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Yuki climbs a ladder. Where does it lead?
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Created for the Smile on Saturday theme, GOING UP.
More redscale adventures...
Lomo LCA + redscaled Fuji Superia 400 + rated at 25
I've shot so many pics of Emma disappearing into the distance, or waiting for me whilst I geek about, that I've made a little set of Emma's back
Cape Turtle Doves leaving and dropping by at a watering point in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa.
© Gerda van Schalkwyk. All rights reserved.
Low flying moonlit cloud, faint green aurora on the left and a hint of orange light pollution. The show was a dud, but still good to hang with friends from the photo club
A levitation photograph taken on an abandoned parking-lot in Rotterdam. My good friend Floris was kind enough to pose for this shot, even though it was both late and cold out. And you know, the fact that it involved me shooting fireworks at him.
I was up at 4:30 this morning and on the pier on Newnans Lake by 6:30. Sunrise was an hour away, so I did some more starry sky photos (Jupiter Ascending?). All the while I was keeping an eye to the north as color started to appear in the sky.
As light levels rose I repositioned my camera to face the northeast sky. It would be a blue and orange sunrise as I saw something moving on the water. It appeared to be some type of birds popping up on the water. But what kind I thought as I continued to capture this O&B beauty.
Once the sun rose I could make out through my binoculars that these weren't birds they were buoys. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission was conducting a study and I could see there were at least thirty of these markers around the lake.
Having just passed Oxenholme, 46233 'Duchess of Sutherland' is now digging in for the climb to Grayrigg while heading The Railway Touring Company's 'Mid-Day Scot', 1Z32 0635 Manchester Victoria - Edinburgh Waverley on 19th March 2016. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
Duga-3 (NATO reporting name Steel Yard) was a Soviet over-the-horizon radar system. It was developed for the Soviet ABM early-warning network. The system operated from 1976 to 1989. Its distinctive and mysterious shortwave radio signal came to be known in the west as the Russian Woodpecker.
Two stations of Duga-3 were installed: a western system around Chernobyl and an eastern system in Siberia.
The transmitter for the western Duga-3 was located a few kilometers southwest of Chernobyl (south of Minsk, northwest of Kiev). The receiver was located about 50 km northeast of Chernobyl (just west of Chernihiv, south of Gomel).
The Soviets had been working on early warning radar for their anti-ballistic missile systems through the 1960s, but most of these had been line-of-sight systems that were useful for raid analysis and interception only. None of these systems had the capability to provide early warning of a launch, which would give the defenses time to study the attack and plan a response. At the time the Soviet early-warning satellite network was not well developed, and there were questions about their ability to operate in a hostile environment including anti-satellite efforts. An over-the-horizon radar sited in the USSR would not have any of these problems, and work on such a system for this associated role started in the late 1960s. Duga-3 could detect submarines and missile launches in all of Europe and the Eastern coast of United States.
The first experimental system, Duga-1, was built outside Mykolaiv in Ukraine, successfully detecting rocket launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome at 2,500 kilometers. This was followed by the prototype Duga-2, built on the same site, which was able to track launches from the far east and submarines in the Pacific Ocean as the missiles flew towards Novaya Zemlya. Both of these radar systems were aimed east and were fairly low power, but with the concept proven work began on an operational system. The new Duga-3 systems used a transmitter and receiver separated by about 60 km.
A 35 man (plus guides) trip to the Ukraine exploring Chernobyl, the village, Duga 3, Pripyat and Kiev including Maidan (Independence Square) and observing the peaceful protests underway.
Some new faces, some old, made new friends and generally we were in our elements.
Rhetorical question but did we have a blast? You bet!
Amazing group, top guys. Till the next time!
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We ascended to the hills where the semi-nomadic Mountain Muila make their base. My records have me visiting three villages, the last very quiet, where the clouds gathered warning of rain. There is no giant gap in my photo time stamps, so either the first two villages were close to each other, or there was only a single active village.
Volvo B8L / Enviro 400XLB number 1071 (SJ19 0WF) ascends Redford Drive, near to the terminus at Westgarth Avenue, on this one-way clockwise circle around journey's end for the 16.
There is much general conversation about Edinburgh's new fleet of buses among those who would not normally comment, or even notice. This is the beginning of a new partnership with Alexander Dennis in Falkirk and the factory falls within Transport Minister, Michael Matheson’s Falkirk West constituency in the Scottish Parliament. The cabinet secretary for transport, infrastructure and connectivity said that the order from Lothian represented a “missing piece of the jigsaw” for the company.
“Taking the bus is a more sustainable form of travel than taking the car,” he said. “I welcome today’s announcement, which supports the Scottish Government’s ambitions to encourage sustainable and lower carbon transportation across Scotland.”
If you'd like to follow the developing story of Lothian's new fleet of Enviro 400XLB buses then please visit my album here with each one in numerical order, as I get them. Keep up with the stories and pictures all along routes 11 and 16 in the coming weeks.
www.flickr.com/photos/stuart_montgomery/albums/7215769053...
Another beautiful late-autumn evening slowly settling over the city. Loving the fiery warm colors of the clouds here. It's been a nice week in terms of sunsets here. Hopefully this signals a change in the weather since we are really behind on our rainfall at this point. At least for now, Mother Nature is still kind enough to provide these stunning sunsets for us to enjoy in the meantime! Pic taken from around San Jose, CA. (Saturday around sunset, December 5, 2020; 5:04 p.m.)
*Did you know? Gazing at a sunset opens your heart & allows you to feel the beauty of nature. It’s a way to remove distractions & ascend to a higher level of satisfaction. Don’t waste your life. Get out there & do whatever your heart desires before the sun sets on your soul...