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I just loved this Island. Went there for a 4-day Scuba Course and it was just amazing. Here are some samples of some delicious food.
We had the opportunity to sample several fine chinese teas at the New Century Tea Gallery on Maynard in Seattle. It was a wonderful experience, and I highly recommend it both for tea enthusiasts, and for their friends or family who would like to understand what all the fuss is about.
Close up of inspection samples undergoing chemical separation of U and Pu in the SAL Input Laboratory. (Seibersdorf Analytical Laboratory, Seibersdorf, Austria, 12 March 2007)
Photo Credit: Dean Calma/IAEA
Just trying out ways to make one.
She has no sketch or concept so she ended up with the worlds biggest arse.
Her color is a bit uneven,
I got a old set of epoxy from a relative and I don't think you can preserve it all that long after opening?
I hope next time she has legs and arms. But I have a big photo project and I have no clue when to squeeze her in.
In 2004 a multi-year research project was initiated investigating Gyrfalcons within the YDNWR.
Researchers banded and collected genetic samples from each nestling that was encountered.
USFWS Yukon Delta NWR
Photo Credit: Travis Booms
Public domain
Biologists measure forage available to wintering bison and elk beginning in December. The assessments are taken at a number of sample sites and calculated into pounds per acre. Forage availability is a key factor in the Refuge's winter management program.
Credit: Lori Iverson / USFWS
Another sample for the quilt shop. This bag was made from Mary Jo Hiney's "Illustration" Silk Adaptations pattern using her "endearing" small piece silk collection.
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Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum
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MVRDV, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Let's Jump!, 2009
Digital print, 95.3 x 68.6 cm
Artwork © MVRDV
The Standard Assessment of Mitigation Potential and Livelihoods in Smallholder Systems (SAMPLES) Program aims to identify pro-poor mitigation options in smallholder farming systems, focusing on opportunities to both benefit farmers’ food security and contribute to climate change mitigation.
This photo was taken at the SAMPLES Annual Workshop June 25-28th, 2013 in Nyando District, western Kenya. Photo by K. Foster (ICRAF).
Fake food samples appear prevalently in the windows and display cases of food-serving establishments throughout Japan. Once made from wax, today they are usually made out of plastic. The plastic models are mostly handmade from vinyl chloride and carefully sculpted to look like the actual dishes. The models are custom-tailored to restaurants and even common items such as ramen will be modified to match each establishment's food. During the molding process, the fake ingredients are often chopped up and combined in a manner similar to actual cooking.
The craftsmanship has been raised to an art form and plastic food has been exhibited at places such as the Victoria and Albert Museum. Regular competitions are held in making fake food dishes out of plastic and other materials. The food displays are usually called sampuru, derived from the English word sample.
The plastic food manufacturers fiercely guard their trade secrets as business is lucrative; the plastic food industry in Japan, by conservative estimates, has revenues of billions of yen per year. A single restaurant may order a complete menu of plastic items costing over a million yen.
In recent years, Japanese plastic food manufacturers have been targeting markets overseas, such as China.
Plastic food manufacturers
While some large companies exist, others are small shops with a single proprietor. They can be found in Kappabashi-dori, the food supply street in Tokyo. Factories can be found in Gujō, Gifu.
Iwasaki Be-I, the biggest plastic food manufacturer in Japan, founded by Takizo Iwasaki in 1932
Maiduru (Maizuru), another old and large manufacturer
The ultra wide angle! I wanted to step into ultra wide photography with my MFT set but the Panasonic 7-14mm was way too expensive which makes me concerned regarding the wide-open front element.
The Sigma 8-16 is wider (but smaller aperture) and half the price of the Panny! It makes me less (though still) concerned about the front element.
This lens does not take filter so I'll have to use my handiness to work out a way to use an ND filter on it. Stay tuned! :D
The Standard Assessment of Mitigation Potential and Livelihoods in Smallholder Systems (SAMPLES) Program aims to identify pro-poor mitigation options in smallholder farming systems, focusing on opportunities to both benefit farmers’ food security and contribute to climate change mitigation.
This photo was taken at the SAMPLES Annual Workshop June 25-28th, 2013 in Nyando District, western Kenya. Photo by K. Foster (ICRAF).
First, a note: I am not a professional, nor do I pretend to be. The usual frantic pace of the end of the semester has kept me from “playing” with the new toy for any length of time.
Conditions of the test
This particular gym is dark and has mixed lighting. Without an Expodisk, the D200 (and the D50 I used last year) rendered images with a strong yellow and/or green cast.
Settings
I used a variety of settings during this tournament. All pictures were shot using auto ISO and auto white balance. The picture controls were normal, with sharpening set to 7. Noise reduction was set to low. I finally settled on the manual mode, 1/400th of a second with an aperture of f2.8. I used a variety of auto focus modes but most of these were shot in single point mode. The metering mode was centerweight.
I used a Nikor AF-S 80-200 f2.8 for all of these shots.
Post Processing
I used Capture NX to convert the files from RAW to JPEG—after I backed everything up, as Capture NX supposedly doesn’t play well with OS X 10.5. The first images are straight from Capture NX, with no additional processing except for a little resizing in Photoshop (the JPEG files out of NX were over Flickr's 10 mb file size restriction). The second example was post processed in Photoshop CS3 with the Define 2.0 plugin.
Conclusions
The D300 is a complicated beast, far more so than the D200. I’ve used a variety of focusing modes: the 3D tracking is a wonder to behold, in the right conditions. A basketball court full of players with similar uniforms isn’t the best situation. I’ve had good results with focus priority (9 point), but I seem to get the best results with the good, old fashioned single point mode.
The auto WB is a wonder. Exposure is quite good, although I was admittedly pushing it with these images. The end of the gym I usually shoot from has an overhead track that prevents any light from reflecting back onto the players’ faces, resulting in a bad combination of dim light and silhouetted players. The D300 handled the situation quite well.
The noise is quite acceptable for my use. Yes, it’s there and quite evident, particularly at 100%. Given that most of these shots were taken with an ISO of 2000 or above, I don’t think that’s bad.
What’s also present is detail: in one shot, the threads on the player’s uniform are quite visible. I could not have done that with the D200 under these conditions, period.
I printed a 13” by 19” shot from a different game that looked good at normal viewing distances (I did clean it up with Define). That might be stretching it, but it also gives you an idea of how much the high ISO game has changed in the past few months.
I’m not a pixel-peeper, so I’ll let viewers form their own judgments. I’ve only held a 40D in a store, I’ve never used a Canon dSLR and I’m neither inclined nor qualified to render a judgment on the image quality of the respective devices. I’m a neutral party in the Canon/Nikon war. Both companies make fantastic cameras, and I’m sure the 40D is capable of giving fine results in similar conditions.