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Mount Isa Mines. I worked in nearly every part of the mines. Some good some not so good! The people I work with were the best part of the mines. Solid hard working family people. Good memories. I have heard a lot of stories about boozing and fighting, funny I never saw any of that!
A few days after I made this stack I received an email from Lancaster University asking me if I would enter something for their 'Experimentality' exhibition. They had asked me several weeks before that but I couldn't think of anything that would fit the theme and so I put it to the back of my mind.
This latest email came within a couple of days of the closing date and when I thought about it I reckoned the stills from this video would fit the experimentality theme as I realised that I hadn't witnessed or tried to witness the demise or collapse of a sculpture in such a way before.
So I took the ten stills that make up this timelapse and made them into a single picture, entered it and was very pleased to be chosen. (I am saving the actual picture for an upcoming book as it looks quite cool).
Quite a bit of luck was involved in capturing the stills for that video. I had not planned it and just gave it a go not expecting very much at all. The results were quite good
and now the exhibition has finished, the gallery has given me the printed picture and I have spent some time looking at it. I like the sculptural quality of each shot as it moves from its equlibrium point and gradually collapses from frame to frame (although this all happens in less than a second).
And so this accident of discovery spurred me on to get out there today and try again. Another thing I often find with my art is my first go is the best and that is why I rarely repeat the same sculpture but move onto something new. My first try always looks more fresh to me and so it was with these new attempts at playing with gravity. The pebbles on top of the pagoda stack all balanced the first time quite easily. In that incarnation they also looked the most symmetrical and elegant. Yet when I tried to knock it over I only succeeded in knocking the top off (as shown in this timelapse) and had to rebuild the balanced pebbles at the top. And this took a frustrating age... You may notice that single shot of each sculpture is different to the timelapses or composites and that is because I got each one 'right' first time but had to rebuild them again to collapse them, but each rebuild did not have the form of the original.
Why does it come so easily the first time only for it to be painfully difficult the second? I have experienced this so many times but cannot write it off as coincidental.
I tried several more stacks and attempted to capture each demise. A couple of times the wind beat me to it but after learning how best to collapse and capture each stack it left me bemused how the collapse of the temple stack was so perfectly captured and yet I didn't know what I was after and didn't try to do anything in a particular way. I call it the art of slack or following the line of least resistance. When I try to achieve something I often fail, when I just do without expectation I am often much more successful. Why? I don't know, but it seems to work for me.
You might think the second frame is the same as the first, but if you look closely you will see that the shadow of the thrown stone is coming in from the left.
A studio stack of 111 images
focus step 0.025mm
stackshot rail
zerene stacker
canon 5Dmkii
canon mp-e65 lens at 5x f5
I occasionally go back to edit photos that I have taken in the past; this was from November 2012. This composite image used a photo stacking (or layering) technique in Photoshop. I call it cloud stacking. I used thirty images where only the clouds were in motion during two and a half minutes. Just after sunset, the bottom of the clouds were lit by a break in the clouds at the horizon. These thirty images were selected from the total sequence of 300.
well, this is sort of how I built one from an old CD drive, superglue and some other bits...
Arduino Uno board (the blue thing)
stepper motor driver TB6612FNG (the green thing surrounded by wires)
guts of CD drive
old stepper motor
external 7.5V PSU
held together with breadboard until I do something better with the wires...
some programming (arduino and PC)
Canon SDK (free but need to register) to control camera in sequence
and that's about it
There's a few photos below, followed by a more detailed explanation of joining it all together
If you do want to have a go at building something like this then I'm happy to answer any questions, but you are responsible for checking the pinout connections and appropriate electrical ratings to ensure that all components are suitable - in other words if you blow anything up then it's not my fault - the following aren't comprehensive instructions
From Wikipedia: The South Stack Lighthouse is built on the summit of a small island off the north-west coast of Holy Island, Anglesey, Wales. It was built in 1809 to warn ships of the dangerous rocks below.
a high priority northbound stack train passes a southbound train made up of empty autoracks at ballico, CA
First attempt to try to stack some 10 sec exposure pictures taken with the hero4,
unluckily the clouds ruined some of the pictures, so there is not a complete trail of the stars.
The Garfield Smelter Stack is the tallest free-standing structure west of the Mississippi River, the fourth tallest smokestack in the world and the forty-third tallest free-standing structure on earth. It is the only operating smelter chimney left in Utah - Wikipedia.
Playing with stacking rocks on a log at Agate Beach, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada.
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Why rare bees are attracted to me? A question that doesn't really keep me up at night, but...here consider this Dieunomia nevadensis. (Nice orange legs there, lady Di). This bee is known from one site in Maryland. So it is rare. It also has not been found in the surrounding states...so this population would appear to be very special. You have to go to North Carolina to find a record. Interesting in a Bermuda Triangle sort of way is the fact that this site is only a couple of miles from my house. How cool is that? This particular specimen collected by Tim McMahon, but the very first one (and there was only one) I found at a sand mine at the same spot. This has happened repeatedly, I am seemingly surrounded by rare bees that are attracted from long distances away to be near me. Or, perhaps it is not so much my beeaura but the fact that there are so few people really looking for bees? How are bees really doing then? Don't ask me I have beeaura issues. Photo by Brooke Goggins.
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Photography Information:
Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200
We Are Made One with What We Touch and See
We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
- Oscar Wilde
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Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen:
Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:
Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland:
bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf
Basic USGSBIML set up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY
USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4
Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus
www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections
PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/How%20to%20Take%20MacroPhotographs%20of%20Insects%20BIML%20Lab2.pdf
Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:
plus.google.com/events/c5569losvskrv2nu606ltof8odo
or
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU
Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
Contact information:
Sam Droege
sdroege@usgs.gov
301 497 5840
Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild
January Challenge
I'm not sure if the background is Kona snow... but it was the only white I had!
Fresh out of the Alliance Yard, BNSF 7767 leads a westbound stack train through Hicks Field Road on it’s way out of Saginaw
On the drive to Killarney Provincial Park, we stopped by a chip wagon for some Poutine French Fries. (mmmm). The massive stack of full tree logs was taking over the scenery.
Focus-stack of 101 images captured in Helicon Remote and merged in Helcon Focus. Processed in Adobe Lightroom Classic and ON1 Photo Raw 2018 Effects (Dynamic Contrast and Tone Enhancer)
Captured with a Nikon 28mm f/2.8 AI-S lens at its closest focus distance of just 7 inches and wide-open aperture. DOF was so thin (see this also) that I focus stacked three photos into one.