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Actually, nothing cooking or being prepared at the moment but I guess something will be happening when my wife returns from her shopping!!
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The Havoc MPC has a crew of three (driver, commander, gunner) and has room for eight more minifigs in the troop compartment. Part of the rebuild was actually making sure they all fit in with their weapons/gear, which wasn't possible in the 2015 version.
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The old Havoc from 2015 was in pieces after a few cross-country moves, so I rebuilt it with some upgrades; strengthening the hull, cleaning up the camouflage patterning, and making the minifigs fit a bit better. It's still my own take on Aleks Stein's legendary XA-380A1 Patria AMV model, so please go check that out if you haven't already!
Actually there were two of them flirting and chasing each other around making getting pictures kinda difficult.
Actually it's just sketch for bigger series.
It's quite interesting location with unique character. This young forest is placed on small hills shaped by glacier. Probably these hills saved this place from deforestation, this kind of terrain is very difficult for agricultural activity, especially in this part of central Poland where everywhere around go on many tens of kilometres big flats of Lodz Plateau.
Actually this is my third office. The second office was in the building in the background (before it moved) and the office window is more or less behind the branch
Actually not as this bike isn't even registered for the road but I'll get there when I can afford it, which ought not to much longer now. Only can I handle the massive power this bike makes, all twenty horsepower of it, or maybe less. Truthfully if I did ride like this I'd maybe wear proper bike boots rather than these, I have several pairs of those.
Actually, a rather gruesome scene. I didn't even notice the spider there when I was shooting the fly, nor the tiny yellow mite on the fly's leg. I did notice the odd angle of the fly's head and the exaggerated distance between abdominal segments, though, and figured out that it was an entomopathogenic fungus victim. It does look a bit like the spider deployed a decoy to make other flies think there's some good reason to stop here...
I figure Arachtober is a good time to post this one!
I believe the fungus is Entomophthora muscae
SERC Bug Blitz
Edgewater, Anne Arundel Co, MD
6 June 2015
(actually, i haven't showered in 3 days...when i get really caught up in work, i get lazy like that...so i decide to take pictures, what else?!)
actually, flies can be kinda impressive looking when they're not in your face or trying to get at your food
backyard capture in chesterfield
Actually, spring arrived late to the Midwest this year - so the early spring greenup came in late April.
Charles C. Deam Wilderness, Hoosier National Forest, Indiana.
anybody know the word MOCKOGRAPHY? can't look it up though it was given to me as a translation of KLECKSOGRAPHIE which i only found when I googled RORSCHACH-TEST
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klecksographie
www.beyars.com/kunstlexikon/lexikon_35.html
Abklatschverfahren = depressing methods??? - Abklatsch = poor copy (that's more like it)
# 02 out of QUICK REFLECTIONS multiple, 2016 - pastels painting & pencil drawing on bamboo paper, 30x15 cm
Actually it wasn't just chilly it was bitter cold, all the trees were white with frost, the river Spey was full of Ice flows and the ground stayed white all day.
The above poor-quality image was actually taken in 2004, as I was arriving on an early-morning flight into Heathrow. As we turned onto finals, I was disgusted to see the layer of smog and took this image, looking east over City Airport in the foreground, the Dartford Crossing mid-right and the Thames estuary beyond. It was not a bad day in terms of pollution!
Air pollution in London passed levels in Beijing this week (end of January 2017), with popular wood-burning stoves blamed for exacerbating the problem.
On Monday, 23 January 2017, Mayor Sadiq Khan issued the highest air pollution alert in London for the first time, and said on Tuesday that the capital’s ‘filthy air’ is now a ‘health crisis.’
Readings at 3 p.m. on Monday showed that air at locations in the capital were worse than in notoriously smoggy Beijing, hitting a peak 197 micrograms per cubic metre for particulate matter on the Air Quality Index. Pollution in the Chinese city only reached 190, which is still deemed ‘unhealthy.’
Although nitrogen dioxide levels in London rose higher than China in 2014, it is believed to be the first time particulate readings have exceeded those in the Far East.
Experts at King’s College London said the recent spell of unhealthy pollution was the worst since April 2011 in the capital and was being caused by cold, calm and settled conditions combined with ‘traffic pollution and air pollution from wood burning.’
Temperatures have fallen below zero overnight over the last few days, meaning householders are burning more fuel to keep warm. “This was the largest contribution from wood burning measured during the winter so far,” said a spokesman for King’s College.
Over the past few days, many parts of the capital have recorded double the legal limits of emissions. Some schools banned children from playing outdoors, and Public Health England warned people not to exercise outside.
The Mayor said the situation was becoming so toxic to children that hundreds of schools will now be audited to see whether gates and play areas can be moved away from busy roads.
‘No idling’ zones are likely to be implemented to prevent drivers leaving their engines running while waiting for children on the school run, while the most polluting vehicles may be banned entirely from driving up to entrances.
Schools will also be encouraged to plant hedges and bushes around their sites to provide barriers to block out fumes and children will be encouraged to walk and cycle to cut down on lifts.
Actually never went on the ride , I like gondolas but don't like gondoliers … being by myself I just didn't see the point or maybe I'm just simply too cheep to spend 50 , 70 or 100 Euro on a ride to nowhere …. but it's an icon . Gondoliers and waiters in a fancy restaurant for me they are the same … try to ask them for directions without using there services …. yehhh sure
Every time I don't know what to work on , I somehow run into the images from Venice and I still got few left.
Maybe a bit about the technical part of the image : hand-held 3 image HDR but done at lower F-stop . After processing ( Photomatix and Photoshop ) just like all other HDRs I used Silver Efex B&W conversion on a separate layer with 40% opacity. Just if someone would be interested
See where this picture was taken, Venice [?]
Norah Jones
A 1990s vintage Sandi doll in a very good condition... Erm... Betty clone? A clone of a clone. Still, she is not a no-name manufacture.
Got this girlie last week. I did not have Barbie-like dolls back then in the 90s, so they are a novelty to me. The dress&necklace are not original.
So this is a first tentative photo to check up the lighting, and as it happens often, it is the one that has the most feeling in it. In all the other ones she looks more or less like THE F*CK I JUST READ =)))
Actually, this is the same scene as the next photo, I just flipped the camera and didn't advance the film between shots. Neat, oddly blue, result!
This is actually from the Grid that concludes tonight at midnight: Grid K10. I got out last weekend with a couple other members of the group and we spent a couple hours exploring the grid by night. I took my Hasselblad with me but borrowed a 50mm lens from the shop. Me and the 50mm Distagon have never really gelled and I figured a walk about the Grid would be a great way to rectify that situation. I don't know why I have never taken to that focal length. I love the square format. I love wide angle. Should be simple. I love the Hasselblad Super Wide. I also love my Zero Image 2000 pinhole. Both of those are square and wide angle. I think it is because 50mm doesn't feel quite wide enough for the square. I want the 38mm Biogon, or the even wider angle of the aforementioned pinhole camera. The 50mm Distagon to me feels like shooting with a 28mm on a 35mm camera. It is wide, but just not wide enough to be excited about.
Or maybe it was all just me. Maybe I just needed to take the time to get a feel for the lens, stop letting old impressions color my opinions, and remember that a lens is just a lens.
There is validity to that observation as I had a nice time with the lens and its field of view. Though the specific copy I had flared an amazing amount - much more than I would have expected out of this lens. Perhaps I got a copy with a scuffed front optic or it just needed cleaning. I have spent enough time using films that have heavy halation, so the lack of crisp highlights doesn't bother me, it just surprised me.
Anyway, so I got some scanning done tonight and was able to get the roll I shot just last weekend digitized. It is always fun to turn film around in short order given I am usually waiting weeks or months to finish a roll and get it developed and scanned.
Hasselblad 500C/M
Kodak TMAX 100
Grid K10 - February 2024
Actually she was not alone. My good friend Kumu is patiently waiting till I was taking photos of the sunset. She is holding my camera bag. She could have put it on the bench.
Actually, in my driveway, shifter in park. The wife had taken my van to Ohio, and I got to drive her car for the night out.
If only someone was riding with me, they could have taken in-motion photos (and got a good look at my legs as well...).
Actually blue barn, but made it black here in this monochrome version. Looked neat with all the fog around in the early morning.
Despite the 'Sorry I am not in service' display, Stagecoach 47177 (YJ05 XMW) is in service, and operating route 34 for Ramsgate. It is seen along Minnis Road, Birchington, moments before pulling in at a stop where a possibly confused lady boarded the bus!
I actually built this the morning before I built the Typhoon. I was working on the air intake and when I found how fat I could make it I thought it would be perfect for the Typhoon. To keep the intake looking too fat on the P40 I ran the 1x6 tiles along the sides so the width was more consistent.
As Iron Sniper has already caught on to, the neck braces on the wings are not really lime, in fact now that I've told you that you can probably tell that almost half of the model is not actually lime. While I'm confessing things all the decals aren't really there either. :P Purists, call it what you will, blasphemy, paganism, or defacement of the brick, but I'm limited on both budget and time, and this saves me a lot of both. ;)
This will likely be my last new model for quite some time. I won't be able to get to my pieces till end of February and even then my being able to build and photograph anything over that particular weekend is unlikely.
10/52
Quite a while, actually, since the sunrise and I have met so pleasantly. For the past (what feels like months) I've either been waving at her on my way to work or hopefully waiting to see if she shyly peeked from behind the winter cloud cover.
We spent a wonderful few minutes soaking up each other (she patiently while I fiddled with my filters).
I hope your day starts equally lovely.
It's Saturday. Finally. ;-)
The filter list: ND Grad Soft 2 stop down the water, ND Grad Hard 1 stop to the horizon line, CP
This is actually an ongoing photo challenge on Facebook that Cholo decided to bring here on flickr... the game, for every day for the next 5 days post one black and white photo of your dollies and for each day you nominate 1 or more flickr friends to do the same. GAME!
That is actually not a regular Etihad Dreamliner - delivered to Abu Dhabi Amiri Flight in 2019 and recently repainted into EY- airline colors. The/ A presidential aircraft of Abu Dhabi...
these are either 8.000 standing "thingies" or 4.000 seats, so called vario-seats.
And because they were rescued from another stadium they are blue.... (At least that's what I remember from the tour.)
This is actually a bridge somewhere near the Putrajaya International Convention Center. Photography is limited to "P&S" and camera with interchangeable lens are required to obtain a permit from the Putrajaya Holdings, which is managing this area.
Lucky for me and Daniel the guards were not around! Taken during an outing the master himself - Daniel.
Daniel has a shot of this bridge from a different perspective as well!
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Actually, she's probably counting to ten. I had asked her about which button does what on the phone for about the hundredth time, and she was doing her best not to get testy with me. Hey, what can I say...technology just isn't my forte. Or.....perhaps it was a test. You never know...and neither does Daisy. 😜
Actually, Billy's first second snowman isn't that big... he's only a foot tall or so. We're feeling the chill none-the-less and according to the weather forcast, it looks like our Thanksgiving company will be having a snowy Turkey Day!
So last night I was up on Johnson Ridge with my friends Ted and Troy, we were the only ones there. Troy yells "Holy Shit!" and when he did I pushed the shutter on my camera and then looked up to see the biggest brightest meteor I'd ever seen. It traveled 3/4 across the visible sky in about 15-20 seconds and had a few entry flashes. this image is a bit decieving on how far this traveled across the sky because it was shot with a 14mm, the angle of view is about 140º. Last night didn't suck.
here's his shot (higher res available than mine) www.flickr.com/photos/47938431@N07/9065736348/
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Actually I didn't think of getting her, I only wanted to get Sora, but I'm glad that I decided to get the 2 of them in the end because Umi is really beautiful !
Actually it is Brazil night at the Globefest fireworks display. It just looked like something from Mars when it started to erupt.
normally i dont shoot stuff like this. nor would i post it. but, this is a part of a project i'm working
What looks much like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals previously obscured areas of star birth.
Called the Cosmic Cliffs, the region is actually the edge of a gigantic, gaseous cavity within NGC 3324, roughly 7,600 light-years away. The cavernous area has been carved from the nebula by the intense ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds from extremely massive, hot, young stars located in the center of the bubble, above the area shown in this image. The high-energy radiation from these stars is sculpting the nebula’s wall by slowly eroding it away.
NIRCam – with its crisp resolution and unparalleled sensitivity – unveils hundreds of previously hidden stars, and even numerous background galaxies. Several prominent features in this image are described below.
•The “steam” that appears to rise from the celestial “mountains” is actually hot, ionized gas and hot dust streaming away from the nebula due to intense, ultraviolet radiation.
•Dramatic pillars rise above the glowing wall of gas, resisting the blistering ultraviolet radiation from the young stars.
•Bubbles and cavities are being blown by the intense radiation and stellar winds of newborn stars.
•Protostellar jets and outflows, which appear in gold, shoot from dust-enshrouded, nascent stars.
•A “blow-out” erupts at the top-center of the ridge, spewing gas and dust into the interstellar medium.
•An unusual “arch” appears, looking like a bent-over cylinder.
This period of very early star formation is difficult to capture because, for an individual star, it lasts only about 50,000 to 100,000 years – but Webb’s extreme sensitivity and exquisite spatial resolution have chronicled this rare event.
Located roughly 7,600 light-years away, NGC 3324 was first catalogued by James Dunlop in 1826. Visible from the Southern Hemisphere, it is located at the northwest corner of the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372), which resides in the constellation Carina. The Carina Nebula is home to the Keyhole Nebula and the active, unstable supergiant star called Eta Carinae.
NIRCam was built by a team at the University of Arizona and Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Center.