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Discovery of such an innocently begun relationship that seems to be warming into something even more....
N880DV - British Aerospace BA-146-200A - Discovery Airlines (leased from Jet Acceptance Corp.) -
at East Midlands Airport (EMA) in 01/1990 undergoing pre-delivery checks
c/n 2136 - built in 1989 - leased to Discovery Airlines 01/1990 (leased from Jet Acceptance Corp.) - returned to lessor 04/1991 -
current user is Neptune Aviation Services as N471NA - converted to tanker
Discovery Airways provided inter-island service within the state of Hawaii in March 1990 with as fleet of 5 BAe-146 aircraft. It closed three months later in July 1990 after it was accused of violating a law that states that airlines in the United States must be controlled by American citizens.
The director of Discovery Franko Mancassola went on to start Debonair in the United Kingdom in 1996, which also operated the BAe 146 and featured the same livery and logo on its aircraft as Discovery.
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A lot of changes at the shore after being flooded out many times in the last few years , Ice and snow on the beach and shore where Duffins marsh is flowing in to Lake Ontario , view from the bridge across Duffins marsh in Squires beach , Martin’s photographs , Ajax , Ontario , Canada , March 9. 2019
great survivor large tree
flooded out
The great survivor large tree that still standing after being flooded out many times in the last few years
where Duffins marsh is flowing in to Lake Ontario in Squires beach
January 2018
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Excuse the title, I didn't spend a whole lot of time thinking about it, but I've often wondered what it must have been like to be gold prospector John Hillman "discovering" Crater Lake at this spot (Discovery Point).
According to legend (and wikipedia), Hillman first saw this amazing landscape from the back of a mule, which is a little like viewing the Eiffel Tower while on a Segway tour: I'm sure he tried hard to omit that fact when asked about the experience.
Hillman's relatives: "So, Grandpa, then you saw Crater Lake for the first time, huh?"
Hillman: "Yes, it was possibly one of the most amazing moments of my life."
Hillman's relatives: "And did you just walk up to the rim? Weren't you tired of walking?"
Hillman: "Well, I hadn't walked the WHOLE way. I had some help."
Hillman's relatives: "What do you mean? Were you on a horse?"
Hillman: "It was a mule, okay!? Jeez. I had bad blisters and was riding my pack mule! Now go get me another beer."
Profound Discovery - Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. If you want to be inspired and be able to speak to the heavens, then this is the place to be! You will feel your soul wanting to float majestically through time and the realization of being a part of something so great can only be an inspiration for being human.
Nikon D4, ISO 26500, 1 sec @ f/1.4
The Royal Research Ship, Discovery, at Discovery Point on the FIrth of Tay. Launched in 1901, she was designed for research during the height of the great, heroic age of Antarctic exploration, and was the last wooden three-master built in the UK (although she also had auxiliary steam engines too).
After her exploration and research years, the ship moved around, being used as a training vessel, a cargo vessel and more. She was moored in London until the late 1970s, and the acclaimed science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke often took his lunch aboard her when taking a break from his writing there - he would borrow her name for his spaceship in the now-iconic 2001: a Space Odyssey.
In the mid 1980s, deteriorating, she was saved by a maritime trust and returned to the east coast of Scotland, to Dundee, where she was born, where she first felt water under her enormously thick keel (built massively to resist the crushing Antarctic ice). She is now moored in a dry dock on the mighty Firth of Tay, from where so many ships first sailed, with her own adjacent museum, Discovery Point, right next to the new V&A Gallery.
I think it's wonderful this historic vessel has been preserved, she carried out so much exploration and scientific research, expanding our knowledge of our planet, filling in some of the final blanks on the great map of our globe, and is forever linked to the likes of Scott and Shackleton. Her legacy lives on today - there is a modern RSS Discovery, named in her honour, launched in 2013, and continuing to carry out research into our vast, world oceans.
The only thing I find a little sad, is looking down into her berth, and realising it is a dry dock - sensibly, to save more wear and tear from the tidal river waters, of course. But it does make me feel a little sad for her - she was born to feel water course under her keel, waves splashing against her reinforced bows, and she'll never do that again.
It's a bit like seeing the Concorde in the Museum of Flight - I am glad it is preserved, but it was never meant to be a static exhibit. But who know what she may inspire in a visiting youngster today - perhaps there's a kid visiting her today who will be fired with that imagination for exploration, and will grow up to contribute to our expanding view of the world. That would be a good legacy...
The iconic ship from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. The ship was designed with the most realistic looking spacecraft in mind, and it addresses all the the things that accompany space flight. Expect better pics in about two weeks, but at the moment I'm heading for Maine for vacation.
David Walsh has one of the largest private collections of art in the Southern Hemisphere. What makes him unique is that he is so willing to share it (and his eclectic tastes) with the world. Here is a little taste of what you'll see at MONA.
1. "Fat Car" by Erwin Wurm (2006). This is a Ferrari in need of a diet.
2. "Library". This is the original colour version of my most viewed photo ever. The monochrome version was my first Explore and has received 20,000 views (in the days when Explores attracted that kind of number and when Flickr still acknowledged me as a person).
3. "Cyborgs". This is my tenuous link of two separate works by contemporary artists. They are both very clever - the robot made of old TV sets, and an 'anatomical' diagram of a wired creation.
4. "Extractor". MONA might be the only art gallery in the world that has produced its own board game: Extractor. mona.net.au/stuff-to-do/simon-denny
This image is of one of Simon Denny's cardboard creations in "Mine". The exhibition and board game are designed to raise awareness about mining and the environment. Denny describes the aim of "Extractor" as "playing your friends in a competitive scramble for world data domination." Sounds very very contemporary in this world of Global Corporate dominance.
This evening I went to a sunset photography class aimed toward women hosted by REI as part of their #ForceOfNature series. It was great to experiment more with my camera and learn a few tips.
I’m a big fan of the Land Rover Discovery 3, it blended a much more design-led approach with an honest ruggedness and simplicity that is missing from later products.
Quite tricky to replicate at this scale as the boxy design has some subtle features and surfaces - I’m pretty pleased how it came out. Once again I have tried to build this to be nice and robust, a challenge I have enjoyed of late. I’ve also included a rear view as the trademark asymmetric rear window was fun to design.
All designs and builds are my own, website link in bio. Follow me on Instagram and my website
The Royal Research Ship, Discovery, at Discovery Point on the FIrth of Tay. Launched in 1901, she was designed for research during the height of the great, heroic age of Antarctic exploration, and was the last wooden three-master built in the UK (although she also had auxiliary steam engines too).
After her exploration and research years, the ship moved around, being used as a training vessel, a cargo vessel and more. She was moored in London until the late 1970s, and the acclaimed science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke often took his lunch aboard her when taking a break from his writing there - he would borrow her name for his spaceship in the now-iconic 2001: a Space Odyssey.
In the mid 1980s, deteriorating, she was saved by a maritime trust and returned to the east coast of Scotland, to Dundee, where she was born, where she first felt water under her enormously thick keel (built massively to resist the crushing Antarctic ice). She is now moored in a dry dock on the mighty Firth of Tay, from where so many ships first sailed, with her own adjacent museum, Discovery Point, right next to the new V&A Gallery.
I think it's wonderful this historic vessel has been preserved, she carried out so much exploration and scientific research, expanding our knowledge of our planet, filling in some of the final blanks on the great map of our globe, and is forever linked to the likes of Scott and Shackleton. Her legacy lives on today - there is a modern RSS Discovery, named in her honour, launched in 2013, and continuing to carry out research into our vast, world oceans.
The only thing I find a little sad, is looking down into her berth, and realising it is a dry dock - sensibly, to save more wear and tear from the tidal river waters, of course. But it does make me feel a little sad for her - she was born to feel water course under her keel, waves splashing against her reinforced bows, and she'll never do that again.
It's a bit like seeing the Concorde in the Museum of Flight - I am glad it is preserved, but it was never meant to be a static exhibit. But who know what she may inspire in a visiting youngster today - perhaps there's a kid visiting her today who will be fired with that imagination for exploration, and will grow up to contribute to our expanding view of the world. That would be a good legacy...
Discovery Space Shuttle at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center | National Air and Space Museum (Smithsonian museum near Dulles Airport).
I only had one lens with me and mounted to my Canon 5d Mark ii - the new Canon 16-35 f4.0L IS - what a superb walk-around lens whenever you need to go wide. It allows you to shoot very slow shutter speeds, really helping where tripods are impractical or forbidden, and is very sharp corner-corner - Canon's best wide-angle zoom for landscape and interior shots.
Justification of Red List category
This species is listed as Critically Endangered because its population has undergone a very rapid reduction, for reasons that are poorly understood but are likely to be at least partly due to hunting along the migration flyway; this decline is projected to continue and increase in the future. Fieldwork in Kazakhstan (and counts in Turkey and the Middle East) has shown the population to be substantially larger than previously feared, but recent demographic studies have found low adult survival, possibly largely driven by hunting pressure along the migration routes and wintering grounds.
By Jim Lawrence
BirdLife International, RSPB (BirdLife in the UK) and leading optics manufacturer Swarovski Optik have just launched a remarkable new interactive website The Amazing Journey which charts the migration of one of the world’s most threatened birds - Sociable Lapwing. The new website enables you to experience the birds' migration online and witness new discoveries as they happen. It also provides support to a large team of international scientists who are trying to prevent the species from becoming extinct. Following extensive research, nine Sociable Lapwings have been carefully fitted with tiny, state-of-the-art satellite transmitters, which will track their hazardous 5,000+ km journey from their breeding grounds in Kazakhstan to their non breeding areas in tropical Africa and other, as yet undiscovered, destinations. The Amazing Journey follows the adventures of Erzhan, Dinara, Svetlana and six other intrepid satellite-tagged lapwings as they fly south for the winter - dodging hunters with guns and falcons and the myriad other unknown threats that await them. Andreas Pittl – Head of the Nature Division at Swarovski said, “This is a hugely important and fascinating project which Swarovski Optik is proud to champion. Wildlife is threatened with extinction for many reasons so finding ways to help such a beautiful and inspiring creature as the Social Lapwing is an important conservation effort we are keen to support. We want to bring people and nature together so they can continue to enjoy brilliant, close-up views of birds like these for years to come.” Designed by online marketing experts Digital Spring, The Amazing Journey uses satellite data fed through Google map technology to keep pace with the birds. A mixture of clever, regularly updated maps and video and photo blog reports from the field will follow their progress. Relatively little is still known about the routes Sociable Lapwings take, so tracking them will provide vital information, enabling BirdLife scientists to monitor and protect the birds and unlock the mystery of their migration. Now, for the first time, those interested in birds, wildlife and conservation can sit alongside scientists, and learn about these extraordinary birds, their migration habits and their conservation. Dr. Paul Donald, the project’s Principal Conservation Scientist at RSPB said, “We are using the world’s smallest and latest satellite transmitter – weighing just 5 grams – to record this amazing journey. By engaging with people around the world and inviting them to see this fascinating migration happening live online we believe we can inspire them to play their part too.” As the Sociable Lapwings progress along a lengthy route through various countries they need to stop every now and again to ‘refuel’ along the way. As they do so they form big feeding flocks (which is how they get their name). Whenever they touch down, precise details of their location are picked up by satellites orbiting high overhead and sent to RSPB scientists. These locations are then passed on to conservation project partners in each of the countries the birds travel through. With detailed coordinates they can quickly locate the flocks of birds, wherever they’ve touched down and take action if they are threatened in any way. The Amazing Journey website will provide regular reports from these scientists in the field keeping us up to date with all the latest news on the birds’ progress. Jim Lawrence, Preventing Extinction Programme Manager at BirdLife International said, “Protecting migratory species on the brink of extinction like Sociable Lapwings can’t be done without the considerable support of BirdLife Species Champions like Swarovski and RSPB. The Amazing Journey website is a new window on our world where you can see BirdLife International Partners around the globe delivering co-ordinated international conservation solutions.” Main photo credit Maxim Koshkin - Conservation Project Leader ACBK.
It was a perfect day for the beach and even more perfect when we realized that the Space Shuttle Discovery was to launch that afternoon. We've seen many launches from our home in Central Florida, 50 miles (80+ kilometers) away. Here on the beach, we were separated by roughly the same distance, but instead of towns, highways and vegetation between us and the Kennedy Space Center, only the nearly open expanse of sand and sea. We were amazed to hear, after a few minutes, the faint remains of the once deafening roar of
liftoff.
"Discovery Princess" at Ogden Point in Victoria. She entered service in 2022 and her numbers are impressive: 1,080 feet in length, 145,000 GT, and 3,660 passengers.
Discovery is an image close to my heart as it was supposed to be something completely different. After a feeling of frustration and failure, I was inspired by the quote - “Mistakes are the portals of discovery.” by James Joyce IRISH NOVELIST AND POET, and decided to create my own portal to discovery.
The significance of the butterfly in Irish folklore attributes it to the soul and thus it has the ability to cross into the otherworld. It is also a symbol of transformation and creation. The experience of embracing my failure and letting it lead me to something new is what I would love the viewer to remember.
View from the front of the Space Shuttle Discovery at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center.
A little something to brighten up our day. As you all know I have a love of Waterfalls and streams and was very pleased with myself when I stumbled upon this little one when I was out a walk.
I spent most of my year focused on video, but as of recent, with autumn and winter coming around, I've been wanting to go for my shot of the year. I've been going to the Detroit Zoo my whole life, over 20 years now, and this past weekend I took my Canon 5Diii along with me on my yearly trip, hoping just maybe I'd get that one shot. Walking through The Arctic Ring of Life, the polar bear just happened to be swimming around the underwater walkway, I'd never seen it that close before. Without thinking, I started shooting. Got several great shots, but this one is my favorite, and, probably, my best of the year.