August 2019

[Birna Rørslett]

After the recent trip to Latvia, Ruth and I sought shelter on a remote island off the southern coast. Remote as in not having internet or phone access ,which is an increasing rarity these days.  However we could not escape being followed closely by a TV film crew who decided I was an interesting object. They stayed on the island for several days.

I paid back by shooting them in IR ...

[Imagelover]

Great picture, Birna, and great "micro contrast", too. Maybe the NikonGear community wants to know your lens in use caused by, in my opinion, great definition? Thanks!

[Birna Rørslett]

It was snapped with the current IR "standard" setup, i.e. Nikon D5300 (IR-modified, 720nm filter inside) and the AFS 18-140 Nikkor. I was bored and just played around with the image.

[Birna Rørslett]

Another IR depiction, this time of the coastal pine forest covering "our" remote island. The forest is not managed and lots of trees fall due to the harsh, windy climate.

[Frank Fremerey]

swimming

[Hugh_3170]

Frank,  I also strongly believe that a real opportinity is being lost by not developing and deploying Thorium reactors.  And we need to do so very quickly indeed.

Also a 10,000% tax on all palm oil products might help slow down the destruction of the planets lungs - the forests - especially the rain forests.

But what does an old man like me know?  Nothing it seems.

Today I was angry because so many people pled for crappy solutions like wind power just because they feel the real solutions like Thorium Reactors are wrong. They to not test their hypothesis and block progress.

I recorded a video and uploaded it to youtube: https://youtu.be/ME47yJIya7o

[Fons Baerken]

swimming

Nice and minimal!

[Fons Baerken]

August 11

Shenten Dargey Ling, Blou, la France.



Panorama 5 images

Ir-d5300, 18-140mm f/3.5-5.6

[golunvolo]

Learning how to
   Nikon d750, 58mm 1.4

[Nasos Kosmas]

Fons this is great the right technique for the place

[John Geerts]

Blue Sand

Fuji S5  AF 55/2.8

[Frank Fremerey]

Nice and minimal!

appreciated.

Frank,  I also strongly believe that a real opportinity is being lost by not developing and deploying Thorium reactors.  And we need to do so very quickly indeed.

Also a 10,000% tax on all palm oil products might help slow down the destruction of the planets lungs - the forests - especially the rain forests.

But what does an old man like me know?  Nothing it seems.

J Russel Smith wrote "Tree Crops ... a permanent agriculture" in the 1950ies. Next to no better way pumping down Green Houses Gases into the soil than PERENNIALS.

All of our food production should be bases on perennials: forage, fruit, seeds, funghi ... The main cause for Global heating is that there is not enough Photosynthesis on our farms, often less than a quarter of what a natural ecosystem would do. Plus the old carbon in the soils is pumped out, not only a coal, oil, gas but also as land is abused by stupid unsustainable agriculture that is not even profitable:

[Fons Baerken]

Fons this is great the right technique for the place

thank you Nasos

[Fons Baerken]

August 11

The firebug, Pyrrhocoris apterus



D500, Voigtländer 90mm f/3.5

[Birna Rørslett]

Very "buggy", Fons