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And the Day 1 Precision Finals of the 2019 U.S. Army Junior Rifle Championships are a wrap with Macy Way taking the Gold, Mackenzie Miller with the Silver and Scott Rockett with the Bronze. The annual, invitation-only event brings more than 150 of the top junior marksmen to Fort Benning, Georgia to vie for top honors. Many of these juniors go on to shoot for colleges, military services and even the Olympics. This truly talented bunch of young athletes are something to watch! (U.S. Army photos by Michelle Lunato/released)
And the Day 1 Precision Finals of the 2019 U.S. Army Junior Rifle Championships are a wrap with Macy Way taking the Gold, Mackenzie Miller with the Silver and Scott Rockett with the Bronze. The annual, invitation-only event brings more than 150 of the top junior marksmen to Fort Benning, Georgia to vie for top honors. Many of these juniors go on to shoot for colleges, military services and even the Olympics. This truly talented bunch of young athletes are something to watch! (U.S. Army photos by Michelle Lunato/released)
During a longer photo walk in Lyon, France, on February 22, 2023, with my French range-finder 35 mm camera Foca PF2B (year 1956) and an Ilford Pan400 film.
The 36-exposure film was exposed for 400 ISO using a Minolta Autometer III with a 10° finder for selective measurements privileging the shadow areas. The Foca Oplar lens1:2.8 f=5cm was fitted with a FOCA "AUV"(Anti-UV) filter and a Genaco metal shade hood, both push-on 42mm.
La Saône au Pont Maréchal Pierre Koenig, February 22, 2023
69001 Lyon
France
After exposure, the film was processed using Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developer at dilution 1+50, 20°C for 11 min.
The film was then digitalized using a Sony A7 body adapted to a Minolta Auto Bellows III and a Minolta Slide Duplicator using a lens Minolta Bellow Macro Rokkor 50mm f/3.5 at a reproduction ratio of 1:1. The reproduced RAW files obtained were processed in LR prior the the final JPEG editions.
All views of the film are presented in the dedicated album either in the printed framed versions and unframed full-size jpeg.
About the camera and the lens:
The Foca type PF2B (PF for "Petit Format") was constructed in France by the company "Optique & Precision de Levallois" (OPL) starting from 1947. It was manufactured in the Chateaudun OPL factory, route de Jallans, France, in 1956 among a late series of the PF2B. The factory, constructed in 1938, is still at the same place under the name of SAFRAN now producing precision devices for aerospace appliances.
The camera is equipped with the collapsible OPLAR lens (a Tessar formula) 1:2.8 f=5cm. The focal shutter of the PF2B has timing of 1/1000, 1/500, 1/200, 1/100, 1/50 and 1/25s plus the B pose. A slow exposure device below 1/25s could be installed by the aftermarket service and was installed in series for the FOCA PF3 type.
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Humans have an amazing belief in approximation and acceptance of approximations. How good is good enough? How precise do we need to be? A certain degree of approximation.
What we find is that humans are often content with a relatively crude approximation of something, with special cases of closer approximation.
Education is the process of learning to be able to attune to various kinds of experience. When the capacity for attunement first awakens, it does so in a relatively crude (approximate) form, as a painter/artist first blocks out large and general regions in hers starting canvas (or whatever). A certain somatic faculty, or intelligence, emerges. (Soma is more than reflexive flesh-body.)
Capacity to recognize detail comes with the accumulation of memory — provided the person pays attention. You’ve got to pay attention to accumulate memory and see detail.
The capacity to BE educated, however, depends upon a certain awakened attention and arising intention that WANTS to wake up in that way.
There’s an old story about a certain person who approached a certain guru to ask to be his discipline.
The guru said, “You have to really want it.”
The supplicant said: “I really want it!”
The guru said, “No, you REALLY have to want it!”
"I do!" the supplicant said.
"No. Let me show you."
And the guru stood up and said, “Follow me.”
And they walked until they reached the riverbank.
The guru said, “Kneel at the edge of the water. Face the water.”
The supplicant did as he was told, and with a gentle but decision motion, pushed the supplicant’s head into the river and held it there.
In a few moments, the supplicant began struggling to get up so he could breathe. After a few moments, the guru let him go and the supplicant came up gasping.
"What did you do that for!!?" cried the supplicant.
"You have to want it that much!" said the guru.
Those of us who have worked through mountains of our own dysfunction (which means we were under mountains of dysfunction), feel what that story means.
That is why suffering is sometimes described as a form of grace: It gives us a strong impulse in a certain direction that the casual person generally doesn’t have — like the supplicant gasping for air.
Do it for yourself - somatics.com/page7-htm
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And the Day 1 Precision Finals of the 2019 U.S. Army Junior Rifle Championships are a wrap with Macy Way taking the Gold, Mackenzie Miller with the Silver and Scott Rockett with the Bronze. The annual, invitation-only event brings more than 150 of the top junior marksmen to Fort Benning, Georgia to vie for top honors. Many of these juniors go on to shoot for colleges, military services and even the Olympics. This truly talented bunch of young athletes are something to watch! (U.S. Army photos by Michelle Lunato/released)
Tea was served in a brew basket suspended in a glass mug. The tea barista programmed your timer for a perfect brew.
Photos from a wonderful photo trip to the Diamond Light Synchrotron (a sub-atomic particle accelerator) in Harwell. Big thanks to the staff (and fellow photographers) who too the time out to arrange and host it, and Diamond for allowing us to take pictures there!