You can buy one of those fish for about $1100 Cdn.This is cool. I just love that fish!
So what do you think? Not abstract enough for APPstract?
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You can buy one of those fish for about $1100 Cdn.This is cool. I just love that fish!
A bit high for my budget, unfortunately.You can buy one of those fish for about $1100 Cdn.
So what do you think? Not abstract enough for APPstract?
Urgh, they are horrible looking creatures. Great result though.It’s been well below freezing for weeks and today we had a mosquito in the house. It must have been tucked into the bark of a piece of firewood I brought inside. It suffered a fatal incident with my hand when it tried to bite me but it made a good subject for a close-up photo with my Moment Macro. The mosquito got a bit out of shape.
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A thousand curses upon this new 1000 x 750 size reduction. You can no longer appreciate the wonderful detail that exists in this photo. It looked great on my screen before I sent it. Now the detail is gone. Hmmmph!
I have been successfully making several Focus Stacked images using Camera Pixels but this time I wanted to see if I could make the Focus Stack manually. I used PureShot for my camera, using DNG as file format. I used a focusing rail to move the camera forward part of a mm for each photo giving 10 exposures, and then combined them in Affinity.
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This is a 1000 x 750 px crop out of the upper photo. It even shows the paper texture.
Lovely....The other day I was just walking by the window and happened to notice a wonderful light in the foggy mist. The top of the sun was visible but the bottom half was obscured by fog. I dashed to the bedroom to collect my iPhone & Moment 58 tele and by the time I got back just a minute later the effect had changed completely.
Bizarre! I've never seen or heard of these before...The snow fleas are out!
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They aren’t really fleas at all but that’s their name. In fact they are springtails that live in the soil and we never see them any other time of year. On mild winter days in the 2nd half of winter we occasionally see the snow peppered with tiny black specks. Only about 2mm long. Most people never see them at all. When you look much closer you can see they are insects and some are walking around on the snow, coming out of the snow or going back down but always quite busy.
Occasionally one just disappears. What really happens is they jump like, well, springtails.
They all come to the surface for mating!
This picture was made with the Moment Macro lens on the 2x lens position which gives twice the magnification of the 1x lens. This is full frame un-cropped.
For a size comparison I found this housefly in the snow and made a picture exactly the same way. Same magnification, un-cropped.
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You know how big/small a regular housefly is so you can figure how small the springtails are.
Really?Bizarre! I've never seen or heard of these before...
Nope. Maybe they live in New Jersey, but I’ve never seen or heard of them.Really?
Wow.I’m almost never in position for spot news but today we heard the Harbourview Market was on fire so we went down to check it out.
Luckily my phone was charged up and ready to go. It was quite cold and windy.
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Our little Alma volunteer fire department was at work. Supply of water was a big issue. They seems to be getting it under control when they ran out of water.
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Shortly afterwards the flams sprang up again. Additional fire trucks arrived from Riverside-Albert about 20 minutes away and Hillsborough, about 45 minutes away. They brought water but it soon ran out, too.
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After using up the extra water the trucks went off somewhere to get more water.
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Just after this flames broke through the roof.
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The whole back section fell in and towards the end they were just controlling the fire from spreading as they repeatedly ran out of water.
A lot of toxic smoke was filling the area. Most firefighters working closer were equipped with air tanks. Asphalt shingles, vinyl siding made billows of black smoke. The house next door was completely hidden by smoke. I tried to stay upwind.
I also made lots of video clips plus photos with my DSLR.
A lot of fires start from trying to keep warm. Electric heaters, etc. Overheated wiring. The village water supply isn’t big enough for the residential use let alone to fight a fire. The reservoir would be emptied in no time.Wow, it’s hard for me to imagine fire in your end of the world, let alone running out of water.
We have helicopters that scoop water from artificial purpose built lakes and/or the sea, whichever is closest.
I never realized how good we have it here. About 2 years ago they completed a project to bring fire hydrants to all residential areas in our county. There are even hydrants out in the middle of nowhere that they anticipate will be more populated someday. We live in the middle of the Fingerlakes, so there is water a short drive from anywhere.A lot of fires start from trying to keep warm. Electric heaters, etc. Overheated wiring. The village water supply isn’t big enough for the residential use let alone to fight a fire. The reservoir would be emptied in no time.
Their normal method is to set-up water holders, like a portable pool, that are filled up by water tank trucks. The pumper trucks draw from the pool while the trucks go off to refill somewhere. In summer the river is handy enough. In winter the river is most likely frozen or the access to the river snowed in. If the tide is out they can’t get to the tide water. Alma is a village of less than 250 people so it doesn’t have money for fancy stuff like helicopters. One could come from far away I suppose. They are used for forest fires well away from roads. Still, it wasn’t encouraging to see how the fire fighting efforts were thwarted by insufficient water supply. Out here there are no hydrants, or municipal water supply. My own household water is gravity fed from a spring and we normally pause between the wash and rinse cycle of the washing machine to let the reservoir build up some more water.
Wow. And so strange to have a water issue when there are tons of snow everywhere... I guess the time it would take to melt would be an issue...? I’m wondering why dumping great globs of it on the flames wouldn’t work?I’m almost never in position for spot news but today we heard the Harbourview Market was on fire so we went down to check it out.
Luckily my phone was charged up and ready to go. It was quite cold and windy.
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Our little Alma volunteer fire department was at work. Supply of water was a big issue. They seems to be getting it under control when they ran out of water.
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Shortly afterwards the flams sprang up again. Additional fire trucks arrived from Riverside-Albert about 20 minutes away and Hillsborough, about 45 minutes away. They brought water but it soon ran out, too.
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After using up the extra water the trucks went off somewhere to get more water.
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Just after this flames broke through the roof.
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The whole back section fell in and towards the end they were just controlling the fire from spreading as they repeatedly ran out of water.
A lot of toxic smoke was filling the area. Most firefighters working closer were equipped with air tanks. Asphalt shingles, vinyl siding made billows of black smoke. The house next door was completely hidden by smoke. I tried to stay upwind.
I also made lots of video clips plus photos with my DSLR.
That was my first thought... and it’s not even really *frozen*, like ice. Seems weird to me.I just see all that snow (frozen water) everywhere . . . .
I found it quite amazing that the snow right around the house didn’t melt.I just see all that snow (frozen water) everywhere . . . .
The problem is one of delivery. How to dump a bunch of snow inside a building. A big enough machine could dump enough snow on the roof to cave it in. People were talking about using a big snowblower but then nobody knew where to find one. There was snow on the roof and it wasn’t melting even with the fire inside. Eventually a bunch of water was seen running off the roof but it didn’t go anywhere useful. I remember seeing a fellow I know working in the fire wearing a fairly light jacket out in the cold temperature & wind and I wondered how he was keeping warm. Later I walked around that side of the building and from 50 feet away I could feel the heat radiating from the fire. That’s the answer I realized.Wow. And so strange to have a water issue when there are tons of snow everywhere... I guess the time it would take to melt would be an issue...? I’m wondering why dumping great globs of it on the flames wouldn’t work?
If you have ever tried melting snow to get water you soon discover that a full pot of snow yields about 1/10 of a pot of water. And it takes more heat to make a change in state than it does to simply warm water up. That means it is too slow for fire fighting.That was my first thought... and it’s not even really *frozen*, like ice. Seems weird to me.