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Sorry buddy, no means no! This male box turtle was attempting to mate with this female, but she thwarted his efforts by retreating into her shell (she was already in her shell when I encountered them). If the female was carrying eggs, they were probably already fertilized which is a possible reason for the rejection. Female box turtles can store sperm for months or even years, but I am not sure if they do so when their current clutch is already fertilized. Maybe one of you can help answer this question?? Shot with a 300mm lens. -MA
Manufactured by Agfa Kamerawerk AG, Munich, West Germany
Model: c.1956, (produced between 1949-58)
also known Agfa Box 600, a version of Box 50
Box film camera, film 120 roll, format 6x9cm
Lens: 105mm f/11 single-element meniscus
Aperture: f/11 and f/16,
setting: a pull-out tab above the shutter release, without pulling out the tab setting on the large aperture, when pulling out, the first stop (a dot) is for small aperture and the second (filter) stop is for larger aperture w/ yellow filter,
Focusing: fixed focus
Focus range: 3m - inf
Shutter: Instant-return self-cocking shutter, simple spring, w/sliding aperture disc
Speeds: 1/50 +B
Setting: by a small sliding lever above the shutter release:
the dot is for speed and the long line is for B setting
Cocking and Shutter release lever: same, on the lower left side of the camera,
pressing once to downwards the lever cock and release the shutter
Cable release socket: same with flash PC socket, at the corner below the shutter release
Viewfinder: two Bright magnifying viewfinders on top and right sides of the camera,
w/ polished steel reflectors
Winding lever: on the right side of the camera
Flash PC socket: special for dedicated Agfa Clibo-Blitz flash, same with cable release socket, at the corner below the shutter release
Synchro term in the name is for flash sync shutter
Cold-shoe: none
Self-timer: none
Back cover: Hinged, w/ red window, opens by pressing the carrying strap knob on top of the camera
Film loading: via a removable cone magazine ( the lens on it !..), open the back cover, then pull out the winding handle when rotating, and then pull out the inner part of the camera, then insert the film roll to the lower plate, and place it to the upper take up spool, then insert the film magazine into the camera and pull in the winding lever, then close the back cover, wind the film until the number 1 visible in the red window
Sticker on the magazine: Agfa Isopan Film
Tripod sockets: 1/4'', two, left and bottom sides of the camera
Buttons for hand grip on top of the camera
Body: metal, Weight: 412g
serial no. none
The optics are rather simple, so image quality is a bit better than a toy camera, but not significantly so. Photographs can have the dreamy soft focus like Holga pictures, but unlike toy cameras, image quality is fairly sharp throughout the photograph with little or no vignetting around the edges. Also, the large negative size is a definite plus, just print contact sheets from Synchro-Box negatives.
Brayton Signal Box was a NER designed box that was situated south of Selby on the East Coast Main Line. It controlled rail traffic at Brayton Junction which was the route from Selby off to the port town of Goole which branched off the ECML. It became a Gate Box in 1973 controlling the level crossing and closed on 6th March 1988. The box has long been demolished.
A view of the signals and signal boxes looking north from Leicester station. It doesn't look like this any more!
The signal box at Holywell Crossing on the Blyth & Tyne route before closure and demolition. Although designated Holywell it was actually situated at Backworth.
We have some Irish friends, who think Cape Cod is just about all right, particularly Provincetown. We are much of their opinion. But they never go there without being entirely grossed out by all the salt water taffy. Taffy, pronounced with an aggressively flat æ digraph, is a soft, sticky candy that is always sold wrapped up in a twist of wax paper, to protect it, presumably, from the moist sea air. I haven't been anywhere, on either coast, where it isn't made and sold as a necessary part of the shore experience. I don't think the tourists would ever go home, if it wasn't for this stuff, ripping out their fillings.
I sometimes think that our Irish friends take exception to the pronunciation of the word, perhaps thinking it's a Yankee mangling of the insular English word, toffee. Indeed, we have toffee, too, but it's a different animal, entirely. Maybe they resent the use of a word that is a tribal slur in England for the Welsh. Hard to say. They might not have a taste for it. I mean, they actually eat and enjoy Turkish delight, which is just nasty.
Oh, yes, this box suggests a piece of salt water taffy to me. I'm highly impressionable and maybe a little impressionistic.
My recently acquired Japanese Sankyo music box 72N 3Airs (72 notes 3 songs)
This glass model is made by the Japanese Music Box Company, NIDEC
It plays 72notes 3 songs by FF Chopin :
polonaise
tristesse
fantasie impromptu op.66
Japan is the only Asian country which manufacture high end mechanical winding music box.
These damn things have always fascinate me. It's interesting to see how the pins on the cylinder pluck the tuned comb as it rotates sounding out the beautifully resonant notes.
By arranging the pins and fashioning the comb teeth to reproduce specific notations in the musical scale it could made to produce an endless array of tunes very much like a mechanical piano. Brilliant idea. These are the great grand father of the record player and CD player.
Another design is by using a rotating disc with specifically cut hooks which strike a star wheel to produce the required musical tones. Both design are mechanical marvels.
I love them all
After months of working hard to avoid the dreaded "box with wings" look while building the Manticore, I needed a change of pace. I therefore built a box with wings, literally.
In the interest of being as cliche as possible, the Box With Wings features wheel engines.
They say there's money to be made from photography - maybe not by the photographer through!
And this is only one box!
The portfolio box I made myself for a job interview with a portrait studio. I got a second interview!
A lovely Topper Made by persons unknown decorated the post-box outside the Post Office in Swanage, Dorset.
In our last installment of "The Box", Phillip exaggerated himself and Marble off of the Empire State Building by stating the exaggeration "Our house is made of gingerbread" and so it was.
"AWWWWWWWW!" screamed both Marble and Phillip.
"Muahahahaha!" chanted the ants.
"Marble, I am not that hungry anymore."
"You know what we need to do Phillip."
And they both chanted the exaggeration, "We are stuck in a box, we are stuck in a box."
"Don't forget with a llama named Greg," reminded Phillip.
And so it was, both Marble, Phillip and Greg the llama found themselves still stuck in the box.
triangle tin box
JF-535H 140x138x60 mm
Generally, our products fall into 5 categories:
1)Food Container: Chocolate box, tea can, coffee can, candy box, cake box, mooncake box, cookie box, lunch box, handle box, gum box, pepper can, mint tins, cigarette case, mesh box. heart-shape can,
2)Gift Box: Christmas tree case, promotion gift, gift box, candle holder, coin can, money box, music box, watch box, perfume can, jewellery case, sliding box, shoes box, present tin. tin ball, tin toys , car-shape tin, Halloween tin. valentine tin, display box, garment box.
3)Stationery Items: pen case, pen holder, pencil case, glasses case, towel box, tie box, clothes/pants can, cosmetic box, poke/playing card box, metal CD case, CD bag, DVD case, CD holder, DVD holder
4)Home Use Items: Portable ashtray, pocket ashtray, tin coaster, watering can, garbage can, serving tray, tin tray, galvanized pail, iron drum, tin ice bucket, metal ashtray, candle holder, set plant pot and tray, sprayer can, tissue box.
5)Other iron Craftwork: key rings, painting iron craftwork, tin badge, tin sign, keychain, hanging lamp.
Welton Gate Box is situated between Melton Lane and Brough on the Gilberdyke to Hull line.
The gates are normally closed to road users and the signals in the off position. Because of the close proximity of the boxes to one another we see Melton Lane's distant signal sharing the same posts as Welton's home signal. in the opposite direction Brough Easts distant signal is similarly mounted beneath Welton's home peg.
Here the driver gives a wave as 185126 glides by the crossing at 15.19 hrs with 1K16 the 13.41 Manchester Piccadily - Hull Paragon service, seen on Friday 31st July 2015.
Another rest day !!! That's two in two weeks.
I'm very conscious that whilst I have these signalling riches on my doorstep I need to get them visited as soon enough I'll be moving on and they'll be a whole lot trickier to find time to visit. Rest days are few and far between but a concerted effort needs to be made to get out more with the camera.
This one saw a very leisurely start visiting in this order
Hull Paragon
Hessle Road
Welton Gate Box
Melton Lane
Crabley Creek
Five very different boxes
I took a myriad of shots , if and when time allows I'll return with more signalling type shots but for now I have just posted one for each location and all featuring a train.
All visited on Friday 31st July 2015
The sides of this box are a single plank of wood, almost certainly cedar, that was bent in three places.
How was this done? Well, once the maker had fashioned a plank to tolerances that might challenge a modern furniture maker, the maker cut a groove widthwise across the plank at each of the intended corners. Considerable skill and craftsmanship went into planning the shape of the cut and executing the plan. The groove was deep, but it did not go all the way through the plank. Then the wood was steamed to soften it. When the wood was soft enough, the plank was bent 90 degrees at each of the grooves until the two ends of the plank met. Voilà , a bentwood box!
I'd assume the ends of the plank were fastened to each other right away and, if it were me, I'd attach the bottom promptly to prevent warping.
As for the art, the images are highly stylized animals common to the coastal environment. The iconography also included what some Europeans would call "mythical" creatures, though the First Nations people probably thought of them in different terms.
The selection and combination of images communicated complex and important information about the box's owner and the owner's family and clan.
If you want to study this subject deeply, read The Transforming Image: Painted Arts of Northwest Coast First Nations, by Bill McClellan and Karen Duffek, Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver/Tornonto, University of Washington Press, Seattle (2000).
The Canadian Encyclopedia provides the following information about the Tsimshian peoples:
"The term Tsimshian (Tsim-she-yan, meaning "People of the Skeena") is often broadly applied to all those northern BC Indian groups speaking languages of the Tsimshian language family: NISHGA (or Nisga'a), GITKSAN and the Coast Tsimshian. The latter, sometimes referred to as the Tsimshian Proper, included groups along the lower Skeena River from the Kitselas Canyon and Kitsumkalum (near Terrace) and the adjacent coast south to Milbanke Sound, including Port Simpson, Metlakatla (in the Prince Rupert area), Kitkatla, Hartley Bay and Kitasu. The population of this latter group is 6569 (1996c)."
"In 1887, a group of 825 Tsimshians following missionary William Duncan moved to a site near Ketchikan, Alaska, where they founded the settlement of New Metlakatla. Archaeological excavations in the harbour at Prince Rupert have unearthed the remains of cedar plankhouse villages that date back 5000 years; thus, the Tsimshians claim one of the oldest continuous cultural heritages in the New World. Tsimshian groups are also generally held to be related historically to the Penutian peoples of Oregon and California."
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Pa...
(Capitalized terms in the foregoing quotes are topic links within the online Canadian Encyclopedia. The links are not active here.)
In the collection of the Museum of Northern BC, Prince Rupert, British Columbia.
I've complied with restrictions on the use of flash, and taken photos only when permitted by the museum.
The Milwaukee Railroad E57B Box Cab Locomotive in Harlowton,Montana.
This electric locomotive saw many,many years of service on the line between Harlo and Avery,Idaho.
Signaller John Zyla at work in the small signal box at Wingello, New South Wales on 11 May 2005. Located on the Main South double track mainline linking Sydney and Melbourne, the box was made redundant about two years later.
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Please have a look now
Model: Alien Box
Design: Jorge Jaramillo
Paper: Kaleidoscope Paper by •Julia Schönhuber and simple DC Kraftpaper from a roll
Size: square of 21 x 21cm and 20 x 20 cm
This is another beautiful geometrical box design by Jorge Jaramillo that I had the pleasure to testfold.
I folded them some few weeks ago and find today some time to photograph them with nice weather here in Bavaria :).
Another room full of boxes after my move. The monitor is not in a box because the box it had been in was all bashed and I took it out to make sure it wasn't broken. It was fine.
Paper: 10 cm, DC for the lid
Modules: 4 + 4
Model: Tomoko Fuse
Book: Beautiful Origami Boxes 1 p. 37-40, p. 46
My favorite and last photo taken while participating in Scott Kelby's Worldwide Photo Walk. Proctors Theater was built in 1926 as a Vaudeville Theater, today it hosts movies, concerts, comedians, Broadway Musicals as well as a variety of other entertainment events.
For years I have watched this storm battered little island off Long Beach and wondered what it would be like to live there for a day, or two, a week, a year....
hand painted wooden box with feet and 5 drawers. App. 16" tall x 10" wide. Smaller box 10" wide and 12" tall with beaded front on 2 drawers. Ross. Nov. 2017
I'm going back to get the large one for a jewelry box.
Left box:
Video tutorial: Paper Kawaii by Chrissy Pushkin
Right Box:
Designer: Tomoko Fuse
Diagram: "Beautiful Origami Boxes 3" by Tomoko Fuse
Units: 1 rectangle for the lid and 1 for the base
Paper: Tant
Assembled without glue
I'm currently living out of a box. There are more in the garage and even more in Washington State, but this is the one I access the most.
For Photogamer challenge "Box."