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The weather didn't cooperate tonight trying to align the moon with Coit Tower in San Francisco,. There was a glimpse of the moon as it was peeking out of the fog/clouds and just enough to align it to my intended target.
The clouds were a mix blessing. On the one hand I wanted it to be clear, but on the other hand, it yielded some pretty colors.
Over the years the Mahy family had collected a huge and also unique collection of classical and special cars. Grandfather Ghislain Mahy (1907-1999) started in the early 1950s to buy old cars just to prevent them from being scrapped. Initially he was intended to restore them, but soon his collection had grown beyond limits. In the 1980s he possessed over 1000 classical cars. So most cars were kept and put aside in the state as found. Only a small amount could be restored: a few of them can be admired in Autoworld, Brussels. See: www.autoworld.be/onthaal
After the death of patron Ghislain his son Ivan (84) and grandson Michel (56) became his successors in charge of the family treasures.
In the 1990s the Mahy collection had to leave the old Ghent winter circus building. Between 1996 and 1999 a huge operation was executed to move the whole collection to a new home in an old deserted textile factory in in Leuze-en-Hainaut (B). In this new museum some 1000 classic cars can be seen.
See also: www.mahymobiles.be
Some fifty original and unrestored cars were to be seen here at this temporary exposition at the Ghent Vynckier Site. All selected jewels are of the most extraordinary cars automobile history can offer.
During the 1930s several German car brands were experimenting with cars with rear mounted engines. It were mostly microcars. The 130 H was Mercedes' first rear-engined civilian car which went into production. Besides Mercedes was the first company with series built middle class cars of this type in Germany.
The rear engine project started with the 1931 120 H prototype from which only 12 pieces were built.
The 130 H series was developed in cooperation with Joseph Ganz. But it was engineer Hans Nibel (1880-1934) who was responsible for this new rear-engine concept at Mercedes. In 1933 the 130 H was ready for launch.
The 130 H was available as Cabriolet-Limousine or as Limousine body style.
At first this new car was a big hit at the 1934 Berlin IAMA motor show.
Daimler-Benz AG had great expectations about this revolutionary car (new type platform, streamlined body) but unfortunately the car proved to be unsafe in practice. Then the 130 H was slowly drawn back from the market.
The 130 H was replaced by the 1936-1939 170 H W28 but also this model wasn't a succes. The 170 H was the rear-engined version of the 170 V W136 (V stands for Vornmotor/front engine).
The first 1934 130 H series were always mono-tone black. In the next two years only two-tone cars appeared but the wings stayed always black.
The H in the Mercedes-Benz model name refers to the rear mounted engine, Heckmotor in German.
1308 cc.
980 kg.
Production M-B all rear engined models: 1931-1939.
Production M-B Typ 130/130 H: Spring 1934-Autumn 1936.
Exposition Mahy, a Family of Cars, Vynckier Site Gent.
Gent, Nieuwevaart, Oct. 30, 2021.
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A selection of concrete sections from a building lost to the sea at Kilnsea, Hull UK. Not the greatest of conditions on the day having problems with Sea Spray etc so opted for a slightly longer lens than normal. Lee Filters CPL & Big Stopper used to slow things down.
Photo of the day December 09, 2021 - Water collected on a board on our porch. My wife and I recently had some work done on our porch including waterproofing.
Zanysson - A crabronid wasp. Most of the stinging wasps are fairly badass in aspect, to use a technical term. This one certainly is worthy of a tattoo on someone's chest and was collected by Merle Shepherd from Spring Island along the coast of South Carolina. It is unclear which species this is, but perhaps someone will reveal that to us. The group as a whole are cleptoparasites of other Crabronid wasps.
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all
Ye know on earth and all ye need to know
" Ode on a Grecian Urn"
John Keats
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Basic USGSBIML set up:
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Scavenger Hunt Day is May 24
A scavenger hunt is a game where individuals or teams compete to find items or perform tasks provided to them as a list by the organizers of the game. The aim of the game is for participants to fulfill the requirements on the list. Usually, at the end of the hunt a grand prize awaits the first person/ team to reach the end of the list. Scavenger hunts combine aspects of racing, competitive hunting, and hide and seek.
In many hunts, the organizers hide items in difficult to find places and give the participants clues on how and where to find them. Other hunts may require contestants to complete a route.
In recent years, technology has alleviated the way the game is played and has made it possible for players around the world to participate in scavenger hunts. Internet scavenger hunts require people to surf online and visit websites to find clues and solve problems.
Geocaching is yet another recent innovation in the world of scavenger hunting. It is the use of Global Positioning system (GPS) receivers to find caches or geocaches hidden at different spots around the world. A cache is usually a waterproof container that includes a log book and trinkets. Finders are required to leave their signature or name in the log book and may take a trinket out of the box as a way to remind them of their achievement. They must replace the trinket with another one of their choice and leave the cache in the same place they found it for others to find.
How Can You Celebrate Scavenger Hunt Day?
Organize a scavenger hunt for family and friends. To make it more interesting, include some attractive looking prizes and do it for charity.
Make work fun by doing a scavenger hunt at work during lunch time.
Participate in a scavenger hunt organized by your city or other local organizations.
Did You Know…
...that the word scavenger comes from the 14th-century English word scawageour? The word referred to officials that collected taxes.
Today, YOU get to participate in a simple ‘Scavenger Hunt’ and you don’t have to leave your house. Look at your desk or workstation (or your studio top table!) and see if you can find the items that Sherlock Holmes has found in my work area. Good luck. Count how many your find, and post the number. The one with the most items will get the famous “100% Full-Credit No-Prize Award.” </b/
Osmia cornuta. This specimen was collected in the Netherlands and is known as the European Orchard Bee. So orchardy is this bee that in the 1980s it was imported into the United States, but thankfully it appears to have not successfully installed itself.
Photo license: CC-BY-SA. This photo can be reused as you wish. When doing so, please credit the creator (USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab) and the source (Naturalis Biodiversity Center) and adaptations must be shared under the same terms.
The specimen in this photo is provided by Naturalis Biodiversity Center in The Netherlands. For inquiries please contact: Frederique Bakker, email: frederique.bakker@naturalis.nl.
This image is part of the photo series ‘Cool bees of The Netherlands’. For more information: marten.schoonman@naturalis.nl
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We Are Made One with What We Touch and See
We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
- Oscar Wilde
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Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland:
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Basic USGSBIML set up:
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USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4
Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus
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PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
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Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:
plus.google.com/events/c5569losvskrv2nu606ltof8odo
or
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU
Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
Contact information:
Sam Droege
sdroege@usgs.gov
301 497 5840
What a few weeks it's been. I've felt it's weight. But I'm still here, pushing through, refusing to give in when it seemed easier to give up again. And halfway through the month, I think I'm finally caught up on posting. Determined to get back on top of this year.
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Have I been taking photos? Yes. Have I been posting them? nooo. I've felt unmotivated which is frustrating.
I'm I the only one who has these abstract goals and you work towards them sort of and then you're hit with this wave that rather have you sit on your phone and stare at a wall as if it was drying with paint. This is where the grasping comes into play. You wish for things to be different listing off what you want but you need to work for it but you're sitting there not because you feel stuck in mud.
Anyways, I'm definitely rambling! I don't want to get caught in the cycle of pity and shame. I think writing this out helps expel it out a bit along with a photo that I'm mostly proud of.
I truly hope everyone is hanging in there.
artistic still life arrangement
(Shells collected on a beach on the Outer Banks, N. Carolina, in the early 1980s.)
I placed these shells on a piece of mat board that had a mottled, metallic surface in shades of gold and bronze that would complement the shells. I don't have a fancy studio or special photo lamps, so I turned off the room lights and placed a trouble light on the table to the right so it would catch the textures of the shells. Because I was taking the shot from above (standing on a chair) I was unable to use a tripod, but I think I caught the details without one.
This has always been one of my favorite still-life photos. I like the light and shadows. I also like the neutral colors and shades of gold.
I had collected some leaves on our afternoon walk. Deciding that they needed to be backlit, I set up my speedlite on a tripod and then put a softbox on top, so that I could arrange the leaves on the white cover.
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The Physician's house was built in the 1840s, it is an attractive neo-Grecian cottage which, in its original location in the village of Aultsville was not the home of a physician but was the home of Michael Cook, the man who first bred Holstein cattle in Canada.
In eastern Upper Canada, before Confederation, there were at least 65 licensed physicians, most of whom were Canadian graduates.
These physicians made a good living even though they seldom collected all their fees. For a working-class family, a single visit by a doctor represented a day's wage. So one only called for the local doctor in extreme need. Most general practitioners were kept busy travelling around the countryside seeing sick people in their own homes. Aside from delivering babies, they treated various ailments such as bleeding, blistering, or emetics and purgatives to rid the body of the poisons of disease. Surgery at this time was confined to the removal of tumours or amputations and infection was a common risk. The anaesthetic in general use in the 1860s was chloroform administered by a mask. The first medical use of antiseptic sterilization did not occur in Canada until after 1867.
SBB Cargo Class Ee 3/3 16386 trundles away from the Migros premises at Marin-Epagnier with a brace of empty Makies AG hoppers (used as barriers) with the six Cargo vans collected for onward movement via the afternoon Regional Freight service to Neuchâtel and onward to Lausanne Triage. It was noted that the destination of the vans was Oberbuchsiten and Suhr.
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Shot in very dull light with Iso 3200 and virtually no grain visible. I am impressed with this cameras low light capability.
No. 16 in a month long series using an SMC PENTAX F*300mm f4.5 lens as part of Pentax Forum's Single in June 2015 Challenge.
I collected them thinking this could be chanterelle and there were so many of them. Later I found out this is Hygrophorus instead. The first book said this is edible but a culinary disappointment so I cooked them. I found it was quite tasty. Then I checked the other book saying this is poisonous. Well, the amount I collected is quite tiny. May be 5 small mushroom? Anyway, I'm still alive a few weeks later without any noticeable symptoms.
The second image in this series. This time it is my dad's cave that holds his Madness collection. Madness being a ska band from England. You can see who I get the collecting gene from.