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2023 Porsche 911 in Dakar trim. Not sure if this is for Paris - Dakar famous off road rally but it has 60mm lift in the ride height over the GTS, which can be raised to 90mm at the push of a button.
The has standard-fit rear-wheel steering, stainless steel underbody protection, a set of beefy tow hooks, a pair of larger radiators from the 911 Turbo, carbon-backed seats from the GT3, plus carbon fibre rear wing and an optional roll cage.
Made and designed for Porsche, the Pirelli Scorpions tyres feature a double carcass to prevent punctures, while also benefiting from a massive whopping 9mm of tread depth.
(The Pirelli Scorpions All Terrain 245/45 R19 102V are about £282 each.)
For the techie folks - the Dakar is based on the Carrera 4 GTS, and it shares that car’s 473bhp 3.0-litre twin-turbo flat-six petrol engine, connected to a quick-shifting eight-speed PDK dual-clutch automatic gearbox. Output gives fantastic acceleration of 0-62mph in just 3.4sec. Just outrageous !!
Not cheap though around £173,000 give or take which is apparently about £50k more than the standard car it is based on.
Taken at the Concours of Elegance 2024 held at Hampton Court Palace.
-----Prologue-----
“Seems like you have taken up the best spot already!”, I said in half jest to the photographer right next to me while setting up my gear for the above shot of Zion’s Virgin and the Watchman.
“You got that damn right!”, She said with that unmistakable British accent with no audible trace of jest in her response.
-----Act 1-----
To tuck in the Virgin river’s bend into the frame without backing off on millimeters and the Watchman’s proportion in the shot, I had to move my tripod by about four inches to the right. Problem was, firmly planted on the concrete one inch away was the stern British lady’s equally stern tripod leg.
“Would it be OK if I put my tripod right next to yours?” I asked as gently as I could.
“Yeah fine. Don’t trip mine over”, the flinty voice yielded.
-----Act 2------
While waiting for the sun to obey my wish and light up the Watchman precisely as above, I killed time by serving as an iphone-photographer for a group of three giggling Alaskan college girls (who never paid me my paltry fees of $5, do you believe it?), stretching my muscles in all sorts of shapeless contortions, waving at aghast drivers driving past the hoard of us photographers at 5mph, and talking again to my austere British neighbor.
“Are you from around here? Are you a techie in the Silicon Valley?” She asked me. When I told her what I do for a living, she broke out into a laughter and apologized profusely for stereotyping. From there on, our conversation took on a more manageable course. I learned her name was Mickey. Mickey is not on Flickr but she and her incredibly handsome and devoted husband were traveling the US with one sole purpose: landscape photography.
-----Act 3-----
“Why do we do this?” Mickey asked hinting at all the pain undertaken by landscape photographers (or, faux landscapers, like, yours truly).
“I don’t know why Mickey. I guess, we like chasing the light and stopping time.” The nerd in me was having a field day.
“Tell you what, I do it because it keeps me going. I have lost my son to cancer but all this running around with the camera keeps my sixty-year-old mind and body going. You know?” I noticed a hint of moisture in her eyes reflecting the orange glow of the west earnestly.
“Tell you what Mickey,” I said, looking straight at the unexpectedly revealed segment of her core, “you are damn right! To keep going... That is exactly why I do it too!”
-----Epilogue-----
Mickey, if you are reading this, then here is one more reason why I do it: To meet people like yourself on the trail who somehow have that magical ability to touch others in the span of a moment. Thanks for loaning me a pint of your life-blood to keep my soul flickering.
Spent the day searching around Ottawa for a sign to shoot, just couldn't find anything that worked. Heading home feeling bummed I looked up and saw this just 200 yards from my house, sometimes you just gotta look around closer to home ;)
Techie Stuff:
Used the Center Weighted meter mode just below the sign to get the right exposure for the light, had to move around a few times with it to get the right exposure. For post processing I desaturated it a bit to reduce the redness in the bricks.
Taking the term 'camping under the stars' to an entirely new level, this was the interplanetary view from our campsite this weekend at Paulina Lake, Oregon. The skies were perfectly clear at 1am and I was anticipating an amazing star-filled sky, but I was not expecting to see the aurora borealis.
Techie Stuff: Shot at f5.6, thirty second exposure at ISO 6400.
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Following a clear out of old files to avoid running out of hard drive space....... Came across a few images wanted to re-work since getting NIK Collection. This was using off camera flash.
Think this tree has been consumed by a gravel pit now....
Techie info - Lencarta Ringflash on 1/2 power, powered from Lencarta Safari 600 battery unit, triggered by Yongnuo RF602 triggers, Nikon D700 on manual, with Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8 set at f/ 9.0, ISO 320, shutter speed 1/160, ringflash head on tripod at 45 degrees to the left about 25 feet from dead tree.
Processed in LightRoom CC and NIK Collection Colour EFEX Pro 4.
Now, you can chat with Barbie®!
Using WiFi and speech recognition technology, Hello Barbie™ doll can interact uniquely with each child by holding conversations, playing games, sharing stories and even telling jokes!
It's a whole new way to interact with Barbie®.
She's ready to discuss anything in an outfit that blends trendy and techie for a cool look.
Use is simple after set up -- push the doll's belt buckle to start a conversation, and release to hear her respond.
More than 8,000 lines of recorded content means countless hours of fun!
Just like a real friend, Hello Barbie™ doll listens and remembers the user's likes and dislikes, giving everyone their own unique experience.
To get started, download the Hello Barbie™ companion app to your own smart device from your device's app store (not included).
Parents must also set up a ToyTalk account and connect the doll to use the conversational features.
Hello Barbie™ doll can remember up to three different WiFi locations and does not require a smart device after WiFi configuration.
copyright Susan Ogden
forced socialization is exhausting!
I had a mixed bag kind of day! It started out looking dank and like rain, so i rolled over and went back to sleep for another 40 minutes. When i got up, the sky was breaking up to my Carolina Blue, so i got myself together and had my tea and checked my mail ...and FB ...and found a message from a friend in Florida that asked if she could use two of my shots to paint in watercolors! She will put my link to my site and give me credit for the original shots. I had the forethought to ask her for a recommendation of a decent web site that i, the untechie might be able to manage on my own. She made a suggestion, and so i called her to discuss and was convinced....so i spent time looking into it and TRYING to set it up.....going back to that whole UNTECHIE problem i have (i am sure it is related to math!) . By then it began to rain,,,,i never even noticed it had clouded over, i was so intent on figuring this out...so i never got out to the store because they do not believe in gutters on houses here and the way my roof slopes, the rain pours off down my stairs, leaving me looking like i just got out of my shower fully clothed. The store could wait!
Then promptly at 1:57pm, the installers arrived for my countertops...which i am thrilled about because now i am not using wood slats to hold my electric kettle for my tea! I love them....my countertops (altho i love my electric kettle and tea too!) i was fascinated with the whole installation thing...they attached something that looked like a defibrillator to my counter top and let it do it’s thing (getting the seam tight?!?). One of the installers was from the town next to me when i was growing up!! small world. i tried to work while they were here but i couldn’t because one of them kept asking me questions ....most of which i was unsure of the answer to...so i was glad when my son in law showed up!
When that was said and done, i felt like i had socialized for a month...which is probably why when i went back to trying to figure out the techie stuff i felt overwhelmingly exhausted...so i ate.....tried again and have decided that tomorrow is another day...and i am going to read my new book. It is quiet time at the ok corral!
Hope tomorrow is a day of less “social” stress....just throwin’ it out there!
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Techie Notes: I added a touch of blur to this scene in PS, to bring out the soft feeling of the rain.
The kiosks selling umbrellas sprout up on days like this so one never need worry about being caught without an umbrella. It was a busy shopping day for locals in this neighborhood near the Guglie Bridge. What a pleasure to be able to enjoy the city on foot, with not a single car ever showing up, since they don't exist in Venice. There is a special peacefulness here, away from the big tourist area os San Marco Piazza, and a sense of village and community life undisturbed by traffic remains. I love the soft sounds of Venice: just people talking or the water lapping against the sides of the canals and rios. An occasional boat engine, but they are quiet because they are only allowed to move slowly so as not to create a big wake that further erodes the sides of the buildings. Not a single car! A magical place for sure!
Chinese astronomers in 1054 recorded a new 'star'. This new star was visible during the daytime for almost a month.
What they were actually witnessing was a supernova, the death of a star.
This particular star was about 6,500 light years away. They didn't know it at the time but, they were witnessing something that actually happened around 5,450 BC.
It's believed that the Crab Nebula is the remnants of that supernova.
M1 is six light years across!
It was first discovered in 1731 by John Bevis. M1 is what inspired Charles Messier to later start his now famous Messier catalogue. After he thought he'd found Halley's comet and realised it wasn't, he decided to make a list of things that weren't comets, and so therefore, not worth observing. Now, every astronomer and astrophotographer are fascinated by them.
BORING techie bit:
Captured using a Skywatcher Quattro 8" with f4 coma corrector on a HEQ5 mount.
Guided using an Altair 50mm guidescope and GPcam combo.
Canon 450D astro modified and with Astronomik CLS CCD APS-C clip in filter.
Location: Newhey, Rochdale, UK.
13 exposures of 3 minutes each. Stacked together with calibration frames using DSS and all processing done with StarTools.
One of the most beautiful Victorian homes in the historic village of Mendocino, the MacCallum House was built in 1882 as a wedding gift for Daisy Kelley and her husband Alex MacCallum.
TECHIE NOTES:
This is a single exposure, using a tripod, and the following settings: 6/10th of a second @ f/3.5 and 200 ISO.
Getting this shot took some planning. I wanted to show the house all lit up just before nightfall, yet still have some daylight in the sky. I arrived ahead of time to be able to do some test shots and be ready for the moment. Because it was slightly windy, the clouds were moving quite quickly and there was enough movement in the bushes and decorations that they would get motion blur, so I couldn't do a very long exposure. I tried several shots, and eventually settled on f/3.5, at 6/10th of a second, and ISO 200. I guess I could have increased the ISO but my experience with the Canon EOS 20 D, suggested it best to keep the ISO as low as possible to minimize grain in the final shot. This final and most successful of the evening's exposures was taken at 5:48 P.M. in mid December (several years ago).
Northern California's Mendocino Coast was home to many Native American tribes until Spanish conquistadores, and Mexican settlers -- and later Anglo settlers from the East Coast -- arrived and systematically took over tribal lands after, sad to say, decimating the native populations. There is an excellent museum at the Cabrillo Lighthouse just north of Mendocino village which pays tribute to the culture of the first true Americans - the Pomo - to have lived along this coast.
As for more recent history, here is more information about the Kelley family, one of the first Anglo settler families to establish themselves in this area in the mid-1800's, see: www.kelleyhousemuseum.org/
This is a landscape version from my visit to Holywell Bay near Newquay earlier in the summer. This was taken only a few minutes apart from the portrait shot but the difference in the sky is quite dramatic.
It might not look like it here but this beach and these rocks were featured in the opening sequence from 'Die Another Day' the James Bond film.
In this version I deliberately kept the contrast and shadows low to give a more gentle, mellow feel.
Thanks for looking.
Ade
Techie bit: EOS 50d, 24-70, bracketed & blended
Information Technology Is Serious Business. This is my buddy Jason from work. He is a master computer genius of epic proportions. He can fix anything, literally. He is head of support for the IT Department. He has been asking me for a while to do a cool techie shot of him and what better way than to slap him in a suit (to make him look important of course) and put him in the middle of the server racks.
Please hit the letter L and view large!
Camera Info:
Canon 7D, Canon 7D, Sigma DC 17-70mm 1:2.8-4 Macro HSM @17mm, f/9.0, 1/200s, ISO 100
Strobist Info: See Setup Shot here.
-Canon 430EXII Camera right and behind subject, 1/4 power @70mm Zoom fired bare, 7 feet high and 6 feet away from subject.
-Canon 430EXII Camera left and behind subject, 1/4 power @70mm Zoom fired bare, 6 feet high and 6 feet away from subject.
-Canon 430EXII directly above and behind camera, 1/2 Power @24mm Zoom inside 40 inch softbox, 8 feet high and 5 feet from subject.
-White reflector being held underneath subject about 3 feet below his chin. My buddy Jonathon was holding the reflector.
-Flashes triggered with Interfit Strobies.
“I’ve got all the friends I need... online,” Futaba Sakura explains. With the Coronavirus situation, Futaba’s shut-in lifestyle may become more prevalent.
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"….if the coyote catches you..." Well you know the rest of it and so does he , so he is sneaking up on the coyote instead. :-)
(wish I was techie enough to put the coyote in here split screen)
#ABFAV_Artificial_light
This image was taken in Belgium, and the pyrotechnics by courtesy of a Spanish group, music and fireworks amongst the people, never seen anything like it!
Keep safe, and have a great day, Magda, (*_*)
Just adding this note for those interested in the techie stuff; this was taken on my Nikon F4, on 400asa film
I am such an impulsive/intuitive photographer and after all the years, I do things by 'feel', like driving a car, you know what I mean, but I'll try. I'd say f 4.5, 1/30 of second. Of course on a tripod and with cable release. I was way behind the crowd on a small hill, with a long lens probably between 200/250.
The result also depends on the film and sensitivity.
Photographic film is a sheet of plastic (cellulose acetate) coated with an emulsion containing light-sensitive silver halide salts (bonded by gelatine) with variable crystal sizes that determine the sensitivity and resolution of the film.
Colour film uses at least 3 layers, I now use film with 4.
Dyes added to the silver salts make the crystals sensitive to different colours. During development, the silver salts are converted to metallic silver, as with black and white film. The by-products of this reaction form coloured dyes. The silver is converted back to silver salts in the bleach step of development. It is removed from the film in the fix step.
Hope that helps and enjoy, Magda, (*_*)
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This is NGC2841 The Tiger's Eye galaxy.
First discovered by William Herschel 9th of March 1788.
It's an unbarred spiral galaxy which can be found in the constellation of Ursa Major (the Great Bear).
It's 46 million light years away and approximately 150,000 light years across, so, quite big.
Imaged taken 5th of January 2022 from my back garden.
Boring techie bit.
Skywatcher quattro 8" S & f4 aplanatic coma corrector
HEQ5 pro mount guided with an Altair 50mm & GPcam setup
Canon 450D astro modded with Astronomik CLS CCD EOS APS-C clip filter. Neewer Intervalometer used to control the exposures.
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"Marshall's Beach" - www.createwithlightphotography.com
This is a 30 second exposure of Marshall's Beach in San Francisco, looking towards the very famous Golden Gate Bridge.
I was in San Francisco for a conference in early May and had the opportunity to spend another wonderful evening with my good friends, Nathan Wirth , Steve-Maxx landeros , Ivan Makarov , Joe Azure and my new friends Jim Patterson and Kendra Karr . Thank you again to you all for being such wonderful hosts and company, I can't begin to tell you all how much I appreciated it. I'm really hoping to get back to San Fran towards the end of August this year, so fingers crossed. OMG, how I miss that place!!!
This was the first time I was able to get down to Marshall's Beach without monster waves trying to sweep me away. :-) There wasn't a cloud in the sky, but that didn't stop me from getting creative with my graduated filters to work the tonal angles.
The techie Stuff:
ISO: 200
Aperture: f/7.1
Exposure: 30 seconds
Focal Length: 16mm
Filters: Hitech Pro 10 stop ND filter, Lee 3 stop soft grad ND filter.
All thoughts and comments welcome.
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As sundown approaches, I've noticed this male comes down from his surveillance perch high in a tree where he can keep an eye on several Fuchsia patches to a perch in a bush about 5 feet from the "best" patch. I think as the light fades, he must get closer to see and chase away others coming in during dusk for one last feeding on nectar. They need the energy to make it through the torpor they fall into during the night.
Techie: Good grief, you can get a fairly OK shot at ISO 51200!
MLK Shoreline RP, Oakland, CA
A reflection nebula in the constellation of Orion, often called The Running Man Nebula.
NGC1977 is actually made up of three nebulae, those being NGC1973, NGC1975 and NGC1977.
It was first discovered by William Herschel in 1786 and is roughly about 1,460 light years from us.
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.
180s exposures, Gain110 at -20c
Best 75% of 80 light frames.
Darks, Flats & Bias.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker, and processed in StarTools.
A winter evening....and two companions stopped on the Ponte alle Grazie to enjoy the shimmering water and soft glow of lights along the banks of the Arno. This is the bridge just upstream from the Ponte Vecchio, that one passes by to go to the Piazzale Michelangelo. On the hill one can see San Miniato al Monte. Sometimes I wish it were night all the time! I love how nature envelops us in the darkness, and we return to a different way of seeing and feeling.
TECHIE NOTES: Photo taken in color. Adjusted to monochrome in photoshop, and warming filter added.
For those who like to know about architecture and history, here is information about this bridge in Florence:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_alle_Grazie
Here is a photo of the original Ponte alle Grazie, before it was destroyed during WW II. At the time it was the oldest bridge in Florence:
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....and here is a wonderful etching of the original Ponte alle Grazie:
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And about the romanesque church on the hill:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_di_San_Miniato_al_Monte
The Basilica di San Miniato al Monte (Basilica of St Minias on the Mountain) stands atop one of the highest points in Florence, and has been described as the finest Romanesque structure in Tuscany and one of the most beautiful churches in Italy.
A flavour of the excitement of a track day at Goodwood Motor Circuit.
The film is from a trip with two friends attending a Track Day at the Goodwood Motor Circuit on the 12th May 2023.
It was a beautiful sunny day down on the south coast.
Martin Brundle's son was taking part in an AC Cobra and a beautiful sounding exhaust from that V8 engine, a throaty roar for sure.!!
Techie stuff :- Filmed on iPhone 13 Pro Max using Filmic Pro App (The legacy version) in 4k and using a Reeflex Anamorphic 1.33 lens to give a cinematic widescreen image video footage.
Stills taken with Nikon D750.
Film edit work done in Final Cut Pro X and down sampled to 1080P for Flickr folks.
Copyright free music from Bensound.com - two tracks, Bensound Smile and Bensound Elevate.
Pete the dojo master of code nijary executes a perfect cake plow as VCDan, and Trevor clean up and Techie readies himself for his cake plow.
~one of the fountains at San Juan Capistrano.
I really enjoyed my visit here and would just love to go back. *big sigh* :)
Now, I interrupt this regular HBW photo with this special message:
Dear Flickr techie people,
Why can't I insert an image in my comments under the new version??? I have to switch back to the old version in order to add photos in my comment box. Isn't this going to be a problem once the final switch is made? Can we fix this problem? I assure you, Flickr members like myself appreciate the bigger, newer version of our photos (although you did make it easier to steal) but making it difficult for us to enjoy once simple features is very frustrating. Let's get it together and fix it, yes? Thank you! :-D
Now, where's the comment/complaint box?
If anyone has a solution...or is it just me?
Have you ever seen a doll this close?
What do you guys think, would you like to take a Macro shot like this one? Do you like Macro photography? Isn't my Raven perfect? (she better be since I was a good half hour searching for the perfect "one" in the store xD).
You can view it in it's original size btw, I've uploaded it in full quality so you can see Raven like she's under a microscope hehe
Techie stuff: For those wondering how I did this I used a very cheap extension tube on my 50mm lens.
Also known as the Pinwheel galaxy.
At about 170,000 light years across, it's roughly 70% bigger than our own Milky Way Galaxy.
Lying some 25 million light years away, the Pinwheel galaxy is estimated to contain at least one trillion stars. Look for it in the constellation of Ursa Major ( the great bear ).
Pierre Méchain, Charles Messier's assistant, is credited with discovering M101 in 1781.
BORING techie bit:
Captured using a Skywatcher Quattro 8" with f4 coma corrector on a HEQ5 mount.
Guided using an Altair 50mm guidescope and GPcam combo.
Canon 450D astro modified with Astronomik CLS CCD APS-C clip in filter.
18 exposures of 5 minutes at ISO 400 combined with calibration frames. Stacked with DSS and all processing done with StarTools.
Shot one of my favorite models - Monica Brankovich at the beach of a local lake, while we were strolling after a fashion shooting. Nice and provocative poses are her second nature.
For the techie junkies - shot with Canon 5D Mark IV + Canon EF 35mm f/1.4 LII USM + Profoto B1 and Profoto Deep Umbrella Silver XL.
In case of questions - please, drop me a line in the comments. Follow me for more fashion and beauty shots.
Nothing Screams "I'm an American" Like a Fourth of July Strobist style ShalerJump
YES, we were nearly shut-down 1/2 way through the action be a security officer whose supervisor thought we should be doing our thing. We were on the top floor of Fiesta Mall Parking Garage in Mesa AZ. The mall encourages people to watch the fireworks there, and it was a full house The guard said something about "All this equipment"
The guard started to say that photography is not allowed, but they let it happen for the Fourth, (duh) I basically said that we're no different than the other people with their cameras. I pointed to a few people w/ tripods and D-SLR's I politely said that although the strobes might be bright, so were the fireworks. We're just taking some pictures of our friends and trying to be patriotic.
Yes we were where the cars could drive, yet the garage was packed full and nobody should be driving, although some people did come late. The guy understood, got on his radio and let us continue. (yeeee ha!) So, if people give you static. POLITELY reason with them and ask what makes a Strobist any different than anyone else with a camera. Why should crappy photographers get away with photography when the world just needs better photos?! :-)
Anyway, what did you do on the Fourth, Just fireworks or did you do it strobist style?
Techie/ Strobist Info...
-Two -sunpak 622 strobes, one camera right (with a small brolly box)
-2nd 622 seen camera left, behind in the photo (lens flare and all)
-3rd strobe, sb-800 on ground behind the Jumper, w/ Small snoot of blackwrap.
- fired by Pocket Wizards.
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Looking for Mr. Fix-it? Then try Herbert's in Bethlehem, where the key to business is typewriters.
By Tyrone Richardson Of The Morning Call
The Morning Call
July 20, 2008
James Burrell spends each day waiting to fix machines that almost no one uses anymore.
After serving in the Korean War, Burrell began servicing typewriters in 1955 at Herbert's Typewriters shop on W. Broad Street in Bethlehem.
Once, he could barely keep up with the orders. But with the rise of the personal computer in the 80s, the bottom fell out of Burrell's industry. So now he mostly just sits in his quiet shop waiting for business that comes in dribs and drabs.
"It's slow," said Burrell, 79, sitting at his monitorless desk in a shop where the sole computer (used for keeping customer records) is hidden under a drape. "I think it's just how everything is these days, but we're still here."
One day last week, there were only a handful of calls and a few customers walking in for service, a difference from the bustle of decades ago.
Burrell's story is the tale of the gradual passing of an industry. In a larger sense, it also illustrates the decline of repairers who have become nearly irrelevant in an era of disposable cameras and such high-tech rivals as The Geek Squad. But a day spent with Burrell, whose shop has been open for 80 years, is also a chance to trace the history of the store and the typewriter.
Herbert's Typewriters was opened in 1928 by Burrell's father-in-law, Ralph B. Herbert, who retired at age 75 in 1981 and died in 2000. Herbert's also used to sell and service bygone devices like check writers and mimeographs, an early version of a copy machine.
It had contracts with such companies as Bethlehem Steel and other manufacturers, in addition to hospitals and schools.
"Now it's changed and a lot of the stuff we did is done in-house," Burrell said.
In addition, the typewriter manufacturers who once required routine training to certify service of their machines have closed shop.
Burrell has witnessed many of those changes from behind the broad linoleum counter at the rear of Herbert's, where the walls are adorned with wood paneling and the shelves are stocked with a variety of typewriters, fax machines and calculators.
Gone are the days when typewriters could personal computers for a share of the wordsmith market. Herbert's business depends upon the occasional writer, lawyer or typewriter buff who has stubbornly refused to bow to the computer.
Only 127,000 electronic typewriters and word processors (its more-techie cousin) were delivered from manufacturers to dealers last year. By comparison, for every one of those, there were 103 desktop computers delivered that year, according to the Consumer Electronics Association in Arlington, Va.
The fix-it part of the business is also eroding as the do-it-all computer continues to reign. Adding to the problem, parts for some of the relics have become scarce as manufacturers abandon production.
In the 1970s, the Lehigh Valley had about 10 typewriter repair shops. Today, the Verizon Yellow Pages lists two.
"The main evolution is that 99 percent of them have gone out of business," said Richard Polt, a philosophy professor at Xavier University in Cincinnati who edits ETCetera, a magazine about typewriters. "It was a very common business and typewriters were a very well-made and complicated thing. You would go to a typewriter repair store when things got out of alignment and you would also go there for routine maintenance of the machine."
Today's typewriter — yes, they still make them — is a different device.
"Now, of course, for those who use them, they can buy a new typewriter at Staples and it will cost like $100," Polt said. "That's not much money nowdays, so when it breaks you just buy a new one."
Burrell still gets the loyal customers who have been coming into his shop since nearly its inception. Others are just looking to unload the typewriter of a deceased loved one, or hoping to breathe life into a relic they found in an attic or at a flea market.
A man walked into Burrell's shop last year with a 1970s Smith-Corona electric typewriter that someone chucked into a Dumpster. Burrell said he made some minor repairs and coaxed new life into it.
"It was old, but hey, when we did what we did to it, it was working great," he said. "It's one of things that happen when people just throw stuff away."
Lately, something curious has been happening. Some say there is a resurgence of interest in the typewriter from the younger generation, and Burrell can attest to it.
"Everything comes around in circles," said Chuck Ditts, member of the Early Typewriter Collectors Association. "They want to have the clacking of the keys and see how we used to do things. Now it's cool for them to use it."
Burrell agreed, saying the younger customers, including students from nearby Lehigh University, usually make a beeline to the shelf with the black metal devices made by companies such as Royal, Corona, and Remington.
Burrell wouldn't say how profitable the business remains. Rather, he said he's providing what his customers want.
His son, Brian, who works with him, said he has plans to continue the business when his father decides to stop.
"We are not going to change," Burrell said.
summer 2007 we had a loaner 5D that a certain little figgin' memory card hated and chewed up an entire photo session. saved the card and sent it to the manufacturer in hopes of getting back the corrupt shots.
they poked and prodded and did better than i could
find but well, sadly only a few shots survived.
i'm pleased to share with you at least a frame or two.
more info in the comments
;)
pickerel lake ontario
northwest of algonquin
canada
techie stuff:
2.5 min, 16mm @ f/2.8 ISO 400
Canon 16-35mm f/2.8 II
Also known as the Beehive cluster. M44 lies at 577 light years from Earth in the constellation of Cancer and spans about 15 light years across. In total there is estimated to be over 1,000 stars associated with this cluster. At around 600 million years old this cluster is quite young, when compared to our Sun's 4.5 billion years.
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -10c, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in StarTools.
The MRCA Tornado
Blimey! I remember when these were first being introduced to the RAF and now some are getting retired to Air Museums.
Techie stuff: 6 frames HDR taken handheld using the in camera bracketing and processed in Photomatix Pro
Seen at Yorkshire Air Museum.
Thank you for visiting my stream and I hope that you enjoy the work.
My 200 most interesting images
Regards
Cluke
Actually, raspberries have been very, very good to me. So this is not revenge.
As the hoods say in the movies, its nothing personal, just business.
Took a bunch of shots until I caught that sneaky little pellet just diving into the tasty berry.
Just curious, every once and a while I get a crappy picture that has some tech interest. I don't want to show everyone that stuff, but some people are interested.
Should I try to figure out how to post the techie things in another secure (sometimes) disclosed location?
Things like setups, equipment, after shot mayhem.
Let me know in the comments.
The challenge for Saturday 1st October is ‘technology, new or old,’ and I wanted to steer clear of the techie kit we’re all surrounded with these days. So I’m taking the opportunity to salute another practical achievement of science, that of vaccination. Edward Jenner is considered the founder of vaccinology in the West in 1796, after he inoculated a 13 year-old-boy with vaccinia virus (cowpox), and demonstrated immunity to smallpox, and from then on scientists have developed and refined the technology to the point where many previously fatal outbreaks of disease are capable of being controlled.
My idea was prompted by my going last Saturday for my annual flu jab, and since our surgery was also offering the pneumonia vaccine in the same session I had that too, and then just yesterday I had my seasonal Covid booster. We learned from the leaflets they gave out that the Covid vaccine we were being given was a tweaked variant of the earlier vaccine so it was now capable of giving protection against two strains of Covid, another advance in immunology to keep pace with the mutations these viruses keep developing.
It’s salutary to think of where we’d be without the work of those dedicated researchers, so a picture of my growing collection of Covid vaccination tickets is my tribute to all of those involved in the vaccination programmes, from those in the laboratory through to everyone involved in the delivery!
== As always, your comments (and faves, should you be so inclined) are greatly appreciated! ==