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The decorative metal security front door at my father's house in Penang.
When she was alive, my grandmother would sit on the left of this and watch the world go by.
When I was a child, the only concrete in the garden were the two rows of blocks you can still see running up to the gate. Grass grew everywhere else including in the gaps between the blocks. When I was 7, I had a skipping rope race with the little girl next door. As I neared the finish line, I tripped and landed on my front tooth, breaking off a large triangular piece that my father found later that evening.
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Black eyed susans and hydrangea.
Garden Village, Burnaby, British Columbia
Rudbeckia hirta, commonly called black-eyed Susan, is a North American flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to Eastern and Central North America and naturalized in the Western part of the continent as well as in China. It has now been found in all 10 Canadian Provinces and all 48 of the states in the contiguous United States
A 2nd trip to Slimbridge in Gloucestershire on the 21st January.
I was in for a shock as ALL but one of the lagoons/ponds were frozen hard and there were very few wild birds to be seen on the fields.
One of the flock of White-fronted Geese flew a bit closer on ts way out to the River Severn estuary to feed on the mud flats.
It was reported to be a Russian White-fronted Goose.
Stats
Built in real LEGO bricks, no stickers.
Pieces: 7441 pieces
Dimensions: 770mm x 280mm x 11mm
Story
Heimdall is a reconnaissance spaceship. Powered by a single yet powerful thermonuclear engine from BST (Benny Space Technologies), coupled with a high-energy particles grabber under the cockpit that helps to replenish fuel supplies on a long missions. To disperse a ridiculous amounts of heat from reactor's core a series of thermo-dump panels are mount beneath the fuselage. Being a reconnaissance ship it is also equipped with a sensors array under the cockpit and some ion cannons at each wing, you known, just in case....
Design and build
It took me more than 5 months to design and build it. A major inspiration comes from amazing artwork by Michal Kus. Especially the color-blocking and indentations at the front of the wings were a place from which I started. Along the way I shifted things my own way to suit ideas that were jumbling inside my head or I just wanted to incorporate, like the thermo-dump panels from Hamilton's series of books. There were many fun challenges along the way not only related to its geometry or color-blocking but also in making sure that this flying mosaic would be rigid. All of this required many rebuilds and tests but I had a blast doing all of this :)
Building instructions
For anyone curious how Heimdall is built or want to look at some building techniques I have created a studio model based on the actual build. It should be more handy than a regular step-by-step instructions. You can download it from here github.com/lechkulina/Heimdall
Full gallery is here www.flickr.com/photos/147862201@N05/albums/72157715784794408
WIP gallery is here www.flickr.com/photos/147862201@N05/albums/72157713634763282
I was sitting on my porch late the other afternoon when I noticed this sweet little American Redstart darting all over one of our apple trees hunting flying insects.
The light was fading fast and I had to bump the ISO so there's some noise, but I don't see them that often in my yard so I had to get a few shots.
Toyo 45c view camera ,90mm f8 schneider +orange filter , tmax100 in Adox R09 1-50 15 mins. Used the limited front tilt I have on the 90mm lens for this one (hence the vignette , might invest in a recessed lens board but not sure how much more movement it would allow)
Another old shot revisited. Cropped the top as the scene was dark with bright sunlight at the top of the fall
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This 'Front End Friday' photo is courtesy of BN-1, MILW 37A, and MILW 118C positioned nicely at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, IL.
Canandaigua Lake's pier is a gorgeous place to watch a sunrise. The herons, ducks and cormorants line up to watch it with you, while the seagulls fly over.
Trik Trak Victorian Time Capsule
Here is the link to the video!!
A cold winter's day is when I first laid eyes on this house. I parked at the end of the driveway (just barely) and walked down just as the sky was turning that deep blue colour after the sun has set. I walked inside and had a quick look around and knew this was a location that I needed to come back to. Unfortunately, I never marked down the location, I thought about the house numerous times over the years and knew that I had to find it again to go back there. Fast forward a few years and the location again popped back onto my radar. I finally made it out there and was able to see it again for the first time.
Built in the late 1800s this Victorian Farmhouse has sat abandoned for about 16 years according to a calendar on the wall from 2006. A time capsule with furniture, belongings and personal items left behind. It also has one of the most amazing staircases I have seen inside an abandoned farmhouse. It has sat decaying for at least that long while the surrounding land was used for livestock until at least 2015. Since then the land surrounding the home has become severely overgrown and almost invisible to people travelling by while the surrounding crops continue to be actively farmed.