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Topcon RE Super with Steinheil Culminar 135mm f4.5 VL and Ihagee extension bellows. Photo with Graflex Graphic View II, Schneider Symmar 180mm f5.6, Lomograflok with Instax wide.
This picture was taken in Dayton, Ohio at Wegerzyn Gardens with my 180mm lens + 20mm Extension tube. Better view in Light box. Click on image for 100% detail on organs.
UCR main campus, San José, Costa Rica
Sigma 70-300 mm F4-5.6 APO DG Macro mounted on a 36+20+12 mm Xit Auto focus macro extension tube set.
External flash.
Such a deliciously coloured clematis. I wanted to get right into the centre , the heart of this beautiful flower. I used a 36 mm extension tube on a 50 mm f1.8 Nikkor .
This picture was taken in Dayton, Ohio at Wegerzyn Gardens with my 180mm lens + 20mm Extension tube. The pedals closest to the back on top of each end are a hair out of focus on the edges do to the shallow Dof at F/2.8 aperture. I tried to get the same distance all the way around but failed. Better view in Light box. Click on image for 100% detail on pedals and organs..
As always thank you for your lovely comments.
My Abracadabra rose bud. I am not expecting a beautiful bloom because we've been having too much rain:-(
The stigma, together with the style and ovary comprises the pistil, which in turn is part of the gynoecium or female reproductive organ of a plant. The stigma forms the distal portion of the style or stylodia. The stigma is composed of stigmatic papillae, the cells which are receptive to pollen. These may be restricted to the apex of the style or, especially in wind pollinated species, cover a wide surface.
The stigma receives pollen and it is on the stigma that the pollen grain germinates. Often sticky, the stigma is adapted in various ways to catch and trap pollen with various hairs, flaps, or sculpturings.
IMAGE INFO
- The view is looking north-east across the completely re-built second version of "J. H. Wills" boat-hire shed & the paddle steamer P.S. "TELEPHONE" docked at the floating pontoon/jetty facility.
- John "Jack" H. Wills (with partner Mr Press) was a well-known manager/operator of part of the local Como cruise & pleasure boat hiring business, along with the other primary boat-shed owners, Mr Wheatley & Mr James F. Murphy (also manager of the Holt-Sutherland Estate Land Company), who each owned & operated boat-sheds just to the east of the southern abutment of the rail bridge.
- The original boat-shed Mr Press & Jack Wills had planned for the site (application for lease in Oct 1893) had been granted on 17 Oct 1894 by the NSW Legislative Assembly, with construction completed sometime in 1895. However, the Sydney Morning Herald reports that a devastating fire destroyed the original boating facility shortly after, on 6 December 1895.
- Further in the background can be seen the original single line, steel lattice railway bridge crossing the Georges River at Como.
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SOURCE INFO
- I created this restored image version from a download of part of a screen capture of a digitized image of a very rare glass plate negative which is held in the National Library of Australia collection.
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CREDITS
- Credits go to -
(a) the creator of the original excellent negative used for this particular restoration - Charles Harper Bennett (1840-1927).
(b) the National Library of Australia
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ORIGINAL IMAGE COPYRIGHT STATUS
- Per the NLA advice -
"Out of Copyright
Reason for copyright status: Created/Published Date is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
Material type: Photograph
Published status: Unpublished
Government copyright ownership: No Government Copyright Ownership".
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HISTORIC INFO
- Bridge info from Wikipedia - "The original Como Railway Bridge opened on 26 December 1885 as part of the extension of the Illawarra railway line from Hurstville to Sutherland. It was a single track lattice truss bridge designed by John Whitton, the Chief Engineer of the New South Wales Government Railways. The double tracks converged to a single gauntlet track on the bridge, which enabled trains to cross in either direction without points. When the rest of the line was duplicated, it became a major bottleneck.
- Between 1935 and 1942, the Metropolitan Water Sewerage & Drainage Board built two 60 centimetre diameter pipelines to pump water from the recently completed Woronora Dam to the reservoir at Penshurst. The pipeline was supported on new steel outriggers cantilevered from the main girders.
- Second bridge -
To relieve the bottleneck, a new double track reinforced concrete bridge immediately to the west opened on 27 November 1972. The original bridge reopened as a cycleway (& pedestrian path) on 15 December 1985".
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RE-PROCESS INFO
- Latest version re-coloured using MyHeritage app.
- Image enhanced using Topaz Gigapixel AI, Skylum Luminar Neo AI & Adobe Photoshop CS2.
Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis) at RSPB Pulborough Brooks, South Downs National Park, Pulborough, West Sussex England
"Y en la antena de la radio flotaba locamente la bandera con la cruz roja, y se corría a ochenta kilómetros por hora hacia las luces que crecían poco a poco, sin que ya se supiera bien por qué tanto apuro, por qué esa carrera en la noche entre autos desconocidos donde nadie sabía nada de los otros, donde todo el mundo miraba fijamente hacia adelante, exclusivamente hacia adelante."
J. Cortázar
I'm going to the UK on Thursday to have a course with Eddie Spence MBE! Sooooo excited... :)
It's a dream coming true!!!!
Héron cendré (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)
Un peu serré mais je ne vais pas me plaindre parce qu’il vient trop près.
I decided that I ought to reshoot some of my old barns in Lyons, Colorado, terminous of the RR route that I have been shooting and not far from one of the quarry branches there. It is probably on Reese Street above Main. I found many of the old structures are gone but I was rewarded with this. Undoubtedly, performance art. And I "shutter" to imagine how I might get my fingers to fit on the frets. I fantasize that the O and the M, on the left, are for a famous area banjo maker of great skill. The rail line was an extension of the Denver, Longmont and Northwestern narrow gauge built by the Denver, Utah & Pacific. There were two quarry branches and the remaining cement plant spurs at Lyons. It is now operated by the Burlington and Sante Fe, the original Burlington & Missouri River to Longmont.
The canyons uphill from Lyons are on the way to Estes and are a choice of bad and much worse grades. I read an article about rail service to Estes Park; that is just preposterous. A grade that saw rails was the Denver, Boulder & Western to Ward, Colorado. It terminated just north of town. It was known as the "Switzerland Trail." It probably seldom turned a profit.
These shots were taken in my garden yesterday. It was too cold for a fair weather photographer like me to set up a tripod, and a couple of the subjects were also low down - another problem when the ground is so soft and wet and I am getting no younger. I used a combination of my new 50mm F1.8 Canon lens and an extension tube. An attempt at what you might call cheapo macro. The leaf is sage and the new growth is Hebe, I think. The inside of a Crocus and a Snail shell make up the quartet. I suspect that really good macro shots using this combination are not possible without a tripod (for me, anyway), especially if you want any DOF. And you have to be really close, which probably rules out insect photography. On the other hand I now have a very small, light lens to try as a walkaround.