Sterling & Ford Trucks
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Sterling silver is an alloy of silver containg 92,5% silver and 7,5% other metals, usually copper.
Fine silver, for example 99.9% pure silver, is generally too soft to use and other elements like copper can reduce the tarnishing of silver.
He's a lot more "talkative" in winter when he gets to feed on the sunflower seeds under the bird feeder .....
The Local power for LPG04 rests on a clear night in Sterling, Illinois as a UP Grain Load cruises East toward Chicago on the Geneva Sub.
this was shot this morning at Sterling Pond in Morton Arboretum.....it was great to see some fall foliage starting to show on some of the trees...it'll be a really awesome show once they peak in about 3-4 weeks...pls. View On Black
I have a note on this slide that this was the first train with Sterling Tower on full remote auto. The train is Q136 and the date is December 23, 1988. The ballast of the former EL mainline is in the foreground.
Sterling Nebraska
Its been awhile since I've done any Milky Way photography. In fact this is the first try this year - not that I wouldn't have tried earlier but smoke from the wildfires in Canada and the usual problems of getting clear skies coinciding with no moon have kept me in bed at night.
As usual, this is a composite. The foreground photos (two rows of two put together as a panorama in Lightroom) were taken an hour after sunset. It was actually fairly dark but there was still some light on the horizon. The foreground photo was taken looking west. The illumination on the foreground was due to a street light behind the camera. The sky photos (4 - 1 minute tracked photos taken and stacked in Photoshop to reduce noise) were taken about an hour later a couple miles outside town in a soybean field using an Olympus 17mm f 1.8 shot wide open and looking southeast. The composite was put together in Photoshop with some finishing touches done in Lightroom.
The photos details here on Flickr are for the foreground photos.
Yale University
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Sterling Trucks Corporation was an American truck manufacturer founded in 1998, Sterling was created following the purchase by Freightliner of Ford's heavy truck line.
The line was discontinued in 2009 and the manufacturing plants in St. Thomas, Ontario and Portland, Oregon were closed, affecting 2300 people..
Last week my Flickr friend simple.joy posted an extreme close-up of the edge of a Euro coin in preparation for Macro Monday’s My Closest theme today.
For some inexplicable reason, the image stirred up my competitive instincts. That came as a considerable surprise - I had assumed they were long dead, or at least in a terminal coma.
A master plan formed to outdo this upstart pretender of continental coinage with the dignity of the ancient currency of our noble realm (I would say empire, but even I have to admit I’m a little late for that). Reverse my 105mm macro onto stacked extension tubes perched on the end of bellows and use the mirrorless full-frame sensor as the target; mount the whole lot on a focus rail and stack 20 or 30 of the resulting images. Pretty straightforward then, and should trounce the cheeky contender as easy as…
A brief review, however, of the plan highlighted three significant technical difficulties:
1) I didn’t have a reversing ring.
2) I didn’t have any bellows.
3) I couldn’t be bothered...
Undaunted, I sallied forth with a different approach…
This was taken on my phone by holding a hand magnifying lens in front of the camera port (once I’d worked out which one that was!). Lighting was a mix of an LED torch and a desk lamp. It’s four images stacked in Affinity. Handheld.
That last word was the difficulty. Ideally to work this rig I needed four hands and a prehensile tail. I only had two. (Hands! {sigh - you just can’t get the readers these days}).
And it did need a bit of processing. The raw (dng) images from the phone were first cleaned up in Topaz DeNoise AI, then stacked as raws in Affinity and output as a tif. This was sharpened in Topaz Sharpen AI, then the result was expanded by a factor of two in Topaz Gigapixel AI to give us more pixels to play with. This was then cropped and tarted up back in Affinity. It's still almost 4,000 pixels wide even at this crop, so doing well.
I’m quite impressed really by what proved achievable. Phone cameras are remarkable and they are close-focusing for macro work. The newer pound coins no longer have engraved words around the edge, so I just took the top-down view. Well, really it was the only view I could take! There is some blurred millimetre grid graph paper underneath (you’d need to pay me a lot more to get it in focus).
The pounds have faceted edges like an old threepenny (that is, worth three old pennies) bit. Which was probably worth more than the pound coin is now :) But the image is interesting because it reveals that each facet has a tiny number stamped on it which I had never seen before (2017 here which may be the minting date I guess).
But if you want to see a proper job do have a look at: flic.kr/p/2mX2iAZ
So that pesky continental shrapnel wins the skirmish by a clear margin. But I am undismayed - the battle remains. I have a new plan which involves the same setup but drinking a glass of sherry beforehand. This should act as a kind of VR and IBIS combined and give a much sharper image to work with. Watch this space…
Thank you for taking the time to look (and read if you have got this far). Hope you enjoy the image. Happy Macro Mondays :)
Final Catalog of Sterling Kit Houses, 1971. Full of relics from the 40s and 50s, it's no wonder that they went out of business.
International Mill & Timber Company
Bay City, Michigan
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