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A moral-licensing-motivated improved rebuild of an old MOC out of the goodness of my heart for an online nagger pressing me for instrukshuns.
This was and is the last time I try to be nice to randos.
If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it.
Paul Martin
I improved the fruit tart base :)
Quite happy with it ^^
I also blogged about it petitplatbysk.blogspot.com/2012/03/improved-fruit-tart-je...
Bow I'm tired, so much work right now! I hope you're all fine :)
xx
Stéphanie
Just a bit of an update. I had planned to be back earlier, but I managed to hurt my back over the weekend and have been trying to get everything back in sync. I’ve had my old back brace on for the past two days trying to get my spine back into alignment and it appears to have been successful. I am feeling much better and having no pain at the moment. I took the brace off this afternoon and went for a slow walk, and everything seems to be back in alignment. Only time will tell. I’m not going to spend much time in front of the computer this evening, but I did want to let everyone know what is going on. Best wishes to everyone for a great finish to this week. Enjoy it to the fullest and enjoy the journey.
Had a great time at the birthday celebration and got to spend some time with my family over the weekend as well before I hurt my back. Comments are turned off as this is just to let every that I am doing fine and should be back in a couple of days. Cheers.
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NS 1065, the S&A heritage unit, leads NS 24W east through Chesterton, IN. The badly faded numbering and lettering on this unit has recently been replaced.
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Beech leaves at Anglesey Abbey! A country house, formerly a priory, in the village of Lode, 5 1⁄2 miles (8.9 km) northeast of Cambridge, England. The house and its grounds are owned by the National Trust and are open to the public as part of the Anglesey Abbey, Garden & Lode Mill property, although some parts remain the private home of the Fairhaven family.
The 98 acres (400,000 m²) of landscaped grounds are divided into a number of walks and gardens, with classical statuary, topiary and flowerbeds. The grounds were laid out in an 18th-century style by the estate's last private owner, the 1st Baron Fairhaven, in the 1930s. A large pool, the Quarry Pool, is believed to be the site of a 19th-century coprolite mine. Lode Water Mill, dating from the 18th century was restored to working condition in 1982 and now sells flour to visitors. The 1st Lord Fairhaven also improved the house and decorated its interior with a valuable collection of furniture, pictures and objets d'art. A community of Augustinian canons built a priory here, known as Anglesea or Anglesey Priory, some time during the reign of Henry I (i.e., between 1100 and 1135), and acquired extra land from the nearby village of Bottisham in 1279. The canons were expelled in 1535 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The former priory was acquired around 1600 by Thomas Hobson, who converted it to a country house for his son-in-law, Thomas Parker, retaining a few arches from the original priory. At that time the building's name was changed to "Anglesey Abbey", which sounded grander than the original "Anglesey Priory". In the late 18th century, the house was owned by Sir George Downing, the founder of Downing College, Cambridge. Further alterations to the building were carried out in 1861. Huttleston (1896–1966) and Henry (1900–1973) Broughton bought the site in 1926 and made improvements to the house. They were the sons of Urban Broughton (1857–1929), who had made a fortune in the mining and railway industries in America. Henry married, leaving the abbey to his brother, then 1st Lord Fairhaven, in 1930. Henry became the 2nd Lord Fairhaven. Huttleston used his wealth to indulge his interests in history, art, and garden design, and to lead an eighteenth-century lifestyle at the house. On his death, Huttleston left the abbey to the National Trust so that the house and gardens could "represent an age and way of life that was quickly passing". In 1926 Anglesey Abbey was bought by Huttleston Broughton, later Lord Fairhaven. He fully restored the house which had fallen into disrepair and began to collect beautiful furniture, artworks and statuary. All of these can be seen at the Abbey today. Broughton (full name Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton) was born in 1896 in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. His father, Urban Broughton, had amassed a considerable fortune. His mother was Cara Leland Rogers the daughter of multimillionaire American oil magnate Henry Huttleston Rogers. Rogers had died unexpectedly in 1909 and Urban Broughton had taken over the management of a large part of the Rogers empire. The Broughton family had moved to England in 1912 when Huttleston was sixteen. They lived in Park Lane, Mayfair. Huttleston was educated at Harrow and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. In 1916 he became a lieutenant in the 1st Life Guards. He served during the First World War, and retired from the military in 1924. He obtained the title Baron Fairhaven in 1929. One of Huttleston’s great achievements was the establishment of the garden at the house. In 1964, when Broughton was still living, Lanning Roper wrote a book entitled The Gardens of Anglesey Abbey, in which he described the careful planning of this remarkable garden with its many vistas, avenues, rare and common trees, pools, statues and river temples. He describes the way in which huge areas of sky and mown grass were, been used to balance symmetrical planting and how Broughton used the trees and shrubs to make groups of contrasting colour and foliage. To commemorate the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1937, Broughton planted an extensive avenue of trees with a crossing avenue at the far end. The trees used were London plane alternating with horse chestnut in four rows copy that planted in Windsor Great Park.
Huttleston did not marry and had no heirs. He died in 1966 and left Anglesey Abbey to the National Trust.
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Seneca Improved View 5x7 + 4x5 reducing back, Bausch & Lomb 5x7 Tessar 1c f/4.5, New Guy Positive collodion (fresh)
f/4.5, 10 seconds
Concerned that this was my first plate after heavy silver bath maintenance. Sure no pinholes but despite a ton of filtering there are small specs all over if you look close on the scan.
Also concerned about the solvent streaks. I bet it was just too cold for any of the alcohol in the bath to actually evaporate. I even added less alcohol and acid to my developer than usual.
Posting a new, improved version of this photo. It was taken with a Samsung digital camera. We were visiting Donna’s Aunt Glenna Mae and made the trip to the National Cemetery to pay our respects to her late husband, Donna’s uncle.
Using Snapseed I was able to brighten up the cemetery and make Lookout Mountain, in the distance, stand out more clearly.
Another “Mining my Camera Roll®” adventure!
An improving image, both in vehicle representation and service quality/reliability, can be clearly shown in this photo by Redditch's only double decker. There were a few days where it wasn't on the service last week, but this was due to overhanging trees between Alcester and Evesham (Redditch to Alcester is fine because Stagecoach run double deckers on their route).
Diamond's BJ14 KTC (40625) is seen parked opposite the Alcester Police Station while operating the 247 towards Evesham. The 247 operates up to every hour between Redditch and Evesham Bus Stations. Around the school times, the frequency drops, with certain journeys calling in at local schools, which is why the Gemini was acquired by Redditch because of the termination of the 301 (Redditch-Alcester Schools). BJ14KTC was new in April 2014 as one of two Geminis for use with the Rotala PLC's Wessex operation. Soon after, it gained branding for use on the 51, a service Wessex stepped in to save that First West of England had axed. Sister BJ14KTA was also branded for the service. KTA (40626) has remained at Hounslow in a white livery for the Royal Holloway University, whereas in July 2019, KTC was transferred up to Diamond Bus North West (DBNW/DNW), for use at their newly taken over (from First Manchester) Bolton depot. However, September has seen it transfer down to Diamond Bus West Midlands for use at Redditch on the 247 (Redditch-Evesham) to provide extra capacity on the service following the withdrawing of the 301 (Alcester Schools-Redditch), which ran infront of the service. 40625 is a Volvo B9TL/Wright Eclipse Gemini 2.
Seneca Improved View 5x7, Buhl Optical 9" (229mm) f/3.6, UVP-X collodion (23 months old)
f/3.6, 20 seconds
My silver bath needs an overhaul. I know I've always been against it but it might be time for a boil.
A pivotal milestone in railship development, the Storm was among the first series of double-gauge rail vessels designed specifically to form a train.
Previous double-gauge vessels were less structurally complex and operated individually. Since these retronymically-termed “rigid” shoulder-less railships were more constrained in their length, (and therefore their volume) by track geometry, the capacity taken up by their internal engines and fuel storage was particularly burdensome.
The improved efficiency of dedicated locomotives within a double-gauge train permitted any non-motive vessel to allocate more of its capacity to weaponry, often resulting in an immense turret spanning nearly its entire beam. The addition of swiveling shoulders between the trucks and body allowed these vessels to grow to sizes far beyond those of rigids.
The first non-rigid double-gauge vessels saw action in the latter stage of the Great Steam War, but remained effective long into the era of internal combustion.
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-L-Gauge compatibility (concentric curves and narrowing offsets up to 22.5º)
-Motorized turret rotation
-Detailed interior
Hey all!
Here it is. my 2015 in Lego!
This is for me my first 'full year' in the Lego online community! And I really enjoy all your faves,comments and lovely words. Thank you all for that! for me 2015 was an awesome Lego year where I've improved my building skills very much, thanks to all of you who share awesome builds and by just building myself. This year I've been blogged by The Brothers Brick twice, and I really appreciate that! Thanks! 2015 Is also the year where I've showed my builds for the first time on an event. In October, most of my GoH Kyrrath build were on display in Utrecht, Netherlands (the country where I live..)
I ended this awesome 2015 with my participation in the CCC where I ended up building 7 entries! I hope I'll win something and I wish to win the MB (although I'm not even sure if I will have a chance with all these great builders here)...
And now 2016! I've some awesome ideas to build and I want to build some more stuff besides fantasy too! I hope to improve on my building and also on my photo quality, cause some of my builds have really bad pics :c
For events, I hope to be at Legoworld again this year, and maybe some other Dutch events too. besides I'm thinking about going toBrickworld Chicago, so maybe I can meet many of you great builders over there in June! oh and if you want a collab with me there, send me a pm :)
That's it for now, I wish you all a very nice and Legotastic 2016! I'm looking forward with what you guys will all come up with this year!
Happy newyear!
Jaap
The central criminal courts, Old Bailey, London. Seen after heavy Spring rain.
The court originated as the sessions house of the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs of the City of London and of Middlesex. The original medieval court was first mentioned in 1585; it was next to the older Newgate gaol, and seems to have grown out of the endowment to improve the gaol and rooms for the Sheriffs, made possible by a gift from Richard Whittington. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and rebuilt in 1674, with the court open to the weather to prevent the spread of disease.
Plaque commemorating Bushel's Case of 1670
In 1734 it was refronted, enclosing the court and reducing the influence of spectators: this led to outbreaks of typhus, notably in 1750 when 60 people died, including the Lord Mayor and two judges. It was rebuilt again in 1774 and a second courtroom was added in 1824. Over 100,000 criminal trials were carried out at the Old Bailey between 1674 and 1834
In 1834, it was renamed as the Central Criminal Court and its jurisdiction extended beyond that of London and Middlesex to the whole of the English jurisdiction for trials of major cases. Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service manages the courts and administers the trials but the building itself is owned by the City of London Corporation, which finances the building, the running of it, the staff and the maintenance out of their own resources.
The court was originally intended as the site where only criminals accused of crimes committed in the City and Middlesex were tried. However, in 1856, there was public revulsion at the accusations against the doctor William Palmer that he was a poisoner and murderer. This led to fears that he could not receive a fair trial in his native Staffordshire. The Central Criminal Court Act 1856 was passed to enable his trial to be held at the Old Bailey.
In the 19th century, the Old Bailey was a small court adjacent to Newgate gaol. Hangings were a public spectacle in the street outside until May 1868. The condemned would be led along Dead Man's Walk between the prison and the court, and many were buried in the walk itself. Large, riotous crowds would gather and pelt the condemned with rotten fruit and vegetables and stones. In 1807, 28 people were crushed to death after a pie-seller's stall overturned. A secret tunnel was subsequently created between the prison and St Sepulchre's church opposite, to allow the chaplain to minister to the condemned man without having to force his way through the crowds.
The present Old Bailey building dates from 1902 but it was officially opened on 27 February 1907. It was designed by E. W. Mountford and built on the site of the infamous Newgate gaol, which was demolished to allow the court buildings to be constructed. Above the main entrance is inscribed the admonition: "Defend the Children of the Poor & Punish the Wrongdoer". King Edward VII opened the courthouse.
Lady Justice statue on the top of the court building
On the dome above the court stands a bronze statue of Lady Justice, executed by the British sculptor F. W. Pomeroy. She holds a sword in her right hand and the scales of justice in her left. The statue is popularly supposed to show blind Justice, however, the figure is not blindfolded: the courthouse brochures explain that this is because Lady Justice was originally not blindfolded, and because her “maidenly form” is supposed to guarantee her impartiality which renders the blindfold redundant.
During the Blitz of World War II, the Old Bailey was bombed and severely damaged, but subsequent reconstruction work restored most of it in the early 1950s. In 1952, the restored interior of the Grand Hall of the Central Criminal Court was once again open. The interior of the Great Hall (underneath the dome) is decorated with paintings commemorating the Blitz, as well as quasi-historical scenes of St Paul's Cathedral with nobles outside. Running around the entire hall are a series of axioms, some of biblical reference. They read:
"The law of the wise is a fountain of life"
"The welfare of the people is supreme"
"Right lives by law and law subsists by power"
"Poise the cause in justice's equal scales"
"Moses gave unto the people the laws of God"
"London shall have all its ancient rights"
The Great Hall (and the floor beneath it) is also decorated with many busts and statues, chiefly of British monarchs, but also of legal figures, and those who achieved renown by campaigning for improvement in prison conditions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This part of the building also houses the shorthand-writers' offices.
The lower level also hosts a minor exhibition on the history of the Old Bailey and Newgate featuring historical prison artefacts.
In 1973, the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional IRA exploded a car bomb in the street outside the courts, killing one and injuring 200 people. A shard of glass is preserved as a reminder, embedded in the wall at the top of the main stairs.
South Block extension
Between 1968 and 1972, a new South Block, designed by the architects Donald McMorran and George Whitby, was built to accommodate more modern courts. There are presently 18 courts in use. Court 19 is now used variously as a press overflow facility, as a registration room for first-day jurors or as a holding area for serving jurors.
The original ceremonial gates to the 1907 part of the building are only used by the Lord Mayor and visiting royalty. The general entrance to the building is a few yards down the road in the South Block and is often featured as a backdrop in television news reports. There is also a separate rear entrance, not open to the public, which permits more discreet access. In Warwick Square, on the western side of the complex, is the "Lord Mayor's Entrance".
A remnant of the city wall is preserved in the basement beneath the cells.
Pictured is an RAF Atlas (A400-M) at night during Operation Mobility Guardian.
RAF Aeromedical Evacuation Teams, working alongside Royal Australian Air Force, Royal New Zealand Air Force and United States Air Force Teams, utilising an RAF A400 Aircraft and UK working practices during Exercise Mobility Guardian. ..An RAF Atlas aircraft, and RAF movements personnel, have been transporting US Military vehicles on Exercise Mobility Guardian. Operating from Joint Base Lewis McChord, and Moses Lake Airfield, they have transported Humvee ambulance variants (pictured) and Stryker Command Vehicles...A Royal Air Force Atlas, Aeromedical Evacuation and Force Protection personnel training with Allies and Partners from over 30 countries on Exercise Mobility Guardian, the largest exercise of its type in the world...Hosted by the US Air Force’s Air Mobility Command, over 50 aircraft and 3000 personnel from over 30 nations gathered at Joint Base Lewis McChord near Seattle for an exercise designed to test and improve how international partners and allies conduct humanitarian relief operations...Security for the airfield was provided by a team of Force Protection specialists led by No 2 Squadron, RAF Regiment supported by RAF Police, reservists from the RAuxAF Regiment and personnel from Australia and Belgium...This was the first time an RAF A400M Atlas has taken part in a major exercise giving personnel the opportunity to experience the aircraft’s capabilities in a realistic operational environment and to train for complex, modern air operations alongside NATO partners, key allies and international partners.
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It's amazing how quick the weather and lighting can change. The below image was shot just a matter of two hours earlier.
(p.s. this is Lake Rotoiti in Nelson Lakes National Park. There's a gazillion photos of this jetty on Flickr!)
Improved Seneca View Camera (1906), Carl Zeiss f4.5 210mm, DRP, Tessar (1914), Thornton Pickard wooden shutter (1905), 5x7, Fomapan 200 film, D-76
Improved version of a previously uploaded photo. Taken with a 400mm telephoto lens; this train was travelling at very high speed!
Somewhat OTT signage in Shoreditch, East London. Of course I couldn’t see anyone actually working...
The weather has improved (and my health) so I got out and took Buddy for a walk.
This is taken at the end of the road on the farm I grew up on as a child.
Eagles can often been seen sitting in the trees.
Cropped a bit & framed...that's it.
Taken minutes before the Sun went down.
Fraser Valley area of BC, Canada
Through that gate leads to this. www.flickr.com/photos/ceeceedotca/105434459/in/photostream/
Added detail in larger version! Thanks for stopping by!
Moving people in and around Balloon Fiesta Park, has always been a daunting task, especially considering , start and finish of the event attended. a short added notation 2015 Fiesta, Balloons able to fly 9 days, this year my view, the Fiesta event the smile missing too many times. on Columbus Day I did experience over a dozen Balloons over my Home, in the air and not moving !!!
Developed by the Union States and adapted from the mechanized prairie schooners that carried settlers across the vast western frontier, the Light Steam Transport Vehicle is highly versatile and exceptionally reliable; easily receptive of improvised repairs. This vehicle is extremely lightweight and sports wide treads to navigate sand, swamps, etc. It is relativity unarmored vehicle and is designed to operate within occupied territory or in areas without expected resistance. This simple, yet robust vehicle was adopted by several other nations following its success in the Great Steam War. Crew consists of driver, stoker, and up to five passengers.
I'm trying hard at the moment to improve my post-processing skills. As such, I thought it would be an interesting exercise to go back through my photostream, pull out some old images that I like, but was never happy with, and see if I can improve on them. All the "before" and "after" shots from this exercise - including this one - are posted in the "Image, Redux" gallery on my photostream page.
Another shot of the spectacularly beautiful Blue Mosque, which sits across a broad plaza from the Aya Sofia in Istanbul's Old CIty. Getting good shots of the mosque without people requires either (a) extreme luck, or (b) waking up at ungodly hours to go shoot it. I chose the latter.
The changes on this image from the original version are admittedly pretty subtle - mainly increased local saturation, contrast, and above all sharpening - but to my eyes these changes definitely make for a much more pleasing result.
Tonemapped in Photomatix and re-blended with the original 0EV image in PSE.
Lots of detail gets lost i the medium size... Best viewed large!
Captain Falcon:
I touched up the belt and abs
Shovel Knight:
New helmet and paint job
Ryu:
New face, fixed the dogi and bandana, and added a retarded mini hadouken XD
New Haven Railroad EP-2 class motor # 0320, wearing the pin stripe scheme, is seen with its pantographs down, along with a passenger train consist on a yard storage track, Danbury, Connecticut, 1949. Directly behind the EP-2 motor is another motor that is wearing the short lived pin stripe paint scheme. To me the pin stripe paint scheme makes the motors appear to be longer in length. The first passenger car coupled to the motor is an Osgood-Bradley lightweight coach (aka; American Flyer).
The name of the photographer is unknown and it came from a photo that was on the Internet. This photo has been cropped and modified from the original to improve its appearance.
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Seneca Improved View 8x10, Kodak 8.5" Commercial Ektar f/6.3 + CPL, Arista EDU Ultra 100
XTOL (stock) 6 mins, tray-developed
f/8, 1/250s
Slight light leak from the film holder accidentally not being seated all the way down.
This old Kodak lens doesn't really have normal filter threads but a 43-52mm step up ring threads in well enough without damage.
Seneca Improved View 8x10, Kodak 8.5" Commercial Ektar f/6.3, Tutti Frutti collodion (50/50 UVP-X + New Guy positive collodion), Tintype
f/16, 4 seconds
Iron/copper/potassium developer
Surprising results from mixing 2 collodions together. Got the contrast of the UVP-X (4 months old) and some of the shadow detail of the New Guy (1 month old). Perhaps trying to make a lithium + ammonium iodide & cadmium bromide recipe is in order.
It all sounds simple enough: if you want to improve your photography, study good photographs and learn from them. So where does one find good photographs? In galleries; in photo books; the winners of reputable competitions; photographs that people are prepared to pay for, handsomely. They must be good. Then I saw a photograph that had been awarded $28,000 for first prize in a reputable competition: a depiction of a corner of a room, just three planes meeting at a point, with what looked like a rough circle, scratched by hand on the negative. ? Okay, maybe I need to go farther up market. Cindy Sherman's Untitled #96 fetched $3.9m at auction. It must be really good, for that price: the head and torso of a sunburned girl wearing an orange sweater and checked skirt, lying on some orange tiles. Lots of orange but I still failed to see the attraction. I decided to skip the also-rans and check out the most expensive photograph ever sold: Andreas Gurskey’s Rhein II. A river, shot from the side, with green banks, a footpath and a moderately cloudy sky. Looks like it might have been shot from the window of a passing bus. Lots of green; lots of parallel straight lines; nice echo of the sky colour in the water. But would I pay upwards of $4.3m for it, even if I had the money? I don’t think so. Okay, now it doesn’t sound so simple. I mean, is a photograph good just because someone says it’s good? I need to give this some more thought.