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St Mary, Withersfield, Suffolk
Withersfield sits not far from the busy town of Haverhill in that little peninisula of Suffolk jutting out into Cambridgeshire and Essex. The pretty name of the village comes from the ancient practice of enclosing a large area for wether sheep (that is to say, castrated males kept for their wool) to roam fairly freely during the summer months. The prefix occurs three times in Suffolk village names, here, again at Withersdale in the far north, and also at Withermarsh in the south east. In all three cases, it is open ground near to a larger settlement.
St Mary is set in the heart of the village near to an ancient crossroads. The church begins a theme that will be common as you move east of here, for the stair turret rises above the battlements of the 15th century tower, which, with the dedication, will become a motif of the Stour valley. Seen from the road, the south side arrangement of battlements, clerestory and aisle appears the very model of Suffolk perpendicular. In fact, this is an illusion, for just about everything you see is Victorian, only the clerestory being medieval. Even the chancel was rebuilt at this time. The oldest survival in the entire building, however, can be seen without even going inside. The door handle, with its two Harry Potterish dragons, survives from the 13th century church.
St Mary is most famous for its bench ends. They line the north ends of the south nave benches. The most easterly is the image of St George defeating the dragon, the serpent writhing in agony beneath the knight's horse's hooves. At the west end is St Michael weighing souls. A man kneels in the right hand bucket of the balance, and his sins are measured against him in the left hand balance in the form of a malevolent little creature. Although this image is familiar from medieval dooms, it is particularly interesting here. On the extreme left, the devil has appeared on the scene, and is holding the evil side up before letting it drop. Only the power of prayer will get the just man out of this, and so he clings tightly to his rosary beads. I wonder if post-Reformation Withersfielders took the image to mean that such Catholic ritualist practices as praying with a rosary would be bound to land a man in hell.
Pippa Blackall's characteristically lovely window of St Cecilia sits in the north aisle east window. Beside it, guarding the entrance to the Victorian chancel is one of the best 15th century rood screens in the area. The doors, a feature of this area, are similar to those at Cowlinge. Mythical and heraldic creatures haunt the spandrels, but there are no saints below for the screen was repainted in the rather gaudy fashion of the 18th century, at which time it was adorned with cherub heads and foliage. This ought to be awful, but somehow it works, although of course you wouldn't want it everywhere. Interestingly, this restoration of the screen might suggest that the chancel was in use for worship in the 18th century.
Another mystery is up in the roof of the nave. This was entirely reconstructed in the 1980s, but the hammerbeams survive from the medieval roof, and appear to be unfinished; a couple have figures on, but one has an unfinished figure, while another has curious markings and what may be the fixing for an angel. There is nothing mysterious about the north aisle roof for this is a mellow, beautiful piece, with curious bosses including a man's face which is deliberately aslant, and an eagle. It dates from just after 1480, and the brass at the extreme east is for the donor, Robert Wyburgh.
The elegant tower arch rises above the font, and Miss Heylen's plaque claiming the front bench for Hanchet Hall in 1810. The typically rustic parish charity board is charming, not least because the parish name appears to have been painted out at some point, probably during the Second World War. Also, there is a great curiosity behind the south door. It appears to be an arcade capital turned into a holy water stoup. It must be earlier from the south arcade, removed when the aisle was rebuilt. Yet another sign that the Victorians' great enthusiasm for this place was all done rather well.
Clapt out ERF E10 is to be returned to the road, it ended it's days as a shunter and has now passed to a very good friend of mine. Old ERF's never die!!
It's a Christmas wreath, however it was seen on a rural walk away from any housing, at Easter time, so a bit of a mystery how it came to be there.
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I asked about the elastic slings for the back legs. He said they were to keep the dog's legs from trailing on the ground. The dog was doing walking movements with them. I think it must be a home made contraption. It was her first time out so I think it needs some adjusting.
Went to the Chicago History Museum last weekend, but we were only there for 45 minutes as there was a fire in the basement and we had to be evacuated! It was a bit chaotic to say the least as a good portion of the patrons had coats in coat check and their drivers licenses checked in for audio tours. We stood on the sidewalk for nearly an hour while the firefighters checked everything out (didn't seem serious) but we weren't let back in. They decided to close up for the day and we were given free passes. Kinda a wasted trip, but I did get this shot of a staff member rushing down the stairs!
I'm trying out a new technique
with up poping dust from bullets from a Zero for my pearl habor dio.
What do you guys think of it.
Cow moose traveling through the winter forest, near the Onahu trail in Rocky Mountain NP
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Haven't had a chance to get out too much in the past few months so I took a few while we had some good weather this weekend that I'll be posting here and there. Trying to expand my "subjects".
I had this beautiful paper cut out created by Elle for our Wedding Anniversary.
It is the final line from a reading from Captain Corelli’s Mandolin that was read by my gorgeous bridesmaid at our wedding.
It reads “and when all the pretty blossom have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two.”
I love that I met Elle through flickr and now have one of her wonderful creations on my dressing table.
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Quote from Wikipedia "Another Place is a piece of modern sculpture by Antony Gormley.
Now permanently erected on Crosby Beach, England, it was due to be moved to New York in November 2006, but there was a controversial proposal to retain the work at Crosby. It was stated in the local paper, the Crosby Herald, that they may stay for a decade, but at a meeting on 7 March 2007, Sefton Council accepted proposals that would allow the sculptures to be kept permanently at Crosby Beach"
There are 100 of these iron figures over a 3 Km stretch of beach.
Camera -Olympus E-510
Exposure -60 seconds
Aperture -f/8.0
Focal Length -14 mm
ISO Speed -100
B&W 10 stop Neutral Density filter
This build was a simple one: an original PA-58N "Halk" from Gunze Sangyo from 1983 (not an Aoshima re-release from 2008), built out of the box and in its original livery from the TV series. In fact, this blue PA-58N is not a specific armor, but rather the "bread and butter" infantry piece of Earth's Defence Forces, much like the Stormtrooper in Star Wars.
As such, it is the lightest and smallest Powered Armor model from the Dorvack series, and these compact PA models normally only carry light hand weapons, not the integrated and much heavier armament of the bigger models that are uses by artillery units and commanding staff.
I had this kit stashed away for this purpose for a long while, and I was just in the mood to eventually tackle it.
Nothing was changed, and the build is pretty simple and straightforward - I'd recommend the PA-58 for anyone who wants to try one of the PA models, because the fit is quite good and there are no real big surprises. The only thing to watch out for are the arms, because the halves that make up each upper and lower arm are specific to each side. They are easy to confuse!
Furthermore, the typical "Matryoshka" construction of the legs (finish the feet first, then you add the lower legs like a clamshell, and finally the upper legs in a similar manner) takes time, patience and care - at least when you want to paint the interior and hide the seams through PSR.
This standard PA-58N comes with a hand weapon, apparently some kind of automatic weapon, that the model holds with both hands. If you want this configuration for your model, too, you HAVE to search for the original Gunze Sangyo kit. Even though the Aoshima re-release double combo contains this blue PA-58N variant, it comes with a clumsy, two-handed rocket launcher which I personally do not find very attractive. Thankfully, the kit contains beyond the sprue for the weapon with hands that hold it another pair of open/empty extra hands if you want to display it without the weapon.
Furthermore, the kit offers as an option the weird lens radome that commanders frequently carry on top of their PAs, also on bigger PA models like the PA-36.
As a side note, there's also another PA-58N kit in a desert camo (called "Halk Sovat") with a similar configuration, just carrying a kind of Bazooka (which also comes in the Aoshima re-release, but again with a different, two-handed weapon, not the original one).
The paint scheme on this PA-58N is 100% authentic, I stayed close to the rather simple appearance of this mecha in the TV series. I have seen models of the "Halk" (I wonder if this name is a Japanese malaproprism of the English "Hulk"?) with more sophistication, e.g. with fine yellow trim lines along the legs - but these do not appear in the TV series. There's also a lot room for interpretation concerning the color of the ball joints, which are silver or just grey like the upper arms and legs?
The helmet section was painted pure black (Humbrol 21), the light grey is Humbrol 127 (FS 36375). For the blue I originally wanted to use Humbrol 109, but the paint turned out to be a turd from the horrible Belgian production batch a couple of years ago - it did not dry at all!!! So, I scrapped any initial enamel paint off and replaced it with French Blue from Testors, which is much brighter and a bit darker, but I think that it was in the end even the better color.
A white box (Humbrol 22) was added to the front as well as some red (Humbrol 19) highlights around the visor and the helmet. The ball joints were painted with Humbrol's Polished Aluminum Metallizer. The handgun was painted in orange (Humbrol 82).
The only thing that is not original are the decals, though: the OOB sheet (from 1983!) has become blind over the years, so that I had to replace the set from a 2008 Aoshima re-release of this kit.
The whole kit received a black ink wash and some post-shading treatment, as well as light dry-brushing with medium grey. Some soot stains were added to the gun nozzle and under the exhaust of the jump booster on the back.
In a final step, the whole model received a matt acrylic varnish coat and the visor elements were laid out in silver and painted with clear paint in blue and pink.
A colorful model, and another PA for the "authentic" department of my growing model collection.
An Elk calf one of about a herd of 20 animals that were cooling off in a lake when they decided it was time to get out. It did more jumping than walking.
Off tripod. 20D W/ 50-500mm lens.
TGP4/8139C/F&P
This was going to be a w_r shot but I cut my feet off, but I liked it anyway so here it is. About to go out to lunch with my boys and maybe a swim afterwards. Have a nice Sunday, everybody!
Another Out of Bounds made by me with Photoshop...
Giraffe photo taken by me...
Wooden Background created with Filters
Gradient Applied thats it!!!!