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Loved how the tree and sunset worked with each other ..
Olympus OM-1 w M.Zuiko 7-14/2.8 Pro
ISO640 f/11 7mm -2.7ev
Single frame raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 9.2, colour graded in Nik 8 Color Efex and finished off back in PhotoLab.
Lake Illawarra, Shellharbour, NSW
This sign looks to be a mish-mash of a stone mason (headstones, marble, granite) and a motor garage (motor, tyres) which I thought was pretty cool. It is 42 London Road, Spalding.
The red post box next to it was nice too plus the bow window.
Exakta Varex IIa (1960) SLR camera
Zeiss Pancolar 50 mm f/2 lens
Fuji Superia Xtra 400 film
Lab develop & scan
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After getting their train together Reading and Northern job QADE has paused at the the yard office for a moment before heading north destined to the former Lehigh Valley rails of the Delano Branch by way of Tamaqua Tunnel, East Mahanoy Junction, Haucks, and the Lofty Connection on the Hazleton Branch...a cobbled together network of former competing class 1 anthracite carriers. Leading is rebuilt GP30u 2534 a former Santa Fe unit blt. May 1962 as ATSF 1213 seen here just south of the West Spruce Street crossing at MP 98.1 on modern day RBMN's Reading Division mainline. At left sits a pair of SD40-2s, RBMN 3056 and 3057 awaiting their next call to duty.
Tamaqua, Pennsylvania
Monday July 3, 2023
One of those sparrows tried to fly off with the piece of bread,but I guess it was too heavy.I've seen them do that,how selfish.
Shoreline at Mountain View, Mountain View, CA. The water is reflecting the colors from the pedal boats.
Purple Emperor / apatura iris. Fermyn Woods, Northamptonshire. 05/07/14
I've failed to make any images of grounded PEs this year so have delved into the archives and retrieved this one from back in 2014!
Photographing several males that day was not difficult as they descended frequently to get minerals. This one is having a break from feeding activity, as can be seen from its magnificent coiled proboscis....reminds me of a citric-yellow watch spring!
1951 Cunningham C2R (race), one of three that Briggs built to compete in that year's LeMans.
Very few privateers have been as successful in sportscar racing than Briggs Swift Cunnigham. Born as a rich banker's son in 1907, Cunningham got actively involved in motor racing rather late at the age of 41. He had previously backed others, but he did not drive himself until after his mother died, who very opposed to him racing. His first race was at Watkins Glen and the car was a Buick / Mercedes-Benz hybrid, known as the 'Bumerc', the construction of which Cunningham had backed in 1939. This race really spiked his interest in road racing, in which he actively participated for two decades.
More than anything, Cunnigham was interested in long distance racing and he set his sights on the most legendary of all, the 24 Hours of Le Mans. He did not just want to win the event, but he wanted to be the first to do so with an all-American team. After the Duesenbergs and Millers of the 1920s, very few American successes were scored in Europe. Prepared by Phil Walters and Frick and with the help of 1949 winner Luigi Chinetti, two Cadillacs were entered in the 1950 Le Mans race. One of these was fitted with a stock body, but the second was fitted with a custom built, supremely ugly body, which for obvious reasons was nick-named 'Le Monstre' by the French.
Although the cars were not on the pace, the 10th and 11th place finishes ensured that Cunningham's entries for the 1951 race would be accepted by the picky Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO), which organized the legendary race. To take on the strong competition Cunnigham bought Walters' and Frick's shop to form B.S. Cunningham Co, which was based out of West Palm Beach, Florida. Over the winter of 1950/51 a prototype racer was constructed, the C-1, powered by a Cadillac engine. Cunningham quickly abandoned the Cadillac engine, because of a complete lack of support from the company. He turned to Chrysler, who were willing to support the development and offer their HEMI engines at a 40% discount.
Dubbed the C-2R, the HEMI powered Cunningham was a sophisticated and well constructed affair. A simple, but effective steel tubular frame chassis formed the basis of the C-2. It was suspended at the front by unequal A-arms and at the rear by an exotic DeDion rear axle. The only gearbox available strong enough to cope with the Chrysler Firepower's enormous torque was a Cadillac three speed 'box. The package was clothed in a simple aluminium barchetta style body. Being very well built and very large, the Cunningham was rather overweight, which made the car very hard on the brakes. This was made even worse by the lack of engine braking by going down the gears compared to other cars fitted with four or five speed 'boxes.
Chrysler modified the Firepower engine to produce around 250 bhp, from the 180 bhp available in stock form. Despite the enormous weight of the car, the C-2Rs proved surprisingly competitive. Three cars were entered livered in white with two blue stripes, the first use of racing stripes ever. Two crashed out, including this car, but the third car held 2nd position when a bearing and valve failure threw it back considerably. It eventually finished in 18th position. Back in North America, Cunningham started to rack up victories with his racers. At the West Palm Beach factory work was started on a new racer for 1952 and a road car, of which the ACO required 25 to be produced to make Cunningham eligible to run as a separate manufacturer.
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For under 40 years, South Korea had two major airlines competing against each other; Korean Air being the flag-carrier owned by the Hanjin Group following the predecessor Korean National Airlines subsequent privatisation in early-1969 to become today's Korean Air. The Hanjin Group is chaebol-owned and Korean Air had a monopoly of commercial flights in and out of South Korea for nearly 20 years until the establishment of Asiana Airlines in late-1988 by the chaebol-owned Kumho Group which would later be known as Kumho Asiana Group.
Now over 30 years later, Asiana Airlines is no longer part of Kumho Asiana Group, the carrier suffering heavy financial losses throughout the late-2010s, and by 2020 became part of the state-owned Korea Development Bank which in the same year the plan was to merge Asiana Airlines and Korean Air drawn up by the South Korean government.
Today, it is now a year since Asiana Airlines and Korean Air merged together; Korean Air now owns 63.9% of Asiana Airlines with full integration expected to take place by late-2026 with the low-cost subsidiaries amalgamated into Jin Air. Asiana Airlines former ownership by Kumho Asiana Group has since been removed with the red arrow and group ownership now removed from the legacy Asiana Airlines aircraft.
Now, we are in the final year of Asiana Airlines operations... From 29th March 2026, Virgin Atlantic will commence operating daily flights between London Heathrow and Seoul-Incheon, taking over the daily slot operated by Asiana Airlines. As stipulated by the UK Competition & Markets Authority, the approval of the Asiana Airlines and Korean Air merger was on condition that the combined carrier's relinquish a daily slot pair into London Heathrow from Seoul to a UK-based carrier, Virgin Atlantic being the chosen operator.
The clock is now ticking on Asiana Airlines last flight...
Currently, Asiana Airlines operates 15 Airbus A350s, all of which are Airbus A350-900s. Asiana Airlines have 15 Airbus A350-900s on-order.
Hotel Lima Eight Three Five Nine is one of 15 Airbus A350-900s operated by Asiana Airlines, delivered new to the carrier on lease from ICBC on 1st April 2019 and she is powered by 2 Rolls-Royce Trent XWB-84 engines.
Airbus A350-941 HL8359 on final approach into Runway 27R at London Heathrow (LHR) on OZ521 from Seoul-Incheon (ICN).
Looking south from north Surrey, with the Milky Way competing with the light pollution from Gatwick airport (left) and Crawley.
Trish is competing in a contest with the magazine Max Muscle. At one time she was over 240 lbs and doctors told her the only way for her to lose the weight and be healthy again, was with surgery. Well, she did it on her own! The contest is a celebration of all the hard work put in to get her back to a healthy state of body and mind.
shes proof that hard work, dedication, and determination can all pay off.
you also may notice ive put my JT logo in the corner, with the new flickr changes i need to protect my work alittle
Strobist: EX 150 into softbox cam left high, EX 150 bare bulb far cam left, AB through a beautydish above back cam left for hair and spotlighting triggered via PW's
Male sea lions competing for the biggest set of whiskers.
Judging from the battle scars on their chests the 'other' competition had already been sorted out.
We ventured on a trip out to a privately owned island (Estancia Harberton) in the Beagle Channel to see some penguin colonies. When we got there we were extremely lucky to find a sea lion colony there also. Apparently it was quite rare for them to be there. There were over a hundred of them and many of them took to the water and swam out to our boat to see what was going on.
Very inquisitive animals.
I was intrigued by there stumpy little tails, something I'd never noticed about sea lions before.
Darrell Griffin is a long standing centre who has now moved into the second row a role he has proved most effective at. He is seen here outpacing Craig Hall of Doncaster. Craig Hall used to play for Wakefield but as he is knocking on a bit now he has gone part time as he nears retirement. Griffin now also in his thirties seems to be holding back his body clock and fingers crossed will head into next season in good form.
The (Australian native-) Gymea lily is one of the tallest flowers in the world. It can reach up to 4 meters in height. Of course it is not as tall as the 'Tower of Power', that is just the PoV. Such lovely flowers
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doryanthes_excelsa. Gymea Lily
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Driving and walking rovers competed to survey a shadowy analogue of the south polar lunar surface for useable resources during the inaugural ESA-ESRIC Space Resources Challenge. Some 13 teams from across Europe and Canada took part in last month’s field test, with the winners due to be announced shortly.
The Space Resources Challenge – supported by ESA and the European Space Resources Innovation Centre (ESRIC) in Luxembourg – is asking European (and Canadian) researchers and institutions to develop and demonstrate a system of one or more vehicles capable of prospecting resources on the Moon in the near future.
Massimo Sabbatini, overseeing the contest for ESA, comments: “ESA is analysing the results of the first field test of the Challenge and the competition is fierce. There was a wide range of participants and technological solutions to the problem of prospecting: notably different locomotion techniques – legged, wheeled, tracked, and so on – and approaches, such as single versus multiple vehicles and aerial vehicles. The jury is out!”
The emphasis of the contest is on prospecting: pinpointing promising resources within a difficult lunar environment then characterising them in as much detail as possible, such as through visual inspection or spectral analysis.
The lunar poles are a focus of interest for future exploration. They do not experience the crippling temperature extremes of the Moon’s two-week days and nights, and frozen water and other deposits are believed to be buried within permanently shadowed polar craters.
The Space Resources Challenge teams gathered at Valkenberg in the Netherlands had to contend with challenging illumination conditions and potential loss of signal events to locate resources, including mapping a small impact crater in the vicinity of the rover’s lander – all within a two and a half hour time limit.
The five winners will be awarded €375 000 in ESA contracts, with a larger prize pool on offer after a follow-on field test hosted by ESRIC next year.
Credits: ESA-M. Sabbatini
Nothing competes with the beauty of a rough mountain. I hope you enjoy this one as much as i did being there.
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Competing in PFO-The Island. Please fave or comment this photo to help me win!
EXPLORE: Highest position: 413 on Monday, November 24, 2008
Competing interest with a second look. I've used this photo before, but in color. I certainly like it better in black & white, and the curved row of corn stalks adds some visual appeal. The dirty stack looks cool, but in reality, the clean stack would have been what was seen in regular use. The sky isn't as interesting as the clean stack version, either. From a Lerro Productions charter.
. . . I was treated to four or five fireworks shows at once the other night! These two private individual displays were across the lake from me, and kept drawing me away from the large professional Twin Lake show. Competition is good!
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Competing for berries, these twin fawns wouldn’t get far enough away from one another to give me a good shot of both. :-)
Passing through Belford among the traffic, empty coal train HV263, rides the shadow of loaded GWA coal RV218, with 9031, 9027 and 9035.
2019-07-10 Pacific National 9031-9027-9035 Belford HV263
Competing interests that come with a second look. Here, Everett Railroad #11 in headed down the track, burning cleanly, and with an interesting sky. From a Lerro Productions charter.
Two bald eagles competing for survival as the lower flying eagle attempt to steel a Kokanee salmon from the eagle above. In the end... the eagle that captured the fish wins this air to air confrontation and fills its belly.
Canon 1DX MKII
Canon EF 400mm f/2.8L IS
Canon EF 2X III Extender
Dolce competed in a barn hunt trial this weekend. It was his senior level debut (in Barn hunt there are novice, open, senior, and master levels). He had a very good weekend with two qualifying runs. In both his qualifying runs he placed first and got high in class! So proud of my little hunter! One more qualifying run in senior, and he will earn his title and move up to master level.