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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 :)
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
"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.
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
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.
Els ferrocarrils estatals d'Hungria estàn incorporant 15 locomotores diesel elèctriques Henschel llogades a Nordic Re-Finance. Aquestes locomotores formaven la serie ME als ferrocarrils danesos DSB. A la fotografia veiem a la 1517 traccionant una composició de viatgers a la zona del llac Balaton.
I'd like to refine this shot next time. I really like the general composition but I would prefer that the model get a simple manicure (my treat, Lori!). I might also position the ring differently, and perhaps include more of her head resting on her other hand.
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 :)
Running with Kinder Morgan (KMTX) locomotives and hopper cars, the PTRA coke train shuttles petroleum coke (a refining byproduct) from Lyondell Basell's Houston oil refinery to Kinder Morgan's Deepwater Terminal export facility, about 6 miles away. The crew first takes the loaded train from the refinery over to Deepwater, then jumps onto a second trainset that has already been unloaded for their return trip (a KM crew will unload the first train later to then return the following day).
Formerly an afternoon job, the on-duty time was moved back to 2359 a few years ago and the coke train rarely sees daylight these days. However, on this cool Christmas Eve the train is running a bit late. After dropping the loads at Deepwater, the empty train is seen here running on UP's Strang Sub through Pasadena Jct on its way back to the Lyondell Refinery.
Leading the train is KMTX 2022, a rebuilt SD45 painted for Kinder Morgan's 25th Anniversary and acquired by the company in 2022.
PTRA Job #343 (Lyondell Basell to Kinder Morgan Deer Park & return))
KMTX SD40M-2 #2022
KMTX SD40-2 #3002
Pasadena, TX
December 24th, 2024
On April 9, 1915, Baldwin Locomotive Works completed serial number 42000, a 90 ton, 2-8-2 mikado locomotive (class 12-34-1/4-E-30) for the Caddo & Choctaw Railroad Company, subsidiary of Caddo River Lumber Company in Arkansas. Originally numbered 4 and named "R. L. Rowan," the engine served the logging industry until 1920 when it was converted to burn oil (instead of coal) and sent to Mexico. Upon arrival at the Compañía de Real del Monte y Pachuca, it was renumbered to 105. 105 operated northeast of Mexico City where silver mining was the main industry. In 1924, 105 was sold to the McCloud River Railroad, which would be home for nearly 30 years.
Upon arrival at McCloud, shop forces found bullet holes in the boiler jacket. The rumor formed that the engine served with Pancho Villa during the revolution, however the revolution was over before the engine arrived in the country. The story stuck, and earned the engine the nickname "Pancho." McCloud renumbered the engine to 19 and upgraded the engine over its time there to roughly its current appearance. The 19 was involved in a three-way tender swap before leaving McCloud, and it ended up with the tender from the 18. 19 still uses this tender today, identifiable by a plate with welded letters reading "T-18" affixed to the tender frame. The original tender was scrapped along with the 16.
The Yreka Western purchased 19 from McCloud in 1953 (and would later purchase the similar 18). The engines operated between Yreka and Montague where the road interchanged with Southern Pacific.
In 1971, Yreka Western owner Willis Kyle purchased 51% of the Oregon Pacific & Eastern in Cottage Grove, Oregon. 19 was leased from Yreka to the OP&E and in 1971 began operating the "Blue Goose" excursion trains over the line using a large variety of passenger equipment.
In 1972, "Emperor of the North" was filmed on the railroad, using a mix of OP&E equipment and some purchased specifically for the film. 19 carried the iconic "State of Oregon" herald on the tender, designed for appearance in the film, during this time and into as late as 1974. It was then repainted to use the "Blue Goose" logo used by other Kyle-owned roads.
19 continued to pull Blue Goose trains into the 1980s when Hollywood once again came to the line and parts of the coming-of-age classic "Stand By Me" were filmed. 19 appeared in the movie in the scene where Corey Feldman plays chicken with an oncoming train.
In 1987, 19 returned to Yreka and continued to pull Blue Goose trains on this line, and was occasionally used in freight service. 19 stayed in Yreka into the 21st century. It became the subject of several legal battles where some work performed on the engine was never paid for. Eventually, it was auctioned off in a sheriff sale where it was purchased by Jerry Jacobson.
19 is currently in the backshop at the Age of Steam Roundhouse Museum undergoing its 15-year inspection work for return to operation.
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I can't quite remember when exactly I began this model, but it came together digitally in late 2019, and I began ordering parts and assembling the locomotive in early 2020. It's taken a while to complete, mostly due to the refining of several details, not the least of which being the running gear and artwork. The details on this engine are particular, especially given my familiarity with the real one. I modeled 19 to accurately portray the engine as it appeared in Emperor of the North.
I'm using a Power Functions L motor driving custom wheels at a 1:1 ratio. It gives the engine a good speed but enough power to pull a realistic number of cars. I'm using a Power Functions I.R. receiver and a 7.4v 700mAh battery due to limited space. I'll write more about every detail on the model in accompanying photos of the model.
I say it every time, but this time, I really mean it: I'm incredibly happy to have the model complete. I should call it version one, as I'll undoubtedly build another copy of this model with new techniques in the future - I already have a few ideas. I've learned a lot between the time I started designing this and now, and I'd love to have more than one model of 19 anyway.
It may never be as big or technically impressive as some other models I've built, but 19 will always have something the others don't. It is, by far, my favorite steam locomotive. I'd write about why here, but I'm already putting a lot of words under this photo, so I'll invite viewers to see the next photo for why 19 is my favorite.
Video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru9qw7vUpBs&t=2309s&ab_ch...
As always, thank you for reading.
Glenn Holland
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..........
L'Garçon refines his game...
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...
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!
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.
Turkey thief or no turkey thief, I decided that Peanut needed to have her home and private space back. So back up from the basement it came. When I brought it downstaris I had told Peanut that I couldn't afford the mortgage, but since she has been so unhappy for the last few months I would get a loan and refinance her home. Peanut is very content! She slept in her own home for the last two nights.
The pic doesn't have anything to do with the lyrics, but I thought it fitting since the song reminds me of Postman Pat.
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Gold teeth and a curse for this town were all in my mouth.
Only, i don't know how they got out, dear.
Turn me back into the pet that i was when we met.
I was happier then with no mind-set.
And if you'd 'a took to me like
A gull takes to the wind.
Well, i'd 'a jumped from my tree
And i'd a danced like the king of the eyesores
And the rest of our lives would 'a fared well.
New slang when you notice the stripes, the dirt in your fries.
Hope it's right when you die, old and bony.
Dawn breaks like a bull through the hall,
Never should have called
But my head's to the wall and i'm lonely.
And if you'd 'a took to me like
A gull takes to the wind.
Well, i'd 'a jumped from my tree
And i'd a danced like the kind of the eyesores
And the rest of our lives would 'a fared well.
God speed all the bakers at dawn may they all cut their thumbs,
And bleed into their buns 'till they melt away.
I'm looking in on the good life i might be doomed never to find.
Without a trust or flaming fields am i too dumb to refine?
And if you'd 'a took to me like
Well i'd a danced like the queen of the eyesores
And the rest of our lives would 'a fared well.
New Slang - The Shins
Just continuing to refine my techniques. The theme build for the car was inspired by Ruby's scythe from the web series RWBY. I may have a front shot coming, but it's heavily dependent on my mood since I kinda get bored when I spend too much time on a single car.
Before & After: www.artstation.com/artwork/kzJ4d
Vehicle: Toyota GT86 w/ Varis widebody kit & Rocket Bunny ducktail sitting on SSR MS1's.
Community wrap by: HernanLucena203 (based on the NFS No Limits design)
this is one from a while back of wee hannah great wee model with tons of presence, i have been trying out adobe cs5 refine edge and have been really impressed by it so far it still requires a bit of work but the results are worth it this image was an easy one to mask but i have done far harder with it and its prefoming well.
Working on refining my technique with this fun form of macro photography.
This is a 20 image stack, each frame shot at f4. Getting the lighting right on this one was tough with so many drops in so many different places. In the end it was worth the work.
Shot using a Tokina AT-X 90mm f2.5 Macro lens and the AT-X 1:1 extender.
After some refining. HDR shot of Tokyo from the Metro Building. I didn't want to have the "overboard" HDR effect, but more of a subtle enhancement; something that makes you pause and ponder.
***UPDATE 9/19/2007: I replaced the original shot with one that I think is much better, in between the original darker one and the lighter one, I think this is a lot clearer! I did some more fine-tuning and tweaking (especially with the color profile!)
This picture has been bought on Adobe Stock. i am just "refining" and adding graphic elements as i am a graphic designer.
The sun rises behind the pines of Lake Guntersville
(Explore #8, 11/21/2009, and Front Page! Thanks everyone!)
This is the largest canvas I have ever worked with. I bought it at a sale and have had to take time to think about what I would do. It's always hard to make a start to a work of art, for me, but after the very first touch of paint, I can pretty much jump in! I had to give this one a lot of thought, too, as to subject matter. THAT is a difficult thing, too- to decide WHAT to do!
OH! And my pallet was limited because I only used house paint that was left by the previous owners or paint I was currently using at the house! Kind of a "memories" color pallet for the cottage!
This canvas is 4 feet x 4 feet- I hardly have a wall big enough at Lagniappe to accommodate it! What glorious fun!
I will post the rest of the series, so you can see how the painting developed! :)
New Orleans, LA
There is just so much in between
such a lot I couldn't envisage
a great leap from the usual routine
this memorable plantation for the emotional acreage
the leaves vary in form and colour
yet the roots remain firmly fixed
an appendage for the time-honoured caller
of charmed allusions contingently intermixed
this is my East to West, a passing of respiring generations
hereditary residue layers the houses of the holiest reminder
that blood is seldom seen to be flowing between relations
and yet it is alive to being recalled to the present direction finder
mapping our past and routing the Shires of the heart
the smile is a touch of a souvenir reassuring the present
happy is the time that remembers moments never apart
for so much accumulates warmly where coldness now is absent
this is the finest thing life can give as a legacy for loss
as the overreaching arm of existence controls our own hands of time
we are given to bouts of recollection and a reevaluation we must cross
that sweep of verdant land where luscious hopes ring out and chime
a swallow in flight or our pride out of sight can both make the Summer finer
the duality eclipses a home from home till no better place exists
something I believed would never be heard until today's narrative refiner
for now it'll be spoken of in glowing terms so the future may forever reminisce.
by anglia24 (in the steps of my forebears)
12h30: 01/06/2008
©2008anglia24
Another RebelLUG 2 hour seed part challenge- this month's Seed part was the Spaceman Air Tank.
I ended them in 5 different ways :)
Join us every month for another round and chance to win the big prize end of year.
The company was founded as Kristiansands Nikkelraffineringsverk A/S in 1910 by, among others, Samuel Eyde, Anton Grønningsæter, Jacob Børresen and Victor Hybinette. Hybinette had invented and patented a process for refining nickel by electrolysis: the Hybinette process. The Hybinette process was in use until 1975, when it was replaced by the so-called KL process, which is still in use in a modified version (the KLA process).
The raw materials for the plant initially came from the Flåt mines near Evje, around 70 km north of Kristiansand, where nickel ore was mined from 1872 to 1946. Even after the First World War, however, it was clear that the mines could not supply as much as the nickel plant needed. The plant also experienced a major fire, and struggled with low nickel prices on the world market and generally difficult economic times. In 1929, the owners therefore accepted a takeover offer from Canadian Falconbridge Nickel Mines, and the plant was named Falconbridge Nikkelverk AS. Falconbridge had discovered large deposits of nickel-bearing ore in Sudbury, Canada, which could be sent to Kristiansand for refining.
As early as 1966, the plant installed computerized process management, allegedly as the first company in Norway. With further streamlining, staffing has decreased from around 1,600 people in 1974 to around 500 in 2008, while production has tripled, emissions to air and water have almost disappeared, and electricity consumption has been reduced by 60%.
In October 2006, Falconbridge Ltd was acquired by Xstrata. 7 years later, in 2013, Xstrata merged with Glencore. Glencore employs close to 190,000 and has businesses within a wide range of industries, - minerals and mines, oil, grain, production of metals etc. Today, the company markets itself as Glencore Nikkelverk AS.
101 Oil Studies, No. 33
Objective: Naples yellow wash; refine water reflection and Patagonia Lake scene.
Painted in 10 sessions: 30 July to 20 August 2024
Pigments (Winsor & Newton Artists' oil colour unless otherwise noted): Naples yellow, cadmium yellow, French ultramarine, cerulean blue, permalba white (Weber), and warm gray (Rembrandt), Indian red, Vandyke brown, permanent green, sap green, ivory black, lamp black. Mediums: Gamsol, linseed oil.
Centurion OP DLX oil primed linen, 35.6 x 27.9 cm (14 x 11 inches)
Process: I worked to create a composition in which point of view is much closer to the water's surface than in any of my reference photos (my own January 2022 photographs taken at Patagonia Lake in southeastern Arizona). Naples yellow is becoming one of my preferred pigments.
After Action Evaluation: (1) I'm more satisfied with the birds than with the water relections, where the values are decent but the overall perspective and strokes need work. (2) Cerulean blue added to the sky made for a hue mismatch with the water, where the only blue was French ultramarine. (3) A vertical compositions might add more reflection of the proximate shoveler and allow both birds to be closer to the shoreline grasses. (4) Permanent green, which I rarely use, worked perfectly for the iridescent green of the male.
101 Oil Studies, No. 36
Objective: An attemp to refine setting of Patagonia Lake (southeastern Arizona)
Painted in 5 sessions: 23 Aug to 03 Sept 2024
Pigments (Winsor & Newton Artists' oil colour unless noted otherwise): yellow ochre, Naples yellow, French ultramarine, warm grey (Rembrandt), Vandyke brown, sap green, permalba white (Weber), unbleached titanium (Richeson/Shiva series). Mediums: Linseed oil; Oleogel.
Centurion OP DLX oil primed linen, 22.9 x 30.5 (9x12 inches)
After Action Evaluation: Generally I'm feeling this study was a miss, (1) expecially with botched sky, suggesting that a cloudless sky ought to be handed as much as possible with the initial wash, perhaps with indigo. (2) Some progress on the tall grasses and tree reflection, but still a way to go on the water reflection in general and (3) the wave formation, which needs very horizontal to avoid the appearance of non-level water.
The United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company. Fairbanks Alaska. ca. 1985. 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.
Refining processing skills again with stockimages...:)
Thanks to NEOkeitaro for the stockimage:
neokeitaro.deviantart.com/art/3R-Stock-Steampunk-Instrume...
Great stuff there! i just love old mechanics like this...
Hope you like it!
... written by Wm Macfie to his brother John in Edinburgh regarding the family sugar refining businesses and life in general. 1831-1840
[ contents of these letters at - www.mawer.clara.net/letters.html ]
I viewed the refinery from the Waterbird Regional Park, looking across the marsh and Interstate 680. It refines gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. It was built in 1915 by Shell Oil Company, and sold to PBF Energy in 2020.
It is in Martinez, California, about 12 miles from my home in Walnut Creek. It is just south of the San Joaquin-Sacramento River Delta. January 23, 2023
The mine has been shut down for years by this point but the refining of copper continued apace. A tidy pair of ex-Algoma Central GP38-2s has their outbound train put together and will soon begin the 77-mile trek across the length of the White Pine Sub.
December 22, 2002.
Another film image as I try to refine my scanning technique. Ilford PAN 400 film developed in Fotospeed FD10. To digitize it I photographed the negative on a lightbox at 0, +1 and +2 exposure compensation and combined them as an HDR in Lightroom. Each image was shot using an OM-1 in hi-res mode. After cropping, the image dimensions are 6094 x 9141 (56 megapixels). Further processed in Lightroom with Negative Lab Pro then some doging and burning in Photoshop.