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As the sun rises the little Puffin is constantly supplying it's one Puffling with the nourishment to grow ❤️
With a Start Helios 44, 8 blades version. The lens was sold with a Soviet Start camera, with a Start camera mount. Not a M42 mount.
Start Point is a promontory in the South Hams district in Devon, England, grid reference SX832370. Close to the most southerly point in the county, it marks the southern limit of Start Bay, which extends northwards to the estuary of the River Dart.
The rocks of the point are greenschist and mica-schist, formed by metamorphism of Devonian sediments during a period of mountain building towards the end of the Carboniferous period.
The name "Start" derives from an Anglo-Saxon word steort, meaning a tail. This root also appears in the names of birds with distinctive tails, like the redstart.
As a result of the many shipwrecks in the area, Start Point lighthouse was built in 1836 to alert ships to the danger of the point and its surrounding rocks. The lighthouse, and the area's birdlife, make it a popular spot for visitors, and Start Point is accessible to walkers from the South West Coast Path.
The Start Point transmitting station is located on top of the promontory, just north-west of the lighthouse. Built in 1939, it nowadays transmits only a single broadcast, BBC Radio 5 Live.
Lamacraft Farm is near Start Point and a quarter of a mile from South Hallsands.
I've been working on this in post production for over a year. Just feels like I should be able to do more with it.
„Niemand sieht eine Blume. Wir haben nicht die Zeit, uns etwas anzusehen. Das braucht Zeit, so wie es Zeit braucht, sich jemanden zum Freund zu machen."
Georgia O'Keeffe
Just over a year ago, I went out and snapped my first RoadRailer of 2024. It didn't occur to me then just how much of the year I'd spend going after these trains, as well as all the stuff I would learn about them. They were just an oddball cool thing to see every so often to me at that point, but quickly became one of my favourite things to go out to see and learn more about.
At the time though, I definitely needed a good distraction, and an early heads up on the NS8025 Monongahela heritage unit soloing the 255 definitely made it an easy choice to get out there and get a few pictures.
I'd started over by Philo and managed to beat it (just barely) to Martin (East Tolono), and didn't expect to get it again. However, luck was with me as a slow order over the Tolono diamond made it easy to shoot over to Sadorus and grab another field shot of the train. Slow orders worked in my favour quite well that day, granting me more shots than anyone would normally be able to get attempting to chase out here. They put the hammer down on these trains and the roads do not an easy chase make for something of that speed. It was a good day though, and I learned some valuable lessons on how to chase these things down that would help me for the rest of the year in a major way.
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Een ijzig begin van de dag, op een winterdag in februari.
Krommenie, Nederland
An icy start to the day, on a winter day in February.
Krommenie, The Netherlands
Mike and I are starting a new tradition this year: Christmas without the tree.
I'm so relieved. Because every year, the tree has been the source of this huge internal struggle for me.
On one hand... in what I like to think is a nod to my long-ago Druid ancestors... I pretty much worship trees. (You may have noticed this elsewhere in my stream. Ahem. It's a powerful force.) So... to bring one in, and adorn it with lights and ornamentation, and spend many hours admiring it... living with it as a member of the family... well, it feels kind of right.
On the other hand... there is no escaping the fact that the trees we bring inside each year are dead. And worse - we killed them ourselves, with our own hands, and have the sap-stained clothes and gloves to attest to our act of, let's face it, murder.
It's always bugged me, but the final straw was Mike's comment on our watering system. We have this great set-up where... every time the tree takes a drink... we hear this musical glug-glug-gurgle. Our tradition has always been to raise our glasses in response, and drink (or eat, or make the motions thereof) in the tree's direction, and say something like, "Here's to you, tree!"
So... yeah. We've lived with this charade for years. And it was only in the past few weeks that we agreed the glug-glugging was, in fact, sinister. Equivalent, we decided, to the flopping and gasping a fish does out of water.
We have agreed (thank goodness) not to inflict that slow-death suffering on another good, honest tree this year. And I am so relieved.
Yes, I know there's the option of the "living tree," but that has its own problems. Kind of like bringing home a big Tyee salmon and watching it swim in a bowl for a few weeks. Conifers just weren't made to live indoors. Or die indoors. So I'll do my seasonal worshipping outdoors this year - in the trees' own living room, which is as it should be.
Railroad : MÁV - START
Locomotive Typ : Bombardier TRAXX P160 AC2
Locomotive Nr. : 91 55 0480 009-4 H-START
Locomotive Name :
Location : Hegyeshalom, Hungary
Photo Date : 01.03.2023
Remarks : KAJLA.HU
Train Number :
Hello my dear Flickr friends,
on Wednesday my account was accidentally deleted by the Flickr team. After realizing that I could no longer sign in and could no longer find my account using the URL, I notified the Flickr team.
Last night i received a message from the fickr team that through deleting spam my entire account was also deleting too. The Flickr team apologized to me and largely reconstructed my account.
Unfortunately a lot is still missing so it seems that a lot of my responses to your great comments, as well as some of my comments under your fabulous pictures, have still disappeared: - ((
Of course i won't give up, in the next few days i may be replying again to some of the comments and i will probably post comments a second time under one or the other of your masterpieces!
It was a really unpleasant surprise that suddenly the entire Flickr account disappeared !!! It may take a while before my account is complete and working again. I'm still analyzing it.
Thank you in advance for your understanding and support and i wish you all a nice weekend!
Kind regards
Stefan Blank
New Year's Day is always an outdoor day for me. I use to stay up late on NYE but over the years I have begun to favor an early bedtime in order to get a head start on the fresh year - generally heading out somewhere to be in nature. This year saw me hiking Silver Falls State Park. But I have talked about my New Year habits in previous posts over previous years. The thread of today's image is actually involving Harman Phoenix 200 - the film used to make this image.
I will say, I have not completely made up my mind on this film, though my opinion of it has evolved since my first roll with it. It is definitely interesting stuff and I am glad Harman is making it. How long it remains available is still to be seen though. But even if it is phased out, it seems like that will be just to make room for a newly evolved color film.
But it does surprise me sometimes how film photographers don't quite seem to realize how malleable a material film is to work with. I see it sometimes at work. Customers will drop off film and then be amazed to discover how much work we can do to an image at the printing or scanning stage. Some think the image is more or less baked into the film and there is only one possible way that it will come out of a printer. But this also happens online too, especially with the rise of home developing and home scanning. Folks will develop a film like Phoenix then scan it (sometimes poorly) and characterize it by the results they get as if those are the only results possible. One example of this is the fact that Phoenix has a purple base. Most color films have a dusky orange film base. But Phoenix must share technology with XP2, a black and white C-41 film also known for a blue-purple film base. This purplish base makes it trickier to scan since a lot of film scanners are calibrated to see, and negate, the orange film base. And since we are dealing with negatives where everything inverts, that purple base of Phoenix inverts into a yellow-orange color cast in the positive scans. That is to say unless you work to correct/calibrate for it. My initial tests with this film only had modest color corrections and I just kind of let it be yellowish. But then I saw some optical prints we had done in our lab where our printing tech had put in a bit more effort to see if he could correct Phoenix to something a bit more neutral. The results impressed even me and at first I did not even realize the prints I was looking at had come from Harman Phoenix. So having seen this as an example of what the film could do I spent more time scanning my next couple of rolls. Specifically I used the Nikon Coolscan's ROC (restoration of color) feature to automatically correct the color cast. It did an impressive job but also had a tendency to add too much contrast. So lately I have been dialing in the color corrections manually and ending up with results like this image and without the heavy yellow tinge of my earlier images made on Phoenix.
I guess my point is multi-pronged. One - be careful about rushing to conclusions, especially when you have relatively little evidence to work with. Two - don't believe everything you read online because the folks giving you info might be failing at point One. Three - Remember that you are blind to your own blind spots. Meaning you have them, but you cannot see them. And it is easy to forget about something you cannot see. I had begun to characterize my own expectations of this film without realizing it and it took the print work of our lab to make me conscious of the bias I was forming about Phoenix. Four - keep your mind open and be curious, don't stop asking questions and don't stop looking for the answers to them, even if you want to think you already know those answers.
Anyhoo, just some Phoenix-related thoughts that may or may not be applicable in other ways.
Hasselblad 500C/M
Harman Phoenix 200
Had to grab the first four books from my library to reread the stories. Now that I mostly know the plots, I will FINALLY be starting my Ranger's Apprentice series. And I've tagged a few people who seemed most interested/supportive.
Your scanner can lie to you.
Yesterday when making a double exposure with 2 different negatives I discovered that the negative was not as underexposed as I thought it was when I first scanned it.
The print showed a brighter image.
This is a scan of 2 negatives on top of each other, I might eventually scan the print and post it as well.
Printing is important, If you can find a way it will be a game changer if you love film photography.
The 2 negatives together were emmet gowin's idea when he was picking them up to look at them he looked at them together in the light, not sure if he did it on purpose or not.
He also may have said something like “be careful to not be accused of mimicking my work and tell them it was my idea”.
I’ll take it.
"Life begins the day you start a garden."
- Chinese Proverb
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The first 6x6 TLR camera in my tiny collection, functional, lenses clean and generally in a very nice condition:
Start B, made in Poland, produced by WZFO (Warsaw Photo-Optical Works) from 1960 up to 1967 with the Emitar 3.5 / 75 lens
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Start_(Polish_camera)
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Male Anna's hummingbird just as he starts to flare his head feathers, switching them from lay-down dark olive to stand-up neon, day-glow, pink-red-purple colour/light riot. He seems able to align these feathers and focus the brightest view at whatever he's trying to intimidate.
Infinitas gracias al magnífico fotógrafo Joan Fradera. www.joanfradera.es/ o flickr.com/photos/joanfra/ para ver más fotos de la sesión.