.
These worked by focusing the sound from the plane’s engine so it could be heard before it was visible. There were three designs of mirrors, 20ft, 30ft, and 200ft, and all three can be seen in Greatstone, located at Greatstone Lakes on the northeast side of the Dungeness Nature Reserve.
How the Sound Mirrors Work
The Sound Mirrors worked by using their curved surface to concentrate sound waves by capturing the noise of incoming enemy aircraft approaching from the European mainland and focus it onto a microphone or a human listener equipped with then state-of-the-art stethoscopes. .
Once the receivers were adjusted for best reception, the results would be compared with those from one of the other ‘ears’ and used to calculate an aircraft’s height, speed, and flight path. They worked best at a range of between eight and 24 miles
An operator using a stethoscope would be stationed near the sound mirror, and would need specialist training in identifying different sounds.
Distinguishing the complexity of sound was so difficult that the operators could only listen for around 40 minutes.
Listening at a Sound Mirror
A sound system shown as part of the 'Rockers, Soulheads and Lovers' exhibition at New Art Exchange gallery, Nottingham.
Winchester Cathedral Crypt
This superb low-vaulted stone crypt, which floods in rainy months, dates from the 11th century, the earliest phase of building the Cathedral. Here you’ll find Antony Gormley’s mysterious life-size sculpture of a solitary man, Sound II, sometimes standing up to its knees in water.
On Monday 20th July 2020, around 420 coaches descended on London and honked their horns from Earls Court, along the Chelsea Embankment, through Parliament Square and up to Tower Bridge. Their aim was to highlight to the Government the severe financial crisis the industry currently finds itself in with no prospect of any sort of recovery until at least next summer.
I witnessed the parade pass Chelsea Bridge with the lead vehicle passing at 11:00 and the final coach passing some 3 hours later!!
For this event I decided to focus on the coaches themselves.
A video taken with my cell phone of the coyotes in the woods. There is no actual picture, its them howling.
You can't quite get the feel for the morning walk unless you can listen to the sounds too. I was looking for a sandhill crane nest but couldn't find one. The cranes come swooping into this area every day so I thought there might be a nest hidden somewhere.
Dans la maison de notre hôte lors du week-end du jour de l'an, en Auverge.
In the house of our host during the weekend of New Year's Day in Auvergne.
Canon EOS 1000D + SMC Takumar 50 f/1.4.
This is the main feature "Tårnsalen" - location for the sound, vision and architectural installation by Kjell Bjørgeengen / Aernoudt Jacobs. BERGEN KUNSTMUSEUM.
Prior to World War II and the invention of radar, acoustic mirrors were built as early warning devices around the coasts of Great Britain, with the aim of detecting incoming enemy aircraft by the sound of their engines. The most famous of these devices still stand at Denge on the Dungeness peninsula and at Hythe in Kent. Other examples exist in other parts of Britain (including Sunderland, Redcar, Boulby, Kilnsea) and Selsey Bill, and Baħar iċ-Ċagħaq in Malta. The Maltese sound mirror is known locally as "the ear" (il-Widna) and appears to be the only sound mirror built outside Great Britain.
Acoustic mirrors at Denge
The Dungeness mirrors, known colloquially as the "listening ears", consist of three large concrete reflectors built in the 1920s–1930s. Their experimental nature can be discerned by the different shapes of each of the three reflectors: one is a long, curved wall about 5 m high by 70 m long, while the other two are dish-shaped constructions approximately 4–5 m in diameter. Microphones placed at the foci of the reflectors enabled a listener to detect the sound of aircraft far out over the English Channel. The reflectors are not parabolic, but are actually spherical mirrors.[1] Spherical mirrors may be used for direction finding by moving the sensor rather than the mirror; another unusual example is the Arecibo Observatory.
Acoustic mirrors had a limited effectiveness, and the increasing speed of aircraft in the 1930s meant that they would already be too close to deal with by the time they had been detected. The development of radar put an end to further experimentation with the technique. Nevertheless, there were long-lasting benefits. The acoustic mirror programme, led by Dr William Sansome Tucker, had given Britain the methodology to use interconnected stations to pin point the position of an enemy in the sky. The system they developed for linking the stations and plotting aircraft movements was given to the early radar team and contributed to their success in World War II; although the British radar was less sophisticated than the German system, the British system was used more successfully.
There are three acoustic mirrors in the complex, each consisting of a single concrete hemispherical reflector.
The 200 foot mirror is a near vertical, curved wall, 200 feet (60m) long. It is one of only two similar acoustic mirrors in the world, the other being in Magħtab, Malta.
The 20 foot mirror is similar to the 30 foot mirror, with a smaller, shallower dish 6 m (20 ft) across. The design is close to that of an acoustic mirror in Kilnsea, East Riding of Yorkshire.
Acoustic mirrors did work, and could effectively be used to detect slow moving enemy aircraft before they came into sight. They worked by concentrating sound waves towards a central point, where a microphone would have been located. However, their use was limited as aircraft became faster. Operators also found it difficult to distinguish between aircraft and seagoing vessels. In any case, they quickly became obsolete due to the invention of radar in 1932. The experiment was abandoned, and the mirrors left to decay. The gravel extraction works caused some undermining of at least one of the structures.