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Fresh from Detroit to a dealership near you.
Here's a typical "promotional shot" with a faded color look.
I can remember the Chevy dealership right next to the school yard.
In September, we would line up at the windows and watch the new cars being unloaded from the carriers.
School work be hanged; this was more important.
This is a promotional photo taken for West Coast Precision Models.
PNLX 57 (a GP40WH-2 leaser locomotive from Precision Locomotive Services) leads the Steam Railroading Institute's "Polar Express" trainset back to Owosso with PM 1225 on the rear.
The train is seen here crossing Carland Road in Carland, MI, the famous grain elevator over my left shoulder.
Two guys going straight. One of them upside down above the other. The third doing loop rolls around their tails. Basic trick? I don't think so...
Installation of 7 steel cables for a new wood chips conveyor system. Each cable was about 700 meters long. Flying at extremely low altitude and in real "slow motion" above a large industrial site requires maximim precision. Only most experienced pilots will be permitted to such a job. This mission was completed in 4 hours, a conventional intallation on the ground would have taken several days.
Helicopter: Bell 412
On location with mini-Eddie for some double trouble. Not the shot I went out for but it's what I came back with. Had something else in mind but went off on a tangent !
Shot with my usual Nikon settings but through a prime 35mm for change.
No story or refreshments to wirite about.
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Tiradores de precisión ataviados con uniforme camuflaje «ghillie», difÃcil verlos, de esa invisibilidad depende en parte el éxito de misión. Mando de Canarias
Foto: Cabo 1º Miranda MACANA/ET
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View On Black Take flight and view it large!
My favorite orientation of the track... the knife edge. This is performed by having the tip of the wing be perpendicular to the surface of the water. Seeing the planes shift into this position in the blink of an eye was intense!
Gradually getting to the plane shots. There are lots of them to go through...
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Not the best exposure, but could not pass up the symmetry of the three-plane flight as the trailing aircraft break and cross.
It's always impressive to watch Mountain Goats walk around on the high mountain boulders with such ease. They make us humans look like such clumsy animals.
This guy was showing off his white furry coat - something I was also admiring at the time as the winds were blowing incredibly hard. I guess I'd want a Polar Bear-like coat too if I had to live at 14,000 feet.
This image was taken near the summit of Mount Evans in Colorado at an elevation of 14,240 feet. View Large On Black
My newest addition to my collection, the brand new TWSBI Precision in 1.1mm Stub.
The design is nice and smooth with some striations along the cap and barrel.
The barrel posts on the silver twisting mechanism. It securely seats deep into the cap holding tightly with o-rings located on the twisting mechanism.
Operating the piston is a super smooth operation with very little resistance to operate. To remove the cap from the pen, you must turn the pen 5/6th of a full rotation to completely remove and completely sealed, which is a very short travel range, awesome for quick remove and replacement of the pen cap.
The design of the clip has strong resistance and not much bounce, but the design looks good wrapping half way around the pen.
Despite being an all metal pen, it remains very light weighing 31 grams with a full load of ink. It measures out to be 140mm capped, 175mm posted, 125mm unposted.
The pen sports an ink window to see the remaining ink levels. The nib is the same found in the 580AL Diamond. The flow and writing characteristics are exactly like my 580 AL in 1.1mm Stub. I have Robert Oster Fire and Ice loaded up in the pen and it is a very wet flow that has great line variation. #twsbiprecision #fountainpen #fountainpenreview #newrelease
This was shot with two lights, with an Alien Bee overhead with a shoot thru umbrella with a SB800 directly to the right of the pen.
This Precision bass was one that I fixed up. It was kind of trashed, but is now going again. Sounds great and has a nice road worn feel to it. I think I'm on a bit of a fender bender at the moment. This song has a great bass line. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDKg2mH2-1s&list=PLVzQ80E-NPm...
"Kumi-daiko" literally means a taiko ensemble that consists of various taikos. Surprisingly, the Kumi-daiko style was invented in 1950's by a single person although taiko itself has a long history. Daihachi Oguchi, the founder of Osuwa Daiko, created the Kumi-Daiko style in 1951. He was actually a jazz drummer. One day, he was asked to interpret an old sheet of taiko music for the Osuwa Shrine, which was found in an old warehouse. The sheet music was written in an old Japanese notation and he couldn't understand it at first. He, fortunately, found an old man who had performed the tune, and then he succeeded in interpreting it at last. However, as a jazz player, the rhythm pattern of the tune was too simple for him to play. He wondered why nobody played taiko together. A marvelous idea came across his mind and made him decide to break through the tradition. Inspired by a western drum set, he formed a group in which each player beats a different taiko; in short, he gave the group a function as a drum set. A high-pitched Shime-daiko established a basic rhythm like a snare drum does. A growling Nagado -daiko added accents like a bass drum. His intention was right to the point, and this epoch-making invention changed the taiko music forever.- Excerpt from The History of Taiko, the Drumbeat of Japan
Daisy will probably scoff at that characterization of her polish prowess. She doesn't think she does it all that well.....but I can assure you she's pretty darn good at it, whether she realizes it or not.
"Unparalleled precision."
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The Archangel is a long range sniper rifle known for its ability to effortless pick off targets at a frightening distance in the blink of an eye.
Firing an unknown cartridge that places itself on par with the .338 Lapua Magnum, the Archangel easily fits its role as a sniper rifle. Not much is known about the cartridge it uses, other than the fact that it's experimental and it's meant to be a crossover between a caseless railgun and an actual ballistic sniper rifle.
Due to the barrel length being shorter than what a typical sniper rifle would have and due to its natural trait of being internally suppressed, the cartridge was designed to be lightweight, requiring less force to fire out of the barrel. Electronic ignition allows the weapon to fire at a high speed, covering long distances in little to no time. Targets are dropped before one can even blink.
Electronics complement the weapon as it enhances its tactical ability on the field. The receiver is an information hub full of data such as ammunition count, internal damage, etc. The handguard monitors heating temperatures and activates cooling methods when necessary. These electronics can be connected directly each other and can be synced without the need of wires to the shooter or they can be connected to an external conduit if there's no more space for the wires.
To encourage the use of electronic assistance, special accessories were made to complement the rifle. The scope provides target distance, time to the target, wind speed and directions, and more. Furthermore, it can switch from thermal/FLIR, night vision, and standard modes at any time. The foregrip monitors recoil and how much of it is calculated by the system. The information is then sent to the receiver, which adjusts the firing discharge so that it provides less recoil on the next shot. However, this only operates if the shooter is firing each shot consecutively in under a 10 second timeframe, meaning that a shot is fired, chambered, and then fired again in under 10 seconds. This allows the shooter to quickly reacquire the target yet face less recoil when firing so that he or she can reacquire the target easily this time (since the weapon won't vertically kick as much, the target will stay more into the shooter's line of sight).
The stock features an adjustable stock pad and cheekrest, as well as a compartment to store any items as desired. An integrated monopod is also included to be used with any mounted bipod to keep the weapon stable and hold its own weight without the shooter holding it.
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This was quite a lengthy project. Usually my builds take a few hours to half a day, but this one took a few days. I would've made this in 0.6, but I felt this deserved the 0.7 treatment, with both an expanded color palette and more shading techniques to use.
Some very minor and subtle touch ups were done with MS Paint (made some outlines more visible, offset shading from scrolling fixed, etc)