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we discovered our flat tire while in the game park. thankfully the lions were feasting in their recent buffalo kill and weren't too concerned with us
The Roman Catholic primary school on Llywelyn Road/Victoria Street. My mother, born in 1924, told of how when going to and from their school, St Dial's in Oak Street (now demolished and flats built on the site), they would pass the RC school and chant "Catholic bugs upon the wall, British kids will squash them all!" The "Catholic bugs" would reply in similar fashion. My mother assured me there was no malice in this game.
I'm not sure if he was born here, but we took him out with us everywhere, and took pictures of him. Flat Patrick got some ACTION this night in Scottsdale, that's for sure! me and Brit watching over him here...
I've noticed that when I edit curves in GIMP, I try to add contrast where the histogram is thick. So this morning I implemented a "flattening the histogram" approach, where do that by brute-forcing the image to have a more-or-less flat histogram.
The image marked Linear Luminance did this to the luminance,
the one marked Linear RGB applied the concept to each channel independently.
This isn't intended to be the last processing step, but sometimes it makes a good first one.
I implemented in C++. Stupid beastly language, but it has the bindings to the only image loading library I can deal effectively with.
The flat-headed cat (Prionailurus planiceps) is a small wild cat patchily distributed in the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Borneo and Sumatra. Since 2008, it has been listed as endangered by the IUCN due to destruction of wetlands in their habitat. It is suspected that the effective population size could be fewer than 2,500 mature individuals
Fairbanks Flats in highly saturated colors. Just for fun. Suzie on her bike.
In the early 1900's - during and after WWI - these apartment buildings were built for African American laborers who were recruited (mostly from the south) to work in factories in the northern industrial towns like Beloit. (Labor was scarce due to demands of WWI.)
www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=1462
For information on the redevelopment and buying, see http://janesville.craigslist.org/apa/908748519.html or the Gorman and Company.
Unknown date, estimated 1950's
Rotary Microtome for cutting thin sections of histopathological or other specimens. Made by C. Reichert Optische Werke AG in Vienna, Austria, probably around 1950.
A microtome is a mechanical instrument used to cut biological specimens into very thin slices for microscopic examination. A sample of tissue is prepared and placed in paraffin wax block which is mounted on the microtome and moved toward the blade of the microtome. As the block is moved toward the blade, very thin flat sections are cut for each upward movement. These sections are very thin and translucent and are studied with a microscope.
This microtome has a green finished metal casing. On the side is the rotary hand wheel which, when cranked, moves the specimen up and down and towards the blade by the set thickness. The specimen holder rotates to the desired angle.
Cutting sections are obtained in different thickness by adjusting a knob located on the rear: range 1-25 microns.
On the front is the stage for the microtome blade. The blade holder unit rotates to the desired angle for best sectioning. It has forward and backward movements to ensure contact of specimen with the knife.
Learn more about Flat Rock, Michigan at downtownflatrock.com, the official site of the Flat Rock, MI Downtown Development District.
Checker Hill Road
The 2015 Sampson Flat bushfires were a series of bushfires in Australia in the state of South Australia, that primarily effected the Adelaide Hills and the outer Adelaide metropolitan area. The fires began on 2 January 2015 during a day of extreme heat and lasted until 9 January 2015.
The fires began in the outer northern area of the city, in the suburb of Sampson Flat. It later travelled southeast towards the Kersbrook township and across the Mount Lofty Ranges toward the Adelaide Hills. As of 6 January 2015, at least 26 houses were destroyed with 37 families in temporary accommodation. This count had increased to 38 houses, 125 outbuildings and 134 injuries by the evening of 6 January. The town of Kersbrook was worst hit, with twelve houses destroyed. On 7 January, the number of houses destroyed throughout the affected area was revised down from 38 to 32 and again down to 27 a few days later. There were no fatalities as a result of the bushfires; and the total cost was estimated to be more than A$13 million.
2014 was Australia's third-warmest year since national temperature observations commenced in 1910. Following Australia's warmest year on record in 2013, both maximum and minimum temperatures remained well above average, with frequent periods of abnormally warm weather throughout the year. For the 6-month period from July to December 2014 southeast South Australia recorded the lowest 5 per cent record of rainfall deficiencies, extending a continued pattern of severe rainfall deficiencies over a 27–month period.
On 1 January 2015 a fire weather warning and total fine ban were issued across most of South Australia as the Bureau of Meteorology estimated the temperature in Adelaide would peak at 42 °C (108 °F), with temperatures throughout the north-west of the state and stretching down to the Eyre Peninsula estimated to range between 43–46 °C (109–115 °F) on that day. On 2 January the temperature in Adelaide peaked at 41.1 °C (106.0 °F), approximately 17 °C (31 °F) degrees above the average December temperature for Adelaide while the following day reached 38.2 °C (100.8 °F), which further aggravated conditions.
The Sampson Flat fire was declared to be a "major emergency" at 08:30 ACDT on 3 January 2015, giving the South Australia Police and emergency services additional authority to manage the event and control access in and out of the area. Over thirty roadblocks limited access to the fireground to anybody not involved in the emergency response. Residents started to be allowed back in from 6 January, with their identity and address being checked to limit access to only the roads that had been cleared as safe for travel. Road clearing was suspended on the afternoon of 7 January due to the wind and thunderstorms making the activity unsafe for the cleanup crews. The major emergency declaration was rescinded at 3pm on 7 January, despite it being able to remain in force for 14 days.
The weather assisted to contain the fire on Sunday and Monday 4–5 January with mild winds and temperatures in the range of 30–34 °C (86–93 °F), but daily temperatures rose again on Tuesday and Wednesday 6–7 January, with forecast maximum temperature in the range of 35–39 °C (95–102 °F) on both days.
Thunderstorms on the afternoon of 7 January produced a spate of new grass fires from lightning, but also brought cooler temperatures, increased humidity, and rain over some parts of the fireground, making it easier to control and extinguish the remaining areas. In the early morning hours of Thursday 8 January, the South Australian Country Fire Service confirmed on its website that the fire had been completely brought under control with crews remaining on the ground to extinguish the remaining hot spots. Extensive rainfall across South Eastern Australia on 9 and 10 January significantly reduced the fire risk.
Canon 5D
2015
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This is one of many old industrial buildings in the village that has been turned into flats. The large patio doors on the first floor and the arm next to them suggest some kind of loading bay. May well have been related to the shoe industry.
Taken with a Pentax Espio Mini camera in week 291 of my 52 film cameras in 52 weeks project:
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Agfa Copex Rapid microfilm, exposed at the camera's default non-DX ISO of 25. Semi-stand process in Rodinal 1 in 100 for 1 hour at 20 degrees. The film is usually rated at ISO50, and these results are rather over-exposed.