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Pentax 645N SMC Pentax - A 645 Macro 1:4 120mm Exp Delta 100 DDX 1+4 07/18/2022
This is my fourth roll of 120 Ilford slow speed film that has had this mottling problem. Ilford has acknowledged the issue and replaced three rolls of FP4+ for me that had the same issue. Information on the issue can be located here:
- www.ilfordphoto.com/statement-120-roll-film/
I'm not going to bother Ilford with this roll as it has been in the refrigerator for a while and is past the use by date. I purchased these rolls in late 2020.
They are all worth the same.
I took the same picture back in September 2017 and was the first picture in my "Green Estate" series using Lynch's 5 elements of the city descriptors. Since then this play area has been described as being like Chernobyl in the UK National press.
For context behind the wall is the River Cole and the Cole valley, to my right is a fairly new housing estate and a magnificent ancient oak tree that deserves TPO (Tree Protection Order) status (there are no TPOs in North Solihull), and over my left shoulder Bacons End Bridge (a grade 2 listed foot and road bridge from 1764).
This whole area is due to be flattened to provide road access to the Simon Digby field for a new housing estate.
This little guy is one of those tiny little hoverflies about a 1/4 inch in length. Condylostylus
I might just invest in some quality macro gear - I'm really having fun with these.
new work for Pulse NY.
you can see it in the Narwhal Art Projects booth.
May 3 - 6, 2012
www.narwhalprojects.com/upcoming-exhibitions-2/pulse-nyc-...
"Node", a 102 ft. tall pubic art sculpture by New York artist Roxy Paine (1966- ) at the Yerba Buena/Moscone MUNI (Municipal Transportation) station in San Francisco, California.
"Node" is the tallest freestanding sculpture in the city. The stainless-steel form reaches upward from a 5 1/2-foot-thick base reminiscent of a tree trunk. From there, it curves as it extends upward gradually tapering until it's just a quarter of an inch thick at its peak. The sculpture was intended to function as a way-finding landmark for the station.
Node 1, the first element of the International Space Station to be manufactured in the United States and the first to be launched on the Space Shuttle, is unloaded in its container from an Air Force C-5 jet cargo transport at Kennedy Space Center's (KSC) Shuttle Landing Facility runway on June 23, 1997, after its arrival from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). The module was then transported to the Space Station Processing Facility. The Node 1 module was launched aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-88 on December 4, 1998 along with Pressurized Mating Adapters (PMAs) 1 and 2. The 18-foot in diameter, 22-foot-long aluminum module was manufactured by the Boeing Co. at MSFC. Node 1 functions as a connecting passageway to the living and working areas of the International Space Station. It has six hatches that serve as docking ports to the U.S. laboratory module, U.S. habitation module, an airlock and other Space Station elements.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: KSC-97PC-923
Date: June 23, 1997
This beautiful wasp was visiting a nest every 15-30 minutes, but I never saw it bring prey. It did excavate the nest hole some. I was able to set up a tripod and stake out the site. The wasp was slowed, perhaps, by the slightly cool weather--70s (F)--on a cloudy summer day. Happy Wing Wednesday!
Great Golden Digger Wasp - Sphex ichneumoneus (female)
Location: Durham NC USA.
Although a very common bird in New Zealand, Blackbirds also tend to be rather shy and skittish, so capturing one on an SD Card has been a bit of a challenge.
However... Whilst out on a Walk the other evening, this bird held its nerve and allowed me to get close enough for a reasonable portrait before he heading for safer ground...! (Believe it or not but there's actually a railway line on the other side of the fence!).
Jet black in colour, this Blackbird doesn't sport the bright flash of Red found on the North American Red-Winged Blackbird, but with his Orange beak and matching Orange eye-liner, well: New Zealand's Eurasian Blackbird is never-the-less a quite attractive bird...
If you have time, a more detailed Introduction to this bird can be found on the "New Zealand Birds On Line" web site at: nzbirdsonline.org.nz/?q=node/593
I've got another hectic weekend looming up Folks, so you may not hear much from me over the next couple of days, but be assured: I will return!
Enjoy what's left of the week Folks - and do keep your Cameras handy!
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A fraction of a flock of scores of Long-billed Corellas (Cacatua tenuirostris) in suburban Melbourne. Think raucous din!
Possibly one of the last excited gossipy gatherings before these cockatoos pair off for spring breeding...
Cockatoos are crested parrots. Apart from what their name suggests, the most immediately identifiable feature of this variety is salmon pink or orange-crimson above the beak and, patchily, around the throat (just discernible in some individuals here at full enlargement).
It is apparently only in recent decades that the range of these birds has expanded from the west into Melbourne and beyond. This has coincided with declining numbers in their established natural habitat.
Liège Guillemins Station is a major node in the European high speed rail network; an indispensable link between London, Paris, Brussels and Germany.
Calatrava's new Liège Guillemins Station links two very distinct areas of Liége, previously divided by the railway tracks, the north side towards the city, a typical run-down 19th century urban area, and the Cointe Hill to the south, a landscaped residential area.
The concept for the design was transparency and an urban dialog with the city. Transparency is translated by the monumental vault, constructed of glass and steel, with its soaring canopies extending 145 meters over the five platforms. The huge glass building replaces the traditional facade and establishes a seamless interaction between the interior of the station and the city.
The station is organized vertically: Towards the Place de la Gare the rail platforms and the access footbridge stack over 3 levels. Towards Cointe Hill, ten meters above, there are five levels; three parking levels, a vehicular access deck linking with the footbridge, and a raised pedestrian walkway.
At the Place de la Gare level, reinforcing the urban streetscape, is a continuous strip of commercial units. Pedestrian bridges and walkways under the tracks allow for fluid communication between the two sides of the station. The grand Passenger Hall and the SNCB ticketing area are located on the main axis.
The project has no facade in the traditional sense, since the interaction between interior and exterior is seamless. The monumental roof becomes, in effect, the project’s facade. To an observer on the hill, the roof reveals something of the inner organization of the station. To an observer within the station, the structural arches of the roof frame the views to the outside. From any vantage point, the sensation of transparency prevails.
Construction area: 49,000 square meters (including roads)
Overall length: 488 meters
Total area of Glass Roof: 33,000 square meters
Completed: 2009
If the International Space Station were a school, this scene in the Unity node would be of the teachers' lounge. Six Expedition 35 crew members take a brief moment away from conducting science in space to "lounge" together. Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency is at right. Clockwise from his position are the five flight engineers -- NASA astronauts Tom Marshburn and Chris Cassidy, and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Misurkin, Roman Romanenko and Pavel Vinogradov.
Image credit: NASA/JSC
Original image:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/multimedia/gallery/iss...
More about space station research:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/index.html
Space Station Research Affects Lives, Flickr photoset:
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A stilt-legged fly, Taeniaptera trivittata. Several were moving about around a rotting stump remnant in my yard. They really look like ants, crawling around on leaves. They wave one or both front legs frequently, perhaps to mimic antennae. Body length circa 10mm.
Components of the International Space Station, though moving along at 17,500 miles per hour, appear to hover above the Pacific Ocean just off the California coast. Ten cosmonauts and astronauts were working together when this photo was taken -- four of them as STS-135 visitors from the docked space shuttle Atlantis and six as members of the Expedition 28 crew. The Cupola, near center of frame, is attached to Node 3 or Tranquility. A Russian Soyuz and a Russian Progress spacecraft are parked at the station, left side of frame. While much of the coast is obscured by clouds, just inland from left to right, one can see the agriculture of the San Joaquin Valley, the southern Sierra Nevada, the Los Angeles Basin (center), the Mojave Desert, coastal mountains of southern California, the Salton Sea, the Imperial Valley, and the mouth of the Colorado River on the extreme right edge.
Image credit: NASA
Original image:
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More about space station research:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/index.html
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