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Precision & Planning - A couple good friends and myself spotted this female Peregrine Falcon of a pair while hiking the Northern California Coast. Compared to the male, she has more distinctive rufous coloration and is significantly larger (as is this case in this species and many other falcons/raptors). After we determined that we weren't able to get portraits where she was sitting, we carefully curved around and waited at her predicted flight path - with the goal of capturing her flying towards us. She took off like a rocket towards us through the dunes and I was very happy to capture this shot which conveys a sense of habitat as well as speed. It certainly takes a lot of precision and planning to photograph such a precise and speedy bird in flight!
Species: Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)
Location: Northern California, CA, USA
Equipment: Canon EOS R5 + RF 100-500mm IS
Settings: 1/3200s, ISO: 2000, f/7.1 @500mm, Handheld, Electronic Shutter
We miss a lot with the naked eye when wildlife does even routine things. I love the grace and elegance of this goose making a tip-toe landing in the golden tones of an early morning sun.
I’m not sure what this lady was doing, but she was doing it very slowly and very precisely (at first I thought she was on her phone but when I zoomed in it appeared not).
XR551 and BL34 head away from the former site of Wedderburn Junction, where the former branch to Wedderburn ran to, with empty grain 9147 from Geelong to Quambatook.
After waking up in Kerang to find both V/Line and SSR were cancelled, I hit the road south for PN, managing to get here with a minute to spare.
Monday 12th February 2024
Iglesia de Cofita (Huesca)
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An F-22 Raptor stands silhouetted on the tarmac at Cocoa Beach Airshow 2025, its angular stealth design highlighted by the warm glow of sunrise or sunset. The aircraft’s sleek profile and commanding presence evoke cutting-edge aviation and quiet power. Captured in dramatic light, this moment blends military precision with atmospheric beauty, showcasing one of the world’s most advanced fighter jets.
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IMO number 9831294
Vessel Name NAVIG8 PRECISION
Ship type Crude Oil Tanker
Flag Marshall Islands
Gross Tonnage 63338
Summer Deadweight (t) 109994
Length Overall (m) 250
Beam (m) 44
Year of Built 2018
Precision Scheduled Railroading is in full effect throughout the Roseville Service Unit. In order to better the company's operating ratio, Union Pacific elected to run fewer & longer trains. This business model cuts down on costs associated with rail transport, such as crew salary and fuel consumption.
After departing Roseville at over 10,000' in length, the MWCEU of September 6th was making good time up the (flat) Valley Subdivision to Redding. At Redding, 22 cars would be set out, causing a nearly hour delay. By the time the train was headed north again, the late summer evening was drawing to a close.
In this shot, the sound of a gentle summer breeze is broken by the echoing rumble of a freight train working northbound through the Sacramento River Canyon. UP 1983, the Western Pacific Heritage Unit, catches the last little bit of daylight as it leads a 111-car manifest through Vollmer's Delta.
UP 1983 — MWCEU 06 — Delta, California
September 7th, 2019
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A line of trees planted in an allee along the brow of a slight rise stand in almost military precision.
Best viewed L in the lightbox, the white background makes it feel too dark.
*some editing to remove power lines
©Kings Davis 2022
Please do not use or reproduce this image on Websites/Blog or
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‘Autistic’ macro photo shoot session.
One of the last photos of this lens before it fell and locked the aperture and focus adjustment. The newly purchased Panagor teleconverter (a revelation, adjustable ZOOM) turned out to be C/Y in the mount, and the lens has an O/OM mount and by manually holding it we could test the macro capabilities. What could go wrong? It happened and the teleconverter and the Kiron fell out of my hand....
Cylindrical Slide Rule.
When I was about fourteen I remember my maths master bringing in the first electronic calculator I had ever seen. It could do addition, multiplication, division and subtraction and had one memory. It cost around £300 in today’s money. By the end of my undergraduate studies I had a programmable scientific calculator that handled trig functions and statistics and cost only £30.
In the sixth form (i.e. years 12 & 13) we used slide rules and books of tables for calculation as calculators weren’t generally allowed in examinations. The slide rule I had was an advanced one, double-sided with trigonometric, log and exponential functions built in.
In many ways slide rules remain superior to calculators. They are fast, intuitive and less prone to errors of data entry. In experienced hands fairly complicated calculations can be done rapidly. They also make it easier to estimate answers and they teach you to handle the powers of ten in a calculation so that they become second nature. These skills become very important at university in a complex subject like Physics as you need to work out whether you are on the right track quickly when you are working a problem.
All slide rules work on the same principle. You can save doing a multiplication of two numbers by converting the numbers to their logarithms and then adding those together, finally converting back to ordinary numbers. In this way a multiplication becomes a simple addition which is way easier. Slide rules work by converting the log numbers into lengths on the rule and by sliding one bit of rule against another you can add the lengths (literally) and then read back the total length to convert back to the normal numbers.
The main drawback with slide rules is precision. An ordinary slide rule can work to about three significant digits whereas calculators work at eight or more. Of course precision doesn’t buy you much if you have entered the wrong figures into the calculator in the first place.
The precision is determined by the length of the slide rule: they’re normally about a foot long. Any longer and you have problems getting them in your briefcase :)
This is an image of my father’s precision slide rule. It gets around the length problem by spiralling the scale around a cylinder. The cylinder is in three parts that can rotate independently the scales on the top and bottom parts with a sliding sleeve in between. Collapsed down it is about six inches long, but the scale is equivalent to a slide rule about five and a half feet in length!
This is a picture of the top scale and part of the central sleeve, on top of some of the instructions for the device (an Otis King model “L” if you are a detailophile :) ).
I created this for the Macro Mondays Back In The Day theme this week. The exposed area of the scale is 1.3 inches so we are within the limits for the group - yey! Also for 7DWF :)
Thank you for taking time to look. I hope you enjoy the image! Happy Macro Mondays!!
[Indoors with light from window; tripod mount; remote release; focused in LiveView; VR off.
Processed in Lightroom with the colour balance set to accentuate the brown tinge in the instructions paper; exposure and contrast set to create a bit of ambience; rotated to give a stronger diagonal, and cropped.
Into Affinity Photo for some healing of dust spots; sharpened with a bit of Clarity filter and Unsharp Mask; slight, carefully constructed vignette to keep the highlights on the knurling top right, but to draw us in a bit. Then we’re done :)]
Only Imperial stormtroopers are so precise. The movies would have been a whole lot shorter if they'd put in the practice!
Clockmaker Hugo Stanley established his clockmaker's shop in Lahti, Finland, in 1924. Besides keeping the shop he started to make electronic clocks and when 10 years were passed he came to establish a clock factory. Stanley's clock factory mainly
made electric functioning central clock systems to rail stations, schools and factories. The clock factory also made clocks to use outdoors and different "accurate" devices.
Information from late Timo Tuomivaara: "During the last years of WW2 the Finnish army asked Hugo Stanley to make new
handcuffs very fast, because there weren't any handcuffs available to the market. His son has told that he and his father packed about 1 000 handcuffs to small, green boxes and the boxes were sent to the frontier to the military police and officers."
The lock system was made for working with the same key as the Finnish Konepaja Voima handcuffs since they also were in use on the field. The Hugo Stanley's factory employed about 10 people and was equipped with very up to date machinery. After Hugo Stanley died in 1956 his sons Arent and Oswald Stanley continued the clock factory until 1972 when they went out of
business.
The Hugo Stanley handcuffs are high precision piece of work, what else could you expect from a clock maker?
On Wednesday night July 8th tragedy struck at Slauson and Crenshaw in South L. A. as a biker known as Davo was riding east on Slauson when a car going west on the wrong side of the street attempting to enter the Arco gas station drive way hit Dave head on, as far as I know he passed away before the paramedics could get to him. Any one with more details as to Daves last name and club affiliation and more info is welcome. A candlelight vigil was held after sun down Friday night July 10.