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This morning i was checking my hard disk (before changing PC for a better one able to work on 4x5' sheet scanned so around 1 Go of file) and i found the work of a russian stilllife photographer (forgot his name now, i don't know if you see what make russians...for me they're the best for photography and cinematography lighting, the old soviet school)...i've never think before to make macro with a 4x5 :)
i go to internet to see how you need to put the elbow (and so i understand why i've got a big elbow and a rail put in my camera box) and i put it like that.
Note for latter:
+Fomapan 4x5 asa100 sheet.
+ bellow factor of 4, so i check exposure light for f64, using in fact f16 with my lens (rodenstock 150mm 5.6, the classic, i try with a 420mm radioactiv claron but i can't manage to put the focus, i will need to found something to go up and down the object (particuliary if i want, like i want, to work on insects))
+ the seikonic said 4s, with reciprocity law it's 6s...like i made movements - if someone can tell me how i know "with hands" what factor given what movements i will thank and kiss him - i made one shot at 6s and another at 7s
(from the time it took to put everyting together the word "shot" is a joke :)
i will develop it now...buy a new PC in two days, and begin the scanning ;D
by the way i've got nice portrait to put here, will wait to see with the model if there is no problems (portrait with 4x5 and rollfilm)
This guy lives under the expressway that bisects Osaka's super busy shopping district Dotonbori. He owns like 8 cat's and a dog or two, and loves every one of them. He does't bother anyone, and here seems to embody tranquility. I don't romanticize homeless people in the Steinbeck sense, but was struck by the universality of the human condition.
Too bad about the sun glare killing the entire lower left corner X(
Pinhole/Camera Obscura /Lensfree/Loch camera/Lensless / Without Lens/Sténope/Spazio Stenopeico/Lyukkamera Photography to 3x4 B&W instant Film
Author : IMRE BECSI
© All rights reserved.
Location of shoot :
Esztergom,
Hungary,
Central-Europe
Latitude : 47°47'48.44"N
Longitude : 18°43'59.31"E
Time of shoot : 21.06.09.
Please see to the coloured version :
www.flickr.com/photos/jonespointfilm/3651385997/
Shooting
Film : Fuji FP-100b (expired : 2007-05)
Filters : Tiffen Cir.Polar (4 1/2)
Metered expo.: 11 EV ( measured in a sun side with Minolta Auto Meter III + spherical diffuser head )
Calculated expo.: 10 secundum
( I use my reciprocity compensation value chart to FUJI instant B&W film)
Developing time : 60 sec. /+20 C°
The details of camera :
Body is a Film Back Adapter Plate from a Polaroid 203 camera
Film back : Polaroid Land Pack Film Holder to medium format type pack film (from my Polaroid 600 SE set)
Viewfinder : Door peeping (from OBI store) calibrated to the Polaroid pack film size
Shutter and Pinhole holder is a "pu(s)h" from Dr. Kai Fuhrmann
with filter thread for series 9 and 4 1/2 size tiffen filters (homemade).
If interests, how this camera looks, click then here :
www.flickr.com/photos/jonespointfilm/2837193476/
The parameters of camera : (when I use 95x73 mm format instant film)
- focus : 35 mm
- angle of view : 119°24'26"
- pinhole size: 0,25 mm (Lenox Laser)
- diaphragm : 140
-- light falloff at the corners [f/stops] : 3,6
- resolution [lines/diagonal] : 887
Post work : (21.06.2009.)
Scanner : Epson Perfection 3200 Photo (1200 dpi)
Scanner software : SilverFast SE
Final work : PS
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Comments very much welcome !
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My construction fares less well in the gloom. Real reciprocity failure issues I think.
Super Colour Swinger III pinhole conversion, Polaroid 100 Blue (expired 04/2009)
From February 4 to February 8, 2009, I was on a trip through the American Southwest with MumbleyJoe, John Rav and Scott Jones. We visited some of the same places that Mumbley and Rav and I visited last year, as well as a few new ones.
We started the first full day of shooting before dawn at Bryce Canyon National Park. Sunset point has a trail leading into the hoodoos that make a perfect foreground; later in the day, I will hike this trail (Navajo trail) and take photos of some of my favorite spots in the park.
For this shot however, I picked this mask-looking stone wall. Behind it you can see Thor's Hammer, which I will give some due attention later. Like elsewhere on the trip, the lighting was challenging, and I'm not the greatest PhotoShop artist, so I didn't want to do a lot of bracketing and HDR. Instead, I played with exposure compensation - this shot has a stop and a third on the plus side, but then I had to push two more thirds (for two full stops) to bring out the shadow detail.
It's not perfect, but I'm posting all these digital photos just to buy time until I get my film developed - I am trying to find digital shots that I either don't have on film or that are long exposures, which I didn't quite dare to do with Velvia 50 film, which has a pretty low tolerance for reciprocity failure.
Keep an eye on all our shots from the trip here.
The bar shot is sharp all over. I took it at a four stop smaller f stop setting (f22, vs f11). These are still relatively large apertures in large format terms but the longer the exposures went the more trouble I was going to have with reciprocity failure.
This is a detail of the bottom left of the "Hobos Bar Large Format" picture above www.flickr.com/photos/samagnew/6091154378
Even the smallest writing on the bottles can be read.
Branching Respiration Skin (Yukio minobe, 美濃部幸郎, 2008-2009)
この研究プロジェクトはバイオミメティクスの観点をベースに、自然の形態システム（モーフォロジー）をアルゴリズムにより再現し、環境性能の高い建築を生成する方法を探求している。自然界の中で高い換気性能をもつシロアリ塚を参照し、そのモーフォロジーが流線形の外形と内部の導管のブランチング・システムの組み合わせとして解釈されている。さらにこのモーフォロジーをデジタルに再現構成するアルゴリズムと、このアルゴリズムをエンジンとするパラメトリック・デザインと流体解析シミュレーションをループさせたデザイン・プロセスが新たに開発された。この統合的デザイン・プロセスは、環境の外的条件とその建築形態による内的な環境性能を有機的に関係させ、建築を自然環境に最適に適応するものとして生成することを可能にしている。
This project investigates a computational design methodology with reconstructions of natural morphologies through computational algorithms based on Biomimetics whereby higher-performative architecture can be generated. Termite mounds as a representative reference of the highest performative system in nature in terms of its natural ventilation are interpreted as the combination between the streamlining external form and internal branching systems of air conduits. Furthermore, a computational algorithm, which can reconstruct termite mounds' morphologies, and a new design process looping between parametric designs driven by the algorithms and C.F.D. simulations are developed. This integral design process can make architectural forms adaptive to nature through the reciprocity between external conditions from environments and internal performances of architecture itself.
Alright, maybe this isn't fair, but my 2003 Pentax D, which was a $2000 camera on release, shared the same sensor as at least 1 other major camera (the Nikon D100, and I think the Minolta ??) and was a pretty good camera (and still is) cannot match a light proof box with a sheet of silver acetate (aka, a film camera and film).
This was my longest exposure with the Ist D, about 27 minutes, and it showed why a $100 film camera and a $5 roll of Fuji Provia can still hold it's own. Film is not prone to noise from longer exposures, digital unfortunately is.
However, a counter arguement can be made that digital doesn't suffer from reciprocity failure (where the different colors expose at different times on long exposures).
So it's 6 of one, and a half dozen of the other.
The noise is attrocious, even with tons of post shot noise reduction.
Now I haven't tested my 2007 K10D on this type of photography yet, but I'm not expecting wonders. I believe I might just have to break out a few of the 18 rolls of provia sitting in the freezer and shoot a little film for these star trails.
Using the Pocket Light Meter for iPhone. The exposure was increased 2-1/3 stop (my Bronica lenses only have half stops) to account for the yellow filter (1 stop) and reciprocity failure (1-1/3 stop), thus the exposure was 16" at f/22. www.flickr.com/photos/digi-film/7870047706/in/photostream.
Wat Muang Khon, Tambon Pa Phai, Amphoe San Sai, Chang Wat Chiang Mai 50210, Thailand
The orange, three-tiered tiled roofline of the community Wat's vihara rises above the flat terrain of the pale stubble of rice stalks, In a nod to modernity, the local farmer swings a gasoline powered weedwacker using a nylon line to cut back dead rice stalks in place of a gleaming, lethally sharpened metal scythe.
Many Wats in rural areas take their name from the district area where they are located. Khon Muang means: 'people of the cultivated land' or 'people of our community'.'
San Sai is an agricultural town just outside of Chiangmai in Northern Thailand. The Wat Muang Khon is surrounded by farms and rice paddy.
For much of the year the temple is shuttered and inactive. The hard work of daily life continues cultivating rice in the rainfed lowlands of the north. The monsoons beat out the measures of the cycle of time. The age-old practice of swidden (slash and burn) farming follows that beat.
We have the great triad of the work, the land and the temple. The intimate reciprocity of life in rural communities. The community of monks is sustained and maintained by the support of the surrounding farmers and their families. The farmers need the monks for a sense of deep purpose and as a protective intermediary with the forces of a unseen world of potent malevolent spirits. The land gives the food that sustains all.
Many Buddhist festivals are closely tied the the cycles of rice cultivation. The association of cultivating rice with Buddhism is an intimate one. The monks offer blessings for the success of the harvest, and benefit directly because the first yields of the harvest go to the monastery.
Hoy es cumpleaños de mi esposa. Quizá el regalar rosas rojas sea un cliché, pero la verdad, es que estoy atado de manos.
En algún lugar oí o leí que para que los regalos tengan un valor significativo, debe haber reciprocidad entre lo que se recibe y lo que se regala y yo fui obsequiado con una belleza de cuerpo y de espíritu que tiene comparación sólo con las más grandes bellezas creadas por Dios.
Si a todo esto añadimos su gusto por el color rojo y la semejanza que tienen las flores en un paisaje con una sonrisa en su cara, mis opciones para regalo no son muchas que digamos... después de todo, a las mujeres las enloquecen las flores, no?
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Today is my wife's birthday. Maybe, giving out red roses is a cliché, but I really have my hands tied down.
I heard or read somewhere that there must be a reciprocity between what you receive and what you give for gifts to be of value, and it turns out that I received the most beautiful gift, comparable only with God's most beautiful creations.
If, on top of that, you add she's crazy about anything red and the smile in her face does what flowers do for a landscape, I'm only left with a bunch of gift options... after all, girls dig flowers, don't they?
There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
- Alice Thomas Ellis.
Bill -- Canuckshutterer -- was wondering what my new Zero Image 612F pinhole camera looks like. It is a Cadillac of pinholes but I couldn't resist after seeing some beautiful pictures people took with theirs.
Of course, I knew it's the taker not the camera that makes good
pictures. . . but I wanted it anyway.
It's 8 cm high and 21 or 22 cm long (about three and a half by eight and a half inches). The upper picture shows the front. The shutter is operable directly or with a cable release (which is what I've been mostly using). There is a choice (with that slidey brass knoblet on the right end of the whole shutter assembly) between a true pinhole (f/138) and a "zone plate" the effects of which I'm not sure of.
The lower picture shows the back. The wooden panel between the rails slides to the left to show the three red windows, each for a different frame size. The wheel on the right of that panel gives the various sizes, allowing you to make a memo of which one you are using, and indicating which of the three red windows to read as you wind the film on. The other wheel is a calculator for exposures. If for instance your metering tells you 1/60 at f/5.6 is correct, you can use the exposure calculator to figure out that 8 seconds at f/138 is appropriate. And you can add in your own reciprocity failure factor on top of that. . . .
The top of the camera has the film winder wheel at the end, plus the wheel/screw for opening the camera in the middle. There is a spirit level. A series of buttons indicate the angles of view for the various frame sizes: six by 4.5, 6, 7, 9 and 12.
There are three tripod sockets, on each end and on the bottom. You can see one of them (barely) on the left of the upper picture.
Inside the camera, there are of course spaces for the film and take-up spool at either end, and the adjustable frames in the middle. This is done by removing the two small black frame walls and sliding them into the other size places. Very easy.
Altogether a very user-friendly camera. I've been using mine, packing it into a bag with other cameras, and getting it scratched. Too bad since it's such a fine-looking piece of wood. But that's what happens when you use something. I took these two pictures six weeks ago before the scratches.
I'm still waiting for my pile of E-6 films to come back but I've got a roll of Fuji 400H (C41) in it now which I should finish off soon and get developed fairly quickly.
4x5 pinhole, 2m 15s, fomapan 100
Zippos Circus at Swanshurst Park, 23 March 2010.
I think I am getting the hang of exposure and reciprocity, and here the focus is an improvement on the last one (tea break), did not sit the dark slide back on the slot. Now have to work on better framing. Tips welcome.
This was taken from where the water washes over a foreground rock plateau. With the long exposure generated by the pinhole and reciprocity failure, I was hoping to create mood throghout the image. You can just see the Inner Farne "submarine" to the left.
Zero 2000, Ilford PanF
Branching Respiration Skin (Yukio minobe, 美濃部幸郎, 2008-2009)
この研究プロジェクトはバイオミメティクスの観点をベースに、自然の形態システム（モーフォロジー）をアルゴリズムにより再現し、環境性能の高い建築を生成する方法を探求している。自然界の中で高い換気性能をもつシロアリ塚を参照し、そのモーフォロジーが流線形の外形と内部の導管のブランチング・システムの組み合わせとして解釈されている。さらにこのモーフォロジーをデジタルに再現構成するアルゴリズムと、このアルゴリズムをエンジンとするパラメトリック・デザインと流体解析シミュレーションをループさせたデザイン・プロセスが新たに開発された。この統合的デザイン・プロセスは、環境の外的条件とその建築形態による内的な環境性能を有機的に関係させ、建築を自然環境に最適に適応するものとして生成することを可能にしている。
This project investigates a computational design methodology with reconstructions of natural morphologies through computational algorithms based on Biomimetics whereby higher-performative architecture can be generated. Termite mounds as a representative reference of the highest performative system in nature in terms of its natural ventilation are interpreted as the combination between the streamlining external form and internal branching systems of air conduits. Furthermore, a computational algorithm, which can reconstruct termite mounds' morphologies, and a new design process looping between parametric designs driven by the algorithms and C.F.D. simulations are developed. This integral design process can make architectural forms adaptive to nature through the reciprocity between external conditions from environments and internal performances of architecture itself.
Still life with a shaving kit. 4x5 Arista EDU 200 (shot at EI 100). 7 minute exposure by the time reciprocity failure and bellows extension were factored in. Developed in D76 1:1, scanned and lightly de-noised (de-dusted)
They're Ekeko dolls from Peru. No I didn't fly there and back today. I see these guys every week at an office I teach. The owners of the business are very well travelled.
According to the South American folklore, the Ekeko, the Andean god of wealth and prosperity, only delivers if an offering is made. I didn't have that much cash on me (or a lighter), so I decided to take a photo instead… free of charge… in the hope to that he'll grant me with photographic creativity and prowess, and with it some paying clients.
I've recently opened up a pro bono photo service to my friends and connections, in order to develop my portfolio for a possible business endeavor. So like the reciprocity of the Ekeko, perhaps my little gesture now will reap some dividends down the track.
After a quick trip to Decatur, I was still left with a few shots on the Velvia roll that started back in Monument Valley, so I drove around Denton county the next day. I got started late, and didn't find subjects of great interest, so I ran out of the golden hour by the time I got to the city of Denton, and the courthouse that sits on the main square.
The good news was that the trees surrounding the courthouse, which normally look eery and creepy without leaves, actually looked pretty nice with the lights wrapped around them. So, I was able to take a few long exposures right after sunset, and I thought this one turned out the best.
Canon Elan 7 film camera | 17-40mm lens at 17mm | f/8 | 2 seconds (exposure compensation +1/2 stop due to film reciprocity failure) | tripod | Velvia 50 film, processed by Wolf Camera lab, scanned by 4490 Epson
The ring tower is a striking high-rise building in a prominent location in Vienna, where is located the headquarters of the Vienna Insurance Group. It was built in 1953-1955 after designs of Erich Boltenstern at Schottenring inside the Viennese Ringstrasse and is located at the stop Schottenring of the Wiener Linien (Vienna Public Transport). The 73 meter (93 meter height including the weather light column) high ring tower was deemed as innovative project for the reconstruction of the city.
The building, which previously stood on this plot, was the only one of the entire Scots ring which was destroyed in the Second World War. The ring tower with its 23 floors and its 20-meter high weather lighthouse is the second highest building inside Vienna's Ringstrasse. Higher is only the Gothic-style St. Stephen's Cathedral. In addition to the central office of the Vienna Insurance Group are now also offices of Wiener Stadtwerke (public utility company) in the ring tower. In the office building a total of 12,000 square meters of effective surface is available. The facade and parts of the ring tower were renovated in 1996.
Name
In a contest, a name was sought for the then very modern office skyscraper. Among 6,502 entries the name "ring tower" was chosen. There were, among other proposals, such as City House, Gutwill-house (goodwill-house), house of reciprocity, high-corner, new tower, Sonnblick-house, insurance high-rise, Vindobona-house or vision-house (farsightedness-house) of the creative population after the war. One of the submitters of the name "ring tower" was rewarded with an honorarium of 2,000 shillings.
Weather lighthouse
Weather lighthouse, seen from the ring road
On the roof there is the 20-meter high weather lighthouse with 117 lights in differently colored light signals the weather for the next day displaying (each 39 white, red and green lights as well as 2 additional air traffic control lights).
This light column is directly connected to the ZAMG (Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics) on the Hohenwarte in Vienna.
Meaning of the signals:
red ascending = temperature rising
red descending = temperature falling
green ascending = weather conditions will be better
green descending = weather will be worse
Flashing red = warning lightning or storms
Flashing white = snow or ice
Ringturm 2013
Ringturm disguising
Since 2006, the ring tower is changed every year into an "art tower " by covering the building with printed webs. The covering consists of 30 printed network paths with about 3 meters wide and 63 or 36 meters in length , and the resulting area is approximately 4,000 square meters.
The previous art projects:
2006 "Don Giovianni" by Christian Ludwig Attersee (on the occasion of the Mozart Year)
2007 "Tower of Life" by Robert Hammerstiel
2008 "Tower in Bloom" by Hubert Schmalix (Blumenstillleben)
2011 "Sense of family" Xenia Hausner
2012 "Society" by Hungarian artist László Fehér
2013 "Connectedness" of the Slovak artist Dorota Sadovská
Pinhole/Camera Obscura /Lensfree/Loch camera/Lensless / Without Lens/Sténope/Estenopeica/Lyukkamera Photography
Author : IMRE BECSI
© All rights reserved
Location of shoot :
Budapest,
Hungary,
Central-Europe
Latitude - 47°31'12.19"
Longitude - 19° 4'49.54"
Time of shoot :
21.02.2010.
Info of Shooting :
Film : FUJI FP-100b(expired : 2007-05)
Filter :
Metered expo.: 6 ev. (5 min.)
Calculated expo.: 6.75 ev = 3 min.
( I use my reciprocity compensation value chart to FUJI B&W Instant film)
Dev.: 120 sec.
The camera :
Body is a Film Back Adapter Plate from a Polaroid 203 camera
- focus : 33 mm
- pinhole : 0,25 mm (Lenox Laser)
- diaphragm : 132
Film back from my Polaroid 600se camera.
Shutter and Pinhole holder is a "pu(s)h" from Dr. Kai Fuhrmann with filter thread (homemade).
Picture from the camera :
www.flickr.com/photos/jonespointfilm/2837193476/in/set-72...
The parameters of camera :
(when I use 95x73 mm format instant film)
- Angle of view : 119°24'26"
- Light falloff at the corners [f/stops] : 3,6
- Resolution [lines/diagonal] : 887
Post work : (03.03.2010)
Scanner : Epson Perfection 3200 Photo (1200 dpi)
Scanner software : SilverFast SE
Final work : PS
Important note:
This images are copyright protected. No reproduction in any way,
no copies, no editing, no publishing, no screenshots, no posting,
no blogging, no transmitting downloading or uploading
without my written permission!
Thanks for looking !
Comments very much welcome !
Thank you !
This is a shot I've wanted to tackle for years. I just love the salmon stuffed into the corner of the building.
The exposure was 80 seconds at F16. The meter indicated 12 seconds with HP5 rated at 200 ASA instead of 400. Reciprocity failure compensation took it to 40 seconds, and I added 1 stop to correct for N-1 contraction in development to help control the highlights. In the darkroom, the time suggested for Harvey's Panthermic 777 developer was 11 minutes @ 74ºF. My darkroom was at 65 degrees, which took it to 18:45. I subtracted 30% for the 200 ASA rating, 30% of the remaining time for N-1 contraction, and 20% for compensation for reciprocity. I ended up with 8 minutes total development time. This seemed to work. I was always afraid to make all of these adjustments because I had so much trouble with thin negatives early on, but I seem to be better at metering at night, and I've gotten better in the darkroom.
Camera: Deardorff 8x10 with a 5x7 back.
Lens: 19" Goerz APO Artar.
Film: Ilford HP5+ developed in Harvey's 777.
This is a small piece of blown glass made by an artist working in Haleiwa, on the North Shore of Oahu
He had a few of the smaller pieces for sale on a rack outsite his glass making workshop. He told me that he shipped out the larger ones to galleries on the Mainland.
It looked like a pretty nice life, and I have often wondered if he is still working there.
The idea to make this photograph occurred to me after looking at Reciprocity's wonderful photostream (full of pictures of glass and light)
Impact of the Erie Canal
The Erie Canal greatly lowered the cost of shipping between the Midwest and the Northeast, bringing much lower food costs to Eastern cities and allowing the East to economically ship machinery and manufactured goods to the Midwest. The canal also made an immense contribution to the wealth and importance of New York City, Buffalo, and New York State. Its impact went much further, increasing trade throughout the nation by opening eastern and overseas markets to Midwestern farm products and by enabling migration to the West.
The Erie Canal was an immediate success. Tolls collected on freight had already exceeded the state's construction debt in its first year of official operation. By 1828, import duties collected at the New York Customs House supported federal government operations and provided funds for all the expenses in Washington except the interest on the national debt. Additionally, New York state's initial loan for the original canal had been paid by 1837. Although it had been envisioned as primarily a commercial channel for freight boats, passengers also traveled on the canal's packet boats. In 1825 more than forty thousand passengers took advantage of the convenience and beauty of canal travel. The canal's steady flow of tourists, businessmen and settlers lent it to uses never imagined by its initial sponsors. Evangelical preachers made their circuits of the upstate region and the canal served as the last leg of the underground railroad ferrying runaway slaves to Buffalo near the Canada–US border. Aspiring merchants found that tourists proved to double as reliable customers. Vendors moved from boat to boat peddling items such as books, watches and fruit while less scrupulous "confidence men" sold remedies for foot corns or passed off counterfeit bills. Tourists were carried along the "northern tour", which ultimately led to the popular honeymoon destination Niagara Falls, just north of Buffalo.
Consisting of a massive stone aqueduct which carried boats over incredible cascades Little Falls was one of the most popular stops for American and foreign tourists as depicted in Scene 4 of William Dunlap's play "A Trip to Niagara" where he depicts the general preference of tourists to travel by canal so that they could see a combination of artificial and natural sites. Canal travel was, for many, an opportunity to take in the sublime and commune with nature. The play also reflects the less enthusiastic view of some seeing movement on the canal as tedious.
New ethnic Irish communities formed in some towns along its route after completion, as Irish immigrants were a large portion of the construction labor force. Earth extracted from the canal was transported to the New York city area and used as landfill in New York and New Jersey.[citation needed] A plaque honoring the canal's construction is located in Battery Park in southern Manhattan.
Because so many immigrants traveled on the canal, many genealogists have sought copies of canal passenger lists. Apart from the years 1827–1829, canal boat operators were not required to record or report passenger names to the government, which, in this case, was the state of New York. Those 1827–1829 passenger lists survive today in the New York State Archives, and other sources of traveler information are sometimes available.
The Canal also helped bind the still-new nation closer to Britain and Europe. British repeal of the Corn Law resulted in a huge increase in exports of Midwestern wheat to Britain. Trade between the United States and Canada also increased as a result of the Corn Law and a reciprocity (free-trade) agreement signed in 1854; much of this trade flowed along the Erie.
Its success also prompted imitation: a rash of canal-building followed. Also, the many technical hurdles that had to be overcome made heroes of those whose innovations made the canal possible. This led to an increased public esteem for practical education. Chicago, among other Great Lakes cities, recognized the commercial importance of the canal to its economy, and two West Loop streets are named Canal and Clinton (for canal proponent DeWitt Clinton).
Concern that erosion caused by logging in the Adirondacks could silt up the canal contributed to the creation of another New York National Historic Landmark, the Adirondack Park, in 1885.
Two "low" lift bridges in Lockport, New York July 2010.
Many notable authors wrote about the canal, including Herman Melville, Frances Trollope, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Samuel Hopkins Adams and the Marquis de Lafayette, and many tales and songs were written about life on the canal. The popular song "Low Bridge" by Thomas S. Allen was written in 1905 to memorialize the canal's early heyday, when barges were pulled by mules rather than engines.
Thanks, Wikipedia
The ring tower is a striking high-rise building in a prominent location in Vienna, where is located the headquarters of the Vienna Insurance Group. It was built in 1953-1955 after designs of Erich Boltenstern at Schottenring inside the Viennese Ringstrasse and is located at the stop Schottenring of the Wiener Linien (Vienna Public Transport). The 73 meter (93 meter height including the weather light column) high ring tower was deemed as innovative project for the reconstruction of the city.
The building, which previously stood on this plot, was the only one of the entire Scots ring which was destroyed in the Second World War. The ring tower with its 23 floors and its 20-meter high weather lighthouse is the second highest building inside Vienna's Ringstrasse. Higher is only the Gothic-style St. Stephen's Cathedral. In addition to the central office of the Vienna Insurance Group are now also offices of Wiener Stadtwerke (public utility company) in the ring tower. In the office building a total of 12,000 square meters of effective surface is available. The facade and parts of the ring tower were renovated in 1996.
Name
In a contest, a name was sought for the then very modern office skyscraper. Among 6,502 entries the name "ring tower" was chosen. There were, among other proposals, such as City House, Gutwill-house (goodwill-house), house of reciprocity, high-corner, new tower, Sonnblick-house, insurance high-rise, Vindobona-house or vision-house (farsightedness-house) of the creative population after the war. One of the submitters of the name "ring tower" was rewarded with an honorarium of 2,000 shillings.
Weather lighthouse
Weather lighthouse, seen from the ring road
On the roof there is the 20-meter high weather lighthouse with 117 lights in differently colored light signals the weather for the next day displaying (each 39 white, red and green lights as well as 2 additional air traffic control lights).
This light column is directly connected to the ZAMG (Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics) on the Hohenwarte in Vienna.
Meaning of the signals:
red ascending = temperature rising
red descending = temperature falling
green ascending = weather conditions will be better
green descending = weather will be worse
Flashing red = warning lightning or storms
Flashing white = snow or ice
Ringturm 2013
Ringturm disguising
Since 2006, the ring tower is changed every year into an "art tower " by covering the building with printed webs. The covering consists of 30 printed network paths with about 3 meters wide and 63 or 36 meters in length , and the resulting area is approximately 4,000 square meters.
The previous art projects:
2006 "Don Giovianni" by Christian Ludwig Attersee (on the occasion of the Mozart Year)
2007 "Tower of Life" by Robert Hammerstiel
2008 "Tower in Bloom" by Hubert Schmalix (Blumenstillleben)
2011 "Sense of family" Xenia Hausner
2012 "Society" by Hungarian artist László Fehér
2013 "Connectedness" of the Slovak artist Dorota Sadovská
A shot from early January, at the edge of the Connecticut River.
Decades ago, I would get hues like this by taking very long exposures, resulting in "reciprocity failure," which thrilled me. Now I just grab my phone and choose the right app.
BERTRAM, GEORGE HOPE, businessman and politician; b. 12 March 1847 at Fenton Barns, Scotland, son of Hugh Bertram; m. 14 Sept. 1870 Christina Murray in New Glasgow, Que., and they had three sons and two daughters; d. 20 March 1900 in Toronto.
George Hope Bertram was named after George Hope, the noted Scottish agriculturist and Unitarian. After attending the parish school of Dirleton, near Fenton Barns (Hope’s holding), Bertram was apprenticed in the iron and hardware trade. At age 18 he immigrated to Upper Canada and settled in Lindsay, where in 1868 he set up a retail hardware business, Bertram Brothers, in partnership with his elder brother John* of Peterborough, who provided financial backing. The business did well and in 1874 George bought out his brother and continued on his own until 1881, when he moved to Toronto. There, he and John, who remained in Peterborough, and another brother, Alexander, set up Bertram and Company to retail (and later wholesale) hardware and imported iron. In 1887 John moved to Toronto and took a greater interest in the firm; Alexander left to work with John in another venture.
Bertram and Company prospered and at about the end of 1892 George and John decided to buy up the financially troubled Doty Engine Works Limited. In this business the Bertrams began to manufacture all types of machinery, especially engines, boilers, and steel boats and ships, and carried on a general foundry business. Though the brothers were equal partners, John devoted most of his energies to the lumber trade. George largely ran Bertram and Company and the Bertram Engine Works, which was incorporated in 1894 as the Bertram Engine Works Company Limited with provision to offer stock. Early shareholders included Toronto businessmen William Mellis Christie, Edmund Boyd Osler*, and John Speirs Playfair. Majority control nevertheless remained in the hands of the Bertrams, with George as president. In 1897 his son John H. and a partner took over Bertram and Company while he concentrated on expanding the engine-works into mining machinery and on emphasizing steel shipping. A sideline, the Toronto File Company, kept the two brothers directly involved in the hardware business.
G. H. Bertram demonstrated his public spirit both locally and on the national level. He served on Toronto’s Board of Trade from 1884 until his death, was very active in the Unitarian Church and in the St Andrew’s Society, and gave generously to charity, particularly to Grace Hospital. During the 1890s he supported the municipal reform movement; in 1895, with others, he advocated municipal ownership of the street lighting system (as an added benefit, his engine-works was likely to win any contract for boilers and generators) and in 1895–96 he headed the campaign for streetcar service on Sundays.
Like his elder brother, who had served as an mp, George was an ardent Liberal, but one with a mind of his own. As president of a pre-eminent manufacturing concern in Toronto and as a well-known party supporter, he corresponded with Wilfrid Laurier*, the Liberal prime minister from 1896, regarding the awarding of government contracts and economic policy. Prior to the election of 23 June 1896, when the Liberal leadership was casting about for a policy to replace the discredited unrestricted reciprocity [see Sir James David Edgar], Bertram asked Laurier what the course would be. Laurier used this opportunity to speak, in a published reply, against free trade and for a return to the traditional Liberal policy of a revenue tariff. After this episode a number of manufacturers in Ontario increasingly saw Bertram as a way to channel their concerns to the prime minister. Following their suggestions, for instance, on 27 June Bertram advised Laurier not to choose Sir Richard John Cartwright* as finance minister – there were better candidates, including William Stevens Fielding*. On his own, when imperial preference was being discussed in 1897, Bertram warned that it would anger the United States and he suggested a two-tiered system of duties instead. The government adopted a modified version of this proposal.
In late 1897 an arrangement was made to have William Lount resign the riding of Toronto Centre in return for the promise of a judicial position in order that Bertram could run for parliament. Assisted by various party members, especially John Stephen Willison*, the editor-in-chief of the Globe, Bertram beat Oliver Aiken Howland in the by-election on 30 November. A prominent industrialist such as Bertram was undeniably a good catch, especially since his advice was always well reasoned and carefully considered. His value was recognized when he was asked to lead off the government’s comments on the speech from the throne in 1898.
Despite his faith in the Liberal party, Bertram did not always stand with it, choosing at times to support what he believed would be in the best interests of the country. His last major action in parliament, beginning in the spring of 1899, was to try to persuade the cabinet to incorporate the Canadian Inland Transportation Company, of which he was a principal, in order to create a Canadian fleet to carry grain and ore. Though he had the support of part of the caucus and of some newspapers, the cabinet balked at guaranteeing three per cent on the bonds of the company and no action was taken on the scheme. Nevertheless he continued his vigorous promotion of a Canadian fleet because he was upset that American, not Canadian, ships controlled inland shipping. He was not acting simply to benefit his own company, which was one of half a dozen Canadian companies capable of building the necessary steel ships.
During the last three years of his life Bertram suffered from cancer. He managed, however, to keep up his commitments until the final six months, when he was confined to his home, from where he continued to lobby, by mail, for a Canadian inland fleet. Having provided very well for his family before his death in 1900, he left a small estate. The Bertram Engine Works Company, one of the most important manufacturing concerns in Toronto at the turn of the century, was carried on by John Bertram.
This is volume 20 of 30 volumes of newspaper cuttings the Formby Civic Society hold in their archive. Key words have been indexed and it is hoped these can be made available.
On board the mighty USS Missouri
Another hi-light of our USA visit was going to Hawaii, we had 2 weeks there and what a wonderfully friendly place it was to visit.
There have been few places around the world that i have visited that has stirred up my emotions more that PEARL HARBOUR, it brought a tear to both me & my wife's eyes visiting the various places that soldiers + sailors still rest in the sunken wrecks & seeing all the names of these men & women on plaques killed on that day.........RIP
photo taken on the mighty USS Missouri showing some her massive guns, i believe the pop singer 'Cher' sat on one of these guns in one of her videos back in the 1980s
Pearl Harbor is a lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. Much of the harbor and surrounding lands is a United States Navy deep-water naval base. It is also the headquarters of the United States Pacific Fleet. The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan on Sunday, December 7, 1941 brought the United States into World War II
During the early 19th century, Pearl Harbor was not used for large ships due to its shallow entrance. The interest of United States in the Hawaiian Islands followed its whaling and trading ships in the Pacific. As early as 1820, an "Agent of the United States for Commerce and Seamen" was appointed to look after American business in the Port of Honolulu. These commercial ties to the American continent were accompanied by the work of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. American missionaries and their families became an integral part of the Hawaiian political body.
Throughout the 1820s and 1830s, many American warships visited Honolulu. In most cases, the commanding officers carried letters from the U.S. Government giving advice on governmental affairs and of the relations of the island nation with foreign powers. In 1841, the newspaper Polynesian, printed in Honolulu, advocated that the U.S. establish a naval base in Hawaii for protection of American citizens engaged in the whaling industry. The British Hawaiian Minister of Foreign Affairs Robert Crichton Wyllie, remarked in 1840 that "... my opinion is that the tide of events rushes on to annexation to the United States."
From the conclusion of the Civil War, to the purchase of Alaska, the increased importance of the Pacific states, the projected trade with the Orient, and the desire for a duty-free market for Hawaiian staples, Hawaiian trade expanded. In 1865, the North Pacific Squadron was formed to embrace the western coast and Hawaii. Lackawanna in the following year was assigned to cruise among the islands, "a locality of great and increasing interest and importance." This vessel surveyed the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands toward Japan. As a result the United States claimed Midway Island. The Secretary of the Navy was able to write in his annual report of 1868, that in November 1867, 42 American flags flew over whaleships and merchant vessels in Honolulu to only six of other nations. This increased activity caused the permanent assignment of at least one warship to Hawaiian waters. It also praised Midway Island as possessing a harbor surpassing Honolulu's. In the following year, Congress approved an appropriation of $50,000 on March 1, 1869, to deepen the approaches to this harbor.
Astronaut photograph of Pearl Harbor from October 2009
After 1868, when the Commander of the Pacific Fleet visited the islands to look after American interests, naval officers played an important role in internal affairs. They served as arbitrators in business disputes, negotiators of trade agreements and defenders of law and order. Periodic voyages among the islands and to the mainland aboard U.S. warships were arranged for members of the Hawaiian royal family and important island government officials. When King Lunalilo died in 1873, negotiations were underway for the cessation of Pearl Harbor as a port for the duty-free export of sugar to the U.S.[citation needed] With the election of King Kalākaua in March 1874, riots prompted landing of sailors from USS Tuscarora and Portsmouth. The British warship, HMS Tenedos, also landed a token force. During the reign of King Kalākaua the United States was granted exclusive rights to enter Pearl Harbor and to establish "a coaling and repair station."
Although this treaty continued in force until August 1898, the U.S. did not fortify Pearl Harbor as a naval base. The shallow entrance constituted a formidable barrier against the use of the deep protected waters of the inner harbor as it had for 60 years.
The United States and the Hawaiian Kingdom signed the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875 as supplemented by Convention on December 6, 1884, the Reciprocity Treaty was made by James Carter and ratified it in 1887. On January 20, 1887, the United States Senate allowed the Navy to exclusive right to maintain a coaling and repair station at Pearl Harbor. (The US took possession on November 9 that year). The Spanish-American War of 1898 and the desire for the United States to have a permanent presence in the Pacific both contributed to the decision.
Naval presence (1899–present)
Main article: Naval Station Pearl Harbor
Following the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom, the United States Navy established a base on the island in 1899. In 1941, the base was attacked by the Japanese military, causing the American entry into World War II. Over the years, Pearl Harbor remained a main base for the US Pacific Fleet after World War II along with Naval Base San Diego. In 2010, the Navy and the Air Force merged their two nearby bases; Pearl Harbor joined with Hickam Air Force Base to create Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.
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I was faced with a scene of fairly high contrast: an incredibly bright background, and a shadowed foreground. I've tried these scenes before, and got unprintable negatives. I decided to do an experiment this time. I wanted to compress the highlights while retaining detail in the shadowed areas. Using Ansel Adams' book "The Negative," and largeformatphotography.info as sources, I first, I tried a two-bath process using Kodak D-23 and a mild Kodalk bath. I got a splotchy negative. Next, I tried Kodak HC110 diluted 1:119 (Dilution G) and Semi Stand development, and got this negative. The foreground was fairly gray, and my exposure was 7 seconds at F32. Development time was 22:15 minutes at 66 degrees, with agitation every 4 minutes. I didn't subtract development time to correct for reciprocity effect because I wanted to preserve more luminosity in the clouds. In retrospect, I could have stopped at 20 minutes, and probably wouldn't have to burn in the sky as much. That said, if I had done normal development, I would have a hard time getting detail in the distance. I'm pleased with the results.
This was the first test drive of my new 165mm Schneider Super Angulon lens. It covers 8x10 with room to spare.
This is a negative scan of the 8x10 negative. As such, my scanner won't cover the entire area. I'm also not pleased with the lack of sharpness. I will replace it with a scan of the print after I proof it.
Camera: Deardorff 8x10.
Lens: 165mm Schneider Super Angulon
Film: Ilford FP4+ developed in Kodak HC110.
Gov. Nikki Haley at Ceremonial Bill Signing:CWP Reciprocity Bill-H.3799 (Official Governor's Office Photo by Camlin Moore)
Branching Respiration Skin (Yukio minobe, 美濃部幸郎, 2008-2009)
この研究プロジェクトはバイオミメティクスの観点をベースに、自然の形態システム（モーフォロジー）をアルゴリズムにより再現し、環境性能の高い建築を生成する方法を探求している。自然界の中で高い換気性能をもつシロアリ塚を参照し、そのモーフォロジーが流線形の外形と内部の導管のブランチング・システムの組み合わせとして解釈されている。さらにこのモーフォロジーをデジタルに再現構成するアルゴリズムと、このアルゴリズムをエンジンとするパラメトリック・デザインと流体解析シミュレーションをループさせたデザイン・プロセスが新たに開発された。この統合的デザイン・プロセスは、環境の外的条件とその建築形態による内的な環境性能を有機的に関係させ、建築を自然環境に最適に適応するものとして生成することを可能にしている。
This project investigates a computational design methodology with reconstructions of natural morphologies through computational algorithms based on Biomimetics whereby higher-performative architecture can be generated. Termite mounds as a representative reference of the highest performative system in nature in terms of its natural ventilation are interpreted as the combination between the streamlining external form and internal branching systems of air conduits. Furthermore, a computational algorithm, which can reconstruct termite mounds' morphologies, and a new design process looping between parametric designs driven by the algorithms and C.F.D. simulations are developed. This integral design process can make architectural forms adaptive to nature through the reciprocity between external conditions from environments and internal performances of architecture itself.
The ring tower is a striking high-rise building in a prominent location in Vienna, where is located the headquarters of the Vienna Insurance Group. It was built in 1953-1955 after designs of Erich Boltenstern at Schottenring inside the Viennese Ringstrasse and is located at the stop Schottenring of the Wiener Linien (Vienna Public Transport). The 73 meter (93 meter height including the weather light column) high ring tower was deemed as innovative project for the reconstruction of the city.
The building, which previously stood on this plot, was the only one of the entire Scots ring which was destroyed in the Second World War. The ring tower with its 23 floors and its 20-meter high weather lighthouse is the second highest building inside Vienna's Ringstrasse. Higher is only the Gothic-style St. Stephen's Cathedral. In addition to the central office of the Vienna Insurance Group are now also offices of Wiener Stadtwerke (public utility company) in the ring tower. In the office building a total of 12,000 square meters of effective surface is available. The facade and parts of the ring tower were renovated in 1996.
Name
In a contest, a name was sought for the then very modern office skyscraper. Among 6,502 entries the name "ring tower" was chosen. There were, among other proposals, such as City House, Gutwill-house (goodwill-house), house of reciprocity, high-corner, new tower, Sonnblick-house, insurance high-rise, Vindobona-house or vision-house (farsightedness-house) of the creative population after the war. One of the submitters of the name "ring tower" was rewarded with an honorarium of 2,000 shillings.
Weather lighthouse
Weather lighthouse, seen from the ring road
On the roof there is the 20-meter high weather lighthouse with 117 lights in differently colored light signals the weather for the next day displaying (each 39 white, red and green lights as well as 2 additional air traffic control lights).
This light column is directly connected to the ZAMG (Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics) on the Hohenwarte in Vienna.
Meaning of the signals:
red ascending = temperature rising
red descending = temperature falling
green ascending = weather conditions will be better
green descending = weather will be worse
Flashing red = warning lightning or storms
Flashing white = snow or ice
Ringturm 2013
Ringturm disguising
Since 2006, the ring tower is changed every year into an "art tower " by covering the building with printed webs. The covering consists of 30 printed network paths with about 3 meters wide and 63 or 36 meters in length , and the resulting area is approximately 4,000 square meters.
The previous art projects:
2006 "Don Giovianni" by Christian Ludwig Attersee (on the occasion of the Mozart Year)
2007 "Tower of Life" by Robert Hammerstiel
2008 "Tower in Bloom" by Hubert Schmalix (Blumenstillleben)
2011 "Sense of family" Xenia Hausner
2012 "Society" by Hungarian artist László Fehér
2013 "Connectedness" of the Slovak artist Dorota Sadovská