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Thursday, March 10, 2022
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Crews from Grimsby Fire, Niagara EMS, and Niagara Regional Police responded to Beamer Falls Conservation Area on the Bruce Trail for a report of a patient who had fallen a significant height over the edge of the escarpment. The patient was located by emergency workers, who repelled over the side of the escarpment, where they were unfortunately pronounced deceased. Police continue to investigate.
Merlin, aka Asbo boy. This is my Dad's dog. As endearing as he might look, he makes me glad I have a more laid back hound.
More of Asbo Boy here:
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taken from the balcony of my parents' vacation place on marco island, florida. i love the pattern the wind was making and the way the sinking sun was catching the radiating waves.
I was looking for a location where I could look down into a sparsely treed area so I could photograph tree trunks against a nice snowy background. I saw this group of trees at the base of a bare hill next to the river while out for a walk in a snow storm and took a reference shot with my iPhone 9the sun had already set for the day).
The next morning, with fresh snow and a magical coating of hoar frost on the landscape, I headed back to this spot with my camera bag and tripod. It was could out, about -19°C, so I bundled up well.
I wanted quite dark tree trunks against a high-key background. Unfortunately, the sun was casting fairly strong shadows that were mitigated slightly by fill light from the snow. The river was reflecting the blue sky, though it was covered in a light mist.
In post processing I was able to significantly reduce contrast in the background and eliminate most shadows by abusing Lightroom’s new Dehaze filter. This is a technique I have been experimenting with for this sort of image.
Normally, moving the Dehaze slider to the right increases the contrast of the image outward from a point about 3/4 along the histogram (that is, around a Highlight area). Lights get a bit lighter, and darks get a significantly darker. But by moving the Dehaze slider to the left I can reverse this effect. I only slightly darken the lights (which I compensate for by increasing the Highlights slider a bit afterward) but the shadows (and blacks) are practically eliminated. To make the tree trunks dark again (but without touching the now lightened shadows) I move the Blacks slider to the left until the black point just touches the left of the histogram again.
I think this could all be done with tone curves as well, but using the Dehaze slider to actually add haze seems easier.
A Slovakian special operations sniper team engages targets uphill of their position Sept. 12, 2018 during the International Special Training Centre High-Angle/Urban Course at the Hochfilzen Training Area, Austria. The high-angle portion of the two-week course is designed to teach trained sniper teams the necessary skills operating in mountainous terrain. (U.S. Army photo by 1st Lt. Benjamin Haulenbeek)
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Chris Anderson speaks at TED-Ed Weekend at TED World Theater, February 8-9, 2020, New York, NY. Photo: Ryan Lash / TED