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That is controlling my Nikon cam from my laptop using LightRoom. It kind of works with a number of constraints.
The beauty of my new Pentax K5 is the backwards compatibility of the lenses... I managed to get a SMC 50mm f1.4 for £60, second hand... It takes a bit of learning and searching online to get the hang of manually setting it up, but it is cracking little lens... and a lot cheaper than a new 50mm...
This is one of the many shots from a sunny Loch Rusky... trial and error shots to get used to using this little beauty for some alternative landscape work...
That submerged boat across the creek just managing to stay partially floating . It doesn't look good .
Cabbage Tree Creek
Shorncliffe
Via Brisbane
My favorite tree. We ventured out on Sunday and had the most loveliest of fog draped over the area. My destination lay 30 miles ahead with this tree. We made too many stops and by the time we got there the fog had lifted but worse than that was the camera battery was nearly dead. A fresh battery lay on the desk at home. We'll try again next time.
Fishing boats and a canoe rest near the mouth of Rio Paracauari in Soure, Marajó Island, at the start of another sweltering tropical day.
For some reason I didn't include this one in the batch I sent to David, which was a few months ago. With hindsight I like it a lot more now, I need to work out a way to incorporate it into a spaceship design.
The river Umngot in spate at Shnongpdeng, Megalaya, India. Not a good time for plying the boats.
Meghalaya album: www.flickr.com/photos/santanu_sen/albums/72157667535175284
Ok... AB800 strip light to camera right, ABR800 Ringlight mounted off camera center, AB800 with umbrella on camera left to light the background, AB800 mounted on a boom to light her hair from above. Phew!
We spent two days at Pine Mountain State Park in South East Kentucky, Chained Rock was one of the trails we hiked.
We said farewell to the Japanese cargo ship HTV-6 last Friday. Yours truly was at the controls, with Shane Kimbrough monitoring. After 46 days attached to the Space Station we will miss the extra module and space. It is funny to think that the spacecraft is flying alone in space now, before it meets a fiery end as it burns up harmlessly in the atmosphere. Even during its last days it will deliver important information: JAXA is testing a tether they dubbed the Kounotori Integrated Tether Experiment (KITE) – a 700 m long electro-dynamic tether that will drag the spacecraft towards Earth. We need to test this type of technology to ensure future satellites don't stay in orbit around Earth forever but will fall back and disintegrate after they have finished their useful life.
Nous avons donc fait nos adieux au véhicule ravitailleur japonais HTV-6 vendredi dernier. J’étais cette fois-ci aux commandes, épaulé par Shane. Le vaisseau cargo, en plus d’apporter du ravitaillement, a fait office de module supplémentaire pendant les 46 jours qu’il est resté attaché à la Station spatiale. Et maintenant, il flotte seul dans l’espace, avant de brûler sans risque à la rentrée atmosphérique. Une fin... flamboyante ;)
Même en ce moment, l’HTV a un rôle à jouer : l’Agence spatiale japonaise, JAXA, profite du départ de son vaisseau cargo pour tester le « KITE » (Kounotori Integrated Tether Experiment), une attache électrodynamique expérimentale de 700 mètres de long. Son but est de tirer le véhicule en direction de la Terre plus rapidement et avec plus de précision. Ce genre de technologie devrait nous être très utile pour les satellites du futur : on pourra s’assurer qu’ils ne restent pas en orbite autour de la planète une fois devenus obsolètes, mais qu’ils se désintégreront plutôt à la rentrée dans l’atmosphère en retombant sur Terre.
Credits: ESA/NASA
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Back tether ropes on the marquees.
Marquees at the tennis tournament at Happy Valley, that needed heavy duty tethering in high winds. The week of the tournament saw scorching heat with bushfires (elsewhere), followed by torrential rains and high winds. Luckily we had perfect weather on the day of the Finals.
I have recently acknowledged that having adventures helps me to find my visual voice. I've been awfully spotty on Flickr for much of this year, and it had a lot to do with feeling uninspired / that I had nothing to say… and also feeling the burn of the shoddy little camera I have been using for ages. This trip to the Pacific Northwest really helped bring me back to myself in a lot of ways.
Does this ever happen to you? What helps you bring you back to yourself?
I love the tensions here... webs tethered to fuzzy stems, water drops hanging heavily from rounded buds. The wonders of water tension that keeps them hanging until they are knocked loose and suddenly drop to the ground.
Firespike buds
Odontonema strictum, Acanthaceae
Firespike, Cardinal Guard, Scarlet Flame
Spacewalking is a little like rock climbing in that everything, including and especially oneself, must be tethered or docked at all times. If you forget to tether a tool, it's gone. Ditto yourself.
~ Mary Roach
A view of Berlin from a tethered hot air balloon called "Die Weltballon. For 20 Euros, you could take a 15 min "flight" to a height of 150 metres.
Berlin Cathedral (Berliner Dom) is the largest green-domed building.
You can see more pics in my Berlin set.
I had a dream last night in which all of one's negative thoughts were tied to them like a tether and put on display.
It was a weird dream but inspired this image which turned out almost exactly how I had sketched which is always nice!
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- One speedlight at 1/4 through a gridded Godox octabox @ right to the camera