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Lance Cpl. William Long, a rifleman assigned to 1st Platoon Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, provides security in front of a mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicle during a company operation in Helmand province, Afghanistan, June 28, 2014. Patrols are conducted to disrupt enemy operations against Bastion-Leatherneck complex. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. John A. Martinez Jr. / Released)
The Norfolk Scope is a 12,600-seat multipurpose arena at the northern perimeter of downtown Norfolk, Virginia. It was designed by Italian architect/engineer Pier Luigi Nervi in 1971 at a cost of $35 million dollars.
Taken around 7:00 PM, 3 shots @ 1/5, 1/20, .8 second shutter speeds; aperture f/22; ISO 100
As the 2008 year runs down, I've been going through some of the photo sets I've shot.
Probably my favorite photo experience of the year, and probably of all time was finally visiting the Wave at Coyote Buttes North on the Arizona/Utah border. I'd been trying to score permits for ages, and I lucked out in 2007 when I managed to get two permits online.
I immediately booked a trip to Arizona. I had an extra permit and invited the great Mike Jones to join me in the shoot which was an experience. In real life he's not the dumbass that he plays here on Flickr.
The hike was grueling. At times I didn't think I'd make it; especially climbing those 100 foot sand dunes at a high altitude.
But in the end, I made it with a little help from my friends. The Wave is an experience not to be missed if you are lucky to scope out some permits.
I took the medium format 6x7 film camera with me and shot a roll of Provia 100F. The photos came out great, but now I'm rethinking if I will still shoot any film in 2009. I shot some film this year in Death Valley and Nevada and at the Wave. But with the new 5d Mark II, the debate rages is it even still feasible to carry the extra weight to get images which I can match or surpass on digital?
I guess I'll see what I decide this upcoming February when I make it out to Arches and Canyonland NP in Utah.
In any event, as the year winds down, it's time to look forward to new places and some old places to shoot and the interesting folks you will meet along the way.
This shot was taken from up top of the Wave area looking down towards the big wave. It's a small area but a treasure trove photographically.
See you out in the field and Happy Holidays!
[These are the last three of my series on the abbey church of Pontigny.
Tomorrow I am leaving for two weeks to spend the holidays with family in the UK, then in Normandy. Therefore, there will be no more uploads from me until January 6 or 7. I will however keep monitoring my Flickr groups as I always do when away.
I thank all of you who follow my stream for your visits and the comments you left during this year 2024 that’s coming to an end, and I wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! See you in 2025!]
A few days ago, at the beginning of December 2024, celebrations televised worldwide heralded the coming back to life of the Notre–Dame Cathedral in Paris, after the accidental and disastrous timber roof fire of April 2019. This joyous occasion was an opportunity to vaunt the vastness of the cathedral.
Well, today and over the following days, I invite you to discover a much-less known, but much more surprising, church, the abbey church of Pontigny, in the equally little known département of Yonne (a part of Burgundy), about 150 kilometers southeast of Paris. There, at the edge of a small village and framed by the tall trees of a dark forest, an enormous vessel of stone stands in the middle of wheat fields, towering above everything else, even though it doesn’t have towers nor spire...
It has two things in common with the cathedral of Paris: at 120 meters, the length of its nave almost that of Notre–Dame (130 meters), and in addition to being an abbey church, Pontigny is also a cathedral... It is also the oldest, as when the first stone of Notre–Dame was laid in 1163, Pontigny was already built.
The abbey of Pontigny was founded in 1114 by a group of monks led by Hugues of Mâcon. For the second time after the foundation of La Ferté the year before, monks of the Cîteaux Abbey left the mothership to found a new monastery. Pontigny thus became and will forever remain “the second daughter of Cîteaux”, an important claim in an order than will number more than 2,200 monasteries of monks and nuns.
Donations flow in. Counting more than a dozen Kings of France among its benefactors, not to mention a good half-dozen Kings of England, the abbey will also give refuge to three archbishops of Canterbury, two of them saints: Thomas Becket and Edme (or Edmund) of Abingdon, whose relics are still buried in the choir of the church.
Built largely thanks to generous funding by Thibaut the Great, Earl of Champagne whose daughter Adele will marry King Louis VII, the church we can still admire today is built between 1138 and around 1150, although additions will be made to it as late as the early 1200s. It is mostly Romanesque, but the influence of the Gothic style can be seen in the latest rows of the nave, and of course in the ceiling, which is rib-vaulted —the first time this architecture was ever used in Burgundy.
During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the abbey will be one of the richest and most powerful of the Western world, counting more than forty priories, vast lands and assorted properties in many different cities. Its library was also famous.
Listed as a Monument historique (Historic Landmark) on the very first list drawn up in 1840 by Minister Prosper Mérimée, the abbey church is almost all that’s left of the abbey, which was severely damaged during the Hundred Years War, then during the Wars of Religion, and finally during the French Revolution.
Since 1954, the abbey church is also the legal seat and headquarters of the “Mission de France” territorial prelature, which inspired the so-called “worker priests” which are quite well known in France. For that reason, the abbey church was granted by the Pope the status of cathedral of that prelature.
I’ve had the pleasure to visit this grandiose church, the largest ever in the Cistercian order, in late May 2024, within the scope of a photographic mission for the Fondation pour La Sauvegarde de l’Art Français, one of the not-for-profit organizations I work for as a pro bono photographer. I was given access to what’s left of the cloister, a part which is normally off-limits.
The overwhelming apse of the abbey church dominates the parish cemetery. Here you can see those flying buttresses I mentioned in an earlier caption. They were added during the early Gothic period to support the top part of the nave.
I doubt this “support” was really necessary. Sometimes “modern” features were added just to look up to date, “hip” if I dare say... :o)
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!
I was bored so i made this.the shading techniques are all Shockwave's(except for the shaded screw), I just made some custom scopes
Credit to Shockwave for the original scope
Finally I maneged to upload the code of the small scope pastebin.com/aX8Y9xV4
[Scope 1]
Scope: Vixen VSD70SS (fl:385mm, F:5.5)
Camera: ZWO ASI6200MC Pro (-10℃)
Others: ZWO EAF focuser, ASI AIR Plus-256G(non Dithering)
Exposure: gain100, 3min x 100 (total:5h)
[Scope 2]
Scope: Vixen VSD90SS + V0.71xReducer (fl:351mm, F3.9)
Camera: ZWO ASI6200MM Pro (-10℃), Astrodon tru-Barance Filter
Others: ZWO EAF focuser, ASI AIR Plus-256G(non Dithering)
Exposure: gain100, R:3min x 30, G:3min x 15, B:3min x 50 (total:4h45m)
[Shared]
Mount: ZWO AM5N
Guide: QHYCCD miniGuideScope (fl:130mm) + ZWO ASI 120MM-mini
At Yamanashi-Prefecture("Fujigane-Observatory"), Japan, 2025, 23, Jan.
Laurence Archer, Tym Scopes and Jason Poole of the Pete Way Band, Glasgow, 2019. Snapseed edit. (Guitar) Heroes Never Die
The Screw thingy is for the left side, you can remove it after one ungroup.
The left one<<<(the result of staying awake till 8 am and trying to get your shit done, move along) The right one is the recolorable one, after the same one ungroup to avoid coloring the Screw thing,
Credit to shock for some techniques regarding recolorablility, and the screw head, btw Shocky, do you mind if i use reverse engineering on your parts to learn more and get some ideas?
pastebin.com/4upGkSj3 <Uploaded again.
Formally opened on November 12, 1971, the Norfolk Scope is an 11,000 seat arena owned and operated by the City of Norfolk, Virginia. It was designed by Pier Luigi Nervi and based upon Il Palazzo Dello Sport in Rome. It is used for sporting events, concerts and more.
This little guy was sick of me giving him one peanut at a time. He noticed my red bucket filled with the snack, and decided to jump in and raid it!
ODC Statue
This statue is named Selket. The original solid gold statue was found in Tut's tomb in Egypt.
Here are some custom scopes I've been working on. Some you have seen before, some you have not.
In any case, feel free to use any of these for whatever purpose you wish, just remember to give credit!
I am taking photos with my various lenses and lens / camera body combinations of my oscilloscope at my workbench, and upload them so you can have a look at how different lenses render a piece of technology in less than ideal light. Here, on the M50 mark ii, using Viltrox speed booster, with the EF 28-80mm F2.8-4L lens. At 28mm wide end, with the boosting that convert to 31mm full frame equivalent field of view. At wide open, F2.8, at ISO400. No sharpening, but tiny amount of luminance and chroma noise reduction. Was not really needed, but it added a layer of shine and smoothness to the texture. Finally, downscaled a little to 2880p size. So far, this is one of my favorite shots of the scope! Also, with this combinmation, the M50 mirrorless has an exemplary rendering worthy of a DSLR. I just have found my favorite lens for the M50.