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The Puente de Triano bridge in Seville, shot as redscale. My overlaps weren't terribly clean in this panoramic attempt, but I still really like the result.
Holga 120N, Fuji Superia 200 loaded backwards.
Antony Gormley's first installation in Scotland, commissioned by the National Galleries of Scotland, comprised a sequence of six life-sized cast-iron statues, each a cast of Gormley's own body. This, the first, is buried chest deep in the pavement outside the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – yes, it is a full-length cast, buried. The next four stood partly submerged in the Water of Leith for 5 km down its channel to the sea, with the last on an abandoned pier at Leith docks.
Though intended to be a permanent installation, you'll notice my use of past tense. Unfortunately, two of the statues were pushed over by high tides (a deliberate feature, to minimise flood risk) within the first month (i.e. in June, not winter storms) and all four of the riverbed figures were soon removed to storage, as maintenance costs began to exceed their budget.
Gormley has said that this cast "represents embedment within an urban situation", but I appreciate its visual and tactile appeal rather more than its artistic 'meaning'.
The Moon is just starting to come out of Earth's shadow here, with a nice variation in colour.
90mm Maksutov on EQ6 mount with Canon 7D and Backyard EOS capture software. 8 stacked frames.
Shot from North Castle Street, Edinburgh. Many thanks to the Johnson family who let me use their roof terrace for the night! Also, thanks to Horst Meyerdierks, who lent me a crucial piece of equipment at the last minute.
Failed take-away attempt at the river yesterday. Too bad this incident happened so far away. Cropping resulting in the images not being very sharp, but at least I caught it with the camera. At 11 frames per second, this sequence happened in less than 1/2 second. It is actually fairly typical of eagles to steal another eagle's catch rather than get their own. In this incident, the chase eagle flew underneath the one with the fish. When it got in front, it turned backwards on it's back in an attempt to snatch the fish from the talons of the other eagle. But the winds were fairly stiff yesterday, and as the eagle made his inverted maneuver, his wings caught the wind like a parachute and was carried out of reach.
This is a sequence I shot while out around Point Perion, Perth, WA.
It was a very hard bright sunny day (as you can probably make out by some of the shadows), but it allowed for a quick machine gun of this pelican as it flew by with a small f stop and reasonable DOF.
A sequence I edited of my friend Mani, his birthday was yesterday ^^
the trick is a fs lipslide to 270 varial out.
All the energy we need is in the sky, yet we still don't know how to tame it. Hopefully we'll reach the solution within the main sequence' times of our G2V yellow dwarf.
Will Searby, Melodeon player, busking on Cornmarket, Oxford, England.
This is a roll of Kodak Eastman Double-X 35mm black & white cinema film known for its fine detail in both shade and highlights and good depth of field in low light. It was made famous for its use in Schindler's List, Memento, and the opening sequence of Casino Royal. This particular roll of film came from The Film Photography Project (FPP) which they purchased in bulk and have for sale as Cinema XX at the FPP Store. Michael Raso sent a batch across the Atlantic for participants of the FPP 2013 London Meet-Up back in August. I had only a medium format camera on me that day, so I didn't get around to using the film until early last month. I found it to draw an excellent picture, very low-contrast, and well-suited to my preference for fine-grain. It truly lived up to its reputation for fine detail through a broad range of tones.
Developing Eastman XX proved to be a nervous adventure of research and experimentation, though. There is not the abundance of shared processing knowledge for this film as there is for standard still-camera 35mm black and white negative films. I greatly appreciate the sharing of developing recipes, because film isn't cheap, and I'd like to get it right on the first roll, if possible. I saw a few shared recipes in my hunt, but almost no examples using T-Max Dev (the only chemicals I had on hand) and no one who was using TMax who had also divulged their processing methods. So, after having compared developing recipes across the variety of developers and pouring over the results, I compared the processing of familiar still-camera films with T-Max vs. those same still-camera films with the developers I'd also seen used for the Eastman XX. All this was in hopes of getting an idea of how to adapt a successful recipe to my developer, and I finally decided to try 7 minutes at 21 degrees (to a great extent because that was the current temperature of my T-Max). Whew! It worked.
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I sent my saliva to China,
to the largest sequencing lab in the world,
and they did a whole genome sequence of me,
and most of me is not human.
Here are the bacteria living in my mouth, a pre-launch test from the first commercial service to offer a whole genome sequence of the whole lot:
Genus — Mapped reads
Prevotella — 2,573,674
Neisseria — 2,327,172
Haemophilus — 2,222,674
Streptococcus — 1,556,743
Rothia — 1,232,209
Veillonella — 945,180
Fusobacterium — 560,693
Campylobacter — 234,182
Atopobium — 231,213
Aggregatibacter — 202,541
Capnocytophaga — 116,289
Leptotrichia — 85,449
Bacteroides — 67,333
Clostridium — 41,490
Porphyromonas — 36,489
Paracoccus — 36,061
Actinobacillus — 26,650
Malassezia — 26,553
Selenomonas — 23,646
Pseudomonas — 14,293
N.gonorrhoeae — 10,950
Burkholderia — 10,630
Ruminococcus — 10,403
Staphylococcus — 9,584
Mannheimia — 8,730
Pasteurella — 8,134
Riemerella — 6,762
Megasphaera — 6,576
Streptomyces — 5,041
Laribacter — 4,230
Acinetobacter — 2,752
Other bacterium — 174,580
I saw a few things in there that struck me as quite peculiar... things that one might expect, ummm, elsewhere on the body... and so I shared the results with some microbiome experts who have a keen interest in this. Here’s what U.C. Davis Professor Jonathan Eisen had to say:
“The first thing I usually do for samples is look at % by phylum. See pie chart for yours below.
The #s for each microbial group (i.e., Staphylococcus, Neisseria, etc.) do not seem out of the ordinary too much. Though I note - some studies have found high levels of Haemophilus in oral samples, and others seem to have not found them. Not sure why at this point but looking into it. The high levels of Neisseria (the genus that N. Gonorrhoaeae is in) is a common one, so nothing to worry about there. Prior studies have sometimes found high #s of Corynebacteia. These are not there on your list.
Also - the Malassezia is interesting. It is a fungus genus. Commonly found on the skin of various mammals including humans. Some types are found to be infectious, but I think most are just hanging out doing nothing. I have never seen it in mouth-microbe data, but if it was there, it would probably be missed by most studies since they focused on bacteria.”
Eisen also pointed me to the studies below. The microbiome was one of the major topics of interest at scifoo this year, where they claimed “20% of what’s in your blood is from the bacteria in your gut.” (I found earlier studies supporting 10%).
Looking at the bigger picture, New Scientist summarized some of the recent findings:
“One aspect of your uniqueness isn’t, strictly speaking, part of you at all. It comes from the 100 trillion bacteria that live both on and in you. They outnumber the body’s cells 10 to 1 and in genetic terms they are even more dominant… You’re 0.7% human
A recent study found that a unique bacterial fingerprint is transferred from our fingers to the things we touch, such as a computer keyboard or mouse, and will hang around for up to two weeks [think of the forensic applications! ]
Bacteria also contribute to uniqueness by modifying our metabolism. All humans share a basic biochemistry, but layered on top of this is a microbial biochemistry that is much more diverse. The metabolites that microbes produce affect a range of things, including cholesterol and steroid metabolism.
What this ultimately means is that without our non-human component, we wouldn’t be ourselves at all.”
And in rat studies, you can turn obesity on and off with a flush and refresh of new gut bacteria. (summary, more).
You are what they eat.
Finally done.. Total creature of circumstance on this one. Paint supply, colors, caps, just tried to go with the flow with no real plan.
Painted on multiple HOT sunny days with random Florida mid-day storms and to top it off there was a bee colony inside the wall.
This wall tried me and it got personal. In the end I prevailed. What doesn't kill you...