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[pinball1970]

Quadrangle.

 

[pinball1970]

There was method in the madness. Einstein came to Manchester in 1921 to give a lecture on Relativity and the University gave him an honorary doctorate. He posed for photos somewhere here. He also went to the Whitehouse and posed with the president, W.G Harding the same year, so the images I found on line said Manchester but the guy in the image with Einstein looks like Harding. It's not worth a thread but I will post some of the images here from work tomorrow, plenty of Einstein buffs on PF!

Here somewhere?

Old Quadrangle was mentioned, here it is with some Chinese New Year.

 

[pinball1970]

My search suggests it Harding with Einstein in the US 1921 not Manchester. Never mind.

 

[pinball1970]

Behind Piccadilly Station

 

[collinsmark]

This week's round of pics. As usual, of all the pics I consider "keepers" of the week, only an appropriate subset are shown here.

Figure 1. <Untitled> Leica 35mm Summilux-M ASPH.

Figure 2. "Educate. Demonstrate. Stop hate." Leica 35mm Summilux-M ASPH.

Figure 3. <Untitled> Leica 35mm Summilux-M ASPH. I've included this one here on PF to show off the lens. It's a significant crop. I was a fair distance away and took this one with just 35 mm focal length. I had to crop way in, but the detail is still there. The rangefinder mechanism was used for manual focus (the setup I was using only supports manual focus). The lens shows some chromatic aberration (you can see some green or purple fringing [green in this case] in high contrast areas), but other than that I'm very impressed with the setup.

Figure 4. <Untitled> Leica 35mm Summilux-M ASPH.

Figure 5. <Untitled> Leica 35mm Summilux-M ASPH.

Figure 6. <Untitled> Leica 35mm Summilux-M ASPH.

Figure 7. <Untitled> Leica 35mm Summilux-M ASPH.

Figure 8. <Untitled> Leica 35mm Summilux-M ASPH.

To be continued ...

 

[collinsmark]

... Continued from last post.

Figure 9. <Untitled> Leica 35mm Summilux-M ASPH.

Figure 10. <Untitled> Leica 35mm Summilux-M ASPH.

Figure 11. "Fourth Avenue. Midday break." Leica 50mm Summilux-M ASPH. I took this pic on my way to get some lunch.

Figure 12. <Untitled> Leica 50mm Summilux-M ASPH. This is the California Theatre building. It's catercorner to where I ate lunch.

Figure 13. <Untitled> Leica 50mm Summilux-M ASPH. C Street corridor on my stroll back to the trolley station.

Figure 14. "Trolley reflection study #2" Leica 50mm Summilux-M ASPH.

Figure 15. <Untitled> Leica 35mm Summilux-M ASPH. This pic and the next pic were taken on a different day than the previous pics.

Figure 16. <Untitled> Leica 35mm Summilux-M ASPH.

 

[Andy Resnick]

This has been a truly shite winter here; I cannot begin to explain how relieved I am finding this today:

 

[symbolipoint]

This has been a truly shite winter here; I cannot begin to explain ho,.......

Wonderful word choice!

 

[Point Conception]

And this is the way we danced to Doo Wop at the Jr/ HS gym dances kids

 

[collinsmark]

This week's batch of pics. This week I constrained myself to only shooting with a 50 mm lens. All pictures in this post (and the next) were taken with a Leica 50 mm Summilux-M ASPH.

The first was taken last Wednesday at Balboa Park (See Fig. 1).

Figure 1. "Girl running around perimeter of Bea Evenson Fountain."

Now on to the usual limited protest pics. I find that 50 mm focal length isn't always (or even usually) the best lens choice for crowds. (Slightly wider may be better -- more on that in coming weeks.) I placed this artificial constraint on myself this week as an exercise for improvement: To temporarily push myself out of my comfort zone sort of thing. So (as previously mentioned) all photos here are taken with the 50 mm.

Figure 2. <Untitled>

Figure 3. <Untitled>

Figure 4. <Untitled>

Figure 5. <Untitled>

I think something was going on behind me when I took the photo in Fig. 5. 'Nothing crazy, but just something to briefly draw people's eye. I wasn't paying attention. Whatever it was, it did create the workings for what I consider a slightly striking/unusual image.

Figure 6. <Untitled>

Before you ask, I have no idea what was in the box (See Fig. 6). I didn't even notice a box until later when I opened the images for post processing on the computer.

To be continued ...

 

[collinsmark]

... Continued from last post.

(All photos here taken with the Leica 50mm Summilux-M ASPH.)

Figure 7. <Untitled>

Figure 8. <Untitled>

Figure 9. <Untitled> This is the California Theatre Building again, but from a different angle. I walked by it on my way to get some lunch.

Figure 10. <Untitled> I took this image while waiting for my lunch order. I haven't done much still life in forever, it seems.

Figure 11. "Trolley reflection study #3." That's me's in the image center.

 

[DennisN]

This has been a truly shite winter here

Same here, very much.
Cold, windy, cloudy, dark and very boring .

 

[jtbell]

This weekend I've been in Knoxville TN for a stamp show. On Saturday I drove up to Oak Ridge to see stuff that I missed on my previous visit two years ago.

Here's the former Guest House that was used for Manhattan Project visitors, including Bohr, Oppenheimer and Fermi ("Mr. Farmer"). It became a hotel, the Alexander Inn, which closed in the 1990s. In 2015 it re-opened as a senior living facility (assisted living and memory care), after conversion by a private developer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Inn

https://www.nps.gov/places/000/the-guest-house-alexander-inn.htm

https://ssmgrp.com/communities/alexander-guest-house/

 

[BillTre]

AKA dendritic pattern. Its a river delta.

 

[pinball1970]

This has been a truly shite winter here; I cannot begin to explain how relieved I am finding this today:

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I thought that was a British word. Mancunian even. Never heard that outside of Manchester.

 

[Ibix]

I thought that was a British word. Mancunian even. Never heard that outside of Manchester.

It's definitely broader than Mancunian - I know it as a Yorkshireman, and a Glaswegian friend uses it when in more-or-less polite company where her usual language is contraindicated.

 

[BillTre]

A result of the Glacial Lake Missula's several sudden outlet floods.

 

[Point Conception]

The Wednesday seafood situation.

 

[jtbell]

On my way home from Knoxville, I passed this place on highway US-441 about a half hour south of the Great Smoky Mountains park.

This is just a sampling. I spent more than an hour here.

 

[jtbell]

They have real cats wandering around, too!

 

[BillTre]

Spring is springing:

 

[DennisN]

My cat being comfy behind a MIDI (musical) keyboard :

 

[jtbell]

Can it play the CATcerto?

 

[DennisN]

Can it play the CATcerto?

Incredibly funny!

 

[DennisN]

A couple of plant shots from last year, newly edited...

Lilac

Leaves

White roses

More leaves

(all shot with the lovely vintage Yashinon-DS 50mm f/1.9)

 

[nsaspook]

 

[nsaspook]

 

[nsaspook]

Working on some firmware for a Solar data collection system. It used a 8-bit controller to collect data from a energy meter and solar charging data. One of my retirement projects to keep busy.

RS485 modbus data line to energy meter.

A Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W using a custom Linux protocol kernel driver talks to the DAQ board over SPI.

Home utility power graph.

Solar power charts. Power to battery storage and power to the local home grid.

 

[jtbell]

On my way home from Knoxville last weekend, before visiting the cat museum, I drove through the Great Smoky Mountains park, stopping at the Newfound Gap overlook on the NC/TN state line.

North Carolina is to the left and Tennessee is to the right.

Here's a larger version of this panorama.

 

[Andy Resnick]

On my way home from Knoxville last weekend, before visiting the cat museum, I drove through the Great Smoky Mountains park, stopping at the Newfound Gap overlook on the NC/TN state line.

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North Carolina is to the left and Tennessee is to the right.

Here's a larger version of this panorama.

Nice! Is that near Clingman's dome? We were there (and Asheville) a few months prior to Hurricane Helene; how does everything look now?