Gone to See the World. Semester at Sea Spring 2016 Voyage on the MV World Odyssey. Day 86: Depart Tema, Ghana.
This was our last day in Ghana. Prior to departing the ships chef and cooks created an artistic display of carved fruits and vegetables. Rooky mistake on the images, I had the ISO cranked up to 6400 from my early morning Sunrise Breakfast Club photoshoot. As a result, the aperture was nearly wide open with a shutter speed of 1/4000 second. Significant noise reduction via Nik Define, and tonal adjustments via Nik Color Efex.
The Cooks display their creative food art. Image taken with a Fuji X-T1 camera and 35mm f/1.4 (ISO 6400, 35 mm, f/2.8, 1/4000 sec). (David J Mathre)The Cooks display their creative food art. Image taken with a Fuji X-T1 camera and 35mm f/1.4 (ISO 6400, 35 mm, f/4, 1/4000 sec). (David J Mathre)The Cooks display their creative food art. Image taken with a Fuji X-T1 camera and 35mm f/1.4 (ISO 6400, 35 mm, f/4.5, 1/4000 sec). (David J Mathre)The Cooks display their creative food art. Image taken with a Fuji X-T1 camera and 35mm f/1.4 (ISO 6400, 35 mm, f/3.6, 1/4000 sec). (David J Mathre)
I finally got the PhotoShelter plugin that allows me to upload images from my PhotoShelter Gallery to this photoblog working again. While we are all “sheltering in place” and “social distancing” I can catch up on my images and posts. Ambient Weather changed some things and I am trying to get the local weather conditions from my weather station to display at the end of the post again.
Today’s image is a focus-stacked Orange Gazania flower blooming in one of my AeroGarden indoor hydroponic farms. The flower closes at night and then reopens when the LED lights come on again.
Orange Gazania. Focus-stacked composite of 12 images taken with a Nikon D850 camera and 105 mm f/2.8 macro lens and 2.0x teleconverter (ISO 100, 210 mm, f/6, 1/30 sec). Raw images processed with Capture One Pro and Helicon Focus. (DAVID J MATHRE)
Daily Electric Energy Used (59.0 kWh) from Sense Home Energy Monitor and Daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (30.4 kWh) from SolSystems and Locus Energy. Foggy and cloudy in the morning. A deficit of 28.6 kWh.
Red Poppy flower. Composite of 51 focus stacked images taken with a Nikon D850 camera and 105 mm f/2.8 macro lens + 2.0x TCE-III (ISO 100, 210 mm, f/8, 1/30 sec). Raw images processed with Capture One Pro and Helicon Focus Pro. (DAVID J MATHRE)
Daily Electric Energy Used (81.0 kWh) from Sense Home Energy Monitor and Daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (39.8 kWh) from SolSystems and Locus Energy. Clouds and sun. A deficit of 41.8 kWh.
Purple Crocus flowers. Image taken with a Leica TL-2 camera and 35 mm f/1.4 lens (ISO 800, 35 mm, f/4, 1/500 sec). (DAVID J MATHRE)Purple Crocus flowers. Image taken with a Leica TL-2 camera and 35 mm f/1.4 lens (ISO 800, 35 mm, f/4.5, 1/500 sec). (DAVID J MATHRE)
Daily Electric Energy Used (68.5 kWh) from Sense Home Energy Monitor and Daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (53.1 kWh) from SolSystems and Locus Energy. Lots of sun, still cold outside. A deficit of 15.4 kWh.
Weekly Electric Energy Used (492 kWh) from Sense Home Energy Monitor and Weekly Solar Electric Energy Produced (314 kWh) from SolSystems and Locus Energy. A deficit of 178 kWh.
A Red Poppy flower opened this morning. The seed was planted 113 days ago in one of my indoor AeroGarden hydroponic gardens. I have been watching the bud for the last several day wondering when it would finally open — each day setting up a camera to record a time-lapse video.
Daily Electric Energy Used (78.4 kWh) from Sense Home Energy Monitor and Daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (32.5 kWh) from SolSystems and Locus Energy. Not as much sun, but warmer so the Geothermal HVAC didn’t have to work as hard. Still a deficit of 45.9 kWh.
Weekly Electric Energy Used (536 kWh) from Sense Home Energy Monitor and Weekly Solar Electric Energy Produced (181 kWh) from SolSystems and Locus Energy. Total deficit of 355 kWh. Usage should be going down now that the Server/Storage upgrade is complete. On days that the sky is clear more power is being generated as the sun gets higher above the horizon.
