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The west end of ManVic has changed in the last 20 years, However, the backdrop is good and there are 2 nice scissors crossovers! 6.4.11.
Another stop at the falls. So much rain lately that the river is running higher than normal for this time of year. I have shot these falls more times than I can remember.
Farm Input Promotion's David Priest and Raymond Kojo demonstrate to AVCD Chief of Party Romano Kiome, how local farmers are supported with basic business management tools to improve efficiencies on each farm.
Photo Credit: AVCD/M.Njiru
The post-production of this shot involves a technique using the Topaz 'simplify' filter in Photoshop, which reduces the subject's detail into broader strokes of colour and contrast.
Viem Xa Village / Bac Ninh City / Vietnam
2012 - 2012
This is a prototype of a inspection chamber for a simplified sewer system, as developed and manufactured bu Bac Ninh Water Supply and Sewerage Company
We built this bike up for the new Ray's Indoor Mountain Bike Park opening in Milwaukee in a couple of weeks. We took a stab at what will be the best setup for the new venue but will dial it in when Ray's opens.
all the coins were gone...cuz this thing was inside the casino hotel..hahaha...all gone into the slot machines..;--p
Just one of many stacks in my house... this one I save because really want to decoupage my craft table top with cool pictures. Hmm, but will it ever happen?
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Life seems complicated right now. Not bad, just complicated. Seems I'm running from one great event to the next. If you're doing the 365 you know one of the things that suffers in the busy times is the POTD. So today, as I was rushing to yoga class, I was drawn to this simple bungalow with it's single pumpkin sitting on the porch. Simplicity was really calling my name today . . . for a moment.
365: the 2012 edition
299/366
This is the Piazza San Pietro, or St. Peter’s Square, located within the micro state of Vatican City in the city of Rome, Italy. The Baroque-style square was designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and built between 1656 and 1667 to serve as the forecourt to St. Peter’s Basilica (Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano). The square is roughly keyhole-shaped, with a large elliptical space framed by two simple Doric colonnades on the eastern end, towards the Via della Conciliazione, and a trapezoidal space flanked by two enclosed walkways on the western end, adjacent to the Basilica. The center of the square is defined by an ancient Egyptian obelisk, moved to the site in 1586 by Domenico Fontana from the former site of the Spina at the Circus of Nero. Made of red Aswan granite, it was originally erected in Heliopolis by an unknown pharaoh, and brought to Rome in 37AD, following the conquest of Egypt, after having stood in the Julian Forum of Alexandria. It was the only remaining obelisk still upright in its Roman location before it was moved to St. Peter’s Square. The colonnade around the square is four columns deep, and features simplified Doric detailing, including pediments, an entablature, and dentils. Atop the colonnades are sculptures depicting various saints. Spaced in the middle of the semi-circular arced radius of each colonnade are identical Baroque fountains that tie the two sides of the square together into an overall symmetrical composition. The original main approach to the square was via two narrow streets in the Borgo section of Rome, which was obliterated under the fascist regime to build the Via della Conciliazione between 1937 and 1950. The removal of the buildings once located East of the square opened up a grand axis, but removed the somewhat intimate, room-like qualities of the space, but, thankfully, has been the only major change to the space in modern times. The Piazza was designed to feel like an outward extension of the Basilica, reaching out into the surrounding city and accentuating it’s scale and grandeur, while still remaining pleasantly proportioned to not overwhelm the individual.
You can see a trace of editing on the photo clearly on the dark sky..
A double decker Swiss City Train (S-Bahn). A building on the right in the background if the Prime Tower.
//Aperture 3 or Lightroom 3?//
I guess there is no right or wrong answer. Perhaps I should have bought Photoshop Elements v10 instead.
So? I tried both Aperture and Lightroom and I liked both. But for obvious reason I decided not to buy both of them.
//Aperture v.s. Lightroom // - Picked Aperture
I had trial versions, both version 3x. I liked both. LR3 has a couple of more and better features, e.g. noise reduction, lens distortion adjustment, split high/low. Aperture on the other hand, it looks like a simplified interface, thus, looking less capable but all in all, they seem quite similar.
So what did I choose? I picked Aperture. The reason? Because I couldn’t figure out how to pick a specific range of color and modify it, and apply to the whole pic, a part of pick or selected areas. Well, not quite 100 true. I did pick a selected color range, and tried to change with LR3, and it worked. But I just didn’t know enough about the LR tricks to “do it well” and get a results I wanted in as much short time as possible. With the Aperture, with my limited skills, and without knowing any specific tricks, I was able to adjust colors, saturation, brightness and tint.
LR3’s ability to smart pick a selection is very nice. But for me, it was quicker and psychologically less stress to brush the effect directly on the visible part of the pic.
That’s how a decision was made. It was not a technical nature, purely based on my impatience. So I didn’t listen to my friends and mother’s wisdom. Don’t make a hasty decision, and never make an important decision when you’re hurry. I mean it may turn out to be a wrong decision, but I’ll live with it.
//Price development//
There was something I didn’t quite understand. Aperture used to costs like $180, and LR was like $90? When I checked it out last night, the Aperture is now $80, and LR is $299? $299! But discounted to $199. The historical pricing should not be looked at now, but somehow, which ever I look at, I feel a kind of cheated.
//Photoshop Elements 10// - Perhaps in future
For the price, I think it’s a very good software for the price. Some might say Gimps (free) and Pixelmator ($30). I tried both but in a hurry, PSE10 will do a job and quicker to fire it up. And if one wants, PSE10 also let you work with layers and masks. I used to use a very early version, and have a trial version, too. It’s good, but I decided that I do not need to do much pixel work and layering. I used to with Photoshop when I had digital cameras that were not good, and needed much touch up, toning and color balance, and so on. Now I can very much use photos straight out of the camera, and I don’t really need layers and masks to edit photos. But I’m still tempted to buy it – the cost is still $100, and can afford to buy and not to use it.
Nb. and I was about to buy it today, but wanted to check once again I would like it or not. The conclusion is that I didn't buy, and I don't need to cut/paste feature to edit the photo. I'm taking photos and not really into graphic designer so I decided that my Aperture 3 does do the job without much problems. I picked up a terribly out of white balance photo, and tried to correct. Tried with a few diff apps, and I concluded, the Aperture 3 is still a best fit for me, and good enough for my needs.
I just need to learn how to use the versioning better and more effectively.
Intention: Using B&W to simplify the image overall and draw attention to the expression and lines of the face.
Reference: Duchemin says that monochrome can help you see your work with greater clarity, free from the pull of color.
Outcome: There is good contrast in this image overall, and the streak of light across the face helps bring attention to my subject! Converting this to B&W achieved exactly what I had hoped.
Edits: cropped, converted to B&W, exposure+, contrast+, highlights-, whites-, blacks-, texture-, dehaze+, grain+, small amount of vignette.
Expo 2010
Expo 2010, officially Expo 2010 Shanghai China (simplified Chinese: 中国2010年上海世界博览会; pinyin: Zhōngguó Èrlíngyīlíng Nián Shànghǎi Shìjìe Bólǎnhuì) was held on both banks of the Huangpu River in the city of Shanghai, China, from May 1 to October 31, 2010. It was a World Expo in the tradition of international fairs and expositions. The theme of the exposition was "Better City – Better Life" and signifies Shanghai's new status in the 21st century as the "next great world city". The expo Logo features the Chinese character 世 ('world', Chinese "shì") modified to represent three people together with the 2010 date. It had the largest number of countries participating and was the most expensive Expo in the history of the world's fairs. The Shanghai World Expo was also the largest World's Fair site ever at 5.28 square km.
By the end of the expo, over 73 million people had visited, a record attendance and 250 countries and international organizations had participated. On October 16, 2010, the expo set a single-day record of having over 1.03 million visitors enter the exhibition that day.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_2010
L'Esposizione Universale 2010 venne organizzata dalla città di Shanghai Cina. Il tema scelto è stato Better city, better life (Città migliore, vita migliore).
L'esposizione si svolse tra il 1 maggio 2010 e il 31 ottobre 2010, per un totale di 6 mesi, come richiesto dal BIE. I padiglioni espositivi vennero situati sulle due rive del fiume Huangpu che attraversa Shanghai.
An idea for my screenprinting session tomorrow, based on the work of Armin Hofmann. In his work, he includes only the essential elements and I wanted to give this a go with an alphabet. The designs were based on the simple monoprint I did in session last week.
Simplified patterns of migration suggested by phylogenies based on Y-chromosomal DNA (fatherlines). The phylogeny is from The International Society of Genetic Genealogy (2014). The geographic data was compiled and simplified specially for this figure, and meant to indicate pre-Columbian locations.
“Y-chromosomal Adam”, the last common fatherline ancestor of everyone alive today, is implicated to have lived in Subsaharan Africa. His male-line descendants spread from there to Eurasia, and thence to Oceania and the Americas, as well as back into Africa (including Madagascar from the Indian Ocean).
Credit: T. Michael Keesey and Eric Gaba (basic map)
I'm a slob, especially in the parts of my home I can close the door on. The office/doll collection/crafts room has always been one of the most horrendous offenders. I never show this room to guests, instead just ignoring that door off the kitchen and letting them think it leads to a closet or something.
Finally, the clutter and mess started to get to me, and I did something about it. I feel much better now. The room isn't strictly tidy, and it still has plenty of clutter, but only necessary clutter. Work is done in this room, and it just requires a certain amount of crap.
This view of the office shows my computer desk - with a clean surface probably for the first time since we moved in - my eBay shipping supplies and the corner of my great-grandmother's sewing stand.
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This article is based on rational expressions and how to simplify expressions. Before proceeding further, let’s talk about Rational numbers. In a simple mathematical way we can say that any number that can be expressed as fraction is known as Rational number. For example 2/3 is a rational number, here 2 is the numerator and 3 is a denominator. An essential condition for rational number is that denominator can never be a zero. Decimal number is also a rational number, 1.5 is a rational number that can be expressed as fraction, 1.5 can be written as 15/10 or 3/2.
Both sides started with gelli prints. The front is overstamped with a subtle flower stamping in silver metallic.
June 2015
in this photo about geometric vs organic patterns, I see human-made things being quite simplistic as compared to organic things.
GEOMETRIC AND ORGANIC PATTERNS
users.rider.edu/~suler/photopsy/geo_org_patterns.htm
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