Prowl quickly rose to my personal top-3-list for Transformers Animated characters. I admit, it took me a while to come around. I was of the opinion that he should be a black and white police car and had a hard time swallowing the gold and black bike idea. But man, what a character.

I got the Samurai version of Prowl last week and have been working on a photo idea. I think the meditation pose works for him. I've also been busy modifying him. I swapped the lower legs with my original Prowl (they were much more surdy for whatever reason, swapped the head with the larger one from original Prowl, hollowed out the samurai helmet so it would fit the new head, and dremeled down the blue windscreen so you could SEE all of his face. I still need to swap the forearms, but I kinda like the black glove look.

Anyways. Prowl and my love for him take this week's Plastic 52 slot. Prime said it was ok. =)

Prime 52, year 2 - week 4.

Last of large capacity processing vessels installed in major SRS cleanup facility under construction.

The Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) heralded 100% successful completion of a major construction milestone following installation of the remaining four large-capacity tanks integral to the facility’s future processing of 34 million gallons of highly radioactive salt waste currently stored in 47 underground tanks at the Savannah River Site (SRS).

Once operational, the one-of-a-kind SWPF will provide the critical treatment capability needed to fulfill the Department of Energy’s (DOE) cleanup mission to safely disposition Cold War legacy waste and support DOE’s risk reduction priority to empty and close nuclear waste tanks.

These last-arriving over-sized vessels, ranging in volume capacity of roughly 38,000 – 44,000 gallons, join the initial six tanks placed at SWPF last month.

Installation of the ten tanks allows for measurable progression of SWPF construction with piping and facility floors now on tap for completion, along with placement of the facility’s roof.

Manufactured by Precision Custom Components of York, PA, the vessels were all shipped by barge to Hardeeville, SC, and transported via double-drop, wide-load tractor trailers to SRS.

Parsons Government Services of Pasadena, California, is DOE’s prime contractor for designing, building, starting up and operating the SWPF for one year.

Full facility operations are currently scheduled for late 2015.

Nothing special here, just some tools that aid the creative process. Some pens, a cup of tea, music and toooooys.

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Processing cassava for starch. The hardy root crop cassava is among important staples for food security and income in Southeast Asia, but neglected in terms of investment for scientific research. In January, the World Congress on Root and Tuber Crops in China, Nanning, will place these crops -sweet potato, cassava, yam, taro- center-stage, gathering researchers from Asia, Africa and South America to discuss opportunities and challenges ahead for these vital crops. For more information visit: bit.ly/1mz8sWp

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A MOC for the ROBOT LEGO Collectible Minifigures.

At Lego City's Extraterrestrial processing facility (EPF). Robots process new arrivals from other planets. From the control stations, the robots man the conveyor belt and the extraplanetary disinfect machine (on right). The robots keep Lego City safe from extraterrestrial creatures. :-)

A close up photo of the processor codenamed 'Dunnington'.

Dunnington is socket-compatible with the Intel's 7300 chipset based Caneland platform and will be available in the second half of 2008. Dunnington is the first IA (Intel Architecture) processor with 6-cores, is based on the 45nm high-K process technology, and has large shared caches.

Marie Claude Bourbonnais at BigWow 2015

Women process lobsters for export at a cold storage facility built by FAO in the village of Eyl, Puntland, Somalia. The coastal community in Eyl, Somalia is beating hunger by fishing. FAO kitted their boats with ice boxes so that they can stay out at sea longer, and freezing units to keep their catch fresh, now these fisherfolk have up-scaled their fishing cooperative into an international commercial operation exporting up to 10 tonnes of fish every month to Ethiopia. Once again Somali people prove that they are amongst the most resilient in the world.

Read more about FAO and the drought in Somalia.

Photo credit must be given: ©FAO/Karel Prinsloo. Editorial use only. Copyright FAO

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A Pantone Solid to Process Guide and a set of inkjet cartridges photographed with a flatbed scanner.

A visualisation of 57000 series in the collection of the National Archives of Australia. The area of each square is proportional to the number of shelf metres that series occupies, while the size of the grey void in each square is related to the number of described items in the series. So a square with a large void (thin "walls") has relatively fewer items than one with a small void (thick "walls") - or no void at all. There's a minimum wall thickness of one unit, which is why the smallest squares have no voids. More on the blog, and an interactive version here.

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An update to my perlinParticle02 code: Now, rather than generating three buffer images for the x, y, and speed perlin values, it calculates them on the fly. This has the added advantage of being able to animate time, which you can see in the above movie. However, it's also exponentially slower. This movie took about a second a frame, or ten minutes on my 5 year old laptop.

Find source code here:

processingwiki.tiddlyspot.com/#PerlinParticles03

Blog notes here, and live example:

www.akeric.com/blog/?page_id=83

Engineers fasten NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution MAVEN spacecraft to a processing stand inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility on Aug. 3, 2013, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. MAVEN will be prepared inside the facility for its scheduled November launch to Mars. Positioned in an orbit above the Red Planet, MAVEN will study the upper atmosphere of Mars in unprecedented detail. Photo credit: NASA/Tim Jacobs

Cross processed in PS, thanks to my friend "Ian_Boys" techniques......!!!

Thanks to all my contacts / friends / visitors...!!!

[Made to Flickr "Explore"]

I believe this cyanotype may be a portrait of Mrs. Kühn from the "Sunlight and Darkroom" Album.

Since the title page was in German we naturally believed that the album was made in Germany. I did notice that one view was a site that is very familiar, the monument on the top of Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland. Closer examination showed that hotels pictured were also in Edinburgh and a cemetery had English inscriptions. Did Wilhelm Kühn take a trip to Scotland? I could find no information about Kühn and assumed I would never know. Several years passed before I tried again. After checking dozens of Google entries for other Wilhelm Kühns I finally found him on a Scottish genealogy site! Someone from Germany wrote looking for information on relatives who had lived in Scotland. The answer was as follows:

1901 Census Scotland

Wilhelm Kühn 44, Shopkeeper Picture Frame Maker Printseller & Artist's Colourman, b. German Sreb, Germany

Susanne Kühn 41, b. German Sreb, Germany

Bertha Kühn 8, b. Edinburgh

Luise Kühn 5, b. Edinburgh

Lizzie Campbell 15, servant

Address: The Linden Craigcrook Rd, Crammond, Midlothian

This has to be our Wilhelm Kühn! The new baby in the photographs must be Bertha who would have been born in 1893 when the album was produced. Wilhelm profession seems to fit really well with the artist/photographer who produced this album.

I love to put a name to the mother and baby!

U.S. Air Force Academy -- Basic cadets from the class of 2023 arrived here today to begin their journey of becoming an officer in the U.S. Air Force. Incoming personnel transitioned quickly into a military mindset after saying goodbye to family and friends. (U.S. Air Force photo/Darcie L. Ibidapo)

Cassava starch processing near Hanoi, Vietnam.

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A cropped and processed version of one of my pegs shots. Processed in Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Mac. Added some contrast, did a cross-processing effect, and a slight desaturation. I felt that having *some* colour in here was a good thing, rather than making it completely black and white. What do you think ?

Unprocessed version here

This illiterates a quick post-process of M17 using Photoshop CS4.

With the use of Levels and Curves, much more detail can be extracted from the original exposure. (which was a stack of 6x 45sec subs, no darks. It was a short session as I was testing post-collimation)

The key is not to repeatedly stretch the levels without blowing out the centre of this cluster.

Quick tip: Magic wand the inner of the cluster, feather the selection - then inverse to that you'll only be editing the outer area. Stretch levels. Repeat the process (re-masking the core each time) Then at the end ensure that your RGB are also balanced in the histogram.

-Always keep your histogram showing so you don't clip data.

This image can still look much better if more exposures were used in conjunction with darks, and more time spent processing.

Some people simply never test the limits to see how much data there really is in a file. You might have much more info than you thought. The key is to repeat the process little by little. One big stretch of your levels won't yield the same result. And be sure to mask off areas where you can run the risk over exposing your stars (like blowing out the centre of the cluster) When you edit, you might only want to edit certain part / tones.

Grief

Definition: A keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; Sharp shallow; Painful regret. To suffer disappointment, misfortune or other trouble; Fail. A deep mental anguish.

Synonyms:

Anguish, heartache, woe, misery, sadness, melancholy, moroseness.

Did you know that a complete healing process can take at least a year or more? I don't know why they call it a healing process, I do not think we ever truly heal, we just learn to accept.

Earlier today, the Guardian's data store released a list showing how much different countries and organizations have pledged to the Haiti eathquake aid effort.

I built a visualization tool to turn these numbers into something real - first, I asked how much money was being spent per citizen of these countries. Then I took that figure and converted it to Avatar minutes: how many minutes of Avatar would this earthquake aid pay for?

Sweden gives up the most Avatar minutes (37 - almost a quarter of the film) while Canada donates just 3 minutes of Avatar time per citizen (which probably wouldn't even make it through the credits).

These images are a screenshot from a tool which allows you to explore the data in detail.

blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/finding-perspective-haiti-ear...

Built in Processing v.1.0

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U.S. Air Force Academy -- Basic cadets from the class of 2023 arrived here today to begin their journey of becoming an officer in the U.S. Air Force. Incoming personnel transitioned quickly into a military mindset after saying goodbye to family and friends. (U.S. Air Force photo/Darcie L. Ibidapo)

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Thanks for coming and thanks for the photos PAT!

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A crane lifts NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution MAVEN spacecraft onto a processing stand inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility on Aug. 3, 2013, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. MAVEN will be prepared inside the facility for its scheduled November launch to Mars. Positioned in an orbit above the Red Planet, MAVEN will study the upper atmosphere of Mars in unprecedented detail. Photo credit: NASA/Tim Jacobs

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Night cruise.

BMW F30 / xDrive

Mar 30 2015.

Vancouver, Canada.

Nikon D600 + Nikkor 50mm F1.4 ai

Left this one running while i was out running errands. Has some nice moments tucked away.

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And a nice view of the bay bridge and San Francisco from the Port of Oakland

Yoga Poses by Lilia Wills

My 1st roll of colour (C-41 process) film processed at home, by hand.

The (35mm) film was several years expired.

I used my Zeiss Ikon Contina iii.

I've altered some images in Photoshop, but in general, I was really pleased with the results, and it was so exciting to process at home!.

Oban to Mull ferry.

Like some people - at their best when soaked in Gin for a year.

It was picking day yesterday. Bottling starts today. I picked enough to make three litres of Sloe Gin. It will be ready to drink in about two years.

580EX II pointing at white ceiling about 2M above the sloes. I could just as easily have put the flash on the camera but decided to make the process more complicated than necessaryTriggered with RF-602.

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Après surf hoodie body finished:)