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Clouds stacked in orton
These clouds were taken in from my home, here in West Richland, Washington. My mom & I seen these on our walk, they were quite beautiful and unique.
The Elegug Stacks or two limestone pillars on the Pembrokeshire Coast. They are named after the Welsh word for Guillemot, a bird which nests on the rocks for part of the year.
This image of an eastbound Norfolk Southern stack train on the Cleveland Line at Brady Lake, Ohio, was made the day after a snow storm blanketed the area with a few inches of snow.
We are riding on a legend in the intermodal world. Over the past 50 years, you could find these monster machines in the yards of most railroads across the country.
The PC90 was an intermodal loader built by FWD Wagner Company. Manufacturing began in the late 1960s. They can still be found loading and unloading trains today.
Today, the last container of UPS high priority freight is being set for pick up. After an inspection of the cars, the track will be released and the cars placed into a train.
It was awesome to ride this beast. The operator was a veteran at ITS and was very skilled. He precisely spotted containers on chassis and well cars. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing this behind the scenes side of railroading.
The PC90 is a huge machine. It is much larger than the modern European built counterparts that are replacing them. When the operator opens the tucked in legs and spread them wide open. the PC90 resembles a Transformer. It's size seems to increase quite a bit. Let me tell you, Bumblebee has nothing on the PC90!
Stack Em!
A UP stack train heads south through Morada, CA on the UP Fresno Sub. Seen here crossing Bear Creek.
My specimen photos are taken using this setup. The base is a block of wood from the offcut bin of a hardware store that sells kitchen worktops. The camera is attached directly to a BPM focus rail, which is mounted on a tripod quick-release plate, screwed to the base through another small piece of wood. The rail allows me to move the camera and coarse focus it. At the other end of the table is the specialist equipment: a Proxxon KT 70 table, screwed to the base. This is a low-cost alternative to linear actuators or stacking rails: one turn of the handle moves the table 1 mm. The divisions on the dial are 0.05 mm, so by moving to half way between each one I take frames at 0.025 mm intervals, which is narrow enough for most whole-insect photos I take. Smaller intervals are possible with smaller movements of the handle, but they are not easy to measure. This idea came from John Hallmen: you can see his setup here. Without his advice, I would not have been able to do any of this, so thank you to John and to Nikola Rahme; two people whose photos I greatly admire and who have shared their techniques freely on flickr.
A SIlverline Helping Hands is mounted on the Proxxon table. The crocodile clip holds a piece of plastazote in its jaws; I stick the specimen's pin into the plastazote and try to get it in the same plane as the camera sensor. This is fiddly: a vertical setup would be easier for this, but it would need better handiwork skills than I have. A heavy granite base would also make for a more stable setup, as would a concrete floor instead of a wooden one, but there is nothing I can do about that in my house.
Lighting comes from a flourescent tube desk lamp. The lamp would not hold itself in the right position, so I broke it off from its stand and I held it in a clamp stand instead. I use a simple cylinder of greaseproof paper as a diffuser: this is just pushed on to the end of the lens. To help get a more even light I have a sheet of kitchen foil as a reflector opposite the lamp. I also fix on the camera a 26mm stepping ring with foil over the front, another idea from John Hallmen, explained here.
I have tried other lighting, such as using two Ikea lamps (like the one that carries the foil in the picture above), each with a plastic cup over it to act as a diffuser. But the setup shown here is the one I have come to prefer.
I use Zerene Stacker for the stacking, with DMap as my main image, retouched from the PMax image where the detail is lost in the DMap. Then the image is edited in GIMP before getting a posting here.
The double-stacked containers of Norfolk Southern's eastbound intermodal train 206 are reflected in the relatively calm water of Conneaut Creek in Conneaut, Ohio.
At last some cloud! Tried using my Reverse NDG here but it's pants....... don't buy one! Best seen LARGE or in My Flickeflu (Click the link below). Thanks for looking folks.
In this shot I'm revisiting some images that I took 4.5 years ago and hopefully treating them in a more subtle way than in my earlier processing.
This is South Stack on Anglesey, timing the exposures to catch the illuminated lighthouse. The Sun was setting into the bank of cloud/mist to the left but I've cropped it out in order to focus the composition on the lighthouse. It did help to provide some warm light on the cliff face.
Sony A100 / Sigma EX 10-20mm
A UP stack awaits a green light to head west from West Colton yard to LA, with GE 7074 leading. 5 units altogether: middle one is EMD.
View On Black, or View my most interesting stream ON BLACK!
I never know the look of the shoreline could change so much just by less than a year! I spent a couple of hours in the John Lawson Park last weekend, thinking about strolling on waterfront pebbles. However, lovely pebbles are replaced by big rocks for some reasons. I have to say I feel a bit disappointed by the new look as I'm not ready for the change... I still have no clue how the stacking rocks arrive the beach.
Anybody know?
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John Lawson Park, West Vancouver, Canada
- manually blending with two bracketing exposures
- ISO 100, F16, 30 & 90 sec,18mm
- Canon 5D Mark II with EF 16-35mm f/2.8 L lens
- Sunset @6.35pm (261º) / Shot @ 6.51 & 6.53pm
- High Tide 4.2m @5.02pm, Water Level 4.1m @6pm / 3.7m @7pm
© copyright 2011 Hsiang Wei Chao
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196 images stacked with Zerene Stacker Pmax and Dmap.
The equipment used for this picture was:
Canon Eos 5DmkII and Rodenstock Apo-Gerogon 210mm 1:9 as tube lens on bellows with a Mitutoyo M Plan APO 10x 0.28 microscope objective.
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