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The LJ-937, also named Wormhole explorer, was the first exploration ship built to exploit a gravity well generator to travel trough space. It was able to fold the universe and dig a hole from one place to another, hence decreasing greatly the travel time needed.
It's mission was to travel to unexplored planets and scan them to detect life form or exploitable resources.
There was a theory that linked the Octan corporation to the development of the LJ-937 and took advantage of the mission's finding to get their hands on usefull resources. Since the research on the gravity well generator and the funding of the missions were done using public funds, some people started to ask for the space police to investigate. Hark Mamil, the famous opposant to the Octan Corporation, officially complained to the authorities and a trial was planned. He disappeared two days before the chosen date...
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The story of this photo:
The next best thing to using The Transporter for doing your traveling through spacetime is a wormhole, as you probably all know. I think they say that using a wormhole is like taking a roller coaster ride while you are on LSD, neither of which I particularly fancy, by the way. Even better still: You never quite know where you end up, and chances are, you might get crushed by the G-forces. Well, I guess there is no such thing as a free lunch, right?
I discovered this wormhole on the AIDAbella cruise ship. After doing the meticulous wood work on the floor, there was too little time left to set up a tripod. So I took the shot handheld. As a result, this is a bit more blurry than my usual standard. After having thrown every piece of sharpening software at it that was available to me, I am still far from happy with the quality. Nevertheless, since I like the colors and the light here and since it complements my previous upload nicely, I decided to post it anyway. But don't look to closely. And if you do, please do not put me on your black-list for blurry-picture-posters. ;-)
By the way. The door at the end of this corridor takes you right here.
Enjoy!
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How it was shot:
> Taken handheld [details]
> Three exposures (+1, -1, -3ev)
> Camera: Nikon D90
> Lens: Sigma 10-20mm F3,5 EX DC HSM
> Details can be found here
How it was (tonemapped):
> No tonemapping and no HDR here! I used the exposure fusion feature of Photomatix Pro 4.0 since it produces less noise.
> Saved as 16bit TIF
How it was post-processed:
> Post-processing was done in Photoshop
> Slight perspective correction and cropping
> Topaz Adjust on the entire image to get back the colors and the details [details]
> Topaz Denoise [details]
> Topaz Infocus to rescue a bit of sharpness
> Levels layer on the floor (more contrast)
> Curves layer on the blue parts (more contrast)
> Saturation layer on the blue parts (master)
> Saturation layer on the arches (slight desaturation)
> Levels layer on the arches (slight brightening)
> Vignette effect using a masked fill layer [details]
> Watermarking
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Took some time today to expand on my challenge of photographing smoke. I ended up with 11 interesting photo's that show how amazing a single trail of smoke can appear when captured in a photograph and "colorized" to enhance some of the details. Like flames in a fire or clouds in the sky, these smoke trails can - with a little imagination - become nearly anything!
I've had some folks tell me I should rename this photo "Spinal Tap" since it reminded them of a skeletons backbone; so I added it to the title. What do you think and what else do you see?
Photographs were taken of smoke rising from a single incense stick, using two (2) off camera strobes set at varying power levels ranging from 1/2 power to 1/8 power. One flash was set at just over 90 degrees to the camera (to reduce lens glare). The second strobe was set in front of the smoke and below the incense stick facing upwards.
Smoke-Interstellar Wormhole (4590)
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Place de l'Hôtel de Ville à Angoulême (Charente) - France. 360° stereographic inverse wormhole panorama
8 pictures on tripod (6 pictures + 1 for zenith + 1 for nadir)
The "Baths of Lady María de Padilla" are rainwater tanks beneath the Patio del Crucero. The tanks are named after María de Padilla, the mistress of Peter the Cruel.
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Impressions from the city of Frankfurt.
Captured with a Nikon Df and a manual Nikkor Ai 50mm ƒ1:1.2 with a 3 x ND Filter, post processed in Lightroom using VSCO.
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Two of "the domes", that were built to facilitate the manufacturing of computers in the late 70's to early 80's but were never completed.
Night, near full moon, 120 second exposure, handheld light producing device set to lime & blue.
A Julia fractal based on a Square orbit trap.
Created using the Fractal Science Kit fractal generator. See www.fractalsciencekit.com/ for details.
Live show of Wormhole from Baltimore, Maryland. Taken at The Shredder in Boise, Idaho.
Strobist: Indirect offhand flash from the top-left side of the frame.
Photo by Russell Eck
"You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you?"
– Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Rivals (1775)
"But when first the two black dragons sprang out of the fog upon the small clerk, they had merely the effect of all miracles – they changed the universe. He discovered the fact that all romantics know – that adventures happen on dull days, and not on sunny ones. When the cord of monotony is stretched most tight, it it breaks with a sound like song."
– G. K. Chesterton, 'The Napoleon of Notting Hill' (1904).
"The collapse of the global marketplace would be a traumatic event with unimaginable consequences. Yet I find it easier to imagine than the continuation of the present regime." [sic!].
– George Soros, in 'Soros on Soros : Staying Ahead of the Curve' (1995 [??])
Used this new tool I made on Sunday at yesterdays workshop.
Everyone loved the effect so thought I should get a shot of it myself
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Thames Tunnel, London, England
This is the Brunel built Thames Tunnel, a masterpiece of engineering! If you get chance to do this tour I highly recommend it however they only come round every few years either at Xmas or Easter as they close the tunnel to trains for engineering work.
I do feel so privileged to have walked this tunnel and I am a massive fan of anything Brunel. Its such a beautiful tunnel, asymmetric in nature compared to a normal tunnel which is often symmetrical. Its amazing really that this tunnel was original designed to be a foot tunnel for pedestrians to walk under the Thames River and also there would have been shops down here too selling stuff, mostly tourist merchandise. Then it was decided to put the next massive engineering marvel of the world through it, the Steam Train. These run for a good few years before it was stopped and the tunnel was left empty but now the West London Line runs through here taking passengers from A to B. So for me it was quite fitting to walk through it as it was originally intended but also at the same time being a Train Driver myself it was great to see an awesome looking tunnel built by the Railway Engineer himself, Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Photo Details
Sony Alpha SLT-A99 / ISO5000 / f/4 / 1/20s / Sony Carl Zeiss 16-35mm F2.8 ZA SSM @ 22mm
Software Used
Lightroom 5
Location Information
The Thames Tunnel is an underwater tunnel, built beneath the River Thames in London, connecting Rotherhithe and Wapping. It measures 35 feet (11 m) wide by 20 feet (6 m) high and is 1,300 feet (396 m) long, running at a depth of 75 feet (23 m) below the river surface measured at high tide. It was the first tunnel known to have been constructed successfully underneath a navigable river,[1] and was built between 1825 and 1843 using Thomas Cochrane and Marc Isambard Brunel's newly invented tunnelling shield technology, by him and his son Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
The tunnel was originally designed for, but never used by, horse-drawn carriages. It now forms part of the London Overground railway network.
Like a wormhole serving as a fast pass-through way into a parallel world these arches served our antique city inhabitants to go out of the backyard with simplified facades and utility stuff into a street with lots of people passing buy. Nice dressed (not thousand times washed t-shirts and jeans like today) with sun umbrellas and hand gloves, luxurious hats, slowly passing by the fashinable and tasteful shop labels and windows (not printed out on a plastic with splashy nasty colors, like today). Coffee smell (not kebap, like today), horse smell (not cars gas, like today).
A young woman walks through a London underground station.
Camera Sony Alpha NEX-7
Exposure 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture f/2.8
Focal Length 16 mm
ISO Speed 800
Exposure Bias 0 EV
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War's pointless wormhole, empty, abandoned — always wet, 12°C — waste. How I feel as I walk out into the light — empty.