Circular glass cabinets housing ship models in the Deutsches Technikmuseum (German Museum of Technology).

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Tiny wasp nest - a find on the curtain track

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A castle on a hill where modern waves float through history.

Something is going wrong when the camera with its impressive algorithms and countless AF options forces itself into the centre and, hence, between photographer and object. Ideally, I would think, we photographers ought to use the camera as if it was not there. Just focussing on the composition and the 'essence' of the object and having the settings run in the background. I am not advocating 'point and shoot', I am saying that a camera should be built in such a way that we can 'forget' about it and focus on taking the picture. I think my older cameras do that. My newer ones are much more sophisticated and what they are increasingly trying to do is take over decisions I could make myself. What is my reaction? Number one, I prefer using my older cameras. And two, when using my sophisticated ones, I turn off a lot of their computer-powered procedures. I wonder what you think.

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Makro Panorama

Seen in the Oldtimer Museum, Amerang, Bavaria, Germany. Shot with Sony A7 MII and Leitz/Leica SUMMILUX 75mm, F1.4 and NOVOFLEX Adapter.

Twinkle, twinkle little...cable!

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Even all the way out here in a very quiet location...

One of my Teddies proudly presenting this vintage

Voigtländer Compur bellows camera of the 1930/1940s which is still working.

[Dedicated to CRA (ILYWMAHASAM)]

taken Feb 9, 2022 and uploaded for the group CrAzY Tuesday

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Gigaset GS290

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3.5 mm

1/20 Sec

ISO 731

...and on the horizon lignite power

THE WORLD OF TECHNOLOGY is the topic for 1th - 7th February 2025., Group Our Daily Challenge

The biggest security risk in any system is the user.

"Hundreds of Westminster insiders were added to - and then deleted from - a WhatsApp group set up by shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick to promote his London Marathon run".

In this day and age there should be minimum level of competence with technology to gain access to any position of power or trust, (especially after the U.S "signal app" fiasco).

(As we old techies used to say the problem is "BTKAC" between the keyboard and chair).

The BBC has been told Jenrick is not referring himself to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), which investigates data breaches. (What a surprise!).

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Minolta X-700 Minolta 50mm 1:3.5 MC Macro Celtic 1:1 Extension Adox HR-50 LegacyPro EcoPro 1:1 05/04/2024

Sunset in the Allgäu and view directed to Germany's highest mountain, Zugspitze, while a regional train passed the scene.

Technikmuseum Speyer

Für Silke

Kait Workshop von Junya Ishigami 2010

Aus dem Erläuterungsbericht des Architekten: Das „KAIT-Workshop-Building“ ist Teil einer Campuserweiterung des Kanagawa-Institute of Technology. Es liegt zwischen Bibliothek, Mensa, Instituts- und Laborgebäuden an einer Kirschbaumallee im Weichbild Tokios.

Es ist gedacht als offenes Kommunikations- und Werkstattzentrum. In dem eingeschossigen 2000-Quadratmeter-Raum können die Studenten an freien Projekten arbeiten. Sie können probieren, Roboter zu bauen oder Lampen und Fernseher zu reparieren. 46 mal 47 Me-ter misst die Halle, sie ist vollverglast, fünf Meter hoch, hat keine Trennwände und ist über drei Flügeltüren ebenerdig zu betreten. Im Inneren hinter der umlaufenden Glaswand scheint sich das Campusgelände als künstlicher Bam-bushain fortzusetzen, wie eine zufällige Streuung von weißen Stahlstützen, vor-gefundenen Möbeln der Universität, Maschinen und Blumentöpfen. Ich behaupte: Jeder, der sich in der Halle bewegt, fühlt sich, als würde er durch einen Wald laufen, in dem das Sonnenlicht durch die Baumstämme gefiltert wird. Die Konstruktion besteht aus 305 schlanken Stützen, die praktisch keine identischen Proportionen, Querschnitte oder Materialitäten haben. Die Breite der Stützen bewegt sich zwischen 80 und 160 Millimetern, ihre Dicke zwischen 16 und 62 Millimetern. Der Kräfteverlauf im Stützensystem ist konstruktiv in Querkräfte und Normalkräfte getrennt. 16 und 45 Millimeter breite Flachstahlstützen nehmen die Horizontalkräfte auf, quadratische Stützen die Normalkräfte. Die Benutzer des Instituts können aus dem Erscheinungsbild der Konstruktion keine Regeln für die Anordnung der Stützen ableiten. Erst durch die Inszenierung des Zufälligen, dadurch, dass die geometrische Nachvollziehbarkeit und Logik der Konstruk-tion verwischt wird, wird sich der architektonische Raum an die wechselnden Bedürfnisse der Nutzer anpassen können.

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kkhttps://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jun%e2%80%99ya_Ishigami

Artistic bicycle stand

Wetzlar, Dalheim

Sitting on the window-sill and enjoying the low afternoon sun. Illuminated and in sharp focus is the "good" eye, the one I use for photography. The other one plays second fiddle. However, none of them was really involved in taking this self-portrait. It was the artificial eye of the camera in connection with a clever algorithm (automatic eye recognition) that kicked in when I pressed the shutter release (via a long cable). This is one of the situations where camera technology enables me to do things with ease that, if done manually, would have been quite difficult to achieve.

Harvested fields end of July

Crazy Tuesday

treurwilgen, trees,

Absolutely love the way this turned out. It's inspired by this concept art from Elysium. Something I've wanted to do for quite a while now. Not quite done yet as I need to add to the interior cargo area and make some actual cargo for it, but I wanted to get this photo before the decals aged or something happened to them. This is also the first time I've been able to get a white background to look good in a long time! XD

Katherine Brown talking about her use of the Moodle Lesson tool in teaching.

WCELfest08, University of Waikato, December 11, 2008

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Bush radiogram for this weeks theme

A passer by not thinking of using a telephone box.

Interesting support structure at the top of Zugspitze.