[LRflex] Re: Friday Fungus now radiation research
- From: "FLAVIO GORI" <flaviogori@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:28:11 +0100
hello aram,
thank you for your input.
actually i agree that most of open research is devoted to pollution
purposes. i'll give a try as you're suggesting and keep you update, just in
case.
thanks again.
flavio
2008/12/15 Aram Langhans <leica_r8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Hi Flavio. It looks like a lot of uv research has been done and there is
> also some research in the shorter wavelengths. I have done numerous Google
> searches, but so far the articles are on membership sites (journals) and I
> have not been able to read more than abstracts. NASA is funding a fair
> amount of research, I assume in the hopes of using plants in space to make
> oxygen and perhaps food. The would be exposed to larger doses of EM energy
> and broader bands than on earth. They are also being researches as
> bioindicator species for pollution monitoring.
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> I'll keep looking. Try things like:
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> Lichens radiation or lichens gamma radiation and see what you can find.
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> Aram
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> *From:* leicareflex-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> leicareflex-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *FLAVIO GORI
> *Sent:* Saturday, December 13, 2008 11:17 AM
> *To:* leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [LRflex] Re: Friday Fungus
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> thank you, aram.
>
> i am especially interested to know more about nuclear, electro-magnetic
> radiation in the extremely high frequency (ghz or microwaves) and extremely
> low frequency (below 13 khz).
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> just in case it may be useful for your research.
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> thanks again for your time.
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> flavio
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> 2008/12/13 Aram Langhans <leica_r8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Not a lichen expert, but being a biologist, I am intrigued with your
> question. I will see what I can find out. I am sure there are some good
> web sites out there.
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> Here is what I know for now. I know that lichens on rocks (those that
> look like the rock has been spattered with paint) are very stable to all
> kinds of environmental abuse including intense UV from the sun. They are
> there for decades. Well, maybe not the same cells, but the same "plant" if
> you can call it that. Heck, many of your cells don't last for decades, some
> only for days. If you look in the mirror, the cells (dead) you see as "you"
> are different today than they were yesterday or last week.
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> The particular lichens I took these pictures of have been on that cedar
> stump in my mom's yard for years, always appearing in the same place. But
> that being Seattle, it is known for a vast amount of UV or sunlight.
> Mostly liquid sunshine, as us natives like to call it.
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> Thanks for looking and taking the time to comment.
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> Aram
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> *From:* leicareflex-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> leicareflex-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *FLAVIO GORI
> *Sent:* Saturday, December 13, 2008 9:47 AM
> *To:* leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [LRflex] Re: Friday Fungus
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>
> hi aram,
>
> interesting your lichen pictures. are you a lichen expert?
>
> i shot a lot of lichens photo during my last visit to hessdalen valley in
> mid-norway in the 2006 summer, but shooting with my nikon coolpix are not
> permitted to be published in the leica pages.
>
> the major point, for me, would have been to shot more pictures some years
> later, since i am interested to know more about lichen development when hit
> by some kind of energy radiation and through the time. do you have any info
> about?
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> many thanks
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> flavio
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> 2008/12/13 Aram Langhans <leica_r8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Well, more like a hybrid as it is a lichen.
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> Also, more on my experiments using PS4's DOF blending. First photo in each
> series is f-22 or thereabouts, and the second is a blend of either 10 or 7
> photos.
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/lichens_f22-0012.jpg.html
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> http://tinyurl.com/5ozpfo
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/lichens-0001-Edit.jpg.html
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> http://tinyurl.com/6zn5rw
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/lichens_f22-0014.jpg.html
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> http://tinyurl.com/5zp9j3
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/lichens_composite_7_frames.jpg.html
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> http://tinyurl.com/5zebgf
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> Notice, when stopped down, the background is much sharper, and perhaps less
> appealing, then when making the composite, which retains the soft out of
> focus background due to the larger f-stop of each photo (in this case
> f-5.6). That possibility was brought up by someone when I posted a previous
> sample, but I had not tried a comparison between stopping down and blending.
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> Photos taken with Rebel XTi and 100/2.8 APO.
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> Comments welcome.
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> Aram
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