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Iovani Pérez Velázquez
Beekeeper
Rancho La Unidad
Ejido Belisario Domínguez, municipio de Motozintla, Chiapas, México
This was pretty much the first complete set up for the book.
This early version was taken with a normal digital camera and the lighting was a bit off. A smoke machine produced the fog in the background, an idea we later dropped.
It took at least three attempts until we were happy; it was worth it but it involved a fair bit of swearing.
Some pictures are beautiful, and some pictures are not. But once in a while those ugly tells you something. And you know you've had a rough trip, when the best you've ever seen is such a flying thing.
Extract from "The Evolution of Marble Extraction " On Google.
Ever since ancient times, marble has been extracted from the Apuan Alps. Carrara has been acknowledged for the exceptional quality of its white or blue-gray marble and supplied the Roman Empire for the construction of the most prestigious monuments that make the glory of Rome.
The Pantheon and the Trajan's Column in Rome are built of Carrara Marble. A famous saying of Augustus is: "I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble" ("Marmoream relinquo, quam latericiam accepi"). Many sculptures of the Renaissance (the David from Michelangelo, amongst many others) were also carved in marble blocks extracted from the Carrara’s quarry
C-FPBJ, a de Havilland Canada DHC-7-103 Dash 7, at the Marine Laydown Area (MLA) at Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut - just north of the Arctic Circle. It had just arrived as TIN806 (Air Tindi Ltd.) from Goose Lake, Nunavut and Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.
Its 70" x 91" cargo door permits oversized objects to be loaded and unloaded with ease.
Serial number 9 is currently the oldest Dash 7 in service around the world. The 44-year-old workhorse began its career as A6-MLM with Emirates Air Service at Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates on July 31, 1978. It later served with Air Greenland A/S of Nuuk, Greenland and with Trans Capital Air Ltd. of Toronto, Ontario before joining the Air Tindi fleet on March 10, 2021.
For heavy equipment fans, the machine shown is a Caterpillar IT28G Wheel Loader.
Jake's plan had worked perfectly, the last of the 'volgans' that had hidden deep inside Dinosaur Valley had been eliminated, except a few stragglers, but the bombs Goldie had planted would take care of them! The helicopter had arrived, now all the needed to do was board it!
The Singapore Botanic Gardens is a 160-year-old tropical garden located at the fringe of Singapore's Orchard Road shopping district. It is one of three gardens, and the only tropical garden, to be honoured as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Botanic Gardens has been ranked Asia's top park attraction since 2013, by TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Awards. It was declared the inaugural Garden of the Year, International Garden Tourism Awards in 2012, and received Michelin's three-star rating in 2008.
The Botanic Gardens was founded at its present site in 1859 by an agri-horticultural society. It played a pivotal role in the region's rubber trade boom in the early twentieth century, when its first scientific director Henry Nicholas Ridley, headed research into the plant's cultivation. By perfecting the technique of rubber extraction, still in use today, and promoting its economic value to planters in the region, rubber output expanded rapidly. At its height in the 1920s, the Malayan peninsula cornered half of the global latex production.
The National Orchid Garden, within the main gardens, is at the forefront of orchid studies and a pioneer in the cultivation of hybrids, complementing the nation's status as a major exporter of cut orchids. Aided by the equatorial climate, it houses the largest orchid collection of 1,200 species and 2,000 hybrids.
Early in the nation's independence, Singapore Botanic Gardens' expertise helped to transform the island into a tropical Garden City, an image and moniker for which the nation is widely known. In 1981, the hybrid climbing orchid, Vanda Miss Joaquim, was chosen as the nation's national flower. Singapore's "orchid diplomacy" honours visiting head of states, dignitaries and celebrities, by naming its finest hybrids after them; these are displayed at its popular VIP Orchid Gardens.
The Singapore's Botanic Gardens is opened from 5 a.m. to 12 midnight daily. There is no admission fee, except for the National Orchid Garden. More than 10,000 species of flora is spread over its 82-hectares area, which is stretched vertically; the longest distance between the northern and southern ends is 2.5 km (1.6 mi). The Botanic Gardens receives about 4.5 million visitors annually.
“Wait!
Before you take the secondary replacer out, I have a few more instructions for you on how to set up the
extraction so that it follows through to our greater advantage. It is inconvenient that the she-human is so moralistic, and extra steps will be needed to prevent unpleasant results after the extraction.
The she-human will expect the target replacer to make some attempt to save the secondary replacer, out of 'human decency' or 'chivalry' or something like that.
Make the secondary replacer seem as inhuman as possible right before 'she' is extracted. Command the replacer to attempt an attack on the subject based on your fabrication. Make 'her' appearance less human; play on the subject's existing fears regarding mutants. You will find sufficient material to create an effective composition if you examine the subject's mind again.
Besides this, you might as well have the Extracting Officer 'wound' the target replacer, it will provide another reason to excuse his negligence in 'saving' the secondary replacer.”
“It will be done, O Queen. Your wisdom is inimitable.”
I can't believe what's happened!
We were walking along, musing to each other over why we were banished here, when a loud RIP! sounded behind us. I spun around as Djiimi shrugged her cut bonds off and removed her gag in one fluid movement.
“Thought you could restrain me, did you?” she spat, charging toward us. Toward me.
Reldan jumped in her way to protect me but she jumped over both our heads with inhuman agility, landing nimbly at our backs. From behind me, Reldan gasped as she began to change...
Her face contorted...
Her eyes turned orange...
Fangs sprouted from her mouth...
She spoke again, her voice audibly sibilant.
“He'sssss MINE!!!” she screamed at me, and prepared to pounce.
Before I could react, a thunderous rumble emanated from the ground and some sort of...worm thing erupted in a cloud of sand. In the same second wicked mantis claws snatched Djiimi up and lashed Reldan with a barbed tail as he made a move toward it. Struck in the head, he lurched backward.
The creature made a slight movement with its claws and snapped its prey in two like a cookie. I watched it as it greedily sucked gory contents from the body that had just been about to attack me.
It paused to look our way but I froze and Reldan had passed out. Its motion-detecting eyes seeing nothing of interest, it lowered its serpentine body beneath the sands, taking its meal with it.
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Another one, yay!
Edited even MORE 'shrooms this time. ;_;
C&C appreciated. :D
The Grade Two Listed Former Railway Bridge and Oil Seed Silo along Wincolmlee and the River Hull, Hull, UK
O'Neil and his squad reach the the LZ as the Dragonfly Gunship touches down. Another successful mission accomplished. Day 1348 Y4D244
Another view of the kitchen....not sure if it's melting away...
Thanks for looking in....appreciated....best bigger....hope you have a Great Day
Leatherhead Food Research (disused), Leatherhead
Minolta 800si
Minolta 28-105 RS
Ilford Pan F Plus
Developed and scanned by AG photo
I'm exploring the extraction tools in my new PSCC. The're better of course, but it still takes some hand-on to get a good result.
Now I'm going to do a little tutorial about this picture.
82/365
Day 82 sees me taking inspiration from Tim www.flickr.com/photos/fadetoblacklp If you don't follow him then go check out his stream.
I tried to follow his way of lighting hands but I couldn't nail it. So these are lit from above with a bare flash and my hands were resting on some black felt.
El wire pulled through a hole in the felt after the flash had fired. Hands desaturated in LR...
Strobist: YN560 IV fired from directly above. Bare 1/64 24mm. Triggered via YN560TX
Jobs a good'un.
As the two men hustled through the dark hall ways, dragging a zip tied insurgent and discombobulated hostage behind, they heard a car pull up and an engine stop, as rays of sunlight struggled to get through the grimy window on the door. Knocking it open, they saw a pick up truck, driven by what seemed to be an undercover operator, with another operator, fully geared, in the bed. Next to the drivers side, a man, most likely undercover as well, walked briskly towards them.
Fixie walked to the man, who motioned to the briefcase. He handed it to him cautiously, unknowingly, still questioning what the case might contain. The man took it into his arms, and began to speak. Through broken English, they could make out that this guy was a coalition member, a local who had taken up arms alongside military personnel to push back the insurgents and fight their cause.
Atlas, who was busy pushing the zip tied mans head against the hood of looked over and said, "Let's get the fuck outta here, I have the feeling that wasn't the last of them. They're gonna come looking once they realize the video never aired."
The hostage, insurgent, Atlas, and coalition member hopped into a sedan parked behind the truck, and sped off, quickly followed by the truck, with Fixie riding shotgun.
Mats, I got the roof down to 1 thick and extended the bed.
MOC WARS 2020! Clunkers! Fellowship Of The Brick!
A small utility ship sent into "uncharted" asteroid fields to measure their richness in valuable minerals, prior to company acquisition.
A dangerous job for the pilot, given the lack of basic safety features, and the constant threat of inhospitable "natives". Fortunately, the company fitted a gatling gun on the rear of the ship, so the pilot can protect the valuable cargo from pursuers, even if they have to climb to the back of their moving ship to use it.
More pictures here.