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Photo of The Day - December 2018
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He's coming for you! Fantastic. Watched a really good program on Grizley bears in Russia last week.Like a freight train
I have a Mamiya 7 II, and I’d love to try a folding 6. The focusing mechanism is intriguing. I look forward to the photos.
I develop black and white film myself. I enjoy it and it’s faster, more convenient and much less expensive than sending it to a lab. One of the things that I like about medium format is that it’s easier than 35mm when it comes to judging the negatives and contact sheets.
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Shot with an iPhone XS Max when I was in Hawaii
I know, I know... it is forbidden to veer off-topic, especially with a photograph that I did NOT take. I just couldn't resist posting this creature for our resident arachnophobes. This is a funnel-web spider, apparently they are turning up in large numbers across Sydney in Australia, and often have a leg span of ten centimetres. Their bite is potentially fatal.
They join the hordes of lethal animals that roam this sunburned country, its lands and oceans, and live in relative harmony with the humans. From the gigantic sharks protecting their dining rooms, to the huge salt-water crocodiles that do so much to keep down the numbers of American tourists; the box-jellyfish that lurk silently and invisibly along our coastlines and, worst of all, the drop bears with their unexpected attacks from above that are always deadly.
Oh, I nearly forgot...
MERRY CHRISTMAS to all of you.
Found this cicada shell hanging from a spruce tree.
Went to Mystic Aquarium yesterday. Took this pic of a jellyfish. I've almost given up on taking pics of fish at an aquarium. The light is universally bad and the fish are moving fast. So you need a fast shutter speed to attempt to freeze motion (guessing around 1/300 sec) but even with a fast lens that requires a high enough ISO that IQ suffers even with a good sensor.
Took this with a D850 and Nikon 105 f/1.4 lens wide open. Chose a shutter speed of 1/125th sec which resulted in an ISO of 800. The image is slightly blurred and in hindsight wish I had pushed the shutter speed to 1/200th sec or 1/300th sec. On the other hand I can convince myself that sharpness isn't vital to the image and the blur "works" in this case. What's the line from the Big Chill about rationalizations?
Took this with a D850 and Nikon 105 f/1.4 lens wide open. Chose a shutter speed of 1/125th sec which resulted in an ISO of 800. The image is slightly blurred and in hindsight wish I had pushed the shutter speed to 1/200th sec or 1/300th sec. On the other hand I can convince myself that sharpness isn't vital to the image and the blur "works" in this case. What's the line from the Big Chill about rationalizations?
This is a very boring photo at first glance, just some rocks, but read on if you'd like to find out why it's not boring in the slightest, or toddle on & have a good day, thinking it is!
Last week I finally got to return to an area I hadn't been to since the mid 90's. The site of a conundrum of huge magnitude that has scholars, professors, historians, anthropologists & more still scratching their heads in confusion.
This photo was taken amongst a large clump of huge granite outcrops in the country. This granite boulder has been drilled into & split, using techniques & tools not known to have been present here at the resultant time that the carbon dating tests of the drilled sections of this granite suggest. The boulders are ages old, the drilled sections are many thousands of years old. There are no indicators in Australia of any types of settlement of communities being here those many thousand years ago, apart from the indigenous peoples of Australia & they didn't work with stone & metal implements in this way, ever! It is not something that can be achieved with timber implements alone, this requires the use of a drill-bit of sorts, that you would whack damn hard & spin around with your other hand constantly, so it worked like a drill-bit does in an electric drill, but very, very slowly. Then wedges are placed in the holes & progressively tapped in until the rock splits along the drilled sections. This technique is still popular with old school masons, but they use electric drills to bore the shafts.
The shafts here are almost perfectly straight on the sides of them, which when you see rock split using the manual tap & spin method, the sides are anything but straight! Further adding to the confusion of who did this & then there's the matter of why?
If you look along the top section of the split of the right side rocks you will see the line of the drilled holes & on the diagonal rock on the middle & bottom left you can clearly see some of the the drilled sections that would have had wedges drove into them progressively so as to split the rock.
So here is my boring photograph of some rock.
Last week I finally got to return to an area I hadn't been to since the mid 90's. The site of a conundrum of huge magnitude that has scholars, professors, historians, anthropologists & more still scratching their heads in confusion.
This photo was taken amongst a large clump of huge granite outcrops in the country. This granite boulder has been drilled into & split, using techniques & tools not known to have been present here at the resultant time that the carbon dating tests of the drilled sections of this granite suggest. The boulders are ages old, the drilled sections are many thousands of years old. There are no indicators in Australia of any types of settlement of communities being here those many thousand years ago, apart from the indigenous peoples of Australia & they didn't work with stone & metal implements in this way, ever! It is not something that can be achieved with timber implements alone, this requires the use of a drill-bit of sorts, that you would whack damn hard & spin around with your other hand constantly, so it worked like a drill-bit does in an electric drill, but very, very slowly. Then wedges are placed in the holes & progressively tapped in until the rock splits along the drilled sections. This technique is still popular with old school masons, but they use electric drills to bore the shafts.
The shafts here are almost perfectly straight on the sides of them, which when you see rock split using the manual tap & spin method, the sides are anything but straight! Further adding to the confusion of who did this & then there's the matter of why?
If you look along the top section of the split of the right side rocks you will see the line of the drilled holes & on the diagonal rock on the middle & bottom left you can clearly see some of the the drilled sections that would have had wedges drove into them progressively so as to split the rock.
So here is my boring photograph of some rock.
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Merry Christmas !!
My photo taken a few years ago. It gets used every Christmas
My photo taken a few years ago. It gets used every Christmas
I love a good conspiracy theory and this has Aliens written all over it, just like the Egyptian pyramids!
What were you doing in Russia? It's a bit far to go to watch a programme about Bears.
Got out and took a few shots yesterday for the first time in a while.
It's not the holidays without a festive Turkey Vulture! With greenery and everything .
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An 11 frame (230 degree) hand-held panorama of the area that my previous photo of the unknown granite work comes from.
Aliens you say? I think I might have found the culprits!I love a good conspiracy theory and this has Aliens written all over it, just like the Egyptian pyramids!
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I giggled, well guffawed, actually.
The guy on the right looks a lot like John Saffran!
Christmas night sunset...
Taken with the iPhone X
Taken with the iPhone X