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This is a tweak of a Simple Stunning random fractal. They can be fun to try and make some sense from. Created with JWildfire 6.0 alpha
I have this thing about symmetry... If the scene has repeating elements like this one with columns and arches, I will stand there and tweak (particularly if I'm using a tripod) until I get it perfect! It's an obsession - what can I say? It bothers me that the lamp globe on the left isn't positioned symmetrically with the one on the right. I'm not sure if that's because of my position, or it's just in the wrong place!
The "Bottomless Lake," located about 10 miles east of Roswell. So called because there was an underground stream that ran through the lake and on into some underground limestone -- so if you dropped a weight from a boat in the middle of the lake, it would be sucked along by the current, and give the impression that the lake itself was bottomless. Anyway, it was a popular swimming spot during the summer.
It's not too far from the house in Roswell, NM where I lived with my parents and two of my five sisters. The photo was taken nearly 40 years after we first moved into the house, as part of some research that I was doing for a novel called Do-Overs, the beginning of which can be found here on my website
www.yourdon.com/personal/fiction/doovers/index.html
and the relevant chapter (concerning Roswell) can be found here:
www.yourdon.com/personal/fiction/doovers/chapters/ch7.html
Before I get into the details, let me make a strong request — if you’re looking at these photos, and if you are getting any enjoyment at all of this brief look at some mundane Americana from 60+ years ago: find a similar episode in your own life, and write it down. Gather the pictures, clean them up, and upload them somewhere on the Internet where they can be found. Trust me: there will come a day when the only person on the planet who actually experienced those events is you. Your own memories may be fuzzy and incomplete; but they will be invaluable to your friends and family members, and to many generations of your descendants.
So, what do I remember about the year that I spent in Roswell? Not much at the moment, though I’m sure more details will occur to me in the days to come — and I’ll add them to these notes, along with additional photos that I’m tweaking and editing now (including some of the drive from Roswell to Riverside, CA where our family moved next), as well as some “real” contemporaneous photos I’ve found in family scrapbooks.
For now, here is a random list of things I remember:
I discovered roller skates while I lived here — perhaps aided by the presence of nice, smooth, wide sidewalks throughout this whole area of town. Sometimes my mother sent me on a small shopping expedition to the local grocery store, about two blocks away, to buy a quart of milk or a couple of other minor things. The shorts that I wore had no pockets (I have no idea why), so I put the coins that my mother gave me into my mouth, for safekeeping. That way, I had both hands free in case I tripped and fell … but if I had done so, I probably would have swallowed the coins.
For Christmas that year (i.e., Christmas of 1953), I was given a .22-caliber rifle. Even today, it would cause only a shrug in many rural parts of the U.S.; and it was certainly unremarkable in the 1950s. My dad felt that every boy should have a rifle, and should learn how to shoot it, clean it, and take care of it in a responsible fashion. I think his intention was to take me out into the open area outside of Roswell, to shoot at rabbits or gophers; but we ended up shooting at cans and bottles in the local dump.
In 1953, Roswell had not acquired any fame or attention for its proximity to the alleged alien landing in 1947. Trust me: if there had been even a hint of a rumor, the young kids in that town would have heard about it. Whatever may (or may not) have happened there . If you have no idea what this is all about, take a look at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_UFO_incident
For young boys, it was great sport to shoot at moving creatures. Dogs and cats were considered off-limits; and as implied above, we were not allowed to wander the streets with a .22 rifle. But we all had slingshots, and there were an infinite number of lizards in the area. Unfortunately, lizard were far too quick to hit with a relatively inaccurate slingshot (especially if shot with an unevenly-shaped rock; and it was only a year later, in California, that I began shooting marbles). Our greatest success was actually with slower creatures: horned toads, usually referred to as “horny toads,” or just “horns.” Indeed, they were slow enough that you could capture them with bare hands. You probably have no idea what I’m talking about, so take a look at this National Geographic article: animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/reptiles/horned-toad/
I recently got some scans back from Richard Photo Lab and it's always such a joy. To be honest I shot this roll in early July and let it collect dust on my shelf (I need to stop doing that...). For the first time I ended up using the Jose Villa color preset they have and really enjoyed the results with minor tweaks in Lightroom. Glad i got these developed for memories sake!
Attribution - Joestpierrephoto.com Boston, MA Food Photographer
Shot with the Leica Q-P.
Camera files settings - RAW and JPEGS (B/W).
Straight out of Camera (S.O.O.C.) JPEGS, tweaked in Apple Photos Editor.
www.scottishphotographyhides.co.uk After 3 hours and a lot of tweaking I finally got him where i wanted.
Mel de Cana or Sugarcane honey/ syrup/ black treacle is very much part of Madeira culture and heritage. The old age process that transforms the sugar cane into treacle can be seen at Fábrica Mel-de-Cana Ribeiro Sêco in Funchal.
From the crushing of the canes to extract the juice, to the various cooking and filtering phases, its a laborious and intricate process, just the right adjustments and attention to detail produce this delicious product. Here we see one of the first filtering stages where the Garapa (sugar cane juice) is forced through filters and begins to have a clear appearance, before moving on to the cooking stage when it takes on its dark colour.
Having unique medicinal qualities as a product on its own, it is used often as a condiment and natural sweetener in many Madeiran dishes, mel de cana is the main ingredient for 2 classic Madeira delicacies, Bolo de Mel (Madeira Honey Cake) and Broas de Mel (Honey Biscuits).
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Holga 120N, Kodak VC160 Portra, developed in Diafine ('cause this stuff will develop just about anything), tweaked in Photoshop.
As I'm never quite satisfied with my work, I've been steadily tweaking my Phantom II model over the past two weeks in search of perfection. New changes include;
- redesigned canopies
- redesigned vertical stabilizer with new rudder
- redesigned engines and lower rear fuselage/empennage
- redesigned wings with new leading edge flaps on inner and outer wing panels
- new larger APG-72 radar antenna
- redesigned refueling probe
- new AIM-9 Sidewinders
- relocated main landing gear
- new chaff dispensers
- redesigned splitter ramp
- redesigned 600 gal centerline drop tank
- redesigned fuel dump vent
There are also numerous small improvements throughout. Great care and much time has been taken to as closely match the lineart as possible. Images rendered with LDD to POVRay and decaled with Gimp 2.0. I'll be updating my MOCpages post with the new images as well as I render them.
This was a retired firetruck from the Corvallis Oregon Fire Department. I tweaked it a little to tone down the blemishes and scars. This is one of the trucks in the Tillamook Cheese collection, Tillamook, Oregon. www.autocartruck.com/dc/ Update 10/2022
I have just seen my second lifetime Autocar truck and visited their website. Now I’m really intrigued.
Challenging lighting with the sun from behind the car, so best route was an edgy black and white treatment. The image was converted to mono in Nik Collection 6, filter setting - high contrast harsh , then some tweaks in Lightroom including using a portrait preset called PE01 which not intended for cars actually worked well.
The car has about 800 hp output from its engine. (Must go like a scolded cat !! )
Image taken on Nikon Z9 with Nikon Z 100-400mm @ f/4.5, focal length 100mm, ISO was 800, shutter 1/4000th far too much but never mind. Processed in Lightroom Classic and Nik Collection 6 Silver EFEX.