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Shot in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood. I usually only post one shot from a given scene but looking back in the archives I decided a second shot from this sequence might be worthy of posting.
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Eastern Point Light is a historic lighthouse on Cape Ann, in northeastern Massachusetts.
It is known as the oldest seaport in America. The harbor has supported fishermen, whalers, and traders since 1616.
The lighthouse was originally planned in 1829 and was erected by 1832 on the east side of the Gloucester Harbor entrance. It was first lit on January 1, 1832. The tower was rebuilt in 1848 and again in 1890. The third and current conical brick tower stands 36 feet (11 m) tall. The lighthouse has an attached two-story keeper's quarters, built in 1879. The actual light is 57 feet (17 m) above Mean High Water. Its white light is visible for 20 nautical miles (37 km; 23 mi).
In 1880, the lighthouse was occupied by American landscape painter Winslow Homer.
It was automated by September 1985 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. The lighthouse is currently operated by the United States Coast Guard and is closed to the public.
A distinctive rock formation known as Mother Ann is located along the shore near the lighthouse.
shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a rokinon (samyang) 12mm f2.0 lens on a custom macro-focusing helicoid
Don Quixote and the Adventure of the Automated Cows
It was a sunny morning in La Mancha, and Don Quixote
the illustrious knight without fear, sense, or a functioning compass awoke with a sudden revelation.
“Sancho!” he cried to his loyal squire, who was in the middle of trying to negotiate a breakfast egg out of a chicken.
“Today is the day we face the most cruel creatures of the Devil fire-breathing, steel clad, mechanical cows!”
Sancho Panza, who had already survived exploding windmills, talking oak trees, and one particularly aggressive goat, was less than enthusiastic.
“Señor, maybe we should just eat cheese today and stay calm. Cheese is peaceful.”
But Don Quixote could not be stopped. Armed with his rusty lance, a helmet that had once been a salad bowl, and a cape that looked suspiciously like a curtain, he mounted his faithful steed, Rocinante who was more suited for retirement than war.
They rode through the morning until they reached a large pasture. And there they stood: the “Automated Cows.”
Shiny machines, with blinking lights and a “mooo” that sounded more like “bzzz.”
In reality, it was a modern milking system installed by the local agricultural cooperative.
“Do you see them, Sancho?” Don Quixote pointed at the devices.
“These devilish beasts have replaced the poor real cows! It is our sacred duty to destroy them and restore the balance of nature!”
Sancho let out a deep sigh.
“Señor, those are machines. They only milk. They don’t fight. One of them just offered me a coffee.”
But Don Quixote was no longer listening. With a heroic cry somewhere between opera and asthma he charged.
Rocinante, surprisingly quick for a horse with back problems, galloped straight at the largest of the milking robots.
What followed was a scene of epic chaos, Don Quixote thrust his lance, got tangled in a milk hose, was slapped by a rotating brush, and landed backward in a vat of fresh milk.
Rocinante trotted along peacefully, seemingly having the time of her life.
Sancho, who had found a chair and a sandwich in the meantime, observed the spectacle and commented dryly,
“If he calls me crazy one more time, I’m pickling him in that bucket.”
Don Quixote emerged from the milk, gasping.
His armor dripped, his helmet was full of cream, and his dignity was probably lying somewhere near the cow brush.
“Sancho!” he called as he hauled himself out of the vat.
“The enemy is tough! It fights with invisible forces! I believe I’ve received a magical shower!”
“They call that pasteurization, Señor,” Sancho replied.
“I call it a miracle bath of the white dragon!” Don Quixote shouted and raised his lance triumphantly which was now nothing more than a bendy straw.
At that very moment, the farmer Ramón, owner of the field, arrived with a face full of disbelief.
“What the hell is going on here?! Who attacked my brand-new milking system?!”
“Fear not, noble citizen!” said Don Quixote proudly.
“I have freed you from the tyranny of these mechanical monsters! Cow freedom has been restored!”
Ramón looked at the steaming, tangled equipment, then at Don Quixote, then at Sancho, who was trying to pour himself a cola from a milking tube.
“You’re either a hero or a walking insurance claim,” Ramón said.
Sancho grinned. “Both. Depends on the time of day.”
In the end, Don Quixote was escorted off the pasture to the polite applause of the cows, mostly because they were terrified he might come back.
Sancho promised Ramón he would explain to his master what an electrical cable was, but honestly, he didn’t believe it himself.
And so they rode on a knight, a squire, a deeply annoyed horse, and the faint scent of whole milk in search of the next adventure.
Or at least a place where Don Quixote wouldn’t try to joust with agricultural equipment.
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My heart, my words. Please respect them.
Every poem, every story, and every thought I share is a part of my soul. To take them without permission is to take a piece of me
a piece that will always remind you these words are mine and can never be yours.
Even if you alter them, it is still my soul that lingers, whispering to you: You are incapable of creating your own, and that is why you copy what belongs to others.
This is the automated version of my still shot many of you loved and supported me on for anti-bully day.
Automated crystal cutting at Waterford.
House of Waterford Crystal.
Remember the electric typewriter that had the IBM letter ball? This mechanism reminded me of the fascinating bit of engineering that went into making that ball work with incredible speed and accuracy.
Shot through the protective glass. No risk there of getting wet.
The St. Marks Light is the second-oldest light station in Florida. It is located on the east side of the mouth of the St. Marks River, on Apalachee Bay.
In the 1820s, the town of St. Marks, Florida was considered an important port of entry. The town served as a port for the prosperous planting region of Middle Florida and some counties of South Georgia. Growers hauled their agricultural products down to the port town in wagons by way of an early road which connected the then territorial capital of Tallahassee to the town of St. Marks. Later, this road would be widened and improved upon by the Tallahassee Railroad Company and would become the state's first railroad.
Once the agricultural products reached the new port town, they were loaded aboard boats for shipment to New Orleans and/or St. Augustine. There were, however, problems in navigating both the Apalachee Bay and the St. Marks River. In many places both bay and river were shallow, and it was not too uncommon for boats to run aground and/or get mired in the muddy shallows
After a survey was completed of the St. Marks area by Robert Mitchell, the Collector of Customs at Pensacola, and a site chosen for the lighthouse, it was discovered that the initial construction sum of $6,000 would be insufficient. The appropriation was increased to $14,000, and by mid-1829 a contract was signed with Winslow Lewis of Boston for the construction of a tower in the St. Marks area for $11,765. The finished product was not accepted by the Collector of Customs for St. Marks, Mr. Jesse H. Williams, because it had been constructed with hollow walls. Williams felt that the tower should be constructed with solid walls and, therefore, refused to accept the work.
Calvin Knowlton was brought in to rebuild the tower. He oversaw its completion, and in 1831, Williams, satisfied that the light was built according to the contract, accepted the work. That same year saw the tower's whale-oil lamps lit for the first time by Samuel Crosby, who had been appointed the first Keeper of the St. Marks Lighthouse the previous year.
The lighthouse was automated by the United States Coast Guard in 1960, and in 2000 the Coast Guard spent $150,000 in 2000 to stabilize the lighthouse. In 2000 or 2001 the lighthouse's fourth-order Fresnel lens was deactivated and a modern solar-powered beacon was placed outside the lantern room. The historic Fresnel lens remained in place in the tower for over a decade. In July 2005, Hurricane Dennis broke a window of the lantern, flooding the inside of the tower.
In October 2013 the Coast Guard deactivated transferred ownership of the lighthouse to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, which operates the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge. The lighthouse was deactivated in 2016 and the Coast Guard's solar beacon was removed. Financial grants from the Florida Department of State and Duke Energy in 2016, plus crowdfunded donations, were put towards repairs and restoration. On October 31, 2019, a replica of the original fourth-order Fresnel lens was lit in the tower. The light is now maintained as a private aid to navigation and is lit seasonally.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Marks_Light
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A multiple exposures combined to a panorama setting. This was inspired by two paintings by Edward Hopper, thus the title.
A train of Yurikamome, an automated guideway transit service in Tokyo, running through buildings of Tokyo waterfront.
This week's Crazy Tuesday challenge is "Nutcrackers." Since I don't have a nutcracker (or any nuts for that matter) I didn't submit anything but I thought this might be fun romp with AI.
Created using AI tools.
Egg carton detail for the Smile on Saturday group, challenge: Recycled.
An egg carton can be made of various materials such as recycled newspaper and molded recycled paper pulp by means of a mechanized papier-mâché molding process.
Mass produced to transport supplies and energy cores to outlying settlements and mining facilities. Due to lack of a willing population to make the lengthy and treacherous journey to outposts beyond the 40th parallel, the fleet was self-driving.
While in Bryce Canyon teaching a workshop this last weekend I wanted to try out an idea I've had for a very long time, automated tracked Nightscape imaging. I didn't have enough time to collect the foreground images, but I at least wanted to put together a bit of a test for the sky sequence. Luckily the ASIAir Pro has developed a new plan module which allows importing a mosaic from Telescopius, this allowed me to create a mosaic with the 2600mc Pro and my Voigtlander 50mm APO lens that would cover pretty much the entire arch. I waited a little too long to start the plan (waiting for the moon to set) so the plan ended up only covering a portion of the horizon, in the future I'll arrange the panel order to cover the entire horizon. The AAP controls everything (including slewing and centering the mount on each panel)! Only one panel failed, the target centering coordinates were below the horizon by the time I got to it and it couldn't execute that panel.
This plan is a 35 panel mosaic, each panel is a single 2 minute exposure at gain 100 and f2.5 with my ASI2600mc Pro and Voigtlander 50mm APO lens on a Sky Watcher AZ-GTi mount. Calibrated with a master bias and master flat, edited in PixInsight and Photoshop. We had some pretty crazy airglow that night which made color balancing and stitching a challenge, it moved pretty quick so getting the panels to stitch together evenly was a lot of work!
Focus stacking with 89 frames, using my DIY automated macro rail based on Arduino.
My detailed tutorial on how to build such a rail.
Youtube live demonstration of my Arduino rail.
Photo of the rail: www.flickr.com/photos/syamastro/22885703342
HSS!
The automated book storage system consists of hundreds of metal boxes, retrieved by an automated module and brought to librarians on a mezzanine at the far end (glimpsed in reflection at the top). Each drawer is tightly packed with books. My inner librarian mourns the inability to scan the books on a shelf, to feel the paper, cloth, and leather, smell the dust and words. But it rejoices at the sheer hoarding glory, like a dragon on its treasure trove, and loves the tidy orderliness of the room.
Hoping it doesn't run over someone
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The Needles is a row of three distinctive stacks of chalk that rise out of the sea off the western extremity of the Isle of Wight, UK, close to Alum Bay. The Needles Lighthouse stands at the outer, western end of the formation. Built in 1859, it has been automated since 1994.
The formation takes its name from a fourth needle-shaped pillar called Lot's Wife that collapsed in a storm in 1764. The remaining rocks are not at all needle-like, but the name has stuck.
The Needles Pleasure Park situated at the top of the cliff is a small amusement park with a selection of shops and rides. The most famous attraction at the pleasure park is the Chairlift, which operates between the park and Alum Bay.
The Needles are inextricably linked with Alum Bay, and are a major tourist draw. Scenic boat trips operating from Alum Bay that offer close-up views of the Needles are very popular. The rocks and lighthouse have become icons of the Isle of Wight, and are featured on many of the souvenirs sold throughout the island.
However, the main tourist attractions of the headland itself are the two gun batteries, the experimental rocket testing station, and the four Coastguard cottages owned by the National Trust and let as holiday homes. The site is on tour bus routes and hiking trails.
Military use
The Needles were a site of a long-standing artillery battery, from the 1860s to 1954, which was eventually decommissioned.
A nearby site on High Down was employed in the testing of rockets for the British ICBM programme. The headland at High Down was used for Black Knight and Black Arrow rocket engine tests from 1956–71. During the peak of activity in the early 1960s some 240 people worked at the complex, while the rockets were built in nearby East Cowes. These rockets were later used to launch the Prospero X-3 satellite. The site is now owned by the National Trust, and is open to the public. Concrete installations remain, but the buildings that were less durable have either been demolished or were torn down by the elements.
In 1982, HRH Prince Charles officially opened the restored Needles Old Battery facility. Underground rocket testing rooms are currently being restored for exhibition. The first phase of restoration was completed in 2004.
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Needles and www.theneedles.co.uk/
The Isle of Wight /ˈaɪl əv ˈwaɪt/, is a county and the largest and second most populous island of England. It is located in the English Channel, about 4 mi (6 km) off the coast of Hampshire and is separated from mainland Great Britain by the Solent. The island has several resorts which have been holiday destinations since Victorian times.
The history of the Isle of Wight includes a brief period of time as an independent kingdom in the 15th century. Until 1995, like Jersey and Guernsey, the island had a Governor.
Home to the poets Swinburne and Tennyson and to Queen Victoria, who built her much-loved summer residence and final home Osborne House at East Cowes, the island has a maritime and industrial tradition including boat building, sail making, the manufacture of flying boats, the world's first hovercraft, and the testing and development of Britain's space rockets. The Isle hosts annual festivals including the Bestival and the Isle of Wight Festival, which, in 1970, was the largest rock music event ever held. The island has well-conserved wildlife and some of the richest cliffs and quarries for dinosaur fossils in Europe.
The Isle of Wight was part of the County of Southampton until 1890, when it became an independent administrative county. Until 1974 it continued to share its Lord Lieutenant with Hampshire, when it was reconstituted as a non-metropolitan ceremonial county which gave it its own Lord Lieutenant and was recognised as a postal county.
The quickest public transport link to the mainland is to and from Southsea (Portsmouth) by hovercraft, while five ferry services shuttle across the Solent.
For more information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Wight and www.visitisleofwight.co.uk/
Surprised to see this view on my phone in my album on Flickr. Automated design in flickr mobile app that I had nothing to do with but which works for me. Screenshot from a train…
Japan has a very extensive railway transportation network, whereby most major cities and even smaller towns are reachable by train.
With train types ranging from the high speed Shinkansen and commuter trains to the tourist-oriented joy trains and tramways run by both public and private railway companies, the rail journey itself is an almost endless adventure to explore with.
This post (on Tokyo first) is dedicated to the railfans out there around the world like me, who actually started getting into photography as a railfan many years ago!
A Union Pacific RBL rests at North Yard in Salt Lake City, Utah on July 30, 1977. It was fresh from a rebuild and repaint in Pocatello, Idaho. The BI-70-10 box cars were insulated, 70-ton RBLs built by GATC in 1967 (490500-490699 series). They were standard RBLs with cushioned under frames, roller-bearing trucks, and loader-equipped with 10'-6" flush doors. The series were used to haul paper, canned goods, plywood, and particle board. (Information courtesy Mark W. Hemphill)
In countless big cities across the Galactic Federation, especially in hive-cities with complex system of highways and smaller roads, the problem of traffic congestion and a high number of accidents is especially acute. So in some those cities personal cars was replaced by an automatic taxi system. It is made up of millions of public cabs that do not require a driver to operate and can operate on dedicated traffic lines as well as on numerous small branches off major highways.
These electric vehicles do not have a rear or front and move in both directions equally quickly, which greatly simplifies city traffic and does not waste time on turning. Also, the salon is pressurized and even has life support systems, thanks to which these cabs can be used in cities with the most unfavorable ecology or on the surface of planets where there is no breathable atmosphere. Due to the fact that all cabs are controlled by automatics and connected to a single network, the accident rate of this type of transport is minimized.
P.S. Only after hour long rendering I noticed that cars "levitating" above the ground. And I'm too lazy to re-render it. :P
This once-proud boxcar shows the pride that railroad's once put into their images. Once upon a time, it was about more than the price attached to a carload shipment.
View across the bottom of a matrix of inidivual clocks that flip their own coloured panels to change the resulting matrix of colours. Seen at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Read more about it here:
http://www.mca.com.au/collection/work/201120/
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