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Objective 3: Elements and Principals of Design
Line: The lines are between the coloured part and the black and white part. The colors in the bottles change from yellow to dark red.
Colour: I changed to coloured photo to a black and white picture. I just coloured the color in the bottles.
Space: Your eyes will focus on the colors of the bottles in the middle of the picture.
Shape: The shape are the white and black and coloured bottles in the middle of my picture
Texture: The texture in this photo is really soft, because of the black and white background and the colours in the middle. It’s also a very dark background.
Tone/Value: There is a soft lightening and a very dark background.
Principals of Design:
Emphasize: the background is black and white and very dark, but your eyes are focus on the colours of the bottles.
Movement: your eyes will move over the colours of the bottles.
Contrast: the contrast is between the colours and the black and white background.
Object 4: Lightening
The light in my picture comes from above. But you can’t see the lightening in my picture because its black and white.
Object 5: Production (ex. Dust/spot removal, resize, contrast, white balance, sharpening, borders, etc.)
I changed the photo to black and white. I want a little bit colour in my picture and I’ve coloured the colours of the bottles. I changed the size of my picture to 1000 that I can upload it to Flickr.
Object 6: Critique
I like this photo, because it’s coloured, but it’s not black and white. The next time I can try to upload a picture which is brighter and not so dark.
There is no possible objective basis of morality without God's existence.
In philosophical debates, Essentialist Divine Command Theory underscores a logical explanation of objective morality based on God's existence. This is a partial outline from a debate linked afterward....
R: Brit offers a very good question: “...how does my opponent defend that these things are good?” How can I defend that moral qualities attributed to God are “actually” good? The question is similar to: What is the standard outside of God that I use to claim to know what goodness is like in order to then claim that God is good? If I merely claim that God represents goodness and goodness is defined by God, then this is a tautology. I can address these questions with the following approaches.
I. Conceptual necessities and possibilities. - Based on the understanding that an objective basis of morality must be non-arbitrary and, “not influenced by personal feelings or opinions,” a non-arbitrary moral basis is only conceivably possible if, A) There is a supreme and capable moral authority and law giver that provides perfect moral decrees (see Essentialist Divine Command Theory, IV.4.), or, B) There is a valid and objective locus or standard of morality ( a perfect moral yardstick that applies to all moral agents and all moral questions). There is no possible manner that secular humanism could provide either A or B. It is logically possible, however, that both A and B are possible if God exists. Only a perfect moral being could be capable of providing perfect moral decrees. Therefore, in keeping with our definitions and conditions of “morality” and “objective” as concepts, only God could be considered an objective basis of morality. In this case we do not need to define “goodness” specifically in order to understand that an objective basis of morality must be attached to a concept of “God” - if it is possible at all metaphysically.
II. Empirical evidence confirmed by conventional definitions. - I can define what “goodness” and “morality” are “like” as qualities, without an appeal to God. Brit has proposed to offer an affirmative argument that there is an objective basis of morality. And I concur with Brit that “most of us agree” that there is an objective basis of morality, whether or not it can be logically explained and accounted for. Though we cannot demonstrate and prove that moral qualities exist in a science laboratory, human experience does concur with conventional definitions in a remarkable manner that certain things are “right” and others are “wrong” with these experiences being consistent with concepts such as goodness, honesty, justice, holiness, and so on. I agree with Dr. Craig that, “I clearly apprehend objective moral values and have no good reason to deny what I clearly perceive.” In other words, I have strong reasons to believe that “goodness” is an objectively “good” quality before examining what is logically possible as the meta-ethical objective basis. I am not thus arbitrarily “presuming that the [moral] aspects of God's nature are good” - but I have an empirical moral conscience and conventional definitions that testify that these qualities are good and based on Point I, God's existence would be the only possible explanation.
III. Possible historical events. - If we grant God's existence as a metaphysical possibility, then it's possible that certain biblical accounts of Jesus Christ, acting as Messiah, God incarnate, could be based on actual historical events. For example, Peter described Jesus performing an apparent miracle: “When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus' knees and said, "Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!" (Luke 5.8). After living with Jesus for three years, the apostles apparently had such a firm conviction that Jesus was the morally-perfect Messiah that they (and their families) were willing to die for their testimony of Jesus as God incarnate, rather than recant and live.
First, I'd offer that Jesus spoke with a supreme moral authority and no one was apparently able to overcome his moral positions. His apparent goodness was so extraordinary that people came out of nowhere and wept at his feet, even as He forgave their sin (moral error). (Luke 7:36-50). It was not difficult for people to see that His standards were shown to be much higher than average, even assessed as perfect. If we allow the metaphysical possibility of God's existence, then it is possible that Jesus, as God incarnate, displayed perfect holiness and moral authority. One could ask: “How can we verify the standard of an apparent standard?” When John the Baptist doubted Jesus' authenticity, Jesus responded, “Go back and report to John what you have seen and heard: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor.” (Luke 7.22b NIV). Jesus basically refereed to historic prophecies He fulfilled, as only God incarnate could have. These hold veracity, and I agree with Dr. Craig that other evidence, including Craig's four other arguments for God's existence, can be considered as relevant, if I am supposed to offer support as to why it should be considered that an objective basis of morality is based on God's existence. If other arguments support the greater plausibility that God exists, then this offers greater plausibility that objective morality is based on God. As Craig notes, “In the [Craig-Law] debate, Law made the remarkable claim that the cosmological and teleological arguments are not even part of a cumulative case for theism! This is clearly wrong.”
If Christ did indeed live and walk the earth as a perfect moral authority, then the “goodness” and “rightness” of His authority was displayed physically and in action in many circumstances. In this case, “goodness” and “rightness” are identical to the qualities of “Messiah-ness” or “Jesus-ness” that had been displayed. Without “definitions alone” this perfect moral standard was experienced directly in society.
Jesus displayed moral acts and people recognized that these were “good”acts and these His life was morally superior to their own, in fact perfect. The only ones that opposed this conception were those that were offended by the possibility that Jesus was, in fact, God, as Jesus indirectly claimed. He claimed that the true standard of morality was moral perfection (Matthew 5.48). In order for my position to be valid, I don't necessarily have to prove that Jesus was actually morally perfect and actually exemplified it, I just have to substantiate that it is metaphysically and logically possible that He lived a morally perfect life and displayed perfect moral authority (in accordance with 4.I.A). I also want to emphasize that I am discussing a basis of objective morality, not a moral system or applied ethics in this example.
Second, Jesus could be considered the, “living yardstick” and standard of perfect moral authority. If there is ever a discrepancy regarding a manufactured yardstick, then it can be taken and compared to the original metal yardstick which was made precisely as a universal standard. If Jesus is Messiah, then it is metaphysically possible that He embodies perfect holiness and moral purity, as a consistent standard. This state could be considered, “objective” as, “irrelevant to the opinions and preferences of any subjective being.” If Brit can prove that Jesus did not exist, that Jesus was not actually God incarnate, that Jesus committed any moral error, or that Jesus was not recognized as exemplifying a comparatively perfect moral standard, then Brit could remove this possibility. Otherwise, Jesus Christ can conceivably provide support for an exemplary perfect moral standard (a basis - not an applied ethical system) and a logical bridge from “is” to “ought” without a tautology.
If you'd like to see the entire debate so far, it's at this link to Templestream Blog Titled: "Debate: "Secular Humanism Offers an Objective Basis of Morality"
templestream.blogspot.com/2016/05/debate-secular-humanism...
Shakhrisabz is, above all, associated with the Ak-Saray palace. Many amazing legends are linked with the history of the palace's construction. According to one of them, Timur began to think of building a magnificent edifice, summoned an architect and set out his objective. After listening to the ruler, the architect asked to be allowed into the state exchequer. When permission was granted, the craftsman started to make foundation blocks from clay mixed with gold in full view of Timur.
Seeing that the ruler remained impassive, he broke up the blocks and returned the gold to the exchequer. When Timur asked: "Why did you do that?" the architect replied: "So as to make sure of your determination to embark on constructing a building that requires vast expenditure." A second legend recounts that, after the main building work had been completed, Timur began to tell the craftsmen to hurry up and finish the decorative facing of the palace. But they were in no hurry to cover the building with majolica and mosaic. When the angry ruler ordered the chief architect to be brought before him, it emerged that had vanished after hanging a chain in the centre of the palace's main arch. Since no other craftsman of equal stature could be found, the building remained unfinished. Some time later, however, the architect suddenly appeared and, after making sure that the chain on the entrance arch was now considerably lower, embarked on decorating the building.
When Timur demanded an explanation of his strange flight and sudden reappearance, the architect replied: "I dared not disobey my sovereign's command, but I could not carry it out either. Stern punishment awaited me in either case, since such a majestic building had to settle and bed down firmly in the ground, otherwise all the decoration on it would be destroyed." The great ruler appreciated the craftsman's wisdom and resourcefulness.
The palace building in Shahrisabz took over a quarter of a century to construct. The Spanish ambassador, Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo, who passed through Shahrisabz in 1404 on his way to the court of Timur in Samarkand, was astounded and charmed by the architectural miracle, and he left a detailed description of it, noting, however, that the splendid artistic decoration of the palace was still unfinished. The overall layout, scale and artistic appearance of Ak-Saray can be reconstituted from the descriptions of contemporaries and eyewitnesses, as well as from the results of archaeological excavation at the site. According to written accounts, the palace consisted of several stately, living or service quarters, grouped around separate courtyards.
The overall scale of the palace is impressive: the main courtyard alone, which has been reconstituted from the micro relief, was 120 - 125 m wide and 240 - 250 m long. The size of the other courtyards and of the outer perimeter of the palace has not been reconstructed owing to severe disturbance of the micro relief in the 15th - 16th centuries. Calculation of the proportions of the surviving elements of the site makes it fairly certain that the height of the main portal reached 70 m. It was topped by arched pinnacles (ko'ngra), while corner towers on a multifaceted pedestal were at least 80 m high. The main entrance portal was 50 m wide, and the arch had the largest span, 22.5 m, in Central Asia.
The architectural decor, featuring a wide variety of designs and colours, is particularly noteworthy in the artistic appearance of Ak-Saray. When using various techniques, however, the craftsmen bore in mind that the palace's main portal faced north, towards the capital, Samarkand. Given the poor light, the architects used only flat segmentation here and hence a continuous decorative treatment. The use of brick mosaic work, mainly dark and light blue in colour, forming large geometrical and epigraphic designs on a background of polished building brick, gives the portal a special softness of colour and an air of grand mystery.
The various mosaic and majolica work in the niche of the portal is particularly refined and highly coloured. The delicately executed ornamentation incorporates exquisite calligraphic inscriptions of mainly Koranic content, although secular ones are found too. In the midst of the decorative facing, an inscription has survived, giving the date of completion, 798 (1395 - 1396), and the name of the craftsman, Muhammad Yusuf Tebrizi (from the Azeri city of Tabriz). According to Clavijo, who visited Ak-Saray, "in this palace was a very long entrance and a very high portal, and by the entrance, to right and left, were brick arches covered with tiles painted with various designs. Beneath these arches was what looked like small rooms without doors, and the floor inside them was covered with tiles. This was done so that people could sit there when the king was present. Beyond this was another door and after that a large courtyard, paved with white slabs and surrounded by richly decorated galleries. In the middle of the courtyard was a large pool. The courtyard was some 300 paces wide, and it gave access to a large house, in which was a very high and wide door, decorated with gold, azure and tiles of very fine workmanship. In the middle, above the door, a lion was depicted, lying in the sun, and exactly the same picture was to be found at the edges. This was the device of the king of Samarkand. After this, the envoys were taken to look at the chamber that the king had appointed for sitting and feasting with his wives, very spacious and luxurious. Before it was a large garden with many shady and assorted fruit trees. Inside it were many pools and artfully sited meadows. By the entrance to this garden there was such a vast space that many people could have enjoyed themselves sitting there in the summertime beside the water and beneath the shade of the trees. The workmanship in the palace is so luxurious that, in order to describe everything well, one has to go and examine it a little at a time."
The Ak-Saray palace is a grandiose piece of civil architecture, and not just by Central Asian standards. Historical tradition ascribes the destruction of the majestic edifice to Abdullakhan, who, during one of the sieges of un-subdued Shahrisabz, is supposed to have ordered the splendid structures of Timur and his descendants to be demolished. Be that as it may, of the once luxurious royal palace only the pillars and part of the arch of the main portal remained by the second half of the 18th century.
The objective of the rally was to demand that the leadership of the city listens to the voices of the people of Chicago instead of those of the corporate elite. It's time to end the privatization agenda of the one percent that hurts families, neighborhoods and closes school. Elected public officials must stand against corporate raiders and invest in communities and neighborhoods.
Specifically:
Raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Companies like McDonald's and Walmart can easily afford to pay a decent wage. They make billions of dollars in profits each year, yet the people on the front line who do the work to make this possible are told to 'find second jobs' or live on public assistance programs.
An elected school board that represents the people, not just bankers and CEOs. In Chicago, the school board is appointed by the mayor.
Reform the Chicago Housing Authority. The CHA must be accountable to the people it is supposed to serve. It has currently stockpiled millions of dollars in federal funding, more than enough to issue over 13,000 housing vouchers. Meanwhile, thousands of Chicagoans will be homeless this winter.
End home foreclosures. Bankers should negotiate with homeowners who are experiencing difficulties meeting their monthly mortgage payments. This is a much better way to go than simply throwing people out into the street.
25mm Thermal Objective lens.
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WAMX SD40M-2 #4223 leads T001 out of Metra territory at Fox Lake, now preparing to take the 36-hour late train towards Janesville.
One of our objectives for the trip to Ireland was to find a couple places in Kathy's heritage.
Kathy's Great Great Grandfather, James Fox, is burried at Clonmacnoise. We found the gravestone and peeled back some of the grass so we could photograph the inscription. We left the site as we found it.
All of these images were geotagged. Clicking on the map located in the upper right corner of this page will get you the position information.
The Whole Story: pasqualehome.com/Ireland2013/Kathys_Heritage.htm
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. James Varley, a cavalry scout with the Macon-based 48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, checks notes during the land navigation event of the 2023 Georgia National Guard State Best Warrior Competition at Fort Stewart, Georgia, March 7, 2023. The competition tested readiness and adaptiveness of Georgia's best Soldiers. Photo by Spc. Kinsey Geer.
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Disse il maestro: "Il mutamento delle stagioni è materia dell'arte".
M. Basho, L'invariabile e il rinnovamento.
By request, another preference / feature I just finished implementing allows you to specify a time period that you'd like Anxiety to pop up after. The logic behind this is that after you've been working for a while, the list window will fade in to remind you of your pending tasks – thus keeping you on target. Note that this is a completely optional behavior; if you think you'd find such reminders irritating, you can simply leave them disabled.
This functionality will become available in the next update of Anxiety, which you can check for using the Check For Updates menu item under the application menu. Otherwise, Anxiety will automatically check for updates upon launching.
Aperçus sur la vie de Lothar Lenz. Personne ne se soucie de l’absurde, l’existence ne peut attendre;. Toute pensée est malade
Vie et aventures de Lothar Lenz né un mercredi de novembre 1964 à Arras
Un mardi de 2002 il y aurait eu diverses abominations à Gréoux- les- Bains que les autorités de la région refusaient de reconnaître.
Enfant, Lothar Lenz arrachait les pattes des insectes.
Un vendredi d’août 1985 vers cinq heures, personne ne savait plus qui avait dit quoi, mais Lothar Lenz était certain de ce qu’il avançait au sujet de Gréoux- les- Bains.
Un matin de mars 1993 un corbeau menaçait de nombreux habitants de la région de Gréoux- les- Bains.
Un matin de février de 2003 vers onze heures, rien.
à l’automne 1987 un fils de Susan Stephenson dit à Richard Lovelace qu’il y avait quelque chose de bizarre dans le comportement de Lothar Lenz.
Après décembre 1999 les choses se sont gâtées pour Lothar Lenz.
Un jour d’avril de 1994 vers treize heures Lothar Lenz amena Sidney Delbanco dans un restaurant chinois … ils y ont plusieurs heures.
En 2005 l’orage de son inspiration poétique s’est calmé.
Lothar Lenz fut pendant dix ans la victime d’un maître chanteur.
Il n’y a pas de conditions objectives.
030325-A-6418B-011.Lt. Col. Alan King, Commander of the 422nd Civil Affairs Battalion speaks with Iraqi men, over tea, about a nearby resevoir in central Iraq on March 25, 2003. The C.A. soldiers were in the area to check on the quality of water at a nearby resevoir..U.S. and Coalition forces are in Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin P. Bell).(Released)
Nikon 4x Achromatic Finite Conjugate Objective on conical RMS-to-M42 adapter, which in turn has an M42-Nikon F adapter on the back.
Scientific studies determine that objectives are the objects.
Photo by NASA.
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One of the main objectives of the European Union is to promote economic, social and territorial cohesion between regions. The reformed EU Cohesion Policy 2014-2020 comes at a pivotal moment. Recent years of austerity have seen rising unemployment and widening inequality, especially in peripheral regions, with youth, women and ethnic minorities worst affected.
Making over €350 billion available to invest in Europe's regions, cities and the real economy, the reformed Cohesion Policy is the EU's principal investment tool to deliver the Europe 2020 goals: creating growth and jobs, tackling climate change and energy dependence, reducing poverty and social exclusion. Once member states’ national contributions and the leverage effect of financial instruments are taken into account, the impact is likely to be over €500 billion.
Launching a new partnership with the European Commission, with the participation of the OECD, Salzburg Global’s program is timed to help key stakeholders understand the rules and results-oriented focus of the reformed Cohesion Policy and ensure maximum impact for these investments. It will build on our longstanding European program which has featured over 15 sessions devoted to the EU’s development and expansion, grounded in our location at the crossroads of East and West.
The 2014 program will focus on ways in which regional development policy and complementary instruments can enhance competitiveness and effective governance at local, regional and transboundary levels.
Participants will examine tools for environmentally sustainable innovation, human capital development, creation and financing of SMEs and the transition to a low carbon economy. They will compare practical projects and mechanisms that have delivered successful outcomes for competitiveness and inclusive growth, in and beyond Europe, in order to identify transferable tools and connect stakeholders who are leading cutting-edge work around the world.
The program will be held from May 17 to May 22, 2014 in Salzburg, Austria, with a one day, high-level pre-session meeting on May 17-18, focusing on European competitiveness, the shift to low carbon economies, and the role of sustainable cities.
030325-A-6418B-008.Lt. Col. Alan King, Commander of the 422nd Civil Affairs Battalion (left) greets a homeowner in central Iraq on March 25, 2003. The C.A. soldiers were in the area to check on the quality of water at a nearby resevoir..U.S. and Coalition forces are in Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin P. Bell).(Released)
Haki Çako, second from right, Director General, General Directorate of Civil Emergencies, Ministry of Defence, Republic of Albania, poses for a photo with, left to right, Lt. Col. Robert Hysenllari, Staff Officer, Search and Rescue and Civil Emergencies, General Staff, Albanian Armed Forces; Fatjona Xhaferi, Planner, General Directorate of Civil Emergencies, and Sabina Mitrovasili, Office of Defence Cooperation, in front of a New Jersey Army National Guard UH-72A Lakota with the 1-224th Security and Support Battalion at the New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, Lawrenceville, N.J., Aug. 1, 2019. The Director General will be familiarized with the helicopter’s capabilities and equipment that can be employed during natural or man-made disasters. In 2001, the Republic of Albania signed a bilateral affairs agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense and New Jersey officially establishing the New Jersey-Albanian State Partnership Program. The National Guard State Partnership Program is a U.S. Department of Defense program managed by the National Guard that links U.S. States with partner countries for the purpose of supporting the security cooperation objectives of the geographic Combatant Commanders. (New Jersey National Guard photo by Mark C. Olsen)
I really like these, they're pretty close to the quality of the made-in-Nottingham stuff although the treasure chest joins will need some clean-up.
After breaking in through the fence, the water treatment tank is accessable, a few more seconds and a carefully planted bomb and this place will go ''BOOM BOOM''
The goal, to construct a bridge with the given materials in the allotted 4 hours, that can sustain a great deal of weight. A "weigh-off" is held the following day.
Teams work on constructing a load bearing bridge, using principles covered in their introductory structural engineering courses (TKT4116). Verkstad - Institutt for konstruksjonsteknikk, NTNU
(Photo: Christine Sætre)
The display with the transformation bowls contained this explanation of the students' objective in the project.
The objective of the rally was to demand that the leadership of the city listens to the voices of the people of Chicago instead of those of the corporate elite. It's time to end the privatization agenda of the one percent that hurts families, neighborhoods and closes school. Elected public officials must stand against corporate raiders and invest in communities and neighborhoods.
Specifically:
Raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Companies like McDonald's and Walmart can easily afford to pay a decent wage. They make billions of dollars in profits each year, yet the people on the front line who do the work to make this possible are told to 'find second jobs' or live on public assistance programs.
An elected school board that represents the people, not just bankers and CEOs. In Chicago, the school board is appointed by the mayor.
Reform the Chicago Housing Authority. The CHA must be accountable to the people it is supposed to serve. It has currently stockpiled millions of dollars in federal funding, more than enough to issue over 13,000 housing vouchers. Meanwhile, thousands of Chicagoans will be homeless this winter.
End home foreclosures. Bankers should negotiate with homeowners who are experiencing difficulties meeting their monthly mortgage payments. This is a much better way to go than simply throwing people out into the street.
Fort Vancia
Built between 1874 and 1878, Fort Vancia is part of the second defensive belt of the city of Lyon. France. Designed by General Séré de Rivières, the 14 forts, including Fort Vancia, served to protect the city from Prussian and Italian invasions. The secondary objective was to contain Lyon's uprisings such as the Canuts' Revolt (1831, 1834, and 1848).
Covered in vegetation, Fort Vancia is intentionally inconspicuous, cleverly concealed from potential attacks but high enough to overlook the Ain plains and potential enemies. The total area encompassing the land around the fort is 240,000 m² (24 hectares). 57,000 m² in the Rillieux-la-Pape area, 120,000 m² in the Sathonay-Village area, and the remaining 63,000 m² still belong to the French Army. The built-up area of 16,000 m² could accommodate 500 men in peacetime and up to 800 in wartime. The fort was equipped with an infirmary, two kitchens, a bakery with two bread ovens, two powder magazines, two stables, three wells, one of which is still in use, as well as numerous military units. During the Second World War, before the area was occupied by the Germans, the northern ditch surrounding the fort was used as a test bench for the first French liquid-fueled rocket, designed clandestinely in Lyon by Colonel Jean-Jacques Barré.
At the end of the war, the army quartered reservists and volunteers there, also serving as a training center for construction trades before welcoming troops leaving for Algeria in 1962. It was then the training ground for the 99th regiment of Sathonay-Camp and its reservists from the 299th until 1990. From 2002, the Fort opened to the public every year during the European Heritage Days, the 3rd weekend of September with guided tours, upon registration. Since 2015, the Vanci’Aventure company has offered treetop adventure courses in part of the Fort and on the walls of the moat for all ages. In 2016, the Joint Agricultural Exploitation Group ‘les pleurotes rhodaniennes’ moved into one of the barracks for mushroom production. Recently, following the restoration of the wood-fired ovens, the Fortnil company has been producing bread sold in local shops and markets. Today, the fort is home to seven other businesses and a woodcarving workshop. A flock of 30 sheep helps maintain the 50,000 m² of outdoor space.
I noticed that the 2-km promenade around Fort Vancia is particularly confortable by very hot days, being protected by the dense trees population rendering the fort completely invisible. The temperature could a few degrees less than elsewhere. The entrance courtyard is beautifully shaded by majestic plane tree where the cars could be left, protected from the intense sun.
For a second photo session on August 16, 2025 (also a very hot day), I brought along with me my backup Olympus OM-1 SLR camera (see below for details) fitted with its standard lens G.Zuiko Auto-S 1:1.4 f=50 mm. The lens was equipped either with a 49mm anti-UV protective filter or an orange one, plus an original Olympus OM-System soft shade hood. The camera was loaded with the novel black-and-white film Kentmere Pan 200 from Ilford Harman Technology Ltd, UK. The film integrate the Kentmere line of products with the yellow color between the Kentmere Pan 100 (cyan color) and the Kentmere Pan 400 (magenta color) with an intermediate sensitivity of 200 ISO. The emulsion is coated on a 0.125mm thick regular cellulose tri-acétate base, uncommonly very clear without the traditional grey or blueish anti-halo mask.
Frames were exposed following my external Minolta Autometer III either with its 10° selective viewer or the opalescent dome for incident metering (200 ISO with an anti-UV filter or 100 ISO with the orange filter).
View Nr. 24: 1/250s f/12.5 focusing @ infinite, anti-UV filter.
Au Fort de Vancia, August 16, 2025
West Monts d'Or Skyline (Mount Cindre Alt. 470m; Mount Thou Alt. 611m, and Mount Verdun Alt. 626m)
Chemin de Sathonay
69140 Sathonay-Village
France
After the last view exposed (Nr. 26), the film was developed iwith 350 mL of Adox Adonal developer (identical to the original Agfa Rodinal in its formula of 1891) prepared at the dilution 1+25 . The film was processed for 10 min at 20°C.
Digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) held on a Minolta macro Auto Bellow device fitted with Minolta Macro Bellow lens 1:3.5 f=50mm with the Minolta slide duplication accessory. The light source was a LED panel (approx. 4x5') CineStill Cine-lite.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within the latest version of Adobe Lightroom 14 (14.5, August 2025) and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as print files with frame or the full size JPEG's possibly together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.
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About the camera :
My Olympus OM-1 MD was purchased from a local photography shop in Lyon, France, May 31, 2022.
Olympus OM-1 MD was commercially available from 1974 to 1978 and represented the fully mechanical SLR of a new class ("miniature SLR's") , smaller and lighter than any other SLR's of that time. It prefigured the size of most of the SLR's of the 80's.
The kit included the normal lens G.Zuiko Auto-S 1:1.4 f=50 mm in perfect condition, a Zuiko Auto-Zoom 1:4 f=75-150 mm with Olympus original rigid case, a Sigma Tele-Macro x2 converter, a small flash Olympus PE200 (GN 14 at 100 ISO) with case, A Crystal Titanium x 0.48 wide-angle converter (still never tested), and several 49 mm filters.
This specific OM-1 MD was constructed in Jan. 1976 according to the printed reference "ス ("su ") 615" on the back of the film plate.
Recently, while checking the camera (as I do periodically), I found the body blocked with impossibility to cock the shutter with the advance lever while I did not notice any trouble during the last two films done with it during the last winter. I found from eBay in Germany a spare OM-1 body while waiting the response of my local repair service if my OM-1 could be salvaged or not. My backup OM-1 is in a very good condition. The CdS light meter is working but completely out of calibration. The focusing screen is very clean and has the horizontal stigmometer while the other OM-1 has a 45° tilted one. The light seals and mirror dampers were renewed by the seller.
High power microscope shot of the first leg joint of a house fly.
Due to the exremely short DOF this is actually a stack of half a dozen shots using combine ZP.
Clearly I needed to take a lot more shots to get the whole lot in decent focus! :-(
The National Objectives Committee presents its report to Monday's General Session. Standing from left, Chairman Christine Bruns, former National President Ginny Johnson, 2007 National Collegiate Leadership Award Winner Melissa Desjarlais, Evansville Alumnae Chapter President Rena Goss, and 2007 National Collegiate Leadership Award Winner Holly Sansom.
Objective 3: Elements and Principles of Design
Texture – The scratches on the doors and the grain I added to the image make it look like a really old photo. Nothing in the photo really looks soft, making the photo have a more serious feel to it.
Value / Tone – Since the photo is in black and white, the entire photo just has different tones of grey. The darker tones and the lighter tones make the whole photo look more three dimensional, especially inside, where there are more shadows. The vignette I added makes the tones around the edges slightly darker and makes you focus more on the center and right side of the image.
Pattern / Repetition – While they aren’t exactly the same, all the doors are similar. You can guess what the other doors would look like even though they aren’t in the photo. You can tell what the background outside might look like as well. This adds interest. Lastly, the windows also repeat, and they get smaller as you go left, which makes it look more 3D.
Contrast – The really old looking image contrasts with the relatively new looking car. Also, the tones contrast and there are areas in the image that are pure white and pure black. The brighter areas draw more attention than the darker areas.
Critiquing
I changed the photo to black and white because the colours didn’t really look that good, but I liked the composition of the image. I also liked the grain I added to the image. Zooming in and backing away a bit more might have made a better photo.
Objective 7: Photographic Styles –
Type/style of photography: HDR
The camera mode: Av
f stop used: 18.0
shutter speed used: 1/80, 1/30, 1/10, 0.3, 0.8
ISO used: 400
Exposure compensation: -3, -1 2/3, 0, 1 2/3, 3
Focal length: 27 mm
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Objective 3: Elements and Principles of Design
The principles of design:
Line: there is horizontal and vertical lines and curved. The horizontal line is the bottom left side of the board lines; the vertical line is going diagonal kina of. Curved lines make up the chess pieces.
Colour: the yellow-ish colour is warm; the warm colours are more attractive than the dark on the left side of the chess board, since there is not a lot of a dark colour the light is more interesting. There’s gold and green inside the board.
Shape: the chess board has a square shape and it creates a place to look if the square was not there it would be chess pieces on a table. There are squares in the square.
Texture: Inside the square there is green and it is smooth and looks smooth in the photo, beside the green there is gold squares and they look rough and feel rough too.
Balance: in the middle of the photo there is light, beside that on the left there is darkness and it is blurry so your eye focuses on the middle of the picture.
Contrast: your eye would focus in the middle because there is blur on the left and a little bit on the right but it is most clear in the middle and that’s why the eye would be in the middle of the picture and it is most bright in the middle of the picture.
Emphasis: when I was editing I tried to make the middle of the picture bright and the right side and the left side to be dark. The eye is drawn to the middle it is clear and bright.
Objective 4: Lighting
Type of lighting and why: I was inside and the lighting is soft, but I added brightness to make the middle of the picture bright.
Objective 5: Post Production (ex. dust/spot removal, resize, contrast, white balance, sharpening, borders, etc.) Corrections/adjustments made AND/OR techniques applied:
I took the photo in raw so I edited it in raw then I opened it in Photoshop then edited it again, in raw I added contrast and brightness because the original photo was very dark and I was looking for something that was bright so I added brightness and contrast. I played with the curves and that helped with brightness and also helped with the darkness. I resized it down to 1000; I added exposure and the Vibrance the exposure made it brighter, the Vibrance helped made it more clearly in the photo.
Objective 6: Critique: Analyse your photograph for strengths and areas for improvement (consider elements and principles of design, lighting, exposure, overall feel, etc.)
Next time I would try and make it more clearly in the middle than n it is in this photo because I think I focused in the little bit of the right hand side, an di would make it more dark on the right hand side too.