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So many points of interest in this shot for me, including the former "Big Idea" building in Irvine, the mountains of the Isle of Arran, "The Ship Inn" which is the oldest pub. I would suggest this is best viewed full screen, just press the L key on your keyboard. Comments most welcome, especially those in your own words.
A long exposure down on the deck at Irvine harbour with the old abandoned Big Idea in the background.
The Big Idea was a Science Centre (Museum) but only lasted a few years...
I've made a habit of photographing this lovely Kirk, my workplace, each year when the vine displays its colours. Here's 2019 from Liberton Kirk.
5DSR + TSE 24L II + Hoya CPL + Firecrest ND110
It's not a secret this is my workplace. I spend a lot of my time across the road in the Halls, in public schools, or at my home office. But I love that I can call Liberton Kirk home - it's full of wonderful people and I love my job. So, every Autumn, I'll make sure to take some photos of the vine growing on the side of the Kirk, just over 200 years old itself. It's not been a great year for the colours, as the unusually high seasonal winds have blown much of the leaves off before the peak. Here they are anyway.
5D II + TSE 24L II + Hoya CPL + BW ND110
Autumn: time for the vine to show its brightest reds on the side of Liberton Kirk.
5DSR + TSE 24L II + Hoya CPL
Possibly one of the most challenging images I've ever managed to capture - I've been experimenting with panoramic techniques but this one stressed me out. I've been taking images vertically with full upward shift on the TSE lens, while panning carefully to stitch together later. I do this because while 24mm is usually wide enough there are situations in which the object in front you of is too tall and it's impossible or undesirable to get further away. I've recently done this with the Tron images taken in the last month, but only with 4-5 images.
Anyway, I took 25 vertical images in this case and attempted to stitch it in Photoshop. CS6 Photomerge couldn't cope and didn't produce a result that looked normal. HUGIN was up to the task but it took me three attempts to set it up and over an hour for my PC to crunch it. Eventually I ended up with what you see here but had to spend another hour correcting the myriad of errors. Easily the biggest headache I've ever had dealing with one image but in the end worth it to me as I'm left with a nearly 15,000 pixel wide very printable image. You can see my other takes on this place in my photostream and note that those are much less wide.
If you've made it this far reading all the above, thank you. Any tips from pro-pano-makers would be appreciated!
5DSR + TSE 24L II + Hoya CP
I guess the EXIF got wiped in the process, but each of the 25 vertical images was shot at f/16, 50th sec, 400iso
As I was taking this shot, two separate groups of tourists streamed through the garden in awe of the red vines in full colour. I could overhear them gushing about how amazing it must be to go to this church. Well, I can confirm it is pretty great!
Had my camera at work anyway, so I've attempted a capture of the autumn colours at their peak: full upward shift, 4 stitched frames, 30 seconds long exposure, and minimal processing (hand on my heart).
5D II + TSE 24L II + BW ND110 + Hoya CPL
You just wouldn't want to attempt to cross this bridge!! Thankfully it is now closed off to pedestrians and as it is the entry point to Irvine Harbour that is the reason the bridge is open in this manner!
It is a "sliding bridge" and was also the access to the Big Idea which was a science centre but due to the lack of visitors it was closed in 2003.
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This Kirk is locally famous for it's vine that turns a vibrant red in the Autumn - I even have a few photos of it scattered here. But it's attractive in the Spring, too, so today after work I took 5 minutes to capture what I see on a daily basis.
5DSR + TSE 24L II + Hoya CPL + Firecrest ND
DDC-Big Ideas!
Well, we both had good intentions. Shizandra to patrol and me to take some photos in the backyard, but our jaunt ended very quickly. It may only be 78'F out there but the UV is at 10 which is very high! It feels more like 90'F in the sun.
These places helped build the world around us. We somehow came up with the idea that we dont need them anymore, traded them for a different way of life and even through that life was invented by someone else, we believed it and moved on.
My Dad is a man who worked in a place that started in an old barn making precision components on a multitude of machines, he made tangible items that were sold world wide and used every day. He made something and made a difference in our world.
Some people would look at what he did and say he was "just a machinist", a "factory worker", as this was somehow a lowly thing, but you couldn't go a day without those things, even today, you and millions of other people worldwide may interact in some way with something that quite possibly my Dad may have had a hand in making, that's not lowly, that's amazing.
As we were talking the other day about how different the city is, how many factories have gone overseas and those spaces have been replaced by shopping malls, drive through restaurants, liquor stores and gas stations. He paused for a moment and then asked me, "what do the people do anymore, what do we make, how can we just buy?"
I could tell that he was genuinely confused by this, but not in a way that he didn't understand, but in the way that he was concerned. You see, he helped build this world we live in and enjoy and now he sees the world he lived in being torn down and replaced for something new, this "Big Idea". He knows that there is value in being productive and making things that make the world work.
When you are a fisherman, you know where your next meal will come from, when you just buy fish, you are just a forager.
So, I wonder, who invented this new reality? Who stands to gain from this "Big Idea"? I hear a lot rhetoric about sustainability, well, from what I see, we sold out our sustainability long ago.
What will happen to this space? It will probably be replaced by a place filled with things made in another country, probably a Walmart, you know "Live Better.." right?
used here, here, here, here, here, here
rachel puts her new laptop through its paces. we just received a matched pair of dell precision m90 notebook computers on friday. rachel is running solidworks 2006 [i guess that's like open office or microsoft office for engineers]. she is inventing something to baby-proof our perilous stairway against any accidents with sequoia, who is due to start crawling the floors any day now.
sidebar on the honeywell mouse
originally the honeywell mouse, this was rechristened the keytronic lifetime mouse when keytronic acquired the honeywell keyboard division in 1993. until the laser mouse came along, this thing was the space pen of mice, it worked on any surface, even upside down, and it never got clogged with dirt.
copyright © 2007 sean dreilinger
view rachel test-driving solidworks on her new dell precision m90 laptop - _MG_9319 on a black background.
As part of the 'BIG IDEA' educational component of the Vanouver Biennale (check out the video here: vimeo.com/43022030) students from three grade levels in three area schools visited Bernar Vanet's "Arcs 217.5 X 13". These young women were from a Sculpture class at Rockridge Secondary School in West Vancouver.
The 11:15 from Tunbridge Wells West approaches the outer Groombridge signal, the Poke Hill Oast House visible in the distance.
It's not a secret this is my workplace. I spend a lot of my time across the road in the Halls, in public schools, or at my home office. But I love that I can call Liberton Kirk home - it's full of wonderful people and I love my job. So, every Autumn, I'll make sure to take some photos of the vine growing on the side of the Kirk, just over 200 years old itself. It's not been a great year for the colours, as the unusually high seasonal winds have blown much of the leaves off before the peak. Here they are anyway.
5D II + TSE 24L II + Hoya CPL + BW ND110
Class 33063 and 33201 buffer to buffer slow at the outer Groombridge signal whilst hauling the 10:30 from Tunbridge Wells West.
Class 50 No.26 Indomitable, hauls BR Blue 3-CEP Electric unit 1497 "Freshwater" towards Groombridge with the 11:15 from Tunbridge Wells West
Or AM I just Left Behind?
Don't get any big ideas. They're not gonna happen
Just when you found it. It's gone. Just when you feel it
You don't anymore. It's gone. forever?
I just feel like I'm missing the other half.
It's starting to hurt me.
Class 20 "Chopper" class 20 No. D8059 brings its train consisting of 3-CIG 1497 away from Groombridge in the morning sunshine with the 9:45 from Eridge
There are 35 fantastic camp sites all along the river banks with views up and down the river under the River Red Gums.
But of course you don't camp under those, unless like a retired beekeeper we met, see later shot, who said, "If you hear it crash then you are still alive", If you don't, then it doesn't matter anymore!"
Mary dragged the fire place over from a crummy spot, to ours, and then with our load of wood from outside the park, we had some good billy boiling fires.
We had a whole lay day here with cups of tea, books, and photographic walks along the river bank.
The map location is approx only.. at one of 50 great campsites along this stretch of river in the National Park.
Google Maps maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...
And more places to visit www.australiangeographic.com.au/travel/destinations/2014/...
More places to visit.. www.ytravelblog.com/national-parks-australia/
A link to camping on private property camps around Australia.
Love these quotes from.. www.flickr.com/photos/johnwhite/
"Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."
Henry Van Dyke
"We don`t make a photograph just with a camera; we bring to the act of photography all the books we have read, the movies we have seen, the music we have heard, the people we have loved."
Ansel Adams
"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever---it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything" ...
Aaron Siskind
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bow lines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain
"...but it's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much; my heart fills up like a balloon and it's about to burst. And then I remember to relax. And stop trying to hold on to it. And then it flows through me, like rain, and I can't feel anything but gratitude for *every* single moment of my life...".
"AB"
There are some good links and explanations on Wikedia of the differences between Australian National Parks, Conservation Reserves, Parks, Nature Reserves, Marine Parks, Regional Reserves, and between States, Territories and the National Park and Reserve System.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Reserve_System
See p49 in the July 2019 edition of the CMCA Wandererr to read all about traveling with the Danish philosophy of hygge, pronounced 'hoo-gah' which invites you to truly relax by revelling in good company, natural surroundings and locales.
P8190039
Thoughts...
Queensland Chief Scientist Hugh Possingham is very annoyed with his fellow scientists as well as environmentalist and conservationists:
They are too conservative, don’t debate respectfully, are too obsessed with growing their own organisations and can’t compromise a bit.
Five reasons why environmentalists and scientists annoy me, even though I am one - UQ Laureate Future Forum 2022. May 23, 2022
www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas/why-enviro...
Class 33063 and 33201 buffer to buffer slow at the outer Groombridge signal whilsy hauling the 10:30 from Tunbridge Wells West.
Image credits: Photo by Brett Abramsky
Read more on opensource.com:
Jim Whitehurst's big idea: Effective leaders must operate as catalysts