This is just outside of Kamloops, BC. Heading southeast along Highway 5.
Two images I did for a weekly assignment Flickr group. The task was to imitate the style of Yasuhiro Ogawa (the unexpected snow today was just perfect for this).
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Remember when these things were an essential part of engineers’ life, until about half a century ago?
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Yep. I had a pretty good one for engineering school. The very first calculators were starting to become available when I was about a sophomore, e.g., the HP-35.
Yes, but at first we learned how to use tables of logarithms…
Those were the days my friend
We thought they’d never end
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I was once in an advanced chemistry class at Georgia Tech. We had an old professor, in fact he was the head of the chemistry department.
One day, he asked a question that involved math, and became disgusted at several students pulling out their calculators. He said, “I can do it in my head faster than you can do it on those calculators.” A couple of the students challenged him on that. He won several attempts to prove him wrong, Incredulous, someone asked him, “How do you do that?”
“It’s simple,” he replied. “I have memorized the logarithm tables.”
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Never seen one of those before.
Maybe we could take this topic to Lounge and you explaining somewhat more?
That looks almost like a Volvo P1800
Despite the -15C that the thermometer showed, I decided to explore the area around my new home a bit more today.
Along with me a brought my old 600D, equipped with a Zeiss Ikon Anastigmatic 100mm lens. I tried to get the focal distance right on my 5D, but couldn’t quite reach the right depth, but got pretty close with a couple of macro-rings on the 600D. I love playing with odd lenses, so for next christmas I’m wishing for some helicoidal[?] focus rings so I can adapt whatever lenses I want more easily.
First shot is the same tree as the last time ([Capture Challenge] Charge your battery and take some photos - #2904 by Ravn_Revheim), complete with the tracks I left behind that day. Last shot is of one of the local ravens, there are quite a few around here. No autofocus so this was the best I could do in this crowded forest.
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Don’t know where you are based, but when we lived in Manchester I used to enjoy browsing this shop
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May be accidental, but really nice. I especially like the third one, something about it that reminds me of my childhood in a small fishing village in the north of norway.
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Turns out it’s a new ferry built in Finland that’s stuck in Scotland waiting for work to finish at the port in Tasmania.
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