Fractals show self-similarity, or comparable structure regardless of scale. For example, a small piece of Romanesco broccoli, when viewed up close, looks the same as a larger chunk. In this photo you see buds with spirals that flow in two directions. If you zoom out you again see spirals that flow in two directions.

The branched tips of a bud, called meristems, make up a logarithmic spiral, and the number of spirals on the head of Romanesco broccoli is a Fibonacci number, which in turn is related to what's known as the "golden ratio."

The 13th-century mathematician Leonardo Pisano's nickname was "filius Bonacci" (son of Bonacci), which got shortened to Fibonacci. In his 1202 treatise, "Book of Calculation", Fibonacci described the numerical sequence that now bears his name: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21... and so on, where each number is equal to the sum of the preceding two numbers. Divide each number in the sequence by the one that precedes it, and the answer will be something that comes closer and closer to 1.618, an irrational number known as phi, aka the golden ratio (eg, 5 divided by 3 is 1.666; 13 divided by 8 is 1.625; 21 divided by 13 is 1.615; and so on). And there is a special "golden" logarithmic spiral that grows outward by a factor of the golden ratio for every 90 degrees of rotation, of which a "Fibonacci spiral" is a close approximation.

About this photo: In February I gave a photography class at the Embarcadero in San Francisco on behalf of the Digital Photo Academy. We walked in the halls of the Ferry Building to try one-point perspective shots. Then we went outside to practice rule of thirds and street photography at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market.

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Even with a whole day "heads-up" on this train I pretty much discounted my chances of seeing it figuring it would be where I was at night. However, I ended up where I didn't think I'd be this day so I did a trace on it and found it was aimed at me in a very timely window. I was around Regina, Saskatchewan and after some quick calculation I figured I could travel east and make it to Indian Head, so off I went. It was obviously a pretty nice afternoon and I didn't want to blow it watching him go screaming by me in the opposite direction so I checked out a few angles at Indian Head, none of which were stellar, and waited. And waited. And waited. I finally relented and messaged a friend who I knew could see exactly what was going on and he told me "He's in the siding at Sintaluta to meet 112." Since I had heard 112 chasing me east, 113 was going nowhere anytime soon. I decided to head over there for the meet, not at all a good meet, but opposing monster trains can only meet at a few select long sidings and Sintaluta was the choice for these two. And there, cooling it's wheels, sat the expected CP Military tribute locomotive in full sun on the point of 113 begging to be photographed, and excessively.

CP 7023 "SD70ACU" nee CP 9128 SD90MAC

CP 8719 ES44AC

I wonder how many times this handle has been touched? If you used it twice a day to open and close the door every day that would add up to 1,460 times a year. Times that by 10 years and it would be 14,600. Let your mind do other calculations, at any rate it is a lot!

God does not occur in logistic calculations.6 Perhaps the difficulty we find today in speaking about God arises precisely from the very fact that our language is tending more and more to become pure calculation, that it is becoming more and more a mere means of passing on technical information, less and less a means for our common being to make contact in the logos, a process in which intuitively or deliberately contact is also made with the ground of all things.

-JOSEPH CARDINAL RATZINGER, INTRODUCTION

TO CHRISTIANITY

Not my best exposure calculation ever.

Fomapan 100, Meopta Flexaret with Belar f3.5

No filter, if I remember correctly

Developed with Ilfosol 3, from one of those simplicity packs

"Scanned" with Sony mirrorless.

A Mayan Calendar - a holiday souvenir from Palenque, Chiapas Mexico.

"Time was extremely important to the Maya, they made elaborate and accurate calendars and used them in charting the movements of the sun, moon, stars and even planets.

These calendars served a variety of purposes both practical and sacred. They were used in astronomical calculations, divination and recording important events, such as the reigns of rulers and their conquests.

The Maya used what is now known as the calendar round which is made up of 3 interlocking cycles. A cycle of 20 names, a cycle of 13 numbers (which forms the 260-day sacred calendar) and a 365 days solar year. 52 years will pass until the three cycles line up again."

www.mayaarchaeologist.co.uk/public-resources/maya-world/m...

"Round, like a circle in a spiral

Like a wheel within a wheel......."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEhS9Y9HYjU

I had heard a whisper that 37401 would be propelling the inspection coach Caroline through Garforth, so my thoughts turned to a shot an eastbound shot off the with Caroline in tow passing under the 1909 built North Eastern Railway footbridge at the station. Better still I would have sunshine on the locomotive nose.

Best laid plans and all that meant that my calculations were wrong and Caroline would head the consist through the station. My automatic reserve shot is the one posted here which catches the 37 nicely but going g away and with its nose in shadow.

It's full moon, time for a full moon shot. I headed to a cemetery 12 miles away from the legendary Lick Observatory, located on Mt. Hamilton high above the Silicon Valley, California. My calculation was spot on, the moon appeared at the left of the observatory and raised up towards the right. The moon is racing at 12.5 miles (20 km) distance, it took only 3 minutes from the first sight of the moon to clearing the building.

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Relying on approximately 2.37 million calculations per second, a Say's Phoebe makes fine feather adjustments as it closes in on an insect at Davis Mountains State Park. Or maybe it's just instinct. Either way, pretty impressive for a bird brain.

It's full moon, time for a full moon shot. Last night I headed to a cemetery 12 miles away from the legendary Lick Observatory, located on Mt. Hamilton high above the Silicon Valley, California. My calculation was spot on, the moon appeared at the left of the observatory exactly at 5:50 pm and raised up towards the right. The moon is racing at a distance of 12.5 miles (20 km). It took only 3 minutes from the first sight of the moon to clearing the building.

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God spoke and the formless earth was sculpted

His poetry producing populations, making constellations

With his conversations gazing at his own creation

Proclaiming it was good and there we stood

Fashioned from the dust

With authority He orchestrated organisms and every single cell in every ecosystem

Every creature that dwells

The planets, the plants

The whole expanse, the sky above your head

And the ground where you stand

The clouds and the rain, the soil that soaks it up

And feeds tiny seeds so they sprout and vegetation proceeds

Infinite wisdom intrinsic within him, self-sufficient

Intricate systems begin and end with His decisions Lofty

Out of reach, how he procreated with speech

So it's appropriate for us to be completely in awe

I don't why, still I try

To wrap my mind around You

Your thoughts are higher, Your ways are better

And I'm in awe

So bring me up to where You are

Bring me up to where You are

It's evident in creation that God is the primary cause

The origin of all scientific laws

Everything else is secondary

The very breath that comes from lungs is caused by the fact that God is involved

One must begin with the mind that was given to him to even believe he's evolved

I'm in awe when I think about quantum mechanics and the rotation of planets

And the exact calculation of the universe is permanently impossible to manage

How photosynthesis takes place to perfectly convert the vividness of light into chemical energy

For the purpose of maintaining and giving life

Intelligent design doesn't even begin to define his creative craftsmanship

Any attempt to align the mind of mankind to divine is insufficient and inadequate

It's too lofty and far beyond us that God would not remain anonymous

Correspond with us and out of all of God's creation would become fond of us

I don't why, still I try

To wrap my mind around You

Your thoughts are higher, Your ways are better

And I'm in awe

So bring me up to where You are

Bring me up to where You are

But worth, value, and beauty is not determined by some innate quality

But by the length for which the owner would go to possess them

And broken and ugly things just like us are stamped "Excellent"

With ink tapped in wells of divine veins

A system of redemption that could only be described as perfect

A seal of approval, fatal debt removal

Promised, prominent, perfect priest

Brilliant designed system, redemption for our kinsmen

Can only be described as perfect with excellent execution

And I'm in awe, the only one truly excellent

The only source of excellence

We are declared excellent only by his decree with his system

The only accurate response is awe

So we make lofty art

See the presence of good art will unconsciously refine a community

And poor art will do it incalculable harm

Only accomplished in the light of his excellency

It's too high, it's lofty

I don't why, still I try

To bring something of worth

My words are fleeting

They're flawed, depleting

And you're leaving me in awe

Bring me up to where You are, God

Credit: Beautiful Eulogy, Propaganda, and Joel Davis

Song: Lofty

I did the homework so that we could take a shot of the full moon rising over the legendary Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton, high above the Silicon Valley. On February 8, the moon rose at 5:38pm at an azimuth of 70° and an angle of 4.3° above the horizon, as seen from the Communication Hill, 12 miles (19.3 km) away from the Lick Observatory. My azimuth calculation was a bit off, so I raced down the hill with my camera gear once the moon came up to the left of the observatory. The sunset was at about the same time, which gave a balanced light. There was some atmospheric distortion due to the heat in the air.

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A4 White Paper

When I was a CHILD, I used A4 to make paper BOATS.

When I studied my AL's, I wrote my notes on A4.

After some time, at work, I did calculations on A4

Today, I'm making these BOATS for "Macro Mondays."

I feel like a CHILD again.

Jan 14, 2017 # 176

蜂の写真を撮り終えたとき、スマホの表面にバーの蒼いライトと内装が反射。

異次元を見た様な気分になる。これは自分の想像力だとか、計算では思いつかないアングル。

When I finished taking a picture of the bee, the blue light and the interior of the bar reflected on the surface of my smartphone.

I felt like I've seen a different dimension. This is an angle that I can't create of in my imagination or calculation.

This is a Macro Monday image - I don't often take part in MM, but couldn't resist this weeks theme "Evolution". What was required:

"Think now, before and after, yesterday and today...

Your photograph must include two (or more if you can fit them into a macro) objects that serve the same purpose but at different times.

In other words, show how something has changed, progressed or evolved over time either due to some event or just technological advancement".

So my image is of a vintage slide rule juxtaposed against my (brand new/ only got today!) iPhone 7 Plus running a Hewlett Packard 65 calculator app. The HP65 was the world's first programmable hand-held calculator, produced in 1974-1977 for a cost of $795USD (equivalent to around $4,000 in today's value). So I think i've captured "today" and "yesterday" with something in between as well for good measure.

The slide rule was my grandfather's - he was (like me) an engineer. In his day this was one of his tools of the trade. For me I have been a part of the evolution of calculations, with powerful hand-held devices that would have been unthinkably amazing for my grandfather (and would have saved him considerable time with calculations). The HP35 was the world's first hand-held calculator that could do scientific calculations (famously replacing the slide rule), which was followed by the HP65 only a few years later (first programmable). Now we have technology like the iPhone that enables us to pull up an app with a virtual keyboard of this historic technological marvel. I'd love to see the look on my grandfather's face if he could have seen that.

Oh, and just to carry on with the theme, my 'Macro Monday' image was taken with a vintage FD 100mm macro lens strapped to a modern DLSR.

I was asked why I took an old camera with only 10MP to this tube station in London (and not my more powerful modern cameras). My calculation was twofold. Firstly, there would not be much light anyway and high resolution power was not required. Shooting in monochrome was also more conducive in this darkness. But my main impulse was to use the gritty directness of the M8 (often described as being close to film) for a gritty underground scene. Did it work? That is up to you. Sony A7iii plus Pentacon 3.5/30 (the background is a computer screen shot).

Australian Hobby

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From the Great Christmas Day Carpark Caper

So many calculations, speed, approach, one foot, then the other and you don't need someone already secure offering advice.

The closing days of 2020 may also be the closing days for PanAm railways. With news of a purchase by CSX transportation, every opportunity to shoot PanAm is a chance to capture history. I knew that PO-AY, Portland to Ayer, had a painted GE leader on it, and through some quick railfan calculations, figured I was probably good to get them in Lawrence.

My guess paid off right, as I captured them in stunning late afternoon winter lighting in Lawrence. In the background is the clock tower of the Ayer mill, which dates back to 1910. In the closing days of 2020, I captured one of my most iconic railroad images.

We went to San Francisco, first for sunset near the Golden Gate bridge, then for the moonrise. We positioned ourselves so that the moon would rise above Alcatraz Island. Our calculation to be at the Golden Gate bridge toll booth area was spot on.

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Seth MacFarlane

Petrel Cove, South Australia.

A 30 second long exposure with a 10 stop ND filter and a 9 stop variable ND filter..

I can't remember what the variable setting was, I think about 4 or 5 stop

For something different In the process of converting it to BW I used Photoshop/image/calculations and a blending of the Red and Green channels for a dramatic effect

See the link below for details from Photoshop Guru PiXimperfect

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX8STBkFCZc

all these calculations yes

explanations yes

the whole story

from beginning to end yes

completely false yes

Samuel Beckett

The Homeless Wanderer · Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou

Saint John's Eve, starting at sunset on 23 June, is the eve of celebration before the Feast Day of Saint John the Baptist. The Gospel of Luke states that John was born six months before Jesus; therefore, the feast of John the Baptist was fixed on 24 June, six months before Christmas according to the old Roman calculation. - Fire is the most typical element associated with the Saint John's Eve celebration. In many countries, bonfires are lit on the evening of 23 June like here in the area of Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria at the top of the mountain "Alpspitze" (2,628 m) in Wetterstein Range.

The title is a quote by James E. Faust.

It's full moon, time for a full moon shot. I headed to a cemetery 12 miles away from the legendary Lick Observatory, located on Mt. Hamilton high above the Silicon Valley, California. My calculation was spot on, the moon appeared at the left of the observatory and raised up towards the right. The moon is racing at 12.5 miles (20 km) distance, it took only 3 minutes from the first sight of the moon to clearing the building.

I took many shots of this moonrise, and turned them into a time-lapse, see fb.watch/3ZG8-DIHXS/

I processed a photographic and a balanced HDR photos from a RAW exposure, blended them selectively, carefully adjusted the color balance and curves, and desaturated the image. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.

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The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate strait, the one-mile-wide (1.6 km), three-mile-long (4.8 km) channel between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The structure links the U.S. city of San Francisco, on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula, to Marin County, bridging both U.S. Route 101 and California State Route 1 across the strait. The bridge is one of the most internationally recognized symbols of San Francisco, California, and the United States. It has been declared one of the Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

The Frommers travel guide considers the Golden Gate Bridge "possibly the most beautiful, certainly the most photographed, bridge in the world". It opened in 1937 and was, until 1964, the longest suspension bridge main span in the world, at 4,200 feet (1,300 m).

Strauss was chief engineer in charge of overall design and construction of the bridge project. However, because he had little understanding or experience with cable-suspension designs, responsibility for much of the engineering and architecture fell on other experts. Strauss' initial design proposal (two double cantilever spans linked by a central suspension segment) was unacceptable from a visual standpoint. The final graceful suspension design was conceived and championed by New York’s Manhattan Bridge designer Leon Moisseiff.

Irving Morrow, a relatively unknown residential architect, designed the overall shape of the bridge towers, the lighting scheme, and Art Deco elements, such as the tower decorations, streetlights, railing, and walkways. The famous International Orange color was originally used as a sealant for the bridge. The US Navy had wanted it to be painted with black and yellow stripes to ensure visibility by passing ships.

Senior engineer Charles Alton Ellis, collaborating remotely with Moisseiff, was the principal engineer of the project. Moisseiff produced the basic structural design, introducing his "deflection theory" by which a thin, flexible roadway would flex in the wind, greatly reducing stress by transmitting forces via suspension cables to the bridge towers. Although the Golden Gate Bridge design has proved sound, a later Moisseiff design, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge, collapsed in a strong windstorm soon after it was completed, because of an unexpected aeroelastic flutter.[25] Ellis was also tasked with designing a "bridge within a bridge" in the southern abutment, to avoid the need to demolish Fort Point, a pre-Civil War masonry fortification viewed, even then, as worthy of historic preservation. He penned a graceful steel arch spanning the fort and carrying the roadway to the bridge's southern anchorage.

Ellis was a Greek scholar and mathematician who at one time was a University of Illinois professor of engineering despite having no engineering degree. He eventually earned a degree in civil engineering from the University of Illinois prior to designing the Golden Gate Bridge and spent the last twelve years of his career as a professor at Purdue University. He became an expert in structural design, writing the standard textbook of the time. Ellis did much of the technical and theoretical work that built the bridge, but he received none of the credit in his lifetime. In November 1931, Strauss fired Ellis and replaced him with a former subordinate, Clifford Paine, ostensibly for wasting too much money sending telegrams back and forth to Moisseiff. Ellis, obsessed with the project and unable to find work elsewhere during the Depression, continued working 70 hours per week on an unpaid basis, eventually turning in ten volumes of hand calculations.

With an eye toward self-promotion and posterity, Strauss downplayed the contributions of his collaborators who, despite receiving little recognition or compensation, are largely responsible for the final form of the bridge. He succeeded in having himself credited as the person most responsible for the design and vision of the bridge. Only much later were the contributions of the others on the design team properly appreciated In May 2007, the Golden Gate Bridge District issued a formal report on 70 years of stewardship of the famous bridge and decided to give Ellis major credit for the design of the bridge.

Two weeks lay ahead of us, a blank canvas waiting to be filled with new discoveries alongside returns to the places we’d visited all too briefly three years earlier. Excited? You bet we were - so much so that more than twenty-four hours of sleep deprivation wasn’t going to stop us heading out into the adventure almost immediately after checking in at our first base near Grundarfjordur. That initial burst of adrenalin would see us through these opening hours of the trip we’d been waiting all year for - in my case that retirement present to self, boosted by the fact that the lump sum had been a bit more generous than the figure my own calculations had arrived at. I didn’t question it.

We were keen to explore Kirkjufell and the spaces around it rather more extensively than we’d been able to when we’d come here in the summer of 2019. Then, we’d arrived at the waterfall scene somewhere around midnight, taken the classic shot, walked back to the van where we’d left it and flopped for the night before heading north the following morning. Now, we had two full days in Snaefellsnes, to which we could add the four or five hours of daylight that remained. And as we pulled up on the side road to the west of the famous mountain to tramp about in the marshes, something had already caught the eye. Somebody with a bit of cash to invest had chosen the location of their new holiday cabin rather well, looking out north over the fjord towards Kirkjufell, backed by the most dramatic scenery, and guaranteed to command visitors whose pockets were rather more comfortably furnished than our own - despite the lump sum booster I let slip about earlier. Don't tell anyone will you! Still, we didn’t come here to wallow around in luxury, but rather more to wallow around in muddy spaces in our wellies - they’d have never let us stay even if we were filthy rich, rather than just filthy.

Sadly I’ll have to leave you to imagine the cosy inside, the quadruple glazing and the underfloor heating for yourself, because I’m having to do the same. Actually just about everywhere in Iceland has underfloor heating, thanks to the geothermal soup that lies beneath the earth here. But despite the obvious newness of this well appointed pit stop, it fulfilled the “appealing lone building in the middle of nowhere” category admirably. Set against cloud filled slopes, it stood out immediately as a subject in this sparsely populated area. A couple of miles east lay the small fishing port of Grundarfjordur, home to less than a thousand souls, while the occupants would have to drive more than ten miles to the west of here before arriving at Olafsvik, hardly any bigger in size. If you like life away from the concrete jungle, you could do a lot worse than come here. And because all the togs and day drippers will be standing at the waterfalls, or by the lake, there will only be a couple of strange looking men training telephoto lenses on your lodgings from across the marsh. For the pair of strange men, it had been a pleasing way to begin the journey in this magnificent country.

All of this makes me think of another theme for Iceland. This bearing in mind that the third, fourth and fifth trips to the country are already pretty much sketched out in between my ears. How about a trip with a self imposed ban on photographing anything instantly recognisable? Fat chance of sticking to that rule of course, yet everywhere you look there are lone buildings, some of them derelict, some of them luxury holiday homes. Many are simple cabins, dotted here and there against the most astonishing backdrops. In fact when I think about it, I’ve a few more of these to share. Hang around and wait for that sense of splendid isolation to creep in. Even here, where thousands throng the hotspots, new compositions and stories lie in wait in the quiet spaces.

According to scientists' calculations, today apple orchards occupy five million hectares of land (much more than all other fruits!), while closer to the North, nine out of every ten fruit trees are apple trees

Foro di Augusto

Buon compleanno, Roma! Il 21 aprile, come di consueto, viene celebrato l’anniversario della fondazione della città, anticamente conosciuto anche come Dies Romana, oggi più semplicemente “Natale di Roma“. La leggenda dietro questa suggestiva celebrazione venne resa popolare da Marco Terenzio Varrone, scrittore e militare della Roma antica, che raccontò come Romolo avesse fondato la città il 21 aprile del 753 a.C., una data a cui giunse attraverso complicati calcoli astrologici l’amico Lucio Taruzio. Furono poi i grandi imperatori a creare clamore e curiosità intorno a questa data, iniziando a celebrarla come una sorta di propaganda imperiale. Il primo a festeggiare il Natale di Roma fu l’imperatore Claudio, nel 47, a ottocento anni dalla presunta fondazione della città: dopo di lui, in molti seguirono il suo esempio, e per il millesimo compleanno della di Roma vennero addirittura stampate delle monete celebrative. Da allora, tra alti e bassi nel corso dei secoli, i festeggiamenti continuano.

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Happy Birthday, Rome! On April 21, as usual, it is celebrated the anniversary of the founding of the city, formerly also known as Dies Romana, simply today "Christmas in Rome." The legend behind this evocative celebration was popularized by Varro, writer and military of ancient Rome, which told how Romulus had founded the city on April 21, 753 BC, a date that came through complicated astrological calculations friend Lucius Tarutius Firmanus . It was then the great emperors to create hype and curiosity about that date, starting to celebrate it as a kind of imperial propaganda. The first to celebrate Christmas in Rome was the Emperor Claudius, in 47, to eight hundred years after the alleged foundation of the city after him, in many they followed his example, and for the thousandth birthday of Rome coins were even printed celebrative. Since then, with ups and downs over the centuries, the festivities continue.

Foto brought down to one tone each at brightness 160 using my own superior brightness calculation formula, one tone at 160 each of red, orange, yellow, yellow-green, green, cyan, blue, purple, magenta and neutral (grey), plus black and white.

Fuzzed up a bit using Lightroom's texture -100, clarity -20 and dehaze +30 tools.

Then overlaid with lines from my own edge-detection software.

Then saturated up using Lightroom's clarity +30 and dehaze +50.

An experiment in basic hues at a single brightness level.

Back in the days, when advanced calculations had to be made, one didn't rely on an artificial but rather on real intelligence to get the correct answer.

No need for an internet connection. This was a time where the phones weren't smart but merely used to... talk to each other. Heck, even the pocket calculators didn't exist yet!

And yet, by sliding discs, turning dials and aligning arrows and numbers, one could calculate pretty accurately trigonometric functions, exponentials and logarithms, powers...

Ironically, I'm sure that some of the viewers of this picture will ask Chat GPT how a circular sliding disc works! Going full circle.

"I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not."

- Fran Lebowitz

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Swinging up to bring the long legs into position.

They must do this sort of calculation so fast, as no doubt it's already planned how to correct when the danger is past.

Pasadena, California.

If my calculations are correct I’ve drawn 260 drawing since August 25th o-o. BTW I’m sick rn so that’s why I’m posting a lot XD

But isn’t that the stiffest arm you’ve ever seen haha

Lovely walk towards the setting sun generating lovely pools of light and shadow. However this is quickly followed by a check of the watch and a mental calculation of how long it will take to walk back to the car.

Thanks to www.hillschmidt.de/gbr/sternenzeit.htm for the calculations.

All day, I was aware of the UP 1995's presence in the area, as it was leading the IG4SIB. However, I initially passed on the opportunity to chase it because my car (and camera, haha!) were in the shop, and I'd be dealing with nasty, mid-day sun.

Sure enough, an unplanned delay at Perry for a while, followed by the crew going dead and tying it down in Topeka for four hours sure changed the sunlight calculation. I went about my evening, finished up with dinner, and then heard the DS talking about "following one through 68 to 92." "Oh, it must be on the move!" Change of plans.

So, my car accidentally pointed itself west, and I ended up in Willard, KS, where I found myself with just MINUTES of light to spare. By the time the train had passed, and I had spun my car around, the light was all gone here. What a wild change of fortunes.

(Press "L" or Click on the image for a Larger View).

This is no Photoshop, is the actual moon behind my hometown memorial.

For a year I have been trying to take this photograph, by doing calculations with Google Sky App. Today I was able to accomplish it with many problems, very windy conditions shacking the tripod. I was able to get this one by increasing the ISO to 1,600, resting the tripod, and using the Lens VR feature. I was not able to use my Canon 400mm because it does not have VR.

(Spanish: Esto no es un truco de Photoshop es la luna detrás de un Memorial de mi pueblo. Por un año he estado tratando de conseguir este retrato, calculándolo con una aplicación del Mobil. La logre con muchos problemas ya que estaba haciendo mucha brisa y movía el trípode. Logre esta subiendo el ISO a 1,600, afirmándome en el trípode y utilizando el VR del lente. No pude usar mi Canon 400mm, porque no tiene VR).

(Image taken with: Nikon D7200 + Nikon AF-S VR Zoom-NIKKOR 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF).

(Camera Settings: @300mm ISO: 1,600, 1/180, F/8, VR on, Tripod).

(Colors and contrast corrected on: ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate & Nik Color Efex Pro 4).

(Location: Sanford, Florida).

This image in my Album: Across the Universe...

One from the archives.

If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour, you' re gonna see some serious shit.

Can you imagine the daily life without calculation?

伟大的计算机@ 大到......

1,708 metres or more than a mile long, Victoria Falls is one of the world’s biggest waterfalls – while some waterfalls are much higher and some much longer, Victoria Falls enormous length combined with its 108 metre height in the world's largest sheet of falling water. More than a kilotonne of water pours over the top every second, generating so much spray that the area immediately around the Falls has its own distinct microclimate in this otherwise arid region. The Falls divide Zambia from Zimbabwe.

Most of this shot is in Zimbabwe, with Zambia towards the rear of shot - the lovely VIctorial Falls Bridge, at 1 o'clock from the centre of the shot, is a good marker for the actual border.

The graceful Victoria Falls Bridge, built in 1905, was the brainchild of Cecil Rhodes, part of his grand and unfulfilled Cape to Cairo railway scheme, even though he never visited the falls and died before construction of the bridge began. Rhodes is recorded as instructing the engineers to "build the bridge across the Zambezi where the trains, as they pass, will catch the spray of the Falls". It was designed by George Andrew Hobson of consultants Sir Douglas Fox and Partners, assisted by the stress calculations of Ralph Freeman, who was later the principal designer of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The main central arch is a parabolic curve. The bridge was prefabricated in England by the Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company,[3] before being shipped to the port city of Beira in Portuguese-ruled Mozambique, and then transported on the newly constructed railway to the Victoria Falls. It took just 14 months to construct and was completed in 1905. (This paragraph contains text from the English Wikipedia.)

This was taken from the first, and so far only, helicopter flight I have ever taken,

They were so engrossed in their calculations and papers that they couldn't hear the sound of the front door at all. Neither of them noticed anything until it was too late and the Aunties already stepped in to the dining room. Heck! It wasn't supposed to go this way, not at all.

The calculation of the trajectory takes about one second 😊

Happy Caturday 1.6.2024 "Side views"

A very early start to get over to Findhorn to meet Steve (Stoates-Findhorn) before heading for Portknockie and this intriguing rock formation.

Our calculations told us the sun will rise in the gap over the coming week or so and thankfully there was a low tide that allowed us to get far enough over for the shot (next weekend will probably be more manageable from the beach – weather permitting).

The light caused more than a few problems with flare and under exposure of the rock.

This image is available printed, framed or on a canvas here

Explore 23/08/2015 No. 426