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Sony A7II + Nikon PB-6 bellows + Raynox DCR-150 as a tube lens + Mitutoyo M Plan Apo 5X microscope objective
Magnification: 5X
2 x IKEA JANSJÖ led light
2" ISO50
121 shots combined with ZERENE and Bugslabber
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"World War 3 began on the 25th of August 2080, After the corruption and Bribery claims in the UN Council were proved true. Countries started their own empires. The war was mostly in Europe, where the once great European Union were now sending death threats to each other. Now as I record this message, 8 years after war broke out I am sending my best operative to end the war. Let us all hope he succeds in his mission. God save the Queen."
British Prime Minister Eric Mansfield adressing the SAS Commanders on the 25th August 2088.
Objective one:
To eliminate Johnson, you must make your way into his fortified compound. It is located 2 miles West of Berlin and heavily fortified. After you drop, Make your way along the path system that surounds the compound. Old Pilons and Communication towers will indicate how close you are. The more the merryer. Look out for scout partols, although they consist of untrained idiots. They are no harm to you. Take them out quietly, but I will let you choose how to 'dispose' of them"
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Ok, A fresh start for me. This is the first part of a Vignette series I'm making set during the Third World War. It won't make much sense at this stage, so look out for the next parts!
Lit :)
Objective 3:
Rule of Thirds: The bigger leaf is positioned on the left side of the photo, leading up towards the top corner.
Perspective: The photo was shot closer to the ground in the form of a bug's eye view, this counts as perspective because it was taken at an angle that we don't normally see it in our everyday lives.
Texture: In this photo you can see the details of the leaves, mostly the veins of the leaves; since there is so much detail in the leaves, I believe that this photo falls into the texture category.
Objective 4:
This photo is an example of front lighting, using front lighting in this photo makes it so the details in the leaves are more visible than they would be with any other type of lighting.
objective 5:
When I edited this photo, I didn't make too many changes to the original. What I did was add a little bit more contrast, and deepened the shadows and brightened the highlights, and added a little bit of clarity and vibrance.
Objective 6:
For this photo, I feel like the lighting could be a little brighter, especially considering it was taken on a fairly cloudy day. The photo could also be better if the smaller leaves were more of the same colour and didn't look like they had been crumpled up so badly.
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[...] We all live with the objective of being happy, our lives are all different and yet the same [...]
-- Quote by Anne Frank (German Jewish girl Author of a diary of her family's two years in hiding during World War II, 1929-1945)
Nikon D70, Tokina 12-24 f/4, 12mm - F/10 - 20s
Sperlonga, Italy (July, 2008)
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USCGC Kimball is the 7th multi-mission National Security Cutter with a unique advantage for worldwide deployment due to our homeport in Honolulu, Hawaii. With a range of 13,000 nautical miles, the advanced technologies of our cutter are designed to support the national objectives to maintain the security of America’s maritime boundaries, engage in critical Law Enforcement operations, and provide long range search and rescue capabilities.
“Lead, Train, Save”
This cutter's namesake, Sumner Increase Kimball, was born September 2, 1834 in Lebanon, Maine. After his graduation from Bowdoin College in 1855, Kimball was admitted to the bar in 1858 and elected to the Maine House of Representatives in 1859. Kimball was appointed as the chief of the U.S. Treasury Department's Revenue Marine in 1871. He proceeded to completely overhaul the service and the assortment of lifesaving stations along the nation's coast. After the Civil War, the Revenue Marine came under intense congressional scrutiny and funding constraints. In order to address the ongoing scrutiny, Kimball championed efforts to reduce expenses and sought efficiencies by modernizing acquisitions and personnel practices that formed the backbone of the modern day Coast Guard. Kimball also put into effect a merit system to determine promotions. Kimball improved the quality of the Revenue Marine by establishing, in 1877, a school of instruction, to train new officers. It developed into today's Coast Guard Academy, which still trains the majority of the Coast Guard's officers. Since 1848, Congress only funded strictly volunteer lifesaving stations, paying for the station and its equipment but relying on the local community to provide unpaid crews when needed. Kimball convinced Congress to increase the funding of the service to provide for full-time, paid crews. New stations constructed around the coast were equipped with the finest lifesaving equipment available. In 1878, this growing network of stations was organized as a separate agency of the Treasury Department and named the U.S. Life-Saving Service. Kimball was chosen as the general superintendent of the new service. He served in that capacity until it was merged with the former Revenue Marine, now named Revenue Cutter Service, in 1915 to form the new U.S. Coast Guard. After a life of public service, Kimball passed away in Washington, D.C., on June 20, 1923.
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Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
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At its most basic level, time is often understood as a linear progression of events, moving from the past through the present and into the future. We measure time using various units such as seconds, minutes, hours, days, and so on. This measurement of time allows us to organize our lives, plan our activities, and make sense of the world around us.
However, as we delve deeper into the nature of time, we encounter intriguing questions and challenges. One of the key questions is whether time is an objective reality or merely a subjective experience. Is time an inherent property of the universe, or is it a construct of human consciousness?
I love to try some different budget microscope lenses. Some of them are great performers like Lomo (3.5X, 3.7X, 4.7X) and Nikon 10X 0.25
Top row from left to right
-Lomo 8X 0.20
-Lomo 10X 0.30
-Lomo 20X 0.40
-Lomo 40X 0.65
-Nikon 10X 0.25
-Noname Plan 20X 0.40
-Noname 40X 0.65
Second row from left to right
-Lomo 3.5X 0.10
-Lomo 4.7X 0.11
-Lomo 3.7X 0.11
-Lomo 3.7X 0.11 again
-Nikon 4X 0.10
-Noname 4X 0.10
-Noname 10X 0.25
Objectively, the true function of sacred images is to represent symbolically and sacramentally a transcendent Reality, and subjectively, to permit the fixing of the mind upon this symbol in view of obtaining habitual concentration upon the Reality contemplated, something which can be conceived in devotional as well as in intellectual mode, or in both manners at once.
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Frithjof Schuon - Quoted in : Art from the Sacred to the Profane, East and West
Objective: Create something and portray a super-natural, eerie presence out of natural place.
I used long exposure and zoom techniques to shoot this photograph. By doing this it allowed me to enhance to colors and streak the lights giving it a ghostly vibe.
Digital Photo
The Artemis is a long range starfighter built by the Mars Corporation. Its main weapon is a high density laser beam, powered by a powerfull generator. The two thrusters of the Artemis allow it to fly up to the outer atmosphere of Mars and target objectives in low orbit.
Another build in my Mars Corporation building theme. The Artemis was my entry to the Bricklink building contest... I posted renders earlier, but finally took the time to take some pictures of the real thing.
Roncus sp. (Pseudoscorpionida, Neobisiidae) Length: 3 mm
Focus stack of a prepared tiny pseudoscorpion in the studio. 187 exposures taken with Nikon BD Plan 20x microscope objective on bellows at 18x magnification. Illuminated with two IKEA led lamps through paper cylinder. Shot with live view in 'silent shooting' mode. The picture is slightly cropped and reduced to 3000x2000px.
Stacked in Zerene Stacker (PMax).
Old & new, combined, ... I love this stuff
All my microscope objective focus stacks (mostly above 5x) were taken with this gear & setup.
Checkout this image on how specimens are placed under the lens:
Historical research reveals that diverse political rationalities have framed the political means and objectives of state frontiers and borders, just as the difficult work of making borders actual has drawn upon a great variety of technologies
The single word ”border” conceals a multiplicity and implies a constancy where genealogical investigation uncovers mutation and descent. Historical research reveals that diverse political rationalities have framed the political means and objectives of state frontiers and borders, just as the difficult work of making borders actual has drawn upon a great variety of technologies and heterogeneous administrative practices, ranging from maps of the territory, the creation of specialized border officials, and architectures of fortification to today’s experimentation with bio- digitalized forms of surveillance. This chapter argues that we are witnessing a novel development within this history of borders and border-making, what I want to call the emergence of the humanitarian border. While a great deal has been written about the militarization, securitization and fortification of borders today, there is far less consideration of the humanitarianization of borders. But if the investment of border regimes by biometric technologies rightly warrants being treated as an event within the history of the making and remaking of borders (Amoore 2006), then arguably so too does the reinvention of the border as a space of humanitarian government.
Under what conditions are we seeing the rise of humanitarian borders? The emergence of the humanitarian border goes hand in hand with the move which has made state frontiers into privileged symbolic and regulatory instruments within strategies of migration control. It is part of a much wider trend that has been dubbed the ”rebordering” of political and territorial space (Andreas and Biersteker 2003). The humanitarian border emerges once it becomes established that border crossing has become, for thousands of migrants seeking, for a variety of reasons, to access the territories of the global North, a matter of life and death. It crystallizes as a way of governing this novel and disturbing situation,and compensating for the social violence embodied in the regime of migration control.The idea of a humanitarian border might sound at first counterintuitive or even oxymoronic. After all, we often think of contemporary humanitarianism as a force that, operating in the name of the universal but endangered subject of humanity, transcends the walled space of the inter-national system. This is, of course, quite valid. Yet it would be a mistake to draw any simple equation between humanitarian projects and what Deleuze and Guattari would call logics of deterritoralization. While humanitarian programmes might unsettle certain norms of statehood, it is important to recognize the ways in which the exercise of humanitarian power is connected to the actualization of new spaces. Whether by its redefinition of certain locales as humanitarian ”zones” and crises as ”emergencies” (Calhoun 2004), the authority it confers on certain experts to move rapidly across networks of aid and intervention, or its will to designate those populating these zones as ”victims,” it seems justified to follow Debrix’s (1998) observation that humanitarianism implies reterritorialization on top of deterritorialization. Humanitarian zones can materialize in various situations – in conflict zones, amidst the relief of famine, and against the backdrop of state failure. But the case that interests me in what follows is a specific one: a situation where the actual borders of states and gateways to the territory become themselves zones of humanitarian government. Understanding the consequences of this is paramount, since it has an important bearing on what is often termed the securitization of borders and citizenship.
Foucault and Frontiers
It is probably fair to say that the theme of frontiers is largely absent from the two courses that are today read together as Foucault’s lectures on ”governmentality” (Foucault 1991; 2007; 2008). This is not to suggest that frontiers receive no mention at all. Within these lectures we certainly encounter passing remarks on the theme. For instance, Foucault speaks at one point of ”the administrative state, born in the territoriality of national boundaries in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and corresponding to a society of regulation and discipline” (Foucault 1991: 104).1 Elsewhere, he notes how the calculation and demarcation of new frontiers served as one of the practical elements of military-diplomatic technology, a machine he associates with the government of Europe in the image of a balance of power and according to the governmental logic of raison d’état. ”When the diplomats, the ambassadors who negotiated the treaty of Westphalia, received instructions from their government, they were explicitly advised to ensure that the new frontiers, the distribution of states, the new relationships to be established between the German states and the Empire, and the zones of influence of France, Sweden, and Austria be established in terms of a principle: to maintain a balance between the different European states” (Foucault 2007: 297).
But these are only hints of what significance the question of frontiers might have within the different technologies of power which Foucault sought to analyze. They are only fragmentary reflections on the place borders and frontiers might occupy within the genealogy of the modern state which Foucault outlines with his research into governmentality.2
Why was Foucault apparently not particularly interested in borders when he composed these lectures? One possible answer is suggested by Elden’s careful and important work on power-knowledge and territory. Elden takes issue with Foucault for the way in which he discusses territorial rule largely as a foil which allows him to provide a more fully-worked out account of governmentality and its administration of population. Despite the fact that the term appears prominently in the title of Foucault’s lectures, ”the issue of territory continually emerges only to be repeatedly marginalized, eclipsed, and underplayed” (Elden 2007: 1). Because Foucault fails to reckon more fully with the many ways in which the production of territory – and most crucially its demarcation by practices of frontier marking and control – serves as a precondition for the government of population, it is not surprising that the question of frontiers occupies little space in his narrative.But there is another explanation for the relative absence of questions of frontiers in Foucault’s writing on governmentality. And here we have to acknowledge that, framed as it is previously, this is a problematic question. For it risks the kind of retrospective fallacy which projects a set of very contemporary issues and concerns onto Foucault’s time. It is probably fair to speculate that frontiers and border security was not a political issue during the 1970s in the way that it is today in many western states. ”Borders” had yet to be constituted as a sort of meta-issue, capable of condensing a whole complex of political fears and concerns, including globalization, the loss of sovereignty, terrorism, trafficking and unchecked immigration. The question of the welfare state certainly was an issue, perhaps even a meta-issue, when Foucault was lecturing, and it is perhaps not coincidental that he should devote so much space to the examination of pastoralism. But not the border. The point is not to suggest that Foucault’s work evolved in close,
Humanitarian Government
Before I address the question of the humanitarian border, it is necessary to explain what I understand by the humanitarian. Here my thinking has been shaped by recent work that engages the humanitarian not as a set of ideas and ideologies, nor simply as the activity of certain nongovernmental actors and organizations, but as a complex domain possessing specific forms of governmental reason. Fassin’s work on this theme is particularly important. Fassin demonstrates that humanitarianism can be fruitfully connected to the broader field of government which Foucault outlined, where government is not a necessary attribute of states but a rationalized activity than can be carried out by all sorts of agents, in various contexts, and towards multiple ends. At its core, ”Humanitarian government can be defined as the administration of human collectivities in the name of a higher moral principle which sees the preservation of life and the alleviation of suffering as the highest value of action” (Fassin 2007: 151). As he goes on to stress, the value of such a definition is that we do not see a particular state, or a non-state form such as a nongovernmental organization, as the necessary agent of humanitarian action. Instead, it becomes possible to think in terms of a complex assemblage, comprising particular forms of humanitarian.reason, specific forms of authority (medical, legal, spiritual) but also certain technologies of government – such as mechanisms for raising funds and training volunteers, administering aid and shelter, documenting injustice, and publicizing abuse. Seen from this angle humanitarianism appears as a much more supple, protean thing. Crucially, it opens up our ability to perceive ”a broader political and moral logic at work both within and outside state forms” (ibid.).
If the humanitarian can be situated in relation to the analytics of government, it can also be contextualized in relation to the biopolitical. ”Not only did the last century see the emergence of regimes committed to the physical destruction of populations,” observes Redfield, ”but also of entities devoted to monitoring and assisting populations in maintaining their physical existence, even while protesting the necessity of such an action and the failure of anyone to do much more than this bare minimum” (2005: 329). It is this ”minimalist biopolitics,” as Redfield puts it, that will be so characteristic of the humanitarian. And here the accent should be placed on the adjective “minimalist” if we are not to commit the kind of move which I criticized above, namely collapsing everything new into existing Foucauldian categories. It is important to regard contemporary humanitarianism as a novel formation and a site of ambivalence and undecideability, and not just as one more instance of what Hardt and Negri (2000) might call global “biopolitical production.”The Birth of the Humanitarian Border
In a press release issued on June 29, 2007, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) publicized a visit which its then Director General, Brunson McKinley, was about to make to a ”reception centre for migrants” on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa (IOM 2007). The Director General is quoted as saying: ”Many more boats will probably arrive on Lampedusa over the summer with their desperate human cargo and we have to ensure we can adequately respond to their immediate needs.... This is why IOM will continue to work closely with the Italian government, the Italian Red Cross, UNHCR and other partners to provide appropriate humanitarian responses to irregular migrants and asylum seekers reaching the island.”
The same press release observes that IOM’s work with its ”partners” was part of a wider effort to improve the administration of the ”reception” (the word ”detention” is conspicuously absent) and ”repatriation” of ”irregular migrants” in Italy. Reception centers were being expanded, and problems of overcrowding alleviated. The statement goes on to observe that IOM had opened its office on Lampedusa in April 2006. Since that time ”Forced returns from Lampedusa [had] stopped.”
Lampedusa is a small Italian island located some 200 km south of Sicily and 300 km to the north of Libya. Its geographical location provides a clue as to how it is that in 2004 this Italian outpost first entered the spotlight of European and even world public attention, becoming a potent signifier for anxieties about an international migration crisis (Andrijasevic 2006). For it was then that this Italian holiday destination became the main point of arrival for boats carrying migrants from Libya to Italy. That year more than 10,000 migrants are reported to have passed through the ”temporary stay and assistance centre” (CPTA) the Italian state maintains on the island. The vast majority had arrived in overcrowded, makeshift boats after a perilous sea journey lasting up to several weeks. Usually these boats
are intercepted in Italian waters by the Italian border guards and the migrants transferred to the holding center on the island. Following detention, which can last for more than a month, they are either transferred to other CPTAs in Sicily and southern Italy, or expelled to Libya.Finally, there is a point to be made about humanitarianism, power and order. Those looking to locate contemporary humanitarianism within a bigger picture would perhaps follow the lead of Hardt and Negri. As these theorists of ”Empire” see things, NGOs like Amnesty International and Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) are, contrary to their own best intentions, implicated in global order. As agents of ”moral intervention” who, because they participate in the construction of emergency, ”prefigure the state of exception from below,” these actors serve as the preeminent ”frontline force of imperial intervention.” As such, Hardt and Negri see humanitarianism as ”completely immersed in the biopolitical context of the constitution of Empire” (Hardt and Negri 2000: 36).Humanitarianism, Borders, Politics
Foucauldian writing about borders has mirrored the wider field of governmentality studies in at least one respect. While it has produced some fascinating and insightful accounts of contemporary strategies and technologies of border-making and border policing, it has tended to confine its attention to official and often state-sanctioned projects. Political dynamics and political acts have certainly not been ignored. But little attention has been paid to the possibility that politics and resistance operate not just in an extrinsic relationship to contemporary regimes, but within them.12 To date this literature has largely failed to view politics as something constitutive and productive of border regimes and technologies. That is to say, there is little appreciation of the ways in which movements of opposition, and those particular kinds of resistance which Foucault calls ”counter conduct,” can operate not externally to modes of bordering but by means of ”a series of exchanges” and ”reciprocal supports” (Foucault 2007: 355).
There is a certain paradox involved when we speak of Foucault and frontiers. In certain key respects it could be said that Foucault is one of our most eminent and original theorists of bordering. For at the heart of one of his most widely read works – namely Discipline and Punish – what does one
find if not the question of power and how its modalities should be studied by focusing on practices of partitionment, segmentation, division, enclosure; practices that will underpin the ordering and policing of ever more aspects of the life of populations from the nineteenth century onwards. But while Foucault is interested in a range of practices which clearly pertain to the question of bordering understood in a somewhat general sense, one thing the reading of his lectures on security, governmentality and biopolitics reveals is that he had little to say explicitly about the specific forms of bordering associated with the government of the state. To put it differently, Foucault dealt at length with what we might call the microphysics of bordering, but much less with the place of borders considered at the level of tactics and strategies of governmentality.Recent literature has begun to address this imbalance, demonstrating that many of Foucault’s concepts are useful and important for understanding what kinds of power relations and governmental regimes are at stake in contemporary projects which are re-making state borders amidst renewed political concerns over things like terrorism and illegal immigration. However, the overarching theme of this chapter has been the need for caution when linking Foucault’s concepts to the study of borders and frontiers today. While analytics like biopolitics, discipline and neoliberalism offer all manner of insights, we need to avoid the trap which sees Foucault’s toolbox as something ready-made for any given situation. The challenge of understanding the emergent requires the development of new theoretical tools, not to mention the sharpening of older, well-used implements. With this end in mind the chapter has proposed the idea of the humanitarian border as a way of registering an event within the genealogy of the frontier, but also, although I have not developed it here, within the genealogy of citizenship.
What I have presented previously is only a very cursory overview of certain features of the humanitarianization of borders, most notably its inscription within regimes of knowledge, and its constitutive relationship to politics. In future research it would be interesting to undertake a fuller mapping of the humanitarian border in relation to certain trajectories of government. While we saw how themes of biopolitical and neoliberal government are pertinent in understanding the contemporary management of spaces like the detention center, it would seem especially relevant to consider the salience of pastoralism. Pastoral power has received far less attention within studies of governmentality than, say, discipline or liberal government (but see Dean 1999; Golder 2007; Hindess 1996; Lippert 2004). But here again, I suspect, it will be important to revise our concepts in the light of emergent practices and rationalities. For the ways in which NGOs and humanitarians engage in the governance of migrants and refugees today have changed quite significantly from the kinds of networks of care, self-examination and salvation which Foucault identified with pastoralism. For instance, and to take but one example, the pastoral care of migrants, whether in situations of sanctuary or detention, is not organized as a life-encompassing, permanent activity as it was for the church, or later, in a secular version, the welfare state. Instead, it is a temporary and ad hoc intervention. Just as Foucault’s notion of neo-liberalism was intended to register important transformations within the genealogy of liberal government, it may prove useful to think in terms of the neo-pastoral when we try to make better sense of the phenomenon of humanitarian government at/of borders, and of many other situations as well.
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This is the southbound Crescent, headed for Wilmington, Washington, and Points South as it approaches SEPTA's Folcroft station. On the point is ACS-64 class unit #600.
The real objective after the Super Saturday PCC trip, however, was not this train. I only meandered trackside here after stopping at nearby Leo's Steak Shop, because there was no freakin' way I was getting back on the plane without a cheesesteak. (Yes, I know about Pat's and Geno's, but I didn't have time to head that way.)
A prime objective of a late-March two-day Outer Banks photography outing with Clyde (Whisle) was photographing the Milky Way, and the second morning provided a clear sky for the event. I decided the Sigma 24/1.4 Art lens was the best I had for such shooting; stopping it down to f/2 allowed both lower ISO and shorter exposure than my previous Milky Way effort with my Canon 16-35/4L, but something wider than 24mm would have been nice. (A few days later, I read that this lens is best for capturing the night sky when stopped down at least to 2.8.)
Most of my shots have the light of the first-order Fresnel lens blazing brightly, but the light's pattern (2.5 seconds on, 2.5 off, 2.5 on, then 22.5 off) enabled me to snap the shutter during the second of the flashes and complete the shot before the end of the 22.5-second dark period, thus giving the light a soft orange glow and allowing details of the lantern room to show.
Bodie Island Light is the third lighthouse tower here. The first (1848) had a poor foundation due to U.S. Treasury skimping and soon needed replacement; the second tower (1859) was blown up by Confederate troops during the Civil War to keep it from aiding the Union Navy. The current lighthouse (built 1870-72) is a brick tower with a cast iron lantern room housing a first-order Fresnel lens. Sources differ on some points, such as date of automation (1931 vs. 1954) and height of lighthouse (150, 156, 163, and 165 ft); according to www.outer-banks.com/lights/nbodie.cfm, it is 150 feet to the top of the tower, 165 feet to the top of the lantern room, and 156 feet from ground to focal plane. Bodie Island Light is still an active aid to navigation, but was transferred from the Coast Guard to the National Park Service in 2000; the 1893 double keepers' house is now a visitor center. Bodie Island Light Station was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003 (03000607).
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"We found the barrels, but they're heavy as hell! It's gonna take us a while to get them up top."
I got these barrels from a guy on Instagram, gijoefan312. He does outstanding props, often using found materials. This photo is a little dark, but they're probably down in the depths of wherever, right?
101 Oil Studies, No. 51
Objective: One-session life drawing portrait
Painted in 2 sessions: 27 to 29 Dec to 2024
Pigments (all Winsor & Newton Artists' oil colour): Yellow ochre, permalba white (Weber), Winsor yellow, burnt sienna, terra rosa, French ultramarine, ivory black, warm grey (Rembrandt. Mediums: Gamsol, Oleogel.
Centurion OP DLX oil primed linen, 27.9 x 35.6 cm (11 x 14 inches)
This portrait was painted December 29 in about 120 working minutes during a live-model session at the New Mexico Art League. Proir to the session, I had done the background wash using a mix of permalba white and ivory black warmed a bit with yellow ochre. Then I placed key elements in place using a charcoal transfer from "William in Profile" (in my Figure Studies album), done during the previous Sunday's sitting in the same pose.
This is my solution for remote interval shooting with the Panasomic LX3. My objective: have the LX3 shoot at 10-second intervals while mounted on the top of a 10-meter-long pole or suspended from a kite.
The LX3 lacks a wired or infrared remote capability so my approach was to add a "psuedo finger" moved by a model aircraft servo. The timing and servo management are handled by a Gent360 Servo ( www.gentles.ltd.uk/gent360/order.htm ), a tiny circuit that rotates the servo arm through a 45 degree swing every ten seconds. The circuit and servo are powered by a 4.8 VDC 2/3 AAA battery pack.
The three components are fixed to a small strip of aluminum that is mounted to the LX3 hot shoe and held in place by friction. Total weight for the intervalometer with battery is 2-1/4 oz. (64 grams). Works the charm.
I have posted examples on Flickr from my first month's work with the Lumix LX3:mounted on a handheld, 10-meter-long, carp fishing pole:
www.flickr.com/search/?q=PAP+LX3&w=26103250@N00&s...
and you can see the pole bracket here: www.flickr.com/photos/kap_cris/3185037451/
Addendum: In order to use the remote for photographs that have a decisive moment I have adapted an inexpensive wireless doorbell to serve as a "shoot now" override for the intervalometer. Press the doorbell and the camera will take three quick shots.
In the meantime, James Gentles has introduced a new product in support of this approach -- the gentled autoFINGER. This variant of the GentLED series provides an easily adjustable interval (3-30 seconds) for the servo's movement and provision for manual override through switch closure. See: www.gentles.ltd.uk/gentled/options.htm
I ran a test with the 4.8 VDC 2/3 AAA 370 mAh NiMH battery pack. It cycled the intervalometer for 25 hours or the equivalent of 9,000 exposures. The little 1/3 AAA pack should work just fine.
Among the first 3 men to climb Mont Blanc.
There is
Jacques Balmat (left) at the side of Horace-Benedict de Saussure, "The Father of Alpinism", in a monument erected at Chamonix. They are looking a the Mount Blanc summit.
In 1760 Saussure visited Chamonix, and offered a reward to the first man to reach the summit of Mont Blanc, at the time unscaled. He made an unsuccessful attempt himself in 1785, by the Aiguille du Goûter route. Two Chamonix men, Dr Michel Paccard and Jacques Balmat attained the summit in 1786, by way of the Grands Mulets, and in 1787 Saussure himself made the third ascent of the mountain.
Paccard didn't have his statue.
This statue has been raised in 1986 to remember Paccard who was on the of the first two climbers.
I might not use the camera I bought on eBay more than a year ago to take actual photos, but it's always fun playing around with it. This time I tried to make a photo of my Sigfig by photographing his reflections on my old manual Olympus lens.
For this photo I found that the easiest way to get some nice lightning was to do light painting. I put my camera on a tripod, turned off the lights, kept the shutter opened for a few seconds and started painting my minifig using the light of my smartphone.
(BTW you can also read about my own (mental) reflections on Stuck in Plastic: www.stuckinplastic.com/2017/02/reflections-on-a-photograp...)
Trying to be as objective as I can (with limited capabilities), the images in the collage are as follows:
Top - RAW (As Shot): NEF File Straight from a Nikon D7000 (No Post Production)
Middle - Nikon Camera Raw: Manual Process (No Photoshop Post Production)
Bottom - Lightroom CC: "Auto" (with some minor adjustments) and "Enhance" (No Photoshop Post Production, but scaled down to fit in the comparison collage)
camera: Hasselblad 500 CM
objective: Zeiss Planar 80mm + Hasselblad 10 extension tubes
light: natural light
light meter: Sekonic L-308B
film: Fomapan 200@100
fixer: Ilford Rapid Fixer
scanner: Epson Perfection 4990 Photo
For the RogueOlympics on www.RogeuBricks.de I built a camera with only 101 parts, which you can find on my stream.
I liked this first 101 parts MOC so much, that I decided to build it again - but then without part limit.
The camera itself is only build with LEGO parts and, the Nintendo set tiles fitting perfectly for the screen on the backside. Also the objektive is brick build in this one.
Subjectively Objective #14.
An old pop up "Jayco J" camper. Lake Onalaska, Wisconsin, USA.
I'm very excited to show you a brand new conceptual series I've been shooting the past month! A nice change from my norm subject matter of travel, lifestyle, landscapes, models, and nature. Retro / old "gems" in simple environments. Subtle colors, angular uncluttered compositions.
I hope you enjoy...
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A few weeks ago I was wondering here whether it is possible/clever/smart/... to use old enlarging objectives for photography. My first experiments met the astonishing fact that the German Leitz objective has M39 thread while my ad apter uses L39 - so they are only almost compatible. Now I found from my lockers a few enlarger objectives with L39 thread.
Here an old but unused Meopta Anaret 105 mm objective is fitted to an old and very much used Canon 400D. Enlarger objectives haven't a focus ring (& helicoid). So a cheap bellows is used to compensate that problem - and generating new ones.
The bellows is for Canon EOS (read as EF) world. So the objective needs some simple(?) adapting. I haven't got a L39 to EF adapter (maybe such one exists). So I first screwed a L39 to M42 adapter ring to the objective. Then I continued by screwing a M42 to EOS adapter. And that's it!
I hope to shoot & publish here some sample photos in the near future. At first sight a problem exists: some kind of hood must be done first.