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Desert Wars 2025 - Power Generator by Veynom

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"Yes, Lord Vader. I've reached the main power generators. The shield will be down in moments. You may start your landing."

―General Maximillian Veers to Darth Vader, regarding the Echo Base shield generator.[src]

Enjoying a cup of tea by f22photographie

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The owner of BBC Power Generator 'P4' enjoying a cup of tea during Papplewick Pumping Station's 1940's Weekend, 2022.

For more info on BBC's P4 generator, see next photo.

3D Reader or Stereoscopic Holographic Goggles by Rusty Marvin - JohnWoracker.com

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LR-PS-Composite - Proud to show the Stereoscopic Holographic goggles (STG) in use, the book is in fact electronic paper and is design to carry additional storage for those off line moments, caching the expected use for the reader. Well in fact not the reader but the user of the Stereoscopic Holographic Goggles (STG), the pages are encrypted data which is read by the decoder mounted in the frames. The book or piece is read to you and the story presented in a 3D Holographic format.

The wearer of STG’s can in fact absorb up to 18 different story scenes at any one time, the current release allows only two to be displayed, later version will allow the viewer to choose any number of different story scenes available at the same time. The trail version also projects the images to people who can see the goggles, which might be a bit embarrassing for the wearer if say they were viewing 50 Shades of Grey or similar literature. The inventor tell me that this is easily overcome this by attaching lenses to the STG’s with a reflective coating or even wearing sunglasses over the top worked in previous trials.

What’s under the hood or should I say in the frame; well a whole bunch of organic and inorganic technology including Babel fish, Entropy algorithms, Sporophyte’s creating new Zygote power generators, GPS responders, touch cell connectivity and so much more. No need for a 3G or if you are lucky 4G connection, the wearer’s body acts as an aerial and transmitter to connect you to a ‘Deep Thought’ network, data and knowledge source. The whole thing powered with zygote cell energy as long as there is some form of light on the frame and if not charged by the electric produced by the wearer’s head/body.

The mounted micro cameras record what is around you, providing other wearer’s the ability to view the location before getting there in full STG mode. Typing if that’s you thing can be performed using the projected keyboard or text created to send over legacy systems such as SMS and Email can also be created with clear speech to text or as experiment talking through your nose. The legacy messages are then transmitted and converted by the ‘Deep Thought’ system and dispatched.

Applications include facial recognition that can remind you of a person’s name and related information; partner, children and pets etc.

Secure, well yes DNA, Iris and voice pattern matching to log on and if you want a 64 bit encrypted password.

The inventor did ask if I could think of some catchy name, at the time Holoborg was the only thing that crossed my mind, happy to hear yours!

Composite of three images in Photoshop using my images of the Paul Day The Meeting Place glasses, head and book (using the face in the far left hand of the left glass) and the background is St Pancras station canopy from my posting You say Goodbye and I say Hello

The studies from the panels above the concrete plinth, you will be absorbed into a spectacular historical trip in travel. To see all the images tags with in the Public Art set.

Saltend Chemicals Park by tarboat

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A view from Paull towards the storage tanks of the Saltend Chemical Park . BP Chemicals Ltd established Saltend Chemicals Park in 2009. Today a range of organisations operate on the 370-acre site, sharing an established infrastructure and extensive provision of services, feedstocks and utilities

In the background is the Salt End cogeneration plant which was commissioned in 2000 by Entergy an American power generator. It was later sold to Calpine Corporation, also an American power generator, in August 2001 for £562 million. In July 2005, Salt End was sold to International Power and Mitsui (70:30 share) for £500 million. As far as I can ascertain it is now owned and operated by GDF SUEZ Energy UK-Turkey.

The site was built by Mitsubishi (MHI) and Raytheon. The station is run on gas using single shaft 3 x Mitsubishi 701F gas Turbines machines with Alstom 400 MWe generators. The station has a total output of 1200 MW; of that 100 MW is allocated to supply BP Chemicals. Each gas turbine has a Babcock Borsig Power (BBP) heat recovery steam generator, which all lead to one steam turbine per unit (single shaft machine means Gas turbine and Steam Turbine are on the same shaft). The waste steam at the rate of about 120 tonnes/hr is sold to BP Chemicals to use in their process. This makes Saltend one of the most efficient power stations in the UK.

Old Water Wheel by John Hardison

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The Water wheel powered an electric generator. The old ranch was the first in the area to have electricity.. The light could be seen from a long ways off

SJS Squad 30 by Bruce Dembecki

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San Jose Fire Department responded 3 alarms to a commercial property blaze on Almaden Road in January, 2014.

San Jose Squad 30 is a 2002 MedicMaster/ALF built ambulance on a Freightliner FL70 chassis. It features additional storage cabinets in front of the patient box, a PTO powered Generator and Command Light tower.

To see the full set from this incident check out YourFireDepartment.org - Almaden IC

Stagecoach 48031 1131hrs Wells-next-the-Sea to Cromer 090517 by return2layerroad

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Stagecoach Coasthopper liveried Optare Solo SR type number 48031 is captured on the A149 between Salthouse and Weybourne as it passes the Kelling Village School bus stop whilst heading for Cromer with the above Coasthopper working. The introduction of the Summer 2017 timetable as from 2nd April sees the Monday to Saturday service frequency return to a thirty minute headway in both directions between Hunstanton and Cromer. On Sunday there are also two buses per hour each way, but they run to an irregular pattern instead of every thirty minutes. It appears at first glance that this vehicle is equipped with both a wind powered generator and a solar panel. If this were indeed the case it would probably make it almost as green as the backdrop.

Nikola Tesla Redux by Corwin's Trumps

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The Canadian side of Niagara Falls also has a tribute to Nikola Tesla. This one was erected by the St. George Serbian Orthodox Church of Niagara Falls, Ontario. It too pays tributes to Tesla's work with hydroelectricity in Niagara Falls.

Snowtown. This butcher and bakery business began in 1889. This corner shop was added to the original shop in 1910. The original shop in the Victorian style shop next door just visible. by denisbin

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Snowtown.

Captain John Ellis leased the land where Snowtown now stands from the early 1840s. His Bumbunga and Barunga runs made him wealthy and covered around 100 square miles in 1860. He built a large 8 room stone house on Barunga Run in the Hummock Ranges near Lochiel. In the 1869 the Hummocks run was resumed by the government for survey and for closer settlement. When most of Hummocks run was resumed by the government the land was put up for public auction in the new Hundreds of Cameron and Barunga which were declared in 1869. Robert Barr Smith took up all the hilly section of the Hundred of Cameron as freehold land as he said it was not suitable for cropping. John Maslin took up other hilly section of the Hundred. Barr Smith took up more land in the Hundred of Barunga. Barr Smith and Maslin also purchased extensive sections of the flat cropping lands of The Hundred of Boucaut (named after a state Premier) when it was proclaimed in 1867 with land sales in 1872 and 1875. In 1886 the partnership between Maslin and Barr Smith dissolved and Barr Smith took it over. On his death in 1915 Hummocks station went to his son Tom Elder Barr Smith who in turn sold the Hummocks estate of almost 30,000 acres to the government. This boosted the town of Snowtown as more farmers moved into its surrounds. Most of the land was opened up for soldier settler farmers on blocks of 600 to 1,000 acres.

The town of Snowtown was established in 1878 being named after Mr. Thomas Snow, the secretary of the Governor of the day, Sir William Jervois. Jervois named many SA towns after his family and friends. The town site was selected to be located at the end of the railway being built from Kadina through Bute and Barunga Gap. The railway line reached Snowtown in 1879 providing a great stimulus to development. A flour mill was built almost immediately in Snowtown. The railway meant passengers could travel to Adelaide via Kadina and Port Wakefield. The town’s role as a transport hub was further strengthened when the railway was extended across the plains to the east, through the small settlement of Condowie to the newly created town of Brinkworth in 1894. Snowtown got a direct broad gauge connection from Adelaide in 1923 and this line terminated in Redhill. In 1937 it was extended to Port Pirie. Once this line was completed all interstate trains to Perth started using this new route. Snowtown then had several trains daily to and from Adelaide as well as a daily rail car service to Moonta and to Brinkworth. This rail car service to Moonta and to Brinkworth ceased in 1968. Passenger trains to Port Pirie ceased in the early 1980s after the SA government sold South Australian Railways to the Commonwealth Railways. They rationalised services by stopping all passenger services. Rail freight services had already almost ceased once the SA government passed an act in 1963 removing the necessity for freight to be carried by rail if a rail line existed in a town. The railway yards were always busy with bagged wheat being shipped to Wallaroo or Port Adelaide but in 1956 the first bulk handling silos were built in Snowtown. It was one of the first half dozen towns in SA equipped with silos.

In 1878 Snowtown grew quickly with the usual buildings of a government town – police station, post office and school. The community erected an institute library which opened in 1881 and the churches which were all quickly built- the Bible Christian 1880, the Anglican 1880, the first Catholic 1882, the first Methodist in 1909, and another community facility, the hospital was built in 1902. (The Lutherans of Snowtown worshiped at Condowie where a Lutheran Church had been built in 1878. A Lutheran Church was not built in Snowtown until 1966). Local businessmen established general stores, the flour mill, a saddlery, a hotel, a bakery, a boot maker, and an agricultural implement foundry. City firms established the banks. One more recent bank reached national infamy for being the site of gruesome murders. The government built a grand stone school in 1879. This became a Higher Primary School in in 1941 and then an Area School in 1961. It is in the suburban belt beyond the parklands belt. The population is now around 400. Like many SA towns it has a George Goyder designed grid plan surrounded by parklands and beyond that some suburban lands. Some of the government buildings like the school, the hospital and public facilities like the oval are in the so called parklands belt. The town centre is surrounded by North, South, East and West Terraces with a railway reserve in the middle of the town.

Snowtown has reliable and reasonable rainfall except in severe drought years. The agriculture of the area was further boosted after World War One when the last part of the Barr Smith Barunga Run was resumed by the state government. This covered all of the hilly parts of the ranges. Returning soldiers were given soldier settler blocks along the top of the ranges. Now these areas are the site of a major wind farm operation. One of the last death knolls for Snowtown as a busy town (but a blessing to many residents) was the opening of the Highway One bypass in 1976. Prior to that time all transport and traffic passed through the middle of the town. More recently the town has become a wind power generator. A New Zealand Company, Trust Power set up the wind farm in 2008. When all stages were finished there were 150 turbines along the Barunga Ranges.

Some historic buildings in Snowtown include:

1.The old butcher shop and bakery. It began in 1889 in a small shop. New section with classical pediment built 1910. The old classical style shops east of it were an early drapery store built in 1901.

2.The former English Scottish and Australia Bank with triple window in gable. Built 1893. Was an ANZ bank in the 1970s now a residence.

3.The town shops built in 1924. The site was used for the first flourmill built in 1879. It closed in 1911 and was demolished in 1923 for the shops.

4.The Institute Library was built on the corner in 1881 but demolished for the new War Memorial Hall façade in 1924. The Institute entrance was here and it opened in 1885. Presbyterian Church services 1886 and Lodge services etc were held here.

5.The Savings Bank of South Australia 1956. Built in ultra-modern style. Used for storing bodies in the barrel murders.

6.The Snowtown Hotel. Built in 1880 with two storeys. In 1913 extended lengths ways. Detour here to see the old bakery and go around the block.

7.The old bakery on the corner of High Street East. The low pug house behind the shop was built in 1890. The building in front on the street was built about 1900 as a Plymouth Brethren Church. It subsequently became a bakery.

8.Snowtown IGA and Post Office. This was branch 43 of Eudunda Farmers. Eudundas opened in 1939 in a former old general store built in 1902. This was modernised around 1960. The Eudundas store closed 1985.

9.The Police Station (was built in 1883) now replaced and next to it the old Post Office on the corner also built in 1883. The gable section was added around 1910.

10.The Independent Order of Oddfellows Hall. The Lodge was established in 1881 and the lodge building opened in 1910. Note the lack of windows.

11.The railway was built from Kadina to Barunga Gap in the Hummocks in 1879. The line was extended to Snowtown in 1880 and a fine old stone station as built that year. In 1923 the railway line was extended from Bowmans near Balaklava direct to Snowtown. Work then began on extending the line to Redhill and eventually Port Pirie (1937). The current railway station was built in 1945.

12.The red brick Catholic Church. The first Catholic Church opened in 1881. This structure was built in 1936.

13.The Uniting Church erected as a Methodist Church in 1909 on the site of Duffield’s flourmill. Methodist denominations had united in 1909 and the earlier Bible Christian Church erected in 1880 in Fourth Street was no longer adequate or needed.

Power Generator by Caleb Wagoner

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My Micro Sci-Fi entry for the contest over on Eurobricks. This was originally going to be a waterfall, but it evolved into a dam. Which then evolved into a futuristic power station. I'm really pleased with this. I did change the water when I saw some of Ironsniper's Chronicles work. I went and decided that having the buildings built into the side of the cliff would be more interesting than a flat area.

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Blount Street Generating Station by JeffreyNotJeff

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View from East Washington Avenue. I've driven past this power plant countless times and always intended to capture a photo. I really liked the clouds on this cold, cold morning, so I finally pulled over and took this photo.

Daegwallyeong Samyang Ranch, Pyeongchang-gun, Gangwon-do, South Korea by Light of Peace

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I love the landscape of this mountain because of blue sky, grassland, and plus many wind generators there. Over half of nearby Gangneung City's electricity consumption comes from this power generators. Quite environmental-friendly and ecological.

Actually, this is Asia's largest green pasture on a plateau. This ancient and vast meadow is where milking cows feed. The view from the plateau is remarkable as well. If you go up to Daegwallyeong Observatory early in the morning, you can witness the spectacular sunrise from the East Sea beyond the peaks of Mt. Odaesan.

Location: San 1-107, Hoenggye 2-ri, Doam-myeon, Pyeongchang-gun, Gangwon-do

Mr. Garrington... by greg Robinson

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"What good is a telephone call, if you can't even speak"?

Wind Power Generator Wheels in Belgium Aerial View by roli_b

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Ramsden windmill power generator field by Lord Cogsby

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Power Generator by Daniel Austin

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MFZ - Wasteland Scrappers - Station - Power Generator

While Wasteland Scrapper frames run on steam power, the systems on board frequently utilize electronic components. In order to be able to run reliably, a power generator is used to provide the necessary electricity.

Mobile Frame Zero is "a tense, tactical game of giant robot squad battle!". It is a tabletop battle game, akin to Warhammer 40k or Malifaux. Players design and build their own companies of microfig-scale "Mobile Frames" and "Stations".

If you're interested, you can find its webpage here:

mobileframezero.com/mfz/

and a flickr group dedicated to MFZ builds here:

www.flickr.com/groups/438009@N25/

T-65 Incom X-Wing Version 3 by Chris Ehnot

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Iconic, robust, practical. This is my 3rd version of the iconic ship that has graced the screens, tv shows and in print. I took a step back from my first version and reworked the entire model.

Red 5, Luke's main ship. Stickers from the UCS model and custom ones were used. I may add more later, but that may be for the Gray model version.

Many other x-wing designs have come since my 2016 model as well as new LEGO parts that helped shape this ship.

Like my original design this model features a durable internal structure and frame that allows you to hold the ship in front of the cockpit.

I also included internal components like my previous model to help define the various parts shown in the X-Wing cross sections. Life support, compressors, coils, power converters, power generator, flight computer, repulsorlift, hydraulic lines, communications antenna, sensor computer, primary sensor array, and a functional cargo bay.

The Landing gear was another story. Since my model is a display one I wanted to not have a working rear landing gear until LEGO develops more curved slopes that would help shape the engines. Instead, I used a similar design from my previous model to swap out for landing mode or flight mode. The front landing gear fits snug into the ship.

I am particularly proud that my cockpit design from version 1 found its way back into my latest model with slight modifications to allow the side panels to properly stay together.

Custom parts are used here. I Cut a few curved windows to make the Laser magnetic flashback suppressors. I also cut a ribbed flexible hose to fit inside the cockpit. I took a flat 2x2 tile and drilled a hole inside it to slide the technoic axle through. LEGO currently has a 2x2 round tile with a hole, but I needed a square one.

Brickarms has great monoclips and u-clips that work great for smaller ideas, such as my joystick or holding parts inside the cylinders.

The stand design is great, but I think it would work better if I swap out some parts and have several technique axles run through it and into the x-wing.

Windmill #toronto #exhibitionplace #windmill by Randy McDonald

Yesterday, I photographed WindShare's ExPlace wind power generator, 91 metres tall and built in 2002, dramatically against the sun. This was the closest I've ever been to it, but this tower is visible throughout the west end and far up Dufferin Street. For the curious, the Toronto Star has an article going into greater detail about ExPlace's history.

Kingston Post Office. Built in Georgian style in 1867. by denisbin

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Lacepede Bay/ Port Caroline/Kingston.

Lacepede Bay was named by Nicholas Baudin on his 1802 voyage. The first exploration of this area was by Governor Grey and friends who went along the Coorong in 1844 to check out the country. It took them two weeks to get to what is now Kingston. The party went on to Mt Burr, Mt Gambier and ended up at Rivoli Bay from where they took a government ship back to Adelaide. The first settlers in the district were the Cooke brothers Archibald and James who squatted on the Maria Run in 1845 as the best land near Naracoorte and Penola was already being squatted by then. Other early pastoralists near Maria Creek were the Kendles, James Brown, Andrew Dunn, and the Morris brothers and almost all were Scottish. The Cooke property was on Maria Creek which ran into the Coorong draining much of the South East. They already had runs around Wellington and along the lower Murray- hence the township Cooke Plains near Tailem Bend. The area had been named earlier and was already famous by then for the Maria Massacres of 1840. The Maria left Adelaide bound for Hobart in June 1840. About the 28th June it was wrecked off the coast near Lacepede Bay but the crew and passengers managed to get to shore and the local Aborginal people were helping them with food and water as they tried to get help from Adelaide. Whilst waiting for help the sailors began trying to take advantage of the local Aboriginal women. As a form of reprisal 25 of the 26 survivors were killed. It was a month after these events before news of the wreck reached Adelaide and a police investigation was made. Two Ngarrindgeri men were hung and 65 taken as prisoners.

Kingston was surveyed as a private town in 1858 on property owned by Sir George Kingston (his son Charles Cameron Kingston became Premier of SA 1893-99) the first Surveyor General of SA and the designer of parts of Government House, the Old Adelaide Jail, and the house called Cummins at Novar Gardens. Recent historical work now argues that Kingston was the designer of the city plan of Adelaide not Colonel William Light and that Light only rubber stamped the location for the city selected by Kingston! The historical evidence is compelling and convincing. The first land surveyed in the district was put up for sale in 1855. Kingston bought 2 sections of land, and the Cooke brothers bought 10 sections to complement their leasehold run. Governor MacDonnell named the town after his Surveyor General. Once the town of Kingston was established the Cooke brothers saw the potential of the area and built the first jetty. They were largely responsible for the wool stores which were built in the town. The telegraph line from Adelaide to Mt Gambier had passed through the town in 1858. So although Kingston was the land speculator and founder of the town, Archibald and James Cooke were the real founders of the town. They erected the Kingston Arms Hotel in 1859 to service the needs of the passengers on the new coach service from Meningie to Robe and onwards. Once the pub was operating Cooke then petitioned the government for a police officer in the settlement. Nothing happened until after the government gazetted a government town adjoining the private township of Kingston which it did in 1860 the year before the Hundred of Lacepede was surveyed and declared. The government of course wanted the commercial life of the town to centre near the government services of police, gaol and post office. In 1866 the town got a police station and in 1869-70 a post office and court house. Kingston’s town on the foreshore declined especially after the building of the government jetty in the government town in 1860. The government town got a new hotel, the Royal Mail which accommodated visiting judges, and travellers on the mail run to Port MacDonnell.

It was the Cooke brothers who petitioned the government to declare a port at Kingston, and they also petitioned the government for a railway to the Tatiara district around Bordertown. They opposed any suggestion of expanding the port of Robe or building a railway to Robe. The government, who controlled Customs and all official ports, did not declare a port at Kingston until 1865 when they named it Port Caroline. The port was successful immediately as the Cooke brothers were ready to start an international shipping firm by then just as Ormerod did in Robe. When the government later decided to build the first railway in the South East from Kingston and Lacepede Bay to Naracoorte and the Tatiara the future of Kingston was well and truly assured. The narrow gauge railway to Naracoorte opened in 1876 and Kingston became the most important port in the South East. The commencement of the railway provoked a building boom in Kingston in the late 1870s. It also brought two Melbourne shipping companies to Kingston as well who competed with a limited expansion of James Cooke’s shipping firm. By the 1870s Kingston was the main South East port for exporting of wool and grain. Wool was shipped from Kingston direct to England until the end of World War One and after that most wool went direct by road or rail to Melbourne or Geelong, not Adelaide. The port closed in the late 1920s.

Meantime in 1865 Mrs James Cooke worked to establish the first Free Presbyterian Church in Kingston. The Congregationalists, the largest denomination in Kingston opened their church in 1868 with an accompanying school that served all children in the town. The institute opened in 1869. There was even an Aborginal school for Aborginal children in the 1870s run by a friend of Mrs James Cooke. By the turn of the 20th century new drainage schemes and closer settlement acts had opened up much of the hinterland to small properties but pastoralism still dominated the district. Deep-sea and lobster fishing became a significant industry in the 1890s and has continued into the present. In the 1880s the Salt Creek Petroleum Oil Company had been formed and had sunk deep shafts searching for oil near the Coorong but this was not successful. Kingston’s continued prosperity relied on pastoralism.

Hanson Street, Kingston.

Starting at the esplanade near the jetty look for:

•1890s villa house on the corner of the esplanade (jetty built by Cooke in 1863) opposite the Lacepede Motel- the Harbour Master’s House. Like other government buildings it was in the “government town” of Port Caroline.

•The old power generator in the park. The towns’ first power supply.

•Opposite that is the only remaining of the original three Cooke Brothers wools stores. Note the wide doors used by a spur railway line that went right into the building. Now being used by the adjoining Royal Mail Hotel opened in 1872.

•Next look at the original Court House- now a bakery. Built 1869-70.

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•Kingston Post Office- Georgian symmetry and arches with classical features and decoration. Note square based, pyramid finials on the roof line balustrade. Built in 1867, after Port Caroline declared in 1865.

•In the side street from the Post Office go and look at the original Police Station, lockup, and for a time, the first Court House. It is now an antique shop. Built 1864 in the Georgian style with arched windows.

•Diagonally opposite the Post Office is the old Bank of Adelaide, now a private residence since 1970.

•On the next corner is the modern Council Chambers. If you turn up this street to the left you will see the original Council Chambers (1870s). Almost next door to it is the War Memorial Gardens. The railway line used to pass through this area.

•Opposite the War memorial Gardens you can see the original Station Master’s House. The station, now demolished was next door to it. Now return to the Main Street- Hanson Street. You can see some old cottages etc also in the main street.

Toyota Tacoma Snowplow by Lino Martins

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For this month’s LUGNuts challenge we could build anything we want...so long as it was a Toyota Tacoma. As variety is key, I made mine into a sight anyone would like to see if ever they were stranded in a blizzard...an industrious 2008 Tacoma snowplow complete with a working wench, power generator and an access cab to keep a couple of weary passengers warm and dry. The color scheme and function was based on the Star Wars Snowspeeder. Yep.

Slap Savica by Gilles den Bandt

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The grand waterfall of Slap Savica and it's hydroplant. This is in Slovenia.

Edda Frende - Aberdeen Harbour Scotland - 8/4/2018 by DanoAberdeen

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General

Operator:Østensjø Rederi

Built:2009

Builder:Astilleros Gondan

Yard no.:443

Call sign:LCOB

Flag:Norwegian

Port of Registry:Haugesund

IMO no.:9409730

Classification:DNV, 1A1 , Supply Vessel, SF, E0, ICE C, DYNPOS- AUTR, CLEAN, Comfort-C(3)-V(3), LFL* Registered notations: DK(+) and HL(2.8), PMS, ISM, NAUT-OSV(A) OILREC.

Safety regulations:NMA, Trade Worldwide within GMDSS A3, Solas 1974/1978, International Convention on Load Lines, Pollution Prevention - MARPOL 1973/1978, INLS Certificate

Dimensions

Length o.a.:85,8 m

Length b.p.:77,4 m

Breadth mld.:19,2 m

Depth mld.:8,0 m

Draft max.:6,7 m

Air draft:30 m

Tonnage - Deadweight

Gross tonnage:3693 GT

Net tonnage:1108 NT

Deadweight max:4012 MT

Lightweight:2973 MT

Displacement:6985 MT

Deck loading capacities

Deck measurements:57,4 m x 16,2 m . 4 pipe lengths a’ 12,2 m

Outside deck area:910 m2

Deck cargo capacity:2900T, 10T/m2

Deck equipment

Anchor chain:7 shackles PS, 8 shackles SB. Type: 44 mm DNV K3 Stud Link

Anchor Windlass / Mooring Winch:2 x anchor windlass/mooring winches forward. Type: PINTCH BAMAG SFB 63/80

Mooring winch:2 x anchor windlass/mooring winches forward. 2 x mooring winches aft

Deck cranes:SB: 4 T at 10 m. Type: Hydramarine 1077L. PS: 1,5 T at 8 m. Type: Hydramarine 886 LK

Tugger winches:2 x 10 T

Propulsion

General:Diesel electric propulsion plant. 2 x Voith propellers, each 2800 kW. 2 x AC asynchronous water-cooled motors each 2500 kW (Bhp 3400)

Main engines:4 x Caterpillar 3516-CTA

Fuel type:MDO / MGO

Auxiliaries / Electrical power

Generators:4 x Alconza, each 2188 kW

Harbour generator:1 x Caterpillar, 465 kW. Type: C-18

Emergency generator:1 x Perkins, 106 kW

Speed / Consumption

Max speed / Consumption:15 knots

Service speed / Consumption:12 knots, 11,7 tonnes/day

Economy speed / Consumption:10 knots, About 9,6m3/day

DP-operations (weather dependent):5,2 tonnes/day

Stand by offshore:3,5 tonnes/day (Weather dependent)

In port:0,86 tonnes/day

Main propellers

Maker:2 x Voith

Type:VSP 32R5

Thrusters

Bow thrusters:2 x Brunvoll Tunnel thrusters, each 1400 kW (Bhp 1904) Type: Super silent. 1 x Brunvoll Tunnel thruster, 800 kW (Bhp 1088) Type: RDT. Total Bhp 11696

Bridge / Manoeuvering

Bridge controls:Bosch Rexroth, Brunvoll. 5 complete bridge control stands (forward, 2 x aft, starboard, port)

Loading / Discharging:Wartsila IAS. Remote monitoring of all tanks including loading/discharging operations and start/stop of all pumps

Dynamic positioning system

Type:Kongsberg K-Pos DP 21 and cJoy

Approval / Class:DNV DYNPOS-AUTR. IMO Class 2

Reference systems:DPS 116, DPS 232, Fanbeam, Radascan

Sensors:3 x Gyro, 2 x Motion Reference Unit, 2 x Wind sensor

ERN number:99

Liquid tank capacities

Marine Gas Oil:Total 1120 m3 Cargo tanks Max 600 m3, Cargo tanks + Base Oil tanks Max 805 m3

POT water:668 m3

Drill Water/Ballast:1080 m3

Slop tanks:73 m3

Mud:723 m3

Brine:723 m3

Base oil:229 m3

Methanol:166 m3

Special products LFL/LFL*:429 m3 1 tank (56m3) 84SB ready for Drill Cutting/ORO/SpecProd./ 7 Tanks ready with piping and lack pumps./// These 8 Tanks is equipped with piping system and pumps for Special products and ready for use.

Urea:79 m3

Oil recovery:49 m3

Liquid discharge

Fuel Oil pumps:1 x 250 m3/h at 9 bar

Brine pumps:2 x 150 m3/h at 24 bar. 2 systems

Liquid Mud pumps:2 x 100 m3/h at 24 bar. 2 systems

Specal products pumps:2 x 100 m3/h

Drill water pumps:1 x 250 m3/h at 9 bar

Fresh water pumps:1 x 250 m3/h at 9 bar

Methanol pumps:2 x 75 m3/h at 7,2 bars, 90 mWG

Slop system:1 x 37 m3/h

Tank washing system:1 x 30 m3/h

Discharge piping:5"

Bulk tank capasities

Bulk Cement Tanks:5 tanks, each 66,4 m3. Total 332 m3

Bulk Discharge:2 Compressors, each 50 m3/h at 5,6 bar (W.P.)

Navigation equipment

Radar:1 x Furuno FAR-2117 3 cm ARPA. 1 x Furuno FAR-2137S 10 cm ARPA

Electronic Chart System:2 x Telchart ECDIS

Compass:3 x Simrad Gyro GC 80

Autopilot:1 x Simrad CD 109

Echo Sounder:1 x Furuno FE 700

Navtex:1 x Furuno NX 700B

DGPS:2 x Furuno GP 150

AIS:1 x Furuno FA 150

Voyage data recorder:1 x Furuno 3000 Vr 3016

LRIT:1 x Furuno 4FE088DB1

Log:1 x Furuno DS 80 with remote displays

Communication equipment

General:GMDSS installation in accordance with IMO regulations for vessels operating within Sea Area A3

GMDSS Radio MF/HF Transceivers & DSC:1 x Furuno FS 1570

GMDSS VHF with DSC:2 x Furuno DSC FM8800

GMDSS VHF portable:3 x Jotron TR-20

VHF:3 x Sailor RT2048

GMDSS EPIRB:1 x Jotron 40S Mk 2. 1 x Jotron 45 SX

GMDSS SART:2 x Jotron Tron

GMDSS Inmarsat C:2 x Furuno

UHF:6 x portable Motorola GP 340 Ex (16 channels with 4 head sets)

Sattelitte sytem:1 x Sevsat. 1 x Iridium

Sat TV system:SeaTel

Accommodation

Total no. berths:23 x Beds

Total no. of cabins:18 x Cabins

Single cabins:14 x Single cabins

Double cabins:3 x Double cabins. 1 x Tripple cabin

Office:2 x Offices

Hospital:1 x Hospital

Ventilation/A-C for accommodation:High pressure single-pipe fully redundant ventilation system. Full heating/AC throughout the accommodation

Other:2 x Dayroom, Messroom, Gymnasium, Sauna, Laundry, Wardrobe

Lifesaving / rescue

Approved lifesaving appliances for:LSA approved for 23 persons

Liferafts:4 x 25 persons. Type: Viking

Rescue/MOB boat:Maritim Partner WEEDO 600 FRB

Fire-fighting/foam:Water/Foam pump/monitor covering cargo deck area

Other

Anti roll system:Passive roll reduction tanks. Active roll reduction with Voit Schneider system

Deck power supply:20 Outlets 240/110 V

Old Ford Powered Generator by dave

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01.11.92 Διακοπτό/Diakopto Class 3004 by Phil Richards

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Seen outside the shed at Diakopto on 1 November 1992 is 750mm rack fitted railcars used on the steeply graded line to Kalavryta. This 22km line built in the 189os was first worked by steam. In the 1950s the first batch of diesel units were specially built for the line. Three further sets built in France by Decauville in 1967, classified class 3004 one of which is seen here. The units were basically a motor car and control car with a power generator (OPE) sandwiched in between

Since then four 3-car units built in 2009 by Stadler have taken over the operation which sees largely tourist traffic at the weekends.

Ashington by Gordon Edgar

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On 10th June 1967, Newcastle-built Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns 0-6-0 tank 'No.39' (W/No.7764 built in 1954) heads the ‘S.L.S./M.L.S. Ashington Rail tour’ special charter train using former miners’ “Paddy Train” coaches, seen at Ashington No.1 Loop signal box, near Hirst Platforms station, between Linton and Ashington. Former main line coaches of North Eastern Railway and Furness Railway origin were purchased by the NCB and its predecessors and were used for their services operating between Ashington, Linton and Ellington collieries. This double-track section comprised a circular route of around twenty miles with several branches running off, and served Woodhorn, Newbiggin, Lynemouth and Linton collieries, as well as Longhirst drift mine. The fully-signalled route was not entirely completed until as late as August 1956, when a new link line was opened between Woodhorn and Lynemouth, thus completing the circuit, with halts at Ashington, Ellington, Linton, and North Moor. The passenger service had ceased running on 16th May 1966. Part of this section, retained by Network Rail, is now used by main line freight services to and from Lynemouth power station and until recently the Alcan aluminium smelter before its closure. The Ashington Group Railway, as it was known, required Board of Trade inspection and a signalling system, using both lower and upper-quadrant signal types. The 18x24-in outside cylinder tank locos, 'No.39' and 'No.40', were built especially for hauling the system’s workmen’s services, although in practice these locos were not used exclusively on the “Paddy Trains”. Some locos, including those used on the passenger services, were fitted with steam-powered generators and directional lights front and rear, to enable working around the clock.

India - West Bengal - Darjeeling Himalayan Railway - Ghum Station - Steam Locomotive 795B - 46d by Manfred Sommer

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The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, also known as the "Toy Train", is a 610 mm narrow gauge railway that runs between New Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling in the Indian state of West Bengal, India. Built between 1879 and 1881, the railway is about 78 kilometres long. Its elevation level varies from about 100 metres at New Jalpaiguri to about 2,200 metres at Darjeeling. Four modern diesel locomotives handle most of the scheduled services; however the daily Kurseong-Darjeeling return service and the daily tourist trains from Darjeeling to Ghum (India's highest railway station) are handled by the vintage British-built B Class steam locomotives. The railway, along with the Nilgiri Mountain Railway and the Kalka-Shimla Railway, is listed as the Mountain Railways of India World Heritage Site. The headquarters of the railway is in the town of Kurseong. Operations between Siliguri and Kurseong have been temporarily suspended since 2010 following a Landslide at Tindharia.

HISTORY

A broad gauge railway connected Calcutta (now Kolkata) and Siliguri in 1878. Siliguri, at the base of the Himalayas, was connected to Darjeeling by a cart road (the present day Hill Cart Road) on which "Tonga services" (carriage services) were available. Franklin Prestage, an agent of Eastern Bengal Railway Company approached the government with a proposal of laying a steam tramway from Siliguri to Darjeeling. The proposal was accepted in 1879 following the positive report of a committee formed by Sir Ashley Eden, the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal. Construction started the same year.

Gillanders Arbuthnot & Co. constructed the railway. The stretch from Siliguri to Kurseong was opened on 23 August 1880, while the official opening of the line up to Darjeeling was on 4 July 1881. Several engineering adjustments were made later in order to ease the gradient of the rails. Despite natural calamities, such as an earthquake in 1897 and a major cyclone in 1899, the DHR continued to improve with new extension lines being built in response to growing passenger and freight traffic. However, the DHR started to face competition from bus services that started operating over the Hill Cart Road, offering a shorter journey time. During World War II, the DHR played a vital role transporting military personnel and supplies to the numerous camps around Ghum and Darjeeling.

After the independence of India, the DHR was absorbed into Indian Railways and became a part of the Northeast Frontier Railway zone in 1958. In 1962, the line was realigned at Siliguri and extended by nearly 6 km to New Jalpaiguri (NJP) to meet the new broad gauge line there. DHR remained closed for 18 months during the hostile period of Gorkhaland Movement in 1988-89.

The line closed in 2011 due to a 6.8 Magnitude earthquake. The line is currently loss-making and in 2015, Rajah Banerjee, a local tea estate owner, has called for privatisation to encourage investment, which was fiercely resisted by unions.

WORLD HERITAGE SITE

DHR was declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1999, only the second railway to have this honour bestowed upon it, the first one being Semmering Railway of Austria in 1998. To be nominated as World Heritage site on the World Heritage List, the particular site or property needs to fulfill a certain set of criteria, which are expressed in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention and its corresponding Operational Guidelines. The site must be of outstanding universal value and meet at least one out of ten selection criteria. The protection, management, authenticity and integrity of properties are also important considerations.

CRITERIA FOR SELECTION

The DHR is justified by the following criteria:

Criterion II - The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway is an outstanding example of the influence of an innovative transportation system on the social and economic development of a multi-cultural region, which was to serve as a model for similar developments in many parts of the world.

Criterion IV - The development of railways in the 19th century had a profound influence on social and economic developments in many parts of the world. This process is illustrated in an exceptional and seminal fashion by the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.

AUTHENTICITY AND INTEGRITY

Since 1881, the original route has been retained in a remarkable condition. Only minimal interventions of an evolutionary nature, such as the reduction of loops, have been carried out. Most of the original steam locomotives are still in use. Like Tea and the Ghurka culture, the DHR has become not only an essential feature of the landscape but also an enduring part of the identity of Darjeeling.

MANAGEMENT AND LEGAL STATUS

The DHR and all its movable and immovable assets, including the authentic railway stations, the line, and the track vehicles, belong to the Government of India entrusted to the Ministry of Railways. The Northeast Frontier Railway documented all the elements of the DHR in a comprehensive register. Apart from that, it handles the day-to-day maintenance and management. But moreover, several programs, divisions and departments of the Indian Railways are responsible for operating, maintaining and repairing the DHR. This includes technical as well as non-technical work. In principle, the only two legal protection mechanisms that apply to the conservation of the DHR are the provisions of the 1989 Railway Act and that it is a public property which is state-owned and therefore protected.

THE ROUTE

The railway line basically follows the Hill Cart Road which is partially the same as National Highway 55. Usually, the track is simply on the road side. In case of landslides both track and road might be affected. As long parts of the road are flanked with buildings, the railway line often rather resembles urban tramway tracks than an overland line.

To warn residents and car drivers about the approaching train, engines are equipped with very loud horns that even drown horns of Indian trucks and buses. Trains honk almost without pause.

Loops and Z-Reverses (or "zig-zag"s)

One of the main difficulties faced by the DHR was the steepness of the climb. Features called loops and Z-Reverses were designed as an integral part of the system at different points along the route to achieve a comfortable gradient for the stretches in between them. When the train moves forwards, reverses and then moves forward again, climbing a slope each time while doing so, it gains height along the side of the hill.

STATIONS

NEW JALPAIGURI JUNCTION (NJP)

New Jalpaiguri is the railway station which was extended to the south in 1964 to meet the new broad gauge to Assam. Where the two met, New Jalpaiguri was created.

SILIGURI TOWN STATION

Siliguri Town was original southern terminus of the line.

SIIGURI JUNCTION

Siliguri Junction became a major station only when a new metre-gauge line was built to Assam in the early 1950s

SUKNA STATION

This station marks the change in the landscape from the flat plains to the wooded lower slopes of the mountains. The gradient of the railway changes dramatically.

LOOP 1 (now removed)

Loop No.1 was in the woods above Sukna. It was removed after flood damage in 1991. The site is now lost in the forest.

RANGTONG STATION

A short distance above Rangtong there is a water tank. This was a better position for the tank than in the station, both in terms of water supply and distance between other water tanks.

LOOP 2 (now removed)

When Loop 2 was removed in 1942, again following flood damage, a new reverse, No.1, was added, creating the longest reverse run.

REVERSE 1

LOOP 3

Loop No.3 is at Chunbatti. This is now the lowest loop.

REVERSE 2 & 3

Reverses No.2 & 3 are between Chunbatti and Tindharia.

TINDHARIA STATION

This is a major station on the line as below the station is the workshops. There is also an office for the engineers and a large locomotive shed, all on a separate site.

Immediately above the station are three sidings; these were used to inspect the carriage while the locomotive was changed, before the train continued towards Darjeeling.

LOOP 4

Agony Point is the name given to loop No.4. It comes from the shape of the loop which comes to an apex which is the tightest curve on the line.

GAYABARI

REVERSE 6

Reverse No.6 is the last reverse on the climb.

MAHANADI STATION

KURSEONG STATION

There is a shed here and a few sidings adjacent to the main line, but the station proper is a dead end. Up trains must reverse out of the station (across a busy road junction) before they can continue on their climb. It is said that the station was built this way so that the train could enter a secure yard and stay there while the passengers left the train for refreshments.

Above Kurseong station, the railway runs through the bazaar. Trains skirt the front of shops and market stalls on this busy stretch of road.

SONADA STATION

Sonada is a small station which serves town of sonada on Darjeeling Himalayan railway. It is on Siliguri - Darjeeling national highway (NH 55).

JOREBUNGALOW STATION

This is a small location near Darjeeling and a railway station on Darjeeling Himalayan railway. Jorebungalow was store point for tea to Calcutta. This is a strategical place to connect Darjeeling to rest of the country.

GHUM STATION

Ghum, summit of the line and highest station in India. Now includes a museum on the first floor of the station building with larger exhibits in the old goods yard. Once this was the railway station at highest altitude overall and is the highest altitude station for narrow gauge railway.

BATASIA LOOP

The loop is 5 kilometres from Darjeeling, below Ghum. There is also a memorial to the Gorkha soldiers of the Indian Army who sacrificed their lives after the Indian Independence in 1947. From the Batasia Loop one can get a panoramic view of Darjeeling town with the Kanchenjunga and other snowy mountains in the back-drop.

DARJEELING STATION

The farthest reach of the line was to Darjeeling Bazaar, a goods-only line and now lost under the road surface and small buildings.

LOCOMOTIVES

CURRENT

STEAM

All the steam locomotives currently in use on the railway are of the "B" Class, a design built by Sharp, Stewart and Company and later the North British Locomotive Company, between 1889 and 1925. A total of 34 were built, but by 2005 only 12 remained on the railway and in use (or under repair).

In 2002, No. 787 was rebuilt with oil firing. This was originally installed to work on the same principle as that used on Nilgiri Mountain Railway No.37395. A diesel-powered generator was fitted to operate the oil burner and an electrically-driven feed pump, and a diesel-powered compressor was fitted to power the braking system. Additionally, the locomotive was fitted with a feedwater heater. The overall result was a dramatic change in the appearance of the locomotive. However, the trials of the locomotive were disappointing and it never entered regular service. In early 2011, it was in Tindharia Works awaiting reconversion to coal-firing.

In March 2001, No.794 was transferred to the Matheran Hill Railway to allow a "Joy Train" (steam-hauled tourist train) to be operated on that railway. It did not, however, enter service there until May 2002.

DIESEL

Four diesel locomotives are in use: Nos. 601-2, 604 and 605 of the NDM6 class transferred from the Matheran Hill Railway.

PAST

In 1910 the railway purchased the third Garratt locomotive built, a D Class 0-4-0+0-4-0.

Only one DHR steam locomotive has been taken out of India, No.778 (originally No.19). After many years out of use at the Hesston Steam Railway, it was sold to an enthusiast in the UK and restored to working order. It is now based on a private railway (The Beeches Light Railway) in Oxfordshire but has run on the Ffestiniog Railway, the Launceston Steam Railway and the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway.

IN POPULAR CULTURE

The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway has long been viewed with affection and enthusiasm by travellers to the region and the Earl of Ronaldshay gave the following description of a journey in the early 1920s:

"Siliguri is palpably a place of meeting . . The discovery that here the metre gauge system ends and the two foot gauge of the Darjeeling-Himalayan railway begins, confirms what all these things hint at... One steps into a railway carriage which might easily be mistaken for a toy, and the whimsical idea seizes hold of one that one has accidentally stumbled into Lilliput. With a noisy fuss out of all proportion to its size the engine gives a jerk - and starts... No special mechanical device such as a rack is employed - unless, indeed, one can so describe the squat and stolid hill-man who sits perched over the forward buffers of the engine and scatters sand on the rails when the wheels of the engine lose their grip of the metals and race, with the noise of a giant spring running down when the control has been removed.

Sometimes we cross our own track after completing the circuit of a cone, at others we zigzag backwards and forwards; but always we climb at a steady gradient - so steady that if one embarks in a trolley at Ghum, the highest point on the line, the initial push supplies all the energy necessary to carry one to the bottom."

The trip up to Darjeeling on railway has changed little since that time, and continues to delight travellers and rail enthusiasts, so much so that it has its own preservation and support group, the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Society.

Several films have portrayed the railway. Especially popular was the song Mere sapno ki rani from the film Aradhana where the protagonist Rajesh Khanna tries to woo heroine Sharmila Tagore who was riding in the train. Other notable films include Barfi!, Parineeta and Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman. The Darjeeling Limited, a film directed by Wes Anderson, features a trip by three brothers on a fictional long-distance train based very loosely on the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.

TELEVISION

The BBC made a series of three documentaries dealing with Indian Hill Railways, shown in February 2010. The first film covers the Darjeeling-Himalayan Railway, the second the Nilgiri Mountain Railway and the third the Kalka-Shimla Railway. The films were directed by Tarun Bhartiya, Hugo Smith and Nick Mattingly and produced by Gerry Troyna. The series won the UK Royal Television Society Award in June 2010. Wes Anderson's film The Darjeeling Limited also showcases three brothers riding the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.

WIKIPEDIA

Power Generators top by Siph_Horridus

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Street art @ Lofoten by catohansen

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Street art where there are noe streets. Just an empty building, a house that housed an electric power generator. Artists Dolk and Pøbel was here a few years ago, in a project where they painted well known artwork on rural structures such as houses, under bridges, inside factories, and such. These artworks were ment to decay as the buildings themselves, and so they do. This house lost its roof during the last winter storm a few weeks ago, and with no doors or windows it will only be a matter of time before it is gone for good.

Place: Mølnelva in Vestvågøy, Lofoten.

Art: Prison Painter by Dolk

Technique: Handheld camera.

Edit: Made the sky darker and bluer. Made a selection of the building, then used dodge/burn to highlight + add contrast.

Software: Elements 12 and on1 perfect effects 9

Cirque Italia Gold Unit - January 5, 2018 by Michael Seeley

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Meet the Cirque Italia and their "Aquatic Spectacular." I was fortunate to be able to photograph them during their recent stint in Melbourne, Florida. You can read about the show and the history of the company on their website (www.cirqueitalia.com).

My observations:

1. The show is great. No animals (well done), just great performances stitched together by two clownish hosts with well-produced sound and lights.

2. The aquatic component is cool. The performers aren't in the water; they perform around and are surrounded by the water. Visually, it's magical as the water catches the light, frames the performers and, at times, serves as a screen for projected shapes and patterns. It's almost surprising that the audience doesn't get wet, given how much water is in motion.

3. It's fun for kids. (At one point they even trotted out a dinosaur.)

4. The performers are amazing, and each of the productions are beautiful and well-constructed. The audience was often gasping in amazement at the daring feats.

5. From a logistics perspective, I'm in awe of the production: the stage, lights, performance hardware, and plumbing to move 35,000 gallons of water around, all set up under a tent, complete with its power generator is all amazing. But, this is portable. It's designed to be torn down, moved and set back up in another town to be ready to go just a few days later.

6. Photographing the show is challenging, as is post-processing the images. For these images, I used Canon bodies (5D4 and a 7D2) and Canon lenses (the EF70-200 f2.8L Series II, the EF16-35 f2.8L Series II, and the EF50mm f1.8). I've shot concerts and political events, but this was my first circus, and I have renewed and even greater respect for event photographers as a result.

Too Long; Didn't Read: If you have a chance to see the Cirque Italia show, you should do so.