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Say a prayer for my great-nephew who is in the hospital with pneumonia after a choking episode.
Update: while still in hospital he has made great improvement. <3
Not an entirely scientific test, but an interesting one I thought. These moon shots were taken months apart with different cameras, same size sensors, and same lens and teleconverter. This is a comparison of resolution, as I left them full res as recorded by the sensor. The X-H2 shot was 15.7% of the frame height, and the X-T3 shot was 15.3% of the frame height, as someone pointed out the moon varies a bit in its distance to the earth but also the moon in the X-H2 shot isn't entirely full, hense the visible crater detail along the upper right edge. Both were shot using the XF200mm f/2 lens with dedicated 1.4X teleconverter attached.
The Royal Station Master’s Daughters at War by Ellee Seymour
It is 1917 and young Maria has adapted well to her new life on the Sandringham estate, working in Queen Alexandra’s household. It has been two years since she first turned up at the royal station master’s house, desperate to escape her past. Having proved herself to the Sawards, she is now welcomed by them as one of the family. But when Nellie, a mysterious relative on the run from the law, turns up, Maria's new found happiness could be under threat.
Meanwhile, the impact of the war is felt deeply within the community as the fate of missing men from the Sandringham Company is still unknown. The Saward sisters must pull together to support each other through these challenging times. Ada's husband is away fighting on the front line, while Beatrice is now a VAD nurse at a cottage hospital, and Jessie has become a land army girl, proudly doing a man’s job, while pining for her sweetheart Jack.
In a community torn apart by loss and tragedy, how will the station master’s family survive and find the happiness they're all searching for?
undated, 1940s
unidentified
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undated, 1940s
nick's sister, lucky, and uncle henry
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com
undated, 1940s
unidentified
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com
undated, 1940s
nick's sister, lucky (right) and unidentified young woman
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com
just in case anyone interested here is an updated version of the cost of 1 year of Flickr Pro subscription expressed in loaves of bread in local currency. Off the top of my head I picked a range of countries across the world - very arbitrary selection. I could have picked different ones.
Methodology in working out loaves and Flickr subscription costs was very imperfect but simple/pragmatic. Errors are possible.
I used google AI to work out what the estimated average cost in local currency is for a loaf of white bread. Where I was presented with various figures I roughly averaged them.
From the Flickr subscription info page I obtained the annual subscription rate for Flickr for each of the countries. (for those not on the list I used the International US dollar rate converted to local currency)
I was thus was able to state a figure for how many loaves of bread there are in a year of Flickr in each of the countries.
It does vary a lot.
the extremes are:
Tanzania at 430 loaves per Flickr Pro 1 yr subscription is the most expensive
USA at 26 loaves per Flickr Pro 1 yr subscription is the cheapest
in an ideal world, it would be good to find a way for Flickr Pro to be more affordable in countries where it is prohibitively expensive.
discussion thread (although this is off at a tangent from main topic!) at
www.flickr.com/groups/helpforum/discuss/72157721922038567...
The real speed of space flight.
The length of the journeys to other planets and stars will take far longer than you initially think.
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From the planetary frame of reference, the ship's speed will appear to be limited by the speed of light — it can approach the speed of light, but never reach it. If a ship is using 1 g constant acceleration, it will appear to get near the speed of light in about a year, and have traveled about half a light year in distance. For the middle of the journey the ship's speed will be roughly the speed of light, and it will slow down again to zero over a year at the end of the journey.
As a rule of thumb, for a constant acceleration at 1 g (Earth gravity), the journey time, as measured on Earth, will be the distance in light years to the destination, plus 1 year. This rule of thumb will give answers that are slightly shorter than the exact calculated answer, but reasonably accurate.
From the frame of reference of those on the ship the acceleration will not change as the journey goes on. Instead the planetary reference frame will look more and more relativistic. This means that for voyagers on the ship the journey will appear to be much shorter than what planetary observers see.
At a constant acceleration of 1 g, a rocket could travel the diameter of our galaxy in about 12 years ship time, and about 113,000 years planetary time. If the last half of the trip involves deceleration at 1 g, the trip would take about 24 years.
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Time dilation and relativistic speeds - all very confusing.
I some how don't think I will have to worry about it any time soon.
My Father-in-Law was in town to visit with family. Today was our day with him. We went over to Dollywood. We got there just before 4pm and left after 8:30pm. My wife and her Dad went on two roller coasters, we got dinner at Front Porch Cafe and my Father-in-Law got some Cinnamon Bread from the Grist Mill.
Dollywood
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
Friday, November 8th, 2024
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Younger relative had passed away at 50 years old with several family and friends attending the funeral mass. This senior relative was particularly strking to me for his grieving, even when outside in warm sunny weather.
Johannes Vermeer, Gezicht op huizen in Delft, bekend als 'Het straatje' (View of Houses in Delft, Known as 'The Little Street'), c. 1658, Olieverf op doek (Oil on canvas), 54.3 x 44 [54,3] x 9 cm, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Altro titolo - Another title: Relative (or) Superlative ?
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A striking black and white photograph of two monkeys sitting on a wooden railing. One monkey is eating something while the other looks on, capturing a candid moment in the lives of these fascinating creatures.
Monochrome fun for MacroMondays:
Edit: Explore TakeOver 07/24 Movement.
The Fairy Mountain, Chong Qing, China
