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A pullback from today's product shoot. To test this set up I took a photo of my trusty SB-24. Even though I'm a Canon guy, I use Nikon strobes when I'm using radio remotes.
Strobist: SB-26s on umbrellas lighting the background. SB-28 on top through diffuser.
View the test photo below.
Detres Photography:
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Finishing shot from this scene:
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Rat Rod - Lego Technic 42104 Alternate Model with pullback motor and opening doors. Free instructions here: youtu.be/yR8ClnhzkKI
Inspired by the ‘Adventurer’s Car & Skeleton’ set.
Play Features:
-Pullback motor*
-Hinged cargo gate
-Frontal steering
* This transmission is aggravatingly fickle. Duplicate at risk to your own sanity.
Video: youtu.be/GVU6WQRtTrk
The mechanism of the box starts with a handle, after which the ballerina begins to spin. The ballerina herself hides in a box. The lid has a lock.
Here is a pullback from my last newborn (2 1/2 mo!) session. (Using Mom's special request blanket). See one of the resulting pictures here: www.flickr.com/photos/beccas_pics/5002797358/
Considerations and assembly process of the Lego Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 www.wiseguyofficial.com/lifestyle/lego-ford-mustang-shelb...
These models all have a LEGO pull-back motor installed. LEGO part number 10039 fits easily in the LEGO Disney Cars models, but has to be cut to fit into the custom models of the Spinner and Tumbler.
The Cars models have zoomy performance, but the Tumbler and Spinner are slow. The red Cars require around 30 LEGO pieces to make, the Tumbler has twice that many, and the Spinner has about three times that many pieces.
This is how I set up my newborn sessions. This is at my own house with three gorgeous big windows to the left of the picture. However, I do move the setup around as I work.
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The fence around the White House, erected to protect the president, is slowly coming down. Washington, DC was on the brink, but the protests were not a repeat of 1968, where fires and looting decimated neighborhoods. Despite the actions of President Trump and Attorney General Barr, peaceful protests overshadowed violence. Volunteers have moved posters of support, which adorned that fence, across the street. But Lafayette Park is still closed.
On June 1, Trump declared himself "president of law and order," vowing to deploy the military to stop the protests, a consequence of George Floyd's death and the deaths of hundreds of African Americans killed by the police. Minutes later, he made good on that promise by clearing a peaceful demonstration across the street from the White House with rubber bullets and stinger balls containing tear gas or pepper spray and small rubber pellets. All to make way for the president to walk a block to St. John's Episcopal Church for his infamous Bible photo-op.
But the question, like many of the issues we've experienced in our highly divided country, remains one of context. Whose law and order are we talking about? Trump's military stifling of peaceful dissent or the law and order African Americans demand police adhere to?
The confluence of the pandemic and the outrage over George Floyd’s death has been extraordinary. When every issue becomes partisan (quarantines, wearing face masks, sacrificing older Americans for the sake of the economy, income inequality, racial profiling, and health care, to name a few), one must wonder how long this can continue. How long will Trump sycophants subject us to the authoritarian will of the president? Will there be lasting changes to our country when we return to some semblance of our former lives? Will we have learned anything and, if so, will it stick? How will our expectations have changed?
During these crises, extreme partisanship continues to define debates about the role of government. And the president’s rhetoric, and his undisciplined handling of the coronavirus, have only muddied these issues. Will we live in a fairer society where everyone has a living wage, access to affordable health care, and where companies value their workers as much as their profits and stockholders?
As important, Donald Trump's presidency and the willingness of the Republican Party to enable his abhorrent behavior will require an in-depth look at the failure of our Constitution and our elected representatives to protect us against authoritarianism. Since its ratification, we've added 17 amendments to this document. It may be time to consider some updates to make sure our notion of authority is clear, fair, and enforceable. We can't allow our politicians to define these tenets in partisan ways. Days of reckoning and a pullback from the brink created by the GOP should follow Trump's ultimate defeat. Be prepared for mea culpas. But don’t expect politicians to put their country ahead of their party and personal interests. That will require fundamental changes in our elections and the accumulation of power our system allows.
At its foundation, our country must come to terms with that law and order question. We must remember one of our most fundamental principles, stated eloquently by Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address: "That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.” Until then, none of us should be holding our breath.
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Follow the history of our country's political intransigence from 2010-2018 through a six-part exhibit of these posters on Google Arts & Culture.
I am painfully aware that I haven't posted anything in nearly a year. Been busy with builds, but too damn lazy to set up my photography area. These should do for now...
A friend gave me one of these little pull-back chassis; so, I felt obliged to build something cool upon it. Wanted to incorporate some recent parts too.
So, yeah, there's bonus content--it rips like hell across the floor!
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A Victorian-era advertising trade card.
"To all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 1884. 1885. Compliments of A. K. Hoffmeier, manufacturer and dealer in fine medium and common furniture, No. 26 East King St., Lancaster, Pa."
Inspired by the Adventurer's 'Scorpion Tracker'.
Play Features:
-Pullback motor
-Hinged cab roof and windshield
Second type Corgi Carrimore car transporter - Bedford TK cab circa 1964, looking a bit the worse for wear though I've since tidied up the cab, with a load of Fiat 500s by Solido (the white one top deck rear, three pullback versions and a Russian Giardiniera estate.
Your Recycling Gets Recycled, Right? Maybe, or Maybe Not - Plastics and papers from dozens of American cities and towns are being dumped in landfills after China stopped recycling most “foreign garbage.”
How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet - "Until now, human beings have been spreading, from our beginnings in Africa, out across the globe—slowly at first, and then much faster. But a period of contraction is setting in as we lose parts of the habitable earth. Sometimes our retreat will be hasty and violent; the effort to evacuate the blazing California towns along narrow roads was so chaotic that many people died in their cars. But most of the pullback will be slower, starting along the world’s coastlines. Each year, another twenty-four thousand people abandon Vietnam’s sublimely fertile Mekong Delta as crop fields are polluted with salt. As sea ice melts along the Alaskan coast, there is nothing to protect towns, cities, and native villages from the waves. In Mexico Beach, Florida, which was all but eradicated by Hurricane Michael, a resident told the Washington Post, 'The older people can’t rebuild; it’s too late in their lives. Who is going to be left? Who is going to care?'"
Who Killed Tulum? - Greed, gringos, diesel, drugs, shamans, seaweed, and a disco ball in the jungle.
Inspired by the Adventurer's 'Scorpion Tracker'.
Play Features:
-Pullback motor
-Hinged cab roof and windshield
INSTRUCTIONS AVAILABLE HERE youtu.be/zOfS1P7jqu4
My 2nd alternate build of the 42104 set using pullback motor for propulsion.
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This Ameraucana chick was 16 days old and weighed about five ounces when I photographed her.
Ameraucanas are born with yellow skin. Most pass through the vivid, lizard-green color seen here and have subdued gray-green skin as adults. I reproduced her colors as accurately as I could.
This little girl is one of a SERIES.
Soil profile: The Breakneck series consists of moderately deep, well drained soils. They formed in residuum affected by soil creep in the upper part, and weathered from low-grade metasedimentary rocks, primarily metasandstone. (Soil Survey of Graham County, North Carolina; by Brian Wood and Southern Blue Ridge Soil Survey Office, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
Landscape: A high mountain grassy bald on Huckleberry Knob in an area of Breakneck-Pullback complex, windswept, 15 to 30 percent slopes, very rocky. Areas such as this are highly desirable for wildlife and were once used as summer pasture.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, isotic, frigid Typic Humudepts
Breakneck soils are on strongly sloping to very steep summits and side slopes in the high elevations of the Southern Blue Ridge mountains, MLRA 130B. Slope ranges from 8 to 95 percent. Solum thickness and depth to bedrock ranges from 20 to 40 inches. The content of rock fragments is less than 35 percent by volume throughout. Reaction is extremely acid to strongly acid.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most of the acreage is in public ownership and is used for watershed protection, recreation, and wildlife habitat. In areas higher than about 5,400 feet, red spruce and fraser fir are the dominant trees. At the lower elevations, northern red oak, chestnut oak, American beech, yellow birch, black cherry, sugar maple, eastern hemlock, and yellow buckeye are common trees. Common understory plants are serviceberry, striped maple, American chestnut sprouts, silverbell, pin cherry, rhododendron, flame azalea, and blueberry. Common forbs are hay-scented fern, woodfern, New York fern, Solomons seal, yellow mandarin, and trillium. A small acreage is covered by heath balds. These balds are vegetated with rhododendron, mountain laurel, blueberry, flame azalea, hawthorn, and mountain ash. Vegetation ranges for spruce/fur to northern hard woods, heath and grass balds.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Higher elevations of the Southern Blue Ridge mountains, MLRA 130B of Tennessee and North Carolina. This series is of moderate extent.
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/north_carolina...
For a detailed description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/B/BREAKNECK.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit: