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Evening in the Stacks 2015 held at the HCLS Miller Branch.

 

About to return our library books from last week.

Evening in the Stacks 2015 held at the HCLS Miller Branch.

 

** orange, purple, black **

 

MEASUREMENTS: stacked pendant of 19mm round bead, 2x15mm disk bead, and a 8x13mm rondelle bead on a fine silver lampwork headpin, and a 20x7mm ring bail with a 10mm inner diameter. Hangs 55mm below chain/cord.

 

Stack of pebbles in shallow water with blue sky background

Digging through by Ste. Claire archives and posting a few shots from a couple of years ago.

 

This is standing atop the Ste. Claire and her stacks and the Columbia in the background.

 

I wish I had some updates on the progress of her restoration, but sadly, things have come to a standstill for months now.

  

Fuston Hollow Road, Wilson County, TN

Lauritzen Gardens, Omaha Nebraska.

Another mochimochiland pattern but I made my own tiny tiny cat for the top!

 

Colours chosen to represent my UK and USA affiliations!

 

I made one of these with my gramma when I was 8. (she cuts, I sew). I made one for a friends birthday many many years ago....that was the best sewing room ever!

Chasing meteors with a full moon and cloud cover isn't ideal. But you get interesting results...

stacked from 90 images, drizzle 3x

Canon 5D mk3, 100-400Lmk2

1/400s, f/8, ISO5320, 400mm

 

moon5 stack1 90pc sharp.jpg

Evening in the Stacks 2015 held at the HCLS Miller Branch.

 

Couldn't stack all the images in this one because of the clouds.

Went for a tour of a paper mill, and this is one of the stacks of paper. It is made from recycled clothing, they take clothing, make pulp and then make paper. This is pretty cool, just outside the town of Orcha in India.

Peat Stack at 19 Porthenderson.

Picture courtesy of Audrey Moore, Badachro

A stack n whack quilt my aunt and I worked on.

Stacked Deck territory map (Silverton).

From I-84 Westbound, this is the partially used stack interchange carrying traffic to/from CT-9. Originally, ConnDOT had proposed to build CT-9 north of Farmington and would have been I-291, a proposed bypass of Hartford. For more information, visit www.kurumi.com/roads/ct/xc-stack.html. The picture here is my own, the one on the linked web page was taken by its creator (notice how mine has a shadow from the EzPass thing).

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.

Evening in the Stacks 2015 held at the HCLS Miller Branch.

 

Early morning stack.

I had taken enough images to complete the stack and have the eyes and antennae in focus, as well. I chose to process the stack and have only the legs in focus. I think it made for a stronger final image.

 

Natural light with white reflector below and to the side.

1 sec. exposures @ f/5.6 and ISO160

58 images for entire stack; only 20 used for final image.

Evening in the Stacks 2015 held at the HCLS Miller Branch.

 

Evening in the Stacks 2015 held at the HCLS Miller Branch.

 

Northbound UP stack train passing site of derailment of ZYCLD due to high winds at Rockview, MO

Because of time constraints at work, I haven't had time to do any KAP recently, or much of any non work-related photography at all. Friday morning I had about half an hour before things got rolling, and rather than catch up on the weeks of email I've missed, I grabbed my camera and headed into the optics lab.

 

This isn't my first foray into Z-stacking, but it's not a technique I've used for some time. A while back I upgraded CHDK on all the cards I use in my A650IS. The upgrade didn't affect any of the scripts I use for KAP, but when I tried the Universal Bracket Script, I found it to be almost random in the changes it would make between images. A couple of weeks ago I made a slight change in the script (a 5us delay before each simulated button click), but didn't have a chance to test it until Friday.

 

The change worked like a charm. The Universal Bracket Script changed focus positions like clockwork, and returned to the same starting position each time. I have some changes to make to one other script I use (or used to use), and I'll declare the upgrade done.

 

The top image was made using 31 exposures at f/5.6 at a range of focus positions. Combine-ZP was used to pick the sharpest part of each image and combine them into a single frame. For this application Combine-ZP worked flawlessly. No further editing required.

 

The lower image was done using the same technique: 31 exposures, f/5.6, Combine-ZP. But because of the highlights present in this one, there are some oddball color flares in some parts of the image. (View large to see these.) Combine-ZP really has a hard time with the combination of blown out highlights and chromatic aberration. I may re-run this one after trying to remove CA with PTLens.

 

In any case it's good to have Universal Bracketing back!

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