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Fine examples of what where known as "Top shops" the large rear windows allow daylight into the rooms above the family homes of the workers making components for watches - in this case - or ribbon weaving in other areas of the then town such as Hillfields on the other side of the city centre.
Components where placed into boxes and carried to the master watchmakers up the street who made the finished product. Cheap imports from Switzerland along with the lifting of import taxes on cloth threw the town into decline.
This was reversed by a number of factors, firstly,
intervention: Lord Leigh's founding of a Worsted cloth mill in the next street (1862) which marked the beginning of factories as we know them today.
Luck: The start in licenced production of American sewing machines (1861) just as that nation turned over all it's industry to arms production for the civil war.
Opportunism: The start of production of French designed velocipedes just as that country started a war with Prussia (1870-71) setting the french cycle manufacturers back for a while, but propelling Coventry on the road to industrial recovery and the start of the Cycle/Motorcycle/Car industry that still exists in one form or another to this day.
Listed Grade II
This is SOOC excluding the crop and framing.
This image was captered with my nikon D80 and 50mm lens with an old sears x4 magnification filter attached. Light provided by my SB800 flash in TTL mode, on camera and position up and slightly back (to compensate for downward angle of the shot) to bounce directly of ceiling.
This image is protected by copyright. No use of this image shall be granted without written permission from J. David Cross ( jdavephotography@gmail.com ). © 2009 All Rights Reserved.
If you've ever used a Tilt+Shift lens you may have an idea how this photograph was created. (Certainly not in Photoshop!) Occasionally I will capture a landscape with both the Tilt and the Shift functions engaged. Normally its just Shift for the pano. Here I also Tilted to create a horizontal line of focus, ie I tilted the lens to bring the waterfall "forward", then focused on it. Sometimes this method "works", sometimes it doesn't. You be the judge.
Balaka Falls, also known as Hunts Falls and Hunts Creek Falls, have been on my bucket list for a very long time. The only reason for the delay was the weather and its timing. The falls really only have water flowing immediately after rain because they are buried within the midst of Sydney's north western suburbs. So I needed a Friday night of rain. Finally we got it. After many months. Just after dawn I left home to drive to the falls, and before Led Zep's Kashmir had finished playing I had parked my car. Two minutes later I was at the falls. That's how close they are to where I live. In fact, one minute's drive from this spot is a 6 lane main arterial road.
The Hassan II Mosque (Arabic: مسجد الحسن الثاني), located in Casablanca is the largest mosque in Morocco and the third largest mosque in the world after the Masjid al-Haram (Grand Mosque) of Mecca and the Al-Masjid al-Nabawi (Prophet's Mosque) in Medina. Designed by the French architect Michel Pinseau and built by Bouygues. It stands on a promontory looking out to the Atlantic, which can be seen through a gigantic glass floor with room for 25,000 worshippers. A further 80,000 can be accommodated in the mosque's adjoining grounds. Its minaret is the world's tallest at 210 m (689 ft).
Bishop Creek Canyon, Eastern Sierras
After three days of camping and photographing as much of Bishop Creek as I could, I think I preferred the reflections at Intake II more than anywhere else. On the final morning, the air was brisk and clear and the water was calm over the pond. I walked the dirt road that runs around Intake II and looked for interesting compositions. Its harder than it seems to find an interesting angle. Something you don't see every season. ;) I used the branches of the aspens that lined the bank of the pond to frame the reflections and distant aspens and the evergreens. I think it worked well to encompass the whole scene.
We were able to sail on Queen Mary II on our return from the Isle of Bute instead of using the ferry. The weather had turned nasty but permitted a shot of the rainbow from the deck. 1/6/75.
I built something!
In the 1990’s and up to 2005 if I remember correctly, LEGO had a small KÖF II shunter locomotive in their German location in Hohenweststedt.
I always wanted to build it, had the stickers ready for years, and during the current craze of building trains, what ifs and so on for my kid, I simply got started with it, trying to build it like I’d build an official set again.
I failed miserably.
Turns out that if you want to keep this thing somewhat correct looking, there is no way building it as a (hypothetical) LEGO set. At least not motorized (but what’s a train without a motor?).
So I gave up and built it like I used to build before I started at LEGO, heavily inspired by how Michael Jasper built his Köf III loco (probably 15 years ago, when he found that perfect ballance between fanbuilds and playability for trains: brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=161474 ) and this is what I ended up with.
There are some things that I’ve seen before, like for example the cups for lighs were first used like that by Duq I think, and although I had an alternative idea for them, I decided that I want it hillarious instead of 100% accurate. There are so many LEGO Köfs out there that it’s difficult to reinvent the wheel anyway.
It’s not too crazy buildingwise, but it would be impossible to launch in it’s current state as it’s too fragile.
Looking at pics, I’m thinking that the lower edge of the cabin should be minislopes, but it looks wrong when built, so I ended up with these bows.
I decided that I’d rather have an engine compartment and the snout three wide than that slanted nose that starts too wide, and ends too narrow, and completley wrong engine bay covers, the handrails that run along the top edge of the snout kind of help to cheat the width there a bit. I made two grilles. The yellow uses a sticker though to mask off the black edge of the plates underneath. No idea which one is better.
I didn’t forget the doors, I simply didn’t build them, it would require some tweaks and loosing the minifig, and I find trains that don’t have the space for a dude pointless. These things were shunting at snail’s speeds anyway, I doubt the doors were closed much in summer anyway.
I also deliberatley lost the two hand rails on each side of the door opening, I had them, looked dumb, made the loco wider without adding much detail, the LEGO logo would have to be smaller... Meh.
I also decided to give the running boards a wooden look, some model manufacturers make them look like wood, some don’t, I seem to see wooden planks on some of the pictures of the original, but it might aswell be rust. I don’t know.
This is the Canadian side of Niagara Falls.
Highest position: 208 on Sunday, November 19, 2006, but fell off.
96-gallon Toter EVR II. Looks nice in green! Most of them around here are gray stone with black lids.
Offered by Glassic Motor Car Company of Palm Beach, Florida. Glassic was best known for its Model A Ford replicars.
The Queen Elizabeth II Bridge is a 137 m (449 ft) high and 812 m (2,664 ft) long cable-stayed road bridge across the River Thames in south east England. It was opened in 1991 by Queen Elizabeth II.
The bridge is the southbound element of the A282 Dartford Crossing, joining the two ends of the M25 clockwise carriageway, a strategic congestion charged road crossing the half mile wide river east of London. It was built alongside two earlier tunnels under the Thames, which now form the northbound element of the crossing.
Upon completion, the bridge was Europe's largest cable-supported bridge. As of 2010, by main span length, it is the second largest cable-stayed bridge in the United Kingdom behind the Second Severn Crossing (6 m longer and opened in 1996) and the 44th largest cable-stayed bridge in the world.
CHAIKA-II (type 1a, 1968) half frame camera (24x18)
Lens: INDUSTAR-69 2.8/28mm
Shutter: Leaf shutter (1/30- 1/60 - 1/125 - 1/250 +B)
Film: 35mm (72 frames in 24mm x 18mm)
Made by MMZ
I built something!
In the 1990’s and up to 2005 if I remember correctly, LEGO had a small KÖF II shunter locomotive in their German location in Hohenweststedt.
I always wanted to build it, had the stickers ready for years, and during the current craze of building trains, what ifs and so on for my kid, I simply got started with it, trying to build it like I’d build an official set again.
I failed miserably.
Turns out that if you want to keep this thing somewhat correct looking, there is no way building it as a (hypothetical) LEGO set. At least not motorized (but what’s a train without a motor?).
So I gave up and built it like I used to build before I started at LEGO, heavily inspired by how Michael Jasper built his Köf III loco (probably 15 years ago, when he found that perfect ballance between fanbuilds and playability for trains: brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=161474 ) and this is what I ended up with.
There are some things that I’ve seen before, like for example the cups for lighs were first used like that by Duq I think, and although I had an alternative idea for them, I decided that I want it hillarious instead of 100% accurate. There are so many LEGO Köfs out there that it’s difficult to reinvent the wheel anyway.
It’s not too crazy buildingwise, but it would be impossible to launch in it’s current state as it’s too fragile.
Looking at pics, I’m thinking that the lower edge of the cabin should be minislopes, but it looks wrong when built, so I ended up with these bows.
I decided that I’d rather have an engine compartment and the snout three wide than that slanted nose that starts too wide, and ends too narrow, and completley wrong engine bay covers, the handrails that run along the top edge of the snout kind of help to cheat the width there a bit. I made two grilles. The yellow uses a sticker though to mask off the black edge of the plates underneath. No idea which one is better.
I didn’t forget the doors, I simply didn’t build them, it would require some tweaks and loosing the minifig, and I find trains that don’t have the space for a dude pointless. These things were shunting at snail’s speeds anyway, I doubt the doors were closed much in summer anyway.
I also deliberatley lost the two hand rails on each side of the door opening, I had them, looked dumb, made the loco wider without adding much detail, the LEGO logo would have to be smaller... Meh.
I also decided to give the running boards a wooden look, some model manufacturers make them look like wood, some don’t, I seem to see wooden planks on some of the pictures of the original, but it might aswell be rust. I don’t know.
Folded Ernemann Heag II plate camera. The knurled knob has a double function. If turned it unlocks the case in order to fold out the camera. Once opened it serves as a focussing button.
Manufactured by MMZ (Minsk Mechanical Factory), Minsk, former USSR
After 1971 made by BeLomo
Чайка means Seagull
Model: c.1968 Type 1a
All Chaika-II produced between 1967-72 with quantity 1.250.000 units
There are 6 types and 9 sub-types of the Chaika-II
As to Alexander Komarov
35mm film half frame Viewfinder camera, picture size 18x24mm
Lens: Industar-69 (ИНДУСТАР) 28mm f/2.8 filter slip-on serial no.none
MMZ logo on the lens
Aperture: up to f/16; setting: ring and scale on front of the lens
Focus range: 0.8-5m +inf
Focusing: manual front cell focusing; ring, distance scale with symbols and DOF scale on the lens shutter barrel
Shutter: leaf shutter; speeds: 1/30-1/250 +B setting: by a ring and small window on the top-plate
Shutter release: on front of the top-plate, w/cable release socket
Cocking lever: also winds the film, short stroke, on the back of the top-plate
Frame counter: additive type, auto-reset, window on the top-plate
Viewfinder: reverse telescopic finder, vertical quadrangle
Re-wind knob: on the bottom plate, pull out and turn to arrow direction
Re-wind release: by re-wind knob
Flash PC socket: on front of the camera
Cold-shoe: none
Memory dial: on the re-wind knob
Self-timer: none
Back cover: opens by a latch on the right side of the camera
Tripod socket: ¼”
Strap lugs
Body: metal; Weight: 388g
Serial no. 2928620 in the back cover
Chaika was the call sign of the first Russian female cosmonaut, Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova. She became extremely famous for her achievements and is still considered a hero in Russia. It's very likely that this line of cameras were at least partly named in honor of her. Her famous flight took place 1963 and the first Chaika camera was sold in 1965.
The difference between Chaika-I and Chaika-2 is addd a removable screw mount lens which could be used as the lens for an enlarger that was apparently never made available. The threads are the same as those for a Leica lens, but the focusing distance is different, so the lenses are not compatible.
More info: in Sovietcams by Aidas Pikiotas, in Fotoua by Alaxander Komarov, in Camerapedia, in Flickr group Russian Cameras