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Manipulations of my own photograph(s) combined with sampling and manipulations of my own previous abstract work using IfanView and Photoshop Elements.
Fit young fellows romped ahead up that mountain — retired and grey now.
Behind was the cadre of the gods, keepers of the arcane, among them — the pyrotechnician. He's why I'm in front. He knows his stuff. He also throws lighted fireworks over his shoulder; maintaining attention, creating mischief. I know him, and some of his foibles. Mostly, they're dead now, those gods and even a few of their disciples. Their genius documented is all that remains. All things must pass.
Passage obtained through the cow dung and mud of a farmer's lane is now superseded. A modern pilgrim might run a different gauntlet as mythologies younger than this tale are wrapped around like that sea spray from the heavy waves. Watching the phases evolve is a new experience. The ascent then was imperfect; its purpose served.
Mud-splattered white Kombi vans await the descent, and to repeat a dance with the slithering slime of the farm. This mountain had its gold mine, now worked out, and secrets for the god's revelation. Practically its the root of a Cretaceous volcano, now ⅒ of its former height. Typified, it is a zoned pluton — a monzonite, they say — more mafic on the outside, more quartz-rich in the middle.
The highest ranking of the gods holds court, black marker in hand, and with a Kombi whiteboard to draw his Qz-Ab-Or ternary phase equilibrium diagrams, explains why we should believe that this mountain and its concentric zones were once a partially melted and fractionated alkali basalt. He's very big on partial melting — drawing on his expertise, and cars!
Adding a mind-bending fourth dimension, his curves become the planes where his hypotheses glissade. Where the containing pressure is exceeded by the volatiles that flux his crystal mush, they breakout and flow stops in an instant as the mobilising flux exits, stage left, creating a solidus for the melt. All things must pass, and so they wait for the next zone to form — I think that's what he said.
There was a notion to re-ascend that mountain; finish the job. Trusted advice said, nah, you're on a short break, it'll break you, and besides the recent view was a bit rubbish. Instead, I'm here contemplating the tail end of an east coast low which dumped 250mm of rain and continues to pile up a heavy surf that's making all of that spray. Tomorrow I head away south to peramble gently between the two end points of a track I have visited and not joined.
All things must pass. This is just one of those phases.
One of the new EMD rebuilds for NS is the third out locomotive on this Willmar-bound train. After a quick recrew, they are back on the move and crossing over at Rollins Avenue.
Quick doodle of a shuttle "landing" or phasing into N-space. The shuttle is fairly goofy but the angular shape was fun and above all easy to place around with transparency effects.
In freezing, the liquid phase of water turns into the solid phase. At the phase transition, beautiful structures akin to our image of the cosmos are created. Taken in our garden, focus stacked.
100% low poly, made and rendered in Eevee (Blender) (with viewport render).
Firing a phaser is fairly easy to make: set up a bezier curve, apply a physical constraint to a cylinder to follow the curve, and insert the necessary keyframes in the timeline.
For the "world" shader I used a star map from NASA (credits: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Constellation figures based on those developed for the IAU by Alan MacRobert of Sky and Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott and Rick Fienberg)).)
Can you spot the Big Dipper?
It took me a while to figure out how to set this up. In the world sharder editor: use a texture coordinate - mapping - environment texture. Connect the "camera" of the texture coordinate to the vector of the mapping node and in the scale options of the mapping node, set X and Y to 3 (leave Z at 1).
Connect the "color out" of the environment texture to a "RGB to BW" node, and feed this into a RGB curve node. Then drag this curve down to get rid of all the noise.
Connect the output of the RGB curve node to the color of the background node and connect the latter to the surface of the world output, as usual.
The trail down Sahale Arm, before dropping toward Cascade Pass. The air moved quickly and clouds would often completely overtake the landscape.
Phasing into 2025: A new year, a new chapter, seamlessly transitioning from the memories of 2024.
For Flickr Friday
Theme: Phase
Today's Waning Gibbous Phase of the moon. The Waning Gibbous on January 7 has an illumination of 100%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. The illumination is constantly changing and can vary up to 10% a day. On January 7 the Moon is 15.25 days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes 29.53 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases. #moon #astronomy #moonphotography #luna #lunaphotography #astrophotography #laluna #nikonp1000 #blogto #toronto #torontosky #canada #astro_photography_ #seaoftranquility #seaofserenity #moonlight #moonphases #supermoon #moonlovers #moonwatch #mooncraters #tycho #copernicus #apollocrater #aristoteles #aristarchus #astrophotography #moonphoto #Aquarius #waninggibbous
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This is kind of cheating because I didn't take it this week, nor is it a self-portrait. Oops. I'll do my best to retake this week, but I'd like to put this here so I have something if I don't have time to.
And here is a part view of the red dress I wore the other day. Looks like my cold is on the move so that a good thing I might even be able to manage dancing tonight yay
I was trying for a side by side shot of the 2 Phase III Cabbage cars but timing was not right. But this shot of the 90368 next to the dome car isn't bad either so I will take it.
A macro of some flowers which were being lit by the light coming in from front window. The title refers to one of my favourite pieces of music by Pat Metheny.
this link shows a very young Pat Metheny performing it in 1978 in Berlin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6F8vQjyaIg&feature=related
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A single frame from the timelapse I used to make the previous time stack image.
It was interesting to see the phases of the passing storm all at once. It was pretty small and moving quickly, and the shape reminded me of a roll cloud (long and skinny, but it didn't have much roll to it) The camera was set up perpendicular to the storms movement, looking down (up?) the length of the storm, so you can see the clear sky ahead of it, the storm front, the turbulent area of the body and the tail followed by stratus clouds.
A bit gear porn anyone?
Some of my equipment :-)
It is the Phase One XF camera equipped with the IQ3 100MP back and the Schneider Kreuznach 150mm f2.8 blue ring lens.
Phases of last night's supermoon of 2015, just after the total eclipse, seen from Thessaloniki, Greece.
Amtrak 174 departing westbound out of Princeton, IL this afternoon. 174 was the first Amtrak Genesis P42DC locomotive to receive the new Phase VII paint scheme.
Starfighter Telephone Game Round 5, inspired by Porschecm2's ship.
[aploded]
️ SPQR - Phase I ️
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Parts: 104,000+ (~1,700 unique)
Scale: 1:650
Dimensions: 57in x 289in (143cm x 231cm)
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Design Time: 1,000+ hours in 200 days
Build Time: 600+ hours in 90 days
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