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Paratroopers assigned to Company A, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, adjust communications equipment, May 15, at Vaziani Training Area during Exercise Noble Partner. The exercise is happening May 11 to 26 and includes approximately 1300 participants from the U.S., Georgia and the U.K. The exercise is a reoccurring training event that takes place at Vaziani Training Area, Georgia. Noble Partner 16 is a critical part of Georgia's training for its contribution of a light infantry company to the NATO Response Force (NRF) and enhances Georgian territorial self-defense capability. (Photo by Sgt. Daniel Cole, U.S. Army Europe Public Affairs)
Stocking adjustments are so feminine, so sensual and so much fun. I love doing them and they never fail to make me feel truly happy and bring a joyful smile to my face.
Lo skateboarding è uno sport nato in California negli anni '50 ed arrivò in Italia verso il 1977.
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I had to close the bottom of the tail a little differently than before, or else it would have ended up being too thick again. Fortunately, it went pretty much according to plan, and I'm much happier with the overall shape of the model now.
Taken 2140UT. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Sky-Watcher Explorer 200P telescope. Canon 1200D camera. Prime focus. ISO-100. 1/200th second exposure. Cropped using Irfanview. Wavelets applied using Registax 6. Colour Curves adjusted using GIMP 2.8.
Previous: Decoding the raw files
The goal at this stage is to stretch the histogram as wide as possible across the the available dynamic range of the output image. For this picture, the value of 1.2 does it; I simply go ahead and type it into the Exposure Value box. Alternatively, I could slide the slider, but I am used enough to the EV numbers that I can just dial the approximate number right away, and then adjust it with a couple clicks on either side of the slider, if it is not right — that saves me mouse travel.
If you don't know right away how much to adjust the exposure value, move the slider to the right until the image becomes overxposed (the second line from the bottom, now showing 0.0% will show a non-zero number), and the bright spots on the image will start looking awful. Then step back until the number becomes zero again. Then, look at the histogram and if it has a sharp spike at the bright edge, step back some more. Too many pixels aggregating at the bright edge, even though not technically overexposed, will make the picture look bland. Keep moving away from the threshold of overexposure until the histogram tapers off smoothly, as the blue histogram does in the above image. That is not always possible, but a properly exposed image should allow you to do shape the histogram this way.
Did I tell you to enable the histogram view while taking the pictures? This is the reason why. This is how the histogram should have looked in the camera while the picture was taken, but I was almost facing the sun when I took it and could not see it too well. Another bit of advice following from this:
- have a piece of dark fabric to throw over your head when the ambient light is too bright
And something I came to take for granted:
- use the lens hood
This picture came out reasonably well in part because the camera had the lens hood on it. Without it, shooting at such a close angle to the sun would produce unsightly reflexes. I never take the hood off, by the way. It improves contrast in any light (if only a bit), and it protects the lens from bumping into things; I have never had to wipe my fingerprints from this lens because the hood eliminates the possibility of accidental contact.
The procedure for normalising the highlights I just described is likely to affect the darks. So, once satisfied with the highlights (in this case, in the sky), check the bottom of the range by pushing the Indicate button in the underexposed values row. What do we see here? It's looking pretty good. The only severely underexposed area is the shadow under the car, which is not important. That spot can be as dark as a black hole, for all I care. There is also an insignificant number of underexposed values elsewhere in the image — 0.7% including the shadow under the car; that's close to nothing, so whe can move on to the next stage.
The image still does not look right. The highlights in the sky are fine, but the mountain looks as if it was painted in ink. The darks are darker than they should be. That is because the standard gamma curve, which would work well with a picture shot in the daylight, is too shallow to reproduce the sunset lighting correctly.
Before cutting the knees, I made cardboard templates from the full sized plans. I'm glad I did. The forward knees would not fit my hull profile as drawn in the plans. I had to reconfigure the knee while keeping the same deck - sheer clamp angle so that the carlins would stay fair. After playing with the templates I was able to cut the knees and dry fit them in the hull with the carlins. Everything looks good. I asked CLC about this problem and they suggested that different woods used for the sheer clamps will result in variances in hull profiles....makes sense. We'll tack the knees in tonight and fillet them tomorrow.
I made these reversible, adjustable headbands from my daughter. It makes me sad to watch her grow out of things I make for her, so I made these using hardware from a bra strap, so they can be adjusted. They'll grow with her!
Today's adjustment (#18 for those keeping track) was downright
disappointing. Normally, the doctor and his helpers use orthodontic
jargon around me and my neurosis soars as I try to figure out what
they're trying to say in plain English. Today, the doctor was quite
obviously less than pleased with the latest panoramic xray and for
once I didn't have to know what he was saying to understand why. There
on the computer screen were my top outermost molars pointing in
opposite directions and not at all where they are supposed to be more
than two years into this ordeal. The "helper" kept flipping back and
forth between the current and previous xrays and mumbling "what
happened ?" So, out comes the top wire which can pass for a miniature
model of some scary roller coaster at this point though apparently not
scary enough since the ortho then added even more bends to it. He also
did something to a couple of brackets and added not one but two (TWO)
power chains over a few of the outside molars. It's painful and he
didn't even give me a "popcorn day" estimate. Color me frustrated. At
least I got one of the good "helpers." She was very nice and offered
some really nice words of encouragement, so at least there's that.
I was hoping for a de-bracing day before Geoffrey's birthday trip to
NZ in August, but with my next appointment scheduled at the end of
July, I have to admit that might be a lot unrealistic. Le sigh.
Always on the lookout for vanity license plates.
During a photowalk with friends to explore the "Murals in the Market", A nine-day festival that promised roughly 45 national and local artists to create dozens of large-scale pieces of authorized street art in Eastern Market. It was quite spectacular to see so many murals..
Detroit, Michigan
Copyright 2012 C. Michael McCall / Mike McCall Photography.
St. Patrick's Rugby Tournament, Daffin Park, Savannah, Georgia.
Handmade from scratch with love (and patience), silver wire and a stunning Amethyst faceted rectangle in the most beautiful dark purple/grape wine colour. I shaped a ring shank with 1,2mm thick sterling silver wire and gently, gently hammered it for strength and shape. With the help from the tension in the ring’s shank I fastened a coil made from different thicknesses of wire and to get a little sparkle I wire wrapped the Amethyst to the shank. I normally oxidise my jewellery, but for some reason this ring wanted to stay white and shiny. So I only gave it a gentle buff with polish and left it as it is.
Day 87, Sunday, March 28th, 2021
Adjusting the Base
Maybe because we were out walking around for a couple of hours, Anna woke up Sunday morning with pretty bad back pain again. She was having trouble standing up from a seated position and couldn’t bend her back at all. Poor baby. Her relatively new Level Sleep bed has an adjustable base so I put in the Zero Gravity position to see if would provide some relief when she went to bed. It did help a little. But honestly the bed is just too firm. It has a full one year trial period so I contacted them Monday to see about returning it. They are sending a free mattress topper to see if that helps and if not, we can still return or exchange it. I’m impressed! I ended up keeping Anna home Monday and we got in to see Dr. Katie, Anna’s PT. She was able to work on Anna’s back to get the spasm to relax.
Opening the 2009 tranny season with a meal in Concord.
The long floral dress is from Wallis. And, yes Elaine, it's one from the BBBBoG :-)
How the garment looks if you just throw it on without adjusting all the bits and pieces. Shoulder seams are too wide, collar turns up, detail bow is all over the place. May be less of an issue with, say, a nice wool felt.
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Simplicity 4032
I really liked the idea of this pattern. It's nice to have something that's easy to care for, made of fleece but doesn't look like you just walked out of the gym. The pattern has 4 jacket versions and a (rather hideous) vest option. I've never sewn with fleece before so I bought some less expensive mint colored fleece and a slightly more expensive fleece in a deep plum shade. My plan was to sew my second choice jacket designs with the green to get my feet wet with fleece, before cutting into the purple fabric.
I don't hate the end result but it's definitely not as nicely designed as I would have liked. My biggest issues are that it's just plain fussy to put on, the collar is a single, unfaced layer and rolls if it's not laying just so, the little accent bow does the same thing. The inner facings are all over the place. You really have to put it on and check that everything is in order instead of just tossing the jacket on and going.
My other issue is that the cross back measurement is too wide for my taste, by probably a full 2"/5cm. Jackets are generally cut like this to give room for layering, but I'm a hussy and wear mostly slim fitting clothing. On me, the shoulder seams fall off my shoulders and the look is a little sloppy.
The other thing to be aware of, which has more to do with my crappy skills than the pattern, is you really need to know which seams will be unfinished in the final product so you don’t cut those edges like you were a few sheets to the wind before you started. Fleece isn’t very forgiving in that sense.
I may still sew the other version of this jacket that I like a little better. If I do, I'll narrow the front and back pieces, mid shoulder (so I don't have to monkey with the fit of the collar or sleeves) and I may find a better way to keep the inner facings in line. I'm not an expert enough seamstress to go too crazy with mods but I think the pattern is salvageable.