View allAll Photos Tagged Course
Of course no Alice in Wonderland party would be complete without a tea party.
Christy's kid Maisey (my wife's niece) celebrated her 4th birthday recently. As you will see in this short series, it was all about Alice and her Wonderland friends.
Photo geek note: Those who know me well will know that I have always had a special love for classic looking compact manual cameras (they are virtually silent, unobtrusive and people seem generally less uncomfortable with having it pointed at them---unlike modern SLRs---I know because I own several of those too). After many years I have finally found a compact camera that I think is acceptable for the demands I require from a camera---enough to actually spend my money on one. This series was all shot on my new compact.
U.S. Soldiers in the South Carolina National Guard's 4-118th Infantry Regiment, 30th Armored Brigade Combat Team, conduct tryouts on the obstacle course for air assault school at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, Dec. 21, 2019. The unit is deployed for Operation Spartan Shield in the Middle East and is offering schools to Soldiers who want to continue professional development. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Maj. David House)
After almost a year of worrying medical problems which are ongoing for Brian it was so good to at last get out with the camera and just see what was around.
We were more than pleased to find these tiny birds in a ‘hot spot’ that we know and where Brian can sit and I just stand and hope they turn up.
When they do of course they are never still making photography a real challenge but on this late October day we were happy just to be out and for me to have a few clicks.
Young NCOs learn leadership skills, graduate corporals course
Sergeant Maj. Troy E. Black, battalion sergeant major, Combat Logistics Battalion 5, Combat Logistics Regiment 1, 1st Marine Logistics Group, presents Cpl. Michael M. Estes with his diploma during the 1st MLG corporals course graduation ceremony aboard Camp Pendleton, Calif., April 19, 2013. Estes was the honor graduate for 1st MLG’s corporals course. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Kenneth Jasik/Released)
More photos: dvidshub.net/r/p2p7yh
Follow us on www.facebook.com/1stMarineLogisticsGroup
Ok... its official. Full details are up and registration is now open on my SketchingNow site.
www.sketchingnow.com/foundations-course/
Please pop over to find out all about it.
I am excited beyond words - I can't believe that after months and months of serious planning, developing my idea and then putting it all together...it is up! I have thought for a long time about what I would most like to do with an online class - and how could I make it so it was the closest to my weekly sketching classes. And well the SketchingNow idea is the result - a concept a week - slow paced - fresh content based on local sketching adventures as I explored my beautiful home town of Sydney.
Now that all the back-of-house stuff is up - the good stuff can start. Pulling all the core content together (it has been sitting waiting for me for months) and ... working out what parts of Sydney I will go and doing some serious cafe research. So... which comes first? Making a decision on the suburb because of it character or collating a list of the top cafes of Sydney and working around that? ....Ah! such important planning to come! No seriously, this course is NOT about sitting in cafes drinking tea - it does have an important supporting role - but SketchingNow Foundations is all about explaining my core concepts and then applying them to sketching out on the streets.
Anyway - I will be sharing my preparations here on my blog (as always!)... but today I am getting ready for a real life 2-day workshop in The Rocks starting tomorrow, doing illustration work and somehow trying to find a little time to get up to date with my daily sketching.
Oh! and a big thank you for all those that have already registered... It is very exciting to have a number of you so keen to sign up straight away like that!
Only 5 weeks to go till it starts - personally I can't wait... but I know that it will come around really soon for me.
Members from 426 Transport Training Squadron, 8 Wing Trenton, in conjunction with 450 Tactical Helicopter Squadron, participate in the Canadian Medical Emergency Response Team Course 2201, at Garrison Petawawa, 23 June 2022.
Please credit: Cpl Melissa Gloude, Canadian Armed Forces photo
~
Des membres du 426e Escadron d’entraînement au transport de la 8e Escadre Trenton, en collaboration avec le 450e Escadron tactique d’hélicoptères, participent au cours 2201 de l’Équipe médicale d’intervention d’urgence du Canada à la Garnison Petawawa, le 23 juin 2022.
Photo : Cpl Melissa Gloude, Forces armées canadiennes
Soldiers on the Urban Operation course conduct tactical breaching to include the use of ballistic breaching with Remington 12-gauge shotguns, transition drills between rifle and pistol as well as modified firing positions, at the Infantry School Combat Training Center, 5th Canadian Division Support Base (5 CDSB) Gagetown, New Brunswick, on 15 April 2022.
Please credit: Cpl Dave Michaud, Infantry School CTC, Canadian Armed Forces photo
~
Des soldats participant au cours d’opérations urbaines effectuent des ouvertures de brèches tactiques, notamment en utilisant la technique d’ouverture de brèche balistique au moyen de fusils de chasse Remington de calibre 12, en exécutant des exercices de transition entre le fusil et le pistolet, ainsi qu’en adoptant des positions de tir modifiées, à l’École d’infanterie du Centre d’instruction au combat, situé à la Base de soutien de la 5e Division du Canada (BS 5 Div CA) Gagetown, au Nouveau-Brunswick, le 15 avril 2022.
Photo : Cpl Dave Michaud, École d’infanterie, CIC, Forces armées canadiennes
It's not too late to book your spot at my Waist cake workshop next Sunday!! Limited spots left.
$100 and you supply your own tools and materials
$200 for full package. I supply the materials and use of my tools.
There will be a small break for lunch. Please feel free to bring a small bite to help keep caking energy up!!
Contact me here on facebook or at andreassweetcakes@gmail.com for more details.
Or I have the classes posted on my Ecwid store. Follow the link to buy a $100 class spot. Contact me directly if you require a full package.
app.ecwid.com/jsp/2774017/simple-store#!/~/category/id=88...
Hope to see you there!
Andrea's SweetCakes
it is my pleasure to let you know that i am appointed as a faculty to conduct 'n guide the said course, in the horticulture 'n forestry department of navsari agricultural college.
see my fav NATURE & WILDLIFE related images here
I've also splashed out on some Cervin stockings. Metaphorially, of course, although the temptation was there.
(further pictures and information and even a guide 3D you can see by clicking on the link at the end of page!)
Good day in our parish church of St. Stephan!
The patron saint of our church, which probably is one of the oldest and most beautiful buildings of Amstetten, leads us - as in all Stephan parishes - to Passau. Beginning of the 11th Century founded the bishops of Passau here a large parish, from which in the course of history many of the surrounding parishes emerged.
From the architectural history of the Gothic church (Staffelkirche - multi-aisled church building) we know:
To a Romanesque building which in its dimensions comprised about today's nave and possessed a smaller choir in the 14th Century initially a chapel has been added. It was already at that time consecrated to Our ​​Lady of Sorrows and is now the front part of the northern aisle, where the Marian altar stands. The next phase of construction was the newbuilding of the nave together with the north aisle. The tower whose lower part certainly stems from the predecessor building, since then stood freely added to the west side of the church. In the south it was only built up as the aisle was raised. Around 1450 it was decided to build up the tower in the north, too - so today's baptistery was built. The reconstruction of the church was completed by a late Gothic choir, dominating the nave by a few meters. To the new choir connects in extension of the southern aisle the sacristy. The tower, which was 1787-89 increased and provided with a Baroque helmet, received in 1882 its present neo-Gothic form. Its height up to the pommel of the Cross is 43 m.
Of the equipment of the church the altars, neo-Gothic carvings are remarkable. The high altar is from the South Tyrolean artist Franz Schmalzl from Ortisei, who designed it in 1898 and set it up in 1901: In the middle shrine one sees the martyrdom of St. Stephen, left the statues of Sts. Peter, Lawrence and above John the Baptist, right Sts. Florian, Paul and John the Evangelist above it . Above the shrine the Sts. Joachim (left) and Anna (right) are to see between them is the late Gothic statue of St. Maria, at the very top the Holy Josef is shown. The arrangement of the figures of saints coincides with that of the previous Baroque altar that the from Innsbruck stemming, here domiciled carpenter Thomas Obererlacher had built in 1679. From this altar have been preserved the statues of Sts. Peter, Paul and Joseph (at the columns in the nave), and of St. Lawrence (under the choir).
The side altars 1889 Josef Kepplinger from Ottenheim has designed and realized: In May 1889, the Lady altar in the left aisle with the statue of St. Mary of Lourdes, flanked by angels, including the figures of Sts. John of Nepomuk (left) and Rocco (right), at the very top a statue of Christ, could be consecrated. At the right side altar, who received its consecration in February 1891, the Sacred Heart of Jesus statue is at the center, the side figures represent the Sts. Christopher and Thomas (left ) and Sebastian and Nicholas (right).
The people's altar (Volksaltar) is from the former high altar of the parish church of St. Georgen i. d. Klaus, manufactured ​​in 1886 by Josef Unterberger from Gmunden .
The wood sculpture "Christ on the Column of flagellation" in a niche in the pointed arch next to the right side altar dates from the 17th Century.
In remarkable images has got our Church: The "Assumption of St. Nicholas" by Bartolomeo Altomonte, signed in 1732 (in the sanctuary left), the "Fourteen Holy Helpers", by Johann Georg Staindorffer, painted in 1680, and the "Trinity picture" from the Baroque high altar (in the sanctuary right). The Stations of the Cross, the painter of Seitenstetten Anton August Stern has painted in the years 1869-1872, which it has, like the signature on the 14th Station proves, modeled after the Führich Stations of the Cross in St. John Nepomuk Church in Vienna.
Since the exterior renovation in 1975, the beautiful grave stones, until then exposed outdoors to any kind of weather conditions, in the Church and in the baptistery have been set up. Among them is also that of Andreas of Lappitz www.wehrbauten.at/noe/niederoesterreich.html?/noe/leiben/....
The old organ is the work of Ottenheimer master Leopold Breinbauer, who in 1898 built it into the baroque housing of the 1763 by Lorenz Franz Richter of Freistadt constructed old organ. It has 2 manuals, 20 stops and 1387 pipes. Since 2011 the church has a new virtual organ whose console is set up in the sanctuary. It has 4 manuals and can the organs of Haverhill (GB), Zwolle (NL) and Caen (F) reproduce.
Finally, taking a look at the baptistery next to the tower is worthwhile. The 12-sided baptismal font dates from the 15th century. The neo-gothic attachment, designed by the same master as the side altars, houses a representation of the Holy Trinity. The half reliefs show biblical scenes of salvation from the water. On the inside of the attachment wings Ludwig Hase from Linz has painted two biblical baptisms. The frescoes vestiges on the walls and ceiling, set around 1480, indicate representations of the Gospels symbols, the Last Judgement, the souls in purgatory and parts of the Ursula Legend. The mural paintings are pointing to the original use as a mortuary chapel. The two modern concrete glass windows, created by Albert Birkle 1964, show the following motives: the sevenfold Outpourring of the Holy Spirit on the Church (in the North) and the lamb on the book with the seven seals (in the west).
In a canopy at the western exterior of the church the fresco "The Last Judgment" can be seen (around 1480).
Of the 4 bells with the notes C, E, G and A (Salve regina) dates the oldest one from 1728, cast by Silvius Creuz in Linz. The other three were produced in St. Florian 1957.
Alien build for Andromeda's Gates on Eurobricks. See the story here:
www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?s=5a3484d5da4965bcbc67...
NOTE: You are not permitted to use this image for any purposes without contacting me first.
The private course built by jeweller Michael Hill will host the Open for the next three years in a deal that will be music to the ears of the sport's stakeholders.
After losing almost $1.2 million in two years, and four days after revealing a $695,472 loss on the 2006 edition of the Open, New Zealand Golf has handed over the financial risk or reward of the event to Australian promoter Tuohy Associates NZ. European and Australasian co-sanctioning will be retained, but already the balance sheet looks brighter for what will be New Zealand's 100th national open.
Hill has generously waved the six-figure venue fee that had been attached to Gulf Harbour and Bob Tuohy has already predicted this year's event will break even.
But while there can be no doubt the first South Island Open since 1985 has the potential to restore the tournament's tarnished image, and NZG's balance sheet, there will be some uncertainty about the venue.
Hill is the sole member of his private Arrowtown course and aside from his close friends and a small group of New Zealand's top players, few have played the course.
Recently completed after five years in the making, it will have no track record come November, but Turner, a former European PGA professional, said any concerns were unfounded.
"I went and had a hit with Michael (Hill) a few weeks ago and I can tell you it's a true championship course. It's going to be a real test," he said yesterday. "It's difficult, there's lots of water, lots of tussock and undulating greens."
Turner said it would provide the players with a unique challenge and believed it would draw good crowds despite being outside Auckland for the first time since 2002.
"I can't think of anything like it in New Zealand. It's unusual. It's a lot of rock out crops and tussock grass. I think it will be a really good venue. I think a lot of people will come. The Queenstown area is rising right now, but also I think people will come from Invercargill and Dunedin and possibly from Christchurch as well."
Hill said there had been enough feedback to allay any fears the course would not meet PGA standards.
"All the top New Zealand players have had a crack. Phil Tataurangi was first and he gave a lot of advice, then Greg Turner in the early stages too."
Their main advice had been to lengthen the course to combat technology, but they had been more than happy with the layout, he said.
"One hole is over 600 yards all up hill into the wind, so it will be quite a challenge."
Hill said it was a "thinking man's course" with many holes providing players with two options.
"You can go over the bunker, which is harder, but you get a kick down the hill. Several holes are split in two where you can go for the green over waterways or vile swamps, or go around the fairway, which is longer, but more conservative."
He had no plans to host any other tournaments on the course and believed the "curiosity value" created by keeping it closed to the public would enhance the appeal of the Open.
The 2007 tournament will be held from 29 November to 2 December, following the co-sanctioned MasterCard Masters in Melbourne with Kiwi No1 Michael Campbell the official tournament ambassador.
It will be up to Campbell, Tuohy and Hill to leverage Queenstown's tourist appeal to both players and the pubic alike. If successful, New Zealand's premier golf tournament could again become a jewel in the country's sporting crown.
[text courtesy The Dominion Post]
NOTE: You are not permitted to use this image for any purposes without contacting me first.
One of the holes at Chambers Bay Golf Course in University Place, Washington, which will be host to the 2010 US Amateur Open and the 2015 US Open! I'm so excited about that :-D
This is a 3 exposure (-2, 0, 2 ) hand-held HDR processed with Photomatix Pro and PhotoShop Elements 3.
Taken yesterday in-between the rain showers that we had all day!
Stay Safe and Healthy Everyone!
Thanks to everyone who views this photo, adds a note, leaves a comment and of course BIG thanks to anyone who chooses to favourite my photo .... Thanks to you all!
Road locomotive.
In 1895, Marcel Berliet was one of the pioneers of the motor car before achieving fame with his lorries. His cars quickly impressed in major events like the Targa Florio and the Tourist Trophy. This 6-litre machine is similar to the winner of the 1908 Targa Bologna in the hands of the fir's test driver, Porporato.
9.700 cc
4 in-line
The Sports and Racing Chain Drive Cars
Private Collection
Chantilly Arts & Elegance Richard Mille
Château de Chantilly
Chantilly
France - Frankrijk
September 2017
I saw three layers in the morning. The trees in front, the mist behind the trees and of course the Endless Mts.
Taken near Tunkhannock, Pa
www.cleverprime.com // Facebook
Chris and Sean, head designers and owners of fashion house www.void-of-course.com/
U.S. Air Force Academy - - Basic Cadets from the class of 2023 complete the assault course here on July 22, 2019. The assault course is part of phase two of basic cadet training which takes place out at Jack's Valley. (U.S. Air Force photo/Darcie L. Ibidapo)
Me, Phil Edye, and Robert Mitchell, proudly stand before one of the few Holdens loaned by the local Hornsby Holden Dealership, for our two week Driver Education Course.
We were going to be tracked by Dr. Ian Henderson?? of the UNSW driver safety unit for years. I'm still alive, with an accident free record, apart from one little dingle from a spin-out on the Jenolan dirt road on a later caving trip in Mum's Standard.
www.flickr.com/photos/spelio/4654064075/ and a clean police record!!
We were taught there are no such things as "accidents"..
Always be in the right gear at the right place at the right speed at the right time! RMLAID
See also "Car Driving as an Art" by SCH Davis of the Autocar. and
"Roadcraft" The Police Drivers' Manual" by HM stationary Office
both presented to me by Eric T. Izard for "Highest marks for Driver Education Theory"
I must not have been as good at the practical, they didn't teach fast driving on winding mountain dirt roads to Jenolan Caves!!
Then I got a Beetle and learnt all about oversteer on gravel roads, on many caving trips around NSW and WA.
An article I cut out from the Canberra Times of 6-3-85
Driving Tip of the Week
A defensive driver is one who drives in a manner to prevent accidents, regardless of other drivers' faulty driving or non-compliance with traffic laws; one who is careful not to commit any driving errors himself and makes makes allowances for the lack of skill or judgement, or for an improper attitude on the part of another driver, one that does not allow hazards of weather, road conditions, absence of signs or signals to involve him in a collision or dangerous situation.
A defensive driver is prepared for the unexpected at intersections, from parked cars, where reversing, sudden stops by others or darting pedestrians. He is not caught in that last-second futile attempt to avoid an accident. He has a plan for his own and others' safety. This plan involves the ever-changing situations faced on the road.
He learns to overcome personal inadequacies and those of the vehicle. He studies the environment for hazards that cannot be eliminated, but which must be compensated for.
A defensive driver can arrive at a destination having experienced the minimum number of incidents.
Paul Glover, Motoring Writer in the Canberra Times
also wrote an article titled....
"No such thing as an accident"
Is there such a thing as a road accident?
Not a crash, or a collision, or an impact, or a head-on, but a genuine accident. An incident, perhaps fatal, which qualifies as a pure accident.
The sort of event where no-one is really to blame, and where fate or luck or whatever is the only explanation for a crazy out-of-kilter happening....
He goes on to explain why the road safety experts don't think so....
I wish the the press and NRMA would stop calling them accidents...
Craven Arms Railway Station in the village of Craven Arms, Shropshire.
Until 1974 it was known as Craven Arms and Stokesay Station, named after the nearby coaching inn (the town having not come into being prior to the arrival of the railways) and the historic settlement of Stokesay to the south. It is situated at the junction of the Welsh Marches Line and the Heart of Wales Line, 20 miles (32 km) south of Shrewsbury. All passenger trains calling at the station are operated by Arriva Trains Wales, who also manage it.
The station has two platforms, connected by a footbridge. Platform 1, on the west side, serves northbound trains to Shrewsbury and beyond as well as trains both to and from Swansea via the Heart of Wales Line. Platform 2, on the town side of the station, serves southbound trains to Hereford and Cardiff.
The Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway company was the first to serve the town, arriving from the north in 1852 and completing its route through to Hereford the following year. The Knighton Railway constructed the first of the three branches from the main line between 1858 and 1861. The second branch was that of the Bishops Castle Railway which arrived in 1865 via a junction with the main line about 1 km to the north, whilst the route from Much Wenlock was completed by the Wenlock, Craven Arms and Lightmoor Extension railway in 1867 (joining the main line a few miles north of the town at Marsh Farm Junction). The LNWR and Great Western Railway jointly leased the main line in 1862, whilst the modest Knighton branch would eventually be extended right through to Swansea by the LNWR over the course of the next decade. The Bishop's Castle branch, which spent its entire existence in receivership closed in 1935. The Much Wenlock line by contrast would remain little altered throughout its life, although the GWR did take control of it soon after opening; its passenger trains ceased in 1951.
Between 1865 and 1935, Craven Arms was the junction terminus of the Bishop's Castle Railway. There was also a junction serving the line that went to Wellington via Much Wenlock. Adjacent to the station once stood the now demolished carriage sheds. There continues to be a signal box at Craven Arms, to the north of the station by the level crossing.
Of course the very first dragonfly I see this year I'm able get a shot of would land on the walkway right in front of me instead of the gazillion plants and flowers growing all around.
But not to be deterred, I got down on one knee and got as close as possible before he decided the camera was just a tad too close and took off.
Seen right outside the Cecil B Day Butterfly Center at Callaway Gardens.