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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The lighthouse was automated in 1984, and the keepers withdrawn.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.
An experiment in landscape focus stacking. First shot focus in on plant in foreground, second shot focus is on the rock face. The two shots combined with CZM to for a single shot.
D800, 16-35@ 32mm, 1/6th sec, f9, ISO 100.
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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.
Vintage ones from ebay of course. Need to source some 127 film for the older Brownies; the oldest Brownies are buggered. I sneaked in my ETRSi, MTL and Lomos. Thanks to JT for the photo and the notes. You trainspotter.
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.
Adapted from words to eat by.
No, I didn't eat the stack...
...er, I did eat 5 of them. Four were pretty much around the same time period and the 5th was a late night snack as my mum was eating miniature financiers. I also ate ice cream.
I ATE 500000 CALORIES TODAY. SHOOT MEEE.
On an unrelated note, my kitchen at home is one of the worst places to take photos of food. Besides that the lighting isn't so good (one of the fixtures doesn't work), we have a glass table. It LOOKS cool, but it doesn't provide a nice surface to take photos on (unless you want a photo of the floor) and we don't use tablecloth. We also need nicer tableware, hehe.
Photo from the 2014 Ai Wei Wei retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum, Ai Wei Wei: According to What? This piece entitled Straight takes rebar from the Sichuan earthquake that killed many and shows the previously bent and damaged metal straightened out as if nothing ever happened.
One of the two coal stackers at Port Kembla coal terminal. It runs on rails along the coal storage, which is around 800 metres long.
One of the coal reclaimers (it retrieves coal from the stack for loading onto ships) is in the background.
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!
Camera : Canon 5D III
LENS : 4X KYOWA objective lens
Images Stacked: 57 pics
Step size : 30 um
stacked: Wemacro
Howard County’s signature winter gala, Evening in the Stacks, sets sail on a daring swashbuckling adventure in 2020 that is sure to treat guests to a “yo, ho, ho” good time. Guests will experience specialty rums, signature grogs, fruits de mer, encounters with sea-going characters and creatures, and a treasure trove of entertaining activities throughout the evening. (It’s arrrggggurably the best party in Howard County!
Rum tasting by Mutiny Pirate Bar & Island Grille.
Fresh shucked oysters from The Walrus Oyster & Ale House.
Gourmet food by Catering By Seasons, signature cocktails by The Wine Bin , sophisticated non-alcoholic beverages by Sobar, and music by DJ MC Fresh.
Entertaining encounters with Charm City Tails.
Featured speaker Pierre Henkart : “Why Baltimore Privateers Were the Best” Held at HCLS East Columbia branch.
A friend and I took a stack-n-whack class. Here are a few of the blocks I've actually completed. It lives in a box somewhere in my domicile... Maybe someday it will turn into a quilt... ;-D
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La collection Stacked Muuto : www.ideesboutique.com/fr/s/702/muuto-stacked
La marque Muuto : www.ideesboutique.com/36_Muuto
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La collection Stacked Muuto : www.ideesboutique.com/fr/s/702/muuto-stacked
La marque Muuto : www.ideesboutique.com/36_Muuto
La collection de Jds : www.ideesboutique.com/fr/s/701/designer/jds
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Noticed these whilst in one of my favorite area's of Singapore... Little India.
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