View allAll Photos Tagged Stack
New game from Double Fine coming to Xbox LIVE Arcade and PlayStation Network.
Find out more about the game and watch the first trailer, here.
South Stack Lighthouse, Anglesey.
South Stack is set in a spectacular location to the north-west of Holyhead. The lighthouse acts as a waymark for coastal traffic and a landmark and orientation light for vessels crossing the Irish Sea to and from the ports of Holyhead and Dun Laoghaire.
History of the lighthouse
In 1645 when lighthouses were privately owned, King Charles II was petitioned for a patent to build a lighthouse on South Stack. The request was refused. However, 143 years after the original petition, Trinity House leased South Stack island and construction of the lighthouse commenced. On 9 February 1809, the station's oil lamps, designed by Daniel Alexander at a cost of £12,000, were first lit. In 1828 an iron suspension bridge was built to replace the rope catwalk that originally linked the lighthouse to the bottom of the 400 steps down the cliff face.
This was one of the many changes that have taken place at South Stack since 1809. The lights regularly became more efficient and in 1938 electric power replaced the oil that powered the lamps. In 1964 the iron bridge was taken down and a new one of aluminium was put up in its place.
The lighthouse was automated in 1984, and the keepers withdrawn. Today, the lighthouse is monitored and controlled by computer link from Trinity House Operations Centre in Harwich, Essex.
This is another one from Saturday taken at Castlemartin. I have to say I was extremely grateful there was no firing going on !! What amazing views.
sorry
i made lots
i got up at 5.30am whilst on holiday one day to go to the cove and stack. The peace and tranquility was immense.
i built a set of 18 stacks in perfect alignment across the cove. unfortunately 18 sacks in a single line don't photograph well. they looked bloody brilliant though. as you walked in and out of the alignment you either saw one or a mass of stacks.
inspired by the master bebalance www.flickr.com/photos/rocker/sets/72157602341391436/ i tried counterbalancing stones. it made for more delicately balanced stacks.
i am going to upload the rest of the photos later. there are far too many but feel i have to put them all up.
More from last year's expedition to Chile with Laurence Packer. Such a lovely country...we camped in a new place every day. Ping ponging from the Andes to the Coast sleeping along the road or in open pastures. Lovely people, easy travel, no problems with law enforcement people. This is a Caenohalictus species of some kind. Photo by Anders Croft
~~~~~~~~~~{{{{{{0}}}}}}~~~~~~~~~~
All photographs are public domain, feel free to download and use as you wish.
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
Beauty is nature's fact. - Emily Dickinson
You can also follow us on Instagram - account = USGSBIML Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen:
Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:www.extreme-macro.co.uk/
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
South Stack lighthouse is located on a rocky islet situated off the east coast of Anglesey, north Wales. It was built in 1809, and is 28 metres tall, standing about 60 metres overall above sea level. In good visibility the light can be seen from nearly 30 miles away.
The lighthouse can be visited, but only by descending - and then ascending - the 400 steps down the steep cliff face. The surrounding cliffs are used by thousands of sea birds, particularly guillemots, as nesting sites.
Copies of "A Comprehensive Dual Bibliography of James P. Blaylock & Tim Powers", after I glued the Pirate's Gold coins on the covers.
A rock stack on the shore of Fårö island, Gotland.
These rock formations, known as raukar on Gotland, are formed over time by wind and water, processes of coastal geomorphology, the ones found on Fårö are up to 8 meters tall.
New game from Double Fine coming to Xbox LIVE Arcade and PlayStation Network.
Find out more about the game and watch the first trailer, here.
Stacks
Accession No. 20110219S / 02-19-2011 / Digital
Smoke stacks atop the Biological Research & Diagnostics (BiRD) facility, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
The uniformly clouded sky hung like a middle gray backdrop behind the stacks and they practically begged to be photographed! Like a small, close-knit family, the individuals seem to crowd together for safety against a tall, slender father figure who has braced himself for a coming storm. I enjoy anthropomorphizing objects in my surroundings through photography.
Equipment: Sony A700 camera, Sigma 75-300mm f/4-5.6 APO lens.
This is an experiment with focus stacking using the "CombineZ5" software. Works very good as I think. This image has a rather small size; couldn't get larger ones than 1600 pixels to work.
Admittedly, this image is dull. But I like the quality.
Very promising technique, but requires a tripod (at least if I do it).
Setup:
- Konica-Minolta Dynax 5D on a tripod
- Cosina 100mm f/3.5 macro lens without 1:1 adapter (it's 1:3 or something)
- Wireless flash Minolta HS-3600(D) from low left
- ISO 100, 1/250, f8, manual program
Stacked image from only two different shots. One with focus on the leaf, one with focus on the whatever-it's-called-english.
Look at the master of macro's photos: Lord V's Photostream
To go with our stacks of books? I'm thinking the students were getting a little punchy at the end of finals.
(The student here is not responsible for this stack of chairs. He was only part of my photographic investigation.)
Taken in the coach somwhere between Montecatini and Parma day 4 of our Cosmos tour, October 3, 2012. After a nights stay in Montecatini we are now heading to the Venica area.
The Carrara marble quarries have been exploited since more than 2000 years. Carrara marble, found in northern Tuscany, is very famous for the statuary quality and has been used by all the most famous sculpturers in the world such as Michelangelo, Donatello, Jacopo Della Quercia and Canova. The first notable point of extractive activity was in the roman period, during the imperial age the demand for Carrara marble rose since it became the most requested building stone for public buildings.
Since then Carrara, Tuscany was a synonymous of marble and its marble was requested worldwide for buildings, statues, objects, etc. Till now, about one million tons of precious Carrara marble are quarried each year.
The town of Carrara is not far from any of the marble quaries, and since its origin, the town has been linked with the process of quarrying and marble working: already since the Roman Age from the close harbour of Luni at the mouth of river Magra, marble has been exported all over the world. After the unification of Italy, two important events characterized the local history of Carrara and on of which was very important for marble - the construction of the Railway to carry the blocks of marble from the mountain to the plain.
For More Info: www.tuscany-villas.com/blog/a-58/carrara%20and%20its%20ma...
Made with 2 charm packs of Hometown by Sweetwater for Moda, and yardage of the "solid textured cream" from the same line.
I am completely head over heels in love with this fabric line. Seriously. Everything about it. LOVE.
It's my first stack of twos, to be used as my spending money from now on. No star notes, but they are consecutive serial numbers from Minneapolis. Strangely enough, Where's George? shows that nearly half of all the two's in their system come from Minneapolis.
Federal Blue, Bauer Yellow & Bauer Orange
bauerla.stores.yahoo.net/servingware-refrigerator-stackin...
I went out and took some shots of Saturn, which was low on the western horizon after a hot day in Utah. None of the data was really usable, but I tried anyway.
I post this to demonstrate how stacking data can help, even if the source info is very noisy. By stacking frames I increase the signal-to-noise ratio, meaning that each frame has a little noise and a little info. The info will come through over and over in the same places, and the noise is always just random. When stacked, the noise cancels itself out, and the real image comes through.
Journey of Angels
Celestial Stacker @ night…. its a bit abstract but hey, life sometimes is
here is its vibe 'twas a sublime night in the darkness (been away in the darkness I'll catch up soon with you all)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_1y1hwEpLA
thank you for looking
Diana