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Direct Rail Services Class 37/4's No's: 37422 TnT 37405 are seen arriving into Norwich with 2P17 Great Yarmouth - Norwich Loco Hauled Short Set - 22nd December 2017
Here I am comparing seeing the window by direct (reflected) light, versus backlighting (transmitted light). First in in a room brightly lit by morning sunlight, then against a window with indirect sunlight shining through it, then reversed window with transmitted light. Front lit, you can see the molding on the frame much better, and the black dividing lines give the window a three dimensional look, but it looks like a painting rather than a stained glass window. Back lit, it looks much more like a stained glass window. By indirect sunlight, the colors are muted compared to the front lit window, and it looses the three dimensional aspect, as the frame and dividing lines are now flat looking. It looks much more like a stained glass window now. Finally, another shot of the window with direct sunlight shining through it.
I just received the Beauty and the Beast Window Replica from the Disney Store. It is part of the Art of Disney Theme Parks Collection. It came in a large carton that was long and wide but thin, 28'' x 18'' x 4''. It weighed in at 10 pounds, with the item itself weighing a hefty 7 pounds. It was very well packaged in a styrofoam padded box. The window was in perfect condition, except for a very small unpainted spot near the top of the rose, which I didn't notice until I held it up to the light.
Despite what the Disney Store description says, the replica is actually made of glass, not resin. It is a single pane of thick glass that is painted over, divided into sections by a thick black material. A real stained glass window would be made of sections of differently colored pieces of glass that are held together by lead. Since this replica is actually made of glass, and the paint is a relatively thin coat, it is translucent and looks very much like real stained glass when back lit. The colors are very bright and applied very evenly, except for a small bald spot that I mentioned earlier. It comes with hanging hardware, but I don't think I will actually hang it on a wall. Instead I will simply prop it up against a wall, when I find a good spot to put it. I don't have a Beauty and the Beast nook yet, but I may have to create one in order to display this amazing work of art properly.
Beauty and the Beast Window Replica
US Disney Store
Disney Parks Merchandise
Released online October 7, 2013
$150.00
Item No. 7509055880262P
Tale old as time
Let the light of a happy ending brighten your home decorating with this resin replica of a stained glass window from the epilogue of Disney's Beauty and the Beast.
Magic in the details...
Created especially for Walt Disney World Resort
• Replica ''stained glass'' window
• Bas relief sculptured filigree frame
• Celebrating the New Fantasyland at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom
The bare necessities
• Resin
• 23 1/2'' H x 13'' W x 1'' D
• Imported
Direct Rail Services Class 37/4 37401 'Mary Queen of Scots' diesel-electric locomotive is seen departing from Seascale railway station on the Cumbrian coast line with Northern's 2C41 the 14:37 Barrow-in-Furness to Carlisle passenger service.
Further experimentation on slowing down and sitting in one relative position and looking around me (360 project) with the Horseman Woodman 4x5 Field camera. "Film" was the Harman Direct Positive paper, exposed at EI1.5, derived from the Minolta spot meter using EI12 metering and calculating three stop increased exposure. I don't pre-flash due to trying to capture the paper negative as is, and develop in Dektol. Met another photographer during this exercise, who was into medium format, but had not heard of direct positive paper, which I convinced him to at least give a shot if he was going to experiment. Thanks for the inspiration from our flickeranian community - keep motivating us all!
Rail Operations Group hire Direct Rail Services (DRS) class 57 locomotive number 57310 named "Pride of Cumbria" for another in a series of class 375 drags. This class 57 is fitted with Swedish-made drop-head Dellner couplers allowing the locomotive to directly connect with the EMU. On this occation it works 5Z58 on 18 July 2015 to haul Southeasterns Electrostar number 375302 from Ramsgate EMUD to Derby Adtranz Litchurch Lane for a clean and repaint.
It was also photographed earlier on route by Ryan Webb at Ramsgate EMUD, by Lewis Smith passing Gillingham Depot, and later on route by DarloRich2009 at Fenny Stratford.
Southeastern's class 375 Electrostar electric multiple unit (EMU) number 375302 comprised of coaches 67922, 74352 and 67932 is owned by and leased from Eversholt Rail Group (formerly HSBC Rail). 375302 was built by Bombardier Transportation (previously ADtranz) assembled at Litchurch Lane Works, Derby between 2001 and 2002 the traction motors, train control and communications equipment having been manufactured at Vasteras, Sweden.
According to Realtime Trains the route and timings were;
Ramsgate E.M.U.D. [XRE].......1541........................1539..........................2E
Rm Mk Ext Dept Mgate End...1541 1/2..................1540...........................1E
Margate [MAR] 3.......................1549 1/2................1548 1/4.....................1E
Herne Bay [HNB] 1....................1601........................1558 3/4...................2E
Whitstable [WHI] 1.....................1605.......................1602..........................2E
Faversham [FAV] 2...................1613 1/2/1613 1/2..1611 1/2/1612 3/4....RT
Sittingbourne [SIT] 1.................1620 1/2................1618 1/4.....................2E
Rainham [RAI] 1..........................1631........................1628..........................2E
Gillingham [GLM] 2...................1637.......................1638...........................1L
Chatham [CTM] 1.......................1639.......................1641 1/2.....................2L
Rochester [RTR] 2.....................1640.......................1642 3/4...................2L
Rochester Bridge Jn................1642 1/2................1645..........................2L
Sole Street [SOR] 1....................1654.......................1652..........................2E
Fawkham Junction ..................1656 1/2................1656 3/4..................RT
Swanley [SAY] 3........................1702.......................1704 3/4...................2L
St Mary Cray Junction.............1706 1/2.................1707 1/2.....................1L
Bickley Junction[XLY]..............1707 1/2.................1708 1/2.....................1L
Bromley South [BMS]...............1710 1/2..................1710 1/2....................RT
Shortlands [SRT]........................1712 1/2..................1711 1/2.....................RT
Shortlands Junction.................1713........................1712 3/4...................RT
Bellingham [BGM].....................1716........................1715 1/4....................RT
Nunhead [NHD] 1......................1722.......................1720...........................1E
Peckham Rye [PMR] 3.............1724.......................1721 3/4....................2E
Crofton Road Junction............1725.......................1723 3/4....................1E
Denmark Hill [DMK] 1...............1726.......................1724..........................2E
Voltaire Road Junction............1730.......................1729...........................1E
Latchmere Junction.................1737 1/2.................1739...........................1L
Imperial Wharf [IMW] 2............1740 1/2.................1740 1/2...................RT
West Brompton [WBP] 4..........1742 1/2.................1742.........................RT
Kensington Olympia ...............1745 1/2.................1744...........................1E
Shepherds Bush [SPB] 2.........1747 1/2.................1746...........................1E
North Pole Signal Vc813.........1751........................1748..........................2E
North Pole Junction.................1751 1/2..................1748..........................3E
Mitre Bridge Junction..............1752 1/2.................1750..........................2E
Willesden West Ldn Jn............1753 1/2.................1751 1/4.....................2E
Willesden Sudbury Jn..............1758 1/2.................1757 3/4..................RT
Wembley Central 5..................1818........................1816...........................2E
Harrow & Wealdstone 5..........1822 1/2................1821............................1E
Watford Junction 8...................1831 1/2..................1830...........................1E
Apsley [APS] 3...........................1840.......................1839 1/4...................RT
Hemel Hempstead 3................1842.......................1841 1/2....................RT
Bourne End Junction...............1843 1/2.................1842 1/2...................RT
Berkhamsted [BKM] 3..............1847.......................1846.........................RT
Tring [TRI] 3................................1852 1/2................1850 3/4....................1E
Cheddington [CED] 3...............1856.......................1854 1/4.....................1E
Ledburn Junction[XOD]..........1857 1/2.................1855 1/4....................2E
Leighton Buzzard 3..................1859 1/2................1857 1/2.....................1E
Bletchley [BLY] 3.......................1906.......................1905...........................1E
Fenny Stratford [FEN]..............1910 1/2.................1907 1/2....................2E
Bow Brickhill [BWB]..................1912........................1910............................1E
Woburn Sands [WOB]..............1914 1/2..................1911 1/2......................2E
Aspley Guise [APG]..................1916........................1913...........................2E
Ridgmont [RID]..........................1918........................1914 1/4.....................3E
Lidlington [LID]..........................1924.......................1917...........................6E
Millbrook (Bedfordshire) .........1929/1959............1920/NoRep...........9E
Stewartby [SWR].......................2001.......................1921 1/2.................39E
Bedford St Johns [BSJ] 1.........2006.....................1931 1/4..................34E
Bedford [BDM] 2.......................2009.....................1934.......................34E
Bedford North Junction..........2010.......................1935.......................34E
Sharnbrook Junction...............2018/2055...........NoRep/2001........54E
Wellingborough [WEL] 1..........2104 1/2................2010.......................54E
Kettering [KET] 4.......................2113........................2017 1/2.................55E
Market Harborough 1...............2121 1/2.................2026 3/4..............54E
Derby [DBY] CS1.......................2257......................2145.......................72E
Direct Rail Services Class 57312 "Solway Princess" leads 1Z56 London Victoria - Kingscote through the tranquil settings of the old Riddlesdown Quarry with Class 57305 "Northern Princess" on the rear of the train
4E49 Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal Victa Westlink Rail To Doncaster Marshgate Sidings Fastline Freight Passing Through Stenson Junction
Direct Rail Services Class 37/4 37409 'Lord Hinton' diesel-electric locomotive at Nethertown on the Cumbrian coast railway line with Northern's 2C46 the 09:03 Carlisle to Barrow-in-Furness passenger service.
Direct Rail Services Class 37/4 37409 'Lord Hinton' diesel-electric locomotive departs from Carlisle Citadel railway station on the west coast mainline pushing Northern's 2C34 the 14:33 Carlisle to Barrow-in-Furness passenger service.
Direct Rail Services Kingmoor Depot seen through the 'knitting' on Tuesday 4th February 2014 as Driver Mike Wylie makes up the stock for the 5Z69 Carlisle-Crewe test train with 47853 'Rail Express'. The class 68 No.68002 is still lurking within the shed building, road 1, at this time. The class 47 (Brush Type 4) was delivered new to Newport Ebbw Junction shed (86A) in June 1964 as D1733 and bearing the unique 'XP64' Turquoise-Blue livery, with the now famous 'arrow' or 'barbed wire' logo affixed to all four cabsides with a red background. This was soon removed after publicity photographs had been taken. The official launch of 'XP64' did not take place until May 1964 ,but the livery was ultimately rejected by the BRB. When the new BR image was finalised the shade of blue chosen, known as 'Monastral Blue', was darker than 'XP64' and the last nine locos outshopped from Brush at Loughborough (D1953-61) duly appeared in this colour from new. Today the celebrity loco wears a rather different shade of blue again. It is quite fitting that this loco, alos in the public eye in its day, should be chosen to drag the new class 68 to Carlisle station on its inaugural journey on the main line.
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I took this a week too early for the utata weekend project "lines", but it would have fit the bill, being a poster for a regular air line.
I had to take it at an angle to avoid the reflections of lamps in the glass - it's on display at the history museum, Musée d'Histoire de Lausanne.
The two main roads leading down from the airport to the city centre are still there (Plaines du Loup and Avenue du Grey). All the greenery in between is now covered in apartment blocks apart from the football fields which are now being built on, too. But what I love is that my street is there, with some old houses on it - possibly the one that was demolished for my building.
The red airport buildings on the right have mostly been replaced by modern ones; those on the left have gone; that whole area is being developed as a huge sports centre.
"The Palace of Trade Unions in Na Perštýně Street is absolutely exceptional, basically Neo-Classical, with cubist elements in décor and rich relief and sculptural decoration."
This Cubist-style building designed by Alois Dryák was built in 1920-1922. The address is Bartolomějská 347/14, Na Perštýně 347/11.
Alois Dryák: Double anniversary of the architect
(article for The Old Prague Club Bulletin 3/2002)
Alois Dryák
* 24. 2. 1872
† 22. 1. 2001
Alois Dryák is not as well-known as Kotěra or Gočár, although he is a contemporaneous person, and in terms of quantity and quality of realized buildings, he is equal. The main reason why it is hardly known is that he did not teach and was not the initiator of avant-garde news. Yet he was an architect of modern and extraordinarily active even in civic life. From today's post-modern point of view, Dryák's work is of an unusual size, in particular because his buildings, mostly in the original state of roofs and facades, have always retained their traditional character. This sense of thoroughness and quality and the context with the architecture of previous ages has recently been a model and a starting point for overcoming modernity.
Alois Dryák was born in the countryside on 24 February 1872 in Olšany near Slaný. Soon he came to Prague (1886) to study at an art school. He is one of the best pupils of Professor Bedřich Ohmann (along with B. BendImayer) in the specialty for decorative architecture. That is why he is also a continuator of the project of the oldest surviving Art Nouveau building in Prague - Hotel Central in Hybernská Street from 1899. He begins to work as an assistant at secondary vocational schools and at the Academy of Arts. It is also an active falcon. His interest in public affairs is evidenced by his signature at a protest action against the demolition of the Old Town of Prague, the so-called Bestia Triumphans (1896).
At that time he begins his work, in which - especially in the number of proposals and participation in competitions - overtakes Kotěr and Gočár. He also conducts his own business, together with Bendlmayer, owns an architectural studio in Moran under Charles Square. From that time, the design for the Rudolfinum Fountain Competition was awarded the first prize. In his projects, he develops Ohmann's direction from the Neo-Renaissance to the Art Nouveau style. From this peak of his Art Nouveau period (which occurs during the competition at the Municipal House in 1906) comes the project of villas in Dykova Street in Vinohrady, still somewhat neo-Renaissance, and in V Pětidomí Street in Bubeneč with Art Nouveau gables and details.
In 1905 Dryák and Bendlmayer rebuilt the Hotel U Archduke Stepan on Wenceslas Square (later Šroubek, today Europe). While Dryák designed the neighboring slender Hotel Garni (today Meran) in the style of plant art nouveau in 1903, Bendlmayer is already moving inside the U Archduke Stephen's Hotel to a geometric art nouveau modeled on Jan Kotěra's modernism. Alois Dryák shows this transition when designing buildings outside Prague (secondary school in Kladno and Česká Třebová). Dryák's design for the National Theater in Brno is already very modernist.
Hotel Garni, 1903, Wenceslas Square (today Meran).
In Prague it is not possible to be seduced by avant-garde cubism, but directly below Vyšehrad at Výtoň, on today's Rašín embankment, and in Na Hrobcích Street it creates a rational modern design for the construction of apartment buildings with plastic decoration by Tomáš Amena. At that time, Dryák is getting married. He lives in Letná in Nad štolou Rudolfovou Street. On the nearby Letná Plain he regularly designs the architecture of meeting stadiums with wooden structures at that time.
Architect Dryák is active in Sokol in Prague as well as in the Association of Czech Architects. His competition proposal for the building of the Representative House in Prague was not selected for implementation, but it influenced today's Balšánek and Polívek concepts. It contained a connection with the Powder Tower, a representative entrance further from the Powder Tower and a modern horizontal concept of the facade with respect to the verticality of the Neo-Gothic Tower. In 1912-1915, two of the largest monuments in Prague - František Palacký by sculptor St. Suchardy and St. Wenceslas by JV Myslbek. In the competition for the monument of Master Jan Hus on the Old Town Square with the sculptor J. Kvasnička against Solomon failed. The First World War temporarily interrupted his work.
Monument of Palacký
After the war he designs several apartment buildings in Prague in the style of rondocubism (Jana Masaryka Street, Baranova Street), the Brothers' Cash Register in Kladno, a school in Šumperk and the Regional Authority in Uzhhorod. Based on family contacts he designs the house on the main square in Pilsen. The Palace of Trade Unions in Na Perštýně Street is absolutely exceptional, basically Neo-Classical, with cubist elements in décor and rich relief and sculptural decoration (1920-22). For many entrepreneurs, it rebuilds and designs villas for rural living, such as the house of the factory owner Pelly in Police nad Metují, Villa Dr. Šůry in Újezd nad Černými lesy or Dr. Oesterreicher in Prague on Hanspaulka.
In his social life, Dryák is involved in the Club For Old Prague. As a Sokol official, he designs Sokol houses and Sokol halls. He works on the committee for the construction of the Ořechovka garden district. Together with Jaroslav Vondrák they create its architecture (houses of English cottage type, community house, own villa in the years 1923 - 1924, location of the monument to the fallen). In his villa on Západná Street in Ořechovka, he moves his studio from Letná, where he prepares competing projects for public buildings - banks, schools and others, urban design of Prague embankments (1926), Brno University Complex (1928) and city plans of Olomouc, Ostrava. and Bratislava. Dryák's designs do not always win, but inspire the competition. This was most evident in the winning design and implementation of the Fair Palace (today's National Gallery) in 1924-1928.
Building of the Central Czechoslovak Tobacco Directing in Prague, Vinohrady, 1924-1926
Except for the Strahov Stadium, the tobacco houses (1923-28) with sculptural decorations by J. Jiříkovský and Jaroslav Horejc (now the Commercial Court building) in Slezská Street, the Radiopalác building at Vinohradská Street with a cinema and a restaurant (1922-24) ) and Orbis printers reaching into Slezská Street (1927-28). Out of the overall concept of the university complex of Masaryk University in Brno, only one building was realized - the Faculty of Law on Veveří Street (1927-31). In the interior Dryák cooperated mainly with the painter Antonín Procházka (front panel in the auditorium) and František Kysela (stained glass in the auditorium).
Detail of the parterre of the same building.
It was not only Ořechovka, where he lived and worked, but also the garden district Hanspaulka, where the architect Dryák worked. An example is the still well-functioning elementary school in Sušická Street (from 1931) and the aforementioned Villa Dr. Oesterreicher opposite the school.
In Dryák's studio, the architects Jan Mayer (1923-32), Josef Mayer (previously from 1919 to 1932), Vratislav Mayer (1920-25) and Ferdinand Pokorný (1923-27) collaborate on projects at different times. Just before his sudden death (June 6, 1932) Alois Dryák designs his last building - the Sokol Hall in Vršovice (1931). This project was completed by his longtime friend and Nutcracker Bohumil Hübschmann, who led Dryák's unfinished work to his end.
Dryák's project of the largest sports complex of the time was realized in Prague-Strahov. Masaryk's stadium (later Spartakiad) was then the largest stadium in the world. Therefore, he was awarded a diploma at the World Olympics in Los Angeles (1932).
Monument of St. Wenceslas
In conclusion, Dryák's work has its main focus in public buildings (schools, office buildings, gyms) not only in Prague and its surroundings, but also in Brno and other cities. His balanced way of creating belongs to the style of rational modernity using decorative art-deco elements. Later, Dryák moved to monumental neoclassicism. Functionalism was never believed by architect Dryák, because he considered flat roofs and facades to be of low durability, only the Sokol house in Vršovice is an exception. The monumentality of Dryák's work was especially reflected in the architectural design of the monuments of F. Palacký and St. Wenceslas.
Only the post-modern era most appreciated Dryák's work, which was characterized mainly by high durability, quiet representativeness and rational spirit. His diligence and artistic potency led him to set a goal in solving living tasks as brought by contemporary life. Dryák's production went with the times, but his own technical solutions, experience and reason protected him from the effects of inadvertent novelties and errors, often accompanying the work of his peers in times of creative revolution and search.
Jan Stěnička
Photo Zdeněk Dryák
LITERATURE:
Švoma, Rostislav: From Modernism to Functionalism. Prague - Odeon, 1985
Šuman, Viktor: Works of architect Alois Dryák. Wien: Nakladatelství "Aida", Praha: F.Topič, 1932.
Dryak, Alois, Novackova, Olga, Stenicka, Jan: Alois Dryak - monograph (manuscript ready for publication)
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Bryce Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah. With lower hoodoos still in shadows, light reflected from the walls of Bryce Point illuminates nearby hoodoos and direct light illuminates the flowers and a weathered tree. Scanned from a color slide.
Ex First London / Tower Transit Enviro 400 DN33776 (SN12 AVR) now operates for City Direct as 12-G-7463 and is seen in Galway, 12th July, 2023.
Two minutes early on the approach to the 619yd. Belmont Tunnel after the massive tree clearance alongside the 'old' road to Anglesey ,via Telford's suspension bridge. How did we manage without the A55 over the Britannia bridge!
Direct Rail Services Class 37/6 37604 diesel-electric locomotive powers away from Braystones station and approaches Nethertown request stop station on the Cumbrian coast railway line with 2C41 the 14:37 Barrow in Furness to Carlisle service. Class mate 37423 'Spirit of the Lakes' is on the rear of this train.
Ignasi working Saigon Direct. He sent a few days later, in the evening after the sun went behind the mountains.
a bunch of lightning shots captured with the motion detection script for CHDK and combined using Dr. Brown Stack-o-Matic. Cropped and tweaked in Lightroom to apply some level of artistry to the process.
Formation humaine et militaire initiale au camp militaire de la courtine
Crédit photographique : © École polytechnique - J.Barande
Accidental Direct Positive from Kodak 2383. I shot some 2383 and tried to push it to ISO 12 (from 1.5). Shot it as 12 and developed it as B&W hoping that might do the trick. I push processed in H&W Control 1:14, since that is a very active developer. 16 minutes development (instead of 12) 100 degrees F instead of 68 F and continuous agitation. stopped and fixed at 100F as well. Fixed with Ilford hypam 1:4. Strangely some of the frames developed completely positive, and some were positive foreground with negative whites and lights. You can see here some of the mix. Not a lot of depth or contrast which could just be the underexposure (3 stops). Took me a few minutes to realize what was going on,. Definitely worth experimenting some more. Again these are direct positive, there was no reversal here and no partial editing. You can see here where I flipped / inverted entire pictures which was cool and weird no matter how you did it. I think what happened is a combination of active developer, the very thin emulsion which is not very light sensitive - relatively, and then the underexposure. Anyway have fun with these and try it yourself. I want to do this with 16mm movie and see what comes of it.