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Hybrid printing system:
A digital negative image appeared on a Duobond 6 inch 2k monochrome LCD (no backlight itself, originally used for a 3D printer), herein called "virtual negative", was successfully formed on cyanotype (or Van Dyke) photographic paper using an analog photographic enlarger (light source: 395 nm UV SMD). This virtual negative method differs in this respect from previous digital negatives on OHP film (contact printing) and analog negatives as attempted by group: www.flickr.com/groups/cyanotype_wenlarger/).
Image signal is output to the LCD via HDMI from a mini-PC (OS: Windows 10) with a built-in graphics board capable of up to 4K video output.
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Printed on Cotman water colour postcard sized paper / exposed for 3hrs
Original picture: Elīna Arāja (Pexels' free photo)
Sensitizer: Jacquard cyanotype kit (Potassium Ferricyanide & Ferric Ammonium Citrate)
Toning: none
Enlarger: LPL Model 7451 large format enlarger (EL Nikkor 150mm / F5.6)
Light source: High power (50w) UV LED unit (SMD=surface mounted LED modules)
The condenser unit (= a unit in which two 16cm diameter convex lenses are set facing each other) was removed from my old Hansa patent enlarger for use in LPL Model 7451.
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My first successful encounter with a pygmy owl was incredible, yet flawed. Twenty feet off the road and at shoulder height, the owl stood atop the branch of an old snag. It was hunting in a snowstorm. I wasn’t the only visitor to stop. A dozen other passers-by were mesmerized at the flurry of activity so close to the road. It might have been the best morning of a hundred visits to the park but for the fact that I had not driven alone. For on this occasion I had come with a coach and there was no place for the driver to park. A ranger showed up quickly, angrily threatening to ticket everyone involved. The hunting gaze of the owl made me feel twice as threatened. It was a great few moments and dozen snaps but I can’t help thinking of the opportunity lost.
This may be my most successful photo ever.
When you look up Tabitha Soren on wikipedia, what do you find? This photo. Through this photo I have achieved immortality!!!!!
It is the dream, kinda. The shot people use when talking about a person. The shot people think of when they think of a person.
Especially with so many images in the world, feels good to have an image of mine (any image of mine, really!) stand out.
Tabitha actually liked the photo so much, she ended up using it for years whenever a publication wanted a photo of her to accompany an interview. She'd email me, let me know where it was going to be, even sent me a copy of the Washington Post once because the photo was there.
We traded usage for her photo book on baseball players, great stuff.
It was all just...neat. Was I a bit deflated when she finally started using another picture? Do I feel deflated whenever people start using my picture for their About pages, or profile shots, only to use a different picture years later? Of course! But also, this picture is seven years old! Pictures become out of date!
Do I screenshot my photos' appearances on people's About pages and profile pages, so I can soak in the memories forever?
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...you betcha.
Successfully started a night on Marden Down, which overlooks Moretonhampstead and Dartmoor, with a nice capture of the sun lighting up this small stone circle.
My thanks go to my good friend Adrian Harris who inspired me to visit this lovely location at sundown.
We saw this bobcat stocking something, so we decided to wait. We didn't wait to long when this cat pounced with amazing speed and got this big rodent (not sure what it is). This isn't the cooperative bobcat from the previous photos, however they were neighbours. Their territories were one next to each other.
The hot air balloon is the oldest successful human-carrying flight technology. On November 21, 1783, in Paris, France, the first manned flight was made by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes in a hot air balloon created by the Montgolfier brothers.
A hot air balloon consists of a bag called the envelope that is capable of containing heated air. Suspended beneath is the gondola or wicker basket (in some long-distance or high-altitude balloons, a capsule) which carries the passengers and (usually) a source of heat. The heated air inside the envelope makes it buoyant since it has a lower density than the relatively cold air outside the envelope. Unlike gas balloons, the envelope does not have to be sealed at the bottom since the air near the bottom of the envelope is at the same pressure as the surrounding air. In today's sport balloons the envelope is generally made from nylon fabric and the mouth of the balloon (closest to the burner flame) is made from fire resistant material such as Nomex.
Recently, balloon envelopes have been made in all kinds of shapes, such as hot dogs, rocket ships, and the shapes of commercial products. Hot air balloons that can be propelled through the air rather than just being pushed along by the wind are known as airships or, more specifically, thermal airships.
Unmanned hot air balloons are popular in Chinese history. Zhuge Liang of the Shu Han kingdom, in the Three Kingdoms era (220-280 AD) used airborne lanterns for military signaling. These lanterns are known as Kongming lanterns There is also some speculation that hot air balloons could have been used by people of the Nazca culture of Peru some 1500 years ago, as a tool for designing the famous Nazca ground figures and lines. The first documented balloon flight in Europe was by the Portuguese priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão. On August 8, 1709, in Lisbon, Bartolomeu de Gusmão managed to lift a small balloon made of paper full of hot air about 4 meters in front of king John V and the Portuguese court.
A model of the Montgolfier brothers' balloon at the London Science Museum
First manned flight:
The first clearly recorded instance of a balloon carrying passengers used hot air to generate buoyancy and was built by the brothers Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier in Annonay, France. After experimenting with unmanned balloons and flights with animals, the first tethered balloon flight with humans on board took place on October 19, 1783 with the scientist Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, the manufacture manager, Jean-Baptiste Réveillon and Giroud de Villette, at the Folie Titon in Paris. The first free flight with human passengers was on November 21, 1783. King Louis XVI had originally decreed that condemned criminals would be the first pilots, but de Rozier, along with Marquis Francois d'Arlandes, successfully petitioned for the honor.
A pair of Hopper balloons
Modern hot air ballons, with an onboard heat source, were pioneered by Ed Yost, beginning in the 1950s; his work resulted in his first successful flight, on October 22, 1960. The first modern-day hot air balloon to be built in the United Kingdom (UK) was the Bristol Belle in 1967. Today, hot air balloons are used primarily for recreation, and there are some 7,500 hot air balloons operating in the United States.
Hot air balloons are able to fly to extremely high altitudes. On November 26, 2005, Vijaypat Singhania set the world altitude record for highest hot air balloon flight, reaching 21,027 meters (68,986 feet). He took off from downtown Bombay, India, and landed 240 kilometers (149 miles) south in Panchale.The previous record of 19,811 m (64,997 ft) had been set by Per Lindstrand on June 6, 1988 in Plano, Texas. As with all unpressurized aircraft, oxygen is needed for all crew and passengers on any flight that exceeds an altitude of about 12,500 ft (3,810 m).
On January 15, 1991, the Virgin Pacific Flyer balloon completed the longest flight in a hot air balloon when Per Lindstrand (born in Sweden, but resident in the UK) and Richard Branson of the UK flew 7,671.91 km (4,767.10 mi) from Japan to Northern Canada. With a volume of 74 thousand cubic meters (2.6 million cubic feet), the balloon envelope was the largest ever built for a hot air craft. Designed to fly in the trans-oceanic jet streams the Pacific Flyer recorded the highest ground speed for a manned balloon at 245 mph (394 km/h).
The longest duration hot air balloon flight ever made is 50 hours and 38 minutes made by Michio Kanda and Hirosuke Tekezawa of Japan on January 2, 1997.
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A fisherman on the 31st of December, probably trying to catch a big one for the celebration in the evening. Wishing everyone a successful 2017.
Having successfully photographed both red line Yutong E12s with the 50 branding, my task now is to get them both with the new 45 number. Half the job is already done with 202 seen here on Canal Street, in a photo very similar to my one with its original branding.
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The 1970 McLaren M10B was the most successful model of Formula 5000 car until the appearance of the Lola T332 four years later. It won four International championships with four different drivers.
After the success of the M10A, Trojan announced plans to triple production to 50 cars for 1970. Motoring News (9 Oct 1969 p18) reported that the M10B "closely resembled" the M10A but incorporated many of the modifications made to the M10A during the 1969 season, including "redesigned front and rear suspension, re-styled body fairing, a new cooling system using an aluminium radiator, wheel sizes changed to 11in low off-set front and 16in rear". Also the tub "has been lightened and modified to accept immediate installation of a dry sump engine".
The prototype car won the 1970 and 1971 US championships, making it the most successful individual F5000 car of all time.
From OldRacingCars.com
Another successful design from Nayvyr. The LSX-2 Interceptor, Faster and more manuverable than than its heavier armed cousin the PSX-6 Assault Fighter and it's variations. The LSX-2 has been a huge commercial success and has seen wide use throughout our Quadrant of the Galaxy
My mother has successfully read tea-leaves since she was a young girl. When I learned the name "tasseography" I thought it was a fascinating coincidence that the woman who taught my mother to read was called Grandma Tassel (her surname). Tasse is French for cup (and German, too I just learned). My mother also happens to be an excellent baker which meant I had lots of friends in highschool! LOL She reads the symbols formed by the leaves. This is a sample cup I drank without my mother's expert interpretation. I see a duck (increase in wealth), halfway down the cup. There are a few initial letters as well.
The cup is traditionally read from the top (present) to the future (bottom). Images that are seen are interpreted symbolically. Some readers read the negative space between the leaves and even the shadows. Apparently, tasseography symbolism differs from that of, say, dream symbols.
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This large masonry building was erected in 1895 as the principal offices and warehouse for Burns, Philp & Company Ltd, one of North Queensland's most successful trading enterprises.
The firm was founded in Townsville in 1873, when James Burns established a general retail business in Flinders Street. Robert Philp (later Sir Robert, KCMG and twice Queensland premier) acquired a share in the business in 1876. Due to ill health, Burns returned to Sydney in 1877, leaving Philp to manage the Townsville store.
In the late 1870s and early 1880s, Burns and Philp individually established trading networks in North Queensland, which were amalgamated as Burns, Philp & Company Ltd in 1883. By 1887 the company had disposed of their retail concerns, concentrating on the importation and wholesaling of general merchandise, and general shipping and insurance, with branches in London, Sydney, Brisbane, Cairns, Thursday Island, Normanton, Charters Towers, Cooktown, and New Guinea. The firm was employing 300 persons, owned their own fleet of small trading vessels, and was pioneering trade, communications and exploration throughout North Queensland, New Guinea, and the South Pacific. The company also had interests in North Queensland sugar, gold, and pastoralism. Although Robert Philp was bankrupted in the 1890s and resigned his interests in the firm in 1893, the name of Burns, Philp & Company Ltd was retained.
In Townsville, Burns, Philp & Company Ltd had acquired approximately 200 metres of Ross Creek frontage, on which they erected wharves and warehouses, with their offices in an old building which had been erected in the 1860s for Robert Towns and John Melton Black, the founders of Townsville. By 1895, Burns, Philp & Company Ltd dominated trade in Townsville, and their importance to this town and to North Queensland in general was illustrated in the erection of substantial new premises.
The new building was erected in nine months by contractor GS Gordon, and was opened on the 12th of November 1895. It was designed by Sydney architects the McCredie Brothers. Claude Chambers, in partnership with the McCredies from 1889 - 1893, supervised the construction of this building to the design of George McCredie. Arthur McCredie designed Burns, Philp & Company Ltd's principal Sydney offices, completed in 1901 and extended in 1909.
The two-storeyed section with frontages to Wickham and Flinders Streets housed the main offices: the shipping department on the ground floor and the manager's office and cashiers' and correspondence department on the upper floor. There was also a strong room and lavatory at each level. The three-storeyed section fronting Flinders Street was mainly warehousing, although the merchandise department, and behind this, the spirit room, were located on the ground floor adjacent to the shipping office, and accessed from this office via a door beneath the front staircase.
The building was designed for expansion. The walls, including the north-western end wall of the warehouse, were constructed with bricked-in arches to facilitate later extensions. In 1903 the company planned a three-storeyed brick extension to the warehouse along Flinders Street; this scheme was not carried out, but in 1913 - 1914 a long, single-storeyed, concrete warehouse extension was erected (no longer extant).
In 1922, the company's architect in Townsville, Walter Hunt, designed alterations to the offices and ground floor of the warehouse, extending the office area. These were carried out in three stages during 1922 and 1923. At this period, the arches separating the shipping and merchandising departments were exposed, and the large arched doorway from Flinders Street into the warehouse was bricked in, and three windows were placed in the bay.
On the 22nd of January 1949, fire gutted two floors of the hardware section of the building, causing substantial damage to the interior of the warehouse, including the collapse of the first floor. The roof and floors were replaced.
Burns, Philp & Company Ltd retained the building until 1977. At this stage the two-storeyed section was converted into a night club, a doorway was cut in the second end bay of the former warehouse, and the latter was converted to office accommodation. The building (including the former office accommodation) has largely been used as an entertainment venue since its initial conversion, with the property transferred to new owners in 2021.
Source: Queensland Heritage Register.
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After his successful theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911, Vincenzo Peruggia went on to collect other objects d'art, including an ultra rare Pez dispenser patterned after Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and a Jack in the Box found at the scene of the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre and attributed to Marcel Duchamp.
As a conservator of fine art, Vincenzo refilled the Picasso Pez dispenser with archival grade candies, and he cleaned the blood from Duchamp's piece with H2O2. The lack of archival grade Sharpies prevented Peruggia from replacing the eyebrows on La Gioconda. Although he served time for the theft of Da Vinci's painting, Vincenzo's favorite was always the Mona Lisa. Historians believe this was due to the difficulty of fabricating a cubist or a Jack costume.
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Strobist: AB1600 with 60X30 softbox camera right. Softlighter II camera left, overhead. Reflector at 6:00. Triggered by Cybersync.
21/06/23 Doncaster: DB Cargo Class 66 66070 trundles along the Up Fast working 6J94 Hedon Road Sidings - Masborough F.D, diverted via Selby & Knottingley due to engineering works on the Goole line.
My first truly successful rain shot thanks to the shelter provided by the canopy. Nice to get something different!
Home with a mouse. The red eyes still stand-out, despite the dim light of late afternoon.
Black-shouldered Kite, Jerrabomberra Wetlands, A.C.T.
The 3rd stage of the Tour of Britain cycle race came through Alnwick today (Monday) en route from Berwick-on-Tweed to Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
The main bunch (peloton) were chasing a group of 6 riders who had broken away and established a lead of over 3 minutes (see immediately previous upload flic.kr/p/2hdbrXL )
They would be successful in their chase, catching the breakaway with about 1km of the race left.
The overall race leader Matteo Trentin is seen in the green leader's jersey on the right of the shot with the eventual stage winner Dylan Groenewegen just to his left. Both have energy bars in their mouths. The race had just passed through the feeding station, so a number of riders can be seen with a bar between their teeth or a food bag (a musette) over their shoulders whilst they transferred its contents to the pockets in the back of their jersey.
Another goal of the weekend was to try to nab a few of the N&W CPLs which are quickly fading into history. We weren't as successful as we had hoped, but we did manage to catch a southbound 201 passing under the CPLs at Radford, VA.
Went to out for NS 4005, and ended up with this shot at Oreapolis, Nebraska instead. Hey I’ll take it
A good meal, from a late winter some years back. Shot through the back door, in very bright conditions. Still makes an interesting photo of -- I believe -- this Cooper's Hawk.
it was so foggy this a.m., when I headed out back for my walk.
As I was coming down the path, heading toward the soccer field, I must have frightened this fox in the little patch of woods to my left. I caught his movement out of the corner of my eye, and saw him take off. I knew he'd cut across the path in front of me,to get back to the main woods on the right so I quickly tried to focus on the opening ahead of me.
Sure enough, he came jetting past....two clicks and he was gone. Obviously I had interrupted his breakfast.
Among the many successful businesses in Eudunda was Wiesner and Company, timber and hardware merchant. Their impressive warehouse and store still remains in the town.
The Wiesner family started a blacksmith and foundry business in Eudunda in 1884 which eventually employed 50 people. In 1905 they sold that business and opened the iron mongers and furniture store in large two storey premises to which they added. It became the largest hardware and furniture store outside of Adelaide. It sold everything from pianos, china, glassware and silver cutlery to iron, nails, tools and timber and sewing machines.
Johannes Wiesner and his son Adolph ran the business until it was sold in 1951 but they had downsized it in 1945 when they sold part of the warehouse to the Masonic Lodge.
Interestingly Adolph married an English girl Mary Cranston and he became a Methodist and his grandson became a Methodist Minister. [Ref: A Future Unlived]
Eudunda is a quiet town in the Mid North of South Australia.
Notably it is an historic German settlement.
Eudunda came into existence as an important watering hole for cattle and horses which were being overlanded to South Australia from western Queensland in the late 19th century. Their destination was Kapunda, at that time effectively owned by Sir Sidney Kidman.
Eudunda was the birthplace of the educationalist and novelist Colin Thiele who achieved fame with his hugely successful books, Storm Boy, Blue Fin and Sun On The Stubble.
Thiele’s presence is evidenced by the silhouette of one of his characters, ‘Gustav” and his kelpie dog.
Successful morning walk - pine, palm, and yellow-rumped warblers, tree swallows, bluebirds, redwing blackbirds, great blue heron, and yellow-bellied sapsuckers.
Pine Warbler is a lifer
Photo of the Painted Hills captured via Minolta MD Zoom Rokkor-X 24-50mm F/4 lens and the bracketing method of photography. Near the Observation Point. John Day Fossil Beds National Monument: Painted Hills Section (managed by the National Park Services). John Day/Clarno Uplands Area. Blue Mountains Region. Wheeler County, Oregon. Early April 2017.
Exposure Time: 1/320 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/8 * Bracketing: +1 / -1
People say it is a successful trip to the mountains if you can catch one day of good light during a week’s stay. That day came on Day 3 of our Glacier National Park boot camp with attendees Alan and Aaron.
After spending a seemingly interminable night mostly in the parking lot of Logan Pass due to night time road closures, we managed to get over an hour of sleep in our cabin before setting out to our sunrise location. Two hours before sunrise, the sky was mostly cloudy with a few small openings. The sunrise conditions were looking promising. Fast forward to thirty minutes prior to sunrise, the clouds moved swiftly and mostly cleared out of the area leaving behind crystal clear skies. Having been skunked the past two days, we were on the verge of getting demoralized watching the clouds evaporate before our eyes. However, sometimes, a little patience and faith are needed to capture the light.
Mother Nature gave us a glimmer of hope as the leading edge of a storm approached from the west. They seemed too distant to reach us by sunrise time. To our luck the clouds moved and they poured over the scene within 15 minutes. Just like that the scene went from being monotonous clear blue to dramatic and textured. Moments later, the sun rose above the clouds on the horizon and lit the scene with beautiful dynamic warm light. Though not the pinks and reds of fiery sunrises, I really enjoyed seeing the warm golden yellow light burst from the horizon and illuminating the mountains. Upon seeing this light, we were practically jumping with joy. Our excitement got the better of us until our encounter…
In the midst of all the shooting and being glued to the backs of our viewfinders, Aaron noticed something moving in the distance and all of a sudden yelled out “holy sh*t!” A young adult grizzly bear popped its head up from behind the tree trunks for a look. Realizing who we were, the bear was stunned and quickly galloped across the slope not 40 feet in front of us! Perhaps it was a bit too much action for so early in the morning.
Stay tuned for more to come.
PS – The grizzly bear head is visible in the background of the photo.
Canon 5D Mark II
EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II