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[Page Scrawler]

Just now, Albert1434 said:

How is things in Page Land

We're doing well, thanks. 

[Marty]

2 hours ago, Albert1434 said:

Aloha All

Delayed greetings back at you, young Albert!  

(Sorry - was hosting a Zoom session this past two hours)

[Albert1434]

That is indeed good

[Albert1434]

Aloha Marty

[Albert1434]

Zoom indeed well you need rest now

[Marty]

1 minute ago, Albert1434 said:

Zoom indeed well you need rest now

There's over half an hour of daylight left. I'll rest after a bit of gardening.  

[Timothy M.]

6 hours ago, dughlas said:

Wow, I'd have thought more young Danish males would spend time on the beaches ... 

Not in February, they don't.  

[Albert1434]

Aloha Timothy

[Timothy M.]

4 minutes ago, Albert1434 said:

Aloha Timothy

Hej Albert  

[Valkyrie]

19 hours ago, Marty said:

Week 51 of 52 monochrome photo (only one more week to go)...

It's a view through one of the ground floor doorways of the old stone cottage in my back garden. 

I tried something technically a wee bit different this week, and used what's known as "bracketing" - where several different shots, each using a different amount of exposure, are taken of the same scene, and then software used  to blend the different shots together.

The idea behind it is that some of the shots are exposed perfectly for the brighter parts of the shot (the outside wall of the cottage in this example), but underexposed (and therefore much too dark) for the darker parts (the room inside the doorway in this example). Conversely, other shots in the sequence may be exposed long enough to show the detail inside the doorway, but these would completely overexpose the outside wall, leaving it just a white expanse with no detail in it. The software uses AI (Artificial Intelligence) to analyse the different shots in the sequence, and then attempts to create one final image from them that reveals all the details - both in the darker areas and the lighter ones.

In this instance I took three shots. One at the exposure that the camera assumed to be the correct one for the overall light hitting the sensor, and then one overexposed by a full stop, followed by one underexposed by a full stop.

It might sound really technical, but it's really not too difficult in practice.  

It looks like a drawing.  Very cool! 

[Marty]

10 hours ago, Timothy M. said:

On 3/15/2021 at 4:40 PM, Marty said:

the same biologist said something about another walrus having been spotted in the past day or so well south of their usual habitat in Denmark, or somewhere like that. Perhaps @Timothy M. has heard something?

  Uhm, we don't have walrus in Denmark, unless you're thinking about Greenland. So seeing one outside zoos, is major news here. But we do occasionally see young males on beaches in North Jutland and yes there was one here in February (only the fifth seen since 1900) https://nyheder.tv2.dk/lokalt/2021-02-17-hvalros-dukket-op-paa-dansk-strand-det-er-noget-af-en-sensation

Yes, I'm fairly sure that is the one that the biologist on Irish radio was talking about. I remember him saying that the one spotted in Kerry, Ireland, was definitely not the same one that had been spotted in Denmark a number of weeks earlier, as it had much longer tusks, and was therefore much older than the Denmark one.

[Albert1434]

Aloha All

[Marty]

58 minutes ago, Albert1434 said:

Aloha All

Greetings, young Albert!

[Albert1434]

Aloha Marty

[Headstall]

1 hour ago, Albert1434 said:

Aloha All

Aloha, Albert!    

[Headstall]

25 minutes ago, Marty said:

Greetings, young Albert!

Hey, Marty.  

[Albert1434]

Aloha Gary

[Headstall]

Sunny Sunday here. Morning/evening, all.  

 

[Marty]

1 minute ago, Headstall said:

Hey, Marty.  

Hi, Gary!

All well in Gary-land? 

[Headstall]

4 minutes ago, Marty said:

Hi, Gary!

All well in Gary-land? 

No sense complaining... all good here.   How is the luck of the Irish this afternoon?

Edited March 21, 2021 by Headstall

[Marty]

5 minutes ago, Headstall said:

No sense complaining... all good here.   How is the luck of the Irish this afternoon?

Ah, sure, you know yourself! I'm fair, and the best of us are only middling.

That really needs to be read as though it is being spoken with a real Irish accent. 

And it basically means "Good, thanks."

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We're still celebrating the fact that we gave England a beating in the Rugby Six Nations championship match yesterday.  

(Points: Ireland 32 ; England 18)

[Marty]

16 hours ago, Marty said:

On 3/20/2021 at 11:09 AM, Timothy M. said:

On 3/15/2021 at 4:40 PM, Marty said:

the same biologist said something about another walrus having been spotted in the past day or so well south of their usual habitat in Denmark, or somewhere like that. Perhaps @Timothy M. has heard something?

  Uhm, we don't have walrus in Denmark, unless you're thinking about Greenland. So seeing one outside zoos, is major news here. But we do occasionally see young males on beaches in North Jutland and yes there was one here in February (only the fifth seen since 1900) https://nyheder.tv2.dk/lokalt/2021-02-17-hvalros-dukket-op-paa-dansk-strand-det-er-noget-af-en-sensation

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Yes, I'm fairly sure that is the one that the biologist on Irish radio was talking about. I remember him saying that the one spotted in Kerry, Ireland, was definitely not the same one that had been spotted in Denmark a number of weeks earlier, as it had much longer tusks, and was therefore much older than the Denmark one.

Seems the walrus that was spotted off the west coast of Ireland has now moved to the Welsh coast...

https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0320/1205199-kerry-arctic-walrus-wales/?fbclid=IwAR087fiD8m_zYF0K4-80QqGzAQ1QvPK6rXoRfxP5jNs-ViwwB0UjUAYiutc

[dughlas]

58 minutes ago, Marty said:

Seems the walrus that was spotted off the west coast of Ireland has now moved to the Welsh coast...

https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0320/1205199-kerry-arctic-walrus-wales/?fbclid=IwAR087fiD8m_zYF0K4-80QqGzAQ1QvPK6rXoRfxP5jNs-ViwwB0UjUAYiutc

I'm guessing he booked himself on an economy cruise tour of the British Isles for young singles ...

[Albert1434]

Aloha page

[Bucket1]

Off to bed...

Have a great day young Albert