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Confidence is what sets you apart from others. When you are confident in everything you do, you will prosper, and people will notice.
of 9 years and a country.
The one on the left is dated 1960 and its in the Carpathian mountains of Transylvania. I did not remember having this snap but found it amongst the pictures my mother collected.
The other is from 1969 somewhere in the English countryside.
There is a funny story attached to the first one. In my penultimate year in high school we went on a school trip. A very posh affair with two wooden benches on top of an open lorry. The lorry was not in the best of shapes and on the rather steep mountain road its coolant went on the boil. We stopped to let it cool down. We all got off and milled round the lorry with the exception of yours truly and his girlfriend. We decided to venture into the forest supposedly to look for berries. We got so engrossed into each other that we did not realize that the rest of the group left, leaving us stranded.
With little choice we started walking up the mountain road having no idea as to how far we were from our destination. I kept reassuring my girlfriend that I was familiar with the place - although I omitted the fact that I was only four when I last been there.
So there we were dragging ourselves up the road when we heard a noise behind us. A peasant was bringing his horses up to pastures for the summer. After some cajoling he agreed to let us ride with him. It would be really funny if someone would have filmed the scene. Neither of us have ever mounted a horse before and these animals had never been saddled but we were willing and they were docile.
I can't recall how long it took us, but I do remember that for several days afterwards all our mates were collapsing with laughter at the site of us 'walking'.
Nevertheless, its one of those sweet and unforgettable memories.
What a difference a day can make....40 days of no rain changed overnight to a storm with winds, big rain, and cold fog. The sun umbrella was open yesterday! #cy365 253/365 'what a difference'
This image is part of a focusing experiment. It is deliberately left largely unedited, as it came from the camera, with the exception that to clarify tiny differences in detail it has been upsampled to twice its original size. For more details see the description of the previous image.
I allowed the camera to decide all the settings for the previous image on full "camera" auto. The lens was set at its widest, 15.1mm (24mm 135 equiv). The camera chose for the previous image f4 and 1/250th, focusing on the middle windows of the college.
For this one I tried to improve depth of focus, and reduce chromatic aberration, by stopping down to what I hoped was a good aperture of f9. That gave me a shutter of 1/50th of a second, which I was confident I could hand hold with enough care for sharpness on this wide a lens.
Knowing the R1's habit of autofocusing on rather short declared distances on the wide angle end of its zoom, and regarding the horizon detail as the really critical part of the image I wanted to aim at, I set the lens on manual focus at infinity.
Comparison with the previous image shows that the only thing to have improved is the chromatic aberration at the edges of the image. Even with extra chromatic aberration the ribbing detail on the green dome on the skyline is clearer in the previous image, and the faint line of the upraised torch-bearing arm of the statue of the Golden Boy atop the dome can more clearly be seen in the previous image. There's also clearly more detail in the foliage on the tree on the skyline to the left of the dome, and on the spires of the building to the left of that.
Coming to the closer parts of the image, the window frames are distinctly sharper in the previous image, even in the near round window at the top right of the college.
Since nothing in this image is even as sharp anywhere as in the previous image, I conclude that either infinity as labelled is a slight overfocus (not uncommon in zoom lenses I discover), or else at this level of extreme detail I can't hold a wide angle lens steady at 1/50th sec.
Although both these images were taken from camera jpgs with sharpness on the lowest setting, after upsampling to double size I sharpened them with just one click on Irfanview's conservative very local sharpener. That only had a slight effect, because the detail wasn't in general quite sharp enough (at double size) for the sharpener to get its teeth into. It was also clear when sharpening this second (f9) image that there was noticeably less sharpening done, because there was less detail in the image to be sharpened. Consequently the first image had had a bit more sharpening applied to it simply because there was more sharpenable detail in it,
I then tried the experiment of viewing both these large images with autoresize to display the entire image on one complete screen, using Irfanview for this. It was noticeable that although it was no longer possible to put my finger on specific details which were present in one image and absent in the other, that even at that much lower display resolution (probably 1280 horizontal) there was a subjective impression of greater window frame sharp clarity from the first f4 image. That could of course have been due to heightened edge contrast still present at the reduction, and caused by the extra sharpening applied to the first image because it had more detail in it for the sharpener to bite on. Note too that although the camera was set to lowest jpg sharpening, it can be seen that at that setting it is still doing some sharpening.
More experiments later :-)
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Using the Hidden Black and white setting on the Nikon Coolpix s8000
Been a good servant to me over the years -Bought at a knockdown price and still going strong
sent to alex trebe :) this looks wierd thanks to my scanner, theres a lot of detail i lost in trying to scan it. today has been wonderful. i need to go bed before i ruin it
On Wednesday 26 November 2014 the Outreach Team held a workshop with a group from Women Making a Difference on the role of the Assembly and how they can get involved.
Ar ddydd Mercher 26 Tachwedd 2014 bu'r Tîm Allgymorth yn cynnal gweithdy gyda grŵp o Merched yn Gwneud Gwahaniaeth ar rôl y Cynulliad a'r ffyrdd y gallant gymryd rhan.
Three species of douc langur are distinguishable based on pelage color differences (Nadler et al. 2003). Perhaps most importantly, the three species are distinguished by the color of their shanks; P. cinereus have grey shanks (the grey-shanked douc langur), P. nemaeus have red shanks (the red-shanked douc langur) and P. nigripes have black shanks (the black-shanked douc langur) (Nadler 1997).
P. cinerea have a gray agouti body, neck, head and arms with dark gray agouti legs (Groves 2001; Nadler et al. 2003). The belly is whitish-gray or almost white and the hands and feet are black (Groves 2001; Nadler et al. 2003). The facial skin is yellow-brown, yellow-orange or light brown with a white mouth and chin with long white whiskers. The throat is white with an orange ring around the neck (Nadler 1997; Groves 2001; Nadler et al. 2003). Facial characteristics are similar in P. nemaeus, but they have a dark agouti belly and white forearms and the eyes slant a bit more than in the other two species of douc langur. The hind limbs are maroon with black fingers, toes and thighs (Groves 2001). There are long white hairs ringing the face (Lippold 1977). P. nigripes has darker, blue-gray facial skin. The eyes have yellow rings around them and slant the least within the genus (Groves 2001; Nadler et al. 2003). The body, upper arms, and head are both dark gray agouti with a dark brown agouti ventrum (Groves 2001; Nadler et al. 2003). The back of the hands are white to the elbow (Nadler et al. 2003).
There can be some variation within species in coloration. For example, in some populations of P. nigripes, individuals have been seen to possess reddish coloration on the legs, a trait more typical of P. nemaeus (Nadler 2008). Further, animals with intermediate traits may be indicative of natural hybridization as individuals have been seen with traits typical of more than one Pygathrix species (Lippold & Vu 1995).
All species have a white tail, but P. cinerea and P. nemaeus have a tassel at the end, while the P. nigripes tail is longer with a nearly absent tassel (Nadler et al. 2003). Male P. nemaeus have a pink penis and a white scrotum as do P. cinerea, while P. nigripes have a blue scrotum and red penis (Nadler et al. 2003). In P. nemaeus, both sexes have a triangle of white pelage around the base of the tail above which males, but not females, have round white spots. This feature can be used to determine the sex of individuals (Lippold 1977).
Wild douc langurs spend a majority of their time arboreally, moving through quadrupedal and brachiation locomotion; traveling single-file through established pathways (Lippold 1998; Nadler et al. 2003). P. nemaeus are not often seen on the ground, however wild P. nigripes have been seen on the ground and may spend up to 20% of their day terrestrially (Lippold 1995; 1998; Lippold & Vu 2008; Hoang et al. 2009). P. nemaeus in captivity primarily move through their environment through brachiation (46%) and quadrupedal walking and running (Nadler et al. 2003; Byron & Covert 2004). Wild P. nigripes move quadrupedally (61%), through leaping (17%), by brachiating (10%), climbing (8%) and dropping (4%) (Rawson 2006). Horizontal jumps in wild P. nemaeus are also seen, with individuals landing feet first (Lippold 1998).
In captivity, Pygathrix have lived into their mid-twenties (Weigl 2005).
2nd class car on the left coupled with the 3rd class car on the rght....
Aug 2013, Nhong Khai station on the Thai border.....
FILM - Fuji Superia Xrtra Asahi Pentax Spotmatic, 50mm Takumar
I think this is a mushroom. Wonder about the coral/toothed mushrooms but have not found its match yet.
People from Children's Miracle Network national, Alice 96.5 and Renown Health are all working together to raise money with your help for life-saving treatments for our youngest patients.
The boys differences are apparent here. They've been snoozing all afternoon next to me on the couch while I've been working...increasingly moving in my direction and taking up more of the couch.
The New Mobilizer (1969-70) was the newsletter of the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, a national umbrella anti-Vietnam War coalition.
The organization was first organized as the Spring Mobilization Committee in 1966 and organized several antiwar and anti-draft rallies and demonstrations, including organizing attendance at the large April 1967 New York city march.
The group sought permanence by replacing its name “Spring” with “National” and organized the large October 1967 March on the Pentagon and April 1968 protests against the draft, among other activities.
A split in the antiwar movement occurred later in 1968 over whether to focus on a single demand (End the War) or to include social justice demands as well. Differences also included whether to condone civil disobedience as a tactic.
These two tendencies were later reflected as the National Peace Action Coalition and the 1969-70 New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, which was later reconstituted that year as the People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice. While both coalitions reflected a broad base and many disparate organizations and individuals, the old left Trotskyist Social Workers Party supported NPAC while the Communist Party supported New Mobilization/PCPJ.
For PDFs of the New Mobilizer, see
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Issues 1-4 and 5-8 from the Wisconsin Historical Society. Issue 9 original held in the Jeffrey T. Goldthorpe collection