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honda motocompo on display at the virginia british motorcycle club rallye - 10.01.06
the motocompo (ncz50) was an air-cooled, one-cylinder, 2-stroke, 49cc scooter, produced by honda from 1981 to 1985. it was never sold individually (nor in the u.s.), but rather as an option for the honda "city" motor car, and was designed to fold up and fit in the trunk. in total, 53,369 units were produced, with a price tag of 80,000 yen (around $675). the motocompo was available in caribbean red, shetland white, and daisy yellow.
Queso fresco o madurado, de tierno a semicurado, elaborado en las Islas Canarias (El Hierro), a partir de leche pasteurizada de cabra (85%), de vaca (10%) y de oveja (5%). La corteza es cerrada, algo rugosa y de color anaranjado con tendencia al marrón. La pasta es compacta pero con multitud de ojos o cavidades que pueden estar llenas de suero, y de color blanco marfil. El sabor del queso madurado es ácido, algo agrio, nada salado, muy graso y con aroma intenso.
Instructions at rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-75232/thirdwigg/compact-loader/#...
Video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG1uzeS50ak
Las Ruinas de Tulum. Tulum Ruins. Mexico. Oct/2016
Tulum archaeological site is relatively compact compared with many other Maya sites in the vicinity, and is one of the best-preserved coastal Maya sites. Its proximity to the modern tourism developments along the Mexican Caribbean coastline and its short distance from Cancún and the surrounding "Riviera Maya" has made it a popular Maya tourist site in the Yucatan.
It was the site of a Mayan port which was supported by up to 1000 residents before the arrival of the Spanish. The ruin's tropical beach backdrop is the main attraction of this picturesque, much-visited small ruin on the shore of the Caribbean Sea
Each Mayan city had a specific purpose, and Tulum was no exception. It was a seaport, trading mainly in turquoise and jade.
As well as being the only Mayan city built on a coast, Tulum was one of the few protected by a wall.
Made of limestone, the 784-metre wall encloses the site on three sides, is seven metres thick, and varies between three and five metres in height. No doubt this fortification helped preserve the seaport.
Like the questions which surround the decline of the Mayan world, there are several theories as to why a wall surrounds Tulum. One has a Mayan population of 600 on the inside, protected from invaders. Another suggests only priests and nobility were housed within the walls, while peasants were kept on the outside.
After entering the ruins through one of five doorways in the wall, visitors are greeted by a field of gently-rolling hills. Black and grey stone outcroppings, which were once buildings, dot the sun-baked landscape.
Source: Wikipedia and Wikitravel
A península mexicana de Yucatan, onde ficam as cidades de Cancun e Playa del Carmen, é uma região que foi habitada séculos atrás pela civilização maia. As antigas cidades ocupadas por este povo agora são ruínas preservadas e tornaram-se atrações turísticas muito visitadas. Um dos sítios arqueológicos mais importantes é o de Tulum, a cidade murada que se encontra de frente para o mar do caribe mexicano.
Esta cidade era designada pelos maias pelo nome de Zamá, que significa cidade da aurora. Tulum é também uma palavra maia para barreira ou parede, o que se entende facilmente pois a cidade encontra-se rodeada de espessa muralha protectora.
O primeiro a identificar a cidade foi Juan Díaz, que em 1518 fazia parte da expedição de Juan de Grijalva. A sua descrição de Tulum é a de uma cidade rica e magnífica, à imagem de Sevilha na Espanha. No entanto, o primeiro estudo detalhado do sítio deveu-se aos famosos exploradores John Lloyd Stephens e Frederick Catherwood, que publicaram em 1843 o livro Incidents of Travel in Yucatan.
Actualmente, milhares de turistas visitam as ruínas de Tulum diariamente, sobretudo em excursões organizadas. Tulum é o terceiro sítio arqueológico do México mais visitado atrás de Teotihuacan e Chichén Itzá e à frente de Monte Albán.
Fonte: Wikipedia
Ryan & Lucy's Wedding April 2016.
As a guest for the wedding I was unsure whether to take me compact or DSLR, in the end I was so glad I took the DSLR as the venue was very very dark and I doubt that I'd have got any useable images with a compact. I was pretty happy with the performance of the 24-120mm f4, less than a handful of soft/missed focus shots and considering the low light I thought this was very good.
Littlewoods Pools Building
by Gerald de Courcy Fraser
1938
This art deco building is one of Liverpool's most iconic landmarks.
The building was home to the Littlewoods Football Pools operation until its closure in 1994 when the National Lottery was launched and immediately became a major rival to the football pools industry.
The building has been empty since that date and it is now in a state of serious decay.
An ambitious regeneration project, which will convert the building into a studio complex for film and television, is now at an advanced stage.
When complete the studio complex will be tenanted by Twickenham Studios and Liverpool John Moores University.
Liverpool is an increasingly popular destination for television and film productions and it is now the UK's second most-filmed city, behind London. The new film studios will create jobs and further add to the city’s popularity with filmmakers.
Located on Edge Lane.
The Agfa Compact was billed as the world's smallest motorized camera, and was the last camera manufactured by Agfa. It is the same height as the Olympus XA, and only about 5 mm wider.
Florida Southern College has the largest group of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings in one location. This is the Usonia House.
This shot shows the Petri Color 35 in my hand to give you an idea of it's compact size (though being all metal it weighs in at a fairly heavy 395 grams).
The Petri Color 35 has been described (most notably by Stephen Gandy of cameraquest.com fame) as the camera that Rollei should have made instead of their Rollei 35 series of cameras.
It certainly has a unique and extremely useable user interface, perhaps the best user interface of all the super compact 35mm cameras that became increasingly popular during the 60s, 70s and 80s.
All the main controls user controls (aperture, shutter speed and focus are located on the top plate and are easily operable with your eye to the viewfinder. The viewfinder itself has a match need system for the completely manual exposure and a focus scale.
The exposure meter is coupled to both shutter speed and aperture which makes it easy to set your exposure in either a shutter speed or aperture priority fashion.
Focusing is guesstimate scale focusing. The thing that always puts me off scale focusing cameras is that without any reminder to focus in the viewfinder I usually just forget! But the focusing scale in the viewfinder of the Petri make this far less likely to happen, and the depth of field of a 40mm f2.8 lens mean super accurate focusing isn't necessary.
There are lots of really stylish and/or thoughtful touches like the beautiful rewind crank and the four little metal 'feet' on the baseplate which makes it unlikely to get scratched.
There are a couple of things I don't like: the metering system is turned on when you wind on, and off when you take a picture. The is a bit of a problem if you habitually wind on after every exposure to make sure you're ready for the next shot, because if you shoot like this the exposure meter is always on! But this is just a matter of retraining your muscle memory so you habitually wind on just before taking a shot rather than after.
The focusing dial also extends the collapsable lens, which is a bit time consuming to extend, but this doesn't really matter: you just alway leave the lens extended most of the time... you only collapse the lens for storage while travelling (and even then only if you really want to.
I also don't like the fact that you have to open the camera back in order to change the battery... tough luck if the battery runs out with a film in the camera!
But despite these minor issues, this is a genuinely likeable and usable small camera.
This is the later "Petri Color 35 D" model... but the only different between this and the earlier "Petri Color 35" model is the very slightly faster top shutter speed (1/300th compared to 1/250th) which in practice make no difference.