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Turkey's Hybrid War against Greece and Cyprus and the
turkish paranoia of the so called blue homeland (mavi vatan) claiming several big & small Greek islands of internationally recognized Greek sovereignty while also inhabited by native for millennia Greek people ....
Turkey's Major Genocides, Ethnic Cleansings
and Persecutions, in ottoman & modern times
Massacres against the Kurds 1930-today
Military Invasion & Occupation of Cyprus' north part 1974-today
Military Invasion, along with proxy Jihadists, of Syria 2019
...... typical barbarism & islamization processes of the ottoman and neo-ottoman Turkey alike .... with the usual apathy, if not collaboration, of the big powers & world organizations, i.e. the USA, Russia, the UK, Germany, as well as the UN, NATO & the EU .....
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took my minolta hi-matic g out for a test run and didn't realize that for the 1st half of the roll it wasn't set on automatic. This one is the best of the worst :-)
expired film
April 21, 2013 - Kearney Nebraska US
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We had another storm cell develop right @ sunset. Just to the west of the city and it was moving rather slow. 8-10mph to the east.
Didn't know what to expect at first but it was producing some nice strikes every few mins. As I was setting up I thought I had enough light but I didn't have the exposure set correctly. First few pics are shaky due to my inability to set it up on a tripod. I forgot it @ home. So everything was done by hand. I was a little late to the game on this storm.
This storm had some incredible positive cloud to ground & cloud to cloud lightning. Just wish I had that tripod..... Still some good captures. Severe warning on this storm didn't come until it was almost on us. She really put on a Epic show of Light & Storm!
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Taken at a custom bike show just at the end of the before times. Lots of really interesting bikes, but really hard to photograph due to the high level of visual noise. In the end I just have a bunch of detail shots of things that interested me technically about the bikes.
I've taken a break from posting as regularly as I was - whilst it's been good this last 18 months being able to raid the archive and get out stuff that I never published, I'm now at the point where I think I need more inspiration and new photos, otherwise the quality will take a nose dive. I'll still try to keep posting, but really I need to get out and shoot more.
An epic 45surf / Gold 45 Revolver gun shoot in an old Western ghost town! You can glimpse the ghosts in some of the photos!
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A gorgeous brunette model goddess with piercing blue green hazel eyes! Nikon D800E Photos Cowgirl Goddess with Cowboy Boots, Cowboy Hat, & Gold 45 Revolver! Wearing cutoff blue jeans with a leather buffalo nickel cowboy hat and black snakeskin cowboy boots! Modeling Johnny Ranger McCoy's Gold 45 Revolver Gold'N'Virtue T-shirt! Pretty, smiling blue eyes and long, long legs! A classic California goddess!
Nikon D800E Photos of a Pretty Brunette Cowgirl Goddess in Cowboy Hat & Blue Jeans Cutoffs Modeling Gold 45 Revolver Gold'N'Virtue Lingerie with the famous golden gun! The Colt 45 Revolver comes directly form Clint Eastwood's/Sergio Leone's Fistful of Dollars--my favorite Western--heck my favorite all-time film, exalting the classical, archetypal themes I seek in all my photography! The goddess is standing in front of the 45surf summer beach house!
She was tall, thin, pretty, and fit with gorgeous blue eyes and long, long legs! Shot with the new D800E and my favorite workhorse lens the very sharp Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II AF-S Nikkor Zoom Lens. A slight change of pace for all my flickr fans!
Nikon D800E Photos Cowgirl Model Goddess with Cutoff Daisy Dukes Blue Jeans Cowboy Boots & Gold 45 Revolver Gun!
Modeling the black & white 45surf & black & gold "Gold 45 Revolver" Gold'N'Virtue clothes with the main equation to Moving Dimensions Theory on the swimsuits and lingerie: dx4/dt=ic. Yes I have a Ph.D. in physics! :) You can read more about my research and Hero's Journey Physics here:
herosjourneyphysics.wordpress.com/ MDT PROOF#2: Einstein (1912 Man. on Rel.) and Minkowski wrote x4=ict. Ergo dx4/dt=ic--the foundational equation of all time and motion which is on all the shirts, clothes, and swimsuits. Every photon that hits my Nikon D800e's sensor does it by surfing the fourth expanding dimension, which is moving at c relative to the three spatial dimensions, or dx4/dt=ic!
May the Hero's Journey Mythology Goddess inspire you (as they have inspired me!) along your own artistic journey!
BikeFreo members with the Mayor of Fremantle, Dr Brad Pettitt on their fourth ride of 2018, riding around the City of Fremantle looking at cycling infrastructure concerns. We stopped on South Terrace to discuss issues around the Wray Avenue/South Terrace intersection.
Original images shot with an iPhone 5.
Composited and edited with an iPad using Photoshop Touch, StripeCam, ProCreate and Leonardo.
Some people have asked me how I create my images on the iPhone and iPad so I have created a website www.iphoneographycentral.com on which myself and many of the world's leading iphoneographers share our work flows via step-by-step tutorials. If you are interested in learning more about taking and editing photographs on your mobile phone using the many apps available, please visit www.iphoneographycentral.com.
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Halloween Cat/Pumpkin with thanks to CathleenTarawhiti
Mary Poppins showing Danielle how to fly....
I don't think she does ..............
Created for dA Users Gallery Challenge 132 – LS Couple Stock 2
Models with thanks to LetzteSchatten-stock
Two drug users on a rush hour train from Liverpool Street station - one helping the other to find a line in.
It was a hot summer day, and they were totally oblivious of the train full of commuters and school kids.
Shot with Sony F717 digital.
June 2, 2024 - Odessa Nebraska
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A shelf cloud hovers over vast open farmland, creating a dramatic and ominous atmosphere. The landscape below is flat and expansive, with a few scattered buildings visible in the distance.
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Yeah,I know. I look very ugly and my face is...just LOL,jajaja! But I love this photo because my two girls appear too,with me!
This photo was taken by Aynil (In Pinto's house again)
Sony RX1 User Report.
I hesitate to write about gear. Tools are tools and the bitter truth is that a great craftsman rises above his tools to create a masterpiece whereas most of us try to improve our abominations by buying better or faster hammers to hit the same nails at the same awkward angles.
The internet is fairly flooded with reviews of this tiny marvel, and it isn’t my intention to compete with those articles. If you’re looking for a full-scale review of every feature or a down-to-Earth accounting of the RX1’s strengths and weaknesses, I recommend starting here.
Instead, I’d like to provide you with a flavor of how I’ve used the camera over the last six months. In short, this is a user report. To save yourself a few thousand words: I love the thing. As we go through this article, you’ll see this is a purpose built camera. The RX1 is not for everyone, but we will get to that and on the way, I’ll share a handful of images that I made with the camera.
It should be obvious to anyone reading this that I write this independently and have absolutely no relationship with Sony (other than having exchanged a large pile of cash for this camera at a retail outlet).
Before we get to anything else, I want to clear the air about two things: Price and Features
The Price
First things first: the price. The $2800+ cost of this camera is the elephant in the room and, given I purchased the thing, you may consider me a poor critic. That in mind, I want to offer you three thoughts:
Consumer goods cost what they cost, in the absence of a competitor (the Fuji X100s being the only one worth mention) there is no comparison and you simply have to decide for yourself if you are willing to pay or not.
Normalize the price per sensor area for all 35mm f/2 lens and camera alternatives and you’ll find the RX1 is an amazing value.
You are paying for the ability to take photographs, plain and simple. Ask yourself, “what are these photographs worth to me?”
In my case, #3 is very important. I have used the RX1 to take hundreds of photographs of my family that are immensely important to me. Moreover, I have made photographs (many appearing on this page) that are moving or beautiful and only happened because I had the RX1 in my bag or my pocket. Yes, of course I could have made these or very similar photographs with another camera, but that is immaterial.
35mm by 24mm by 35mm f/2
The killer feature of this camera is simple: it is a wafer of silicon 35mm by 24mm paired to a brilliantly, ridiculously, undeniably sharp, contrasty and bokehlicious 35mm f/2 Carl Zeiss lens. Image quality is king here and all other things take a back seat. This means the following: image quality is as good or better than your DSLR, but battery life, focus speed, and responsiveness are likely not as good as your DSLR. I say likely because, if you have an entry-level DSLR, the RX1 is comparable on these dimensions. If you want to change lenses, if you want an integrated viewfinder, if you want blindingly fast phase-detect autofocus then shoot with a DSLR. If you want the absolute best image quality in the smallest size possible, you’ve got it in the RX1.
While we are on the subject of interchangeable lenses and viewfinders...
I have an interchangeable lens DSLR and I love the thing. It’s basically a medium format camera in a 35mm camera body. It’s a powerhouse and it is the first camera I reach for when the goal is photography. For a long time, however, I’ve found myself in situations where photography was not the first goal, but where I nevertheless wanted to have a camera. I’m around the table with friends or at the park with my son and the DSLR is too big, too bulky, too intimidating. It comes between you and life. In this realm, mirrorless, interchangeable lens cameras seem to be king, but they have a major flaw: they are, for all intents and purposes, just little DSLRs.
As I mentioned above, I have an interchangeable lens system, why would I want another, smaller one? Clearly, I am not alone in feeling this way, as the market has produced a number of what I would call “professional point and shoots.” Here we are talking about the Fuji X100/X100s, Sigma DPm-series and the RX100 and RX1.
Design is about making choices
When the Fuji X100 came out, I was intrigued. Here was a cheap(er), baby Leica M. Quiet, small, unobtrusive. Had I waited to buy until the X100s had come out, perhaps this would be a different report. Perhaps, but probably not. I remember thinking to myself as I was looking at the X100, “I wish there was a digital Rollei 35, something with a fixed 28mm or 35mm lens that would fit in a coat pocket or a small bag.” Now of course, there is.
So, for those of you who said, “I would buy the RX1 if it had interchangeable lenses or an integrated viewfinder or faster autofocus,” I say the following: This is a purpose built camera. You would not want it as an interchangeable system, it can’t compete with DSLR speed. A viewfinder would make the thing bigger and ruin the magic ratio of body to sensor size—further, there is a 3-inch LCD viewfinder on the back! Autofocus is super fast, you just don’t realize it because the bar has been raised impossibly high by ultra-sonic magnet focusing rings on professional DSLR lenses. There’s a fantastic balance at work here between image quality and size—great tools are about the total experience, not about one or the other specification.
In short, design is about making choices. I think Sony has made some good ones with the RX1.
In use
So I’ve just written 1,000 words of a user report without, you know, reporting on use. In many ways the images on the page are my user report. These photographs, more than my words, should give you a flavor of what the RX1 is about. But, for the sake of variety, I intend to tell you a bit about the how and the why of shooting with the RX1.
Snapshots
As a beginning enthusiast, I often sneered at the idea of a snapshot. As I’ve matured, I’ve come to appreciate what a pocket camera and a snapshot can offer. The RX1 is the ultimate photographer’s snapshot camera.
I’ll pause here to properly define snapshot as a photograph taken quickly with a handheld camera.
To quote Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” So it is with photography. Beautiful photographs happen at the decisive moment—and to paraphrase Henri Cartier-Bresson further—the world is newly made and falling to pieces every instant. I think it is no coincidence that each revolution in the steady march of photography from the tortuously slow chemistry of tin-type and daguerreotype through 120 and 35mm formats to the hyper-sensitive CMOS of today has engendered new categories and concepts of photography.
Photography is a reflexive, reactionary activity. I see beautiful light or the unusual in an every day event and my reaction is a desire to make a photograph. It’s a bit like breathing and has been since I was a kid.
Rather than sneer at snapshots, nowadays I seek them out; and when I seek them out, I do so with the Sony RX1 in my hand.
How I shoot with the RX1
Despite much bluster from commenters on other reviews as to the price point and the purpose-built nature of this camera (see above), the RX1 is incredibly flexible. Have a peek at some of the linked reviews and you’ll see handheld portraits, long exposures, images taken with off-camera flash, etc.
Yet, I mentioned earlier that I reach for the D800 when photography is the primary goal and so the RX1 has become for me a handheld camera—something I use almost exclusively at f/2 (people, objects, shallow DoF) or f/8 (landscapes in abundant light, abstracts). The Auto-ISO setting allows the camera to choose in the range from ISO 50 and 6400 to reach a proper exposure at a given aperture with a 1/80 s shutter speed. I have found this shutter speed ensures a sharp image every time (although photographers with more jittery grips may wish there was the ability to select a different default shutter speed). This strategy works because the RX1 has a delightfully clicky exposure compensation dial just under your right thumb—allowing for fine adjustment to the camera’s metering decision.
So then, if you find me out with the RX1, you’re likely to see me on aperture priority, f/2 and auto ISO. Indeed, many of the photographs on this page were taken in that mode (including lots of the landscape shots!).
Working within constraints.
The RX1 is a wonderful camera to have when you have to work within constraints. When I say this, I mean it is great for photography within two different classes of constraints: 1) physical constraints of time and space and 2) intellectual/artistic constraints.
To speak to the first, as I said earlier, many of the photographs on this page were made possible by having a camera with me at a time that I otherwise would not have been lugging around a camera. For example, some of the images from the Grand Canyon you see were made in a pinch on my way to a Christmas dinner with my family. I didn’t have the larger camera with me and I just had a minute to make the image. Truth be told, these images could have been made with my cell phone, but that I could wring such great image quality out of something not much larger than my cell phone is just gravy. Be it jacket pocket, small bag, bike bag, saddle bag, even fannie pack—you have space for this camera anywhere you go.
Earlier I alluded to the obtrusiveness of a large camera. If you want to travel lightly and make photographs without announcing your presence, it’s easier to use a smaller camera. Here the RX1 excels. Moreover, the camera’s leaf shutter is virtually silent, so you can snap away without announcing your intention. In every sense, this camera is meant to work within physical constraints.
I cut my photographic teeth on film and I will always have an affection for it. There is a sense that one is playing within the rules when he uses film. That same feeling is here in the RX1. I never thought I’d say this about a camera, but I often like the JPEG images this thing produces more than I like what I can push with a RAW. Don’t get me wrong, for a landscape or a cityscape, the RAW processed carefully is FAR, FAR better than a JPEG.
But when I am taking snapshots or photos of friends and family, I find the JPEGs the camera produces (I’m shooting in RAW + JPEG) so beautiful. The camera’s computer corrects for the lens distortion and provides the perfect balance of contrast and saturation. The JPEG engine can be further tweaked to increase the amount of contrast, saturation or dynamic range optimization (shadow boost) used in writing those files. Add in the ability to rapidly compensate exposure or activate various creative modes and you’ve got this feeling you’re shooting film again. Instant, ultra-sensitive and customizable film.
Pro Tip: Focusing
Almost all cameras come shipped with what I consider to be the worst of the worst focus configurations. Even the Nikon D800 came to my hands set to focus when the shutter button was halfway depressed. This mode will ruin almost any photograph. Why? Because it requires you to perform legerdemain to place the autofocus point, depress the shutter halfway, recompose and press the shutter fully. In addition to the chance of accidentally refocusing after composing or missing the shot—this method absolutely ensures that one must focus before every single photograph. Absolutely impossible for action or portraiture.
Sensibly, most professional or prosumer cameras come with an AF-ON button near where the shooter’s right thumb rests. This separates the task of focusing and exposing, allowing the photographer to quickly focus and to capture the image even if focus is slightly off at the focus point. For portraits, kids, action, etc the camera has to have a hair-trigger. It has to be responsive. Manufacturer’s: stop shipping your cameras with this ham-fisted autofocus arrangement.
Now, the RX1 does not have an AF-ON button, but it does have an AEL button whose function can be changed to “MF/AF Control Hold” in the menu. Further, other buttons on the rear of the camera can also be programmed to toggle between AF and MF modes. What this all means is that you can work around the RX1’s buttons to make it’s focus work like a DSLR’s. (For those of you who are RX1 shooters, set the front switch to MF, the right control wheel button to MF/AF Toggle and the AEL button to MF/AF Control Hold and voila!) The end result is that, when powered on the camera is in manual focus mode, but the autofocus can be activated by pressing AEL, no matter what, however, the shutter is tripped by the shutter release. Want to switch to AF mode? Just push a button and you’re back to the standard modality.
Carrying.
I keep mine in a small, neoprene pouch with a semi-hard LCD cover and a circular polarizing filter on the front—perfect for buttoning up and throwing into a bag on my way out of the house. I have a soft release screwed into the threaded shutter release and a custom, red twill strap to replace the horrible plastic strap Sony provided. I plan to gaffer tape the top and the orange ring around the lens. Who knows, I may find an old Voigtlander optical viewfinder in future as well.
Created for dA Users Gallery Challenge #68 – Portrait of a Girl
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texture: “Botched Painting" by SkeletalMess
thanks for the dress and the throne to queen Victoria
Created for dA Users Gallery Challenge 130 – Halo 14
Model with thanks to MissSouls-stock
They better hurry......it's been almost a month...getting low on food.
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A well done 'diorama' of a 1962 Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) model on a simulated lunar surface, right around the time that Lunar Orbit Rendezvous (LOR) was formally announced by NASA as the method by which Astronauts would reach the moon. The design, which I believe was internal to NASA, pre-dated Grumman being awarded the LEM contract.
For whatever it's worth, per very knowledgeable user "Skybolt" at the Secret Projects website/forum:
"This [is] the final internal NASA LEM concept for the July 24th 1962 Lunar Excursion Module Statement of Work”, at:
www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/other-apollo-projects-wh...
Also...excellent, as always. In this case, the February 13 & 23 posts:
www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com/blog/?m=201302
Credit: Aerospace Projects Review website
What appears to be the model used (from that time):
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Credit: Wikipedia
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Credit: Air & Space Magazine online website
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Credit: All above credit Pinterest/Haley P
Then there's this! With the following associated narrative:
"Illustrated diagram of the surface navigation operation performed by an Apollo astronaut on the lunar surface. By sighting a star through the Alignment Optical Telescope (AOT) and receiving radar signals from the Command Service Module (CSM) as reference points, orientation of the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) could be determined. Image courtesy: Draper"
Who knew?!?!?!
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Credit: HACK THE MOON/Draper (formerly of M.I.T.) website - (an absolute MUST to check out).
It pisses me off to no end coming across this in the possession of these greedy f**ksticks:
www.alamy.com/stock-photo-an-early-prototype-lunar-module...
"Credit": Alamy website
So! Imagine had this idea to build Rapture from Bioshock. At a CoWLUG meeting he showed me the part he had built (not shown), and I offered to help get it done in time for Brickworld.
After playing Bioshock (for the first time) for a few minutes to get a feel for the city, I worked on the ocean floor [while he worked on the ocean ceiling]. That's pretty much everything you see here, obviously. So, when you see Rapture at Brickworld, I did the sand! :D
Big daddy/little sister are Imagine's, though. Sorry they're not in focus. :(
May 2, 2012 - Kearney Nebraska US
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Part 1
During my off season, I always work on a few sets of images to bring them back to life. I've dedicated 2019 to no color enhancement etc....
I've always wanted to go back to this set of images and bring out their full potential. Working on them over time I finally got them done and will be posting the re-masters soon.
The dryline had stalled right over south central Nebraska that afternoon, and when you have stalled dry line, that means to me just one thing.... Billowing picturesque Thunderheads. Some of the most photogenic cells I have ever seen, & I've had my share... but this day was something special.
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whenever we got into troubles ...
we mostly forget ...that ...
in-fact we have GOD ...
who is MUCH GREATER than our problems ....
so ....
be still ... know HE is our GOD ...
~ herewith enjoy my private video taken on Sunday service 28th July 2013, just to share with my lovely friends :
Deputy Director, Policy & Strategic Communications for Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN), JJ Miller, speaks at the National Space Council's Users' Advisory Group Meeting, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023 at the JW Marriott Hotel in Washington DC. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
Another shot courtesy of Flickr user m20wc51, taken in Korea in 1968-69 by Specialist Mueller. I don't quite know what we're seeing here, but other photos in the series seem to imply that five or six soldiers were brought by bus to this event, and Mueller thought it worth while to get shots of individual soldiers dismounting from the bus, followed by a group of shot of them lining up for whatever it was. One other shot appears to show them at tables enjoying a meal with the ladies. Note that the skin colour of the lady's legs is darker than her arms because she is probably wearing that new-fangled invention pantyhose. She also has a note-book and a pen, so she may be one of the organizers of this event, whatever it is.
The yellow plate on the bus tells us it is from Seoul area, and between the lights, two hanja (Chinese) characters and the hangeul characters to make an English word – 'beu-suh", that is, "bus."
Original shot can be found here for purposes of comparison. The shot was clean and only required minor detailing. Film stock unknown, but like a number of Mueller's shots, it fades down to emphasize the yellows and purples, with the blues tending to suffer.
