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An outtake from a recent series called "Align", which focuses how to align our lives with God's will for our lives.
I attempted to use a Rubik's Cube inside the skull x-ray (where the brain should be) and dress our character in typical 80s fashion (using a queue from the Rubik's Cube) but, the Rubik's Cube was cut off at the top in the x-ray, and piecing together all the elements made it feel too crowded. The x-ray also doesn't perfectly align with his body, so I went a different direction (in the x-ray his arms were at his sides, thus the shoulders don't mesh quite right). But regardless, I think its a sorta cool looking shot -- so here is just the root concept ... though not one that totally works with the theme.
This is a comet aligned integration of 10 x 5 minute subs. I was hoping to get the most detail I could out of this image and I think given my small 480/80mm scope, this is about as far as I can push the available data without either too much noise or over smoothing.
I wasnt trying to remove the stars but the comet-centred integration did a fairly good job anyway.
480/80mm refractor with Canon 60Da @ ISO 800.
IPAS LPS D1 filter
Ioptron ZEQ25GT
Guiding from PHD2 (ZWO 290MM/Orion Mini Guider).
QHY Polemaster alignment.
PixInsight 1.8 post processing.
30 dark frames
30 bias frames
57 flat frames (LED panel @ 1/20 sec).
With a tug, the slack is taken out of the tow-line and the Grob G103a Twin II sailplane aligns for takeoff. There is no radio aboard, but a signal by cycling the tail rudder from side to side alerts the pilot of the Pawnee AgCat tug that you’re ready to go. 260 horses from the tug’s engine is more than adequate to pull both aircraft to the separation point at around 3000 feet AGL (Above Ground Level). The Grob’s efficient design actually has it airborne within seconds, way faster than the powerful AgCat tow plane as it claws for speed down the narrow runway at the Whitsett, North Carolina, glider park... it’s that efficiency that you count on as you cut away from the tug. The tow pilot angles down and left, while you rise up and right. The air smooths out and so does the ride out from behind the backwash of the tug’s propeller, but it’s not time to sit back just yet. The first order of business is situational awareness... to take note of where you’re at and what’s around you. Next, trim the aircraft for best rate of climb... then look for some rising air. There is no electrical system aboard the Grob, but its instrument panel is complete with artificial horizon, altimeter, airspeed indicator, clock, compass, and vertical airspeed indicator... that’s the instrument that glider pilots rely on to find the rising air that takes them to their ultimate destination... up!
There is yet another important instrument that helps to get you up there, but it’s not in the panel... it’s a three-inch string attached to the front center of the canopy. If you’ve trimmed the craft properly, that string flows straight back from the canopy... if it flows left or right from center, you’re side-slipping, which is an excellent way to lose altitude. After trimming the aircraft to its most efficient profile, I look to another indicator for “best flight” that isn’t to be found in the cockpit... circling buzzards. Buzzards have an innate ability to find thermals, shafts of rising air that keep them aloft for hours. Some of the best lifts I ever got were from taking cues from some of nature’s most prolific flyers. The airframe of a sailplane like the Grob is so effectual that they will easily go to the upper limits of thermals. Around these parts, that’s usually around 10,000 feet AGL, though there are areas here in the states where thermals can reach 20,000 feet or better... and that can be dangerous.
Thermals not only rise... they also track across the landscape, and sometimes pretty fast. The highest I flew in these parts was around 9,000 feet. I often had to hop from thermal to thermal to stay within sight of Whitsett. You didn’t want to be too far away, especially in conditions of sinking air. The destination was always up, but journey’s end was always safely stopped at the park... “journey’s end” is critical in an unpowered aircraft... part of the skill in flying it was putting it back where you found it. That was always on my mind, but so was going up, and it never seemed high enough. My question to myself on nearly every drive home after a flight was how high is high enough?
There are many conditions in life where people accept poor standards of belief, especially when it’s just within themselves, where they strive and claw to the stratosphere only to find there’s nothing there... their expectations let them down. I've listened to skeptics who rely on their place in life as a random collocation of atoms... that's an even worse condition, as it leaves one with no understanding to even reach for the top, much less knowing when they have.
Even while flying the Grob, I realized the joy was in the journey, not in the heights. This image was taken the same morning as that of my last post. It gives a better view of the overall wildness of Linville Gorge from the tip rocky ledge of Hawksbill Mountain. Where I’m standing is about 4,000 feet (1220 meters) above sea level, looking over a remote landscape that stretches to the coming morning... and it makes me appreciate that there are times that the highest you need to go may be exactly where you are... particularly if it takes you to a beautiful place. After a night of rain, mist retreats to morning... there's hope in that.
The pink flowers here are Carolina rhododendron separated by blueberry bushes that are also in bloom... you can see them here, a pinkish white and rather small bell-shape.
EXA 1b - Domiplan 50 2.8
kodak 200
CanonScan 4200F
ALIGN cafe 2 - 10A Khúc Hạo, Ba Đình
Quán của dân 3D HN . SAI GON dân 3D cũng nên có :)
Hà Nội 1-4-2011
I`ve spent two weeks in Austria!
In the next days I`ll upload a lot of great pictures.
I did macro, landscape, astrophotography and long exposure photography.
The image shows the Tegernlake in Austria, where a lot of little sailingboats are crossing the lake.
In the background, you can spot an old landslide that happened many years ago.
Settings:
F3.5 (should`ve used F10 or so)
14mm
1/1000th
ISO100
raw image
some moments feel more complete than others...
a romantic but fully meaningless notion that has magic written all through it...
Chaco Culture National Historical Park - New Mexico - View of Fajada Butte from Pueblo Bonito View On Black
According to Chacoan history, during the middle and late 800s, the great houses of Pueblo Bonito, Una Vida, and Peñasco Blanco were constructed, followed by Hungo Pavi, Chetro Ketl, Pueblo Alto, and others. These structures were often oriented to solar, lunar, and cardinal directions. Lines of sight between the great houses allowed communication. Sophisticated astronomical markers, communication features, water control devices, and formal earthen mounds surrounded them. The buildings were placed within a landscape surrounded by sacred mountains, mesas, and shrines that still have deep spiritual meaning for their descendants.
Have a great Sunday.....off to a Native American & Ethnographic Show at one of our local convention centers :-)
Leica CL • Nokton Classic 35mm F1.4 VM
Ilford Pan 400 @200 film developed in Caffenol CL 60min @20°C
Scanned with Plustek OpticFilm 120 at 3200dpi with Silverfast AI Studio
Gipsweieren • Bridel • Luxembourg
Caffenol CL
500 ml Filtered Water
8gr Anhydrous Washing Soda
5gr Vitamin C
0.5gr KBr
20gr Instant coffee ("Cora")
60 sec. slow agitations then let stand for 59 minutes
Shot with a Pentax LX
SMC Pentax-A 100mm f/2.8 macro lens
Lomochrome Purple film
Shot at EI 400
Developed by The Darkroom
Scanned with a Super Coolscan 5000ED
Orsotriaena medus
Common: Nigger, Smooth-eyed Bush-brown
Orsotriaena is a monotypic genus of the Satyrinae, or the Browns. The genus has only one species, Orsotriaena medus which is found in Asia and Australia. In India, the butterfly has historically been called the Nigger, but renamed in Australian faunal works to the socially acceptable name of Smooth-eyed Bush-brown.
Orsotriaena medus is a medium-sized butterfly with wingspan of 45 to 55mm. The butterfly is dark brown above with a thin marginal pale border with the upper hindwing having a thin submarginal line. There is no eye-spot on the upperside of the wings. Below, the butterfly has a white discal band which runs across both wings. It has five ocelli beloe - two equal-sized eye-spots on the underside of the forewing, an apical ring enclosing two ocelli and two separate ocelli in the tornal region.
O. medus is very common in the rains up to an altitude of 1600m. A shy, weak-flying insect, it stays low amongst the undergrowth, and when disturbed flies for a short distance before settling down. The butterfly basks in the sun, often with its body aligned parallel to the sun's rays.
Taken at Kadavoor, Kerala, India
This resident school of Striped large eye Bream (Gnathodentex aureolineatus) seems to be enjoying photographers.
Drew Harris（Canadian, 1960 - ）
Mixed media on canvas
92 x 122 cm
www.christies.com/lotfinder/paintings/drew-harris-align-2...
Estimate : 30,000 - 45,000 HKD
Price Realized : 37,500 HKD
Christie's
Asian 20th Century Art, Day Sale
HK, 29 Nov 2015
flamands roses, étang de Bolmon, canal de Marseille au Rhône, Châteauneuf les Martigues, Bouches du Rhône
Lots of red showing at the North Carolina Transportation Museum as all of the firetruck show attendees line their beautiful trucks up for a photo with NS 911 [6/24/23]
- www.kevin-palmer.com - It was a very warm night for February, with scattered clouds and temperatures above freezing. After finding this stack of rocks, I went back and shot the moon through the gap.