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Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based historical facts. BEWARE!
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Some background:
The mighty Suchoj SuCh-1 started its life in early March 1943, when the Sukhoi OKB finished work on the design of a high-speed fighter with a unique powerplant arrangement. The aircraft was an all-metal low-wing monoplane with conventional tail surfaces. The three-section wings had constant dihedral and basically trapezoidal planform; the stabilizers had zero dihedral.
Two Klimov M-107 water-cooled Vee-12 engines, each with a. take-off power of 1 ,600 hp (1,193 kW) and a maximum design power of 1,500 hp (1,119 kW) at 5,500 m (18,045 ft), were mounted in the center fuselage in a staggered-tandem arrangement: the front engine was offset to starboard and of the rear one to port. Thus, the total power was increased but the drag was the same as for a single-engined aircraft, which was expected to increase fight speed considerably. Consequently, the project was internally designated 'I-2M107', literally "Article powered by two M107 engines".
Furthermore, the left cylinder bank of the front engine and the right cylinder bank of the rear engine were disposed vertically, so that each engine had one set of exhaust stubs on top of the fuselage and one on the fuselage side. Both engines drove a single three blade tractor propeller of 4.0 m (13 tt 2 in) diameter via parallel extension shafts and a common reduction gearbox. Both water radiators were located side by side in a chin housing, while the oil coolers were buried in the wings. The total fuel capacity of the four tanks arranged in the center fuselage was 1,113 litres (244.86 Imp. gal).
Because of the power plant arrangement and the large ground angle (necessary to give adequate ground clearance for the large propeller) the cockpit was offset to port and placed ahead of the wing leading edge to provide better forward visibility on take-off and landing. The cockpit was protected by a bulletproof windscreen, a front armor plate and an armored backrest; the armor weight totaled 70kg (154Ib).
The main landing gear units with 800 x 280 mm (31.5x11 in) wheels retracted inwards into the wing roots and the 400 x 150 mm (15.7 x 5.9 in) tail wheel retracted aft. The fighter's armament consisted of two wing-mounted 12.7-mm Berezin UBS machine-guns firing outside the propeller disc and a single 20-mm ShVAK cannon firing through the propeller hub*.
A full-scale mock-up was inspected in December 1943, and with German long range bombers threatening the Western front line as well as the lack of a fast and powerful fighters to intercept them (the earlier MiG-5 had turned out to be a disappointment, and Mikoyan's I-211/221 family if high altitude fighters also suffered from serious technical problems at that time), OKB Suchoj received an immediate go-ahead for further development of the SuCh-1, how the I-2M107 was now officially called, since Vladimir A. Chizhevskiy took lead of the project.
In the course of 1944 three prototypes went through a fast development program. While the aircraft itself was easy to handle, overheating problems and trouble with the gearbox for the two engines could only partly be rectified - esp. the power transmission should remain the SuCh-1s Achilles Heel.
Anyway, the Su-5 was ready for service introduction towards late 1944, and the powerful type was exclusively to be used as an interceptor. Several improvements had been made, compared to the prototypes: now two slightly more powerful Klimov VK-107A engines were used, which were better suited for high altitude operations, and the chin-mounted water cooler was considerably enlarged. The oil coolers had been re-designed and they were now placed under the wing roots.
The wing span had been extended by 6' and a bigger (now 4.3m diameter!), four-bladed propeller was added in order to improve performance at high altitude. No pressurized cabin was installed, but the cockpit received an extended glazing for better all-round field of vision.
Armament had also been augmented: now a Nudelman N-23 23mm cannon was firing through the propeller hub, and the number of UBS machine-guns in the wings was increased to four.
As initial duty experience was gathered, it became quickly clear that the firepower had to be augmented, so that the propeller-hub-mounted 23mm cannon was quickly replaced by a Nudelman-Richter NR-37 37mm cannon, and the four wing-mounted UBS machine guns were replaced by two 20-mm ShVAK cannons or even two Nudelman N-23 23mm cannons - the latter became the production standard from March 1945 on, even though the type's designation did not change.
Experience also showed that the overheating problem had been cured, but the complicated gear box tended to malfunction, esp. when full power was called for in aerial combat: high G forces took their toll and damaged the bearings, even warping the extension shafts and structural parts, so that some SuCh-1 were literally torn apart in mid-air.
The high torque powers of the large propeller also took their toll on handling: starting and landing was described as "hazardous", esp. when the fuel tanks were empty or in cross winds.
Consequently, SuCh-1 pilots were warned to engage into any dogfight or enter close combat with single-engined enemy fighters, and just focus on large enemy aircraft.
On the other side, the SuCh-1's powerful cannon armament made it a deadly foe: a single hit with the NR-37 cannon could down an aircraft, and its top speed of roundabout 700 km/h (435 mph) was more than enough for the Luftwaffe's heavy bomber types like the He 177.
Several engine and armament experiments were undertaken. For instance, at least one SuCh-1 was outfitted with a Nudelman-Sooranov NS-45 45mm cannon firing through the propeller hub, even a 57mm cannon was envisaged. Furthermore, one airframe was prepared to carry two Charomskiy M-30V 12 cylinder diesel engines, in order to produce a heavy long-range escort fighter (internally called I-2M30V).
In order to minimize the torque problems a contraprop arrangement with two three-bladed propellers and a diameter of only 3.6m was under development.
All in all only 120 of these powerful machines were built until the end of hostilities, as the feared mass attacks of German long range bombers did not materialize. as the Su-7 was complicated to operate and jet engines promised a far more efficient way of propulsion for high speeds, the type was already retired in 1947 and replaced by 1st generation jet fighters like the Yak-15 and MiG-9, which carried a similar armament, attained a better performance (except for the range) but weighed only half of the large and heavy SuCh-1.
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General characteristics
Crew: One
Length: 11.75 m (38 ft 5 3/4 in)
Wingspan: 13.85 m (45 ft 3 1/4 in)
Height: 5.30 m (17 ft 4 in)
Empty weight: 5.250 kg (11.565 lb)
Max. take-off weight: 8.100 kg (17.840 lb)
Powerplant:
2× Klimov VK-107A liquid-cooled V12 engines with an output of 1.650 hp (1.210 kW) each at sea level and 900 hp (650 kW) at 8.300m (27.220 ft)
Performance:
Maximum speed: 720 km/h (447 mph) at height, clean configuration
Range: 750 km (465 mi)
Service ceiling: 11.700 m (38.400 ft)
Rate of climb: 876 m/mim (2.850 ft/min)
Armament:
1× Nudelman-Richter NR-37 37mm cannon with 60 RPG, firing through the propeller hub
2× Nudelman N-23 23mm cannons with 120 RPG in the wings
Many different cannon and machine gun arrangements coulod be found, though.
*Information about the conceptual Suchoj I-2M107 was primarily gathered from the book 'OKB Suchoj', written by Yefim Gordon & Dmitriy Komissarov; Hersham (UK), 2010.
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The kit and its assembly (a long story!):
This abomination of an aircraft is/was real, even though the I-2M107 was never built – the fictional name Suchoj-Chizhevskiy SuCh-1 was actually chosen because I could not find any plausible Su-X code for a WWII fighter. Vladimir A. Chizhevskiy actually joined the Suchoj OKB in mid WWII, so I deemed this alternative to be plausible.
I had this on the agenda for a long time, but the horrors of kitbashing kept me from building it - until now. The current Anthony P memorial Group Build (for the deceased fellow member at whatifmodelers.com, RIP) was a good motivation to tackle this brute thing. Fortunately, I already had some major ingredients in store, so work could start asap.
From that, anything else was improvised from the scrap box, and with only a three side view of the I-2M107 as guidance. It became a true Frankenstein creation with...
● Fuselage and inner wings from the (horrible) NOVO Attacker
● Wings from an Italeri Fw 190 D-9 attached to them
● Nose is a resin Griffon from an Avro Lincoln conversion set from OzMods
● Tail cone is a radar nose from an F-4J Phantom II
● Tail fin is a horizontal stabilizer from a Matchbox SB2C Helldiver
● Vertical stabilizers come from a Matchbox Me 410
● Oil coolers are modified front landing gear wells from two Revell G.91 kits
● Cockpit hood comes from a Revell P-39 Airacobra
● Landing gear comes from an Italeri Fw 190 D-9, covers were modified/improvised
● Main wheels belong to a MPM Ryan Dark Shark
● Tail wheel belongs to a Matchbox Harrier
● The propeller was scratched, IIRC from a Grumman Hellcat drop tank front and blades from an Airfix A-1 Skyraider. Inside, a metal axis was mounted.
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Work started with the fuselage and the wings as separate segments.
The Attacker fuselage lost its fin and the cockpit and air intakes were simply cut away, just as the tail pipe. The resin Griffon was slightly shortened at the front, but more or less directly attached to the fuselage, after I had cut out openings for the four rows of exhaust nozzles.
Then, the new tail cone was glued onto the end and the original fairings for the Attacker's stabilizer cut away and sanded even - anything had to be made new.
The wings were a bit tricky. I had hoped to use the Attacker's OOB wings, but these were not only much too small and did not have the proper shape, they also lacked landing gear wells!
Finding a solution was not easy, and I had to improvise. After some trials I decided to cut the Attacker wing span at about the width where the guns are located, and then add Fw 190 wings.
The depth would be fine, even though the Fw 190 wings were a bit thicker, and they offered a leading edge kink which was good for the original and characteristic I-2M107's wing root extensions. The latter were sculpted from a 6mm thick core or styrene sheet, added to the Attacker parts' leading edge, and the rest, as well as the lacking Attacker wing's thickness, sculpted with 2C and later NC putty.
Furthermore I cut out and sculpted landing gear wells, another challenging, since these had to cover the Attacker/Fw 190 parts' intersection! LOTS of putty work, sanding and shaving, but as a benefit I was able to use the Attacker kit's original wing/fuselage joints. Effectively, my placement turned out to be a bit far outside, so the track appears too wide - the price to pay when you work on single parts. Anyway, I left it was it turned out, as a major correction at a late working stage would mean to tear anything apart again...
Back to the nose: adding the propeller and the cockpit into the massive nose was the next working station. The propeller had to be huge, and also needed a rather big spinner. A contraprop was ruled out, even though it would have looked great here. But eventually I settled for a scratch-built thing, made from a teardrop-shaped drop tank front onto which the four blades from a A-1 Skyraider were glued. Probably the biggest prop I have ever put onto a 1:72 scale model! Since the resin nose was massive, drilling a hole and adding a metal axis to the propeller was enough.
With that in place I started carving out a cockpit opening - it worked better and easier than expected with a mini drill and a coarse shaving head! The opening is still rather small, a seat and a pilot hardly fit, but it works - I found a rather smallish pilot figure, and added a seat and some other small details from the scrap box, just to have something inside.
For a canopy I found a very old (30 years, I guess...) clear part from a Revell P-39 Airacobra in the scrap box, which was almost perfect in shape and width. It was a bit blind and stained with ancient enamel paint, but some wet sanding and serious polishing almost got it back to translucent status. Since I would not open the cockpit, this was a sufficient solution.
The asymmetrical cockpit opening was, in an initial step, faired with styrene strips, for a rough outline, and then sculpted with 2C and later NC putty, blending it into the rest of the fuselage.
For the tail surfaces, the SB2C stabilizer was cut away at its base - it is not a bad donation piece, its shape and rudder come pretty close to the I-2M107's original design!
The stabilizers I used on my kitbash come from a Me 410, and their leading edge was a cut away so that the sweep angle would be a bit larger. They lack depth, compared to the I-2M107's original design, but since the wings have become more slender, too, I think it's a good compromise, and the best what I had at hand in the spares stash.
Finally, and before detail work could start, the wings were attached to the fuselage. I eventually set them back by ~6mm, so that the new, extended leading edge would match the respective fairing on the fuselage. The resulting gap at the trailing edge was, again, filled with 2C and NC putty.
A personal change was a different oil cooler arrangement. The original location was to be in the wings' leading edge, just in front of the landing gear wells - but that appeared a bit doubtful, as I could not find a plausible solution where the exit for the air would be? Consequently, and in order to avoid even more messy putty sculpting on the wings, I decided to re-locate the oil coolers completely, into shallow, tunnel-like fairings under the wing roots, not unlike the radiator arrangement on a Spitfire or Bf 109.
In order to check the surface quality I decided to add a coat of grey primer, once the fuselage/wing segments had been connected. This showed only minor flaws, but made another turn with NC putty and wet sanding necessary.
Now it was time for finishing touches, e .g. mounting the landing gear, completing the cockpit and adding exhaust stubs - cut individually from HO scale model railroad roof tiles and inserted into the four fuselage fairings.
The canopy was fixed into place with white glue, which also helped closing some small gaps.
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Painting and markings:
While the I-2M107 looks odd, to say the least, I wanted to keep the paint scheme rather simple and quasi-authentic. I went for a pale grey/green camouflage, used e. g. on late war Yakovlev Yak-3 fighters.
Basic colors are Humbrol 31 (Slate Grey, it has a very greenish, even teal, hue), ModelMaster 1740 (Dark Gull Grey, FS 36231) and Humbrol 167 (Barley Grey) for the lower sides with a wavy waterline. Since only marginal surface details were left over, I decided to fake panels and panel lines with paint.
Panels were simulated with lighter shades of the basic tones (RLM 62 from ModelMaster, Humbrol 140 and 127 below), panel lines were painted with highly thinned grey acrylic paint and a special brush - in German it's called a 'Schlepppinsel', it's got very long hairs and is also used to paint scallops on car models, and similar things are used for real car tuning/custom paintwork, too.
Sure, the painted panel lines are a bit rough, but I did not want to risk any damage through manual engraving on the rather delicate mixed-media surface of the kitbashed model. For an overall look or first impression it's very good, though.
As 'highlights' I added a white spinner and half of the fin was painted white, too.
The decals were puzzled together. The flashes and the tactical code number come from a Hobby Boss La-7, the Red Stars, IIRC, belong to a vintage MiG-21F from Hasegawa. The "Rodinu" slogan actually belongs to a 1:35 Soviet Tank decals set.
Finally, after some additional dry painting with light grey, some oil stains around the engines and coolers and soot stains at the exhaust stubs and guns (painted, plus some grinded graphite, as it yields a nice, metallic shimmer that looks like oil or burnt metal), everything was sealed under a coat of matt acrylic varnish.
If it had been built, the Suchoj I-2M107 must have been an impressive aircraft - it was bigger than a P-47 Thunderbolt or an A-1 Skyraider, and one can only wonder how its field performance would have been?
Similar concepts had been underway in UK, too, e. g. for a heavy naval attack aircraft, but the I-2M107 with its asymmetrical cockpit and engine arrangement were unique. A worthy whif, even if some details like the landing gear or the borrowed nose section are not 100% 'correct'.
I've been tagged by Mish, so here are 10 most random facts about me:
1.I have been backing a lot lately, I'm a healthy eater though so these I don't eat much of.
2.My very favorite class ever since I got into college is AutoCAD.
3.I love feetography. Hehe, that's a new word now.
4.I'm a perfectionist, and a planner.
5.I really love to drive. Not the normal really but the Really really.
6.I play arm wrestling with my brothers. Yep!
7.Art "Painting, photography, sketching, ballet…" makes me happy, whenever I accomplish something I have a huge smile on my face, I'm never lonely with it.
8.The little things, make me happy, even one simple smile.
9.I want to open a gallery of my own someday. Enshallah.
10.I really love you guys, and flickr, most of my photography improvement was here with all of you, and I am so blessed to have that. =)
I have a bad headache now, because yesterday I had a strong cappuccino and today I hadn't had anything. Tomorrow I'm going to double check what I wrote just now when I'm half awake.
Oh and I tag the people added.
And She's Ree (I can't add you to the photo)
Sometimes I wish I could fly with the birds.
This was taken on this day, August 9th. I hope this picture gets as much support as the other one but probably not. It took me a while to edit this. I have five different versions (Ask Dee) but she said this one was the best and I trust her ;D And is it too soon for another beach picture...?
So, I was thinking print giveaway or exchange…?
But I would have to reach a goal for myself:
10,000 views on my photostream.
500 people who call me a contact.
A total of 15 pictures I am incredibly proud of.
Whichever comes first, I guess.
-takes poll of people who wants a print giveaway- No, no, no, no. Okay thanks for the opinions. I know I don’t have many pictures that people want, either…
Press ‘L’
Tagged by Haley Marshall Photography, StephieFarr, *sheridanlee, and ginaballerina.
3 thing you miss the most right now:
1. My friends.
2. Having friends.
3. Our times together.
Three things you are wearing right now
Well it’s super early in the morning but:
1. My purple short type pajama shorts….(that didn’t make sense)
2. An orange 5th grade grad shirt from years ago that still fits me XD
3. My hair.
Three things you want very badly at this moment
1. To communicate with someone that isn’t really doing the same with me and I don’t know why.
2. To communicate with my U.C.T –heart- ^^ (I know what I’m talking about.)
3. To be talked too!
Two things you did yesterday
1. I went to my very first football game, breaking my vow of never going to one. I’m tainted. But apparently I am much more popular than I thought because one too many guys talked to me whenever I passed by and half of the time I was like, “Sorry, I don’t know your name..” But I had a great time with Krista –heart- even though I hated all other human interaction…
2. Watched Ellen, I LOVE HER!
*Kind of weather: The kind where I can wear shorts (in dress code) and cute tops without sweating.
*Color: Blue but I think black defines me too…
*Fruit: Strawberries.
*Sound: Rain and music.
*Food: Pasta.
*Place: The beach.
*Taste: Chocolate.
*Smell: Vanilla.
*Object: My cameras!
*Song: I’ll put the one I’m listening too right now: When I’m Gone- A Rocket To The Moon
*Shoes: That’s cute, me and my mother, who have the same shoe size, have over 130 shoes…
*Movie: The Proposal, The Pink Panther, -insert many comedies here-
*Drink: Motts for Tots mixed berry juice.
5 things I love about flickr:
1. Meeting amazing people like Gina <3 And thanks so much for the incredibly nice thing you said in your tag. What would I do without you?
2. The photography, duh.
3. The inspiration and support.
4. The smile it gives me!
5. Notes! I love them!
I decided to sit down and think of all the things I was so lucky for or so lucky to get or had the help of friends and really there was so much More than I even realized.
I am going to try to make a point to Feel LUCKY For everything Rather than feel like Sometimes Im missing out! So that Missing out feeling STOPS now.
Here is 2012 Lucky in review!
1. Baklava, I wanted a Tiina Icy so bad and I kept missing them, I finally got Lucky in January and got Baklava <3 I love her she is one of my serious Keepers!
2. Prism, I was Longing for this girl and her rainbow hair, I probably would have cried if I didnt get her, I got her in February and she is still a total IT Girl for me <3
3. Down in the dumps and having such a crappy 2011 a Wonderful Wataru and his Owner Sent Kohl the most fantastic Christmas Gift <3 We sure were lucky!
4. I was so lucky that my Steampunk headbands were a success, we sold them successfully for several months, I Feel like the Steampunk Look has died down a bit but would still take one on commission :D
5. Another Wonderful Friend helped me get a Pink Mimsy, this was before the INSANE really Insane Mimsy Trend, Mimsy Deserves it these hats are wonderful but Im glad I got some before they went totally viral!
6. I am lucky that my Lawdeda girls were always adopted this year, you cant ask for better love and luck than that!
7. I got to see a Beautiful Tiina Custom in person before her girls also went Viral!
8. That LaViri made a beautiful Custom With Teeth for me, I know she is SOOO Busy now so I thank my Lucky Stars I got Maple when I did!
9. That the Most perfect Susie in all the Susie world walked into my door and my Heart this year, She became my Muse!
10. And With Susie's Help I finally wrote my First Book, However Getting it Published in the Format I want and not cost an arm and a leg is still in the works :/
11. That a doll was Named after me by a HUGE Corporation -- Hahah just kidding :P that was just a coinkydink
12. That I became the wayward home for Vampoodles, I do love those little bloodsuckers!
13. that a WONDERFUL And AMAZING Lady Helped me get Derpy at Comic Con, I will never forget that :D
14. That Melly Kay always surprises me with the most amazing Customs <3 I got very Lucky to be on her list this year <3333
15. that Tole Tole Did a Trade with me to get Sweetums, I am SOOO Lucky to have her now that Raquel is very sought after I dont think I would have that luck again!
16. That my Idea for Halloween Armies sold so well, THANK You to the Dear friends that got them, you are awesome!
17. That Melacacia helped me get a Schoolgirl Dress, this is a style that I just love, this dress is a Forever Keeper :D
18. Another Dear Soul and Awesome Guy hooked me up with the Pirate Sheep! I wont forget how awesome and nice that was <333 xoxo
19. Uli. Named after a Friend that helped me get her <3 I would not have been able to get Uli without her help xoxoxoxo Love you! You know who you are ;)
20. Finally getting the Yellow Lalatroop helmet for Uli <3 :D
21. This is a Two Parter.. 1, I have been trying to get a Pink Anemone since March, I kept missing out or had Empty Pockets, most of the Blythe I got this year were some kind of trade or a better priced commission so it was just LUCKY LUCKY LUCKY to finally get Truly <3333 and then to Top it off I FINALLY Got a Trade for the MForMonkey Lederhosen,,, There is no way I could get them on the Secondhand Market so this was Lucky as it gets!
22. That I got a Tiina Vampire :D I have wanted one for awhile but again never for a Price I could pay so this was a LUCKY Surprise! Thank you Tibi <3
23. A dear lovely Lady helped me find a little Evangelione Angel <3 that is my Last and most Special Want of the year :) WOOT!
To all of you that helped me, or to all of you that are still loving and friendly about this Hobby, THANK YOU < you are the Reason Blythe Still Rocks <3 Happy Holidays!
Now TAG show us what you are lucky for this year :D
1. I am thankful for Doreen at the local RBC who was not able to directly assist me but was lovely just the same ! :) I am equally thankful for Jess, Rach, Joshua and Gail who helped me to understand and fill out a gosh darn lot of paper work this week.
2. I am thankful for finally letting myself ask someone if we could work together in a life coaching sense. Asking was the first step and usually helps heaps with my getting going.
3. I am thankful for letting myself use Flickr people as my reward for the close of at least one day! :) There are so many great photos with so many great stories to learn. I had been frustrated by my tendency to sort of ‘wander off’ for weeks at a time and then feeling bad about not having communicated with the cool people that come by to say howdy and whose photos and stories that I enjoy. Flickr is a community .. my sitting passively viewing (and being inspired by) people’s photos is not engaging in that community. This is me working to become actively involved in communities that inspire me to come more alive. Yes, I know it is generally wrong to use people but my intentions are good! :)
4. I am thankful for Daniel for letting me know that he has found the gratitude lists that I do to be helpful. His action has been a catalyst to a great deal of important inner work for me (that is why it takes me so much time to respond to comments sometimes). The important stuffs I am working on are how I seem to be able to hand that gratitude out but I could certainly use some practise in being a better receiver of gratitude. To receive gratitude gracefully is to honour the gift inside the person offering the gratitude. (I think) I think this means that to offer gratitude is to say, “your action has made something in me come alive and it caused this reaction/action”?
5. I am thankful for learning about Marshall B. Rosenberg’s writing because his books are helping me to learn to express and receive gratitude.
6. I am thankful to have been able to work with T because she helped me to be accountable for walking my talk and through her example I am learning that I have a lot to learn about celebrating my successes.
7. I am thankful for finishing a large artwork this week along with a couple of medium works. I am truly amazed how limiting the time I allow myself to do my work gets so much more done .. and it has me sneaking in work on my ‘bank day’ to do work simply because doing my work just feels good and right. I am thankful for the feeling I get when the artwork gets done before lunch, not only because I get to eat lunch on time but also because I feel like I have triumphed over something very difficult and I seem to fly through the rest of my work day! :)
8. I am thankful that my younger sister is speaking up for herself and self-directing her life more so. She is really fun and personable (IMO) and I wish for her new work that makes her come more alive and her eyes shine surrounded by more people who value her work! :) I am quite excited for the new opportunities this will bring into their lives! Now I am thinking of what present I can send to her?! :)
9. I am thankful for when I go to bed before 11:30 because then I am much more pleasant to be around! Since I must be around myself 24/7, the experience might just as well be pleasant! ;) I am thankful there is heat in my apartment, the 17 Celsius average was not particularly conducive to rest or thought.
10. I am thankful for putting more effort into understanding and connect with my mom better and differently. This is helping me to recognize more of the gazillion loving ways she is and has always been. This has also been a smidge humbling [*cough] because it has helped me to see how she always seems to go the extra mile but I haven’t always recognized this and am still practising recognizing this. For instance, she was at the store and sent me a text message asking if I would like her to pick up some things while she was in town. Yes, please! :) I asked for a certain cheese, she brought the certain cheese AND another type of cheese that I like! (this makes me feel more special) I asked her to bring some dry beans for protein .. she brought me some of the meat that I sometimes eat when I am with her. While meat doesn’t agree with my digestive tract so well I can see that she brought the meat because (I suspect) she believes that good meat is important to be healthy AND our family hasn’t always been able to afford nice things so to have good meat is a treat AND she knows that I am working on doing my artwork so this is her way of being supportive and cheering me on. She also brought me some black sharpie pens to help me do my work. I am thankful at how I am getting better at offering her the opportunity to either hear or read my gratitude list and how I am getting better at simply shutting up and listening for her to talk about what she wants to and leaving the rest alone. That has been a challenge for me in the past.
11. I am thankful for these materials I have been reading this week
* Dr. Seuss books are awesome with the sauce! It amazes me how much wisdom can be gained from reading some rhyming words of a children’s book. I don’t know that I have a favourite at the moment though. I hated reading as a kid because I couldn’t get the words to be still long enough to read the darned things - now I read as much as I can fit into my brain! I heart reading. :) I am so very thankful that I have Irlen filters and some adaptive software now to access information that I always tried to get at. People will only put up with so many questions, believe it or not! ;)
* Letters to a young artist : building a life in art by Julia Cameron. Some of the back at forth defensiveness can be a little grating on the nerves but it still has some very useful kernels wisdom to impart, IMO.
12. I am thankful for Simon Sinek’s TED talk (that I have listened to at least five times so far!) It kind of haunts my thoughts on why/how/what I could do better.
13. I am thankful for allowing myself the time and space to think about what I want to communicate with people before interacting because it feels authentic and it certainly is good to know the world does not go all Wacky Wednesday when it takes me a bit longer to reply.
14. I am thankful for the window cleaning guy this morning who kindly washed the back of my inside kitchen windows this morning because it is the one that causes me much grief and cussing when I take it out and repeatedly attempt to put it back!
15. I am thankful for getting my butt in gear this morning to go for a short photo walk! I had not taken any photos this week, not even any documentary ones for my artwork. I have been taking my camera along, I just hadn’t taken any photos.
16. I am thankful for signing up for Tim Brownson’s newsletter because he is offering ”free” life coaching to the person that is able to communicate their commitment to making lasting changes. To answer the question of exactly how committed I am through my ability to make previous lasting change is an effective exercise for me because I have been able to see that I have already made several important life changes. When in the middle of changes I don’t always remember that.
17. I am thankful for composting because when I re-pot plants there are often volunteer plants that flower, like the little yellow flowers on the vines that are wrapping themselves around two of my impatiens. They might be cantaloupe or watermelon.
18. I am thankful for taking art history with Dr. Carmen Robertson because she was very encouraging and helpful to me to write my first essays in about a decade. Without her way of doing things I don’t think I would have written the essays for the class, passed the class or had the momentum to heave myself out of the belief that my writing is worthless. I highly recommend taking a class with her if you want to learn about art and art history because she is engaged and engaging in the work, has a sense of fun AND she marks with a green pen! :) I appreciated how she treated people like the adults that we are while introducing us to the subject matter leaving the deeper learning up to each learner. I read and learnt SO much!!
19. I am thankful that people are being very kind and gentle when trying to tell me about my Red Velvet Ropes. This is exciting because it is showing me how my work is becoming more focused and funneling people in their right directions - some toward me, some away! This has lead to several epiphanies about what my goal is by writing what I do. It does not matter how many people read these lists or look at my work. What matters to me is that the people that will come more alive by reading my writing or seeing my artwork can find it!! :) I want to poke my art’s right people in the brain and connect with them in the heart.
20. I am seriously thankful for going back to read Beth and Daniel’s encouraging words on the lemon stack gratitude list .. I feel so tired but .. Thank you, it has been a really long week.
21. Thank you for reading, that is what I had to give, see you next week.
Löndun úr Sólbergi ÓF-1 í Siglufjarðarhöfn 6. júní.
Trawler Sólbergi ÓF-1 unloaded in Siglufjörður on the 6th of June.
26.06.2017r. l Kostrzyn l Ostatni klasyczny polsat SU42-506 (będący od 20 Czerwca w delegacji w ZPR Zielona Góra) chwilę po przyjeździe z Gorzowa Wielkopolskiego jako 80429 przestawił się właśnie na tor 2a przy peronie 1 i po dokonaniu oblotu niewidocznego na zdjęciu wagonu Bdhpumn odjedzie jako 88348 do Gorzowa Wielkopolskiego. W tle widoczna część zabytkowego dwupoziomowego dworca odrestaurowanego w latach 2012-2014.
キョウチクトウ ‘ブラッディー・マリー’ （黒赤一重）
Nerium oleander Linn., 1753 ‘Bloody Mary’
(My Original Seedling & Selection)
Tree height: 2～4m
Nikon D800E
SIGMA MACRO 70mm F2.8 EX DG for Nikon AF Mount
キョウチクトウ
Nerium oleander Linn., 1753
This name is the accepted. 11/15, 2021.
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Family: Apocynaceae (APG IV)
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Author:
Carl von Linnaeus (1707-1778)
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Published In:
Species Plantarum 1: 209. 1753. (1 May 1753) (Sp. Pl.)
Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
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Annotation: as "Oleander"
Type-Protolog
Locality: Habitat in Creta, Palaestina, Syria, India
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Type Specimens:
LT: Herb. Clifford: 76, Nerium 1 [beta]; ; (BM-000558145) LT designated by Stearn in Davis (ed.), Fl. Turkey 6: 159 (1978)
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Synonyms:
Nerion oleandrum St.-Lag., Ann. Soc. Bot. Lyon vii. (1880) 130.
Nerium carneum hort. ex Dum.Cours., Bot. Cult., ed. 2. 3: 268 (1811).
Nerium flavescens Spin, Jard. St. Sebastien (1812); ex Roem. & Schult. Syst. iv. 410.
Nerium floridum Salisb., Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton 147 (1796).
Nerium grandiflorum Desf., Tabl. École Bot., ed. 2. 92 (1815).
Nerium indicum Mill., Gard. Dict., ed. 8. n. 2 (1768).
Nerium indicum forma leucanthum (Makino) Okuyama, Journal of Japanese Botany 30: 43. 1955. (J. Jap. Bot.)
Nerium indicum subsp. kotschyi (Boiss.) Rech.f., Fl. Iranica [Rechinger] 103: 3 (1974).
Nerium indicum var. leucanthum Makino, Ill. Fl. Jap. ed. 2: 207. 1940. (Ill. Fl. Jap.)
Nerium indicum var. lutescens Makino, Ill. Fl. Jap. ed. 2: 207. 1940. (Ill. Fl. Jap.)
Nerium indicum var. plenum Makino, Ill. Fl. Jap. 207. 1940. (Ill. Fl. Jap.)
Nerium japonicum Gentil, Liste des Plantes Cultivees dans les Serres Chaudes et Coloniales du Jardin Botanique de l'Etat a Bruxelles 130. 1907. (Liste Pl. Cult. Serres Jard. Bot. Brux.)
Nerium indicum subsp. kotschyi (Boiss.) Rech.f., Fl. Iranica [Rechinger] 103: 3 (1974).
Nerium latifolium Mill., Gard. Dict., ed. 8. n. 3 (1768).
Nerium lauriforme Lam., Fl. Franç. (Lamarck) 2: 299 (1779).
Nerium luteum Nois. ex Steud., Nomencl. Bot. [Steudel] 553 (1821).
Nerium mascatense A.DC., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 8: 421 (1844).
Nerium odoratissimum Wender., in Schrift. Ges. Bef. Gesammt. Naturw. Marb. ii. 245 (1831).
Nerium odoratum Lam., Encycl. [J. Lamarck & al.] 3(2): 456 (1792).
Nerium odorum Aiton, Hortus Kewensis (1789).
Nerium oleander subsp. kurdicum Rech.f., Fl. Iranica [Rechinger] 103: 2 (1974).
Nerium oleander var. indicum (Mill.) O.Degener et Greewell, 305. 1952.
Nerium splendens hort. ex Paxton, Paxton's Mag. Bot. 3(28): 73 (1836).
Nerium thyrsiflorum Paxton, Paxton's Mag. Bot. 3(28): 73 (1836).
Nerium verecundum Salisb., Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton 147 (1796).
Oleander indica Medik., Hist. & Commentat. Acad. Elect. Sci. Theod.-Palat. vi. Phys. (1790) 381.
Oleander vulgaris Medik., Hist. & Commentat. Acad. Elect. Sci. Theod.-Palat. vi. Phys. (1790) 381.
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Accepted By:
AFPD. 2008. African Flowering Plants Database - Base de Donnees des Plantes a Fleurs D'Afrique.
Berendsohn, W. G., A. K. Gruber & J. A. Monterrosa Salomón. 2009. Nova silva cuscatlanica. Árboles nativos e introducidos de El Salvador. Parte 1: Angiospermae - Familias A a L. Englera 29(1): 1–438.
CONABIO. 2009. Catálogo taxonómico de especies de México. 1. In Capital Nat. México. CONABIO, Mexico City.
Correa A., M. D., C. Galdames & M. Stapf. 2004. Cat. Pl. Vasc. Panamá 1–599. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá.
Davidse, G., M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera. 2009. Cucurbitaceae a Polemoniaceae. 4(1): i–xvi, 1–855. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera (eds.) Fl. Mesoamer.. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis.
De la Torre, H. Navarrete, P. Muriel, M. J. Macía & H. Balslev. 2008. Enciclopedia Pl. Utiles Ecuador
Flora of China Editorial Committee. 1988-2013. Flora of China (Checklist & Addendum). Unpaginated. In C. Y. Wu, P. H. Raven & D. Y. Hong (eds.) Fl. China. Science Press & Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing & St. Louis.
Flora of China Editorial Committee. 1995. Flora of China (Gentianaceae through Boraginaceae). 16: 1–479. In C. Y. Wu, P. H. Raven & D. Y. Hong (eds.) Fl. China. Science Press & Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing & St. Louis.
Funk, V. A., T. H. Hollowell, P. E. Berry, C. L. Kelloff & S. Alexander. 2007. Checklist of the plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 55: 1–584. View in Biodiversity Heritage Library
Gentry, A.H. 2001. Apocynaceae. In: W.D. Stevens, C. Ulloa Ulloa, A. Pool & O.M. Montiel (eds.). Fl. Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85(1): 116–132.
Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., R. D. C. Ortiz, R. Callejas Posada & M. Merello. 2011. Listado de las plantas vasculares del departamento de Antioquia. 2: 9–939. In A. Idárraga-Piedrahita, R. D. C. Ortiz, R. Callejas Posada & M. Merello Fl. Antioquia: Cat.. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín.
Jørgensen, P. M., M. H. Nee & S. G. Beck. 2014. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia. 127(1–2): i–viii, 1–1744. In P. M. Jørgensen, M. H. Nee & S. G. Beck (eds.) Cat. Pl. Vasc. Bolivia, Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard.. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
Jørgensen, P. M., M. H. Nee, S. G. Beck & A. F. Fuentes Claros. 2015 en adelante. Catalogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia (adiciones).
Madsen, J. E., R. Mix & H. Balslev. 2001. Fl. Puná Isl. 1–289. Aarhus University Press, Aarhus.
Morales Quirós, J. F. 2005. Estudios en las Apocynaceae neotropicales XIX: La familia Apocynaceae s. str. (Apocynoideae, Rauvolfioideae) de Costa Rica. Darwiniana 43(1–4): 90–191.
Morales Quirós, J. F. 2006. Estudios en las Apocynaceae Neotropicales XXVIII: La familia Apocynaceae (Apocynoideae, Rauvolfioideae) de El Salvador, Centroamérica. Darwiniana 44(2): 453–489.
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Nokia Lumia 1020, test shot #1
I was approached by Nokia to try out their new flagship smartphone Lumia 1020 with an incredible 41MP camera. I'll be testing this phone for the next 2 weeks. Nokia isn't paying me to test it so there won't be any sweet gospels and propaganda, just an honest feedback and pictures.
This is my first shot made with Lumia 1020. As I mainly shoot architecture, I approached the shoot and post-processing as I usually do with a professional DSLR camera and lenses. My post-processing workflow remained unchanged too - starting with Lightroom, Photoshop and all other plugins I'd normally use.
On the left side you can see Nokia ProCam software, featured in Live View as overlaid graphics. I've never seen this on a smartphone before so I felt instantly 'at home'. I really liked the manual control - they felt intuitive and provided me with an instant feedback in the Live View. No different than shooting with a pro DSLR in Live View mode.
Slider rings allow you to have an advanced control of your camera's features. I set my own White Balance, ISO sensitivity, manual focus, exposure compensation, shutter speed, exposure bracketing, delayed shutter and then fired 5 exposures from -2Ev through +2EV.
Lumia 1020 produces hi-rez JPEGs so there were slight compression noise and artifacts which I had deal with in pre-processing. It's not bad at all as long as you stay at ISO 100. I was able to get a very clean looking tone-mapped image before taking it to Photoshop for final grading and tweaking.
Final image has a whopping resolution of 5357 x 7106 pixels and image quality...well, you be the judge.
Would I consider Lumia 1020 as my second camera on a professional shoot? No, of course not. Lack of optical zoom lens, no RAW file output and image quality aren't quite there yet..not to mention that I'd look like a total loser in front of the client.
HOWEVER - I can totally see myself using Lumia 1020 as a travel camera and for candid street photography.
Snap-on hand grip with an extra battery will give you many hours of shooting without killing your phone's internal battery which has a provision for tripod mounting at the bottom. This is absolutely terrific for long exposures and HDR or Digital Blending photography. Lumia 1020 has decently wide, tack sharp Zeiss lens with mechanical shutter. Fixed aperture of f2.2 is great for handheld shots in low light conditions.
All in all, I'm very impressed. This smartphone could be that final nail in the coffin of compact cameras everyone's been talking about.
#nokia #nokialumia #lumia1020 #nokiamea #hdr #hdrphotograph #mobilephotograph #mobilephotography
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Có lẽ em cần MỘT AI ĐÓ...
(*) Đặt dấu " HÕI " cho cuộc sống .
- Đặt dấu " BẰNG " cho 1 quyết định .
(*) Đặt dấu " CHẤM " cho những gì đã wa .
- Đặt dấu " THAN " để bắt đầu cuộc sống mới .
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Mitakon 50mm f0.95, at f1.1 i think =). it's a stepless aperture really hard to tell but it definitely between 0.95 and 1.4
in my eyes are things i still cant figure out... hmmmm!
i particularly like the background here..although there's very little of it.. that little black thing in the top left corner is a keychain that makes a tingling sound whenever it moves.. hehe! just like it!
:-)
and i am wanting to start a 365 day project.. does this picture count???!!!
Quotation from the Bible:
Rev 6:1-9
6:1 I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, "Come!"
2 I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.
3 When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, "Come!"
4 Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make men slay each other. To him was given a large sword.
5 When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come!" I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand.
6 Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, "A quart of wheat for a day's wages, and three quarts of barley for a day's wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!"
7 When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, "Come!"
8 I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained.
(from The Holy Bible: New International Version. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, by
International Bible Society)
The Original Artwork of the 4 horses of Revelation are by Sharlene Lindskog-Osorio see her
work at www.EquestrianArt.com
Probably , among the many double and single deck Buses and Coaches present on our visit was - GTX437 .
A Neath Coachworks C39F bodied Leyland Tiger PS2 / 1 .
I have not photographed or seen another vehicle bodied by Neath Coachworks . Which I presume was local to South Wales .
Maesteg Garage Yard , South Wales .
September-1971
Taken @ M. Earnshaw Street, Sampaloc, Manila - January 15, 2011
GV FLORIDA TRANSPORT, INC.
Bus Number: B1 (Bullet 1)
Classification: Airconditioned Provincial Operation Bus
Coachbuilder: Del Monte Motor Works, Corporation
Chassis: Hino RM2PSS
Model: DMMC Aero Extreme
Engine: Hino P11C-TE
Bore & Stroke: 122 mm x 155 mm
Displacement: 641.825 cu. inches (10,531 cc / 10.5 Liters)
Cylinders: Inline-6
Aspiration: Turbocharged
Power Output: 320.55 bhp (325 PS - metric hp / 239.04 kW) @ 2,100 rpm
Torque Output: 1,040.56 lb.ft (1,411 N.m) @ 1,100 rpm
Transmission: 6-Speed Forward, 1-Speed Reverse
Maximum Speed: 87.00 mph (140 km/hr) - [estimated]
Layout: Rear-Mounted Engine Rear-Wheel Drive
Airconditioning Unit: Overhead Unit
Suspension: Air-Suspension
Seating Configuration: 2x1
Seating Capacity: 29 Passengers
Fuel Tank Capacity: 105.560 Gallons (400 Liters)
Overall length: 38.99 feet (11.89 Meters)
Overall width: 8.09 feet (2.47 Meters)
Wheel Base: 19.69 feet (6.00 Meters)
Gross Vehicle Weight: 37,536 lbs. (17,000 kg)
* Specifications are subjected for verification and may be changed without prior notice...
This is image no. 137 of 365 for my 2011 365 project.
I was tagged by Heidi Peters for a "10 things about me" kinda thing. If you haven't seen her 365 portraits, do check them out... she is an amazing photographer.
www.flickr.com/photos/heidipeters/
So, onto the 10 things about me (and I doubt anyone on flickr knows these, except #9).
1. I was born in NY State… at the same hospital my father was born in.
2. My favorite drink is a good scotch (and I do mean good).
3. My high school guidance counselor told my mother I wasn’t cut out for college.
4. I graduated magna cum laude with a masters in mechanical engineering.
5. I can identify just about any automobile on first sight.
6. My favorite movie of all time is Star Wars (the original from 1977).
7. I almost lost my left eye when I was 11 years old.
8. My favorite TV show is Top Gear (UK show).
9. I am a complete and self admitted nerd.
10. I know my wife is the strongest person who has ever lived.
I will tag a few flickr friends for the 10 things… can’t wait to see some of the responses.
WEEK 1 – Spaghetti Warehouse “Double Helping,” Part 1
I turned my vantage point to the left for this shot of natural light streaming through one of the stained glass windows, and this was my result. I didn’t exactly mean for it to turn out this way, but I think I can call this a happy accident. I’m not a big photography buff or anything, but this kinda speaks to me… it just captures some of that melancholy feel of the restaurant’s closure, while also still managing to be (in my opinion) a nice photo.
(c) 2018 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
2012 saw a major change in the way DCA (Double-crewed ambulances) would be delivered to Yorkshire Ambulance Service.
The DCA fleet has been very heavily dominated with Ambulance bodies being placed onto the chassis, however 2012 saw the end to this concept in Yorkshire and a start to van conversions. Cartwright converted a number of Mercedes-Benz Sprinters in 2012-2013. Showing one of the models is 1655, YC12VMJ.
Fleet No. - 1655
Reg. No. - YC12 VMJ
Chassis - Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 519 CDI (4X4)
Bodywork - Cartwright Tarus
Type - Ambulance
Please Note:
1 - All images are copyright and must not be used without full permission from myself. All images published on here are my own work and taken on public property unless full permission has been given to enter a premises.
2 - I always try to include some information about the bus or the route in picture to the descriptions, however sometimes information may be listed incorrectly, if so I would be grateful if you could let me know what amendments need to be made.
I was tagged by café•moka www.flickr.com/photos/cafemoka/
So here we go again
1.- I have zero photography knowledge, currently I assist on daily basis to the Flickr University of Photography, where all of you are my teachers and classmates
2.- I'm stubborn as an ass, when I get an idea on my head nothing can make me change my mind.
3.- I love to eat sweet things. If I don't eat candy, cookies or chocolate everyday, I get grumpy
4.- I have a really dark sense of humor.
5.- Last may I got a gout attack Since then, and for the rest of my life I have to take medicine to control my uric acid levels.
6-. I have two sisters the younger one is the responsible for me getting into Flickr. Before she told I had no idea, this even existed. you can check her photo stream here
www.flickr.com/photos/juliesuarez/
7-. Photography is my stress release valve.
8.- I do mountain bike as much as possible.
9.- I don't watch tv.
10.- I wear glasses since I was 7 years old.
Now is my turn to tag….
1. I used a Sony camera
2. My idea of this photo was to catch the details of the railing and curve while also keeping the symmetry.
3. The process was getting the camera close enough to focus on all the details.
True love for the MX-1. I think the camera is underappreciated in general, and I've not been utilizing it to its full potential either. Gonna have to work on that!
Pentax K-S2, Promaster 24/2.8
For the Pentax Forums Single in April Challenge
Christmas present, old school Canon A-1, I love it!
A wallpaper pack made from this photo can be downloaded from DeviantArt here: jake2k.deviantart.com/#/d367dv1
Strobist: SB-24 in 57" brolly camera left and white bounce card to the right.
Setup Shot: www.flickr.com/photos/jake2k/5331981006/
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Yeah. I guess I like telling people random stuff about myself, so here goes. Read if you dare!
#1. I love music and I'm pretty sure I couldn't live without it. It can make me happy or sad or inspired or impressed or interested (and probably more words starting with an 'i'). I love making it, I love listening to it, I love exploring it and learning about it. I could quote so many songs to express my love for music, but wont.
#2. I tend to babble. Especially when I'm talking or writing about something that I care about, like environmental affairs or something I know a lot about. Or about myself, which is precisely what I'm doing here!
#3. My favorite TV show is Monty Python's Flying Circus (A.K.A. Owl-Stretching Time) and my favorite movies are the Monty Python movies. I quote them too much. (go boil your bottoms, sons of silly persons! I fart in your general direction!)
#4. My favorite band is Queen and I wish Freddie Mercury was alive so I could go to a Queen concert. My favorite musician is Bob Dylan and I'm going to his concert in Reykjavík in May, no matter what anyone says. Freddie Mercury and Bob Dylan, along with Chris Martin, are on the top of my list of people I want to meet :)
#5. I sing a lot when I'm home alone.
#6. When I see movies I love or hear music I love, even read books I love, I tend to Google them and consequently knowing everything about them.
#7. I like jewelry.
#8. I smile a lot and I laugh a lot, but I feel silly doing it in self portraits. So I guess you Flickrites haven't really seen it...
#9. I'm stubborn as hell.
#10. I wore glasses for 10 years, but now I have contacts.
#11. I like (and need) attention. That may be one of the reasons for my 365 project. There, I admitted it!
#12. I am such a tedious know-it-all sometimes!
#13. I love Iceland. I'm so damn lucky to live here, it's amazing. Breathtaking. Fantastic, phenomenal, majestic, magnificent, mindbogglingly wonderful. :D
There.
Day 77 of 366
BWW Day 4
This looks so different in PC than in my MacBook. Everything does >.<
This was explored, at #57 when I noticed it!
Starting at Tanygrisiau, and walking up into Cwmorthin valley, this is where you get to once you have gone up the long incline at the end of the valley. Here there were two rows of barrack buildings for the workers, various sheds and outbuildings, and the wall footings for large slate cutting sheds and cut stone stacks. One ruin has a nice archway, suggesting it might have been a chapel. Sadly, no sign of a pub, and on a beautiful day like this I would have been a very grateful customer. Although...on second thoughts, I had no money on me.....that could have been worse....seeing a pub, and no money to buy a drink with!
If your starting point is in Tanygrisiau at Level 1, I think of this as level 3
Rhosydd Quarry is a slate mine northeast of Porthmadog in North Wales. Small-scale working of the site began in the 1830s, but was hampered by the remote location, and the lack of a transport system to carry the slates to markets. The Rhosydd Slate Company was formed in 1853, and became a limited company in 1856. Transport was made more difficult by the attitude of the Cwmorthin Quarry, through whose land the most obvious route to the Ffestiniog Railway ran. A solution was found in 1864, with the opening of the Croesor Tramway, to which the quarry was connected by one of the longest single-pitch inclines in Wales. Huge amounts of money were spent on development work, and the company, unable to make adequate returns, went into voluntary liquidation in 1873.
The history is interesting and can be read here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhosydd_Quarry#History
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5,475 days. That's how many days you've been alive, and I'm privileged to have had so many of them to get to know you.
Shae, you are one of my best friends, an amazing listener, an extraordinary photographer. You are beautiful, inside and out, and I hope you're fifteenth birthday is perfect (:
^^what can i say, im sappy (; so long story short, HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHAE, i hope it everything you expected and more :D
+1, i honest to god couldnt decide. theyre so similar but so different when you look at the details, but on the one in the comments i did some editting to the lens that i didnt LOVE, so yeah haha
100 days left, let make them count.
Well, I rarely post a so-called "selfie" but my new hairdresser wanted to know if I did "facebook" so I could recommend her!
This was the best I could "do" with my "do" to promote this wonderful gal! And, this is also another first, as I've done my own hair for the past 5 or so years . . . it was time for a treat!
And now I'm hooked! I felt like I should be going to a prom or something!!!
ps....the nail job is fake! I just painted them on line with a rouge filter!!! I still don't indulge in manicures!
[Verse 1]
"Jimmy was a soldier brave and bold
Katy was a maid with hair of gold
Like an act of fate, Kate was standing at the gate
Watching all the boys file on parade
Kate smiled with a twinkle in her eye
Jim said "M-m-meet you by-and-by!"
That same night at eight
Jim was at the garden gate
Stuttering this song to K-K-K-Kate"
~ Billy Murray ~
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16 things about me
1) i want to buy acres and acres and acres of land and set it free
2) i have a birthmark on my inner thigh that looks like a footprint. when i was little, i hated it. i thought it made me defective and always tried to hide it. my mother would tell me it was where an angel walked on me. she was trying to make me feel better. it worked. i haven't thought about it in years.
3) i wanted to be a mermaid. at times, when i swimmed, i thought i was
4) therefore, i want to clean all oceans, rivers, lakes so that all the water dwellers can thrive
5) i rarely got to spent any time with my biological father. when i was 12, i spent a couple of really awkward hours with him. as i drove away on the bus, i cried really hard. i didn't understand why.
6) slightly over a year ago, i visited poland. it is full of tiny small villages, which i found so breathtaking beautiful. it is a forgotten land. but there is something really special about that.
7) i totally absolutely love balkan gypsy brass band music stuff. some ies,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz9GX_EIM7k&feature=related
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-mqhkuOF7s
8) i love riding my bike over bridges. connecting to another thing.
9) one of my favorite movies was 'romeo is bleeding' starring gary oldman. it was all about not being able to say no because something feels so good, even thought it was soooo bad for you.
10) photography helps, um maybe saves me. same goes for flickr.
11) i am a child of MLK
12) i love klose, german potatoe dumplings, they are much like a big gnocci (gnocchi, thanks claudio)
13) i try really really really really hard, but sometimes things are just soooo easy and sooooo right
14) use to swear that i was the next reincarnation from malcolm x
15) adore whiskers on any animal, including a man
16) (leaving this one blank, because the future holds gud gud gud stuff)
Fresh out of the oven! I made this last night for dinner, it's one of my favs.
Spanakopita (Greek Spinach Pie)
"This is an authentic, really rich pie stuffed with spinach, onions, cheeses and herbs that are all enfolded by crispy, flaky phyllo dough."
Ingredients:
* 3 tablespoons olive oil
* 1 yellow onion, chopped
* 1 bunch green onions, chopped
* 2 tbsp fresh dill, chopped
* 2 cloves garlic, minced
* 2 pounds spinach, rinsed and chopped
* 2 eggs, lightly beaten
* 1/2 cup ricotta cheese (I didn't have ricotta so I used "light" cream cheese)
* 1 cup crumbled feta cheese
* 12 sheets phyllo dough
* 1/4 cup olive oil
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly oil a 9x9 inch square baking pan.
2. Heat 3 tablespoons olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Sauté onion, green onions and garlic, until soft and lightly browned. Stir in spinach and dill, and continue to sauté until spinach is limp, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside to cool.
3. In a medium bowl, mix together eggs, ricotta, and feta. Stir in spinach mixture.
4. Lay 1 sheet of phyllo dough in prepared baking pan, and brush lightly with olive oil. Lay another sheet of phyllo dough on top, brush with olive oil, and repeat process with half of the sheets. Spread spinach and cheese mixture into pan and fold overhanging dough over filling. Brush with oil, then layer remaining sheets of phyllo dough, brushing each with oil. Tuck overhanging dough into pan to seal filling.
5. Bake in preheated oven for 30 to 40 minutes, until golden brown. Cut into squares and serve while hot.
Notes:
1. I recommend cooking the spinach in a separate pan first and then draining out the excess water before adding to the onions... OR alternatively buy frozen spinach from the grocery store, thaw and press out all of the water then add to onion mixture and sauté.
2. Thaw the phyllo over night in the fridge, it's easier to work with if it thaws slowly.
Teaser trailer of the first minute of Castle 9 Season 1 Episode 1. I have no idea when the first episode will be completed, but sometime around 2022 might be when it comes out, maybe sooner, maybe later.
You can also view it on my Youtube channel, which will be where I upload the rest of this series: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HOy1BmAIxQ
Until then, feel free to give any criticism and I apoligize in advance for my novice voice acting. I hope you enjoyed!
internal stuggle of which to have as my main image, +1.
i chose this one because i'm fed up of so much of me being the main in my photos and this focuses on the bit that was intentionally the main concept for me.
on the uploader today my loading message was:
searching for meaning.
it goes with my mood.
there just seem to be all these signs and connections lately.
if you have a minute why don't we go talk about it somewhere only we know?
alright i've gotten tagged twice and so i figure it's time to get around to it!
TEN FACTS ABOUT ME! :)
#1
i love any kind of fruit blossoms <3333
#2
my boyfriend is gonna be a nurse. so proud of him :)
#3
i love buying shoes.
#4
i buy all my clothes online except pants
#5
my brother has a pet gopher named steve.
#6
my little sister is turning 8 next week.
#7
my parents are two of the most amazing people i have ever known
#8
99% of days, i'm genuinely happy with myself :)
#9
i hate being at home on my days off, i always want to be doing something, and most of the time i end up at Disneyland.
#10
i drink my daily 8 every day!
"TAGGED AGAIN"
By HOURY
Here we go again............so this makes 32 now, you'll know my blood type soon~LOL
1) I have a short attention span, so a fast pace is my element.
2) Have somewhat of a character, but pretty even keel. My bark is worst than my bite.
3) I was born in another country and speak 2.5 languages, English, Spanish and Portuguese.
4) I am spiritual but not a church goer.
5) I value loyalty and honesty, but you can lie to me sometimes to spare my feelings.
6) I love my golden retriever his name is Max.
7) I have always been active in sports but not a jock, just like playing some sports.
8) I was in my high school swim team only a year, until the coach wanted me to shave my body so I could swim faster. That ended that cuz my motto is “bird never lay nest on bare tree”. So to rebel, I grew out my hair long and got plenty of birds~
9) I started my photo adventure back in the film day. Back then, while a senior in High School, the educators placed me on a “drop out” prevention program were I went to school for a ½ day out at 12N to lunch and report to a part time job. I was a (un-official) staff photographer for a local (b/w only) paper. I learned darkroom techniques and developed b/w. Covered many events like basketball games, the Democratic convention (there was a riot!) My favorite assignment was shooting models. The owner of the paper made sure the cover of the local paper had a model in a bikini. All editions, different models, but this was always the cover. :-))
10) I’ve already said this before, but in case u missed the first tag. I grew up during the Disco era. I can Salsa, Merengue, booty dance, u name it better that Travolta!
11) If I had it to do over again, I would choose to be a Musician….Rock Star…Just sayin~ it’s an art I love.
12) The person who tagged me better play, cuz I generally don’t do this. But I am a pleaser and hate to hurt anyone’s feeling.
13) Damn I’m running out of things to say….So sometimes even I am at a lost for words.
14) Love boating, snorkeling the reefs, fishing, anything out door.
15) Would like to bungee jump someday…Oh yeah I have a wild side. I’ve learned though.
16) Oh….back to point 9). I supplemented my income while attending college by shooting wedding photography. I went on to graduate top 10% of my class. With a degree in Psychology, but ended up as a sales professional cuz it paid better.
You guys watch out~ Houry, your my first tag...
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This is my current WIP for SHIPtember 2014. I didn't get a day 1 pic because after day 1 I had almost nothing really put together. It took a few days, but I'm finally getting a little bit of something decent together! It's far from done, however, and with school starting up again, I can't really participate on a competitive level.
Oh, and this is day 4 for me, but technically SHIPtember has been going on for five days.
Nymålade pendelbåten (Djurgårdsfärjan) Djurgården 9 bogseras av LEIF som får hjälp av arbetsbåten Lillen 1 i Stockholm
Rue St Féréol - Marseille
Listen to the real Sputnik 1 launched on October 4, 1957
Explore highest position : # 177
Finally, a year and a half later, the Apex-Class Helios MK III is finally complete! All this time and it just needed some finishing touches.
Named after the Roman god of the sun, with a fiery orange and yellow color scheme, broken up by gray. Overloaded with thrusters in the feet, calves, waist, shoulders, and especially the huge jetpack, this mech is meant to take to the skies and space. Equipped with duel-wielded energy Rayguns that double as physical swords and shoulder SSAM-4 missile pods, the Helios MK III is an Apex-Class mecha ready for nearly anything in low-gravity battles. Standing at 15 inches (38.1 cm) tall, this MOC is quite heavy, and the largest mech I've ever built with Lego.
Initially built concurrently with my Lego Transformers Armada Optimus Prime, the Apex-Class Helios MK III proof-of-concept prototype was thrown together just one month before Brickworld Chicago 2023. Building extremely last-minute, I worked late into the night on-site at the convention hall the first few days of being there, and made it presentable just in time for award judging.
After almost not bringing it all, it ended up being well worth it in the end. I still managed to get it Nominated for Best Mecha (basically top 5 out of everything there). I would not have beat the winner of that competition even if the Helios had been thoroughly finished at the time, but still proud to get my first Nomination award nonetheless.
The Apex-Class Helios MK III was the culmination of multiple mech-building challenges at once:
#1: I wanted to push the limits and make my biggest mech ever while still maintaining full articulation with the new heavier ratchet joint pieces that Lego has made the past couple years.
#2 I wanted to make it flashy and attention-grabbing with the orange and yellow accent color scheme that I usually would not use.
#3: I wanted to build it using more interesting parts and building techniques. This mech uses up to 10 brick separators and integrates them into the armor very well, among other things.
Thank the Lord, this rushed project had turned out to be a massive success. I'm so glad that I can now officially share it with the world.
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Navarinou sq. Thessaloniki, Greece.
Thank you Oliviero for your crop suggestion.
This photo was taken very fast, because I'm a little shy when I take shots of people without their permision. Later I was thinking that If I had a second thought, probably I could step 2-3 steps to right to avoid this motorbike and enhance a little the interestingness using the lines of the low wall.
The original format is normal 1.33/1.
I crop it like this (almost 1.90/1) to simulate somehow to a movie format. And I was thinking that if I was the cameraman, I had to zoom in to the "Final zoom in" frame I've put on photo.
Yes, maybe your suggestion works better for a photo.
part 1
I awoke early again before sunrise and followed the out flow creek to where it tumbles down into the North Fork of the San Joaquin River. It was here that I beheld an expansive view of where I would be hiking today. I can see the two Twin Island Lakes (9655 & 9813), where I will be spending tonight and the summits of Electra Peak (12442), Foerster peak (12057), Long Mountain (11502) and Isberg Peak (10996) rising in the distance, all of which sit along the boundary of Yosemite National Park and I think I can see Bench Canyon which will be my destination the following night.
As spectacular as this view is, I could not find a good enough composition for any usable photos of it. Once the the highest peaks far out along the distant ridge line glowed pink I snapped a few photos, then I explored a bit to see what else there was to photograph. This spot sits in the shadow of Banner and Ritter so there is no sunlight for quite a while after sunrise. While exploring around the outflow creek I spotted a shot that I wanted to capture during sunset, since the landscape here faced west it would be illuminated beautifully later this afternoon.
Once the sun rose high enough to crest the two peaks the light became too harsh for any more photos, so I headed back to my sleeping spot to consult my map and take count of my food to see if I had enough to allow me stay here an extra night in order to get the shot that I had seen earlier. After doing some basic math I decided that I could stay here an extra night.
Most of the day was spent exploring over to the Ritter lakes. Once I returned from my explorations, I sat down on a rock that overlooked the lake and began meditating. After awhile I heard foot steps breaking the silence, heading towards me. I opened my eyes and saw two backpackers descending from the direction of Rodgers Peak. They stopped a distance way from me and called out, “Are you camped at Thousand?”
“No,” I yelled back, “I'm camped here.”
“Damn dude, it's gotta be cold up here at night.” Said one of them.
“No, last night was actually warm enough I almost didn't need my sleeping bag.” I explained.
“Which peak are you climbing?” The other asked.
“None, I'll be headed over to Bench Canyon in two days.” I said.
“That's some really rugged terrain between here and there, I didn't think it was navigable.” said the first.
“Well, I guess I'll find out then.” I replied.
“Are you out here alone?” Asked the second one.
“Yep” I answered.
“Be careful then, I don't want to hear that you've become another statistic.” he said.
“Yeah, I'll be careful.” I said.
They then waved and started walking away.
“Happy trails.” I called out.
“Same to you.” They replied.
I watched as they navigated their way over the talus, shrinking away into the distance, until they were just the smallest specks of neon green and navy blue hopping from large talus block to large talus block. Eventually they reached North Glacier Pass and disappeared as they dropped down the other side.
While watching them I noticed a glacial bowl on the far side of the lake near where the pass was. It was similar to the one I climbed the unnamed peak to reach eight days ago, however this one actually had a glacier rising out of it, so I decided to head over and check it out. After working my way over the talus and reaching the rim of the bowl I peered down into its heart. There was a stream of melt water flowing from the ice field and disappearing beneath the edge of the bowl. I started climbing down.
Talus is put in place by gravity so it has had time to settle and if a rock moves it is just the one rock. All the talus I have had to cross so far has been mostly stable, with the exception of twice; eight days ago when I caused the rock slide while descending the unnamed peak and ten days ago when I made my way to Rosy Finch Lake. This bowl shaped area of talus was pushed here by the glacier, and as I would soon find out was still settling.
As I climbed down, if the boulder I was standing on moved or shifted under my weight ALL the boulders within about ten feet or so of that one would shift and I would hear the sound of rock scraping on rock. The first time it happened it scared me, the second time it happened I started to worry, the third time I froze not wanting to move or shift my weight at all. I stood on that rock for about fifteen minutes considering my options: I am closer to the bottom than I am to the top. I do not want to start a rock slide here and be buried under it, becoming a statistic like the hiker earlier had warned. As I weighed my options there was a rock fall from somewhere ahead of me way up on the glacier, its sound echoing over the sound of the water flowing at the bottom. The other side of the stream of melt water had a snow patch on it that reached the top rim of the bowl. I could use that to climb out and it might be more stable than this side because the snow might distribute my weight out more evenly. I don't want to linger on this side any longer than I have to and I especially do not want to climb back up it with how it keeps shifting. I decided I would continue down to the bottom, get the picture I came for and get the hell out of this death trap by climbing up the snow patch.
When I reached the bottom I was standing on ice and the only reason I didn't slip was because there were pieces of sand and scree embedded within it that added traction. I was able to relax and I started taking pictures with a slow shutter speed to soften the water.
It was a really beautiful, surreal place and I almost forgot how dangerous it was, until I heard another rock fall from somewhere nearer the glacier. Over the period of time that I was photographing I heard three more rockfalls, one more up by the glacier, one to my left and the other behind me.
I got the picture I wanted, then I began climbing up the other side...