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Continuing with the stars of the 2025 RIAT caught departing Fairford after RIAT 2025
Pakistan Air Force CAC/PAC JF-17 Thunder 23-319 - one of a pair that arrived for the show along with their attendant Ilyushin Il-78MP tanker and C-130 support
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Continuing with posting photos from my archives. Not sure when I will get out for a drive, given that our roads, especially the back roads, will be in poor condition, thanks to all the snow we have had. November 23 2024: lots of snow and it looked like almost 10-12 inches of snow on top of my back fence.
We have just had three very cold days with freezing fog that turned everything white. Can't complain, though, as mild, fall weather lasted well into November, which was wonderful. So thankful that I managed to get out for groceries before the fog arrived, so now I have been hibernating for a little while. Starting today, 2 December 2024, our weather is forecast to be 'warmer' for a few days.
I am adding the description that I wrote under a different, previously posted image taken on the same day.
"In the afternoon of 20 February 2015, there were just a couple of friends down in the park and, happy to say, they had already found this tiny, popcan-sized owl. This was its perch during the time I was there, giving some nice out in the open views, but all rather similar. It's such a beautiful owl. This is the female - the male is smaller, has a more rusty colour especially around the neck, and he has a thicker, white eyebrow line. In the end, it went to sleep. This was roughly a week before I saw it (and its mate) for the last time that season. People who have been seeing it in the months since then must be keeping very quiet about it. No reports, no photos posted anywhere."
"The Northern Pygmy-Owl may be tiny, but it’s a ferocious hunter with a taste for songbirds. These owls are mostly dark brown and white, with long tails, smoothly rounded heads, and piercing yellow eyes. They hunt during the day by sitting quietly and surprising their prey. As a defensive measure, songbirds often gather to mob sitting owls until they fly away. Mobbing songbirds can help you find these unobtrusive owls, as can listening for their call, a high-pitched series of toots." From AllAboutBirds.
Continuing the series, here's a front view of the Riddles 2-6-4T, minus it smokebox door number and no shed plate either. It's evident from this view that this was probably the shed pilot handling coal wagons at the coaling tower. Pilot lights are being carried, one over each buffer, fore and aft (one of each pair was white, the other, red).
"Death is cold Batman."
Next up, Mr. Freeze.
His head is a custom printed head by Fig Nation with the straps painted to continue around the head.
His dome is a modified Lego dome piece that is wedged on over the head with a Lego helmet visor. The little black bit at the bottom of the dome is cut from a Lego bicycle tire.
His chest armor is from Brickwarriors and was extended with a cut up piece from a Lego stud shooter bit.
The white tubes attached to the chest armor are Lego rubber bands.
His gun is made from two different Brickarms weapons.
His legs and arms were extended.
His gauntlets are Lego handcuffs and bits from a Minfigcat headset.
His boots are Brickwarriors greaves.
This was painted by me.
What do you think?
Continuing our walk around Worksop, from the shopping area we found our way to Worksop Priory. This is an impressive church but it is all that remains of a large priory that met its end during the Reformation. The church was damaged during that time but both the Victorians and modern congregations have seen the church rebuilt. The Transept by the Victorians, the alter and spire were built in the 1970s I think. The nave looks Early English / Norman but I may be wrong. It all seems to hang together.
As Norfolk Southern continues to slowly but surely replace the vintage CPLs which are still left here in Virginia, particularly in the Shenandoah Valley, it was time to stop making excuses, and prioritize shooting them. A buddy joined me for 2 days of a wild mission shooting sunrise to last light. Having already shot Pkin, we opted to go for Vesuvius upon learning that 11Z was coming our way. The storm clouds were rolling in, and the shadows were getting long, as we nervously awaited 11Z's arrival. As they rolled through, we were treated to absolutely spectacular late afternoon lighting in this legendary location. Fans of O. Winston Link may recall he shot a few of his scenes here in Vesuvius, Virginia, and it is today just as beautiful, rural, and peaceful as it was back in the days of N&W steam railroading. I will be back out trackside soon no doubt, but without any pretense of being owed any luck. The train Gods owe me nothing.
Flying high over an Arizona sunset....
Our planet continues to amaze me everyday....
Air 2S drone shot October 2024.
(Best viewed large for details)
With another winter storm on the way, this goes out to all the 100k+ still without power, but there is hope !! Think good thoughts, the roads weren't bad during this ice storm, this next storm is supposedly supposed to be only snow.
Thanks Explore for helping me to share my memory!!!! Thanks to everyone for taking the time to visit my photo to comment or favorite. I really appreciate it!!
I was smitten with these gregarious birds from the very first day I laid eyes on them on February 11, 2007. I cannot believe it has been nine years!!!!
The love affair continues for me. I love watching them interact with each other, love when they flash that beautiful rainbow tail...and I love their chatter. I have so many different flight shots, I always love finding new poses as this one from the other day. If anything can make me smile, it is them!
The Grade I Listed Lincoln Cathedral, the seat of the Bishop of Lincoln, in Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
Building commenced in 1088 and continued in several phases throughout the medieval period. It was reputedly the tallest building in the world for 238 years (1311–1549) before the central spire collapsed in 1549 and was not rebuilt.
Remigius de Fécamp, the first bishop of Lincoln, moved the Episcopal seat there between 1072 and 1092. Up until then St. Mary's Church in Stow was the "mother church" of Lincolnshire (although it was not a cathedral, because the seat of the diocese was at Dorchester Abbey in Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire).
Bishop Remigius built the first Lincoln Cathedral on the present site, finishing it in 1092 and then dying on 9 May of that year, two days before it was consecrated. In 1141, the timber roofing was destroyed in a fire. Bishop Alexander rebuilt and expanded the cathedral, but it was mostly destroyed by an earthquake about forty years later, in 1185. The earthquake was one of the largest felt in the UK. The damage to the cathedral is thought to have been very extensive: The Cathedral is described as having "split from top to bottom"; in the current building, only the lower part of the west end and of its two attached towers remain of the pre-earthquake cathedral.
After the earthquake, a new bishop was appointed. He was Hugh de Burgundy of Avalon, France, who became known as St Hugh of Lincoln. He began a massive rebuilding and expansion programme. Rebuilding began with the choir and the eastern transepts between 1192 and 1210. The central nave was then built in the Early English Gothic style. Until 1549 the spire was reputedly the tallest medieval tower in Europe, though the exact height has been a matter of debate.
The two large stained glass rose windows, the matching Dean's Eye and Bishop's Eye, were added to the cathedral during the late Middle Ages. The former, the Dean's Eye in the north transept dates from the 1192 rebuild begun by St Hugh, finally being completed in 1235.
After the additions of the Dean's eye and other major Gothic additions it is believed some mistakes in the support of the tower occurred, for in 1237 the main tower collapsed. A new tower was soon started and in 1255 the Cathedral petitioned Henry III to allow them to take down part of the town wall to enlarge and expand the Cathedral.
In 1290 Eleanor of Castile died and King Edward I of England decided to honour her, his Queen Consort, with an elegant funeral procession. After her body had been embalmed, which in the 13th century involved evisceration, Eleanor's viscera were buried in Lincoln cathedral, and Edward placed a duplicate of the Westminster tomb there.
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La conca dell’Alpago offre continue meraviglie paesaggistiche per chi volesse tuffarsi nella natura incontaminata. Paesaggi per tutti i gusti: lago, montagna, foresta e altopiano! Tanti ambienti diversi da esplorare con sport ed escursioni all’aria aperta per tutti e in tutti i periodi dell’anno. Svariati itinerari a piedi, in bici e da combinare per vacanze sostenibili e su misura in questo complesso ambiente montano.
Dal 2016 i comuni di Farra d’Alpago, Pieve d’Alpago e Puos d’Alpago si sono fusi assieme in un unico comune che comprende la splendida conca dell Alpago, delimitata dalle prealpi Bellunesi e dalla sella del Fadalto, a cui si aggiungono due perle regionali: Il lago di Santa Croce e la la foresta del Cansiglio.
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The Alpago basin offers continuous scenic wonders for those who want to dive into uncontaminated nature. Landscapes for all tastes: lake, mountain, forest and plateau! Many different environments to explore with sports and outdoor excursions for everyone and at all times of the year. Various itineraries on foot, by bike and to combine for sustainable and tailor-made holidays in this complex mountain environment.
Since 2016 the municipalities of Farra d'Alpago, Pieve d'Alpago and Puos d'Alpago have merged together into a single municipality which includes the splendid Alpago basin, delimited by the Belluno pre-Alps and the Fadalto saddle, to which are added two regional pearls: Lake Santa Croce and the Cansiglio forest.
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CANON EOS 6D Mark II con ob. 24-85 f./3,5-4,5 USM
Continuing with a b/w and colour combo, showing some distant humans struggling/enjoying the weather.
Continuing my theme of Class 60 uploads this week, here's one I didn't expect to see. After a fairly cloudy day in the Bristol area on Friday 28th June, the sun started to come out late afternoon, just as I noticed an empty aggregate train for Tytherington was shown running on RTT. I've been fairly unlucky for photos in the Avon valley and have no decent shots - so with plenty of cloud still around, I was well chuffed to capture this sunny shot of 60046 'William Wilberforce' rounding the curve at Freshford. The train is 6Z23, 14:11 Wembley - Tytherington. (I've photoshopped out a bush from the front of the loco)
Continuing my recent flirtation with astro landscapes, this one was taken near Ballina NSW where my parents live. Just off high tide and being the first time there, I didn't want to move further out on the rock platform although the swell was low. One of the few locations looking west besides Cape Byron Lighthouse (coming up next!).
The seemingly perfectly placed driftwood was excellent but very dark so I needed some low level lighting from a led torch just ahead of the camera but still needed a lot of denoise to show some detail.
The lights in the sky is from Ballina to the left, a little from Skennars Head village directly behind, Lennox Head to the right. The headland to the far right is Cape Byron (Byron Bay hidden behind it) and a faint glow from the Gold Coast on very far right.
Definitely on my list for another go next time I am up there... hopefully at low tide as there are some tall pine trees directly ahead on top of the headland that you can see if you go out further on the reef
Stitched from 9 vertical panels @ 14mm/f2.8 in PTgui
Edited in LR/PS and StarXterminator to reduce the stars.
Continuing looking at old photography sessions to see how I would process them now.
Egle-student from Lithuania studying fashion at university in London
The Bull has been and continues to be a strong symbol and a living icon in our lives. Those that know them revere them for their fertile nature. They will graze and ruminate and add fertility to the ground they adorn. One bull can sire a heard and not many bulls see great age as only the chosen are kept and they need to fulfil a purpose. King for the day and King for the year have not as many days and years as others and yet who would be the bull not chosen? I would if that is my choice, many though want to be Top Dog and Chief Bull.
This magnificent Bull in Bo’ness had me thinking of Pictish Art and their Symbol Stones. Their animal symbols survive to this day where their language is now none existent. The wonderfully evocative decorated stones are found at Pictish Sites with the striking lines flowing and curling like waves of energy form both the outlines and internal structure of the subjects. At Burghead in Moray several Bull symbols were found leading some to believe that the Bull was a symbol venerated here, maybe a marker not unlike those later used in Heraldry to tell a story of identity that is linked to landscape and to those who control it. The notion of totems as good luck and potent identifying markers of person and of people, of individual and of tribe to set a motif of identity within this material world and an icon within all spiritual realms too.
This particular carved stone is displayed in London in The British Museum and thought so highly of that a replica cast is held in Edinburgh at The National Museums Scotland. This Bull is also incorporated into the current Logo for The Moray Society Elgin Museum. There is a cast in The Elgin Museum amongst other Pictish Symbol Stones. The symbol stones from Burghead are numbered 1-6 and this one is catalogued as,
Burghead 5, Moray, Pictish symbol stone
Measurements: 0.53m, W 0.53m, D 0.08m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ c 109 691
Present location: British Museum, London (1861.10-24.1) (cast in Elgin Museum)
Evidence for discovery: one of many bull carvings said to have been found during quarrying of the wall of the upper citadel to find building stones from around 1800 onwards, of which six have survived (Macdonald 1862). This stone was found sometime before 1809, when it was exhibited at a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and it was in private hands in London for many years before being presented to the British Museum.
Present condition: good.
Description
The triangular shape of this slab may indicate the preferred form for these bull stones from Burghead. One broad face is incised with the most ferocious image of a bull to have survived, pacing angrily towards the right with his head lowered far down and his tail swishing across his rump.
Date: seventh century.
This is a cast of a stone found at Burghead in Moray. It is one of a number of stones carved with bull symbols, found in and around the site of the Pictish fortress at Burghead. They date from between 500 and 800.
Like the other stones, the bull is naturalistically depicted, with scrolls defining the joints where the limbs meet the body.
The large fort at Burghead was a major Pictish settlement. A number of carvings have been found there, many depicting bulls. Various theories have been put forward to explain their significance, including religious, territorial emblems or clan totems.
“Interpretation of the stones' original role has varied. Some scholars have suggested they were displayed on the fort's ramparts as symbols of power; others have seen them as having a votive role in a frieze as part of a pagan fertility cult; while others argue they were standing stones lining a processional route through the ramparts, a role suggested by their likely original kite-shaped form.”
Noble, Gordon (2019). “Fortified settlement in northern Pictland,” Noble, Gordon; Evans, Nicholas, The King in the North: The Pictish Realms of Fortriu and Ce, Birlinn, Edinburgh. Quote p.54, ISBN 178027551X. 1788851935, 9781788851930
The British Museum, reference below, records,
Exhibition history
Exhibited:
2001-2002 12 Dec-28 Feb, Leeds, Henry Moore Institute, The Unidentified Museum Object
1998 18 Apr-12 Jul, Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Celtic Art
Camore, reference below, records.
Exhibited at the Society of Antiquaries in London in 1809.
[Completely required note to the film.
At the moment of poo you are able to see the lifted tail in shadow and hear the cycle of living and giving without poo visuals.]
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Elgin Museum Carved Stone Collection
Burghead 5, cast of syMbol stone with bull (ELGNM 1892.1)
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Burghead Bulls
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burghead_Bulls
Burghead Bull (cast)
nms.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-100-104-159-C
The Burghead Bull
On display (G41) (G41)
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1861-1024-1
The Burghead Bull Canmore
canmore.org.uk/site/319205/burghead
Noble, Gordon and Evans, Nicholas, The King in the North, The Pictish Realms of Fortriu and Ce, Birlinn, Edinburgh, 2019.
Intersection of boulevard du Montparnasse and rue de Vaugirard. While riding around Paris it is always interesting to see what has changed and what has stayed the same. On the left is the Pharmacie Necker, founded in 1857, it is still there today. Some of the buildings exist and that tower thing in the background continues to loom over the skyline.
The thaw continues as 43172 "Harry Patch" leads fellow celebrity classmate 43027 "Queen's 90" through Norton Fitzwarren with the 1A81 11.00 Plymouth-Paddington service. With temperatures in excess of 8 degrees and the sun beginning to shine after a rain shower, the snow certainly wasn’t hanging around for much longer.
Anticipation continues to build at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida before the scheduled launch of the agency’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft will carry two American NASA astronauts, Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, to the International Space Station for the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Liftoff from Kennedy’s historic Launch Complex 39A is targeted for Wednesday, May 27, at 4:33 p.m. EDT — an instantaneous launch window.
Here, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Crew Dragon atop, stands poised for launch at historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 21, 2020, ahead of NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission.
Image Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
Continuing on with this series, taken on the same day but a different location, this being Hermitage Park in Edmonton.
With most lakes and ponds still frozen it was nice to see open water at this part of Hermitage Park. Open water means reflections, and with a blue sky overhead and winterized vegetation in the background some lovely colours were seen.
So great to see Ducks again.
After removing one of thousands of metal support pieces using hand-tools, it is handed off to another team member. These pieces are stacked on a truck to be reused at another site.
Japan continues to suffer from the recent earthquakes, tsunamis and nuclear disasters. If you would like to help, the Red Cross is a good place to start:
www.redcross.org/portal/site/en/menuitem.1a019a978f421296...
I took this photo in Nikko, Japan, last fall.
Continuing my Astro Projection vision...
On one painterly after-sunset the other day, I had an out-of-body and lens experience on cityscapes of Toronto... and have been transported instantly into these cosmic dimensions that mixed all elements together as if it's a painterly whirlpool nebulae if some sort...
...all brought to you by my manual zoom and ICM magic :-)
*Added a thin layer of textures to reinforce the feel, but other than that it's a SOOC image, manual zooming & intentional camera movement during long exposure, no other processing involved.
my life to be continue that even thought my precious person was gone.
the day that untile i could not to remenber,
for what i should to see what i should to do what i should to breath.
It is blossoming again. This particular orchid continues to blossom frequently----as compared to my other orchids.
Whimbrel WHIM (Numenius phaeopus)
& prey item in this case looks to be a
Purple Shore Crab (Hemigrapsus nudus)
Clover Point
Victoria BC
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This individual is obviously getting lots to eat down there..using the reach of its bill to apprehend prey - mostly shore crabs from what i saw
its been at this location for at least a couple of weeks