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Bit of fall color on the the cypress and tupelo tree lined banks of Hickson Lake, in the Dagmar Wildlife Management Area in eastern Arkansas.
Had a great weekend painting and partying with cool people. A big thank you to the Def Kids for the invite and Sept for being a great host!
Bits and pieces of metal taken "from the top" for Macro Mondays.
Have a good day and week, everyone!
HMM!
AA071 - IT'S A BIT WARM OUTSIDE - a multi-coloured abstract acrylic painting. 28.5x20cms on A4 250gsm paper. A strident block of vibrant red, seen through curtains of layered colour - green, orange, blue, white and black. All seen through highlights of copper. The three-dimensional layers were completed using palette knives.
A full range of products using this design are available at Fine Art America at the following link: tinyurl.com/4bdd58f5
Serial Number: GSA-AA071
(C)2025-Artwork Copyright-Graham Seaman Art
Website at: www.grahamseamanart.co.uk
Went to Ikea yesterday to buy some bits and pieces they missed in their home delivery.
Bumped into full blown Christmas.
A tad early, I think, to put it politely.
Bit of a cheat here :)
I carry a really cheap set of neutral density filters in my bag, just for this kind of shot. They have a magenta cast when several are used together, this shot used an ND4 (2 stop), a ND8 (3 stop) and a GND8 (3 stop graduated)
Quite a bit of locomotive hauled action on the Tyne Valley today with four westbound engineering trains working their way back to Carlisle from work on the ECML but there was also some overnight work around Haltwhistle and the first train of the day was an eastbound working.
70813 (a relatively rare visit for the class to the Tyne Valley ), is at the head of with the 6C88 08:40 Haltwhistle - Doncaster Decoy passing Prudhoe signal box and crossing.
23rd September 2018.
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A bit analogue again: Olympus OM-1 with MC Zuiko 50mm 1.4. Unfortunately my Plustek 8200i scanner doesn't get an even monochrome with the Ilford XP2 despite Silverfast software (NegaFix) and Auto-CCR. The colour cast varies. Annoys me, but I can't change it.
Addendum: I was able to solve the problem with the colour cast and have replaced the photos with new scans.
with a bit of experimenting (hate to waste frames of film, but sometimes that's the only way), i've found that for both the b&w (dated 4/14) and color (dated 10/13) made-for-Impossible-Lab (i.e. no battery) packs, using images straight from my iphone (most of them are Instagrammed) resulted in much too high of contrast -- like the first version of this one, where the blacks were all solidly blocked up, and almost no midtones at all.
reducing contrast using the Instant Lab app's setting on my iphone resulted in a cloudy-looking image.
reducing contrast for each image using Snapseed by about 40%, and then boosting the saturation back up a bit (maybe 20%?) resulted in a much better, balanced image.
it's a pain in the neck to have the extra steps, but definitely a more satisfying result.
A bit of postcode lottery today after local runner and bird enthusiast Marcus Doolan stumbled upon this Black Redstart at my local cycle track. Very convenient lockdown birding as the canal and cycle track are pretty much all I have to enjoy during lockdown.
Another one left over from my trip to Oregon in Dec/Jan, same place as the previous shot but a few steps back, not nearly as dramatic but still kinda cool I think :-)
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This is another quick and dirty edit. I don't really have the time to spend much time editing lately so took about five minute to throw about 6 curve layers on here and a white balance shift. My favorite shot of the day is going to sit dormant for a while until I can figure out how to process it.
I spotted Charlie Widdis, local photographer and only other yahoo to brave the -12f this morning out on the rocks. The breakwater is completely exposed to the wind and damn it was chilly. I was hoping that there would be some seasmoke coming up over the breakwater but low tides combined with biting winds kept the smoke from really rising up in this area. To the right, the bay was filled with billowing smoke but no real interest.
Spent the morning playing with the telephoto to compress the smoke for a little more drama. I only popped the wide angle on for a few shots including this one. I always forget that just because you can't see something on your 2 inch lcd (in this case the seasmoke or lighthouse) doesn't mean that it won't turn out when viewed on a 27 inch monitor.
Interesting tidbit that I have now learned about walking on breakwaters in the winter over the last few days. Make sure you are probing where you step ahead of you. Not sure how many near disastrous steps I almost took into the crevices between the rocks.
A bit of door, a bit of window, a bit of brick and a bit of roof. The shed at the harbour end of St Andrews Cathedral grounds.
Efkechrome 100 35mm slide film, Olympus OM2SP.
Standard consumer E6 chemicals, processed at home.
Digitized using a Nikon D7000 dslr, Nikkor 40mm lens, JJC ES-2 adapter.
RAW file edited in Photoshop Elements 11.
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Bit of an odd dress this one it sort of fights me clinging onto all the bits i would rather it didn't.
OK its not that bad but i just wouldn't feel comfortable wearing it out.
Dragon Guard - You know she is a little bit dangerous.
Drachen Wache - Du weißt sie ist ein bisschen gefährlich.
my highlight from today was a five second flight by a bittern , a lifer for me and even though I never got a focus lock on its good enough for me .. well pleased
The best bits of veggies on the cutting board. Why the best bits? Because these go to the rubbish bin.
A bit of history regarding the previous photo. The year here is 1971, the band was Stone Bridge, we covered Chicago, Santana, The Allman Brothers, Doobie Brothers and many more that were popular at the time. The circuit we played was mostly Western N.Y. , Toronto a couple of times and northeast P.A.
The guy with the hat, lead vocals , is my older Brother now deceased, next to him the bass player Jim G. , I am last on top right lead, rhythym guitar and vocals. Second row alto sax and flute Gary K., then , Al S. trumpet, he went on to become a music proffesor and led the Cincinatti, Ohio Brass Ensemble, below seated in middle is Jim C. who became CEO of a small steel Co., he played the Hammond B-3 organ he is also deceased as is Drummer Jim G. seated left below him and on right bottom Bob M. trombonist recently inducted into Buffalo's music Hall Of Fame. This band was around from late '68 to '73, many clubs parties and beer blasts, some at the Filmore room at U.B. in Buffalo and also outside of Niagara University, largest crowd was around 1500, it was fun and work, as rehearsals second jobs and family all had to be included in the time frame, I have no regrets only happy memories........
We had a good run and following in our area, Good Times.
I would like to add that though we preached Peace & Love we were not those who disrespected our returning veterans as I am today still grateful for their sacrifice. Jim the organ player was a combat veteran of that war, plus I lost 2 neighborhood friends and a highshool aquaintence there.
My thoughts have always been "Peace" and always will be........ Thanks for reading.
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bit arty again, Took forever getting the light right or as right as i could get it.
Went all continental with a stereotypical French look.
After Baz identified the A7Vs above, I thought it only fitting I give the photograph a bit of a face-lift.
This assessment from Baz aka "diggerdogroff" of the photograph.
"A7V 560 is probably lurking in the rear behind 540, going by its similar, albeit faint, skull and crossbones and complete absence of large front flapped vision ports.
Both 540 and 560 served in Abteilung 1 in the Battle of la Montagne de Reims against the French on 15 July 1918. As both also came through unscathed, everything seems to fit nicely with Brett's superb photo above."
The tank's name was derived from that of its parent organization, Allgemeines Kriegsdepartement, 7. Abteilung, Verkehrswesen.
A7V chassis listing:
501 Gretchen: scrapped by the Allies in 1919 (Female).
502: Scrapped by Germans in October 1918.
503 Totenkopf: Scrapped by Germans in October 1918.
504 Schnuck: lost at Fremicourt 31 August 1918.
505 Baden I: scrapped by the Allies in 1919.
506 Mephisto: lost at Villers-Bretonneux on 24 April 1918, recovered by Australians, now in Queensland Museum in Brisbane, Australia.
507 Cyklop: scrapped by the Allies in 1919.
525 Siegfried: scrapped by the Allies in 1919.
526: Scrapped by Germans in 1 June 1918.
527 Lotti: lost at Pompelle Fort 1 June 1918.
528 Hagen: lost at Fremicourt 31 August 1918.
529 Nixe 2: lost at Remis 31 May 1918, recovered by Americans and scrapped at Aberdeen Proving Grounds Museum in 1942.
540 Heiland: scrapped by the Allies in 1919.
541: Scrapped by the Allies in 1919.
542 Elfriede: lost at Villers-Bretonneux 24 April 1918
543 Hagen, Adalbert, König Wilhelm: scrapped by the Allies in 1919.
560 Alter Fritz: lost at Iwuy 11 October 1918.
561 Nixe: scrapped by Germans 24 April 1918.
562 Herkules: scrapped by Germans after 31 August 1918.
563 Wotan: scrapped by the Allies in 1919, a replica of Wotan was built in the late 1980s based largely on Mephisto, which is now in the Panzermuseum in Munster, Germany.
564: Scrapped by the Allies in 1919.
Collins Wilsonville Engineering had a bit of a re-org. The Associate Director (my boss’ boss) of the group I’m now in (HGS Air Transport and Vision Systems) had his first all hands meeting, very people oriented. He went through everyone in group & recognized their work anniversary, had them stand and say hi. He called the last 2 of us (the over 30 year anniversary) up and gave us our choice - with Anthony first at a whopping 39 years. He picked the 7 up plane (not a biplane) which is fine because I much prefer ginger ale anyhow. (Yes, I like it better than any official anniversary gift I got. Points to the person who said it was a “Can-iversary” gift.) It might be the work of PlanesByRusty (an Etsy shop), looks very much like and he said it was from Etsy. Apparently in previous organization (where he had a smaller group) he gave these out as gifts, perhaps he had extras :-)
Just a wee bit of messing around on a cool grey day! The light was lovely but there were distractions so I had a wee mess. Normally I would prefer not to touch a wild animal shot but the light was so good and the background, although dark, was not.
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Apt B // Trunk Desk Chair
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