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A set of English G Salter & Co public weighing scales No 308 , They were popularly seen on railway platforms and outside Post Offices when I was a boy fifty to sixty years ago . You could weigh yourself for a penny . A shot from my last home where these scales resided on the side verandah in the late 80's to early 1990's
Grafton . NSW
Number 290 of my 365 photo challenge - A wide angle, landscape image of Skógafoss in Iceland.
My father is the figure on the right of the group in front of the falls.
We don't give much notice to the ubiquitous garbage truck, yet without it, life would get pretty interesting within a few days.
In Elgin Park, there was only one such truck, owned by "Pip" Paulson, and he made the rounds tirelessly, 5 days a week.
All of the town's castoffs were taken down by the river, at a place called Bunkie's Landing. This used to be a notorious area for rum running and other nefarious activities, back in the 1920's and '30s, but times had changed and the town's dump was now there.
Back to "Pip" Paulson; he was a valued citizen who performed a very necessary task that kept the town running smoothly. He bought himself a new Buick in 1948, seen here, which he kept in tip top shape and remained his only car until he passed away in 1965.
A hail and hearty Hurrah! for the "sanitary engineers" throughout the world. This photo is dedicated to you.
As for the model...the business end of the garbage truck, in the photo, was handmade, based on an early '50s design. It is constructed of styrene plastic and found objects.
On a different note...
Father's Day is coming up soon and the publisher
of the Elgin Park book, Animal Inc., is offering free shipping this week.
The code word is:
FATHERSDAY2016
Here is a link to the Animal Inc. webpage:
These women do not exist. They each are a composite of about 30 faces that I created to find out the current standard of good looks on the Internet.
On the popular Hot or Not web site, people rate others’ attractiveness on a scale of 1 to 10. An average score based on hundreds or even thousands of individual ratings takes only a few days to emerge.
I collected some photos from the site, sorted them by rank and used SquirlzMorph to create multi-morph composites from them. Unlike projects like Face of Tomorrow or Beauty Check where the subjects are posed for the purpose, the portraits are blurry because the source images are low resolution with differences in posture, hair styles, glasses, etc, so that I could use only 36 control points for the morphs.
What did I conclude about good looks from these virtual faces? First, morphs tend to be prettier than their sources because face asymmetries and skin blemishes average out. However, the low score images show that fat is not attractive. The high scores tend to have narrow faces. I will leave it to you to find more differences and to do a similar project for men.
... unbelievable water power at the icelandic waterfall "Skogarfoss" ...
... no photoshop collage ...
scale haw force at the village of hebden near grassington taken while looking for autumn colour in the yorkshire dales
Wing scales of a Archduke butterfly
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Nymphalidae
Genus:Lexias
Species:L. dirtea
From Indonesia
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Definition of scale
1 : an instrument ✅ or machine for weighing
2a : a beam that is supported freely in the center and has two pans of equal weight suspended from its ends
2b : either pan or tray of a balance
1) Subject: Moth scales
2) Camera: Sony Nex-7
3) Lens : LMPlanFl 50x / 0.50 BD / Raynox DCR-250
4) Other : M42 Bellow / DIYRail
/ 1,7um
5) ISO100 / 1
sec
6) Lighting : reflected LED Ring light
7) Magnification: 42X ( Image width 0,55mm)
People asked what are you going to make with it, sewing needles. So, stick pin for scale.
Yes, I even made the little nuts. Crushed a few in the process. Parts of this were made on a lathe not much newer than after the period this is modeled.
See photo stream for other pictures. It took over a year working once a week about 5 hours.