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Farm implement near McBaine, Missouri. Photography by Notley Hawkins. Taken with a Canon EOS R5 camera with a Canon EF8-15mm f/4L FISHEYE USM lens at ƒ/5.6 with a 239-second exposure at ISO 50, processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.
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An abandoned villa in the Italian countryside with some nice details in the living areas upstairs and a lot of large barrels in the basement. Unsure on the history of this but seems to have been abandoned for many years.
The man down Italian toll tour. Taking in some Italian delights on a 4 day explore.
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Farm implement near McBaine, Missouri. Photography by Notley Hawkins. Taken with a Canon EOS R5 camera with a Canon RF15-35mm F2.8 L IS USM lens at ƒ/4.0 with a 152-second exposure at ISO 50, processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.
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47790 "Galloway Princess" passes Derwent Junction on 07/April/2010 working the 2Z37 15.10 Maryport to Workington shuttle service,implemented after the 2009 floods causing the bridge at Workington to collapse.
Kitchen Tools #1. © Copyright 2022 G Dan Mitchell.
Close up photograph of kitchen implements.
Indeed, I made more than one photograph in the kitchen this week. Will this be a new stylistic direction in my photography? Stay tuned and find out! Like yesterday’s photograph, this subject was on the kitchen counter. I needed something to test out a new camera with a macro lenses, no tiny bugs were handy, so here we are.
As I pondered these two kitchen photographs it stuck me that the patterns, especially with all of the soft blur in the images, reminded me of some close-up photograph s I have made of grasses and similar plants.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
Was reorganizing my Silorian figures and came up with a new combo implementing black. Decided to use this color scheme for the special forces and painted in some extra details in black on the vest, helmet, and arm. The cuffs might be switched to blue if I get my hands on some blue tubing and it looks good. Furthermore, the face will be switched to yellow. If anyone has this head in yellow skin tone, I'd be willing to buy/trade. Otherwise I'll get a few of EG's "simple balaclavas."
Will make a squad of these guys in addition to updating my pre-existing standard infantry and heavy infantry/shock troopers (as seen in the previous pic).
Also keep an eye out for some vehicles for these guys in the coming months. I say months because school, college apps, and scouts will be taking up the majority of my time, putting any large scale lego projects on the backburner.
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The week got away from me so just remembered at 8 last night that I hadn't shot anything for this weeks theme. Rummaged through the kitchen until I came across this handy dandy little gem. A thingamajig to get your olives out of jars and cans.
For the group Collective 52 Photo Project "2015".
Following the implementation of the new timetable (effective from September 15, 2025), the number of intercity trains connecting Athens and Thessaloniki has been reduced to two pairs per day...
So, every day, trains 50 & 51 run in the morning and trains 56 & 57 run in the afternoon...
Dwarfed by Mount Parnassos,Intercity Train 51 from Thessaloniki to Athens, passes the small village of Agia Paraskevi...
Video Link---> youtu.be/Owx3llXxoHg
Operator:Hellenic Train
Train:51 Thessaloniki-Athens
Locomotive:OSE Class 220
Adtranz / Bombardier (DE2000)
There is a major lock down everywhere in the whole world. People are fighting for their lives, food. In my country the price of the mask had gone up. Just a week ago they implemented no mask no entry to the market. Will remain in the lock down till 14.4.2020. Hopefully everyone stay safe.
Implements including the chain used in an attempt to block the Hudson river and artillery from the revolution made with iron from Ringwood, NJ.
Oom Samie Se Winkel (General Store), Stellenbosch, South Africa
Probably used in the wine farms of the area for shovelling grapes.
Ría de Punta Umbría (Huelva - Andalucía)
SIgma 10-20 + Cokin filter : Gradual Neutral Grey ND8 (P121)
Due to the invasion of southern and eastern European nations by the Warsaw Pact, the EU has sent back their troops to Europe from America to prepare and strategize a retaliation. Due to this soldiers now have a much more common presence in the daily lives of civilians. All forces will be used to create an advantage, even the Leaning Tower of Pisa will be used as a watch tower in Italy. The preparations are almost complete.
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For the Purge Chronicles
Doing something very interesting with the leaning tower of pisa was harder than I thought if I wanted it to be pretty accurate, so this is more of a tone scene rather than a detailed one to be more accurate to the area.
Flickr has once again implemented another new, new Beta version randomly selecting members to sample it. Being one of the most random people around, I was blessed with the opportunity. While the format has changed slightly, it is a marked improvement over the last which caused a mass exodus to foreign language versions as a means of avoiding usage, and much closer to the "old" version stylistically. Title, description, and comments are large and back to black on white text. The entire right margin is eliminated and group invites are clearly indicated and easily accessed. I can't find access to the HTML code yet but it must be there somewhere. While it may not be perfect, this is a vast improvement, obviously directly addressing the concerns expressed by membership. And for that, some appreciation is in order.
I would advise all of those who are utilizing alternatives to give a quick check back to English to see if you, too, are one of those so "honored" as to be capable of using the latest altered version. If you are not, the following link shows a sample page:
www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157645000450855/
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Kitchen Tools #2. © Copyright 2022 G Dan Mitchell.
Close up photograph of kitchen implements.
When looking for subjects to test (otherwise know as “get to know”) a new camera or lens, it is amazing what things one can find to photograph! This week I’m trying to get up to speed on a new camera — more about that below — and how it works with some lenses I already have. On this evening I slapped a macro lens on the thing and headed to the kitchen to photograph… a whisk, blender blades, coffee cups, and others stuff that was lying around.
It is important to me to both understand objectively how my camera equipment functions and to develop an intuitive familiarity with it. The former helps me make smart decisions, and the latter is very important in the field, where I don’t want to get stuck wondering how the gear works. In this case, the new equipment is a Fujifilm X-T5 that I got to upgrade from the XPro2 that I’ve been using for my “small camera” photography for the past few years. For this photograph and a few others like it I put the Fujifilm 80mm macro on the camera.
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Row-crop tractor - Cockshutt 1550, c1955
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockshutt_Plow_Company
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Farm_Equipment_Company
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Nikon D300 + Nikon Nikkor 18-135mm 1:3.5-5.6 G ED-IF AF-S DX
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Seen inside the old barn at the Lynton Homestead (est. 1853).. The actual homestead was built for Governor Sanford who was in charge of the Lynton Convict Hiring Depot nearby.
Heres a shot of my latest find. An old rusty, crusty, planter/ fertilizer made by Moline. I just put the post fence up this evening, and will be planting flowers around it. I love old farm implements. One of the seed decanters is still somewhat in tact, so I put daisys in it.
The history of construction the Temple of Divine Providence has more than 200 years and is associated with the Constitution of May 3, 1791, when resolution of the deputies of the Four-Year Sejm decided to build the temple as a vote of gratitude for the Constitution. Originally, however, it was supposed to be the "Temple of the Supreme Providence," a supra-religious place of worship, and the only element adorning it were the signs of the Shining Delta. The cornerstone was laid in the area of today's Botanical Garden of the University of Warsaw near Łazienki Park. However, the Third Partition of Poland interrupted the work undertaken and Poland disappeared from the map of the world for over 120 years.
After regaining independence in 1918, the idea of building on the Mokotów Field was returned, but the outbreak of World War II made it impossible to implement it for the next several decades.
It was only in 1989, after the fall of communism, that the construction of the Temple of Divine Providence was initiated. In 1991, the Constitutional Committee of the Senate of the Republic of Poland, in a resolution adopted on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Constitution of May 3, confirmed the validity of the wedding. On May 2, 1999, the area dedicated to the construction of the temple was solemnly erected and the cross was blessed and on June 13, 1999, Pope John Paul II consecrated the cornerstone for the construction of the temple. On January 30, 2003, the President of Warsaw Lech Kaczyński handed over to Primate Józef Glemp the permission to build the Temple of Divine Providence with accompanying facilities. On February 25, 2003, construction work on the church-votum commenced.
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Historia budowy Świątyni Opatrzności Bożej liczy ponad 200 lat i wiąże się z Konstytucją 3 maja z 1791 roku, kiedy to uchwałą posłów Sejmu Czteroletniego podjęta została decyzja o wybudowaniu świątyni jako wotum wdzięczności za Konstytucję. Pierwotnie miała to jednak być "Świątyni Najwyższej Opatrzności", ponad-wyznaniowe miejsce kult, a jedynym zdobiącym ją elementem miały być znaki Delty Świetlistej. Kamień węgielny wmurowano na terenie dzisiejszego Ogrodu Botanicznego UW w pobliżu Łazienek. Jednak III rozbiór Polski przerwał podjęte prace a Polska zniknęła z mapy świat na ponad 120 lat.
Po odzyskaniu niepodległości w 1918 roku powrócono do pomysłu budowy na Polu Mokotowskim, ale Wybuch II wojny światowej uniemożliwił jej realizację przez następnych kilkadziesiąt lat.
Dopiero w 1989 roku, po opadku komunizmu, zainicjowano kontynuację budowy Świątyni Opatrzności Bożej. W 1991 roku Komisja Konstytucyjna Senatu RP w uchwale powziętej z okazji 200-lecia Konstytucji 3 Maja stwierdziła aktualność ślubu. 2 maja 1999 roku na terenie przeznaczonym pod budowę świątyni uroczyście posadowiono i pobłogosławiono krzyż a 13 czerwca 1999 roku, Papież Jan Paweł II poświęcił kamień węgielny pod budowę świątyni. W styczniu 2003 roku prezydent Warszawy Lech Kaczyński przekazał prymasowi Józefowi Glempowi pozwolenie na budowę Świątyni Opatrzności Bożej a już 25 lutego 2003 roku rozpoczęły się prace budowlane nad kościołem-wotum.
Obecnie trwają prace nad upiększeniem budowli i uporządkowaniem terenu wokół świątyni.
Trees on a windy day.
Well this was a fun playtime for Sliders Sunday.
The idea and the implementation were relatively simple, but by the time I explain it, you won't be convinced. That will be my fault though in trying to document what I ended up doing :(
And the whole reason for explaining things is to try and encourage other folk to have fun too. Kind of shooting myself with my own rifle...
The idea: trees in woods move a surprising amount on windy days. It's scary looking up and seeing a big beech swaying by ten or twenty feet above your head. Take a series of shots looking up and stack them as a kind of multiple-exposure just to show what goes on.
The implementation: point camera up and hold the shutter in continuous burst mode. This is nine images stacked thuswise.
First mistake: the burst just took over a second according to the camera metadata so not much movement (a tree swaying takes several seconds) - but enough! You can see that the higher thinner branches move more so their patterns are more spread out giving a brushlike effect.
Stacked in Affinity Photo which is really easy. You could also do it in Photoshop.
I actually stacked it five different ways using different mathematical operators (I was just thinking: try them all and pick the ones with pretty colours - AP gives you a preview just mousing over the operator list).
Second mistake: to be honest, that’s overkill. Most of the individual stacking operators produced intriguing results by themselves. I was just trying to make the fun last longer :)
Blended the layers together using different blend modes. Again just keep adding the different stack versions and go for a blend mode that looks pretty or interesting. The Minimum version of the stack gave you nine images of each branch like a rake brush effect which I liked so I emphasised that.
So that got us the basic result. The rest was just finishing.
There seemed to be a problem with the end product - there was a quite a lot of grainy pixelation (inherent in some of the blend modes). So I used a Maximum Blur filter at a low resolution to clump up the pixels a bit. More painterly that way, or so the thinking went...
Then a Curves adjustment in LAB mode to brighten the image and increase the contrast, enhance the colours (the basic strange colours came out of some of the stacking variants, but stacking tends to reduce contrast and saturation too so I tried to counter that).
Then two tweaks I feel naked without: sharpening (with Unsharp Mask) and a vignette (slight dark one here).
And we are done. And I have had fun. And you are exhausted :(
As usual for this group I shall post a link to one of the in-camera originals that were stacked, in the first comment.
Thank you for taking time to look. Especially at one of these Sliders Sundays strange manifestations of captured imagery…
I hope you enjoy it! Happy Sliders Sunday :)
[For what it's worth here are the details of the blended layers, all at 100% opacity.
Base layer: Range operator (Normal);
Next layer: Median operator, Difference blend;
Next: Outlier operator, Negation blend;
Next: Maximum operator, Negation blend;
Top: Minimum operator, Luminosity blend. This was the one with that most emphasised all the stripey branches :)
]
In 1944 Aalto was commissioned to design and implement a town plan for Säynätsalo, a small factory town founded around Johan Parviaisen Tehtaat wood-processing mills, from 1946 operated by Enso-Gutzeit (now part of Stora Enso), whose headquarters in Helsinki he also designed. The town hall would be built at a later date after Aalto won a government-mandated competition for its design. Aalto constructed the building into the wooded hillside of Säynätsalo creating a three-story multi-purpose building surrounding an elevated courtyard.
The design of the Town Hall was influenced by both Finnish vernacular architecture and the humanist Italian renaissance. It was the Italian Renaissance from which Aalto drew inspiration for the courtyard arrangement which informed the name of his original competition entry entitled "Curia." While the main program of the building is housed within a heavy brick envelope, the courtyard is bordered by a glass-enclosed circulation space which can be linked to the model of an arcade-bordered Piazza.
It was important to Aalto that the design represent democracy and the people's relationship with the government which is why he included a large public space, along with sections dedicated to the public.
The town hall is crowned by the council chamber, a double-height space which is capped by the Aalto-designed "Butterfly" trusses. The trusses support both the roof and the ceiling, creating airflow to manage condensation in the winter and heat in the summer. The butterfly truss eliminates the need for multiple intermediate trusses. It also gives call to medieval and traditional styles. The council Chamber is approached from the main entrance hall a floor below via a ramp which wraps around the main tower structure under a row of clerestory ribbon windows.
Aalto constrained his material palate to one dominated by brick and accented by timber and copper. Though Aalto practiced at the same time as Modernist Architects Le Corbusier and others, he rejected the Machine Aesthetic for the majority of his architecture. Instead, he saw his buildings as organisms made of up of individual cells. This principle informed Aalto's use of traditional building materials such as brick which is, by nature, cellular. The bricks were even laid slightly off-line to create a dynamic and enlivened surface condition due to the shadows.
The massive brick envelope is punctuated by periods of vertical striation in the form of timber columns which evoke Säynätsalo's setting in a heavily forested area.
Another distinctive feature at Säynätsalo are the grass stairs which complement a conventional set of stairs adjacent to the tower council chambers. The grass stairs also evoke notions of ancient Greek and Italian architecture through the establishment of a form resembling a simple amphitheater condition.
Came up with this variant when I wanted to extend the one in black/white and realized it didn't work. The distance changed - to the better. Now I can fit 1x1 bricks and two cheese slopes and the stress is almost gone.
The technique is implemented in this MOC: www.flickr.com/photos/eiffelben/6197444089/in/set-7215762...
Pink farm implement in Montgomery City, Missouri by Notley Hawkins. Taken with a Canon EOS R5 camera with a Canon EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens at ƒ/8.0 with a 1/125-second exposure at ISO 100. Processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.
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A farm implement from the farm that is accross the road from me.
This is a test of developing Kodak Vision color projection film as black and white negative. There's a lot of potential here, but it's acting weird. I think this film might want a more active developer.
the implements I prepared so as to facilitate giving Sonya water when she becomes weak as she can't drink by herself. But I didn't use that, because she had drunk water by herself until just before her death for luckily and fortunately. Sonya passed away by cardiomyopathy on the morning of October 6th, 2025. She was 7 and a half years-old.