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All belong to the same faction. The camo on the middle right is a Spetsnaz camo, with my own added twist. It will also go on the right guy. Not sure if I will put it on the legs. The left guys are more desert prepared, so I'm not sure if I should camo them. Knee pads by me.
Soon to be Modern Conflict Standards
-Sphinx
I take notes re: the day and doodle before I go to bed. I can do stuff AFTER the fact so maybe I can still do stickers and stuff - just later
Soon to transfer to Go Ahead London MG using double decks on the 8th December, currently Stagecoach TL
Route 178
Stagecoach
ADL Enviro 200 LX09ACZ
Based At Catford [TL]
First off, I think I need a better Butterfly book, so would love to hear your recommendations.
The closest match I can find in my current book is a Clouded Skipper. However, I am not very confident in the Clouded part. I am pretty confident that it is a Skipper of some variety. Any help would be appreciated.
Another shot in the comment section below.
...in limbo with Canon...DH talking on phone to them now...busy with looking into rental for now. Fingers crossed that all will be well. Hopes up. Back soon...involved with all of this atm.
Taken not long before the big crash yesterday. The camera worked excellently, until it didn't. :)
***LATEST NEWS: Ten days from the time they get it...sooooo...overnight shipping here we come...and probably rental in the meantime...no more buying for my girls...DO hold me to that!
MV St Clare currently sails on the Portsmouth to Fishbourne route operated by Wightlink. She was built in Gdańsk in 2001. From her introduction in 2001 until January 2004, St Clare was the longest ship regularly crossing between the Isle of Wight and the British mainland, but was overtaken by Red Funnel's Red Osprey following that vessel's stretching. St Clare can carry 878 passengers and 186 cars across three vehicle decks. All other vessels operating on the Portsmouth to Fishbourne route carry 771 passengers and 142 cars.
Her service speed is 13 knots, measuring 5,359 gt, with a length of 86 metres, beam of 18 metres and loaded draught of 2.6 metres. The ship has a double-end design, where the ship can travel in both directions, so that when it arrives, the vehicles are always facing the correct direction for disembarkation so she does not have to turn around before docking. Her four 5-cylinder Wartsila diesel engines have a very distinctive exhaust sound, unfortunatley this does plague the ship with excessive vibration.
i wanted to do a lot more with the previous cockfight piece i had done back in january but due to close calls with law enforcement i was unable to do everything i wanted to do. so i decided to re-work this theme on a legal wall i have.
this piece can either be viewed as a statement about the war, or a statement on the oil spill. its open to interpretation.
First currently operate tendered early morning journeys between Sheffield and Stocksbridge on Stagecoach service 57 seven days per week, plus evening and Sunday daytime short workings between Sheffield/Hillsborough and Oughtibridge. The acquisition of this contract in September 2019 marked a return to Stocksbridge as the company had pulled out of the town – home to around 15000 people and situated approximately 10 miles north-west of Sheffield centre – in October 2012 when the 57 was withdrawn and then picked up by Stagecoach. A large factor in this was the success of Stagecoach’s Supertram link services which run between Stocksbridge and Middlewood tram stop, and priority has generally been given to these in recent years as evidenced by the reduction in the 57 frequency from every 20 minutes in its final iteration under First to every 30 initially under Stagecoach to hourly with no Sunday daytime service.
B9TL YN07MKX (37257) is seen here powering through Wharncliffe Side with the 06:45 from Sheffield to Stocksbridge. The 07 plate B9TLs of varying provenance at Olive Grove do not appear to be receiving Sheffield local colours, contrasting both with the other vehicles carrying the original Gemini bodywork which have now all been repainted, and several vehicles of a similar age at Doncaster which have received the red livery applied to vehicles there.
Svenner Lighthouse is a coastal lighthouse in the municipality of Larvik in Vestfold og Telemark, Norway. It was first lit in 1874 on the archipelago Svenner. The current tower was built in 1900.
Tower height 18.7 metres (61 ft)
Focal height 40 metres (130 ft)
Current lens 1st order Fresnel lens
Intensity 101,700 cd
Range 17.8 nmi (33.0 km; 20.5 mi)
maybe its weird but these guys bring me so much joy, and they mean a lot more to me than i could explain
these are my current teegle pet horses, i walked into my house on sl this morning and saw them like this i couldnt help but snap a quick photo.
My current version of the Lego Batman family based on what minifigures I have in my collection currently.
Left to Right: Batwoman, Red Hood (Custom), Batgirl (Barbara Gordon), Red Robin (Mr. Incredible arms and legs), Damian Wayne/Robin, Nightwing, Batman (Rebirth costume), Lucius Fox (It's the purist design TheMooseFigs used for his Lucius Fox, but I used paint on mine), Alfred Pennyworth, Ace the Bathound, Jim Gordon, and Renee Montoya.
Credit to LordAllo for the inspiration for Batman's legs (Work well for his Rebirth costume), and credit to TheMooseFigs for giving me the inspiration for Lucius Fox with the parts he used for his purist Lucius Fox a while back.
Ok, I had like a billion requests for this, so there ya go. Read notes, and the people tagged are showing my new sturf I got today. :3
NO NOTES! :P
All for trade, with the right offer.
Also, I am receiving:
1 x Gunmetal Viewfinder
1 x Gunmetal HLC
1 x Gunmetal Podgun
2 x Gunmetal Tac Sword
1 x Dark Red/Orange/Random Swired Podgun
1 x Cobalt/Trans-Green Swirled Podgun
1 x Black Chakram
1 x GitD/Blue Swirled Raygun
4 x Assorted Camo
1 x Green AC8
1 x Time Bomb
1 x Blue Raygun
1 x Gunmetal Ammo Box + Trans-Red/Bronze Swirled Raygun OR 1 x Gunmetal Grease Gun
1 x Champagne Raygun
1 x Rusty V1 Apoc SMG
1 x Rusty Tac Sword
And some more I can't remember. :3
I also have 8 moar D.O.G. Packs, but they are too big to be in this photo.
And, these notes took FOREVER, you better appreciate them. :3
-White M1 Pot Helmet is gone!
-Champagne Raygun is gone!
-Blue Phaser is reserved!
-Dark Red/Dark Orange/Lime Green/Random Swirled Podgun is reserved, unless you can beat a Gunmetal Kar98 and a GitD Trans-Clear/Milky White Swirled Tac Sword.
-2 Gunmetal Tac Swords reserved!
Qatar Airways is still in the process of wet-leasing Airbus A320's to British Airways which they are in the midst of a Mixed Fleet strike which will continue until 30th August 2017. The airline is also sending Airbus A320's (3 in total) to Royal Air Maroc during the peak summer season.
Currently, British Airways Mixed Fleet cabin crew are expected to finish strike action after 30th August 2017 when the peak summer season has ended. The strike action originally saw 9 Airbus A320's (now down to 8) wet-leased operating selected European short-haul flights. Some low frequency long-haul destinations have been cancelled with passengers rescheduled to partner airlines which operate high frequencies to destinations served by British Airways.
With the strike action continuing apace and soon to end, some airframes have been sent back to Qatar Airways in return for replacement examples, The number of aircraft leased have since reduced to 8 as the S17 peak season nears the end.
Qatar Airways is still able to lease 11 Airbus A320's to both British Airways and Royal Air Maroc as the carrier and Qatar itself are under constant strain from the continued diplomatic crisis across the Persian Gulf and Africa. Qatar is currently petitioning with the ICAO for the flight bans to be lifted against Qatar Airways.
Here is the list of Qatar Airways Airbus A320's on wet-lease to British Airways and Royal Air Maroc:
-British Airways: A7-ADD/E/F/G/H/I/J, LAD
-Royal Air Maroc: A7-LAB/C/E
One of the more interesting examples leased to British Airways is the 2 separate airframes that were originally for Qatar Airways, Saudi Arabian subsidiary Al Maha Airways which has since closed down following struggles to obtain an air operating certificate from Saudi Arabia. The Airbus A320's originally assigned to Al Maha Airways are now operating for Qatar Airways.
Currently, Qatar Airways operates 47 Airbus A320 family aircraft, which includes 2 Airbus A319's, 37 Airbus A320's and 8 Airbus A321's. Qatar Airways have 30 Airbus A320neo's and 16 Airbus A321neo's, but have so far rejected new deliveries of Airbus A320neo's (with initial examples delivered to low-cost carrier, Indigo in India) owing to ongoing issues with the Pratt & Whitney PW1100G engines fitted to the A320neo. The Airbus A320neo is expected to be up-gauged to Airbus A321neo's with CFM Leap-1B engines, and partly replaced by the speculative order for 20 Boeing 737 MAX 8's which has yet to be disclosed and is not confirmed.
Lima Alpha Alpha is one of 37 Airbus A320's in service with Qatar Airways, originally assigned to Al Maha Airways but was never taken up, instead delivered new to Qatar Airways in April 2015 on lease from Pembroke and she is powered by 2 CFM International CFM56-5B4/3 engines. She is no longer on wet-lease to British Airways.
Airbus A320-214(WL) A7-LAA on final approach into Runway 27 at London Heathrow (LHR) on BA949 from Munich-Franz Josef Strauss (MUC).
A scene that has completely changed
Check google maps for the current view from the road bridge in the background
www.google.co.nz/maps/@-36.8707468,174.7787106,3a,75y,6.5...
blustery day, you can really see the wind gusts on the water — and this was a brief moment of relative clarity, otherwise it's all weird brief rain showers on and off… and plenty of building wind
Here's a view of my studio, abode etc. It's way too small , but it will be a great place to get started, with smaller things. I sleep here most nights :))
When the tide ebbs, it exposes sand that has been sculpted into a pattern of infinite variations by the retreating water.
Ocean Park, Washington.
Built 1857-58. Current facade from 1898.
"Mile End is a neighbourhood and municipal electoral district in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Plateau-Mont-Royal borough in terms of Montreal's municipal politics.
Montreal (/ˌmʌntriˈɔːl/ MUN-tree-AWL; officially Montréal, French: [mɔ̃ʁeal]) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill around which the early city of Ville-Marie is built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal, which obtained its name from the same origin as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is 196 km (122 mi) east of the national capital Ottawa, and 258 km (160 mi) southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City.
As of 2021, the city had a population of 1,762,949, and a metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the second-largest city, and second-largest metropolitan area in Canada. French is the city's official language. In 2021, it was spoken at home by 59.1% of the population and 69.2% in the Montreal Census Metropolitan Area. Overall, 85.7% of the population of the city of Montreal considered themselves fluent in French while 90.2% could speak it in the metropolitan area. Montreal is one of the most bilingual cities in Quebec and Canada, with 58.5% of the population able to speak both English and French.
Historically the commercial capital of Canada, Montreal was surpassed in population and in economic strength by Toronto in the 1970s. It remains an important centre of commerce, aerospace, transport, finance, pharmaceuticals, technology, design, education, art, culture, tourism, food, fashion, video game development, film, and world affairs. Montreal is the location of the headquarters of the International Civil Aviation Organization, and was named a UNESCO City of Design in 2006. In 2017, Montreal was ranked the 12th-most liveable city in the world by the Economist Intelligence Unit in its annual Global Liveability Ranking, although it slipped to rank 40 in the 2021 index, primarily due to stress on the healthcare system from the COVID-19 pandemic. It is regularly ranked as a top ten city in the world to be a university student in the QS World University Rankings.
Montreal has hosted multiple international conferences and events, including the 1967 International and Universal Exposition and the 1976 Summer Olympics. It is the only Canadian city to have held the Summer Olympics. In 2018, Montreal was ranked as a global city. The city hosts the Canadian Grand Prix of Formula One; the Montreal International Jazz Festival, the largest jazz festival in the world; the Just for Laughs festival, the largest comedy festival in the world; and Les Francos de Montréal, the largest French-language music festival in the world. It is also home to the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League, who have won the Stanley Cup more times than any other team." - info from Wikipedia.
The fall of 2022 I did my 3rd major cycling tour. I began my adventure in Montreal, Canada and finished in Savannah, GA. This tour took me through the oldest parts of Quebec and the 13 original US states. During this adventure I cycled 7,126 km over the course of 2.5 months and took more than 68,000 photos. As with my previous tours, a major focus was to photograph historic architecture.
Now on Instagram.
Soon there will not be a sunset obove the arctic cirkle.
Picture taken from Hadseløya in Northern Norway
It was the first of the Spanish Missions to honor a female Saint, St. Clare of Assisi, who founded the Poor Clares order of Nuns.
The grounds of the current Mission Santa Clara, sit on the campus of Santa Clara University near my home.
The current Mission built in 1882 and rebuilt after a fire in 1926 has a very typical California Mission look to it, so today we look at Old and Characteristic Buildings.
It had been original built on a site a few miles from here, burned and rebuilt a few hundred yards from here and then finally move to this spot in 1882.
This is the first theme I've chosen of the We're All Here group. I noticed its anniversary was coming up and the date was still open. Then I had to find a group in which a picture of it could fit into the theme of that group.
Each of the 21 Spanish Missions in California is unique, but they all have a typical look to them. Having been rebuilt in the 1926, this one looks much more modern than some, but still has the basic architectural theme of the all the missions.
WAH - Old and Characteristic Buildings
We are currently visiting the Benedictine abbey of Fleury in the small town of Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, not far from the city of Orléans. There are at least two reasons why this abbey is famous worldwide among Mediævalists and beyond: an architectural reason, and a historical one.
The architectural reason is the presence of the enormous and splendid tower-porch built under Abbot Gauzlin, whose abbacy ran from 1004 to 1030. It is a wonder of Romanesque architecture and art.
The historical reason, which makes this abbey even more unique, is that it houses the bones of saint Benoît, Saint Benedict in English, the founder and father of all monasticism in the Western World. Benoît, born Benedetto around 480 in Umbria, founded the Monte Cassino monastery in 529 and died there in 547. His Rule remains to this day the governing law of all Benedictine monasteries worldwide.
Around 580, the monastery on Monte Cassino was destroyed by a Lombard raid. The place was left deserted and utterly unoccupied for more than a century. In the late 600s, the abbot of Fleury, who had heard about the desertion and the fact that neither the remains of Saint Benedict, nor those of Saint Scholastica, his sister who had been buried with him, were properly honored, sent out a search-and-rescue party of monks led by Aygulf. They went to Cassino, discovered the resting place of the saints among the ruins of the abandoned monastery, and brought them back to France in 703. The bones of saint Benoît remained to this day in Fleury, while those of Scholastica went to the cathedral in Le Mans.
Some Italians, of course, disagree and claim that the bones of the saint never left Cassino. You will even find some modern-day internet websites that claim it! Having researched the question quite extensively, and read in particular a comprehensive (150 pages!) memoir published in 1882 by R.P. Dom François Chamard, osb, a brother of the abbey of Ligugé, my opinion is that the bones of saint Benoît were indeed transported to France (19th-century forensic examination of the bones goes in the same direction), even though a few of them may have inadvertently been left in the tomb at Cassino because they were not properly identified as human bones. Some of them were also given back to the Monte Cassino monks who had come to Fleury around 750 to ask for them once the decision had been made to rebuild the monastery there.
The abbey is on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
In the Middle Ages, people from the outside, whether they be parishioners from the village or visitors of the abbey, gained entrance into the church via the northern portal, which was on the side of the hostelry. The monastic enclosure with the cloister was on the southern side.
The northern portal is dominated by a splendid tympanum, amazingly sculpted probably during the 1100s. Traces of old polychromy are very visible. I will show several closeup views of details of that portal over the coming days, as they are worth examining.
Current Artifacts Abstract - The final image in a set of four showing abstract views of a laundromat glass door with weathered, faded, cracked and peeling adhesive signs. And old paper sign was pasted on top from the outside to show hours.
I'm thinking I won't be keeping the 200-600. It just hasn't wow'ed me out of the gate like the 100-400GM did. I am also considering selling the Sigma 24-70 and the Sony 85mm 1.8 and getting the 50mm GM and going pretty much prime-only except for the Sigma 14-24 and the 100-400GM on the extreme ends. I rarely use the 24-70 anymore and the 85 is collecting dust since I got the 135 GM.
Pictured:
Sony a7, a7RII, a7RIII, a7RIV
Sony FE 200-600mm G, 100-400mm GM, 135mm GM, 85mm, 24mm GM, Sigma DG DN Art 24-70mm, 14-24mm, Voigtlander 15mm f/4.5 Heliar III, Super Takumar 50mm f/1.4, Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar 58mm f/2