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An interesting surprise... a tiny wolf spider carrying an egg sac. She was in no mood to stand around and pose, and both me and Rosie took quite a few disappointingly blurred photos of this one.
This one was somewhat improved with the assistance of my trusty SB25 flash, camera left, probably 1/16th strength through a tissue paper diffuser and about 6" away from the subject.
I don't expect the sculptor (Rudy Weller) had taken seagulls into consideration!
The Criterion Building, Piccadilli Circus, London
The Daughters of Helios or Three Graces depicts the three Charites - Aglaea, Euphrosyne, and Thalia - who in some accounts are the daughters of Helios and the naiad Aegle. The three female figures are made from gold-leaf-covered aluminium. They are installed at roof level, as if leaping off the 6th floor of the building (wikipedia)
Photo taken on Huawei phone 18th March, 2020
Two DDG images combined with original on Topaz and Photoshop
Yay, my Golden State Warriors Championship car flags have arrived a week earlier than expected! It's impossible to find these in retail stores so I just ordered them on Amazon. Well, it's time to show off with these things in action on the road lol. Congrats again, Dubs! (Friday, June 15, 2018)
**For the 2nd consecutive season, the GS Warriors lifted the Larry O'Brien Trophy after sweeping the Cavs to win the NBA 2018 Finals. The Warriors needed only 4 games to take down the Cavs & completed the 1st sweep in the championship series since 2007, when the Spurs took down the Cavs. This title is the 3rd GS has captured in the last 4 seasons, making them the 1st team since the Lakers from 2000-2002 to accomplish the feat. The Warriors are the 1st team to take home the trophy in back-to-back seasons since the Miami Heat did it in 2012 & 2013 and GS's win marks the 13th time in NBA history that a team put together a streak of consecutive championships... "There's nothing to complain about when you're well-compensated and sipping champagne in June..!"
Blue period
"When she was just a girl, she expected the world. But it flew away from her reach so she ran away in her sleep. And dreamed of para-para paradise, everytime she closed her eyes."
-Coldplay (Paradise)
Expect to fulfil all romantic dreams in Munich, MĆ¼nchen or call her by any name. If at first, you are pushed for time visit the photographed sites ONLY! Then give her a second thought. Trust me, cos I loved her soā¦
I expected to see lots of awesome scenery in Point Lobos, but I did not expect to see crabs hiding in the rocks. Once you saw one, they seemed to be everywhere on the rocks along the shore.
He is destined for huge things and we and expect rather greater things for the star. His fans are always interested How much is Waka Flocka net worth?
I don't expect rain in Greece, we go there regularly as a gentle sunny break after our more adventurous trips. But this year was different and July saw us dodging the rain in Sani Wetlands, Halkidiki, where we found this family of rather bedraggled Shrikes. Despite the rain I was rather pleased to get these shots - from the ever popular "car" hide! The rain even made for some great bokeh shots.
Sani is a great place - sandy pinewoods meet beach, reedbeds and lakes, so lots to see! And ideal for these beauties.
More in the set below right,
All my other sets of species can be found in an organised form here - www.flickr.com/photos/85387952@N00/collections/
This World Class attraction was everything we expected and more. Construction has just begun on a major expansion, but that has been managed in such a way that it does not in any way detract from the experience now.
This album focuses on the artwork inside the buildings and on the other interior spaces including the Eleven Restaurant and the Gift Shop. A separate album posted a few days ago is devoted to the two April mornings that we spent exploring just some of the trails that crisscross the 120 acres of Arkansas forest around the museum.
Alice Walton and her co-creative team can be proud of the vision and execution of everything on this 120 acre site.
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"Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is a museum of American art in Bentonville, Arkansas. The museum, founded by Alice Walton and designed by Moshe Safdie, officially opened on 11 November 2011. It offers free public admission.
Alice Walton, the daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton, spearheaded the Walton Family Foundation's involvement in developing Crystal Bridges. The museum's glass-and-wood design by architect Moshe Safdie and engineer Buro Happold features a series of pavilions nestled around two creek-fed ponds and forest trails. The 217,000 square feet complex includes galleries, several meeting and classroom spaces, a library, a sculpture garden, a museum store designed by architect Marlon Blackwell, a restaurant and coffee bar, named Eleven after the day the museum opened, "11/11/11". Crystal Bridges also features a gathering space that can accommodate up to 300 people. Additionally, there are outdoor areas for concerts and public events, as well as extensive nature trails. It employs approximately 300 people, and is within walking distance of downtown Bentonville."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Bridges_Museum_of_American_Art
crystalbridges.org/nature-trails/
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My photo walk of Tuesday, September 17, 2024 in Lyon, France. I expected a mixture of sunshine and clouds for testing the B+W red filter but in turn, the cloud cover was tight. I decided to keep the red filter for the whole film anyway.
I used my Hasselblad 500 C/M camera loaded with a Kentmere 100 film. The Carl Zeiss normal lens Planar CF 1:2.8 f=80mm was equipped with a 67mm screw-on filter Light Red 5 B+W type 090 adapted to the Hasselblad bayonet filter mount with a specific adaptor. The Zenza Bronica metal shade hood designed for the 75mm Nikkor-P lens was mounted additionally to the filter to its 67mm thread.
The film was exposed for 25 ISO to compensate of the filter light absorption using a Minolta Autometer III and its 10Ā° viewer for selective measurement privileging the shadow area's or by measuring the incident light with the opalescent dome.
View Nr. 11: 1/60s f/3.5 focusing @ 7m
Place Docteur Gailleton Maire de Lyon, September 17, 2024
69002 Lyon
France
After the view #12 exposed, the film was fully rolled to the taking spool and was developed in a Paterson tank with a spiral adapted to the 70mm large film. 500 mL of Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developer were prepared at the dilution 1+50 and the film processed for 15min at 20Ā°C.
Digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) held on a Minolta vertical macro stative device and adapted to a Minolta MD Macro lens 1:3.5 f=50mm. The light source was a LED panel (approx. 4x5') CineStill Cine-lite fitted with film holder "Lobster" to maintain flat the 70mm film.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printed files with frame or the full size JPEG's together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.
About my Hasselblad 500C/M:
I remember that somewhere around 2002, I considered to buy a Hasselblad camera. I gave up because I had no more access to a darkroom and I found too complicated to recreate one or to delegate the processing to a service lab. Afterward, I started digital photography that distracted me to operate again with films until more recently. It is only when I could manage in 2022 a reliable and quality way to exploit my negatives in a reasonable time, that I really could enjoy again of analog photography.
On July 17, 2024, I decided to buy "my" Hasselblad in a very traditional way, almost as I could in the 90ās, in a local real photographic store, Lyon, France. The store Ā« CarrĆ© Couleur Ā» of Jacques Larger, rue Servient, Lyon, France, is a long-time specialist of professional medium-format cameraās including Hasselblad ones. They had on display several revised and 6-month guaranteed cameraās and a large choice of lenses and accessories.`
I choose a 500 C/M year 1978 and a Carl Zeiss lens Planar T* 1:2.8 f=80mm of the CF series year 1986, plus a small set of little Hasselblad goodies. The 500 C/M is totally mechanical without any electrical nor electronic circuitry. The 500 C/M's were produced in Gƶteborg, Sweden, from year 1970 to 1994. They followed the production of the 500C cameraās (1957-1970). The latest V-series camera (503 CX, CW, CWI etc) ceased in 2006 and Hasselblad then produced only digital cameraās but also digital camera backs that could fit to the V-series includingbthis 500 C/M (www.hasselbladhistorical.eu/HS/HSTable.aspx)
This CF lens series has central shutter Prontor (Synchro-Compur for the earlier Zeiss series). They are more cylindrical than earlier series and equipped of the proprietary bayonet filter mount B60. The delayed shutter realease was also abandoned. The focusing screen is the Ā« Bright Ā» series with the Dodin stigmometer in the screen centrer and the squared cross-ruling lines. Later 501 and 503 were basically equipped with an even more brighter screen called Ā« Acute-mat Ā». The camera back could dated from year 1977 is an Ā« A-12 Ā» back Ā« A Ā» standing for Ā« Automatic Ā». The film advance automatically stops at view 1 with view counter on the right camera side.
After a complete demo by Jacques Larger, I studied the camera manipulation at home with the user manual in hand (an original edition of 1980) before doing the decisive Ā« film dāessai Ā» (test film) on a sunny morning of July 20, 2024.
The results show very high-quality, highly-contrasted negative views, perfectly exposed and spaced proving the good technical state of the camera, film magazine, and the lens/shutter.
On sept. 2, 2024, I received from a French specialist of collection camera's, a second film magazine Hasselblad "A12". This back is in a pristine condition and matches the production year 1978 (Hasselblad letter coding "UR") of the 500 C/M body.
The camera back is like a new with almost no signs of use. It arrived in its original Hasselblad box including the original user manual too. The film insert has latest 3 digits matching the film magazine serial number, that is not the case of the other magazine. Unmatched magazines and inserts, are very common and assumed not to be a technical problem, but Hasselblad maintained the pairing of the insert magazine to ensure to the customers of the best attention to the precision of the film plane.
Expecting parents of all ages and their family memebers gathered at the Community Activity Center here for a baby shower july 9