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Top the original probe with shackle; bottom the 2nd generation version sans the shackle and with an added lanyard mounting point. Close examination revealed that the Gen 2 version actually has an entirely different scale replacing the shackle with the lanyard. The shackle was not wide enough to simply trim off and drill a hole; and the lanyard mount’s angle and dimensions clearly would not have been possible by simply cutting off a portion of the original shackle. Also discernible is the slightly more acute angle and thinner profile of the prying end of the knife handle in the original probe. Kind of anal of me to discern all of this but kind of interesting I thought and if you looked at the pictures to check if my conclusions are supported....... come on admit it; you find it interesting too! Extra nerd points if you enlarged the pictures to make sure!
This pesky probe droid was destroyed by the rebels. Now to run away before Darth Vader finds out who did it.
The photographs in my set, "Weed Flower Micros," may appear to be close-ups of regular-sized flowers – they are not!
These are micro (macro) photos of tiny little flowers which bloom on ordinary weeds.
How tiny? The largest weed flower in the set is only, when measured across its widest part from petal tip to petal tip, 3/4" in diameter!
Some of these miniscule flowers are so small that the entire blossom you are looking at is 1/4" in diameter…again that’s measuring from petal tip to petal tip across the widest part of the bloom!
The smallest part of a weed flower that I have managed to successfully shoot and achieve good detail in is a photo I made of a bud that measured LESS than 1/16" in diameter across its widest part! For a reference to its size I have also included a photo of that bud next to the head of an ordinary paper match, which dwarfs the bud.
I am delighting in discovering the beauty, complexity, and variety in something so small that it’s easily ignored or downright difficult to see with the naked eye.
And it’s an even greater delight to realize that this incredible beauty has been growing wild in my lawn, year after year, right under my un-seeing eyes as I’ve repeatedly mown them down with my lawn mower, never realizing the unseen beauty that I was trampling under my feet.
I hope you enjoy viewing these as much as I do. I have a lot of fun making them for us to look at!
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See more of these incredible, tiny jewels in my set, "Weed Flower Micros:"
PAPER BAG FOR RECORDS (LPS & 12" SINGLES etc PURCHASED FROM PROBE RECORDS. PHOTO TAKEN 2010 BUT THIS IS AN ORIGINAL BAG FROM 1978.
This probe station was assembled from spare parts in Chris's hotel room. The good stuff stayed in San Diego.
The prototype Adams Probe 16 AB/4 on show at the 2014 classic car and sportscar show at the NEC in Birmingham .