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A detail of a stack of boats down at the Lake Mendota lake shore. It will take a while until they can flash their colors on the lake again.
Marines with Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Africa 13 watch as Senegalese Companie de Fusilier Marine Commandos fire their weapons during a maritime assistance force engagement in Thies, Senegal, Nov. 26, 2013. During the first week of the task force's fourth month-long engagement in Senegal this year, the Marines focused on basic and combat marksmanship skills.
(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Ryan Joyner/Released)
Vintage postcard.
American actor Robert Stack (1919-2003) became a star as Deanne Durbin's young lover in Henry Koster's First love (1939). After the war, he had massive success with Douglas Sirk's drama Written on the Wind (1956) for which he was nominated for the Oscar. Internationally, he became famous as Elliot Ness in the TV series The Untouchables (1959-1963).
Robert Stack was born Charles Langford Modini Stack in Los Angeles, in 1919. His first name, selected by his mother, was changed to Robert by his father, a professional soldier Robert was the grandson of Marina Perrini, an opera singer at the Scala theatre in Milan. When little Robert was five, his father was transferred to the US embassy in France. Robert went to school in Paris and learnt French rather than his mother tongue. At 11, he returned to America, and at 13, he became a top athlete. His brother and he won the International Outboard Motor Championships, in Venice, Italy, and at age 16, he became a member of the All-American Skeet Team. He played polo, saxophone and clarinet at Southern California University. A broken wrist ended his career as a sports athlete. He took drama classes and made his stage debut at 20. He joined Universal Studios in 1939. In his first film, he starred as Deanne Durbin's young lover in First love (Henry Koster, 1939). He gave the teenage film star her first on-screen kiss. Around this "event," Universal producer Joe Pasternak provided a lot of publicity. Stack established himself as an actor and the following year he appeared as a young Nazi in The Mortal Storm (Frank Borzage, 1940) alongside Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart. Stack was reunited with Durbin in Pasternak's musical Nice Girl? (William A. Seiter, 1941). In 1942 he appeared as a Polish Air Force pilot in Ernst Lubitsch's comedy To Be or Not to Be (1942) starring Carole Lombard and Jack Benny. The plot concerns a troupe of actors in Nazi-occupied Warsaw who use their acting abilities to fool the occupying troops. The film has become recognised as a comedy classic. Stack played another pilot in Eagle Squadron (Arthur Lubin, 1942), a huge hit. Then Stack's career was interrupted by military service. He did duty as a gunnery instructor in the United States Navy during World War II.
After World War II, Robert Stack continued his career. He returned to the screen with roles in films such as Fighter Squadron (Raoul Walsh, 1948) with Edmond O'Brien and A Date with Judy (Richard Thorpe, 1948) with Elizabeth Taylor. In 1952 Stack starred in Bwana Devil (Arch Oboler, 1952), the first major film production in 3D. He played the second leading role alongside John Wayne in William A. Wellman's aviation drama It's Always Day (1954). Sam Fuller cast him in the lead of House of Bamboo (1955), shot in Japan. Stack enjoyed one of his greatest successes with Douglas Sirk's drama Written in the Wind (1956). He received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of the alcoholic playboy Kyle Hadley. From the late 1950s Stack turned increasingly to television. Internationally, Robert became famous with his role in the television series The Untouchables in which he starred as the clean-cut Chicago police officer Eliot Ness during the Prohibition era. Around 120 episodes were made between 1959 and 1963. Other leading roles followed for Stack in the television series The Name of the Game (1968-1971), Most Wanted (1976) and Strike Force (1981). The multilingual Stack also took the lead role in the German-language film Die Hölle von Macao/The Hell of Macau (James Hill, 1966) alongside Elke Sommer, and he also appeared in French- or Italian-language productions. With advancing age, Stack also frequently took on deadpan comedy roles that lampooned his dramatic on-screen persona in films such as 1941 (Steven Spielberg, 1979), Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, 1980) or Caddyshack II (Allan Arkush, 1988). Between 1987 and 2002 he was the host of the television series Unsolved Mysteries, which was dedicated to mysterious murder cases. He worked as an actor until his death. In 1956 he married actress Rosemarie Bowe (1932-2019), to whom he was married until the end of his life. The couple had two children. Robert Stack died of pneumonia in 2003 in Beverly Hills at the age of 84 and was buried in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Another Anemone picture taken at the CBG. I wanted sharpness all through this flower, but not in the background. So I decided to try focus stacking. Fortunately this was inside, so no problem with wind. This is just two pictures merged. One picture was taken focusing on the petals and the other on the stamen.
I then used PSE, layering the two images and selctively merged the layers. It seems like a valid technique. May have to try this again with something that has greater depth than this Anemone.
A Marine stack takes cover behind a protective blanket during an explosion Aug. 28, 2013, while completing a demolitions training evolution at a demo range in the Central Training Area in Okinawa, Japan. The knowledge of the different types of explosives in urban mobility breaching is vital to combat engineers as they perform a key role in a war-time theater. The Marines are combat engineers with 9th Engineer Support Battalion, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, III Marine Expeditionary Force.
(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Jose Lujano/Released)
Fousc stacked fly made of 29 shots. Lightroom and Photoshop used to process. Photos taken on a Canon 40d and a Raspberry Pi python script controlling a linear rail using a stepper motor
Welsh Coast - Pembrokeshire
Stack rocks. Formed from two massive pillars of limestone standing freely a short distance from the cliffs off the Pembrokeshire coast.
Chamonix 045N-2 4x5 Camera
Fujinon SW 90mm F8
Kodak Portra 400
Tetenal C41 home processed
Epson V700 Scan.
Westbound on track 1, a Union Pacific double stack marches over Sherman Hill at Dale, Wyoming, on September 17, 2008.
Market crates
Evanston Farmer's Market
Evanston, IL
chicagoist.com/2014/09/15/around_town_a_fine_collection.p...
The Stacks of Duncansby, Duncansby Head at dawn.
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5 different images stacked using StarStax. I took these with my GoPro earlier this summer. Just now thought about stacking them. I can't wait for some more lightning shows. Hoping to get some better quality taken with my Canon on a tripod.
For a couple who both recently graduated with English and writing degrees. They wanted a stack of books cake because they enjoy watching all of the extreme cake shows. It turned out much bigger than I imagined.
Thank you Kim (sugarygoodness) for helping me!
This image of an eastbound Norfolk Southern stack train on the Cleveland Line at Brady Lake, Ohio, was made the day after a snow storm blanketed the area with a few inches of snow.
From what we could see, the bulk of the churchyard has been cleared of its old tombstones, which have been stacked up ...
Ilex vomitoria. A generally unappealing name, but Yaupon is a great tea plant (and a relative of Yerba mate, of South America..another drinkable holly). It, like probably all the holly group is a great bee plant, generous in attractants, and open architecture so all who come may drink and eat. Great semi-understory, edge of forest plant. Collect all the hollies why don't you. Specimen and photograph by Helen Low Metzman.
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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
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With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
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Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
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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
a high priority northbound stack train passes a southbound train made up of empty autoracks at ballico, CA
Desks and their accompanying chairs lay strewn about an abandoned classroom, many of them stacked upon one another just as they were when they were left there just shy of a decade ago on the afternoon of March 22, 2021, in the abandoned Pound, VA, high school.
I occasionally go back to edit photos that I have taken in the past; this was from November 2012. This composite image used a photo stacking (or layering) technique in Photoshop. I call it cloud stacking. I used thirty images where only the clouds were in motion during two and a half minutes. Just after sunset, the bottom of the clouds were lit by a break in the clouds at the horizon. These thirty images were selected from the total sequence of 300.
Continuing my early morning walk, wrecked cars stacked ready for recycling. There's a wire fence around the compound so I had to use a wide aperture to throw the fence out of focus.
A few days after I made this stack I received an email from Lancaster University asking me if I would enter something for their 'Experimentality' exhibition. They had asked me several weeks before that but I couldn't think of anything that would fit the theme and so I put it to the back of my mind.
This latest email came within a couple of days of the closing date and when I thought about it I reckoned the stills from this video would fit the experimentality theme as I realised that I hadn't witnessed or tried to witness the demise or collapse of a sculpture in such a way before.
So I took the ten stills that make up this timelapse and made them into a single picture, entered it and was very pleased to be chosen. (I am saving the actual picture for an upcoming book as it looks quite cool).
Quite a bit of luck was involved in capturing the stills for that video. I had not planned it and just gave it a go not expecting very much at all. The results were quite good
and now the exhibition has finished, the gallery has given me the printed picture and I have spent some time looking at it. I like the sculptural quality of each shot as it moves from its equlibrium point and gradually collapses from frame to frame (although this all happens in less than a second).
And so this accident of discovery spurred me on to get out there today and try again. Another thing I often find with my art is my first go is the best and that is why I rarely repeat the same sculpture but move onto something new. My first try always looks more fresh to me and so it was with these new attempts at playing with gravity. The pebbles on top of the pagoda stack all balanced the first time quite easily. In that incarnation they also looked the most symmetrical and elegant. Yet when I tried to knock it over I only succeeded in knocking the top off (as shown in this timelapse) and had to rebuild the balanced pebbles at the top. And this took a frustrating age... You may notice that single shot of each sculpture is different to the timelapses or composites and that is because I got each one 'right' first time but had to rebuild them again to collapse them, but each rebuild did not have the form of the original.
Why does it come so easily the first time only for it to be painfully difficult the second? I have experienced this so many times but cannot write it off as coincidental.
I tried several more stacks and attempted to capture each demise. A couple of times the wind beat me to it but after learning how best to collapse and capture each stack it left me bemused how the collapse of the temple stack was so perfectly captured and yet I didn't know what I was after and didn't try to do anything in a particular way. I call it the art of slack or following the line of least resistance. When I try to achieve something I often fail, when I just do without expectation I am often much more successful. Why? I don't know, but it seems to work for me.
You might think the second frame is the same as the first, but if you look closely you will see that the shadow of the thrown stone is coming in from the left.
The Stacks of Duncansby, Duncansby Head at sunset as a hail shower moves away.
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Couldn't resist.. Had to see how the last two looked like as one. Apart from the interrupted star-trails (which are barely noticeable) I think I prefer this one to the originals.
First thing I thought of when I saw that this week's theme was stacked! Big thanks to my yoga buddies for helping out :0)
What lies next is a voice kept quiet. I often imagine I'm talking to myself, at times or in places like these. But I can't be sure what mumbling I'm making, while the birds and bugs have thoughts of their own. It's a kind of competition I suppose, some sort of whisper between strangers to see who gets to the point first. The wildlife sticks to territorial disputes and mating calls, and I'm just here with what's existential. Last bright words before the black, stacked up shadows that gather into one big blanket falling. There's a cool coming and feel it on my shoulders, warm earth still rising through my feet. I let it in, and it lets me.
July 13, 2021
Old Tremont Cemetery
Tremont, Nova Scotia
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