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F-4E.
35 TFW.
George AFB, California.
TAC.
June 1990.
To AMARC as FP663 Apr 18, 1991. Converted to QF-4E drone AF272.
Cold weather highlights the ridge lines and gullies on the warrior and brings him closer. On mornings like this I find it hard to pull my eyes and my lens away, I took so many images and each one represents just one moment, in the very next moment the view is different, yet I notice I like to hold onto particular moments, just as I do in life. I guess my challenge is live in each moment, giving that moment my full attention, letting go of what has gone before. The warrior seems me teach me something everyday.
more of Mika's random Monday Quiz!
today's theme: RED SHOES!
#1: who had a hit with the song from which this line is taken: "put on your red shoes and dance the blues"?
#2: can you name at least two other artists (in addition to #1) who have made songs referring to red shoes?
#3: what is the "name" of the red shoes featured in the movieThe Wizard of Oz?
March 14, 2012
Today is pi day (3.14... haha get it).
Went through old photos on my laptop. There were some pretty cool landscape ones from previous vacations (Quebec, Niagara Falls, etc). Sooo, this is the result. :P
I'm going to Pennsylvania tomorrow until Saturday; I may or may not be able to upload until I get back.
The RPK-74 was an update of the venerable RPK light machine gun developed in 1974 by the Red Army. The weapon was upgraded with the new 5.45x39 mm high-velocity cartridge, the same bullet used by the Red Army's standard issue AK-74. Compared to the AK-74, the RPK-74 has a longer and heavier barrel for greater accuracy and longer bursts of sustained fire. It also features a folding bi-pod. The RPK-74 was produced by many countries throughout the Eastern Bloc and continues to be used in the present Russian Federation, Bulgaria, and many other states in the post-Soviet period. This model represents a Romanian variant of the RPK-74, known as the AESB-10, featuring a carrying handle and folding wire stock.
Credit to:
Shockwave - Fire selector
Turkeyshot - Romanian wire stock
All dressed up for the beach! This lovely woman was walking along the beach and not too far away from where I was sitting, she stopped! My best opportunity of the day!
Going For 4 In-a-Row ~ 366 ....
Thanks to everyone who views this photo, adds a note, leaves a comment and of course BIG thanks to anyone who chooses to favourite my photo .... thanks to you all.
In Finland we have this thing called takatalvi (backwinter). In other words just when it feels like spring is finally here, winter barges back in with a ton of snow we aren't interested in anymore.
Photo taken Observatory Hill Park. That is the German Church sticking behind the snow covered trees.
Two trains are crossing CP's bridge over the St-Lawrence river as they enter the island of Montreal. AMT 74 at left is about to stop at Lasalle Station with AMT 1341 leading, while CP 253 at right is on its way to St-Luc yard.
CT- ANG Legacy C-130H landing at Nellis at Sunset, This airframe has been send to the boneyard in 2020
Caldwell 74 looks like a mystic, glowing lake floating in the cosmos, but its true identity is even stranger. Also known as the Southern Ring or Eight-Burst Nebula, this formation is debris from a dying Sun-like star. When medium-mass stars run out of the nuclear fuel that powers them, they eject their outer layers of gas into space. The gaseous shell then expands outward from the remaining core of the star, known as a white dwarf. Objects like this are called planetary nebulae, but only because early astronomers thought they resembled planetary orbs when seen through a small telescope — not because of any real relation to planets.
This nebula was produced by a star that is part of a binary, or double star, system. A bright star lies near the center of this Hubble image, but it’s actually the tiny star just above it that produced the nebula. A flood of ultraviolet radiation from the small white dwarf’s surface makes the surrounding gases fluoresce. The brighter star is in an earlier stage of stellar evolution, but in the future it will probably share a similar fate.
This image was taken using Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. In this view, the colors illustrate the temperature of the gases, with blue representing the hottest gas and red representing the cooler gas at the outer edge. The Hubble image also reveals a host of dusty filaments that have condensed out of the expanding gases. Eons from now, these dusty particles may be recycled into new stars and planets.
A similar structure, known as the Ring Nebula or Messier 57, can be found in the northern constellation Lyra. The Southern Ring is its Southern Hemisphere counterpart, located in the constellation Vela. It was discovered by English astronomer John Herschel in 1835 and is also cataloged as NGC 3132. The magnitude-9.4 nebula is 2,000 light-years away and only about 0.4 light-years wide, so it can be somewhat challenging to observe with a small telescope. It is best viewed in autumn skies in the Southern Hemisphere. In the Northern Hemisphere, only southern stargazers will have a chance at spotting Caldwell 74, low in springtime skies.
For more information about Hubble’s observations of Caldwell 74, see:
hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1998/news-1998-39.h...
Credit: Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA/NASA/ESA)
For Hubble's Caldwell catalog website and information on how to find these objects in the night sky, visit: