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for a laugh you must watch this video sent to me by my dear friend Tao of Jonathan it is simply adorable and a guaranteed smile!
She has not been on Flickr in a while, so some of you may not know my sweet companion of fourteen years, yes this little beauty is fourteen years old..
We have welcomed many years together, and will do so again this New Year's Eve, with maybe a friend or two who may drop by for an egg nog.
Notice her littlefblack heart on her nose. It was not there the first year of her life, and one day it just appeared, honestly.
Have a great day,
billie
Experimenting with creating vintage rail posters that were created over 50 years ago. A shot taken with my compact and processed in Photoshop
Not sure if quite got the style but maybe will progress this if I people take to it.
This is the sort of thing I am trying to replicate: www.travelpostersonline.com/inverness-lmslner--railway-tr...
I know this one doesn't look quite vintage if anyone knows the Forth Rail Bridge as it has these white covers on it, but you get the idea
I just want to process this shot following a vintage nostaligic mood. I've tryed to ricreate something i lived in the seventies when I was a little girl. I have some doubt about the results, but this is my best for now.
A concrete pump operator finished work here at this location and begins folding down to relocate. This construction site is part of highway Interstate 69 In Rosenberg, Texas, near Houston. In support of America’s international trade routs, when finished, the highway will stretch border to border across America and connect Mexico to Canada. The project will take decades to finish.
Shot at Rockport, MA a couple weeks ago. I used Velvia slide film, although I messed up and got the 100F instead of the famed 50. Oh well. I'm not 100% happy with the results I got from here, which I blame mostly on myself. Using film after digital feels a little like starting new at photography. There's no checking and modifying the shot. Seriously, all of the previous work I've uploaded was not the first take. I'd shoot and then say "oh, that was too dark" and then correct and shoot again.
I wanted to shoot film because I wanted to see what 17mm was like as it is meant to be. I've been using it only on my cropped D50 sensor. Nikon's least expensive full-frame camera is the D700, which is still a good $2500 or so, so it will be a while before I can make that leap.
One problem I encountered is severe vignetting. Some vignetting is visible here, but I actually have cropped the top and bottom off. Even worse, the Lee filter holder was getting in the way. I may try hand-holding the filters next time.
Nikon F60
Nikon 17-35mm f/2.8 @ 17mm
Exposure: ?? who knows
Aperture: probably f/11 or f/16
Velvia 100F
Hoya 81C warming filter, Lee GND filters (5 stops)
Some color enhancement in Photoshop
done by me and hirayama-san
not happy with this one. the aperture is way off. the stencil in the center bottom also did not work out as a result of the aperture and shit kicked stencil box.
i am experimenting with a certain style of sbl mouth, after i fell in love with a YJ custom,....well, it isn't exactly what i wanted, though i am more or less happy with the results.
Still deciding about this girl's future (initially, my own sbl)
Moody Experiment.
Some photos from a place you might already recognize, as there're many photos of it here. This time I tried to make something different out of the familiar views. After all, this is a landscape that probably is not scenic this time of the year. At least not for me, not in the usual sense. But of course there's a certain mood -- which might be something that comes out of myself, but I'm sure not without some stimulus, outside, it is really there, somehow. Can it be pictured? Can it be conveyed? How can you depict the actual first impression?
On a technical note: All done with old 50mm f/1.7 lens, all wide open, I used a Kenko nostaltone blue for diffusion and color shift. „Enhanced" in LR & PS.
Experiment: cropping photos in a triangle, with a duotone which in my opinion matches the setting and composition of the photo.
For my next step in this experiment I'd like to make prints, cut out the triangle, and glue them to foamboard.
FOV: 2.75" wide.
Uranyl nitrate and sodium chloride from a previous experiment was dissolved in water. Approx. 6mL of this solution was added to ~5mL of dry sodium metasilicate along with water in a small watch glass. This was rehydrated every few days for about two weeks as the sodium silicate would crystallize and then dissolve again. At the end of the two weeks it was dried under a small electric light bulb resulting in a clear glassy substance with a tinge of green color. On the surface formed large crystalline layer. Before the substance dried it was not very fluorescent. After drying and crystallizing, it became very fluorescent yellow-green under all UV wavelengths.
Because of the crystalline nature of the substance, I don't think I succeeded in creating hyalite opal which is amorphous and not crystalline.
Contains:
Pseudo "Hyalite" (FL Yellow-green >BL/UVabc)
Shown under white light.
Key:
WL = White light (halogen + LED)
FL = Fluoresces
PHOS = Phosphorescent
Blue = 450nm,
UVa = 368nm (LW), UVb = 311nm (MW), UVc = 254nm (SW)
'>' = "stimulated by:", '!' = "bright", '~' = "dim"
"Hyalite Opal"
19Nov2015
Much appreciation to Gordon Czop for the uranyl nitrate.
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18 Watt Triple Output UV lamp from Polman Minerals - Way Too Cool UV lamps
FOV: 6" wide.
This experiment was an attempt to recreate the fluorescence of chromium activated corundum (aka 'ruby'). Aluminum hydroxide was mixed with 1-4 drops of Cr(III) oxide in a basic solution. This was placed on a small amount of aluminum sulfate in an aluminum foil container and a bit of water was added.
The sample was then heated, first with a propane torch until the water was removed and then with a MAPP gas torch until the aluminum sulfate expanded into foam, trapping the aluminum hydroxide which was calcined into aluminum oxide by the torch's flame. (at least that was the plan)
Shown also is a natural ruby from Mysore, India.
See ruby excitation spectrum here (0.03% Cr):
www.northropgrumman.com/BusinessVentures/SYNOPTICS/Produc...
Contains:
Ruby (FL Red >GR,BL/UVa)
Ruby Foam (FL Red >GR,BL/UVabc)
Shown under UVb light.
Key:
WL = White light (halogen + LED)
FL = Fluoresces
PHOS = Phosphorescent
BL = 450nm, GR = 532nm
UVa = 368nm (LW), UVb = 311nm (MW), UVc = 254nm (SW)
'>' = "stimulated by:", '!' = "bright", '~' = "dim"
Ruby2
24 Dec 2016
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A Photoshop experiment using gradients, layers and solid colors.
The watch is an early Limes Nightflight. I also used my 50mm 1.4
Manual Nikkor which will be getting more regular workouts so I can
learn to focus it. :-)
Sitges, Barcelona (Spain).
SortidazZ: El corazón del Garraf. [22/11/2009]
Better seen in Fluidr.
Se ve mejor en Fluidr.
"Mirada al futuro" de Lorenzo Quinn (2009).
ENGLISH
Don Facundo Bacardi Massó (Catalan: Facund Bacardí i Massó) (1814 – May 9, 1886) was a Spanish–Cuban businessman. In 1862 he founded the eponymonous Bacardi rum distillery.
Bacardi was born in Sitges (province of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain), son of a family of bricklayers. He followed his older brothers to Cuba in 1830, finding employment in their general store in Santiago. Over time, he saved up his own capital, and in 1844 he established his own mercantile shop.
Just three months earlier he had married Amalia Moreau, a woman of independent means who additionally had a wealthy godmother named Clara Astie. Both would prove to be sources of capital for Facundo's business ventures. Facundo and Amalia went on to have a number of children, many of whom would play important parts in building the rum business for which the family became famous: Emilio was born in 1844, Juan in 1846, Facundo Jr in 1848, Maria in 1851, Jose in 1857, and Amalia in 1861.
An earthquake followed by a cholera epidemic devastated Santiago in 1852, claiming Juan and Maria and sending Facundo and his family to Catalonia for a number of months to escape. Upon his return, Facundo found his store looted and business conditions in Santiago poor in the wake of the disaster and amid a global slump in sugar, the mainstain of the economy. Facundo's business wasn't able to recover, and it was bankrupt in 1855.
Soon after, Facundo began to experiment with the process of distilling rum. Previously, rum was a crude, low quality beverage. Facundo, with the help of a French Cuban named Jose Leon Boutellier, a tenant of Clara Astie, began to experiment with methods of distillation. Exactly what techniques they developed are debated, but some combination of quicker-fermenting cognac yeast, charcol filtration, white oak barrel aging, and painful trial-and-error based adjustments of distillation and fermentation resulted in much more refined, tamer drink which they successfully sold through Facundo's brother's general store.
In 1862 the partners acquired a distillery and constituted the firm "Bacardi, Bouteller, and Company", using capital supplied by Facundo's younger brother Jose. Having started in retailing, Bacardi understood how to sell things, and realized that his innovative drink would benefit from good branding. He began to sign each shipment of rum with a bold "Bacardi M" (for Bacardi Massó); in addition, he used the now iconic bat as the brand's image.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facundo_Bacardi
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CASTELLANO
Facundo Bacardí Massó (Sitges, Barcelona, 1814 — Cuba, 9 de mayo de 1886), empresario hispano–cubano, era hijo de un comerciante de vinos de Tarragona (Cataluña, España), que en 1830 marchó con su familia a Cuba. Tras establecerse en Santiago de Cuba, Facundo prosperó en el mismo negocio que su padre. En 1843 se casó con Amalia Victoria Moreau.
Desde 1852 comenzó a experimentar con el proceso de destilación del ron para obtener una bebida más suave. Finalmente dio con una fórmula satisfactoria (inédita hasta entonces en el mercado) y tras adquirir una antigua destilería en Santiago, el 4 de febrero de 1862 fundó la empresa Bacardí (cuyo símbolo fue desde entonces hasta hoy en día un murciélago) para fabricar y vender el nuevo producto. Sus hijos José, Emilio y Facundo colaboraron activamente en este negocio familiar. Los dos últimos apoyaron públicamente la insurrección independentista de 1868, lo que ocasionó algunos problemas a la empresa con las autoridades.
La marca Bacardí obtuvo en 1876 la Medalla de Oro de la Exposición Universal de Filadelfia (E.U.A.) y posteriormente otros prestigiosos reconocimientos en Europa, Estados Unidos y Cuba. Ese mismo año Facundo Bacardí se retiró del negocio, dejándolo en manos de sus hijos, que más tarde, en la década de los 90, se asociarían con su cuñado Enrique Schueg, gracias a cuyo aporte de capital la empresa se expandió, aumentando las exportaciones y abriendo nuevos mercados. El fundador de la compañía murió diez años después de su retiro. Su hijo Emilio tuvo contactos con José Martí en 1892 en Nueva York, luchó por la Independencia de Cuba, y llegó a ser el primer alcalde post-colonial de Santiago y senador electo de la República (1906).
Cyanotype in two colors.
Original digital photo splitted in CMYK. M-channel printed, bleached and tea-toned. Recoated with emulsion. Made a short exposure of the C-channel.
Thanks to: www.alternativephotography.com/wp/processes/cyanotype/mul...
This was the best I could do without trespassing and was taken through a distant fence, on long zoom, and 22009 GX51PUJ is still here having recently been moved into the main depot area in preperation for possible disposal, after 2 years in the the storage area next to Menzies Road: www.flickr.com/photos/69558134@N05/40226407032/, and 22942 OU51WLK is also still parked next to it, with 47116 GX54DXP from Assford now parked in between them, slowly being robbed of parts, while "National Express" Coach 59303 FJ08KOE has now been moved out of shot to the right within the last week, in preperation for transfer back up North to another Stagecoach fleet.
And be sure to check by my other acount: www.flickr.com/photos_user.gne?path=&nsid=77145939%40..., to see what else I saw last week!!
Yes I'm back again.
However due to my main computer on which I edit my work being struck down with a big bad virus, this picture and all the others I am uploading, were Unedited but have now been replaced with Edited versions. So enjoy and Thanks for your patience and understanding.
I do still hate everything about this shit that is new Flickr and always will, but an inability to find another outlet for my work that is as easy for me to use as the Old BETTER Flickr was, has forced me back to Flickr, even though it goes against everything I believe in.
I don't generally have an opinion on my own work, I prefer to leave that to other people and so based on the positive responses to my work from the various friends I had made on Flickr prior to the changes I have decided to upload some more of my work as an experiment and to see what happens.
So make the most of me before they delete my acount: www.flickr.com/photos/69558134@N05/?details=1, to stop me complaining!!
FOV: 3" wide.
Uranyl nitrate solution was used to hydrate 15mL of DAP Plaster of Paris mix. The result showed hardly any green uranyl fluorescence, what could be seen was yellowish green. The plaster was then rehydrated using a concentrated sodium carbonate solution. The water was evaporated and the mixture was then calcined at ~150 degC for 4 hours in an oven. It was then rehydrated using a sodium carbonate solution. The plaster mix bubbled for about a half hour releasing much CO2 gas. After drying a coating of yellowish crystals formed on the surface.
Compare to:
www.mindat.org/photo-299521.html
See:
rruff.info/uploads/CM31_167.pdf
Contains:
Pseudo Schrockingerite (FL Blue-green >BL/UVabc)
Shown under white light.
Key:
WL = White light (halogen + LED)
FL = Fluoresces
PHOS = Phosphorescent
Blue = 450nm,
UVa = 368nm (LW), UVb = 311nm (MW), UVc = 254nm (SW)
'>' = "stimulated by:", '!' = "bright", '~' = "dim"
Carbonated Pseudo Schrockingerite
14Nov2015
Much appreciation to Gordon Czop for the uranyl nitrate.
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18 Watt Triple Output UV lamp from Polman Minerals - Way Too Cool UV lamps