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Vivitar Ultra Wide & Slim ~ Kodak EliteChrome 400 (cross-processed)
A marvellous dual-purpose day out in London... starting off with a flickrwalk around the streets of Southwark, following the Tate's Street Art trail, and flickr-sponsored drinks and food (thank you *so* much squirrelmonkey for organising such a great event - it was wonderful to meet so many other flickrrs!), followed by Massive Attack's opening night gig at the Meltdown Festival.
“Scott will make the nation’s second space walk on the mission. After stepping out of the capsule, wearing a chest pack that is connected to the spacecraft with a 25-foot umbilical (a combined oxygen-communication-tether line) he will move aft to the adapter section and experiment with a torqueless power tool. To begin the experiment, Scott will pull up a box-like unit from the adapter, open it to take out a power tool, then use the tool on four nut-and-bolt-test setups to determine the effectiveness of the tool and whether its action will tend to turn his body in space as a reaction to its operation.”
Due to the near disaster as a result of the spacecraft’s runaway thruster, no Extravehicular Actvity was conducted by Scott. As you might expect, in addition to Command Pilot being Neil Armstrong, there’s no shortage of material/reading available regarding this flight. A few:
airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/spinning-out-control...
Credit: Smithsonian NASM website
www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum29/HTML/001927.html
www.collectspace.com/news/news-031616c-gemini8-50th-anniv...
www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum29/HTML/000681.html
Above three credit: collectSPACE website
Finally, back to what I’m here for, the photographs and/or artists & artist’s concepts. Russ Arasmith…what a body of work.
Setup picture... 3 flashes, 3 light modifiers, tethered shooting setup w/pocket wizard triggers.
Learn how to light at Strobist.
a massive limb broken off a dead tree on the cliff that'd been caught in another tree as it drifted away. i freed it & tried steering it around the corner with the canoe but it was too huge to be able to wrestle it fully outta the current so i gave up & went to make coffee.
returning to the shore for a chore later, i found it'd gotten caught in the eddy along the north shore & was more or less stuck on some rocks right where i'd wanted to push it to with the boat. got in there & hauled it close enough to be able to tie it off so it'll still be there for dismemberment tomorrow into a week's worth of firewood.
This was some kind of radio tower that I shot at an awkward angle out the driver's side window of my car.
The darkness in the right side of the image is really the interior roof of my car.
I was surprised at how it turned out since the whole image looks as if it was taken from outer space.
This was not my intention when I captured this photo and that's why experimentation can be so rewarding.
I did add some nonsense, of course.
Pentax ME Super
SMC Pentax-M 50mm f/1.4
Fujicolor C200, redscaled and shot at ASA/ISO 12
Home Developed in Unicolor/Argentix
Scanned with Pakon F135
“A 70mm handheld camera was used by the STS-46 crewmembers to capture closeup view of early operations with the Tethered Satellite System (TSS). The sphere can be seen moving away from the ring structure on the boom device in Atlantis’ cargo bay.”
From the STS-46 press kit:
“An exciting new capability for probing the space environment and conducting experiments will be demonstrated for the first time when the NASA/Italian Space Agency Tethered Satellite System (TSS-1) is deployed during the STS-46 Space Shuttle flight. The reusable Tethered Satellite System is made up of a
satellite attached to the Shuttle orbiter by a super strong cord which will be reeled into space from the Shuttle's cargo bay. When the satellite on its cord, or tether, is deployed to about 12 miles above the orbiter, TSS-1 will be the longest structure ever flown in space.
Operating the tethered system is a bit like trolling for fish in a lake or the ocean. But the potential "catch" is valuable data that may yield scientific insights from the vast sea of space. For the TSS-1 mission, the tether -- which looks like a 12-mile-long white bootlace -- will have electrically-conducting metal strands in its core. The conducting tether will generate electrical currents at a high voltage by the same basic principle as a standard electrical generator -- by converting mechanical energy (the Shuttle's more than 17,000-mile-an hour orbital motion) into electrical energy by passing a conductor through a magnetic field (the Earth's magnetic field lines).
TSS-1 scientific instruments, mounted in the Shuttle cargo bay, the middeck and on the satellite, will allow scientists to examine the electrodynamics of the conducting tether system, as well as clarify their understanding of physical processes in the ionized plasma of the near-Earth space environment.
Once the investigations are concluded, it is planned to reel the satellite back into the cargo bay and stow it until after the Shuttle lands.
The TSS-1 mission will be the first step toward several potential future uses for tethers in space now being evaluated by scientists and engineers. One possible application is using long conducting tethers to generate electrical power for Space Station Freedom or other orbiting bodies. Conversely, by expending electrical power to reverse the current flow into a tether, the system can be placed in an "electric motor" mode to generate thrust for orbit maintenance. Tethers also may be used to raise or lower spacecraft orbits. This could be achieved by releasing a tethered body from a primary spacecraft, thereby transferring momentum (and imparting motion) to the spacecraft. Another potential application is the creation of artificial gravity by rotating two or more masses on a tether, much like a set of bolas.
Downward deployment (toward Earth) could place a satellite in regions of the atmosphere that have been difficult to study because they lie above the range of high-altitude balloons and below the minimum altitude of free-flying satellites. Deploying a tethered satellite downward from the Shuttle also could make possible aerodynamic and wind tunnel type testing in the region 50 to 75 nautical miles above the Earth.”
At:
spacepresskit.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/sts-46.pdf
Credit: spacepresskit/wordpress website
Reality:
“TSS deployment was also delayed one day because of EURECA. During TSS deployment, the satellite reached a maximum distance of only 840 feet (256 meters) from orbiter instead of planned 12.5 miles (20 kilometers) because of a jammed tether line. After numerous attempts over several days to free the tether, TSS operations were curtailed and satellite was stowed for return to Earth.”
Above from/at:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archiv...
WINDSOR, CA/USA – June 20 2015: 25th Annual Sonoma Country Hot Air Balloon Classic is a yearly event where you can experience balloons up close, watch them launch, and even take tethered rides.
16 x 20, acrylic on canvas. (sold)
for the All Girl Show at Twilight Artist Collective, west seattle junction location
opening reception: thurs july 10th, 6-9 pm
At long last ive tethered my Ipad to the 5D.
I've used a USB cable to an Ipad usb converter gizmo.
It is possible to do it cordless via wifi but you must have a computer online in the same house.
Unfortunately I dont at my little house, but will take the laptop round at some point!
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The hoodoos just right of center are linked by a cap of dolomite, a more resistant rock. From Sunset Point, Bryce Canyon.
vintage Radior, a company that existed between 1926 and 1955. I first put Solex as that has become more or less a generic term but then I looked more closely.
The lamb had been busy suckling when its Mum suddenly moved. He seemed somewhat surprised - until, that is, he realised she was "tooth-tethered" to the lush grass and was only a couple of lengths away.
Bleating his disapproval, the lamb trotted after his Mum and within seconds was once again enjoying his afternoon tea...!
Mum, in the meantime, carried on munching on that lovely grass...!
Thanks so much for the very kind and encouraging comments beneath this photo...! Your support is very greatly appreciated.