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On the drive to Killarney Provincial Park, we stopped by a chip wagon for some Poutine French Fries. (mmmm). The massive stack of full tree logs was taking over the scenery.
Few things make me happier than a pile of books. Except maybe two piles. Or more.
These are at the home of a good friend ~ The kind that gives you free rein to take pictures of their stuff.
In Chichester Cathedral..waiting to be set out for a service...
For the TSC group challenge ( over on Ipernity) 7th June..Your favourite song and picture that goes with it..well I seem to have a different favourite song every week..depending on my mood..where I am..etc etc..this week it is Re:Stacks by Bon Iver..I am playing it to death at every opportunity!..
Have not had a chance to get a new picture to go with it so this old one will have to do..
Here is a link to the song in case anyone wants to listen to it ..
I of course think it is wonderful but everyones tastes are different :))
We are riding on a legend in the intermodal world. Over the past 50 years, you could find these monster machines in the yards of most railroads across the country.
The PC90 was an intermodal loader built by FWD Wagner Company. Manufacturing began in the late 1960s. They can still be found loading and unloading trains today.
Today, the last container of UPS high priority freight is being set for pick up. After an inspection of the cars, the track will be released and the cars placed into a train.
It was awesome to ride this beast. The operator was a veteran at ITS and was very skilled. He precisely spotted containers on chassis and well cars. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing this behind the scenes side of railroading.
The PC90 is a huge machine. It is much larger than the modern European built counterparts that are replacing them. When the operator opens the tucked in legs and spread them wide open. the PC90 resembles a Transformer. It's size seems to increase quite a bit. Let me tell you, Bumblebee has nothing on the PC90!
Stack Em!
The colourful second-hand U.S Bluebird school buses have been an integral part of the Panama public transport network for years but are becoming a rarer sight.
According to local media, with a new transport system being developed, the traditional Red Devils imported to Panama throughout the last 40 years are now disappearing and are only used for a few specific routes.
This example is quite under stated with its original paint scheme. Note the string of LED lights across the rear of the roof.
Those over the top stacks are connected to the exhaust system - they produce a loud deep growl like a wounded bear.
Two UP Stack trains meet in Traver, CA. This is a small town of about 700 people along the SR-99 "valley" corridor of the Central Valley of California. Traver is known for its grain exports.
Today these two stack trains waste no time blazing through town, even with an older Southern Pacific (now UP) loco second out on the Westbound (Compass North) train.
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The Happy Stacker made from Heather Bailey's pattern and fabulous Freshcut fabrics. This is just about the cutest handmade baby gift ever. I loved making it.
Andrena macra. One of almost 100 species of Andrena that occur in the State of Maryland. Quick glance, another dark bee, but if you look close you will see the dense pitting on the top of the abdomen, the subtle white hair bands on the abdomen, and most importantly the clincher is the inner tibial spur is s-curved in sigmoidality, while other species have more or less straight ones...sadly this is not visible in this picture, but take a look at the lovely tongue architecture instead and ponder why your tongue does not look like that. Or ... is it a tongue? Photo by Brooke Goggins.
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Photography Information:
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
Part of the presidio, the building in the foreground is Fort Point. Construction began in 1853 at the height of California’s Gold Rush, the fort was later used in the Civil War, then again in World War II, had a cameo in Hitchcock’s Vertigo in 1958, ultimately becoming a National Historic Park in 1970.
The south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge was raised above it in the 1930's, sharing the same promitory on the south shore of the Golden Gate Strait.
The Anaconda Smelter Stack is the tallest surviving masonry structure in the world., at 585ft/178m tall..
Built in 1918 as part of the Washoe Smelter of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company (ACM) at Anaconda, Montana.
This stack has been landmark of my whole life. It's a refinery stack that juts out of the Imperial Oil refinery on the river. It does something in relation to aircraft petroleum (something probably not good). I've used it as a wayfinding reference drunk as a teen, and on more sober adventures, on and off, as an adult.
Lynx spider
Canon 70D
Laowa 100mm f2.8 2x macro
1/100, f7.1, iso 200, 4 image stack. I would have the entire spider in focus, but it moved after 4 images.
I visited the Islands of Malta and Gozo in April 1997 and came across stacks of well cared for buses and coaches imported from a previous life in the UK.
I was awaiting a stack heading west that had a UP Heritage unit (WP 1983) as the second unit, but lo and behold, this one was not the one. It turned out it was behind this one, but eventually the prized stacker was allowed to overtake and pass this one, as it came through Colton a short time later ahead of the pictured one.
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Elgin, Illinois
January 18, 2017
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This stack wasn't so easy cause the flie moved head. Made with firmware 4.0, where the em-1 get the new focus-stacking-function. Natural light.
South Stack Lighthouse was built by Trinity House in 1809, marking a tiny islet off Anglesey at the north west tip of Wales
Built
1809
Height of Tower
28 m
Height of light above Mean High Water
60 m
Automated
1983
Electrified
1938
Optic
1st Order six panel catadioptric rotating
Character
Fl 10s
Intensity
467,000 candela
Range of light
24 NM
Region
West
South Stack Rock lies separated from Holyhead Island by 30 metres of turbulent sea, surging to and fro in continuous motion. The coastline from the breakwater and around the south western shore is made of large granite cliffs rising sheer from the sea to 60 metres.
Origins
South Stack Lighthouse was first envisaged in 1665 when a petition for a patent to erect the lighthouse was presented to Charles II. The patent was not granted and it was not until 9 February 1809 that the first light appeared to mark the rock. The lighthouse was designed by Trinity House surveyor Daniel Alexander and originally fitted with Argand oil lamps and reflectors. Around 1840 a railway was installed by means of which a lantern with a subsidiary light could be lowered down the cliff to sea level when fog obscured the main light.
On 25 October 1859 it is said that the most severe storm of the century occurred, known as the 'Royal Charter' gale; and on that and the following day over 200 vessels were either driven ashore or totally wrecked with the loss of 800 lives.The steamship Royal Charter was among these, sinking within yards of help with the loss of almost 500 passengers and crew.
In the mid 1870s the lantern and lighting apparatus was replaced by a new lantern. In 1909 an early form of incandescent light was installed and in 1927 this was replaced by a more modern form of incandescent mantle burner. The station was electrified in 1938.
Automation
On 12 September 1984 the lighthouse was automated and the keepers withdrawn. The lighthouse is now monitored and controlled from Trinity House’s Planning Centre in Harwich, Essex.