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A slightly early Independence Day (Fourth of July) fireworks show over Lake Monona in the heart of the Wisconsin capital.
* Fireworks pictures in a sense are double exposures, at least multiple exposures.
* My ISO was set at 100. Nothing higher is needed or even desirable.
* White balance set to auto because in raw capture it does not matter.
* The technique used (and it's an old one) was to hold the shutter open for 10, 20, or 30 seconds at a time.
* The aperture is adjusted in the opposite direction to keep the exposure uniform. In this case I found that 10 seconds at f/8 worked well. 30 seconds at f/16 captured more bursts, but if the action was very heavy then too many bursts made for a busy, messy picture. I had to keep changing the settings.
* The camera was in full manual mode (otherwise it would change the exposure and focus).
* Because the display was 2 miles away the camera only needed to be focused at infinity.
* Solidly mounted on a sturdy tripod and tripped with an electronic cable release to insure there is no camera movement.
* Vibration reduction turned off (otherwise the VR would "hunt" for nonexistent movement and smear the shot). I nearly forgot this but I made a couple of test exposures early on and realized immediately that they were smeared due to the VR.
* I also turned off the Long Exposure Noise Reduction when I realized that it was doubling the time for the picture to load, and I knew I could minimize any noise in Lightroom. As it turned out little noise reduction was necessary beyond the standard.
* I worked in live view and kept the auto review on for two seconds for each shot to insure that I was getting what I thought I was getting. It’s enormously reassuring!
* With the shutter open for longer periods, more individual bursts are recorded on each frame. You have to shoot a lot of frames and hope to luck out. There is no way to plan it. You open the shutter, the stuff goes up, at the end of the time the shutter closes and you've got what you've got. I think I made about 75 exposures to get 19 that were good. The rest were trashed.
* Despite some 75 extended exposures, live view, and constant instant reviews, the battery at the end of 45 minutes of fireworks still had 60% charge. Turning off the noise reduction undoubtedly helped, plus made the shoot more efficient; no waiting.
United Airlines
Boeing B747-400
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Manufacturer: NewRay
Scale: 1:270
Length: 25cm / Wingspan: 23,5cm
Vikos Gorge, Greece
To get to this beautiful view over the Vikos Gorge we had to trek over a bascically nonexistent path through a strange and remote landscape. To top it off as we neared the lookout a storm hit so we only had time to snap a few pictures and then had to run back. Given that it had been a 15min walk you can imagine how drenched we were we got to the car. And then the drive back on the wet road which had 7 hairpin turns in a row, with no barriers or lights. Yay.
This shot is a HDR merged from 5 exposures in Photomatix.
1/80s,1/400s,1/200s,1/50s, 1/25s @ f/11, ISO 200.
Shot:
NIKON D300
18-200 mm f/3.5-5.6
My name is Rohan from the 7th grade in the Meadowbrook School of Weston. An interesting fact about me is that I have lived in New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts. I took a photo of a black boy and white boy separated. I focused on racism in my photo. It is half black and white and half color. The color part represents the past where the difference between blacks and whites was very clear. Racism was very common. The black and white part of the image represents the present. In contrast to the past, the difference between the two people is more subdued, yet it is still visible. This reflects the current situation with racism. While it has decreased, racism is still visible in the United States. Current events like the shooting of Michael Brown along with many others reflect this. We need to make racism nonexistent in the world, where no differences can be seen between blacks, whites and other races.
A closer look at these wonderfully iridescent ants. This species is green and purple in colour (with a black gaster), but some are even blue! Like other Calomyrmex, this one is densely covered in setae.
Two undescribed species (JDM 190 and JDM 751) are known to occur in the Pilbara region along with C. glauerti, but I am unsure which one this is. Pubescence on the gaster is seemingly nonexistent.
Mendon Ponds Park is owned and very poorly maintained by the County of Monroe, NY.
Unfortunately, this extraordinary property is rapidly deteriorating due to an egregious lack of care. Trails are not cleared of debris... signs are useless. Park maintenance is essentially nonexistent. They do have a marketing department. Seriously, the taxpayers are paying the salaries of a county parks marketing department.
Email Mendon Ponds Park complaints to: countyexecutive@monroecounty.gov
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On Jan 29, 2013, at 11:20 AM, Jeffrey Warren
wrote:
iOS screenshot pls!!
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Stewart Long
wrote:
> Very exciting updates. The archive page looks great in iOS. It is
> excellent to see the global map of maps as well!
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Jeffrey Warren > wrote:
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>> Also, a revision to the archive front page:
>> alpha.publiclaboratory.org/archive
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>>
>> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:16 PM, Jeffrey Warren > jeff@publiclaboratory.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I made the search look through note/wiki body, not just titles, and the
>>> search seems much more robust. I'd start using it instead of the regular
>>> site now!
>>>
>>> Also unlike before if you search for a term, or look for a tag, where
>>> that term or tag does not exist, it now tells you so nicely and suggests
>>> how you should search for it.
>>>
>>> Thirdly, it now prompts you to create a wiki page if you go to a page
>>> which doesn't exist yet. Although of course for now you cannot actually
>>> create one, it's a dummy page.
>>>
>>> I've been working a little on getting the actual login system working so
>>> we could start creating real content on the new site... ! But its going to
>>> be a busy month so it may go slowly. We'd probably start with tagging and
>>> commenting.
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>>
>>>
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The prophet Ezekiel described in great detail a future temple yet to be built in Jerusalem (Ezekiel 40). One thing that puzzles people is how that temple could possibly be built on the Temple Mount as long as the Dome of the Rock and the al Aqsa mosque exists. That, however, is a story for another time – and, by the way, with God nothing is impossible.
For nearly 2,000 years an even greater obstacle to the existence of a third temple has puzzled men. Where are you going to get the priests who are to minister in the temple? A temple with no priests is like a Corvette with no gas. Nice to look at, but not functional. Ezekiel specifically states that that high priest must come from “the sons of Zadok.” Try looking them up in the phone book. And who in the world is Zadok?
In case your Bible memorization has not included genealogies, you’ll probably need some help with that. Zadok was the first direct descendent of Aaron to minister as the high priest in the First Temple that was completed by Solomon. Aaron’s family name was HaKohan (or HaCohen); hence Aaron’s descendents are Kohanim, the plural for Kohan. When God established the priesthood, it was declared in Exodus 29 & 40 that the priesthood would be a “statute forever” and that it would be “an everlasting priesthood throughout their (the Kohanim) generations.” That takes us back to the problem – where are the Kohanim? Do they even exist?
Yes, in fact, they do exist. But up until the last few decades, there was no way to find them and prove that they are truly Kohanim. There was no way our progenitors could do what can be done now and, therefore, the task appeared impossible. But we know about DNA.
Here is the truly amazing thing. “It now has been demonstrated that the priestly order of Cohanim has a common genetic marker that it characteristic of only 10% of the general Jewish population and nonexistent in Gentiles.” Dr. Patrick Young said that “While this is not direct confirmation that the Cohanim specifically descended from Aaron, it does demonstrate a separation and preservation of this priestly group that has persisted over 3,000 years! It is fascinating that the Bible predicted the existence of this priestly line . . . today because of God’s everlasting covenant with His people.”
Quoting Dr. Young, “The DNA data . . . demonstrates that the Cohen genetic line thrives today and is equipped to fulfill the priestly needs of any future temple.” Which should remind us that “faith is the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1). Before the beginning of creation, God knew exactly, not only how to create the Kohanim genetically, but He has been tracking them for 3,000 years! He has allowed scientists now to come to the knowledge of how to identify them only far enough in advance of the time they would be needed for preparation for temple worship in Jerusalem. Now ask yourself this question: “If God had already figured out how to do this, is the Dome of the Rock and the al Aqsa mosque a problem for Him?” I think not!
We have the honor and privilege of coming into the very presence of God to pray. We can pray believing, even when we don’t see the answer. That is what faith is all about. Think about Jerusalem, surrounded by enemies and terror; wanting to possess the Temple Mount, but unable to; waiting to rebuild the temple, but prevented from doing so. But, if we believe God, then we know that He keeps His promises. He will do it. The Kohanim are ready. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Psalm 122:6)
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Day 110
*Day 109 does not exist
11/11
I got in trouble last night blahblahblah and I had no computer for the night, therefore day 109 is nonexistent.
Hey, don't write yourself off yet. It's only in your head you feel left out or looked down on. Just try your best, try everything you can and don't worry what they tell themselves when you're away. It just takes some time, little girl, you're in the middle of the ride. Everything, everything will be just fine, everything, everything will be alright. Hey, you know they're all the same. You know you're doing better on your own, so don't buy in. Live right now, yeah just be yourself. It doesn't matter if it's good enough for someone else. The Middle-Jimmy Eat World
We had a really interesting discussion today during Current Events about discrimination and everything just because we're from West Orange and that's "the ghetto" and there are black people and gay people here. Honestly, I've learned so much from living here. I've learned to accept someone for who they are, black, white, yellow, or whatever. It doesn't matter, we're all equal.
So I just thought a song about someone feeling left out/looked down on really fit.
Anyway, sup Kell?!
I had a pretty good day, minus the fact that my doggie is in the Animal Hospital :(
Hopefully he'll be okay.
Anyway, this week has been eventful.
Friday- My Arcadia and Socratic show at Caldwell College, if my mom lets me go. I don't see why not.
Saturday- Theodore Grimm, Those Mockingbirds, Tourmaline, and Ultra Violent Lights show at the Meatlocker in Montclair, definitely.
WOOOOOO.
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The Isetta was one of the most successful microcars produced in the post-WWII years—a time when cheap, short-distance transportation was most needed. Although the design originated in Italy, it was built in a number of different countries, including Spain, Belgium, France, Brazil, Germany and Britain. Because of its egg shape and bubble-like windows, it became known as a bubble car—a name later given to other similar vehicles. Other countries had other nicknames: In Germany it was das rollende Ei (the rolling egg) or the Sargwagen (meaning something like "coffin car"; the name apparently came from the small (or rather nonexistent) distance between the passengers and oncoming traffic). In France it was the yogurt pot. In Brazil it was the bola de futebol de fenemê (soccer ball of FNM [a truck]), and in Chile it is still called the "huevito" (little egg).
They Live, We Sleep
Artist Statement
“We are living in an artificially induced state of consciousness that resembles sleep. The poor and the underclass are growing. Racial justice and human rights are nonexistent.
They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it.
They have created a repressive society and we are their unwitting accomplices ...their intention to rule rests with the annihilation of consciousness.
We have been lulled into a trance.
They have made us indifferent, to ourselves, to others; we are focused only on our own gain. They are safe as long as they are not discovered ...that is their primary method of survival.
Keep us asleep, keep us selfish, keep us sedated...they are dismantling the sleeping middle class.
More and more people are becoming poor. We are their cattle. We are being bred for slavery.”
– They Live
This photographic body of work is inspired by John Carpenter’s 1988 film, “They Live.” The movie was also credited by Shepard Fairey “as a major source of inspiration for his own subversive brand of street art.” They Live was the basis for his use of the word ‘OBEY’ that became his main campaign and a popular clothing brand consequently.
The protagonist of the movie, an unemployed drifter named "Nada," accidentally comes across a box of sunglasses. After putting a pair on, he realizes that they are quite special. He sees the world in black and white and discovers that it's not what it seems. The series of images I have created are like those unique sunglasses that Nada stumbled upon, aim to show the world to the viewer for what it truly is. I hope they will help people to take into consideration what they sacrifice by blindly following self-serving governments and corporations’ agendas.
Through this photographic project my intent is to encourage people to be more aware of the habitual ways of living that we have been thoughtlessly following for most of human history. It seems as though the human race would have learned by now to not put their trust in the hands of the misguiding ruling class. Unfortunately most of the humanity is still in the state of mindless consumerism and simply does not realize that their decisions, their entire lives are being manipulated.
Ponderosa Canyon is so named because of the huge Ponderosa Pines on the canyon floor.
In the slick rock sandstone of the White Cliffs the soil is thin or nonexistent and plants cannot easily take hold. The lack of plants causes this region to endure intense erosion with each rainstorm forming deep canyons, rounded domes and pointed nipples.
Where the roots of trees and plants can get established they help stabilize the soil and rock underneath. This is evident in the Grey Cliffs, the sequence of rock that lies above the White Cliffs. The Grey Cliffs are made of rock that consists of a combination of sand, shale, and clay. This combination produces better soils allowing dense vegetation, which better protects the rock underneath by absorbing some of the rainfall and preventing flash floods.
My phone was too cold to take any pics on the ride in. This was 1/5 shots today, the other 4 are just gray squares or nonexistent.
Many of the tropical butterflies have distinctive seasonal forms. This phenomenon is termed seasonal polyphenism and the seasonal forms of the butterflies are called the dry-season and wet-season forms. How the season affects the genetic expression of patterns is still a subject of research. The dry-season forms are usually more cryptic and it has been suggested that the protection offered may be an adaptation. Some also show greater dark colours in the wet-season form which may have thermoregulatory advantages by increasing ability to absorb solar radiation.
The wet-season form has large, very apparent multiple eyespots whereas the dry-season forms have very reduced, oftentimes nonexistent, eyespots. Larvae that develop in hot, wet conditions develop into wet-season adults whereas those growing in the transition from the wet to the dry season, when the temperature is declining, develop into dry-season adults. This polyphenism probably has an adaptive role. In the dry-season it is disadvantageous to have conspicuous eyespots because they blend in with the brown vegetation better without eyespots. By not developing eyespots in the dry-season they can more easily camouflage themselves in the brown brush. This minimizes the risk of visually mediated predation. In the wet-season, these brown butterflies cannot as easily rely on cryptic coloration for protection because the background vegetation is green. Thus, eyespots, which may function to decrease predation, are beneficial for Satyrine butterflies like the Bushbrown to express.
Pu'er, Yunnan, China
see comments for wet season form......
I am very particular about the crumb of my French bread. Too often do bakeries sell "French bread" with crumb as dense as standard white bread. That is simply not right.
This, however, is excellent. A good mix of smaller and bigger pockets, for delicious chomping.
Also notice the crust: crunch on top, but almost nonexistent on the bottom. And the bottom is flat.
This is French bread designed for sandwiching. The bread uses a very high hydration dough (which can basically only be handled right after taking it out of the fridge... it's not so high that the dough runs, but it's pretty close to it - 63%!) which results in a loaf with a flat bottom, with just enough crust to resist a knife spreading hard butter or goat cheese on it.
Ever tried spreading a firm paste on French bread only to tear up the crumb instead of getting the delicious topping evenly spread?
This is International Sandwich Science in progress.
I was sitting in a restaurant next to my hotel when my roommate (we were both traveling alone and had been paired up), ran in, panicked.
"You have doula training, right?" (We'd discussed it the day before.) "We need you badly next door."
I felt my whole torso and neck go numb. I'd met another hotel guest that day who confided she was four months pregnant. Oh, man, I thought. Not now -- it's too, too early. And I have absolutely no idea what I'd do for her. I threw off my flip-flops and sprinted next door, following my roommate along the water and past the guest cabins. Weird. We ran farther, to the edge of the hotel property, right up to the security shack. I admit now that as I entered the shack -- we're talking dirt floors, plank siding, empty bottles -- I had terrible visions right then of seeing something pretty horrific.
But I felt composed and focused: I pysched myself into believing I could handle whatever it was I was about to see.
I entered and found two Mexican men huddled around a black Labrador retriever, clearly in the throes of labor. Two tiny, mewing puppies were suckling at her, but mama dog -- Frieda, they told me -- was whining and moaning, heaving and straining against the dirt floor.
She was laying in a puddle of bloody tissue, and it was clear there were more puppies to be had. My roommate explained (her Spanish is Ok; mine is nonexistent) that they guards told her the first two puppies had come out fine, but that Frieda had taken a turn and was now really struggling.
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Fortune Global Forum 2018
October 16th, 2018
Toronto, Canada
3:30 PM
THE NEW GLOBAL CONSUMER: DOING BUSINESS IN A DIGITAL ECONOMY
The digital economy is no longer part of the economy. It is the economy. How can traditional brick-and-mortar firms reinvent themselves, their supply chains, and their marketplaces to avoid the fate of brands once thought of as everlasting but which are now nonexistent? And how are new platforms – from e-commerce to shared services – rewriting the rules of the game? A conversation on how businesses can manage expectations for digitally empowered customers, and how technology is being used to enhance the customer experience.
Alain Bejjani, Chief Executive Officer, Majid al Futtaim
Andrea Stairs, General Manager, Canada and Latin America, eBay
Ning Tang, Founder and CEO, CreditEase
Moderator: Phil Wahba, Senior Writer, Fortune
Photograph by Stuart Isett/Fortune
Photo by Oscar Leiva/ Silverlight
Comasagua is located in southwestern El Salvador in the Balsamo coastal range between San Salvador and La Libertad departments. The Balsamo Range is a coffee producing area with 3,452 coffee farmers with 33,502 ha of coffee. These coffee-dominated watersheds on the south slopes of the Balsamo mountain range are the water sources and recharge areas for water sources for the towns and villages in the upper watershed plus numerous fast-growing tourist cities and towns in the coastal zone directly south of Comasagua, including the city of La Libertad. The high elevation coffee farms in Comasagua produce high quality coffee. Nevertheless, most farms have yields far below potential and investment continues to be limited. Coffee rust hit many of these farmers severely in 2012.
There has never been a significant water resource management program in this area; the water issues are serious and highly conflictive within these watersheds. Collaboration between municipalities, communities and coffee producers is considered weak to nonexistent. There is visible contamination and sedimentation of rivers and streams that reach the coast. Catholic Relief Services works here to teach ways of preserving water resources with coffee producers and processers in this area through its project Blue Harvest. It´s goal: sustainable management of water resources for people in coffee growing areas of Central America by promoting sustainable coffee production in ways that restore and protect water resource and promoting social and political processes for effective, sustainable, and local management of water resources.
All day it rained every 30 minutes and each time the sun shone brightly in between. This was taken while on my run. The creek was too wide to jump, unlike in summer when it is nonexistent. That shower of rain in the distance beat me home.
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With the BA.2 subvariant on the rise, what's safe and what's not? A medical expert explains - CNN
How should people weigh which precautions they want to follow? Should indoor mask mandates come back? Are there settings where people should consider masking outdoors? What if you have to go back to the office, and others aren't masking? And should we skip large indoor events again?
To help us with these questions, I spoke with CNN Medical Analyst Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency physician and professor of health policy and management at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health. She is also author of "Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health."
The following conversation has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
CNN: Can you give us a quick refresher -- what protective measures are effective against this very contagious BA.2 variant?
Dr. Leana Wen: BA.2 is a subvariant of the Omicron variant. It appears to be even more contagious than Omicron. Like previous variants, it's spread through direct contact and is airborne. Someone coughing and sneezing will exhale droplets that can transmit the virus. The virus can also be carried on microscopic aerosols that are expelled by breathing. In addition, surfaces may play a greater role in Omicron transmission. Someone who coughed onto their hand and then touched a door could seed virus there and transmit it to you if you touch that door and then your nose or mouth.
The protective measures we talked about early in the pandemic still work against Omicron. Masks work very well, though here I would urge that people wear an N95 or equivalent mask, such as a KN95 or KF94. A simple cloth mask is much less effective, especially against a variant as contagious as BA.2.
Ventilation is very important. The risk of outdoor transmission is exponentially lower than indoor transmission, and a well-ventilated, less crowded space also has much lower risk than people packed together in an unventilated space. Surfaces play less of a role than aerosol transmission, but it's still good practice to wash your hands well or to use hand sanitizer if you shake people's hands and touch frequently used surfaces. That will reduce not only this coronavirus transmission but other respiratory and gastrointestinal pathogens, too.
We also have more tools at our disposal than we did in 2020. Namely, we have vaccines and boosters, which protect very well against severe illness and also reduce the risk of Covid-19 infection. Testing prior to getting together with others tells people if they are infectious and need to avoid the gathering. That's another key preventive measure that we now have access to.
CNN: What should people consider when deciding what precautions they want to bring back, like canceling restaurant reservations or masking up indoors?
Wen: I'd consider three things. First, what is the Covid-19 risk in your community? I've talked before about how the new guidelines from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can be used here. If your community is in an orange, or "high risk," area by the CDC's metrics, you should mask indoors. If it's in green or yellow -- or "low" or "medium" risk -- you could choose not to, depending on the other two factors.
The second thing to think about is, what is your medical situation and the circumstances of others in your household? If you are generally healthy and fully vaccinated and boosted, your chance of severe illness from Covid-19 is very low. That's different if you are immunocompromised or live with someone who is elderly with multiple medical conditions. You would want to have a higher threshold for caution depending on your family's medical situation.
Third, how important is it to you to continue to avoid Covid-19? Of course, none of us want to get infected by the coronavirus, and no one should be trying to get it. But there are some people who want to avoid it at all costs and others who accept that if they engage in travel, resume parties, dine in restaurants and engage in other pre-pandemic activities, they will have some level of risk. That's a personal decision that will differ from person to person.
CNN: Does it make sense to mask in some situations but not others?
Wen: Absolutely. Risk is additive. You can bring back some things that are lower risk or higher value but still take some precautions. For example, if you work in an office that has pretty good ventilation and is well-spaced, and requires proof of vaccination, you may consider not masking in that setting. But you might still decide to mask in crowded, indoor places like grocery stores and train stations. Again, I'd urge that if you are wearing a mask, wear an N95 or equivalent mask, because it will be your best chance of protecting against the very contagious BA.2 variant.
CNN: What about outdoors? Is BA.2 so contagious that it could transmit there?
Wen: The risk of outdoor transmission is very low to the point that it's virtually nonexistent. Outdoor social gatherings are very safe, and certainly lower risk than the equivalent setting indoors. I do not think that people need to mask outdoors, but there may be situations where someone is extremely vulnerable -- for example, a cancer patient on chemotherapy -- and wants to be extra careful. In that case, they should definitely feel free to wear a mask when in outdoor and more crowded settings.
CNN: What if you have to go back to the office, and others aren't masking?
Wen: You need to decide what's best for you, with the understanding that one-way masking with an N95 or equivalent works very well -- that is, even if others around you aren't masking, you are still well-protected if you wear a well-fitting, high-quality mask at all times.
It also depends on the specifics of your workplace. Let's say you work in a well-ventilated office, everyone around you is vaccinated, and you are well-distanced from the next person. You could decide to remove your mask when sitting at your desk, but put it on again to go into a crowded elevator or a conference room where you're sitting shoulder-to-shoulder with other people. You could decide to go to an outdoor lunch with your colleagues, but skip the happy hour in a packed bar. These are all reasonable decisions depending on how you think about your own risk.
CNN: Should people avoid indoor gatherings, knowing that outbreaks can happen?
Wen: Not necessarily. It again depends on what's going on in your community, what your medical situation is, and how much you want to keep avoiding Covid-19. For me, my area, in Baltimore City, is in a green or "low-risk" area for Covid-19 transmission, according to the CDC. My husband and I are vaccinated and boosted. We have two little kids who are too young to be vaccinated, but we also recognize that it's going to be very difficult to keep them from getting the coronavirus given how transmissible this new variant is.
As such, I am attending large events, including indoor conferences and meetings. I'd prefer that these events require proof of vaccination and same-day negative test result. If they don't, they are less safe, and I certainly understand if others want to avoid them for the time being—just as I understand if others will want to keep attending them. This, to me, is no different from a decision to go back to the gym, resume travel or dine indoors in restaurants. Some will think those activities are worth the risk. Others will not.
Taken with a Samsung Maxima Zoom 105XL point & shoot in the summer of 2007. I was finishing off the roll of Fuji Superia that had been sitting in it for over five years. Most of the scans from this roll were awful. This shot was okay, but the colors were nonexistent. I cleaned it up in Topaz DeNoise AI, then worked the image over in Photoshop.
July 27 2007, 4:35PM
SB-26 with 1/4 CTO gel camera right, bounced off ground at 1/2 power, 35mm zoom.
Triggered by hot-shoe mounted SB-28 fired away from model.
D90, ISO 800, 1/50s.
105mm f/2.0.
This was shot for Strobist Lighting 102 homework 3.1: balancing ambient light with flash at sundown.
I made things much harder than was necessary by choosing not to carry an umbrella that day. So much for experimenting with harder light. Every photo I made that evening was either way underexposed or horribly lit.
I had to process this a fair bit (including a lot of softening, very noticeable even at small size) to make it usable, and still have to apologize to my model for making a pretty unflattering photo of her. When I get the chance, this will be reshot.
The other mistake was not arriving at the location in time. When your aperture is opened to f/2.0 and it's still too dark to focus - and when ISO 800 at 1/50 is still giving you massive underexposure - you know it's time to go home, and learn to get set up earlier or invest in some continuous lighting.
Overall, in light of the amount of damage-limitation processing necessary, this has to be my weakest submission. Anyway, that's enough self-criticism.
The sunset colors were almost nonexistent; and some hazy, smoggy clouds blowing in on the horizon were thwarting my hopes for a lovely blue dusk. I took a few shots of the sunset reflecting in the river, which threw off some lovely oranges.
Then the street lamps came on, and the color was about the same, only brighter. So I faked - well, half faked - my sunset. Don't see why not. Out of curiosity, would you have noticed without my confessing?
Reshoot pending... In the meantime, your thoughts are much appreciated - especially on the topic of how someone might light attractively without modifiers. Given that some of you seem to have done just that, and to good effect, some tips would be great!
This photosphere, taken May 4, 2016 north of Flagstaff, AZ, shows dense, overgrown forest BEFORE mechanical thinning restoration treatments.
What you're seeing:
NONEXISTENT UNDERSTORY -- Very little sunlight reaches the forest floor, so grasses and forbs don't grow well.
PAINT MARKS -- Foresters orange slash marks in thinning projects to identify trees that that will not be cut ("leave trees").
SNAG -- We try to keep the large, dead trees - called "snags" - whenever possible. They're ideal habitat for a variety of wildlife.
LOG DECK -- a large stack of logs can be seen in the background. These logs have been stripped of the leaves and small branches and are ready to be hauled away.
See this same area 2 months later: www.flickr.com/photos/4fri/28205635962/in/album-721576703...
A karesansui (枯山水), Japanese rock garden, or Zen garden is an enclosed shallow sandbox containing sand, gravel, rocks, and occasionally grass or other natural elements. The main elements of karesansui are rocks and sand, with the sea symbolized not by water but by sand raked in patterns that suggest rippling water. Plants are much less important (and sometimes nonexistent) in many karesansui gardens. Karesansui gardens are often, but not always, meant to be viewed from a single, seated perspective, and the rocks are often associated with and named after various Chinese mountains. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_garden)
Ginkakuji, Kyoto, Japan
Canon EOS-33,
Fuji RVP-100,
Tamrom 28-75 F2.8
Salazaria mexicana, commonly known by variants on bladder sage or paperbag bush, is a shrub of the mint family Lamiaceae distinctive for its calyx lobes that develop into small bag- or bladder-like shells around the fruits. Widespread in the southwestern part of North America, it is the only member of its genus.
This plant takes the form of a rounded shrub, typically 50-100 cm high, sometimes larger. The stems form a spreading rigid pattern, with the tips often becoming spine-like. The leaves are small, 3-15 mm long and 2-8 mm wide, ovate to elliptic, entire, and with a very short or nonexistent petiole. The 2-lipped flowers develop in pairs facing away from each other; the upper lip is white to light violet and hairy, while the lower lip is 3-lobed and intense dark violet. The calyx starts out as simply a base to the flower, reddish-purple in shade, and then as the flower ages, it expands into its distinctive bag shape, 1-2 cm across, the dried flower eventually falling out of the hole in the end.
Flowering is generally April through June, but the bags are durable and may last on the plant into winter, becoming dry and papery.
These bushes occupy a variety of habitats in their range, including washes, gravelly or sandy slopes, shrubland, and woodland, often growing intermixed with other shrubs. The range extends from the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada and the deserts of California, east to Texas and south into Mexico. They are relatively common; although both the foliage and flowers are sparse, the distinctive pattern of bags makes them easy to spot from a distance.
The genus is named after astronomer José Salazar y Larregui, Mexican commissioner for the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey of 1848-55.
A group of my friends and I went to Talkeetna for the "bluegrass" festival, but it was basically over by the time we got there, and there was no bluegrass (only poorly-executed classic rock covers). So we just hung out in the town and ate food and ice cream!
A G4 Security Officer and the TRCA Rep walk towards my position as P638 comes in with the newest Hyundai Rotum Cabcar #518 on the point. No, the two did not hassle me for being on the platform. Harassment of railfans is pretty much nonexistent nowadays especially at Boynton which was known as a "no go" spot for railfans.
Ladies and gentlemen, here is the hottest, most exciting Volkswagen to hit American showrooms since the New Beetle!
The Volkswagen Eos is a 2+2 sports car with a retractable hardtop and seems to answer the need for a personal sport coupe in the VW lineup that had been nonexistent since the Karmann Ghia was discontinued in 1974. (The Scirocco wasn't exactly the same thing.) Named for the Greek goddess of the dawn, the Eos will certainly wake you up with its potent 2.0-liter turbo four and its six-speed manual transmission.
This lovely light blue Eos was parked on my street as I was going for a walk. I quickly turned home and got out my camera to photograph it.
ANTICA GRECIA ARCHEOLOGICA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA. "England Über Alles" - Parthenon marbles: British Museum to send more Elgin Marbles abroad despite Greek anger, THE TELEGRAPH, U.K., & ARTNET NEWS (06-09|12|2014).
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s.v., The Parthenon Gallery | THE ACROPOLIS MUSEUM, ATHENS, GEECE [12|2014].
In the centre of the Parthenon Gallery on the 3rd floor, the visitor can observe a video presentation about the Parthenon and the sculptural decoration of the monument. In the same area are presented ancient marble inscriptions recording detailed cost records of the construction of the Parthenon and the statue of Athena Parthenos. As a result, visitors are informed on how democratic bodies functioned in the 5th century BC.
FONTE | SOURCE:
-- THE ACROPOLIS MUSEUM, ATHENS, GEECE [12|2014].
www.theacropolismuseum.gr/en/content/parthenon-gallery
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NOTE: The British Museum also states that ‘no talks' [= THE GUARDIAN U.K., 4 December 2014] had ever been held with the Greek government about a loan of part of the Parthenon marbles. “To date they have always made it clear that they would not return them. That rather puts the conversation on pause,” ‘This last statement is clearly untrue, as there are letters on file relating to loan requests dating to 2002, between Sir John Boyd (then chair of the British Museum trustees) and Evangelos Venizelos (the Greek Minister of Culture). The Director of the British Museum was then, as it is now, Neil MacGregor.
s.v.,
-- Greece’s Parthenon Marbles loan request that was rejected - Elginism (5 December 2014).
www.elginism.com/elgin-marbles/greeces-parthenon-marbles-...
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-- ENGLAND, Parthenon marbles: British Museum to send more Elgin Marbles abroad despite Greek anger, THE TELEGRAPH, U.K. (06|12|2014).
The director of the British Museum has said it is already in talks to loan more Elgin Marbles to foreign museums.
Neil MacGregor told The Telegraph that the negotiations would continue despite the angry reaction from the government of Greece this week when it emerged that the museum was lending one of the Marbles – a headless statue of the river god, Ilissos – to the State Hermitage in St Petersburg, Russia.
"A number of other people, other institutions abroad have suggested that they are very interested [in borrowing Marbles]," said Mr MacGregor. "A couple of other conversations are in train."
Mr MacGregor said the talks had been under way for "a year or so" and would continue in spite of Greece's opposition to the loan of the Ilissos sculpture, which was unveiled in the Roman Courtyard of the Hermitage on Friday afternoon. He declined to give details of the timing or of which museums would receive the masterpieces.
Greece has long insisted the Marbles – collected by Thomas Bruce, the 7th Earl of Elgin, in the early 19th century and later passed to the British Museum – should be returned to Athens, where they once adorned the Parthenon.
Fresh loans to other countries are likely to infuriate the Greek government. On Friday, Antonis Samaras, the prime minister of Greece, said the British Museum's transfer of the 2,500- year-old Ilissos statue to St Petersburg until January 18 was "an affront to the Greek people".
"The British argument held until recently – that the Parthenon Marbles cannot be moved – is no longer valid; just as the existence of the new Acropolis Museum invalidated the other British argument that there was no appropriate space for exhibiting the sculptures," he said.
"We Greeks are one with our history and civilisation, which cannot be broken up, loaned out, or conceded."
The British Museum argues the sculptures were legally acquired and that it is up to the trustees to decide what to do with them. "This is a totally normal thing for the British Museum to do, to lend great objects to great museums," said Mr MacGregor. However, the Ilissos statue is the first piece of the artwork ever to be loaned abroad since the Marbles were acquired.
Asked if Elgin works could be loaned to Athens, Mr MacGregor said: "To date, the Greeks have always refused to borrow [the Marbles] because they would not borrow what belongs to them. But were they to make a request, it would be reviewed in exactly the same terms as any other."
Members of the British and Russian art establishments mingled in St Petersburg on Saturday at the opening of an exhibition of Francis Bacon paintings on the eve of the Hermitage's 250th birthday.
The event was attended by David Sainsbury, the philanthropist and supermarket heir, and the Marquess of Cholmondeley, who lives at Houghton Hall in North Norfolk, which hosted a show of masterpieces from the Hermitage last year.
The Kremlin was represented at the event by Mikhail Shvydkoy, special representative on international cultural cooperation to Vladimir Putin, Russia's president.
Mr Shvydkoy said UK-Russia cultural ties were "taking on a special significance in the current climate", in a reference to tensions between Moscow and the West over the Ukraine crisis.
"Culture is becoming an instrument to preserves some kind of contacts, some kind of atmosphere that might help revive a feeling of trust," he told The Telegraph. "That is the main political problem, the absence of trust [between Russia and the West]. It's not that we don't understand each other: we don't even hear each other."
Mr Shvydkoy dismissed suggestions by some in Britain that the Ilissos marble should not have been sent to Russia because of the Kremlin's support for separatist rebels in Ukraine.
"What if I were to say as the president's representative that our relations with Britain are difficult, so let's stop reading Shakespeare or Bernard Shaw?" he said. "I don't think that would be right." Meanwhile on Saturday, a steady stream of visitors passed the Ilissos sculpture in the Hermitage.
Igor Koryabin, an opera critic, 46, said he had come after the museum announced a mysterious "masterpiece from the British Museum" would go on display.
"It's a surprise that it's here despite the political undercurrents, of course," he said. "But I don't think there's any risk we won't give it back to Britain. There are agreements, guarantees. And I think it belongs in the British Museum now – the Elgin Marbles are symbol of it, they're in its blood." Elena Khodza, head of the museum's section on Greek and Roman Art, said: "When a masterpiece like this is shown in a fresh setting it gains a new life, a new aura. The fact it is here is a great and significant thing."
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THE TELEGRAPH, U.K. (06|12|2014).
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/11277535...
-- ANTICA GRECIA ARCHEOLOGICA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA: Lorena Muñoz-Alonso, Fight Breaks Out Over Loan of Elgin Marbles to Russia, ARTNET NEWS (09|12|2014).
The British Museum's controversial decision to loan a sculpture from the Elgin Marbles to Russia's State Hermitage Museum (see “Elgin Marble Loaned to Russia, While Greece Keeps Getting Snubbed") has created heated debate among politicians and members of the museum community.
Greece, which has long lobbied for the marbles' return, struck the first blow. According to the Guardian, Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, called the loan a provocation, upon finding out about it last Friday. He declared: “The Parthenon and its sculptures were pillaged. We Greeks identify with our history and culture. They cannot be torn apart, loaned, and ceded."
Samaras also declared that the loan effectively defeated the British Museum's own argument against the repatriation: that the marbles were “immovable."
The Greek government found a prompt ally in Turkey, whose Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu declared last Saturday, while on a trip to Athens: “We support Greece in its efforts to return the god Ilissos to the Acropolis museum. The return of works of a nation's cultural heritage is very important." Davutoglu refers specifically to the sculpture of Ilissos, which is the Elgin Marble currently on view at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.
Turkey's support of Greece in the Elgin ordeal comes as the two countries begin to strengthen their bilateral ties after years of conflict over Cyprus, where half of the territory is under a Greek-Cypriot government and the other half under a Turkish-Cypriot government. Negotiations regarding the reunification of Cyprus are currently stalled but both sides are making strides to resume them "as soon as possible," according to the Hurriyet, an effort which even small gestures such as Davutoğlu's support of the Elgin Marbles' return to Greece could help foster.
Meanwhile, the director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, threw more wood on the fire, declaring that the institution is considering loaning more Elgin Marbles to foreign museums. "A number of other people, other institutions abroad have suggested that they are very interested [in borrowing Marbles]," MacGregor told the Telegraph. "A couple of other conversations are in train."
And yet, despite the general outcry, MacGregor's actions have also generated a number of supportive responses. On Sunday, for example, the Guardian published an article by BBC arts journalist John Wilson, praising MacGregor's sustained efforts in the field of cultural diplomacy, even if the museum director is actually, in Wilson's words, “cautious of being seen as a commissar of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's cultural wing."
Wilson claims to have witnessed first-hand how MacGregor “negotiated the biggest foreign loan of the terracotta warriors" and traveled to Iran twice “at a time when diplomatic relations were not simply chilly but nonexistent." Yet, Wilson reveals that the true reason for the Hermitage loan, far from being any sort of diplomatic coup, is the strong professional bond that MacGregor has developed with his Russian counterpart, Mikhail Piotrovsky. MacGregor has, in fact, spoken of the Hermitage Museum as a “twin" of the British Museum, both being the "first great museums of the Enlightenment."
J. Paul Getty Trust president, James Cuno, also recently spoke out in favor of increasing the amount of art that goes on loan from encyclopedic institutions such as the British museum as an alternative to repatriation (see “The Getty's James Cuno Speaks Out Against Repatriation"). He argues that, among other things, many repatriation cases are spurred by ideological motivations and impulses to increase nationalism, using "ancient cultural objects to affirm continuity with a glorious and powerful past as a way of burnishing their modern political image."
Amal Alamuddin-Clooney, the reputed international human rights lawyer signed by the Greek government to assist in the repatriation efforts (see “Can George Clooney's Wife Rescue the Elgin Marbles?"), has not made any public comments thus far.
FONTE | SOURCE:
-- ARTNET NEWS (09|12|2014).
news.artnet.com/art-world/fight-breaks-out-over-loan-of-e...
s.v.,
-- ANTICA GRECIA ARCHEOLOGICA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA. Parthenon marbles: Greece furious over British loan to Russia, THE GUARDIAN (05-07|12|2014).
Parthenon marbles: Greece furious over British loan to Russia – Greek prime minister says loan of statue from pillaged frieze puts end to British Museum argument that disputed antiquities are immovable, Greece has reacted with outrage to the British Museum’s surprise move to loan one of the disputed Parthenon marbles to Russia. THE GUARDIAN (05|12|2014).
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Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based on historical facts. BEWARE!
Some background:
The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang was an American long-range, single-seat fighter and fighter-bomber used during World War II and the Korean War, among other conflicts. The Mustang was designed in 1940 by North American Aviation (NAA) in response to a requirement of the British Purchasing Commission. The Purchasing Commission approached North American Aviation to build Curtiss P-40 fighters under license for the Royal Air Force (RAF). Rather than build an old design from another company, North American Aviation proposed the design and production of a more modern fighter. The prototype NA-73X airframe was rolled out on 9 September 1940, 102 days after the contract was signed, and first flew on 26 October.
The Mustang was originally designed to use the Allison V-1710 engine, which, in its earlier variants, had limited high-altitude performance. It was first flown operationally by the RAF as a tactical-reconnaissance aircraft and fighter-bomber (Mustang Mk I). Production of the P-51B/C began at North American's Inglewood California plant in June 1943 and P-51s started to become available to the 8th and 9th Air Forces in the winter of 1943–1944. The addition of the Rolls-Royce Merlin to the P-51B/C model transformed the Mustang's performance at altitudes above 15,000 ft, allowing the aircraft to compete with the Luftwaffe's fighters. Among the almost 4.000 Mustangs of this variant built a quarter was supplied under Lend-Lease to the RAF as the Mustang Mk III. The definitive version, the P-51D, was powered by the Packard V-1650-7, a license-built version of the two-speed, two-stage-supercharged Merlin 66, and was armed with six .50 caliber (12.7 mm) AN/M2 Browning machine guns.
The P-51 offered an excellent performance, but North American kept trying to improve, and developed a number of lightweight versions. The lightweight Mustangs had a new wing design and airfoils designed to give less drag than the previous NAA/NACA 45-100. In addition, the planform was a simple trapezoid, with no leading-edge extension at the root.
In 1943, North American submitted a proposal to redesign the P-51D as model NA-104, from an enquiry by the USAAF as to why British aircraft were lighter than American ones. NAA engineers had examined the various components and equipment fitted to Spitfires, and through thorough inspection of airframes and construction plans NAA found that British load factors were less than American ones, and working to the lower load factors helped the design team reduce structural weight wherever possible. Exploiting the structural potential and lightening or reducing other equipment, the NA-104’s revised design was in total some 1,600 lb (730 kg) lighter than the P-51D. Modifications to save weight and improve performance included a thinner laminar flow wing, streamlining changes to the cowling, a simplified undercarriage with smaller wheels and disc brakes (necessitated by the thinner wings), a different canopy, and an armament of only four 0.5” Brownings, even though the ammunition supply was changed to 400 rounds per gun.
The lightweight NA-104 was powered by the new V-1650-9 engine, a redesigned "slimline" version of the Merlin 100-series. The engine’s design was modified to decrease frontal area to a minimum and was the first Merlin series to use down-draught induction systems. The coolant pump was moved from the bottom of the engine to the starboard side, and the engine featured a two-speed, two-stage supercharger and an S.U. injection carburetor. The V-1650-9 not only delivered an increased constant output of 1,380 hp (1,030 kW), it also featured a water-methanol injection that could temporarily boost the engine’s emergency power to 2,218 hp (1.655 kW). The exhaust arrangement was revised, too, exploiting the engine’s residual thrust to gain even more speed. An “uncuffed” three-blade Aeroproducts propeller unit with deeper blades was fitted, to better cope with the higher power output and the higher blade speeds
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Unlike later lightweight Mustang versions/prototypes the NA-104‘s ventral radiator fairing remained the same shape and size, just as the main landing gear and its covers, both were, despite improved designs on the prototyoe workbench, retained to promote a quick production introduction. The former V-1650-7’s carburetor chin intake was relocated into the right wing’s root, and the cowling was modified and streamlined. The modified nose section was slightly longer than on previous Mustang versions, and to compensate for a resulting slight center of gravity shift forward the rear fuselage was slightly extended with a plug in the rear fuselage, just front of the tail surfaces, what increased the NA-104’s overall length by ~10 inch. As a side effect the longitudinal stability improved, so that the NA-104 did not require the stabilizing fin fillet that had been introduced on the P-51D and some late production P-51B/Cs, too.
In test flights, the NA-104, with optimized fuel load and a highly polished finish, achieved 491 mph (790 km/h) at 21,000 ft (6,400 m). In September 1944 the NA-104 was accepted by the USAAF as a high-performance interceptor under the designation P-51E. 500 aircraft were ordered, primarily for operations in Europe, specifically for the 8th and 9th Air Force, to protect the Allied airfields in Great Britain and as long-range escort fighters for Allied bomber raids against Germany. An option for 1.000 more was signed, too, to be delivered from August 1945.
The first P-51Es arrived in Great Britain in January 1945. However, large-scale combat between 8th Fighter Command and the Luftwaffe interceptor force had become virtually nonexistent after 28 May 1944 but, in August, contact had been made for the first time with both rocket-propelled and jet-propelled interceptors. While themselves a harbinger of a tactical change by the Luftwaffe, the contacts also indicated that the Germans were husbanding their fighter aircraft for sporadic reaction against Allied bomber attacks.
Operational tasks for the USAAFs P-51Es included the support of bomber attacks against German ground transportation during the Allied counter-offensive in the Ardennes in early 1945, strafing ground targets daily. However, on 14 January, strategic bombing resumed with attacks on oil installations near Berlin, and Mustangs were frequently tasked with protecting B-17s, employing a variation of the escort tactic called the "Zemke Fan", designed to lure in interceptors.
The Luftwaffe’s Jagdverbände, severely depleted, turned to jet interceptions beginning 9 February 1945 in an attempt to stop the onslaught of Allied heavy bombers. The Allies countered by flying combat air patrol missions over German airfields, intercepting Me 262s and Ar 234s as they took off and landed, the moment when these fast aircraft were most vulnerable. The tactic resulted in increasing numbers of jets shot down and controlled the dangerous situation, particularly as the amount of German-controlled territory shrank daily.
Another threat was the V-1 flying bomb attacks that had begun in mid-June 1944. The only aircraft with the low-altitude speed to be effective against it was the Hawker Tempest, but by that time fewer than 30 Tempests were available, assigned to No. 150 Wing RAF. Early attempts to intercept and destroy V-1s often failed, but improved techniques soon emerged. These included using the airflow over an interceptor's wing to raise one wing of the V-1, by sliding the wingtip to within 6 in (15 cm) of the lower surface of the V-1's wing. If properly executed, this maneuver would tip the V-1's wing up, over-riding the gyro and sending the V-1 into an out-of-control dive. At least sixteen V-1s were destroyed this way, the first by a P-51 piloted by Major R. E. Turner of 356th Fighter Squadron on 18 June 1944. Once available, the USAAF’s P-51Es were frequently assigned to V-1 interception duties over the Channel and the southern coast of England, alleviating RAF units.
However, with the end of hostilities in Europe in May 1945 the P-51E contract was cancelled, as well as the option for more aircraft. Altogether only 363 lightweight P-51Es were completed and reached frontline units, exclusively operating with the 8th and 9th Fighter Command.
General characteristics:
Crew: 1
Length: 33 ft 3 in (10,15 m)
Wingspan: 37 ft 0 in (11,28 m)
Height: 13 ft 4½ in (4,08 m)
Wing area: 234 sq ft (21,81 m²)
Airfoil: NACA 66(2)-215
Empty weight: 5,792 lb (2.630 kg)
Loaded weight: 7,268 lb (3.300 kg)
Max. take-off weight: 9,559 lb (4.340 kg)
Maximum fuel capacity: 419 US gal (349 imp gal; 1,590 l)
Powerplant:
1× Packard V-1650-9 liquid-cooled V-12 with 2-stage intercooled supercharger,
delivering 1,380 hp (1,030 kW), 2,218 hp (1,655 kW) WEP with Water methanol injection,
driving a Hamilton Standard constant-speed, variable-pitch three blade propeller with
a 11 ft 2 in (3.40 m) diameter
Performance:
Maximum speed: 472 mph (760 km/h; 410 kn) at 21,200 ft (6,500 m)
Cruise speed: 362 mph (315 kn, 580 km/h)
Stall speed: 100 mph (87 kn, 160 km/h)
Range: 1,650 mi (1,434 nmi, 2,755 km) with external tanks
Service ceiling: 41,900 ft (12,800 m)
Rate of climb: 3,200 ft/min (16.3 m/s)
Wing loading: 39 lb/sqft (192 kg/m²)
Power/mass: 0.18 hp/lb (300 W/kg)
Lift-to-drag ratio: 14.6
Recommended Mach limit 0.8
Armament:
4× 0.50 caliber (12.7mm) AN/M2 Browning machine guns with 400 RPG
A pair of underwing hardpoints for a pair of drop tanks
or bombs of 100 lb (45 kg), 250 lb (113 kg) or 500 lb (226 kg) caliber
The kit and its assembly:
A project that was more complex than obvious at first glance. The plan was to create a “missing link” between the WWII P-51D and its lightweight sibling P-51H, which came too late in WWII to take seriously part in any combat. There actually were some “interim” designs, which paved the way (the F, G and J models), with lightweight hulls or different engines. My plan was to adopt some details of these aircraft to create the fictional P-51E.
For a look that subtly differs from the well-known P-51D I decided light-headedly to bash two Academy models together: a P-51D hull, mixed with the wings and tail from a P-51B/C kit, plus some inter-kit and external donors. What sounds simple turned out to be a major surgery task, though, because both kits are totally different, produced with individual moulds and few interchangeable parts! Even details which you’d expect to me identical (e. g. wing tip and tail shape) differ markedly.
For the P-51E kitbash the fuselage with cockpit, engine and radiator bath was taken from the P-51D, while the tail and the wings were taken from the P-51B/C, because they were slightly bigger, “edgier”, lacked the fin fillet and featured only four machine guns in the wings. Mating these parts called for many adaptations and massive PSR, though. To change the look further I removed the small wing leading edge extensions, for a completely straight edge, and the cowling was changed to look like a mix of the P-51F and J prototypes. The carburetor intake disappeared and a part of the P-51D spinner was used to extend the fuselage a little. A completely new three-blade propeller was scratched, using a Yokosuka D4Y spinner, a piece from an ESCI Ka-34 Hokum main rotor, and clipped blades from a Hasegawa F5U. A styrene tube was added to hold the propeller’s new metal axis. To compensate for the longer nose the rear fuselage a 2mm section of the P-51D hull was retained in front of the transplanted P-51B/C tail (which is a separate hull section, the -D has an integral tail).
The original exhausts were replaced with resin aftermarket pieces for P-400 Airacobra from Quickboost - for which the nose extension paid out, because the V-1710 exhaust arrangement is longer than the Merlin's.
Painting and markings:
I wanted a typical, potentially colorful USAAF livery from early 1945 for this what-if aircraft model. This meant that the aircraft would have a NMF livery, and Invasion Stripes or other ID markings were already removed or not applied to new aircraft anymore. Camouflage had been omitted from 1945, too. As squadron markings I went for the 357th FG red-and-yellow nose markings; these came with Academy’s P-51B/C kit, but I replaced them with decals from a Mistercraft/Intech kit from The Stash™ because their shape was simpler and would (probably) better match the modified lower nose. Searching for later P-51Ds of this group revealed that the aircraft hardly carried any other colorful marking, though – just the tactical code, and maybe some personal markings.
To keep in style I adapted this basis, using a tone called “White Aluminum (RAL 9006)” from a Duplicolor rattle can as an overall basis, but added a thin red edge to the olive drab (Revell 46) anti-glare panel, created with generic decal stripes. The rudder as well as the wing tips were painted in red, an official 363rd FS ID marking, as a counterbalance to the prominent nose, too.
The propeller spinner was painted free-handedly, in an attempt to match the checker decal's colors. Some hull panels were painted in a darker shade of aluminum to make the model look mo0re lively, and some post-shading with Humbrol Matt Aluminum Metallizer was done to improve that effect, too. Cockpit and landing gear wells were painted in a bright green zinc chromate primer tone.
Decals and markings were puzzled together from various sources. Finding a suitable 'B6' code fpr the 363rd FS was tough, but I was eventually able to scratch it from 'P9' codes from two Academy P-47D kits/sheets! BTW, the horizontal bar above the aircraft's individual letter was a real world marking for a second aircraft that bore this tactical code within the unit. The nose art/tag was also donated from an Academy P-47, the yellow font matches the rest of the unit colors well.
The anti glare panel and the propeller blades received a matt varnish coat, while the rest of the hull was covered with a mix of matt and a little semi-gloss varnish - contemporary Mustang photos from 1945 suggest that, despite being bare metal, the aircraft were not polished or shiny at all, yet the aluminum would have some reflections. I think that the final overall finish looks quite good. As a final step I added some light soot stains behind the exhausts and the machine gun orifices, and dry-brushed some silver on edges/areas where paint could have flaked in real life. Not much, but it adds to the overall impression of a used aircraft.
A more demanding project than meets the eye. Bashing the two Mustang kits for a fictional new one might have been a smart idea, but it turned out to be a nightmare because the two 1:72 Mustand Academy kits are totally incompatible. Additionally, the mods I made are VERY subtle, it takes a keen eye to recognize the lengthened hull, the modfied cowling and the cleaner tail. The three-blade prop is the most obvious thing, and with it, from certain angles, the P-51E reminds somewhat of a Yak-9? Probably due to the intake-less cowling and the (for a Mustang) unusual prop? The livery looks plausible and colorful, though. :D
dans le nid d'ange - rue Jules Machard à Dole - Jura - France - Photo argentique
Les bâtiments étaient en préfabriqués : donc isolation inexistante.
Ma mère a une photo ou je suis à côté du poêle à charbon. Elle m'a dit qu'il y avait 0° à côté du poêle ! Le nid d'ange était vraiment au top pour cela !
C'était l'hiver 1956. Température extérieure : dans les - 20°
google translate :
in bunting bag - street Jules Machard - Dole - Jura - France - Photo film
The buildings were prefabricated : so insulation nonexistent.
My mother has a picture where I am next to the coal stove. She said there was 0 ° to the stove! The bunting was really on top of it!
It was winter 1956. Outdoor temperature: in - 20 °
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vague_de_froid_de_l'hiver_1956_en_E...
6171. We're not entirely sure if this an Allan Green image of HMVS CERBERUS, or one he has collected from elsewhere, as we think it was taken around the time Green and his brothers had gone to remote Day Dawn, on the goldfields of Western Australia. We date it aroound 1901 mainly because of the new Australian flag at her jack staff on the bow.
In any event here is the latest news on the long and searing struggle to save the remains of this now unique maritime relic, a disintegrating breakwater at Half Moon Bay at Black Rock Victoria, since 1926.
With a tipping point now approaching in and hope of saving here, it's good to see that the threat to the CERBERUS is again getting some serious attentyion. This well-researched and balanced article by Jan Fisher in the Melbourne Weekly's Bayside edition has been passed on by John Rogers of the Save the CERBERUS organisation. The article invites comment at the end of this link:
www.melbourneweeklybayside.com.au/news/local/news/general...
Before going to the Fisher article, a COMPENDIUM of links to 35+ HMVS CERBERUS images on the Photostream can be found under entry NO. 5848, here:
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Now here's the Jan Fisher piece in print-out version :
CERBERUS getting that sinking feeling
BY JAN FISHER
02 Aug, 2012 10:18 AM
To most bayside residents, the CERBERUS is just the rusting hulk that sits off shore at Black Rock. But to some it represents more than a century of Australian and maritime history.
Bayside council recently asked Heritage Victoria to change its mind about using a $500,000 federal grant – earmarked for preservation works – to establish an onshore display and a corrosion control system.
Heritage Victoria’s decision raised the ire of Friends of the CERBERUS, which described it as a ‘‘death warrant’’ for the ship.
But why should we care what happens to the CERBERUS? Friends of the CERBERUS president Peter Tully says preserving the world’s only surviving monitor warship represents a unique opportunity.
“There is nothing like her left in the world,’’ he says. ‘‘Her design was cutting-edge technology when launched in the United Kingdom in 1868 and was the forerunner of all other seagoing battleship designs that followed. She was very powerfully armed and served her entire career of more than 50 years within Port Phillip Bay – defending Melbourne.”
We can thank paranoia about Russia invading Melbourne for the CERBERUS. If that seems ludicrous now, in the late 1800s Victoria was awash with money from the gold rush and wool industry. The young Australian colonies still felt closely bound to Europe, which had recently felt the sting of the Russian military might in the Crimean War. It didn’t help when, in the 1860s, two Russian warships sailed into Port Phillip Bay unannounced. Turns out they were on a supply stop, but the good citizens of Melbourne were spooked.
All this happened before Australian Federation, when the only significant naval power was based in Sydney and had no intention of coming to Melbourne’s aid in the event of an invasion.
Melbourne needed protection, so in 1866 a delegation was sent to England to buy two ships. The first was the HMS NELSON, which was provided on permanent loan, and the second was to be the CERBERUS.
Launched in 1868 and completed in 1870, the CERBERUS was a landmark naval design. It was the first British warship to dispense with sail power, the first to be built with iron-plating protection (previously plating had been retro-fitted to existing ships) and the first to have gun turrets above deck both fore and aft. It also sat low in the water, which meant it was less of a target, and came equipped with tanks that could be flooded in order to lower the boat still further.
As a warship, its lack of sails and low freeboard – the distance between deck and waterline – made it almost useless for open water warfare, but perfect for protecting a sheltered harbour.
HMVS CERBERUS arrived in Melbourne in April 1871 to much fanfare, although not everyone was enamoured. The Australian Illustrated News described it as “an elongated gasometer”.
Despite its impressive military pedigree, the CERBERUS never fired a shell in anger, but perhaps it served its purpose, because the Russians never did get around to invading.
CERBERUS was decommissioned in 1911 but when World War I broke out it was used as a port guard ship and storage space for ammunitions and explosives.
After the war CERBERUS was renamed PLATYPUS II and towed into Corio Bay, where it was used as a supply ship for submarines. In 1924 it was sold for scrap and, after anything of value was removed, sold again to the Black Rock Sailing Club, which scuttled it in 1926 to serve as a breakwater in Half Moon Bay.
It wasn’t until the 1960s that any sort of campaign to save the CERBERUS took off. In 1969 the National Trust investigated the possibility of refloating the ship, and since then three other major campaigns to save her have come and gone. Although many people have lobbied for its preservation, progress has been minimal and funding is now almost nonexistent.
Bayside council’s latest request to have the $500,000 federal grant redirected to preserving the wreck, including bracing works, may be a last-ditch attempt. The underside of the hull collapsed twice in the mid-1990s during rough seas and the Heritage Victoria maritime unit has claimed that at its current rate of deterioration, the ship may have only five to 10 years left.
Peter Tully believes the CERBERUS deserves better. ‘‘She served for 50 years, an incredible record for any vessel,” he says. “No other ship has such a unique link to the development of Melbourne, Victoria and ultimately Australia. She deserves a far better fate than rusting away at Black Rock.’’
Photo: Green Collection, State Library of Victoria [La Trobe Library] accession NO.108/2125, publicly released.
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Taken by Cory Funk.
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