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Toyworld Unearth (who is in no way related the transformers character Scavenger)
and Generation Toys Scraper (who is certainly not in any way, shape or form the Decepticon Scrapper).
My collection of cut paper images and other assorted bits for use in collage - decos - mail art. Years of hoarding all kept in a medium sized box.
best viewed large!
Having finished L attention turns to Bristol FS convertible, parts of which arrived from Iain on Saturday seen with Roy Finney wheels. Iain has fabricated very carefully so that I'll be able to remove convertible top like the real Bristol Omnibus ones.
A trip by train to Huddersfield to meet up with relatives and have lunch a couple of pints in The Head Of Steam..... ( superb beer and food and thoroughly recommended ).
Thank Goodness for Realtime Trains...... So even though it was heaving down, dark and cold and down right miserable I managed to get a few shots of the two Freightliner operated empty GMC binliners on their way from Roxby ( Scunthorpe ) to Manchester. 66602 came first and 25 minutes later ex DRS ( still in DRS livery ) 66419 followed.
The beer and the food were superb
A bit of brightness at Whitacre Junction, although the sky has some foreboding cloud. Passing is Class 70 No. 70015 heading Freightliner's 4O38 0952 Lawley Street - Southampton M.C.T. Liner on 15th May 2024. Copyright photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved (* as the locals say)
Running a bit of a poll. I decided to revisit some photos I did this year and make something artistic out of at least one of them. Photo #1 is the original (which I've already posted to my Flickr page) but can't decide on which more artistic version (2, 3, or 4) I should put up next?
This is where you come in. Which one do you like the best of the bunch? Please leave me a note, a comment, or PM me with your choice within the next three weeks (extended due to the holidays), then I will tally up the totals and post the one people liked the best.
I'm also cross-posting this to my Tumblr, Facebook, and DeviantArt pages as well. Thanks for taking the time to read this and (hopefully) cast your vote. :-)
little bit of hatti And st apape DAUGHTER OF ROMe sweethearts and a 3rd centuary adition of jospehus and the alterno cafe chick keeps looking for people and maori is now doing hair of women on the sidewalk bus sheleter she worked here entirelife but never mUFTI he must attend masjid...and then the bullet the COT if they come in on you like they did on KATH H..and some nigga with all this stuff THE COT and that childkiller wife put it in apram FIZZ cause that's what air in the brain does..you thinking about second crusade aren't you lionheart do you know a man that looks like you KIWI never UNEMPLOYED a day in your life there doing each other heir on the bench cause at the airport up here they want some land to build a masjid HOLLWEEEN A BOX
we're all from wakitti better check microsoft flight simulater DEF SIG little heat THEY''re only MUSLIM and then she rang gher supplyers for 10 years we bought of you an INTERVEIEW never has an INTERVIEW before there having a deep and meaningful the british tradesman WHAT happened to that bullet...the cot a box NO you're from christchurch cause you parents were in the eathquake CHRIST CHURCH MARG what church IT FELL DOWN there only muslims check flight simulator are they all form whykattie an small airport and you have to check in the local rag They just walked thru...you prancing in jive and all here spivy CHARLIE sheen zappin in...PUNK UMA hiphop came the LONG way round and the outstakes form kill bill IN detroit I heard prancers and leith appears infront of the royal commsion and says UNITING church on child molestaion..iot's all happening on TV ONline there doing there hair and liv says she was born on a cusp and says we have evident of wizz fizz in a limo for sixthgrade gradutation at MONA VALE primary cause that's where johnny GIBBS tauught MANLY cha cha cha...LOSERS right sonny bill doing their hair there only muslim a small airport they want a masjidf there to there still pissed they didn't get that land at mona vale THE COT..and sjohn stephen capper stonecutt DO you want a stone cut from the same stone NITTO...be prepared.."SPTEPHEN" it's that charlie sheen..why in the entertaiment industry first I"M NOT HERE am I PUNKIN HEAD never had a interview in her life but worked all the time places a walk in MAD MONDAY is a TIN and they kill children so they can laugh at the JUDGE and the brothers for life say you all denned on the esate now back to the crib
YOU FLEW OUTTA CHRISTCHURCH bring the whole CROSS doen on you they had themselves a EARTHQUAKE in sensorealms
Walpurgis Night (Walpurgisnacht) is a traditional spring festival on 30 April or 1 May in large parts of Central and Northern Europe. It is often celebrated with dancing and bonfires. It is exactly six months from All Hallows' Eve.
The current festival is, in most countries that celebrate it, named after the English missionary Saint Walpurga (ca. 710–777/9). As Walpurga was canonized on 1 May (ca. 870),[1] she became associated with May Day, especially in the Finnish and Swedish calendars.[2] The eve of May Day, traditionally celebrated with dancing, came to be known as Walpurgisnacht ("Walpurga's night"). The name of the holiday is Walpurgisnacht in German and Dutch, Valborgsmässoafton in Swedish, Vappu in Finnish, Volbriöö, (Walpurgi öö) in Estonian, Valpurgijos naktis in Lithuanian, Valpurģu nakts or Valpurģi in Latvian, čarodějnice or Valpuržina noc in Czech, chódotypalenje Lower Sorbian and chodojtypalenje in Upper Sorbian.
The German term is recorded in 1668 by Johannes Praetorius (writer) (de)[3] as S. Walpurgis Nacht or S. Walpurgis Abend. An earlier mention of Walpurgis and S. Walpurgis Abend is in the 1603 edition of the Calendarium perpetuum of Johann Coler,[4] who also refers to the following day, 1 May, as Jacobi Philippi, feast day of the apostles James the Less and Philip in the Catholic calendar.
The 17th century German tradition of a meeting of sorcerers and witches on May Day is influenced by the descriptions of Witches' Sabbaths in 15th and 16th century literature
My love for Pilani birds seems to be increasing day by day!!!
Another bird captured through my lens .Metering the bird was quite difficult because of bright background.Anyways,got a decent result at last.
Have no idea what the name of bird is :-(
Have a nice day :-)
Press L and F11 to view large and on black!!!
Our Daily Challenge ... cup.
This cup has a chip on the top edge so I turned it into a pen container beside the phone and diary.
Croydon trams in Addiscombe Road.
In the background the 'Threepenny bit building' No doubt younger readers would have trouble with that name. When built it was the NLA Tower, now No1 Croydon.
In modern times it has been daubed the 50p building
bit of info ........The Moray Firth dolphins are ID'd by their dorsal fins and given a number.....some have names....this bad boy is my favourite. He's such a character with a big presence and you can usually rely on him for some activity. The younger calves also tend to get very excitable when he's around too.....on here you can see his scrapes and markings really clearly. To me, he always seems to be looking at the camera out the corner of his eye :)))
Taken from the beach at Chanonry Point, Scotland.
pops on black...just click on it
I recently got this interesting product. It's a computer that comes with a basic interface so you can code and run basic language programs.
The main feature it's that you can play famicom games as well. It comes with two turbo controllers.
Back in the eighties the MSX computer was very successful in Japan, Europe and South America, Sony release a model called MSX Hit Bit, maybe this is a Chinese attempt to copy an MSX computer.
It's very cool and it has output for a printer and a tape recorder.
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Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
Bits n pieces of my daughter’s costume jewelry. Tempered Glass, Porcelain plate, millefiori, tile, rhinestones
I’ve been wanting to take a city break in summer, rather than in the cold months for a while, so rather than heading for the Lake District for a week of toil on the fells when Jayne could get a week off, we took off from Liverpool for Paris. Flight times were nice and sociable but it meant we were on the M62 car park at a busy time in both directions – it’s a shambles! I’ve stopped over in Paris a dozen times – on my way to cycling in the Etape du Tour in the Alps or Pyrenees – and had a few nights out there. Come to think about it and we’ve spent the day on the Champs Elysees watching the final day of the Tour de France with Mark Cavendish winning. We hadn’t been for a holiday there though and it was a bit of a spur of the moment decision. Six nights gave us five and a half days to explore Paris on foot. I had a good selection of (heavy) kit with me, not wanting to make the usual mistake of leaving something behind and regretting it. In the end I carried the kit in my backpack – an ordinary rucksack – to keep the weight down, for 103 miles, all recorded on the cycling Garmin – and took 3500 photos. The little Garmin is light and will do about 15 hours, it expired towards the end of a couple of 16 hour days but I had the info I wanted by then. This also keeps the phone battery free for research and route finding – I managed to flatten that once though.
What can I say – Paris was fantastic! The weather varied from OK to fantastic, windy for a few days, the dreaded grey white dullness for a while but I couldn’t complain really. We were out around 8.30 in shorts and tee shirt, which I would swap for a vest when it warmed up, hitting 30 degrees at times, we stayed out until around midnight most nights. It was a pretty full on trip. The security at some destinations could have been a problem as there is a bag size limit to save room in the lifts etc. I found the French to be very pragmatic about it, a bag search was a cursory glance, accepting that I was lugging camera gear, not bombs around, and they weren’t going to stop a paying customer from passing because his bag was a bit over size.
We didn’t have a plan, as usual we made it up as we went along, a loose itinerary for the day would always end up changing owing to discoveries along the way. Many times we would visit something a few times, weighing the crowds and light etc. up and deciding to come back later. I waited patiently to go up the Eiffel Tower, we arrived on Tuesday and finally went up on Friday evening. It was a late decision but the weather was good, the light was good and importantly I reckoned that we would get a sunset. Previous evenings the sun had just slid behind distant westerly clouds without any golden glory. It was a good choice. We went up the steps at 7.30 pm, short queue and cheaper – and just to say that we had. The steps are at an easy angle and were nowhere near as bad as expected, even with the heavy pack. We stayed up there, on a mad and busy Friday night, until 11.30, the light changed a lot and once we had stayed a couple of hours we decided to wait for the lights to come on. This was a downside to travelling at this time of year, to do any night photography we had to stay out late as it was light until 10.30. The Eiffel Tower is incredible and very well run, they are quite efficient at moving people around it from level to level. It was still buzzing at midnight with thousands of people around. The sunset on Saturday was probably better but we spent the evening around the base of the Tower, watching the light change, people watching and soaking the party atmosphere up.
Some days our first destination was five miles away, this is a lot of road junctions in a city, the roads in Paris are wide so you generally have to wait for the green man to cross. This made progress steady but when you are on holiday it doesn’t matter too much. Needless to say we walked through some dodgy places, with graffiti on anything that stays still long enough. We were ultra-cautious with our belongings having heard the pickpocket horror stories. At every Café/bar stop the bags were clipped to the table leg out of sight and never left alone. I carried the camera in my hand all day and everywhere I went, I only popped it in my bag to eat. I would guess that there were easier people to rob than us, some people were openly careless with phones and wallets.
We didn’t enter the big attractions, it was too nice to be in a museum or church and quite a few have a photography ban. These bans make me laugh, they are totally ignored by many ( Japanese particularly) people. Having travelled around the world to see something, no one is going to stop them getting their selfies. Selfies? Everywhere people pointed their cameras at their own face, walking around videoing – their self! I do like to have a few photos of us for posterity but these people are self-obsessed.
Paris has obviously got a problem with homeless (mostly) migrants. Walk a distance along the River Seine and you will find tented villages, there is a powerful smell of urine in every corner, with the no alcohol restrictions ignored, empty cans and bottles stacked around the bins as evidence. There are families, woman living on mattresses with as many as four small children, on the main boulevards. They beg by day and at midnight they are all huddled asleep on the pavement. The men in the tents seem to be selling plastic Eiffel Tower models to the tourists or bottled water – even bottles of wine. Love locks and selfy sticks were also top sellers. There must be millions of locks fastened to railings around the city, mostly brass, so removing them will be self-funding as brass is £2.20 a kilo.
As for the sights we saw, well if it was on the map we tried to walk to it. We crossed the Periphique ring road to get to the outer reaches of Paris. La Defense – the financial area with dozens of modern office blocks – was impressive, and still expanding. The Bois de Boulogne park, with the horse racing track and the Louis Vuitton Centre was part of a 20 mile loop that day. Another day saw us in the north east. We had the dome of the Sacre Couer to ourselves, with thousands of tourists wandering below us oblivious of the entrance and ticket office under the church. Again the light was fantastic for us. We read that Pere Lachaise Cemetery or Cimitiere du Pere Lachaise was one of the most visited destinations, a five mile walk but we went. It is massive, you need a map, but for me one massive tomb is much the same as another, it does have highlights but we didn’t stay long. Fortunately we were now closer to the Canal St Martin which would lead us to Parc de la Villette. This was a Sunday and everywhere was both buzzing and chilled at the same time. Where ever we went people were sat watching the world go by, socializing and picnicking, soaking the sun up. As ever I wanted to go up on the roof of anything I could as I love taking cityscapes. Most of these were expensive compared with many places we’ve been to before but up we went. The Tour Montparnasse, a single tower block with 59 floors, 690 foot high and extremely fast lifts has incredible views although it was a touch hazy on our ascent. The Arc de Triomphe was just up the road from our hotel, we went up it within hours of arriving, well worth the visit.
At the time of writing I have no idea how many images will make the cut but it will be a lot. If I have ten subtly different shots of something, I find it hard to consign nine to the dark depths of my hard drive never to be seen again – and I’m not very good at ruthless selection – so if the photo is OK it will get uploaded. My view is that it’s my photostream, I like to be able to browse my own work at my leisure at a later date, it’s more or less free and stats tell me these images will get looked at. I’m not aiming for single stunning shots, more of a comprehensive overview of an interesting place, presented to the best of my current capabilities. I am my own biggest critic, another reason for looking at my older stuff is to critique it and look to improve on previous mistakes. I do get regular requests from both individuals and organisations to use images and I’m obliging unless someone is taking the piss. I’m not bothered about work being published (with my permission) but it is reassuringly nice to be asked. The manipulation of Flickr favourites and views through adding thousands of contacts doesn’t interest me and I do sometimes question the whole point of the Flickr exercise. I do like having access to my own back catalogue though and it gives family and friends the chance to read about the trip and view the photos at their leisure so for the time being I’m sticking with it. I do have over 15 million views at the moment which is a far cry from showing a few people an album, let’s face it, there’s an oversupply of images, many of them superb but all being devalued by the sheer quantity available.
Don’t think that it was all walking and photography, we had a great break and spent plenty of time in pavement bistros having a glass of wine and people watching. I can certainly understand why Paris is top of the travellers list of destinations
Slowly but surely the tugs towing the barges made their way through the large Hiram M. Chittenden locks.
Bit of a rebel even then. Decided to wear a different cover. Photo by Frank Thomas Goins (Tom). www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Qc-...
A bit ironic that on the day we go to pick up large stack of books on photography from the library, I part ways with my D90 (so long, good friend). Although I guess now there is no better time to brush up on the academic side of things. First stop: The Hot Shoe Diaries. Already halfway through and it's awesome. Makes me want to buy a few more SB flashes, though!
The idea for this actually came from that very book, as Mr. McNally suggests blowing the highlights isn't always a bad thing. I'm not so sure it worked well here. The photo of the photo looks almost as if I performed some poor photoshop work to remove the background (I didn't).
M574 YEM is seen behind the Lakeland Motor Musuem waiting for further service. The musuem has a fleet of 3 buses, two darts and this Volvo B10B Wright Endurance. Have to say seeing this still in service was a complete shock as a few of this were scrapped
Bits and bobs
Pictures taken during exercising my hobby (electronics) and building/disassembling amplifiers and/or upgrading a record player tonearm and pre-amplifier. Anyway, a text was needed, to describe this lot, and here it is (the text and the lot, enjoy the pictures :)).
Assemble Borg designer Yasuhiro Nightow is a Takara SF Land fan so it's worth scrutinising his designs for nods to the classic lines that inspired him. For instance, this particular look for the Nexus figure could be seen as an updated Cybercop design. The chin, massive scowl and chest piece seem to be a tip of the hat to Lucifer Bit while the ear-wings are reminiscent of Mercury Bit.
The Cybercop figures never really got the recognition they deserved back then. They were superbly-articulated, the accessories were fantastic (and this being a Takara line, there naturally was a drill) and there was even a slick vehicle. If they look fairly unimpressive 27 years later, you need only look at the competition to appreciate just how outstanding they were at the time.
Cybercop was later repackaged and sold in the US as ZAP Power Force but it seemed to have made no impact whatsoever. That really was typical of Takara: great action figures coupled with mediocre marketing.
But it really says a lot that another generation of toy designers are taking inspiration from those old designs. The Diaclone toys may have less cachet than their Transformers counterparts but with fans like Shogo Hasui around, it's no surprise there's going to be an update of Diabattles thirty years later.