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ScotRail staff waiting for 1T92 chat at Perth as Andy records 37219 at the head of 1Q79 1538 Inverness Millburn C.Rail to Mossend Down Yard.
17th April 2023
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Testing what may be my new camera once my back is sufficiently recovered to carry a backpack again, hopefully in the new year. As you would expect, I’ve carried out a rigorous, highly scientific test:
1. Can I carry it? Yes, all the way to the garden, no problem at all.
2. Does it fit in my pack? Probably. It’s around here somewhere.
3. Will it focus close enough to photograph a small pile of frosty leaves? Yes.
4. Are said leaves sharp? I should say so.
5. Will it photograph other stuff? I don’t see why not.
6. Have I comprehensively compared it to other cameras? Not really. I like this one.
7. Was it an impulse Black Friday buy? Maybe. I don’t see what that’s got to do with it.
8. Have you told the wife? No need. She can’t tell it apart from the old one.
9. So that’s that then? Yep. Proper job.
Fujifilm GFX 100S, Fujinon GF 35-70/4.5-5.6 WR. Original photograph copyright © Simon Miles. Not to be used without permission. Thanks for looking.
Featured today is a kitchen timer with words from a timed typing test in the background. "Get ready for a ten-minute timed writing." Does anyone remember those words?
Macro Mondays
Theme: Timepieces
March 11, 2019 (UTC)
Just recently I’ve seen quite a few of my contacts heading over to 500px (for those of you that are unfamiliar with it, it’s a new photo social networking site, but unlike flickr you can vote for images to reach the front page). Now I know there are plenty of other photography social networks around, ephotozine, photoradar, x1, even facebook, but what I find interesting about the rise of this new one is not the site in particular, but the my contacts behaviour in approaching this new site. Many are posting what they themselves consider their best most successful work, filtering their new uploads to present them in the very best light. Now, there is nothing wrong with this at all, in fact it’s a good way to gauge a new community and gain valuable feedback. But for most new members dipping their tow into the water, their new community is largely the same faces with different avatars. There is nothing new and it’s like a different pub with the same friends, it feels fresh, but people still behave the same.
Any social network is based on its members and the rewards come from the social interaction. Personally I find maintaining several different social networks are very difficult. Investing limited time in different places weakens the experience and even changes your brain. ironically I was a listening to a neural scientist yesterday on Radio 4 that said , (and I paraphrase), our new fast and fleeting world of quick face book texting, email and the quantity of distractions is damaging our neural pathways. He said that people generally find it difficult to concentrate in the depth due to distractions and the quality of concentration is improved with no distractions from email, text, ect!
Anyway I digress, but the point I want to make is that anything that you really engage in, in depth offers bigger physiological rewards; it pushes you further and enriches your life.
Oh, just for an experiment I posted a new shot to this new site first to see how I felt about it. I personally will keep only one social network, but I will stay with the one that offers the deepest and best engagement with the people that I respect and find inspiration in their work. Where that will be in the future time will tell.
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EMDX SD70ACe tier3 demos power CSX Stilesboro, Plant Bowen coal train N290 by the Golf Course on August 23, 2013 at Cartersville, Georgia.
Pentax 6x7 MUI | Pentax Pentax 67 105mm f2.8 | Ilford FP4+ 125
Scanned with Canon EOS 6D | lighttable | Valoi 360
Home developed in Adox FX39II 1/9 | 8,5 min / 20 deg C
Negative Lab Pro v3.1.1 | Color Model: B+W | Pre-Sat: 3 | Tone Profile: LAB - Standard | LUT: Frontier
We went through some things I'd like to try ...
and then she said enough!
We took a much needed time out from the preparations to sit in the garden and have a Miller Lite together.
Unintended art – color test patches on a building during the facade renovation.
Prague-Vršovice, Czech Republic
A set of 8 Testors Enamels and 1 Paint Thinner used for model airplanes and ships. Purchased for $4.49 (USD) back in the '70's. Included a brush. Cement purchased separately.
Now on Amazon for only $20!
For Crazy Tuesday
Theme: Container & Its Contents
Royal Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon FGR.4 ZK376 from 41 Squadron (the RAF's Test and Evaluation Squadron) banks as it comes in to land at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada during Red Flag 20-1.
Dans cette situation, le véhicule de droite roule à la même vitesse que moi, je dois :
a : Le dépasser à toute vitesse.
b : Me mettre à sa hauteur et lui dire bonjour.
c : Ne pas prendre de photos en conduisant.
d : Faire des appels de phares.
(Attention, il y a un piège.)
These are test photos taken on my new camera, a Pentax K5 II shot moments ago. Having had a Pentax K-x for a few years now the contact points are so intuitive, the ergonomics being perfect. Feeling very sturdy which is important to me as I have a slight shake, it feels so good in the hand. Operation is faultless, sharp, fast focusing and the metering functions are instantly accessible and usable. Combine this with full weather proofing on both camera and lenses makes everything about this camera right! "I BLOODY LOVE IT"