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Box cutter with blade extended, around 1.4x magnification, converted to B&W. For #MacroMondays #Cutter
Blade is about 27 mm long from base to tip.
Filters: Nisi Polariser & Lee Filter 6 Stop ND
Processed: Lightroom 4, Photoshop cs3
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While the Blood Iron assassins mostly struck their targets in their homes and rarely engaged in open combat, they still utilized a variety of vehicles. The backbone of their activities were aircrafts called Blades. The name Blade stem from both, the Blood Iron’s affinity with swords and the peculiar silhouette of the aircraft. It consisted mostly of two enormous engines and the thin main shaft on which they were mounted. While not heavily armed or armored, the Blade was perfectly suited for the Blood Irons, because it could get them to their target quickly and back home even quicker. The craft could carry two Blood Iron Assassins, who hang from the main shaft in hammock like cockpits. In case of emergency those cockpits could be detached and functioned as a kind of escape pod. Different kind of pods could be attached, some featuring weapons like machine guns and rocket launchers. Besides that, the craft featured elaborate landing gear, necessary to support the enormous weight of the engines, when not in flight. Of course, these crafts were only seldomly seen by anyone, as the assassins usually got away before any of their targets or their guards even noticed their presence, only hearing the faint roar of the engines as the craft vanished into the sky.
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Here's a vehicle for my faction, the Blood Irons, for round 2 of the Figbarfcentral and Infernolug #scififactioncontest
This was a joy to build and worked out just as planned from the first concept sketch to the final photos.
Stay tuned for more builds related to the Blood Irons in the rounds to come!
Based off of the Spinner from Blade Runner, but meant to fit in something more like Akira or Bubblegum Crisis. My lack of blue pieces is saddening. :(
Hats off to Legosamurai and his QuadraTank for that rad back wheel design.
Shot taken at the Bournemouth Air Festival, this past Summer. These are the Blades performing the "hurricane" maneuver-
Hope you enjoy it! ;)
Man, I really miss seeing these run on the Transcon. I can add this to my very small but slowly growing list of things that'll probably never happen again. You never know what might disappear next.
CN 3245
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BNSF Marceline Subdivision
Sugar Creek, MO
5/18/21
This is a scene from the movie "Blade Runner", that I've painted in acrylic for my son Andrew. I'm going to a fancy dress party on Saturday night in an old posh club downtown that might offer me some good photo ops to paint . I feel really inspired after doing this scene.
Just a little build for Blade Runner 2049, I'm really excited for the movie Blade Runner was a amazing movie. I hope the new one can live up to the old one.
Looking up at one of the blades directly under at the Sarre Windmill. The sky was blue but the temp was only about 10 degree C.
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Here is a closer look at the semaphore signal in Springfield, OH. As you can see the blade has seen better days. Decades of exposure to the elements and lack of maintenance have pretty much taken its toll. Since it's a fixed semaphore, no mechanical parts are needed. It may not be as pretty as the blades in New Mexico, but a blade's a blade, and the I&O are lucky to have them.
Explore #38.
It was inevitable. Sooner or later I just had to fall into the HDR pit. You need a lot of light to make a good (or at least realistic) HDR, so I should have chosen a better one for my first. But the blades looked kind of cool, so here we go.
Nikon D300, 18-200@200mm, 1/80s, f 5.5, ISO 200. 5 shots (-2, -1, 0, +1, +2). Bibble: WB, noise ninja. Qtpfsgu 1.9.1i: mantiuk constrast +2, saturation +2. Gimp: duplicate layer. Top layer: blend mode grain merge, opacity 20%. Bottom layer: constrast +20, brightness -20, saturation (master) -30. (DSC_3654-58)
Experimenting with the bike flash mode on the Convoy S2+ flashlight with Biscotti firmware. LPB Plexiglass Diamond connected via LPB Universal Connector to a Convoy S2+ (on bike flash mode). Custom diamond lightblade connected to a Ledlenser P7QC (on blue low mode). Post processed from 5sec RAW exposure in Adobe Lightroom 6, including hue adjustments.
While crossing South Dakota we passed these trucks transporting windmill blades. Had to do a u-turn and photograph these massive blades while they were horizontal. Quite impressive.
Brin d'herbes au coucher du soleil sur les vignes de la région de Bordeaux à Bourg sur Gironde. France, juillet 2013.
Blade of grass at sunset on the vineyards(vines) of the region of Bordeaux with Village on Gironde. France, in July, 2013.
The taller grass at Caesar Creek's Native Wildflower Area. It's seed gathering time for the boss and a great morning for little old me. A great picnic followed the seed gathering just down the road with our photography club.
I really liked the colors and shallow dof with this choice. I used my 50 mm lens with a photo aperture control as an extender..on my Nikon d7100 post processing LR.
A Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18A Hornet (188730), second of a pair, operating out of RAF Waddington - carrying out low flying ops in LFA7 during Ex Cobra Warrior 23-2.
As Hollywood as it sounds I managed to get to an acceptably elevated position just a couple minutes before the roar of GE turbofan engines filled the valley. Phew!
The day was pretty tricky with the heat, & with dust being carried in the air & rain from recent Sahara storms getting on the chest & on the camera.
I was glad for a shower that evening.
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CSX high/wide windmill blade train W994-21 is heading up to Plymouth, MI as they pound the NS diamonds at Alexis on their way out of Toledo. Toledo, OH 5/25/2020
for Macro Mondays: safety
The plain silver button locks the blade on this folding knife so that the blade won't fold in on your fingers when you are using it. It also locks the blade in the closed position to prevent accidentally opening the blade.
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The Bradbury building in downtown LA. We just watched Blade Runner which was filmed in the Bradbury last night. I was just there last week with the SoCal photo Chicks taking pictures...It looks much different from when it was the set for the movie back in 1977!
"The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."
-- Henry Miller
"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey - work of the stars."
- Walt Whitman
Thanks a lot for encouraging and kind support, my friends... Have a magnificent week...!
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