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A time to wind down and relax, no garish neon signs and away from all hustle and bustle. Just gentle sounds of whispers and footsteps instead of loud talking, engine hum and road noise.
A little alley in a most historical section of an ancient city but unlike some ancient cities I’ve been to in the old world, there is little sign of squalor or decay.
Meanwhile, the independent OM-1 sensor test data is finally out, as expected it is no better than the E-M1 Mkii and later cameras; www.flickr.com/photos/86145600@N07/51875512730/in/datepos...
Taken in the right context however, the 24mp Sony A9/A9ii and 45mp Nikon Z9 stacked sensor cameras all exhibited lower Dynamic Range (DR) than their corresponding 24mp (A7III) and 45mp (Z7/Z7ii) non-stacked sensor bodies. The fact that the stacked sensor 20mp OM-1 has similar but not lower DR than its non stacked 20mp brethrens is an achievement although this probably has something to do with the OM-1 sensor being BSI while the E-M1 MKii/iii and E-M1X are all non-BSI.
The OM-1’s stacked sensor should finally bring meaningful upgrade to m43 AF subject tracking (C-AF) which was never as great as the manufacturer and shills claimed and it has fallen much behind competitors with stacked sensors.
Personally, the OM-1 has not made much further inroads on computational photography which is unfortunate given its speedier pipeline and slightly improved stabilization even though Hand-Held High Resolution (HHHR) results do look better and processing time halved.
For those of us using m43 for slower paced subjects, the E-M1 Mkii would suffice and good condition lightly used units can be found for ⅓ the OM-1’s current retail price.
For non-sports m43 shooters and given that sensor tech has stalled, the only meaningful future upgrade will be when m43 moves to 14bit color depth. Those who like to claim that there’s no difference between 12bit vs 14bit don’t really know what they are talking about.
Extrapolating a little, the upcoming A7RV would do nicely with a FF sized OM-1 stacked sensor (effectively 20.4mp; total mp=22.9) at around 87mp, provided Sony stays away from the annoying fully articulated swivel screen for their R series!
“Contemplative wisdom is then not simply an aesthetic extrapolation of certain intellectual or dogmatic principles, but a living contact with the Infinite Source of all being, a contact not only of minds and hearts, not only of ‘I and Thou,’ but a transcendent union of consciousness in which man and God become, according to the expression of St. Paul, ‘one spirit.’”
-Thomas Merton, Essay “The Contemplative Life in the Modern World,”
Circa 1870 A.D.
Isolated from others by miles, a hogán stands in the far corner of the cańon that gods have abandoned long ago. No Navajo goes near or wants to do anything with this hogán of the tsíndi – the dead, and by extrapolation, the evil. Everyone has heard rumors about this hogán’s tsíndi who occasionally dances with the dawn moon and belches like wolves. Consecration of this hogán is not possible… hátali, the medicine man, says this tsíndi is unlike any he has ever seen.
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Tonight, the tsíndi is unable to sleep. His bayeta blanket – woven by his mother with wool from the herd of sheep he shepherded before the plunder – is unable to keep him warm tonight. The fire needs more wood – he got out of bed shaking off the blanket and the nightmare that has rudely snatched his sleep away. It is the same repeating nightmare where mother visits him but never speaks. She only stares. And her stare makes him feel afraid, angry and helpless all over again.
He remembers the stare only too well. A few winters ago shortly after the first autumn frost, many snow-skin men came on horses and forced him and his mother out of their homes and took their sheep. They were made to walk past the sacred mountain to a place the snow-skin people called Bosque Redondo. It was a long walk where nothing felt well. After three weeks of walking and holding on to his tears, he made it to Bosque Redondo, but his mother did not. After father’s death in a recent war with the snow-skin people, mother had lost her smile and remained mostly unwell and weak. During the walk, she often fell behind. Breathing heavily, she would ask him to stay with her. She did not like the looks of a few men with beeʼeldǫǫh - guns. But on that fateful day, his presence would not deter those men from doing what they intended to do all along. Held back forcefully by two of those men, he saw it all. He saw rivers of tears rolling down her eyes and then he saw coldness settle in them as she stared at him incessantly. She finally stopped staring only when the beeʼeldǫǫh lodged a bullet in her head.
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Navajo people go to all lengths to avoid coming in contact with the spirit of the dead – the tsíndi. But, tonight our tsíndi is unable to sleep. He is angry, afraid and helpless all over again. He must reach out to his mother, who still needs him. The full moon is approaching the bowman in the sky near the horizon; dawn must happen soon. Shaking off his distress, he stepped out of the hogán wrapped in the blanket that mother weaved for him. “Mother!”, he wailed, “Do you remember the lullaby you sang me when I used to be afraid as a kid? I will sing it for you now.”
And he sang. Cradling the spirit of his mother, he sang tearfully and he sang with all his anger. Consecration of his spirit – as of the hogán he has adopted as his shelter after walking back from Bosque Redondo – is not possible. His pain was nothing like anyone has ever felt.
I have an extraordinary friend (gottanew1 in Flickr)
He is an artist, observer, strong extrapolator, excellent composer and a philosopher.
Art is a very special person with a great sense of humor.
A gentleman.
A man of courage and wisdom.
He is grandpa but like young he will be forever young.
A lively mind, he loves to walk in the storms as a free soul as he is.
He is unique.
My friend Art is very ill. After diagnosing cancer in the esophagus no longer operable, it spread to the liver and bones. Five days ago he broke his neck in the hospital and contracted pneumonia.
My dear friend Art : 'Stand by Me'. I am praying for you.
Yesterday's much closer shot of migrating Sandhill Cranes was made from a blind, a day's drive north of where I live, at one of their major staging grounds. By the time they reach southwestern Saskatchewan - most years - they are flying very high. Serious flying. Southbound for the winter.
We lay on our backs watching as wave after wave passed directly overhead. Usually their strange, alien cries alerted us before we actually saw them. We were on a long back country hike and I had not brought a long lens with me, so this image is best viewed LARGE, or the crane silhouettes may be lost against that altocumulus sky.
According to Google, a group of cranes may have several collective nouns; my faves are a "swoop" and a "dance". This dance contains 159 cranes (approximately) and was about the average size. Extrapolating from this, I estimate that 2,000 to 2,500 cranes flew over us that day.
Photographed looking straight up from Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2021 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
The Macro Monday theme for 7/24 is buckle. (The admin said we could use a toggle and I extrapolated that to include a clasp, also.) We have a dearth of typical belts, so I went hunting for stand-ins. There are a few possibilities so I’ll dither, naturally.
Another possibility for the MM theme of red and green for 12/23
Patricia Lane Evans - thank you
Hmmmm, oops, I didn’t do a size verification of this!! Can do a size verification for the tag but the ribbon is now a tether, so you’ll need to extrapolate.
……. 💙♥️💚HMM💚♥️💙
Con solo 1h e 10min di integrazione totale e temperatura del sensore 22°
-#85 in Explore 11/11/2016 (verificato 12/11/16 ore20:30)
Il 12/09/2015 acquisivo questo FOV con lo scopo di riuscire ad evidenziare anche le Nubi Molecolari che circondano il famosissimo ammasso aperto delle Pleiadi (M45). In questi casi occorrono cieli molto bui, una congrua integrazione e temperatura ambiente abbastanza bassa per chi utilizza le DSLR. Purtroppo velature e nubi mi avevano permesso di acquisire solo 14 frames da 300s: troppo poca l'integrazione di 1h e 10 min per pretendere qualcosa. Inoltre occorre ricordare che lo strumento fotografico era il teleobiettivo Zenit Jupiter-11A 135mm f4 (diametro obiettivo di 33,75 mm). flic.kr/p/MekcC7
Speravo in altre sessioni fotografiche per aumentare almeno l'integrazione totale, ma non sono stato fortunato.
Dopo un anno di inutile speranze ero comunque molto curioso di vedere cosa avrei potuto estrapolare da quei pochi frames. I frames combinati dal programma DeepSkyStacker (DSS) hanno creato il file.tif finale combinato, che mostrava appena un pò di nebulosità attorno a M45.
Il mio obiettivo erano le debolissime Nubi Molecolari quindi mi aspettava una elaborazione molto ardua!
E' stato necessario agire molto sulla regolazione livelli di PS e il forte "stretch" ha ovviamente evidenziato i limiti della poca integrazione. Non è stato facile controllare i diametri stellari e il rumore nei mezzitoni e nelle ombre . Questi effetti collaterali mi hanno costretto a lavorare molto con le selezioni e algoritmi riduci-rumore. Sapevo già che non potevo pretendere grande definizione dei dettagli.
Malgrado tutto l'obiettivo è stato raggiunto e mi ritengo molto soddisfatto del risultato finale, dove le debolissime Nubi Molecolari, presenti nella nostra Via Lattea, sono visibili.
Curiosità> Fa un certo effetto ripensare che fino a 15 anni fa con la fotografia analogica un risultato come questo era impensabile e irragiungibile con modesti strumenti.
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With only 1h and 10 min of total integration time and sensor temperature 22°C
-#85 on Explore 11/11/2016 (checked on 11.12.2016 8.30 pm)
On 09/12/2015 I acquired this FOV for the purpose too to be able to reveal the molecular clouds that surround the famous Pleiades open cluster (M45). In these cases it takes a long dark skies, a fair share integration and low enough ambient temperature for those who use DSLR. Unfortunately, clouds had allowed me to acquire only 14 frames of 300s: too little integration of 1h and 10 min to demand something. It is noted that the photographic instrument was the telephoto Zenit Jupiter-11A 135mm f4 (objective diameter of 33.75 mm). flic.kr/p/MekcC7
I was hoping for more photo sessions to increase at least the total integration, but I was not lucky.
After a year of futile hope I was however very curious to see what I could extrapolate from those few frames. The frames combined by DeepSkyStacker (DSS) program have created the final file.tif combined, which showed only a little nebulosity around M45.
My objective was very faint Molecular Clouds therefore waited for me a very arduous processing!
It was important to act on the adjustment levels of PS and the strong stretch has obviously revealed the limitations of little integration. It was not easy to control the stellar diameters and noise in the midtones and shadows. These adverse effects have forced me to work a lot with the selections and reduce noise algorithms. I already knew that I could not expect great detail definition.
Despite all, the purpose has been achieved and I am very pleased with the final result, where the faint Molecular Clouds, present in our Milky Way, are visible.
Curiosity> Makes a certain effect rethink that until 15 years ago with analog photography a result like this was unthinkable and unattainable with modest instruments.
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Lens: Zenit Jupiter-11A 135mm f/4 flic.kr/p/MekcC7
Camera: Canon EOS 550D (Rebel T2i) mod. Baader BCF
Mount: Sky Watcher HEQ5 Synscan
Seeing 3 (scala Antoniadi inversa)
14x300s 1600iso / 21 dark / 21 flat / 21 bias
date 12/09/2015
temperature 16°C (media)
Temperature sensor: 22°C (media)
Integration 1h 10min
Location: monti Nebrodi, (Sicily-Italy) 1550m slm
Elaborazione DSS + PSCS3.
The bristle-thighed curlew is considered indigenous, though uncommon, in Hawaii where it is known as kioea. It has a beautiful, distinctively long, decurved bill used to forage in tall grass, mud, sand, and reef flats exposed at low tide. The namesake bristle-like feathers around the thighs are the field mark that differentiates it from the similar looking whimbrel. An annual trans-Pacific migrant summer nesting in western Alaska and eastern Siberia, it travels thousands of non-stop miles over the Pacific to spend the rest of the year on oceanic islands, from Hawaii to French Polynesian. ICARUS satellite tracking indicates some of the Lagon Bleu, Rangiroa cohort selects the Hawaiian archipelago as a mid-migration rest stop and possibly a non-nesting destination. The entire worldwide population was estimated to be 10,000 individuals in 2003. Extrapolating recent counts in Tuamotu indicates the population may have declined to 5,000 birds.
Extrapolation of the convergence matrix refers to using a mathematical technique to estimate the behavior of a sequence or matrix that is approaching a limit, even when the sequence or matrix is slowly converging or even diverging. This is often done to accelerate convergence or to estimate the value at the limit without needing to compute many more iterations.
Before it erupted in 79 AD is is thought that Vesuvius was over 7000ft high, twice as high as its current form (if you extrapolate the two sides of the remains to a point it shows how big it used to be). The remains still brood over the more modern city of Ercolano. Closer to Vesuvius than Pompei, not a place to be when the volcano erupts again
Two shots of Herculanium; our last day in Italy. Smaller, less busy and better preserve; most of the remains still lie under the more modern city of Ercolano.
To anyone who may read this, I have been trying to contact the Australian US embassy to try and get refugee status, but I have not been able to get though, because my phones and internet are not working properly. This is genuine plea for help. Could anyone who gets this message pass on this to the a US embassy anywhere on the planet.
Hello my name is Michael Desimone. Sorry to contact you this way. I have been trying to get in contact with the US embassy, for several months now, and I have been unable to, since my communications systems have failed on so many levels. I would like to claim refugee status in the US after extreme persecution via the government, education systems, law system, and medical systems. There have been in fact so many attempts on my life I can literally not count them all, and after having be raped multiple times, beatings, broken bones, and being given only cursory monetary compensation for work, while getting little or no credit, I would sincerely like to ask for refugee status. Here is a list of some of my work. Viral vector genetic modification, mRNA protein synthesis, advanced spell check, wifi, fiber optic type broad band, worlds most accurate water meter for measuring ultra chaotic water conditions, and cross sectional areas of a water way, muscle argumentation via protein pathway synthesis hacking, transistor sign wave inversion, solid state memory hard drive technology, liquid cooled pc processors with radiators, the accounting on replacing combat pilots with drones, drone targeting systems, key boards for tablets, if they stole that of me as well, increased refresh rates and shortened latency rates for gamer screens, the connection to retrieval times of signals when doing international on line gaming and how important it is on a gamer's capacity to win, maybe refractive index spectral analysis of interplanetary atmospheres, maybe not the first I think some /chinese person may have done it first, popularization statistics on the goldilox zone and planetary composition mathematical relationship and the number of stars in the universe for a near arbitrary calculation of the existence of life on other planets, killing off all T cells with radio therapy and then conducting a bone morrow transfer to reestablish the AIDS victims immune system, theorisations of protein specific pro teases for theroputic treatment of multiple diseases, theroisation of the automation of rMNA repair of a persons telimere to prevent DNA related diseases, relationship between the cutting down of the great spruce forests of north America and the nematode plague that caused the Irish famine, relationship of ancient ocean rise cause by the deforestation of North Africa, Australia and north and south America, relation ship of the shape of the hole in the ozone layer to being electromagnetically related, rocket propellant up to 7000 mtrs a second, telling a gifted ten year old how to constructed a near fully functional light saber (probably should have thought a second time about that one), the theroisation that some black holes may be acts of war, popularization of longitudinal water ways in tires, despite being told that it would increase straight line instability, I argued that most accidents happen in the rain and therefor the trade off would benefit, silicon in tires to replace carbon in tires as they are both period 6 elements, and has phase like like properties with the materials roads are made out of the increase traction, optical sect-oral analysis of a persons skin to see if they have been using drugs, hadron collider applications for the potential creation of the universe and the time jump required to do it, extrapolation of participial science from the hadron collider to display history on an atomic level, popularization of the fact that indigenous people where farming and managing their environments, the use of hollow point bullets by Australian police because they showed more chance of stopping in a target and less chance of going right through and hurting a civilian, low emergency lights on Australian police cars so they are harder to see, facial recognition technology, voice sound wave recognition, global sequation of the water produced from burning of fossil fuels, mathematics on forensic analysis of oil spills to increase conviction rates of offenders, brain wave analysis so as to read a persons head even after ECT had been applied with a re calibration brain wave analysis from what they saw on their TV. Micro time holding of transferred money and retention of interest while held, practical applications on the principle of the aging if DNA and its speed of travel through the universe, theroisations on applications of hadron collider particle movement for manipulations and applications in curing health issues, extension on plastic chemistry that was found to cause genital deformities, and how the burning of fossil fuels could extend this trend globally, further extension of that chemistry to physics level, and the consideration that egg laying animals with out expressed external genitals may have been a response to high levels of carbon in the environment during prehistoric times, and that as we burn fossil fuels we nay en-tropically be taking all living species to a time where genitals may not work properly, additionally we will not have time to evolve to procreate, the chemistry and physics for this potential event has not been done or found yet, use of lithium in batteries due to its molecular low size per potential charge, that would aid rapid ion movement, movement away from gold to nickel due to ion discharge coefficient and potential correlative oxidation properties, not sure what else I did. I would like to live in a country that does not literally treat me like a slave. Kind Regards Michael Desimone. If you could reply here it would be greatly valued as most other communications systems are not working.
An early fourth century necropolis (see below) asks for a place of worship. This monolithic building has been adapted over time and may have an alcove for an alter space (it does not seem to be a fireplace). An adjacent ruined village (Mas Viel - several hundred meters south) had neolithic occupation, and a prehistory to this potential monolithic place of worship would position it as a rare vestige. The dolmen of Pinsac-Rajal is off to the right behind the photo. Similarities with the stone 'furniture' of the neolithic Skara Brae can be muted, even if some stones are obviously modern 'replacements', and it can also be argued that the stones pictured to the right of the above diptyque, and found to the left of the ruined building originated in the alter space. These stones have petroglyphs that may suggest chalcolithic dates.
The site is on a prolonged hill top of around 590m. To one side it overlooks a badland of dark red rouergat mineral.
Arguments are presented for this vestiges that revolve around water capture of a missing spring ... at the top of a hill ... from a time gone moment... The method used to 'imagine' the possibility of a past spring seem elaborate and unnecessary. If drainage is not maintained then most areas can get a little wet during winter seasons but this need not a factor that can be extrapolated into a full flow, and hill tops tend to be at starts rather than finishes.
AJM 01.07.20
Arashiyama bamboo forest in late December during the annual light up season, shot from a low angle at 12mm with FE 12-24mm f4 G.
Seldom get to use my FE 12-24mm G because most times I prefer my more versatile FE 16-35mm f2.8 GM although the 12mm perspective can be quite unique.
When Panasonic released their Lumix S 20-60mm F3.5-5.6 back in 2020, it really caught my attention and I’ve hoped that Sony will launch a similar zoom range albeit with higher performance. Reference point (2) of this post from 5 months ago;
www.flickr.com/photos/86145600@N07/52295906674/.
Rumor now has it that Sony will indeed be launching a FE 20-70mm f4 G and this could be the perfect pairing to the FE 12-24mm f4 G.
Conventional standard zooms typically start at 24mm wide angle these days but 20mm is in ultra-wide category. If I shoot with a 24-70mm zoom, I’ll always have to bring along an ultra-wide zoom as well but with a standard zoom that starts at 20mm, I could leave out the ultra-wide zoom.
Big caveat here is, it’s already difficult to make a really good 24-70mm zoom, having this extend from ultra-wide 20mm will make it even more difficult. Even amongst the premium so-called “trinity” f2.8 zooms, the 24-70mm zoom is always the weakest performer.
Sony launched their FE 12-24mm f4 G in 2017, 3 years later in 2020, they released the FE 12-24mm f2.8 GM. Extrapolating a bit, If Sony’s FE 20-70mm f4 G is popular, they may well bring out a FE 20-70mm f2.8 GM around 2026, the new FE 24-70mm f2.8 GMii was recently released this year so the timeline looks plausible for a future FE 20-70mm f2.8 GM.
While a good quality 20-70mm zoom looks like an attractive option, I would actually love a FE 16-50mm f4 G which can effectively replace both ultra-wide and standard zooms. I’ve said some time ago that Sony should leave the 16-35mm range to f2.8 while the f4 G lens be 16-50mm. Such a lens does exist currently but in m4/3 Olympus 8-25mm f4 Pro.
The new FE PZ 16-35mm f4 G weighs a mere 353g, a potential FE 16-50mm f4 G at around 500g ought to be doable.
For years my preference has been to pair my FE 16-35mm f2.8 GM with my FE 85mm f1.4 GM and FE 55mm f1.8 ZA while leaving out the 24-70mm zoom entirely.
I have at times thought about adding the Tamron FE 28-75mm f2.8 G2 but would absolutely go for the Sony FE 20-70mm f4 G instead if it materializes although this is personally not a high priority.
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FE 20-70mm f4 G, while certainly very good with an attractively unique focal range, it would appear that Sony did not manage to prioritize the performance at the wide end of the zoom unfortunately.
Thanks to Peter for his inspiration for this abstract.
It's amazing what a simple outing on a Thames barge can give rise to.... 😂😂
The Total Perspective Vortex derives its picture of the whole Universe on the principle of extrapolated matter analyses.....
To explain — since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation — every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake. The man who invented the Total Perspective Vortex did so basically in order to annoy his wife....
The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy......
Enjoy the full Hitchhiker album here..
www.flickr.com/photos/38070237@N06/albums/721576891679347...
Here we have another remix, this time of a panorama photo from 6 years ago.
This remix is different than some of the ones I've been making recently in that I actually like the original a lot. I feel it is a successful example of the style of photography and post-processing I was exploring a few years ago. At the time I was really focused on color - hammering in vivid color, extrapolating color from every available area, really wanting the picture to scream.
The problem with this is that it doesn't hold up as the quality of the viewing medium increases. It was one thing to upload a 800x400 photo to flickr a few years ago - all of the shortcuts and artificiality of my old technique were masked by the small size. It is quite another thing to design bigger-than-HD retina quality graphics. When mastering my photographs for the more modern displays of today (not to mention print), all of the shortcuts of my past techniques become far more apparent.
So I've learned new techniques, and taken a different eye towards how I create photos. They don't scream as loudly in thumbnail for as my older stuff, but when viewed larger and at higher resolution, theres a lot more to see.
It's also hammered home the point that you should always shoot at the highest possible resolution you can, always shoot RAW files, and always save your original photographs - you never know when taste or technology will encourage a revisit to those original files...
Truncated version of a Student Keeling graph - CO2 in the atmosphere from 1958 to present, showing seasonal variation, using data collected at Mauna Loa, Hawai`i.
[If you are a teacher and you decide to use this idea, please let me know. You can contact me for files with grids for graphing, and for charts of the data from 1958 to present.]
In 1958 Charles David Keeling set up a carbon dioxide testing station on Mauna Loa, on the Big Island of Hawai`i. Data has been collected there over the past 5 decades. Here's the web page for the CO2 program. The data can be found here. Remember that -99.99 means missing data.
WHOAAA!! CHECK OUT THE NEW DATA PAGE!!!
The photo above shows part of a graph my 8th graders put together this year. The vertical scale of the graph paper ranges from 310 to 390 ppm CO2. Each class did a graph. Each group did one sheet. Each sheet held 4 years of data. I invite other teachers to do the same exercise!! Let me know how it went.
Each student graphed at least 2 years of data. Some did more for extra credit. Once they had finished their sheet, I had them cut off one end and we overlapped the other end to make this composite graph. Sadly, all got discarded at the end of the year except this one, and this one ranges only from 1958 to 1992. The rest of the classes went all the way to 3/08, and contained 4 more sheets.
So, what's the trend of CO2 in the atmosphere over the last 50 years?
The curvy line indicates the monthly data, with seasonal fluctuations. The red line is a student group's approximation of the general trend of the data. The data itself ranged from about 314 to 386 ppm, from 1958 to 2008, or an increase of approximately 70 ppm. Starting at 314, and increasing by 70 ppm is an increase of 22% .......
TWENTY TWO PERCENT INCREASE IN THE CO2 CONTENT OF THE ATMOSPHERE IN THE PAST 50 YEARS!! That's an increase by more than one fifth! And that was in 2008.
So what? Well let's ignore the global warming issue for a moment. One of the less-discussed results of CO2 in the atmosphere is that it dissolves into the oceans, and forms carbonic acid [a small amount of the CO2 combines with water to form a small amount of H2CO3 in the solution], so this trend in atmospheric CO2 also points toward acidification of the oceans. Scientists have been investigating how this might affect the marine ecosystems, especially the near-surface waters, where the atmospheric gas absorption occurs.
Well, guess what? One thing that an acid can do is dissolve things like calcium carbonate, or reduce the rate of calcification. Now, CaCO3 [thanks phyto] just happens to be the primary ingredient of the shells and casings of various marine organisms, such as clams, oysters, snails/gastropods, corals, and many planktonic organisms such as calcareous algaes. But see the first link in phyto's comment below that indicates some organisms are actually producing CaCO3 at an increasing rate. (see, for example, this article.) So, if some ecologically important organisms (what organisms aren't ecologically important?) find it progressively more difficult to form shells and casings, then what?
Maybe we're being forced to find out. Over the past few years events have occurred where oyster larvae in the Pacific Northwest were dying prematurely. The cause was ultimately traced to pH fluctuations. Now the oyster production process must be adjusted to accommodate these fluctuations -- an adaptation that will only be effective as long as the high pH periods are not too acidic.
Musings from my diary.
For some reason, I watched the Polish singers Tulia sing Metallica’s nothing else matters on YouTube. It just popped up on my YouTube feed one day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=09NqLjHJtGQ
It didn’t turn out to be folk music, like l thought, but it was very good. But be warned that my YouTube music feed changed, and so did my You Tube news feed after watching it. I am still doing statistical analysis on the You Tube algorithm or feed l now get. And my assessment of You Tube is not that flattering.
I am debating with myself if it is a political song, as they sung it. It didn’t seem to be a political song at first, and the possibility that it is political isn’t why l liked it. It just seemed to be a unique cover, of a song l like. But on reflection it could have been sung for political reasons.
I considered that the four young ladies were doing a stone wall. A very polite, f@$k you, to everyone who had criticised Poland, recently.
Days later l am still considering what l saw, and l do it with ignorance from half a world away.
Today it seemed significant that the young polish ladies wore traditional head scarfs with flowers when they were dressed to impress their native Poles. Was it ironic that Poles were being criticised for it and yet other nations are lorded for their tribal displays? So, l wrote, and thus, I considered what l had been seeing.
It appeared to me that the way they had sung it, that it was possibly a song of rebellion, with the connotation of the flowers being vivid Polish sociological mathematics…
It looked to be in contrasted with the west. In the west they had sent their men to war in Afghanistan, for a war on terror that morphed into a war for woman’s and homosexual rights. No one had been sent to war by Poland recently, yet they were the ones being accused of idealistic nationalism.
Unlike the Polish ladies, westerner’s male and female didn’t offer a flower in the hair, but they expected religious like unquestioning self-sacrifice. They didn’t offer a Polish Catholic young lady’s flower. One that involved marriage and children, they didn’t even offer the childless sixties western variant, they offered nothing. Some expected their men to die, if need be, for a cause that they had not initially been sent to war for.
The song raised a lot of considerations for me, especially with the current populist narrative being propagated in the media about Poland. One reporter even going as far as to extrapolate that Poland was on a new religious crusade… Ironically it seemed to me that the atheist left was expecting Christians to follow the example of Christ and martyr themselves for their causes, but the Christians could not defend their own. It appeared to me, that some young Polish ladies might know how to tribally motivate their men and woman better than some of their western counterparts, who were offering nothing for some who would give the ultimate sacrifice for their efforts. Some in the west seemed to be treating their citizens of democratic nations like expendable mercenaries, slaves, or as those that should suffer intellectual sub servitude. Was it like ancient Rome? Were the polyamorists and atheists watching the metaphoric lions eat defenceless Christians, who were being deprived of any defence? Were those calling for an end to Polish democracy sitting outside the arena with no skin in the game? l considered that they were purveying an event, as if it was being called like a sporting match fit for a Roman arena, with thumbs up and thumbs down, and it seemed inhumane.
Four young Polish ladies had produced a lot of thought for a cover of a western Heavy Metal tune. The only conclusion l could come to, was it was a good cover, and unlike Metallica, Tulia couldn’t be accused of selling out.
The SBB building in Bern Wankdorf. The exterior is surrounded by many colored glass bars: as experiment I have tried extrapolating these architectural elements in order to create several abstract images, where preserving and at the same time emphasizing the essence and beauty of the patterns these elements design. Although in this B/W release it still possible recognizing that it's about a building.
Thanks for watching!
ETA: For those of you getting here from Google and using this photo as a source, I have since updated this outfit, and I would prefer you use that bit of information as a resource, rather than this.
This is the latest update to my 10th century Western Norse outfit. I have chosen some not-very-popular interpretations for the various elements based on trial wear and extrapolation from later garments.
The black "cap" is of the same dimensions as one of the "fringed" scarves recovered from Dublin outside of worn context, though the one I've chosen to recreate was of fine wool and had no fringe or ties. It is pinned to a linen scarf that has been knotted at the back of my head, and my hair is loose underneath. I believe this gives the look found in some of the female figures depicted in the Oseberg burial and on quite a few of the goldgubber.
The haengerok/apron dress is of the 6-loop variety, and thus wraps around from one brooch to the other, with an open front seam. This allows for the sweeping line while walking also shown in a number of period female depictions, as well as for ease of movement and fit to a changing body shape due to pregnancy. Not many SCAdians do their dress this way, opting instead for a completely-closed garment. Due to my shape, I find this design much easier to get into and out of.
Remember my popular image underneath the pier??
Well, this is what I took later on. I was a little farther back, which is really too bad because you can't see as well the way that the water is misty and earily flat.
The only light here is the sodium vapor lights and the moon. The colors are exactly the colors that appeared on the slide. I like the crisscorssing partial-shadows on the ground, the yellow-and-black of the sand, and everything.
This is on Velvia 100. Pinhole told me that Velvia is a horible long-exposure slide film. The thing is, I've discovered that I like daylight balancing at night, where the sodium vapor shows its true golden nature. Velvia 100 has incredibly good reciprocity behaviour, more or less the same as Provia 100F. I have a number of night shots taken on it and I really like how they look. The fact that exposure must be right on with Velvia 100 doesn't really bother me much, because metering exposure on the a95 is about as strict.
Which is really not to say that Pinhole is wrong, more that after gathering an understanding of the situation, the properties of film, and why everybody says that Velvia is awful for night, I find that, at least for me, I can safely ignore the advice.
I basicly metered this by taking a ISO 400 exposure on the a95 and extrapolated from there. It's about 9 or 10 minutes at somewhere between f/5.6 and f/8... I wasn't keeping too good of records on this roll. As all of my slide shots, pretty much, were shot, this was done on my old mechanical film SLR and a 50mm lens.
The nice thing is that I can blow this one up much bigger than a picture taken on the a95. I printed out a 16x20 and it's absolutely stunning.
Oh yes, and because it takes so long for each exposure, I only took one shot from this angle -- no bracketing!
Shot taken at sunrise from the Corbassière glacier, showing a "detail" of the majestic ice walls of the Grand Combin north face (4.314 m), Switzerland.
It is practically a glacier distributed in terraces.
This photograph, as others that will follow, is not related to the classical concept of landscape image, which usually speaks for itself, but rather aims to focus the attention on individual sectors/elements (like: ice, rocks, branches, roots) captured as a reality in their own, as if they were extrapolated from all that is around... right to allow the detail to speak freely and, perhaps, in some cases, also to be re-interpreted by the observer.
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©Roberto Bertero, All Rights Reserved. This image is not available for use on websites, blogs or other media without the explicit written permission of the photographer.
Monologues for Calculating the Density of Black Holes takes up where the artist’s first volume, Monologues for the Coming Plague, left off. Like Coming Plague, Density of Black Holes is a creatively experimental laboratory, comprising a collection of free flowing stream-of-consciousness gags, strips, and drawings that slowly coalesce into an unexpectedly compelling and complex narrative. The hints of story that came together in Coming Plague are extrapolated and expanded upon and grow to incorporate some of Nilsen's other outré strips from the anthology MOME, two of which are reprinted here in expanded form. The book is an audacious investigation into the rhythms of storytelling, the blurring of media, and an exercise in reconciling contrasts. It is playful, provocative and serious all at once — another tour de force by Anders Nilsen, impeccably and uniquely designed, in monochrome and full color.
400-page 5" x 8" softcover
ISBN: 978-1-56097-980-7
In stock: January 2009
In stores: January 2009
....I Learned In Kindergarten
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten.
Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.
These are the things I learned:
* Share everything.
* Play fair.
* Don't hit people.
* Put things back where you found them.
* Clean up your own mess.
* Don't take things that aren't yours.
* Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
* Wash your hands before you eat.
* Flush.
* Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
* Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
* Take a nap every afternoon.
* When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
* Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
* Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
* And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.
Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.
Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.
And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
- Robert Fulghum.
Gullfoss (Golden Falls) is undoubtedly the most visited waterfall in Iceland, a highlight of the 'must do' Golden Circle day trip from Reykjavík.
The main source of the Hvítá (simply 'White') River, is Langjökull, Iceland´s second largest glacier – if you look closely, the white 'clouds' on the skyline are snow-covered peaks. The river is entirely unregulated at this point; in fact, it was abortive attempts to exploit Gullfoss for hydropower that eventually resulted in the waterfall being donated to the state for protection. Flow over the waterfall is therefore natural, averaging 140 m³/s in the summer and 80 m³/s in winter, though the peak recorded flood was an incredible 2,000 m³/s.
The drop, spanning the full 175 m width of the river, is 32 m in two stages which, unusually, are perpendicular to one another. The first cascades 11 m, roughly north to south, then the river plummets east to west over a cliff into Gullfossgjúfur, a gorge 20 m wide and 2.5 km long, with walls up to 70 m in height, probably formed by a glacial burst flood. This second drop is 'only' 21 m, but from here at the most popular viewpoint one can't see into Gullfossgjúfur, tempting imagination to extrapolate.
Even in May air temperatures were low, with spray settling on the surrounding area as frost.
[Image reached no.179 in Flickr Explore on 25/12/18! Thanks!]
for 365, FGR and Founder's Day -a group to celebrate chrismaverick.
I did a copy cat of Chris's Day 620 of 365 more
I hate mowing the lawn. But there is no one else here to mow the lawn. One of the things you have to give up when you decide to leave your cheating husband is having someone who will mow your lawn while you sit back and drink Mimosa's.... or possibly while you pass out in a crappy broken lazy boy while nursing a fussy baby. I prefer to take my past and alter reality to substitute how I really wish it had been.
Which, if I extrapolate that out, means that someone else would be mowing my lawn STILL. So. Lawn, get thyself mowed, PRONTO.
What does 365 mean to me: Here I am on day 21. Just measy little day 21. So far it has been a blast. Something that keeps me thinking photographically, keeps me noticing all of the little details of my life. Keeps me real and grounded while also inviting me into play with the lovely group known as fuggers - I love that group! Being a photographer by trade, I rarely find myself IN FRONT of the camera, and so this is my chance to include myself in my family's photographic history. Thank you Chris! For getting such an inspiring and truly life altering project to take over the flickr world. I LOVE IT.
it's true :-)
Saxon jumps over waves, it was an early training thing I sorta accidentally taught him, something about telling him to "go" so I could take his photo and he extrapolated it to include "go, h'up"
"Go h'up" will have him looking for and then jump up on something like a tree trunk or even drain cover. He actually does it without asking, for the possibility of a ball throw these days. Just this afternoon he hopped up on a pile of bark chips (you know the kind they dump on road sides to distribute over flower-beds or around the base of newly planted trees?)
Anyway, so he added his own element at the beach (no tree trunks or drain covers or piles of bark chips) and jumps over the incoming waves in anticipation of a ball throw reward :-)
The view of Bell Harbor Marina in downtown Seattle from Pier 66 has been shot to death by many photographers. I have to have my own simply because I have seen some very nice shots from the rooftop of the ferry terminal. It didnt help that I was tired from 3 days of meetings and had to hike the steep slopes of Seattle. However, I know that it will be a rewarding experience to view the beautiful scenery of the Seattle skyline, the harbor, great wheel, seahawk stadium and Mount Rainier with my own eyes. I took many shots of which I got to successfully merge some of them, after a lot of difficulty, into a panorama for an "extrapolated" view. Thanks for stopping by….
Salsa and samba came into existence a trickle of nanoseconds after the Big Bang, or possibly just before it, syncopated. They were, and are, part of the Principal Vortex that defines existence, interpolated. Neutrinos, moving more slowly, came later, extrapolated. Dare you look me in the eye and say it is not so?
Full Moon shot from my study space this morning 16thMay2014. I really had to wait for the cumulus to get close to the admired subject, extrapolating the angular and linear velocity of the moon & cloud so they'll meet in accordance to my expectation. There we are......hehehe
Thanks for the Faves my Friends :D
I’m beginning to feel like I must have angered the sunrise god somewhere along my travels, I ventured out this morning and again have been greeted with wall-to-wall greyness along the coast of South-East Cornwall! Again I headed back to Portwrinkle this morning, and as the tide is now higher in the morning it gave me chance to revisit one of my other favourite rocks but this time I’ve been experimenting with some new software, Topaz Gigapixel AI.
This is an enlarging application and I’ve upscaled this image two times, taking it from 20mp to 80mp (remembering that it’s double the height and double the width) and the AI is apparently designed to look at the textures that are present and generate the extra details from that rather than just extrapolating the data from the existing data. I have to say that I’ve been quite impressed with the results and I’m looking forward to getting some large prints done to see what difference this makes to the final product; hopefully this will keep the GAS in check for a few more months!
This bristle-thighed curlew is indigenous, though uncommon, in Hawaii where it is known as kioea. It has a beautiful, distinctively long, decurved bill used to forage in tall grass, mud, sand, and reef flats exposed at low tide. The namesake bristle-like feathers around the thighs are the field mark that differentiates it from the similar looking whimbrel. An annual trans-Pacific migrant summer nesting in western Alaska, it travels thousands of nonstop miles over the Pacific to spend the rest of the year on oceanic islands ranging from Hawaii to French Polynesian. Birds destined for the South Pacific overfly the Hawaiian archipelago making the kioea, along with the godwit; one of the longest nonstop migrants of any avian species. The entire worldwide population was estimated to be 10,000 individuals in 2003. Extrapolating recent counts in Tuamotu indicates the population may have declined to as little as 5,000 birds. Anecdotally, I’m seeing more on Oahu than previous years.
Vestiges of the Forum (Piazza del Foro, the original city centre and the Tempio Capitolino). Vesuvius is in the background, viewing towards the North. Vesuvius dominates the scenery anywhere in Pompei, which, as we now know, turned out to be a problem for the ancient city.
The currently active crater is at the top of Gran Cono, the higher of the two peaks. The other, Monte Somma, encircles the Gran Cono in the approximate shape of a horseshoe that is open towards the west (here the left). Monte Somma is what is left of Vesuvius in the wake of previous large eruptions.
Extrapolation of the shape of the remains indicates that the original stratovolcano likely was significantly higher than its current approximately 1200 metres, and correspondingly, more imposing.
Nikon FM2n
Nikkor AI-S 50mm 1:1.8 manual focus lens
Film: Kodak Portra 400 professional grade colour negative film exposed at 200 ISO
Developed and scanned by www.meinfilmlab.de
I've been traveling to and living in many different cities over the years so when I think of home, it's not as much a place as it is a feeling of contentment.
In this image I extrapolate on the idiom
"home is where you hang your hat"
The Gouldian finch (Erythrura gouldiae), also known as the Lady Gouldian finch, Gould's finch or the rainbow finch, is a colourful passerine bird endemic to Australia. There is strong evidence of a continuing decline, even at the best-known site near Katherine in the Northern Territory. Large numbers are bred in captivity, particularly in Australia. In the state of South Australia, National Parks & Wildlife Department permit returns in the late 1990s showed that over 13,000 Gouldian finches were being kept by aviculturists. If extrapolated to an Australia-wide figure this would result in a total of over 100,000 birds. In 1992, it was classified as "endangered in the wild" under IUCN's criteria C2ai. This was because the viable population size was estimated to be less than 2,500 mature individuals, no permanent subpopulation was known to contain more than 250 mature individuals, and that a continuing decline was observed in the number of mature individuals.
source: Wikipedia
Gyps indicus breeds in south-east Pakistan and peninsular India south of the Gangetic plain, north to Delhi, east through Madhya Pradesh, south to the Nilgiris, and occasionally further south (Collar et al. 2001). The species was first recorded in Nepal in 2011 (Subedi and DeCandido 2013). It was common until very recently, but since the mid-1990s has suffered a catastrophic decline (over 97%) throughout its range. This was first noticed in Keoladeo National Park, India (Prakash et al. 2003), where counts of feeding birds fell from 816 birds in 1985-1986 to just 25 in 1998-1999. Just one tiny population in the Ramanagaram Hills of Karnataka is known to remain in inland southern India, and it is rare elsewhere within its former range (Prakash et al. 2007). Data indicates that the rate of population decline of G. tenuirostris and G. indicus combined has now slowed in India (Prakash et al. 2012).Extensive research has identified the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) diclofenac to be the cause behind this rapid population collapse (Green et al. 2004, Oaks et al. 2004a, Shultz et al. 2004, Swan et al. 2005). This drug, used to treat domestic livestock, is ingested by vultures feeding on their carcasses leading to renal failure causing visceral gout (Oaks et al. 2004a,b; Swan et al. 2005, Gilbert et al. 2006). It is now rare in Pakistan, and although a colony of 200-250 pairs was discovered in 2003 in Sindh Province (A. A. Khan in litt. 2003). In 2007, the total Indian population, based on extrapolations from road transects, was estimated at 45,000 individuals, with a combined average annual decline for this species and G. tenuirostris of over 16% during 2000-2007 (Prakash et al. 2007). It is estimated that its relative abundance in Pakistan declined by 61% between 2003-2004 and 2006-2007, this was followed by a 55% increase by 2007-2008 (Chaudhry et al. 2012).
IUCN
Rose Lake, Hocking Hills State Park (OH)
Ok, we all know that's a terrible title, but I can explain! The famous Shakespeare quote ends with "... would smell as sweet." When I was telling people I was traveling, they'd ask me where I was going. When I said I was going to Ohio, most people's faces would bunch up, or they'd say "oh... ok... well have fun". I totally get what they're coming from - when you think of Ohio, you think of crappy dirty cities right? Right. Well, think of this as an extrapolation of my quest here in Wisconsin to show everybody that the midwest has some amazing and beautiful nature. So this beautiful lake is called "Rose Lake", and if the name of the state it was in was any different, it would "smell as sweet." Get it? Get it? Aw screw it, I hate naming photos.
Anyway, my trip to Ohio was really awesome and I'm excited to show you guys more photos. I visited Hocking Hills State Park and Cuyahoga Valley National Park right around peak fall colors. Yes, Ohio has a national park. The landscape reminded me a lot of Wisconsin. Fairly flat in most places, but in other places there are beautiful canyons of soft rock carved by rivers, creating great waterfalls and cascades. As a photographer friend of mine said "every state has its spots."
Maybe trying to cool off, maybe sunning. Avian sunning is a form of body maintenance behavior in many bird species. Although mid-day or tropical sunbathing may induce symptoms of heat stress, it is hypothesized to reduce ectoparasite load through exposure to UV irradiation and by desiccation. This bristle-thighed curlew just emerged from a tidepool and wasn’t seeking any nearby shade. Indigenous, though uncommon, in Hawaii it is known as kioea. It has a beautiful, distinctively long, decurved bill used to forage in tall grass, mud, sand, and reef flats exposed at low tide. The namesake bristle-like feathers around the thighs are the field mark that differentiates it from the similar looking whimbrel. An annual trans-Pacific migrant summer nesting in western Alaska, it travels thousands of nonstop miles over the Pacific to spend the rest of the year on oceanic islands, from Hawaii to French Polynesian. The entire worldwide population was estimated to be 10,000 individuals in 2003. Extrapolating recent counts in Tuamotu indicates the population may have declined to as little as 5,000 birds. Anecdotally, I’m seeing more on Oahu than the previous several years.
The Gouldian finch (Erythrura gouldiae), also known as the Lady Gouldian finch, Gould's finch or the rainbow finch, is a colourful passerine bird endemic to Australia. There is strong evidence of a continuing decline, even at the best-known site near Katherine in the Northern Territory. Large numbers are bred in captivity, particularly in Australia. In the state of South Australia, National Parks & Wildlife Department permit returns in the late 1990s showed that over 13,000 Gouldian finches were being kept by aviculturists. If extrapolated to an Australia-wide figure this would result in a total of over 100,000 birds. In 1992, it was classified as "endangered in the wild" under IUCN's criteria C2ai. This was because the viable population size was estimated to be less than 2,500 mature individuals, no permanent subpopulation was known to contain more than 250 mature individuals, and that a continuing decline was observed in the number of mature individuals
“Docking in Space--Artist’s concept of rendezvous of the Gemini spacecraft and the Agena vehicle. They latch together as a result of visual observation by the Gemini astronauts.”
11” x 13.875”.
The above is the ‘verbatim’ caption from the official 1964 reissue (I presume) of the original 1962 (I presume) photograph. Alrighty then, clear as mud.
Yet again, I set myself up for disappointment. I was sure I’d readily find this at multiple “space” sites, miraculously, maybe even at a NASA website. Using logical keywords like ‘Gemini’, ‘Agena’, ‘concept’, in varying combinations – nothing. I even rotated the image, both clockwise & counter-clockwise – nothing.
I know for a fact that I’ve seen this multiple - many actually - times over the course of my life. I consider(ed)? It to be (yes, in MY world) an iconic Gemini/Gemini-Agena artist’s concept. Maybe it was primarily as part of/within documents, manuals, presentations, etc. Who knows.
However, John Sisson’s wonderful “Dreams of Space – Books and Ephemera” website did have the image:
dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/06/book-of-space-adventur...
Specifically:
1.bp.blogspot.com/_1t6ell3AwVE/TBkf_QLUNYI/AAAAAAAABro/66...
As did, unexpectedly:
www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/index-1965-13.html
Credit: DER SPIEGEL website
And BOTH correctly oriented!
More/most importantly, through a minor miracle, the ‘framing’ of the image includes/retains the signature of the artist – Mr. Arnold Pierce. IMHO, a spectacular WIN. Which, by extrapolation, enabled attribution of at least one other work, linked below.
Cobwebs ( Poss. ' Tangle Webs ' ) surround a metal garden fence stanchion.
Load-bearing in mind that pound-for-pound, these negligible strands, if extrapolated to the thickness of a rope, would be x10 stronger than a same-diameter steel cable.
Something else back-of-a-matchbox spider-arcane here..
www.earthkind.com/blog/different-types-of-spider-webs/
Link to the 2017 London Dada online gallery post