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Great Blue Heron.
Between 39 to 52 inches long with a wingspan of nearly 6 feet. A common large mainly grayish heron with a pale or yellowish colored bill. It is often mistaken for a Sandhill Crane but flies with its neck folded and not extended like the Sandhill Crane. In southern Florida an all-white form, the "Great White Heron", differs from the Great Egret in that they are larger with greenish-yellow legs rather than the black legs of the Great Blue Heron.
Their habitat includes lakes, ponds, rivers and marshes.
They range from Alaska east to Nova Scotia and south to Mexico in the west and the West Indies in the east. They winter as far notrh as southern Alaska, the central United States and southern New England.
Sterling State Park, Monroe County, Michigan.
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.
On a frigid February 9, 1975 a westbound with 3 6 motor units rolls through the famous interlocking at Sterling Ohio. The lead U36C was only 3 years old when this shot was taken. Sterling was one of 3 places in NE Ohio within 30 miles where the Chicago mains of the B&O and EL crossed. Only 2 of them were at grade (Sterling and JO in Akron). In Kent, the B&O went under the EL.
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.
Kodak Sterling II 620 medium format camera
Shanghai GP3 100 620 format film
Developed with
Bellini Euro HC 1+31 dilution B 8 minutes at 20 celcius
Digitised with
Nikon D700
Tamron Adaptall 2 90mm f/2.5 macro lens
Valoi medium format film holder
Pixl-Latr
A5 led light pad
Raw files processed with Affinity Photo 2
Yale University
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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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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 :)
The aptly titled Arrowcave; where Sterling City's Arrow calls home.
I've had this build sitting on my shelf for a month or so and I'm finally just getting around to taking pictures. I will say I'm rather indifferent towards it, much like the show itself, and this could have just have easily ended up in the scrap pile. So this is one lucky build...
On the road to Anchorage. We don't have much snow, it's been too cold for that. I love the frost on the trees!
Sterling, MA Fire Deparment
2010 Seagrave Marauder II
2000 GPM Pump
1500 Gal water tank
25 Gal foam cell
Photo generously provided to me by Chief David Hurlburt as my uncle produced the Roto-Ray light mounted in the grile.
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Completed in 1930
Architect James Gamble Rogers
Stained Glass G. Owen Bonawit
Named for benefactor John William Sterling
Handcrafted lampwrok bead wirewrapped with sterling silver wire hanging from a Bali sterling bail on a seed bead necklace.
© Do not reproduce without permission
Sterling's castle located high on a crag was one of Scotland's strongest and most impregnable fortresses.
Built in 1889, the Sterling attracted celebrities like George Burns, actors Lionel, John and Ethel Barrymore, Harry Houdini and Amelia Earhart, who appeared there prior to the final curtain call in 1945. City Hall and the police station occupied the first floor of the building until 1965. The opera house was the first structure in Connecticut to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places. #historic #abandoned #derbyct #abandonedct #sterlingoperahouse