ESA’s Sun-watching Proba-2 minisatellite shows the aftermath of 18 February’s ‘coronal mass ejection’.

Acquired at 0445 GMT, a little more than three hours after the initial eruption, the image demonstrates the Sun’s magnetic field reconnecting in the form of loops. Look down and left of the centre of the solar disc to clearly see this distinctive belt of loops.

Coronal mass ejections are triggered by a rearrangement of initially opposing magnetic fields in the Sun’s corona. Stored magnetic energy is converted into heat and kinetic energy, potentially triggering a huge outward eruption. In the process the magnetic fields are reconfigured into a more relaxed state.

Fields that have recently reconnected are heated to perhaps 10 million degrees, then cooling to the one million degree temperatures that are visible to Proba-2’s SWAP imager. A second Proba-2 sensor, LYRA, measures the Sun’s energy intensity at the same time. Both instruments are operated for ESA by the Royal Observatory of Belgium.

All the latest solar images from ESA and NASA are fed to the Helioviewer website, where you can make your own images and animations – www.helioviewer.org/

R-Four (short from Reconfiguring Reinforced Rocket-fuel Repulsorcraft) was a multipurposed speeder prototype developed by the Corellian Engineering Corporation (CEC) some time before 22 BBY. One existing craft built for Coruscant firefighters was abandoned and lost due to start of the Clone Wars.

This shot shows a high-speed horizontal mode allowing extra maneuverability with retracted vertical stabilizers.

Read the comments for an extra information.

Finnaly some progress on my playscale Ghost. For more then a year I couldn't figure out the sloped sides but after some inspiration from the well known HUGE minifig scale one, stacked bricks turned out to be the best soloution.

Also, a small sneak peak of the interrior details. Reconfigured the rooms to be more accessible at this scale.

Hope to finish it this year!

Welcome to New Lancaster, the quaint home of Sir Zebulon O’Callan. When he was young, Zeb was an engineer who was critical to the creation of the SteamCore, the powerful reactor that powers all of London. Now in his old age, Zeb still loves to experiment and tinker around, and there are rumors that he is leading a study for Queen Victoria on the safety of the SteamCore. The machine, which started running in 1819, has been running now for almost 50 years. However, it was only meant to run for 25, which leads many to concern for its safety…

Hey guys, this the result of almost all of my building over the last month.. This was originally meant to be a compliment to my "Zephyr’s Knave" steampunk ship. However, with the emergence of the "Vapourlypse" sub-genre of steampunk, I figured I could help the genre grow a bit by reconfiguring the story of this creation to match the backstory of the new sub-genre.

The build itself was a long process. The rock was the first thing I built, and it was certainly a learning process. Inside is a big mess of technic humble-jumble, but the result is a highly stable rock. I only had a few minor emergencies with it towards the end of my building, when two of the rock panels fell of; however, those were quickly resolved. Next, the windmill was built. The windmill is based off of this graphic. It was a fun little thing to build, and certainly interesting, because of its octagonal shape. I especially liked how the deck and railings turned out.

This is also my first creation to include power functions. I received an old-school motor and battery-box from a friend which I was able to put to use to make the blades of the windmill turn. You can see the video here.

I also have to give a bit of credit to Slyowl and Legohaulic, because I took a lot of inspiration from both of their floating island designs.

Some of the minifigures which I bought/ assembled recently, including the CMFs from the older Lego store. I reconfigured the rocking horse girl's head, I think she looks cute! :D

SEPTA’s AEM7 test train has been reconfigured to point south, and is now leaving Lansdale to return to Philadelphia.

Although I didn't meet him for anothr 30 years, an 8-year-old version of Flickr member Darryl Rule can be seen next to the signal box by the crossing shanty.

Holga 120 modified to a pinhole f/180

In my first departure from a landscape photo since around Remembrance Day, here is an image that was taken on the same January 2013 winter photography session that my previous two uploads of the frozen Bow River were taken on.

There are always so many fascinating shapes and textures and colours in the shallow water that freezes over at this spot, but also gets randomly unfrozen at spots due to the flowing water underneath.

This particular arrangement of ice studded with rocks and pebbles and flowing water underneath thin ice really caught my eyes as there were so many different colours and textures in it!

I have found all sorts of neat things frozen into the shallow, clear water at this spot over the years; as I have stated in previous uploads, it is one of my favourite spots for photography, but now sadly is completely reconfigured and not nearly as picturesque due to the floods!

Hope you all enjoy the photo, and that you are all having an excellent Thursday so far!

On the 14th of November last year I posted a different crop of this image and as it was my favorite photograph I dedicated it to my father who had just been diagnosed lung cancer. Yesterday afternoon he lost his battle with cancer...

May you rest in peace...

You will be missed...

Funny thing I had just revisited this place last Saturday!

Even though we've lived apart,

I do not love you less.

There's provision in the heart

For storing tenderness.

There's a love that like a star

Must reconfigure space

To turn the far-flung wanderers

Towards some predestined grace.

Time matters not, nor pain, nor death,

Nor fate as hard as stone.

This truth needs but a single breath,

And that we now have known.

Ah, Father! What a joy to live

With love at last expressed!

Life has no greater gift to give

Than that with which we're blessed.

Corsair International

Airbus A330-243 - cn 320

@ Reg : F-HBIL

@ Engines : 2x RR Trent 772B-60

@ History Aircraft :

# 21.MAR.2000 : First flight

# 31.MAR.2000 : Delivered to "Corsair" SS & CRL with reg F-HBIL and config cabin "C18Y332"

# 2012 : re-configured "C26Y278"

Japan Airlines

Boeing 777-346(ER) - cn 32437 / 736 - JA739J

@ Engines : 2x GE GE90-115B

@ History Aircraft :

# 25.JUL.2008 : Everett ( PAE ) First flight

# 31.JUL.2008 : Delivered to "Japan Airlines" JL & JAL with reg JA739J and config cabin "F8C77W46Y115"

# JAN.2014 : Re-configured "F8C49W40Y135" and new livery

@ Singapore Airlines [ SQ / SIA ]

Boeing 777-312(ER) - msn 34581 / 710

• ENG : 2x GE GE90-115B

• REG : 9V-SWP

• PAX : configured "F8C42Y228"

@ History Aircraft :

• 02.APR.2008 : First flight at built site Everett ( PAE ) WA USA

• 11.APR.2008 : Delivered / Singapore Airlines / 9V-SWP

• MAR.2016 : Re-configured "F4C48W28Y184"

Wonderful exhibition in the Tate Modern at the moment. 8 or 9 huge screens showing recordings of dance captured over the last 40 years. the following are my impressions of the space and the exhibit. Its brilliant, you must go if you can :-)

The Tate describes the exhibit as follows:

Award winning artist and filmmaker, Charles Atlas presents a new version of MC9 (2012), a multi-channel video piece exploring the intersections of media and dance. Atlas revisits and reconfigures material that he had made with and about Merce Cunningham over a period from 1971- 2010.

Just reconfigured as a spray aircraft, and awaiting paint.

This is from a scanned slide, it was previously published here, but this is a slightly better scan

Scans of 20 year old photos. From the late 80s to early 90s

AS-19 USS Proteus

Naval auxiliary ships carry out a variety of missions in support of combatants. Along with destroyer tenders, the submarine tenders are the largest of the active auxiliaries. Their crews are formed mainly of technicians and repairmen. USS Proteus was commissioned as a diesel sub tender in 1944. After participating in the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay and tending submarines briefly in Japan after the war, Proteus was "retired" to New London, Connecticut, where she was assigned - though not in commission - as the "station ship" at the Submarine Base, providing support services from 1947 until 1959.

USS Proteus was overhauled and reconfigured in 1959-60 to service FBM subs. With the new strategic submarines - and their missiles, launch systems, and nuclear power - came the need for a new class of tender. Since USS Hunley (AS-31) - purpose-designed and built for that mission - was some years from completion, a quicker alternative had to be found. Meanwhile, Proteus had served more than a decade at New London, tending both the older World War II boats still in service and their nuclear-powered counterparts coming on line in increasing numbers. As such, she was still in good condition and ready to sail. Thus, Proteus was quietly moved to Charleston Naval Shipyard, cut in half, and fitted with a new 44-foot hull "plug," fabricated in place. This additional section contained special nuclear-material storage facilities, handling, testing, and machining areas, and other necessities for servicing both nuclear-powered attack and ballistic-missile submarines. Other specialty shops and machinery were installed to maintain the fire control, navigation, and launcher systems that first appeared on the new SSBNs. The final element of the conversion was the installation of a huge X-Y crane, capable of lifting more than 30 tons, and equipped with extension arms that could swing out over a submarine to load equipment, supplies, and most importantly - Polaris missiles.

Proteus's conversion was completed in late 1960, and in January 1961, she hosted George Washington at New London, completing the first tender refit of an SSBN. Since the original Polaris missile had a range of only 2,500 miles, the early SSBNs had to be based relatively far forward to be able to reach targets deep in the European and Asian continents. Therefore, in March 1961, Proteus established the first advance SSBN refit site at Holy Loch, Scotland, where her first "customer" was USS Patrick Henry (SSBN-599). Later relieved by Hunley, Proteus then instituted a second advance SSBN site at Rota, Spain. The Chief of Naval Operations deployed Submarine Squadron 16 to Rota, Spain, on Jan. 28, 1964, and embarked upon USS Proteus (AS-19). USS Lafayette (SSBN 616) completed its first FBM deterrent patrol with the Polaris missile and commenced the first refit and replenishment at Rota. After the second USS Holland (AS-32) was completed, Proteus was off yet again - this time with USS Daniel Boone (SSBN-629) - to inaugurate a third overseas basing site at Apra Harbor, Guam, where she had already tended submarines during World War II. Polaris system support continued until the last SSBN - the Robert E. Lee, departed Guam in July 1981. Subsequently she was retired from FBM service and was fitted as an attack submarine tender.

In addition to carrying out her primary duties both at Guam and on WESTPAC cruises between 1964 and 1992, Proteus and her crew also provided assistance for typhoon victims and refugees from the fall of Saigon and helped out during the aftermath of the Mount Pinatubo eruption. She was finally decommissioned in September 1992 - and even then was recycled for service as a berthing ship (IX-518) at Bremerton until 1999.

The Stout Scarab is a 1930–1940s American car, designed and manufactured by Stout Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan

The Scarab's interior space was maximized by dispensing with external running boards and expanded the cabin to the full width of the car, giving it a long wheelbase with engine and gearbox placed directly over the rear axle, driver and steering mechanism almost directly above the front wheels. Passengers and driver entered through a single door, inside they found a flexible seating system which could be easily reconfigured (except for the driver's seat, which was fixed) a small card table could be fitted between passenger seats if needed. Interiors were appointed in leather chrome and hardwoods. Design elements, including the car's emblem, were inspired by the ancient Egyptian ” scarab” motif. Visibility to the front and sides was similar to that of an observation car, although rearward vision was negligible and there were no rear-view or wing mirrors. Only nine examples, all slightly different, were ever built. The Walt Disney movie “Saludos Amigos” was released in the United States on February 6, 1943, seen here playing at the Globe, Times Square

( thanks to Bing for all photo )

Two UP GEs power a AYMO through CPF-335 in Westminster, MA. Everything here is now gone; the interlocking was reconfigured and the searchlights removed with the coming of the MBTA layover facility, and only ACSES-equipped locomotives can lead in MBTA territory to comply with PTC requirements.

Dusk on the Junction Bridge, in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas. The Junction Bridge was originally built in 1884, and reconfigured in the 1970s. It was abandoned by the railroad and converted into a pedestrian bridge in 2008.

Freshly-painted power for the Santa Fe "San Jac" local at Perris, January 1996. Today this trackage has all been reconfigured as part of the Metrolink commuter rail extension to Perris.

CSXT's ex Pan Am local BO-1 cuts thru Peabody Square on the South Reading Branch with MEC 516 trailing only two cars, empty cement hoppers to be used as spacers to bracket the final empty hydrochloric acid tank car they are headed out to pull from the Rousselot plant. The facility is closing later this year after being in operation in some form for 206 years and with rail service for 173 of those! Once they return a little later the rails through the this unique and famous location will fall silent, quite possibly forever.

I'm standing in the center of town looking across the square at the Peabody District Courthouse at the train which has just cleared Central Street and is about to Cross Lowell Street. Rising behind the train is the 50 ft tall Soldiers and Sailors monument built in 1881 and inscribed with the 71 names of local residents who died in the Civil War. Prior to 2016 if you'd taken this same shot the monument would have been in front of the train in an island in the middle of traffic at the center of the square. However in early 2016 a more than $3 million project to reconfigure the square led to it being moved 30 ft back to this new plaza in front of the courthouse that the train cuts right through. This is such a unique and remarkable location and it is truly a loss that trains will no longer travel through here.

Peabody, Massachusetts

Thursday August 31, 2023

I rarely photograph trains here despite working a mile away but made an exception because I wanted to photograph 1030. While waiting around I shot 14 trains in 50 min including four different models of locomotive...I suppose it's not that boring after all!

Here's the sixth train I lensed, inbound Keolis/MBTA train 012 from Rockport is crosing the drawbridge over the Charles River on Main 2 into North Station with F40PH-3C 1064 shoving on the rear.

For now the last relics from Boston and Maine days remain clustered here including the vintage dwarf signals, the drawbridges and the tower itself which was built during the B&M's 1926-1932 reconfiguration of the terminal and the then new Boston Engine Terminal. The two story steel frame and brick structure replaced an earlier tower located on the south side of the Charles. It was placed in service on September 27, 1931 with an original electrical board containing 211 levers! Until 2021 the drawbridge operator still worked out of it but today it serves no purpose at all.

The two bascule bridges also date from that same year when the navigable channel of the Charles River was shifted 300 feet to the north of its former route to allow the platforms at North Station to be extended. At the time of their construction two additional spans were built just to the west with a total of 8 tracks crossing the river serving 22 platform tracks vs only 10 today.

All of this is on borrowed time however, as the MBTA is embarking on a nearly one billion dollar project to replace the aging and failure prone spans and reconfigure Tower A. Ultimately these last vestiges of the Route of the Minuteman will fall to the wrecking ball and cutting torch and three new vertical lift spans are supposed to rise in their place allowing for six tracks to cross the river and the addition of two more platform tracks.

Rising above at left can be seen the obelisk towers and cable stays of the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial suspension bridge built in 2003 as part of the infamous Big Dig project that saw Interstate 93 removed from its elevated pathway through the heart of the city and buried beneath it.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Wednesday September 24, 2025

A Conrail Metuchen-based local, which I assume was ME-2, works the lead to Integrated Packaging in New Brunswick. 5314 is crossing Jersey Ave. on what I believe was called the Mengel Lead. This lead once served several industrial customers, but by the mid-2000s it was down to one; it would become dormant by the end of the decade. Today there is no trace of this grade crossing or the rails leading to it from the east, as that area has been reconfigured. There are or were still rails in the weeds west of the crossing. The Integrated Packaging site still exits but it has been subdivided and, as is typical today, the tenants no longer require rail service. Jersey Avenue once hosted a series of grade crossings as there were many rail-served industries in this area south of downtown New Brunswick. 5314 had been tagged at some point, and the NS logo on the long hood was mostly obscured in an attempt to cover over the graffiti. It remained logo-less for several years.

Conrail ME-2:

NS 5314 GP38-2 (ex-CR/PC 8132)

Compared to the labor frame, pre-Solar Calendar vehicles are costly to transport and finite in their utility. In response, Zodiac Incorporated developed the highly customizable "Ursa" vehicular platform, which can be fabricated, equipped, reconfigured, and reprocessed, all by their patented "Forge" factories. Utilizing simple tech and even simpler means of operation, the only thing stopping an outer colony from fielding a massive fleet of Ursas is the available population.

"Zodiac Inc - You've reached the stars."

c. 1974

Taken with a Nikkormat FTn w/Vivitar 28mm f 2.8 Prime on Ektachrome 64. Film was hand processed and mounted in my darkroom.

Almost 50 year old slide scanned and color corrected as best as possible using a 17 year old Microtek scanner and PS CC!!

Dulles International

Washington Dulles International Airport (/'d?l?s/ DUL-iss) (IATA: IAD, ICAO: KIAD, FAA LID: IAD) is an international airport in the eastern United States, located in Loudoun and Fairfax counties in Virginia, 26 miles (42 km) west of downtown Washington, D.C.[3]

Opened in 1962, it is named after John Foster Dulles (1888–1959),[4][5] the 52nd Secretary of State who served under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Dulles main terminal is a well-known landmark designed by Eero Saarinen. Operated by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, Dulles Airport occupies 13,000 acres (20.3 sq mi; 52.6 km2)[1] straddling the Loudoun-Fairfax line.[6] Most of the airport is in the unincorporated community of Dulles in Loudoun County, with a small portion in the unincorporated community of Chantilly in Fairfax County. The airport serves the Washington metropolitan area.

Dulles is one of the three major airports in the larger Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area with more than 21 million passengers a year.[7][8] Dulles has the most international passenger traffic of any airport in the Mid-Atlantic outside the New York metropolitan area, including approximately 90% of the international passenger traffic in the Baltimore-Washington region.[9] On a typical day, more than 60,000 passengers pass through Dulles to and from more than 125 destinations around the world.[7][10] Dulles Airport has recently surpassed Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) in monthly passenger boardings and is on pace to exceed Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport's annual passenger numbers for 2018 after having fewer passengers ever since 2015.[11] However, Dulles Airport still ranks behind Baltimore–Washington International Airport (BWI) in total annual passenger boardings, despite being a larger facility with more gates.

History

Origins

Prior to World War II, Hoover Field was the main commercial airport serving Washington, on the site now occupied by The Pentagon and its parking lots. It was replaced by Washington National Airport in 1941, a short distance southeast. After the war, in 1948, the Civil Aeronautics Administration began to consider sites for a second major airport to serve the nation's capital.[12] Congress passed the Washington Airport Act in 1950 to provide funding for a new airport in the region.[13] The initial CAA proposal in 1951 called for the airport to be built in Fairfax County near what is now Burke Lake Park, but protests from residents, as well as the rapid expansion of Washington's suburbs during the time, led to reconsideration of this plan.[14] One competing plan called for the airport to be built in the Pender area of Fairfax County, while another called for the conversion of Andrews Air Force Base in Prince George's County, Maryland into an airport.[12]

The current site was selected by President Eisenhower in 1958;[14] the Dulles name was chosen by Eisenhower's aviation advisor Pete Quesada, who later served as the first head of the Federal Aviation Administration. As a result of the site selection, the unincorporated, largely African-American community of Willard, which once stood in the airport's current footprint, was demolished, and 87 property owners had their holdings condemned.[12]

Dulles was also built over a lesser known airport named Blue Ridge Airport, chartered in 1938 by the U.S.. The airport was Loudoun County's first official airport consisting of two grass intersecting runways in the shape of an "X". The location of the former Blue Ridge Airport sits where the Dulles Air Freight complex and Washington Dulles Airport Marriott now sit today.[15][better source needed]

Design and original construction

Dulles Airport in 1970

The civil engineering firm Ammann and Whitney was named lead contractor. The airport was dedicated by President John F. Kennedy and Eisenhower on November 17, 1962.[4][5] As originally opened, the airport had three runways (current day runways 1C/19C, 1R/19L, and 12/30). Its original name, Dulles International Airport, was changed in 1984 to Washington Dulles International Airport.[16]

The main terminal was designed in 1958 by famed Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen, and it is highly regarded for its graceful beauty, suggestive of flight. In the 1990s, the main terminal at Dulles was reconfigured to allow more space between the front of the building and the ticket counters. Additions at both ends of the main terminal more than doubled the structure's length. The original terminal at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport in Taoyuan, Taiwan was modeled after the Saarinen terminal at Dulles.

The design included a landscaped man-made lake to collect rainwater, a low-rise hotel, and a row of office buildings along the north side of the main parking lot. The design also included a two-level road in front of the terminal to separate arrival and departure traffic and a federally owned limited access highway connecting the terminal to the Capital Beltway (I-495) about 17 miles (27 km) to the east. (Eventually, the highway system grew to include a parallel toll road to handle commuter traffic and an extension to connect to I-66). The access road had a wide median strip to allow the construction of a passenger rail line, which will be in the form of an extension of the Washington Metro's Silver Line and is expected to be completed in 2020.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Dulles_International_Air...

Julia Morison 2013 sculpture, "Tree Houses for Swamp Dwellers".

The art work consists of 10 modular objects that function as trees and houses.

The 10 "treehouses" are shaped like kahikatea trees, once common in the area.

The sculpture was commissioned by Christchurch City Council’s Public Art Advisory Group and produced by SCAPE Public Art.

The Tree Houses are a work of public art that serves as a piece of transitional architecture.

Drawing on the city's past and looking into it's potential future, the individual pods can be reconfigured and moved to new locations.

The sculpture is located by the Avon River just off Colombo St.

I hadn't shot from platform level in a while but decided to check on the progress of the new center island platform work. In retrospect I should have photographed this train from atop the parking garage as the light and angle are far superior. Nevertheless, here's one for the journal anyway.

CSXT's L048 crew is on board an 80 car M426 (Selkirk to Waterville manifest) destined for Barbers where they will hand the train off to a former Pan Am crew. The train is curling through CP45 on CSXT's Boston Sub (ex Boston and Albany) and entering the Providence and Worcester's Gardner Branch (ex Boston and Maine) for a three mile run on trackage rights back to home rails. 21 yr old AC4400CW 562 is passing is long closed former New Haven tower SSM334 dating from the 1911 grade separation project and track configuration when the Boston and Albany built Union Station and reconfigured the trackage in the area in conjunction with tenants New Haven and Boston and Maine.

Worcester, Massachusetts

Friday March 3, 2023

Located at the corner of McCoppin and Market Streets just west of the Octavia Boulevard/Central Freeway onramp in the Mid-Market section (despite what the geotagged map says) of San Francisco.

Since the northern spur of the Central Freeway was torn down, Octavia Boulevard was widened, and the surrounding streets reconfigured, this area has experienced significant gentrification.

Hold the Command (or Control) key and click the link.

Dylan: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6Kv0vF41Bc&ab_channel=Monotone

The US Marine Corps Bell/ Boeing MV-22B Osprey (6391) stole the show at RIAT 2006 where it marked its UK flying display debut.

A cross between a helicopter and a fixed wing aeroplane, the Osprey's rotor blades can tilt mid-air enabling it to take off vertically like a helicopter and then reconfigure to fly like a normal aircraft. Not only does this allow it to reach speeds twice as fast as a helicopter but it also enables it to carry heavier payloads and fly at higher altitudes. A real game changer.

I rarely photograph trains here despite working a mile away but made an exception because I wanted to photograph 1030. While waiting around I shot 14 trains in 50 min including four different models of locomotive...I suppose it's not that boring after all!

Only a minute after shooting train eight headed outbound trains 9 and 10 raced themselves inbound. Coming in from Bradford on Main 3 is train 212 with Wareham rebuilt and repainted GP40MC 1138 shoving on the rear while paralleling them over the Charles River drawbridge on Main 4 is train 406 arriving from Wachusett.

For now the last relics from Boston and Maine days remain clustered here including the vintage dwarf signals, the drawbridges and the tower itself which was built during the B&M's 1926-1932 reconfiguration of the terminal and the then new Boston Engine Terminal. The two story steel frame and brick structure replaced an earlier tower located on the south side of the Charles. It was placed in service on September 27, 1931 with an original electrical board containing 211 levers! Until 2021 the drawbridge operator still worked out of it but today it serves no purpose at all.

The two bascule bridges also date from that same year when the navigable channel of the Charles River was shifted 300 feet to the north of its former route to allow the platforms at North Station to be extended. At the time of their construction two additional spans were built just to the west with a total of 8 tracks crossing the river serving 22 platform tracks vs only 10 today.

All of this is on borrowed time however, as the MBTA is embarking on a nearly one billion dollar project to replace the aging and failure prone spans and reconfigure Tower A. Ultimately these last vestiges of the Route of the Minuteman will fall to the wrecking ball and cutting torch and three new vertical lift spans are supposed to rise in their place allowing for six tracks to cross the river and the addition of two more platform tracks.

Rising above at left can be seen the obelisk towers and cable stays of the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial suspension bridge built in 2003 as part of the infamous Big Dig project that saw Interstate 93 removed from its elevated pathway through the heart of the city and buried beneath it.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Wednesday September 24, 2025

Reconfigured the Trolls minifig, I think she looks okay?! And happy the orange bricksuit guy looks nice now... The hairpiece is tricky because many male hairpieces can't fit the bricksuit...

United Airlines

Boeing 757-224(WL) - cn 27297 / 641 - N14107

@ Engines : 2x RR RB211-535E4B

@ History Aircraft :

# 05.OCT.1994 : Renton ( RNT ) First flight

# 14.OCT.1994 : Delivered to "Continental Air Lines" CO & COA leased from GECAS with reg N14107 and config cabin C16Y159

# 03.2006 : WL fitted ( Winglets )

# 01.OCT.2010 : Tfd to "United Airlines" UA & UAL leased from GECAS until Jun 2016 with same reg

# DEC.2011 : Re-configured "C16W45Y108"

VIA 6445 leads VIA 65 over the reconfigured de Courcelle crossing in the St-Henri neighbourhood of Montreal. It had been closed for a few months in 2015 while the CN main line was moved northwards a bit.

Original by Théodore Géricault.

Reconfigured using iPhone6 Plus, ollibytinrocket, FX Photo Studio Pro and Photoshop CS5.5.

This photo was taken from a vehicle moving at 110kph as we crossed the Storebælt Bridge.

Here is description from Wikipedia:

"Sprogø is a small Danish island, located in the Great Belt, the strait that separates the main islands of Funen and Zealand. It is about halfway across the strait, 6.7 kilometres from the Zealand shore and 8 kilometres from the Funen shore.

Although sprog is modern Danish for language, the island's name was recorded originally during the 12th century as Sproøe meaning scout's island, from the old Danish verb spro (to scout).

Today, the island is crossed by part of the Great Belt Fixed Link, a series of roads, bridges, and tunnels; it is connected to Funen by a road and rail bridge, and to Zealand by both a road suspension bridge and twin rail tunnels. During the construction, the island was reconfigured drastically, with land reclamation increasing its area from 38 to 154 hectares.

There are remains of buildings on the original part of Sprogø from the beginning of the 12th century, a fortress built by order of King Valdemar the Great. During construction work, extensive archaeological investigations were undertaken, and among other findings it was revealed that the first inhabitants arrived more than 8,000 years ago.

The Black Cloud is a 1957 science fiction novel by British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle. It details the arrival of an enormous cloud of gas that enters the Solar System and appears about to destroy most of the life on Earth by blocking the Sun's radiation.

In 1964, astrophysicists on Earth became aware of a cloud of gas and dust, initially thought to be a Bok globule, that is heading for the Solar System. The cloud, if interposed between the Sun and the Earth, could wipe out most of the life on Earth by blocking solar radiation, thus the name "The Black Cloud". A cadre of astronomers and other scientists is drawn together in Nortonstowe, England, to study the cloud and report to the British government about the consequences of its presence.

The cloud unexpectedly decelerates as it approaches and comes to rest around the Sun, causing disastrous climatic changes on Earth and immense mortality and suffering for the human race. As the behaviour of the cloud proves to be impossible to predict scientifically, the team at Nortonstowe eventually come to the conclusion that it might be a life-form with a degree of intelligence. The scientists try to communicate with the cloud, and succeed. The cloud is revealed to be an alien gaseous superorganism, many times more intelligent than humans, which is surprised to find intelligent life-forms on a solid planet. It reconfigures itself to allow sunlight to return to the Earth and humanity is saved.

A book I shall always remember , at school the teacher came in and announced we will be doing a Shakespeare book only to be bombarded by many moans and groans . She about turned and came back with a pile of the The Black Cloud books by Fred Hoyle --- That is the closest I ever came to reading any Shakespeare !!

This is a one-of-a-kind three-story, historic building in downtown Clearwater, Florida. The tenants here will have a great opportunity to be a part of Clearwater's New Renaissance.

The 2nd and 3rd floors and rooftop can be reconfigured for office or live/work loft space.

The building is situated on the corner of Garden Avenue and Cleveland Street in beautiful downtown Clearwater.

Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:

www.pcpao.org/?pg=https://www.pcpao.org/general.php?strap...

www.loopnet.com/Listing/534-Cleveland-St-Clearwater-FL/96...

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Photoshop collage reconfigured in FX Photo Studio Pro and CS5.5

Missouri Pacific GP38-2-2259, with Union Pacific SD45-5 & GP40-659, is leading a S/B. They're on the Coffeyville Sub crossing the Missouri-Kansas-Texas diamond (MKT Kansas City Sub). The whole area has been reconfigured and looks nothing like this today in 2020.

@ United Airlines

Boeing 767-322(ER)(WL) - cn 25391 / 460

- Engines : 2x PW PW4060

- Reg : N653UA

- Fleet number : 6453

- Painted : "Star Alliance" special colours

@ History Aircraft :

• 13.OCT.1992 : First flight at built site Everett ( PAE ) WA USA

• 27.OCT.1992 : Delivered to "United Airlines" UA & UAL with reg N653UA and config cabin "F6C26W71Y80"

• APR.2016 : Cabin re-configured "C30W49Y135"

Steam yacht Felicia, built by J. N. Robins Company in Brooklyn, New York, photographed during the New York regatta on June 22, 1899. My colorization of John S. Johnston´s photo in the Library of Congress archive.

In 1917 Felicia became a Navy ship:

"USS Felicia (SP-642) was a yacht acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War I. She was outfitted and armed by the Navy as a patrol craft, and was assigned to patrol the New England waters. Her task of protecting ships from German submarines was interrupted by her collision with a submarine. Post-war she was reconfigured to her civilian condition, and was sold in 1919." (Wikipedia)

CP Train G13-13 arrives at Searsport with CMQ GP38-3M 3817 leading a pair of CP GP20ECO's.

Luckily the train departed late from Northern Maine Jct and I was able to get 3817 leading on the southbound stint from Prospect.

Since the photo was taken, CP would rebrand as CPKC, Searsport has been reconfigured by Vestas to facilitate the unloading of windmill parts for a few wind projects. With the middle tracks getting ties, ballast, and a new alignment to meet CP standards, while the two bay side tracks I believe were removed and relaid with heavier rail. The tracks into the old oil racks were also removed and the new switch panel CMQ installed during their rebuild, was removed and reused elsewhere.

CMQ 3817, like the other two GP38-3M's (3816 and 3812) have all wound up at CAD in Montreal over the summer. By the sounds the lease on them has been terminated and they will soon go back to LTEX. That just leaves the out of service CMQ 9004, and the 9017 and 9020 as the last remaining CMQ painted units. But with 9017 and 9020 slated for rebuild and repaint, the CMQ era is about over.

Canadian Pacific Railway

Train: G13-13

4/13/2023

Searsport, ME

CP Searsport Yard

A pole in the sand! It wasnt there yesterday!! As i approach, i note some stacked pebbles. I adjust from landscape to close up. I lean on pole which tumbles all pebbles on to the sand. I reconfigure, do a dance around the totem pole. Et vôila. Am guessing it wont b there this afternoon! Stay tuned :)

As i xpectd, it is no longer there, washed away by the tides.

Hence the title.

Built as a North American B-25D reconfigured to represent a B-25B as flown in the Doolittle Raid in 1942 @ the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Oh. (181577)*

Lismore NSW 2017

Leica S

70mm f2.5 lens

I’ve heard a lot of criticism aimed at Photoshop on the basis that it manipulates the image and is therefore not a ‘real’ photographic product.

Yet manipulating a medium to create something original is the very basis of art. Artists have always manipulated their materials using a wide variety of creative tools to express something that interprets their subject.

In photography’s case, we make creative decisions at every step.

The lens we chose decides our focal length, depth of field and degree of sharpness. When we place a filter on our lens, we are manipulating the end product. Likewise, the format we shoot in decides the bit depth and, by extension, the dynamic range of our photo.

When we download images from camera to computer, the digital information is interpolated - ie. a mathematical algorithm reconfigures the information into another form. If we re-size or print an image, another algorithm maps out a new set of values to produce the desired result.

Even without using an editing program like Photoshop, we are making creative decisions that manipulate our final result.

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The aircraft was arriving on a ferry flight from London-Heathrow and operated a PIA service from Manchester to Islamabad later in the afternoon.

Note: HiFly Transportes Aereos and it's sister company HiFly Airlines Malta are major ACMI (Aircraft, Crew, Maintenance and Insurance) wet-lease operators for other airlines worldwide.

First flown with the Airbus test registration F-WWCI, this aircraft was delivered to HiFly Transportes Aereos (Portugal) as CS-TKY in early Sep-19. It was wet-leased to Royal Brunei Airlines at the end of Sep-19 and returned to HiFly in Mar-20, just as the COVID-19 Pandemic was starting.

The aircraft was reconfigured as a 'Preighter' (passenger aircraft operating as a freighter!) in early 2021. It returned to passenger operation in Mar-21 and has been mostly operating on wet-lease to PIA Pakistan International Airlines. Current 20-Aug-21.

Walter began his life in 1963 as a lifesaving airport crash truck built by the now-defunct Walter Truck Company. After many years of honorable service stationed at Luke Air Force Base, Walter was decommissioned and ultimately came to rest at the Gold King Mine in Jerome, Arizona, of all places, where in 2003 he was rediscovered, reconfigured, and reimagined as the world’s largest VW bus.

From the Artist's Statement:

My work explores the relationship between multiculturalism and UFO sightings. With influences as diverse as Kafka and Francis Bacon, new combinations are crafted from both opaque and transparent structures.

Ever since I was a teenager I have been fascinated by the endless oscillation of meaning. Yearning is manipulated into a dialectic of power, creating a sense of dread and the dawn of a new understanding.

As an Artist, I have been compelled to represent the ephemeral nature of the moment. What starts out as hope soon becomes corrupted into a manifesto of lust, leaving only a sense of decadence and the possibility of a new beginning.

As temporal derivatives become reconfigured through frantic and repetitive practice, the viewer is left with a tribute to the possibilities of our era.

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One of NICTD's South Shore trains heads west toward Chicago on this section of street running in Michigan City. This has been reconfigured now with the road off to the side and no longer street running on this stretch. 7/7/19

Virginia King's suspended sculpture AETHERIUM Ancestral vale is a memory of Kauri forests lost, ghosts of the past and a pertinent warning of the current threats of Kauri dieback and the need to protect our environment. The aluminium trunks suspended from the trees have an ethereal beauty, the subtlety of the silver fronds shimmering in the light almost disappear with the chiaroscuro effect.

Throughout her practice, Virginia King often utilises recycled materials in her artworks. She is an environmentalist and a recurring theme running through her work is to draw awareness to our environment and the earth's delicate ecosystems. She abstracts forms from nature, often magnifying the scale and places the work back within a specific natural landscape it is synonymous with.

Kauri are indigenous to the forests of northern New Zealand, where they are a centrepiece, stretching tall. The biggest Kauri can reach heights of over 50 metres and as some of the longest living tree species in the world, they can live for over 1000 years. Kauri provide shelter and protect many smaller native trees and flora that grow under its giant canopy, which is why they have the role of the greatest rangatira of our forests and need to be protected. Kauri dieback disease was discovered in New Zealand forests in 2009; it is a pathogen that destroys the trees from the roots and is threatening kauri with functional extinction.

This work was originally commissioned in 2000 as a central atrium installation at Botany Town Centre. Decommissioned in 2019, the artwork was returned to the artist who has gifted it to the Brick Bay Sculpture Trail. It has been reconfigured and installed in the Kahikatea Forest on the Brick Bay Trail.

The morning PRS (R-921) shows a bit of brake shoe smoke as it rolls through Collingwood at the base of Proctor Hill with 142 loads. CN will reconfigure this interlocking in the near future to make it a two-switch affair given the double track is gone off the hill.