Oil refinery in Anacortes, WA.

Buffalo & Pittsburgh SIRI rushes south through Bradford, PA after completing a set out and pick up just to the north at Foster Brook. On the left is the American Refining Group oil refinery, one of the country's first such refineries and a longtime fixture of the northwestern PA oil industry.

I had no idea what I was taking picture of, but the building looked interesting. The sign was a bit of a clue and it turns out, that Vancouver is only 4 years older than this refinery. It looked abandoned, but still produces 10% of Canadian sugar. Rogers Sugar was founded in 1890 by Benjamin Tingley Rogers. If I have a son, I would name him Tingley, for sure. Tingley may had some problems in school with that name, but he became one of the wealthiest men in Canada.

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Indonesia, Lombok

What Does Amae Wear?

Victoria Gown @ Purplemoon

Hatsuyume @ {anc}

Leia Tattoo @ This is Wrong

Oro Earrings @ RAWR!

Linda Hair @ Monso

Standard on Amae:

Milan @ LeLutka

Ellie Skin @ Amara Beauty

Lara Body @ Maitreya

Clarice Tattoo @ Dappa

Fedra Arm Tattoo @ Carol G

Thomas Konverter - Veredelung von Roheisen

(1954-1964 im Einsatz)

Phoenix Lake in Dortmund

Thomas Converter - Refining of pig iron

(in use from 1954 to 1964)

A pileated woodpecker twisting his head to the left and downward to reach something within his excavation.

A farmer unloads raw salt at salt field yard in Chittagong, Bangladesh. This photo is taken in the destination of Banshkhali Upazila in the division of Chittagong in the country of Bangladesh.

The salt industry being one of the largest labor intensive cottage industries of Bangladesh absorbs largely around 5 million people directly or indirectly. The total value chain of the salt industry in Bangladesh involves largely two sub-sectoral activities namely-- the refining process which is operated by salt mills and the crude salt production process that involves a significant chunk of marginal farmers of coastal Bangladesh.

Among the farmers, farmers some are cultivating salt on their own lands while the other farmers are cultivating salt after taking the land as lease either directly from owners of the lands or through middle men. Local administration sources said a huge quantity of lands are being used for salt cultivation in Banshkhali this year.

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বাঁশখালীর উপকূল জুড়ে চলছে লবণ উৎপাদন। এখানকার বিভিন্ন ইউনিয়নে ৫০ হাজার লবণচাষি ১৫ হাজার হেক্টর জমিতে লবণ চাষ করছেন। অনেকে জমি মালিকের সঙ্গে চুক্তিতে চাষ করেন। উপজেলার কাথরিয়া, বাহারছড়া, সরল, গন্ডামারা, পুইছড়ি, শেখেরখীল, ছনুয়া ও খানখানাবাদ উপকূলীয় এলাকায় ব্যস্ত সময় পার করছেন তারা।

লবণ চাষিরা জানান, কাঠের রোলার দিয়ে মাঠ সমতল করার পর চারপাশে মাটির আইল দিয়ে ছোট ছোট প্লট তৈরি করা হয়। এরপর ছোট প্লটগুলো রোদে শুকিয়ে কালো বা নীল রঙের পলিথিন বিছিয়ে দেওয়া হয়।

জোয়ার এলে মাঠের মাঝখানে তৈরি করা নালা দিয়ে জমির প্লটে জমানো হয় সাগরের লবণাক্ত পানি। অনেকে ইঞ্জিনচালিত শ্যালো মেশিনও ব্যবহার করেন। এভাবে পানি সংগ্রহ করার পর ৪ থেকে ৫ দিন রোদে রাখা হয়।

কড়া রোদে পানি বাষ্পীভূত হয়ে চলে যায় আর লবণ পড়ে থাকে পলিথিনের ওপর। লবণ চাষ মূলত আবহাওয়ার ওপর নির্ভরশীল। একটু ঝড় বৃষ্টি হলেই উৎপাদন বন্ধ হয়ে যায়। কুয়াশাও লবণের জন্য ক্ষতিকর।

উৎপাদিত লবণ থেকে পানি সরে গেলে ব্যাপারীদের হাতে তুলে দেওয়া হয়। এই লবণ কিনে নিয়ে কারখানায় রিফাইনারি মেশিনের মাধ্যমে পরিশোধন শেষে বস্তা বা প্যাকেট ভর্তি করা হয়। পরে সেই লবণ চলে যায় বিভিন্ন স্থানে।

A farmer unloads raw salt at salt field yard in Chittagong, Bangladesh. This photo is taken in the destination of Banshkhali Upazila in the division of Chittagong in the country of Bangladesh.

The salt industry being one of the largest labor intensive cottage industries of Bangladesh absorbs largely around 5 million people directly or indirectly. The total value chain of the salt industry in Bangladesh involves largely two sub-sectoral activities namely-- the refining process which is operated by salt mills and the crude salt production process that involves a significant chunk of marginal farmers of coastal Bangladesh.

Among the farmers, farmers some are cultivating salt on their own lands while the other farmers are cultivating salt after taking the land as lease either directly from owners of the lands or through middle men. Local administration sources said a huge quantity of lands are being used for salt cultivation in Banshkhali this year.

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বাঁশখালীর উপকূল জুড়ে চলছে লবণ উৎপাদন। এখানকার বিভিন্ন ইউনিয়নে ৫০ হাজার লবণচাষি ১৫ হাজার হেক্টর জমিতে লবণ চাষ করছেন। অনেকে জমি মালিকের সঙ্গে চুক্তিতে চাষ করেন। উপজেলার কাথরিয়া, বাহারছড়া, সরল, গন্ডামারা, পুইছড়ি, শেখেরখীল, ছনুয়া ও খানখানাবাদ উপকূলীয় এলাকায় ব্যস্ত সময় পার করছেন তারা।

লবণ চাষিরা জানান, কাঠের রোলার দিয়ে মাঠ সমতল করার পর চারপাশে মাটির আইল দিয়ে ছোট ছোট প্লট তৈরি করা হয়। এরপর ছোট প্লটগুলো রোদে শুকিয়ে কালো বা নীল রঙের পলিথিন বিছিয়ে দেওয়া হয়।

জোয়ার এলে মাঠের মাঝখানে তৈরি করা নালা দিয়ে জমির প্লটে জমানো হয় সাগরের লবণাক্ত পানি। অনেকে ইঞ্জিনচালিত শ্যালো মেশিনও ব্যবহার করেন। এভাবে পানি সংগ্রহ করার পর ৪ থেকে ৫ দিন রোদে রাখা হয়।

কড়া রোদে পানি বাষ্পীভূত হয়ে চলে যায় আর লবণ পড়ে থাকে পলিথিনের ওপর। লবণ চাষ মূলত আবহাওয়ার ওপর নির্ভরশীল। একটু ঝড় বৃষ্টি হলেই উৎপাদন বন্ধ হয়ে যায়। কুয়াশাও লবণের জন্য ক্ষতিকর।

উৎপাদিত লবণ থেকে পানি সরে গেলে ব্যাপারীদের হাতে তুলে দেওয়া হয়। এই লবণ কিনে নিয়ে কারখানায় রিফাইনারি মেশিনের মাধ্যমে পরিশোধন শেষে বস্তা বা প্যাকেট ভর্তি করা হয়। পরে সেই লবণ চলে যায় বিভিন্ন স্থানে।

Another refining old photo.

This is my favorite swan picture out of my collections, even though it was sort of out-of-focus. I regret that I only took one shot, without having any alternative position or exposure.

This week's theme for Mosaic Montage Monday was Refine. What inspired me was something I read about the trend towards people refining their craft, becoming masters of their craft.

Excellence in photography has always interested me and I continually try to advance towards achieving it. I enjoy seeing photography from people who treat photography as an art.

I am so happy to finally have a great camera and I am learning all the things it can do that my old camera couldn't. Photography is more than the camera, though. The environment you create when your spirit is into it is something special. For me, I am always fine-tuning that part of it...

Hair - D!va, Samantha

Bikini - :zk:, Sunny

Skirt, Drape & Belt - Baiastice, Marea @FaMESHed

Picture by Lilias Ianlanthas

Après un réveil matinal, je me suis rendu de Dombås à l'endroit selectionné la veille, plus bas dans la vallée. En roulant, j'ai rapidement compris que le brouillard allait compromettre mon plan. Après un demi-tour sur la route, je cherchais sans trop d'espoir une autre position qui n'était pas dans le brouillard, bonne avec la lumière et sans que celle-ci soit cachée derrière la montagne. Comme aucun coin ne réunissait tous ces paramètres, je me suis arrêté ici, au bord de la route. C'est en effet là que la situation paraissait la moins pire. Après plusieurs minutes qui ont semblé être une éternité, les rayons du soleil ont enfin commencé à éclairer la zone. Quelques minutes plus tard, un bruit se faisait entendre au loin. La TME 1514, louée à OnRail, arrivait.

La photo montre le train 5902 reliant Åndalsnes à Alnabru. Il s'agit de l'unique train de marchandises à circuler sur la ligne de Rauma. Habituellement tracté par une Eurodual, il arrive occasionnellement qu'une TME puisse être observée en tête de celui-ci.

© Alexandre Zanello

JACKET: ::LFE;;Celine Jacket_Maitreya

BODYSUIT: _CD_ Lorena Brown Jumpsuit - Maitreya Lara

HEELS: Blueberry - Bonita Heels - Ankle High - Maitreya

NECKLACE: Kibitz - Aniabis necklace - onyx

HAIR:little bones. Mara

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Great Falls, Montana

The raindrops glittering in the sun refine this already beautiful dahlia blossom and create a masterpiece of shape and color. I think that it should do without big words and work on its own.

For this reason, I'll leave it at that and wish you all a bright start to the week.

Die in der Sonne glitzernden Regentropfen veredeln diese auch so schon schöne Dahlienblüte und schaffen ein Meisterwerk aus Form und Farbe.Ich denke, das sollte auch ohne große Worte auskommen und für sich alleine Wirken.

Aus diesem Grund belasse ich es dabei und wünsche Euch alle eine strahlenden Wochenstart.

more of this on my website at: www.shoot-to-catch.de

refining

Harwood Sugar Mill.

The Harwood Sugar Mill sits on the banks of the Clarence River and is the oldest continuously operating Sugar Mill in Australia and has been crushing cane since 1874.

It began crushing sugar cane in 1874 and today the Harwood Sugar Mill is Australia’s oldest continuously operating sugar mill.

Harwood Island is situated on the Clarence River as is part of the Northern Rivers region of north eastern New South Wales and the mill is currently owned and operated by the New South Wales Sugar Milling Co-operative.

The Co-operative was formed 1978 by cane growers and in the same year the Co-operative purchased three mills from the Colonial Sugar Refining Company (CSR).

The Harwood mill is unique in that in 1989 the Co-operative added a sugar refinery facility which converts raw sugar into white sugars which meets the demand for domestic consumption.

The island is visible from the Pacific Highway and is situated just 52 kilometres from Grafton with the closest town being McLean just 10 kilometres.

Harwood Island, New South Wales, Australia.

Refining my comet shooting technique after the dramas of last time. I used a Nikon D810A with a Sigma Art 135mm lens at f/2, ISO200, 27 x 30 second shots during and beyond astro twilight. The camera was on a ZWO AM5, I used the ZWO ASIAIR Mini to polar align, then get my framing where I was happy with it, and ran the autofocus routine with a ZWO EAF connected to the lens. Once that was done I ran unguided in continuous exposure mode with a wired shutter release that locks on, while I shot landscape astro comet shots with the other camera. For processing I used APP, I didn't do any comet alignment. I removed much of the astro twilight colour from the sky and with more subs the satellites are almost gone. The artifact on the bottom right is from the ground getting in the frame! Final processing in Photoshop.

Time has a way of refining perspective. I've been thinking about the recent wildfires in Los Angeles Eaton Canyon/Alta Dena, Palisades, Hughes. I don't know yet how to photograph them. But I did photograph some wildfire areas back in 2021, walking burns and mudslides up the south central coast that happened in 2018.

In that year, the Woolsey fire burned much of the same area as the recent Palisades fire, burning through the Malibu hills and up the coast into Ventura. Many homes were burned. Even after 3 years, you could still see bleached driveways, foundations, and patios where homes were. Like bones in the sun. And in the hills, trees, palms, and patches of soil were black. There was a stillness.

It is here, in the Malibu hills, where I shot this photo.

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Umicore Precious Metals Refining operates as one of the world's largest precious metals recycling facilities.

Azimuth 254.3°, 33.7 km away (21 mi).

Address: A.Greinerstraat 14. B-2660 Hoboken (Antwerpen)

Photo taken in 2011 from the top of the Brusilia Residence.

FR : Usine Umicore et grue Titan à Hoboken

Photo prise en 2011 du haut de la Résidence Brusilia.

NL: Umicore Fabriek en Titankraan in Hoboken

Umicore Precious Metals Refining is een van 's werelds grootste recyclagefabrieken voor edele metalen.

Azimut 254.3°, 33.7 km ver.

Adres: A.Greinerstraat 14. B-2660 Hoboken (Antwerpen)

In 1974 werd op de site van de voormalige Cockerill scheepswerven in Hoboken door ingenieur Frans Cools een 450 ton zware mobiele portaalkraan met een spanwijdte van 125 m breed en 75 m hoog geplaatst, die het constructiebekken en de aangrenzende constructiehal overspande.Sinds 2001 wordt de voormalige scheepswerf gebruikt voor de productie van funderingen voor offshore windturbines door Smulders projects Belgium nv.

Azimut 254.7°, 34.9 km ver, 75 m hoog.

Adres: Macabilaan, B-2660 Hoboken (Antwerpen)

Foto genomen in 2011 vanaf de top van de Brusilia Residentie.

Copyright © Jacques de Selliers 2025 – All rights reserved.

Reproduction prohibited without my written consent.

Reproduction interdite sans mon accord écrit.

Reproductie verboden zonder mijn schriftelijke toestemming.

Ref.: J72_0913-nc1

Fairbanks Alaska. ca. 1985.

The United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company. Illinois Street supply yard.

The USSRM provided equipment to the Fairbanks Exploration Company (F.E. Co) in support of gold mining operations outside of Fairbanks in the middle part of the last century.

www.asme.org/about-asme/engineering-history/landmarks/113...

Friday Flashback.

Tri-X 400, Minolta SRT.

It was raining outside so I set the tripod up in the passenger seat, rolled down the window and took the photo. I took a few test shots and wondered why everything was blurry. Then I realized I should probably turn the car off to reduce the vibration during a long'ish exposure.

Shell Puget Sound Refinery / Anacortes, WA

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These are the big vats that they used for refining sugar from molasses when this mill was in operation. All that remains of the original structure is the walls and these kettles and other machinery. The roof is now replaces by a huge, steel structure, and walkways have been built inside it so people can get closer to the equipment.

When I first started coming to Sugar Mill Gardens back in January of 2008, the walls had no protection around them and the whole ruin was encircled by a chain link fence to keep people out. I think the decision to reinforce the structure with the steel roof was done to preserve what's left of the walls and the kettles. Parts of the wall came down even during the time between when I started visiting, and when they built the enclosure. It is rather monolithic and ugly, but the good thing is that we can now go inside and see things closer up than before. Future generations stand a better chance of seeing this old mill's ruins now.

Class 37 D6700 heads south from Quorn and Woodhouse, with a short freight. [Pole, 5/6 sections (~6.8m)]

Taken during a David Williams photo charter.

After the lunch break, the first shots were immediately north of Quorn and Woodhouse station, taking shots from the track rather than the road bridge. I used the pole, which gave me a similar height to being on the bridge, but have better shots in that location... The runpasts took place fairly quickly and the gallery moved forward between them, not allowing me time to refine my position and check the shot before the train was called forward. There were also background shadows, some of which were across the train, and this included the wagon with the tarpaulin - which was slightly distracting. In addition, the second man was leaning out of the window, in the same way the driver of a steam loco might lean out in order to see ahead - something that didn't look very natural.

We then moved south of the station for shots passing the signalbox and signals. This area is quite cluttered, and using the pole means the car park is visible - and the scenes very definitely looked like a typical preserved railway and not a scene from the 1960s. Perhaps the shots would have been better with less height, but there were still temporary metal barriers and other clutter in the shot, and the best angle needed extra height to see over some parked stock!

After that, we began to walk south from the station, pausing in a couple of spots, but where there were a few shadows across the track. I managed something acceptable off the pole at the first, but didn't have time to raise the pole at the second and it's just a portrait of the train, looking up at it from fairly close in. However, we eventually ended up in a clear spot well beyond the trees, with spring blossom on the east side of the line. Most people were shooting from ground level, stood in the cess, but I managed to get part of the way down the embankment (not easy, given the copious bramble bushes and other vegetation), stand wider and use the pole. I then managed to make it most of the way to the bottom of the bank to be wider still - as seen here.

This was the last shot of the charter. We'd hoped we might get to another location, but had now run out of time: the crew needed to get back to Loughborough before they were out of hours, but had to go to Swithland Sidings to run round. However, there was time for some of us to drive to Kinchley Lane and get into position for a northbound shot after the run-round - although as the charter was over and we no longer had our GCR escort with us (the majority of us do not have GCR lineside passes) we could not go on the railway side of the fence. So there was still one more shot of this train.

Visit Brian Carter's Non-Transport Pics to see my photos of landscapes, buildings, bridges, sunsets, rainbows and more.

My first attempt at a panorama. Needs some refining but it's a start :)

Don't really know what exactly prompted me to want to build these dark troopers, but I spent a couple hours in the last few days tweaking and refining the dark trooper design. I really wanted to use the Darth Vader helmet pieces as the shoulder pauldrons, and I designed the rest of the dark trooper around that. If there's any interest, I will also make some instructions. Let me know what you think in the comments!

Credit to MWBricks for Moff Gideon's Darksaber design

Colorado, USA

Built in 1912, Hudswell Clarke design, delivered to Colonial Sugar Refining's Lautoka Mill in Fiji in 1912, repatriated 2011.

Dear Friends, I am back again from the Himalayas...It's another homecoming for me...to be back with all old friends here....to be in the folds of trust, love and care again on this grand arena...sharing with you the touch of it of two old friends sharing the bond while erasing the paths of time and age...taken in Ladakh, India

Packard series

Packard Motor Car Company was an American luxury automobile company. It was founded in Warren Ohio as the Ohio Automobile Company by James Ward Packard, his brother William, and their partner, George Lewis Weiss. The first car rolled out of the factory on November 6, 1899.

Packard’s cars were considered the preeminent luxury car before World War II, and owning a Packard was prestigious. Henry Bourne Joy, a member of one of Detroit's oldest and wealthiest families, bought a Packard. Impressed by its reliability, he brought together a group of investors to refinance the company, soon after which Packard moved its operations to Detroit.

In 1953 (or 1954, depending on your source), Packard bought rival Studebaker and formed the Studebaker-Packard Corporation of South Bend, Indiana. Some historians believe that this was the beginning of the end of the company. It was certainly followed by a series of circumstances and events that ultimately led to the end of the company in 1962.

This series of photographs was taken at America’s Packard Museum in Dayton, Ohio. The Museum is a restored Packard dealership transformed into a museum that displays twentieth-century classic Packards and historic Packard artifacts and memorabilia.

The dealership originally sold Packards in Dayton, Ohio beginning in 1908. It moved into the building that is now home to the museum in 1917. Robert Signom II, the museum's Founder and Curator for 27 years, acquired the building in 1991 and painstakingly rehabilitated it to its original Art Deco grandeur, opening the museum in 1992.

Car Collector magazine named the museum one of the top ten automotive museums in the United States. The cars on display range from 1900s Brass Era cars, the streamlined Classic cars of the 1930s and 1940s, to the modern Packards of the 1950s. The museum also has a collection of war machines, parts, accessories, and original sales and service literature.

Tacoma Rail MP15ACs deliver an oil train to U.S. Oil and Refining at the Port of Tacoma.

I will tweak this style a little but have been wanting to use this fabric for something like this for a while :)

Fall is still hanging on around here!

The Perth Royal Mint.

On the corner of Hay Street and Victoria Avenue. Perth, Western Australia.

(Wikipedia)

The Perth Mint is Australia's official bullion mint and wholly owned by the Government of Western Australia. Established on 20 June 1899, two years before Australia's Federation in 1901, the Perth Mint was the last of three Australian colonial branches of the United Kingdom's Royal Mint (after the now-defunct Sydney Mint and Melbourne Mint) intended to refine gold from the gold rushes and to mint gold sovereigns and half-sovereigns for the British Empire. Along with the Royal Australian Mint, which produces coins of the Australian dollar for circulation, the Perth Mint is the older of Australia's two mints issuing coins that are legal tender.

History Swan Perth Mint...

Perth Mint, as a business entity, was established during the 1890s, as a subsidiary of the Royal Mint in the United Kingdom.

The foundation stone of the Mint building was laid in 1896 by Sir John Forrest. The building was officially opened on 20 June 1899. At that time, the population of Western Australia (WA) was growing rapidly (23,000 in 1869 and 180,000 in 1900) due to the discovery of rich gold deposits at Coolgardie, Kalgoorlie and the Murchison region.

The Mint initially served two purposes. Firstly, it minted coins for circulation in WA – this had previously been done externally, and as a result, there had often been insufficient currency in circulation. Secondly, the Mint bought the vast majority of gold mined in WA; at the time, a large proportion of mining was done by "diggers" (prospectors and/or small-scale, independent miners), who had migrated to WA in thousands from other parts of Australia and overseas. Mining businesses were able to sell their raw gold directly to the Mint, where it was made into gold coins and bullion.

Although WA took part in the Federation of the Australian colonies in 1901, the Mint remained under the control of the UK government for a further 69 years. On 1 July 1970, ownership was acquired by the state government of Western Australia, as a statutory authority.

In the 32 years up to 1931, the Perth Mint struck more than 106 million gold sovereigns, and nearly 735,000 half-sovereigns (intermittently between 1900 and 1920), for use as currency in Australia and throughout the British Empire. The Mint stopped making gold sovereigns when Britain abandoned the gold standard in 1931. Nevertheless, the refinery remained busy as staff turned their skills to making fine gold bullion bars. But it was not long before the Perth Mint was involved again in the production of coins. During World War II, the Perth Mint began minting the Australian coinage from base metals. Up until the end of 1983, the Perth Mint also manufactured much of Australia's lower-denomination coin currency.

The Perth Mint achieved "arguably the purest of all gold" in 1957 when the mint produced a 13-troy-ounce (400 g) proof plate of almost six nines. It was verified by the Goldsmiths’ Company and deemed to have results of “nearly 999.999 parts per 1000”. 58  The Royal Mint was so impressed that it ordered some of the gold as the benchmark for its own standards.

The Mint's new direction was formalised in 1987 with the creation of Gold Corporation by a State Act of Parliament. Under a unique agreement with the Commonwealth of Australia's Department of the Treasury, the Perth Mint's new operator was empowered to mint and market gold, silver and platinum Australian legal tender coinage to investors and collectors worldwide. Prime Minister Bob Hawke launched the Australian Nugget Gold Coins Series in 1987. The first day's trading yielded sales of 155 thousand troy ounces (4.8 tonnes) of gold worth A$103 million, well above the sales target of 130 thousand troy ounces (4.0 tonnes) to the end of June.

Up to 2000, the Perth Mint's refined gold output totalling 4.5 thousand tonnes (9.9 million pounds), representing 3.25% of the total weight of gold produced by humankind. This is about the current holdings of gold bullion in the United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox.

In 2003, the Perth Mint officially opened an 8,400-square-metre (90,000 sq ft) state-of-the-art manufacturing facility next door to its original limestone building.

"Her true motive is to refine the world, to upgrade peoples' understanding -- so that everyone can have the space they need to become fully themselves."

Queen of Swords inspired build for this round.

Brickshelf Gallery

Not a ton really to go into for this one. Heavy influence taken from Magic the Gathering's Elesh Norn along with promotional artwork of the Iron Throne from the Game of Thrones Television show. Was neat how some of the negative and positive traits of the Tarot Card applied slightly to the character the build was based off of.

Between being on vacation for half of this round's build time and being sick for the other half, I didn't have as much time to really flesh the build out the way I initially envisioned it. Originally wanted to try a different color scheme and build an actual platform for her to stand on, but I'm happy enough with the way it came out.

Built for the MOC League 2022

Round 2

Theme - Tarot Cards

Refining a pose... I felt this one

Tangled FX 2.1 (Nov 18, 2015, 10:53:19 PM)

PaintCan, and Snapseed effects applied to iPhone 6+ photo of chancel cross at Tulsa FUMC.

This view shows the proximity of the refining operation to the Root Glacier, now nearly obscured by layers of dirt and rock moraine scoured from the mountain valleys above. Below that surface, however, some solid ice still remains from past centuries of glaciation. In the distance can be seen snow-capped 16,390ft (4,996m) Mount Blackburn.

Kennecott Mines National Historic Landmark preserves some of the buildings remaining from the copper ore refining operation active here from 1911 to 1938, including the machine shop (left) and the power plant with its four smokestacks.

Over its brief history, Kennecott Corporation, with support from J.P. Morgan, Guggenheim and other New York financiers, produced $200-300 million worth of copper and silver. (Source: National Park Service website)

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I will tweak this style a little but have been wanting to use this fabric for something like this for a while :)

L'Garçon refines his game...

And the music plays...

Skippy was inspired by the following sophisticated creations:

Deadwool's Peak Suit, available at Monsieur Chic!

Zerkalo's Black Line Collection, available at Monsieur Chic!

Zerkalo's Memories Collection, available at Shiny Shabby!

Apple Fall's Country Hall, available at Shiny Shabby!

Apple Fall's Tournament Billiard's Table, available at Apple Fall!

Your car awaits...

”Take me to Monsieur Chic!"

"Take me to Shiny Shabby!"

Keep shining bright everyone!

P.S. If you look very closely, there are SHIPS!!! on my tie! Thank you Mister Masa for my favorite new blue tie!

This build is a collaborative project between three builders: my friends Eli Willsea, Grant Davis and myself. We started the project over a year ago when Grant and Eli visited my house for a week, and then the build mostly just sat in my room for a year until Eli and I decided to finish it off for Brick World Chicago last month. Then since Brick World I've just been tweaking and refining details of the build until now. And tomorrow I will be packing it up to bring to BFVA!

The inspiration for the concept and layout behind this build came from artist cornacchia-art

It feels really good to finally have this one done and share it with y'all. I have a few close up shots in my stream as well. Hope you enjoy!

Glory to Jesus Christ!

Okay now that I am getting closer to refining this effect, I will be driving everyone crazy......... I have been striving for a diffused lighting for the highlights and i think i have stumbled on a 3rd party filter that produces the effect I want. It's a very subtle effect, barely noticeable by most, but I notice it.

Once again, the picture of the car was not taken (by a camera, that is) by me. Actually taken off the internet. Hope I don't get sued - but why should I. I'm not selling these pictures............yet!

Hope you enjoy..........

Ok....my first sketches are always rough, just playing with an idea. I refine it a little bit before I start the rendering. Then on tracing paper I very lightly will start with a single center line to use as a reference. I also draw a center line on my rough sketch to compare. The rough sketches are just a tad bigger than actual size but the rendering will be at least 3 to four times actual size. All first lines are drawn as lightly as possible.....and with a .3mm pencil that I keep fine sanded to a needlepoint. I use an eraser shield and an eraser a lot....but try to draw lines only once (ha!). I use a compass whenever a clean large circle or an arc is called for. I use plastic templates for smaller circles or arcs. I use a steel straight edge and have several french curves on hand. I try and keep my grubby, oily hands off the paper by covering areas already drawn with another sheet of clean paper. When all the lines are lightly drawn just the way I want them, I erase whatever extra marks I can find and air blast the residue off. Then I darken all the lines. Then I shade it. Then I hit the whole thing with the eraser again, and air blast it. Then I apply a very light spray of "Aussie Instant Freeze" hair spray. Now it's time to paint the back. With fine sable brushes I first paint only the areas which are "gold", being very careful not to go outside the lines, hee hee! Dry it thoroughly. Then I rather sloppily apply the other colors quickly so as not to disturb the gold layer. Dry thoroughly. For this job I then also returned to the front and applied tiny smudges (without any rubbing or blending) of a day-glo green oil pastel to the green stones for highlights and green, orange and a little blue for the opal's play of color. For this back-painted rendering to be successful, you must use at least tracing paper......but vellum is uber nice! From there on it's photoshop for color-enhancement and more cleanup. But the images above are how far I get by hand.