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Smile on Saturday: Orange
In "The Little Prince", the fifth planet visited by the little hero is very small. "There was just enough room on it for a street lamp and a lamplighter. The little prince was not able to reach any explanation of the use of a street lamp and a lamplighter, somewhere in the heavens, on a planet which had no people, and not one house." The planet has been turning faster and faster, and the poor lamplighter now has to light the street lamp and turn it off every minute. The little Prince leaves the planet, thinking that he could have made friends with the lamplighter, but that the planet is too small for two people. The chapter concludes: "What the little prince did not dare confess was that he was sorry most of all to leave this planet, because it was blest every day with 1440 sunsets!"
The picture is from a beautiful contemporary ballet piece in which the ballerinas in orange dresses represented the flames from the lamp. It was danced on this gorgeous music:
Everyday Mr. Kufner goes for a 6 km long walk around old town in Zagreb to light all 214 lanterns. He needs cca 3 hours on foot to turn on or turn off all lights. However, it is much faster by his old Tomos…
Santa's outfit:
AD- Evil Santa - Red Set - Legacy
[Deadwool] Enigma glasses
*CORDEWA* MALE CHRISTMAS SET FAT PACK christmas lights
The Lamp lighting stick:
Puddles. Crystal Staff (Holiday Edition)
Others:
::DisturbeD:: Christmas Sexy Girl - FULL PERM MESH
[ Cabal ] Snowman Dwarf Marksman
Larus dominicanus
• Gaviota cocinera
• Kelp gull
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Charadriiformes
Family:Laridae
Genus:Larus
Species:L. dominicanus
Punta del Este, Maldonado, Uruguay
Hard to believe this place was still open as of September 2020. It's been for sale since even before that. The north-facing motel rooms are still occupied by long-term renters. The south-facing motel rooms appear to have been recently shuttered.
There is still a sign a block away on the main road (US Route 101) pointing travelers here. The sign still looks imminently ready for business.
Last week, I went to the Canadian Rockies with some friends. We were worried we wouldn't find frozen lakes or snow to photograph the winter landscape since the weather had been unseasonably warm the week before. However, things changed quickly, and the whole trip was brutally frigid. The temperatures fell to around -40, and the wind chill was -55C (-40C is still -40F!). It was the coldest any of us had ever experienced. The reality was beyond anything we could have imagined. Even our cameras failed to work properly, no matter the brand. They could only take so much at such extreme temperatures before shutting down. We used Sony, Nikon, Canon, and Fuji GFX cameras, and all acted up at some point or another.
My friend had the creative idea to bring a real hurricane lantern to photograph the scene. He believed an LED lantern wouldn't look as organic as one that burned oil. However, it took us two attempts to get the perfect shot. The first time we tried, the lamp blew away in the wind several times, and the lighters froze. Luckily, the wind subsided on our second try, allowing us to capture our desired image.
There are two of these guys. My wife's dad bought them in 1963. They have been out every Christmas since. I love them and always call them Father Christmases. My wife is continually correcting me that they are called lamplighters.
It was difficult getting enough light with only candles, so thats why theres a 3.2 second exposure. Hope everyone likes the Father Christmas - sorry, Lamplighter as much as I do.
Every evening after sunset, the Burning Man Lamplighters ceremoniously hang kerosene lamps to the lampposts lining the four cardinal alleys leading to The Man.
Photo taken at Burning Man 2013.
© 2013 Jacques de Selliers. All rights reserved.
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(Swedish: Lykttändargränd) In the days of gas lanterns, a lamplighter was needed every night.
The house is built of horizontal logs that are interlocked at the corners of the rooms by notching. The overlapping ends of the logs are paneled: the black "knot boxes" (Swedish: knutlåda). Outside the logs there is a lid panel that is painted with traditional red paint containing pigment from the copper-mine in Falun, Dalecarlia.
Västerås was a city already in the 1200s. The alleys in the district Kyrkbacken have never been widened and in 1964 the city decided that the old houses should be preserved.
sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrkbacken (website in Swedish)
First attempt at using the Brenizer method. That photo was made using my 135mm Samyang lens at f/2, and is composed of 72 photos. The full size stitch would be several gigapixels, but that's much more than I need and a pain to work with, so I exported it to "only" 337 MP. This version I uploaded is much smaller. I like the angle of view and the general appearance of the final product, but I'm bummed out that the street lamps produced so much flare. Next time I'll really have to watch for it.
Other challenges were to stitch all the shots together properly using Hugin. Instead of selecting all the frames and create control points, I had to select the frames by adjacent groups, which was a lot slower but prevented misplaced photos and failed panoramas. I noticed something interesting in that Hugin's results varied from one rendering to the next. Using the "Biplane" projection, which I found gave the best look to the photo (aka kept the lines straight), gave me results with black rectangular patches after rendering. The interesting thing is that if I rendered the same panorama again, using the exact same parameters (using a saved .pto file), the blacked out patches would appear at different places, or not appear at all. Also, light levels changed between renderings. On some, the flare was more pronounced. On others, it was less pronounced. To make the best photo I could in these conditions, I batch generated 8 panoramas using the exact same parameters. Then I loaded all of them in GIMP, and erased the parts I didn't like of each layer to merge them to one layer. Like that, I got rid of the black patches and reduced the flare as much as I could. Hugin did stitch the frames in the exact same position every time, this didn't change at all. Only, it seemed like it used different overlap combinations on each stitch. Weird.
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The rain gave up for a few minutes, a few times today.....and here we go again with puddles and refections. It amazes me how the huge buildings reflect in the little poolings of rainwater
Worcester, Massachusetts,
the man is likely Richard Lionel Jewel
Photographed by William Bullard
Collection of the Worcester Art Museun
now on display at "making space" at north seattle college art gallery www.facebook.com/events/813198642050133/
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