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I've posted pictures of these figurines before. This time I used an ancient 105mm Nikkor fixed focal length medium tele from my old Nikon F2 35mm film camera. All shots are hand-held and the ISO was only 200. I focused on the faces of each figurine approximately 15 feet across the room and made 3 shots --- then blended them in PS CS5.1. I wasn't looking for extreme sharpness here. I just wanted to see if I could create a pleasant still life
The stack blower is used to create a draft to pull the firebox smoke through the boiler tubes. When the engine is running, the steam exhaust and/or a steam blower are used to maintain the draft.
A close-up abstract shot of stacked firewood, highlighting the intricate details and textures of the cut logs. The varying shades of brown and the rough bark create a warm and rustic visual appeal.
Komatiite sill in the Precambrian of Ontario, Canada. (this outcrop is bleached to prevent growth of vegetation; this is a NO HAMMER locality)
Komatiites are very rare, magnesium-rich, extrusive, ultramafic igneous rocks. They are named after the Komati River Valley in South Africa, the type locality. Komatiite is an exceedingly rare type of lava. No volcano on Earth erupts this material today. Komatiites are essentially restricted to the Archean (4.55 to 2.5 billion years ago). Experimental evidence has shown that komatiite lavas, when originally erupted, were considerably hotter (~1600º C) than any modern lava type on Earth. This indicates that Earth’s mantle was much hotter than now. Other geologic evidence also indicates that early Earth’s heat flux was much higher than today’s.
Komatiite lava had a very low viscosity - it could flow like an ultradense gas. This property permitted the solidification of some individual lava flows that are only 1 cm thick.
The classic texture of komatiites is spinifex texture, named after clumps of long, spiky (& painful!) grasses. Komatiites with spinifex texture have short to long blades or plates of olivine mixed with smaller-scale blades of pyroxene.
All Archean komatiites are metamorphosed - the original igneous mineralogy (olivine, pyroxene, minor chromite, etc.) is gone to mostly gone. Such rocks are best termed metakomatiites, but the prefix “meta-” is usually not specified in writing.
Komatiites have economic significance, as many are closely associated with copper-nickel minerals (chalcopyrite & pentlandite), plus minor platinum-group elements, arsenides, bismuthides, and maybe a little gold and silver. Komatiites are a world-class source of nickel in Canada and Western Australia.
The outcrop seen here is part of a stack of tectonically-tilted, nearly vertical, komatiite lava flows at Pyke Hill, Ontario, Canada. The original olivine spinifex texture is serpentinized for the most part. Pyroxene spinifex consists of small, felted needles. Cumulate-textured units are also present in these lava flows, plus knobby peridotite units and brecciated or cooling-cracked flow tops.
Pyke Hill is a world-famous locality for komatiites. The rocks there are part of the Kidd-Munro Assemblage, which consists of ultramafic and mafic volcanic rocks intruded by mafic to ultramafic dikes and sill-like bodies. Minor felsic volcanic rocks are also present. Volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits occur in the Kidd-Munro Assemblage - they have been mined at the Texas Gulf Mine and the Potter Mine.
Within each lava flow at Pyke Hill, the silica content increases upward. The peridotites (= lower portions of each flow) are 37 to 45% silica, while the spinifex-textured rocks (= upper portions of each flow) are 42 to 45% silica. The chromium (Cr) content ranges from 1500 to 5000 parts per million in the peridotite and spinifex-textured rocks. Nickel (Ni) content ranges from 400 to 2000 parts per million.
At this particular site, komatiite sills having a coarsely-crystalline spinifex texture have intruded a relatively thick, cumulate-textured komatiite lava flow. The sills are congruent to subcongruent with lava flow bedding. The chill margins of the sills are finely-crystalline, whereas olivine crystal sizes in the lava flow itself become coarser next to the flow-sill contact. The sills are interpreted as having been intruded when the lava flow was still hot and semiconsolidated (see Houlé et al., 2010).
Stratigraphy: Upper Komatiitic Unit, upper Kidd-Munro Assemblage, Abitibi Greenstone Belt, lower Neoarchean, 2.711-2.717 Ga
Locality: Pyke Hill outcrop - hillside exposures on the northwestern part of Pyke Hill, east of the Potter Mine, north of Route 101, east-northeast of Matheson & south of the western end of Lake Abitibi & ~83 kilometers east of the city of Timmins, Munro Township, southern Cochrane District, eastern Ontario, southeastern Canada (vicinity of 48° 35' 55.78" North latitude, 80° 12' 00.05" West longitude) (= locality B (“Spinifex veins penetrating underlying peridotite”) on the northwestern part of Pyke Hill of Fyon & Green, 1991 - Geology and ore deposits of the Timmins District, Ontario (field trip 6), Geological Survey of Canada Open File 2161, p. 29 (figure N13).) (= stop 2.1C of Houlé et al., 2010 - Stratigraphy and physical volcanology of komatiites and associated Ni-Cu-(PGE) mineralization in the western Abitibi Greenstone Belt, Timmins area, Ontario: a field trip for the 11th International Platinum Symposium. Ontario Geological Survey Open File Report 6255, p. 36 (figure 17) & p. 37.)
There were some very colorful plates in the pizza parlour. They looked pretty cool all stacked up. Here they are, PS'd and rotated.
The octagons are ready for their corners. Since the four stacks were already stacked, making the octagons went pretty quickly.
When we got down to the beach we saw that someone had stacked at least 20 cairns. The fisherman was sitting amongst them.
I had an idea in my head so had to start something new.... Another 12 blocks must be made I think, in order to tie all these colours together.
Macro setup - this is a 75-300mm Canon lens (right) stacked against a reversed Rikenon 35-70mm via a reversing ring. When both lenses are at their extreme (35mm vs 300mm) the magnification factor is 8.5x (300 / 35). This results in the full frame being ~2mm along the long edge, which on the 350D (sensor 22.2 mm × 14.8mm) works out to a macro factor of about 10x.
This arrangement replaces the $1.35 Pringles can solution. It's worth the $15-20 for the reversing ring ;)
You can see photos taken with the setup under my Lens Stacking tag.
First day of operations at the new IMT Terminal at quay 730 at the Delwaide dock.
The first vessel to call is the NileDutch operated Domingo (IMO 9215672) which calls on Antwerp, Le Havre, Lisbon, Algeciras, Tanger Med, Pointe Noire, Luanda, Lobito, Namibe, Douala, Tema, Abidjan, Algeciras and back to Antwerp.
The terminal will move from its present location at the Hansa dock to this location which was previously occupied by the MPET Terminal (MSC Home).
On this first day of operations, both terminals, old and new received a vessel with a ICL vessel bound for the USA calling at the Hansa dock
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South Stack is famous as the location of one of Wales' most spectacular lighthouses, South Stack Lighthouse. It has a height of 41 metres (135 feet). It has a maximum area of 7 acres.
Until 1828 when an iron suspension bridge was built, the only means of crossing the deep water channel on to the island was in a basket which was suspended on a hemp cable. The suspension bridge was replaced in 1964, but by 1983 the bridge had to be closed to the public, due to safety reasons. A new aluminium bridge was built and the lighthouse was reopened for public visits in 1997. Thousands of people flock to the lighthouse every year, thanks to the continued public transport service from Holyhead's town centre.
There are over 400 stone steps down to the footbridge (and not, as local legend suggests, 365), and the descent and ascent provide an opportunity to see some of the 4,000 nesting birds that line the cliffs during the breeding season. The cliffs are part of the RSPB South Stack Cliffs bird reserve, based at Elin's Tower.
The Anglesey Coastal Path passes South Stack, as does the Cybi Circular Walk. The latter has long and short variants; the short walk is 4 miles long and takes around two hours to complete. Travelling from the Breakwater Country Park, other sites along the way are the North Stack Fog Signal station, Caer y Tŵr, Holyhead Mountain and Tŷ Mawr Hut Circles.