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A Volvo PV544 in Langen. According to Wikipedia, "In 1958, the PV544 was phased in. Subtle differences with the PV444 included the introduction of a curved one-piece windshield to replace the two panes of flat glass, larger taillights, and a ribbon-type speedometer. "
Kamera-Werke Dresden-Niedersedlitz Praktica FX 2 and Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 1:2/35, Fomapan 400 developed in Rodinal 1+50 for 12min at 20°C and digitalized using kit zoom and extension tubes.
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Explore #228, 6/25/09.
We don't need no stinkin' ghost town! We've got Jeff. Jeff found this place on a scouting trip a few days before the workshop and took Ken and me there as part of a private tour that he took us on.
Jeff lent me his circular polarizer for this shot, since I thought I had left mine at home, and I could tell as soon as I looked through the viewfinder that it made a tremendous difference. Turns out my polarizer was in my camera bag all along, I just failed to look in one of the pockets.
As nouns the difference between portrait and profile is that portrait is a painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders while profile is the outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.
In these "Covid times", stay safe, stay home, get vaccinated when you can.
When I lived in Lakeview, Oregon during 1985-1986, I discovered that trackside access to the Southern Pacific branchline into town was somewhat limited. There was an infamous sinkhole seven miles south of town at milepost 505 that was adjacent to a county road. It was the last public access to the right of way north of the state line. As such, I recorded a fair collection of photos there.
These two shots show the differences that took place in a seven month span. On a Tuesday night in August 1985, I caught SP's Lakeview Local rolling timetable westbound at MP 505. Although I couldn't have imagined it at the time, eight years later I would get to ride in the GP9 pulling this train from Woodburn to Salem via Silverton on the new Willamette Valley Railway.
In January 1986, SP sold the Lakeview Branch to Lake County Oregon as a shortline. The county hired Great Western Railroad of Colorado to operate the new shortline. Severe storms during February 1986 caused so much damage that GWR was out of service for three weeks making repairs. Fortunately, GWR had stockpiled empties in Lakeview, so they were able to spot cars for loading during most of the time they were out of service.
Once the branch was reopened, I caught the first GWR train out of Lakeview down at MP 505 on March 4th. It was nice that the train departed town during my lunch hour! Aside from the lack of a caboose and the paint on the locomotive, the image was very similar to what I had seen the previous summer.
As we approach the election of 2024, something that is on everyone's minds is freedom. As in, what does it mean, and will we still enjoy it after the results of the election are announced. Yale professor Timothy Snyder has written a book on the subject called "On Freedom". I've read it twice this season. It's one of the most important books I've ever read. My entries for this Polaroid Week are based on interpretations of points made in his book.
Snyder posits that there is a difference in conceptions of freedom, one of which is negative freedom, which can be thought of as "freedom from", and positive freedom, or "freedom to". Postive freedom is about enabling free people to live their lives to the fullest, and negative freedom is about preventing anything from preventing you from doing whatever you want. Positive freedom leads to democracy. Negative freedom leads in the opposite direction.
There are five components to positive freedom in Snyder's estimation. The first of these is Sovereignty. Each person is sovereign over their own selves. They are responsible for their own being, their own decisions, their own beliefs. The task of a parent raising a child is to teach them to be a sovereign being, capable of judging right from wrong and living their life in a way that is true to themselves.
My first entry for Polaroid Week represents Sovereignty with a mixed media piece, one of my construction paper people on Polaroid Retinex Type-I film, with a piece of construction paper glued onto the frame so it extends outside the circular frame of the Retinex film.
Snyder's book is available at timothysnyder.org/on-freedom .
What a difference a day makes. Beautiful weather the past 2 days and absolutely hammering it down today.
This is a panoramic image of the sun rising over Cromer yesterday morning. Couldn't believe these stones placed the day before by holidaymakers stayed in the formation even though they would have been well under the surf during the night.
Adult American Redstart plumages are similar in both spring and fall. There is a marked difference between the mature adult male and female plumages. Probably the most interesting thing about the plumages of this species is the transition between the first fall male (born this spring) and the fully mature adult male. Plate images 1-3 are males, and 6 is a female, and 4,5 could be either sex. See discussion below.
Plate 1 shows the fully mature adult male, and plate 2 by contrast shows a near fully mature adult male. Note the difference in the extension of the black on the chest, and the areas of incomplete black about the face. Plate 2 probably represents a 2nd spring male (born two springs ago).
Plate 3 illustrates some important items. Plate 3 is a first spring male (born the previous spring). What will always be present in the first spring male is black in the lores (area in front of the eye). Beyond that telltale sign of first spring male is a variable amount of black elsewhere in the face and chest. This varies from imperceptible to some touches of black here and there, to more extensive black such as on the chest of this bird. The 2nd item of importance to point out about plate 3 is the yellow in the chest area in front of the wing. A first spring or first fall male often has orange in this area, but not always and this image illustrates that conclusively. More on the importance of that when discussing plate 5.
Plate 4 shows orange in front of the wing and is a fall image. This favors a first fall male, but some adult females may have orangish in front of the wing as well. A look at the over tail coverts (which are well seen in 1) would help separate further.
Black over tail coverts would indicate a male, and olive would indicate female. The retrices (tail feathers) are well seen in 4.
As a rule first fall birds (born preceding spring) would have sharper points to those feathers, and on an adult bird they would be duller. They don't look all that sharp to me in 4.
Plate 5 is the adult female plumage, but the image is from fall, so quite conceivably it could be one of those first fall males that don't have orange in the chest area in front of the wing. Finally plate 6 is the dullest of plumages, the first fall female (born this spring). Notice the lack of color on the wing itself, compared to the adult female plumage in 5.
QUESTIONS TO ASK IN SPRING WHEN YOU HAVE A FEMALE TYPE PLUMAGE:
1. Is there any black in the lores (area in front of the eye)?
2.Is there any black elsewhere on the head/chest?
3.Is there yellow or orange on the chest in front of the wing?
QUESTIONS TO ASK IN FALL WHEN YOU HAVE A FEMALE TYPE PLUMAGE:
1. Is there orange or yellow on the chest in front of the wing?
2.Is there any yellow on the wing itself (wing bar)?
3.Are the over tail coverts olive or black?
There is quite a size difference between Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, yet their plumage is all but identical. This makes them quite difficult to identify from photographs where there is nothing to give scale. Greater Yellowlegs usually has an almost imperceptibly slight upturn to the bill. But when you see the two species together the size difference is like that between Greenshank and Redshank. The bill is also relatively longer and stouter in Greater Yellowlegs, so more like a Greenshank. Incidentally, DNA studies reveal that it is more closely related to Greenshank than Lesser Yellowlegs. Both species of Yellowlegs breed across the boreal forest zone of Canada, but Lesser Yellowlegs peters out around Hudson Bay so does not reach the Atlantic coast. Puzzlingly Lesser Yellowlegs is much, much more common as a vagrant in Britain compared with Greater Yellowlegs, yet Greater breeds right up to the Atlantic Coast. Both species winter in the southern States and throughout South America. I photographed this Greater feeding on the shore at Port Hardy on Vancouver Island.
Today I ended my summer job and while I loved being able to have the opportunity to make a difference in the life of someone else and have fun at the same time, I'm ready for a few days off.
This afternoon a coworker asked what I was going to with my week off before school starts and I immediately started rattling off my to-do list. She cut me off and literally grabbed me by the shoulders and said:
"it's ok to just be. Just sit. And be."
And that's what I did.
p.s. I'm on Instagram now under joelrobison :)
Imagine if you were unable to touch or kiss your newborn baby. This is an ordeal thousands of families, whose child arrives too soon, too small or too sick, are forced to go through each year. But you can help. By baking and selling cupcakes, you’ll be raising funds to help support families during what can be a very lonely and frightening time, and to provide a brighter future for their babies.
Some facts and figures:
• There is a shortage of 1,150 nurses to care for the 70,000 babies in need of specialist hospital care in England. Less than a third of units have enough nurses to meet minimum standards.
• Neonatal units are working way above recommended occupancy levels meaning there is no safety net for peaks in the number of babies being admitted to units.
• Families of babies admitted to specialist hospital care face a crippling financial strain on top of the normal costs of having a new baby.
• Over half of parents face the prospect of not being able to stay near their baby in hospital due to a shortage of overnight rooms for families.
Cake A Difference is the annual fundraising initiative from Bliss, the special care baby charity. Bliss offers guidance and information at a critical time in families' lives, funds ground-breaking research and campaigns for babies to receive the best possible level of care regardless of when and where they are born. Cake A Difference 2011 takes place from 14-20 February 2011. For more ideas on how you can support Bliss contact katiaw@bliss.org.uk
Go ahead, bake my day!
Sea Lion versus Seal the difference is the ears among other things. I took this one on the same day as the boats at French Creek.
I had a lot of fun in the forest this past time around. Well, fun is not the right word for the experience. It is not like I was jumping around hollering and grinning from ear-to-ear. Yet I was happy. Very happy with where I was and what I was doing. There is a calm to an old forest that you don't find anywhere, not even at the edge of an ocean (which isn't so calm as it is patient, and there is a difference there). Old forests like this have a calm that leeches out the helter skelter of our fast-paced lives, and trust me, compared to a tree, our lives are very fast-paced indeed.
While running errands on Thursday, I noticed that these two big box stores were essentially the same structure with only a few cosmetic differences.
"Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of the prayer is in the One who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference."
Max Lucado
A westbound Conrail freight train rolls off the ramp for the Fort Wayne Bridge in Pittsburgh, PA on a January evening. The signals here stand approximately where the old Federal Street interlocking stood in the PRR days. Over twenty years later, just about everything is gone in this picture except for the rails. The signals here were taken out in the early days of NS. Note the difference in numberboards on the eastbound signals - the left one showing MP 77.2 for the Conemaugh Line and the right one showing MP 1.0 on the Fort Wayne Line.
CR 6063. Pittsburgh, PA.
January 20, 1996. W. H. Massie photo.
Adam Klimchock collection.
A famous Island, a cloister, and an ancient town. Have been there in rl and this build in SL is very accurate. There's one big difference...it's WAY more quiet here then in the rl version :-)
This little Stoat has recently been put in the enclosure on show to the public and it is just gorgeous.
Just like a normal Stoat it will wiz around so fast you can just about see it, but the difference with this one is it will suddenly pose for you for quite a long time.
I stood watching it for hours (yes I know how sad) and loads of people got great shots.
Forgive me for being boring but here are 4 images of the same photo BW yet to be added. I think all 4 have merit and as its my Flickr I've taken this opportunity to highlight what simple differences of cropping or adding a mount can make.
Hope you like!
No 3 the full Zoom cutting out the sky totally, this photo is exactly as previous but with the Shadow Box Frame.
What a difference a week makes. I took this at Beer in Devon last Sunday and although the sky was blue and the sun was shining, the wind was so cold, no-one, but no-one would have been sitting on the beach. Wind forward one week and it was blazing hot and everyone was heading for the beach over the holiday weekend. The scenes on TV showing Bournemouth beaches made me shudder: not one inch of spare sand could be seen with all the people on the beaches. They reckoned they had 100,000 visitors over the weekend.
A couple of feet can make a difference between a great shot and a "missed it by that much" shot. Here's one of the latter. I guess the engineer wanted the cab to be cool so he pulled the Erie-Lackawanna Alco under the I294 bridge. Given the history of the shot with both the EL and the C&O disappearing, not to mention the C424 and the first generations geeps, I'm still glad I took it. Not that I knew it would be neat some forty years later.
Evie Field won the first prize in the spot the difference competition here at Pinhoe Library during the summer holidays, she won the telescope and a M@x goody bag.
Well done Evie!
The majority of the time, I make only basic adjustments to my pictures. Usually only enough sliders to make the picture better reflect what I recall seeing when I took the picture. My recollections about a picture are no doubt influenced by what I want or think I saw; yet, most of what I adjust is pretty common stuff.
My attempts at using the bigger toys available in the photo software usually leave me feeling unsatisfied and uneasy. It's a step too far for my tastes. While I love the abstract and distorted, fully creating an image in software, or twisting an image into something else lays beyond my creative vision and ability. I'm pretty lame.
The other day I was out taking landscape pictures during a snowstorm when a scene snagged my eye. Two poplar trees, side by side, with wet snow clinging to the bark. Their trunks created a symmetry against a chaotic background of snow-covered bramble and branches. Snow was still falling heavily muting the world into a shadowless quiet. What drew me to this little spot I do not know. It was a feeling as much as anything.
Later, in the software, one of the versions of the pictures I took of the two trees made the initial cut. Then it made a second cut and I started working on it.
All of the standard things I tend to do to a picture in processing left me flat. There was a feeling taking that picture, on that day, at that time, in a snowstorm, and I wasn't feeling it as I went through my routine. So I went to bed.
During the next day I kept thinking about that picture. Could I somehow use the photo software to get close to the feeling I had when I snapped the picture? It was a discouraging question since I have only limited experience to pull from. Starting with a raw image and taking it from there to a specific result, one I could only feel, was annoying. Maybe I need to know more about my feelings; or maybe I need more technical mastery; or perhaps I should forget about it.
Finally, I went back to the picture. The process I typically relied on didn't work so I decided to reverse everything I normally do when editing a picture. Intuitively, I started using the software to soften, mute, paint. It was unnatural to me. Several times I went back and forth on a single move abandoning it to try something else. More than once, I returned to steps taken earlier to see if it'd make a difference with a new set of conditions. I walked the dog, ate something, tried to nap, turned music on and off, walked the dog again, returning the picture after each interlude.
Then I stopped. I kept looking at the image that emerged on the monitor. It had a feeling I liked but I was wary. After all, I was pretty far down the river on these two dumb trees and they'd not been a study in objectivity. Could I trust my feelings? So I went to bed.
Following a decent sleep, oatmeal breakfast, a languid coffee time, and a sub-zero walk with the dog, it was time for a fresh look at my two trees. As with so many pictures, you arrive at a take it or leave it moment. No matter what you started out to do, there's a point where there is no more you can do. In the freshness of morning, my two trees seemed good enough. To me, at least, the picture was mellow and still while holding onto the strength of forest timber. That was it.
A difference between the Viceroy and Monarch butterfly is the black line drawn across the viceroy's hind wings, which the monarch lacks. The viceroy is also a bit smaller than the monarch, but this can be hard to tell unless they are together.
The best way to tell A Viceroy and Monarch apart when they are flying are their wingbeats. The monarch is lazier, looking like it is floating on slow wingbeats. The Viceroy, however, has much faster wingbeats with a frenetic, choppy flight.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. --William James
Coneflowers from our personal garden!
Spanaway, Washington
070516
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dust removal tool of SilverFast, no difference from the other scan done with standard settings on the early scan.
Just invited to Explore. Nice for a 59-year-old image, but new scan.
See some dust using NOTES
Description from the image below..
South of Caiguna B2R24-26cliff cut
See ExplorOz track notes, May 2009
www.exploroz.com/TrekNotes/SouthCoast/Nuytsland_Nature_Re...
Dave and I traversed all this country a number of times in '65, and I have some fond memories of all of the Nullarbor, just search my stream for Nullarbor...
noted 34 months after the comment below! 29/5/09
See also wasg.iinet.net.au/nulla.html for a bit about the Nullarbor limestone.
"In 2005, The Wilderness Society nominated the Nullarbor Plain for protection under South Australia’s Wilderness Protection Act. The nomination recognised the cultural significance of the region to its traditional owners.
Widely acclaimed for outstanding natural and cultural heritage values, the Nullarbor is the largest semi-arid karst cave system in the world."
Bunda cliffs now protected as a result of Wilderness Society and other's pressure...
www.wilderness.org.au/campaigns/outback-australia/histori...
See old exploration map here..
www.explorationswa.com.au/people/
See an informative blog here about Eyre's crossing here...
www.nullarbornet.com.au/themes/edwardJohnEyre.html
Nullabor plain
janhawkinsau.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/the-oondiri-travell...
The Nullabor, the name has always irritated me because it is such an enigma to what you actually find. The vast ancient region was named in August 1865, while an explorer was travelling from the east across the Hampton Tablelands, along the most arid of sections. E. A. Delisser in his journal named both the Nullabor and Eucla. This was how the largest limestone karst in the world received its European name. Its meaning is found in the Latin Nullus Arbor (It seems Delisser spelt it Aus’ style) the meaning is however ‘No trees/plants’. This is a simple misconception as the vast region is not treeless.
To the tribal aboriginal people, the vast plain was known as the Oondiri, meaning a waterless plain, as surface water is not easily found across the ancient karst of limestone. This limestone karst is the largest in the world. It was formed 40 million years ago when the Australian continent broke away from Antarctica and it is also very unstable.
Baxter Cliffs..