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UP 844 arrives into Pacific, MO for a stop as the sun pops out. This was the only sun seen on the 844.
Well away from its normal morning timing, here 60010 passes Miskin in the Vale of Glamorgan with 6B13 10:05 Robeston Sidings to Westerleigh Murco. Some recent bankside vegetation clearance has finally opened up this view once again.
Stopwatch measuring time elapsed.
Theme: "Time"
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Now the title of this isn't really about eastern spirituality or philosophy or an attempt to come up with a cool sounding name but more to do with making a bit of an a*** of yourself.
I have few days off work so I headed to a favourite spot of mine, one where I did some of my first rock balances and where I built this. Now it had collapsed I wanted to use the stones to make something else.
I've spent a few days out rock balancing recently since I did this this but I didn't manage to get anything to stay upright long enough to get any pictures. I don't think my heart was really in it and I couldn't be bothered to rebuild any of them more than a couple of times once they had toppled over. It is fun to do though and it isn't all about getting a picture so it wasn't wasted time.
I felt a bit more focussed today on getting it right. A lot of it is in the preparation and making sure you pick the right stones and arrange them carefully and the rest is in patience and persistence and an added dose of luck. So I began by trying to do an enhanced version of that stack done on Heysham beach.
After a while it started to rain but other than getting my camera wet it didn't matter too much as it is so warm and muggy.
I had the video camera running most of the time and the one time it was switched off I got my welly wedged under a rock and when I attempted to walk I fell straight over. £250 from You've Been Framed would have been handy but karma dictated that it wasn't to be. Karma hadn't finished with me just yet though.
The paddle out to the boulder the balance was on was just about the same height as my wellies, somehow I managed to stop them being breached but the trouble with constructing something on a rock in a few feet of water is if you don't balance a rock properly then "plop!" it is gone in microseconds and you have to wade back to the bank to search for another one. Just how many crossings was I going to get away with? Well Lady Karma allowed me enough to get it done, and she smiled on me enough to get it built first go.
The first sculpture had an insane wobble. The third from bottom layer had a pebble that rolled every time a new layer was added, several times I had to hold the whole thing upright and put it back into equilibrium. I am interested to see the video footage to see whether it's wobble is clear to see.
The second was more robust but surprisingly so. The lower round pebbles that increased the height of the left hand slab were held on with friction and should they move it would all go. It was quite tall so I worried that I would get flattened if it did fall. Either that or very wet as any evasive action would end up as a swim.
Anyway I got away with it and packed up and headed back to my car.
As I clambered up the hill to the parking area I saw someone else was parked there. Two old ladies were sat in fold-up chairs looking out over the river, each clutching a glass of red wine and smoking a cigarette. They weren't best pleased having their drunken picnic interrupted. But still I smiled and said hello.
This was met with a scowl. Obviously one that they had both spent a lifetime perfecting. I was sorry to interrupt their lunchtime drinkie-poos but you run the risk of being disturbed by a strange bloke in wellies if you insist on having your soiree in a car park.
Anyway, being too long away from food, irritable, tired and grumpy I muttered to myself "manners cost nothing" - grumble - grumble - "parking here and drinking cheap wine and smoking fags" - mutter - mutter - "I didn't want to say hello anyway!"
I packed up my tripods and and put my camera gear into the boot while the elderly grumpy twins laughed uproariously as their cheap plonk kicked in.
I slapped the gear stick into reverse and manoeuvred onto the road and drove away still grumbling under my breath.
I looked at them in the rear view mirror and suddenly there was a black flash in the mirror. "What the hell was that?!"
Doh! I'd left my reflector on the roof. I saw it land in the road so I parked up at the next layby and sprinted up the road. It was nowhere to be seen and each side of the road was thick with bracken.
*********!
I looked and looked and looked and couldn't see it anywhere. Oh no, I am not going to have to ask those two old dears do I? No, anything but that please.
And so, tail between my legs with my best - mum brought me up properly - polite voice I siddled up to them.
"'Scuse me?"
"Yes?"
"Did you see a black circular thing come flying off the back of my car?" The ground opening up beneath would be nice timing should it happen.
"No?!?" The quizzical look I got was far worse than that earlier scowl.
I walked back along the road and sure enough there it was under a bush. Seemed Lady Karma wanted me to talk to those ladies, they wouldn't know where I had lost it but it would appear once I had and I am sure that their side of the story would be quite different to mine.
All I can hope for when they recount what happened that someone will ask them "how much did you have to drink?"
Rittreck Six 6x6 SLR. 12 frames per 120 roll/24 per 220.
Fitted with 80mm Rittron f/2 lens.
The Rittreck Six was the progenitor of the better known Norita SLR, but was manufactured by Musashino Kōki.
See here for more information about the Rittreck/Norita series. camera-wiki.org/wiki/Rittreck_6×6_and_Norita_66
Also:
www.rangefinderforum.com/threads/rittreck-six-slr-repair-...
By all accounts this one is virtually unused. I find this easy to believe, because it's become fairly obvious to me that, at the time of its assembly, Musashino Kōki's quality control left a bit to be desired, unfortunately. So its proud owner's first roll of film through this camera would have been a profound disappointment.
This Rittreck was sent to me to by its owner in order to get it to actually work properly. On arrival, it had any number of faults. Frame spacing was inconsistent, and the shutter curtains were poorly adjusted because there was considerable tapering across the gate at the faster speeds.
The back closure was a little on the loose side (causing other issues with the counter reset and frame spacing), and its Rittron lens would focus beyond infinity by an unacceptable amount (subsequent checks confirmed it had been assembled with the back focus out of spec).
It's an unusual mechanism in as much that it relies on the correct amount of friction in a few places in order to achieve satisfactory frame spacing or indeed, to get the shutter cocking and advance working together at all. I can't help thinking a Rollei type approach to integrating wind release and lock into the counter dial, so that the lever (or knob in the case of a Rolleicord) is either free, or blocked, depending on the counter position, is a much more elegant (and reliable) solution.
The back door closure is a key part of getting the plot to come together correctly. A reset tab inside the top door slot not only resets the counter to "S" but also kicks the film roller into action when you begin advancing to the first frame. If the tab is not firmly depressed by a snug door, or the linkages inside the bottom cover of the body which are driven by the tab's lever are incorrectly adjusted with the wrong play or orientation, the framing may be haphazard or even non-existent (the shutter may not get cocked at all).
At various points of problem solving the mechanism I had the frame advancing without cocking the shutter, and the shutter cocking without winding on the film. It's a Goldilocks mechanism. Has to be just right, in order to function sweetly. Nevertheless I got there eventually and it now produces 12 beautifully even frames on a roll of 120.
The shutter is now exposing the gate consistently even at its 1/500 maximum speed. After first cleaning and lubricating the mechanism, this was achieved by increasing the second curtain tension to reduce the tapering across the gate. The alternative would have been reducing the first curtain tension (or I suppose a combination of both). But the first curtain must activate the timing levers, and as medium and slow speeds were still OK, I judged it better to speed up the second curtain to get them balanced across the gate.
It's not a particularly well understood point—but you do actually need a slight amount of widening of the slit across the gate if the fastest speeds of a focal plane shutter are going to be really good. This is because the curtains are still gathering speed as they travel across the film gate. Because the far end of the gate is thus, exposed for a shorter amount of time, the width of the slit between the curtain ends needs to enlarge fractionally during the run, in order to negate the underexposure that will occur from the curtains accelerating.
I had to estimate the amount of taper needed to achieve consistent exposure by eye using a CRT screen. On receipt it was clearly grossly excessive with the slit tripling in size from side to side, or more. I moderated this to around a 1/3 increase from right side to left side of the gate (as viewed from the rear). A test roll with several 1/500 & 1/250 images featuring lots of clear sky indicates that exposure is very even across an entire negative, so my adjustments were fairly reasonable.
The 80mm Rittron f/2 lens seems reasonably sharp and after the addition of a 0.25mm shim behind the optic module, is now focusing only to infinity at its stop.
Whilst I am in no hurry to work on another it was an interesting job, and a learning exercise. But also a reminder of why I mostly stick with classic German cameras, I seem to relate to those better...
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My trials with film continue. This is my 1st moonlit scene captured by a long exposure, with my Pentax 6x7 and SMC Takumar 105mm f/2.4 and Fuji Acros 100 film. Eagle Island lighthouse providing some of the illumination.
I've a lot to learn about exposures and developement times and technics of developing the negatives so that I don't leave imperfections!! I'm enjoying the process so far though, I could take hundreds of digital images on any given night and batch process in LR but with one roll of film I get just 10 exposures, long exposures, which is fantastic because I get time to enjoy the sensory aspect of being out in the night.
Pentax 6x7
SMC Takumar 105mm f/2.4
Fuji Acros 100
RO9 Spezial 8 minutes
Converted to digital and processed in LR
I believe this is the first time I was able to catch a train coming under the DeKalb coal tower at the exact time the setting sun was shining through one of the windows of the coal tower. There is only a minute or two of opportunity for this, so even though the sun was a little muted due to clouds, the timing was just perfect on this 8-29-17 date.
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Stevie's friend had an insane mansion up in Topanga Canyon, said we could use it for the day for a photo session, I couldn't say no, that would be rude, I'm not a rude person, my mother didn't raise me that way.
As was my style back then, I put together a crew. Stevie, of course, Lisa, who'd serve as my assistant for the day, Erika, a second photographer who I worked with on a tv show at the time, and...well shit, I've forgotten the make-up artist's name, don't even recall where I found her...but there we were!
The make-up took forever because it always takes forever to a guy who's used to simply showing up and getting the show rolling, but it gave me time to scope out the house, which was both gorgeous and not all that photogenic.
We ended up spending most of the time outside, the area was excellent, ended up timing it perfectly with the sunset, had ourselves a grand time, because of course we did. Every photo session back then was a blast, every person I met was awesome, I was always finding new spots to take pictures, new people to take pictures of, a truly golden era!
On a cold, Winter day, the fog briefly lifts to reveal this beautiful scene, before closing-in again a few minutes later! --- Rannoch Moor, Highland (Jan 2012).
Otter Point, Acadia National Park
There are some photographic challenges unique to coastal environments which can ultimately make or break a photo. For a given composition to work, you not only need the right time of day, but the right wave from the right tide, which may only happen once a week...ideally with a half-decent sunset. I'm pleased to say this one worked out!
Also, a thank you to Joseph Rossbach and Kurt Budliger for serendipitously holding a workshop in the area. If I hadn't noticed a dozen tripods from their workshop the night before, I might have missed this location.
I wanted to get the standard Daytons Bluff shot, so I walked down the bike trail and waited a few minutes. Soon a headlight appeared from the east, then another from the west, so I played "Frogger" and crossed Warner Road. Canadian Pacific SD70ACU #7001 leads the eastbound while GP20C-ECO #2256 leads the westbound.
As we sat unloading at St. Clair we watched these two vessels approaching us and wondered where they would pass. Unbelievably it was a perfect broadside to our elevated vantage point on the Walter J. McCarthy. Downbound was the vintage laker Mississagi and upbound was the salty Jule. Pure luck.
The WLMNTW (Willmar, MN to Northtown Yard) manifest heads east out of Waverly with a GP50 on point with a pair of SD40-2s behind it. Here they pass the iconic barn east of town. I got word this was coming east, so I decided to try this shot of the barn off Highway 12 for once. I came here from the east to shoot the train, and no sooner than 15 seconds after I arrived the train appeared. Probably some of the best timing I've had with a train.
Back in early December, I watched the movie VIOLETTE. The movie featured Violette Leduc and her relationship with Simone Beauvoir. Learning that Leduc was praised, as a writer, by Camus, Sartre, and Beauvoir, I immediately ordered her autobiographical book. When it did not arrive anywhere near the time predicted, Amazon asked if I still wanted to keep my order active. I did. Then, as more time passed, I forgot about the book until it arrived, four months later, on my birthday!
It is a great book. It was a great surprise.
Timing and camera control SplashArt Water Drop Kit
SplashArt Kit Video on youtube
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Strobist info 2 YN560 at blue hite background. Mounted Left Right 1/32 Power 12 inches inches in front of background.
Liquid - Water Xanthan Gum a touch of Cleaning Lotion. Yellow dye in base liquid
It was previously announced by Integrity Toys that the main brands won’t be unveiled anytime soon due to timing issues caused by several factors. But it was only last week that both Fashion Royalty and NU.Face were announced as the next two brands that will be unveiled on June 24th, Saturday. So IT really surprised us here. This was a bigger deal than I thought it would be since we were expecting something other than these two core brands. This is the main event that everyone is waiting for every single year. There are a lot of things that are new and as announced late last year there are some changes to the FR and NU.Face bodies for 2017 and that is the elimination of the waist joint, the rounded out knees and the introduction of the articulated flat feet. So that’s what we’re going to see starting with the mainline collections you see here. There was also a little surprise that we didn’t know of prior to this unveiling and that is the addition of last names to the characters who had none for years. Some of these newer characters that have been around since 2008, 2009 and 2011 were only known by their first names so this year is significant in Fashion Royalty history.
Moving along, we have the Nu.Face Heirloom Collection which is a sort of extension to last year’s big hit the Reckless Collection according to Integrity Toys resident designer Jessy Ayala. While this is a softer side of NU.Face I don’t think we can completely take the edge out of this line. After all that’s what we love about NU.Face.
First off we have Charmed Life Imogen Lennox. Her look doesn’t stray away from Reckless as the styling is still on the edgy side with her combat boots but what’s different in this collection are the jewel tones of the fashions and this kind of romantic element infused in their looks. Each doll comes with an item that is special to her and for Imogen that is her lucky brooch. Charmed Life comes with some fashion pieces inspired by Louis Vuitton Pre-Fall 2016. While they are introducing articulated flat feet this year I think it was a missed opportunity that they’re only doing it with one doll out of twelve and Imogen who has flat boots doesn’t even come with flat feet.
Next is the very high fashion Heiress Erin Salston who we are seeing for the very first time in the Latino skin tone. This isn’t the first time though that Erin is in a darker skin tone. She had the Hispanic skin tone in 2009’s The Making of… Erin. With the Heirloom theme, the NU.Face dolls inherited face designs that are reminiscent of FR in its heyday from icons like Going Public Eugenia and Paparazzi Bait Adele. I do have to admit I am partial to that idea. I am still in love with last year’s faces that I don’t know what to think about this. I’m sure the dolls look more beautiful in hand though. I just have to wait for their arrival.
The cut-outs, the color blocking and the sporty glam look on Neo-Romantic Rayna Ahmadi, I am all for this! Although this look fits Nu.Face perfectly, this is what I also want to see from FR which seems to be farfetched as they tend to be more on the feminine side most of the time. With the elimination of the waist joint the designers now have more liberty in giving the dolls fashions that reveal the hip and mid-section of the body. Some of the fashion pieces Neo-Romantic comes with are also inspired by Louis Vuitton Pre-Fall 2016 which you can mix and match to the fashions from the other dolls. While I am in love with the overall look, once again I am partial with the face design.
Fiercer than ever we have Vanity & Glamour Nadja Rhymes which is a reintroduction of the “Close-Up” dolls. These are the more basic and more affordable offerings that Integrity Toys create of mostly dolls in lingerie. This is reminiscent of the lingerie dolls from 2006’s Modern Pompadour sans the wigs that they came with. Although there isn’t really anything basic with this look, I think she is as good as Reckless’ I Slay Nadja. I simply adore the hand-held mirror that she comes with. I think it’s the perfect accessory for her. Somehow I love everything about her from her silver hair to her shrug but I’m not sure about the bottom lashes. Again they are reminiscent of The Muse Adele and Clash Control Erin but I feel like she can do away with them. For the first time we are seeing Nadja in the A-Tone skin tone which is the lightest she’s ever been. This is also a first in the NU.Face line. It’s somehow laughable to me that she’s wearing a vintage-inspired lingerie set similar to what she’s wearing the last time as if to annoy the people complaining about her lack of modesty.
Next is the Ginza Kyori-inspired Hauntingly Lovely Ayumi Nakamura. Another Close-Up doll which contrasts and the same time compliments Vanity & Glamour Nadja. She comes with her mother’s cameo ring and a hair brush with real bristles which I think would perfectly go with the make-up set that came with The Industry’s Beauty Boss Cabot Clark and East 59th’s Classic Glamour Evelyn Weaverton. Kudos to Jessy for setting Ayumi free from a stereotypical Asian look, I think this wouldn’t have come to fruition without him taking over the NU.Face line. I was really hoping for full bangs for Ayumi but I didn’t think of her as a blonde. The promo shots of her really showcase the newly revised body without the waist joint and it is definitely an improvement. Judging from the pictures I don’t think that we are really losing mobility as it can still do a hip bend pose. At least that we didn’t lose. I have to say, I think she has the best face design out of all the NU.Face dolls I’m just now realizing that. From the polls though she is the least popular, but what’s new? Ayumi is often underestimated and often comes out as a sleeper hit.
Now NU.Face wouldn’t be complete without these two, and once again it’s a blow away moment for Poetic Beauty Lilith and Eden Blair. They somehow always end up on top in terms of styling. These high-fashion looks are just mind boggling. There are a few fashion pieces here that were inspired by Louis Vuitton Fall 2016 Ready-to-Wear like Eden’s vest, the carrying cases that they have and Lilith’s transitional top that turns into a dress as well as her leather pants. The boots are inspired by Louis Vuitton Pre-Fall 2016. There’s also an Erdem Spring 2016 Ready-to-Wear inspiration here with Eden’s dress which I think is one of the highlights of the set. The mini carrying cases that they have elevates the look even higher. I think those accessories alone make this duo-doll set a must-have. They both come with tasseled earrings which I love. I just wish there was a yellow version though. I wanted also to point out the make-up palette which for Eden is reminiscent of October Issue Agnes and for Lilith is reminiscent of Optic Verve Agnes. Can I say instant Holy Grail status? While I do like the Style Mantra/ Great Pretender face design, I think that the Wild at Heart face design would have given the entire line consistency as there are similarities in the style like the Upgrade Doll Majesty Giselle. With that being said they are beautiful as they are.
As a final thought on the Heirloom Collection, I was hoping to see characters that didn’t show up in the Reckless Collection and I would have loved to see the same Reckless face style on characters like Karolin, Annik, Dominique and Colette. Not that the chosen line-up aren’t good enough but I want these characters that I’ve mentioned given the spotlight since we haven’t seen them in a while. I could easily see Dominique wearing Heiress Erin’s fashion and Annik in Vanity & Glamour Nadja’s.
My first impressions on the Fashion Royalty 2017 Collection will be following next…
A Crosscountry Class 220 Voyager is seen passing through Small Heath with the 13:00 (19 late) 1O86 Newcastle to Southampton Central. Due to the late running of the Crosscountry service, Chiltern Railways service 1H45 from Birmingham Moor Street to London Marylebone, worked by 68010 "Oxford Flyer", was held by a red signal at this station just three minutes after leaving Moor Street, and left a minute late. However, this meant that I got a more interesting pic.
On another note, I imagine that most of the people who view this photo would rather be travelling on the chiltern service than the Crosscountry one...