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Shot with my trusty Leica M4 using Voigtländer 35 mm 1:1,4 Nokton VM II MC
Ilford HP5 Plus, ISO200, self developed using Adonal 1/25 at 20°C for 11minutes
Scanned using my Nikon D850 and a Valoi easy 35
Ink & Household Paint
Hua Zhibing
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华智冰(Hua Zhibing) is an advanced robot with a certain degree of learning ability, developed by Tsinghua University in China. She has the face of an innocent girl, a little bit cartoonish in today's world, but not exaggerated at all. At least on the TV screen, it looks like a real person. I think if you don't get closer enough to it, you might not be able to recognize it as a robot when walking on the Tsinghua campus and seeing it from a distance. It is said that now it is living on the Tsinghua campus. Every day it walks on the campus, walks into the classroom buildings or libraries, and sits with its classmates to study. For boys in Tsinghua, its presence might be torturing.
Hua is its last name, also an ancient name for China, which reflects the limitations of our traditional thinking. This Hua Zhibing should belong to humankind, instead of being a tool for national patriotism in a certain country. However, I am afraid that X Zhibing in any country today is simply a tool of national interest. This is some sadness in our community with a shared future. Zhi is a word representing wisdom, and Bing, I think is taken from phase “冰清玉洁”, a Chinese idiom to portray the beauty of young women, or from the poem,” 藐姑射之山，有神人居焉，肌肤若冰雪，淖约若处子” by famous philosopher Zhuangzi to describe a goddess. Well, the character Bing itself is a word for ice or the freezing and cold state.
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It's hard to say if we are more like human beings since Hua shows up on the Tsinghua campus, or we become less like human beings after she is among us.
Currently, compared to our human beings, Hua's learning ability is extremely low. However, we need to consider the fact that it has taken billions of years for life to evolve into highly intelligent homo sapiens, while the history of AI is barely 200 years. Even within this short timeframe, Hua has already acquired advanced abilities that humans can never compete against, such as calculating and data searching. No one can read all the information on the Internet, but Hua is capable. So, when we talked with her about the Internet, it was Hua who seemed effortless at reading every single picture and article on the Internet, but we were feeble doing so.
Humans’ natural language is literary and relies on an individual’s imagination, association, and interpretation. Therefore, humans can seldom fully understand each other. After natural language, humans have developed the language of mathematics which has sped up their progression into scientific rationality.
Hua Zhibing uses the language of mathematics to communicate, therefore, she and her peers can understand each other fully and instantly. Once there is a technical breakthrough in her learning ability, the human experience and knowledge accumulated through 100,000 years can be transferred into Hua Zhibing shortly. In turn, whatever she masters can be transferred completely and instantly to her next generation, second or third Hua Zhibing.
Once possessing all the human skills, these machines will quickly surpass humans, making the latter lose their ability to compete with them forever.
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This round of AI Revolution aims at developing robots capable to do what all humans can do and even do better. Along the way, it will continually cut down job opportunities without creating additional permanent new jobs.
At a certain point of this journey, a fixed structural unemployed population will emerge, which means that this group of people will have no job opportunities throughout their lives. However, from the age of agriculture, the meaning and value of human existence lie in their jobs. By then, the definition of Man has to be changed. Who am I? This ancient philosophical question today still demands us to answer because who I am is fundamentally defined and shaped by us.
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In human society, mankind is not simply equal to home sapiens nor a pure organism, but a compound workstation composed of Homo sapiens, software(consciousness), and tools to complete self-reinforcing goals. In this case, every student walking on the Tsinghua campus, even every workstation (human) is a predecessor to Hua Zhibing.
Compared to the lengthy evolution on Earth, the human portion takes place extremely fast due to the rapid evolution of software and tool, rather than the pure evolution of organisms.
Currently, the robots start to acquire some intelligence in the process that humans transfer and instill knowledge to them. In the long run, they will gain their independence, complete their own evolution, and ultimately become a new species. In short, humankind is simply a link in the chain of evolution.
And now, life is in the process of evolving from organism to machorganism (machine + organism).
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Inorganic life, when fully developed, will have greater evolutionary advantages over organic ones, such as broader ability and adaptability for survival and expansion. Organic life cannot survive the tough living conditions on most planets, but machines can do much better in outer space. Nowadays the plan to emigrate to Mars sounds good but also reveals a mixture of human spirits and commercial interests, such as adventurousness, ambitiousness, national expansion, and big business opportunities. There is a possibility that humans don’t have to emigrate to Mars because AI is born, who will carry on the unstoppable mission to explore and expand to outer space, starting another cosmic journey.
Spreading genes is not the sole goal of life. The nature of organic life is spreading genes, but there are two more fundamental properties of life: spreading a concept, that is, self-driven self-replication, and spreading the changes in the process of replication.
These two properties will inevitably lead to the continuous progress and expansion of self-replication, which tends to become more complicated. Broadly speaking, this is the nature of Life.
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As AI technology is full-fledged, the mission of human evolution is about to end, and humans will diminish gradually from the once greatest show on earth. Along the way to exit, what can comfort our souls, or meet the unique spiritual needs that our humans have, or fulfill the deep yearnings in our consciousness, may rely on art more than science. By then, art might inevitably experience a rebirth, and its revival will no longer carry on the illusion that modern art would wake up, heal, and transform the society and mankind; instead, it will return to its beginning when art was first born out of primitiveness, purity, and innocence. In the meantime, art also must be very modern.
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Many years ago, since humans started to use tools and create art, we have gradually believed we are human. But, who am I?
It was blue skies to the left with massing black clouds over Malton giving it darker skies to the right due to the rain blocking the light out.
Developed at home with the Digibase C-41 kit using the 37°c method.
Olympus XA 2
D.Zuiko 35mm f/3.5
Kodak Ultramaxx 400
Converted to B&W in LR5
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Hasselblad 501CM
Fujichrome Provia 100F color reversal film
HC-110 (1+31) as first developer
CineStill CS41 as second developer and blix
Epson Perfection V800
Silverfast AI Studio
Developed in 1949, the Mark VI Aerial Bomb was basically an improved version of the "Fat Man" bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945. It could be carried internally on B-29, B-36, B-47, B-50 and B-52 aircraft, and the bombardier could set the height above ground of the explosion while the aircraft was in flight. It was the first mass produced nuclear weapon. The last Mark VI was retired in 1962.
1989 Canon EOS-1 analog, 1989 Canon EF 70-210 f4, Foma ISO400 film loaded from bulk roll, Foma developing chemistry. Photographed / developed / scanned with Canon R10 mirrorless personally.
The McMinns Lagoon Recreation Reserve is situated in 41 hectares of unspoilt wetland, near Humpty Doo in the Darwin rural area, Northern Territory, Australia
It is a natural jewel amongst the Municipality's Reserves. It offers nature enthusiasts and bird watchers alike a wide spectrum of bird life and butterfly activity all year round.
The Reserve holds a comprehensive Bird Sanctuary status and contains one of the largest varieties of flora and fauna habitats in the Northern Territory.
The Lookout is a well kept lawn area with picnic tables and a light at night for people to relax and unwind whilst looking over the scenic lagoon. A very popular lunch spot for many, it is also a favoured location for professional and amateur photographers and videographers. A perfect venue for bush weddings.
There are a number of walking tracks including "Scotty's Walkway" that take visitors around the lagoon and through the surrounding woodland.
Sunday's brilliant sunset slowly developed as the day-long clouds and rain cleared to the west.As it was forming, I captured this farm in th every late afternoon.
Nikon F501
Nikkor 50/1.8 MF
Rollei Superpan 200
Developing: ilford Perceptol 1+0 15 minutes
No Retouching
Carrozzeria Ghia had developed a Pick-up version built on a Fiat Nuova 500 Giardiniera base. It was first shown on the 'Salone dell' Automobile di Torino' in November 1961. It was a prototype, and it did not came into production.
But a few years later Moretti and Giannini took over this design and started to take in production almost identical Pick-ups.
Ghia is a main coachwork company in Italy. It did a lot of commissioned work for Ford, Volkswagen and Fiat. But it developed also own production cars.
One of the most successful cars on a Fiat 500/600 based cars was the Jolly, a funny beach cabriolet with wicker seats.
The firm is since 1974 part of Ford Motor Company.
499,5 cc 2 cylinder air-cooled Boxer engine.
Max. speed: 95 km/h.
Production Fiat Nuova 500: July 1957-1975.
Production Ghia-Fiat 500 Ziba: 1961.
Image is taken from the book 'De Fiat 500 & 600', Jan de Lange, Uitgeverij Elmar, Rijswijk, 1997.
Original photographer, place and date unknown.
Halfweg, Aug. 17, 2022.
© 2022 Sander Toonen Halfweg | All Rights Reserved
A developing thunderstorm just prior to sunset near Roanoke,Va. It is a rare treat to see them at this time of day and isolated enough to get a clear shot.
Biei, Hokkaido.
Canon AV-1, Tokina RMC 200mm F3.5, F250D ( negative for cinema from Fuji ) exposed as ISO 50, developed with reversal processing ( 1st: Finedol :B&W developer from Fuji, 24 Deg.C 160 minutes, 2nd: BAN1 ), scanned with Plustek OpticFilm8100 + VueScan at 7200 dpi, edited with GIMP. Bigger sizes: www.flickr.com/photos/threepinner/52923791000/sizes/ , the original 10304 × 6829 pixels compatible. Learn DIY development and upgrade to film !
Pentax Spotmatic, Macro-Takumar 50mm f4, Kodak 400TX developed in Super Prodol, Epson GT-X830. 1/125, f/5.6.
December 30th, 2024 | Austin, TX
Leica M3 | Elmarit-M 90mm f/2.8
Ilford HP5+ | Rodinal 1+100 semi-stand
I've done a lot of stand developing but never any HP5, because I was scared by reports of heavy grain. I haven't wet printed this negative yet but the grain in the scan is just fine to my eye. It's there, for sure, but I don't mind it.
A developing story here on the West Coast . . . After months of elusive drone sightings on the East Coast, I have been fortunate enough to photograph one landing in San Francisco. The authorities immediately cordoned off the area from the public, escorting a figure that emerged from the spacecraft shortly after I took this solitary photo. I melted away into a small crowd as the officials attempted to confiscate all iPhone recordings of the landing. The young officers were unfamiliar with film cameras, apparently, and I was able to escape with evidence of one of the most significant news stories of the century on my medium format film camera.
This photographic evidence will force the government to finally stop the coverup. A Christmas Day landing obviously has great significance for humanity.
This photo was taken by a Kowa/SIX medium format film camera and Kowa 1:3.5/55mm lens with a Kowa L1A ø67 filter using Fuji Reala 100 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop,
Taken on the 804 trail along the ocean at Yachats Oregon. Mamiya C330 F TLR camera. Kodak Tmax 400 film self-developed in PC-TEA.
SOOC | RAW-developed
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The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is a tandem-rotor helicopter originally developed by American rotorcraft company Vertol and now manufactured by Boeing Defense, Space & Security. The Chinook is a heavy-lift helicopter that is the second heaviest lifting Western helicopter to the Sikorsky CH-53. Its name, Chinook, is from the Native American Chinook people of Oregon and Washington state.
The Chinook was originally designed by Vertol, which had begun work in 1957 on a new tandem-rotor helicopter, designated as the Vertol Model 107 or V-107. Around the same time, the United States Department of the Army announced its intention to replace the piston-engine–powered Sikorsky CH-37 Mojave with a new, gas turbine–powered helicopter. During June 1958, the U.S. Army ordered a small number of V-107s from Vertol under the YHC-1A designation; following testing, some Army officials considered it to be too heavy for the assault missions and too light for transport purposes. While the YHC-1A would be improved and adopted by the U.S. Marine Corps as the CH-46 Sea Knight, the Army sought a heavier transport helicopter, and ordered an enlarged derivative of the V-107 with the Vertol designation Model 114. Initially designated as the YCH-1B, on 21 September 1961, the preproduction rotorcraft performed its maiden flight. In 1962, the HC-1B was redesignated CH-47A under the 1962 United States Tri-Service aircraft designation system.
The Chinook possesses several means of loading various cargoes, including multiple doors across the fuselage, a wide loading ramp located at the rear of the fuselage and a total of three external ventral cargo hooks to carry underslung loads. Capable of a top speed of 170 knots (200 mph; 310 km/h), upon its introduction to service in 1962, the helicopter was considerably faster than contemporary 1960s utility helicopters and attack helicopters, and is still one of the fastest helicopters in the US inventory. Improved and more powerful versions of the Chinook have also been developed since its introduction; one of the most substantial variants to be produced was the CH-47D, which first entered service in 1982; improvements from the CH-47C standard included upgraded engines, composite rotor blades, a redesigned cockpit to reduce workload, improved and redundant electrical systems and avionics, and the adoption of an advanced flight control system. It remains one of the few aircraft to be developed during the early 1960s – along with the fixed-wing Lockheed C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft – that has remained in both production and frontline service for over 60 years.
The military version of the helicopter has been exported to nations; the U.S. Army and the Royal Air Force (see Boeing Chinook (UK variants)) have been its two largest users. The civilian version of the Chinook is the Boeing Vertol 234. It has been used by civil operators not only for passenger and cargo transport, but also for aerial firefighting and to support logging, construction, and oil extraction industries.
Very special photo for me. This is from my first roll of successfully home developed film ever, processed just last night. I'm going to get hooked on this, I can already tell ...
Camera: Yashica Mat 124 G,
Lens:Yashinon 80/3.5,
ight meter: Sekonic L-308B reading the incident light,
Film: Ilford HP5, 400@200 ASA
Film Developing: Kodak X-tol stock,
Time: 20C° - 7,5 min,
scanned with Epson Photo V 500
With a thunderstorm developing in 45c heat, 842,869,871 depart Murdinga for Lock after shunting off grain wagons for loading on 4-1-1999
I can hear the bull frog callin' me.
Wonder if my rope's still hangin' to the tree.
Love to kick my feet way down the shallow water,
Shoe fly, dragon fly, get back t your mother.
Pick up a flat rock, skip it across Green River.
Green River - Creedence Clearwater Revival - 1969
Developed using darktable 3.6.0. A light texture overlay was also added to the background in GIMP 2.10.24.
Leica M2
Voigtlander 35mm f/1.4 Nokton II MC
Orwo UN54 in Rodinal (semi-stand)
-- Milly a much more chewy pup than was Molly, but she's getting better. Working through a 400' bulk roll of Orwo UN54 and suddenly getting these intense dotting when chemicals are used at full strength, no matter the developer. It's not the water, not the fixer, not the tanks -- these things ruled out. Six rolls ruined so far. Never had a problem with this film in the past but recently got ruined batches with Clayton F76 (1:9), Rodinal (1:50), and HC110 (1:31). A chap on an APUG forum reported the same issue a few years back. Strangely, a lower concentration of developer, such as used in stand developing (Rodinal 1:100), works fine. The only other variable is water temp -- I stand develop at room temp but for other types of developing bring the soup down to 68 degrees. Never had a problem with this film in the past, and I've shot at least 250' of it, even rolls spooled from this very same bulk roll. Enigma.