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coming to your neighborhood soon - over 400 of these have sprung up in the local area recently - as there are 370,000 plus licensed users in Oklahoma - it became legal in July, 2018
Rules:
Photo must be taken on Umbra De Corvi SIM and must include SIM, no other backgrounds
Contestants will have 2 weeks to complete and submit their photo. Limit 1 shipment per person per day.
Contestants must post their photo on Flickr and tag our Flickr group (www.flickr.com/groups/14775226@N23/)
Contestants must include in the description the SIM surl (maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Umbra%20de%20Corvi/67/89/26), the name of the SIM: (Umbra De Corvi: Fairy Roleplay SIM , Umbra De Corvi) and the name of the contest. (Umbra De Corvi: SIM Fairy Roleplay Photo Contest)
Additionally, we will check that contestants post their contest photo in their SL profile selections with the SIM benchmark. (maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Umbra%20de%20Corvi/67/89/26)
The contest is the best photo of the Umbra De Corvi SIM.
Options:
Landscape
Avatar photo in Umbra De Corvi SIM
The 6 best photographs, cash prizes
L $ 1500 for the first place
L $ 750 for the second and third place
L $ 500 for the fourth, fifth and sixth place.
Start Date: Monday, March 1
End date: Monday, March 15
Announcement of the winners will be posted on the True Sabbat's Tribune on Sunday, March 28 and on the Flickr group.
The images will be evaluated according to:
1. Count on SIM in the best possible way.
2. Photo quality
3. Originality
So cheer up, take out your cameras and show us your best shots!
good luck to all!
True Sabbat
For a time in 1979, several Delaware & Hudson GP39-2’s showed up in Conrail service. A few Conrail B23-7’s were spotted on D&H trains, so I believe that these were loans for evaluation, especially since Conrail was beginning to replace its first- and early second-generation fleet. Here two D&H GP39-2’s join a Conrail U30B on the Saucon Drill in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, while a PB&NE switcher/slug set work in the background. The EMD’s are no strangers to these tracks, having begin their lives as Reading units.
After seeing that photo on the breeder's site , I made an appointment to visit when the pupies would be 7 weeks old. I did not even evaluate all of them ... that little pup ranked above the rest of them. He proved to be a great working dog, highly intelligent, balanced and motivated.
Evaluating an alternative developer: FA-1027, with Tri-X rated at 200 ASA.
Camera: Kodak Special Six-20, with f4.5 Anastigmat Special lens. Its not the best lens in the world, but it produces a usable 6x9 negative. Camera was produced from 1937-39.
© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved
Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Colour re-edit of a shot from this day, 15th July, in 2019.
Thank you all for your comments, favourites and support for my photography. Take care.
Evaluating the combination of Adox CHS 100 II and Crawley's FX-15 developer (1:1 for 10 minutes)
Resolution is excellent, grain structure is smooth and not too pronounced (Looks finer/smoother than Thornton 2-bath gave). Good tonal scale, and about half a stop speed boost.
Voigtlander Perkeo II used.
Retina IIC test, serial 50074
Retina-Heligon f2.8 lens
Delta 400 at 200 ASA, processed in FA-1027
I've used a lot of cameras from the fifties and sixties, and there are plenty of mediocre cameras to be found - shoddily engineered and with really poor lenses. But I can assure you, the Kodak Retina IIC from 1958 is not one of those. The sharpness of the Rodenstock Retina-Heligon lens is exceptional, and it has great contrast and flare resistant. The camera itself is a precision instrument, made to last for decades. I expect this IIC has another 60 years of service in it, at minimum. Such a pleasure to use, too.
"Watching the Ducks", a peaceful pastime ...
Swedish Blue Domestic Duck
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Blue
Prospect Lake, Memorial Park
Colorado Springs, CO
After evaluating an old collection, for sale in Beeville, John and I spent the rest of the afternoon on the Live Oak County roads, since they have had some rain lately. This specimen turned out to be a great surprise, as it was so dirty when I first spotted it, I believed it was simply a botryoidal chunk of George West type petrified wood - now for a better look!
This bluejay was trying to figure out how to leap down onto the side of the woodpeckers dining room...
This Cades Cove Crow was perched on a favorite fence post (I'm not sure I've seen crows perch on anything else in the cove.) and sees to be looking for drier lands off in the distance. I, on the other hand, was quite happy with the rain. I've been starting to really enjoy photographing wildlife on rainy days. So much added texture and behavior from the wildlife. Just need good bags for the lenses. :)
Evalue le danger de reprendre encore une graine, très rare de la voir ainsi arrêtée à la mangeoire, c'est un oiseau méfiant et très furtif.
Plus revu ainsi depuis ..!
Sittelle torchepot, Eurasian Nuthatch
(Sitta europaea)
Merci pour votre visite et appréciations
Thank you for your visit and feedback.
die sich Orientierende ...
there are so many heavens above ... ;-) ...
es gibt nicht nur
die Verlockung
zur falschen Entscheidung
sondern auch
manchmal
die Verlockung
zur richtigen Entscheidung ...
wenn man sich in einem guten Raum befindet
und ihn nicht verlässt
kann es nur richtige Entscheidungen geben ...
ƒ/8.0 55.0 mm 1/60 500
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“L'espérance est un risque à courir.”
Georges Bernanos
Thank you very much for your comments and for your faves.
(Please do not use without my written permission.)
Zehneinundzwanzig (1), 2013, by German artist Jens Stickel.
At Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam.
The mighty Ukranian Flanker at the Royal International airshow at RAF Fairford going through its paces.
Water from the previous day's rain reflects CN 2552 as the venerable Dash-9 approaches the Highway 9 crossing with train O999.
Last weekend I acquired a very inexpensive Kodak Retina 141, from 1939 (very close to end of production). It needed extensive restoration work done, which took me about 2 days to complete. This photo is from the test roll to evaluate its performance. I am continually impressed by the quality of these 80 year old Schneider lenses! (The Anastigmat EKTAR is exactly the same lens as Schneider's Xenar, its just that Kodak made them label the lenses as a Kodak product)
Ilford Pan F processed in BER49 (Atomal 49) for 7.5 minutes.
SAN DIEGO (May 22, 2018) Sailors assigned to Coastal Riverine Squadron (CRS) 3 operate a Mark VI patrol boat during a final evaluation problem conducted by Coastal Riverine Group (CRG) 1's training and evaluation unit. CRG-1 provides a core capability to defend designated high value assets throughout the green and blue-water environment and providing deployable adaptive force packages worldwide in an integrated, joint and combined theater of operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Boatswain’s Mate Nelson Doromal Jr./Released)
Track evaluation RDC 1501 has just eased off CN-owned track and come to a stop on BNSF rails at Missabe Junction before heading back up Proctor Hill and north on the Missabe Sub.
After having tested the Three Hills Sub the previous day, CN's Track Evaluation train deadheads back north to Mirror. CN has assigned a veteran GP38-2W, still wearing a faded Zebra stripes, as the test train's power.
A small train in a vast landscape. All 12 axles of CN train O999 fit between the hills and curves north of Grainger, something that is normally not possible with the normal trains that traverse this subdivision.
This Phantom of the Evaluators of VX-4 was photographed at NAS Oceana in November 1976. The squadron was home based at NAS Point Mugu. It and VX-5 subsequently merged forming VX-9 and adopted the squadron name Vampires previously used by VX-5. VX-9 is currently homebased at NAWS China Lake.
This ultra lightweight craft is built to evaluate new worlds for potential colonization. It is deposited on the surface by a larger landing craft before venturing off on its own, kept aloft by its three electric engines. It can fly in any direction without turning by varying the engine power to tilt into the direction of flight, which makes it highly adept at outmaneuvering any unforeseen threats from the native fauna. The engines are powered by a small onboard fusion reactor. As long as there is adequate atmospheric hydrogen, the craft can remain airborne much longer than any human pilot.
I named this craft after one of the stars in the Winter Triangle, because it is both spacey and rather triangular. The pedantic viewer may note that it is technically a hexagon, but with three sides being much longer than the others, and the three way symmetry to most of the main features, I see it as a triangle with the tips clipped off. But regardless, the Winter Hexagon is a thing too, and it also contains Procyon.
This build is very much inspired by the recent first flight of an aircraft on another planet. While that craft looked nothing like this one, it had the idea of drones on other planets on my mind, and excluding the fact that there’s a cockpit, this does have a rather drone-like shape.
I built this over the course of a rather intense week of building. I missed some work due to temporary vision trouble that reduced glowing objects such as my screen to giant blurs. I could still see well enough to build in normal indoor lighting with the blinds shut, which gave me quite a lot of time to work on this. I had to wait a bit before I could edit the photos, though.
This is the same shot as the main photo (or maybe a different one with my camera in exactly the same position on the tripod, I don't remember) without the Photoshopped haze and other effects to show what it really looks like. As in the main photo, I did, however, combine a shot with the canopy on and a shot with it removed in order to get rid of the ugly reflection from my lights.
A Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey is an unusual find in Gunnison, Colorado. Ship 166494 has the markings USMC squadron MX-21. The Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 21 is based out of Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland.