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Old shot that never quite made the grade, so I applied a couple of filters. Doubt it makes the grade now but at least it's out of my holding folder.
This was one of the regular visitors but haven't see it lately... Processed with a plugin by John Redfield called Unobtanium HD.. Happy Caturday, Everybody!!!!<?b>
This was taken last fall at the Dahlia Fields in Canby Oregon.. It was processed with one of Redfield's Plugins named Unobtanium using the preset Portrait 3... He has some interesting plugins and they have the most unusual names...
Left, is a normal shot,
Right, is my imaginary tunnel exit, (from inside looking out) ;-))
I'm still very much playing with the tech stuff, i, at the moment seem to have ideas that are bigger than my capabilities (nothing new there) ... but the learning goes on...
GE is General Electric, the loco manufacturer,
eg is example.. just that.... and it was just a working label.
Imagination, to me, is like a day time dream, a day dream, in which i never seem to be colour conscious, i never seem to remember colours from a dream either, maybe that is just me, i don't know, it is more a light and dark scape, with sound... and sensation,
As a child, during walking days, i loved the big drum passing, it could be felt as well as heard, today a large diesel engine has a similar effect,
During my working life, particularly the Leyland 680 and specially the Cummins 305 NHE gave me that sensation, but that was back in the day, more recently,a class 37 which was idling very erratically did it, even though the fumes weren't pleasant...
A pair of 68's on the Tesco, hammering round the curve at Bank Quay, you could hear them long before they appeared, and on passing, the vibes where superb.. not always the draught though... how can you depict that in a photo image.. in short, no idea.. yet. one of many goals for me.. i have tried various ideas, including pan and zoom, showing heat haze etc, they pleased me, but fell short of being a "that's what i mean" moment...
I may be searching for "Unobtanium" but i will hopefully have fun trying.
Reminds me of the tree of souls in Avatar!
The Tree of Souls is located on the ground of Pandora, amidst the floating Hallelujah Mountains on top of a large unobtanium deposit near the Hometree of the Omaticaya clan. The co-ordinates are 34°03'00"N, 118°14'00"W. [2] .
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WISH YOU A WONDERFUL AND BRIGHT WEEK
( I am back, slowly visiting all of you)
Yakelov GP-N1V4 is a very adaptable platform and gets jobs done around the galaxy. Well, most of them. But never underestimate the weight of unobtanium weather-missile tracking systems.
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Ooh - four for the price of one!
Fanks Mister!
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One more day to go of this utter madness. What a ride it's been.
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Saturday night cruising in Paprihaven, at the Market Street Chevron...
VRRROORROOOMMM!!
VRRRMM!! VRRMMM!!
Oh boy. Foster Eanje throttles his Carbide again and bristles at the return rev. That's Aliter Reva at the pump with his '24 Ours'.
Foster raises his hand above the cowl points to market street. Aliter raises his hand in return in a single digit salute. Oh, that does it. It's on. A battle of two supercars.
Foster's Carbide is a custom futuristic design sporting a 735 HP, a 3.5 liter beryllium V10 engine, ultra lightweight unobtanium frame, with 13” front and 15” back wheels.
Foster has sunk enough money into the Carbide that he's not about to lose a race to that poser!
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Hot Wheels
Carbide
Multipack Exclusive
2018, Malaysia
Hot Wheels
24 Ours
HW Race: Track Aces
2014, Malaysia
Another fine Bijou Planks entry from Grab Bag #25!
"Hey Boon… Do you know the way to Rocket-Hangar Seven?
said Joe Starling, pulling up and leaning out the cab of his trusty FJ Luna Cruiser.
"I'm due there at 16:00hrs to pick up the latest Macguffin shipment… but I'm late and my GPS is on the Fritz!"
"Beats me…." drawled the laid-back Racoon "…GPS is down 'cos of that downed satellite, so I've just been eating my space cake and tooling about on my scooter...."
He continued...
"Hey… Did you hear about all those geological assets going missing… The Unobtanium Meteors? From the Mineral Lab?"
"…I wouldn't know anything about that" murmured Joe.
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Fabuland Space Is A Thing.
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The Rolls-Royce Phantom is one of those things that breathes air so rarefied, one's imagination runs wild. It's not hard to envision a factory perched atop Mount Olympus that's staffed by gods turning solid blocks of unobtanium into these individualized rolling spectacles. Remarkably, the Phantom is actually the work of mere mortals. Some are in Germany, the rest in England at Rolls-Royce's Goodwood factory where these cars are hand-assembled with an incomprehensible attention to detail. Massive in form, decadently appointed, stratospherically priced and absolutely, positively unmistakable, each Rolls-Royce exiting this facility is an event in and of itself.
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Highest position: 124 on Saturday, December 12, 2009
Route 66 icon Wilders on Fuji's GFX100S Velvia sim. Verdict? Not bad at all. Most Velvia sims crank saturation to 11 and call it a day. Fuji knows better, it's their film! Especially since the real thing is unobtanium now, I can almost justify the freight on that GFX100S. And that is a lie. But photography is pretty much my only expensive vice, so that helps :D
AHU (arctic harvester unit) is the latest in cold region mining. Able to slice and crack through the toughest of rocks in the coldest region on island LV426. Suction unit in its orifice automatically draws out rare minerals like unobtanium and tiberium which neatly deposits in a rear housing unit. Build video will be out later ^^
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AHU (arctic harvester unit) is the latest in cold region mining. Able to slice and crack through the toughest of rocks in the coldest region on island LV426. Suction unit in its orifice automatically draws out rare minerals like unobtanium and tiberium which neatly deposits in a rear housing unit. Build video will be out later ^^
i'm really not sure how or why I never posted any shots from this roll from the Super Program I picked up in a lot back in 2018. In that same lot was a Konica Autoreflex T4 that I rebuilt for a close friend, the camera model I'd become infatuated with (and am still) for the year prior, so I suppose that's one reason. As well as both the Canon Rebel bodies my wife shoots with. Was a good lot.
The shots off this roll are outstanding, most of them taken with this A series 35mm f2.0, which was I picked up to replace the M version of that lens which I sold back in around 2011 and regretted almost immediately. The 35/2 was one of my two first original Pentax prime loves, more than a decade earlier (the other was the M 50/1.4 which has melted many a heart).
Nonetheless I'm rambling... This Super Program is likely going up for sale very soon, in *true* near-mint condition - it just purrs and the viewfinder on these are one of the very best made by any maker of any era. It'll likely go along with a new-old-stock never-used outside my home but for several test shots A 50mm f2.0 (still in the box).
The other reason I'm surprised I didn't post any of these however is the VX400 film... it's just gorgeous and now it's nearly unobtanium. I believe I had 4 or 5 rolls of it, all since shot. Konica films (like their lenses and their cameras) were gems. Some really great stuff. This VX400 Super was one of the consumer grade everday stocks, and if it was stilll around it would be my everyday stock today.
More of these shots to come... none are particularly noteworthy or mentionable, but to me are worth putting up in the stream. At the time, I was shooting this camera simultaneously along with a Konica TC (and Hexanon 40mm) that I'd just finished restoring. Many of the shots coincide for science. I'll include them in the comments. Both are impressive to me. Super film, Super Program.
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Pentax Super Program | A 35/2.0 | Konica VX400 Super
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Almost. Not too many of these around anymore but newer versions are still made.
CDC 2N3563 NPN with gold leads, ceramic base
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Summer bike and ski touring in Skjomen, Narvik.
Voigtländer Bessa 667W + Kodak Portra 400 (both aka. unobtanium). Nikon Coolscan 8000ED.
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A great idea from a local charity shop, a lucky-bag containing a book, a DVD or game/puzzle and some gee-gaws.
It's a pity that the shop closed just as everyone was staying home...
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***** Selected for sale in the GETTY IMAGES COLLECTION on May 20th 2015
CREATIVE RF gty.im/tbc MOMENT OPEN COLLECTION**
This photograph became my 685th frame to be selected for inclusion and sale in the Getty Images 'Moment' collection, and I am very grateful to them for this wonderful opportunity.
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This is the last photograph that I took before destroying my most loved lens, the Nikkor AF-S 14-24mm f/2.8G ED IF......You know the lens I am talking about, so good that Can...Cano...(sorry, I cannot bring myself to say the word canon) users can get their grubby little mits on by a special mount to use this on their DSLR's, forged from Magnesium and angel's tears, carved by hand on the supple flesh of a virgin maiden's tender thigh......(not many of those left these days I can tell you)
Forty two years holding a plethora of sexy Nikon cameras from classic 35mm film FM's and F4s to the advent of the Digital dawn and D80's to D800's, with no major accidents aside from a horrid third party Tamron SP AF 10-24mm F3.5-4.5 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) lens that deserved to die (cue evil laugh like Vincent Price at the beginning of Michael Jackson's 'Thriller'), is not too bad a record but, oh my, why did it have to be my most favourite of lenses. Famed as the world's best ultra wide professional zoom lens and costing almost as much as Bolivia's national debt £1315 of your 'Gawd bless you Guvnor' British pounds/$2086 of your 'Have a nice day now ya hear' American dollars, dripping in more bling than Lady Ga GA on a trip to the Salon to have her Clunge waxed, lavishly coated in unobtanium juice and protected by Nano pixies (special Nikon Pixies that beat off glare from the sun and generally stroke and massage the lens and tell it how marvellous it really is), this was my second copy after previously (regrettably) selling one a few years earlier along with my full frame D700 before moving to the D800.
Now let's make something crystal clear from the outset and say that I am known (i.e - pointed to and laughed at by friends, family and random small ginger haired children on the streets), for being over cautious, Hyper protective and down right anally retentive in terms of looking after my kit.... cleaned scrupulously before and after EVERY photo shoot with silk cloth from the almost extinct Wugga Wugga silk worms of the Borneo jungle (I know they are almost extinct because most have been slaughtered specifically to make that silk cloth for me), and 24 carat gold dipped cotton buds ($25 bucks from Walmart), pampered and preened, never let out of my sight, given separate seats next to me on long haul flights, given names (Nigella in this instance) and a birthday card each year ….. well, you get the picture I'm sure. But on this day, on this little sandy beach in Utopia (well the Highlands of Scotland is near enough), I fell short in terms of the caring side and boy did I pay the price.
The 14-24mm was happily seated on my D800, firmly clamped via a PL-14 metal plate to the Manfrotto tripod, all three legs splayed (the tripod's, not mine), no wind (the beach, not mine), no tide nor waves (well, it was a lake)..... just soft golden sand interspersed with tiny shitty little bastard pebbles (you know where I'm going with this)... tripod at it's lowest elevation about eighteen inches off the sand and I rise like an elegant vision in an elegant manor...erm elegantly from seated behind it to kneel and take a panoramic shot, like you do.....the sand in front of me shifts forward like a dust storm in the Sahara and down goes the combo, Nigella screaming for help before I can react.
The few seconds it takes to hit the sand and me gather it up along, hopping and cursing like a mad man walking on a bed of red hot coals with several expletives that I didn't even know I knew... And I do apologise most profusely to the coach load of Sisters from the 'Patagonian Church of Our Lady of the sacred Sphincter' who had just pulled up after an arduous journey for a day of beauty, leisure and contemplation by the Loch, for spoiling their day and causing one sister to faint and be promply carted off to the local casualty department in Spleen, just North of McGoolie! With no filter on the front as protection due to the bulbous front glass element and no protection behind thanks to the bulbous photographer taking pictures that day!, and the zoom ring is proper buggered up (that's a technical term used by people like myself who have a vast knowledge of making a cock up on a regular basis in one way or another), and the front glass element looks like PINHEAD, leader of the Cenobites and chief monster from the eighties classic horror flicks 'HELLRAISER. My protective Nano Pixies were all dead and bleeding, the front glass element was tits up waving a surrender flag, my ego shattered, a grown man weeping into the sand. Those random red haired children were now pointing and laughing at my predicament, and I was praying for H.G.Wells to turn up in a puff of smoke with a time machine to take me back a minutes earlier. Might also have ventured back to the Western Cowboy days as I always wanted to wear a ten gallon Stetson and fire me some twin Colt 45's at dudes who dared to even look at me the wrong way!
The lens still saw me through the remainder of my trip, but obviously with the coating destroyed, the light hitting the element at angles from the side was a major problem and subsequent frames showed abnormalities not dissimilar to ghosting or long dust spots which ruined many. As an abstract lens shooting ghostly things or those covered in long dust spots it made great viewing, but for anything else it was right royally screwed! The zoom ring, also damaged in the tumble was as useful as a waxworks in a desert, stiff as five day old roadkill and only good for ultra wides at 14mm or standard 24mm frames. A real pain as a client due in the next week had an unusually large forehead which required portrait shots at 16.5mm to flatter and deceive. Anyway, the lens went in today to be sorted at FIXATION in Kennington Lane, London (highly recommended by butter fingered pro's and used by the mighty Nikon empire themselves for many repairs) and so I am awaiting the return of my little beauty in all her former glory....ie not terminally trashed, unable to zoom, unable to render frames without ghostly blades of grass all over the RAW files. And the cost of my brief misdemeanor... we are talking somewhere in the region of £420.... I am still crying into my Starbucks Skinny Latte as I write....Be careful fellow owners of the wonderful Nikkor AF-S 14-24mm f/2.8G ED IF 'cos it's tough out there on those sandy beaches!
Lessons learned from my experience:
1) The lens needs it's big lens cap on at all times, just take it off when you are about to shoot, and replace thereafter. (Carrying the lens cap in your jeans back pocket makes you look like a terrorist carrying a bomb anyway and leaves an indentation in your ass like a Great White shark bite when you sit down)
2) Don't think that a tripod is ever truly stable or safe (even if it is, you might not be)
3) Don't keep the camera and battery grip with lens attached to the tripod mount whilst walking about. A simple drop will damage at least the zoom ring and definitely the battery grip electronics where they meet the underside of the camera body (and when you turn suddenly you will probably take out a bus queue of people.... though that might be quite amusing and well worth a frame or two.)
4) But MOST IMPORTANTLY OF ALL: - Starbucks skinny latte doesn't taste as good as a full fat Caramel macchiatto!
On a serious note: I could not find details on the net of anyone else having to have that bulbous front element replaced, and horror stories from people in armchairs who spend more time giving opinions than actually getting out there and taking photographs, that it would not be economically viable as a proposition to have such a repair.... so now we know. The cost of a new front glass element and a new outer zoom ring on this puppy is somewhere (I will update with final costs) in the region of £145 in labour and £200 for parts plus VAT at 20%...boo hoo
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FINAL UPDATE:
Well, the lovely people at FIXATION restored Nigella Nikkor to her former beauty in three working days (cue applause) and the final cost was less than the original quote at £402.92 of your 'Lawks a lummy guvnor up the apple and pears down the dog and duck' English pounds/$646.69 of your *say, do you serve biscuits and gravy for breakfast here' American Dollars (at todays exchange rate). Faultless service, and my beloved Nigella is back and ready to do battle once more.
I got a Costa coffee at the station and let me tell you that stuff sucks! As bitter as Heather Mills at the divorce hearing with Paul McCartney... Starbucks rules OK.
ONE YEAR ON....
So it's December 2014, almost time for Fatty to climb down my chimney with his sack full of Yuletide crap.... two years into my D800 ownership and still the finest camera I have ever had the pleasure of owning.
Nigella the Nikkor is still my favourite lens of all time and since the repairs she has performed faultlessly, perhaps even better than new as the smoothness of aperture ring and focus ring are somehow even better than when first purchased, smoother than a baby's bum....yuk! Nigella has regularly been covered in granules of sand and salty sea water from trips to the South Coast, as well as a month long trip to Canada where she was subjected to lake water, sea water, sand and all manner of general abuse. Many shots taken with her have now sold around the world thanks to my agents, GETTY IMAGES, a few more made it to FLICKR EXPLORE, and several have sold on #ilobsterit.
I am toying with the idea of a Fotodiox filter kit but they are American made, and cost a fortune to import, so short of donning a balaclava and robbing the nearest Natwest bank, that may have to wait a while.
March 2021:
The lens still performs beautifully. I invested in a Lee Filters SW150 adapter ring set which then allowed me to use an array of Neutral density graduated soft resin filers, a circular polariser, a 5 stop little stopper and 10 stop big stopper plus a reverse neutral density graduated 3 stop glass filter for Golden hour shots at sunrise and sunset. Having upgraded to the Nikon D850 in 2018, I can confirm that Nigella the Nikkor is well up to the task of resolving a 47.5 megapixel camera, and is still an absolute joy to use. Nikon have never updated the lens because it simply doesn't need updating, it's always been a legend amongst lenses, always will be!
*** I finally said goodbye to Nigella the Nikkor in August 2022 when I sold her on Ebay along with her Lee SW150 filter adapter set/filter holder and two long exposure SW150 filters. I still had the venerable Nikkor AF-S 16-35mm f/4 G ED VR lens to fill my ultra wide angle needs.
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Photograph taken taken at 16:15pm on Tuesday 10th September 2013 off the A82 near Lady's Wood at Luss, on the shoreline of Loch Lomond in the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park, Scotland.
Loch Lomond (Loch Laomainn), a freshwater loch situated on the Highland Boundary fault, is the largest inland stretch of water by surface area in Great Britain, at 39km in length and up to 8km in width with a maximum depth of 190metres. Primary inflows and outflows include Endrick water, Fruin water and the River Leven.
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Nikon D800 21mm 1/500s f/11.0 iso200
Nikkor AF-S 14-24mm f/2.8G ED IF. Nikon MB-D12 battery grip. Two Nikon EN-EL15 batteries. Sandisc 32GB Ultra Class 10 30MB/s SDHC. Nikon DK-17a magnifying eyepiece. Hoodman HGEC soft eyepiece cup. Nikon MC-DC2 remote shutter release. Nikon GP-1 GPS unit.
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LATITUDE: N 56d 6m 12.39s
LONGITUDE: W 4d 38m 17.83s
ALTITUDE: 13.0m
RAW (FINE) FILE: 103.00MB
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