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The Blue Tornado - LEGO Ideas project - ideas.lego.com/projects/fc675426-9e80-4c8b-bab3-b99be6983312
A variable message sign with a safety message I'm glad to see being a bicyclist and pedestrian. Some days it says "U Text, U Drive, U Pay", "Click It or Ticket", "Put down the phone and drive" or "Buzzed driving is drunk driving" when its not used for road work or accident advisories.
After some digging and a lot of help, I finally identified this as a Variable Seedeater in the Pacific color morph. Further south, the males of this species are black and white. Image is heavily cropped and for record only. Caribbean lowlands, Costa Rica
This image illustrates a landscape in a world where gravity is influenced by emotions, with trees walking towards sunny areas and stones floating upwards. The scene captures the essence of this unique concept in a vivid and realistic manner.
In a realm where dreams weave into reality's dance,
Time flows like rivers, changing course, granting a glance.
Trees wander towards the sun's embrace, stones float light as feather,
In this land, where gravity is but the heart's own tether.
Here, where thoughts shape the world, matter sings in freedom's key,
Apples glow like stars, music flows from a book, so softly.
Clouds paint the sky's canvas in emotions' deep hues,
While buildings mirror the soul's song, in space's spiritual cues.
A world where the impossible is the day's simple bread,
Where imagination's wings carry us over every edge, every dread.
In this universe of possibilities, where anything can and does occur,
The true magic of life is where dreams and reality finally concur.
Haiku:
Time's bonds unravel,
Thoughts paint the world in true light,
Dreams breathe into life.
As a couple of you have asked about the Variable ND filter I used on the recent beach shoot, i thought a quick write up might be helpful.
First I have to say that this was the first time I had used it and my only previous experience with ND filters was about 20+ years ago, back in the days of 35mm film. Things have moved on since then and thankfully, with digital and one of these, things are so much easier.
Now bearing in mind, I'm using what would be classed as an ancient 6.2MP Canon 300D paired with a standard 18-55 kit lens, it is difficult to judge the quality by todays standards.
Having said that, I could detect no loss of image quality and as far as I could tell, no colour shift introduced from this filter, if anything the colours may have come out richer.
From what I can make out, this is not a true ND filter, but a pair of polarising filters, which as the axis are turned in relation to each other, alter the amount of light allowed through. The advertising claims it can go from 2ND to 400ND which I have no reason to doubt, it certainly goes from just about clear to not letting any light through that is detectable.
Now this is where I think one of these scores highest against a normal ND filter. Thinking back, I can still remember how much of a nightmare it was, having to remove the filters to frame and focus a shot, as it was not possible to see anything through the viewfinder. With one of these, you just turn it to it's lowest setting, frame and lock focus, then adjust the filter to reduce the light coming through. So much easier.
Next positive, you only have the one filter to carry around, no stacking up several to to increase the light blocking, you just give it a quick turn.
This brings me one of only two negatives my first outing with this showed up. I'm sure I will get used to it, but the markings on the edge of the filter dont give any settings, there are just a series of dots, so until I learn how these relate to stops of light, precise exposures were a bit trial and error. There were no instructions included, so it is going to be guesswork for now, working out what those dots refer to.
The second negative, nothing big, just the size of the case it comes in :)
This is the 58mm version and I'm guessing they use the same case for all the different sizes, so the filter does tend to rattle around inside and it's bigger than it needs to be, taking up extra space in my camera bag. Obviously using the same case helps keep the cost down, which is another pleasing aspect of it, This one was less than £10 ($15ish) though the price does vary depending on diameter and source. Searching for them on ebay will show how much the price varies and it varies a lot, so be careful if you are thinking of getting one.
Overall, I'm really pleased with it and glad I went for this, rather than individual ones to fit in a filter holder, though I might need to rethink that if I want to start using graduated filters at a later date, though I guess, I can always screw a holder on the front of this.
Any questions, you can ask but I might not be able to give an intellegent answer.
I scrapped my SHIP, but I'm going forward with improved versions of my favorite features. The armature was out of balance on the previous version, putting a lot of pressure on the hinge that connects the armature to the fuselage, and limiting the amount of weight I could build into the engine pods. I used 16 Exo-Force click hinges in a row like a piano hinge, and towards the end, it still wasn't enough, and the engines were comically undersized for the hull. I've moved the fulcrum more towards the center of gravity, and the hinge now holds additional weight no problem, and I'll build a SHIP hull in proportion to the engines. Live and learn, but if I can't make it work this go around, then I throw in the towel!
Araignée-crabe, appelée misumène variable (Misumena vatia) dégustant une abeille sauvage sur une marguerite. Jardin des Plantes, Paris (75).
While photographing the penguins down south, this Oystercatcher and chick wandered along, obviously wanting their picture taking as well.
Variable Linanthus (leptosiphon parviflorus) - endemic
It took me quite a while to pin down the ID on this one. At first I thought I may have found a new species, but no. If it had been it would have been a real surprise.
Lens power is adjusted by sliding two lenses left or right relative to each other. These lenses are not pure convex or concave, but rather a "wave". The front lens has the convex plus curve towards the nose, and a small concave minus curve on the outside. The back lens is the opposite, with the small convex plus curve on the outside.
Here the glasses are in plus power, convex mode, with the back lens pushed towards the nose and the front pushed outside so that the convex areas of both lenses overlap, producing a net double convex lens for plus power.
The center of the lens is used by the wearer to focus on close objects, just like reading glasses. You can see the residual, unused, non-overlapping portions of the lens on the edges are actually a ring of convex minus power.
This is just a beautiful onion and one of my favorites so I have to show this series which reflects the minor details in each individual of this variable species.
tiny size of 20mm
A confusing species because of colour changes with maturity
looks like he was coated with icing sugar...hmm...looks rather tasty...
@jurong eco gardensg, sg
whole set: dimensions variable // ballpoint &/ charcoal &/ soft pastel // about 20 of us took part -make a self portrait in two minutes then pass the paper on...make a self portrait either by or over the previous person's...pass the paper on... // most of mine were *by*, each photographed before passing on...