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This is a video still from the video 'my camera collection' I uploaded earlier last week.
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This is an old gravel pit being reclaimed at Glen Major Forest. You can see trails along the bottom — the whole pit is supposed to be off-limits to let plants get a hold, but this winter someone took down or defaced all the “please don’t ride here” signs (not only here but at all the other trails in the park I’ve hiked) so I suspect those areas will be a long time recovering.
The air is clear — it rained about 25 minutes before I got here — and if you look closely along the horizon you can see the towers of downtown Toronto (1.5 hours drive away). Straight down is a small pond that disappears in summer.
The deciduous trees were in bud but not quite in leaf yet.
I wanted to get here earlier, but waited for the rain to stop before I started hiking, and the sun to clear the clouds before I shot this panorama. It’s a bit late for Golden Hour, but the yellow grass does a good job of faking it!
I’m finally getting the hang of adding a sky to my aerial panoramas. I'm not quite there yet — still haven’t got the colours from two different cameras quite matching — but I'm close.
This is actually the sky about 10 minutes before, taken on the ground with a Sony NEX-6. Had to do a lot of work with the inpainting brush in Affinity Photo to get rid of tree branches, but I think it was worth it.
This High Dynamic Range 360° aerial panorama was stitched from 89 bracketed photographs with PTGUI Pro, processed with Color Efex, and touched up in Affinity Photo and Aperture.
Original size: 15000 × 7500 (112.5 MP; 627.29 MB).
Location: Glen Major Forest, Ontario, Canada
This is Part 2 of a -homework- assignment given to me by my friend Vasha. Also a fashion post! \o/
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Skin: cStar Limited - Kassandra - Cat Eyes - Acorn (Available at The Main Event)
Ears: +Half-Deer+ - Patchwork Army - Troublemaker - Ears (Available at The Arcade)
Hair: .ploom. - Splitend
Eyes: cStar Limited - Pure Eyes - Rock
Necklace: .Pekka. - Spiked Collar - Silver/Black Metal
Tattoos: Letis Tattoo - The Time - MM12027
Hoodie: :{F.A.D.}: - Nylie Sleeveless Hoodie - Black
Hands: SiniStyle - Taped Fist & Black Nails - Full Palm -Forearm Gap W/ Tape Ends
Tail: +Half-Deer+ - Patchwork Army - Troublemaker - Tail (Available at The Arcade)
Pants: =Razorblade Jacket= - Fuel Low Rise Jeans - Black
Boots: Razor /// - Regulator Combat Boots
Pose: Apple Spice - Action 007
This Boeing 747-436 took its first flight on October 9, 1990 and was delivered to BA on October 25, 1990...(c/n 24057/ 817)
scan of a slide in my collection and not my own shot...
This advertisement is from my collection of toy and hobby industry trade magazines, notably the Toy Fair editions where new toy announcements were made. These ads weren’t intended to be seen by the general public.
This is a DD version, seen at Tank Fest 2022. DD stands for duplex drive. It is designed to be amphibious.
This is a 2 part series and you must see it all next one is "Mature Christianity Bootcamp Training Seminar"
...he can't have it back heh heh
TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-NINE
“Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.”
Paul Klee
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..this old tree stump is decorated quite prettily by the changing colours of fall I think..this is the flash of colour I saw by the roadside that got me to stop and sit in the ditch for a bit on my way home the other day.. just too pretty to not stop for!
This paper car is a Lada Samara Vaz 2109, a small family car produced by Soviet/Russian vehicle manufacturer AvtoVAZ under the Lada brand, the papercraft is created by Danil Ermolaev. The size of finished model is about 137 (H) x 227 (W) x 443 (D) mm. There is another Vaz 2109 Car Paper Model on ...
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This 1972 Ford LTD Convertible was used by the Dutch Royal Family.
Location: Palace Het Loo.
Country: Netherlands.
Please press "L" to see large picture.
This eagle is missing a fey feathers from its left wing. I can't speculate on how that happened. Notice the size of the talons!
Note: this photo was taken on Broadway and 92nd Street, on a dark gloomy rainy day in mid-January 2014, when I came out of the gym in my neighborhood.
Sigh ... another loser; indeed, this one didn't survive past the 3-star edit of the large batch of photos I took on this day -- in this case, literally a couple of seconds while the subject of the photo walked past me.
I'm probably like a lot of photographers, in the sense that I see potentially interesting scenes out of the corner of my eye, and simply fire off a bunch of shots during the brief second or two that the scene is "available".
I'm not really sure what was registering in my mind when I decided to take the shot, but I think it was the odd juxtaposition of a blind man with a cane and a helper-dog, who was also carrying a case of something (bottled water?) on his shoulder. I guess there's nothing all that strange or unusual about such a situation, but it wasn't what I expected to see ...
When I made the first pass through the several hundred photos that I had taken on that rainy January afternoon, a bunch of them disappeared because they were technically unsalvageable -- e.g., blurred beyond recognition. This photo survived that first round of eliminations, and even made it past the 2nd round of eliminations, after which I actually take a closer look to see what's going on ...
... and at that point, I decided that this photo was simply ... well, for lack of a better word: boring. That doesn't mean that the man was boring;. it simply means that the photo was boring, in the sense that it doesn't say anything, or communicate anything, really special or interesting or unusual.
So here it sits, in the "loser" set on Flickr. C'est la vie.
Note: after I uploaded this photo, two of my loyal Flickr friends decided to "favorite" it. So I've changed the photo's status from "friends & family" to "public" ...
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Whether you’re an amateur or professional photographer, it’s hard to walk around with a modern smartphone in your pocket, and not be tempted to use the built-in camera from time-to-time. Veteran photographers typically sneer at such behavior, and most will tell you that they can instantly recognize an iPhone photo, which they mentally reject as being unworthy of any serious attention.
After using many earlier models of smartphones over the past several years, I was inclined to agree; after all, I always (well, almost always) had a “real” camera in my pocket (or backpack or camera-bag), and it was always capable of taking a much better photographic image than the mediocre, grainy images shot with a camera-phone.
But still … there were a few occasions when I desperately wanted to capture some photo-worthy event taking place right in front of me, and inevitably it turned out to be the times when I did not have the “real” camera with me. Or I did have it, but it was buried somewhere in a bag, and I knew that the “event” would have disappeared by the time I found the “real" camera and turned it on. By contrast, the smart-phone was always in my pocket (along with my keys and my wallet, it’s one of the three things I consciously grab every time I walk out the door). And I often found that I could turn it on, point it at the photographic scene, and take the picture much faster than I could do the same thing with a “traditional” camera.
Meanwhile, smartphone cameras have gotten substantially better in the past few years, from a mechanical/hardware perspective; and the software “intelligence” controlling the camera has become amazingly sophisticated. It’s still not on the same level as a “professional” DSLR camera, but for a large majority of the “average” photographic situations we’re likely to encounter in the unplanned moments of our lives, it’s more and more likely to be “good enough.” The old adage of “the best camera is the one you have with you” is more and more relevant these days. For me, 90% of the success in taking a good photo is simply being in the right place at the right time, being aware that the “photo opportunity” is there, and having a camera — any camera — to take advantage of that opportunity. Only 10% of the time does it matter which camera I’m using, or what technical features I’ve managed to use.
And now, with the recent advent of the iPhone5s, there is one more improvement — which, as far as I can tell, simply does not exist in any of the “professional” cameras. You can take an unlimited number of “burst-mode” shots with the new iPhone, simply by keeping your finger on the shutter button; instead of being limited to just six (as a few of the DSLR cameras currently offer), you can take 10, 20, or even a hundred shots. And then — almost magically — the iPhone will show you which one or two of the large burst of photos was optimally sharp and clear. With a couple of clicks, you can then delete everything else, and retain only the very best one or two from the entire burst.
With that in mind, I’ve begun using my iPhone5s for more and more “everyday” photo situations out on the street. Since I’m typically photographing ordinary, mundane events, even the one or two “optimal” shots that the camera-phone retains might not be worth showing anyone else … so there is still a lot of pruning and editing to be done, and I’m lucky if 10% of those “optimal” shots are good enough to justify uploading to Flickr and sharing with the rest of the world. Still, it’s an enormous benefit to know that my editing work can begin with photos that are more-or-less “technically” adequate, and that I don’t have to waste even a second reviewing dozens of technically-mediocre shots that are fuzzy, or blurred.
Oh, yeah, one other minor benefit of the iPhone5s (and presumably most other current brands of smartphone): it automatically geotags every photo and video, without any special effort on the photographer’s part. Only one of my other big, fat cameras (the Sony Alpha SLT A65) has that feature, and I’ve noticed that almost none of the “new” mirrorless cameras have got a built-in GPS thingy that will perform the geotagging...
I’ve had my iPhone5s for a couple of months now, but I’ve only been using the “burst-mode” photography feature aggressively for the past couple of weeks. As a result, the initial batch of photos that I’m uploading are all taken in the greater-NYC area. But as time goes on, and as my normal travel routine takes me to other parts of the world, I hope to add more and more “everyday” scenes in cities that I might not have the opportunity to photograph in a “serious” way.
Stay tuned….
This wet business suit scene was extracted form a short film entitled "The Perplexing Case of the Perfectly Planned Pool Party."
You can view just the wet scene video at the link below.
This car was originally a solid blue colour and had become rather tatty, possibly even accident-damaged. Luckily it fell into the right hands and its new owner did an excellent job of restoring it. The West London guys do love their Violets...
CARS July 2006, Santa Pod.
This series (147 photos) of this beautiful model have been shot with the a7 IV running the old 1.0 Firmware with Eye-AF issues.
You can find more photos of her in the albums.
This doorway led to a stairway that went up to track level at what was once the Nickel Plate Road passenger boarding platform in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It was being used on this day by passengers on an excursion train pulled by ex-NKP 2-8-4 No. 765.
This is Miles Island just off the West Coast of East Arnhemland in the early morning light. I kept shooting until i felt the first drops from the incoming rain storm. N.T. Australia
This rather striking lady performer was doing a gymnastic/dance routine with her hula-hoop at the Fringe
this is a pic that i got frm photobucket... these are the colors of the ipods ive been through... lol
This spectacular epic re-creates the ill-fated maiden voyage of the White Star Line's $7.5 million R.M.S Titanic and the tragic sea disaster of April 15, 1912. Running over three hours and made with the combined contributions of two major studios (20th Century-Fox, Paramount) at a cost of more than $200 million, Titanic ranked as the most expensive film in Hollywood history at the time of its release, and became the most successful. Writer-director James Cameron employed state-of-the-art digital special effects for this production, realized on a monumental scale and spanning eight decades. Inspired by the 1985 discovery of the Titanic in the North Atlantic, the contemporary storyline involves American treasure-seeker Brock Lovett (Bill Paxton) retrieving artifacts from the submerged ship. Lovett looks for diamonds but finds a drawing of a young woman, nude except for a necklace. When 102-year-old Rose (Gloria Stuart) reveals she's the person in the portrait, she is summoned to the wreckage site to tell her story of the 56-carat diamond necklace and her experiences of 84 years earlier. The scene then shifts to 1912 Southampton where passengers boarding the Titanic include penniless Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) and society girl Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet), returning to Philadelphia with her wealthy fiance Cal Hockley (Billy Zane). After the April 10th launch, Rose develops a passionate interest in Jack, and Cal's reaction is vengeful. At midpoint in the film, the Titanic slides against the iceberg and water rushes into the front compartments. Even engulfed, Cal continues to pursue Jack and Rose as the massive liner begins its descent. Cameron launched the project after seeing Robert Ballard's 1987 National Geographic documentary on the wreckage. Blueprints of the real Titanic were followed during construction at Fox's custom-built Rosarito, Mexico studio, where a hydraulics system moved an immense model in a 17-million-gallon water tank. During three weeks aboard the Russian ship Academik Keldysh, underwater sequences were filmed with a 35mm camera in a titanium case mounted on the Russian submersible Mir 1. When the submersible neared the wreck, a video camera inside a remote-operated vehicle was sent into the Titanic's 400-foot bow, bringing back footage of staterooms, furniture and chandeliers. On November 1, 1997, the film had its world premiere at the 10th Tokyo International Film Festival
This week's post for Totally Texture Tuesday!
This was my favorite grain elevator that I found on a day trip to Abilene last Fall. It is also the only one that is no longer in operation. I love all the "artifacts of function" that are hanging off of this place. Texture added in iPiccy.
W. 1st Street,
Abilene (Dickinson County), KS.
This week’s Throwback Thursday photos are from November 29, 1981 – a 2nd alarm at 1852 Washington Avenue in the Bronx (FD Box BX 22-3107).
This adult male is so striking that its ID among warblers becomes a no-brainer. I noticed several pairs flitting near the pond edge, and hoped for a shot of a close one in the nearby reeds. After a half hour, however, I had to settle for this distant bird singing in a tree.
IMG_2055; Common Yellowthroat
This is a Forte Hotels postcard available for purchase at the Cumberland Hotel, Marble Arch. The postcard shows a painting of Speakers Corner, Marble Arch and the Cumberland Hotel by Andrew Murray. The image was painted in 1977 when the hotel was owned by the Forte Group, it is now owned by GLH Hotels and on 30th April this year it will re-open as the Hard Rock Hotel. The clue to the date of the painting lies with the London Transport bus with the advertisement for the “British Genius Exhibition” which was held between May and October 1977 at Battersea Park as part of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee celebrations. I spent many an hour policing Speakers Corner during the mid-1970s and made my first crime arrest there. A Chinese girl reported to me that she had just had her purse taken from her bag by a pickpocket, as I removed my notebook to take details I asked her if she could describe the suspect, she told me that she could do better than that and pointed to a man waiting at the bus stop in Park Lane which was adjacent to Speakers Corner. I grabbed the man’s arm telling him that he was under arrest and his arm came out of his coat pocket clutching the stolen purse in his hand, I think that is called “Bang to Rights”.
This is an adult male Evening Grosbeak. New Mexico reports six of the seven Grosbeak species that are seen in the US. Only the Crimson-collared is missing from our list. It is a neotropic species spotted only in extreme southern Texas. Several other Grosbeak species are found mostly in the southern half of the US. This view emphasizes the nearly solid yellow underparts that are mostly viewed on overhead birds
IMG_1392; Evening Grosbeak
This guy was an instant sensation when he pulled in. That's a toaster sticking through the hood, by the way.
This view from Kings Park, considered a mountain in the area! Definitely put this on your check-it-out (CIO) list when you pop into Perth.
This is what happens when extreme boredom meets requests from internet strangers. DANGER, WILL ROBINSON!
So back to my quest for the elusive pond on the orange & brown state sign. A clue would have been to follow the stream, but in which direction? I chose under the bridge, because I liked the view.
This was taken on a magical day, where everything was perfect. I know the odds of seeing the Aspen so golden and the sky that perfect Colorado blue again are slim so I treasure these photos and my memories of that perfect day.
This is my Sophie, she is the first cat I got when I left home she is coming up for 19 years of age.!
I dont like to have favourites having so many cats, but well she is my fav....more than abit ratty when we try to brush her but she is old she is allowed to be.....my beauitful Sophie is a Mummy's girl.
This type of building is particularly prone to fire. Compared to a conventional house, the cost of rewiring a building such as this is astronomic so they often still have their original wiring - with cable made before insulation was treated with chemical to deter rats and mice from chewing it! Then, as we have seen here, the steeply pitched roofs, that were sometimes slated centuries ago, loose their slates and getting up there to replace them is a major exercise, so they often leak. Water and dodgy electrical wiring are a bad mix! Once there is a source of ignition, the ancient timbers are so dry that fire spreads quickly and in buildings as high as these, is usually very difficult to extinguish.
Kelburn's brush with fiery destruction came on the night of 16 February 2009. In this case the culprit was not a hungry mouse but an electrical fault in a hot water system switch. The 10th Earl of Glasgow was asleep when the fire started but his son, Viscount Kelburn, was working in his office after midnight after being out late, when he smelt smoke. Father and son attempted to deal with the fire but quickly realised that doing so was beyond their capabilities. It took the local fire brigade five hours to put the fire out. Fortunately, the damage to building and furnishings was quite limited and Kelburn lived to fight another day.
Since the Second World War, Kelburn, like so many other great houses around Britain has been faced with ever increasing running costs and dwindling income. For families that have lived continuously in the same property for centuries, accepting the inevitability of change must be difficult. Many houses have been sold, divided up into flats or been demolished. Here at Kelburn the Boyles decided to make the best of their most major asset and in 1977 the 10th Earl opened the house and grounds of Kelburn Castle to the public as a country park. While the old castle is clearly in need of some work (and a new paint job!) I believe that the country park, thanks to the energy and imagination of the Boyle family, remains a viable business.