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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).
This is a picture of both sides of the Sample Ballot for Beckham County Oklahoma, November 7, 2006.
Unofficial results of the General Election for all federal, state, legislative and judicial offices and for state questions will be available at the OKLAHOMA STATE ELECTION BOARD (www.state.ok.us/~elections/06gen.html) Tuesday, November 7, beginning shortly after the close of polling places statewide at 7 PM (central).
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.
Samples awaiting analysis by ICP-MS in SAL. (Seibersdorf Analytical Laboratory, Seibersdorf, Austria, 12 March 2007)
Photo Credit: Dean Calma/IAEA
we're getting ready! my kitchen table is a slightly different shape than the table at the fair, but you get the idea. i may leave some of the hats back in overstock (i really can't believe that i have so many!). there will be a table cloth. where to put my business cards, i don't know. not seen here: wood bowl with neck pieces in it. any tips? see notes for info.
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.
Photo: Training SAMPLES students from Maseno University in the field in Nyando District, western Kenya.
Here is just a sample of over 1000 of the highlighted classics on show, on the day.!
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River Dargle Flood Defence Scheme.
These images were taken on the last full weekend of October 2014.
Throughout the days, it's a constant 2-way stream of Volvo trucks -- some bringing varying grades of hardcore down to the riverside to build up the rear of the steel wall - or removing previously laid temporary access shelf on the outside of the steel wall.
The guys are now actively rebuilding the riverbed itself: digging out the previous 'temporary' core material, and replacing with large, profiled boulders.
The intention being to (a) provide better habitat for fish stock, and (b) seek to slow the speed of river flow during periods of heavy rain and high river levels.
A neat job is being completed to landscape the ground in front of the apartments -- backfilling with stone and soil.
A protective guide-rail is being welded, in stages, to the top of the protruding steel wall, prior to capping with cement.
Biologists use a sterile gauze pad to carefully remove spots of oil from the body of a young green sea turtle. This gauze was to be tested to determine if the oil was from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
View related news release: FWC rescuing oil-impacted sea turtles with help from Gulf fishermen
An environmental specialist takes a monolith sample. The section shows successive layers of occupation on this part of the site. Below the thick, rammed, chalk floor surface is a thinner chalk floor. Below that is a layer of cobbling which lies over the Roman dark earth layer. At the bottom is the pre-Roman soil.
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Our housing event was a blast. The ladies turned the sampling program into an entire spa day, and they loved the skin care samples.
ISO320, f7.1, 1/20s
YN560 CL STU at 1/8
YN560 far CL STU at 1/8 for other room
So I was driving around my area for open houses and scouted this location beforehand. The photos needed improvement so I dropped by to talk to the agent about potentially hiring me. She asked me if I could do better, and when I responded that I definitely could, she asked me to take sample shots right on the spot. Luckily, I had all of my equipment so I took out two strobes with STUs and took some really quick shots. She really liked the images and said would contact me for a future listing. Yay.
Now that the business talk is aside, want to see what you think about the image. this is in no way going into my portfolio, but it was a good space to practice with. This felt like a pretty challenging space to shoot with and various color/wb challenges. Decided to try with a 1 pp for this shot too. Appliances probably a little hot from the ambient reflections. Any advice or suggestions would be great.
Our housing event was a blast. The ladies turned the sampling program into an entire spa day, and they loved the skin care samples.
"I love to drown and wash myself in some good loving. I love to give love; I am not greedy. But I do not give samples you can test, taste and torn. My love is an experience, all the way. Warning: You may get lost in my love. "
model and text; a very talented friend of mine Tieka Masfar (www.tieka.com)