View allAll Photos Tagged Knight
"Knight Cycle" (Check out my retakes--similar, but better focused)
Skybridge
Davenport, Iowa
Aside from taking tons of pictures of bald eagles and backyard birds, I've had a creative block for photo ideas around the Quad-Cities in these winter months. One of the relatively new attractions in the Quad-Cities is the Davenport Skybridge:
Destination Quad-Cities article on the Davenport Skybridge
Wikipedia article on the Davenport Skybridge
My previous Skybridge photos were pretty ordinary, or looked like copies of the great photos that many others have captured.
I decided it would be fun to try photographing action figures in the Skybridge to make them even more dynamic. This Batman Knight Cycle is about 7.5 inches from the front tire to the rear tire, so I had to come up with a way to make it appear more life-sized. I laid down on the ground to get a low perspective (made easier by the point-and-shoot Nikon Coolpix P5100's LCD screen), messed around with different camera angles, and used an inexpensive Opteka close-up filter to try to pull off the life-sized illusion. Many of my other Knight Cycle images were sharper, but I liked the perspective in this the best. I might try to replace this with a sharper image at another time, but for now I'm pretty happy with the way this came out.
Feel free to check out my photo of The Terminator action figure on the Skybridge.
Location: Skybridge, Davenport, Iowa
Camera: Nikon Coolpix P5100
Lens Accessories: Opteka Close-Up Lens Filter +4
F-stop: f/2.7
Exposure time: 1/8 sec.
ISO speed: ISO-626
35mm eq. focal length: 35mm (no additional zoom aside from the close-up filter)
Handling: Stabilized the camera against the ground
Priority: Automatic, forced flash off
Lighting: No flash
Photoediting: Adjusted sharpness in PhotoScape v3.2, cloned out a small red spot with Photoshop Elements 5
These photos are inspired by the Batman character from DC Comics, the idea was to create a set of portraits that would introduce a group of characters living and fighting crime in Gotham City and calling themselves “Gotham Knights”. There is going to be a video teaser for a fake tv series with the same title and some other promo materials soon.
This is still a Work In Progress project and there will be more characters added to the series.
Technical note: all the photos were taken on the same location, however all of them were taken on a different day. No artificial light was used here, only sunlight and a cheap reflector. The camera I used was Canon 5D Mark I with 35mm and 40mm canon lenses. Edited in Photoshop and Illustrator.
I wanted to say THANK YOU to all the wonderful people who participated and helped me with this silly project (in no particular order): Bob Holmes, Matt Pollard, Katie Reynolds, Jack Thorpe, Marek Hołówka, Dominika Wiśnik, Anna Carina, Ian Azille, Natalia Sztandera, Kamil Lemieszewski, Ula Bankiewicz, Daniela Ionta. Special thanks to Piotr Kasprzyk for the help with the Gotham Knights logo - you are “the bestest”!
We Are Vengeance!
:)
A shot from a knights' tournament in Braunschweig, commemorating the 800th anniversary of the coronation of emperor Otto IV., son of Henry the Lion and Mathilda of England.
I loved driving this batmobile through Gotham in Batman: Arkham Knight, and I also loved the design, so I decided to make a Lego rendition, first in LDD, and now with real pieces. It is roughly minifig scale, although I could not manage to make an actual (whole) fig fit inside ^_^'.
This is how it happend...This is how the Batman died.
So if you follow me you may know i'm making the lego batman 3 arkham batmobile,so i thought that even I love my light gray bat,i think it would look better a AK batman on the Ak Batmobile so thats how it happend,i'm really happy how this guy turned out I hope you too and remember
Be The Batman.
at last ,I forced Jack to have photos with Luna .It's the first time they meet ,Jack is not very interesting with little lady ,but he(it!) sitll took care of her ...He is older than Luna(borned in 2005)
Au Moyen Age, les tournois n'étaient pas seulement une forme de divertissement sportif, ils constituaient également un entraînement pratique à la guerre et un marché matrimonial. Au XIVe siècle, les joutes - combat singulier entre deux chevaliers montés brandissant des lances - étaient devenues l'élément favori du tournoi. Le gagnant était celui qui réussissait à frapper et à renverser son adversaire ou, à défaut, qui restait avec le talon de lance le plus court après l'affrontement. Les joutes étaient le moyen idéal pour les chevaliers de montrer leur courage et leur héroïsme. ElIes n'étaient pas sans danger : un coup de lance malheureux pouvait être fatal. Même ainsi, les joutes étaient immensément populaires. Pour les chevaliers, c'était un moyen de perfectionner leurs aptitudes au combat et pour l'élite, il resta le sport de spectacle parfait jusqu'au XVIe siècle, et, bien sûr, une occasion idéale pour activer ses réseaux et faire des affaires.
In the middle Ages, tournaments were not just a form of sporting entertainment, they also acted a practical training for war and a marriage market. By the fourteenth century, jousting - single combat - between two mounted knights wielding lances - had become the favourite element of the tournament. The winner was the rider who managed to strike and unseat his opponent or, failing that, was left holding the shorter lance stub after the clash. Jousts were the ideal way for knights to display their courage and heroism. They were not without danger: an unlucky blow from a lance could be tatl. Even so, jousting was immensely popular. For knights it was a way to hone their fighting skills and for the elite it remained the perfect spectator sport until far into the sixteenth century. And, of course, it was an ideal occasion for networking and doing business.
Hermitage, Amsterdam.
The templar tunic is not mine!!!! I take it somewhere on the net, I cant remember were! Thats why i haven't post any picture ;)
he "Russian Knights" (Russikiye Vityazi) are the Russian Air Force aerobatic display team flying Sukhoi SU-27 and Su-27UB fighters.
Hell Knight: transforms fluidly from a Nintendo 64 game cartridge of Castlevania, to mechanical Hell Knight enemy, and back! Thanks to the advent of Mixels ball and socket joints, I can make my LEGOformers much more articulated and compact. When in cartridge mode, this can fit snugly into the game slot of Ultra Hexacon: the transforming Nintendo 64. When Ultra Hexacon was first released, I created two transforming game cartridges to accompany it: Mecha Kong and Hot-Shot (Donkey Kong 64 and GoldenEye 007, respectively). However a third transforming game cartridge was built but never released: Link 2.0, who transformed into a gold cartridge of Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Although Link 2.0 was completed, I ran into problems with applying his game label, which interfered with inserting his cartridge into Hexacon’s game slot. For some reason, his sticker kept peeling off when inserting the game, thus I omitted from the photo shoot due to time constraints. My idea was to eventually retool Link 2.0 to have better clearance for the game slot, but unfortunately I abandoned the project
In early 2016 I decided to pick up where I left off and complete Link 2.0 — however, with its new retooling and transformation cycle, it was impossible for me to have the creation made predominantly of metallic gold pieces, thus I was stuck with having the outer cartridge mainly with the traditional light grey. This meant I had no choice but to base this off a different Nintendo 64 title; after debating back and forth between using Castlevania 64 and Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (two of my favorite titles), I opted to build games of both — hence, the creation of its counterpart Robo Fett.
For making this model in particular, one of the toughest obstacles was making the arches on top of the cartridges: when transformed into robot mode, the arches are on the bottom of the feet, which make the robot have trouble standing up. To fix this, the robot’s legs have retractable toes built with hinge plates. The game’s labels were printed on glossy card stock paper and cut apart with scissors, then glued onto the outer tiles. During production of this model, I considered using the LEGO werewolf minifig’s head the robot’s head, which would make this a game cartridge of Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness. I couldn’t obtain the proper piece in time, thus I opted to use a knight helmet and just settled for making this robot based on the standard Castlevania villains.
Knight in the name means powered by the Knight Sleeve Valve engine. Please don't ask me to explain Sleeve-valve, as I have seen a description of how it works, but years ago.
Seen at the judged car show, AACA Eastern Region Fall Meet, Hershey, Pennsylvania, October 2009
The Musket is one of the coolest Brickarms that I've had the fortune of getting my hands on, It's grippable along almost the whole barrel, the underside and the upper side.
Thanks to Zeessi for sparking the idea of knights with guns.
The Knights' Room is one of the large grand interiors of the Imperial Museum or the New Hermitage. Originally the room, richly decorated with ornamental painting in the Neo-Grecian style, was intended for the display of coins. Today it houses part of the Hermitage's extremely rich collection of arms and armour that numbers around 15,000 items. The display of Western European artistic arms of the 15th to 17th century presents a wide range of tournament, parade and hunting gear, as well as armour, edged weapons and firearms. They include works by famous craftsmen who worked in the finest armouries in Europe.
Beechcraft Super King Air 350ER, Shadow R1 at RAF Leeming C/S Knight 46.The Shadow R1 is ISTAR intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance aircraft based at RAF Waddington. UK.
Some really impressive Graffiti on the streets of Singapore.
Camera: Canon EOS 5D mark iii
Lens: Canon 35 mm f/2
Photo by: Rouben Dickranian
The Knight Train (a.k.a. The Door Crasher) is a heavy duty Batmobile used when the Dark Knight needs more muscle than his usual rides feature. Ablative armour covers most of the outer shell, virtually freeze-proof and heat resistant to over 4000 degrees. The exposed engine compartment allows venting of the extreme heat created by the power plant within.
Even though the Knight Train was designed to be a blunt instrument, able to flip or smash almost any vehicle out of the way and drive through multiple reinforced walls it was created as a tool not a weapon.
Armed with a plethora of non-lethal weaponry including a gattling launcher capable of delivering sting, flash/bang, sonic de-stablizer, gas and other grenades.
Like all of Batman's vehicles, it's lead lined and is meant to serve as a mobile command center in addition to a rolling extension of his utility belt.
Built for the Wheels of Justice! Contest on FBTB and nicknamed the Door Crasher in honour of it's birthday (Black Friday)
I had originally wanted to build a Green Lantern Mobile, but when inspiration hit I started to veer off course and decided on a composite Bat/Lantern Mobile. The more I built, the more it became about the black and wanting to create something different while infusing it with mix of retro roadster, locomotive and a pinch of Mater for attitude. I think I'll finish Knight Train's Cars-ification if I can keep my son from completely destroying it in the next day or so.
www.facebook.com/FlamingArtTattoo/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pinVIfrCPds&eurl=http://uk.yo...
The link above is a short video of this tattoo in the making.
vampire knight charcter aiduo hanabusa ... sorry about the book lines (-_-') i was so bored so i draw it in my note book ^_^'
A reboot of double decker coach on Day 5 of the new ManaBus.com express service to Auckland, the 2014 Volvo B11R snapped at the corner of Purcell St. and SH1 in Foxton on the some 10 hour run from Wellington to Auckland on Tuesday, 25 November 2014.
After a couple of years on Manabus.com express work, three of the ManaBus coaches have been moved to provide excellent hop on/off tours of Waiheke Island.
One is ManaBus No. 1 (Waiheke Explorer No. 301) which had a snafu on the island in Carsons Rd. on Saturday, 11 March 2017. The bus slid off the road when the driver pulled over to execute a turn.
The other ex ManBus Volvo B11R double deckers on the island are ManaBus No. 3 (Waiheke Explorer No. 302) and ManaBus No. 4 (Waiheke Explorer No. 303).
The double deckers are now repainted in a blue AOA livery and provide a hop on/hop off service for Fullers on the island.
DOUBLE-DECKER ON PRECIPICE
Gulf News, March 16, 2017
A double-decker bus which slipped off the edge of Carsons Road on Saturday [11 March 2017] could not have come closer to disaster.
About a dozen people were on board the Fullers Hop On Hop Off service when the driver pulled the bus to the left before making a right-hand turn into a driveway.
The left wheels of the bus slipped off the road-edge above a steep bank and the bus ended-up balanced precariously on its chassis.
Shaken passengers escaped by dropping down on to the bank via the front door before clambering up to safety.
The drama happened at a turnaround point outside Waiheke Airfield, about 250m past the entrance to Batch Vineyard, which the buses have used without incident since the service began.
Passengers walked to Batch Vineyard’s restaurant to recover. Operations manager Felix Bijl said they were “a bit startled” on arrival but soon recovered.
“After a few minutes they were more amused than shocked -some of them thought it was a bit of an adventure,” Mr Bijl said.
“We offered them the use of our shuttle to get back to their destination.
“The bus driver was very apologetic.”
Fullers was still investigating as Gulf News went to press but CEO Douglas Hudson said there was no evidence that days of heavy rain had made the road unsafe.
“Pending the outcome of the investigation it’s fair to say the bus has moved too far to the left,” Mr Hudson said.
Mr Hudson said the driver was offered counselling but had returned to work.
The company was reviewing its use of the turnaround area. A crane was hurriedly brought from Auckland to raise the bus back on to the road. The bus was undamaged.
Mr Hudson said the company took the incident very seriously. Services were suspended on the Carsons Road route for the rest of the weekend before resuming on Monday.
But local residents say the road is simply too narrow for double decker and coach buses and the service should cease or be replaced with smaller buses. Warren Eade, who lives on Musson Drive, says the buses are far too big for several roads on the island’s winery trail.
“I, my wife and my neighbours have all had close calls,” Mr Eade says. “They come around corners well over the centre line. I’ve had two near accidents where I’ve had to come to a complete stop and pull off the road almost into the bank.
“I’ve spoken to Fullers and their response is that it’s a popular route. But those buses are not suitable for these roads.” - Geoff Cumming
WAIHEKE LOCALS ANNOYED AT DOUBLE-DECKER BUSES
NZ Herald, Monday, March 13, 2017
Waiheke locals are being driven crazy by the introduction of double-decker buses on the island, saying the towering vehicles are dangerously clogging the roads.
Since the two-storey "hop on, hop off" buses were introduced on 10 December 2016, locals estimated about five have come off the road and others say it's difficult to safely share the road when passing.
Bus company Fullers, which owns the buses, says the vehicles are legally compliant and no longer or wider than other urban buses and coaches on Waiheke.
Concerned local man Alan Knight said much of the community's frustration came from feeling they had not been consulted before the buses were brought over.
The buses clogged up the roads and annoyed residents who called Waiheke their home year-round, he said.
"We understand there's got to be a tourism industry.
"But the double decker buses, the sudden introduction of them to the island with no consultation with the locals, has been a tipping point.
"Tipping point being the main word as they have tipped off the road into ditches on a number of occasions."
The roads were too small for the buses and it was only a matter of time before "someone has to go home in an ambulance", Knight said.
Waiheke local board chairman Paul Walden said a petition signed by more than 1000 locals had been handed to the board, which fully supported the campaign to get the buses removed.
"The buses are all over the roads because of the size of them. They're not just presenting a risk to themselves but to other road users when they're on a road where there's just not enough room for two vehicles."
It was "blatantly obvious" the buses were not fit for Waiheke's roads. Walden said he was concerned about what would happen with the heavy buses over winter, when the island's many dirt roads became wet and muddy.
The board had spoken to Fullers' chief executive Douglas Hudson about the buses.
"It's fair to say they need to be considering their relationship with the Waiheke community and whether this is in their best commercial interest to keep running their business given such widespread opposition in the community," Walden said.
Hudson said the buses were an environmentally friendly solution to the increasing number of Waiheke visitors who expected quality service.
Waiheke had become a top island destination and its transport should reflect that, he said.
"Initially, we will reduce the frequency of service over the winter, and are looking into some possible changes to the route to minimise and mitigate some of the concerns raised."
Hudson said a formal investigation was undertaken when buses crashed or went off the road and "any learnings are built into risk assessment procedures and training".
Auckland Transport (AT) is undertaking a review of the tour routes after concerns were raised by some residents.
AT spokesman Mark Hannan said the review's findings would be presented to the local board next week, but added recent wild weather would have some impact on the findings.
"If we find there is an issue we will report it to NZTA," Hannan said.
AT did not have the power to take legal vehicles off the road, he said.