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Well, after experiencing a robbery from nearby - when we were visiting the TEFAF art fair (I saw the discarded sledgehammer left by the four robbers as they were fleeing) - I walked on the Sint-Pietersberg at Maastricht. Wonderful place, of course. Here's a view of the so-called Oehoevallei, Eagle Owl Valey. Those raptorial birds (=robbers) reside especially in the caves to the left. As I was admiring the view, another Robber of sorts, a Sicus ferrugineus, landed on a Scabious right next to me.
A day with three Robbers! What could be next!?
This will be my testimony.
Inspiration: Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
Pose: K&S' "Edge of Town" - courtesy of Sunny Hanly
Photo Platform: Sunny's Photo Studio
So this is the sunset at Lavender Bay in Sydney.
No colour saturation. No AI.
Photographed from the Peter Kingston Walkway on the eastern side of Lavender Bay, just near the 'Sledgehammer' ride at Luna Park (Milsons Point).
And I recently discovered Dragonfruit. It is actually the edible fruit of a Pitaya Cactus Plant and it makes an exotic addition to a fruit salad. Check out all the different varieties here:
www.ediblejunglenursery.com.au/collections/dragon-fruit
My two favourites are Dragonfruit 'Lemonade' and 'Colombian Red'.
Check out the pictures of them in the above link.
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV with the Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS II USM lens.
Processed in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH software.
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As Fort William is the outdoor capital of Britain, I reckon there are some out there who would kayak down this waterfall/
Yes, as my wife sat in hospital I had time to take a little trip up Glen Nevis. It's wild and rugged and spectacular for the outdoorsy type. Thank you for all the best wishes for her yesterday. She has a problem where her heart goes into Atrial Fibrillation (AF) and her heartbeat starts fluctuating, typically 130-160 heartbeats a minute, but not even at a constant speed. There are drugs that can correct the heartbeat and return it to normal speed and rhythm. But they don't tend to work well on my wife. She ends up needing Cardio Version., a procedure where they anaesthetise or sedate her and then stop her heart and restart it in the right rhythm. It's a procedure that scares the hell out of us, but of the four times she's had it now it gives miraculous results. She went in, had a few zaps, and comes out barely minutes late, feeling totally different, heart back working normally. She says she feels like she's been hit with a sledgehammer....but I tell you the relief is enormous. And she said the whole team in Fort William NHS Belford hospital are amazing.
Who would have ever thought that this old log splitter wedge would get it's 15 minutes of fame! It lives out in the woodshed and when it gets used its the brunt of blows from a sledgehammer. I've split plenty of wood with it but now I use a gas powered splitter so it pretty much just sits and collects rust. Sooo, at last, my iron log splitter wedge. The top is 2 inches square and I cropped the length to the 3 inch requirement.
Shot with: VOIGTLANDER, 125mm f/2.5 SL, MACRO APO-LANTHAR, shot @ f/5.6, 28 Layer Focus Stack Rendered w/Helicon Focus, (B,R4,S2).
Die Skulptur "Balanceakt" von Stephan Balkenhol steht auf dem Platz vor dem Axel-Springer-Hochhaus an der Ecke Axel-Springer-Straße/Zimmerstraße inmitten von elf um den Mann herum platzierten, originalen Mauerteilen in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Hier ragt die Figur zwischen Axel-Springer-Hochhaus und Axel-Springer-Neubau in den Himmel. Das Denkmal soll an die Deutsche Wiedervereinigung und zwar insbesondere an den Mauerfall erinnern. Weitere Details zur Skulptur: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanceakt_(Berlin)
Möglicherweise wurde Balkenhol zu dieser Skulptur durch den als Mauerläufer oder Mauerspringer bekannten John Runnings (1918-2004) inspiriert, der am 7. August 1986 mit einer selbstgebauten Leiter vor laufenden Kameras die Berliner Mauer von West-Berlin aus erkletterte und die Mauerkrone mit einem Vorschlaghammer bearbeitete. Er wurde von den Grenzsoldaten der DDR heruntergezogen, von der DDR-Justiz zu 18 Monaten Haft verurteilt, allerdings im November 1986 nach drei Monaten freigelassen und aus Berlin ausgeflogen. Eine von ihm angefertigte Mauerramme ist im Checkpoint-Charlie-Museum zu sehen. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Runnings
Stephan Balkenhol's sculpture "Balance Act" stands on the square in front of the Axel Springer high-rise at the corner of Axel Springer Street and Zimmer Street, amidst eleven original sections of the Berlin Wall placed around the man in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Here, the figure rises into the sky between the Axel Springer high-rise and the new Axel Springer building. The memorial is intended to commemorate German reunification, particularly the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Balkenhol may have been inspired to create this sculpture by John Runnings (1918-2004), known as the Wall Walker or Wall Jumper, who, on August 7, 1986, climbed the Berlin Wall from West Berlin using a self-made ladder in front of live cameras and then demolished the top of the wall with a sledgehammer. He was dragged down by East German border guards and sentenced to 18 months in prison by the East German judiciary. However, he was released after three months in November 1986 and flown out of Berlin. A wall ram he made can be seen in the Checkpoint Charlie Museum. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Runnings
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Three days ago I was going to work, and saw this little house by the road. Of course I stopped to make some shots, and when I came back to my car, a tall and strong man was waiting for me, with a big sledgehammer on his hands. At first I thought that he didn't like me shooting his house without permission, and that my camera would be reduced to dust ! After some talking, he told me this house had been built more than a hundred years ago by his German relatives, and that he was seeding bell peppers in the land in front of it. It's funny that I have been passing by this road many many times for about 17 years, and this was the first time this scenery called my attention.
Yesterday, coming back home, I got shocked ! The big sledgehammer in the hands of the farmer had been used to destroy the wonderful house I captured two days before !
São Ludgero - SC, Brazil
This is a digital blending of some tonemapped images.
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Repost- I got the title from the name "Staggering Distance" from a group I used to play in way back. Its in memory of my good friend Terry Walsh a great musician and a total character who I played music with for many years. RIP Terry. Sadly missed!!! P.
The old Crown Inn stands in the village of Puncknowle,[pronounced Punnie], West Dorset, England. A wonderful building with its thatched roof, and built to last, from the local hand hewn red sandstone. It sits so well among the surrounding cottages with the original cobbelstone street, made for people on foot and horses and carts in the days long before those foul smelling petrol engine things.
Im of the opinion that this building was originally 4 farm workers cottages as you can see where the original doors were situated with the entrance to the last cottage in the foreground gable wall where the porch now stands.There is also a fairly distinct vertical joint in the stonework in the right hand gable one.
I wonder how many people have met here over the years and got together for life afterwards or never spoken to each other again because of a disagreement?.Id love to hear all the conversations and the stories that were told and you can bet they became more fantastic as the night wore on! Im certain lots of people came here to discuss and sort out their problems or put the World to rights! That one thing that never works where alcohols involved! How many said farewell to there wives and sweethearts before marching off to war, and some of them never returned again.The monument in the old churchyard opposite, gives there names and lots of them. Many have the same surname, from the same family."The Pals Brigades" It an awful pity that such living, breathing, proper history has been forgotten and gone forever.
Public houses nowadays are not as they used to be. Lots of them are twee, soul less, resturants as the pub trade has been destroyed by drink prices and driving laws and entire communities that revolved around these places are gone.Its such a loss!
There are a few good old proper pubs left though, but mostly out in the wilds of Ireland, Scotland and Wales and in the s/w of England and long may they continue! By the way, I took this pic at 5.30 in the morning and the light was superb.
I wrote a funny poem years ago about a drunken night out and Ill put it up later!
I do hope you like my effort and ramblings and have a great week ahead, sober or not!!!!
You take care now!
Pat.
" Never Again! "
"The moment I awakened, then I knew I wasnt dead,
Though I felt that it had touched me, with that sledgehammer in me head,
And the daylight cut right through me, like a knife into my brain,
And every limb and muscle of me body racked with pain.
Through a haze I see the night before, and the Landlord calling time,
And all pints upon the bar, in a never ending line,
And the voices of my comrades, Drink up, it will do you good,
And so I cleared the lot away, and I staggered up the road.
And I felt like Charlie Bronson, Swartzinegger, and Stallone,
Falling headlong through my front door shouting "Love its me! Im home! "
But all I get is silence, and she locks our bedroom door,
So I crawl into the spare room, to a blanket on the floor!
So here I lie, Im finished now, I know Ill pay the price,
But Ill see you in the Harbour Bar, same time next Friday night!!!!
© Pat Hogan.
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The Crown Inn;
www.iknow-uk.com/accommodation/157883-the-crown-inn-punck...
I’ve been playing with double exposures in the camera for a couple of years now. Recently I’ve been enjoying myself taking what I call light architecture pics, where you take the roofline of a building against a bright sky, then inverting the camera and taking another (always best to start with the upside-down one first) using Lighten blend mode. The sky of the inverted shot wipes out the lower part of the building in the upright shot, so you end up with architecture that is surrounded by sky.
This is not one of those, though the idea is the same. The picture is of Floors Castle in Kelso, Scotland, taken last year.
First, the capture was heavily processed to Sliders Sunday standard using Nik Color Efex and all sorts of its filters. The heavy lifting was done by a solarisation filter using a fairly subtle approach with this sledgehammer tool. That gives it the HDR look, especially when used with a Detail Extraction filter.
Then I duplicated the layer, cropped the top layer to the entrance level, inverted it and slid it down. I’d corrected the perspective using Affinity before using the Nik filters, so the verticals matched much better than you could achieve with two exposures in-camera.
I’ll post a straight conversion of the original capture in the first comment so you can guage the starting point.
Thanks for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Sliders Sunday :)
Strobist: AB1600 with gridded 60X30 softbox camera right. AB800 with gridded HOBD-W overhead. AB800 with gridded 7 inch reflector camera left. Triggered by Cybersync.
The Cap-Rouge tracel is a trestle railway viaduct (or trestle bridge) located in the Cap-Rouge district of Quebec. Completed in 1908, it is still in service.
It allows you to cross the valley of the Cap Rouge River, at the western end of the Quebec hill.
The French word tréteau (anc. fr. trestel), from the late Latin transtillum (a "traverse"), passed into English in the form trestle, became in Quebec French tressel or more commonly tracel, to designate a trestle bridge.
A first transcontinental railway to British Columbia reached the west coast in 1885. A second transcontinental project was launched in 1903, then a third completed the network in 1915. It was in the project of the second transcontinental that the construction of the viaduct was included.
Very quickly, the construction of the foundations, in 1906, proved more difficult than expected, due to the very unstable ground of the river bed. It was then decided to resort to the very heavy technique of sinking by pressure caissons, and to remove one tower out of two in this sector, by considerably reinforcing the structure of the central pillars and replacing the deck of these long spans with lattice girders.
These difficulties made it impossible to deliver the viaduct in 1907, as planned. But the collapse of the Quebec Bridge, on August 29, 1907, to which the route is directly linked, made any haste in its construction useless: the rails were laid between 1908 and 1911, the work was completed in 1913, and the viaduct was put into service the same year. Trains had to cross the St. Lawrence River on ferries, pending the successful completion of the central span of the Quebec Bridge in 1917.
The riverbed being particularly soft, it was necessary to resort to the costly and difficult technique of sinking with pressurized caissons to establish solid foundations under the main trestles.
The workers worked in very difficult conditions in a pressurized metal chamber, weighted down with concrete: the caisson gradually sank vertically into the mud and alluvial soil, as the workers removed the muddy material. Two vertical tubes connected the work chamber to the airlocks located on the surface, one reserved for personnel access, the other for the evacuation of the spoil3.
This method is very similar to that used at the same time (1907) for the work to pass under the Seine of line 4 of the Paris metro between the Cité and Saint-Michel stations, and comparable to that of the sinking of the pylons of the Brooklyn Bridge, a quarter of a century earlier.
Period documents show how each white-hot rivet was thrown vertically using pliers: a colleague would catch the rivet in mid-air in a metal funnel before throwing it even higher, with pliers, towards another worker, and so on, until it was transported to the place of use, where the rivet was set with blows from a sledgehammer: this perilous exercise certainly required strength and skill.
The tall and long silhouette of the viaduct has dominated the gentle landscape of the mouth of the Cap Rouge River for a century, with its picturesque houses in bright colours. Opinions are very divided on the aesthetics of the structure. The most philosophical among the local residents say that, since we have to live with it, we might as well find it beautiful! Historians and visitors see it as a testimony to the know-how of ancient engineers and builders, and one of the most magnificent examples of a monument of industrial archaeology.
Who needs a sledgehammer to crack a nut when you have a wrench?
Challenged to take a photo of something metal...I already had this wrench out. It was part of my failed repair kit for the Cosinon 50/1.7 lens.
Snapped with a F100/2.8 Macro.
All children here learn Irish at school & take a state examination in the subject at 16/17 (unless English isn't their first language, they have a disability that precludes them or as in my son's case, they are over 12 years old when they move to Ireland). The west of Ireland, Connemara & the Aran Islands in particular, would have quite a large Irish speaking population.
A delightful store at Spiddal Craft market, Co. Galway. We visited during a brief respite in Covid travel restrictions. I really like the artwork here with the sledgehammer used to knock a hole in the wall to reveal the people reading books inside. A metaphor for knocking down the barriers to education & knowledge perhaps? HWW!
Macro Mondays theme: #Crack
As you may have already guessed, I can’t say that no walnut was harmed during this photoshoot. But using a sledgehammer to crack a nut? Did anyone ever tell you that you are nuts? There must be a better way to do this! This is driving me nuts!
Okay enough with the bad jokes!
For today’s theme, I used a cracked walnut and the whole frame fits in the 3” guideline.
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Pemaquid Point Light & Bell - 3115 Bristol Road, Pemaquid, Maine
A 2 level, 24 capture composite that resulted in PhotoMerge attempting to create a file that was even too large for my Beast (a.k.a. Core i7, 3.20GHz processor with 48 gig of RAM).
So, I downsized the Sony 7RM4's 6336 x 9504 RAW files to
4000 x 6000 Jpegs, for a do-over with Adobe's Photomerge that created a 90 MB DNG file from whence this image was made.
I used to think you could never have too many pixels,
but I now stand corrected. :{(
(6336 x 9504 x 24 = 1,445,216,256 a.k.a. 1.4 Billion pixels)
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Hey, hey, you
Tell me how have you been?
You could have a steam train
If you just lay down your tracks
You could have an aeroplane flying
If you bring your blue sky back
All you do is call me
I'll be anything you need
You could have a big dipper
Going up and down, all around the bends
You could have a bumper car, bumping
This amusement never ends
I wanna be your sledgehammer
Why don't you call my name?
Oh, let me be your sledgehammer
This will be my testimony
Show me 'round your fruit cage
'Cause I will be your honey bee
Open up your fruit cage
Where the fruit is as sweet as can be
I wanna be your sledgehammer
Why don't you call my name?
You'd better call the sledgehammer
Put your mind at rest
I'm going to be the sledgehammer
This can be my testimony
I'm your sledgehammer
Let there be no doubt about it
Sledge, sledge
Sledgehammer
~Peter Gabriel
Song: Sledgehammer
Cover art for a new piece I've posted on Soundcloud. Please have a listen, it's less than 2 minutes but it's more invigorating than relaxing. (and there are no Banjos or Puppies involved)
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Many thanks for listens, faves, and comments :)
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This is one image in a series of studio setups I am shooting. Unlike my flower series of several years ago, which I lit with traditional lighting, I shot these with a technique called Light Painting. The technique involves hand-holding small diffused flashlights and "brush stroking” the light where you want it while the camera’s shutter is open for a long exposure. I then blend several frames together in PS using the best elements from each frame to reach the desired look. This series features hand tools. I had several hammers I had gathered over the years and started adding to the collection for this series, picking up some gears and vintage oilers for some variety. To see more in the series, click StillLifes
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This is one image in a series of studio setups I am shooting. Unlike my flower series of several years ago, which I lit with traditional lighting, I shot these with a technique called Light Painting. The master of this technique is Harold Ross. You might check him out. The technique involves hand-holding small diffused flashlights and "brush stroking” the light where you want it while the camera’s shutter is open for a long exposure. I then blend several frames together in PS using the best elements from each frame to reach the desired look. This series features hand tools. I had several hammers I had gathered over the years and started adding to the collection for this series, picking up some gears and vintage oilers for some variety. To see more in the series, click StillLifes
Juglans Nigra known as Black Walnut. The nut is eatable and very healthy. It tastes more flowery than the classing English walnut. The husk is very hard until fully ripened. Once fallen , the husk turn black within a week or two. At that point it is soft enough to peel with your hands ( not many people know this fact, and try to remove it when green, extremely hard, some found absurd ways to do so , like running the Walnut over with a car ♀️). Also the husk will stain your hands , just like the English walnut, use gloves, thick ones . Next step is breaking the shell, well good luck with that! The only thing that worked with me is a sledgehammer. So wear protective eye glasses and have fun, once in, you’ll find that the shell is made of lots of nooks and crannies just as hard as the outer shell, you will NEVER get a half a walnut out intact , but you can try😁. And that’s why black walnut are sooo much more expensive then the other kind. Is it worth it? You tell me !
Strobist: AB1600 with gridded 60X30 softbox camera left. AB800 with gridded HOBD-W overhead. AB800 with gridded 7 inch reflector for rim. Triggered by Cybersync.
Strobist: AB1600 with gridded 60X30 softbox camera left. AB800 with gridded HOBD-W overhead. AB800 with gridded 7 inch reflector for rim. Triggered by Cybersync.
Hey, hey, you
Tell me how have you been?
You could have a steam train
If you just lay down your tracks
You could have an aeroplane flying
If you bring your blue sky back
All you do is call me
I'll be anything you need
You could have a big dipper
Going up and down, all around the bends
You could have a bumper car, bumping
This amusement never ends
I wanna be your sledgehammer
Why don't you call my name?
Oh, let me be your sledgehammer
This will be my testimony
Show me 'round your fruit cage
'Cause I will be your honey bee
Open up your fruit cage
Where the fruit is as sweet as can be
I wanna be your sledgehammer
Why don't you call my name?
You'd better call the sledgehammer
Put your mind at rest
I'm going to be the sledgehammer
This can be my testimony
I'm your sledgehammer
Let there be no doubt about it
Sledge, sledge
Sledgehammer
~Peter Gabriel
Song: Sledgehammer
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Red Squirrel holding a sledgehammer on a egg