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by Samuel Musungayi.
Captured with a Nikkormat EL and a roll of Ilford HP5 Plus 400.
CanoScan 8800F.
Note: I’m still learning so much at all levels using that type of nice cameras. Even though the feeling was really great and the camera body perfectly functional [smooth shutter at all speeds, clean and solid heavy metal parts, accurate working light meter, very good lens, nice look/design], I’ve learned the hard way the crucial importance of light seals especially on that camera back which is apparently well known for not tolerating quiet any lacking on this point. […] Anyway, with discoveries and mistakes made with some, malfunctions noted or adjustments required on some others, my knowledge and my handling notions keep growing. I’m still enjoying testing gear and experimenting things to candidly capture framed moments but I think that I’ll now use all these lessons learned to start focusing and caring a lot more on my restricted personal cameras top selection. I can now almost fully rely on these selected few to explore, improve and express myself. As it says, gear is only a part of the journey, a chapter of the book. Despite the attraction that I have even for the simple beauty of the items, I’ll let go a big part of the cameras batch I own because deep inside I’m rather still perfecting my practice and growing as a learner - or a life traveller - than becoming an items collector. Love is Love.
To close out National Photography Day- I'll leave you with an image from one of my favorite nights of photography. Like so many railroad photographers, I am inspired by the work of O.Winston Link. His ability to capture life along the line, in my opinion, is the finest work of art in American railroading history. The Norfolk and Western 611 Class J is owned by the Virginia Museum of Transportation, was built in Roanoke, and this year ran at the Strasburg railroad in PA. On a chilly fall evening, a select few of us had the opportunity to participate in an evening photo shoot with this authentic N&W locomotive. The scenes were purposefully setup and lit in the style that Link often lit- sharp dramatic lighting emphasizing highlights, lowlights, and the human aspect of the craft of railroading. In this scene, a station master is hoisting the order fork up to the locomotive crew as they blast off from a rural station stop. On a trip like this one, I will shoot thousands of frames of pictures. The reason I do is because I might get a scene like this: the smoke and steam hang heavy in the air, perfectly silhouetting man and machine. For me, right here, this is IT. I didn't need to shoot another frame to make the whole damn thing worth it. I got what I came for, an authentic feeling N&W night shot, and to this day remain incredibly proud and satisfied that I am the one who lays my claim to this one. Night photography has begun to creep up in my favorite kind of photography- so stay tuned as to that next adventure. Stay curious, stay inspired, and keep getting out there y'all.
I know people have been doing this a bit around flickr
and I've been thinking about it for a while now
but I've decided to put some of my photos on private so only friends can view them.
I don't want any of my photos interpreted in a wrong way
and I feel it would just be...more comfortable, for me at least. And I think its going to give me a sense of control of who views what photographs.
But it's just going to be a select few, not all photos.
But, if you'd like you can flickrmail me and I'll add you as a a friend.
inspired by Kennedy Garret.
{photos in comments}
and this was explored! :)
Hopefully some of you have noticed my website has changed and is now setup to sell Limited Edition Fineart Prints of my a select few of my photographs, if not please check out the current editions available coryvarcoe.co.nz/
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Alexander Dennis presents the brand new 100-seat Enviro400XLB three-axle double decker, developed in close collaboration with Lothian Buses and chassis manufacturer Volvo. 42 of these high-capacity buses will enter service in Edinburgh from January onwards. They are manufactured in Falkirk, securing jobs and adding value to the Scottish economy directly and via the extensive local supply chain.
With Lothian’s services in the Scottish capital seeing consistent patronage growth, the operator collaborated with Alexander Dennis to develop the 13.4m Enviro400XLB. Offering 100 seats and able to carry up to 131 passengers in total, it delivers unrivalled capacity for busy routes in the capital, while its front and middle doors will speed-up dwell times at bus stops. It has been built to even higher standards than bus users in Edinburgh are familiar with, with comfortable high-backed seating, WiFi, USB charging, mood lighting and audio-visual stop announcements.
Alexander Dennis’s Enviro400XLB is the first bus for the United Kingdom to be mounted on Volvo’s recently launched three-axle B8L chassis, powered by the efficient 350hp Euro 6 D8K engine.
On Friday 09th November 2018, a select few from Lothian Buses and enthusiasts were specially invited by MD Richard Hall to pay a visit to the Alexander Dennis factory in Falkirk.
A select few ice skaters braved the snow storm yesterday at the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden.
Alexander Dennis presents the brand new 100-seat Enviro400XLB three-axle double decker, developed in close collaboration with Lothian Buses and chassis manufacturer Volvo. 42 of these high-capacity buses will enter service in Edinburgh from January onwards. They are manufactured in Falkirk, securing jobs and adding value to the Scottish economy directly and via the extensive local supply chain.
With Lothian’s services in the Scottish capital seeing consistent patronage growth, the operator collaborated with Alexander Dennis to develop the 13.4m Enviro400XLB. Offering 100 seats and able to carry up to 131 passengers in total, it delivers unrivalled capacity for busy routes in the capital, while its front and middle doors will speed-up dwell times at bus stops. It has been built to even higher standards than bus users in Edinburgh are familiar with, with comfortable high-backed seating, WiFi, USB charging, mood lighting and audio-visual stop announcements.
Alexander Dennis’s Enviro400XLB is the first bus for the United Kingdom to be mounted on Volvo’s recently launched three-axle B8L chassis, powered by the efficient 350hp Euro 6 D8K engine.
On Friday 09th November 2018, a select few from Lothian Buses and enthusiasts were specially invited by MD Richard Hall to pay a visit to the Alexander Dennis factory in Falkirk.
Leafhopper, From one of our expeditions to the Dominican Republic, pulled from the cast off pile as too pretty to cast off. I am not a leafhopper person, so this remains only as "leafhopper" . That said, leafhoppers and other plant sucking insect ilk are one of several covert layers of biodiversity that few are aware of. For example, many leafhoppers are specialists feeding only on a select few species of native plants. Again, this takes us back to Nature-based strategies that look to creating and maintaining plantscapes as targeted biodiverse native plant groups (versus: we like pretty color flowers groups) and then the insects etc. backfill automatically (as least far as we are concerned). since we know so little about the these covert insects its the best we can do. There's a meandering account for you. Photo by Cole Cheng who used to be an intern in the lab until fear fear of the Rona left only me.
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Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200
We Are Made One with What We Touch and See
We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
- Oscar Wilde
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Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen:
Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:
Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland:
bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf
Basic USGSBIML set up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY
USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4
Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus
www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections
PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/How%20to%20Take%20MacroPhotographs%20of%20Insects%20BIML%20Lab2.pdf
Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:
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or
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU
Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
Contact information:
Sam Droege
sdroege@usgs.gov
301 497 5840
Snow Goose
Chen caerulescens
Taken at Ellis Creek in Sonoma County, CA, USA. This was the first time I've seen snow geese in Sonoma County. Other birders informed me that they only come through for the winter and land in a select few spots. Looks like I'll be headed back when the rain clears up. Hope those of you on the West Coast are staying dry.
Thank you for your views, faves and comments. Deeply appreciated.
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Taken at the Walter P. Chrysler's Museum, at the Chrysler's (FCA's) Headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan. Chrysler was acquired by Fiat, and the Fiat CEO became the FCA CEO. I guess he can't stand it to see an American icon, inventor, and a legend being honored with a museum. So he has now made the decision to close the museum and send all its contents to storage. He should be deported :-) ... Lens: Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8 L.
Light conditions are simply photography nightmare. A combination of Fluorescent (neon) lights, incandescent lights, flood lights, large windows daylight, etc.
The museum is a 3-story building, with lots, and lots, and lots of beautiful vehicles to see. It was also extremely crowded on that weekend because people heard that it was going to be closed for good.
The collection has vehicle models dating back as far as 1902.
All images were taken hand-held; no tripods allowed.
I did the best I could under the circumstances.
Editing almost one thousand images will take a lot of time, but only a select few will be uploaded here anyway.
I use Degoo (a Swedish company) for my Cloud storage. You can get 100GB of storage for free.
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The derelict—yet much beloved—Gates Rubber Factory sits mid-demolition on the corner of Broadway and Mississippi in South Denver. Once the primary employer of Denver and a symbol of industrial might, the factory closed around the turn of the millennial as the Gates Corporation moved on—primarily from the toxic asbestos and trichloroethylene. While the era of Denver industrialism may have ended, the closing gave way to a new set of admirers: adventurers, street artists, and photographers alike who were eager to explore the forbidden site.
With the building under demolition, the eerily beautiful blend of aging industrialism and contemporary art had to be captured before it vanished forever. These intricate pieces of street art were made on the forbidden side of barbed fences and boarded windows with dedication and spirit, yet only a select few would ever see them. For the sake of preservation and art in itself, we wanted to capture and highlight these unseen urban masterpieces and the rough magnificence of the rooms they fill.
Few remnants exist to show us what a bustling factory Gates once was; the expansive silence and open walls have become a canvas for underground artists. Much like the way the artists painted, the light of the steel wool manipulates its environment, reflecting and building off the peculiar allure of the existing works and their surroundings. The abstract forms illuminate the complex graffiti while also giving life to the faded industrialism. These forms could be a piece of art on their own; the brilliant arrays of sparks highlight the clash of old and new in this forsaken factory. It provides a portal—literal and metaphorical—into viewing the street art and their rough solidarity.
With the inspirational former might and modern intricacies found within Gates, our work reflects how much the space has transformed since its creation. These snapshots of time leave the world behind and suspend a new dimension of wonder and beauty: a beauty in the rough.
Instead of the usual huge crowd, only a select few witnessed the unannounced lighting of this year's Christmas Tree in Dock Square, Kennebunkport
Had a great time having Stephanie over for her first makeover with us. We've done 6 stunning looks i wish i could show them all, but here are just a select few from her day.
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This year’s festival in honour of the 9 emperor gods is held this week, the shot here is from a few years ago.
Each year in the 9th lunar month of the Chinese calendar participants demonstrate their devotion through cleansing rituals, from adherence to a specific diet and abstinence from impure or intoxicating acts and sex to feats of endurance and suffering.
Select few operate as mediums, called ม้าทรง (lit. ‘horse officially enrolled for duty’) and use rituals including self-mutilation to purify and thus direct misfortune away from their community.
At least for another year.
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Alexander Dennis presents the brand new 100-seat Enviro400XLB three-axle double decker, developed in close collaboration with Lothian Buses and chassis manufacturer Volvo. 42 of these high-capacity buses will enter service in Edinburgh from January onwards. They are manufactured in Falkirk, securing jobs and adding value to the Scottish economy directly and via the extensive local supply chain.
With Lothian’s services in the Scottish capital seeing consistent patronage growth, the operator collaborated with Alexander Dennis to develop the 13.4m Enviro400XLB. Offering 100 seats and able to carry up to 131 passengers in total, it delivers unrivalled capacity for busy routes in the capital, while its front and middle doors will speed-up dwell times at bus stops. It has been built to even higher standards than bus users in Edinburgh are familiar with, with comfortable high-backed seating, WiFi, USB charging, mood lighting and audio-visual stop announcements.
Alexander Dennis’s Enviro400XLB is the first bus for the United Kingdom to be mounted on Volvo’s recently launched three-axle B8L chassis, powered by the efficient 350hp Euro 6 D8K engine.
On Friday 09th November 2018, a select few from Lothian Buses and enthusiasts were specially invited by MD Richard Hall to pay a visit to the Alexander Dennis factory in Falkirk.
What a fantastic afternoon with the gorgeous Miss Lynch, an absolute pleasure to transform, here are a selected few photos from the day for you :)
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I visited Hopetoun House during the warm spell at Easter 2019. Just got round to processing the photos! Here are a select few.
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She gets up from the couch and heads toward the kitchen, “Want anything?”
“Ya, bring Speeze…oh, and a few crackers.”
Created for Kreative People's Treat This 70: Friday 6 March → Thursday 12 March 2015 challenge.
Thanks Sandy for a great image to work with. Her original is here.
I've been away for a few days to attend the wedding of my niece Claire in Eire. As you can probably guess I took loads of photos! I am not going to bore you with them all just a select few.
This was taken on the wedding morning during the preparations. I've tried a little selective colouring with it, otherwise its just as I found it on the worktop in my brother's kitchen.
These boxes are AMAZING. I throw all the boxes out, except a select few. This is one such box that deserves to be treasured. It's an art by itself.
Beautiful Gemma in a Casual and Bridal looks. Just a selected few from 5 looks we've done that day :) Love it!
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I took advantage of the reciprocity between Desert Botanical Garden and San Diego Botanic Garden for member admission. It is a relatively young and somewhat small botanic garden. It does have a lot of interesting specimina, especially for me coming from the desert.
I believe that this is Daylily (Hemerocallis sp.). Any correction will be appreciated.
"A daylily, day lily or ditch-lily is a flowering plant in the genus Hemerocallis /ˌhɛmɪroʊˈkælɪs/,[2] a member of the family Asphodelaceae, subfamily Hemerocallidoideae, native to Asia. Despite the common name, it is not, in fact, a lily, nor does it specifically grow in ditches. Gardening enthusiasts and horticulturists have long bred Hemerocallis species for their attractive flowers; a select few species of the genus have edible petals, while some are extremely toxic. Thousands of cultivars have been registered by the American Daylily Society, the only internationally recognized registrant according to the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (ICNCP). .[3] The plants are perennial, bulbous plants, whose common name alludes to its flowers, which typically last about a day.
"Hemerocallis are herbaceous clump-forming perennials growing from rhizomes,[4] some produce spreading stolons. They have a fibrous or fibrous-tuberous root system with contractile roots.[5] The tuberous roots are used to store nutrients and water. The arching leaves are produced from the base of the plant (basal) and lack petioles,[4] they are strap-like, long, linear lanceolate leaves and grouped into opposite fans. The crown is the small portion between the leaves and the roots. The large showy flowers are produced on scapes. The slightly irregular shaped flowers are arranged in helicoid cymes, or produced solitarily.[4] The scapes of some species and cultivars produce small leafy proliferations arising from the nodes or in bracts. The proliferations are clones that root when planted.[6]
"Typically Hemerocallis flowers have three similar petals and three sepals, collectively called tepals, and each have a midrib. The centermost part of the flower, called the throat, may be a different color than the more distal areas of the tepals. Each flower has six stamens joined to the perianth tube, each with a two-lobed anther. The unequal stamen filaments are curved upward with the linear-oblong anthers dorsifixed. The superior ovary is green, with three chambers and the stigma is 3-lobed or capitate. The fruit is a capsule (often erroneously called a pod since botanical pods are found in Fabaceae). The fruits may have no seeds (sterile), or many relatively large, shiny, black, roundish seeds.[4][7] The flowers of most species open in early morning and wither during the following night, possibly replaced by another one on the same scape the next day. Some species are night-blooming. The haploid number of chromosomes is eleven.[4]
"Despite their common name, daylilies are not true lilies (plants from the genus Lilium, family Liliaceae). Although the flowers of Hemerocallis and Lilium species have a similar shape, their growth habits, stems and leaf shapes are distinctive. Before 2009, the scientific classification of daylilies put them into the family Liliaceae. In 2009, under the APG III system, daylilies were removed from the family Liliaceae and assigned to the family Xanthorrhoeaceae, subfamily Hemerocallidoideae. Xanthorrhoeaceae was renamed in 2016 to Asphodelaceae in the APG IV system
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What a fantastic afternoon with the gorgeous Miss Lynch, an absolute pleasure to transform, here are a selected few photos from the day for you :)
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The lot was replete with a number of practical jokers. Invariably, when a real doozy was pulled, suspicions fell on a select few since they always seemed to get a little extra mileage out of their efforts. The investigative process moved forward rapidly and suspects were rounded up and questioned immediately. The guilty parties were soon flushed out, their feeble alibis exhausted. From "Restorations: Travels Through the Time Tunnel" www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/590594
It’s always nonstop action at Indiana Harbor Belt’s Blue Island Yard, as IAIS BIRDSW2 begins their triple with the Harbor pilot 528 crew onboard the IAIS 506 (ES44AC) as they come down the North Yard Lead at CP Harvey and meet train BP2 with IHB 4014 and IHB 4019 (GP40-2s). BP2 just completed their double in the south yard and would later wait a long time before blasting off for Union Pacific’s Proviso Yard, due to the Iowa blocking the entire interlocking of CP Harvey with “air flow” issues. Taken: 5-12-22
For us locals, a select few understand how crucial it is for everything to get out of the way of CP Harvey in order for our Harbor trains to depart and be able to be chased. If one small extra move or regular job takes too long here, your chances of daylight get very slim, such as the hump job or the Iowa being in the way. I’ve been on the short end of the stick many times….this being one of them. The long summer days also help but you only have so much light.
A lot of people have been asking about my crypto setup over the past weeks and I have up to this point kept it under wraps except for a select few. Anyways after this rocky week of highs and lows on the markets (mostly lows lol) I have decided to do a full view of the setup. I don't know tho. Not shown, I usually have "Fast & The Furious" playing on a screen, for motivational purposes. #crypto #BTC #bitcoin #ETH #trading #daytrader #coins #coinigy #geeks #nerds 2018 ross-images.com
Under the moon light, magic is reborn and shows in its most beautiful form.
The young witch slides outside of the shadows, hands in the pocket squeezzing her hidden wand, a wrapped shawl to keep her warm. A delicate pendant representing lavender, symbol of her family, sways according to her movements. A malicious smile appears on her face, she comes closer "Good evening. The Secret Slytherin Council just started, you're late"
With a hand gesture, irritated, showing the door behind her. They have to be discreet. It's forbidden to be outside of the common room, in the castle at night.
This mysterious council, just select few people on unknown criteria.
The witch sighs and snaps her fingers "Put your mask on your face before you come in". A quick look to assess the style, everyone as to be perfect and elegant.
Yes, the moon light is the perfect moment for the rebirth of pure magic.
(And rebirth of style :p)
Taken at Mischief Managed
This year’s Color Infusion Style Lab is called “Edge of Night”. The mood is dark and wicked with a big touch of glam. Color Infusion to me is a great alternative for Jem and The Holograms. So many of the Jem characters have gorgeous faces that I would want to see them on another brand, and Color Infusion did just that. While Janay and Alysa were thought to be the main attraction, it seems like they are overshadowed by the newbies incorporated into the line. One of them of course is Tilda Brisby (platinum blonde, pale skinned female) with the Roxy mold. I fell in love the moment I saw her, which was the same feeling I have when I saw Janay/Subject A&B from last year. Another gorgeous girl is Zara Wade (red hair, plum lipped female) with the Stormer sculpt. A total stunner! Love the hair and make-up. I’m excited to see Ace McFly (dark complected, brunette male) as I was hoping for a male doll with the Riot sculpt in this line. If last year Janay/Subject A&B caught everyone’s attention, this year, all eyes are on Declan Wake (pale skinned, raven haired male). Hot! Any new gorgeous sculpt, male or female, will certainly be an attention grabber. For me, Tilda and Declan are the stars of this year’s Style Lab. While seeing new faces in the line was a huge hit, I felt that the dolls that debuted last year have lost their spark this year. I think it had something to do with the face screening and the fact that a select few of them look almost the same from last year. I also thought that the dolls with two versions seemed like afterthoughts and fillers. I was hoping for Synergy, Rio and Kimber sculpts used, and I would love to see an African male thrown into the mix. Like last year, Color Infusion proved to be the highlight of the Convention for me. Realizing how badly I want these dolls and realizing that they are ridiculously priced on the secondary market makes me strongly consider attending next year’s Integrity Toys Convention.
Alexander Dennis presents the brand new 100-seat Enviro400XLB three-axle double decker, developed in close collaboration with Lothian Buses and chassis manufacturer Volvo. 42 of these high-capacity buses will enter service in Edinburgh from January onwards. They are manufactured in Falkirk, securing jobs and adding value to the Scottish economy directly and via the extensive local supply chain.
With Lothian’s services in the Scottish capital seeing consistent patronage growth, the operator collaborated with Alexander Dennis to develop the 13.4m Enviro400XLB. Offering 100 seats and able to carry up to 131 passengers in total, it delivers unrivalled capacity for busy routes in the capital, while its front and middle doors will speed-up dwell times at bus stops. It has been built to even higher standards than bus users in Edinburgh are familiar with, with comfortable high-backed seating, WiFi, USB charging, mood lighting and audio-visual stop announcements.
Alexander Dennis’s Enviro400XLB is the first bus for the United Kingdom to be mounted on Volvo’s recently launched three-axle B8L chassis, powered by the efficient 350hp Euro 6 D8K engine.
On Friday 09th November 2018, a select few from Lothian Buses and enthusiasts were specially invited by MD Richard Hall to pay a visit to the Alexander Dennis factory in Falkirk.
It's not often that you're presented with a view like this from the portal of a disused tunnel. Most of the time, you're looking out at a muddy cutting.
I'm only going to upload a select few photos from Norway but I've edited nearly 100 of them so if you want to see them all, they're all online with short descriptions.
There were only 5 of these Light Grey torsos printed, they have also been reserved for a select few. So these wont be avaliable.
I made a quick visit to the monarch butterfly preserve in Pacific Grove this weekend, and was not disappointed. The butterflies, looking like little living pieces of stained glass, were hanging in massive clusters from a select few trees, and numbered well into the thousands (a docent who was present said they thought the population this winter was around 10,000). They maintain a state of dormancy when temperatures are below 50 degrees (it was 42 on this morning), so most of the butterflies were still "sleeping" while I was there. The morning sun struck this particular cluster, warming one enough to convince him to spread his wings for me (and making for maddeningly contrast-y light for me). It's a wonderful thing to witness--go if you ever get the chance.
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Burrow Farmer:
Although dwarves are renowned throughout the lands of Warscape for their mining and crafting abilities, there are several niche businesses that select few dwarves partake in. One of these niche markets is the farming of the rare Burrow.
A Burrow is a mole like creature that lives in the mountain halls that the dwarves call home. They are unique for one reason: they are able to chew tunnels through solid stone. They gnaw away at stone and dirt alike, creating tunnels that run through the dwarven kingdoms. Seen as a sort of pest by most dwarves, they would be stomped on like rats if they didn't have a particular use that is their place as a dinner delicacy. Many rich nobles and lords in the Warscape lands love the taste Burrows and will pay top dollar to have the tiny critters included on their dinner platters.
Burrow farmers shepherd the Burrows with the help of their loyal herding dogs and exercise the Burrows daily, forming the meat for peak deliciousness. The farmer ranges the mountainsides, often chewing on the rough stalk grasses that he passes through as he eyes his tasty, and expensive, livestock.
Coc Ly market, Vietnam.
I debated whether I should put up each of these images individually or clump a select few into one photo with some comments.
But then I figured these Hmong Chinese markets are barely known outside of North Vietnam, and they produce all these interesting things that are simple but beautiful. So I thought I'd do a little marketing for them and showcase their products individually, FWIW.
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Alexander Dennis presents the brand new 100-seat Enviro400XLB three-axle double decker, developed in close collaboration with Lothian Buses and chassis manufacturer Volvo. 42 of these high-capacity buses will enter service in Edinburgh from January onwards. They are manufactured in Falkirk, securing jobs and adding value to the Scottish economy directly and via the extensive local supply chain.
With Lothian’s services in the Scottish capital seeing consistent patronage growth, the operator collaborated with Alexander Dennis to develop the 13.4m Enviro400XLB. Offering 100 seats and able to carry up to 131 passengers in total, it delivers unrivalled capacity for busy routes in the capital, while its front and middle doors will speed-up dwell times at bus stops. It has been built to even higher standards than bus users in Edinburgh are familiar with, with comfortable high-backed seating, WiFi, USB charging, mood lighting and audio-visual stop announcements.
Alexander Dennis’s Enviro400XLB is the first bus for the United Kingdom to be mounted on Volvo’s recently launched three-axle B8L chassis, powered by the efficient 350hp Euro 6 D8K engine.
On Friday 09th November 2018, a select few from Lothian Buses and enthusiasts were specially invited by MD Richard Hall to pay a visit to the Alexander Dennis factory in Falkirk.
310, a Sukhoi Su-22UM of the Polish Air Force, on static display at the Royal International Air Tattoo 2017.
This aircraft is operated by the 40th Tactical Squadron (40.ELT - 40 Eskadra Lotnictwa Taktycznego), and is based at the 21st Tactical Air Base in Świdwin in Northwestern Poland.
The Polish Air Force in 2015 decided that they would reduce their Su-22 fleet to just 18, giving these selected few a minor refit to increase their lifespan for another 10yrs.
Leafhopper, From one of our expeditions to the Dominican Republic, pulled from the cast off pile as too pretty to cast off. I am not a leafhopper person, so this remains only as "leafhopper" . That said, leafhoppers and other plant sucking insect ilk are one of several covert layers of biodiversity that few are aware of. For example, many leafhoppers are specialists feeding only on a select few species of native plants. Again, this takes us back to Nature-based strategies that look to creating and maintaining plantscapes as targeted biodiverse native plant groups (versus: we like pretty color flowers groups) and then the insects etc. backfill automatically (as least far as we are concerned). since we know so little about the these covert insects its the best we can do. There's a meandering account for you. Photo by Cole Cheng who used to be an intern in the lab until fear fear of the Rona left only me.
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Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200
We Are Made One with What We Touch and See
We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
- Oscar Wilde
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Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen:
Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:
Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland:
bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf
Basic USGSBIML set up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY
USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4
Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus
www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections
PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/How%20to%20Take%20MacroPhotographs%20of%20Insects%20BIML%20Lab2.pdf
Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:
plus.google.com/events/c5569losvskrv2nu606ltof8odo
or
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU
Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
Contact information:
Sam Droege
sdroege@usgs.gov
301 497 5840
I watched the BBC televisualized programme last night called Question Time (QT)… I know, it’s my own fault. Once again it was one hour of failing to deal with any one issue in anything like sufficient depth.
The topic of housing came up. Mention was made of supply and demand. Conciliatory noises that governments of all stripes had failed to build enough homes for decades followed. Very few council homes had been built since Mrs Thatcher sold them off.
Whatever people think of Thatcherism, at least she understood that neighbourhoods improve if people have the economic imperative of home ownership and the pride to look after their own properties. It’s a shame the drawbridge was effectively pulled up, and that people are not paid enough to afford a home.
Some panellists tried to temper demand by suggesting we need to lose the idea young people should ever own their own homes, something which historically has characterized the UK as different from much of continental Europe.
Dampening demand would be useful. This is not helped by people living longer, and living in ever smaller households. Every home needs a bathroom, kitchen and hopefully a general reception room, plus however many bedrooms. The fewer bedrooms in a property, the greater ratio of kitchens, bathooms and reception rooms to bedrooms will be, which decreases efficiency – a key tenet of capitalism unheeded.
Last night during QT, I did not hear mention of immigration’s effect on the housing market. Deafening silence. Maybe the word is now banned from the BBC, for its triggering effect on some people. However, the BBC frequently shows poor immigrants living 10 people to a bedroom in London, in houses made for a family of four, with just one bathroom to the point where police raid such premises at dawn. Immigration affects demand for housing and many of the immigrants coming to the UK suffer just as much or even more than UK citizens in the search for what UK law deems acceptably safe and healthy accommodation. It appears that immigration favours only a select few, not the host country nor the immigrants.
If we are not free to discuss the housing problem freely, just like so many other issues, it will never be solved. Of course any politician who analyzed the demographic changes in the UK post war period would have seen the approaching demographic timebomb and the demand bubble it would create in so many areas of life. The fact that apparently nobody in public office did so would suggest wilful avoidance, incompetence or malice. Either way, various generations of politicians (of all parties) have failed the people of the UK.
Of course the mortgage market is another issue entirely.
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A Samurai's Oath 武士の誓い
By Daniel Arrhakis / 大仁得 赤竜 (2022)
In Feudal Japan, the Shogun gave land to the Daimyo, the regional feudal lords, on the condition that they pay homage and provide military support. The daimyo employed samurai to protect their land and pay them in rice and other privileges.
Samurai were trained warriors who served their lords, the Daimyo and only a select few were chosen to guard the Imperial Palace.
Kishômon were a type of blood oath regularly sworn by samurai retainers in the Sengoku and Edo periods, swearing fealty to their lord, and inviting the wrath of the gods should they violate the oath.
The true warrior must hold that loyalty, courage, veracity, compassion, and honor as important, above all else.
These moral qualities would later be formalized in the Bushidō, a moral code concerning samurai attitudes, behavior and lifestyle, formalized in the Edo period (1603–1868).
That morning at the Black Mountain Temple, the Samurai Naotsume, however, makes another type of Oath that can only be made to the gods.
When his feudal lord conquered his village and killed his parents, Naotsume was a young man who then swore an oath that he would become a Samurai loyal to his lord if he spared his sister Mitsuko.
But the years passed and Mitsuko became a beautiful woman, having been taken to the palace to become one of the concubines.
Despite all efforts to protect his sister from the idle eyes of his master, they were fruitless. So in a last attempt he asked what he could do, to save his sister from her fate. To which the Feudal Lord replied - Bring me the lost sword from the Bronze Temple Of Iwaizumi! If you do this she will be spared! Otherwise I will kill her and you will be her executioner!
The Temple Of The Black Mountain was now his last refuge and his last hope for finding the legendary Bronze Temple and to fulfill his promise to save his sister.
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Taken at the Walter P. Chrysler's Museum, at the Chrysler's (FCA's) Headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan. Chrysler was acquired by Fiat, and the Fiat CEO became the FCA CEO. I guess he can't stand it to see an American icon, inventor, and a legend being honored with a museum. So he has now made the decision to close the museum and send all its contents to storage. He should be deported :-) ... Lens: Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8 L.
Light conditions are simply photography nightmare. A combination of Fluorescent (neon) lights, incandescent lights, flood lights, large windows daylight, etc.
The museum is a 3-story building, with lots, and lots, and lots of beautiful vehicles to see. It was also extremely crowded on that weekend because people heard that it was going to be closed for good.
The collection has vehicle models dating back as far as 1902.
I did the best I could under the circumstances.
Editing almost one thousand images will take a lot of time, but only a select few will be uploaded here anyway.
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A priest and commander discuss the meaning of a runic spell found scrawled inside the test vehicle. Was it a superstitious peasant's deseperate attempt at warding off evil, or was it the original summoning for whatever worrying events occurred a few weeks earlier?
Whispers of a tank destroyer named Magnolia have been floating around Neustrasia's military circles for some time now, however, only a select few had been allowed inside the facilities to see them, and the workers had been sworn to secrecy by their factory lords. Those on the outside though reported strange fires and unearthly howls earlier in the month, and it was discovered every Magnolia superstructure had been ruined, rent apart by the absurdly strong and sharp claws of some nightmare creature that left huge, taloned footprints melted into the concrete floor!
After a joint Army-clergy operation to clear the area of any remaining hellish presence, the lords reported to the King that the base chases were actually fine and still usable. With the blueprints torched along with the entire design office, the engineers decided to just build a new vehicle on the base of the old one. They moved the engine forward, took off the top of the fighting compartment, and upgraded the armament from a 120mm AT gun to a modified 130mm naval cannon. God must have been pleased with this new development, because all further demonic incursions were foiled from the outset. But in the age of air superiority, soldiers testing the vehicle expressed worry about the open top, and it was decided a naval rangefinder would compliment the naval cannon so that the Magnolia could stay well back from the frontlines. Recommended minimum engagement range is one kilometer.
Dr X and a select few of his inner circle are plotting their next move on a busy night in the "Ammo Arms"
Enjoying the memorable moments, recording with ecstasy. Snapped around 100 shots, will upload a selected few.
365/365
Like every story there is a beginning, as of course I still never really know how quite know where to begin. But before i say more i'd like to thank each and every person who's been there with me through this project, you are the beating heart that has kept this project alive and the soul that has given me the courage to never stop. I will always thank you and remember how many of you were there for me and followed my Journey in Photography.
I never fully knew what I was in for when i started the 365 Project, i got my first lens for my camera that was bought for one of my college classes and just started to take pictures, nothing was more exiting that being able to alter the world and making it my own. Photography, like anything is what you make of it, and it's important that you channel who you are into what you love.
Truthfully, I've never really had any goals until last year when i started this, i found that photography got me outside, it made me think creatively and i've met some of the most beautiful and passionate people from so many places and got to know what makes them who they are and i'm forever thankful for that.
As great as photography is it has came with some unregrettably harsh things such as getting clothes destroyed, setting clothes on fire, losing things in lakes, having my camera in the middle of the sea, a lens filled with sand, looking like a seaweed monster in scotland, falling in 3 foot muck holes and getting caught naked in the middle of nowhere by a woman and her dog... But i would never change it for the world.
Everything is meant for something and to even though the outside world may be confused by what i do it's really made me see what the world can be if i just think a little and not be afraid just because something's different.
This year has been the most stressful but most exciting year of my entire life even if i finished the project a little late, i'm going to continue what i do and learn to fail happier and grow from it in every way way I can, i'm going to learn to stop pressuring myself, and i'm going to try my hand at new things and regain that excitement for storytelling again.
Lastly there are a select few people who reading this right now, i want you to know that I will always be beyond grateful for what you done for me, you made this happen and you deserve the world.
Thank you all, you're truly amazing!
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Taken at the Walter P. Chrysler's Museum, at the Chrysler's (FCA's) Headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan. Chrysler was acquired by Fiat, and the Fiat CEO became the FCA CEO. I guess he can't stand it to see an American icon, inventor, and a legend being honored with a museum. So he has now made the decision to close the museum and send all its contents to storage. He should be deported :-) ... Lens: Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8 L.
Light conditions are simply photography nightmare. A combination of Fluorescent (neon) lights, incandescent lights, flood lights, large windows daylight, etc.
The museum is a 3-story building, with lots, and lots, and lots of beautiful vehicles to see. It was also extremely crowded on that weekend because people heard that it was going to be closed for good.
The collection has vehicle models dating back as far as 1902.
All images were taken hand-held; no tripods allowed.
I did the best I could under the circumstances.
Editing almost one thousand images will take a lot of time, but only a select few will be uploaded here anyway.
I use Degoo (a Swedish company) for my Cloud storage. You can get 100GB of storage for free.
Here is the Invite link: degoo.com/g/IbJT56H
That's correct, this is my very last TS2 edit. It's old though, not something recent. That would be difficult as I have lost most of my sims, got fed up, uninstalled the game and sold it on eBay. That's right, I am over with the Sims 2. I guess I just ended up outgrowing it. Edits weren't fun anymore and starting the game felt like a chore, so that's over for me.
For the very few at Scribblers that might read Miracle Court, not quitting that. It's on a slow curb at the moment due to busy real lives but that would be pretty much it.
For the while it lasted, it was good, and got to know a lot of awesome people I will miss, but at 27, I think I just outgrew the game or something. Either that or overdosed it, lol. Thanks to everyone that was supportive throughout, and if my msn still worked I'd still go there if I could. To the selected few with my Skype, you can still find me there, just leave a message, its always on but I'm afk most of the time.
For the image, this was to be an add in Pop&Soda.... don't know if the issue is still coming out but there is my work, with my boys, Lucas, Randem and Keith, lounging about and promoting some Club Crimsym wear.
As part of British Airways' 100th anniversary they have painted a select few jets with a few retro schemes. G-EUPJ Airbus A319 has been painted in this classis BEA scheme. Pictured in front of the iconic Aberdeen/Dyce EPGD Stepped NATS ATC tower.
During my decent I was concerned that I didn't get a decent portrayal out of Angels Landing and I had hauled my camera equipment for nothing. It appears my anxiety was unmerited...better yet, the prints turned out fantastic.
As a continuation of a prior habit, this is shot at f/2.8. I just love the rendering of the Distagon 2,8/21 wide open; to my knowledge, there are no (or a very select few) lenses that can match this Zeiss for quasi-infinite DOF when focused near infinity.
Samsung launched the Galaxy Note 5 - its fastest phablet ever - in India on Monday. Samsung's Note range of 'productivity' phablets is one among the top consumer electronics products that has seen a gradual evolution to greater usefulness with time and Samsung is very proud of it, so it should. Getting rid of plastic means the Note 5 is also noticeably lighter and slimmer than the Note 4. At 7.6 mm and 171 grams the Note 5 is closer in line to the iPhone 6 Plus. More importantly, the Note 5 is a 5.7-inch phone and it doesn't at all feel that way. The lighter and slimmer frame along with 'good' ergonomics mean the Note 5 is easier to operate while on the move - something that a business user won't mind. The Note 5 carries the same screen as its predecessor: a 5.7-inch QuadHD Super AMOLED display with a 1440 x 2560 pixels resolution and 518ppi pixel density. While QuadHDs don't necessarily mean 'better' output (our eyes can't discern beyond FullHD), Samsung's Super AMOLED displays have built a reputation for themselves on the positive end of the spectrum. The Note 5 is bright and crisp to look at and has excellent viewing angles (in indoor situation where we tested it). The screen is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 4. The Note 5 is powered by a 2.1GHz Octa-core Exynos 7420 processor coupled with 4GB RAM and runs Android 5.1.1 Lollipop out-of-the-box with the company's new TouchWiz Ui on top. The new UI has visible reduction in bloatware with app/widget icons getting a fresh coat of paint as well. The Note 5 will have two internal memory variants: a 32GB and a 64GB with no microSD card slot. The Note 4 had one. The Note 5 carries the same screen as its predecessor: a 5.7-inch QuadHD Super AMOLED display with a 1440 x 2560 pixels resolution and 518ppi pixel density. While QuadHDs don't necessarily mean 'better' output (our eyes can't discern beyond FullHD), Samsung's Super AMOLED displays have built a reputation for themselves on the positive end of the spectrum. The Note 5 is bright and crisp to look at and has excellent viewing angles (in indoor situation where we tested it). The screen is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 4. The Note 5 is powered by a 2.1GHz Octa-core Exynos 7420 processor coupled with 4GB RAM and runs Android 5.1.1 Lollipop out-of-the-box with the company's new TouchWiz Ui on top. The new UI has visible reduction in bloatware with app/widget icons getting a fresh coat of paint as well. The Note 5 will have two internal memory variants: a 32GB and a 64GB with no microSD card slot. The Note 4 had one. Moving on, you don't need to power up your phone to start using the S pen. Mere ejecting it opens a black window where you can take a note (or write a memo) that you can then save or delete as per your wish. Also, the phone would remind you if you haven't attached the pen back in once you've turned it down (like before). The 'smartness' doesn't end there. The Note 5's stylus comes with a new and improved Air Command option that's more intuitive than before via a floating icon that you can access and move as you like. Also, it supports shortcuts (three at max) in addition to the default note-taking stuff. Moreover, you can now write on PDF files as well. The Note 5 sports a 16-megapixel rear camera with optical image stabilisation, autofocus, and LED flash (just like the Note 4). But, things have been different ever since the S6 came along on this front, so we are looking at something on similar lines (and an improvement over the Note 4). The phablet also comes with a 5-megapixel front camera. Another compromise the Note 5 makes over its predecessor is a smaller battery. The Note 5 uses a 3,000mAh battery (the Note 4 had a 3,220 mAh battery) and it's still non-removable. There's little doubt that the Note 5 is smarter and sexier than the Note 4 and is easily the best Note ever, on paper. It does come with a few compromises, and it is still not water and dust-resistant, but when you look at the broader picture the positives outnumber the negatives on this one. Second point to note is its mammoth pricing: Rs.53,900 for the 32GB variant and Rs.59,900 for the 64GB variant. Samsung justifies this by saying that the Note 5 is a one-of-its-kind phablet in the 'productivity' segment of phones. It may not be entirely wrong when it says this. Also, it suggests that the Note 5 is not meant for everybody. For the 'select' few it's targeting, the Note 5 might still be bang for the buck. youtu.be/aDmQjLIICR8