It looks as if this machine comes from the early industrial era. Clearly electro plating was an important process needed in the railway workshops. This photograph is designed to reflect the grunge and grime of the period.

This was the view of Chrome Hill as I had successfully descended the most treacherous bit of the Parkhouse ridge (mainly on my derriere). My Scarpa Manta boots had a coating of sticky mud on their Vibram soles, which meant staying upright on the slippy limestone quite impossible. There wasn't enough snow and ice for crampons, so I have now ordered some micro-spikes for situations like this in the future.

It was strange to see the Peak District's "Dragon Back Ridge" coated by snow and ice on the North faces, with the South sides being cleared by days of winter sun. I think the effect accentuates the shape of this wonderful reef feature. Hence the pun on "winter chrome-plating"!

It was quite an exhilarating little trek, in fact I found the Parkhouse descent quite embarrassing, having scaled many a peak in the Alps, I have never before had to slither around like a geriatric sloth on a descent from a hill. I'm just glad there were no others around to watch it!

You can see from this shot and another I will post at some point, how exposed this little ridge is. You certainly get a lot of excitement from this Hill and the view of Chrome is just great from here.

A gold plated RCA jack (phono jack). The gold plating provides corrosion resistance for a more reliable connection; its look is just an added benefit.

From a forest

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Plating around with layers

Nikon F3, Voigtländer Color Skopar 28mm f/2.8 SL IIs, Fuji Neopan Acros II @200 ISO

Film developed in Ilfotec DD-X 1+7.3 dilution.

Negative scanned using Fujifilm X-T5 with Fujinon XF 60mm f/2.4 Macro.

Processed with Capture One and GIMP.

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Thanks to Gregador for pointing out this part of Erie. This is where I landed on Street View and ended up liking it the best:

www.google.com/maps/@42.1180421,-80.0962067,3a,90y,147.65...

Listed here as one of the historic and notable bridges of the United States:

bridgehunter.com/pa/erie/bh82538/

Being dismantled in 2021:

flic.kr/p/2mko5V1

Watsonville, California

Hill & Vine Restaurant

210 South Adams Street

Fredericksburg, Texas 78624

This is trully the BEST Onion Rings .... perfectly done !!

Series: MACRO MONDAYS: Made Of Metal: Chrome Strawberries

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It is a nice curious coincidence this week theme "Made of Metal"

Last week my original concept was the "Chrome Egg " for the MM theme "Egg".

So, chance to do something similar but a little more colourful, I've "chromed" a selection of fresh fruits: Kiwi, strawberry, raspberry, blackberry and grapes, but I struggled to set them down for a nice composition in order to get a Macro shot. Ended up with this composition of strawberries, which I'm not 100% happy but it was the best I could get.

Each Strawberry is about 1.5" making the scene right inside of the 3" rule.

The receipt is almost the same as last week:

1 - Fresh Strawberries

2 - "Chrome Plating" - Airbrush Alclad Chrome (The same I use on my scale models)

3 - Spray water+sugar (some uses paraffin, I prefer sugar it gives a better shining effect to the droplets)

4 - Take the shot! Using a Stack of +2+4 Close up lenses plus a CPL filter lens.

5 - Enjoy but do not eat it! LOL

No Photoshop at all (apart of convert from RAW to JPG)

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Always Learning... Critiques are very welcome.

Would have loved to see this space before everything was pulled out.

Is this a vessel, a flagon or a chalice? See here: Click

Let's call it a bottle, then.

As (fun) part of a chemistry experiment, we silver-plated the inside of a small glass bottle (about 50 ml, which I had purchased at Woolworth for 75 Euro cents).

The chemical process:

In a solution of silver nitrate in water, the silver nitrate dissociates to silver ions (+) and nitrate ions (-).

Ammonia is added, which decomposes to ammonium ions and hydroxide. Silver ions and hydroxide ions combine to silver oxide and water. The silver oxide has a low solubility and precipitates.

Adding further ammonia, the precipitate is transformed into a silver diammine complex, which again dissolves in water.

Adding potassium hydroxide, then glucose reduces the ions to metallic silver, which is deposited on the interior surface of the glass bottle. In case you are worried about what happens to the glucose in the process: it turns into gluconic acid.

The glass vessel is shown before and after the interior silver plating.

Shot with a Canon EOS600D with a Leica Marcro-Elmar-R 100 lens and a Leica-R bellows.

Plating Geranium backs. I was culling the dead and wilted leaves and thought these were beautiful. If you buy the scented varieties they would be totally edible!

From a dinner party friends had last month.

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Set di bottiglie e sfera cromate, luci LED

Plating up at the Madklubben dinner at Cail Bruich Restaurant in Glasgow on Monday evening. I am constantly amazed how so many people can work so well together in such a small space - Team work at its best!

Serving up the meat (there was a variety by the way) during Saturday night’s meat lovers delight at Locavore to Go in Ubud, Bali … seriously nice food with great service at a great price. All the meat is from their butchery right next door.

Old dark gray and dark bluish gray plates used for texture consistent with the first corner piece

This is Cassie - one of our fur nieces 8-)

NS 8100, the Nickel Plate Heritage Unit, leads manifest 11V westbound/northbound over the OC Bridge in the West End of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Battered salad. Hunger for more food after eating this

:::recipe blogged:::

This is not my picture, I only did post processing.

original found here on the Pimp My Pixels Group:

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Photographer is Rockin' Rob, Photostream here

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SS Col. James M. Schoonmaker

Launched: July 1, 1911

Built: Ecorse, Michigan

Length: 617 feet (188 m)

At the time of her launching, the largest ship on the Great Lakes

RMS Titanic

Launched: May 31, 1911

Built: Belfast, Ireland

Length: 883 ft (269 m)

At the time of her launching, the largest ship in the world

Electrochemically grown copper on calcite

The dark side of the dining room...

Shot for Compositionally Challenged Most Versatile - Plates.

This armour plating looks nasty........... Well it tastes nasty too, my least favourite food!

This is just a compost bowl. It looks like some fancy dessert, some bougie preparation plating, but it's just an espresso puck, some strawberry guts, and radish roots.