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Eastbound CSX train I016 passes a frozen landscape on its way through Rockwood, PA. In a few miles, they'll be digging deep into the climb up the west slope of Sand Patch Grade.
we got two cords of wood delivered to finish out this rainy season and to take us into the next. the wood stove is our only source of heat except for some portable heaters in really cold areas in the house during the winter.
leon has been stacking for days. I helped him with 2 cart loads, into the cart and then onto the wood pile. it hurts my back, but I can do a little at a time. it's good for me.
polaroid OneStep 2 with I-type polaroid color film
South Stack from Holyhead Mountain..
For the last night of my stay I stopped on a campsite very close to South Stack. It's a great site with 200ft sheer cliffs, very clean and close to Trearddur Bay and the beautiful beach at Porth Dafarch, with spectacular views over to the mountains of Snowdonia and the Llŷn Peninsula. The last of the colour in the heather is just about hanging on but the chill in the air up here was noticeable. Autumn is definitely on the way.
However....South Stack is a lighthouse and that can only mean one thing....Yup, Adrian had 'Lifted' going through his head for the next two days.
Damn you The Lighthouse Family.
Personal critique - a bit like most of my school reports “ Could do better” Excuse, not done many stacks. Lots to learn.
Double stacks on UP ZLAMQ 16 head east under the SP signal cantilever at Wellton, AZ as the sun sets below the horizon.
Lewis and Harris. Mangersta Rock Stacks, which I was desperate to return to. Pity tho, it was so windy and squally, showery, it was only possible to take mobile phone snaps. The stormy weather certainly made for dramatic seas. This is one angle, but tho you can walk out onto the point, had to return and do that another day, as the winds were so fierce, it wouldn't have been safe.
Stack info: Canon 6D, Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM lens
22 natural light exposures, f10, ISO 100
Focus stacking – a new era
It turns out that the FL-LM3 lamp can be used for focus stacking, which in the Olympus system is added as an accessory to the E-M1 Mark II. Basically, this lamp lies unused by all photographers who want to have "real" large reportage lamps.
I have been running a project called "macro photography" for some time now and I am trying to understand what is most important in it. In this first photo I want to prove that you don't have to buy a large reporter lamp, the FL-LM3 lamp with a low guide number (9 m) is enough. The first important lesson is to get as much detail as possible with as few shadows as possible in macro photography. The key is soft light, which depends on the reflecting surface (reflector) and on the gain, direction and distance of the flash in relation to the size of the photographed object. The larger the surface of the reflector in relation to the size of the photographed object, the softer the incident light. You should also make sure that it falls from different directions in order to "destroy" the shadows with the light falling from a different direction - this can be achieved with the shape of an ew reflector - using lower backlight from a diffuser.
I called my starting macro setup "Akocot Diffusor 0.0" (with a 12-40 lens) - the photos below show it. The reflector and reflector are a cosmetics bottle cut out for the FL-LM3 lamp. I specifically used a low sensitivity of ISO 64 and a large aperture of f10.0 and the maximum flash of the lamp (I also did equally good tests for ISO 200, f/10 and 1/32 of the lamp power), the photo is in JPG format, a file created directly in the camera body with 15 photos.
I am currently working on a diffuser that will ultimately work with the M.Zuiko 60 mm ED f/2.8 lens + Raynox DCR-250 + FL-LM3 lamp - I think I will show the effects of such a combination soon. The diffuser being developed will be called "AKocot Diffusor 1.0" and is dedicated to the body + lens + lamp system - it contains all the best solutions used in diffusers such as Cygnustech Diffusor, AK Diffusor, Pope Shield, Radiant and many other DIY.
I plan to continue and develop this project in the coming months, when there are few good weather days for landscape sessions. I think it's a good idea .
A break in the weather and the farmers have got started on the harvest here, This was a difficult shot to meter for, the sky was so bright so I ended up blending three shots together .
This Stack of Mini Dominoes is almost 40mm Cubed, it was Cropped Square in Photoshop, and converted to Back and White using the Channel Mixer............Oh it floats with a touch of Levitation !!
A stack of hearts for you...
Uploaded for the theme "Stacked" in "Looking close... on Friday!".
Using the Helios 44-2 2/58 Soviet lens (from 1975).
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Taken just before the sky erupted in red yesterday. I was delighted by the "stacked" appearance directly above the dark cloud that cried snowflakes.
A simple stack of a stunning raft spider. If you look on the right hand side you'll see and even smaller spider which I'm yet to ID. It spent a couple of minutes annoying the raft spider and getting kicked around before it ended up as dinner. Imagine annoying someone so much that they resort to eating you...
A westbound Union Pacific stack train, led be EMD SD70ACe-T4 No. 3054, departs Green River, Wyoming, and begins its climb of Peru Hill on September 27, 2020.
7400' of double stacked, 53 foot domestics assigned to train Q CHISTO6 04L trade Chicago's bustling metropolis for the rural farmlands, wind turbines and grain elevators that dot the many miles of this bucolic Illinois landscape, seen here sprinting through small-town Ransom, milepost 79 of the Chillicothe Sub, still within the infant stages of their long, westward journey across the old Santa Fe Transcontinental to California. The front runner on this Sunday edition Chicago-Corwith to Stockton intermodal Q is C44-9W #987, which wears the short lived Heritage 1 livery from BNSF's original corporate image, conjured up following a September 1995 merger between both the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and Burlington Northern railroads. This sharp looking H1 scheme features a large orange band running the length of each locomotive marked with company initials and flanked both above and below by thin yellow stripes and dark green paint, brought all together by BNSF's round "Wagon Wheel" logo adorned on the nose. Formerly relegated to trailing service only, the entire fleet of these 900, 1000, and 1100 series General Electric Dash 9's were all recently upgraded with the necessary PTC electrical equipment to become lead qualified out on the mainlines; Today's pictured 987 reaping such benefits.
Loch Stack is a lonely and wild place in the far north west of Scotland. A windy single track road goes past it, and this accessibility makes it rightly popular with photographers. In many cases you will see this view across Loch Stack to the great Quartzite lump that is Arkle, with a boarded up shed in the foreground. I have a few of those shots too, but decided that I liked the fleeting light on the little Birch trees that dot the boggy shoreline.