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I last photographed Butler's Wharf, the beautiful area south-east of Tower Bridge, at sunrise more than two years ago. Since then, I've frequently thought about revisiting the spot to reshoot it for a cleaner and sharper finish, and earlier in the morning to capture the transition from blue hour to golden hour.

This part of the Thames Path is invariably very busy in the evenings because of the stunning view from its bars and restaurants, yet eerily quiet at dawn, especially during the early light in the summer months, when boat activity along the Thames is at a minimum until around 5am and the reflections in the river remain undisturbed. With all of this in mind, I kept this shoot on hold until a calm morning at the end of May, when wind speeds were low and the skies were clear.

The base exposure for this image was my final shot of the morning, lasting six-and-a-half minutes and perfectly exposing for the pink tones emerging on the horizon, as well as revealing a hint of sunlight along the edge of the Cheesegrater, Heron Tower and the Gherkin. On top of this exposure, I blended in exposures from the start of my shoot, which had begun in darkness, incorporating the night lights along Tower Bridge and inside the neighbouring buildings. Using a combination of the Pen Tool and the Channels panel in Photoshop, I then created selections of the sky, the river and the cityscape, as well as the Thames Path, its lampposts and its railing leading into the distance. This allowed me to selectively focus on each area's tonal contrast, colour balance and exposure, editing a soft and dreamy sky without affecting the high-contrast portions of the cityscape.

Having removed a couple of cranes and an Alcohol Control Area sign attached to one of the lampposts, the final adjustments I made were a mixture of low-opacity Colour Lookups, Gradient Maps and Selective Colour adjustments in Photoshop alongside selective Tonal Contrast adjustments in Colour Efex Pro. This was the most extensive part of the post-processing stage, largely because each individual portion of the image was edited one at a time, but each adjustment was incremental. I wanted to bring out the chilly early-morning tones in the shadows as they were gradually suffused with golden-hour warmth, but at the same time it was important to me to retain the original exposure's clean vibrance and energy, and hopefully to capture the mood and atmosphere while standing there, watching the early-morning light spread across the cityscape.

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Got Dense Breasts? That Can Depend On Who Is Reading The Mammogram  

A big study suggests that radiologists vary widely in their assessment of density, a risk factor for breast cancer. And density is just one component of breast cancer risk, the researchers underscore.

 
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'Zero Days' Documentary Exposes A Looming Threat Of The Digital Age  

Filmmaker Alex Gibney's new documentary focuses on the large-scale implications of computer malware. Critic John Powers calls Zero Days an important — and chilling — film.

 
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Rise And Fall Of Theranos In A Biotech Cartoon  

Hollywood has already cast Jennifer Lawrence to star in a movie about the embattled biotech firm. How did founder Elizabeth Holmes go from self-made billionaire to an estimated worth of $0? Read on.

 
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Wider view of a similar recent image, shot with a 50mm F1.4 which i do think is sharper than the 70-200 F4L IS at smaller apertures (previous shot). Couldn't decide which one i preferred so both went up. Thanks for viewing :-)

3 shot HDR image

 
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The Dwindling Facial Tattoo Tradition of Myanmar's Lai Tu Chin Tribe  
While the practice continued to a much lesser extent after it was outlawed, young Chin women today no longer receive the tattoos. The women who carry them now are likely the last of their kind.  
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Burned naphthalene hosts room-temperature qubits

A Sydney University researcher has burned naphthalene to create a material that can hold quantum qubit information at room temperatures.…

 
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Millwall Outer Dock Golden Hour  

JB_1984 posted a photo:

Image of Millwall Outer Dock during Monday evening's golden hour.

This has become one of my favourite spots for photography in all of London since I first visited it in 2014. The Baltimore Tower is a new edition to the scene since that first visit.

 
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Big Ben and Westminster Bridge at dusk, London, UK

 
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Big Ben and Westminster Bridge at dusk, London, UK

 
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Big Ben and Westminster Bridge at dusk, London, UK

 
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The 10 Most Sustainable Restaurants in America  
While taste is obviously huge when it comes to food, we are approaching an age where making food more sustainable is taking a front seat. If you were one of the millions of people that were sobbing hysterically when Leonardo DiCaprio won his well-deserved Academy Award, you got to hear him speak about how passionate he is about helping to save our Earth.



Sustainability is all about moving in an eco-friendly direction by reducing waste, composting, recycling, and focusing on conservation. Many restaurants throughout the U.S. have been trying to become more sustainable and are now serving more organic food than ever before. Here are a few restaurant chains across the country that have been practicing sustainability and making food without harmful add-ons.

1. Mixt Greens

With two locations in Los Angeles and six in San Francisco, Mixt Greens offers healthy options like salads and sandwiches that are made only with organic ingredients. They also use compostable packaging, which is eco-friendly, while using recycled and energy-efficient equipment in the restaurant. Offering tasty food while being earth-conscious, Mixt Greens is definitely a place worth checking out.

2. Bareburger

Bareburger offers you a wide variety of delicious burgers, America's favorite food. With over 20 locations throughout the country including New York, Philadelphia, and New Jersey, Bareburger is not only known for offering high-quality burgers, but they're also famous for making their burgers without the use of GMOs and pesticides. The franchise keeps growing and it must be because of how tasty their natural burgers are.

3. The Plant Cafe Organic

The Plant Cafe's goal is to serve you delicious food that is 100% organic. All of the produce used in this café are grown on local farms and picked just days before served. They are so keen on being fresh that their poultry is sustainably raised, and everything else is made from scratch. The Plant offers every meal of the day at their several locations while giving you the freshest food possible.

4. Busboys and Poets

In addition to using locally sourced meats, Busboy and Poets uses sustainable seafood, brews fair trade coffees and teas, uses recycled paper products, and uses renewable energy in their restaurants based in Washington D.C. This chain sees themselves more than just a restaurant. They call themselves a "community gathering place" that is open to thinkers, writers, artists, and dreamers. They offer meals that not only taste great but are all-natural. What else could you ask for?

5. Soupergirl

Soup is one of the most comforting foods in the world. But sometimes we want more from our typical soup in a can, and thus we come to the creation of Soupergirl. With soup made from scratch using organic ingredients, this restaurant was made for those cold rainy days. All of the kitchen scraps are composted, making an eco-friendly and natural restaurant for everyone to enjoy.

6. Root Down

Root Down is located in an old 1950s gas station-turned-restaurant in Denver, CO. Besides their tasty food, this restaurant is very sustainable. Get this: They operate powered by wind and only wind, they use herbs and vegetables that they grow and harvest on their rooftop and patios whenever they can, and the inside is made up of recycled materials. How much more sustainable can a restaurant get?

7. Founding Farmers

With three locations on the East Coast, this farmer owned restaurant does all they can to be eco-friendly. From using recycled paper-composite countertops to using recycled paper menus with soy-based inks, Founding Farmers gets an A+ for all that they do to help Mother Earth. They don't use fume paints and most of their food comes from local farms. They even have a whole page on their website dedicated to explaining their sustainability.

8. Red Stag Supperclub

Red Stag Supperclub wanted to go an extra mile past serving local and organic food, so they became the first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design registered restaurant in the whole country to use only LED energy-efficient lights. By doing so, the restaurant managed to cut their energy usage in half, which is pretty dang amazing if I say so myself.

9. Tilth

Tilth is one of the several restaurants owned by Maria Hines, who is passionate about fine dining and sustainability. At her restaurant, she tries her best to be as eco-friendly as possible. She goes as far as providing organic feminine products in the bathroom and giving soy crayons to children. Almost all of the food she serves is farmed organically, and if she can't find an item to be organic, she will make it in her own house. Even the wine is organic.

10. Woodberry Kitchen

Located in Maryland, Woodberry Kitchen is yet another restaurant that serves food that has been locally grown in farms. They grind and extract the waste from vegetables, which makes it lighter and more efficient to manage. What's also really neat about Woodberry Kitchen is that the shells of the oysters are salvaged and returned to Chesapeake Bay to help regenerate oyster beds.

Nowadays, it's really important for us to try to do our part for the Earth as much as we can. These restaurants are few of many that have been doing their part in using their utilities and positions to help the earth be more eco-friendly for all. As a college student, it might seem a bit too difficult to eat sustainable with our busy schedules, but even the laziest college student can eat sustainably.

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Proposed Kidney Disease XPRIZE Announced at White House Organ Summit  

By American Society of Nephrology President Raymond C. Harris, MD, FASN and XPRIZE CEO, Marcus Shingles

Kidney transplantation is the optimal form of therapy for the nearly half million Americans and millions of people around the world suffering from kidney failure. However, the kidney transplant waitlist--approximately 100,000 Americans--is growing, and the average wait time for a transplant is five years. Most will die before their name is ever called.

About 450,000 Americans have failed kidneys and - in the absence of transplant options -- depend on dialysis to live. Dialysis keeps them alive but their quality of life is often dismal, and their life expectancy is often short. At a cost of nearly $35 billion annually--more than the entire budget for the National Institutes of Health--Medicare pays for dialysis for every citizen with kidney failure regardless of age. Despite this remarkable commitment, investment in innovations for kidney treatments has been inadequate for decades.

Unlike kidney transplants, dialysis is not a cure and does not return patients to full health or a normal lifestyle. Patients receiving dialysis endure three to four hour treatment three or more times a week. Their blood is removed, filtered through a machine that clears toxins and waste the kidneys would normally remove, and returned. The process is emotionally exhausting and physically debilitating. Only 1 in 5 patients of working age who are on dialysis have jobs. Approximately half of the dialysis population dies within three years.

Kidney diseases disproportionately affect minority populations. African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans are up to four times more likely to develop kidney failure than Caucasians. African Americans in low income neighborhoods are also 57 percent less likely to make the transplant list than others.

Recognizing that this kidney transplant crisis is largely due to organ shortages, the Obama Administration recently convened the White House Organ Summit. At the Summit, the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) announced its pledge of the first $7 million dollars toward a global prize competition to develop a novel wearable or implantable device that replaces kidney function and improves patient quality of life, in partnership with the XPRIZE Foundation.

ASN and XPRIZE believe we must do better for the millions of people with kidney failure. XPRIZE designs and implements innovative competition models that utilize the unique combination of gamification, crowd-sourcing, incentive prize theory, and exponential technologies to solve the world's grandest challenges.   We believe that a global competition will help create a fundamental shift in the way we treat kidney failure by incentivizing the development of a better alternative to dialysis, improving patients' health and the quality of their lives. Research in bioengineering, matrix technology, and cell biology is poised to ignite revolutionary changes in the options clinicians can offer people with kidney diseases.  A global prize competition would bring together scientists and innovators to catalyze transformative innovation. 

We commend the White House for putting a spotlight on this critical issue, and we call on others to join us in this serious and time-sensitive initiative to help finalize, fund, and execute this competition that can ultimately improve treatment options for kidney failure patients and the clinicians who treat them. Learn more at http://www.xprize.org/prizes/future-prizes/kidney-disease and http://www.asn-online.org/news/2016/0613-organ-summit.aspx.

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