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Sharp plants, sharp teeth, sharp looking boat. all found in St. Lawrence a small town in North QLD. In the 2021 census, the locality of St Lawrence had a population of 245 people.
Scolopacidae (Calidris acuminata)
All taken in 2 Hrs at Bird Islands Conservation Park SA
Sony ILCE-7M4
FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter
Observed at Milepost 174 of the Glenn Highway on 4/23/2016 as previously reported by others. Seen well with my wife and Enric F. Probably about a dozen birds right near (and some times right on) the road.
Sharp Edge - Blencathra.
The view looking back from the slabs at the base of Foule Crag, across to the 'Bad Step' and the Gendarme.
Two people are seen crossing this fine ridge in lovely Summer weather.
The Backgroung fell is Souther Fell, with the A66 viewed wending its way East, back to Penrith.
Usually, there is almost a 'conga-line' of folk traversing the ridge. I was certainly lucky this day, as there seemed only to be a handfull of people on the ridge.
This is one of my favourite images comitted to slide film.
The original image was taken on a Ricoh KR-10M SLR, using Fujichrome 200 ASA slide film.
The slide was given 4 scans at 7200dpi, and post processed using Adobe Photoshop.
This is pumpkin crunch, as baked by Janelle. Pumpkin crunch is almost like pumpkin pie, but the preparation and precise ingredients are a bit different. (Our recipe is available upon demand and will be posted into this comment if two or more people request it; Googling for it may turn up variations on the recipe. Two people requested it - the recipe is posted below.) Pumpkin pie is my absolute favorite pie, yet I found pumpkin crunch to be even better.
Lighting info: Olympus FL-50R flash was used remotely and triggered via the Olympus wireless flash system. The flash was positioned to my left and about two or three feet behind me with a diffuser mounted, angled to point slightly above the pumpkin crunch. The pumpkin crunch was placed next to a wall which helped a bit with balancing light at the back end. Lighting power was adjusted via TTL, although I don't remember whether the flash exposure bias was adjusted (if anything, I probably adjusted it to -0.3). The on-camera flash used to trigger the FL-50R was fired at the "low" power trigger setting so as to minimize its impact on the picture. Note that the FL-50R could still be triggered even though there was no direct line of sight between the optical sensor on the flash and the camera flash. Some lighting was also contributed by a room light mounted to the ceiling ~9 feet up, which was two incandescent bulbs surrounded by an opaque glass dome.
"Studio" info: the pumpkin crunch was placed on a sheet of wax paper, layered over a bamboo cutting board. I felt that the cutting board and wax paper looked somewhat classy, so I wanted to ensure that they (especially the cutting board) was included in the picture but did not detract too much from the pumpkin crunch itself. Initial shots were done in landscape orientation, but the frosting on the pumpkin crunch proved to be more interesting (and perhaps appealing) then seeing the edge of the pumpkin crunch. I wanted to incorporate a relatively shallow depth of field to add to the artistic impact of the picture, and thus it was critical to have something with depth to use it on. Going with the portrait-frame orientation made sense. I chose to take it from one of the edges (as opposed to straight-on) as it seemed a bit more interesting from that angle. As I lack any interesting kitchenware or placement items, I cleared the area and just allowed the bare wall to act as the backdrop. Given the shallow depth of field, the wall doesn't very wall-ish and the imperfections in the paint job can't be seen.
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Recipe
Ingredients
1 can (1 lb. 13 oz.) pumpkin
1 can (12 oz.) evaporated milk
1 cup sugar
3 eggs, lightly beaten
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 box (18.25 oz.) yellow cake mix
1 cup nuts, chopped (note: we used walnuts)
1 cup butter or margarine, melted
Cream Cheese Frosting (note: we used just plain Cool Whip for frosting instead)
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350˚F (note: if you're using a dark pan, as opposed to a glass one, try using 325˚F instead). Combine pumpkin, evaporated milk, sugar, eggs and cinnamon; mix well. Pour into 13x9x2-inch pan lined with waxed paper. Sprinkle with cake mix evenly over pumpkin mixture, then sprinkle with chopped nuts and press them lightly into the mixture. Drizzle with melted butter. Bake for 50 to 60 minutes. Cool, then turn out on a rack and frost. Makes 16 servings.
Prep time: 1 hour 10 minutes.
Cream cheese frosting prep: (optional; you can go with a frosting of your choice if you like. The frosting pictured above is plain, unmodified Cool Whip)
Blend together 8 oz. cream cheese and 1 cup powdered sugar. Fold in 8 oz. thawed frozen whipped topping.
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Shot with an Olympus E-520, Zuiko Digital 50mm Macro lens, and an Olympus FL-50R flash used off-camera and triggered wirelessly. This picture is uncropped, but the maximum resolution has been scaled down for upload. This is a camera-derived JPEG that has not received any additional post-processing. The following settings were used on-camera: contrast, saturation, and sharpness at +1; "vivid" color scheme; white balance set to auto; flash trigger at "lo" and flash TTL exposure compensation at -0.3 (I think).
The vulture at the yorkshire wildlife park coming into land on a post just out of shot , it was quick and i was slow hence the cropping of the wings but it does quite work ?
Another little 'Flatiron' in my collection of wedge-shaped, sharp corner buildings from around the world.
Circa early 1900s. The bridge carried the railway line that brought coal from the Forest of Dean collieries (from the right) to the coal tippler beside the dock. Note the Severn Railway Bridge in the background.
From a Real Photo postcard
Another look of this guy..
Thanks for looking,
Kurt
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An Iñupiat (North Slope Eskimo) carving by Melvin Olanna, at the Egan Center in downtown Anchorage.
January 2014.
A moment in time -,the cyclist caught as the shutter of the Kodak Box Brownie clicks over. A family outing with some neighbours to Sharpness. Me in the front circa 1956
Another shot in my little series of b&w household things. As stated on 'Cappuccino', these are intended to be a part of a b&w household things collage. When it's ready, I'll post it to flickr, too (whether you want to see it or not). The other two shots in this series:
The first of these shots not taken with my Minolta 50/1.7 lens, but with my Cosina 100mm macro lens; I needed to get closer than the 50mm allowed.
Strobist: Shot inside a softbox with a wireless flash back right of the softbox, shooting through it, using a wide angle diffusor. On top of softbox, two 40W bulbs (standard ones).
It's on Explore, June 28th 2007, #165.
Featured on strobist.com (strobist.blogspot.com/2007_07_01_archive.html )July 25th.
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Some of you may have noticed that, unfortunately, owing to the fact that a certain person who sells truck photos on eBay commercially has been lifting my images from this album and selling them I have had to remove 2300 photos that didn't have a watermark. I have now run around 1700 through Lightroom and added a watermark with the intention of bulk uploading them again. Rather than watermark the existing (hidden) files in Flickr one at a time it will be easier to do it this way. I definitely won’t be adding individual tags with the make and model of each vehicle I will just add generic transport tags. Each photo is named after the vehicle and reg in any case. For anyone new to these images there is a chapter and verse explanation below. It is staggering how many times I get asked questions that a quick scan would answer or just as likely I can’t possibly answer – I didn’t take them, but, just to clarify-I do own the copyright- and I do pursue copyright theft.
This is a collection of scanned prints from a collection of photographs taken by the late Jim Taylor A number of years ago I was offered a large number of photographs taken by Jim Taylor, a transport photographer based in Huddersfield. The collection, 30,000 prints, 20,000 negatives – and copyright! – had been offered to me and one of the national transport magazines previously by a friend of Jim's, on behalf of Jim's wife. I initially turned them down, already having over 30,000 of my own prints filed away and taking space up. Several months later the prints were still for sale – at what was, apparently, the going rate. It was a lot of money and I deliberated for quite a while before deciding to buy them. I did however buy them directly from Jim’s wife and she delivered them personally – just to quash the occasional rumour from people who can’t mind their own business. Although some prints were sold elsewhere, particularly the popular big fleet stuff, I should have the negatives, unfortunately they came to me in a random mix, 1200 to a box, without any sort of indexing and as such it would be impossible to match negatives to prints, or, to even find a print of any particular vehicle. I have only ever looked at a handful myself unless I am scanning them. The prints are generally in excellent condition and I initially stored them in a bedroom without ever looking at any of them. In 2006 I built an extension and they had to be well protected from dust and moved a few times. Ultimately my former 6x7 box room office has become their (and my own work’s) permanent home.
I hope to avoid posting images that Jim had not taken his self, however should I inadvertently infringe another photographers copyright, please inform me by email and I will resolve the issue immediately. There are copyright issues with some of the photographs that were sold to me. A Flickr member from Scotland drew my attention to some of his own work amongst the first uploads of Jim’s work. I had a quick look through some of the 30 boxes of prints and decided that for the time being the safest thing for me to do was withdraw the majority of the earlier uploaded scans and deal with the problem – which I did. whilst the vast majority of the prints are Jims, there is a problem defining copyright of some of them, this is something that the seller did not make clear at the time. I am reasonably confident that I have since been successful in identifying Jims own work. His early work consists of many thousands of lustre 6x4 prints which are difficult to scan well, later work is almost entirely 7x5 glossy, much easier to scan. Not all of the prints are pin sharp but I can generally print successfully to A4 from a scan.
You may notice photographs being duplicated in this Album, unfortunately there are multiple copies of many prints (for swapping) and as I have to have a system of archiving and backing up I can only guess - using memory - if I have scanned a print before. The bigger fleets have so many similar vehicles and registration numbers that it is impossible to get it right all of the time. It is easier to scan and process a print than check my files - on three different PC’s - for duplicates. There has not been, nor will there ever be, any intention to knowingly breach anyone else's copyright. I have presented the Jim Taylor collection as exactly that-The Jim Taylor Collection- his work not mine, my own work is quite obviously mine.
Unfortunately, many truck spotters have swapped and traded their work without copyright marking it as theirs. These people never anticipated the ease with which images would be shared online in the future. I would guess that having swapped and traded photos for many years that it is almost impossible to control their future use. Anyone wanting to control the future use of their work would have been well advised to copyright mark their work (as many did) and would be well advised not to post them on photo sharing sites without a watermark as the whole point of these sites is to share the image, it is very easy for those that wish, to lift any image, despite security settings, indeed, Flickr itself, warns you that this is the case. It was this abuse and theft of my material that led me to watermark all of my later uploads. I may yet withdraw non-watermarked photos, I haven’t decided yet. (I did in the end)
To anyone reading the above it will be quite obvious that I can’t provide information regarding specific photos or potential future uploads – I didn’t take them! There are many vehicles that were well known to me as Jim only lived down the road from me (although I didn’t know him), however scanning, titling, tagging and uploading is laborious and time consuming enough, I do however provide a fair amount of information with my own transport (and other) photos. I am aware that there are requests from other Flickr users that are unanswered, I stumble across them months or years after they were posted, this isn’t deliberate. Some weekends one or two “enthusiasts” can add many hundreds of photos as favourites, this pushes requests that are in the comments section ten or twenty pages out of sight and I miss them. I also have notifications switched off, I receive around 50 emails a day through work and I don’t want even more from Flickr. Other requests, like many other things, I just plain forget – no excuses! Uploads of Jim’s photos will be infrequent as it is a boring pastime and I would much rather work on my own output.
This well travelled vehicle from Sharpes Coaches of Nottingham, was leaving Dover Eastern Docks while on its way back from Europe, and is another one where I bothered with it because it was colourful-ish.
Gorse, backlit by a shaft of Winter sunshine in the woods at Blashford Lakes, Hampshire UK
My entry for the #60 - Something beginning with ‘G’ category in 112 pictures in 2012 Group