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Azizi had a visit to the vet today. He has had some white discharge coming out of his nose and the suspected respiratory infection was correct. He also very sweetly agreed to having his claws clipped!!!
I'm now tasked with giving him a nebuliser three times a day and giving him a minute dosage of antibiotic twice a day.
Wish me luck!! though I suspect he will embrace his treatment the laid back way he embraces the photography!!
Saffron are red pistils of a flower
The taste is musky and slightly bitter.
You can add it to soups and sauces.
Careful with the dosage
Looking close on Friday: Spices and condiments
Highest Position - Explore #3 | 11.12.2008 (Thank you everybody! :D)
(Big thanks to Romy, Lynnie and Sue for the initial explore update and Leena for the latest position too!)
After posting enough shitty shots from my reject folder this week :P, here's one of my fave to start the countdown for the weekend!! I am definitely in need of some seascape dosage once again esp after posting 3 buildings shots in a row. If you happen to think that this is freakin' awesome, yes i've to admit i've no shame & not a human either LOL! just kiddin' :P Have a great friday!
View LARGE On Black to hear the whispers ;)
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The Moonta Bay Jetty at Yorke Peninsula, South Australia
The Shot
Standard 3 exposure shot (+2..0..-2 EV) with tripod using Sigma DC HSM 10-20mm lens
Photomatix
- Tonemapped generated HDR using detail enhancer option
Photoshop
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'curves' to increase the contrast
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (reds) to slightly decrease the redness of the sky
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (yellows) to slightly tone up the sunset
- Blended 1 layer mask effect of 0 EV single tonemapped hdr to correct details of the rocks
- Used 'unsharp mask' (as always) on the background layer
You
All comments, criticism and tips for improvements are (as always) welcome
Music
George Michael - Careless Whisper
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I had to go to the hospital again but this time I was only there for observation while they were trying out a new drug. The doctor was concerned about the dosage. Anyway, when I checked out and was waiting out front front for my ride, I spotted these 2 benches
HBM!!
Fomatone 132, Lithprint (Kontakt von einem Kallitypie Drucknegativ) mit speziell für Fomatone Papier abgestimmten Easy Lith FT.
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Fomatone und Foma Retrobrom sind die einzigen Papiere aus aktueller Fertigung mit denen farbig gelithet werden kann. Auch das unter dem Oriental Label vertriebene Warmtone ist schon seit Jahren eine Fomatone Emulsion.
In den letzten Jahren traten beim Lithen von Fomatonepapieren Fehler auf. Die Ursache ist laut Foma eine andere Gelatinequalität ab der Chargen-Nr. 0777. Bei Entwicklungszeiten über 6 Minuten können sowohl größere kreisförmige Flecken (Snowball-Effekt), als auch an Marmoroberfächen erinnernde Strukturen auftauchen.
Für den SE5 Lith-Entwickler habe ich schon mehrfach auf die Möglichkeiten der Vermeidung dieser Fehler hingewiesen. Für den fertig abgestimmten Easy Lith besteht natürlich auch die Möglichkeit, durch Zugabe von Lith D und einen veränderten Workflow, dieses Übel zu verhindern. Für Anwender, die ausschließlich mit Fomatone oder Retrobrom Papieren lithen möchten, kann ich eine Variante des Easy A Konzentrates anbieten, bei welcher die beötigte Menge von Entwicklungsverzögerern schon enthalten ist.
Es mag auf den ersten Blick nicht einleuchtend erscheinen, einerseits kurze Entwicklungszeiten als Problemlösung vorzuschlagen, andererseits eine höhere Dosierung bremsender Substanzen zu verwenden. Zum Verständnis sei nochmals auf den Zusammenhang von hoher Lichtmenge für farbige Resultate und die daraus resultierende Notwendigkeit einer hohen Verdünnung des Entwicklers hingewiesen, um damit bei Zeiten zwischen 8 bis 12 Minuten sowohl farbige Lichter und tiefe Lithschatten zu erreichen. Bis vor einigen Jahren hat der Prozeß so funktioniert. Um die oben genannten Fehler zu vermeiden, sollte die Entwicklung mit den aktuellen Fomatone Chargen jedoch nach etwa 6 Minuten abgeschlossen sein. Sind also farbige Ergebnisse (wie früher) angestrebt, benötigt das Papier eine starke Überbelichtung. Der Entwickler darf aber nicht stark verdünnt werden um eine zu schnelle Entwicklung zu vermeiden. Bei der vorgeschlagenen Mischung von 50ml A + 50ml B auf ca. 900ml Wasser, müßte der Entwicklungsvorgang nach 2-3 Minuten abgebrochen werden, ein echter Litheffekt kann so nicht entstehen. Wenn derart fetten Entwicklern jodoch einen Verzögerer zugesetzt wird, landet man bei gegebener Lichtmenge (für hohe Farbigkeit) bei Entwicklungszeiten zwischen 5 und 6 Minuten. Wird mit einem zweiten Bad gearbeitet, sei es eine reine Alkalilösung, oder ein anderer Entwickler, entstehen keine Fehler, auch wenn die Gesamtentwicklungszeit dann bei 8 Minuten oder länger liegen kann.
Bei den speziell für Fomatone abgestimmten Konzentraten, kann die Arbeitslösung mit etwas weniger B angesetzt werden, wenn ein zweites Bad mit Alkalilösung erforderlich sein sollte. Beispielsweise kann dann mit 5 ml B das zweite Bad mit ca. 500 ml Wasser angesetzt werden.
ENGLISH
Fomatone and Foma Retrobrom are the only papers currently in production that can be used for colourful lith prints. Oriental Warmtone is also a Fomatone emulsion since some years.
In recent years, errors have occurred in the lithing of Foma papers. According to Foma, the cause is a different gelatine quality from batch no. 0777 onwards. With development times of more than 6 minutes, both larger circular spots (snowball effect) and structures reminiscent of marble surfaces can appear.
For the SE5 Lith developer I have already pointed out several times how to avoid these defects. For the ready-tuned Easy Lith there is of course also the possibility to prevent this evil by adding Lith D and a modified workflow. For users who want to lith exclusively with Fomatone or Retrobrom papers, I can offer a variant of the Easy A concentrate, which already contains the necessary amount of development retarders.
At first glance, it may not seem plausible to suggest short development times as a solution to the problem on the one hand and to use a higher dosage of retarding substances on the other. For the sake of understanding, Ie would like to point out the relationship between a high amount of light for coloured results and the resulting necessity of a high dilution of the developer in order to achieve both coloured highlights and deep lith shadows at times between 8 and 12 minutes. Until a few years ago, this is how the process worked. However, to avoid the faults mentioned above, development with the current batches of Fomatone should be completed after about 6 minutes. So if coloured results (as in the past) are desired, the paper needs a strong overexposure. However, the developer must not be heavily diluted to avoid too fast development. With the suggested mixture of 50ml A + 50ml B on approx. 900ml water, the development process would have to be interrupted after 2-3 minutes, a real lith effect cannot be created in this way. If, however, a retarder is added to such fat developers, you will end up with development times of between 5 and 6 minutes for a given amount of light (for high colourfulness). If a second bath is used, be it a pure alkaline solution or another developer, no defects occur, even if the total development time can then be 8 minutes or more.
With the concentrates specially adapted for Fomatone, the working solution can be prepared with slightly less B if a second bath with alkaline solution should be necessary. For example, 5 ml B can be used to prepare the second bath with approx. 500 ml water.
Mainframe is a cyberpunk themed event featuring designers in every aspect of the theme. Expect cybernetics, synthetic, Neon, body modifications, and everything in between.
Mainframe Date: Jan 20th - Feb 13th
Details: Access here ☺
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D’OMBRES ET DE LUMIÈRE
Dans la nature… comme en amour, la beauté se compose d’ombres et de lumières, de subtils dosages de secrète obscurité et de clarté flamboyante qui donnent corps et relief aux êtres et aux choses. Patrice Photographiste
Of shadows and light
In nature, as in love, beauty is composed of shadows and light, subtle doses of secret darkness and of flamboyant clarity that give body and depth to beings and things. Patrice Photographiste
Front Page Explore # 4. Thank YOU
yeah.....need some color dosage.. LOL.
It' amazing what this hour and the twilight zone can do to one's mind - at least mine. A great period to relax and see nature in all it's glory. Another day goes by !
No HDR (but the effects of it included) ...the contrasts come from the wet sand - bedded down and reflecting the changing hues of the sky...no color additions, filters - hard or soft . very minimal processing - i frgot ...so must not be much ;-/)
It is with gratitude that I thank you all for the prayers I received for my son and I. Things have been very hard as I've struggled to get answers but we are taking steps now towards the right medication dosage and this has helped reduce his seizures significantly both in number and duration. Keeping myself calm, learning to recognise and avoid triggers has definitely helped. Thank you for your kindness xx
I received the first dosage of my vaccine against covid-19 today. Science says I will be protected 3 weeks after the second dose on March 10, that is, in 51 days from today.
Almost normal life in a few days.
The Brazilian state I live in, São Paulo, manufactures vaccines against covid-19 and many others. The São Paulo Butantan Institute partnered with the Sinovac laboratory and both of these laboratories produce the CoronaVac vaccine, the "vaccine from Brazil".
From the fight of the Brazilian president (negationist, terraplanist and genocidal) and the governor of my state, the governor won this battle too.
Long live the science!
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Breaking News on June 11th, 2021:
WHO today validated the Sinovac-CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, giving countries, funders, procuring agencies and communities the assurance that it meets international standards for safety, efficacy and manufacturing. The vaccine is produced by the Beijing-based pharmaceutical company Sinovac.
At a market in Hefei, the capital of the Chinese province of Anhui
Such big firm tomatoes are ideal for a dish called Xihongshi Chao Jidan (西红柿炒鸡蛋, English: "scrambled eggs with tomatoes"). Softer tomatoes would turn to mush in the wok.
The ingredients of this extremely popular dish are one big firm tomato, four beaten eggs and one spring onion. Cut the tomato into small cubes and the spring onion into small pieces and in the meantime heat oil in a wok over high heat. Add the onions, then the tomatoes and finally the beaten eggs and stir everything while seasoning with salt and sugar. The whole thing has to go very quickly, but then the dish is already finished. It is served with or without rice.
The secret of this wonderfully simple but tasty dish is the sugar resp. its dosage. Ideally, people who are not familiar with the preparation wonder why this simple dish tastes so wonderfully delicious without realising that it is because of the sugar.
Canon EOS 6D - f/11 - 1/60sec - 100mm - ISO 1600
encapsulated lights in oval soft gels
- for challenge Flickr group Macro Mondays, theme iSpy.
- soft-gels
All modern soft-gel encapsulation uses variations of a process developed by R. P. Scherer in 1933. His innovation was to use a rotary die to produce the capsules, with the filling taking place by blow molding. This method reduced wastage, and was the first process to yield capsules with highly repeatable dosage.
Softgels can be an effective delivery system for oral drugs, especially poorly soluble drugs. This is because the fill can contain liquid ingredients that help increase solubility or permeability of the drug across the membranes in the body. Liquid ingredients are difficult to include in any other solid dosage form such as a tablet.
Digitalis purpurea, also known as the common foxglove, is a pretty addition to any garden, like the one along El Prado in Balboa Park.
However, the plant produces digitoxin, which can prove fatal to humans and some animals. The cardiac glycosides of this flower are used in some medical applications, and have been since the late 18th century, but the dosage must be very carefully applied, otherwise it could prove fatal.
When sick during winter time, what you need is Vitamin L .
L for Light or L for Love…
Lens: Mitakon 50mm f/0.95
Aperture:0.95
Cinnamon had a Vet appointment yesterday. She wanted me to thank everyone for their love & concern. Her insulin dosage has to increase, yet again, but she’s enduring it. She has a halo device (to prevent her from running into things as much) for her blindness.
inside my car where i lived for several days while the power was turned off in my home.
Ironically parked in my driveway
Thanks for all the wonderful comments about my neighbor. She's back home. The doctors just feel like all she needs is the dosage increased on her medication. I'm glad it's something simple. Her boys were really worried about her.
Hope everyone's having a wonderful week
A non-reducible sense of unease. And a good dosage of vanity. All countered by a colossal dollop of fun when playing with the emotions during portrait photography.
This image was done with the camera on the floor and the head hanging down from a desk. It helps when 'madness' is your subject.
Used sublingual morphine syringes. In the past I imagined that, for someone in hospice, taking morphine would, in addition to reducing pain and alleviating shortness of breath, also give a 'high'. Not so. Morphine addresses those symptoms, and, in general, 'takes the edge off', but there is no drug high. And, as with all drugs, there are numerous side effects. Requires a constant process of assessing the benefits, vs. the side effects, of increasing or decreasing the dosage.
Peace I Ask Of Thee Oh River: youtu.be/64DS36WCs_w
I composed this image of Wild Foxglove flowers while hiking along them Brittany Coast, in France. This wildflower grows in abundance there, along with many other wildflower varieties. Foxglove plants are prolific seed-producers, and have been labelled as an invasive species in parts of NW North America. At the same time, Foxglove is a popular garden flower.
Foxglove flowers originally hail from Europe. The name of this dastardly, but lovely, plant likely comes from the Anglo-Saxon word "foxes glofa" (meaning the glove of the fox) because original admirers thought the flower resembled the fingers of a glove. It's also thought to be tied to an Irish legend in which foxes would put the flowers on their feet to muffle the sound of their steps.
Foxgloves are biennials, which means that it takes two seasons for them to perpetuate an entire life cycle. During the first year, the plant produces merely a dense rosette of leaves. The second year will see the trademark blooms reliably burst forth. The plant then dies.
Ingesting a foxglove plant can be fatal, particularly if it's done just before the seeds ripen, when the plant is most toxic. The leaves are also deadly. The thing about foxgloves is that the very properties that make them dangerous are the same that make them helpful in medical circles. If ingested, the plant's inherent chemicals, known as cardiac glycosides, will make the heart pump harder.
This can spell big trouble for many people whose hearts pump at a good rate already. A dose of foxglove (whether eating the seeds or making a tea with the leaves) acts like taking a dose of heart medication and can make the heart slow down or become dangerously irregular. Symptoms of foxglove poisoning include dizziness, vomiting, irregular heartbeat and hallucinations.
For those who don't have such well-functioning tickers, however, foxgloves (when formulated correctly) can literally be a life-saver. This was discovered way back in the late 1700s, and as a result the foxglove has been used in some form or fashion since to help treat congestive heart failure as well as irregular heartbeat.
The drug's name is digitalis and is made from the dried leaves of the foxglove. Still, there's a thin line between safe and dangerous dosage of foxgloves for medicinal purposes, so it's best to leave it to the professionals who know how to make medications safely and specifically.
"I'm devoted to destruction
A full dosage of detrimental dysfunction
I'm dying slow but the devil tryna rush me
See I'm a fool for pain, I'm a dummy
Might cut my head off right after I slit my throat
Tongue kiss a shark, got jealous bitches up in the boat
Eating peanut butter and jelly fishes on toast
And if I get stung I get stoked, might choke
Like I chewed a chunk of charcoal
Naked in the North Pole
That's why my heart cold, full of sorrow, the lost soul
And only Lord knows when I'm coming to the crossroads
So I don't fear sh! t but tomorrow"
As Luna said under my last pic I should do more fun edits. So here you are Luna :P
Little Dicku. did a pic of us and I was only a model...promise..but during waitingtime I started playing around with windlights and it turns out ...okay let me say it was really bad! Haha...but in the last 5 days I worked on this pic just to calm down in my breaks ..so..Thanks for take a look. And a big THANK YOU to ʟɪᴛᴛʟᴇ ᴅɪᴄᴋᴜ. for the amazing pic you did!!!!! I love it so much...maybe you wanna visit ʟɪᴛᴛʟᴇ ᴅɪᴄᴋᴜ.´s stream to see his pic and much more amazing artworks. :)
I´m really busy at the moment but will answer all your comments on this and the last pics in the next few days. Thank you for your wonderful support...I read every single word and saw every of your favos and ..I´m so greatful for them! <3333
Hope you had a wonderful weekend guys!
The Ponte de Dom Luis I is as old as the Eiffel Tower and probably the most photographed object in town. But apart from that Porto is also a truly fascinating European city with a very very large past, a flourishing art scene and a good dosage of bourgeois flair. The city over its 2000 year history reinvented itself several times and is currently quite determined to regain its position as one of Europe's top centres.
Efke IR 820 Filter R29 40ASA, in Tanol 5+5+500 14,5min at 20°C/68°F
Another Omega Lith Print on Fomatone 131 batch 079648.
A higher dosage of Lith D requires a stronger overexposure, which leads to a more intense color. If the deep shadows are not to tip over into green, only bathe briefly in Omega.
SE5 Lith A+B+D+Water 40+40+90+1200 4 minutes and only 30 seconds in Omega 1+100 to prevent greenish shadows.
Amidst early morning fog, southbound J783-09 pulls out of the siding at the south end of Wapakoneta behind an improbable SD50-3/GP35 slug/GP40-2 consist. With 66 cars at the drawbar, the train would make short but stiff work of Botkins Hill to the south.
This is the third (or fourth?) time these Lima-Cincinnati turn trains have been reinstated on the Toledo Subdivision in as many years, and with them comes an increased dosage of older CSX EMDs in what has already been a fairly interesting summer, motive power wise. Today's train is no exception, featuring one of four remaining CSX SD50s and one of a few dozen active Road Slug sets. It was quite a sight to see these lashed together and working hard on the road in 2020.
#macromondays #granules
I decided to share this image for the upcoming #macromondays theme called #granules
Size of the wooden spoon is aprox. 2,5 cm = 1"
Himalayan salt, often called pink salt, is a type of rock salt mined from the Salt Range mountains in Pakistan, particularly near the Khewra Salt Mine. It's famous for its distinctive pink color, which comes from trace minerals like magnesium, potassium, and calcium.
Here are a few quick facts:
Uses: Commonly used in cooking, as bath salts, or in salt lamps for decorative and claimed therapeutic purposes.
Health claims: Some believe it has detoxifying or respiratory benefits, but scientific evidence is limited.
Flavor: Slightly milder than regular table salt, with a unique mineral
Granules are small particles or grains that typically range in size from very fine to coarse. They can occur naturally or be manufactured and are often used to describe materials that are solid, dry, and granular in texture.
Granules In Different Contexts:
Biology / Cell Biology:
Granules are small structures within cells, often involved in storage or secretion of substances.
Examples: Secretory granules in glands, granules in platelets (important for blood clotting), or cytoplasmic granules.
Pharmaceuticals:
Granules refer to a dosage form made of aggregated powdered ingredients.
They improve flowability, compressibility, and can be used for sustained release medications.
Food Industry:
Granules can refer to coarse grains of salt, sugar, coffee (like instant coffee), or seasoning mixes.
They often dissolve easily in water and are used for quick preparation.
Geology:
Refers to a specific particle size category of sediment, typically between sand and pebbles (~2–4 mm).
Found in riverbeds, beaches, and sedimentary rocks.
Astronomy:
Granules on the Sun are convection cells visible on its surface (photosphere).
They appear as bright areas with darker edges, caused by the movement of hot plasma.
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Canon EOS 6D - f/8 - 13 sec - 100mm - ISO 200
- soft-gels
All modern soft-gel encapsulation uses variations of a process developed by R. P. Scherer in 1933. His innovation was to use a rotary die to produce the capsules, with the filling taking place by blow molding. This method reduced wastage, and was the first process to yield capsules with highly repeatable dosage.
Softgels can be an effective delivery system for oral drugs, especially poorly soluble drugs. This is because the fill can contain liquid ingredients that help increase solubility or permeability of the drug across the membranes in the body. Liquid ingredients are difficult to include in any other solid dosage form such as a tablet.
Lith E verwende ich selten. Es wurde ursprünglich gemacht um die Farbigkeit von Lithprints zu reduzieren oder das Korn akzentuierter darzustellen. Die Papiere, für die es vorgesehen war, werden heute nicht mehr hergestellt.
Was dieses Additiv bewirkt und welche Rolle dabei die Papier-Emulsionen spielen, sei an den Beispielen von zwei Paieren gezeigt, die unterschiedlicher kaum sein können.
Zunächst das Ilford Art 300. Dieses Papier ist für den Lithprozeß eigentlich nicht geeignet, weil bei den normalerweise verwendeten Entwicklermischungen kein Lithschwarz entsteht, auch nicht bei sehr langen Entwicklungszeiten, wenig erstaunlich, denn die Emulsion ist der des MGWT zumindest sehr ähnlich.
Bei einem Entwickleransatz von 40 ml A + 40 ml B auf 800 ml Wasser sorgt der Zusatz von 10 ml E (1+4 verdünnt) für eine rasch einsetzende Schwärzung der Schatten nach relativ kurzer Entwicklungszeit (2-4 Minuten).
Die hierbei entstehende Körnigkeit hat nichts mit der Kornstruktur des Negativs zu tun. Die Kornzusammenballungen werden umso intensiver, je höher die Dosierung und je länger belichtet wird. Die Zunahme der Farbigkeit bei längeren Belichtungszeiten fällt hier deutlich geringer aus. Ist mehr Farbe erwünscht, kann natürlich getont werden.
I rarely use Lith E. It was originally designed to reduce the colourfulness of lith prints or to accentuate the grain. The papers for which it was intended are no longer manufactured today.
The effect of this additive and the role played by the paper emulsions can be demonstrated using two examples of papers that could hardly be more different.
First, Ilford Art 300. This paper is not really suitable for the lith process because the developer mixtures normally used do not produce lith black, even with very long development times, which is not surprising because the emulsion is very similar to that of MGWT.
With a developer mixture of 40 ml A + 40 ml B to 800 ml water, the addition of 10 ml E (diluted 1+4) ensures rapid blackening of the shadows after a relatively short development time (2-4 minutes).
The graininess that results has nothing to do with the grain structure of the negative. The grain clusters become more intense the higher the dosage and the longer the exposure time. The increase in colourfulness with longer exposure times is significantly lower here. If more colour is desired, toning can of course be used.
Left 12 seconds exposure, right 18 seconds exposure.
An update on Gracie: After 2 doses per day of thyroid meds for a period of 3 weeks, the vet checked her thyroxin level and found it had dropped to such a degree that he recommended we change to a single dose of the medication per day. Earlier, Gracie seemed very lethargic. Now that the dosage for her thyroid pills has been reduced, Gracie seems to be alert and tolerating the daily pill each morning. We pulverize the pill, dissolve it in 3 ml of water, place it in a syringe and deliver the medicine with the syringe. (She's sleeping in this photo, but has not been doing so to unnatural extent.) In a few weeks, the vet will check her thyroid activity again.
A smokey and very different tasting honey.(a slightly bitter taste and then the sweetness hits) One teaspoon 45 minutes before bed acted like a strong sedative. Slept very deeply throughout the night. Maybe someday when I want to take a trip without leaving the farm, I'll be bold and increase the dosage. The most exotic honey I have ever owned. This brand is from Nepal. Local honey hunters risk their lives because the altitude is so high(about 8000 ft or higher) and the rugged remote mountains make it a dangerous adventure to just get to the special location where this prized honey is located. The bees that make this magical honey are the largest bees in the world, about 2 times larger than the average honey bee.
Canon EOS 6D - f/7.1 - 1/125sec - 100mm - ISO 320
encapsulated vitamins + sunlight !
- for challenge Flickr group Macro Mondays, theme Remedy.
- soft-gels
All modern soft-gel encapsulation uses variations of a process developed by R. P. Scherer in 1933. His innovation was to use a rotary die to produce the capsules, with the filling taking place by blow molding. This method reduced wastage, and was the first process to yield capsules with highly repeatable dosage.
Softgels can be an effective delivery system for oral drugs, especially poorly soluble drugs. This is because the fill can contain liquid ingredients that help increase solubility or permeability of the drug across the membranes in the body. Liquid ingredients are difficult to include in any other solid dosage form such as a tablet.
“Our life was full of pills,” AA Bronson recalled of the early 1990s, “so they became part of our work.” At first, General Idea made a set of three pill-Shaped sculptures named after the drugs Amoxicillin, Bacampicillin and Carbenicillin. The pills kept replicating. The five coffin-sized units in One Day of AZT reference the daily dose of antiviral drug Felix Partz was taking. One Year of AZT represents his annual dosage: 1825 pills, which he called his “little helpers.”
Elegiac and quietly moving, these two works were made near the end of General Idea’s practice. The installation is intended to overwhelm, enfolding is in a pharmacological universe.
The tourist photographer being eyed in Ribeira/Porto - with the right dosage of mutual understanding.
I have been overdosing on Vitamin D but was unaware of it. This is a friendly reminder to double check your dosages, too much of a good thing can be harmful. At least now I have extra photo props.
The gain in knowledge is usually greater with difficult negatives. That's why I chose an older, very high-contrast negative (Efke R25) to test the limits of the new Fomatone batch.
So that even less experienced lithprinters can understand the problem with high-contrast negatives with extremely high light density, I will explain it again here.
To get a higher level of colour, the image has to be heavily overexposed. Strong overexposure requires a higher dilution of the lith developer in order to prevent a too fast blackening of shadows and midtones. However, at dilutions of 1+20 or higher, the developer is less stable, making reproducible results difficult. A higher dosage of restrainers such as potassium bromide or Lith D is therefore more sensible than a higher dilution.
Test SE5 Lith (1+20)
1st attempt of course already with overexposure
A+B+D+Water 20+20+20+800ml 10 minutes - no colour, no lith effect
2nd attempt A+B+D+Water 20+20+35+800ml plus 60% more overexposure (=45 seconds) 11 minutes – pale yellowish highlights, but snowball effect.
Back to tried and tested technology with a stronger lith developer and a second developer for more colour. Nothing new, just the familiar second bath with pyrocatechol.
Exposure time again extended to 80 secs.
1st tray SE5 Lith A+B+D+water 35+35+35+800ml 5:15 mins
2nd tray 600ml water + Pyrocatechol 40ml + Lith B 30ml + Ammonium chloride 20% 10ml 4 mins
The S-92B is an anti-aircraft platform in service with the Zlovenian National Army.
Inspired by conspicuous amounts of vodka and Kop-Tek Industry's attempt at mounting a silly gun on the back of a truck, the engineers at Zlovenia Arms Incorporated decided to do the same thing. The result was a 20mm chain gun mounted on the platform of an S-53 Kuše SAM system. With 2 MANPADs because why the hell not at this point, the reasoning went.
And so, with a health dosage of military-industrial complex and a dash of alcohol, the S-92B somehow went into production as an actual thing.
In service, the S-92B, despite it's interesting origins, has actually proved to be a quite effective, if expensive, point defense system.
For Divide And Conquer VI.
What a beautiful place to be tonight... The golden light through the trees gave the autumn colors a painterly look against the softness of the lake's water. I wish I had discovered this place last Autumn as last year I was quite homesick for a dosage of Colorado fall. But everything happens in its own time and season for it's own reason. I do believe I needed to see it more this season than last year if that makes any sense at all. It's been a long time since I have been able to drink so deeply of the beauty of Autumn. Perhaps being thirsty to see beauty is sometimes what causes us to enjoy it more than what we would have in a different chapter in life... And sadly sometimes that need is caused by pain and change. As sad as it is I think we appreciate beauty more when we have experienced the opposite of it. How can we not appreciate the light more if we have spent time in the dark...
The holidays are around the corner. What is it about holidays that makes grief so raw, so real? I'm not ready for them to be honest. I would rather sit here for days on end in a dream where these colors never fade and this song plays tenderly for me through the trees.
Enjoy one of my favorite classics played by the beautiful and talented hands of Khatia Buniatishvili.
I love you friends xx
Camera: Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta III (531/16)
Lens: Carl Zeiss Tessar f/3.5 75 mm
Film: Kodak Tri-X 400
Exposure: 1/250 sec and f/3.5, @ 1.5 m, hand-held
Film developed and scanned by MeinFilmLab
Edited under Adobe Lightroom
Dark weather and tripod forbidden induced me to adjust the aperture wide open. The Super Ikonta III fitted with the Tessar lens is quite suitable, since this lens preserves sharpness at wider apertures. I like the rendering of the out-of-focus area of medium format cameras. But realizing the wanted dosage of blurring is a real challenge, since folder cameras enable no depth-of-field control.
Another ballsy wool spin featuring Mike Rotch, this time with a fisheye and some bricks. Slight overkill with the wool dosage, but the best/least worst composition. No adjustments, straight RAW conversion using in-camera settings.
Sneaky last minute entry for 2012 Light Painting Olympics Speed Round
Phoradendron californicum. Hemiparasitic plant. Sucks the life out of host trees. The white to reddish fruits are edible, the plant however, contains phoratoxins which can easily lead to death via slowed heart rate, increased blood pressure, convulsions and cardiac arrest. It may cause hallucinations, but there is no way to judge dosage. People seeking a "high" from mistletoe still turn up in morgues each year.
My side acreage. Found in a mesquite tree. Dedicated macro lens. No crop. Micro-Nikkor 55mm ƒ/2.8
Canon EOS 6D - f/8 - 2.5sec - 100mm - ISO 200
- second choice for challenge Flickr group Macro Mondays, theme Staying Healthy.
- soft-gels
All modern soft-gel encapsulation uses variations of a process developed by R. P. Scherer in 1933. His innovation was to use a rotary die to produce the capsules, with the filling taking place by blow molding. This method reduced wastage, and was the first process to yield capsules with highly repeatable dosage.
Softgels can be an effective delivery system for oral drugs, especially poorly soluble drugs. This is because the fill can contain liquid ingredients that help increase solubility or permeability of the drug across the membranes in the body. Liquid ingredients are difficult to include in any other solid dosage form such as a tablet.
Lithium is an old psychotropic prescribed to help manage extreme fluctuations in mood. Interestingly, it's a drug that seems to have made a return in recent years to psychiatry, because of its relatively saf(er) adverse effects, in comparison to some of the other, old and less familiar, medication.
It is a known fact that medication can, and does help, though it does run a risk, (if the dosage is incompatible), to flattening, or rather, a blunting, of one's affections. It is often heard that people feel a sense of disconnect and dissociation from reality; a mere act of watching as the world moves by, from the comfort of their passenger-seat...
Darley Abbey Park
[ Explored No. 139 on 1 July 2017. Thank you all so much ! ]
In Medieval dwellings, floors were carpeted with rushes, reeds or straw, for insulation and to provide bedding for members of the lower household. These floor coverings were only cleaned out and replaced once or twice a year, so to counteract the accumulated odours, fragrant herbs were scattered (strewn) on top of them, releasing their scents when they were walked upon. Some of these herbs also acted as insect and pest repellants.
With regards to Meadowsweet, John Gerard said that Queen Elizabeth 1st “did more desire it than any other herb to strew her chambers withal.”
Meadowsweet has continued to be used for medicinal purposes - for headaches (it contains aspirin), rheumatism, acid reflux, and poor digestion (as it sooths the mucous membranes in the intestines).
There ! And you thought it was just a weed growing in the countryside meadows, didn't you !
This is from a wild area in our local park and now stands looking lovely and smelling delicious in the kitchen. Taken with a 4x magnifying filter on my lens - I'm quite pleased with it for a first attempt :o) The flowers are tiny - about 1 millimetre across. Hope you like it too !
Thanks, as always, for your support and for just looking and reading ... you are all so appreciated. Please don't eat meadowsweet without checking out whether it's safe for you ... I don't know the dosage or how to prepare it !
Highest Position - Explore #3 | 29.11.2008 (To U with lotsa luv xoxo! ;))
(Big thanks to Mary for the explore update too! ;D)
Its Sunday morning here & i was out until late at night yesterday therefore my apologies for not catching up on your photostreams. As always, here's a dosage of my churchy shot for this lovely day! ;) Take care & have a relaxing weekend!
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The Centre Section of St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne
The Shot
Standard 3 exposure shot (+2..0..-2 EV) with tripod using Sigma DC HSM 10-20mm lens
Photomatix
- Tonemapped generated HDR using detail enhancer option
Photoshop
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'curves' to adjust the contrast
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (master) to decrease the overall saturation
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (reds & yellows) to enhance the ceiling
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (greens) to bring out the colours of the leaves
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (yellows) to enhance the lightings
- Used 'unsharp mask' (as always) on the background layer
You
All comments, criticism and tips for improvements are (as always) welcome
Music
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Since three years Cortez has diabetes. In the beginnen it was difficult to find the right dosage, but for 2 1/2 year he was stable on a low dosis. Cortez is doing well again. 6 weeks ago the bloodsugar level was high again. I have raised the insuline slowly and now he is back to normal again
See my pictures in Flickriver
Update: 2 july:
Again much to high bloodsugar levels. I have to raise the insuline again.
Canon EOS 6D - f/7.1 - 1/125sec - 100mm - ISO 320
- second choice for challenge Flickr group Macro Mondays,
theme Remedy.
- soft-gels
All modern soft-gel encapsulation uses variations of a process developed by R. P. Scherer in 1933. His innovation was to use a rotary die to produce the capsules, with the filling taking place by blow molding. This method reduced wastage, and was the first process to yield capsules with highly repeatable dosage.
Softgels can be an effective delivery system for oral drugs, especially poorly soluble drugs. This is because the fill can contain liquid ingredients that help increase solubility or permeability of the drug across the membranes in the body. Liquid ingredients are difficult to include in any other solid dosage form such as a tablet.