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We are swimming in tomatoes now. I've frozen a gallon bag of cherry tomatoes, and will freeze a few more before the season is finished. It means we'll have amazing tomato sauce or soup when only bland supermarket tomatoes are available.
Day 48
October 23, 2012
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This was inspired by the tree in my backyard because the tip of it is bright red and the bottom leaves are still green. It was also inspired by Gurbir's most recent photo that I'm in love with!
Lange Belichtung mit Graufilter und Verlaufsfilter.
Long exposure with gray filter and gradient filter.
I am not happy with this. My nail skills are failing at the moment.
Something happened to my middle finger.. ;/
I love the colors of fall, the photos of the leaves were all taken separately, and put together in photoshop.
Trackmen and workers pause for a moment from their routine as a robust looking palindrome WDP-4 from BGKT in LHF negotiates the TSR and the typical SWR gradients pulling the Udaipur bound Palace Queen Humsafar express from Mysore.
Okay, I got bored ... It has been raining and storming outside today, so I couldn't get out to my garden area to take some wonderful color shots ... so this will have to do for my fill of color.
This image represents the end of my quest to overcome bright sky limits upon wide band photography by the sheer brute force of collecting a grunch of signal.
I have concluded that the circular gradient in this image is the result of light pollution in a Bortle 7 sky. The image is produced from a stack of 20s x 144 subs.
I found online examples of similar gradients that were attributed to a bright moon in the sky, so it seems reasonable that a bright Bortle 7 sky, and the nearby Washington DC light dome could cause a similar effect.
Improper calibration as a cause was eliminated by reprocessing without flat or dark calibration frames, and the gradient persisted. I tried another processing run with only 8 subs, and found that the signal was reduced. This seems to indicate that the problem increases with signal, and the image will only get worse with more subs collected.
The M33 and M78 luminance images that I captured on Nov 13th at a dark sky site did not have the circular gradient. This suggests that only images taken in a light polluted sky are the only ones that suffer from the gradient.
Finding that the ill effects of a bright sky are causing the circular gradient, I revisited light pollution filters as a possible cure, thinking that there is something better on the market now than when I last looked into it several years ago.
No matter what I try with background extraction, neither DBE nor ABE can take care of this gradient. Conventional wisdom for solving this problem seems to be to add a gasoline filter to one's vehicle, and then to drive out to a dark site.
The picture didn't want to be radiant, so I gave it a gradient. I have a hard time deleting pictures that don't work, but I'm getting better at it than I used to be.
Thursday morning at the colliery, and the locomotive has just been sent down the wrong road by Dudley who’s on his damn notebook again and Deliberation Dave - both of who aren’t paying attention, despite them offering to change the point for shunter Shifty Sigmund stood with his back to us.
The driver of the loco luckily was on the ball and quickly applied the brakes. Phew. But Sigmund’s language cannot be repeated here, despite most of you, my loyal readers being of more sterling stuff and not of the easily offended on behalf other people variety.
This part of the colliery is interesting historically, because before the railway came and drastically changed the immediate landscape, there used to be a canal here. The humpback bridge in the distance used to cross over the waterway, but was kept when the railway was built.
The locomotive is stood on a 1 in 20 gradient, quite steep for a railway I’m sure you’ll agree. And whilst it’s not the steepest adhesion railway in the whole of Little Britain, it certainly is in this part of the Somerset Coal Field if one ignores the nearby cable hauled inclines of Kilmersdon, Clandown and suchlike.
A short flight of locks used to be roughly where the gradient is, with the one here being a 3 compartment ‘staircase’ flight, which made it particularly unpopular with the boatmen who worked the coal canal, especially in latter years with badly leaking gates.
And finally, the canal now terminates out of shot to the left next to The Pedant & Armchair pub. It was formerly known as ‘The Coal Boat’, and had a very different type of customer back then before it became a favourite haunt of the squeaky voiced nasally afflicted railway loving hobbyist and narrowboat loving gongoozlers.