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A UP stack train heads south through Morada, CA on the UP Fresno Sub. Seen here crossing Bear Creek.
Continuing my early morning walk, wrecked cars stacked ready for recycling. There's a wire fence around the compound so I had to use a wide aperture to throw the fence out of focus.
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.
Busy days are back in the Feather River Canyon! Over the summer, Union Pacific crews will be busy on Donner Pass, adding new rail and concrete ties, and adding a ventilation system to Tunnel 41 at the summit. This means most traffic (with the exception of Amtrak and the Z's, will detour through the Feather River Canyon. This westbound I train passes through Pulga on a stormy May afternoon.
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In Chichester Cathedral..waiting to be set out for a service...
For the TSC group challenge ( over on Ipernity) 7th June..Your favourite song and picture that goes with it..well I seem to have a different favourite song every week..depending on my mood..where I am..etc etc..this week it is Re:Stacks by Bon Iver..I am playing it to death at every opportunity!..
Have not had a chance to get a new picture to go with it so this old one will have to do..
Here is a link to the song in case anyone wants to listen to it ..
I of course think it is wonderful but everyones tastes are different :))
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.
ODC Stacks
When the chips are down, you can always count on me............... (for a rubbish quote) :~)
Herbed Potato Stacks
Simple and easy to make, impressive and the perfect snack on NLF Sunday or College ball Saturday! As an hors d'oeuvre topped with a little sour cream and caviar...perfection
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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.
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
I was awaiting a stack heading west that had a UP Heritage unit (WP 1983) as the second unit, but lo and behold, this one was not the one. It turned out it was behind this one, but eventually the prized stacker was allowed to overtake and pass this one, as it came through Colton a short time later ahead of the pictured one.
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.
A view of the rusty, well-worn smoke stacks at the decommissioned White Bay Power Station in Rozelle.
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South Stack Lighthouse was built by Trinity House in 1809, marking a tiny islet off Anglesey at the north west tip of Wales
Built
1809
Height of Tower
28 m
Height of light above Mean High Water
60 m
Automated
1983
Electrified
1938
Optic
1st Order six panel catadioptric rotating
Character
Fl 10s
Intensity
467,000 candela
Range of light
24 NM
Region
West
South Stack Rock lies separated from Holyhead Island by 30 metres of turbulent sea, surging to and fro in continuous motion. The coastline from the breakwater and around the south western shore is made of large granite cliffs rising sheer from the sea to 60 metres.
Origins
South Stack Lighthouse was first envisaged in 1665 when a petition for a patent to erect the lighthouse was presented to Charles II. The patent was not granted and it was not until 9 February 1809 that the first light appeared to mark the rock. The lighthouse was designed by Trinity House surveyor Daniel Alexander and originally fitted with Argand oil lamps and reflectors. Around 1840 a railway was installed by means of which a lantern with a subsidiary light could be lowered down the cliff to sea level when fog obscured the main light.
On 25 October 1859 it is said that the most severe storm of the century occurred, known as the 'Royal Charter' gale; and on that and the following day over 200 vessels were either driven ashore or totally wrecked with the loss of 800 lives.The steamship Royal Charter was among these, sinking within yards of help with the loss of almost 500 passengers and crew.
In the mid 1870s the lantern and lighting apparatus was replaced by a new lantern. In 1909 an early form of incandescent light was installed and in 1927 this was replaced by a more modern form of incandescent mantle burner. The station was electrified in 1938.
Automation
On 12 September 1984 the lighthouse was automated and the keepers withdrawn. The lighthouse is now monitored and controlled from Trinity House’s Planning Centre in Harwich, Essex.
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.
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