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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.
Apple just despatched out invites for a press conference on Wednesday, September 7. The company will most most likely unveil the subsequent Apple iphone. The invite does not say a lot. Apple commonly likes to give hints — but this time, it just states “See you on the seventh.” The party will...
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“Jacee!” I run out the door to greet her. We hug for a minute, then she pulls back and looks at me.
“Man, Sue. You got taller!”
“Look who’s talking.” Jacee had always been short. Really short. But now she had passed six feet tall, and she was barely seventeen.
“Fair enough.”
“I’m more concerned about the eyepatch, though. How’d that happen?”
“Ah, it’s fine. I can still see. But if you must know, I was in a building that exploded. Well, actually it was blown up on purpose. It happened about a month after I left here.”
“Oh, my gosh. I’m sorry!”
“It’s fine. It’s actually something that helped me become who I am. I started practicing using my powers after that, so I could help if I was in a disaster like that again.”
“So, you decided to become a superpowered disaster relief worker?”, I ask with a smile.
She laughs, and turns around to look at the car she had pulled up in, and shouts, “hey Nick, you need some help?”
A muffled voice comes out of the trunk. “Nah, I’m good. Just need to get…this…stupid…tent…out of the way.” A boy, about seventeen or eighteen, emerges from the back of the car, brushing himself off.
“This is why I don’t go on trips very often.” He walks up to me, and extends a hand. “I’m Nick, Jacee’s boyfriend.”
“I’m Susan. Nice to meet you.”
“Same here. Now I should really get that tent out so I can reach the suitcases.” He walks off, muttering about packing too much stuff into a sports car trunk.
“Nick’s a little funny. You get used to it.” She grins. “So, how have you been?”
I sit down on the sidewalk. “Not bad. Kids stopped teasing me about having powers a few months after you left, after I started hanging out with Evan a lot. I guess they got over the whole thing, because now, no one even cares.
Nothing big really happened. This is Hanserville, remember?”
Jacee laughs and says, “true, that. Can’t expect too much here.”
“So, what about you? How’s life in the big city?”
She pauses for a second, then says, “Pretty great, actually. I met some neat people in the last few years. Nick is one of them. He was actually the first person I met at my new school. He has some friends who are really cool, too.”
“Does he know about you having…y’know?”
She laughs awfully hard at that. “Are you kidding? He’s got powers, too. And really cool ones, at that.” She looks back at Nick, who can be seen as a pair of legs struggling against something in the trunk. He’s managed to get one suitcase out, but seems to be stuck with the tent. “Let me go give him a hand.”
She walks over, and pushes him gently out of the way. She pulls out the tent easily, much to Nick’s feigned displeasure. “No fair. You packed the car in the first place, of course you know how to unpack it.”
“Oh, be quiet. You want to pack the car for the trip home?”
“Oh, heck no.”, he chuckles.
“Come here. Show Sue your powers.” She turns to me, and mouths, “coolest ones you’ve ever seen.”
“Fine…”, he mutters. He pulls up the sleeves of his jacket. Closing his eyes, he tilts his head back, and a glowing white blade slides out of his left wrist. I look at his right hand, and there’s a shining black blade there.
He pulls those in, and clenches his fists. His hands are enveloped in black and white gloves. Not just any gloves, though. We’re talking cool ones. Big, metal-plated gauntlets.
He opens his eyes, and looks at me. “So, what do you think?”
“Sweet! Those were great!”
“You wanna see something really neat?”
“Sure!”
He stands up very straight, and closes his eyes again. He pushes his hands downward, and a black and white pattern appears on the ground under him. A white snake and a black one, each swallowing the others tail. He opens his eyes, and tells me, “punch me.”
“Seriously? I don’t want to hurt you.”
“Just do it. Even if you do make contact, I’m plenty tough.”
“All right.” I wind up, and throw a punch at his chest. It never reaches him. As soon as my hand reaches the perimeter of his snakes, a beam of light shoots from his chest, and stops my hand cold. It doesn’t hurt, it just completely blocks me.
“Throw something now.”, Nick tells me.
More confident that I won’t hurt him, I pick up a rock and chuck it. The same thing happens. It reaches his snakes, and a beam, this time black, snags it out of the air. He reaches out a hand, and the rock drops into his palm. “Nice throw.”
“Thanks. That shield is cool!”
“I know, right? I have some other crazy stuff I can do, but it tires me out a lot. I’ll show you in the next few days.”
“OK. You need any help carrying stuff inside?”
Jacee pipes up. “Nah, I’ve got it.” She flips a baton out of her sleeve, points it at their bags, and a pink and purple glow appears around them. They lift into the air, and follow us inside the house.
Mom comes to greet them. “Hello, Jacee! Good to see you again!”
“It’s good to be back!”, Jacee says as she lowers the bags to the living room floor.
“And who’s this handsome fellow?”
“I’m Nicholas. You can call me Nick.”
“Pleasure to meet you, Nick.” She shakes his hand, then says,” make yourselves at home, and if you need anything, just ask me or Sue.”
“Thanks!”
“So, where do we start?”, Nick asks. “I’m all for just unpacking the sleeping bags and do everything else tomorrow.”
“Sounds good to me. Then we can go meet up with everyone else.”, Jacee responds.
“All right, then.” They get their sleeping bags out, and then stand up and ask where they can find the bathroom.
About fifteen minutes later, they come back, and in new clothes. Nick’s dressed in pale blue jeans and a white t-shirt with a band on the front that I’ve never heard of. Jacee looks like an older version of the little girl I remember her as. Red hoodie, tattered jeans, and cowboy boots.
Jacee asks me to text the gang, and then borrows my phone so she can get their numbers. When she takes hers out out, I gasp a little. I’ve never seen a phone like that. For starters, it seems to be made of thick metal. Second, it glows.
Jacee sees me staring, and answers a lot of questions without me asking them. “I got it from one of Nick’s friends. He heard I kept breaking my phone, so he made this.”
“Ah. So why do you have so much trouble with breaking stuff?”
“Let me go get a rock.”
She comes back with one, and tells me to watch. She squeezes, and the rock starts to crack. She grits her teeth, and it cracks fully in half. “There’s your answer.”
“Wow. Here I thought you were clumsy and dropped them.”
“That too. But after that, I got a good phone case. Which I crushed when I got mad with my phone in my hand. After that, I wasn’t allowed to have a phone. Then I met Nick’s friend, and he decided to make this thing. It’s made of quarter-inch steel, with a graphene layer over the screen. I’ll have trouble cracking this.”
“Sounds like he’s quite the techie.”
Nick chimes in. “Not really. He just knows how to make durable stuff. He’s got strength about like Jacee, so he knows what it’s like.”
“Cool!”
My phone beeps, and I check. Donovan just texted back, saying he’ll come over to see Jacee and Nick. I text back quickly, telling him I’d see them in a few minutes. Speaking of which, it was getting to be late.
“I totally forgot to ask, are you guys hungry?”
“Are you kidding? I haven’t eaten for eighteen hours!”, Nick exclaims.
“Right this way, then. You like chili?”
“I love it! Lead on”, he says with a grin.
I hope you enjoyed this issue! Let me know what you think.
This is a planetary nebula around 2,600 light years away.
Planetary nebula is formed after a star very much like our own Sun burns through all it's fuel. The star swells up in size and then rapidly shrinks right down to become a white dwarf. As it shrinks, it's gaseous outer layers are left to just simply drift outwards continually expanding. This particular one is approximately 2 light years across.
It gets it's name the Owl Nebula from the two dark patches that kind of look like big beady eyes.
Boring techie bit.
Skywatcher quattro 8" S & f4 aplanatic coma corrector
EQ6 R pro mount guided with an Altair 50mm & Altair GPcam
Canon 450D astro modded with Astronomik CLS CCD EOS APS-C clip filter. Neewer Intervalometer used to control the exposures.
60 - 2 minute exposures with the best 70% stacked in DeepSkyStacker with calibration frames.
All other processing done with StarTools.
This photo was taken with a less ideal lighting condition and with a relative slow shutter speed as I was shooting with Portra 160 pushed 1-stop. I even had to open up the aperture on my Letiz Summitar lens to get enough light for the shot handheld. In the end, it was still a bit blurry due to motion and shallow depth of field. I was tempted to use Topaz AI in order to reduce the bluriness due to motion. The result looks a bit funky. I am facing with this paradox that by applying AI to compensate the shortcomings of film would actually defeat the purpose of shooting film in the first place. I have seen street photos from famed photographers that are blurry. However, my inner voice was telling me that I am not one of them. I am just a techie with a camera.
By the way, we should be alarmed by the rapid pace of AI development recently. There are certain companies that do not seriously implement ethical guard rails to prevent wrongdoings and unethical practices. This is both exciting and scary at the same time. Once we reach singularity, AGI, or whatever you call it, we would be at a point of no return.
Film: Kodak Portra 160 + 1EV
Camera: Leica IIIF
Lens: Leitz Summitar 50mm F2 LTM
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In the new millennium, everything seems possible because of the fast-growing technology world. Nowadays, it’s all about social media and techie inventions. It’s amazing how humans are growing as a race. Apparently, there’s a company whose goal involves sending a bunch of tourists up into space to gaze at our lovely planet Earth. Hopefully I’m going to be the first one buying that ticket when it’s launched (..in my dreams lol). Things like the Internet and cell phones have become an extraordinary new phenomenon. Perhaps Mark Zuckerburg will be the world’s first trillionaire for his creation of Facebook. And remember the days when “to Google” wasn’t a verb? It’s amazing once you stop and think about what these mere, normal citizens have managed to accomplish.
People are constantly coming up with new, innovative ways to operate in this world more efficiently. However, I often wonder if it’s really more “efficient” this way? What about the scarce fossil fuels that are depleting? And whilst communication is made easier, will technology black out our emotions so badly that we eventually turn almost robotic in our reactions? Or are we just going to blow each other up (which hopefully won’t happen)?
My question is: are we doing more harm than good? I wish I could answer that, but I’m like a technological imbecile lol. I guess only time will tell.
Used a Nikon D3100.
Samsung Electronics said nowadays that it will partner with SK Telecom to construct a LoRaWAN network for the World-wide-web of Factors that will go over all of South Korea. The two businesses assert that this the world’s 1st nationwide IoT network.
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For about a week now there have been enormous numbers of gulls in the Bay and I think finding food is a problem. Whenever a gull finds something (whatever this is) it is mobbed by other gulls who attempt to steal it. In this case, the pandemonium was so great that the gull with the food (?) dropped it and no one got anything.
This mobbing was happening every few minutes. All but one gull gulls in this shot are still in juvenile plumage (less than 4 yrs old).
Techie: JPEG, Clearview 2x zoom...1200mm equivalent.
Crab Cove, Alameda, CA
Located 6,500 light years away in the constellation of Taurus. This spectacular planetary nebula is what's left of a star that Chinese astronomers witnessed going supernova in the year 1054, reported to have been visible in the daytime for up to 4 weeks!
First discovered by John Bevis in 1731 and then later by Charles Messier, who mistook it for Halley's comet. Leading him to create a list of objects that weren't comets, so he wouldn't be wasting his time on them. This list is known today as the Messier catalogue.
Data was captured at The Astronomy Centre, Todmorden, UK on 10th of November 2023.
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 gain 100, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.
Darks, Flats & Bias.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in PixInsight & Affinity Photo.
Both Poseless Backdrops :
Focus Poses Gamer Girl Room Backdrop (Bedroom)
FOXCITY. Photo Booth - Urban Jungle (Background Techie)
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Pueblo, Colorado
Ironlak-
Sirum Black Red
Panther
Keen
Dieci Does
Tues Afterburn
Bowen
Battleship
Eggplant
Phantom
Frazetta
Linz Iceberg
Placid
Aspen
Techie White
Macro Mondays ~ On the Inside
My old pedometer couldn't be revived, so before seeing the inside of the trash bin I pried it open and was quite amazed with the color, pattern and techie look to it. Photographing it with many different backgrounds it still looked flat with out any depth, so I turned over a collander, put a few colored tea lights underneath and it all came together.
HMM to all!
If you can't beat the clouds, learn to love 'em. lol
The light was absolutely amazing yesterday. At one point, I was driving south around noon. The road was wet, the sun was reflecting off the road, but below the sun, the sky was completely black to the horizon. So all I could see was the blinding, silvery road, and black sky. Never seen anything like it.
This particular shot was taken a few minutes later, looking east.
We had the 2nd warmest November on record this year!
Sorry I've been MIA. Lost my internet connection for a couple of days. Had to wait for a techie to pay a visit.
A while ago I was asked to take some promotional shots for a local inn, the historic MacCallum House Inn & Restaurant....in the town of Mendocino along the north coast of California.
( www.maccallumhouse.com ). This is one of the shots I liked the best.
The 'models' were all friends, and they had a good time posing. This was one of the more 'sedate' photos....before they had all the many tastes of different wines! :0)
TECHIE NOTE: Just experimenting a bit with processing portraits, and added a slight cross processed look. I adjusted the RGB options in Curves to create some different tones. What do you think?
My daughter's birthday is on Christmas day, so every year we've been going up to Tahoe for a little white Christmas. And every year, I would take the opportunity to take a few B&W landscapes, but my daughter never liked any of my B&W photos.
So this year, I wanted to do a photo she would like.
Lucky enough, there was a blizzard on Christmas night. So, after the birthday party I set out to make a photo. A few hours in a blizzard with a laser pointer and some color filters can do wonders.
M51.Whirlpool Galaxy. Canes Venatici. 7th May 2008.
Intes MN71 - 18cm Maksutov-Newtonian. Canon 350D DSLR camera.
EQ6 Pro SynScan with autoguider.
This spectacular galaxy is located just below the tail star of Ursa Major but is actually in Canes Venatici. M51 appears to sport a tail with a structure attached. Decades ago, it was not known with certainty whether the companion galaxy (NGC 5195) was a true companion, or another galaxy passing at a distance. The advent of radio astronomy and subsequent radio images of M51 unequivocally demonstrated the reality of the interaction.
Placed almost at zenith there was considerable neck bending and painful contortion involved in finding a guide star.
8 x 5 minute exposures, 3 x 2.5 minute exposures and the corresponding dark frames and flat frames were all shot on the same evening. Each sequence was then stacked and converted in DeepSky Stacker and saved as 16 bit tif files. Final image combining and processing was done with Photoshop.
This picture needed a little more specialised equipment and processing than is usual. Taking the exposures took about three hours and image procesing a further hour and a half. It is a composite of eight, five minute exposures and the same number of frames of 'black nothing', called dark frames. The dark frames are used to reduce the electronic noise inherent in this type of low light, long exposure image. The lens was '35mm equivalent' to a 1600mm f7 telephoto. All a bit techie but rather a nice picture!
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//Opening....//
//Major Mikeal...//
//Log # 158//
The elevator rung a light jazz tune as we ascended. No one spoke, the dinging of the floors we passed continued for what seemed like hours. The elevator slowed at ground floor 3. The doors slung open and we where met by 20 or so guards.
“Oh shit!” Grapes shouted as he franticly smacked the control panel on the elevator. The doors slowly closed as the guards opened fire. We all huddled to the sides and watched the bullets wiz by. Small dents filled up the doors.
We all grabbed a weapon from the cart. Olaf slung the HMG he found earlier over his shoulder. It could only be hip fired but held a greyhawk logo, which gave me some comfort. I didn’t know how it got here, but I felt as if greyhawk had once again planned ahead.
A ding came as the door opened again. Olaf charged the HMG and let loose a hail of bullets. The guards where helpless to the Large caliber Greyhawk 408. The ‘chug chug chug’ that came from the HMG’s internals was almost relaxing.
“common, cell block 3201 is only 3 blocks away. As we go there are a few stops we will make. I have little pockets of men who know the plan. ” the warlord said.
“Alright lets move” I said
The blocks where already burning from the riots. I had no idea it had started this soon, but what could I expect from the warlord. We sprinted through the cell blocks, a run and gun technique was the only technique that would work. If we bunkered down to get into a firefight, we would be surrounded quickly. The first stop we made was at cellblock 3204. A skinny man with a hawk like face and slicked back hair stepped out from a dark cell.
The shouting and crackling from the riots echoed from behind us. The hawk faced man shook hands with us and introduced himself as “The Diplomat.” he had a permanent grin on his face, and he took 7 guns and ammo for all of them. He smiled and shook hands with us once again.
“Alright, next stop is cell block 3202, we have two stops there. Then we find your techie and then step 3” shouted the warlord, a distant explosion rocked the building, I knew this had only begun.
//log end….//
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For once, I think hope’s still alive. With half of the team going off to Prague to find the missing sword. And you guessed it, I would be chased down by the others because of my fugitive status. We’ve been doing this for at least, 3 days and night now at least. I dunno, has it been that long? I hate keeping track.
I focus on the road while I’m on the bike. Might be floaty given current technology where everything flies, but it’s nevertheless a very hard drive considering the rain and wind, but I hope to make it through. Kieran absorbs the lamp energies and redirects it at the assassins behind, while Ty and Erin provide cover for me, Sam and Gary to handle. This one is called Diremorph. Lady with twin guns, cuz again, why not? But this time, it's me calling the shots by the adage talking and gunning.
Diremorph: “I also have my eyes on you, Dusksmoke. You’re valuable bounty here.”
Connor: “Let then go, Diremorph.”
Diremorph: “I’d ask my babies if they would like some fresh kills....hehe. It's very satisfying”
Connor: “The punishable dual guns....well, I'm sure there's more than just that..”
Diremorph: “I had the pleasure of infiltrating the Yakuza as the old man had told me to. Big reveal eh? I knew it always was. Now I have the head and his head on a clock. It’s ticking!”
Connor: “Don’t you dare. You know you can't. Very tempting, isn't it?"
Diremorph: “Oh please, spare me the talk. You know what I want—-and I will do what it takes to get it.”
Connor: “Just for the katana? Really? Never knew you valued money more than your tribe...your people would be disgusted by a invaluable bounty hunter.”
Diremorph: “Shut your trap, loudmouth. I do the terms. I'm in charge here. And you don’t get to talk about my f*cking culture.”
Connor: “If it bothers you so much, then why work for him in the first place?”
Diremorph: “Because I like it. Now, no more chitchat, or else I will kill him.”
Connor: “No worries. I’ll bring it. I’ll see you in an hour."
I take a heavy sigh before using my staff to trip the other bikes around me, knocking some drivers out of commission. I’m pretty sure there’s a lot of vehicles, but Jesse handles it too well. I couldn’t help but laugh through my mask—-tinkering with electronics was his greatest strength. Having a younger brother who’s a techie sure doesn’t disappoint the family.
Right now I was wishing we had a jet so we could reduce the amount of time, but there's only much you can do with hands on stuff. Then Diremorph called in again, saying she had planted bombs through the city. My instinct would tell me to divert my brother’s team to disassemble it, then meeting up again.
Khattar: “Dusksmoke, is it? I’m not sure if you can hear me, but after we got under attack, now we got bomb threats.”
Connor: “I know. How is my friend doing.”
Khattar: “Critical condition. She’s stable...but in a coma. I hope with the tech in Japan, they might be able to speed up her healing process.”
Kurt: “Dusksmoke, listen to me. I’m here trying to deduce the other locations, but you have to save the Yakuza leader. Do not dissuade him and his folks getting baited into another battle. I’ll join you in a bit. Dr Edens will keep monitoring the situation then.”
Connor: “Alright.”
We cut to the chase as Kurt does makes his word, gunning down a couple of ninjas with his jetpack. He seems to be astounded by the fact that we’re on rush hour as well, but it is what it is; the Yakuza leader. An important witness who has a major involvement.
Connor: “We have to stop Diremorph. She’s teleporting in and out too much.
Kurt: “Gotcha. Uncle Kurt’s got this covered.. If you need a boost, just use my atomic bombs. The speed ones I mean. And this tech I worked on, it makes illusions. Not sure if you had this in Tokyo like or the guild would use, but you need to make her believe what she has. I’ll take your brother and your future brother in las for a spin if he needs it.”
Connor: “What? He's dating and he didn't tell me?!”
Kurt: “Oh no, I’m kidding. There’s no engagement yet, haha. But yes, this is a bomb that's fast and slow. Please take care of the harness well, because you don't get to appreciate how well it comes once in a blue moon...”
**Yakuza headquarters, 1:34 A.M:**
We manage to get there in time according to Diremorph’s demands. She stands there with her guns over the beaten leader, and multiple dead bodies.
Connor: “I’m here, but you can just give it up already.”
Diremorph: “The sword, now.”
Connor: “Will you promise to let him go first?”
Diremorph: “No means no. I’m doing it my way.”
Connor: “Fine then.”
I decide to throw the sword at her which she moves out of the way. Her attempts to shoot the leader fails, thankfully due to Erin’s shadow powers, who extracts the leader to safety. Ty beams up with his energy while Kieran uses his light to shoot through the portals. After missing initially, it lands on a 6th one, which nearly knocks Diremorph out temporarily rendering her powers useless, but her guns are kinda strong for us. I take a closer look at Diremorph’s back, and she seems to have a chip attached to her.
Connor: “Guys, she’s under influence. The corruption is taking over.”
Erin: “Is this something I should hack?
Connor: “No, I don’t think so.”
Kieran: “Let’s ask the leader.”
Yakuza leader: “Me? I do not know you guys anyhow....she killed my men....I was too dumb to realize she infiltrated my gang. And your guild....tried to put the blame on me.”
Connor: “So this involved none of you? Even what I did back a year ago?”
Yakuza leader: “No, it isn’t....your guild was always misdirecting us, and we were blamed for it. They tricked us into starting a war, which I didn’t know we would lose...”
Connor: "Should have known better then. I'm gonna start keeping a closer eye on things."
I tilt my head, mentally thinking revelation another revelation. Which means....I’ve been lied to this entire time? But I guess my former does have his own secret cabal that follows him loyally. And Diremorph is one of them. I hate secrets, but this is the way of how it happens in societies. Humans can't ever live without secrets.
Ty: “You can’t be one of them, are you?” (He points his gun at Diremorph)
Diremorph: “It doesn’t matter. Whatever pleases the leader, I will follow his bidding.”
Erin: “What’s his plan, all along? What about the bombs?”
Diremorph: “You wouldn’t think I wanted to wipe out our enemies so my kingdom could rule as one, right? Maybe, except the emperor, but one day, he’ll follow us too.”
Kieran: “You’re out of your mind. Give it up.”
Diremorph: “Me? Never. Try this then.”
(Explosion sounds happen through everyone’s comms.)
Connor: “What did you just blow up?!”
Diremorph: “Oh, another compound. Don’t be too worried, I’ve still got more games even when you knock—“
Erin decides to use her powers, as her eyes turn into a really dark colour. Shadow tendrils start to latch on Diremorph, who doesn’t look surprised. She looks like she’s about execute her enemy with her dual axes. But she stops, as Diremorph stares into Erin's powers. After a while, she eventually gives up for interrogation, possibly from the shadow break. But even with her loyalty for Igarashi is undying, despite Ty removing the control chip from her.
Moments later Kieran takes the Yakuza leader into police custody, as our fight took place near the precinct. Agent Khattar keeps briefing us on what happens next. He already has his Interpol team and the police force surrounding the fortified guild base. It sounds like trouble when we’re going to return....and Oddcrow calls me...? He's s going headfirst into the fort himself, deciding to face my mentor alone.
I don’t know if it’s too late anymore. Is it, for literally everything?
**Prague, night. Time unknown:**
Sam: “How long is this going to take? I kinda regret going on this mission now.”
Lyra: “Yeah. Enemies behind. But I know we are medical examiners who can make quite the team. Time to lock and load those launch blasters, Riley!”
Riley: "You're speaking my language gal Here goes nothing!'
Harry: “Now would be a good time!”
Edens: “I’m going to keep you guys autopilot, since ours is destroyed. I can still remotely control it.”
Riley: “Good ole idea lads. Let’s destroy em!”
Wow. I, for once, am surprised that this mission is taking its ups and downs. When we actually just landed on a safe spot in Prague, then ran into the city trying to masquerade as doctors (both me and Lyra), while having the others acting like patients. did work—-just for once. Then shit when down as Riley tried to grab the sword, which culminated in us being chased by the suspicious locals who alerted the cops nearby. Thankfully we had a fake ambulance nearby to drive somewhere else. I'm not sure why we and how the sword was quite easy to find, but I guess it was Igarashi planting it there. The mystery deepens...somehow.
Wait. Keyword: plant. When I tried to call Avalon, it was up to my suspicions. Igarashi was trying to frame Connor....for everything? To take control of Tokyo?
I’m not sure if I’m going to say if it’s a half arsed plan, but once we’re going back....it’s literally a big battle.
Model shoot on the south coast with Sinopa Rin.
Initial tweaks using LightRoom 6, then processed in NIK Collection - Colour EFEX Pro.
Light was fading rapidly as sunset got nearer except the sunset turned just cloudy....
Techie info - Off camera flash triggers by Yongnuo, single strobe bare head flash 70 degrees on righthand side approx 8 feet away , Lencarta Safari 600 unit on 1/5th power, f/6.3, ISO 200, shutter 1/160, lens Sigma 85mm f/ 1.4 with polariser.
I study nuclear science
I love my classes
I got a crazy teacher
He wears dark glasses
Things are going great, and they're only getting better
I'm doing alright, getting good grades
The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades
I gotta wear shades
I've got a job waiting for my graduation
Fifty thou a year'll buy a lot of beer
Things are going great, and they're only getting better
I'm doing alright, getting good grades
The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades
I gotta wear shades
Well I'm heavenly blessed and worldly wise
I'm a peeping-tom techie with x-ray eyes
Things are going great, and they're only getting better
I'm doing alright, getting good grades
The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades
I gotta wear shades
Timbuk3.
Model shoot on the south coast with Sinopa Rin.
Techie stuff - Lencarta Safari 600 single bare head strobe, trigger by Yongnuo triggers, off camera flash, Sigma 85mm f/1.4, at f/ 5.6, ISO 200, shutter 1/200 with polariser on lens. Flash head to left 9 feet away , 75 degrees or so.
Pleased that the flash light has lifted the eyes particularly her left eye.
Let me put it this way . . . making a photo ain't easy , making a snapshot is , not a photo
You have to calculate a lot of shit , Exposition , Aperture , ISO , and the rest of the Techie shit we all know and Love (or sometimes hate) then after all that shit , throw in a couple of lights , look for the right setting , recalculate ISO , Aperture , all of what you already did , and a lot of more stuff (no I am not Techie in anyway) and then go back to taking that photo , yeap that is Strobist Photography
Yeah that is how a Strobist does it , it ain't easy but boy is it sweet to read all of the comments and looking @ your creation and knowing that you did that , you actually made that happen , yeap that is something that I would not trade for anything , and Yes I carry all my shit in my Salma
So to twist this shit up , I ended up not using a single flash , yeap this is all natural light , it has been so long since I shot with natural light , hope you guys Like it , cheers
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One of my favourite films (& Finding Dory). The fish is the pool thermometer. Last time I looked about 30 minutes ago it was showing 27c. The video was shot on my iPhone so the quality isn't that good. I can shoot 4K videos on my Sony camera but I just can't figure out how to upload them to Flickr. A tad annoying to say the least. It would be nice if I was a bit more techie....
Warming up the atmosphere as well as the Profoto B1s for lake session. Asked them to pose while setting up the lighting. I like the result. Give it a like if you like them as well. They deserve it!
For the techie junkies - Canon 5D Mark IV, Canon 35mm f/1.4L II USM, Profoto B1, Profoto Deep Umbrella Silver XL. Follow me for more lovely stuff that is coming.
From the parking lot of the 11,000 foot high Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, White Mountains east of Bishop, CA.The light pollution at the horizon simply amazes me: to the west (right) is Bishop which actually isn't that far away. But the two pockets to the east (left) I can only guess. There's nothing near in that direction - Beatty NV is about maybe 70 miles away, and Las Vegas at least 150 miles! Or Tonopah would be more northeast, perhaps 70 miles away, which makes sense.
Techie stuff: Canon 5D Mark III with 16-35 F2.8L at 24mm, F2.8, ISO 3200, 25 seconds, 8 vertical images auto-stitched in Photoshop. Around 12:45 a.m.
Only another techie could understand why she's so happy about doing a good Nicopress job.
We're weird. We know.
Experimental photo I shot for Techie Geekiness Apparel. Follow me on Instagram for updates @lhoycelmarie and my website www.lhoycelmariephotography.com