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Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Day 3 on the Great Allegheny Passage bike trip, Ohiopyle to Meyersdale, Pennsylvania.
Scenes from the lovely town square in Confluence, Pennsylvania.
See More: My Great Allegheny Passage page.
The turbulent Wallowa River as it rushes between steep hills.
The Wallowa River begins at the confluence of its east and west forks and flows generally northwest through the Wallowa Valley in Northeastern Oregon. From the confluence of the Minam and Wallowa Rivers at Minam, Oregon, to its confluence with the Grande Ronde River, the Wallowa is the gateway to the Wild and Scenic Grande Ronde River. Approximately 10 miles in length, the river is classified as recreational. It offers incredible fishing, hunting, wildlife viewing and floatboating, as well as a state park for camping.
On July 25, 1996 the Wallowa became the 160th—and Oregon's 46th—river to be designated as wild and scenic. The Wallowa joined Joseph Creek and the Minam, Lostine, Wenaha and the Grande Ronde Rivers as designated wild and scenic rivers within the Grande Ronde Basin.
The Wallowa was protected through Section 2(a)(ii) of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, by which the Secretary can designate a river wild and scenic at the request of a governor, provided the river: 1) already has state protection; 2) has resources important to the nation; and 3) can be managed by the state to protect those resources. Under Section 2(a)(ii) designation, the Wallowa River remains in local and state management. This provision of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act specifically precludes federal acquisition or management, except for those lands already in the public domain, though land exchanges by federal agencies and purchases under other land management plans are allowed. The Bureau of Land Management administers a significant portion of the river corridor.
Designated Reach:
July 23, 1996. The segment of the Wallowa River from the confluence of the Wallowa and Minam Rivers in the hamlet of Minam downstream to the confluence of the Wallowa and the Grande Ronde Rivers.
Classification/Mileage:
Recreational — 10.0 miles; Total — 10.0 miles.
Scenic
The Grande Ronde River and Wallowa River corridors feature an unusual diversity of landforms and vegetation that progress from largely forested vistas to forested stringers – patches of residual pre-fire forest, separated by native bunchgrass slopes. River users see a largely untouched viewshed in the upper river reach, while the lower portion flows through open, grass covered hills with forested pockets and tributary canyons.
Recreation
There are many recreational opportunities on the Grande Ronde and Wallowa Rivers. Those judged to be exceptional in quality include anadromous and resident fishing, floating (rafting, canoeing and kayaking for overnight use), camping and big game viewing and hunting. Visitors are able to enjoy an unusually long float season for a free-flowing river, from ice breakup in the spring to freeze up in the fall. Trips offer a rare multiple day float for those with beginner and intermediate skills.
The primary launch site for the Wallowa and Grande Ronde rivers, as well as the Bureau of Land Management's River Station, is located on state lands at Minam on the Wallowa River. Additional access points include Mud Creek, Troy and Boggan's Oasis. Primitive campsites along the river are on a first-come, first-served basis. Many portions of the river are roadless and primitive with limited access by vehicles.
Fisheries
The Wallowa River is a nationally renowned sport fishery. The river provides habitat for spring and fall chinook, summer steelhead and rainbow trout. Fishing is excellent even late in the season after the water levels have receded.
Wildlife
The area hosts an exceptional diversity of species, in part because the river corridor provides critical wintering habitat for bighorn sheep, elk, mule deer and whitetail deer. Others contributing to the impressive viewing opportunities include black bears, cougars and mountain goats. The river corridor also serves as a sensitive wintering area for bald eagles.
For more information contact:
Vale District Office
100 Oregon Street
Vale, OR 97918
Phone: 541-473-3144
Fax: 541-473-6213
E-mail: BLM_OR_VL_Mail@blm.gov
Photos: Michael Campbell and Aaron Haselby, BLM
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Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Looking north to Rivers Casino, Carnegie Science Center, Heinz Field (Steelers), and downtown Pittsburgh, PA. This panorama image was taken from the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Mount Washington. This area is where the confluence of the Allegheny River from the northeast and the Monongahela River from the southeast form the Ohio River.
This panorama image was stitched from 16 full-frame, portrait-oriented images, and is our second upload . . . we believe it to be an improved result. Following is an explanation of the original attempt:
While a generally sunny day, there was significant haze. I therefore shot the scene in a single row of 35 frames at 5° increments, with each frame bracketed over 3 exposures from 1/250 to 1/100 seconds. This effectively spanned 170° horizontal x 36° vertical (before stitching and cropping). The thinking was to assemble an HDR panorama that would address the haze issue. The final result achieved the dynamic range we were looking for, however, sharpness was sacrificed and ghosting was evident at high magnification (as pointed out by Flickr member Patrick Keogh). After the initial upload to Flickr, we worked with several new trials at improving the result and finalized on 1) abandoning the HDR step, 2) eliminating some end frames not required based on the final crop, and 3) eliminating every other remaining frame (moving from 5° to 10° increments). We feel the result is an improvement, adding credence to the adage 'less is more'.
Equipment & Settings:
Camera: Nikon D3
Lens: Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8
Focal Length: 70mm
Exposure Program: Manual
Aperture: f/18
Shutter Speed Range: 1/250s, 1/160s, and 1/100s
Exposure Compensation Range: -.7EV to +.7EV
ISO Sensitivity: ISO 250
White Balance: Direct Sunlight
Tripod: Gitzo Mountaineer GT3530
Really Right Stuff Panorama Panning Clamps and Rail
Post-Camera Processing:
Nikon Capture NX2 (16 frames converted from NEF to TIFF)
PTGui Pro 9.03 to develop a Cylindrical Projection
Adobe Photoshop CS5 (cropping, sensor spot clean-up, sharpening, and conversion to JPEG)
Photo: BLM
The South Fork Payette River is a classic pool-drop river. The Confluence recreation site is just downstream from the confluence of the Middle Fork and South Fork Payette Rivers. This site serves as a take-out point for boaters floating the Class II "Swirley Canyon" section or as a put-in for boaters tackling the Class IV "Staircase" section. The facilities include a gravel boat ramp and parking area, information kiosk, and vault toilet. This is a fee parking area - $3.00/day or $20.00 season pass for the Payette River System. Day passes are available on-site.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Taken on a dull and misty night out with Tallaght Photographic Society on the way over the Sally Gap.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Voici une petite photo d'une simple TER 2N AG assurant le TER 886219 Lyon Perrache - Givors Ville via Oullins, est aperçu sur le pont sur le Saône, au niveau du nouveau centre commercial "Confluence".
En Effet, la particularité est que les trains passent au centre de cette édifice, sous la stupeur des clients.
Confluence 2013 : “Unleash Your Genius” by finding Big Insights from Big Data.
September 17, Princeton, New Jersey.
Adox Scala 50 film in négative processing:
After testing the high-resolution and ultra-fine gain film Adox HR-50 processed with the fine-grain developer Adox Atomal 49, I would like to compare with the Adox Scala 50 that likely the same formula but commercially intended to be processed with a reversal chemistry. I tried this chemistry past year but, unfortunately the bleaching bath was degraded and I obtained incompletely bleached positives that I reported here: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBCCha. The Scala 50 could be however processed as a normal negative using the same processing times and developer as recommended by Adox for HR-50.
For testing Scala 50 as a negative, I picked up for a second time my newly arrived exceptional French 35mm camera FOCA Universel RC (see below for details about this rare and fascinating camera), I went for photowalk at Port Rambaud, along.the Saône river bank, Lyon, France. The weather was very fair with gentle clouds in a nice blue Skye with a mild outdoor temperature (28°C).
I mounted on my FOCA the OPLAREX lens 1:1.9 f=5cm equipped with a yellow filter FOCA x2.5. The OPLAR /OPLAREX lenses for the FOCA’s only accept push-on filter (42.5mm in this specific case). A vintage Genaco cylindric stainless-steel shade hood conceived for a 5cm focal length was also used all along the session.
Expositions were determined for 32 ISO to compensate the absorption of the yellow filter (not the x2.5 coefficient due to the enhanced sensitivity of the film in the yellow). Metering was achieved using a Minolta Autometer III lightmeter fitted with a 10° finder for selective metering privileging the shadow areas, but too much to avoid high-lights saturation, or also in the incident-light mode with the integrating opal dome of the Autometer.
Most of the views were taken at 1/50s to 1/200s and f/5.6 to f/9 apertures.
Port Rambaud - La Confluence***, July 31, 2025
69002 Lyon
France
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*** Port Rambaud is a former river port in Lyon, on the Saône, located in the Confluence district at the end of the peninsula between the Saône and Rhône rivers up to the Pont de la Mulatière. The construction of the port was decided in 1909 but work was frozen during the First World War and only completed in 1926. Initially 500 m long, it was first extended in 1929 to the Pont de la Mulatière, reaching 1,000 m in 1953, allowing 16,000 m3 of hydrocarbons to be stored. From 1985, the activities of the Rambaud port were transferred to the new Édouard-Herriot port on the Rhône and the Rambaut port was closed in 1991. The old port became a concerted development zone to create the new "La Confluence" district where post-modernist architectural projects.
In 2014 was opened the Musée des Confluences (French pronunciation: [myze de kɔ̃flyɑ̃s]) a science centre and anthropology museum l ocated at the southern tip of the Presqu'île at the confluence of the Rhône and the Saône, adjacent to the A7 highway Paris-Marseille. The museum was designed in the deconstructivist architectural style, said to resemble a floating crystal cloud of stainless steel and glass, and was created by the Austrian firm Coop Himmelb(l)au.
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After completion at view Nr. 38, the film was rewound normally and processed using 400 mL of stock solution of Adox Atomal 49 developer for 8min30 at 20°C.
Digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) fitted to a Minolta Auto Bellows III with the Minolta slide duplication accessory and Minolta Macro Bellow lens 1:3.5 f=50mm. The diffuse light source was a LED panel CineStill Cine-lite.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within the latest version available of Adobe Lightroom Classic (version 14.4) and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printer files with a frame or the full size JPEG's together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.
About the camera and its history :
Among the French 35mm camera produced by « Optique & Précision de Levallois S.A. » from 1945 to the middle of the 60’s, the FOCA Universel « RC » is likely the most captivating ever produced in France at that time.
The camera was the last development of the FOCA, sometime called the « French Leica » because the optical and mechanical precision matched and even surpassed the original thread-mount Leica. Far before the first Leica M (the M3 in 1954) O.P.L. developed a bayonet-mount FOCA in 1948 called the FOCA « Universel ». Seeing the incredible viewer and range finder of the Leica M that is likely the most sophisticated system even engineered, O.P.L. released lately a great improvement of the FOCA with a novel collimated, parallax auto-corrected, of a fully original and different design of the Leitz system.
The FOCA Universel RC It is a rare camera that only appears for time to time on the collector market, being only produced to a bit more than 2000 overall units in the years 1962 and 1963, just before O.P.L. decided to quit the camera production and returned to other instrumental optical production. O.P.L. soon merged with SOM Berthiot and today can be found still in the industrial filiation of SAFRAN group, the French leader company for designing and producing system for aerospace appliances. The plant where the FOCA's were produced still exists in an almost original form in Châteaudun, Eure-et-Loir, France.
I got my first FOCA URC unit two years ago (Sept. 2023, flic.kr/s/aHBqjAV6Dg) that is a standing and emotional piece of my small camera collection.
I got this one from an apparently ignored auction on the French eBay. We were only two biders in the last 5s and I won the auction not far away to the initial price. The camera was fully revised, with new shutter curtains, a new delayed shutter release mechanism. The serial number indicated a year-1962 production starting with 1.000.000, closed to my first FOCA URC. The camera works in every functions like on its Day-1! The camera came with a late version 1962 of the OPLAR 1:2.8 f=5cm standard collapsible lens of excellent quality, the FOCA UCR dedicated ever-ready leather bag with the original leather neck strap in good condition.
The original O.P.L. camera warranty and a registration postal card fortunately followed the life of the camera, indicating that this beautiful FOCA Universel RC was sold to its first owner on August 9, 1963 by the official FOCA dealer « ROYAL-PHOTO, Photo-Ciné-Magnétohone », 42, rue Vignon, Paris 9ème arrondissement, France, today a Weill fashion shop at the same address. The address of the owner also still exists with the original Parisian building in place, Boulevard Poniatwski, next to the Métro station « Porte de Charenton », Paris 12ème arrondissement.
The shown original FOCAL Universel RC user manual is the one that came with my other FOCA URC camera.
These information pushed me to question what were the news in France on this Friday, August 9, 1963… France was mainly on vacation, by an exceptional wet and fresh weather that wasted many French citizens holidays. The whole national radio information bulletin is still available online here :
www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/audio/phd94020557/inter-actua...
Inter actualités de 7:15 PM du 9 août 1963
Inter actualités de 7:15 PM - 09.08.1963 - 29:58 - audio
Ina.fr (English translated)
- Headlines - Jean-Pierre ELKABBACH: The Marseille and Bordeaux sailors' strike ended this morning, but nothing has been resolved in Le Havre. Many heads of state and government sent messages of condolence to President Kennedy for the death of his third child shortly after birth. Other headlines in the newspaper (2'20"). - André Brière: It does not appear for the moment that work will resume in Le Havre. Mr. Pisani would agree to the distillation of 2 million hectoliters of wine, which is clogging up the market, but a subsidy would be required. Discontent is growing among winegrowers in the south, whom the population accuses of various acts of sabotage in the Narbonne region. Complaints from winegrowers in the southwest. Farmers scattered 5 tons of potatoes yesterday in the streets of Douai (3'30"). - Jacques Behingue: Secretary of State Dean Rusk will return to Washington from Moscow on Monday. He will give a presentation to senators on the Moscow Treaty. This morning, Dean Rusk was received by Mr. Khrushchev on the shores of the Black Sea in Cagra. This evening, Mr. Dean Rusk will host a dinner in Moscow at the US Embassy. Tomorrow, he will be in Bonn, received by Mr. Adenauer. The Moscow Treaty was signed by 11 new countries, with Japan set to sign next Wednesday. North Vietnam has refused to sign. Mr. MAC MILLAN declared that underground tests, which are not prohibited, are not of great importance because nuclear weapons can only be modified following atmospheric tests (4'40"). - Gérard TAVERA: Two years after Bizerte, France and Tunisia signed an agreement this morning that includes two chapters: the first concerns the 30,000 Tunisian workers living in France, the second concerns economic cooperation. This agreement resolves the economic problems concerning Bizerte. After an African trip, Mr. BEN BELLA returns to Algiers. In Accra, Mr. BEN BELLA declared that the next session of the UN would be an African session. Yesterday, AIT AHMED violently criticized the FLN party and the constitutional project. All French newspapers reproducing Mr. AIT AHMED's Declaration were seized this morning upon their arrival in Algiers. Since July 16, in Morocco, leaders of the UNFP are detained in rather precarious conditions following the "plot" against the monarchy (2'25"). - André Brière: before the State Security Court, opening of the trial of the station commander, among those who are bringing a civil action is Mr. Jean OUDINOT, former director of RTF in Algiers (1'05"). - Victor VRAMANT: the body of Doctor WARD was cremated this morning, only members of Doctor WARD's family attended the funeral ceremony. The weather in France and Europe. It is raining everywhere in France except on the Côte d'Azur. Road accidents (2'). - Jean-Pierre ELKABBACH: Gaston GELIS, former director of "Paris-journal" died in a road accident in Seine et Marne (1'). - Victor VRAMANT: a major drug trafficker was arrested at Orly. In Italy, following the arrest of a repeat offender, a 22-year-old American woman was arrested for drug trafficking (1'30"). - Jacques CHABOT: Charles TRENET has not yet been released; he would be released tomorrow morning after payment of bail (25%).
WEATHER:
SOURCE: www.meteo-paris.com/chronique/annee/1963
June 14, 1963: a particularly cool day - it was no more than 12°C in Rouen, 13°C in Paris, St. Quentin, Lille, Le Havre, and Caen.
August 1963 was autumnal because it was very cool and very wet. On August 3, 1963, torrential rains caused catastrophic flooding and the death of eight people in the Lyon region. On August 4, 1963, 400 houses were also flooded between St. Jean de Luz and Le Boucau (Pyrénées Atlantiques). On August 17 and 18, 1963, it was no more than 10°C. and 15°C in the northern half - many summer visitors leave early - it's snowing in the mountains and the harvest is very difficult.
Historical landmarks of the year 1963
August 28, 1963: Martin Luther King leads the march on Washington. October 11, 1963: Jean Cocteau and Edith Piaf die within hours of each other. November 22, 1963: President J.F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. The yé-yé movement is in vogue - the debut of Françoise Hardy and the politically engaged singer, Jean Ferrat.