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Pentax 67II, 105mm F2.4, KODAK PORTRA 400, developed by FRAME*
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For previous generations, the film camera was simply taken for granted. Everyone loaded their cameras, got their films developed and photos printed by photo studios. It was an era when people poured their energy into photography for its own sake.
However, while the number of snapshots has increased due to the spread of digital cameras and mobile phones, I feel that we are gradually losing that experience of absorption in photography itself. Recent cameras have become ever easier for people to use and have a wide variety of functions besides just taking photos. If it becomes no longer necessary even to focus my camera on an object with my own hands, I wonder what the photography of the future will be.
In film photography, you will certainly experience a feeling of excitement while you wait for your photos to develop. Perhaps you fear that you may not have taken the photo skillfully. Therefore, waiting to know if you succeeded or not is inconvenient and troublesome. But this waiting time is necessary. That is to say, it is a stance we take toward photography.
The reason we like film cameras is that film somehow creates an appealing atmosphere. At the same time, however, digital cameras are convenient and have many useful functions. Both approaches are valid are worthwhile. But this is not exactly what I want to talk about here. I do not simply want to revisit the now-familiar debate over film vs. digital photography.
Photography has the potential to capture the amount of time and conscious effort we put into it. It has nothing at all to do with analogue vs. digital methods. It depends on what you want to take pictures of, and what you aim to do. But if you enjoy photography, I may have a hint for how to think of it and spend your time doing it.
Even when we use digital cameras, we may later notice something different if we can just break the habit of looking at the photos as soon as we have taken them. This is neither meant as criticism of digital cameras, nor as praise of film cameras. I just think that we need to take the time to think deeply about the process of taking photos.
When I see decades-old photos which anonymous people took and left behind, I obtain a definite feeling of "something existed there". Today as well, when I release the shutter, I hope to take photos like those.
(Translated by Tetsuro Nohara, Peter McCamus)
The southbound DM&E Belle Fourche turn rounds a curve and passes above the city streets of Sturgis, SD on July 10, 2008.
The commodity producing the dust visible in this scene is bentonite. This substance has many industrial usages, including being a bonding agent in the production of taconite pellets, and in sand molds for iron and steel casting. Its absorptive properties are also used in clumping cat litter. This commodity is quarried in northwestern South Dakota, which makes it a major source of the DM&E's traffic.
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Grendel Rifle, Series 01
The GR-01 is chambered in .50 Grendel as its name suggests. The rail system adds a side charging handle. The original charging handle is replaced with a cover. The stock has a recoil absorption system that acts in conjunction with the weighty rail system to dampen the heavy recoil of the Grendel round. An upside down, Osprey type integral suppressor is included.
based off of this: www.flickr.com/photos/pmguns/8233340781/in/dateposted/
Credit:
~SHC for the color idea
~Matt 0.6 for giving me the inspiration to do non-standard 0.6 colors
Alter Ego: Hope
Name: Callum Hammer
Allegiance: Hero
Powers:
* Super Strength and a mild healing factor
* Can absorb energy and project it from his body via beams he expels from the palms of his hands (he can also do this without energy absorption).
* He can blast the beams from his hands in a unique way which allows him to fly and run fast.
Weapons: None
Key Weakness: He relies quite heavily on his powers in combat, without them he's just a regular teenager.
Origin:
Callum was born with his parents abilities and often used them to flaunt and boast about at school, one day however he was overheard by a criminal working for the villain called "Plague" bragging about how powerful his beams of energy were. He was then abducted by a gang of crooks that took Callum to their underground fight club called "Brawlers" ran by Plague. He was then pinned to fight against other meta humans and was kept captive for weeks as their "Champion" until he broke out and fled. He then decided he'd take down Plague and help fellow meta humans by being a costumed hero calling himself Hope, which was the only thing that got him through Brawlers, hope that he would one day get revenge on Plague and save those still being held captive.
“He’s a small one,” the blue Piraka muttered.
“Might have to throw him back.”
Volatile, Relentless, Afflicted;
Once an expert marauder renowned for his cunning, everything was torn away from him by the Spear of Fusion – only the beast remained.
Though he retained his harpoon, Impact Vision, power absorption and heightened agility, Vezok now relies on instinct, striking hard and fast with the desperate fury of a wounded animal.
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[ Hakann, the Explosive ] [ old version ]
[ Vezon, the Disaster (Spear) ] [ (Scythe) ]
[ Toa Kongu, the Wrangler ] [ old version ]
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Vezok's (somewhat tragic) backstory gave me lots to work with!
His missing leg, hand, eye and teeth are meant to show physical loss from that incident, while introducing a pirate theme I was happy to double down on!
To distinguish him from the other Piraka I also added a larger tail, horns, and more animalistic proportions befitting 'The Beast'.
More photos are available on my:
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“What’s the matter?” Hakann said, smiling. “Afraid I’ll get rid of you so there’s one less to share the loot with? Actually, come to think of it, that’s not a bad –”
A bolt of energy shot from the point of the spear, striking Vezok. Startled, Hakann dropped the weapon.
Vezok screamed. His body felt like it was being torn in two, reassembled, and then ripped apart again. He fell to the floor in agony. The other Piraka stood and watched, not sure what to do or whether they wanted to be bothered to help.
In the time it takes a heartlight to flash once, it was over.
Vezok lay on the ground, groaning.
And beside him, another being was rising to its feet. He had not been there a second ago, but now he stood and looked down at Vezok with contempt.
“Get up,” he said.
“If I can, you can – after all, I am you and you are me, and won’t that be interesting? Of course, it would be easier if there were just one of us… maybe I should die? No, no, I have that wrong – maybe you should die.”
Vezok’s eyes flared to life. Thok met them and saw immediately that his fellow Piraka had changed.
Gone was the cold intelligence that had kept Vezok alive all these years, replaced by white-hot anger. (...)
Real Name: Walter "Wally" Larson
Height: 5'10 ft
Weight: 130 lbs
Powers/Abilities: Kinetic Energy Absorption, Radioactive Energy Absorption, Superhuman Durability, able to fire concussive blasts and Flight. (Enhanced Strength and Speed when Kinetic Energy is forced out)
Backstory or Bio or whatever:
Wally Larson always had powers. His parents died at a young age, so he was sent to an orphanage. At the orphanage, he was often bullied. However, he never felt pain. He was punched, kicked, pushed down the stairs, nothing. Maybe a bruise, but that's it. When he reached 15, the kinetic energy in his body filled up and it burst a huge blast the exploded the orphanage and killed over 50 children. He ran away and stole clothing and armor from sporting good stores. He made his armor and fought crime. Now, he has payed off his debt and continues to fight crime to this day.
This sparkling starfield, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys, contains the globular cluster ESO 520-21, a densely packed, roughly spherical collection of stars. The cluster, also known as Palomar 6, lies close to the center of the Milky Way, where interstellar gas and dust absorb starlight and make observations more challenging.
Interstellar absorption affects some wavelengths of light more than others, causing astronomical objects to appear redder than they actually are. This process, called “reddening,” makes it difficult to determine the properties of globular clusters close to the galactic center.
ESO 520-21 lies in the constellation Ophiuchus, near the celestial equator. Ophiuchus was one of the 48 constellations included in the writings of the second-century Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy, all of which are among the 88 constellations officially recognized by the International Astronomical Union today.
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, R. Cohen
Total lunar eclipse in 720nm infrared, nearing moon set, from Westborough, MA, 2022 November 08th. In visible/visual light, the moon here was almost not visible, but the IR absorption of the blue sky darkens the sky and enhances moon to background contrast.
On my trip throughout Africa our team was given an amazing four day holiday in the Ngala National Park in South Africa. It was my first safari and I just couldn’t fathom the silence and the beauty of this massive national park. Those four days disappearing from society and witnessing such breathtaking animals so close was an experience that will never be forgotten.
Along the winding paths that wend their way through Trebah Gardens you'll come across the bamboo garden, where the wind plays tunes on the green swaying poles. The dance of dappled light and shadow is entrancing, and soothing, you have to slow down, pause, and absorb the magical world you've stepped into.
For full absorption you have to press 'L'.
Astronomical Spectroscope displayed during National Science Day 26 at Raman Research institute in Bengaluru.
An astronomical spectroscope splits light from celestial objects into its spectrum to analyze their physical properties. By studying emission or absorption lines in the spectrum, astronomers determine a star’s chemical composition, temperature, density, mass, distance, and radial velocity.
Many species of mushrooms seemingly appear overnight, growing or expanding rapidly. In reality all species of mushrooms take several days to form primordial mushroom fruit bodies, though they do expand rapidly by the absorption of fluids.
from Wikipedia
Nikon D700 + Nikon 105mm f/2.8G AF-S VR + Ring Flash + Handheld.
CN L550 switches the west end of Aldershot on a muggy, hazy Sunday morning with a trio of GP9Rm's bracketing recent arrival GMTX 2254. CN has leased a number of GP38-2's from GMTX, in part to assist with the absorption of the GEXR (Guelph Sub.) and the SOR back into the CN network in the next couple of months.
Paul Cézanne -
Still-life with apples and peaches [1905] -
Washington NGA AN 1959.15.1
"The eye must grasp, bring things together," Cézanne said, "The brain will give it shape." In a still life, where the artist also creates the world he paints, each object, each placement, each viewpoint represents a decision. Cézanne painted and repainted the objects pictured here many times. The table, patterned cloth, and flowered pitcher were all props he kept in his studio. Every different arrangement was a new exploration of forms and their relationships.
Here the table tilts unexpectedly, defying traditional rules of perspective. Similarly, we see the pitcher in profile but are also allowed a look down into it. Paradoxically, it is Cézanne's fidelity to what he saw that accounts for this "denial" of logic and three–dimensional space. It is not so much that he is deliberately flattening space. Rather he is concentrating on the objects themselves instead of the perspectival scheme—the "box of air"—in which they exist. Cézanne worked slowly and deliberately. Over the course of days, he would move his easel, painting different objects—or even the same one—from different points of view. Each time, he painted what he saw. It was his absorption in the process of painting that pushed his work toward abstraction.
Featured Image from Sonata Series
Sonata concentrates on seeing rather than looking. In our waking-state, we look at things all the time but consciously unless chosen to do we make the effort to see. This on-going series concentrates on the elements of design ; color, line, shape texture form and pattern. Each image composes of a singular point of interest to achieve photographic satisfaction. Here the visible, mundane & overlooked has its moment.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Chance Nkosi Gomez known initiated by H.H Swami Jyotirmayanda as Sri Govinda walks an integral yogic path in which photography is the primary creative field of expression. The medium was introduced during sophomore year of high school by educator Dr. Devin Marsh of Robert Morgan Educational Center. Coming into alignment with light, its nature and articulating the camera was the focus during that time. Thereafter while completing a Photographic Technology Degree, the realization of what made an image “striking” came to the foreground of the inner dialogue. These college years brought forth major absorption and reflection as an apprentice to photographer and educator Tony A. Chirinos of Miami Dade College. The process of working towards a singular idea of interest and thus building a series became the heading from here on while the camera aided in cultivating an adherence to the present moment. The viewfinder resembles a doorway to the unified field of consciousness in which line, shape, form, color, value, texture all dissolve. It is here that the yogi is reminded of sat-chit-ananda (the supreme reality as all-pervading; pure consciousness). As of May 2024 Govinda has completed his 300hr yoga teacher training program at Sattva Yoga Academy studying from Master Yogi Anand Mehrotra in Rishikesh, India, Himalayas. This has strengthened his personal Sadhana and allows one to carry and share ancient Vedic Technology leading others in ultimately directing their intellect to bloom into intuition. As awareness and self-realization grows so does the imagery that is all at once divine in the mastery of capturing and controlling light. Over the last seven years he has self-published six photographic books, Follow me i’ll be right behind you (2017), Sonata - Minimal Study (2018), Birds Singing Lies (2018), Rwanda (2019), Where does the body begin? (2019) & Swayam Jyotis (2023). Currently, Govinda is employed at the Leica Store Miami as a camera specialist and starting his journey as a practitioner of yoga ॐ
We have been covered by 15.5 inches (39 cm) of dense, heavy, wet snow. I was surprised to see the inner layers had a bit of turquoise glow. We don't see this very often, our snow is typically loose and grainy.
Blue-green colors in the 'shadows' of snow is caused by the absorption of both red and yellow light, leaving light at the blue and green end of the visible light spectrum. This doesn't usually happen in 'loose' snow, but happens more often in ice and icebergs. This snow is particularly dense.
A better explanation here.
Poem.
The mercury greys, the tree-lined ebony silhouettes, deep indigo and silver-coated marbling, gleaming, beaming off the cloud-reflected bay-
Dazzles and spell-binds.
That precious God-given ambience of early dawn blinds us but etches blurred images of heavenly proportions to our senses.
The mesmerising light, the near-silent water’s edge only broken by the lilting call of the oyster-catcher or the muffled comments of stirring sailors aboard their dreamy yachts.
These familiar sounds, the salt-laden odours of a near-calm bay and the silent, gentle absorption of the sun’s rays rouses and energises a myriad of life-forms to a glorious new day.
To witness this scene is pure bliss.
To hear, feel and sense it, is almost indescribable.
Multiple curtains of aurora appear along the curving arc of the auroral oval over the boreal forest. This is looking just a little east of due north from the second floor deck of the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, Churchill, Manitoba. Polaris is just left of top centre, with the Big Dipper at right of top centre. A meteor streaks to the left of Polaris. Vega is at lower left as a circumpolar star low in the north. The curtains appear more yellow toward the horizon due to atmospheric absorption. The curtains display the classic green tint with red upper fringes, both from transitions in oxygen.
This is how the Lights usually begin from this latitude under the auroral oval. They will then move up and south from this formation to cover the sky.
This is a 20-second exposure at f/2.8 with the 15mm full-frame fish-eye and Canon 6D at ISO 3200.
Alias: Syphon
Real Name: Vissia Burrows
Gender: Female
Allegiance: Villain
Backstory: The mother of Detonator, and Turbokiller, she's also the arch nemesis of the first Burnout. She starts out as a lowlife thief, knocking over small grocery stores. As time went on, she decided to do bigger crimes. Eventually, she ended up joining Mayhem. Years later, she would have Naomi, who would become the psychotic Turbokiller, along with Nathan, who would become the destructive force known as Detonator.
Edit: So I decided to go with Multi Sharp's idea. While her head definitely does lean itself towards sound, the energy absorption is similar to Turbokiller syphoning energy to survive, and the redirection could be seen as somewhat explosive depending on the size/scale. Also, I do already have a really cool sound manipulator in Siren (I mean it's just one of her many cool abilities.)
Status: Alive and at large. Works for Mayhem.
Galactic Archaeology in the Triangulum System (M33) [M33 DAS-2]
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
Donatiello, G. (2026). Galactic Archaeology in the Triangulum System (M33) [M33 DAS-2]. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18189610
Triangulum is a dwarf spiral galaxy, believed to be the largest satellite of Andromeda (M31). Due to its morphological characteristics, it can be classified as a low surface brightness (LSB) galaxy, visible at a low inclination angle.
Although considered in scientific literature to be a galaxy free of disturbances due to tidal interactions, upon closer analysis, it exhibits an unmistakable morphology attributable to past events.
According to some less than convincing interpretations, M33 experienced a close passage to M31. This event, dating back between 6 and 8 billion years, is attributed to the evident distortions in the outer arms, particularly the northern one, as well as the subtraction of its family of dwarf satellite galaxies and a significant number of globular clusters.
Kinematic considerations make this scenario unlikely. According to recent models and evidence, Triangulum is instead falling for the first time into the gravitational pull of M31 and, more generally, the Local Group, with little likelihood of future interaction and merger.
The signs of interaction exhibited, demonstrated beyond doubt in this new analysis, are therefore attributable to past minor merger events involving the capture, disruption, and absorption of some of its gas-rich satellites, with evidence of an outflow of ionized hydrogen. The presence of at least three ultrafaint satellite galaxies (Andromeda XXII, Pisces VII, and Triangulum IV) supports this hypothesis.
Note how some of the detected structures perfectly superimpose on the asymmetric neutral gas halo, which has been known for some time.
Sometimes it happens to notice the unusual and magic of this dream world. The shadow has no object. The observer is absorbed in the shadow itself. This is definitely something!
1. Taking pictures a tool (camera), not a photographer.
2. The choice of tool limits the possibilities.
3. Experience allows him (instrument) less and less to limit their capabilities.
4. The ability to see is given only when the observer allows ...
5. The moment of observation is the real find ...
6. Training and mastering it defies. Training leads to poor imitations of the original.
7. Often the result should ripen, like wine. Although time is the understanding of the mind, therefore it is very speculative.
8. The meaning of all this is the process!
9. Let it be!
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The comet was drifting fast toward east in Libra.
It was low in the west at the date, and stars showed obvious spectral spread due to atmospheric dispersion. Blue and green went higher, and red went lower. Blue got weaker due to atmospheric differential light absorption, and bluish ion tail got far fainter than expected. North is up, and east is to the left.
Earth distance: 0.349 AU
Sun distance: 0.792 AU
equipment: Guan Sheng Optical Ritchey–Chrétien telescope RC-CF 10" f8, TS Extension for The Baffle Tube, TS 2.5" field flattener, and Canon EOS R-SP4II, modified by Seo-san on ZWO AM5 Equatorial Mount, autoguided at a star nearby with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, Pentax x2 Extender, ZWO ASI 174MM-mini, and PHD2 Guiding with comet tracking on
exposure: 3 times x 60 seconds and 5 x 15 seconds at ISO 6,400 and f/8
The exposure started at 09:34:20 UTC October 9, 2025.
This frame was cropped 1,715 x 1,069 pixels of the original 6,720 x 4,780 pixels, comparable to a frame taken with a telescope of focal length about 7,800mm.
Site: 1,450m above sea level at lat. 35 55 53 North and long. 138 27 31 East in Hirasawa Pass 平沢峠 near Yatsugatake. The site has wide and beautiful western aspect. Ambient temperature was around 9 degrees Celsius or 48 degrees Fahrenheit. Wind was mild. Atmospheric turbulence was bad, and guide error RMS was around 2.3 near the horizon. Sky was not so dark, SQML around 19.90.
The rising Full Moon of June, dubbed the “Strawberry Moon” in the media, as seen rising over a prairie pond in southern Alberta, on June 9, 2017. At right, the glitter path from the Moon also combines on the water.
This illustrates the effect of the Moon brightening and becoming less red/yellow as it rises into clearer air above the horizon, with less atmospheric absorption of the short wavelengths.
This is a composite stack, obviously, of 15 exposures, selected to be about 2.5 minutes apart, from a time-lapse sequence of 1100 frames, with images taken at two second intervals. Shot with the Canon 6D and 200mm lens.
Penn Central E40 electric #4977 poses in the yard at Morrisville, PA, January 23, 1976. Conrail is less than four months away from taking over the Penn Central's rail operations and thus inheriting this and it's unwanted brothers which originally came from the New Haven Railroad upon the NH's absorption into PC. The E40's were originally classed EP5s by the New Haven when they arrived in 1955 from GE. They were intended for high speed passenger operation between New York City and New Haven, CT. Teething problems from the outset were solved within a year of arrival from GE-mainly the large screened filters on the carbody sides which helped in cooling the electric motors along with the automatic blowers. What caused their downfall was the McGinnis/Alpert regime's greatly reduced maintenance on these and almost all other locomotives the NH had. The damage had been done and unfortunately they fared no better under Penn Central ownership. By the early '70s all were out of service and one even scrapped but someone at PC felt the road should rebuild three of them for freight service and so the 4977 became one of the lucky three to survive into Conrail ownership. Sadly the three never turned a revenue wheel for Conrail as that road had a lot more on it's plate to deal with than three oddball electrics of questionable reliability. The final three E40s were scrapped in 1979. This is an Ektachrome 6x6 color transparency originally marketed as a Super Slide. The film frame was mounted in a cardboard mount which allowed for projection with the proper slide carrier mounted to a projector. Unfortunately this also allowed for the image to be scratched badly.
John Stroup original.
Rover is a British automotive brand that was used for over a century, from 1904 to 2005. It was launched as a bicycle maker called Rover Company in 1878, before starting to manufacture autocars in 1904. The brand used the Viking longship as its logo. The rights to the brand are currently part of Jaguar Land Rover, which continues to produce Land Rovers, but no Rover automobiles are currently in production and the brand is considered dormant.
Despite a state-controlled absorption by the Leyland Motor Corporation (LMC) in 1967 and subsequent mergers, nationalisation, and demergers, the Rover brand retained its identity, first as an independent subsidiary division of LMC, and subsequently through various groups within British Leyland (BL) through the 1970s and into the 1980s.
The Rover brand then became the flagship brand of the newly and eponymously renamed Rover Group in 1988, which included the actually stronger and more valuable brand names Land Rover and Mini as it passed first through the hands of British Aerospace and then into the ownership of BMW Group. Sharing technology with Honda and financial investment during the BMW ownership led to a revival of the brand during the 1990s in its core midsize car segment.[3]
In 2000, BMW sold Rover and related MG car activities of the Rover Group to the Phoenix Consortium, who established the MG Rover Group at Longbridge. BMW retained ownership of the Rover brand, allowing MG Rover to use it under licence. In April 2005, Rover-branded cars ceased to be produced when the MG Rover Group became insolvent. The MG Rover Group's assets then got split up between two Chinese automakers – some were bought by SAIC Motor, who obtained technology that was incorporated into a new Chinese line of Roewe branded luxury saloons. Other assets were bought by Nanjing Automobile.
BMW sold the rights to the Rover brand to Ford in 2006 for approximately £6 million, the latter exercising an option of first refusal to buy it dating back to its purchase of Land Rover in 2000. Ford thus reunited the original Rover Company brands, primarily for brand-protection reasons.[4] In March 2008, Ford reached agreement with Tata Motors of India to include the Rover brand as part of the sale of their Jaguar Land Rover operations to them. Legally the Rover brand is the property of Land Rover under the terms of Ford's purchase of the name in 2006. Wikipedia
Inspiration comes from everywhere; anywhere. Just over a year ago while engaged in a fateful demolition of a fence Mary Radike Smith posted a picture from a project whose subject was "Home Archeology".
Lamenting the state of the weather, just the other day, Richard Harvey was tossing about the notion of the indoor sport of the still life. Obtuse as it may seem, back in January last year I was waiting for a sonographer and musing about my binoculars. Lo, and behold, what tied this altogether was an almost perfect alignment of absolutely nothing!
Actually, it's probably the weather — about which we all complain, yet do nothing. Six degrees celsius in the UK, minus 12⁰F in the USA and 333⁰K warmer in my garden, ahead of a forecast 30⁰Rø next week, has induced certain responses. Mine was to get around to my bit of Home Archaeology: a pile of stuff dug out of my soil.
Far be it from me to fling about nasturtiums on the former residents of The Estate. But I do wonder — with all of the broken bottles, crockery, and so on in the ground — whether they liked a drink, were just a bit clumsy, or a bit of both; maybe one following the other? Importantly, I had to wait this long to ask these questions because, in this season, the Sun was positioned, just so, as to enlighten this pile.
That mauve coloured object has my attention. It's like a backyard geochronometer. There was a time when small amounts of iron would give a green-cast to clear glass. Someone discovered that adding manganese in its bivalent state would counter the influence of the iron impurity. That process commenced around 1880 and was discontinued about 1915 when the manganese was replaced by selenium; or so the internet says. Roll forward until I dug up this broken neck of a soda bottle. No longer clear, the long exposure of that glass to UV light has oxidised the bivalent manganese to its trivalent or tetravalent state resulting in the colour change. Now we know. If they were a bunch of drunks, it was likely over a century ago, and I have the still life to prove it.
Hidden Beasts Incorporated
Exec Line, Æ-50 "Hard Case"
The Hard Case was developed to give the Æ-50 a more comfortable and easy to use platform. When it comes to engaging wood apes or the like, accuracy and speed is key. The stock incorporates a sophisticated recoil absorption system to make the strong .50 AE recoil more manageable. Unfortunately this system necessitates that the spent casings be ejected from the top. The front end of the kit gives the Æ-50 a muzzle brake to cut down on recoil. A high end, 1,000 lumen flashlight has been built in so you can blind the dirty primates while you blast away. A RDC-2 is included with the package to supplement the iron sights.
MSRP for conversion kit: $800
This is the full PCC conversion kit for the PCC comp
Just your average cryogenic superconductors, partially buried underneath the regolith for thermal isolation (and shock absorption in case of a catastrophic containment field failure, though no one will ever official admit to that).
This could be a circular set of 8 but angling the death star sphere in the center would make less sense in that case, and it's more interesting to not go for too much symmetry.
Looks like he is about to loose the viewfinder eye piece.
Ever wondered...Why are most of the telephoto lenses used
in sports and other tele-photography white or light grey?
well it's probably a Canon L series lens.
Some say it helps to reduce heat absorption, and hence heat expansion of the structure of the lens -
But more likely - I think brand recognition is about 1/2 the truth (less heat absorption being the other 1/2).
Nikon has been using black for their telephoto lenses for years. I have never heard any complaint about heat absorption or build-up.
The longest telephoto AF-S Nikkors are available in light grey via special order and Minolta and Olympus have or have had light coloured telephotos while Pentax has a metallic finish on theirs.
A dull day at the Mid Devon show 2021
Name: Stefan Nicholas Rost Akerman
Villain’s name: Biocide
Age: mid-20’s
Bio: Son of a Dutch diplomat and a Swedish biological scientist, Stefan was raised in the Swiss Alps but moved to America at 6. He grew up with no friends and was always obsessed with plants and life. He had high hopes of making death and decay become life and resurrection once more. But some of experiments proved to be a failure, and did not turn out well for anyone. It was simply expensive and no one approved of what he did. Stefan turned to being a eco-terrorist after enhancing himself with more powers, but he only did that for months after Paradox Force faced him multiple times.
His long standing history with Paradox Force (mostly Grey Cop) led him devoting his time to become a mercenary. Until that, he was re hired by Hendrix and co, with thoughts of being a villain again...
Powers and abilities: Poison manipulation, generation and absorption, acid blasts/generation, create biological bombs, control plants, some pheromes, secrete biological and etc.
Weaknesses: Powers can be contained, immune against those who resist poison and toxins, control over acid that may destroy things he doesn’t intend to, some acids are limited to different kinds, bases can be used against him, rendering him neutralised and powerless. Plant life requires water and solar energy, people who are immune to his poison. Failure at his own experiments causes him to be very angry. The suit can run out of battery sometimes.
Equipment: Bio-suit with haredened armour, has solar absorption functions through battery. Biological, plant related bombs/weapons, usually carries two guns
Personality: Cunning, malicious, cruel, disdain, cold, bitter.
Beziehungen bestimmen unser Leben in allen Bereichen. Bei Gebäuden, die für Ausstellungen geschaffen werden, ergeben sich gleich mehrere Beziehungen.
Nichts und Niemand kann für sich alleine bestehen. Ein Architekt setzt seine Gebäude in einen räumliche und kulturelle Beziehung, man könnte auch Kontext sagen. Ein Kurator setzt ein Kunstwerk in Beziehung zum Raum und anderen Kunstwerken. Der Betrachter eröffnet eine neue Beziehung durch Wahrnehmung des Vorangegangenen und bringt das Kunstwerk in Beziehung zu seinem Leben und seinen Erfahrungen und in eine Kommunikation mit sich selbst und anderen Menschen zu denen er in verschiedenen Beziehungen steht und diese geben es vielleicht weiter, unendliche Reflexionen und Absorbtionen mit all ihren Veränderungen ... und wir Fotografen treten natürlich auch, jeder auf seinen Weise zu seinen Motiven in eine Beziehung ... Gedankenspiele ... ;-) ...
Relationships determine our lives in all areas. In the case of buildings created for exhibitions, several relationships arise at once.
Nothing and no one can exist on its own. An architect places his buildings in a spatial and cultural relationship, one could also say context. A curator puts a work of art in relation to space and other works of art. The viewer opens a new relationship by perceiving what has gone before and brings the artwork into relationship with his life and experiences and into a communication with himself and other people with whom he is in different relationships and they perhaps pass it on, infinite reflections and absorptions with all their changes ... and we photographers of course also enter, each in his own way to his subjects in a relationship ... Mind games ... ;-) ...
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The overall wide field comes from Rokinon 135mm @ F2.8 + QSI583.
For Rosette and Cone nebulsa I have used higher resolution data coming from Tenerife.
L: 23x300s @ F2.8
RGB: (4, 4, 4)x300s @ F2.8
Higher resolution images:
Data: R. Colombari [DSW], E. Recurt
Processing: R. Colombari
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The Cone Nebula is an H II region in the constellation of Monoceros. It was discovered by William Herschel on December 26, 1785, at which time he designated it H V.27. The nebula is located about 830 parsecs or 2,700 light-years away from Earth. The Cone Nebula forms part of the nebulosity surrounding the Christmas Tree Cluster. The designation of NGC 2264 in the New General Catalogue refers to both objects and not the nebula alone.
The diffuse Cone Nebula, so named because of its apparent shape, lies in the southern part of NGC 2264, the northern part being the magnitude-3.9 Christmas Tree Cluster. It is in the northern part of Monoceros, just north of the midpoint of a line from Procyon to Betelgeuse.
The cone's shape comes from a dark absorption nebula consisting of cold molecular hydrogen and dust in front of a faint emission nebula containing hydrogen ionized by S Monocerotis, the brightest star of NGC 2264. The faint nebula is approximately seven light-years long (with an apparent length of 10 arcminutes), and is 2,700 light-years away from Earth.
Fox Fur Nebula is a Nebula located in Monoceros and included in the NGC 2264 Region. In the Sharpless catalog it is number 273.
This enigmatic formation of gas and dust lies in the constellation of Monoceros (the Unicorn) not far off the right arm of Orion. This is a close-up of a small section of a much larger complex, generally known as the Christmas Tree cluster. The mysterious Cone Nebula is also a part of this same cloud.
The red regions of this nebula are caused by hydrogen gas that has been stimulated to emit its own light by the copious ultraviolet radiation coming from the hot, blue stars of the cluster. The blue areas shine by a different process: they are mainly dust clouds that reflect the bluish light of the same stars.
Its popular name arises because the nebula looks like the head of a stole made from the fur of a red fox.
The Rosette Nebula (also known as Caldwell 49) is a large, circular H II region located near one end of a giant molecular cloud in the Monoceros region of the Milky Way Galaxy. The open cluster NGC 2244 (Caldwell 50) is closely associated with the nebulosity, the stars of the cluster having been formed from the nebula's matter.
The complex has the following NGC designations:
NGC 2237 – Part of the nebulous region (Also used to denote whole nebula)
NGC 2238 – Part of the nebulous region
NGC 2239 – Part of the nebulous region (Discovered by John Herschel)
NGC 2244 – The open cluster within the nebula (Discovered by John Flamsteed in 1690)
NGC 2246 – Part of the nebulous region
The cluster and nebula lie at a distance of some 5,000 light-years from Earth [3]) and measure roughly 50 light years in diameter. The radiation from the young stars excites the atoms in the nebula, causing them to emit radiation themselves producing the emission nebula we see. The mass of the nebula is estimated to be around 10,000 solar masses.
A survey of the nebula with the Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed the presence of numerous new-born stars inside optical Rosette Nebula and studded within a dense molecular cloud. Altogether, approximately 2500 young stars lie in this star-forming complex, including the massive O-type stars HD 46223 and HD 46150, which are primarily responsible for blowing the ionized bubble.[4][5] Most of the ongoing star-formation activity is occurring in the dense molecular cloud to the south east of the bubble.[6]
A diffuse X-ray glow is also seen between the stars in the bubble, which has been attributed to a super-hot plasma with temperatures ranging from 1 to 10 million K.[7] This is significantly hotter than the 10,000 K plasmas seen in HII regions, and is likely attributed to the shock-heated winds from the massive O-type stars.
Source: Wikipedia
Alter Ego: Sun
Name: Savannah Harrison
Allegiance: Hero
Powers:
* Can increase the intensity of light on objects and be able to essentially blind/flash bang her foes.
* Absorption & Amplification of solar energy and transmit it into searing hot energy beams.
* Immunity to heat and intense light.
Weapons:
* Two swords which she energises to be able to slice through thick plated metal and amplifies the light shined on them to blind her foes.
Key Weakness: She can only absorb solar energy no other form.
Origin:
Savannah grew up in a notorious Meta gang called "The Forgotten" with many metahumans that went down the wrong path. However they were intercepted by the hero known as "Luna" that defeated the gang but he was badly injured. Savannah hid during the battle and later emerged finding the hurt hero, rather than finish him off she rescued him and brought him home to rest. He thanked her for saving him from the gangs lair and managed to convince her to become a hero and follow a new path of heroism, over time she also became his girlfriend and partner for the crime fighting duo.
Absorptions.
Tra-arglwyddiaethu ar leiniau stereoteipiau di-chwaeth ymladd ynysig yn darparu ymsonau bregus sgyrsio tics geiriol swyddogaethau cymhleth dyfeisiadau siarad,
les démons de l'inexorabilité la gravité rassurant le public un monde orthodoxe sévère revendiquant des prologues une richesse urbaine infinie des mythologies mutilées,
seriøs vild humor svin spisning ritualer private vittigheder æstetik offensiver usandsynlige masker stønnende samtaler morderiskhed klokker,
deghizări demonstrații gunoi complete acte motivate mușcături extinse performanțe ticăloșie abjecții simetrice conflicte ireconciliabile,
антагонизм затраты словесные состязания символическая игра ужасающие деградации провиденциальная критика опасные рты деревенские речи,
喜び未装備の高さ不思議宝胸が失われた風に立ち向かう気分を害した指血の発見労働者の海岸の干渉用語恐ろしい丘厄介なダーツの内容が吸収された.
Steve.D.Hammond.
Tirumala limniace, the blue tiger, is a butterfly found in South Asia and Southeast Asia that belongs to the crows and tigers, that is, the danaid group of the brush-footed butterfly family. This butterfly shows gregarious migratory behaviour in southern India.In general, all butterflies can directly absorb heat from the sun via their wings to facilitate autonomous flight. Studies on blue tiger butterflies show that high-intensity light significantly increased flight activity. Blue tiger butterflies have a wing surface color that is composed of both light and dark colors. The dark areas on the wing surfaces are the heat absorption areas that allow for the facilitation of autonomous flight.
gammon and boiled beef served cold next to rice, peas, aubergine flavoured with balsamic vinegar, dal blended with garam masala, chilli powder, turmeric, cumin powder, lime, onion and sultanas and onion with servings of pear sauce, pineapple and ginger sauce and marmalade
pineapple and ginger sauce flic.kr/p/2kpFeEg
gammon cooked in the pressure cooker flic.kr/p/2kQSJyZ
pear sauce flic.kr/p/2kGWtBt
marmalade flic.kr/p/2kNodis
market buys flic.kr/p/2kPcePL & flic.kr/p/2kQjLMT
aubergine nutrition facts www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/ingredient-focus-aubergines
ghee flic.kr/p/2kGBxt9
second attempt at cooking aubergine
to decrease aubergine oil absorption soaked the aubergine in oat milk, no salt
www.thekitchn.com/4-ways-to-prevent-eggplant-from-absorbi...
... Soak the eggplant in milk. Soaking slices or cubes off eggplant in milk for one to two hours fills the porous structure studded with air pockets with milk, leaving no room for oil to be absorbed ...
ps i'm not recommending any of these cookery adventures. they suit my personal taste. photographing to encourage myself to eat more healthily ...
i've created a new group www.flickr.com/groups/cooking_is_my_hobby/ to gather ideas and encourage myself to continue with healthy eating by learning from others if you're interested in cooking, sometimes or a lot, or enjoy the cooking of others, you're always welcome ...
One of my first OCs without a specific suit/armour/costume.
Profile
Name: Lena Kaori Dawson/Hae Eun-Kyeong (해은경)
Villain’s name: Frostwave
Age: 20s
Bio: Born in a German Air Force Base, Lena’s mother was a Japanese-Korean samurai and her father was a British-American (and 1/3 Czech, 1/4 German) ninja sorcerer. She moved between countries, resulting in her speaking notably Korean, Czech, Japanese, German and English. Young Lena would join her parent’s sect of warriors, growing up to be one of the best fighters.
During her late youth, her family competed against various organisations, notably the Yakuza and the P.E. When the Hayashi clan’s temporary truce broke, she had to fight her so called “friend”, Noriko Hayashi, the future Spectre Blade.
After her side was left in ruins and her parents dead, she decided to learn more magic and train in combat, taking on as the highest ranking leader. In a few years time, she subsequently controlled the a portion of the crime underworld and the magic side, with the water demons at her side now...
Powers and abilities: Mainly ice and water generation, she can transform into liquid form or make ice armour. Lena has the power to shoot ice blasts, make ice/water constructs (spikes, icicles, hail, giants and much more ) etc. Has the power to walk on walls, surf. She also uses dark magic, but only against magic users (or enemies, depending on powers or how strong they are). She is a skilled combatant and exceptional fighter, as well as a highly trained njnja/assassin and a sniper.
is fluent in languages (see bio for more)
Weaknesses: Dehydration (rarely), overusing dark magic leading to insanity, could be weak against stronger fire, sometimes limited to use a source for absorption and recharging, creating strong bodies of water would exhaust her, sand and oil, hatred and revenge against her enemies.
Equipment: Fiber mesh armoured suit, wears a gi around her waist down. She carries various guns around, but mainly her sniper rifle and one unbreakable silver sai around her. She also uses various ninja weapons.
Personality: Cruel. adaptable, persistent, resourceful, ambitious, aggressive.
Macro photography can be quite absorbing. Sort of like zen. Or flow, which is characterized by "complete absorption in what one does and the almost complete loss of sense of space and time". Flow is an innately positive experience; it is known to "produce intense feelings of enjoyment". Hence macrohappy 😀🌸