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Post by Doug T. on Jul 31, 2010 21:17:11 GMT -5
I tried a yellow filter on my FinePix with it set for B&W to see if it would make any difference, but should have taken the same shot without. I'm getting forgetful in my old age I guess. Doug
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Post by daveh on Aug 1, 2010 5:07:00 GMT -5
Doug, yellow filters - old age, or otherwise:
My brother went skiing in Austria in the early 1960s. He took the camera with him (possibly Ilford Sportsman) loaded with kodachrome slide film. There were some nice billowy clouds in the sky so he used a yellow filter to bring them out more - forgetting he had colour stock in camera. The result was several nice yellow slides. Years ago I held a blue filter against them and this removed some of the colour cast. Now, of course, it's a simple job, after scanning of just changing the colour balance.
Whatever you did or didn't do, it has certainly brought the clouds out.
Dave.
p.s. I have just looked up Cole Park on t'internet. I presume, Cole Park, Broome County, NY. Named after Nathaniel Cole a Revolutionary War veteran who settled in the area in 1795, it looks a lovely park.
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Post by Doug T. on Aug 1, 2010 8:12:41 GMT -5
Hi Dave! The next time I try this, I'll take some control shots without a filter. I try to get it the first time without resorting to a lot of computer manipulation. The programs frustrate me too much. That's the park ! We live about 10 minutes drive from it, and I often go fishing there. It's nice and quiet. We live in Broome County, home of Ansco, IBM, and the Twilight Zone Doug
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Post by daveh on Aug 14, 2010 7:42:36 GMT -5
Doug,
About five miles from us is Birkenhead Park. This was the first in Britain to use public funds to be build it (though not the first public park). Central Park in New York was modelled .
Birkenhead was the home to several things shipping, such as Cammel Lairds and Beaufort, the air-sea rescue equipment people. Beaufort is still there, but Lairds is all but gone.
Among the ships built at Lairds was the three-masted sloop CSS Alabama. Built in 1862 she was sunk in 1864 by those damn Yankees.
Dave.
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Post by Doug T. on Aug 14, 2010 9:04:34 GMT -5
Hi Dave! I'm proud to be a "d**n Yankee" The CSS Alabama was a famous Confederate cruiser. I have a book here somewhere by Clive Cussler titled "The Sea Hunters ", which describes their search for famous civil war shipwrecks . This is one of my favorite subjects. He was also the one who found the Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship in battle. Doug
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Post by photax on Aug 14, 2010 9:48:45 GMT -5
Hi Doug !
I`ve seen a documentation about the "Hunley" these days on TV. Very intersting story, H.L.Hunley must have been a venturous engineer !
MIK
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Post by Doug T. on Aug 14, 2010 10:03:48 GMT -5
MIK, He was a very smart man; he didn't go down with the ship I'm pretty sure that the Confederates had developed a few other submarines. If I'm not mistaken, they were called "david class" submarines. You get that Dave? Seriously, look up the CSS David online. Doug
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Post by Doug T. on Aug 14, 2010 10:13:55 GMT -5
Mik, I just remembered something else;I'm sure that Monitor class ironclads were also used on the Donau as patrol boats for many years. Probably because of their shallow draft. I'll do some research on that.
Doug
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Post by photax on Aug 15, 2010 10:42:36 GMT -5
Hi Doug !
I think (good old) Austria had some of the monitor class ships. I have a book about the Imperial Austrian Navy somewhere ( just could not find it ). I dont know if they operated on the Danube, i guess they have been monitoring the Mediterranean coast. Back in the imperial days Austria had several seaports, for instance Pula or Triest, which are now located in Croatia and Italy. Now the Austrian Navy is completely abandonned. At the time of my military duty we had only two gunboats left on the Danube. I came across one ( now in private ownership ) two month ago. Posted it at the "Trains, Planes & Automobil" section.
MIK
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Post by daveh on Aug 15, 2010 17:48:55 GMT -5
Submariners qualify for the 'mad' tag. A bit like potholers.
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Post by medanum6298 on Mar 31, 2011 20:40:41 GMT -5
Great pictures! Nice to meet you!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2011 21:32:16 GMT -5
The revolving turret on the Monitor sort of set the stage for the 20th century battleship. The original Monitors were so low in the water they couldn't handle anything in the way of a rough sea. The original Monitor went down off Cape Hatteras, S.C. in a storm.
The Alabama was sort of a 19th century version of the Graf Spee--a surface raider.
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Post by barbarian on Apr 17, 2011 20:29:10 GMT -5
Very successful for a time, after which the Kearsarge bottled her up in a French port, and when the Alabama finally come out, sunk her.
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