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The Montreal Canadiens joined the NHL in 1917 and were founded in 1909. The Canadiens are the oldest hockey team in the NHL, one of the oldest continuously existing sports franchises in the world, and also one of the most successful in all of sports.
While at a building which housed several art galleries I saw this nearly eight foot tall the character Bumblebee from the Transformer's franchise. The whole art piece was made from actual car parts and must have weighed several hundred pounds at a minimum.
Back view.
This is Rhydon, the dinosaur-like Pokemon. Rhydon's horn is capable of drilling through rocks and even creating tunnels.
His strong hide is like armor that can withstand immense physical damage even from a cannonball blast.
He even has other strange features as well.
Some have even said that Rhydon has the ability to surf as well.
After seeing a good part usage for his horn, I have constructed Rhydon to become more
like a titan (that's why he's a little bigger than he should).
One sure sign that the holidays are fast approaching is the release of certain films, and a recent addition to the pre-Christmas set is those of the Star Wars franchise.
Consequently, I chose this as the theme, and utilised the lid of a small tin of Stormtrooper Mints, set against a screen of fairy lights, perhaps some of the goodness will rub off on him!
Last year’s holiday release ‘Star Wars The Force Awakens’, and this year it was ‘Rogue One’, that I watched at 5 minutes past midnight (Wed/Thu last week), with the first general release screening in the UK. And already, next year’s release of Episode VIII is set for December as well, so another late night / early morning beckons!
Happy Macro Mondays everyone.
US-27 Twin Drive In: I remember this drive-in being opened during the Covid pandemic where folks could stay in their cars. Kentucky travel restrictions and gatherings of fewer than 10 people ended in May of 2020.
The drive-in shuttered its gates in 2021. Gone. Dark. Ceased to be.
Coffee franchise on Constantine Bay, Cornwall.
A small but vital stall at the beach entry. A nice short stroll along the coastal path from Treyarnon to Constantine means city dwellers or 'townies' could start and finish with a coffee, as there is a stall at both beaches. Wow, coffees come a long way since the Golden Arches arrived in this country and introduced us to the joy of coffee as you walk. Strange you don't see many photographers carrying one😊. Still, I had a nice cup of tea from him, so shouldn't really complain.
Constantine Bay , on Cornwalls North Coast , about 15 miles east of Newquay is one of the counties, if not Englands, most beautiful beaches , and has one of its smallest car parks . It is still largely unspoilt , and joy to visit at most times of the year. Strange then that l should come away with this photo as my contribution to Flickr.😕
We never saw the manor house that this drive leads to. It must be pretty impressive considering the size of the driveway though
The former Manatees On The Bay bar in Gulfport FL has become the latest addition to the Caddy’s portfolio, gaining a new mural in the process.
Peñafrancia Tours & Travel Transport Inc.
Fleet no.: 53
Shot Location: ACBS Araneta Center Bus Station Cubao, Quezon City
Harry Potter is the third and currently last franchise I could think of with enough characters to fill the Emotional Spectrum. Here's my versions of Harry Potter Lanterns:
Left to right:
Black Lantern (Death): Voldemort
Red Lantern (Rage): Bellatrix Lestrange
Orange Lantern (Avarice): Gilderoy Lockhart
Yellow Lantern (Fear): Death Eater
Green Lantern (Will): Harry Potter
Blue Lantern (Hope): Ron Weasley
Indigo Lantern (Compassion): Luna Lovegood
Violet Lantern (Love): Lily Potter
White Lantern (Life): Albus Dumbledore
*Harry Potter is cool, but JK Rowling sucks for being a TERF*
Cardiff Met Archers vs Oakland Wovles, Women’s British Basketball League (WBBL) match on Saturday 18th March 2023. Game played at the Archers Arena, Cardiff Metropolitan University, in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom, during the 2022-23 season.
About the photograph.
Seen in the middle and in the background is the Cardiff Met Archers player, Abigail Yunker in control of the ball, and attempting to dibble past, but two of the Oakland Wolves players (wearing white jersey and shorts) made their move towards her in the hope of blocking her.
Yunker had decided to pass the ball to her teammate Mara Marchizotti wearing jersey number 15, seen on the left side of the photo.
Yunker was born on 26th September 1998 in Whitehouse, Ohio in the United States.
The basketball game finished with the final score of Archers 80 – 73 Wolves.
Many special thanks to Cardiff Met Archers staff, for allowing me to take the photographs from courtside.
About the teams.
The Wales based Cardiff Met Archers started in 1999, as a university basketball team. They have about 19 different teams, range from Under-10s to Seniors, and men’s teams as well as women’s teams.
The women’s senior team (seen here in the photograph) is the only team in a top-level elite franchise-based league. They joined the Women’s British Basketball League when it was first set up in 2014, and to date, are still in the WBBL.
The Oaklands Wolves is an English women’s basketball team based at Oaklands College, in St Albans, Hertfordshire. It was founded in 2009, and started playing in the professional level women’s basketball team from the 2016-17 season onwards.
The Oakland Wolves also includes a men’s team in the second tier National Basketball League.
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East Midland Trains Class 153 with a logo displaying EMR Regional 153376 "X24 – Expeditious" arrives Crewe on 1k08 1007 Crewe to Derby,the franchise changes on 19/8/2019 ,photographed on 09/08/2019
The Steel / Water type Pokemon Empoleon.
I suddenly realized the surprising use of the trident. I wonder why no one else has tried...
Anyways, Empoleon is a large penguin-like Pokemon that is full of pride and majesty.
His body looks similar to a tuxedo.
Bad to the bone...
First up is Marowak and Cubone. With these new bone pieces out, I instantly thought of these guys and used a white droid torso for Marowak's skull.
He was fun to make, but hard to balance. Gravity sure gets on my nerves...
Here is my Lego Compilation #1 of minifig-sized Pokemon. Hopefully I'll make some more.
Featuring Marowak, Cubone, Scyther, Magmar, Latios, and Gallade.
I'm not quite into the whole franchise, but micro monsters are certainly the best!
History in the making...Nashville Predators make their first ever appearance in the NHL Stanley Cup Finals in their 18th season as a franchise. Wishing them all the luck possible in their quest to continue this historic run! Go PREDS!!
Photo was taken with my LG G4 in HDR mode. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
Another favorite is Feraligatr, the bulky crocodilian Pokemon.
He is most notably known for his battle-like stature, as well as his powerful jaw.
Feraligatr moves faster in water than in land, then brutally attacks its opponents by dragging them down into the depths.
About 7 percent of the Golden Arches locations in the United States are company-owned. This one is s franchise.
French postcard by Studio Erving, Paris, no. 696. Photo: Lucasfilm Ltd. Harrison Ford in Star Wars - Episode IV - A New Hope (George Lucas, 1977).
American film actor Harrison Ford (1942) specialises in roles of cynical, world-weary heroes in popular film series. He played Han Solo in the Star Wars franchise, archaeologist Indiana Jones in a series of four adventure films, Rick Deckard in the Science Fiction films Blade Runner (1982) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017), and secret agent Jack Ryan in the spy thrillers Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994). These film roles have made him one of the most successful stars in Hollywood. In all, his films have grossed about $5.4 billion in the United States and $9.3 billion worldwide.
Harrison Ford was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1942. His parents were former radio actress Dorothy (née Nidelman) and advertising executive and former actor John William "Christopher" Ford. Harrison graduated in 1960 from Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Illinois. His voice was the first student voice broadcast on his high school's new radio station, WMTH, and he was its first sportscaster during his senior year. He attended Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin, where he was a philosophy major and did some acting. After dropping out of college, he first wanted to work as a DJ in radio and left for California to work at a large national radio station. He was unable to find work and, in order to make a living, he accepted a job as a carpenter. Another part-time job was auditioning, where he had to read out lines that the opposing actor would say to an actor auditioning for a particular role. Harrison did this so well that he was advised to take up acting. He was also briefly a roadie for the rock group The Doors. From 1964, Ford regularly played bit roles in films. He was finally credited as "Harrison J. Ford" in the Western A Time for Killing (Phil Karlson, 1967), starring Glenn Ford, George Hamilton, and Inger Stevens. The "J" did not stand for anything since he has no middle name but was added to avoid confusion with a silent film actor named Harrison Ford, who appeared in more than 80 films between 1915 and 1932 and died in 1957. French filmmaker Jacques Demy chose Ford for the lead role of his first American film, Model Shop (1969), but the head of Columbia Pictures thought Ford had "no future" in the film business and told Demy to hire a more experienced actor. The part eventually went to Gary Lockwood. He had an uncredited, non-speaking role in Michelangelo Antonioni's film Zabriskie Point (1970) as an arrested student protester. His first major role was in the coming-of-age comedy American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973). Ford became friends with the directors George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, and he made a number of films with them. In 1974, he acted in The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) starring Gene Hackman, and played an army officer named "G. Lucas" in Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979, co-produced by George Lucas. Ford made his breakthrough as Han Solo in Lucas's epic space opera Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope (George Lucas, 1977). Star Wars became one of the most successful and groundbreaking films of all time and brought Ford, and his co-stars Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher, widespread recognition. He reprised the role in four sequels over the course of the next 42 years: Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980), Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand, 1983), Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens (J. J. Abrams, 2015), and Star Wars: Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (J.J. Abrams, 2019).
Harrison Ford also worked with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg on the successful Indiana Jones adventure series playing the heroic, globe-trotting archaeologist Indiana Jones. The series started with the action-adventure film Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981). Like Star Wars, the film was massively successful and became the highest-grossing film of the year. Ford went on to reprise the role throughout the rest of the decade in the prequel Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg, 1984), and the sequel Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg, 1989), which co-starred Sean Connery as Indy's father, Henry Jones Sr. and River Phoenix as young Indiana. In between the successful film series, Ford also played very daring roles in more artistic films. He played the role of a lonely depressed detective in the Sci-Fi film Blade Runner, (Ridley Scott, 1981) opposite Rutger Hauer. While not initially a success, Blade Runner went on to become a cult classic and one of Ford's most highly regarded films. Ford received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for the crime drama Witness (Peter Weir, 1985) with Kelly McGillis, and also starred for Weir as a house-father in the survival drama The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir, 1986) with River Phoenix as his son. In 1988, he played a desperate man searching for his kidnapped wife in Roman Polanski's Frantic. For his role as a wrongly accused prisoner Dr. Richard Kimble in the action thriller The Fugitive (Andrew Davis, 1993), also starring Tommy Lee Jones, Ford received some of the best reviews of his career. He became the second of five actors to portray Jack Ryan in two films of the film series based on the literary character created by Tom Clancy: the spy thrillers Patriot Games (Phillip Noyce, 1992) and Clear and Present Danger (Phillip Noyce, 1994). He then played the American president in the blockbuster Air Force One (Wolfgang Petersen, 1997) opposite Gary Oldman. Later his success waned somewhat and his films Random Hearts (Sydney Pollack, 1999) and Six Days Seven Nights (Ivan Reitman, 1998) both disappointed at the box office. However, he did play a few special roles, such as an assassin in the supernatural horror-thriller What Lies Beneath (Robert Zemeckis, 2000) opposite Michele Pfeiffer, and a Russian submarine captain in K-19: The Widowmaker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2002) with Liam Neeson. In 2008, he reprised his role as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg, 2008) with Cate Blanchett. The film received generally positive reviews and was the second highest-grossing film worldwide in 2008. Later Ford accepted more supporting roles, such as in the sports film 42 (Brian Helgeland, 2013) about baseball player Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman), the first black athlete to play in Major League Baseball. Ford reprised the role of Han Solo in the long-awaited Star Wars sequel Star Wars: The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams, 2015), which became massively successful like its predecessors. He also reprised his role as Rick Deckard in Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017), co-starring Ryan Gosling. Harrison Ford has been married three times and has four biological children and one adopted child. From 1964 to 1979, Ford was married to Mary Marquardt, a marriage that produced two children. From 1983 to 2003, he was married to Melissa Mathison, from which marriage two more children were born. In 2010, he married actress Calista Flockhart, famous for her role in the TV series Ally McBeal. He owns a ranch in Jackson Hole (Wyoming). Besides being an actor, Ford is also an experienced pilot. Ford survived three plane crashes of planes he piloted himself. The most recent accident occurred in 2015 when he suffered an engine failure with a Ryan PT-22 Recruit and made an emergency landing on a golf course. Among other injuries, Ford sustained a broken pelvis and ankle from this latest accident. In 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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This is Rhydon, the dinosaur-like Pokemon. Rhydon's horn is capable of drilling through rocks and even creating tunnels.
His strong hide is like armor that can withstand immense physical damage even from a cannonball blast.
He even has other strange features as well.
Some have even said that Rhydon has the ability to surf as well.
After seeing a good part usage for his horn, I have constructed Rhydon to become more
like a titan (that's why he's a little bigger than he should).
90019 Penny Black, wearing Rail Express Systems livery and on hire from EWS to 'one' (the original National Express Group-operated Greater Anglia franchise), approaches Shepreth Branch Jn. (south of Cambridge), working the diverted Sunday afternoon Norwich - Liverpool Street service.
For several weeks during the summer of 2004 Ipswich Tunnel was closed for engineering work. Two Norwich - London trainpairs were diverted via Cambridge (the remainder being replaced by buses between Ipswich and Manningtree), Up in the morning and early afternoon, and Down in the late morning and evening peak. On weekdays they were hauled by Cotswold Rail class 47s throughout, still with the electric loco in the consist, but at weekends the diesels were detached and attached at Cambridge with the train running on electric power between Cambridge and London.
The buildings to the right are Addenbrooke's Hospital. Since this photo was taken, the site has expanded to become the Cambridge Biomedical Campus (incorporating the world-famous Royal Papworth Hospital, which moved from Papworth in 2019), and there are also two new bridges over the railway line - one being the Addenbrookes Link Road and the other carrying a foot and cycle path and the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway. Shepreth Branch Jn. is also now spanned by a footbridge (with the footpath crossing closed), and there is a high metal fence alongside the railway on both sides of the line.
Scan from a 35mm Fuji Provia 100F transparency.
Characters, From L to R:
Bottom row:
Scarecrow (Adam Driver), Commissioner Gordon (Harrison Ford), Batman (Josh Brolin), Robin (Evan Peters), Penguin (John Goodman)
Middle Row:
Bane (Javier Bardem), Joker (Willem Dafoe), Catwoman (Milla Jovovich)
Top Row:
Mr. Freeze (Patrick Stewart), Riddler (Sterling K. Brown), Two-Face (John Hamm)
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Plots:
First Movie: Bruce Wayne was a child who lived happily with a wealthy family, but one day Bruce's parents were killed in an alley. He was raised by a butler, Alfred Pennyworth (played by Sean Connery), and eventually, Bruce became The Batman. In his very first crime to fight, he faced a group of thugs in Ace Chemical Plant, featuring a man named Jack, a comedian with a troubled past... In the fight with the gang, Jack fell into a vat of chemicals, the punchline of his joke life. Months later, Police Commissioner "Jim Gordon" brought a case to Batman, about a man in clown makeup, murdering the innocent... Batman investigates the crime, which comes to a shocking conclusion, involving the fatality of this clown...
Second Movie: Batman continues to save Gotham from it's troubles, whilst we learn about the backstory of Edwardo Nygma (look at my last post). Meanwhile, we learn about a young man named Dick Grayson, who works at a local restaurant, "The Ice Burg Lounge", run by an "Oswald Cobblepot". While we learn all of this, a new criminal is afoot...! Going by the name "The Riddler". Batman must find the identity of this "Riddler", and take him down! But, the answers harder to find then you'd think... But luckily, The Dark Knight can solve it! Batman finds the true culprit, and faces them in a final duel, before The Riddler is put in prison...
Third Movie: "Victor Fries" is a scientist, who's been secretly working on a cure to heal his diseased wife. Unfortunately, the boss of the organization Victor works at finds out, and punishes him. In the punishment, he froze Victors wife to death, and exposed Victor to radiant chemicals by accident! The boss fled the scene, but Victor was left alive, with bleached white skin. He created a containment suit to keep himself alive, and a freeze ray to do to his boss what they did to Victor's wife. Meanwhile, Batman stops a group of thugs, with Dick Grayson as a witness. Later, Dick finds Batman and asks to join them, to fight alongside Batman. He explains how his parents died back when he lived in a circus, and wants to do what he can to make the world a better place. Batman agrees to this, and makes a suit for Dick, who now goes by the name of "Robin". Batman and Robin are told by Gordon to go after an armored murderer, who turns out to be Fries, and the duo take him down!
Fourth Movie: Harvey Dent is a mentally troubled man, who three times a week goes to a therapy session with "Dr. Johnathan Crane". Harvey has had multiple personality disorder for the majority of his life, but one day... Harvey snapped. Harvey was in a therapy session when he suddenly attacked Crane, and Crane tried to defend himself! He splashed a cup of chemicals used for chemotherapy on his face, melting the flesh, and bleaching his hair! But... Only have of his face. He wanted vengeance, and only went more into madness due to him quitting therapy. He committed crimes, killed people, injured people, etc. But to keep himself contained, he did everything he did based off of the flip of a coin. Soon, Batman and Robin find out about these crimes. They eventually find Harvey and put him in prison, but soon in an interrogation found out how he was scarred... The duo looked for Crane, and found him in his therapy room. Crane pulled a crank on a vial, filling the room with his "fear toxin". They have a final battle, and it ends with Crane going to prison for crimes he kept hidden for several weeks...
Fifth and Final Movie: Batman and Robin go after a group of thugs, but Robin gets injured... He comes to the realization that crime fighting is too dangerous, and retires from being Robin. Batman then sits alone in his manor... He realizes somethings... off. Later, he finds out Alfred was missing! But, he had no leads, no evidence other than Alfred not being there, etc. Batman goes out to fight another group of thugs, but this time they get away. Batman sits in his manor again, wondering why everything's going downhill. Meanwhile, there's a subplot about the life of a child, growing up in prison. He gets stronger and stronger as he gets older, and he soon finds out about Batman in prison. He is interested, and makes it his life goal to break out of prison and defeat this "Batman". This guy eventually breaks out, with the help of someone going by the name of "Catwoman". She also deals some drugs to them, as well as some armor. The drugs were something called "Venom", a liquid that could make you stronger. The man puts on the suit, and takes the drugs. He now goes by the name "Bane". Bane finds Batman in his manor, and fights him. Batman is very weak, as he is going through a sever feeling of depression, especially more so due to the face that Bane reveals he murdered Alfred..! Bane then breaks Batman's back!!! After Batman's defeated, Bane flees the scene. Eventually, Batman gets a message. It tells him to go to an area of Gotham (the city they live in) that they never heard of... They went there... They found Bane in the area! However, another man came in... It's... The Joker!!! The clown man from the first film! He injects himself with venom, and becomes stronger than ever! They are about to fight, but not before someone else came in... Someone calling themselves "Nightwing". Batman knew who it was... It was Dick! They fought the Joker, and once he was defeated, Nightwing grappled away. The Joker gets back up, back to normal size... He states that he faked his death and came back because he felt incomplete with a life without Batman... Batman completed him. However, The Joker then said that Batman was going to be gone someday, and Joker didn't want to live in a world without him, and killed himself. The franchise ends with Batman standing on a rooftop, alone...
~Scarecrow