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Now today's pointless trip to attempt to get the Collegiate school coaches before lockdown strikes. I found out i was stood at the wrong place and should've walked 2 minutes down the road. I'll probably be back next year, hopefully the school bus rota (if there is one) will get "jazzed" up so maybe some more unusual coaches turn up. I also saw the Ellie Rose Plaxton Excalibur! Ah, oh well, i'll be back after lockdown.
This is the only coach i got a photo of today and i'd rather have this then some coach i've already got twice. At least i'm in Anlaby for once, at least. I remember seeing loads of these NX panthers/elites a few years ago- what happened to them? They just vanished all of a sudden. Maybe they got slightly newer levantes? I wonder.
Seen approaching Hull Collegiate to pick up students to take them home on lockdown eve is SA11OBV, a 2011 Volvo B13R Plaxton Panther new to Parks of Hamilton which got sold in 2017 and has been a school bus ever since? I recall seeing this on RR a lot.
The moon this afternoon, closer than 362,000 km from Earth. I noticed that it was time for the Supermoon so I walked up the hill at home for a quick snap of the moon from behind the trees.
New print available at Harewood House 'Awesome Movement / Fantastic Motion' & Somerset House 'Pick Me Up'. Left over prints will be available online from mid May. Edition 90.
The roads around the US consulate in frankfurt are blocked off with
razor wire, considering that I could walk up to and around the wire one
has got to ask "what's the point?"
Another useless part of the Preston station new entrance, destined to gather leaves and litter I suspect.
My apologies for the more-boring-than-usual photography lately but I've been taking my new walk-around camera out for walks.
The RX100M3 is everything they say it is. I've been shooting RAW with bracketed exposure, processed in DXO Optics Pro and edited in ACDSee Pro 8, with some shots retouched in Topaz Labs' software.
My experience so far compared with an Alpha 77 and Canon G12:
The image quality is fantastic. Colors are deep and true. Noise is low even at higher ISOs. The optical viewfinder is a big 'YAY!, especially after being saddled with the entirely pointless hole-thorugh-the-camera on the G12. I didn't think I'd use the OVF much but I'm really starting to use it by default.
Battery life hasn't been a problem yet. I think I could fill a 16GB card on one battery with no flash use.
It's a small camera with small buttons but not too small for my fat, old clumsy fingers. And it plays well with my Eye-Fi card.
On the downside - the bundled software is crap. I uninstalled it pretty quickly. There is no way to access the camera settings via the software, at least that I found.
My WiFi router password is a 28 character 'random' jumble of upper/lower case letters, numbers and special characters, so connecting to my WiFi via the camera's input was quite the adventure.
Nor does there seem to be any way of backing up the camera's settings, a serious oversight for such a customizable camera.
Overall it's a great little piece of gear.
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Spread 141 – Pointless
25 August 2001
Nova Color acrylic paint, handmade papers, personal images, matt medium, black and white gesso, black and white charcoal pencil.
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It seemed pointless to offer this near monotone in black and white. The color in this room neither distracts nor excites. Likewise the dramatic spare tall windows admit light without a view of anything meaningful. This is designed to be a quiet place at The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In my opinion the architects were entirely successful in communicating solemnity befitting the subject. www.google.com/search?client=safari&hl=en-us&sxsr... www.pcf-p.com/about/james-ingo-freed/
pointless 30 second exposure - the clouds weren't doing anything interesting
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Part of my Aldeburgh trip.
Sitting on the window for years has been this dust collector. A selection of interlocking fluorescent plates. Today I removed them and packed them for a walk, during our packed lunch break I decided them to put them to use. A pointlessly beautiful thing
Happy Thanksgiving! Here's a screenshot of some footage I've done over the last couple of days.
I feel like this brickfilm will never get finished. T____T I definitely bit off more than I could chew.
More and more, I've been turning to my cell phone (Samsung S22 Ultra) to shoot pictures, rather than my DSLR. It amazes me how far this technology has advanced. I'd put the image quality of this thing in the same category as my late 2000s or early 2010s era DSLRs!
Running right on schedule, Amtrak 156 (Phase I) heritage locomotive leads the daily #4 Southwest Chief through Leland, Illinois with about 65 miles left to reach Chicago, the final destination for this train.
***YouTube- youtu.be/BgN2wThfpuQ ***
For Amtrak's 40th anniversary in 2011, four P42DC locomotives received a special version of Phase I through Phase IV paint schemes. From January through April 2011, Amtrak's Beech Grove Shops outside Indianapolis repainted the units and sent them to Chicago, where they were cycled into regular service. This was the second repainted locomotive representing Amtrak’s Phase I paint scheme with the “Pointless arrow.”
Moving on down to Vicar Lane... well, this goes on for a while, so strap in. 'Grand Yorkshire Connections'... now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. That's probably a name more better suited for a Transdev operation, right? Considering that Yorkshire Tiger was sold off to them, I wouldn't be surprised if they adopted this tagline if Transdev Blazefield just go buck wild and buy out all of Arriva Yorkshire. Anyway, recent photography indicates that this 'Max' bus has been stripped of what little route branding it has remaining, besides the aformentioned tagline. I'd put it down to route revisions, but not a single one of the via points has changed. In all, this just makes it look a bit pointless and sad.
Seen here now stripped of most of it's former route branding but still clinging onto the 'Max' brand, Arriva Yorkshire's 1921, a 2015 ADL Enviro 400 formerly branded for the 202/203 services from Leeds to Huddersfield, is seen here in amongst bus traffic on Vicar Lane and still running services on the 202 to Huddersfield.
This bus, 419, transferred to Thames Travel during last year. Now it resides back at Carousel, making the transfer and the repaint somewhat pointless...
This bus had to take the place of a Tempo which broke down in Uxbridge, hence the short working.
Carousel 419 (AE61 AWJ), rt 730 at Uxbridge Station
Being serviced is the Amtrak Phase 1 Heritage Unit after bringing in #313 a couple hours ago. In the morning it will lead The Missouri River Runner #314 to St. Louis.
Locomotive: AMTK 156
5-24-13
Kansas City, MO
A poster I designed for a group art show here in Milwaukee. The show is about fake propaganda art.
AVAILABLE AS A PRINT!!!
XO
Upon first glance, to some, this might appear to be a generic “Apollo” artist’s concept.
Au contraire mon ami/amie. Or so I think.
A few of my pointless observations, as follows: Obviously an early (ca. 1961-63) design/configuration, based on the lack of windows visible on the Command Module (CM), due to the extendable/retractable covers/panels shielding them. The CM actually being labeled “APOLLO”, it being unfamiliar & freshly named as of this time. The “vertically” oriented pitch thrusters on the CM, indicative of the initial Block I design, although this probably even predates such terminology.
The seriously protruding, turnstile-like appearance of the Reaction Control System (RCS) thrusters on the Service Module (SM). The SM itself looks to be somewhat truncated. Also, the exposed nature of the umbilicals between the CM & SM, with no fairing…although there does appear to be a door which is possibly closed upon severing the connections prior to reentry.
Finally, the CSM is separating from what appears to be a straight cylindrical stage, having no conical shape to it, i.e. “non-SLA” looking, and it's empty, at least from this perspective. All of which I associate with the outward appearance of a Saturn C-5 or Nova launch vehicle. This/These being commensurate with the time period. Oh, and the ubiquitous circumferential red stripe.
So, this would still be while Direct Ascent was pretty much the de facto consideration for a lunar landing. Or maybe Earth Orbit Rendezvous? I’m clueless on which might be depicted here, if either. Maybe neither…just artistic license?
Although no signature is visible, I feel like I should be able to take a guess on who. Albert Lane? Grant Lathe? Jerry Lyons? Chuck Biggs?
See the “NASA Direct/July 1961” version:
www.astronautix.com/a/apollolunarlanding.html
Credit: Astronautix website
Another shot of the long pier at Tologa Bay. Same treatment as the shots before.
This shot isnt symmetrical at all but I like the lamps as a counterweight for this asymmetry.
I don`t like the recent changes to Flickr either, but is a blackout protest by the minority going to pursuade Flickr to go back to the previous version, after they have spent many hours, and no doubt several hundreds and thousands of pounds developing the new engine? No. Not even an army of Golliwogs can change that........
Old road directional signpost that has lost it's direction arms. The location is a bit strange as it is located at the junction of a major route (A40) and a farm track.
_8_14586__8_14587__8_14588_Small - Mucking around with the Dandelion flower pot stuff also done three shots of a blade of grass, like you do.
Then I thought I would present it in a sort of contemporary manner.
Say what you like, I swore at it a few times, but sort of liked the end product
Okay, I admit it, I kinda hate the Lomograflok. It's just a weird, overly-compromised, ill-conceived device. It's fiddly as heck and it adds multiple steps to the already fiddly process of taking large format photographs.
The image window is off-center (why?) and it increases the effective focal length of your lenses. (oh boy) You use a plastic VHS tape-size brick insert to focus and compose, and then remove your ground glass (?!?) and attach the Lomograflok before pulling the dark slide and getting on with it already. It's just a giant clusterf*ck back there.
Need to refocus or compose a new shot? Remove the Lomo, back on with the ground glass, back in with the giant Lego, rinse, repeat. Much shuffling of black camera contraptions to and from the bag. And in the end, what do you get? A kinda mushy soft focus wallet-size print with acceptable colors and very limited dynamic range.
Now, I will also admit I kind of enjoy the lo-fi vibe of the images with the sort of "ambient depth" of the large format photograph. But why would I go to the trouble of large format for that? I'd rather shoot one of Lomography's dedicated Instax cameras for instant thrills. This thing is a dog. I've got a couple packs of expired film I need to burn through and then it's going on eBay.
Photographer Ari Jaaksi has a lovingly brutal review of the Lomograflok on his ShootOnFilm YOUTube channel and I couldn't agree more.
Toyo-View 45A - Schneider Angulon 90 f/6.8 - Lomograflok back - Fujifilm Instax Wide - crummy office HP scanner
I'm not doing a 365.
Realistically I know I'll fail, although I've done well so far with an 'uncommitted' 365.
I have a rough week ahead and I'm predicting a block of enthusiasm and creativity.
Also, the trouble with 365's is you get ya rather pointless shots like this.
On the other hand, taking this I learnt:
1. That there is a gratutious little slut whore inside of me who isn't afraid to show a bit of leg.
2. That Auto Correct Function on PSP can make you look weird and its best to tidy up the sharpness and stuff the long way around.
3. I suck at flash photography. (This was a test shot without my new flashgun). The rest were lame.
4. Catch lights in eyes are a joy.
5. If you are going to take a picture involving your teddy bear mug, at least scrub the tea stains off the outside. Its the little details that let a photo down. (see messed up collars in most of my previous pictures)
6. Manual Mode on the camera isn't as scary as I thought.