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Automated crystal cutting at Waterford.
House of Waterford Crystal.
Remember the electric typewriter that had the IBM letter ball? This mechanism reminded me of the fascinating bit of engineering that went into making that ball work with incredible speed and accuracy.
Shot through the protective glass. No risk there of getting wet.
SARAY (Mini Saray)
Custom Pullip Head by Sheryl Designs to Saray
Saray with Nessa. ^^
Hilo en el Foro de Pullips: Pullip. es
See more photos at: Saray's Flickr
A little still life from the forge with blacksmith, Pete Mattila's antique drill press. It's a bit of a beast and the proud product of the Buffalo Forge, Buffalo NY.
Ricoh GRIII, 18.3mm GR lens, 1/50th sec at f/2.8, ISO 200
Shot for the Macro Mondays January 30th theme "Contraption".
Its a shot of a wristwatch mechanism lit from behind using a constant light source. Manually focused, edited in lightroom.
Here is a properly exposed image of this wristwatch mechanism:
Primero, no toques las agujas de tu corazón.
Segundo, domina tu cólera.
Tercero y más importante, no te enamores jamás de los jamases.
Si no cumples estas normas, la gran aguja del reloj de tu corazón traspasará tu piel, tus huesos se fracturarán y la mecánica del corazón se estropeará de nuevo.
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
Eurotower is a 40-storey, 148 m (486 ft) skyscraper in the Innenstadt district of Frankfurt, Germany. The building served as the seat of the European Central Bank (ECB) until 18 March 2015, at which point it was officially replaced by a new purpose-built building. It now hosts the European Central Bank's Single Supervisory Mechanism.
The building is located at Willy-Brandt-Platz in Frankfurt's central business district, the Bankenviertel, opposite to the Opern- und Schauspielhaus Frankfurt. Right next to the building is an underground U-Bahn station and an above-ground tram station.
The tower was designed by architect Richard Heil and was built between 1971 and 1977. The first main tenant was the Bank für Gemeinwirtschaft. The building was later used by the European Monetary Institute, the forerunner of the European Central Bank that was established in 1998.
Until 2013, a club/restaurant called Living XXL was situated in the basement.
Because of the limited space in the Eurotower the personnel of the ECB were also (up to March 2015) distributed between two other skyscrapers in the Bankenviertel, the Eurotheum and Neue Mainzer Straße 32–36. This was considered less than optimal, so in the late 1990s the ECB began a process to have a new seat built on a site in the east end of Frankfurt. This was originally envisaged to bring together all the bank's personnel in one place, however with the increase in the ECB's responsibilities with the EU Single Supervisory Mechanism, the ECB will retain its presence in the Eurotower after its refurbishment. Construction of the new tower started in 2008 and was completed in late 2014. In November of that year bank personnel started to transfer from the Eurotower to their new offices at the Seat.
Focus mechanism for my Speed Graphic view camera. For the September 17 Macro Mondays theme "Cogwheel." Four images focus-stacked.
The camera was manufactured in the late 1940s or early 50s. I bought this one, used, with my paper route money and took pictures for my high school yearbook during the late 1960's.
I'm currently recovering from an arthroscopy on my left knee, the second in less than a year. I've been signed off work for a fortnight and told to do my physio exercises but otherwise take it easy. It's only been two days and I'm getting bored already!
This is an old watch mechanism, lying on the very rusty bearing housing of a centrifugal pump.
From my blog (oldlenses.blogspot.ca/2015/10/signs-that-you-are-addicted...):
G.A.S = Gear Acquisition Syndrome. A disease that affects mostly men. It infects the central reasoning area of the brain and makes men vulnerable into thinking more gear make them better photographers, and thus buying gear that they don't need. There is no known cure, but there is a silver lining; some men are able to recover as the photographs they make shift from pictures of cameras, lenses, brick walls, and resolution charts to other form of pictures.
You buy printed photo magazines just to look at the ads
You have a copy of A Lens Collector's Vade Meccum
You know exactly what a "normal" lens is
You have all 5 versions of the same lens
Words like Noctilux and Otus motivate you to make more money so that you can buy them
You name your daughter Tessar, and your son's name Nokton is not misspelled, and your dog's name is Skopar
You think Hologon is the most beautiful word in the world
You scare your partner at night uttering words like "Fisheye", "Bigma", in your sleep
You justify all your gear purchases as investment
You buy similar looking cameras so that your significant other can't tell the one that you use is not the same as the 4 others in the locked closet that only you have the key to
You tell your wife it's worth the expense of the 85mm f1.2L because it would make her look more beautiful in the picture
You convince yourself that the purchase of a Leica Summilux will one day make you as good as Henri Cartier-Bresson
Every time you see a red band, or gold band, it reminds you of your favourite lens
You are a Pentaxian, and you know the word "Limited" is not a disadvantage
You have been buying K-Mount lenses for the last ten years, because you believe one day, there will be a full frame Pentax camera, like you believe in Santa Claus
You get excited when you hear words like Holly Trinity, Magic Drainpipe, The Dust Pump, Sigmarit, and you know exactly what they refer to
You use Ikea shelves to store your cameras/lenses because you can't afford better shelves since you spent all your money on cameras/lenses
Decimal numbers like 0.95, 1.0, 1.2, 1.4 bring tears to your eyes
You just realized that the lens you bought yesterday is exactly the same as 2 others that you didn't know you had
You take pictures with enlarging, projection, and printing cell lenses on your mirrorless camera
You have many lenses without apertures
You have many lenses without focus mechanism
You have drawers full of lens adapters
You have a large bin of lens hoods, and most of them don't fit your lenses, but you tell yourself one day, you will get the lenses that will fit the hoods
You can't understand why anyone needs to use the aperture on the lens, since you always shoot wide open
You feel no shame when others look at your ugly self-made lens contraption in disgust
100% of your pictures contains 99% bokeh, and 1% subject that's in focus.
Your favourite pastime is to browse antique/flea market for vintage cameras/lenses
You never miss a single camera show
You created an app with a SQL database to catalogue and keep track of your cameras/lenses because a spreadsheet has reached its capacity
You remember the minute details of a lens, but forget your kids birthdays
Your wife is annoyed that you
spend more time with your gear than with the kids, or with her
You blog about your favourite lens in length, and the only picture that accompanies the blog entry is the picture of the lens
You have 9 camera bags, and all of them are full of gear
You have 8 different tripod heads, and each one has a specific purpose, and each one is used exactly once
You fondle your cameras/lenses and talk to them like they are your lover
You spend more time on Flickr and online forums than taking pictures
You carry your camera with you everywhere you go, but you hardly take any pictures
You can't understand why anyone would read whatever Ken Rockwell has to say, and you visit Michael Johnston's theonlinephotographer blog religiously
You tell your wife you paid $20 for the very beat-up Speed Panchro that you actually paid $2000 for and she believed you
80% of the photo in your Flickr stream is picture of cameras and lenses
Your wife thinks your planar is something to organize your daily tasks
Your wife can not understand why all your lenses do not zoom or focus themselves
You made your kids call you Prime Master
You have a RAID 10 storage setup to protect the terabytes of pictures you took of your cameras and lenses
You have another RAID 10 storage setup to protect the setup above
You drove 4 hours to photograph a sunrise, only to find out you shot everything wide open out of habit, and all the pictures are overexposed
You made penholders out of broken lenses
You have a box you call treasure that's full of parts from dismantled cameras and lenses.
You hope that you can use them to repair lenses/cameras, but deep down you know that will never happen because that's why they became parts in the first place.
You use a stack of filter rings in place of a hood
You have a dozen rolls of exposed film in the drawer from 1998, but never developed
You get bored of the auto focus lenses you spent tens of thousands of dollar buying, and are having a blast with a $20 enlarging lens taking pictures of your AF lenses
You know by heart the first two digits of a Vivitar lens serial number corresponds to which manufacturer who made the lens.
You love pictures in RAW, and hate those cooked in jpeg
You have thousands of tiny screws harvested from dead cameras/lenses
ELEURIEL
Custom Pullip by my sister Mei and re-make by me (Sheryl Designs)
OUTFIT: By my mother Patricia
They gave it to me on Oct 05 2007, my 25th birthday.
EYES: Acrylic green eyes w/ ©2007 Eyemech Modification by Sheryl Designs
I had to hunt high and low for a watch with the old style geartrain mechanism and not batteries. In desperation I paid a visit to my friendly local jeweller who kindly gave me an old one out of his junk box. From the pitting on the surfaces, I think it's been in the throw away box for quite some time.
Built in 1849-1850 by Louis Bernard for the Drapeau seigneuries, it was the common mill of the Lepage-Thivierge seigneury until the abolition of the seigneurial regime in 1854. The mill produced flour until 1926. After this date, it was used as a tourist information office (1941-1979), restaurant (1990s), training center (since 2000) and tourist bed and breakfast (since 2006). Its mechanisms were removed in the early 1990s. It was completely restored from 2000.