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wow, you all beat me to my description haha!
oh god i'm so glad you guys like this! cause i think this one belongs more to the "graphic designing" category rather than the "photography" category :/ what do you think??
right now what i want to be is somewhere between an architect, a graphic designer or piano teacher. I actually don't know what i'm doing with my life :$ i wish i was more like some other people who have their career choices made already. I feel so indecisive!!
anyway, i really do feel this way about piano! i always complain about the classes and the practicing time, but really in the end i believe it's all worth it. What i never understand is why people quit when they're in grade 2 or something, i don't have a grudge on people who do that, but it really does confuse me! I don't think grade 2 is a grade where you are able to decide whether you like piano or not. you're still learning the basics. it's going to be boring, but once you get past that stage, you're able to really get into it and really have some fun with it. I know people who have quit piano when they were grade 2/3 and they really regret it now. While as i have some other friends who have stuck with it until grade 5/6 then they quit because they either couldn't handle the requirements or just started to get tired of the piano in general. That, i can understand because being in grade 5 means you've stuck with it for probably about 6-7 years and finally decided that you hated it. (sorry for my fail english here btw haha, i really suck at putting my thoughts into readable sentences haha)
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6528 YX17NFF seen at Chatham Waterfront Bus Station working on route 101 towards Maidstone.
Arriva Kent had revealed E400 6528 having been repainted to the colours of Maidstone & District green and cream on December 9th at Rochester Cathedral. The text (not quite readable here) reads "Proud to serve Kent for over 100 years" - 100 years represents when Arriva's Gillingham Depot first opened.
The Dancing Bees -An Account of the Life and Senses of the Honey Bee by Karl Von Frisch.
I have the 1954 English language edition of this delightful book.
Von Frisch famously decoded the meaning of the "waggle dance" and "round dance" that honey bees use to communicate distance and direction to other honeybees within a colony. He published this in 1927 and was eventually awarded a Nobel prize. He also did ground breaking work on bee pheromones, visual perception and foraging behaviour.
This book is surprisingly engaging and readable. It is beautifully written to a dgree that seems unusual for a book that has been translated. It is a book that I really like so it seemed a good one for me to reach for to complete this week's MacroMondays challenge.
New Zealand Birds On Line note that "...Tui are boisterous, medium-sized, common and widespread bird of forest and suburbia... They look black from a distance, but in good light Tui have a blue, green and bronze iridescent sheen, and distinctive white throat tufts (poi). They are usually very vocal, with a complicated mix of tuneful notes interspersed with coughs, grunts and wheezes.
Tui have almost-black heads, underparts, wings and tails that have an iridescent blue and green sheen, especially on the head and wings. The upper back and flanks are dark reddish brown with a bronze sheen, the nape and sides of the neck have filamentous white feathers, and there are two unusual curled white feather tufts on the throat... The bill and feet are black, and the eye dark brown.
Tui are (also) notoriously aggressive, and will defend a flowering or fruiting tree, or a small part of a large tree, from all-comers, whether another Tui or another bird species. They vigorously chase other birds away from their feeding territory with loud whirring wings...".
(nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/tui)
STOP PRESS - And if you still have some time, have a look at New Zealand Geographic's very readable article on Tui; I highly recommend it:
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At this year's Corbigny flea market, I came across a Lumière camera. They are fairly common in France, but I don't live there, so I took the occasion to take picture with a camera bearing one of the most famous names in photography. It appears to be a Lumirex manufactured somewhere between '34 and '36. Nothing spectacular, very much the spirit of its time. Solidely built, Three speeds plus B, aperture opens from 1/6.3 to... well, not readable anymore, but one of the markings is f/12. A small brilliant finder that's pretty much useless even after cleanup, a wireframe finder, no film pressure plate. Bottom line, 90 years after it left the production line, it still works as it should.
Lumière Lumirex and its Lumière Anastigmat Fidor 6:3, Fomapan 400 in Rodinal 1+50 for 11 min @ 20°C and digitalized using kit zoom and extension tubes.
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Yesterday I had the privilege to attend the Aviation Nation 2017 celebration of Veterans Day at Nellis Air Force Base. It was an awesome display of US Air Force history, honoring the dedicated men and women who have served and sacrificed to maintain our freedom.
If you have served I thank you for your service and am truly grateful for all you have done.
The highlight of the show was the aerial acrobatics and precision flying of the USAF Thunderbirds. They put on an amazing show that was thoroughly enjoyed by the crowd, estimated at close to 100,000. This shot is an example of the incredible maneuvers they perform. Note that the number of the top F-16 is readable even though the jet is upside down. Best viewed large.
Thanks so much for your views and comments! Remember to thank a Vet!
One of the pleasures of visiting pages of old negatives is the occasional surprise. I had been looking for another negative and on the same strip was this unprinted Peak. I assumed it was unsharp but no, even the number was readable. Probably at the time it was considered just another Peak photographed in poor light.
I have no notes of course but 46015 was a Laira based locomotive at, it is making decent progress with a train of MkI coaches, it was heading towards Derby in the early afternoon.
The area around the signal box is much more tidy than in my previous pictures, the box had not been in use for train control for some time but it had been retained by the S&T department as a store. looking under the bridge over the train we can just make out the canopy over the platform buildings.
46015 was built at Derby works, it went new to Derby Depot 01/02/1962 as D152. It was withdrawn 14/12/1980 and cut at Swindon Works 19/01/1985
Copyright Geoff Dowling 23/08/1978: All rights reserved
Wall installation, paper and steel
City Hall, Albany, Oregon
(Unfortunately, the plate with the artist's name is installed too high on the wall to be readable...)
Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña - Escocia - Stirling - Cementerio - Star Pyramid
Separated by a driveway from the Valley Cemetery, the Drummond Pleasure Ground was laid out as a setting for the Star Pyramid which is a massive sandstone ashlar pyramid which dominates this area, standing on a stone stepped base upon a shaped grassy mound. Marble Bibles rest on the base of each face of the pyramid, which is also carved with references to Biblical texts.
The pyramid is enclosed by wrought iron railings, with stone steps to S flanked by 2 stone globes (once surmounted by bronze eagles). A Bible and Confession of Faith were sealed into an inner chamber in the pyramid. The Pithy Mary pond lies to the W of the Star Pyramid with bridge of wrought / cast iron work including later repair work and a grassed slope beyond to the W with lawn and deliberately placed rocks. There are no gravestones within Drummond Pleasure Ground other than William Drummond's sarcophagus to the NW of the pyramid; polished grey granite inscribed 'Born 14 February 1793 Died 25th November 1888' on its stepped base.
Outside the church is the Valley Cemetery. In past times was the site of jousting tournaments and markets. The Cemetery has a Pyramid, built by William Drummond in 1863.
William Drummond was a land surveyor and nurseryman whose immediate descendants were a well known family in Stirling. They were responsible for a wide range of activities both locally and nationally. These included the establishment of an agricultural museum in the 1830's, an extensive seed and nursery business, exploration in Africa and the Drummond Tract Enterprise, the foremost 19th century publisher of religious pamphlets.
William was the eldest son of the well-known Stirling family which included Peter Drummond and his nephew Henry. He was one of the instigators of the Valley Cemetery and his obsession with religion can be seen in the Martyrs'
Monument and the Star Pyramid (also known as Salem Rock).
He commissioned the Star Pyramid from William Barclay in 1863 - note the white marble Bibles incorporated by Barclay round the base of the edifice and the names of religious tracts (published by his brother Peter's "Drummond Tract Enterprise"). The Pyramid is dedicated to all those who suffered martyrdom in the cause of civil and religious liberty in Scotland.William planted a Pleasure Garden round the Pyramid, complete with trees and plants. He also paid for five of the six statues seen in various parts of the graveyard and donated trees to be planted round the National Wallace Monument.
This area was laid out as a public pleasure ground by local nurseryman and evangelist, William Drummond. The Star Pyramid, with its texts and emblems, was nearing completion in April 1863, when a bible and the Confession of faith were sealed into a chamber within the structure. It recalls the principles of the Reformation and publicised the famous Drummond Tract Enterprises.
The pyramid is on a raised plinth of 4 steps and has a set of steps leading to it. Each of the faces are very similar. On one face is a circular marble plaque, the text of which is very worn and some of the lower part is readable.
Courtaparteen Church and Graveyard near Kinsale, Co Cork, Ireland.
Courtaparteen chapel was a 6th century church/chapel and graveyard. Now the chapel, said to have links with Saint Rúadhán is a ruin, it's still a remarkably moving place to visit not only for the incredible coastal scenery but for the fact that so many local families have been buried here over the years. Graves range from beyond readable in years, to 2011, so still an active burial ground today.
This is one from my archives as I'm unlikely to be able to travel south to see them this year. But I have just read Matthew Oates' book on the Purple Emperor and it has renewed my interest. The book reminded me just how difficult it is to see female Purple Emperors as they quietly go about their business of laying eggs on Sallow bushes while the males battle with each other in the skies above, and occasionally descend to the ground to imbibe salts and moisture. I have seen hundreds of Purple Emperor males over the years, but just a handful of females, including this one in a Sallow bush. If you search the internet you will see it is not just me. Countless photographs of males and very few females. Females are a little larger than males with "fuller" wings, especially the hindwings. Their markings are similar except they lack the iridescent purple sheen of males, and their white markings are broader, particularly on the hindwing as can be seen here. Matthew says that they select Goat Willow "types" (willows hybridise) like this with broad, matt, mid-sized leaves. Everything checks with this photograph, apart from the fact that they usually lay on shady leaves just below the canopy. This one was at eye-level in the sunshine. I took this photograph nine years ago at Fermyn Woods in Northamptonshire. I may even post a photograph of a male if I can find something a bit different.
The book by the way is His Imperial Majesty: A Natural History of the Purple Emperor by Matthew Oates, just published by Bloomsbury. It is worth buying for the beautiful artwork by Darren Woodhead on the dustjacket, but the book is very readable too.
A fisheye shot of the John McAslan and Partners designed Kings Cross canopy taken during #Photo24London . Not so much as a 'flip', more of a 'flip and rotate' but I wanted to keep the text on the cafe signs readable on both sides. As you can see if you look along the join I'm a few pixels off in getting complete symmetry but it'll do for now, one rainy day I may have another go at it. Alternatively, maybe the slight imperfection makes the image more believable ?
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Message written in the entrance of the Concentration Camp of Buchenwald. It translates "To each his own." This could be only readable from the inside of the camp.
Another example of an oft-ignored reminder found mainly on 35mm film prints from abroad. This time it's readable (well, sort of). The last time I encountered a similar message, someone reversed it.
The film with the leader message is an odd reel (first five minutes) of a 1971 Hong Kong martial arts film. (The film is faded but otherwise in great shape; as of this writing, I have yet to screen it.) I used my LED light pad and copystand to capture the images without cutting the film. Most of the image was sliderized in Photoshop. The grungy effect is a layer modified in Topaz Studio 2.
Clearly too much Lightroom and too little Photoshop lately. Spent the evening tweaking the text and... :)
The initial idea was to fill the mirror with something dark but ended doing something ironic. Hopefully the text is readable enough.
Peter spent some time photographing the Llandudno and Colwyn Bay Tramway system and at the depot he saw car number 1. The tram was one of the ex-Accrington Tramway single deck trams, bought to replace the original fleet numbers 1-5, they were introduced between 1933 & 1936.
The depot was at Penrhyn Avenue Rhos-on-Sea, it had 8 tracks providing covered accommodation for 32 trams, it opened in October 1907 and closed in March 1956. The building on the right contained the traffic office, canteen and other facilities. Peter must have taken this picture from the top of a tram, in the depot are single deck tram number 4, a couple of toast racks, number 20 being readable and unfortunately, partially hidden by the step ladder, one of the former Darwen streamlined tramcars (23/24 English Electric 1946).
The Colwyn Bay to Llandudno Tramway was a 6.5-mile journey between the two towns, the line ran through fields on its own right of way, it ran along an unmade road past a tollgate. The livery was originally red and cream, it changed to green and cream in the late 1920's, the track was 3'6" gauge.
Sadly, on 24th March 1956 car number 8 completed the final journey and the system closed forever. *
Peter Shoesmith June 1955
Copyright Geoff Dowling & John Whitehouse: All rights reserved
* Details from the book "Tramway Twilight" by J. Joyce (Ian Allan 1962) And the Llandudno & Colwyn Bay Tramway Society
Worcester running shed on the 3rd September 1968. The locomotives visible are D7027 in blue and D7093 in green, Brush 4 D1820 is next and there is another Hymek in green but not quite readable. In the foreground is the old steam running shed with 10 tonne trucks marked "Cond Locos" outside, the area has pits between the rails and granite setts each side to allow work to be carried out, fires to be dropped and smokeboxes and ash pans to be emptied. In the top right corner we can see towards Worcester Shrub Hill station.
D7027 was built by Beyer-Peacock Ltd and was new to Bristol Bath Road 07/04/1962, it was withdrawn 29/11/1971 and cut at Swindon in August 1972.
D7093 was also new to Bristol Bath Road arriving 14/12/1963, it was withdrawn 26/11/1974 and cut at Cohens (Kettering) February 1977
D1820 was built at Brush Loughborough and entered traffic from Nottingham Division 17/02/1965, it became 47339 under TOPS. It was withdrawn 21/01/2000 and cut at C.F. Booth 12/02/2005.
This is a picture which has has a re-scanat a much higher res. the colours are vastly improved and loco numbers unidentified before are now readable.
Peter Shoesmith 03/09/1968
Copright Geoff Dowling & John Whitehouse: All rights reserved
an attempt to move laterally rather than vertically, colors done fast and loose (not thoroughly implemented. Working further with the idea of structure. The structure is broken down into path towards English/ various meaning shifts in English. using green for signifier and blue for definition helps to standardize. Need to minimize structure elements and maximize text block space so it's readable. Should probably move date blocks to yellow/include space for them on left half
The Macro Mondays group chose Stamps on Monday 24 January 2022. Today they have chosen Redux 2022. We have been asked to revisit one of this year's themes and to take another photo. I have flipped the image to make it readable.
My wife was keen on making cards using rubber stamps, this one seems appropriate for today.
About:
I had this shot in my mind for a long time... But the time has to be right. Only about 4 weeks in a year the sun will rise behind the arch and be of the correct height too show through it. These 2 weeks in Autumn are now past, it will happen again somewhere in March again.
Taken during morning rush-hour and everyone wants to get into Brussels and not out, that's why only white lights, actually the traffic wasn't moving very fast, at a steady pace of 10km/h. When I arrived there I thought sh*t no streaks possible, but it turned out nice, the advantage is no cars are moving lanes and thus four nice even streaks of white.
Noted on the Arch:
"Dit monument is in 1905 opgericht ter verheerlijking van Belgie's onafhankelijkheid."
translates to:
This monument was founded in 1905 in honor of the Belgium's independence.
In the full version this is clearly readable, I love my D800!
Location:
Cinquantenaire Park (Jubelpark), Brussels, Belgium
50°50'29.47" N 4°23'16.47" E
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HDR offcourse :) 9 shots to get the complete range of light. Merged in photomatix, selective deghosting and selected the light trails out of the longest exposure. Tonemapped in Oloneo. In Photoshop removed a nasty flare at the top of the arch. In Lightroom opened up the shadows to get some exposure back in the trees.
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One last final daytime "tumble" of Times Square before a few night time views of the same. In this view we have one last extreme bending and distorting of single view planarity, suggesting, as I do with this technique, that what we know as 'reality' is a construct put together by our filtering brains in order for us to navigate on one safe and familiar level.
Yet science tells us that at the Quantum level there are at least 11 dimensions that have been confirmed as existing. At that level reality is an undifferentiated mass of potential, virtual realities. Yet, once we observe at that level, one single 'choice' becomes available and clicks into specificity, returning the rest to potential.
So the world that we know may, it turns out, be a consensus, a 'choice' that's been reinforced and expanded on as we move forward with it. The coming Quantum Age will be about seeing that the world, reality or the universe is not random, that it is very very finely tuned and constructed unquestionably for the creation and sustaining of life.
Anyone interested in investigating these ideas might find Ervin Laszlo's seminal book, "Science and the Akashic Field" a very readable and exciting exploration of the Quantum world and what a true understanding of its significances can have on a radically new and life affirming future that is ours to create.
Our daily choices affect reality as each one clicks a certain aspect of reality into existence. We can literally create a beautiful, life enhancing existence or an unmitigated hell, individually and collectively then. The choice is up to us each moment of the day.
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Music Link: "Mooncalf" - Ozric Tentacles, from their album "The Yumyum Tree". I've been finding the Ozrics' music to have become something of an addiction this summer and I choose them again for one last Times Square image for the power, drive and visionary soundscaping of this jaw-dropping piece of music.. The pace of "Mooncalf" and it's beautifully elegant shaping in space, despite its obvious power made it a shoe in, for me, to accompany #9 in this series.
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© Richard S Warner ( Visionheart ) - 2015. All Rights Reserved. This image is not for use in any form without explicit, express, written permission.
The rest of the text is from a previously posted image, but I can't really add to it...
St Philip's Church, Little Rollright, Oxfordshire.
The wall-tomb of William Blower who died unexpectedly on the 7th February 1618.
Tall, handsome, wearing his armour and apparently 'manscaped' and Instagram ready...and wealthy and single; is this the sexiest tomb in England? (I am feeling rather irreverent typing that and slightly creepy, but he is a bit of a dish as Joanna Lumley would say).
Information about this particular tomb seemed very short and vague until I stumbled across a wonderfully researched pdf by Adrienne Rosen about the history of the families connected to the wall tombs of the church; the Blowers and the Dixons.
Involving and readable for non-historians, it offers a fascinating snapshot of the rise of the mercantile classes, immigration, intermarriage and the almost comedic social climbing of the day as the prosperous middle-classes of the late 16th and 17th centuries strived to become landed gentry, all seen through the families that controlled the manor of Little Rollright. www.oxoniensia.org/volumes/2005/rosen.pdf
You never know when life will swoop in and change your entire world around, so you'd better get out there and take a few risks, chase a few dreams and visit a few places you never imagined you would. Go, now.
Happy weekend to all!
-Lorenzo
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The new Flickr photo page was killing my eyes, so I came up with a way to switch back to the old page style (black text on white background). Here's a quick how-to guide I put together: How to switch back to the old (and readable) Flickr photo page.
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Selborne, St.Mary The Virgin Church; detail of Stained Glass window dedicated Gilbert White. Gilbert White was a wonderful naturalist whose book is still readable today.
waiting for our shuttle bus to take us from the helicopter company office to the airport, I noticed this reflection in the chrome bumper of the van. With the curve of the bumper and my wide angle lens I was able to get almost my entire body in the shot! I flipped the image horizontally here so that the lettering on the curb would be readable.
The Artists Readable Wrangle Museum of Art made headlines in the late 20th century when thieves disguised as mimes stole the John Smear Veneer painting “The Performance” (Dutch: Het optreden). Note the empty space on the right wall where the painting used to hang. Needless to say since then security measures have been upgraded. Inasmuch as mimes have the natural ability to bypass digital security systems (remember they don’t make a sound) the museum installed occult measures which have thus far been quite successful.
The primary implementation is the soul flypaper (note the rectangle between the two windows on the left), which thus far has captured more than a dozen souls of would-be thieves and converted them (more or less) into living paintings. The bait on the rear wall is the John Term Brand painting “Men in Yellow.” Some find sight of the trapped souls disturbing and some believe it to be cruel and unusual punishment, but others believe that spending eternity in the view of great art to be no punishment whatsoever. Henry Schilder, the museum’s director pointed out that museum attendance has increased ten-fold since the installation of the flypaper and credits the presence of the trapped souls for much of the increase.
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Skywriting is the process of using one or more small aircraft, able to expel special smoke during flight, to fly in certain patterns that create writing readable from the ground. These messages can be advertisements, general messages of celebration or goodwill, personal messages such as a marriage proposals and birthday wishes, or acts of protest.
The typical smoke generator consists of a pressurized container of viscosity oil, such as Chevron/Texaco Canopus 13 (formerly Corvus Oil). The oil is injected into the hot exhaust manifold, vaporizing it into a huge volume of dense white smoke.
Relatively few pilots have the skills to skywrite legibly. Also, wake turbulence and wind disperse and shear the smoke, causing the writing to blur and twist, usually within a few minutes. For these reasons, computer-controlled skytyping has been developed where multiple small aircraft, flying in line abreast formation, write in dot-matrix fashion, creating messages that can be much longer, and legible for longer periods, than those of traditional skywriting.
If winds are strong, visibility of the skywriting can vary from a seconds to 5-10 minutes. How Much Does It Cost Do Skywriting Message? Skywriting starts at A$3,500 for a single writing, plus any ferry fees to move aircraft into your desired location. Multiple writings per day can be discounted depending on location. R_34402
Those damn beautiful 1x2 VHS tiles made me do it, attempt an old video store that is. I'm basing this on my childhood local shop: tiny and dingy. Not those bright and orderly Blockbuster stores no, I'm talking really old carpet, dim lighting and videos just everywhere. Old Hammer horror movies playing on the television in the corner. Yessir, that's the shizzle for me.
Not super happy with this first attempt, it's ok but I think there's a lot to play with. Camera angle, lighting options. Maybe swapping out the black of the back wall for something more readable?
A BRCW Sulzer Bo-Bo is getting into its stride at Kings Norton station. Although empty the oil tankers are a heavy load for a single 1550 hp locomotive, it would have been banked up the steep climb through Bordesley Junction. The tanks are a block train fron ESSO and would have been discharged at Bromford Bridge oil storage depot.
The train is passing the neat red brick Midland Railway buildings, they are complete and in good condition at this time. Peter has left no details but it would seem to be taken in the very early 1960's, the loco number is nearly readable as D6518 but I cannot be certain.
Peter Shoesmith.
Copyright John Whitehouse & Geoff Dowling: All rights reserved
Only a week later I drew this Sketch in the same 15 minutes it had taken me to draw the first one.
The lines became more purposeful and my description of materials more readable. You can almost tell that that is a shiny pot.
Lots of people wonder what my job actually entails as it is a bit unusual. Writing is one of the things I do a lot. I love my ink pen I find it slows me down so I stand a chance of being able to read what I wrote. My handwriting is deceiving it looks neat and readable from a far but close up it's a different story.
720585 (and 720107, hidden round the corner) stand at Ipswich, about to depart as 1Y65 21.10 Ipswich - Liverpool Street.
Usually, these "Aventra"-worked services (many of which stand at Ipswich for half an hour or, in the evenings, much longer) use platform 4 (on the other side of this island). However, this one (which is booked to arrive at 20.27) uses platform 3, and the Norwich-bound departure during this time uses platform 4. The reason is that once every four weeks, on Friday evenings, the 37-powered 1Q99 Network Rail Infrastructure Monitoring train reverses at platform 4 between 20.46 and 20.58.
I last visited Ipswich station in early March 2020, on a Friday evening when 1Q99 was running. At the time it was booked to reverse at platform 3, although actually used platform 2. Back then, this service was operated by 321s and a handful of 360s (most had already departed, ready for use by East Midlands Railway), while some Norwich services were still class 90 electric locos and mark 3 coaches - as illustrated in this picture taken in a similar position.
I was here for 37425 on 1Q99, which had departed about ten minutes previously.
Manipulation notes: The destination indicator on the EMU was very bright, so much so that it was just a blurred mass of orange. I therefore took a couple more frames which were four or five stops under exposed, and used part of one of those to make the destination readable.
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This tree has a lot of stories and memories to tell. Located somewhere in the woods of János Hegy in Budapest, the oldest visible and readable carving in this tree dates from 1958.
The London train is arriving and passengers are preparing to join it, unfortunately the loco number is not quite readable, it is a class 86. Across the tracks E3151 is waiting, perhaps it is working an inter-regional service.
E3151 was a class 86, it was built at the Vulcan Foundry 18/04/1966. The loco was withdrawn 30/09/2008 and cut at EMR Metals (Kingsbury). It became 86212 under TOPS and carried the name "Preston Guild" form 31/05/1979 until 15/06/1992, the following day it became "Preston Guild 1328-1992"
Peter Shoesmith (Circa 1970)
Copyright Geoff Dowling & John Whitehouse: All rights reserved
This one had a few twists and turns just like his other books. Readable, but perhaps not one of his best.
2025 one photo each day
This is a re-scan of a picture I uploaded in 2012. That scan was a complete mess, I was so keen to pull out detail that the end result was really weird colours and detail where there was non! Because it is one of Peter's it deserved better.
A class 37 in green with a small yellow warning panel is heading for the Camp Hill line after working trip 9T17. The train was probably for the BMC works at Longbridge and may have been left there or in Kings Norton yard. The station has its full collection of buildings and is still gas lit, also of note is that the northern footbridge is open to the weather unlike today where it has been enclosed.
Scanned properly the number has nearly become readable and I think it is D6922.
Peter Shoesmith Circa 1967
Copyright Geoff Dowling & John Whitehouse: All rights reserved
I'm excited to be part of the next iteration of the New Hashima City cyberpunk collab, coming to Brickworld Chicago 2023. I started with train cars, then a cube, and things always escalate with me, so now I've built two of them. Like the first, this one belongs in the docks (aka sector 6, hence the giant 06 on the side), and the large strut on the front (similar but not quite identical to the strut on my first) will support one of the landing pads on Alec Doede's cube above. I envision this as a slightly seedy seller of robot parts of questionable origin. As an Easter Egg, though, the display in the window features the classic M:Tron and Blacktron droids, as these were probably the two most influential Lego space themes of my childhood. I spent a lot of time going crazy on the details on this one, since with time constraints being what they are I probably won't finish a third. In particular I put an inordinate amount of effort into upping my decomposing concrete game, especially on the right side (not shown in the main photo).
It's not really readable from this angle, but the poster on the column to the left of the entrance says "lost robot," and if you look really, really closely in he front entrance, that same robot's head is on a shelf for sale.
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Whilst at my brother-in-laws house, my father-in-law asked "Do you fancy a walk?" He'd been itching to get up to this graveyard just outside Cloughy for "a wee nosey"
The Slans graveyard as it's known is just outside Cloughy situated within a former rath, or ringfort, an enclosure of the first millennium A.D, and is surrounded by a white wall. Within it are the ruins of a medieval church which is believed to be the Church of Ardmacossce or Ardmacaisse, mentioned in the Taxation of Pope Nicholas, 1306 , along with an unusual cross-carved boulder. Aerial photography has indicated that the graveyard is in fact the nucleus of a much larger enclosure, which survives below ground in the surrounding fields. At a time, it was the main graveyard for the Cloughey/Kirkistown area, and was also the burial place for many poor sailors who lost their lives on the notorious Cloughey rocks. The graveyard has an outstanding 360 degree view of the surrounding countryside and outside the wall there is a souterrain, approx. 50 metres in length which was quite accessible until recent years. The site is Scheduled for protection in recognition of its historic importance. 'Most of the oldest gravestones are of slate and the earliest readable date of death is 1677.
Kosmaj
In Kosmaj, another small mountain re-
gion located in the middle of Serbia, a
monument by Vojin Stojić and Gradimir
Vedaković of 1971 marks a historical event
of partisan retreat from the fascist of-
fensive. Similar to many other memorial
sites, the sculpture is situated at the high-
est position within the mountain range,
its five finger-like projections pointing up
into the sky. The monument is distributed
on a ground-plan based on the geometry
of a five-point star to create a spiky object
that from a distance is perceived as a
single form. Close to, h
owever, the viewer
realizes that the monument’s “fingers”
are not connected, and that looking up,
the geometry of the star becomes vaguely
readable in the in-between spaces that
the fingers leave against the sky. At the
moment when the viewer perceives the
fingers as detached from one another, the
monument reveals its structural boldness;
an exercise of sorts against the forces of
gravity, standing up to, or, rather, standing
between the land and the air.
from Yugoslavian Partisan Memorials:
Hybrid Memorial Architecture and Objects of Revolutionary Aesthetics; Robert Burghardt, Gal Kirn
LE MUR : ÉVOLUTION FANTISISTE !
#1 - Photographie d'une exposition murale relatant l'évolution de notre monde sous différents aspects. Se situe dans le tunnel reliant le jardin botanique au lac Léman.
D'autres images à suivre.
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THE WALL : FANCIFUL EVOLUTION !
#1 - Photograph of a wall exhibition depicting the evolution of our world from different angles. Located in the tunnel linking the Botanical Gardens to Lake Lèman.
Other images to follow.
Twirl
Here is a quick readable (I hope) guide on how to make a "Twirl" image... (My own written instructions)
1. Open an image (JPG) in Photoshop. Right Click on the image layer and select "Convert to Smart Object".
2. Filter >> Pixelate >> Mezzotint:
2.1. Medium Lines / Medium Strokes >> OK
3. Filter >> Blur >> Radial Blur:
3.1 Amount = 100.
3.2 Zoom
3.3 Draft
4. Repeat step 3 with quality Good
5. Repeat step 3 with quality Best
6. Filter >> Distort >> Twirl:
6.1. -100°
6.2. Double click on the icon next (at the right hand side) to the Twirl effect filter. (Edit Filter Blending Options).
6.2.1 Select the blending mode. Usually with a normal to darker image the lighten mode works good. With a lighter image the Darken or Multiply works good.
6.2.2 100%.
6.2.3 OK
7. Repeat the whole Step 6 (up to 6.2.3) but with step 6.1 at +100°.
8. Repeat again with -100°.
9. Repeat again with +100°.
10. Layer >> New Adjustment Layer >> Curves: (Optional)
Do a slight "s" curve
10.1. Drop the blacks a little (thus drag the at the left of the gradient line a small bit to the bottom).
10.2. Raise the whites a very small bit. (thus drag the at the right of the gradient line a small bit to the top).
11. Layer >> New Adjustment Layer >> Color Balance: (Optional)
11.1. Start with Midtones and adjust as required.
11.2. Then Highlights and adjust as required.
11.3. Then with Shadows and adjust as required.
12. Filter >> Camera Raw Filter: (Adjust as required)
12.1 Set Texture higher. (20)
12.2 Set Clarity higher. (24)
12.3 Set Dehaze higher. (13)
12.4 Vibrance higher (+20)
12.5 Contrast higher (+20)
12.6 OK
13. Now you can use the crop tool to adjust composition if you want to.
14. You are now done and can now export the resulting image to a JPG.
You can play around with other angles as well from step 6 to step 9. i.e. You can do -300° then 300° then -150° then 150°.
You can also do the "Twirl" step (steps 6 to 9) more than 4 times, i.e. 6 or 8 times, or only two times.
You can open it up in Lightroom too if you prefer to set the colors and textures (steps 10 to 14.)
I hope this help someone.
Comments and suggestions welcome too...
These videos were used as reference to create these merged steps...
Handed down from my grandfather to me about 1960.
Barely readable on the Disston
seal is the date 1887.
Varanasi, India, 1988. Taken on a Nikon FE2 and 24mm Nikkor 2.8 lens.
More pictures and letters home here
analogtravel.co.nz/blogs/asia/from-nepal-to-varanasi
In 1988, when I was eighteen years old I set off from New Zealand to Asia on an adventure. Accompanying me was my high school friend David. We were inspired by Tintin comics and National Geographic magazines. Although we had never actually been overseas before, we wanted begin our travels somewhere more exotic than the usual teenage Kiwi destinations. Our plans were vague - first Nepal, then India - then, after that, as far as our meagre holiday savings would take us. Once on the road, I wrote detailed and mostly illegible aerogrammes home, which my father kindly typed up to make readable for the rest of the family.
In the lowdown evening sunshine, 43238 works north in special NRM Anniversary livery on the 1733 Kings Cross to Harrogate service.
The nameplates are still covered (but readable as National Railway Museum, 40 Years 1975 - 2015), awaiting its official naming ceremony on the 23rd September. This powercar was formerly named after the NRM, but the plates had been removed many years ago.