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The Invalidnova housing experiment in Prague, dating from 1958. Probably a lot nicer now that the windows are modern double glazed ones and there are no longer any secret police routinely installing bugging equipment to check on the residents' political preferences.
Strange colours, with yellow pathway, thanks to sodium lighting. Hand held shot with the kit lens at quite high ISO.
In PP, I've boosted yellows a litle, cropped down, denoised and sharpened, but there's a limit to how sharp this can get, given that it was taken hand-held in the middle of the night.
So my new toy is the Metabones Speed Booster. It's expensive. It's worth every penny if you (1) have a lot of manual lenses that you would like to use with, and also possess, a (2) Sony NEX camera.
I've started a thread over at Mflenses to test and document compatibility, issues, etc: forum.mflenses.com/metabones-speed-booster-test-thread-t5...
Still experimenting with light and color. I have two Canon Speedlites, a 580 EXll and a 430 EXll positioned behind the drop with a green gel over one and a red and blue gel over the other. I also use a frosted glass to diffuse the light. A small bit of red food coloring in the drop. Plain water in the pan. Speedlites are set to l/32 power. ISO at 200, f16, speed 1/200
Very little editing done to this - a bit of sharpening and a tiny light boost.
Thanks for looking.
A friend of mine posing in front of some graffiti in Athens. I deliberately boosted the colours and gave it a grainy effect in Post processing.
Notice how different the sky is: This isn't done in some 'fancy' photoshop program - 'just' Windows Live Photo (part of Office 2010)
Although it seemed Guido and I lost the chance to photograph the little owls, late in the afternoon we did got a positive message that they were spotted again. Well worth a try. The sun disappeared and clouds took the overhand so the camera ISO boosted to the limits, After a "little" bit of luck, the only thing left was to get rid of that awful pole on the left (PS)...
Gents textielverleden krijgt kleurspoeling door Kunst.Licht
Meer info: lichtfestival.stad.gent/nl/kunstwerken/colour-boost-ii
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Ghent’s textile history gets a colour rinse by Kunst.Licht
More info: lichtfestival.stad.gent/en/artworks/colour-boost-ii
I know this is a little blurry... and very dusty... but it just fits with that book title.
I had a very busy and little crazy day yesterday. I plan on doing a lot of underachieving today.
Canon 1N
50 mm
Fuji 200
As a counterpoint to the prior photo the Central New England's loss is the Connecticut Southern's gain. With the CNZR quiet and not moving I headed toward the east side of the Connecticut River where I found local CSO-3 pulling and spotting a healthy cut of cars on the two long tracks at this brand new facility. After years of development the Home Depot opened this massive new 421,000 sq ft facility on 46 acres at the end of 2020 and the first rail cars arrived only six weeks ago. Only time will tell how this affects the CNZR's prospects on the Griffin Line but it sure bodes well for this trackage, the southern end of the old New Haven Armory Branch that once served as a roundabout thru route between Hartford and Springfield east of the Connecticut River. The northern end of the line in Massachusetts is now gone, but the entirety in Connecticut remains intact operated by CSO on the southern 10 miles and CNZR on a short portion of the state owned trackage north to the state line.
The lead track into the new facility diverges just south of the Chapel Road Crossing at about MP 2.8 (measured from East Hartford) on the East Windsor Industrial Track (at least that's what it was called in Conrail days). This new customer has provided a nice boost to the CSO's operations out of East Hartford that saw a decline in recent years with the loss of a long time anchor customer out at the end of the line in Manchester in 2016.
Here is Hartford based local CSO-3 seen working the faciliity with two units. Providence and Worcester 2215 is the north end of the trains and us doing the work while CSOR 2038 idles on the main waiting for her turn to lead back south and west on the return to Hartford Yard.
2216 is a rather unique locomotive as a GE B23-7R that was originally built as a U23B in Jun. 1972 as Western Pacific 2263. It was heavily rebuilt in Mar. 1989 at Erie as a demonstrator unit for GE's new Super-7 rebuild line. While only one US road (the Mongahela ordered 11) purchased them they were much more successful in Mexico with over 200 6-axle variants going south of the border along with a few built for Canada's Roberval and Saguenay. 2215 seen here was actually the first unit so rebuilt and was numbered GECX 2000 which she wore until being sold to the Providence and Worcester in 1998 along with sister demonstrator 2002.
And not to be outdone by any means u
is 2038 in her garish RailAmerica era red, silver and blue paint. She is veritable antique as a straight GP38 blt. Nov. 1969 by EMD as Southern Railway 2776 with a high short hood and set up for long hood forward operation. While she retains her high short hood (one of the last of this kind still in New England) it appears she has been redesignated short good forward sometime in the last five years or so as per the lettering on her frame (though I do not know if her control stand has swapped sides).
South Windsor, Connecticut
Friday February 12, 2021
Want a Boost figure, but the Arealight store is closed? Have a spare white commander helmet laying around?? Well Kam at Fineclonier has you covered! This decal set goes on smooth and looks great. What do you think?
The latest ex-Metrobus East Lancs Esteem-bodied Dart to join the Avondale fleet is PN06 UYX (ex-M.B 267). An ex-Abellio London E200 (LJ56 VST; ex-A.B 8102) joined the fleet at around the same time (early/mid-December 2017), the first of it's type to be operated by the company.
Still adorned with it's former owner's name, number & London 'Cleaner Air' credentials, it's seen at a damp Chalmers St with a 200 from Drumchapel to Linnvale.
Photo Date: 22nd December 2017
Gedurende de Eerste Wereldoorlog nam het binnenlandse toerisme in het neutrale Nederland toe. Een uitstap over de de grens was immers niet praktisch mogelijk. Om de binnenlandse toeristen van dienst te zijn, werden er meer wegwijzers geplaatst. Door de oorlogsomstandigheden was ijzer schaars en duur. Daarom werd er een eenvoudige betonnen wegwijzer in de vorm van een paddenstoel ontwikkeld. De paddenstoel paste met de aan natuur ontleende vorm goed in het landschap. In de zomer van 1919 werden de eerste proefmodellen geplaatst. De paddenstoelen waren ontworpen door architect ir. J.H.W. Leliman. Hij is onder andere bekend van het Noord-Hollands Koffiehuis, recht tegenover Amsterdam C.S.
Na de Tweede Wereldoorlog werd een nieuw model geïntroduceerd. Model “Boost”, genoemd naar A. G. M. Boost.
Hij was voor de oorlog kapitein bij de Genie en had meerdere kazernes ontworpen. De oorspronkelijke versie van de Boost-paddenstoel was voorzien van de letters ANWB in ieder van de vier vlakken van het dakje.
Uiteindelijk bleken de vertikale vlakken van de Boost-paddenstoelen minder prettig leesbaar en werd er teruggegrepen naar een aangepaste versie van het oorspronkelijke ontwerp van Leliman met schuine vlakken.
De afgebeelde Boost-paddenstoel staat nabij Wapserveen in de provincie Drenthe aan de T-splitsing van het Midden-Oosteinde met de Wapserouwerweg.
Klik op de foto voor een grote afbeelding.
Bekijk mijn fotoalbum in de klassieke versie.
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On my second day in Portland, Joe showed me a bunch of amazing places along the Columbia River Gorge. The highlight being Oregon's iconic Multnomah Falls. When i saw them, i was in awe. Definitely the biggest waterfalls I've ever seen at 620 feet tall. It is the second largest continually flowing waterfall in the United States. My super wide came in very handy here, as most of the shots you see of Multnomah are in portrait mode.
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-Sony a300 w/ Tamron 10-24 wide angle lens
-Tripod
-10mm
-ISO 100
-F9
-6 RAW exposures taken at -2, -1, 0, +1, +2, +3 EV
-Tonemapped in Photomatix Pro 4.0
-Contrast adjustment, vibrance boost, and unsharp mask in Photoshop CS5
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Multnomah Falls is a waterfall on the Oregon side of the Columbia River Gorge, located east of Troutdale, between Corbett and Dodson, along the Historic Columbia River Highway. The falls drops in two major steps, split into an upper falls of 542 feet (165 m) and a lower falls of 69 feet (21 m), with a gradual 9 foot (3 m) drop in elevation between the two, so the total height of the waterfall is conventionally given as 620 feet (189 m). Multnomah Falls is the tallest waterfall in the State of Oregon. It is credited by a sign at the site of the falls as the second tallest year-round waterfall in the United States but that claim is debated among waterfall experts.
A foot trail leads to Benson Footbridge, a 45-foot (14 m)-long footbridge that allows visitors to cross 105 feet (32 m) above the lower cascade. The trail continues to a platform at the top of the upper falls where visitors get a bird's-eye view of the Columbia Gorge and also of "Little Multnomah", a small cascade slightly upstream from the "upper" falls, which is not visible from ground level. The footbridge is named after Simon Benson, who had the bridge built in 1914.
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(85% sure that yellow bar piece isn't genuine Lego, but, oh well.)
So I made a parrot hardsuit way back in 2012 or 13. I also have in my Flickr gallery a chicken-version made in Lego Digital Designer. And now, years later, I finally revamped the original model that's somehow survived being taken apart all this time. It's my newest League of Lego Heroes entry, Boost-Rooster.
I feel like this guy has to be an anti-hero. Just an exceptionally technically-inclined fowl who probably has a bone to pick with Tyson Foods, among others.
View the two other pics for detailing and the, heheh, "cockpit".