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Alder (Alnus glutinosa) catkins, male and female.
Processing: for this image I didn't use DxO PureRAW because of the pink cast it introduces to specular highlights. As a general rule it seems best to avoid DxO in any image with rain drops catching the light. Apart from that, this is basically standard LAB (see About), with the addition of a live Denoise filter on the Background layer applied to the A and B opponents only. Parameters Luminance 20%, Luminance Detail 50% and Luminance Contribution 100%.
In the Curves layer the A and B opponents are separated (though still pinned at the origin); A opponent steepened in the lower left quadrant and B opponent steepened in the upper right quadrant to emphasize the red stamens and yellow pollen (respectively) in the male catkins. This adjustment also deepens the attractive chocolate brown of the buds.
Contribution to Macro Mondays group theme "Just White Paper"
single sheet of A4 paper slightly twisted (my best attempt at origami) and lit using some little lights a also resting on a light source. WB set manually (can't remember details already - see EXIF if it's in there but probably set at around 2700K)
My contribution to The Moulin Rouge: www.flickr.com/groups/themoulinrouge/discuss/721576061761...
Thanks to fataetoile/Cinzia per il layer www.flickr.com/photos/cinziarizzo/2668826731/
Hello my Flickr friends!
This is my contribution to 2 awesome Flickr Groups:
*ღღ* Cosas de casa *ღღ and the theme for today is Red and Color my World Daily with the color Yellow for today.
I must admit red is a very popular color!!! And it is always interesting to see how it matches with other colors. But red and yellow? That is a major risk of burning your retina!! Be careful and please wear glasses if your eyes are sensitive to vivid color exposure!!! I don’t want to be the one telling you: I told you so!!! I know someone who looked directly at the sun and lost 10% of her vision (yes, it was a friend of mine and no it was not me!). And apparently it may also happen if you are a man and you stare at women’s cleavage…. So, Messieurs, be careful!!
So here we go, everything we need is in our purses and we are ready to climb that gigantic egg!! Who is coming with us?? Double challenge: red half of my picture is for *ღღ* Cosas de casa *ღღ and yellow half of my picture is for Color my world Daily Group!
Thank you so much for your comments /favs and support! I’m humbled and grateful!!! I wish you all an amazing day and see you soon on Flickr (how about tomorrow ??)!!
Well, strictly speaking this scene is a sunset, so one could question the title and the attached meaning... But it was a radiant Umbrian sunset just after a long, powerful thunderstorm, so I will stick to my idea.
As the WHO has declared the state of pandemic Covid-19 is spreading everywhere and is reaping its dreadful harvest, bringing whole nations and economies to their knees. Believe me, it is even possible that the darkest hour is still to come. But I think that this incredible planetary experience has the potential to change our way to live. We have taken for granted too many beautiful, precious things (and beware, when you take something for granted you are lessening it). This humble, unaware virus is teaching us values we had drowned in our running digital hedonism - solidarity, self-sacrifice, collaboration. It is teaching us the fundamental value of truth and of scientific research. It is reminding us that we are just a small part of a wonderfully complex world - and that we are not nearly as powerful as we like to think to be. After all, the immediate means to limit infection are exactly the same as they were for the epidemics of the past - quarantine, avoiding close contact with one another, clean your hands frequently, limitations to gatherings, public events, and so on (and everything is worsened and sped up by our global network of transportation). On the other hand science, unavoidably, needs time to find real solutions. So we are experiencing a new sense of being frail - something we used to think of as a relic of the past.
I believe that this pandemic will change everything, more than a war: this is not an enemy endowed with evil projects for mankind but, rather, a natural phenomenon which is putting us in the right perspective in the world. So I believe that this pandemic will change everything. But, in the meantime, we have to manage to get out of these dark times. I would like to dedicate this photo to the people who are suffering because of this ordeal, and to the heroic people who is wrestling with the effects of the infection*: my humble contribute to remember that the darkest hour - whenever it will come - is just before the dawn.
* Sadly in Italy we have seen a growing trend of threats and assaults to physicians during the last years. Many people doubted the good faith of physicians, scientists and medicine in general. I'd guess that this tide is quickly changing.
This photo is closely related to my A neverending story. To be precise, it has been captured some 5 minutes earlier. This view, however, is somewhat narrower and, after a bit of cropping in the foreground, lays a greater emphasis on the glorious cloudscape.
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.7/0/+1.7 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4. RAW files has been processed with Darktable.
A good contribution to the post-processing of part of the foreground came from a cool trick by Boris Hajdukovic I have found rather serendipitously on the web. I have cloned out an obnoxious young olive tree at the center of the foreground dancing a bit too freely in the residual wind.
I am afraid that colours and tones of this picture might be pretty close to the edge of looking overdone (this seems to be an inherent feature of the bracketings I captured of this sunset, since I always post-process from scratch). It all depends on your screen, of course: the picture looks safely good my HP screen, but I am afraid that it can easily look a bit over-the-top on other screens.
Now we know that a picture cannot possibly look right on every screen - the factors affecting the results are simply too many, including largely unpredictable ones, such as personal display settings. Admittedly one should not think too much about this, but when a photo is close to the critical boundary one should struggle to find the better balance between what she would like the photo to be and the risk of looking overdone. Since this photo is important to me, I would be grateful for comments about this matter, to help me realise if I have to downtone it :-)
Thank you very much in advance!
My contribution to the awesome shots already posted (jeeze, some of you are FAST) of last night's storm. Our little guy reminded me of a prairie dog, running in the house to get the family out and check out the cool clouds (he had the scientific names rolling off his tounge, though).
We're headed to Wisconsin for some camping -- see you all on Monday!
please accept hereby a humble contribution for
a new world full of colour and empathy.
free from copyright in the name of the dream
drawing: natalie de cock
dreaming: rosita
foto: frank vranckx /aka schaaflicht (slö)
(rosita is a streetchild from the "seefhoek")
........................................this happening was part of a spontanious activity by the antwerp artcollective "de schaaf"..............................
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may rosita's dream
also be:
an open invitation for some
street communication
daily streetlife
rampart
melting pot
universal routes
all connected
joyous roots
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This was the #1 photo by Flickr - Interesting on the date September 05 2004.
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Cover Feature: Peridot by Apollo
by Divos Titanium
Photographs by Verandi Diavolo
Issue Release Date: Sunday, January 20, 2025
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Hello Friends,
We are pleased to announce we are LIVE with our Winter issue! With contributions from our amazing team of writers and photographers – Bolto Lightning, Dagon Harrison, Daniel Salvetore, Divos Titanium, Elaine Lectar, Kere Delcon, Morgaine Blackrain, Mya Audebarn, Nonge Koolhaas, P E D R O, Rafael Sinavva, Sererika Capra, and Verandi Diavolo.
All have contributed their gorgeous work to make this a plethora of eye candy and information.
This Winter issue is produced with Bellisima Benelli at the reins as Editor-and-Chief, backed up by Nonge Koolhaas.
Thank you so much to everyone involved with making this an amazing issue, and to all our advertisers for their support.
Love always!
The Museum of Watercolor is a public collection of watercolors created in 1989 with the donation by the artist J. Martínez Lozano one hundred watercolors Llançà. City Council launches of gratitude to all the cultural contributions over so many years, and also thanks to the donation of works by the artist created the Museum • Watercolor - J. Martínez Lozano to record the present and the future of his work and his nom. La will of the founder José María Martínez Lozano, in the time of the donation is to provide unique artistic heritage spears up in Europe at the time and therefore granted Llançà and watercolor symbiotic order to promote and give importance and prestige they deserve both parts.
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Battle of The Somme ~ Fenced in Sunset ~ Colchester ~ Essex ~ England ~ June 9th 2008.
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The Battle of the Somme (French: Bataille de la Somme, German: Schlacht an der Somme), also known as the Somme Offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire. It took place between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on both sides of upper reaches of the River Somme in France. It was the largest battle of the First World War on the Western Front; more than one million men were wounded or killed, making it one of the bloodiest battles in human history.
The French and British had committed themselves to an offensive on the Somme during Allied discussions at Chantilly, Oise, in December 1915. The Allies agreed upon a strategy of combined offensives against the Central Powers in 1916, by the French, Russian, British and Italian armies, with the Somme offensive as the Franco-British contribution. Initial plans called for the French army to undertake the main part of the Somme offensive, supported on the northern flank by the Fourth Army of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). When the Imperial German Army began the Battle of Verdun on the Meuse on 21 February 1916, French commanders diverted many of the divisions intended for the Somme and the "supporting" attack by the British became the principal effort.
The first day on the Somme (1 July) saw a serious defeat for the German Second Army, which was forced out of its first position by the French Sixth Army, from Foucaucourt-en-Santerre south of the Somme to Maricourt on the north bank and by the Fourth Army from Maricourt to the vicinity of the Albert–Bapaume road. The first day on the Somme was also the worst day in the history of the British army, which had c. 57,470 casualties, mainly on the front between the Albert–Bapaume road and Gommecourt, where the attack was defeated and few British troops reached the German front line. The British troops on the Somme comprised a mixture of the remains of the pre-war regular army, the Territorial Force and the Kitchener Army, which was composed of Pals battalions, recruited from the same places and occupations.
The battle is notable for the importance of air power and the first use of the tank. At the end of the battle, British and French forces had penetrated 6 miles (9.7 km) into German-occupied territory, taking more ground than in any of their offensives since the Battle of the Marne in 1914. The Anglo-French armies failed to capture Péronne and halted 3 miles (4.8 km) from Bapaume, where the German armies maintained their positions over the winter. British attacks in the Ancre valley resumed in January 1917 and forced the Germans into local withdrawals to reserve lines in February, before the scheduled retirement to the Siegfriedstellung (Hindenburg Line) began in March. Debate continues over the necessity, significance and effect of the battle.
Macro Mondays contribution 28 November 2016 - theme beetles/beatles.
chose this as my subject as it was no1 the day i was born. no other reason to it! The subject is the original 45 once belonging to my sister.
I actually thought there was a lot of scope this week - maybe too much, which in a way makes me feel lazy but time was/is against me.
HMM!!
Grote Markt
Antwerp is the second-largest city in Belgium, located in the Flemish region. It is a major international seaport and a global hub for the diamond trade. The city features a blend of rich history, Flemish Renaissance architecture, and a modern, creative vibe, with notable contributions to art and fashion.
My contribution to Macro Monday's challenge, "Cutter", on 9 March 2020. It's a pair of secateurs that I use for dead-heading roses.
Please forgive me for my youthful contribution to the climate crisis. Then a college student, I took this Kodachrome slide during summertime employment in August 1965 as a pipeline welder helper. I was working on J. Ray McDermott Derrick Barge 5 (DB5), a 300-feet-long (91,4 meters), built-in-1949 behemoth with a crane that could hoist 500 tons (453.6 metric tons) and below-deck living quarters for 180 workers.
We were laying pipeline between Gulf of Mexico oilfield platforms that were 30-40 miles offshore, south of Morgan City, Louisiana, USA. Angling diagonally across this scene is a structure that gradually eases the recently added section of pipeline to the sea bottom. Projecting out into the water like a gently drooping scorpion tail, it was called a "stinger."
Please note near the tugboat two workers standing on the stinger's parallel pontoons.
And, on the catwalk between structures, four off-duty workers taking in the sunset.
August 15, 1965.
my latest contribution to the 3am collaboration with ventral is golden (www.ventralisgolden.com/) and bryan olson (www.cargocollective.com/BryanOlson)
check out the other works at www.cargocollective.com/3AM and www.3amofthesoul.tumblr.com/
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My contribution to Swedish Fotosöndag Photo Sunday on the theme Hund / Dog. This is taken at the Swedish championship for sheperd dogs this weekend.
... to climate protection!
Happy Blue Monday
and good luck for us all at COP24 (24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change)
because up to now we haven't achieved much to save our planet!
Inle Lake Panoramic Sunrise
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Quick and fun contribution to Frogust.
Alternative photo of his little backside on Brickbuilt.
This is my contribution to the fabulous Smile on Saturday Group. The theme is: “get nature in your home! “.
Please don’t judge me!!!! I have only 2 living plants in my home. One is a small cactus, and honestly, I think it is dead… and it died a long time ago…. Very harsh and long “dry” season (which is approximately 12 months in my home, from January to December;-)) might have killed it … I’m sad because it was a gift but for my defense, I must say that this Cactus never liked me!! Since day one, Mr. Cactus was giving me the stinky eye!! I swear….
The other plant living with us, was given to my youngest son by my lovely sister. It is a crassula, I know it because my sister left a description of it with all the instruction on how to water it, etc.… Luckily, she gave the instructions to my youngest son and that is why Mrs. Crassula is still alive today! He is really taking care of that plant! And I wonder where does it come from? My husband is as bad as I with plants…. Chances are his green thumb comes from my sister.
And since today is purple or pink at Color My World Daily. This is also my contribution to this awesome group.
Happy SOS and CMWD to all participants!! And for the others: have an awesome day!
Thank you so much for your support!!! I truly appreciate your positive energy!! I wish you a very happy and awesome day!!!
This was my contribution to the Guilds of Historica collaboration at Brickworld this year. I built the entire landscape and started on the buildings, before getting Isaac’s help to finish the model in time. The base split into three portions, and all the buildings were easily removable to allow for convenient transport of the build. It had been a while since I’d done a proper Middle Eastern scene, so it was a really fun build and I think turned out as one of my best Castle models yet.
Be sure to check out multiple pictures, as the build is viewable from all sides. More angles and close ups available on Brickbuilt.
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Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Kleeblatt 58. Das Mural "Gravity", das der Künstler Leon Keer aus dem niederländischen Utrecht gestaltet hat. www.leonkeer.com/
Das Werk entstand als Beitrag zum "Urbanen Kunstraum Wuppertal".
English translation:
Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Kleeblatt 58. The mural "Gravity", designed by the artist Leon Keer from Utrecht, Netherlands. www.leonkeer.com/
The work was created as a contribution to the “Urban Art Space Wuppertal”.
This is my contribution to the New Hashima collab that was displayed at this year's BrickingBavaria.
The cyberpunk inspired island was my biggest project yet and I really enjoyed being part of such a big project. A big thank you to Simon & Jan for making it all possible!
You can currently see a part of the layout for some time in the Brickstory Museum, where you can also find my island!
This is my contribution to the Looking close... on Friday Group. The theme for today is: Ribbons. But also, this is my contribution to Color my World Daily Group. Today, the color is.... blue. So here we go: a blue ribbon trough my crystal ball.
I’m still learning to use my crystal ball to take pictures but sometimes I’m convinced that it would be easier to use it to predict the future ;-)! Maybe I’m the next Nostradamus???
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Thank you so much for your support!!! I truly appreciate your positive energy!! My crystal ball predicted a very happy and awesome day for all of you!!!
Happy LCoF to all participants!!
And happy CMWD!!
My contribution to Macro Mondays' challenge, "Flame", on 27 July 2020. The lantern is some decades old and has been a faithful companion on many a camping trip.
Everyone knows that all the best ideas for anything, ever, have been jotted down on beer mats first. Always seeking to be topical rather than typical, we want to make a valuable contribution to the endless public debate about our giddy drinking culture. Here is some culture about drinking. Know your limits. It is time to celebrate all that is good about having a tipple. Stuff by artists, stuff by the good people of Halifax. Contributors include: Rodney Adams, Amber Alsaigh, Christian Alsaigh, Julia Arnez, Joe Aspinall, Raffaella Avolio, Dorothy Baldwin, Tom Bamforth, Elizabeth Barlow, Louisa Barlow, Richard Bates, Alexandra Baybutt, Kate Beckett, Steve Beever, Jacqui Bellamy, Linda Bevan, Daniel Blamires, Edie Boniface, Georgia Boniface, Kevin Boniface, Molly Boniface, Andrew Bracey, Alice Bradshaw, Phil Bradshaw, Laurie Bradshaw, Ayla Bragard, Kiki Bragard, Katie Brier, Camilla Brueton, Becky Bruton, Ian Calvert, Daniel Carr, Liam Carter, Sheila Carter, Matthew Chambers, Peter Chappe, Ami Clark, Odin Conquest, Jeff Corey, Cynthia Cotterill, Edward Cotterill, Genna Cotterill, John Cotterill, Holly Crawford, Jake Crawshaw, Ashton Davison, Simeon Dear, Andrea Dietz, Dirtcheap, Max Doig, Adam Doyle, Maia Duka, Harry Edwards, Rachael Elwell, Catt Everett, Chris Fallowfield, John Fawcett, JenniLea Finch, Lynn Fisher, Elliot Flynn, Joseph Flynn, Victoria Foster, Liam Gec, Jak Gill, Janet Gledhill, Dominic Harris, Katy Goldstein, Jennifer Grant, Gill Greenhaugh, Jessica Grimshaw, Laurence Guntert, Joe Hakim, Fiona Helen Halliday, Chris Hallowfield, Eden Hanson, Lisa Hanson, Louise Hanson, Stephen Hanson, Steve Hanson, Taome Hanson, Sam Hardacre, Sarah Hardacre, Maya Harding, Jenna Harris, Dalia Hawley, Krishna Hazarika, Rhea Henningham, Holly Beth Herbert, Aimee Lou Hewitt, Georgia Hey, Graham Hey, Madison Hey, Olivia Heywood, Ann Hirst, Charlotte Holdsworth, Leyao Huang, Rebecca Hutch, Stephanie Ingham, Elsie Irvine, John Irvine, Ashley Jackson, Andrew Jenkin, Mike Jessop, Alison Jones, Danielle Jones, Imran Jogee, Hannah Jones, Ben Jowett, Ryan Paul Kaye, Christine Keeler, Marc Kershaw, Joanne Kilner, Clinton Kirkpatrick, Olwen Kitson, Buffy Klama, Chris Laine, John Ledger, Sally Lemsford, Elliot Lilley, Imogen Lilley, Jorge Galan Liquette, Duncan Lister, Alison Little, Sophie Littlewood, Liz Lock, Simon Edgar Lord, Robert Luzar, Ellen Mace, Katherine MacDougall, Jude MacPherson, Sadie Mansell, Joanne Matthews, Nicola Maude, Bill McCall, Phil Middleton, Brian Midwood, Kirsty Midwood, Yvonne Midwood, Milk, Two Sugars (Bob Milner & Tom Senior), Kenton Scott Mills, Amelia-Jane Milner, Anna Milner, Freyja Milner, William Milner, Patrick Milsom, Kevin Mitchell, Mon 53, Paul Morris, Nathan Morrisson, Liz Murphy, Paul Murphy, Mikk Murray, Ewan Neville, Patrick Neville, Ettienne Ordway, Maya Ordway, Pete O'Toole, Carol Pope, Georgia Power, Anna Ricciardi, Oliver Russell, Jenny Parkin, Sarah Parker, Nuala Pavey-Garside, Simone Peacock, Rebbeca Pearson, Nancy Porter, Heather Preston, Stacey Price, Martha Ross-Parry, Marc Renshaw, Eleanor R Richardson, Daniel Rode, Lisa Rodgers, Tammy Ross, Chris Rusby, Jayne Rusby, Finlay Russell, Ailie Rutherford, Eileeen Ryan, Antonietta Sacco, Katie Scholefield, Sarah Scott, Alan Senior, Jack Senior, John Senior, Susan Meyerhoff Sharples, Richard Shields, Anna Shirron, Lucienne Simpson, Ruby Simpson, Mike Slater, Maria Slovakova, Fran Smith, Helen Smith, Natasha Smith, Steve Staindale, Lucy Stefane, Lucy Stefani, Adele Stevenson, Matthew Stutely, Jun Tan, Gary Tann, Siobhan Tarr, Cecila Tat, Gabrielle Tattersford, Billy Taylor-Woodhouse, Alice Thickett, Ian Thomas, Lynda Thomas, Stuart Thomas, Poppy Thompson, Diana Thorpe, Georgina Tonge, Matthew Tonge, Nathan Tudor, Jayde Tunnacliffe, Helen Turner, Naomi Turpin, Caroline Twidle, Lauren Tyler, Jean Wagstaff, Jamilia Walker, Gregory Wallace, Phoebe Wallace, T Walshaw, Tom Ward, Ryan Ware, Irena Wegrzyn, Lyndon White, Harriet Wickens, Madeleine Wickens, Leslie Wilson-Rutterford, Witshop, Elizabeth Wood, William Wood, Kris Woodhead, Peter Wright, Mark Yates (more to be announced)
My contribution to the Kingsman collaboration that SaltyBros did for BrickFair LEGO Fan Expo 2022! I had so much fun building this contribution, based on Kingsman: The Golden Circle (the second film in the series). I spent a lot of time trying to get it detailed and textured, and accurate to the actual set's appearance. Check out all the photos!
Stay tuned for our video interview with Beyond the Brick!
More photos on my website! And check out the collab!
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Through the creations that I build, I hope to inspire other young (or perhaps older) LEGO builders to unleash their inner creativity. We all need a positive way to express ourselves, so let's allow LEGO to be an extension of us. Your creativity belongs to you, and nobody can take that away. Build what you want to build, and how you want to build it. Creativity Never Ends!
The outstanding contribution made by the people of the Netherlands to the technology of handling water is admirably demonstrated by the installations in the Kinderdijk-Elshout area. Construction of hydraulic works for the drainage of land for agriculture and settlement began in the Middle Ages and have continued uninterruptedly to the present day. The site illustrates all the typical features associated with this technology – dykes, reservoirs, pumping stations, administrative buildings and a series of beautifully preserved windmills.
My contribution for Macro Monday this week May 1st with the theme #Crime. I used my new Opteka 10x diopter attached to my 50mm lens. I chose to use a corn husk doll that I made several years ago to both represent a body at a crime scene as well as a voodoo doll. I was thinking of the way doing witchcraft or magic used to be considered a criminal offence. This poor corn husk doll has been stuck with a pin through the chest.
Macro Mondays: Father
This is my first contribution to Macro Mondays.
This week's theme is "father". The portrayed object shall honor the (conceptual) father of the photographer.
I was raised by my grandparents until I was a young man. They have been actually parents to me. Yet, I've seen my genetic father only once. So, I really think that my grandpa, his name was Heinrich, is in fact the man I have to and want to honor here.
When I was 9 years old in 1990, for Christmas I had this model locomotive (and a complete train) under the tree. On the morning of that day, I was wondering, what my (grand-) father was working on. He built a plate onto which I later on had the opportunity to set up the tracks and the train and all the accessoires. A little more than two years later I got my first computer, an Amiga 500 by Commodore (still the best piece of hardware in home computer history :-)), but thats another story ;-) ). However, since many many years the train I portrayed here is still standing next to my computer monitor.
The object is a (Mini-) Trix locomotive. Trix is a German model train manufacturer, with 1:160 measure. The length of the locomotive from buffer to buffer is a little less than 60 millimeters.
I stacked this shot from 40 phoptographs or so.
I used the tools Darktable, Gimp, and Zerene. I regularly use FLOSS-tools only ... But Zerene a) runs on Linux and b) is worth every cent. Compared to blending via the great enfuse-tool, it's easier to use and much much faster, yielding impressive results. Additionally, Zerene stacker is available for Linux directly, which I really would like to honor, here, as well.
The shots were done with the Nikon AF 60mm f/2.8 macro lens together with an extension tube, mounted to a D850 on a WeMacro rail.
Most of the time to take this was consumed by thinking of my grandfather (and of my grandmother). My grandpa would have become 93 only two days before I took this shot.
I miss my (grand-) parents endlessly and I always will.
contribution for "a silent story of bearing", a sonicbrat project.
more info:
sonicbrat.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/s-i-l-e-n-t/
and his amazing music:
My contribution to the plethora of images being posted from today's total solar eclipse. The sky cooperated nicely in Greenville, SC.
My contribution to Argus Day 2025, 25 Argust 2025.
This is the sixth time I participated in Argus Day. As last year, no double exposures, no blank shots, no ripped film, no out-of-focus shots. Still, I don't think that the Argus will become my favourite camera any time soon. Though I must say that the Cintar lens always provides nice contrasts.
Deutsche Bank Towers, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany
The submitted pictures for Argus Day 2025, curated by the Argus collectors' group can be viewed here
Argus C3 (late 1946)
f/3.5 50mm Argus Cintar
Ilford XP2 ISO 400 Black&White negative film
Developed and scanned by www.meinfilmlab.de
My other contribution to Argus Day 2025, 25 Argust 2025.
This is the sixth time I participated in Argus Day. As last year, no double exposures, no blank shots, no ripped film, no out-of-focus shots. Still, I don't think that the Argus will become my favourite camera any time soon. Though I must say that the Cintar lens always provides nice contrasts.
Inside St. Bartholomew cathedral, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany
The submitted pictures for Argus Day 2025, curated by the Argus collectors' group can be viewed here
Argus C3 (late 1946)
f/3.5 50mm Argus Cintar
Ilford XP2 ISO 400 Black&White negative film
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My contribution to the NAPG monthly theme, "Transportation".
The ordinary, high wheel or penny-farthing was the first true bicycle with which actual speed and distance could be achieved in a practical manner. Larger and larger wheels, up to 1.5m (60") in diameter, were built to enable higher speeds The classically oversized penny-farthing wheel refers to the British penny and farthing coins of the time; the former being much larger than the latter so that the side view of the bicycle resembled two such coins placed next to one another.
Based on the original French Boneshaker, James Starley and others produced bicycles with front wheel of ever increasing size, starting about 1870. In 1878 Albert Pope began manufacturing the Columbia bicycle just outside of Boston, thus starting their nearly two decade-long heyday in America. Although the trend was relatively short-lived, the penny-farthing bicycle has since become a prominent historical symbol of the late Victorian era. Its brief popularity also coincided with the birth of cycling as a sport. [from Wikipedia]
Explore, 7/23/2008
My contribution to Macro Mondays' challenge, "Pouch", on 14 Sep 2020. It's a well-used HP financial calculator, a relic from my pre-retirement past.