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The hôtel de la Marine (also known as the hôtel du Garde-Meuble) is an historic building located on place de la Concorde in Paris, to the east of rue Royale. It was designed and built between 1757 and 1774 by the architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel, on the newly created square first called Place Louis XV. The identical building to its west, constructed at the same time, now houses the hôtel de Crillon and the Automobile Club of France.
The Hôtel de la Marine was originally the home of the royal Garde-Meuble, the office managing the furnishing of all royal properties. Following the French Revolution it became the Ministry of the French Navy, which occupied it until 2015. It was entirely renovated between 2015 and 2021.
It now displays the restored 18th century apartments of Marc-Antoine Thierry de Ville-d'Avray, the King's Intendant of the Garde-Meuble, as well the salons and chambers later used by the French Navy.
A separate part displays the Al Thani Collection presenting international and inter-cultural works of art from the collection of Sheik Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani.
PictionID:48529890 - Catalog:14_026828 - Title:GD/Astronautics Details: MX-774 Rocket Prototype Vehicle - Filename:14_026828.TIF - - Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
Diamond Bus North West: 33695 (SN12 AGZ) an Alexander Dennis Enviro 400, painted in First Group corporate livery with Diamond fleet names. This vehicle is seen here in Bolton operating a journey on Service 36 to Manchester Piccadilly.
© Christopher Lowe.
Date: 11th August 2019.
Ref No: DSC_27589/PJ.
I was able to fit almost everyone on this small LEGO matt, the only characters that didn't fit were Charizard, Phantom, Mii (technically), and the Pikmin (again, technically).
This is my entire Smash 4 collection! Though I didn't include accessories of any sort, since I thought it'd be kinda pointless to show them. Anyway, now that I got all my Smash 4 characters outta the way, I can finally get back to some certain side projects.....
You may see some of these guys in the future, that is if I feel like I should update them.
Hope ya like!
Camera: 1952 Leica IIIf RD 35mm Rangefinder.
Lens: Waterworth 2 inch Centaur f/3.5.
Film: Ilford FP4 Plus ISO 125 35mm black & white negative.
Development: Ilford ID-11 1 + 3 @ 20C/21m.
Camera supported on Linhof Junior tripod & ball head.
Lens is wide open for this image. Focus point is the "W" badge and lens of the nearest projector, carefully set via the Leica's coupled rangefinder. For a lens with a little front coating damage (cleaning-related I suspect), I thought the contrast and resolution of such an old lens to be respectable.
The Waterworth Centaur is a vanishingly rare 2 inch f/3.5 lens manufactured by Waterworth of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Optical manufacture began at the Domain on the edge of the city of Hobart during WWII in order to furnish the Australian defence forces (and to an extent, also, other Allied forces) with lenses, prisms and other components vital for military use in targeting equipment, gunsights and for photo reconnaissance camera applications among others. After the war the workforce turned their skills to the production of goods for civilian use, notably projection equipment for educational institutions. A small number of still camera lenses were nevertheless manufactured in Hobart in the Leica 39mm rangefinder thread mount.
The Centaur was available in two different guises, both with the 39mm Leica thread mount: a non-focusing enlarger version made for darkroom printing; and the type used to make the image shown above. This being a focusing and rangefinder coupled version.
During a visit to the University of Tasmania to inspect the items in their Waterworth Collection (a bequest from the late Peter Smith, long a UTAS chemistry faculty member) I was permitted to fit the focusing example of the Centaur in the collection to my own Leica IIIf Red Dial rangefinder and take a few photos of the collection with it.
In the foreground you will see just a few of the different types of still projectors Waterworth manufactured after World War II.
The Centaur fitted readily to the IIIf like any Leica lens made for it, and coupled perfectly to its (well-calibrated) rangefinder from close range to infinity.
I set the camera and lens onto my own Linhof junior tripod and ball head (which was itself formerly owned by Peter Smith before it came into my possession, so there was a brief reunion of these items once owned by him). A short series of images was made by me at different apertures including wide open at f/3.5 with the camera on the tripod, using a cable release to maximise sharpness.
I have added four very similar images made with this very rare lens. Whilst there are a handful of images of a Waterworth Centaur lens locatable by Google Image search, I have not seen any photos actually taken with the lens: let alone taken with one fitted to a screw mount Leica rangefinder, the type of camera the lens was actually designed to be used with. This series might therefore be the only images on the web with a Centaur on film using a Leica rangefinder and have been uploaded for the benefit of those who may like to see some photos created with one.
The exact number of Waterworth Centaurs produced is not definitively known. At least one serial number into the low 300s exists. But whether all serial numbers from 1 were allocated and used is not known. The actual number made may be considerably less, one source suggests perhaps 200-odd? Many of those would have been for enlarger use and not suitable for photography, thus, the amount of surviving Centaurs with rangefinder coupling may, potentially, be tiny. Who knows? UTAS are researching the activities of the annexe.
You may see a photograph of the Centaur lens attached to my Leica at UTAS here:
www.flickr.com/photos/43224475@N08/51087053587/in/datepos...
More information about the wartime activities at the Hobart annexe and the Waterworth optical products which were made after WWII for civilian use may be found at UTAS's own website for Waterworth, here:
Some images of the actual Waterworth Centaur I had the privilege of photographing with (Centaur serial number 171) may be viewed here:
waterworth.omeka.net/items/show/76
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I think I have the neutrals covered!!! They look oh so boring all lined up together but are so lovely individually.
Since January 1st 2010, I have been taking and uploading one square picture each day to:
square365.blogspot.com
Here are all 366 photos from the leap-year 2012
Greater Manchester Transport: 277 (KJA 277F) a Marshall bodied Bristol RESL6L, painted in orange and white fleet livery. It is captured here in Stockport with the destinations set for service 305 to Adswood.
© Christopher Lowe.
Date: 15th September 1976.
Ref No: Scan01854/JL.
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Shmails and myself have worked out an agreement where I will sell the remainder of his custom figs. What you see here is only a sample of what will be in my store soon.
They will be priced to sell and may never be offered agin.
Les douze appareils photo en ma possession (sans mon iPhone qui les a photographiés).
Cinq numériques :
1 - Fuji X-T1 mon petit dernier;
2-- Nikon D300, mon avant dernier;
3- - Nikon Coolpix AW110 pour plonger
4- - Canon Ixus 850 IS, un classique des compacts;
5 - Apple QuickTake 150,mon premier numérique;
Sept argentiques :
1 - Gauthier (à soufflet) un héritage;
2 - Brownie flash mon tout premier appareil (pour mon BEPC);
3 - Minolta SRT101 mon premier reflex;
4 - Canon EOS30 acheté juste avant l'explosion du numérique;
5 - Minox 35GT acheté à mon épouse qui ne l'a pas utilisé;
6 - Nikon TW Zoom 105 quand j'ai cru que mon Minolta était dépassé ...
7 - Konica 35EFP acheté pour mon fils qui me l'a laissé en partant du nid