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Jan. 5, 2019
Fujifilm X-E2
XF 35mm F1.4R
Film Simulation: PROVIA
A round travel via Hiraizumi and Yamadera
平泉・山寺経由東北一周旅
A comment on the other in this series suggested a tighter crop might work well, so this is the result - I have cropped in tight on this one to highlight the colorful sails more - I like the effect myself, and I love the fact this was shot handheld with a 300mm lens - not the easiest beast to steady.
I like these images with their colors and contrasts between the man made and the natural.
Cleveland Point
Brisbane, QLD Australia
PC4160
We enjoyed a happy hour together with a group of cool people in the Belknap park area of Grand Rapids today. Also checked out a house for sale. Hmmm.
Edited NASA image of colorful gas over Virginia (perhaps from Congress). Color/processing variant.
Image source: visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=90497
Original caption: After several launch attempts since May that were often scrubbed because of weather, the skies were finally clear enough for a NASA Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket to blast off at 4:25 a.m. Eastern Time on June 29, 2017.
Soon after the launch from Wallops Flight Facility (Virginia), puffs of color emerged high in the night sky over the Mid-Atlantic coast. These artificial clouds glowed momentarily red-green and then faded into blue and violet as they drifted in the ionosphere. This upper layer of Earth’s atmosphere extends from 80 to 600 kilometers (50 to 360 miles) above the surface, and it is full of charged particles that get bombarded by solar and cosmic radiation.
In the course of the eight-minute flight, the sounding rocket ejected ten canisters about the size of a soft drink can as part of a test of a new multi-canister ejection system. Once separated from the sounding rocket by several miles, the canisters released blue-green and red vapor that formed the aurora-like clouds seen in the photograph above. Interactions between barium, strontium, and cupric-oxide gave the clouds their color.
The second image is a time-lapse photograph that shows the fire trail from the rocket pushing upward into the night sky. The smaller streak of light is the second stage of the rocket falling back toward the ocean.
Sounding rockets have been used since the 1950s to study the upper atmosphere and ionosphere and to aid in understanding the Earth’s near-space environment. The rockets follow parabolic or “U-shaped” trajectories. In this case, the sounding rocket flew to an altitude of about 118 miles (190 kilometers).
NASA Wallops received nearly 2,000 reports and photos of cloud sightings from areas as far as New York and North Carolina, and inland across Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Photos submitted by the public can be viewed on the Wallops facebook page.
References
NASA About Vapor Trails. Accessed June 29, 2017.
NASA Wallops Flight Facility NASA Wallops Rocket Launch Lights up the Mid-Atlantic Coast. Accessed June 29, 2017.
NASA Wallops Flight Facility (Facebook) Submitted Photos. Accessed June 29, 2017.
Perhaps my favorite place in Europe, Scotland continues to draw me back time and time again.
These photos were taken on a Canon T3i during a 6 day road trip through the Scottish highlands.
You can learn more about the locations covered and the route I took on virtualwayfarer.com.
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So i tried to do a selective color. Seems like this might be thrown in the pile of badly done selective colors. It may just not have been the right photo for it.
Perhaps they should have named this Wilted Salad. Ugh. How unappetizing.
The recipe says to take pear juice from the canned pears, and add mint extract and green food coloring, then pour it over the top. The pic doesn't look green, but whatever. Eeew.
From Cooking the Modern Way, 1948. This is a publication by the Planters Peanut Oil people.
This thousand-foot tower, perhaps the tallest all-red object on Earth, is the landmark crown of TV Hill in Baltimore, and the transmitting home of the city's three alpha TV stations, plus two FMs, auxiliary backups for those FMs and two others in town, two translators for secondary HD channels of one FM and an FM translator for the city's biggest AM station.
The tower, known to the FCC as ASR (antenna structure registration) 1035558, was built in 1958-59 for the city's three network TV stations: WMAR/2 (ABC), WBAL-TV/11 (NBC) and WJZ-TV/13 (CBS). The tower was stretched upward by another 270 feet in 2004.
Data on the tower:
The tower base and cable anchors required 2,250 tons of concrete.
Structure Coordinates: 39-20-5.0 N 76-39-2.0 W (NAD 83)
Site Elevation: 97 meters (318 ft)
Height of Structure: 271 meters (889 feet)
Overall Height Above Ground: 304 meters (997 feet)
Overall Height Above Mean Sea Level: 401 meters (1316 feet)
Data on the TV stations:
WJZ-TV
Virtual channel 13
Actual channel 11
ERP: 35.5 kW
Polarization: Horizontally polarized
HAAT: 273 m (896 ft.)
Electrical Beam Tilt: 2.0 degrees
R/C AGL: 261 m (856 ft.)
Directional Antenna, broad, but leaning northeast
Antenna Make/Model: DIELECTRIC TLS-V4BB
Antenna ID: 1007017
Horizontally polarized
WMAR
Virtual channel 2
Actual channel 27
ERP: 830 kW
Polarization: Elliptically polarized
HAAT: 307 m (1007 ft.)
Electrical Beam Tilt: 0.75 degrees
Omni-Directional Antenna - Antenna Make/Model: DIELECTRIC TFU-28GTH/VP-R-06
Antenna ID: 84898
WBAL-TV
Virtual channel 11
Actual channel 12
ERP: 30 kW
Polarization: Circularly polarized
HAAT: 305 m (1001 ft.)
Electrical Beam Tilt: 0.75 degrees
Omni-Directional Antenna - Antenna Make/Model: DIELECTRIC THV-9A12/CP-R O4
Antenna ID: 1001245
All three station antennas are above the three corners of the candelabra. All three also have auxiliary antennas hanging down from the sides of the platform.
On FM, the two full-power stations are WMMX/106.5 and WIYY/97.9. Both share the same two-bay panel antenna on the WMAR mast. Data:
Effective Radiated Power: 10.5 kW
Antenna Center HAAT: 296 m (971 ft.)
Antenna Center AMSL: 379 m (1243 ft.)
Antenna Center HAG: 282 m (925 ft.)
Omni-Directional Antenna
Antenna Make/Model: Electronics Research Inc. 1183-2CP
Antenna ID: 1007578
Auxiliary antennas on the tower are for those two stations, plus WJZ/105.7 and WLIF/101.9.
There are also translator antennas for WBAL-AM/1090 on 101.5, WLIF-HD2 on 106.1 and WLIF-HD4 on 97.5.
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Perhaps better known for their steam wagons and aircraft engines during World War 1, Straker-Squire produced cars from about 1907. Exactly why this prototype has a 'Zebra' style paint pattern is anyone's guess.
Perhaps love is like a window
Perhaps an open door
It invites you to come closer
It wants to show you more
Perhaps Treasure Island is named for the treasure of a view it offers of San Francisco. (Taken about an hour and a half past sunset, 39 seconds at ƒ/11.)
The Wangfujing Night Market (王府井)
ah, who hasn't wanted to try a live emperor scorpion at least once in their life? I know I had never thought about it before I saw it happen. But perhaps you have.
We saw lots of kids chow down on the little brown guys, the ones that were wiggling around like crazy, but no one was brave enough to dine on these suckers. I wonder why...
a brand new blog about Beijing at... my blog.
Breakneck Beijing 2009 @ www.flashparker.wordpress.com
I always found Bedfords and other "lightweights" deeply uninteresting, but in retrospect the twin-steer VAL chassis was an oddity, wasn't it? This Plaxton-bodied VAL70 (Bedford engine, as opposed to the Leyland 0.400 of the earlier VAL14) belonged to C. H. Field Ltd of Paulton, Somerset, who traded as Ashleigh Coaches. It had been acquired in December 1974 from its original owner, Rendell of Corfe Mullen.
For students of the north Somerset independent fleets, the centre of Radstock was a good pitch at about four in the afternoon, just after chucking-out time at Writhlington School. I suppose every child in the district had to attend this enormous comprehensive on the edge of the town, which meant that they all had to be bussed to and from home. I like to think that I would have had the good manners to reciprocate the driver's cheery wave but, squinting through the viewfinder I probably missed it. Thirty years later I still experience a little bat-squeak of guilt when I see this friendly gesture unrequited. The matter would have passed out of the driver's mind within seconds. The photograph dates from Monday 12th May 1980.
Steaming into Brandon, WI, SOO 1003 passes the Wapun Feed & Seed Mill. Brandon is a pretty little town with quite a number of photogenic run-by spots. SOO 1003 would pause here for the better part of an hour, taking water and getting some light servicing. I was amazed at how many locals turned out to see the big steamer. It was as if many of them had never seen a real steam engine before. Perhaps many of them had not.
Perhaps my favourite picture of the night - it really looks like an advert for the ride! I used the ride's flash to stop the cart at the top but still had a long enough exposure to get the sky in. Partially desaturated - no other editing.
What a plane! She just came from a Sea Ice survey near Inuvik, Northwest Territories, and will be heading to Germany over the next few days.
Thanks to the crew for a great tour!
And thank you to Flightaware for the heads up on her arrival!
Perhaps many of you are a bit young to remember this, but us old guys remember the 1979 Daytona 500. This was a milestone race for NASCAR, as viewers watched a great finish and yes, you guessed it – a post-race brawl. But why was it a milestone for NASCAR? Would you believe… snow?...
www.pitstoppost.com/1979-daytona-500-special-airing-febru...
Unsure, but think this float is based on Toy Story, certainly have a cowgirl and a rocket woman on board.
Photo mine, slight tilt and shift effect, used a brush from deviant art to add some fog, lower the opacity and added a blur
The window and seat are a background from www.flickr.com/photos/rubyblossom/4589728620/in/set-72157...
I should just say I added a slight room reflection to this from an image taken else where, I am loving Ruby blossoms backgrounds very talented lady
Perhaps the only time that i went shutter-happy during my vacation was in Chinatown Singapore. I don't know what it was about the place that made me just want to take photos everywhere. This is going to be the last upload from that trip, i promise XD