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Orange Segments Triptych
The 3 photographs here show a triptych of features set on a single board. It could be that the 3 inclusions, or segments are not a true triptych to some, but the 3 differing photographs if pictured together do form 3 perspectives on the tripartite piece.
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Yet again I need better lighting! The camera flash shows it all up.
But I am getting a feel for how accurate we need to be in the future.
Most of the centre will be carved out anyway so we won't see my deliberate mistakes.
How should I tackle it?
Sand both flat faces on each of the 2 disks.
Drill a 3mm centre hole through both disks.
Use drill to line up the disks and glue.
Turn a top mahogany piece in the lathe between centres, so that it will fit into the chuck.
Put it in the chuck and align with tail stock and tighten.
Now turn it true and part the end with a nice 90 degs flat.
Drill a centre hole for aligning with a drill to the disks.
Remove the chuck from the Lathe with piece still attached.
Glue this flat end, (centred by a drill), on top of the two disks, grain parallel to the Knob bottom.
Mount the assembly back on the Lathe.
Turn its cures and carve out the concave bottom and bottom rim.
Drill hole out to 5.8mm
Turn the top until it parts off.
Are we mad!!
There are between 1.5 and 2 million images uploaded here to Flickr every day. Then there is Instagram, 500px, and Imgur to name but a few more sites hosting pictures. And there are many other places to view the photogrpahs taken in their millions every day.
I'm sure that I am not the only one who has wondered what, if any, significance my pictures have in the great scheme of photographic life, and felt at times that there is nothing new in photography, and that I am doing no more than reinventing the wheel with my own efforts.. Despite that, I have striven to try and produce at least a few original images for my Photostream, and spent many hours trying to think up new and original ideas.
The idea behind this image is to take a fairly ordinary scene, but just focus on a segment of it, not in the way of a close up or macro, but showing a larger view of that scene.
Thinking about it, a photograph is simply a segment of time, captured in an image, and I wondered if it would further enhance a photo by segmenting the space, as well as the time aspect.
So this image, and the others like it are the results of putting the idea into practice. And I am pleased enough with the results of this experiment to look out for more images like these. Perhaps it may even turn into a project. Of course, It is not a totally unique way of presenting an image, but it is the doing of it intentionally, that I have not seen before.
Today was to be the last day of this section hike. I still had over 15 miles of hiking to make it to Goldhill Trailhead, and then to Breckenridge where my car was parked at the Bivvi Hostel. The morning was chilly but the sun was shining as I began to hike.
The closer I got to Breckenridge I started to notice thousands of down trees. There were criss-crossed tangled trees everywhere. It was real a blight on the landscape. Initially, I didn't know the cause. I thought maybe a new ski area was planned and the crew they sent to clear the mountain went a little overboard. Many of the trees were just on the side of the trail, but eventually someone started making what I assumed were pyres for burning. It really was shocking to see so much devastation.
As I was hiking through, I encountered some bikers who knew the cause. Evidently there has been a Mountain Pine beetle infestation. It is an epidemic which has covered over a million acres in both Colorado and Wyoming. The beetles burrow into the bark and lay eggs. As the eggs hatch, they eat the bark, thereby killing the tree. Very destructive.
I made it to Goldhill Trailhead which is still several miles from Breckenridge (Frisco is also accessible from here). Fortunately, not far away is a bus stop where I caught a free bus ride (which also goes to Frisco). It didn't go all the way to the hostel, but it was close enough. I had thought to stay at the hostel but I had not made a reservation and they were booked. (The Bivvi appears to be a very nice and clean hostel, but not just for hikers. All Breck visitors are welcome, so if you plan to stay, call ahead for a reservation.)
Overall, I was hiking for 7 days. I hiked segments 1-6 on the Colorado Trail. For anyone planning a long distance hike, these segments are a great introduction to the CT. Some difficult spots but some easy hiking as well. Awesome scenery without spending too much time above treeline. It was a great hike; I was ready for more!
Segment 2 is a very dry and exposed section of the Colorado Trail. In 1996 the Buffalo Creek fire destroyed the pine forests and turned a portion of segment 2 into an arid, almost desert like environment. An unexpected area within the mountains of Colorado. But Segment 2 doesn't start until reacquiring the South Platte River and that was still almost 8 miles away.
After a restful night of sleep I awoke sometime after 6. I lingered in camp until 8 and then started hiking. Took a few pictures before my first break at some rocks with a nice overlook. I thought this was the 'ridge' as listed in my Colorado Trail Atlas, which is the high point before descending to the South Platte. I was not as far as I though I was but it was a nice place for a break after more than an hour of hiking. I took some zoomed in pictures of houses on far away mountains as well as Littleton. The scenery was beginning to be fantastic. There was a campsite behind the rocks, but no nearby water source.
I left this spectacular viewpoint and wandered past the 'ridge' approximately 45 minutes later. It seemed like I was moving slow. It took about 3 hours to hike less than 4 miles, including the break. It was mostly uphill though.
Finally going downhill, toward Segment 2 and the South Platte. Of course, there were nice views along the way including a peak or two of the river. There seemed to be about 50 switchback but going downhill I was hiking much quicker ... 3.9 miles in about 1 1/2 hours. It was 1250 and about 90f, the South Platte Canyon Trailhead was a welcome break.
It was already hot (and promised to be hotter through the burn area) so I took a nice long break, about 2 1/2 hours. The trailhead is on a dirt road, but there were plenty of cars here. One of the hikers from the night before caught a ride into town to reorganize and possibly come back out. There is also a privy here.
There were several types of mammoth, all members of the elephant family. Most widespread was the Woolly Mammoths, which ranged across all northern continents and grew a very long, thick, hairy coat to keep out the bitter cold of the recent Ice Ages.
The woolly mammoth was roughly the same size as modern African elephant. Males reached shoulder heights between 2.7 and 3.4 m (9 and 11 ft) and weighed up to 6 tonnes (6.6 short tons). Females averaged 2.6–2.9 metres (8.5–9.5 ft) in height and weighed up to 4 tonnes (4.4 short tons). A newborn calf weighed about 90 kilograms (200 lb).
The woolly mammoth coexisted with early humans, who used its bones and tusks for making art, tools, and dwellings, and the species was also hunted for food. It disappeared from its mainland range at the end of the Pleistocene 10,000 years ago, most likely through climate change and consequent shrinkage of its habitat, hunting by humans, or a combination of the two.
The teeth of a mammoth consist of a series of plates composed of enamel surrounding a dentine core. These are held together in a matrix of dental cement.
Each tooth erupted from the back of the jaw and slowly moved forward as it wore, to be replaced by another tooth from behind. The thickness and number of tooth plates are important identification criteria.
www.london-fossils-crystals.co.uk/mammuthus-mammoth-c102x...
Full segment is Pont Casse to Castle Bruce. This area is just between Emerald Pool /Pont Casse.
the non-farm-themed side of the indiana visitors' center in hammond, right next to a cracker barrel wherein eric and i ate chicken and okra until ready to explode. mmmm!
see another view via eric.
made of beech, glued on marple. Inner part is 2 stripes of red heart(red) and pink ebony (pink) each and rosewood in the middle.
Ash, mahogany and oak segmented bowl. My first segmented piece. Messed a few things up, but for the most part I like how it came out.
Morning sun picks out snowy roof, our street, Buffalo, New York, 13January15. (Photo ©
2015 Jon Rieley-Goddard)
Very recently I've thought it would be a nice idea to try to develop very economical methods in my hobby works - not just because I'm not particularly rich, but also so whatever I do is accessible to everyone, just in case it happens to end up being cool. I'd thought of one little project to try that would involve using stuff like resin casting and which would end up looking pretty professional but would be rather labor-intensive and possibly pricey, so I haven't acted on it.
This little foil-lined trough of manila folder material is for an experiment I want to try for an alternative approach to this same idea. It's hard to see in this shot, but the little notch in the end is covered with transparent tape. This little trough is now filled with Elmer's glue and once that dries in a day or two, I expect it to be a solid, sort of milky bar of stuff (though I might need to do it in a few layers if it shrinks). I will try shining an LED in the hole and see if I end up with a nice even diffused glow; the idea is to invent a way to make arbitrarily-shaped segments that I can light up in the manner of segmented alpha/numeric displays (e.g. this kind). I've long wanted to make my own segmented displays, and make them nice and big. I think the foil-lined-trough-of-glue idea is a useful start.
If it works, all manner of nifty possibilities present themselves. I have multicolor LEDs on hand and could use them to make segmented displays that light up in any color you want! Imagine that your alarm clock's numbers are green most of the time but red when the alarm is ringing! And that's only the beginning!!!
ETA: this isn't going well, sadly. The glue is shrinking a lot as it dries, and it's taking forever. But you know what might work? Paraffin! I'd just have to be sure it was well enclosed and didn't melt all over everything.