My back yard. Everybody in Albuquerque loves chile. For the past 2 days I have been testing my new Nikon P1000 camera out in my yard and neighborhood. I am very impressed. You have to haul a 3.5 lb camera and a hefty tripod. I used my Manfrotto 3130 tripod with a fluid head that weighs 8 lbs for telephoto shots. The fluid head facilitates video pans, but even it drifted down while shooting at far out lengths such as 3000 mm indicating a need for counter weights such as sand bags or a heavier duty tripod. You also have to use a remote control for shutter depressions and controlling the camera. I purchased a Nikon ML-L7 remote which did the job very well.

The Coolpix P1000 does not use .nef for raw files. It uses .nrw format. I could not use Adobe PS CS6 to read these files. I started saving files in both raw and jpg formats instead of raw exclusively as I do on my Nikon DLSR camera. I had to download Nikon Capture NX-D which came with Nikon Picture Control and Nikon Transfer 2 which I have not tested yet. I Downloaded and installed a Nikon NRW codec. I could not see NRW files in Photoshop CS6, Adobe Bridge CS6 or View NX V2. But I could see them in Capture NX-D, Windows photos, Win Explorer, Win movie Maker, Photo Gallery and Win Photo Viewer.

It pays to purchase a 77 mm clear filter cover because the possibility of scratching the huge lens looms very high.

The Jpg image size is stored in a 12:9 ratio. My other Nikon cameras are sized in a12:8 ratio. Also many functions are accessed by menu rather than buttons common on Nikon DLSR’s.

I have not tested the bird or moon modes on the P1000 yet, but they look promising on paper.

All in all I am very pleased with the Nikon P1000 and look forward to having a lot of fun with it, especially for birding.

This series is part of an ongoing research on visual ways to dissolve pornographic imagery in abstraction and absurd.

For the Scrambled series, using video footage downloaded from Internet, I exploit the artifacts, errors, blurs inherent to heavy digital compression and incomplete files.

Dozens of snapshots are generated. Here, the creative process in itself rely on selecting the right images : identifiable as pornographic, but somehow deactivated.

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Photograph taken at an altitude of Six metres at 15:39pm on Sunday 4th June 2023 off Beach Drive at Kitty Islet in Victoria on Vancouver Island in British Columbia.

The American crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) is a large passerine bird species of the family Corvidae. It is a common bird found throughout much of North America. American crows measure 16-21 inches in length and are the New World counterpart to the carrion crow and the hooded crow of Eurasia

Nikon D850 Single-lens reflex digital camera F Mount with FX CMOS 35.9mm x 23.9mm Image sensor 46.89 Million total pixels Focal length: 280mm Shutter speed: 1/200s (Mechanical shutter) Aperture f/9.0 iso80 Tamron Vibration Control set to position 1 Image area Full Frame FX (36 x 24) NEF RAW L 45.4Million pixels (8256 x 5504) 14 Bit uncompressed AF-C Priority Selection: Release Nikon Back button focusing enabled 3D Tracking watch area: Normal 55 Tracking points Exposure mode: Manual mode Metering mode: Matrix metering White balance on: Natural light auto, 0, 0 Colour space: Adobe RGB Picture control: (SD) Standard (Sharpening +3.00/Clarity +1.00)

Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD G2. Nikon GP-1 GPS module. Hoodman HEYENRG round eyepiece oversized eyecup. Black Rapid Curve Breathe strap. My Memory 128GB Class 10 SDXC 80MB/s card. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag. Nikon EN-EL15a battery.

LATITUDE: N 48d 24m 40.40s

LONGITUDE: W 123d 18m 26.00s

ALTITUDE: 6.0m

RAW (TIFF) FILE: 130.00MB NEF: 91.9MB

PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 30.00MB

PROCESSING POWER:

Nikon D850 Firmware versions C 1.21 (8/12/2022) LD Distortion Data 2.018 (16/01/20) LF 1.00 Nikon Codec Full version 1.31.2 (09/11/2021)

HP 110-352na Desktop PC with Windows 10 Home edition AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU 64Bit processor. Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB Data storage. 64-bit Windows 10. My Passport USB 3.0 2TB portable desktop hard drive. Nikon NX STUDIO 64bit Version 1.2.2 (08/12/2022). Nikon Capture NX-D 64bit Version 1.6.2 (18/02/2020). Nikon Picture Control Utility 2 (Version 2.4.5 (18/02/2020). Nikon Transfer 2 Version 2.16.0 (08/12/2022). Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.

Nokia N900 Tech Specs

Display•3.5 inch touch-sensitive widescreen display

•800 × 480 pixel resolution

Language supportBritish English, American English, Canadian French, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Swedish, Russian

Connectivity•3.5mm AV connector

•TV out (PAL/NTSC) with Nokia Video Connectivity Cable

•Micro-USB connector, High-Speed USB 2.0

•Bluetooth v2.1 including support for stereo headsets

•Integrated FM transmitter

•Integrated GPS with A-GPS

BatteryBL-5J 1320mAh

Processor and 3D acceleratorTI OMAP 3430: ARM Cortex-A8 600 MHz, PowerVR SGX with OpenGL ES 2.0 support

MemoryUp to 1GB of application memory (256 MB RAM, 768 MB virtual memory)

Size and weightVolume:Approx 113ccDimensions:110.9 × 59.8 × 18 (19.55 at thickest part) mmWeight:Approx 181gMass memory•32 GB internal storage

•Store up to 7000 MP3 songs or 40 hours of high-quality video

•Up to 16 GB of additional storage with an external microSD card

Keys and input method•Full QWERTY tactile keyboard

•Full QWERTY onscreen keyboard

ColourBlack

Operating frequency•Quad-band GSM EDGE 850/900/1800/1900

•WCDMA 900/1700/2100 MHz

Data networkGPRS class A, multislot class 32, maximum speed 107/64.2 kbps (DL/UL) EDGE class A, multislot class 32, maximum speed 296/177.6 kbps (DL/UL) WCDMA 900/1700/2100. Maximum speed PS 384/384 kbps (DL/UL) HSPA 900/1700/2100. Maximum speed PS 10/2 Mbps (DL/UL) WLAN IEEE 802.11b/g

Call features•Integrated hands-free stereo speakers

•Call waiting, call hold, call divert

•Call timer

•Logging of dialed, received and missed calls

•Speed dialing via contact widget

•Virbrating alert (internal)

•Side volume keys

•Mute/unmute

•Contacts with images

•Conference calling with up to 3 participants

•Internet calling

Email & Messaging•Supported protocols: Mail for Exchange, IMAP, POP3, SMTP

•Support for email attachments

•Support for rich HTML

•SMS and Instant Messages as conversations

•Support for Nokia Messaging service

•Instant messaging and presence enhanced contacts

•Multiple number, email and Instant Messaging details per contact, contacts with images

•Support for assigning images to contacts

Web browsing•Maemo browser powered by Mozilla technology

•Adobe Flash™ 9.4 support

•Full screen browsing

GPS and navigation•Integrated GPS, Assisted-GPS, and Cell-based receivers

•Pre-loaded Ovi Maps application

•Automatic geotagging

Camera•5 megapixel camera (2584 × 1938 pixels)

•Image formats: JPEG

•CMOS sensor, Carl Zeiss optics, Tessar lens

•3 × digital zoom

•Autofocus with assist light and two-stage capture key

•Dual LED flash

•Full-screen viewfinder

•Photo editor on device

•TV out (PAL/NTSC) with Nokia Video Connectivity Cable (CA-75U, included in box) or WLAN/UPnP

•Landscape (horizontal) orientation

•Capture modes: Automatic, portrait, video, macro, landscape, action

Video•Wide aspect ratio 16:9 (WVGA)

•Video recording file format: .mp4; codec: MPEG-4

•Video recording at up to 848 × 480 pixels (WVGA) and up to 25fps

•Video playback file formats: .mp4, .avi, .wmv, .3gp; codecs: H.264, MPEG-4, Xvid, WMV, H.263

Music and audio playback•Maemo media player

•Music playback file formats: .wav, .mp3, .AAC, .eAAC, .wma, .m4a

•Built-in FM transmitter

•Ring tones: .wav, .mp3, .AAC, .eAAC, .wma, .m4a

•FR, EFR, WCDMA, and GSM AMR

•Digital stereo microphone

•DLNA

Personalisation•Background pictures

•Widgets on your desktops

•Intelligent contact shortcuts

•Shortcuts to your favourite websites

•Shortcuts to applications

•Themes

Operating systemMaemo 5 software on Linux

Applications•Maemo Browser

•Phone

•Conversations

•Contacts

•Camera

•Photos

•Media player

•Email

•Calendar

•Ovi Maps

•Clock

•Notes

•Calculator

•PDF reader

•File manager

•RSS reader

•Sketch

•Games

•Widgets

•Application manager for downloads

Gaming•Bounce

•Chess

•Mahjong

What´s in the box•Nokia N900

•Nokia Battery (BL-5J)

•Nokia High Efficiency Charger (AC-10)

•Nokia Stereo Headset (WH-205)

•Video out cable (CA-75U)

•Nokia charger adaptor (CA-146C)

•Cleaning cloth

Here little more info of the new N900 Rover maemo.nokia.com/

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Photograph taken at an altitude of One thousand twelve hundred and forty four metres at 14:29pm on Thursday 11th May 2023 off Lightning Lake Loop at Lightning Lake in E.C Manning Provincial Park, British Columbia in Canada.

The springtime snow refused to leave sections of the lake in the shade, despite blisteringly hot May days such as today.

Nikon D850 Single-lens reflex digital camera F Mount with FX CMOS 35.9mm x 23.9mm Image sensor 46.89 Million total pixels Focal length 340mm Shutter speed: 1/60s (Mechanical shutter) Aperture f/13.0 iso200 Hand held with Tamron Vibration Control set to position 1 Image area Full Frame FX (36 x 24) NEF RAW L 45.4Million pixels (8256 x 5504) 14 Bit uncompressed AF-C Priority Selection: Release Nikon Back button focusing enabled 3D Tracking watch area: Normal 55 Tracking points Exposure mode: Manual mode Metering mode: Matrix metering White balance on: Auto1, A1.00, M0.25 (5020k) Colour space: Adobe RGB Picture control: (LS) Landscape (Sharpening +4.00/Clarity +1.00)

Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD G2. Nikon GP-1 GPS module. Nikon EN-EL15a battery. Black Rapid Curve Breathe strap. My Memory 128GB Class 10 SDXC 80MB/s card. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag.

LATITUDE: N 49d 3m 43.80s

LONGITUDE: W 120d 49m 40.60s

ALTITUDE: 1244.0m

RAW (TIFF) FILE: 130.00MB NEF: 93.5MB

PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 43.90MB

PROCESSING POWER:

Nikon D850 Firmware versions C 1.21 (8/12/2022) LD Distortion Data 2.018 (16/01/20) LF 1.00 Nikon Codec Full version 1.31.2 (09/11/2021)

HP 110-352na Desktop PC with Windows 10 Home edition AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU 64Bit processor. Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB Data storage. 64-bit Windows 10. My Passport USB 3.0 2TB portable desktop hard drive. Nikon NX STUDIO 64bit Version 1.2.2 (08/12/2022). Nikon Capture NX-D 64bit Version 1.6.2 (18/02/2020). Nikon Picture Control Utility 2 (Version 2.4.5 (18/02/2020). Nikon Transfer 2 Version 2.16.0 (08/12/2022). Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.

Jon Satrom performs realtime audio/video, spends time data-bending, makes kludgey work-flows, creates colorful glitch-ware, and enjoys working within collaborative projects and open systems.

He spends his days fixing things, making things work, and teaching. He spends his evenings breaking things, learning, and searching for the unique blips inherent to the systems he explores and exploits.

When creating glitch-art, developing kludgy workflows is key. Softwares and languages with loop-holes, open-ports, and forgotten-functions are integral to constructing situations for glitching. In my mind, no other program embodied this ethic more than QuickTime. It’s popularity, and the fact that it’s development was to position itself within a multimedia paradigm yet-to-be solidified, makes QuickTime (versions 1.5 – 7.6) a quagmire of failures.

The rewrite of QuickTime as QuickTime X has broken an environment that helped form my ideas of how malleable digital video can be. The drumbeat of “progress” has stripped esoteric codecs and functions in favor of current flavor of standardized media consumption.

Popular computer program releases are similar to code-volcanoes barfing new functions on-top of themselves creating mountains of functionality. Due to the fact that QuickTime was one of the first popular desktop video playback and editing technologies, the program is full of strange utopic abandonware. Aside from the myriad of codecs available, two of my favorite QuickTime features are QTVR and the ability to skin one’s own player. These are once celebrated features are now forgotten on the volcanic crater of QuickTime 7.

I’ve been working and performing with these techniques for years and have only found it necessary to articulate my love and investment as I find my go-to-tool on the chopping-block of our upgrade-culture. For now, I can rest assured: it’s a weird-chopping-block; there’s still time. For now, QuickTime7 has been transformed from a player into a utility. Even now (OSX 10.6.6), there are elements of QuickTime X that rely on the robust functionality of QuickTime 7.

When working against an upgrade culture and hesitant to celebrate a retro-ness within my own work, I’m forced to jump the shark and exploit my favorite functions before they are ”legacy features”…

”QTzrk” is powered by QuickTime 7 on MacOS and Windows

Videogramo:

I am looking at all your websites, and I am completely confused by all your alter egos! Francoise Gamma on the computers club and Item Videogramo on 8bitpeoples; Who is Videogramo and who is Gamma?

ComputersClub asked me to be part of the club, but with a name. I didn't want to use my real name, so I invented Francoise (which is derived from my real name) and Gamma from color correction. I think of Francoise Gamma as a fatal rebirth of Videogramo.

Some of your newer work like "the head on the piano" on Vimeo has become less textured and more 3d, is that new and something you are going to do more?

If I would use the textures and patterns like I used in Videogramo ...I would need a whole enterprise to do animation+patterns... Videogramo's working method is crazy… madness, frame by frame ... hhgg, (although sometimes also semi automatic ^__^).

Gamma is more and more wirelined, it is an evolution or involution of Videogramo. More "new", less patterns and more animations (more and more) = ) and mutated movies. In Gamma there are almost no corrupted bodies. I think in this alter ego my mind is changing through other … corruptions.

How is failure or glitch part of your work?

I work with glitch in textures and erratic models (sometimes pure glitch from conversion of 3D formats). I also reference errors through the impossible positions of the models. In Gamma the error plays a role in motion overall. I would maybe call this "glitch simulation" or emulation

Corruption plays a formal role (errors in exporting 3d images), but this "fatal rebirth" of the image also plays a role on a conceptual and narrative level. I think there is not one logics to explain my fascination with error… I think that perhaps I recognize reflexion of myself in the error, or of the universe in general.

A wall near Shibuya covered in graffiti and stickers. I took this photo because of the small brightly colored Mickey Mouse and film projector art/stickers on the bottom left of the image. Not sure what that's about, but Mickey's hat seems to say "CODE;C"?

Need a free video clip to inderectly illustrate a sexual passion, sex, orgasm, climax, intimate attraction, sexual hunger or any other form of this kind? Here is a slow motion of a liquid soap which is being pumped out of the soap bottle. Sluggishly falling and stretching soap streams create thoughts associated barely with physical lust between genders.

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Video codec: H.264

Color profile: HD (1-1-1)

Duration: 00:38

FPS: 25

Data rate: 20.11 Mbit/s

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Photograph taken at an altitude of Twenty four metres at 20:50pm on Tuesday 16th May 2023 off Coast Guard Drive on the Wild Pacific Trail close to the Rocky Beach Area in Ucluelet, British Columbia.

Nikon D850 Single-lens reflex digital camera F Mount with FX CMOS 35.9mm x 23.9mm Image sensor 46.89 Million total pixels Focal length 32mm Shutter speed: 1/40s (Mechanical shutter) Aperture f/7.1 iso1250 Hand held with Nikkor VR Vibration Reduction set to normal Image area Full Frame FX (36 x 24) NEF RAW L 45.4Million pixels (8256 x 5504) 14 Bit uncompressed AF-C Priority Selection: Release Nikon Back button focusing enabled 3D Tracking watch area: Normal 55 Tracking points Exposure mode: Manual mode Metering mode: Matrix metering White balance on: Auto1, A1.00, M0.25 (4200k) Colour space: Adobe RGB Picture control: (A) Auto (Sharpening +1.00/Clarity +1.00)

Nikkor AF-S 24-120mm f/4G ED VR. Nikon GP-1 GPS module. Hoodman HEYENRG round eyepiece oversized eyecup. Black Rapid Curve Breathe strap. My Memory 128GB Class 10 SDXC 80MB/s card. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag. Nikon EN-EL15a battery.

LATITUDE: N 48d 55m 25.60s

LONGITUDE: W 125d 32m 29.90s

ALTITUDE: 24.0m

RAW (TIFF) FILE: 130.00MB NEF: 94.0MB

PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 58.40MB

PROCESSING POWER:

Nikon D850 Firmware versions C 1.21 (8/12/2022) LD Distortion Data 2.018 (16/01/20) LF 1.00 Nikon Codec Full version 1.31.2 (09/11/2021)

HP 110-352na Desktop PC with Windows 10 Home edition AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU 64Bit processor. Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB Data storage. 64-bit Windows 10. My Passport USB 3.0 2TB portable desktop hard drive. Nikon NX STUDIO 64bit Version 1.2.2 (08/12/2022). Nikon Capture NX-D 64bit Version 1.6.2 (18/02/2020). Nikon Picture Control Utility 2 (Version 2.4.5 (18/02/2020). Nikon Transfer 2 Version 2.16.0 (08/12/2022). Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.

This is a little diagram I created to help visualize the complexity of our production flow for burntwire.tv

Green lines are for monetization.

Yellow lines are stats.

Red two-way lines are monetized flash content.

Light grey lines represent creative direction.

Turquoise lines are non-monetized high-res quicktime files.

Orange lines are RSS feeds.

The light grey box is my server.

Darker gery boxes are other people's servers.

A straight-out-of-the-camera video of some President's Choice "Old Fashioned Extra Thick Cut" bacon (a popular Canadian brand, at least in Ontario) as it crackles away in the frying pan atop my stove. For best viewing results, make sure to turn HD on and then watch in full screen mode. : )

Camera used: Canon PowerShot ELPH 330 HS. Settings used: MOV format - 29.97 fps - H.264 codec - 1280 x 720. This is pretty much the only bacon I buy nowadays, because it really is so much better than 'regular' bacon...which is reflected in the price being more than double. Much meatier, thicker, and ymmmmm. Enjoy the hunger, haha! ♥

A man tightens his zip and buckles his belt after peeing. He wares a small squared light shirt, a corduroy jacket and a deep blue jeans. Use this video in the themes of healthcare, medicine, sexual attractiveness, courteous public / non public behavior, etc. It is a part of human body called crotch, a place where legs join together. So there is much more opportunities to use this clip. Use your imagination.

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Video codec: H.264

Color profile: HD (1-1-1)

Duration: 00:19

FPS: 25

Data rate: 20.89 Mbit/s

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This particular Point Of View (POV) image puts the viewer into the perspective of the photographer shooting from the top of the Albuquerque J Robert dam to popular hotels in Old Town Albuquerque 9.2 miles away on a Nikon P1000. Many Breaking Bad fans will recognize the dam from past episodes of the tremendously popular video series. Hotel Albuquerque hosted many Breaking Bad parties and media events in the show’s heyday.

For the past 2 days I have been testing my new Nikon P1000 camera out in my yard and neighborhood. I am very impressed. You have to haul a 3.5 lb camera and a hefty tripod. I used my Manfrotto 3130 tripod with a fluid head that weighs 8 lbs for telephoto shots. The fluid head facilitates video pans, but even it drifted down while shooting at far out lengths such as 3000 mm indicating a need for counter weights such as sand bags or a heavier duty tripod. You also have to use a remote control for shutter depressions and controlling the camera. I purchased a Nikon ML-L7 remote which did the job very well.

The Coolpix P1000 does not use .nef for raw files. It uses .nrw format. I could not use Adobe PS CS6 to read these files. I started saving files in both raw and jpg formats instead of raw exclusively as I do on my Nikon DLSR camera. I had to download Nikon Capture NX-D which came with Nikon Picture Control and Nikon Transfer 2 which I have not tested yet. I Downloaded and installed a Nikon NRW codec. I could not see NRW files in Photoshop CS6, Adobe Bridge CS6 or View NX V2. But I could see them in Capture NX-D, Windows photos, Win Explorer, Win movie Maker, Photo Gallery and Win Photo Viewer.

It pays to purchase a 77 mm clear filter cover because the possibility of scratching the huge lens looms very high.

The Jpg image size is stored in a 12:9 ratio. My other Nikon cameras are sized in a12:8 ratio. Also many functions are accessed by menu rather than buttons common on Nikon DLSR’s.

I have not tested the bird or moon modes on the P1000 yet, but they look promising on paper.

All in all I am very pleased with the Nikon P1000 and look forward to having a lot of fun with it, especially for birding.

(Note: This post will be dynamically updated until around 01:30 AM Pacific time Monday, January 18, 2010, or whenever I get tired and go to bed.)

Evaluating a set of Skullcandy Lowrider headphones tonight...

Sound output source: Front headphone/line out jack on a Dell Inspiron 530 home computer running Windows XP SP3

Sound board: Realtek HD Audio (WDM) onboard system main board.

Software used: Apple iTunes 9.0.2.25 for Windows

Media Player Classic 6.4.9.1

K-Lite Mega Codec Pack

Audio sample log with notes:

"A Little Respect" - Erasure, AAC format, 128 kbps - "I need to upgrade this to 256 kbps stat!"

"Jeremy" - Pearl Jam, mp3 format, 192 kbps - "I should pull out some CDs, and make this a fair comparison"

"Sanctify Yourselves" - Simple Minds, mp3 format, 224 kbps - "Hmmm..."

"Shout" - Tears For Fears, mp3 format, 160 kbps - "TOO LOUD!!! ~_~;"

"Hyperactive" - Thomas Dolby, mp3 format, 192 kbps - "Tell me about your mother... ("Let me tell you about my mother..." ^_^;)

"Anarchy In The U.K." - Sex Pistols, mp3 format, 192 kbps - "Sounds awfully damn flat for 192 kbps, I hope that's just the song or the encoding"

"Cliches Of The World (B Movie)" - The Kinks, AAC format, 256 kbps - "About as good, or better than the cassette I had it on when I was a kid."

"Panic" - The Smiths, mp3 format, 128 kbps - "Oh, well... I still like The Smiths - I'll queue this for a 256 kbps rerip, and FLAC it as well."

"Pop Muzik" - M, mp3 format, 160 kbps - "Grew up with it for 30 years, damn near wore down a 45 of it. Now, if I could only find the B-side version of 'M Factor' - It's a different mix from the album version."

"Don't Disturb This Groove" - The System, mp3 format, 160 kbps - "Never get tired of this song."

"Your Woman" - White Town, AAC format, 256 kbps - "I like this song, and remember when it would get played regularly on KOME-FM in San Jose around 1997. I am not ashamed to say that I have performed this song at karaoke. I would probably perform it in public at karaoke. Yes, it was A GUY who sang this song, in fact, the GUY who IS 'White Town' ^_^;"

"Fantastic Voyage" - Lakeside, mp3 format, 223 kbps approx. (VBR encode) - "Aw, yeah... Only con so far about these headphones is the cord is TOO SHORT! I can't stand up while plugged into the computer."

"Labour of Love" - The Kinks, AAC format, 256 kbps - "Another good one, no major ickiness so far with these headphones. I guess I got what I paid for... Continuing onward."

"Bad Boys" - Wham!, mp3 format, 128 kbps - "Sounds about as good as it does coming out the harman/kardon desktop speakers and subwoofer. This song is one of my guilty pleasures, and another karaoke favorite."

"Promises, Promises" - Naked Eyes, mp3 format, 160 kbps - "More of my teenage high school years coming back..."

"Notorious" - Duran Duran, mp3 format, 160 kbps - "No, No, Notorious! Not quite as good as their early stuff, but I can still listen to it - I actually like 'The Skin Trade' almost as much, or more than this."

"To Live And Die In L.A." - Wang Chung, 153 kbps approx. (VBR) - "Another classic... Man, I feel old tonight."

"Demoliton Man" - The Police, mp3 format, 192 kbps - "The song that came before the film."

"The Chauffeur" - Duran Duran, mp3 format, 128 kbps - "Not bad, but I have the CD, I could rerip this - I seem to recall being on a campaign to have nothing LESS THAN 192 kbps in my digital collection. Wait, I heard flaws and hissing - This is getting a re-rip, with the rest of the RIO album."

"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" - Wham!, mp3 format, 160 kbps - "And the guilty pleasures continue..."

"The Hanging Garden" - The Cure, mp3 format, 192 kbps - "Ah, yeah..."

"The Spice Must Flow" - Eon, mp3 format, 160 kbps - "If I wasn't tethered to the computer, I'd get up and dance...."

"Another Nail For My Heart" - Squeeze, mp3 format, 128 kbps - "Ugly hiss... I can hear it. Need to find the disc and re-rip this one too... What was I thinking?"

"Blood Money" - Sisters of Mercy, AAC format, 256 kbps - "Nice... (Last song of the experiment, before I unplug and go to external speakers for sleep...)"

Experiment halting after this song.

Verdict: I got what I paid for, I'm happy. I will take great care not to get them broken.

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Photograph taken at an altitude of Ten metres at 06:38am on Monday 8th May 2023 off Vancouvert Street and Cleveland Avenue in Squamish, British Columbia in Canada. I was staying for one night in the Howe Sound Inn & Brewing, and crept out early hours around sunrise to walk around and take shome photographs.

Nikon D850 Single-lens reflex digital camera F Mount with FX CMOS 35.9mm x 23.9mm Image sensor 46.89 Million total pixels Focal length: 150mm Shutter speed: 1/100s (Mechanical shutter) Aperture f/13.0 iso400 Hand held with Tamron VC Vibration Control enabled. Image area Full Frame FX (36 x 24) NEF RAW L 45.4Million pixels (8256 x 5504) 14 Bit uncompressed AF-C Priority Selection: Release Nikon Back button focusing enabled 3D Tracking watch area: Normal 55 Tracking points Exposure mode: Manual mode Metering mode: Matrix metering White balance on: Auto1, A1.00, M0.25 (5780K) Colour space: Adobe RGB Picture control: (SD) Standard (Sharpening +3.00/Clarity +1.00)

Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD G2. Nikon GP-1 GPS module. Hoodman HEYENRG round eyepiece oversized eyecup. Black Rapid Curve Breathe strap. My Memory 128GB Class 10 SDXC 80MB/s card. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag. Nikon EN-EL15a battery.

LATITUDE: N 49d 41m 46.70s

LONGITUDE: W 123d 9m 19.7s

ALTITUDE: 10.0m

RAW (TIFF) FILE: 130.00MB NEF: 91.3MB

PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 41.10MB

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Photograph taken at an altitude of Two metres (Sea level) at 19:39pm on Wednesday 17th May 2023 looking towards an eagles nest on unnamed and uninhabited by mankind wilderness, some distance from Dawley Passage Provincial Park and Meares Island in the Alberni-Clayoquot region of British Columbia in Canada.

The Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus Leucocephalus), derives it's name from the Greek for 'Sea eagle', and the 'bald' denotation actually derives from an older meaning of 'white headed'.Bald Eagles can be up to forty inches in length with a wingspan up to seven and a half feet and can weigh up to 6.3kgs. The females are generally 25% larger than the males.

I was stationed in a seventy year old house I was renting in Campbell Street, Tofino in British Columbia in Canada. In this image I was seated at the front of a twenty three feet long Zodiac inflatable in full life saving gear.

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Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD G2. Nikon GP-1 GPS module. Hoodman HEYENRG round eyepiece oversized eyecup. Black Rapid Curve Breathe strap. My Memory 128GB Class 10 SDXC 80MB/s card. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag. Nikon EN-EL15a battery.

LATITUDE: N 49d 11m 15.0s

LONGITUDE: W 125d 46m 54.20s

ALTITUDE: 6.0m

RAW (TIFF) FILE: 130.00MB NEF: 93.9MB

PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 36.40MB

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Nikon D850 Firmware versions C 1.21 (8/12/2022) LD Distortion Data 2.018 (16/01/20) LF 1.00 Nikon Codec Full version 1.31.2 (09/11/2021)

HP 110-352na Desktop PC with Windows 10 Home edition AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU 64Bit processor. Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB Data storage. 64-bit Windows 10. My Passport USB 3.0 2TB portable desktop hard drive. Nikon NX STUDIO 64bit Version 1.2.2 (08/12/2022). Nikon Capture NX-D 64bit Version 1.6.2 (18/02/2020). Nikon Picture Control Utility 2 (Version 2.4.5 (18/02/2020). Nikon Transfer 2 Version 2.16.0 (08/12/2022). Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.

Sometimes, in trying times, it’s the simple colorful shots that resonate most with me.

This one’s for Lee – and anyone else out there looking for a little happy color to brighten their day!

Shot notes:

We returned from our annual trip to South Padre recently, and have just gone through all the pics. Not sure which to share, so starting with something simple. Hopefully I can find another one or two to share soon. Also trying to wrap up a little timelapse project I've been working on...if I can only get the damn codecs figured out!

Details:

Nikon D700

Nikon 16-35mm f/4 G

Focal length: 35mm

Aperture: f/4.0

1/1000 sec. single exposure

ISO 200

Exposure bias: 0

LEE Filter Holder System

-Filter 1: Lee circular polarizer

Just took a cool tour and theater demo of Dolby 7.1 and 3D Digital Cinema at Dolby research. This rack in the projector room is full of various generations of video codecs.

I had wondered how these passive 3D glasses work when I first tried them at PIXAR. From rotating them in front of my polarizing sunglasses, I could tell they are not polarized, and the color space of each lens seemed similar (no red-blue or other obvious color filtering).

Got the answer today: these are complex multilayer lenses made by JDSU with interleaved filters. The left and right eyes receive the RGB color space shifted 20 nanometers. So, for example, each eye can see red, but 20nm offset in color.

The projector has a spinning color filter wheel as they call it. It takes the full-color frames intended for each eye and applies the relative 20nm spectrum shift (probably a non-linear filter). The wheel rotates in sync with the projector’s frame rate.

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Photograph taken at an altitude of Two hundred and sixty nine metres at 10:15am on Thursday 7th September 2023 off the A386 just outside Mary Tavy between Okehampton and Tavistock, in Devon.

An old Engine House from the tin mining days, located at Job's Shaft it was built in 1868.128 men worked here with four over-shot waterwheels after reopening in 1863, but it finally closed in 1877.Today, it is the last standing example on Dartmoor.

Nikon D850 Single-lens reflex digital camera F Mount with FX CMOS 35.9mm x 23.9mm Image sensor 46.89 Million total pixels Focal length: 240mm Shutter speed: 1/100s (Mechanical shutter) Aperture f/13.0 iso100 Handheld with Tamron VC Vibration Control enabled Image area Full Frame FX (36 x 24) NEF RAW L 45.4Million pixels (8256 x 5504) 14 Bit uncompressed AF-C Priority Selection: Release Nikon Back button focusing enabled 3D Tracking watch area: Normal 55 Tracking points Exposure mode: Manual mode Metering mode: Matrix metering White balance on: Natural Light Auto, 0, 0 Colour space: Adobe RGB Picture control: (SD) Standard (Sharpening +3.00/Clarity +1.00)

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LATITUDE: N 50d 36m 49.30s

LONGITUDE: W 4d 6m 14.4s

ALTITUDE: 269.0m

RAW (TIFF) FILE: 130.00MB NEF: 92.5MB

PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 46.10MB

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From the AO Venture Summit today (live webcast), with panelists from left to right:

* Dan'l Lewin, Corporate VP, Microsoft

* Claudia Fan Munce, Managing Director, IBM Venture Capital Group

* Brian Moriarty, VP, Corporate Affairs, Sun Microsystems

* David Lawee, VP Corporate Development, Google (buys one company/month)

* Jeff Russakow, VP, Global Strategies & Solutions, Symantec

Question: What areas are you scouting out for 2009 corporate acquisitions?

Microsoft: We do not comment on future plans.

IBM: Do your homework on what you can do for a big company.

Sun: Cloud computing. We have been enamored with grid computing for years. There are two opportunities for us. First, it’s a demanding environment for systems. Second, we will launch a cloud service ourselves in the coming months. We are interested in more power sensitive data centers as well.

Google: Many exciting areas. Instead of 90-day product push cycles, a slower market allows for more fully baked products. We are looking at audio, video codecs, SaaS. One million businesses on our cloud. It’s addicting.

Symantec: SaaS, virtualization, cloud-based services based on the consumer, how to repurpose and make existing apps digestible in this new model. Security, malware, keeping good in and bad out. Backup. 6x explosion of data over next three years, and the mix moves from 25% unstructured data to 63%. 75% of corporate IP is in the email inbox. It has become the file system. Greater opportunity there than virtualization. How to backup and store things that are not virtualized? Make it work through the ecosystem. Seachange: cloud and SaaS, proliferation of endpoints, and the endpoint is access point, not the computing center. Challenge for Symantec: how to I protect the data, not the laptop? Many hot trends around that. Archive and backup converge. De-dup, storage and retrieval in the cloud.

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Photograph taken at an altitude of Three hundred and twenty two metres at 14:38pm on Thursday 7th September 2023 off the B3357 at Merrivale, Western Dartmoor in the west Devon district.

Nikon D850 Single-lens reflex digital camera F Mount with FX CMOS 35.9mm x 23.9mm Image sensor 46.89 Million total pixels Focal length: 150mm Shutter speed: 1/200s (Mechanical shutter) Aperture f/13.0 iso125 Handheld with Tamron VC Vibration Control enabled Image area Full Frame FX (36 x 24) NEF RAW L 45.4Million pixels (8256 x 5504) 14 Bit uncompressed AF-C Priority Selection: Release Nikon Back button focusing enabled 3D Tracking watch area: Normal 55 Tracking points Exposure mode: Manual mode Metering mode: Matrix metering White balance on: Natural Light Auto, 0, 0 Colour space: Adobe RGB Picture control: (SD) Standard (Sharpening +3.00/Clarity +1.00)

Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD G2. Nikon GP-1 GPS module. Hoodman HEYENRG round eyepiece oversized eyecup. Black Rapid Curve Breathe strap. My Memory 128GB Class 10 SDXC 80MB/s card. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag. Nikon EN-EL15a battery.

LATITUDE: N 50d 33m 25.50s

LONGITUDE: W 4d 2m 39.2s

ALTITUDE: 322.0m

RAW (TIFF) FILE: 130.00MB NEF: 94.0MB

PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 51.20MB

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Photograph taken at an altitude of Thirty eight metres at 22:06pm on Sunday 14th May 2023 off Lone Cone Road and Campbell Street, looking to the tops of the forest treetops in Tofino in British Columbia in Canada.

Nikon D850 Single-lens reflex digital camera F Mount with FX CMOS 35.9mm x 23.9mm Image sensor 46.89 Million total pixels Focal length: 420mm Shutter speed: 1/4s (Mechanical shutter) Aperture f/13.0 iso64 Image area Full Frame FX (36 x 24) NEF RAW L 45.4Million pixels (8256 x 5504) 14 Bit uncompressed AF-C Priority Selection: Release Nikon Back button focusing enabled 3D Tracking watch area: Normal 55 Tracking points Exposure mode: Manual mode Metering mode: Matrix metering White balance on: Auto1, A1.00, M0.25 (3610k) Colour space: Adobe RGB Picture control: (A) Auto (Sharpening A+1.00/Clarity A+1.00)

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LATITUDE: N 49d 8m 57.50s

LONGITUDE: W 125d 53m 45.90s

ALTITUDE: 38.0m

RAW (TIFF) FILE: 130.00MB NEF: 89.7MB

PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 35.20MB

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Photograph taken at 10:21am on Thursday 3rd April 2025 at an altitude of eighty nine metres in the grounds of Scadbury Park nature reserve, located off Old Perry St, Chislehurst BR7 6P, in the borough of Bromley.

It is also a Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation. It is over 300 acres, and is part of an extensive wildlife corridor together with Petts Wood and the Jubilee Country Park.

Nikon D850 Single-lens reflex digital camera F Mount with FX CMOS 35.9mm x 23.9mm Image sensor 46.89 Million total pixels Focal length: 35mm Shutter speed: 1/3s (Mechanical shutter) Aperture f/14.0 Iso64 Image area Full Frame FX (36 x 24) NEF RAW L 45.4Million pixels (8256 x 5504) 14 Bit uncompressed Hand held with Nikkor VR Vibration reduction enabled AF-C Priority Selection: Release Nikon Back button focusing enabled 3D Tracking watch area: Normal 55 Tracking points Exposure mode: Manual mode Metering mode: Matrix metering White balance on: Auto1, A1.00, M0.25 (4960K) Colour space: Adobe RGB Picture control: (SD) Standard (Sharpening +3.00/Clarity A+1.00) Active D-Lighting: Low

Nikkor AF-S 16-35mm f/4 G ED VR. Nikon GP-1 GPS module. Hoodman HEYENRG round eyepiece oversized eyecup. Black Rapid Curve Breathe strap. My Memory 128GB Class 10 SDXC 80MB/s card. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag. Nikon EN-EL15a battery.

LATITUDE: N 51d 24m 49.0s

LONGITUDE: E 0d 5m 48.10s

ALTITUDE: 89.0m

RAW (TIFF) FILE: 130.00MB NEF: 94.0MB

PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 41.80MB

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This young robin was only about 8 feet away and it cooperated for many shots. For the past 2 days I have been testing my new Nikon P1000 camera out in my yard and neighborhood. I am very impressed. You have to haul a 3.5 lb camera and a hefty tripod. I used my Manfrotto 3130 tripod with a fluid head that weighs 8 lbs for telephoto shots. The fluid head facilitates video pans, but even it drifted down while shooting at far out lengths such as 3000 mm indicating a need for counter weights such as sand bags or a heavier duty tripod. You also have to use a remote control for shutter depressions and controlling the camera. I purchased a Nikon ML-L7 remote which did the job very well.

The Coolpix P1000 does not use .nef for raw files. It uses .nrw format. I could not use Adobe PS CS6 to read these files. I started saving files in both raw and jpg formats instead of raw exclusively as I do on my Nikon DLSR camera. I had to download Nikon Capture NX-D which came with Nikon Picture Control and Nikon Transfer 2 which I have not tested yet. I Downloaded and installed a Nikon NRW codec. I could not see NRW files in Photoshop CS6, Adobe Bridge CS6 or View NX V2. But I could see them in Capture NX-D, Windows photos, Win Explorer, Win movie Maker, Photo Gallery and Win Photo Viewer.

It pays to purchase a 77 mm clear filter cover because the possibility of scratching the huge lens looms very high.

The Jpg image size is stored in a 12:9 ratio. My other Nikon cameras are sized in a12:8 ratio. Also many functions are accessed by menu rather than buttons common on Nikon DLSR’s.

I have not tested the bird or moon modes on the P1000 yet, but they look promising on paper.

All in all I am very pleased with the Nikon P1000 and look forward to having a lot of fun with it, especially for birding.

A scene in an office: a manager is brainstorming business plan, sales strategy, marketing campaign or investment promotion opportunities. He is drawing and scrathing schemas, infographics, diagrams on a white paper sheet with a black felt-tip pen.

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Video codec: H.264

Color profile: HD (1-1-1)

Duration: 00:48

FPS: 25

Data rate: 20.14 Mbit/s

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Photograph taken at an altitude of Five metres at 13:15pm on Tuesday 16th May 2023 off Coast Guard Drive at the Rocky beach area, part of the Wild Pacific Trail in Ucluelet, British Columbia.

Nikon D850 Single-lens reflex digital camera F Mount with FX CMOS 35.9mm x 23.9mm Image sensor 46.89 Million total pixels Focal length: 24mm Shutter speed: 1/125s (Mechanical shutter) Aperture f/13.0 iso125 Handheld with Nikkor VR Vibration reduction Vibration set to position 1 Image area Full Frame FX (36 x 24) NEF RAW L 45.4Million pixels (8256 x 5504) 14 Bit uncompressed AF-C Priority Selection: Release Nikon Back button focusing enabled 3D Tracking watch area: Normal 55 Tracking points Exposure mode: Manual mode Metering mode: Matrix metering White balance on: Auto1, A1.00, M0.25 (5670k) Colour space: Adobe RGB Picture control: (A) Auto (Sharpening +1.00/Clarity +1.00)

Nikkor AF-S 24-120mm f/4G ED VR. Nikon GP-1 GPS module. Hoodman HEYENRG round eyepiece oversized eyecup. Black Rapid Curve Breathe strap. My Memory 128GB Class 10 SDXC 80MB/s card. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag. Nikon EN-EL15a battery.

LATITUDE: N 48d 55m 25.80s

LONGITUDE: W 125d 32m 31.30s

ALTITUDE: 5.0m

RAW (TIFF) FILE: 130.00MB NEF: 93.4MB

PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 45.90MB

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Photograph taken at an altitude of Seven metres, at 12:50pm on Monday 9th January 2023, off Hyde Park Corner and Park Lane A4202 in the grounds of Hyde park, a Grade 1 listed Royal Park (the largest of) of London.

Here we see a Black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)in Winter plumage denoted by the chocoalte brown head, in flight. They are found in much of the Palearctic including Canada and Europe. In Canada it is called the Common black-headed gull.

Spanning an area of 350 acres, the park is divided by the Serpentine and the Long water lakes, and was created by King Henry VIII in 1536 as hunting ground. It opened to the public in 1637 and was extensively improved under Queen Caroline in the early Eighteenth century. The Great exhibition for which the Crystal Palace was erected, designed by Joseph Paxton, was also held here.

Nikon D850 Single-lens reflex digital camera F Mount with FX CMOS 35.9mm x 23.9mm Image sensor 46.89 Million total pixels Focal length 380mm Shutter speed: 1/640s Aperture f/6.3 iso400 Hand held with no Tamron vibration control set Image area Full Frame FX (36 x 24) NEF RAW L 45.4Million pixels (8256 x 5504) 14 bit uncompressed AF-C Priority Selection: Release Nikon Back button focusing enabled 3D Tracking watch area: Normal 55 Tracking points Exposure mode: Manual mode Metering mode: Matrix metering Active D-Lighting: Auto Vignette control: ON Normal White balance on: Auto1, 0, 0 Normal (4610k) Colour space: Adobe RGB Picture control: (SD) Standard (Sharpening +3) High ISO Noise Reduction NR: Normal

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Photograph taken at an altitude of Six hundred and ninety eight metres at 16:33pm on Sunday 7th May 2023 having left the summit of the Sea to sky gondola at Squamish, British Columbia, Canada. It is located on Highway 99 just South of Squamish and forty five minutes from downtown Vancouver.

This view is taken inside one of the gondolas as I descend down from the summit, overlooking Howe Sound.

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LATITUDE: N 49d 40m 23.50s

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In the early portion of the last millennium, the medieval city of Valencia, Spain was ruled for some time by one Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, a renowned military General, legal arbiter and intellectual strategist who would come to be known during his military and monarchical career as El Cid.

El Cid's vivid style of erudition, scholarship and fierceness of warrior intuition all helped to make El Cid one of the primary tools of the Spanish Regent Lord, Alphonso IV, in his continual battles of attrition against the invasion of the Moorish hordes threatening to overthrow his kingdom in the second great millennium.

El Cid would face tribal intrigue at the hands of his fellow Spanish Lords, expulsion from the face of Alphonso IV, life as a ruthless military mercenary warlord, triumphant conqueror who would unite Valencia and it's neighboring communities under his own auspices and finally chief administrator and legal adjudicator over a territory which allowed both Christians and Muslims to live in unfettered harmony amongst one another while working side by side in his kingdom.

In fact, the very term "Cid" is actually derived from the archaic Arabic term "Sayyid" meaning "Lord", a term which seems to be the outright personification of this most astonishing figure in history who became revered amongst his people as "one of them", in spite of his royal lineage.

In fact, El Cid proved resolutely determined to include and carefully consider the opinions and analysis of all of his soldiers and guards, before beginning any military excursion. This approach marked El Cid as both one of the most innovative military strategists to administer with a mindset directed toward co-operation and arguably History's most consistently successful master of warfare, martial subterfuge and trench-front enemy neutralization.

El Cid would enter into the realm of legend (as well as a peaceful reign and final rest) on July 10, 1099 A.D., while becoming Spain's official National Hero all the way until the collapse of Western Civilization as we know it today.

This Collapse will take place within our lifetimes.

After the end of all we now know, the final embers of life will indeed flutter back into some semblance of regularity. However, life will regularly become a struggle for subsistence and survival, as tribes of violent terror-seekers and thrill hungry throng about the desolate byways of the "future", seeking respite from their own petty cutthroat lives at the end of a gun.

However, genetic engineers will rely upon the still-surviving genetic codec of El Cid and his familial bloodline to create a new class of thoughtful leaders to help usher in a great new society, from the crushed shell of that terror fraught ulcer your great-grandchildren will call reality.

Her name will be El Ciderella, and she will wield a reasonably accurate facsimile of the Moorish-hewn sword rendered and smelt with Damascus Steel wielded by El Cid himself, during his lifetime.

El Ciderella will be given explicit instructional coda which will be embedded in the neurological pathways of her DNA, ensuring that she will behave as though her blade is "a shimmering leaf of greatness and potency" which must never leave her side, for fear of losing her very essence. Only the bravest and most well schooled warrior can ever hope to test her in battle while she wrestles with her soul and her lineage...and any man able to best her in a fight will be the man she marries.

In the shock that will be the next millennial sunrise and dawn, only the strong, loving and most determined will see the beginning of Humanity's next epoch, being born and built up for the creating.

en lo alto de un chopo del parque.

This series is part of an ongoing research on visual ways to dissolve pornographic imagery in abstraction and absurd.

For the Scrambled series, using video footage downloaded from Internet, I exploit the artifacts, errors, blurs inherent to heavy digital compression and incomplete files.

Dozens of snapshots are generated. Here, the creative process in itself rely on selecting the right images : identifiable as pornographic, but somehow deactivated.

A motion graphics animation loop I created for Intel Corporation. All motion was done in Adobe After Effects CS4 with help from Trapcode Shine, Particular and Warp. I shot the silhouettes on the Red One camera against a green screen and used Key Light to key them out. The entire loop played for an audience of almost 5000 people at a conference in Las Vegas. It was encoded to a 1920x1080 Animation codec Quicktime movie that was 12GB and played back from a powerful RAID backstage.

LINK: youtu.be/ZZM9A3KEvoc

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NOTE: The clips in this video were recorded in 4K, but downsampled to 1080p to achieve a better HD image. Also, as usual, rendered at 1440p to access the VP9 codec YT uses on higher quality videos.

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The 12th and 13th of November 2021 would see both new build LNER/BR Peppercorn A1 no. '60163, Tornado' and ex-LMS/BR Duchess no. '6233, Duchess of Sutherland' operate within the West Midlands on the national rail network.

We first see 'Tornado' at Longbridge on a light engine move from York to St Philips, Bristol, in order to operate 'The Cheshireman' railtour the next day.

Our second and final view is of 'Duchess of Sutherland' passing through Bescot Stadium on 'Vintage Trains' 'Welsh Marches Express' railtour from Tyseley to Hereford.

Turn your speakers on, push that HD button and then finally that full screen one there > up a bit ^

Or better still download the 1920x1280 high quality version (needs DivX codec). You can see the bubbles better.

I got the syphon coffee brewer out this afternoon to make a cup for me and Pam, and to have a bit of fun :-). I love getting the camping stove out and firing everything up, it's ace. The light was low and shining through the front window as Pam lay patiently waiting on the sofa reading her book. It must have taken an hour even though the clip is just made from 10 minutes worth of shots. It took a while to polish the syphon, set up the camera, the reflector, and the timer. The timer was set to trigger every 1 second and I ended up with about 900 shots trimmed down to 600 and then condensed in to 90 seconds.

Thank you to Daddy Scrabble for the lovely plinky plonky intro to his tune Flying pea v.1 (Daddy_Scrabble) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. It fits perfectly. I just searched for free music to put to the clip and stumbled across his music pretty early on. Thanks for sharing dude.

Most of my photos have a Creative Commons Attribution license by the way (This one is noncommercial to match Daddy Scrabble's). They can be downloaded at full res and I don't resize anything so you should be able to get a good resolution. The CC Atribution license lets you distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon my stuff even commercially as long you credit me for the original creation. Just a link and a heads up will make me smile. I think more people should share and enjoy sharing, stop locking their stuff down. Share it or make money from it, just don't keep it close to your chest and be grumpy. Well, you can if you want but I'd sooner create and spread the love man.

Shots taken with the 40D down low with a 3 stop ND grad trying to tame the window, and a big silver reflector on the left for some fill. I used Avidemux to put all the shots together and put a little fade on the end, for which I duplicated the last frame 30 times. I used audacity to trim the audio and fade that just before the tune starts picking up.

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Photograph taken at an altitude of Fifty two metres at 13:40pm on Friday 26th May 2023 off Richards Trail and Herd Road at the Pacific Northwest Raptors in North Cowichan on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.

Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus Leucocephalus), derives it's name from the Greek for 'Sea eagle', and the 'bald' denotation actually derives from an older meaning of 'white headed'.Bald Eagles can be up to forty inches in length with a wingspan up to seven and a half feet and can weigh up to 6.3kgs. The females are generally 25% larger than the males.

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LATITUDE: N 48d 49m 16.00s

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Photograph taken at an altitude of One hundred and twenty metres at 12.15pm on Monday 5th June 2023 off Mayfair Drive in the grounds of Mt Tolmie Park in Victoria on Vancouver Island in British Columbia.

Nikon D850 Single-lens reflex digital camera F Mount with FX CMOS 35.9mm x 23.9mm Image sensor 46.89 Million total pixels Focal length: 35mm Shutter speed: 1/60s (Mechanical shutter) Aperture f/18.0 iso64 Hand held with Nikkor VR Vibration Reduction enabled Image area Full Frame FX (36 x 24) NEF RAW L 45.4Million pixels (8256 x 5504) 14 Bit uncompressed AF-C Priority Selection: Release Nikon Back button focusing enabled 3D Tracking watch area: Normal 55 Tracking points Exposure mode: Manual mode Metering mode: Matrix metering White balance on: Natural light Auto, 0, 0 Colour space: Adobe RGB Picture control: (SD) Standard (Sharpening +3.00/Clarity +1.00)

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LATITUDE: N 48d 27m 24.00s

LONGITUDE: W 123d 19m 30.90s

ALTITUDE: 120.0m

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In fact this is almost usual station locomotive. There was the international division of a labor in Communist block. And Czech built ChKD Praha of 3o-3o

(or Co-Co) layout Diesel locomotive has been chosen as standard station/shunting locomotive for Soviet Railroads and for other Communist countries. In Soviet Union it was named ChME-3 (Czech-built, station, with electric transmission). It has recommended itself from the best side and circa 7500 pieces have been built. It was best Czechs' business for all their history. And now ChME-3 are carrying almost all station works in all post-Soviet countries, also being frequentely used in suburban traffic.

But this piece is unique simulteniously being 'named' locomotive. Named locomotives are not rare all over the world. But in this special case term 'named' means that this is a kind of award or moral stimulation. This practice is still kept since 1920 when for some locomotives names of war and revolution heroes have been given. Such 'named' locomotives were credited for best crews for combat heroism and labour achievements - as a sort of award, apart of honor badges, medals, etc. It was considered as a great honor for locomotives. But nobless obligee! And locomotive staff (or 'brigade' as it is called here) had to keep such locomotive in excellent technical state. And also to fulfil combat or labour feats equal to those of a hero to give his name.

Locomotive brigades were usually 'attached' to the one and the same locomotive for years and decades. It became a real second house for a staff. Therefore locomotives were beloved and pampered by crew. Locomotive shining by fresh painting and polished brass details was the subject of pride of a staff - it belongs to railroaders 'Codecs of honor'. At the steam age such cases were often when locomotive staff was unsatisfied by standard paint given by a railroad. And a crew bought some 'special' paint from it's personal funds.

We may see from these shots that nothing changed at this branch despite the change of political system. And 'named' locomotives tradition is kept almost a century.

And this locomotive is named in honor of N.E. Kalinichenko, the full Knight of Soldier fame order, receiving during the WWII the stars of all three degreess. Apropos the Soldier fame is rare award being given only for privates or sergeants and only for combat feats carried in specially hard and dangerous conditions. From 15 millions men and women who served in Red Army during WWII only 2656 became full Knights of this order - including four women.

This award system repeates exectly the Soldier's St Georgian Cross - the highest and most valuable soldier's award of Russian Empire. Both orders - Empire and Soviet were carried on the same insignia band with orange-n-black strips. So called Georgian or Guardian colors. It's well depicted on shields on both sides of locomotive.

Kahrkov-Passenger station, Juzhnaya (Southern) railroad, Kharkov. Ukraine

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Photograph taken at an altitude of Eight metres at 14.50pm on Sunday 4th June 2023 off Kimta Road and Cooperage Place at Lime Bay Park View in Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

The Great Blue Heron (Ardea Herodias) is a wading bird in the Heron family Ardeidae and found in North America, Central America, the Caribbean and Galapagos Islands. One of the largest of Herons, it has a head to tail length of 01-137 centimetres (36-54 inches) and a wingspan of 187-201 centimetres (66-79 inches). They are found where my family live, and naturally very wary of mankind, flying off as soon as you are within fifty to one hundred yards of them.

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LATITUDE: N 48d 25m 40.80s

LONGITUDE: W 123d 23m 3.10s

ALTITUDE: 8.0m

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Photograph taken at an altitude of One hundred and twenty five metres at 13:24pm on Wednesday 17th May 2023 off Radar Hill in Tofino, British Columbia.

Nikon D850 Single-lens reflex digital camera F Mount with FX CMOS 35.9mm x 23.9mm Image sensor 46.89 Million total pixels Focal length: 280mm Shutter speed: 1/100s (Mechanical shutter) Aperture f/13.0 iso80 Tamron Vibration Control set to position 1 Image area Full Frame FX (36 x 24) NEF RAW L 45.4Million pixels (8256 x 5504) 14 Bit uncompressed AF-C Priority Selection: Release Nikon Back button focusing enabled 3D Tracking watch area: Normal 55 Tracking points Exposure mode: Manual mode Metering mode: Matrix metering White balance on: Auto1, A1.00, M0.25 (5650k) Colour space: Adobe RGB Picture control: (A) Auto (Sharpening +1.00/Clarity +1.00)

Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD G2. Nikon GP-1 GPS module. Hoodman HEYENRG round eyepiece oversized eyecup. Black Rapid Curve Breathe strap. My Memory 128GB Class 10 SDXC 80MB/s card. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag. Nikon EN-EL15a battery.

LATITUDE: N 49d 5m 3.70s

LONGITUDE: W 125d 50m 30.10s

ALTITUDE: 125.0m

RAW (TIFF) FILE: 130.00MB NEF: 92.3MB

PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 49.50MB

PROCESSING POWER:

Nikon D850 Firmware versions C 1.21 (8/12/2022) LD Distortion Data 2.018 (16/01/20) LF 1.00 Nikon Codec Full version 1.31.2 (09/11/2021)

HP 110-352na Desktop PC with Windows 10 Home edition AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU 64Bit processor. Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB Data storage. 64-bit Windows 10. My Passport USB 3.0 2TB portable desktop hard drive. Nikon NX STUDIO 64bit Version 1.2.2 (08/12/2022). Nikon Capture NX-D 64bit Version 1.6.2 (18/02/2020). Nikon Picture Control Utility 2 (Version 2.4.5 (18/02/2020). Nikon Transfer 2 Version 2.16.0 (08/12/2022). Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.

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Photograph taken at an altitude of Seven metres at 10:03am on Thursday 4th May 2023 off Stanley Park Seawall Path and Stanley Park Drive, on a patch of sandy beach looking towards Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver, British Columbia.

It was Completed in 1938, and spans the First Narrows of Burrard Inlet, connecting the City of Vancouver to the North Shore municipalities of North Vancouver and West Vancouver. It's named after the Lions, two mountain peaks visible from the city, and is also known as the First Narrows Bridge.

Nikon D850 Single-lens reflex digital camera F Mount with FX CMOS 35.9mm x 23.9mm Image sensor 46.89 Million total pixels Focal length 44mm Shutter speed: 1/60s (Mechanical shutter) Aperture f/13.0 iso64 Handheld with Nikkor VR Vibration Reduction enabled Image area Full Frame FX (36 x 24) NEF RAW L 45.4Million pixels (8256 x 5504) 14 Bit uncompressed AF-C Priority Selection: Release Nikon Back button focusing enabled 3D Tracking watch area: Normal 55 Tracking points Exposure mode: Manual mode Metering mode: Matrix metering White balance on: Natural light auto, 0, 0 Colour space: Adobe RGB Picture control: (SD) Standard (Sharpening +3.00/Clarity +1.00)

Nikkor AF-S 24-120mm f/4G ED VR. Nikon GP-1 GPS module. Hoodman HEYENRG round eyepiece oversized eyecup. Black Rapid Curve Breathe strap. My Memory 128GB Class 10 SDXC 80MB/s card. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag. Nikon EN-EL15a battery.

LATITUDE: N 49d 18m 13.10s

LONGITUDE: W 123d 7m 51.60s

ALTITUDE: 7.0m

RAW (TIFF) FILE: 130.00MB NEF: 93.3MB

PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 46.90MB

PROCESSING POWER:

Nikon D850 Firmware versions C 1.21 (8/12/2022) LD Distortion Data 2.018 (16/01/20) LF 1.00 Nikon Codec Full version 1.31.2 (09/11/2021)

HP 110-352na Desktop PC with Windows 10 Home edition AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU 64Bit processor. Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB Data storage. 64-bit Windows 10. My Passport USB 3.0 2TB portable desktop hard drive. Nikon NX STUDIO 64bit Version 1.2.2 (08/12/2022). Nikon Capture NX-D 64bit Version 1.6.2 (18/02/2020). Nikon Picture Control Utility 2 (Version 2.4.5 (18/02/2020). Nikon Transfer 2 Version 2.16.0 (08/12/2022). Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.

Well I landed up spending most of my day off in bed. Such a lazy sod I am ;-)

Nah, I seemed to have picked up some bug, (that's what I get for working with members of the public!), and it appears to have gestated enough now to want to escape from my body using whatever exit is possible.

Oh yes, all of them! (I shall leave out the gory details!)

I hate being ill because I still want to get on with things despite my bodies objections and the demands from my wife Teresa to get back into bed. So I quickly sneaked out this afternoon to have a stab at some time lapse with this old Fuji of mine, a minutes walk up the lane, fifteen minutes of shooting and an extremely brisk walk back clenching a certain part of my anatomy which hindered the walk! Made it just in time.........

Anyway, enough of the gross stuff, here was the basic process.

Camera in manual mode, check, white balance not on auto, check, exposure set for sky and ground, check, sturdy tripod, check. So I wrapped a velcro strap around the camera and an old shirt button on the shutter to fire off the camera remembering to turn the LCD off to preserve battery life.

All was going well for a few minutes when a walker appeared with a very large Labrador that couldn't resist seeing what I was up to and bounded over knocking the tripod as it got to me. Damn, no point stopping now this is a test after all. Fuss of the Labrador whilst keeping it away from the camera, quick chat with the walker and I sat back down next to the clicking camera. Wasn't too long before my body launched a nuclear strike and I had to rush home very quickly(!)

Well, now what am I supposed to do with these 1000 odd frames? According to most of the web resources, (and I use that last word loosely!), you simply buy software. I don't think so thank you very much, this is supposed to be a bit of fun after all and I'll decide later if I'd want to be pursuing it further and possibly buy something! Luckily I came across MakeAVI and it does the job, especially for free. But then I had to find out about video codecs and how some people want to charge you for these things too(!) Again a quick scour of the old 'tinternet' came up with the goods with Xvid and away we went. Now I had a massive video file, (100's of Mb's worth!), and slowly loaded it into Virtual Dub and started trying to figure out what I could do. Apparently a lot as it seems, filters for levels, brightness, contrast, (which helped with the cloud/ground poor exposure), smoothing, (for getting rid of the flicker typical of a time lapse), as well as a host of other things. I probably spent more time finding out what all these things were than using them!!

But I got there......sort of. Things still flicker and a check of the still images showed birds of all kind flitting in and out of frame, a kestrel for a moment, a massive dragonfly, butterflies, typically all the things that you try hard to photograph without success and here they are all over the damn place without even trying!

Still, a lot learned and best of all I totally enjoyed it :-)

Things to do include modifying the old Fuji to have a 2.5mm jack to accept an electronic release, (a quick poke around it's insides reveals just enough space between the power and usb socket - nice). I also realised my 'dolly' isn't going to be of much use for wide angled landscape time lapses, (doh!), so I might build a pan head as well. Especially as I have some more stepper motors and a spy of that old video recorder I pulled to bits has a nice big rotary bearing in the form of the VHS tape head :-)

Right, got to dash, natures calls. Again!

An old man nearly in his 60'ies or 70'ies is sitting on a bench in a bus station. He wears a black hat, black sunglasses and a black jacket. He is emphasized in a conversation with a smartphone. Seems he has some secret deals or conspiracy intentions.

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Dimensions: 1920 x 1080

Video codec: H.264

Audio codec: AAC

Color profile: HD (1-1-1)

Duration: 00:09

FPS: 25

Data rate: 20.45 Mbit/s

This photograph was published in an online article in Bear Grylls OUTDOORS.COM on August 8th 2023 by Kristen Pope, titled:

'' 8 Incredible Lighthouses to Visit in the U.S. and Canada ''

Bear Grylls was co founder of OUTDOORS.COM with venture firm Savage Ventures and it officially launched in January 2023

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Photograph taken at an altitude of Nineteen metres at 12:11pm on Tuesday 16th May 2023 off Coast Guard Drive and the Wild Pacific Trail, looking at Amphitrite Point Lighthouse in Ucluelet, British Columbia. The lighthouse is fully functioning and has been guiding sea vessels since 1915.

Nikon D850 Single-lens reflex digital camera F Mount with FX CMOS 35.9mm x 23.9mm Image sensor 46.89 Million total pixels Focal length: 24mm Shutter speed: 1/60s (Mechanical shutter) Aperture f/13.0 iso80 Handheld with Nikkor VR Vibration reduction Vibration set to position 1 Image area Full Frame FX (36 x 24) NEF RAW L 45.4Million pixels (8256 x 5504) 14 Bit uncompressed AF-C Priority Selection: Release Nikon Back button focusing enabled 3D Tracking watch area: Normal 55 Tracking points Exposure mode: Manual mode Metering mode: Matrix metering White balance on: Auto1, A1.00, M0.25 (5990k) Colour space: Adobe RGB Picture control: (A) Auto (Sharpening +1.00/Clarity +1.00)

Nikkor AF-S 24-120mm f/4G ED VR. Nikon GP-1 GPS module. Hoodman HEYENRG round eyepiece oversized eyecup. Black Rapid Curve Breathe strap. My Memory 128GB Class 10 SDXC 80MB/s card. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag. Nikon EN-EL15a battery.

LATITUDE: N 48d 55m 17.20s

LONGITUDE: W 125d 32m 27.40s

ALTITUDE: 19.0m

RAW (TIFF) FILE: 130.00MB NEF: 93.1MB

PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 42.40MB

PROCESSING POWER:

Nikon D850 Firmware versions C 1.21 (8/12/2022) LD Distortion Data 2.018 (16/01/20) LF 1.00 Nikon Codec Full version 1.31.2 (09/11/2021)

HP 110-352na Desktop PC with Windows 10 Home edition AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU 64Bit processor. Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB Data storage. 64-bit Windows 10. My Passport USB 3.0 2TB portable desktop hard drive. Nikon NX STUDIO 64bit Version 1.2.2 (08/12/2022). Nikon Capture NX-D 64bit Version 1.6.2 (18/02/2020). Nikon Picture Control Utility 2 (Version 2.4.5 (18/02/2020). Nikon Transfer 2 Version 2.16.0 (08/12/2022). Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.

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Photograph taken at an altitude of Six metres at 16.06pm on Sunday 4th June 2023 off Beach Drive and Scenic Drive on the shoreline at Brody Bay, part of Uplands Park in Victoria on Vancouver Island in British Columbia.

The American crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) is a large passerine bird species of the family Corvidae. It is a common bird found throughout much of North America. American crows measure 16-21 inches in length and are the New World counterpart to the carrion crow and the hooded crow of Eurasia

Nikon D850 Single-lens reflex digital camera F Mount with FX CMOS 35.9mm x 23.9mm Image sensor 46.89 Million total pixels Focal length: 400mm Shutter speed: 1/1600s (Mechanical shutter) Aperture f/8.0 iso320 Tamron Vibration Control set to position 1 Image area Full Frame FX (36 x 24) NEF RAW L 45.4Million pixels (8256 x 5504) 14 Bit uncompressed AF-C Priority Selection: Release Nikon Back button focusing enabled 3D Tracking watch area: Normal 55 Tracking points Exposure mode: Manual mode Metering mode: Matrix metering White balance on: Natural light Auto1, 0, 0 Colour space: Adobe RGB Picture control: (SD) Standard (Sharpening +3.00/Clarity +1.00)

Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD G2. Nikon GP-1 GPS module. Hoodman HEYENRG round eyepiece oversized eyecup. Black Rapid Curve Breathe strap. My Memory 128GB Class 10 SDXC 80MB/s card. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag. Nikon EN-EL15a battery.

LATITUDE: N 48d 26m 17.80s

LONGITUDE: W 123d 17m 31.50s

ALTITUDE: 6.0m

RAW (TIFF) FILE: 130.00MB NEF: 91.9MB

PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 27.40MB

PROCESSING POWER:

Nikon D850 Firmware versions C 1.21 (8/12/2022) LD Distortion Data 2.018 (16/01/20) LF 1.00 Nikon Codec Full version 1.31.2 (09/11/2021)

HP 110-352na Desktop PC with Windows 10 Home edition AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU 64Bit processor. Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB Data storage. 64-bit Windows 10. My Passport USB 3.0 2TB portable desktop hard drive. Nikon NX STUDIO 64bit Version 1.2.2 (08/12/2022). Nikon Capture NX-D 64bit Version 1.6.2 (18/02/2020). Nikon Picture Control Utility 2 (Version 2.4.5 (18/02/2020). Nikon Transfer 2 Version 2.16.0 (08/12/2022). Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.

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Hosted by TransLink and South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority, the Trans-Expo 2010 is an annual event aimed at bringing transit professionals together across Canada. This year the gathering is held at the Vancouver Convention Centre on November 16, 2010. Nearly 100 exhibitors set up booths at West Exhibit Hall C to showcase their mostly environmental-friendly products.

Quite a good number of newer and yet everyday technologies are also incorporated into the public transit system, many with sustainability features. Diesel-Electric hybrid engine, LED lighting, solar-powered devices, GPS, Wi-Fi, H.264 video codec etc. Many of these technologies are not alien to the average consumer.

So much for the new stuff, but objects that have interesting heritage values are not forgotten either. The Transit Museum Society had an on-site exhibit with a few antique transit buses on display. These are the ones that your parents or grandparents used to ride. In fact, BC has been building interurban buses over 100 years ago. In 1905, the BC Electric Railway shop in New Westminster built Car 1207 for opening of the new Steveston line by way of the Arbutus Corridor connecting Vancouver and Richmond. Many long-time residents among those communities still remember the streetcar line and some have longed for its return.

[Photos by Ray Van Eng] www.vancouver21.com