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.
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.
CNRPW9 06 runs along the Rock River on Geneva sub about to wye around in Nelson and head south on the Peoria sub. Geneva sub use to host a constant flow of coal, now just a few here and there. A rare KCS gray unit leads, a well-worn AC4400CW.
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
Sterling Opera House
Derby, CT
September 2016
The Sterling Opera House is located in Derby, CT on 104 Elizabeth St across from the town green. The building was constructed in 1889 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 8, 1968. It was intended to be a city hall at first but then ended up being a hot spot for performances and musical history.
The Sterling Opera House has been abandoned for almost 50 years, and is in need of restoration. Peeling paint, broken windows and rusted metal are merely a few of the problems that have worsened over the years and will need to be fixed
Eastern Gray Squirrel.
Between 17 to 19 3/4 inches long. Gray above with buff underfur showing especially on the head, shoulders, back and feet. They have a flattened bushy tail which is gray with silvery tipped hairs.
In Canada, some have rufous bellies and tails. Black phase common in northern parts of their range.
Their habitat is hardwood or mixed forests with nut trees, especially oak-hickroy forests.
They range in the eastern United States from eastern North Dakota south to eastern Texas.
Sterling State Park, Monroe County, Michigan.
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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As promised another shot with a square crop. I think this one would look great 16:9 style but I would be losing some of the frame. I took the 100mm macro out. I rarely use this lens but I'm now convinced to take it out more. It's super sharp and much lighter then the 70-200. The colors and contrast are on point as well...
More Sterling-Ware fun. I uploaded a really big file, as this one is so easy to get lost in, so please view Large.
For lots more fractals, see: photoviewplus.deviantart.com/gallery/#Fractals
Yesterday saw a rare March snow storm that dumped five inches of fresh snow on the landscape. This was taken late afternoon - it was much more spectacular in the morning.
Abandoned farmhouse in Mount Sterling, Missouri by Notley Hawkins. Taken with a Canon EOS R5 camera with a Canon RF24-105mm F4 L IS USM lens at ƒ/5.6 with a 1/400-second exposure at ISO 50. Processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.
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