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On Watling Street, the old Roman road from London to the North, this 18th century milestone (recently restored) told the people sitting in the stage coach that it was another twenty or so minutes before reaching the next town, Dunstable with its Abbey church, pubs, hotels, its schools and its sugar factory and so on.
Our town doesn't have any old signs. Not a one. El Dorado Hills is a relatively new town compared to the surrounding towns from the Gold Rush days. The original master plan for El Dorado Hills was designed by Victor Gruen in the early 1960's.
This sign in our Town Center caught me eye, though. Maybe because a milestone is usually a marker of a good thing. A measure of accomplishment, a place to remind you of the promises you made to yourself to do your best in something and to appreciate the special friendships you made along the way. It's both an ending and a beginning...
Time Flies...
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“Family Gathering by the Andaman Sea”
Sometimes you don’t need details, pixel perfection, or an HDR overkill. Sometimes a bit of backlight is enough – and suddenly they appear: Thailand’s most photogenic patchwork family of limestone giants, standing together in peaceful silhouette. No quarrels, no inheritance disputes – just quietly standing and keeping their secrets in the evening light.
„Familienaufstellung am Andamanensee“
Manchmal braucht es keine Details, keine Pixel-Perfektion, keinen HDR-Overkill. Manchmal reicht ein bisschen Gegenlicht – und plötzlich stehen sie da: Thailands wohl fotogenste Patchwork-Familie aus Kalkstein, vereint in trauter Silhouette. Keine Zankerei, kein Streit um Erbfolgen – nur friedliches Stehen und Schweigen im Abendlicht.
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2018 weekly alphabet challenge - H = historic
28/28
2018 one photo each day
118 pictures in 2018 #82 milestone.
Super Excited for 1K followers....Thank you to everyone who has followed and continues to follow me...I am greatly humbled by your continued support. ♥
A real one (18th century), situated on Watling Street, one and a half miles south of Markyate, Hertfordshire. Watling Street follows exactly the ancient Roman road connecting London and the Midlands. Interestingly, the Roman road here clings on to a fossil bank of the River Ver, high above the stream, whereas the 'modern' road (the A5) sits right in the flood plane - so much for 'progress'. 27 miles to London and 6 and a half to Verulamium (later called St Albans). The horse-drawn stage coaches of the 18th century would make the trip to London in a day, the Roman soldiers on foot in two. But in an emergency, the Roman Army could be faster than that. They had the infrastructure!
It is no secret to those who know me, that I detested London when I was a youngster. It was tense, noisy, threatening, dirty and unwelcoming.
These days, it seems unrecognisable from the 1980s and early 90s. Whilst I cannot envisage ever wanting to live here, I thoroughly enjoy my visits back. I particularly enjoy looking for the many things I would have overlooked or ignored as a youngster. This milestone is just such a thing.
Scanned IR print.
Rolleiflex T w/Tessar 75 mm/f3.5 + Rollei original IR filter.
Aug, 2021.
Rollei IR 400 in HC-110 B (1+31).
Printed on Fomatone MG 131, developed in Moersch SE2 Warmtone and toned in Se 1+5, 1 min.
PS borders.
From the archives.
An 18th century (I would guess) milestone in Markyate, Hertfordshire. Its location is now the A5183, a fast road built in the 1950s. I am not sure, therefore, whether or not this stone is set in its original position. However, the new road follows the old road, Watling Street (the one the Romans had built). It is clear that the milestone must at least be near to its original position. Mitakon Speedmaster at F0.95.
Twenty five minutes and a mile from where I was previously., the lighthouse looks so diminutive in the glow of the morning. Ominous rain clouds continue to move in but still dry.
It's been a while and I definitely had some fun with this one!
Full blog post and tons of pictures can be read and viewed
here Beauvais
Love Arrt <3
Old milestone, taken for 'Saturday Self Challenge': "Units of Measure". Miles to London, Basingstoke and Hartford Bridge.
#234
Roman milestone of Vernègues emerging from the straw.
Why this milestone?
Because it represents the presence of the Roman civilization which largely contributed to make what we are.
Two thousand years ago, the south of France was for Rome the start of an exceptional organization on this territory, which allied to that of Gaul, opened up immense lands to the cultivation of wheat among other things.
Photo taken with Sony Xperia 10 smartphone in 21: 9 format.
Pouquoi cette borne milliaire?
Parce qu'elle représente la présence de la civilisation romaine qui a largement contribué à faire ce que nous sommes.
Il y a deux mille ans, le sud de la France fut pour Rome le départ d'une organisation exceptionnelle sur ce territoire, qui alliée à celle de la Gaule, a ouvert d'immenses terres à la culture du blé entre autre.
Photo prise avec Sony Xperia 10 smartphone in 21: 9 format.
A little treat for me on Valentines Day to see a new milestone... (though another one popped up after I captured this screen shot) sorry..kick me for showing off...
A very old road sign at the junction of Beckenham High Street and Bromley Road in SE London giving distances to London and local destinations - a third side also gives the distance to the Swan public house at Wickham. This was the New Cross turnpike road of 1718. Turnpikes were toll roads set up to address the urgent need for better roads from the early 18th century. From 1767, mileposts were compulsory on all turnpikes, to inform travellers of direction and distances and to help coaches keep to schedule.
Some success in potty training the little one today...although it seems like its one step forward but two steps back....should I be complaining? She's only 15 months!
Dear Flickr friends
I'm sorry, but I don't have much to offer these days.
I have some pictures in my head, and some stories, but I just don't have time these days to do much more than paying work.
That's okay. When this long hard stint is over, I am taking a sabbatical.
I am going to The Big City with my camera and my laptop... and spending one entire week doing nothing but shooting and writing things I want to write.
Meantime... this working in an office thing is kind of cool. I do it every year for six or eight weeks, and every year it's a little different.
This year, the office has a high concentration of estrogen. And... here's the neat part. All the women are younger than me!!! I'm not sure why I find that so exciting (apart from the fact that they are all intelligent, interesting, funny, groovy chicks whose company I truly enjoy). I think it's related to my "youngest child sydrome." For so many years, it seemed like I was always the youngest... not only in my family, but in school (because I did grades one and two in the same year) and later in the workplace (I started my first career while I was in my teens).
So... imagine how fulfilling it is to be around younger women and have the chance to feel like a grizzled old veteran.
One more thing to love about the passage of time. Next major milestone? Retirement!!!
1. swedish moon, 2. Fly to the Moon, 3. Blueing the sky, 4. Red Sun, 5. I don't live near a lake, 6. Lautrec, 7. Sanguine sunset, 8. Passage,
9. Part of Moon's Corona, 10. Eon, 11. Hell's Pit, 12. Moon shifting, 13. sun pillar, 14. Hexa Fractal, 15. Death of an HP Photosmart 945, 16. Fan of light,
17. Police brutality against cultural symbol, 18. Myosotis, 19. Unreachable Moon Again, 20. Caustic light, 21. Stained glass, 22. The goal, 23. Counterlit Papaver, 24. Infinite Iridescence,
25. Colors on the wall, 26. Gummy Bear Eclipse I, 27. Hard Wired Flickr, 28. Dentelle, 29. bubble8, 30. Convergence, 31. Holy beary, 32. Moon and Venus,
33. Untitled, 34. Manhole cover variation, 35. Closter à la Bonnemaison, 36. Droplet 4, 37. Gummy Bear Moon Eclipse, 38. jm03symetrique, 39. Stained Glass in Treguier, 40. Walking on, walking on the Moon,
41. reflect2, 42. Walls against the sky, 43. First steps on the Moon, 44. Fractal Jing Mao, 45. Lavandula, 46. Long Jump, 47. Yellow, 48. Moon-Venus June 2007 conjunction,
49. San Marino dreamscape, 50. Infinite Tree, 51. The name of God
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This is the second milestone picture of the kind I post, the original one can be found here:
www.flickr.com/photos/christiancorsano/52119038332/in/alb...
Here is the (mostly) copy-pasted description I wrote then:
In September of 2019 I challenged myself to upload one photo every day to Flickr.
That forced me to browse my then ~90k Lightroom catalog (now 132k+), select, review, and edit shots to find something to post.
And of course it also provided me with an incentive to take my gear out more regularly, even if the pandemic reduced the opportunity to travel, leading to some monotony in the available subjects.
Today marks a streak of 2,003 daily pictures:
www.flickr.com/photos/christiancorsano/albums/72157711201...
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Now for some technical details, equally copy-pasted as I reused the program I wrote two years ago:
This picture is generated by a small throwaway recycled C# program, using Flickr APIs and a handful of dependencies (mainly ImageSharp).
The code starts loading all pages of the album, then proceed to load the size for each photo to get the URL of the "Large Square" 150px x 150px thumbnail and download them to memory.
This can take a few of minutes, especially since I avoid hitting the Flickr API too hard (downloading the photos is fine though, so they are fetched in parallel), so the photo infos and thumbnails are cached to disk to allow quick iterations on the fun part: building the mosaic.
This time I went for 52 columns and 39 rows, which gives 2028 tiles to fill. It does mean that I take 15 random pictures and duplicate them to fill the gaps.
Going for the max resolution (because why not), final mosaic is 7800px x 5850px.
Next step is to prepare the pattern I want to match, here simple "2000" in text, so I generate a small image with the black text, written in 96pt.
It is low resolution, but that's fine as the scaled up version will have a nice blur that we would have to apply anyway.
To fill the pattern I started dumb, got okay results, tried a smarter solution, which made it worse, and went back to the dumb solution to refine it a bit.
The dumb solution was to compute the brightness of each of the photos, do the same with each tile of the text pattern, order the photos and tiles by that value and distribute them.
The smarter solution was to replace the brightness by the computation of a perceptive hash of each image and pattern tile, to be able to get a similarity score for each of them and place the best match on the tiles.
It didn't work well, I suspect because the hashing algorithm work best for very similar picture and here most of the pattern tiles are completely white or black gradient.
So taking some of the more involved sorting and matching and reinstating the brightness approach is what I went for.
Even with that, I am still lacking dark pictures in my set and am cheating a bit, as I do reapply the text as a 0.2 opacity darkening mask on top of the completed mosaic.
I did not touch that code in two years, which is why I did not share it yet. Let me know if you are interested.