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'Life in an Alpine Meadow'
An eclectic collection of macro and close-up images from our recent trip to the Western Tyrol region of Austria, where I was able to spend time photographing subjects that I would normally ignore and experimenting with different techniques that I haven't tried at home. Rather than letting these photos 'gather dust' on a hard-drive, I thought I'd make a Flickr album as a useful reminder for when we return next year.
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This first photo of an ant foraging deep inside the throat of a Trumpet Gentian [Gentiana acaulis] is a classic example of a situation where you need plenty of time. Getting in close with a macro lens was pretty straightforward, but locating a suitable plant, finding the right angle with the sun and blurring out the stamen with a wide aperture was time consuming. After achieving some pleasing results it was then a case of finding a flower that was occupied. Most were, but by tiny springtails that you could hardly see, so it was a case of looking for something a bit bigger like an ant. The problem though was that the ant spent most of the time with its head buried inside gathering nectar. As a point of interest, the trumpets on these plants are probably around 60mm or 70mm deep so to achieve full magnification my lens had to be very close to the front of the flower, which is why the angle was so critical to avoid shadow. Next time I may try experimenting with a flash or possibly even trying to backlight, but in the meantime this image provides a reminder of what I managed to achieve on this trip.
The technique here is to shoot 200 images continuously - (f/3.2 @ 1 sec. @ ISO 6400). Process in Lightroom, export as jpegs, then open jpegs as layers in Photoshop. Select all layers and choose “lighten” for the layer mode.
My fourth entry to the CCC XIV, for the Woodland Hideaway category. The layout and design of the house were inspired by this image, img06.deviantart.net/160c/i/2015/355/6/7/cottage_in_the_w.... The bottom-right window lights up, and the river is made of SNOT cheese slopes.
Herbert the hermit lives in a cozy cottage nestled in the Western Woods. He lives a secluded life, preferring to spend his time tending to his gardens, and feeding his many animal friends.
See more images here: www.brickbuilt.org/?p=5813
Excerpt from the plaque:
Paper Crafting Technique of Lanterns for Newborn Sons
Many traditional villages in the New Territories hold a Lantern Lighting Ceremony 點燈習俗. The Cantonese words “Dang” 燈 and “Ding” 丁 are homophones. Lanterns for newborn sons are hung in ancestral halls or worship venues during a period from the first to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year to inform the ancestors of the new births. At the same time, they convey the meaning of continuing to “give birth to a baby boy” next year. In some walled villages, a note with the name of the baby boy and auspicious objects are attached under the lantern. The Lantern Lighting Ceremony includes lantern lighting, lantern celebrations, lantern dousing and lantern burning. The lantern displayed in the exhibition is in the shape of an octagonal base and is made of bamboo strips, tissue paper, coloured paper, paper decorations featuring auspicious motifs.
A neat table scrap technique that combines zip line handles and a sword.
The connection is quite reliable; the only problem being that the sword is slightly bent, however, it's flexible as well so that could be fixed if needed. I can definitely see this being used as some sort of sci-fi greeble if put on its side. I would love to hear if you have any other ideas!
Have a good day
Excerpt from the plaque:
Paper Crafting Technique of Lion Heads
Lion head paper crafting has a long history in Hong Kong. The birthday celebrations held for deities in villages are usually accompanied by dancing lions or other auspicious animals. They worshipped at shrines and temples to report to the deities, and hence lion head paper crafting emerged. The lion head costume comes in Foshan 佛山裝, Heshan 鶴山裝 and “Fo-He” 佛鶴裝 styles. Some craftmen depict the lion heads in different colours to resemble historical figures from the Three Kingdoms such as Liu Bei 劉備 (yellow face with multicoloured patterns and a white beard), Guan Yu 關羽 (red face with a black beard), Zhang Fei 張飛 (black-and-white face, green nose with a black beard), Zhao Yun 起趙雲 (green face with a black beard), Huang Zhong 黃忠 (with yellow as the main tone). Lion head paper crafting comprises four processes, namely crafting the frame, mounting the paper, colouring and decorating 紮作，撲紙，寫色，裝上裝飾配件。
Nokomis jetty, Florida Gulf Coast (16 March, 2020)
The bird is out of the field of focus, but the image suggests that brown pelicans open their beaks before they hit the water.
Finally ready to get back behind the camera again. I had fun and learned alot with this project during its first year.
The coming project ideas look to be just as enjoyable and educational as the first. It'll be great practice with lighting, camera techniques and Photoshop. I'll share tips along the way.
This is an idea I had last year and have used it on several MOCs since. I keep meaning to get around to posting some pictures of it, so here it is. The technique uses four cheese slopes stuck in the corners of a 2xn plate (works from 2x3 up to 2x10). Then stuck into an equivalent sized brick. It also works for a 2x2 if you use just 2 cheesers. It is very clutchy, so no worries about your MOCs coming apart.
This artwork, made by JS in 2015, framed a very happy moment of our Artist's Collective. It was made to ideally depict the entwinned/interwoven brotherhood among bro Jacob Sibbern (left, visible becos he is 1.83 mt tall, lol, sis WhiteAngel on the right as 1.73 mt,and bro Stefano Wolf,the tallest in the centre as 1.96 mt). Jacob painted it during his first months when he moved to Italy before definitelly relocating himself here in 2016.
White inks drawing (posca markers for the main 3 figurines & basement) plus watercolors painting on hard paper.
Ref. DSCF3090-500
This artwork, still dunno why/how, glows in the dark.
Image copyrighted by author ©Jacob Sibbern. All rights reserved.
I've been trying out some no border techniques lately, and this was one of my favourite ones. Hope you guys like it got some more stuff in the works. Schools really busy right now so not building much, but keep your eyes out for some new stuff.
For Smile on Saturday - a picture of a paper butterfly I made using the quilling or paper filigree technique!
A solution I found for a 180 degree reversal in a 1x3 brick package. I like the symmetry and the fact that there are two studs on each side. I used this in www.flickr.com/photos/96739476@N04/14201282524/in/photost....
If you can imagine that the California Scrub Jay shows it's breeding colors May-August; you have to wonder how much bluer it can be if this was taken in January! It's one of my favorite birds which behavior like crows. I've described the foraging and caching techniques with squirrels and crows under most of the images I've posted.
I'd love to have them in my back "yard," but neither they nor crows have ever shown up there. But a mile away, it's rare NOT to see individuals near the lake, a lake surrounding by oaks and the jays supplementary diet of acorns.
The California Scrub Jay was "divided" by "the folks who know" into Coast, Island, and Inland Scrub Jays about four years ago. The Island jay IS easily distinguished, but the Coast and Inland are just a little less blue and are probably indistinguishable to the newcomer.
Breakdown: The California scrub jay (Aphelocoma californica) is a species of scrub jay native to western North America. It ranges from southern British Columbia throughout California and western Nevada near Reno to west of the Sierra Nevada. The California scrub jay was once lumped with Woodhouse's scrub jay and collectively called the western scrub jay. The group was also lumped with the Island scrub jay and the Florida scrub jay; the taxon was then called simply the scrub jay. The California scrub jay is nonmigratory and can be found in urban areas, where it can become tame and will come to bird feeders. While many refer to scrub jays as "blue jays", the blue jay is a different species of bird entirely. In recent years, the California scrub jay has expanded its range north into the Tsawwassen region of British Columbia.
They are not, as I just said, "blue birds" any more than crows are "black birds." The only bluebird I know from the Rockies west are the Mountain Bluebirds. And my favorite "blue birds" are the blue birds of my yoot, the Blue Jays of the east. I miss them, but having a California Scrub Jay isn't "settling for less."
Palladium toned kallitype on Hahnemühle Platinum Rag paper. The image is 5x7 inches (approx B6 size) made on 8x10 (approx A4) Hahnemühle Platinum Rag paper. This print was made using techniques patented in 1889. I enjoy the challenges of using chemistry and techniques developed over 130 years ago. This labor-intensive practice transforms a casual, ephemeral, disposable digital image into a unique, hand-crafted photographic print.
The droplets again !
THE TECHNIQUE!
I used soft pastels and drew them on some card to get those colours I then used a pane of clear glass and cleaned it, I then placed the glass above the coloured card about 2 feet above but this can be any height really but it does have to be high enough for the subject to be out of focus, the higher it is the more detail in the reflections.
I then used a eye dropper filled with water and placed the droplets on the surface of the pane of glass and just focusing on the droplets and nothing else to get this results, go on have a go yourselves!! You can use any subject material just use your imagination!
I'm packing up my Lego collection, and finding all these bits that never got photographed. I hadn't posted a pic like this in a while, so here you go :)
Note: I don't even remember whether I came up with the Dark Red one or if that was someone's REC submission... if it had a note attached to it, it doesn't anymore :( If it's yours please let me know!
Excerpt from the plaque:
Flower Board Crafting Technique
During traditional festivals or celebrations, our attention is often drawn to the large and colourful flower boards which bring a festive ambience to the events. At the same time the flower boards represent the respect of the sender for the recipient, as a reflection of etiquette and social relations.
A flower board is composed of supporting frames made of bamboo strips and iron wire. For flower boards used for greetings, the main function of the characters on the flower boards is to send such congratulatory messages. Masters usually prepare a draft design of the flower board for confirmation of the customer’s requirements. The characters on the flower board are painted on cardboard paper. Achieving a match between the colour of the characters and that of the background is of utmost importance in flower board crafting. For example, characters in an orange or red colour are matched against a green background and bordered with a black or white outline. Gold paper is sometimes placed between the characters to make them stand out even more.
Masters draw patterns of dragons and phoenixes on the components of the flower boards. Although flower boards are usually used for one-off events, some components are reusable after repair, given that there is a centern standardisation in terms of the sizes of the flower boards.
I finished a design video for the *cockpit* of my custom LEGO spaceship, Astrea. It’s at https://youtu.be/XTm9-6GDWlo.
I tried a new, digital approach/format for this video because I'm currently away from my physical models. (I plan to create some additional videos for other parts of Astrea in this format, and I'll be releasing the full digital file. Kindly stand by!)
Additional materials (photos, background, digital design) for Astrea and my other LEGO creations are at https://www.galacticplastics.com.
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From time to time, we will use this space to explore some of Eggbert highly doubtful camouflage techniques.
So today, Eggbert will tell us a technique that is so good it promise to bring tears to our eyes...
Technique #03:
"The White Onion" disguise.
Sure, the company may stink, but it also suppose to keep you healthy, and most important (in his case) alive!
Oh, and by the way, you will need a wig for this one.
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Project 13 from Sweetwater Precision Weapons. A modification of the P90 with a side pivoting magrelease.
Credit to:
Cpt Cupcakes for the holo-carryhandle combo.
Cami for the darkness technique
I know this is the same idea as Black Ops 2's PDW57. I had the same idea a couple of weeks before the release of Blops 2.
And the lines on the shading is because it would take days to fix, and I didn't want to take days.
My entry for round 1 of The Middle Earth LEGO Olympics over on MOCpages. The category was to create a build based on one of J.R.R Tolkien’s poems or songs. Here is the one I chose:
Farewell we call to hearth and hall!
Though wind may blow and rain may fall,
We must away ere break of day
Far over wood and mountain tall.
To Rivendell, where Elves yet dwell
In glades beneath the misty fell,
Through moor and waste we ride in haste,
And whither then we cannot tell.
With foes ahead, behind us dread,
Beneath the sky shall be our bed,
Until at last our toil be passed,
Our journey done, our errand sped.
We must away! We must away!
We ride before the break of day!
I tried to portray the 3 main themes of the song: hearth and home, travel through the wild, and Rivendell.
I decided to give Clemmy a little makeover and here is her new crazy wild hair.... I hope you like her :D... if anyone would like to know how to do this then please do leave comments or feel free to message :D
Thanks for the visit :)
Or really Day 8, but whatever.
The final technique! This one is my personal favorite. Two years ago, I came up with this technique, which allows for bricks that are 2 plates high and 2 studs wide to be spaced half a plate apart from each other. Ever since, I've been trying to come up with a way to fill those 1/2 plate gaps, and this is my best solution. :)
This technique, much like the one that inspired it, is based on clip-and-bar connections. The two key pieces are 1x2 grille tiles and minifigure neck brackets, along with some trusty 4L or 5L bars and 1x1 tiles with clip. This one is more complex than the others, so I'll explain it step by step:
1. Select a brick color (or colors). Gather up a bunch of 1x2 grille tiles and 1x2 plates in that color and connect them together to form the "bricks" in the wall.
2. Select a "mortar" color. Gather up a bunch of minifigure neck brackets and 1x2 grille tiles in this color. You'll probably want to go with light or dark bley for this one.
3. Gather up a bunch of 1x1 tile with clip pieces and rod pieces. Connect all the 1x1 tiles with clip to the studs of the minifigure neck brackets.
4. Construct a supporting structure. This just has to be something that props up all the rod pieces so you can form a backbone for the wall. However, this gets a bit tricky. In this technique, each layer of bricks is actually 22 LDU high, or in conventional terms 2 plates plus 3/4ths of a plate. This is because when you stack two 1x2 grille plates so their tops interlock, the result is 1 and 3/4 plates high. In order to get all the bars lined up properly, it's easiest to make a support structure that has horizontal 1x_ plates that are each 1/4th of a plate apart.
The easiest way I know to create 1/4th plate offsets is to place two 1x1 plates on the sides of one of these ("Plate, Modified 1 x 1 with Clip Light - Thick Ring") and then to connect those 1x1 plates to snot pieces such as 1x1 technic bricks.
5. Connect the rod pieces to the supporting structure, then connect the minifigure neck brackets with 1x1 tiles with clip to the rod pieces so that the holes of the brackets are all facing sideways. Each minifigure neck bracket should be placed 2 studs apart from the next one, and they have to be staggered as seen in the picture.
6. Finally, stack the 1x2 grille tiles of the background color uspide down into the "bricks" you prepared in the first step so the grille tiles of the background color are 1/2 of a plate farther inward than the "bricks". Then, insert these structures in between the minifigure neck brackets.
The result is a wall that, despite being comprised mostly of loose pieces, is quite sturdy. You can hold it at a 45º angle and the brackets will safely keep all the loose pieces lodged in. In addition, there are no prominent gaps!
The one issue with the technique is that the horizontal lines are 5/8ths of a plate wide, while the vertical lines are only 3/8ths of a plate wide. However, this isn't all that noticable unless you look straight at the wall – it looks balanced when viewed from an angle.
If anyone has seen this technique used before, please let me know! Also, if anyone figures out a way to make all of the mortar lines exactly half a plate wide, please do share it with me! I've been trying to solve this technical problem for a year now and would love to know if there are other solutions. :)
Check out this awesome build by Sandro Tagliaferri to see the technique in action!
Welcome to day 2 of Technique Week! For all of this week, and possibly longer if I can keep going, I'll be posting a new technique every day.
Today's technique is a shingle roof technique. The two critical pieces here are the Minifigure seat and the 1x2 plate with ladder. To construct this, turn the ladders and chairs upside-down. Then wedge the fronts of the chairs in-between every second rung of the ladders. See here for a demonstration. For anyone like me who somehow wound up with an excess of chairs, especially brown chairs, this should come in handy. To fill the gaps that happen at the edges when you offset the chairs, use 1x2 tiles connected to the bottom of the chairs via 1x1 bricks with stud on one side (unless you can figure out a better way, which I'm sure exists).
You can do something similar with ladder pieces and these pieces, but I don't like the effect of that one quite as much, so I decided not to post that variation.
Click here for more days of Technique Week and and here for previous techniques.
I've also used this technique in an actual build, unlike most of my other ones. :P So you can see this technique in action.
A candid photo taken in the Amazon area a few miles up river from Iquitos, Peru. A black and white cropped edit from a previous upload.
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First trial of "EBS" Film swap with hodachrome,definitely one of the coolest photographers in Japan.
"Exposing Both Sides of the Film (EBS)" is one of the unique technique in Lomography.
Please refer to the other photos and description on the set of EBS from his photostream.
First I shot on normal side, a shoal of fish on the commercial poster in Nagoya and then he shot on redscale side, at "Utsukushigahara Open Air Museum" in Nagano.
I love the mysterious mood of fish swimming in the red open air museum.
LOMO LC-A+/Fuji Venus800/EBS
I made a water tower for an upcoming build and used this technique to make it. Not sure if it's new/ of use to anyone but thought I'd post it anyway. Would work for stairs too?
Tutorial weekend!!
I remember that I saw this tutorial a long time ago but I thought that it was very difficult.. but actually this was a very fun thing to do and I'm sure that I can use this technique in other projects :)
I'm very happy because I was able to finish it ;)
Thx 4 ur visits, comments, tips, suggestions, favs, etc!!
I've revisited a shot I took a few years ago having learned a few techniques since then - RAW for a start.
This is the Millennium Bridge, London, viewed from the south bank of The River Thames in front of Tate Modern. It opened in June 2000 to mark the new millennium but famously those first using it discovered that it swung as they crossed. As they subconsciously fell into step with the swing (actually, as it lurched ever so slightly, the pedestrians instinctively lurched with it to maintain their balance), the amplitude increased in exactly the same way as applying a gentle push to a child on a swing at just the right time is found surprisingly effective given the effort applied. This effect, which physicists call resonant frequency, is considered to be (ahem) unhelpful with regard to bridges. Indeed, columns of marching troops may be instructed to break step as they cross a bridge lest they cause a collapse which dumps them into whatever lies beneath. Clearly something had to be done so the bridge closed for a couple of years while the boffins sorted it out. Today, when used to cross The Thames from the south, it provides a spectacular, processional approach to Sir Christopher Wren's masterpiece, St Paul's Cathedral, especially after sunset.
The original then 500 year old St Paul's was destroyed during The Great Fire of London in 1666. This is the replacement, Sir Christopher being appointed its architect in 1673 and knighted the day after accepting his commission. Although it may appear traditional to 21st Century eyes, his design was considered radical and had to amended. However, he obtained King Charles II's permission to make "variations, rather ornamental than essential" so he pretty much went with his original design after all. Its most obvious feature - the dome - is very similar to St Peter's Basilica in Rome, the seat of The Pope. That was controversial in England a little over a Century after King Henry VIII had split the country from catholic Rome, placing himself as head of the new Church of England. The design was decided upon within living memory of The Gunpowder Plot.
To divert from St Paul's, The Gunpowder Plot involved a group of catholic conspirators intending to blow Parliament, King James I and much of the aristocracy sky high during the ceremonial state opening of Parliament on November 5th 1605. The plotters also had plans to kidnap other highly placed people, including Princess Elizabeth, daughter of His Majesty, who was to be installed as a puppet monarch, and they had stashed weapons to perform what today we'd call a coup d'etat. Had they succeeded England could have become ripe for the other European superpower, catholic Spain, to exploit. However, The Plot was betrayed resulting in 17th Century hitman Guy Fawkes being found in the cellars of Parliament alongside a very incriminating amount of gunpowder. It all ended very badly for him. About to be hung, drawn and quartered, he prematurely jumped from the scaffold, the noose breaking his neck, killing him instantly so depriving The State of the satisfaction of completing its gruesome sentence while he was still alive. The other principal plotters were killed or captured in a shootout in Staffordshire leading to heads finding themselves on spikes. The Plot caused Catholicism to be regarded at least with suspicion, even though His Majesty's response to those other than the plotters themselves was conciliatory rather than punitive, but even today a catholic may not become monarch.
The design of St Paul's invites speculation. Could its dome, being so similar to the catholic taste in architecture, hint at the private religious belief of its creator? He was a powerful man with influential friends such as Sir Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke. Was Sir Christopher using his greatest project to thumb his nose at The Establishment, implicitly challenging it to come after him if it dared? If so, he was playing a dangerous game, but whatever! I guess we'll never know. Perhaps he just liked domes.
Unusually for such a large project in those days, the architect lived to see it completed - officially Christmas Day 1711 - although construction actually continued for several more years. Sir Christopher died in 1723. He is buried in the crypt with his epitaph (translated from Latin) being "If you seek my monument, look around you." Quite.
The photo was taken at twilight on a glorious late spring evening, with just a little colour remaining in the sky.