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These 2 boats are still in use, but I wonder for how much longer.
This is Dungeness beach, and it is a lot more tidy than it used to be. Many of the old boats and buildings have been removed.
Feeling a bit like this buffalo? Remind yourself that confinement is for your own good, so that you don't wander off into the swamp.
Aerial panorama of the Cargill Corn Milling Plant and Cedar River looking south from Van Vechten Park. The photo alignment resulted in a tilted horizon and gives the illusion of everything being gently drawn into the sunset.
Photos taken with a tethered quadcopter and Ricoh GR camera.
File: Pano 16451-89 hi,mid tilt crop1 no tower_tm.jpg
Last one from the recent set with Pixie Dina at Studio Blanco! It's taken a couple of weeks to get all these sorted - I need more time!! Can someone please invent a way of bottling units of hours for me to buy? I'll buy bulk.
Taken with DJI Mavic Pro.
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a massive limb broken off a dead tree on the cliff that'd been caught in another tree as it drifted away. i freed it & tried steering it around the corner with the canoe but it was too huge to be able to wrestle it fully outta the current so i gave up & went to make coffee.
returning to the shore for a chore later, i found it'd gotten caught in the eddy along the north shore & was more or less stuck on some rocks right where i'd wanted to push it to with the boat. got in there & hauled it close enough to be able to tie it off so it'll still be there for dismemberment tomorrow into a week's worth of firewood.
Vivitar Ultra Wide & Slim ~ Kodak EliteChrome 400 (cross-processed)
A marvellous dual-purpose day out in London... starting off with a flickrwalk around the streets of Southwark, following the Tate's Street Art trail, and flickr-sponsored drinks and food (thank you *so* much squirrelmonkey for organising such a great event - it was wonderful to meet so many other flickrrs!), followed by Massive Attack's opening night gig at the Meltdown Festival.
Setup picture... 3 flashes, 3 light modifiers, tethered shooting setup w/pocket wizard triggers.
Learn how to light at Strobist.
Barge tethered to the bank of the Mississippi River. This is not HDR and not a composite, it is a single exposure.
This was some kind of radio tower that I shot at an awkward angle out the driver's side window of my car.
The darkness in the right side of the image is really the interior roof of my car.
I was surprised at how it turned out since the whole image looks as if it was taken from outer space.
This was not my intention when I captured this photo and that's why experimentation can be so rewarding.
I did add some nonsense, of course.
United States Army Bell AH-1F Cobra 'Gunships' of the Texas National Guard tied and tethered out on the ramp on a damp and dull Austin day back in November of 1998
There were 21 x AH-1's there that day - five of which were being robbed for spares along with 5 x OH-58 Kiowa's, 6 x UH-60 Blackhawk's and a C-23 Sherpa!
Back then I'd simply chanced upon this unit, proferred my passport and asked nicely at the reception desk if I could have a look around. One of their very hospitable officers very kindly obliged and chaperoned me around the flight line.
Imagine that happening now!
Scanned Kodak 35mm Transparency
“An exciting new capability for probing the space environment and conducting experiments will be demonstrated for the first time when the NASA/Italian Space Agency Tethered Satellite System (TSS-1) is deployed during the STS-46 Space Shuttle flight. The reusable Tethered Satellite System is made up of a
satellite attached to the Shuttle orbiter by a super strong cord which will be reeled into space from the Shuttle's cargo bay. When the satellite on its cord, or tether, is deployed to about 12 miles above the orbiter, TSS-1 will be the longest structure ever flown in space.
Operating the tethered system is a bit like trolling for fish in a lake or the ocean. But the potential "catch" is valuable data that may yield scientific insights from the vast sea of space. For the TSS-1 mission, the tether -- which looks like a 12-mile-long white bootlace -- will have electrically-conducting metal strands in its core. The conducting tether will generate electrical currents at a high voltage by the same basic principle as a standard electrical generator -- by converting mechanical energy (the Shuttle's more than 17,000-mile-an hour orbital motion) into electrical energy by passing a conductor through a magnetic field (the Earth's magnetic field lines).
TSS-1 scientific instruments, mounted in the Shuttle cargo bay, the middeck and on the satellite, will allow scientists to examine the electrodynamics of the conducting tether system, as well as clarify their understanding of physical processes in the ionized plasma of the near-Earth space environment.
Once the investigations are concluded, it is planned to reel the satellite back into the cargo bay and stow it until after the Shuttle lands.
The TSS-1 mission will be the first step toward several potential future uses for tethers in space now being evaluated by scientists and engineers. One possible application is using long conducting tethers to generate electrical power for Space Station Freedom or other orbiting bodies. Conversely, by expending electrical power to reverse the current flow into a tether, the system can be placed in an "electric motor" mode to generate thrust for orbit maintenance. Tethers also may be used to raise or lower spacecraft orbits. This could be achieved by releasing a tethered body from a primary spacecraft, thereby transferring momentum (and imparting motion) to the spacecraft. Another potential application is the creation of artificial gravity by rotating two or more masses on a tether, much like a set of bolas.
Downward deployment (toward Earth) could place a satellite in regions of the atmosphere that have been difficult to study because they lie above the range of high-altitude balloons and below the minimum altitude of free-flying satellites. Deploying a tethered satellite downward from the Shuttle also could make possible aerodynamic and wind tunnel type testing in the region 50 to 75 nautical miles above the Earth.”
The above is an extract from the STS-46 press kit, available at:
spacepresskit.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/sts-46.pdf
Credit: spacepresskit/wordpress website
Unfortunately:
“TSS deployment was also delayed one day because of EURECA. During TSS deployment, the satellite reached a maximum distance of only 840 feet (256 meters) from orbiter instead of planned 12.5 miles (20 kilometers) because of a jammed tether line. After numerous attempts over several days to free the tether, TSS operations were curtailed and satellite was stowed for return to Earth.”
Above from/at:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archiv...
~8” x 9.3”. Date range of the photograph is based on the Aeritalia citation, date of documentation found regarding the TSS attributed to Aeritalia, and what appears to be a leading “8” following the signature? “Arstudio”. I have no idea if that’s an individual’s name or that of an artistic group/company, as Google searches were fruitless. A shame, this is a very nice work.
16 x 20, acrylic on canvas. (sold)
for the All Girl Show at Twilight Artist Collective, west seattle junction location
opening reception: thurs july 10th, 6-9 pm
Scanned print, from 35mm negative.
The last few images in my photostream are from a collection of my earliest work and were taken during a photographic era when street photography and photojournalism, often with overtones of social awareness, were a much larger proportion of the subject matter of photography than it is today.