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Bixby Bridge
Highway 1 Coastline
Big Sur, California
This is something new for me, night photography. For 2015, I want to venture out from my comfort zone and try new things, one of which is to do night photography. So sometime this month, we went out for shooting the milky way, but the condition was not possible.
Having said that, we head down to Highway 1 and waited patiently for incoming cars to light up the bridge, while we did a little light painting...
(O-11 military transport) Jixn Shipyards MT-11 (Military Transport)
Affiliation: None
Manufacturer: Tronde Shipyards
Length/beam/draft:
Armor/shield level: 2ft thick Steng steel/ varies (but usually a level 4)
Sublight engines/lightspeed engines:
Sublight speed/lightspeed:
Range: 5,308 days (with half-million marines 1,223 days)
Crew: 4,916 and up to 500,000 marines
Armament: varies, but usually consists of 2x 32in Hinton laser cannons, 94x 1in laser cannons, and up to 1 billion tons of aircraft, troops, weapons, supplies, etc.
After the First Piracy War the major powers were in need of large military transports to move resources around so as to disappoint any further acts of piracy. This led to a scramble among the warship manufacturing companies to produce large military transports. Tronde Shipyards had produced small military transports in the past but nothing compared to what the major powers were asking. Tronde Shipyards built and subcontracted many different designs but couldn’t keep up with Tran Inc.’s award winning J-33HG military transport.
It wasn’t until the MT-11, a Jixn Shipyard design, did Tronde Shipyard have something to outmatch the J-33HG. It’s an unusual story as to how Tronde Shipyards became the manufacture and later owners of the MT-11. The Jixn Shipyard lacked the resources and money to build the massive MT-11 so they decided to subcontract Tronde Shipyards. Tronde Shipyards was happy to accepted the deal, but Jixn Shipyards soon regretted there deal with Tronde Shipyards. Tronde Shipyards had gotten the better part of the deal and got over a forty percent royalty for every MT-11 sold; they also made slight modifications to the MT-11, they added larger engines, and increased the length by over two-thousand feet. Jixn Shipyards eventually sued Tronde Shipyards to try and evoke their contract but to know avail. Instead of spending millions of Lenets in court battles Tronde Shipyards graciously offered to buy the MT-11 design for over eight million Lenets; Jixn Shipyards eagerly accepted the offer.
The MT-11 is the largest military transporter available on the market; it is also one of oldest spaceship design still in production. The MT-11 is practically a floating city, it has the largest cafeteria in a spaceship to date, has two parks complete with ponds and wildlife, luxurious living conditions for almost two-hundred thousand men, and over three hundred miles of stairs, hallways, and corridors (not including the hanger bay). It also boasts one of the largest communication arrays so as to help coordinate planetary invasions.
The MT-11 design is over fifty years old and the design has only been changed once – shortly before the Agronomic War Tronde Shipyards introduced the MT-11 B series. Tronde Shipyards have sold over eight-hundred MT-11 transports and is looking to sell many, many more.
The MT-11 can efficiently and quickly transport a complete army of over half-million men (or up to one billion tons of supplies) almost anywhere in the galaxy in under two days due to its four, huge lightspeed engines (the largest in existence). The lightspeed engines (and the MT-11 in general) require a huge selonic cell bank located toward the rear of the vessel; it has the largest concentration of selonic cells on any spaceship.
The MT-11 is used widely by the major powers to quickly and efficiently move strategic resources around the galaxy. It is even rumored that a modified MT-11 serves as the Fiston Republics military refueling vessel. There is no doubt the MT-11 will continue to serve in the navies of the major powers for many years to come.
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Not quite happy with the color scheme, but its been sitting around for awhile so I figured I'd post it.
Magenta (1972-86) Engine 1275 S4 BMC A Series8
Registration Number NOP 57 F (Birmingham)
The Magenta was launched in 1972, as a kit from Lightspeed Panels of Whitby Yorkshire, billed as a sports tourer, it proved attractive to would be builders thanks largely to its affordable cost, with kt priced at £ 250 and an expected £ 350 build costs.
The kit is based on a BMC 1100-1300 (ADO 16) donor vehicle, which donated it's subframes, engine and gearbox and other assorted items including the MG 1100 grille
Further modifications came in the guise of the Roadster and Sprint which had modified front ends and donor changes which included Ford and Mini components.
Many thanks for a Marmalising
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Shot 15.06.2016 at the Coventry Festival of Motoring, Coventry REF 118-021.
When you have a DLSR on you and 5 minutes to kill!
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Playing about with the zoom and a slow shutter speed earlier for a striking shot of a Christmas Tree.
I have long been in awe of Lady Vervaine's crash zoom photographs... they seem to me so dynamic, so kinetic, so full of drama, and this is my first attempt at shamelessly copying it. I liked the contradiction between the rootedness of trees versus the sudden rushing motion. The latter seemed to encapsulate autumn's change - which has been especially rapid this year.
AMP Building and lasers over Vivid, Circular Quay, Sydney
OM-1 w M.Zuiko 40-150/2.8 Pro
ISO1250 f/8 82mm -2ev
Single frame raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 7, colour graded in Nik Viveza and Color Efex, tweaked in Topaz AI-3 and finished off back in PhotoLab.
Wanted to do this for a long time. On top of a walkway over I-94 facing east toward exit 190 (Belleville Road).
This was taken right outside of Bryant Park. I had set up my tripod for some longer exposures of the traffic, hoping to get some good shots of the light trails. I was surprised to have a bus pass right by me, filling up the whole frame with colorful streaks of light! A happy accident!
Take Disneyland at lightspeed with the Star Tours attraction in Tomorrowland. Although I think the attraction is a bit dated, my kids don't care. It's one on ther top 5 I'd have to guess.
Pictured here is RX-24 or REX the robot stepping on the StarSpeeder gas to lightspeed after blowing up the Death Star!
EXIF:
Exposure Program: Shutter speed priority AE
Exposure: 0.02 sec (1/50)
Aperture: f/1.6
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 3200
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Fun Fact:
Star Tours' debut was in 1987, replacing the previous attraction, Adventure Thru Inner Space. It can be found in California (pictured here), Hollywood Studios in Florida, Tokyo, and Paris Disneyland and Disney World Resorts.
The four military-grade flight simulators cost Disney a reported $500,000 each, and when complete, the attraction's cost sat at a whopping $32M - twice that of the entire park when Disneyland was built in 1955. Because of the success of the attraction when opened, Disneyland remained open for a special 60-hour marathon from January 9, 1987 at 10am to January 11, 1987 at 10pm. (Wikipedia)
Now, who wouldn't have wanted to attend that!?
Taken during a photo walk around Manchester, The lights were on the runners who were running over the bridge.
I really did not want to smash all these deathstars, I had for sale signs on them all. Sadly I have no room in my Lego room for an entire Universe.
🎥 So a year ago Last January my darling wife (who was still reluctant to marry the likes of me yet..) 🎥 offered to fix up my aging ol' speedy boat.
She massaged out some scratches and "experience" marks and added an articulating swim deck, you see us on here, a speedy airfoil wing with cool GPS bits and even updated below deck.
Ol' Buzz even got updated AVsitter and custom animations!