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The Prussian army was equipped with the Dreyse needle gun renowned for its use at the Battle of Königgrätz, which was by this time showing the age of its 25 year old design. The rifle had a range of only 600 m (2,000 ft) and lacked the rubber breech seal that permitted aimed shots.
It was a breechloading rifle. Accepted for service in 1841 as the "leichtes Perkussionsgewehr Modell 1841, with the name chosen to hide the revolutionary nature of the new weapon.
The name "Zündnadelgewehr"/"needle-gun" comes from its needle-like firing pin, which passed through the paper cartridge case to strike a percussion cap at the bullet base.
The Dreyse rifle was also the first breech-loading rifle to use the bolt action to open and close the chamber, executed by turning and pulling a bolt handle. It has a rate of fire of about 6 rounds per minute.
Zali, retired racing greyhound and Neko: Roskyle Too Many Kisses, and Italian Greyhound strut their stuff.
The Tapajós River, next in line for Amazon hydro development, 20km wide at Suruacá, Tapajós Arapiuns Extractivist Reserve.
Outside of Spring Grove, Mn is a line of a dozen cabooses. No idea why they are there but they have been there for a long time.
Creative Exposure:
As we didn’t know a lot about camera exposure yet at the time I took this picture I didn’t adjust most of the settings. I had the camera mode on P as standard and an ISO of 1600 as I shot this picture inside the metal shop. I did zoom in though to focus the camera more on the wood spiral, make the background more blurry to prevent it from being distracting and hereby emphasised the wood spiral.
Elements and Principles of Design:
First of all I want to refer to the composition of the shot as I used the manual focus lock to get the wood spiral into a point of interest according to the rule of thirds. It is nice that at least part of the metal plate which the wood spiral is laying on is also in the area of interest and therefore crisp.
Obviously the curved lines of the wood spiral build a nice contrast to the rather straight lines that create the form of the metal block. Those give the picture a sense of stability, regularity and order while the curved lines add beauty, elegance and charm and make the whole image smoother. The curved lines of the wood spiral are also the leading line. As the angle on which I shot the metal block is rather unusual and it’s lines aren’t vertical and horizontal but diagonal which makes the whole composition more interesting by forcing the eye to follow the lines across the image. It’s form is enhanced by shadows which make its three different dimensions length, depth and width more obvious. The meeting point of their three lines is still on one line with the wood spiral and therefore in the area of interest and nice and crisp. The metal block probably once was a geometric box with sharp edges but the many years of usage smoothened them and added some cuts so I would now call a an organic form.
As the wood spiral is the only thing on the metal block there’s not a lot of variety in the picture, which would’ve made the image more interesting by keeping the eye moving around the piece a lot more, but would’ve taken the focus from the wood spiral. To prevent that, I shot a still life with an empty area surrounding my main object to create the feeling of space, which helps to put all the emphasis on it.
To add more contrast and take away unnecessary distractions in the background I experimented with the Clone Stamp Tool in Photoshop to eliminate all the other obvious colour spots except for the wooden spiral. But I still wanted to keep the some colour and not totally convert the background into black and white because when I tried that it looked very cold and cool, there was too much contrast and I missed especially the warmer yellow and orange colour touches on the metal. So instead I covered the two main bright spots in the background and then boosted up the saturation on the yellow of the wood spiral.
As the wood spiral and the metal block (for most parts) are crisp you can see the fine lines that make out the structure of the cropped wood and the smoothed out cuts and indentations on the metal block that make out their texture. It makes the image appealing to the sense of touch which helps to make the photograph look more realistic and enhances the three-dimensional feel.
Lighting:
As this picture is shot in the metal workshop the main source of light is unfortunately the top lighting, but a rather soft shadow of the wood spiral as well as the dark shadow on the facing side of the metal block also indicate some softer lighting from the back. Nevertheless I had my ISO on 1600 to lighten up the whole image a little bit.
Post Production:
Resizing
Unsharp mask to sharpen the edges a little bit and make the image more crisp
Use of curves to add contrast
Experimented in with the Clone Stamp Tool in Photoshop to eliminate other colour spots in the picture other than the wooden spiral
Boost up saturation of yellow
Critique:
After another month of photography lessons I know a lot more especially about the right lighting. If I was to redo the shot I would try to use diffused side lighting rather than harsher top lighting. Also I would try to eliminate the colour and form distractions in the background right on the set either by putting them to the side or by using my new gained knowledge about the AS camera mode, the opening of the lens and therefore blur the background even more. Hereby I could avoid using the Clone Tool which unfortunately put a slight foggy cover over the background and forced me to add a big black area at the top of the image which I dislike. Otherwise I’m more than satisfied with the composition of my shot and the focus lock. The important parts are crisp and I love how you can see the fine texture on the wood and get the smooth feel of the metal block as if you were actually touching it.
Photographic Styles:
Even though I don’t know a lot about photographic styles I would probably put this image into still life as it has a calming emotion and there is no action.
Not a station anymore, but not quite abandoned either. www.chicago-l.org/stations/washington-state.html
UNIFIL Belgian Battalion engineers clearing access to Blue Line from mines in order to open a path to B-52. 13 May 2010.
Judges commendation: "The principal reason why our judges identified the winner in this category can be summed up by one word ... quality. It is a company with enviable reliability and punctuality records which are consistently well above average expectations. It's not the only reason why it has won, but it is certainly important that it pays particular attention to looking after its staff and, as a result, has one of the lowest turnovers of driving staff in the UK."
Posted behind the driver in front of the two right front seats of OPL08 (YJ62 FXK).
Viking Line's Amorella passes Tallink's Victoria 1 on her approach to Stockholm from Turku, 14th April 2012. Ran aground in September 2020. Now running for Corsica Ferries as Mega Victoria whereas Victoria 1 is housing asylum seekers in Leith as of April 2023
This is another lost viewpoint. The line may be clear but not this vantage point.
80079 & 43106 head the Welsh Marches Pullman past Ponthir on 26-2-83. This is working northbound from Newport to Hereford in the rain. 4930 Hagley Hall had earlier taken the train from Shrewsbury to Hereford.
I think this was one of the first workings with the Pullman stock making it a WMP and not the WME.
Along time since the SVR provided locos for the mainline!
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Hooray! My package of new pens and pencils arrived so I just HAD to play with them. Inspired by Carolyn's "Sleepytime Tanlges" I tested out what the Pigma pens can do on a small tile.
Some of the tangles/variations used (that I know the names of): Mumsy, Sooflowers
The Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company D23 Servicing the East Troy Electric Railroad Museum
D21, line car, was built at Cold Spring in 1907 and was rebuilt by 1910 for interurban service. It was modernized in 1929. On October 15, 1944 it was sold to KMCL as D21.
It was found that this car was being used at the Port Washington Power Plant. Since they also found out that another D23 was on the line after rebuilding J6, this car became TMER&T D3. It was sold to Wisconsin Electric Railway Historical Society in 1972 as D23 and then was sold to East Troy Electric Ry as D23 in 1989.
I hear rumor from facebook that this unit was supposed to go to South Elgin, but the Wisconsin Central refused to transport it, so it remained with East Troy.