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These live on trees and sleep under the bark so what it was doing in Camerahouse Foto Supplies yesterday remains a mystery. It was caught by a photographer and bought to me in a little film canister with little breathing hole in top...
These get pretty big for an Aussie Jumper and also when they move they seemingly have 1 gear R and I think R is for race mode!!
They are a pretty challenging one to Photograph sometimes.
I asked it why it did not bring me the Om1 mkii but at the time of posting this I am still waiting for a response.
I made this hand held stack using my Diffuser.
I left WB as is and did not tweak color in any way.
The editing is minimal
There is no removing of concentrated light in the catch lights in Adobe PS.
Happy with the new version of CJ diffuser. It is not as tall and not as long. I have learned a lot while developing it. The final diffusion system is 1 panel but it is a 3 stage layer thickness to make sure it is cutting light more where the brightest part is to make it as even as I can across the frame without sacrificing output from the flash. Hey I want my battery to last as long as possible (longer shooting) and I dont want to melt my flash either.
Since a macro diffuser is a direct system ( I love indirect studio softboxes ) a lot of diffusers have hotspots to some degree.
Not CJ Diffuser V2.
To my knowledge the stuff (Thermoplastic Polyurethane)I have used is not being used by anyone else. It is very strong , heat and cold resistant and also chemical and uv resistant.
1/250th -- F14! -- ISO200 -- Flash at 1/64 +0.4!
Location , Wodonga , VIC , Australia 🇦🇺
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Topaz Labs Denoise AI
Hand held focus stack of 16 images
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Proverbs 1:22 “How long, O naive ones, will you love simplicity? And scoffers delight themselves in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?”
“There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.” – Socrates
What happens when reasonable discourse is censored by an increasingly authoritarian system? During Covid, they said, “Follow the science.” Yet, as with climate change, a person can only have one side to the story. Nowadays, some scientists are even afraid to define a biological woman. Have we gone from science to cult? What about communist-style hate-speech laws for “misgendering” someone?
Does censorship encourage or stifle reasonable discourse? Does censorship encourage or stifle free thinking? Does censorship encourage or stifle critical thinking? Does censorship encourage or stifle freedom of speech? Does censorship encourage or stifle freedom?
This photo appeared in this week's North Hawaii News, which was published this morning.
This was the first assignment where I was both the story writer and photographer. The article I wrote is found below this photo's byline, seen here:
BILL ADAMS | NORTH HAWAII NEWS
2008 Grammy Award nominee Donald Kauli'a, left, prepares to begin a slack key guitar lesson for five students from Cornell University's Earth and Environmental Systems (EES) Field Program.
The students pictured are, from front-row-top, Kourtney Reynolds, a senior from San Diego, California, Hannah Kubica, a junior from Little Falls, New York, Keisuke Irie, a senior from Bergen County, New Jersey, Matt Connelly, a sophomore from Syracuse, New York, and Tyler Huth, a sophomore from Boston, Massachusetts. In the rear is EES Field Program Director and Professor, Dr. Alexandra Moore.
The session was held at the Waimea Music Exchange store in the Parker Ranch Center this past Saturday.
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Studies In The Art Of The Slack Key
by Bill Adams
The Waimea Music Exchange store at Parker Center was filled with the beautiful sounds of Hawaiian music this past Saturday morning as a group of students from Cornell University participated in a slack key guitar lesson taught by the Big Island's own Don Kauli'a, whose album "Sweet Wahine" was nominated for a 2008 Grammy Award.
The students are enrolled in Cornell's Earth and Environmental Systems (EES) Field Program. A 5-month course which spans the entire spring semester, students engage in field, class and laboratory studies focused on the various ecosystems of our Hawaiian island chain and of Hawaii's history and culture.
Led by Professor Dr. Alexandra Moore, the EES Field Program is based out of Waimea and hosted by the Hawaii Preparatory Academy. The students' living quarters is the 8-bedroom Waiaka House near the main campus of HPA.
Dr. Moore explained, "The students are immersed in studies geared towards "Kumu Pa'a I Ka 'Aina, which translates to 'Knowledge and understanding that comes from the land.'"
The stated mission of the EES Field Program is "To inspire stewardship of the Earth through first-hand experience with the power, and fragility, of Earth's interconnected systems."
Upon completion of the EES Field Program, students will achieve 18 credit hours from courses such as; Field Study of the Earth System, Biogeochemistry of the Hawaiian Islands, Field Study of Marine Ecosystems, Internship Experience, and an Introduction to Hawaiian History and Culture, which included Saturday's slack key guitar lesson.
The Program stresses the importance of respecting the Hawaiian ancestral lands and to give something back to the community by engaging in a variety of service learning (in class) projects and local volunteer opportunities. Students are also encouraged to explore ways in which they can contribute to the well-being of their adopted community.
Before Saturday's lesson began, the students were able to briefly meet and chat with another famous Big Island slack key guitar master, Sonny Lim, a 2007 Grammy Award winner for his work on the album, "Slack Key Guitar Volume 2".
Participating in Saturday's guitar lessons were a diverse group of five Cornell University students; Hannah Kubica, a junior from Little Falls, New York, Keisuke Irie, a senior from Bergen County, New Jersey, Matt Connelly, a sophomore from Syracuse, New York, Kourtney Reynolds, a senior from San Diego, California and Tyler Huth, a sophomore from Boston, Massachusetts.
More information about Cornell University's EES Field Program can be found on the Internet at www.geo.cornell.edu/hawaii.
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Camera equipment: Canon 5D Mark III, 16-35mm f2.8L II USM lens
If you're in Jackson Hole, WY (USA) anywhere between May and early August and you don't shoot the Milky Way over one of the Moulton Barns then you are certainly missing out. Go for it. Get out there and expand your photography knowledge, skills and the depth of your photography content. Don't be afraid of the dark ... take a couple of friends and have a great time with night photography and don't forget to light paint a few other objects throughout Jackson Hole.
The light in the clouds is from the town of Jackson which is about 15 minutes south of this barn.
As time goes on, I will upload other night sky / Milky Way shots I've taken ... I just don't want to upload one after another and bore people to death.
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Nightsky / Milky Way photography in Jackson Hole, WY
In 2018, I will be leading two 4 day photography workshops. One with Ryan Smith in Arches National Park in March and one in GTNP during the middle of June. During both workshops, I will take my group out for 3 nights of my Milky Way night sky workshop.
My 2018 4-5 day photography workshop schedule:
Icons of the Southwest w/Ryan Smith - April 14-18
Jackson Hole, Wyoming spring - June 15-19
Washington, DC Milky Way Monuments - November 7-9
The great part is that in 2018 I will return to Jackson Hole for the incredible wildflowers throughout the valley and the surrounding mountains.
Do you shoot the Milky Way but need a little help in getting the Milky Way to jump out of your photos ? If so, take a look at my ebook A Photographer's Milky Way Processing Guide - A Photoshop HowTo
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Time to chill out to Lara Fabian's song ... Quedate.
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The Athenian Academy is a neoclassical building in the centre of Athens. The building was designed as part of an architectural "trilogy" in 1859 by the Danish architect Theophil Hansen, along with the University and the National Library. Athens. Greece.
Detail from The Spine - the new Royal College of Physicians' building in the Knowledge Quarter, Liverpool
"So, Joel, is this that different from a university in your time?"
"Eh, maybe a little cleaner."
Callus: *contemplates*
Black cab drivers in London spend 3 - 4 years studying and acquiring what's called "The Knowledge." Only a handful make the grade and are allowed to become licensed black cab operators. The put all the other car-hire services to shame here.
Excerpt from www.mississauga.ca/arts-and-culture/arts/public-art/perma...:
Stacey Spiegel, 1997
Cast aluminum and concrete
Living Arts Centre grounds
The grounds of the Living Arts Centre are home to a three-part narrative installation by Canadian artist Stacey Spiegel. These sculptures (beginning with Book Wall, then Pool of Knowledge, and ending with Data Wall) all address the notion of “change” in society and the economy, from an industrial age to digital age.
Pool of Knowledge is a square water fountain, featuring flooring made of panels that incorporate letters of the alphabet. In 1997, when the artwork was created, the internet was known as the “information superhighway.” The work symbolizes letters being transformed into digital code, suggesting the coming information age but also indicating the overwhelming nature of this information. The artwork asks its viewer to consider how can information be deciphered and how can one navigate this new digital landscape?
“My Lord! Increase me in Knowledge”
إحدى مشاركاتي في مسابقة الكلية
وتم طلبها من قبل شخصين ^^ كنسخه مطبوعه
Lovely place to visit. Have been before but this part was locked...Really worth a visit if you're in the area - extremely peaceful inside...
www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/st-olaves-priory/
The following words have been taken from the English Heritage website...
This small Augustinian priory was founded by Roger FitzOsbert in about 1216. It is dedicated to Olaf, the 11th-century king and patron saint of Norway whose stark Christian message was ‘baptism or death’.
An inventory taken in 1536 records little of value and the priory was probably already in decline when it was suppressed a year later. In 1547 Sir Henry Jerningham converted the buildings to the north of the cloister into a private house, but little of this survived when the priory was dismantled in 1784.
Around 1825 the floor of the refectory undercroft was raised and the building was converted into a cottage which was occupied until 1902.
The hidden gem in this unassuming ruin is its 14th-century refectory undercroft. Its vaulted brick ceiling is an important early example of the use of brick in England. Supported on Purbeck marble columns, it is still almost complete and retains much of its original plasterwork.
The only parts of the church to survive are a stretch of the south aisle, the west wall and parts of the north wall. The foundations of some of the brick-faced piers that supported the cloister arcade are visible, but nothing remains of the west range except the flintwork cloister wall, which is pierced near the north end by a 14th-century doorway.
At the back of the refectory is a fragment of Jerningham’s 16th-century house that escaped destruction, which includes a reused 14th-century doorway.
This is a photo of the National Library of Australia. It is the largest reference Library in Australia with over 6,496,772 items held. It is a public library with reading rooms, treasures gallery, changing exhibitions, a bookshop and a café. The library collects, preserves and shares Australia's documentary heritage. The fountains are in a way symbolic because there is a saying that books are the fountain of knowledge.
The Sixth Ion Prophecy - The Fallen Of The Four Towers by Daniel Arrhakis (2018)
With the music : WHEN HE SAVED THE WORLD
Look at the Four Dark Towers and tremble, for they will enslave the Free Men by the Swords of Fear, the Black Torches, the Burned Books, and the Cursed Gold.
But just like Ulysses returning home to take revenge on Penelope's suitors, the Men of the Fields and Towns will also revolt against the Four Towers of Power especially after the year of the Solar Eclipse when Osiris Returns to Earth and the Fire Horse put the Bastilles aflame as ferociously as the wolf packs that run on the hills.
The First of many battles in which the flames will burn the empires of the mighty and the foundations of their despicable towers on the Old and New Continent, after all power will return to the People ... by the hand of the People.
And the Fog City Bells will sound but also the Liberty Bell beyond the Ocean whose echoes will reach the Eastern Empire threatening to fragment its walls.
In the end the Wordless Men and the Roman Senates will fall to give place to the Men of Science and the Ancient Philosophers and Humanists.
And the books will again be written and protected in new Libraries of Alexandria by the old new mystics who will keep the ancient knowledge alive and men will freely choose their Future and write their own History.
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Work made with images of mine and stock images. Scenery Composition created for this work, art collage, textured layered techniques, digital painting processes.
Camara / Camera: Nikon D750
Objetivo/Lense: Tamron 24-70 f/2.8 VC
Place: Congost de Mont-rebei (Spain)
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An illustration of ‘Oumuamua, the first object we’ve ever seen pass through our own solar system that has interstellar origins.
In October, a mysterious object zipped through our solar system at 196,000 mph. Scientists named it ‘Oumuamua, which means “a messenger from afar arriving first” in Hawaiian, and it’s the first object we’ve ever seen that entered from outside our solar system. Now our astrophysicists have helped calculate how it fits into what we know about how planetary systems form.
“This object was likely ejected from a distant star system,” said Elisa Quintana, an astrophysicist at Goddard. “What’s interesting is that just this one object flying by so quickly can help us constrain some of our planet formation models.”
On Sept. 19, ‘Oumuamua sped past the Sun at about 196,000 mph (315,400 km/h), fast enough to escape the Sun’s gravitational pull and break free of the solar system, never to return. Usually, an object traveling at a similar speed would be a comet falling sunward from the outer solar system. Comets are icy objects that range between house-sized to many miles across. But they usually shed gas and dust as they approach the Sun and warm up. ‘Oumuamua didn’t. Some scientists interpreted this to mean that ‘Oumuamua was a dry asteroid.
Read more: go.nasa.gov/2GgN2HY
Credits: European Southern Observatory/M. Kornmesser
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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Europe, The Netherlands, Overijssel, Hengelo, Tuindorp, ROC van Twente (uncut)
The city of Hengelo is often called the 'metal city' because of its industrial facilities. The former foundry (ijzergieterij) of the Stork factory is shown here. It was constructed in 1902 and later was used for the maintenance of industrial appliances.
It served this purpose until the end of the 90s and was redeveloped into a school for professional education (ROC Twente) in 2009 by Harry Abels (IAA Architecten) and restoration architect Maarten Fritz (Architectenbureau Fritz).
Like we mostly do, we asked permission to enter. After gaining it (‘OK, but please leave after 5 minutes’), we walked into the astounding redeveloped industrial space. And met a security crew that looked at us somewhat dubiously. Time for a chat: ‘You’re out in force in today’ (there were 4 of them). ‘We’re here because of Corona’, and they told that they were astonished by the number of tourists that have started to visit the facility. ‘This is no tourist attraction’. ‘But you are !” and smiling I showed them a new leaflet ('Tuindorp-route') of the municipal tourist office (VVV) in which the building, its history, and architecture are featured.
We talked some more, and one of the guards told us that she knows the building well - her father had worked there, and during a holiday she had worked there too, as a temp.
This is number 216 of Urban frontiers and 385 of Interiors.
SSC - Steps or stairs
This was a tough challenge this week, a few years back steps and stairs were my favourite topic, almost an obsession. Recently I have not been visiting as many National Trust Properties and stately homes and as a result was struggling to find a subject. Luckily I then remembered these stairs in Braintree Library.
I think everyone who has some knowledge of history knows about the battle of Stalingrad, so no lengthy description for today. I mainly wanted to portray ruins of the workers district in Stalingrad, which was firebombed so extensively that there would be nothing left but ash and chimneys. The area would be a battlefield until the Soviets pushed the Germans out of the city in February 1943.
I plan on doing more builds related to the battle of Stalingrad in the future to portray all aspects of it. The next build will likely be the railway station going into the city. I also plan on doing more WWII builds in the future, especially after watching the Soviet film "Come and See", which I highly recommend.