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Actually my 2nd Agfaflex. It doesn't work: shutter/mirror/aperture jammed but it was cheap. The 1st one worked sometimes but 4 of 5 times the mirror would not go up in time and it would leak light into the exposure. Since it was expensive, I returned it and bought this one as a placeholder. One of my few shelf queens.
... Actually I don't have my information on this story yet. I'll be working on it tomorrow, but I can tell you this much.
The body guard is female, very small, believed to be no taller than 4' 8" and no one will even attempt to guess her weight. She speaks a very methodical English almost devoid of accent and what little accent is there is not identifiable. She is trained in the martial arts of all disciplines and can kill a person with a ball point pen from across a large room.
Her name is Loretta and she refuses to carry a weapon of any kind. She believes her Karma will always provide a weapon wherever she is. The McWhorters will trust no other person with their lives.
The McWhorter twins are very strange birds indeed. They hever finished high school, but they direct a team of chemists in the development of new drugs to treat all manner of disease.
As our story begins, we learn two of their younger chemists have discovered a unique enzyme which is only now developing rapidly in the digestive track of the common jelly fish. They believe the polluted seas are causing the mutation of enzymes, but more importantly they believe the chemical makeup of this new enzyme will be a leading treatment for cancer and in most cases will eliminate the need for chemotherapy and radiation.
As I find out more about what's going on I'll keep you informed. I do know the McWhorters have purchased the harvesting right for all jellyfish within the territorial waters of eighteen nations with large coastlines.
There is one group which doesn't want this new enzyme developed and they are .....
actually this is 2 weeks after xmas and is a party for the cat (Molly) of the guys who host the party. but the cat wouldn't come out till the caterer/cleaning lady left as the cat associates the cleaning lady with the vacum cleaner.
Actually quite comfortable, and usually very pleasant, except during rush hour, where it can easily become crowded and noisy due to how easy it is to get into the lounge.
This may sound elitist, but there's nothing more annoying than kids running around the lounge when you're spending time before your flight preparing presentations or fixing last-minute bugs.
When I took this photo, I did something that I haven't done for a long, long time! I actually got down on my hands and knees, but only because I was in a secluded spot where I could be sure nobody was likely to witness my getting up : ) And I was on my own. I find this flower difficult to photograph, whether from a distance or close up. I have just started taking a few macro shots with my old Canon SX60, so tried to use it for this flower. Often, in order to see the underneath parts, the flower needs to be tipped upwards. If that is done, it must be done very gently using a tiny twig or leaf, not with ones fingers, as the oil in the skin can kill plants or attract insects or animals that eat the flowers. The light in the forest was not good and I ended up with grainy photos that are not sharp. Such a fascinating flower, which is also known as One-flowered Pyrola.
On this day, 13 July 2018, I more or less repeated my drive from the previous day, except that I also called in at Brown-Lowery Provincial Park to see if there was any sign of fungi growing. It is still not the peak of the fungi season, so I was not too hopeful. I barely entered the forest, as it still gives me the creeps, - Bears, Cougar and Moose are seen there, and I have been told so many times not to go by myself. So far, I have only seen a very large Moose. I did find a cluster of very tiny mushrooms and several clumps of orange Coral Fungus in their usual location. Took a few wildflower shots, too, which I don't do very often these days, unlike a few years ago.
This is actually my first time catching the Boeing 787-9 airborne!
United 1951 Heavy departs Los Angeles for Denver.
"Fly the Friendly Skies"
N27959
Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner
Construction Number: 36407
Line Number: 348
First Flight: 9 September 2015, Everett
Delivery: 24 September 2015, United Airlines
I actually bought this gorgeous fan in July of '09 from Jason of Mission2Modern Design after the very awesome Flickrjo showed off her fan. Then it sat in a box in my friend's office in NYC for about a year before it was finally mailed to me here in Taipei. And then I put off photographing it until last week.
It's a beaut, isn't it?
And it still works.
Actually, this is a mature, but younger ram who has been a satellite, hanging near, but not right by the dominant male with his harem near Empire, CO. Note the slightly more than half curl, indicating the age of this boy in early morning backlight. (And he is still chewing on his piece of straw ; ) Ovis canadensis
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Actually this is a still from a comedy video I recently made for my mate Don's work leaving do. I'm quite pleased with it so I thought I'd share the laugh...
Update: changed the title to reflect admiration of Flickr user Merkley
Cheap ramen that's actually not too bad, even if the quality can vary.
Today, we got the miso ramen for a change. The soup was a bit too salty, probably because of the miso, but the noodles were chewy and smooth. The piece of pan-fried chicken wasn't really necessary, and had the texture of dried wood.
We also got the Oyako Don, the chicken+egg on rice. The sauce was too sweet.
Still, it filled us up with warm soupy goodness with plenty of time to spare before Star Trek began :)
Yume Sushi
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Siena, Tuscany, Italy.
I'm sorry to say that our time spent here in this lovely city was less than memorable - (well it was memorable, actually, but for all the wrong reasons...).
Too bad, because we were both looking so forward to spending time here and exploring what by all accounts is one of Italy's most charming and enjoyable cities - but due to "a series of unfortunate events", we left town without ever laying eyes on the famed Il Campo (Siena's main square) or climbing its Torre del Mangia to experience the view (which we fully intended to do). It may just have been bad timing (we were jet-lagged, we arrived in the dark, it was pouring rain, we got lost in a maze of narrow medieval streets), but the unpleasant experience we encountered upon arrival at our hotel (when we finally found it) only served to exacerbate our less than stellar memories of Siena (extremely rude and unhelpful staff, room that smelled like a sewer, breakfast barely edible). And that doesn't include having to walk 15 minutes in the dead of night back to our hotel from a parking lot that may or may not have been legal (our only reassurance coming from a group of drunk teenagers - turns out they were, thankfully, correct). And just to put the icing on the cake, as we checked out and were ready to put the bad hotel experience behind us and get to know the city, Rob's camera fell out of his backpack and severed his brand new wide-angle lens!! Miraculously, he was able to do some field-surgery on it, and was still able to use it for the remainder of the trip, but we took it as a sign that it was time to get out of Dodge...
On the up side - it was in Siena that we enjoyed the first of what would be many delicious meals in Italy, at a charming ristorante with very friendly staff, and our hotel did have one redeeming feature - the view. Therefore, the few photos I did get in Siena were taken from our hotel window.
We're not giving up on Siena, though! From what we did see of it, it is indeed a beautiful city, and we hope to return some day and experience all that this lovely city has to offer.
Gorgeous texture courtesy of pareeerica.
Actually I came to this particular location for spotting planes but of course I did not hesitate to capture this licence plate!
Actually, one of his friends had already severed the wire upstream so this isn't as bad as it looks.
This is the main cavern of the pumped-storage hydroelectric power station Dlouhé Stráně. You can see two cylinders which are actually pony motors used to start the turbines in reverse mode (pumping) before the generator takes the load. Each motor has power consumption of 25MW. There are two cranes installed here, each is capable of lifting loads up to 250t, the load can be increased up to 400t when they work together.
The complex is located in protected landscape area so most of the plant is built into the mountain side, the main cavern is 25.5m wide, 87.5m long and 50m high and there is approximately 350m of solid rock above. There are two reversible turbine/generator assemblies (Francis turbine design), each capable of generating 325MW. The power from the generators (22kV) is transmited throught the system of encapsulated conduits to the secondary cavern (16m wide, 115m long and 21.7m high) where are placed two enclosed transformers (360mVA, 22kV/420kV). I can‘t find the actual weight of the transformers, but loading weith of the train car used to transport them is 348t.
The upper water reservoir is located 1350m above the sea level, there are two water pipelines (1500m long, 3.6m in diameter) each is able to supply 68m3/s of water for the turbine. The plant is capable of 6.5 hour of work in full load in that time the water level of the reservoir drops by 22m. The weight of the water column, which must be overcome in the drawing, is an unbelievable 15,000 tonnes.
The power plant is completly automatic and remotly controled from the control center in Prague, it is capable to go from zero to full power under 100s, and from full power to drawing under 150s. Plant is used mainly to balance the grid load and it also helps with the frequency stabilization.
The turbine/generator assembly was designed and manufactured in Czech Republic and is currently the largest in Europe and the second largest in the world. The construction started in 1978, in 80’s there was five-year period durring which the project was modernized and it was finally finished in 1996 after 18 long years. The cost of the build was around 6 bilion CZK (250 milion €), which the plant earned in first 6 years of the operation, the expected life span of the technology is 100 years.
Actually, a small city with such strong defenses, such a large garrison, that it was never conquered.
Loreena McKnennitt from the song "All Soul's Night"
This is one thing that you just cannot do without a real camera and manuel mode. I had so much fun taking these pictures (because I am now using manual mode fully, which makes me so happy, I love it!) and most of them turned out awesome!
I'll be off the internet during the weekdays so I probably won't be able to catch up on everyone's streams (so sad!) until after Christmas. But I hope everyone has a blessed Christmas and I can't wait to look at all your photos!
Actually taken with a Nikon D7100. Edited with Camera+ on my iPhone and that messed up the EXIF! Shot by remote with the 18-55mm VR II kit lens. I need a 300mm badly...
Actually, it was a two-night show. A few opened up the evening before, but last night was THE show. I've never seen the plant with so many buds. Too bad that the blossoms last just for the night, opening at about 2130 hours and withering by the next morning.
Epiphyllum oxypetalum
Nikon D810
Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM
Cropped SOOC jpeg
Actually my plan was to do a shot like this closer to the shoreline, so it would just be blue on blue of ocean and sky. But this’ll do.
Actually this is what I was having while preparing breakfast! The red kettle in the background upper left will soon be making an appearance...watch for it!
Actually taken on the big wheel at Zürifäscht but you wouldn't notice by looking at it.
Michelle and Nina have been best friends since kindergarten which makes it 6 years now. They've even managed to stay in the same classes at school.
They have their differences now and then but I'm always telling my girls that good friends will be friends forever - not just while the going is easy.
Actually, I was taking a picture of this young lanky Coloured boy reading in front of his small shanty house, in the (then segragated) Coloured area of some little town in the Karroo, I forgot which one. Suddendly his small sister popped out of the little window, asking to be in the picture. She put up a big smile and I shot both of them . It was probably in 1978. -- Stavo fotografando il giovane Colorato gambalunga che leggeva davanti alla sua casupola in una delle aree di segregazione di una piccola cittadine del Sud Africa, quando è comparsa alla finestra la sorellina che, con un gran sorriso, ha chiesto d'esser ripresa anche lei. Cosa che, come vedete, ho fatto (1978 circa)
Columbia Road Sunday Flower Market London Average Queuing Time 10 Minutes. Well-intentioned STUPID Covid-19 Coronavirus Social Distancing measures which actually make the situation Worse by creating crowded Queues and bottlenecks
It actually seems pretty practical if you think about it.
If your starfighter runs out of gas, how can you make it to a station to refuel? Well you can't, so instead, we send the fuel to you!
This building in Corunna, right downtown near the courthouse, appears to be the source of some local controversy. A former car dealership, it's not clear from what I could find on the internet what actually goes on there.
GBRf 66753, 'EMD Roberts Road' rattles off under the old footbridge and heads towards Woodburn Junction 'signalbox', cream and green cabin', which actually hasn't been replaced as part of the new Panel Replacement work, undertaken to both modernise the panel and bring proper control of the Tram/Train system under its control. The loco is seen crossing over what looks like newly installed points, which take it across the down line to join the main up line into Sheffield from Lincoln; of course at the moment there aren't any services running along to Worksop and Lincoln, local DMU service being terminated at Kiveton Park during Network Rail's maintenance of Brancliffe East Junction about half-way along the line to Worksop. The electro-magnetic crane within the bowels of South Yorkshire Metals recyclers appears to be having a rest and all is quiet. In the background, a section of the 'famed' Parkhill Flats stand out in the 11am sun and as there was no indication that the engineering train was coming out of the line possession to the east; it was time for the pair of us to leave. Having just descended the stairs, a noise behind indicated something slow and heavy was coming along the track from the direction of Darnall and looking back, a DBS, EWS liveried class 66, rumbled under the bridge with a long possession train of wagons containing 'this-and-that' in terms of materials. Thinking this through, rather too late unfortunately, it was probable that the delay had been due to the earlier DMU service, an hour ago, which went along, had to reverse and change tracks at a cross-over to gain the in-bound up line, to come back towards Sheffield, which is what happened just before the engineering train arrived. The one in the picture here on the right is about to do the same thing, head off to Kiveton Park, then proceed forward, cross over and then provide the service back into Sheffield. The Engineering train must have waited for the DMU service to depart, and also possibly was held, pending the passage through of the Bardon aggregates train, which actually sits in Heeley Loop for 40 minutes. Inspection of the time-table revealed that the Bardon was passed by the engineering working at the other side of Sheffield, so it all worked out in the end and although the engineering train was an hour late here, it made up the time just south of Chesterfield. Unfortunately again, my rapid ascent up the stairs to get a shot of the 800 tonne possession train, with DBC, in EWS livery, class 66, 66xxx, in charge, was too slow to see the number of the loco, though this is the 6T64, Kiveton Park to Toton North Yard, return working, probably off back to pick up more materials for the maintenance over in the east from here. Passing the engineering train, coming under Woodburn Road bridge, is the hourly Northern Rail DMU service eastwards, this one class 142, 142092, on the 2P63, normally Scunthorpe to Lincoln Central, but this week the service will terminate at Kiveton Park and buses will be provided for the onward journey.