The moon taken at the rooftop of a building, took quite some time to refine the photo though.

In 1900, prospectors discovered magnificent green cliffs of exposed copper in the Wrangell Mountains northeast of Valdez, Alaska. Their discovery, the “Bonanza Mine Outcrop,” proved to be one of the richest copper deposits ever found. From 1911 to 1938, the Kennecott Copper Corporation extracted nearly $200 million worth of copper from nearby mines. At the peak of operation, approximately 300 people worked in the mill town and 200-300 in the mines. The Kennecott Mines National Historic Landmark preserves some of the buildings remaining from the ore refining operation, including the Concentration Mill seen in the background here. Today’s visitor can get a guided tour of the entire inside of this huge building as it clings to a steep mountainside.

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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Colonial Sugar Refining Co (CSR) 0-4-0ST No.19 is working the passenger service at Statfold Barn approaching Statfold Junction station, 5th April 2025.

Locomotive History

No.19 is a two foot gauge 0-4-0ST locomotive built in 1914 by Hudswell Clarke, Leeds (Works No. 1056} and supplied to the Colonial Sugar Refining Co (CSR) of Fiji. It was withdrawn in 1960 and put on static display at the mill apart from a brief return to steam in 1978 for the mill's 75th anniversary celebrations. It arrived at Statfold in May 2012 and was back in steam in the spring of 2013.

People will forget what you said,

people will forget what you did,

but people will never forget

how you made them feel.

- Maya Angelou

This painting was made on an iPad Pro, with an Apple Pencil, using iColorama and Procreate. I moved back and forth, between these two apps, layering, compositing, masking, painting and refining color relationships. I saved versions as PNGs, to maintain image quality, and I tried to utilize the strengths of each app. Eventually, I arrived at at a moment of peace, when I feel harmony in what I have done. In this, it took several days, and several temporary conclusions, before I reached the end.

What I love about working in digital media, is that I can test ideas, change my mind, move in different directions, with so many choices. It is so nimble! It is, also, compelling, and exhausting. I miss the mandatory reflection time in having to weigh and imagine visual choices, and in literally having to wait for paint to dry, with natural media.

I had been working on a portrait for Claude Panneton, which took much longer than usual, and was relieved, satisfied, and happy to think it was finished. He is a mobile art friend, whose work I respect completely. I used several of his images, some of my own elements, and found images – an old Japanese print of fishes, textures, a butterfly etc. The first version, had a full portrait of Claude on the right side, and as often happens, I later realized that I liked the depth and magic of the background, on the left side, better than the fully realized foreground focus of the "subject".

I was selecting images for a competition, which a friend talked me into entering. Having asked Claude's permission, I was preparing to submit the piece. Out of the blue, I remembered a 2nd century A.D. doll, found in a sarcophagus of an 8 year old girl, in Rome. The doll was ivory. I had saved the image to a "someday" folder, a while ago, because she drew me – the sweetness and the sadness. Then, it is as if she had to be seen, urgently. After more hours of painting, masking and layering, she arrived, large, in color, renewed, clothed, and striding as if from her own vision, somber, thoughtful, and about to free herself from the puppeteer's strings. The articulated 2nd century doll came to life, becoming real, to me, as our dolls do, when we are children.

This one rare doll, survived, loved by a child who died more than 2000 years ago, and whose family had the grace to put her to rest, with love, with her toy. I felt respect for the maker of the doll, also, for the care and craftsmanship in her. The doll emerges, in this image, from fragments of dreams – doll becoming puppet-spirit – dwarfing the puppeteer. I felt a bridge of love.

I submitted the piece, in that state, to the competition, then, went on to work with it, for another full day. I was completely unaware of time, tweaking texture and tone until it arrived here. I had no good reason for doing this, other than being curious about where it would take me. I am as surprised as anyone.

What do these elements have in common –

Claude Panneton's eyes, puppeteers, Japanese prints of fish, a 2nd century A.D. ivory doll, a piece of a musical score, a butterfly, abstract space, textures, and colors?

For me, it is about connecting to love and beauty, pausing to reflect and appreciate the very non-linear ways our imaginations can bring the humanity of past into the present moment. It is humbling, challenging, and elevating, I stand in awe of the possibilities.

I haven't made much progress in the past week as I was on vacation for a few days and then got caught up in work, but my parts arrived and I had some time yesterday, so I was able to refine a few details and get started on the bridge and back section. Still lots to do and only one week left!

Willemstad is the capital city of Curaçao, an island in the southern Caribbean Sea that forms a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Formerly the capital of the Netherlands Antilles prior to its dissolution in 2010, it has an estimated population of 150,000. The historic centre of the city consists of four quarters: the Punda and Otrobanda, which are separated by the Sint Anna Bay, an inlet that leads into the large natural harbour called the Schottegat, as well as the Scharloo and Pietermaai Smal quarters, which are across from each other on the smaller Waaigat harbour. Willemstad is home to the Curaçao synagogue, the oldest surviving synagogue in the Americas. The city centre, with its unique architecture and harbour entry, has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Insel Air, the national airline of Curaçao, had its corporate head office in Maduro Plaza.

Tourism is a major industry and the city has several casinos. The city centre of Willemstad has an array of colonial architecture that is influenced by Dutch styles. Archaeological research has also been developed there.

Owing to its location near the Venezuelan oilfields, its political stability and its natural deep water harbour, Willemstad became the site of an important seaport and refinery. Willemstad's harbour is one of the largest oil handling ports in the Caribbean. The refinery, at one point the largest in the world, was originally built and owned by Royal Dutch Shell in 1915.

The four companies comprising the Royal Dutch Shell refining operation; the actual refinery, oil bunkering, the tugboat company (KTK) and the local distribution of refined products (CurOli/Gas) were each sold to the government of Curaçao in 1985 for the symbolic sum of one guilder per company, or a total of 4 guilders and is now leased to PDVSA, the state owned Venezuelan oil company. Schlumberger, the world's largest oil field services company is incorporated in Willemstad.

Numerous financial institutions are incorporated in Willemstad due to Curaçao's favourable tax policies.

The Avalon University School of Medicine is located in Willemstad. The Caribbean Medical University is also located in Willemstad, close to the city centre.

Major League Baseball players Jair Jurrjens, Wladimir Balentien, Jurickson Profar, Andruw Jones, Ozzie Albies, Kenley Jansen and Jonathan Schoop are from Willemstad.

Pabao Little League has appeared in five Little League World Series, winning in 2004. They were crowned the International Champions in 2019 after a victory over Japan. They were defeated 8-0 in the World Championship by River Ridge, Louisiana. In 2008, another Pabao Little League team won the Junior League World Series, after winning the Latin America Region, then defeating the Asia-Pacific Region and Mexico Region champions to become the International champion, and finally defeating the U.S. champion (West Region), Hilo American/National LL (Hilo, Hawaii), 5-2.

Willemstad is served by Curaçao International Airport, located 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) north of the city, which is annually used by about two million passengers.

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

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willemstad

Refining hundreds of years ago was far from present processes and therefore there is a lot of copper left in the slag. The enormous heaps are part of the UNESCO heritage listing, but before that , people wanted to process them

to get the copper. Copper ore made possible a more than 3oo years mining venture beginning about 1645. Today Røros mining town is on Unesco's heritage list.

Chimneys, smokestacks, and flues huddled together at the Montana Refining Company refinery in Great Falls, Montana.

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Tried to refine a similar photo I did by making each post spin fit inside the one before it. Guess there weren't enough steps in between to make this work.

Spin by Lo. 4 spins (though the fourth is barely visible).

**Due to complications, I will have to stop my 365. I'm going to start over again this summer.**

The Illinois Street warehouse/shop of the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company. Fairbanks Alaska. ca. 1985.

The USSRM provided equipment to its subsidiary 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...

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Tri-X 400, Minolta SRT.

Yokuts Park, Bakersfield, California 2008

refining a previously-discarded capture with ON1 FX

Hello darkness my old friend…

What you are (not) seeing, highlighted in blue, is dark matter. Webb was used to precisely map out the dark matter that is part of the makeup of two colliding galaxy clusters, with help from @NASAChandraXray. Webb captured more extremely faint galaxies in the Bullet Cluster than ever seen before (as well as foreground stars), allowing scientists to accurately determine the mass of the cluster.

Chandra data shows the hot, X-ray-emitting gas present between the two galaxy clusters (highlighted in pink). As these two galaxy clusters collided, this gas was dragged out and left behind. Webb observations show that the dark matter (in blue) still lines up with the galaxies and was not dragged away.

Normally galaxies consist of gas, dust, stars, and dark matter, all combined, even when the galaxies are part of a cluster. Observing this separation between the gas and dark matter is unusual.

While we cannot see dark matter because it does not emit light, it has mass and gravitational influence on light we can see. It can act like a lens, magnifying and warping objects behind it. Imagine dark matter as water so clear you can’t see it unless the wind ripples it. The ripples will distort the shapes of any pebbles below its surface. Likewise, dark matter distorts the shapes of distant background galaxies. We can’t see it, but we see its effects.

Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, CXC

Science credit: James Jee (Yonsei University, UC Davis), Sangjun Cha (Yonsei University), Kyle Finner (Caltech/IPAC)

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Still refining my design aesthetic -- water color, hand lettering with images that evoke wanderlust for art and travel. This time the color palette is mint + pink/coral with pops of blue and yellow.

From Wiki:

The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force and other Allied countries before, during and after World War II. Many variants of the Spitfire were built, using several wing configurations, and it was produced in greater numbers than any other British aircraft. It was also the only British fighter produced continuously throughout the war. The Spitfire continues to be popular among enthusiasts; about 54 remain airworthy, and many more are static exhibits in aviation museums throughout the world.

The Spitfire was designed as a short-range, high-performance interceptor aircraft by R. J. Mitchell, chief designer at Supermarine Aviation Works, which operated as a subsidiary of Vickers-Armstrong from 1928. Mitchell pushed the Spitfire's distinctive elliptical wing designed by Beverley Shenstone[citation needed] to have the thinnest possible cross-section, helping give the aircraft a higher top speed than several contemporary fighters, including the Hawker Hurricane. Mitchell continued to refine the design until his death in 1937, whereupon his colleague Joseph Smith took over as chief designer, overseeing the Spitfire's development through its multitude of variants.

During the Battle of Britain, from July to October 1940, the public perceived the Spitfire to be the main RAF fighter, though the more numerous Hurricane shouldered a greater proportion of the burden against Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. However, Spitfire units had a lower attrition rate and a higher victory-to-loss ratio than those flying Hurricanes because of the Spitfire's higher performance. During the Battle, Spitfires were generally tasked with engaging Luftwaffe fighters—mainly Messerschmitt Bf 109E series aircraft—which were a close match for them.

After the Battle of Britain, the Spitfire superseded the Hurricane to become the backbone of RAF Fighter Command, and saw action in the European, Mediterranean, Pacific, and South-East Asian theatres. Much loved by its pilots, the Spitfire served in several roles, including interceptor, photo-reconnaissance, fighter-bomber and trainer, and it continued to serve in these roles until the 1950s. The Seafire was a carrier-based adaptation of the Spitfire which served in the Fleet Air Arm from 1942 through to the mid-1950s. Although the original airframe was designed to be powered by a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine producing 1,030 hp (768 kW), it was strong enough and adaptable enough to use increasingly powerful Merlins and, in later marks, Rolls-Royce Griffon engines producing up to 2,340 hp (1,745 kW). As a result, the Spitfire's performance and capabilities improved over the course of its service life.

A Mobile Refining Vessel, built by Civilian Engineering Corporation. It carries a myriad of refining equipment, the main of which is a collider-reactor (the green structure protruding at the rear of the ship) designed to collide isogen and puzzleium, resulting in awesomium condensates.

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This was a rush build of a few hours, but lots of fun, especially considering I hadn't built anything significant in a while. It includes quite a few tablescraps, most noticeable being the collider-reactor itself.

The United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company. Fairbanks Alaska. ca. 1985.

Illinois Street warehouse/shop. 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.

Refinery Workers by Irene Becker © All rights reserved

Port Harcourt Refining Company at Alesa Eleme, Nigeria.

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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 :)

MUSIC

Double exposure

Rollei Retro 400S

Refinal (stock) 12 min

TUMBLR

Still refining the frame using the Mixel/Chima joints. This version has double jointed knees and elbows. 100% legal, 100% purist, 100% Batman

Here's yet another redo as I continue to refine my editing style and prep for my upcoming Disney trip. Only 37 days to go. Chime in and let me know what you think or offer any critiques. Check out the old version below:

www.flickr.com/photos/thetimethespace/5977985564/in/set-7...

Trying to refine the wings a bit for Angel. The rubber band on the inside makes these more discrete. Getting the hands into the arm sockets was a pain though.

**Ohio-Colorado Smelting and Refining Company Smokestack** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 76000548, date listed 1976-01-11

NE of Salida at jct. of SR 150 and 152

Salida, CO (Chaffee County)

The Smeltertown Smokestack was built for the Ohio-Colorado Smelting and Refining Company. Commenced in 1916 and finished in 1917, this majestic brick and tile structure stands 365 feet into the air, 35 feet taller than the famous Daniels and Fisher Tower in Denver, twice as high as the 179 foot Leaning Tower of Pisa. The concrete foundation, 40 feet wide, extends downward 30 feet into the ground to solid granite.

The octagonal base rises approximately 70 feet above ground and is of pressed, glazed brick; the walls here are six feet thick. Above this base rises the circular upper part of the stack; it is constructed of a special tile. Here the walls taper in thickness from six feet, to three and one-half feet at the top. The top, with its flat steel collar, measures seventeen feet in diameter. Two hundred sixty four standard gauge carloads of brick and tile went into the structure. Construction cost was $43,000. It is estimated that at today's construction costs, a similar stack would cost over a million dollars. (1)

References (1) NRHP Nomination Form npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/76000548.pdf

Colonial Sugar Refining Co (CSR) 0-4-0ST No.19 is working the passenger service at Statfold Barn arriving at Oak Tree Halt, 5th April 2025.

Locomotive History

No.19 is a two foot gauge 0-4-0ST locomotive built in 1914 by Hudswell Clarke, Leeds (Works No. 1056} and supplied to the Colonial Sugar Refining Co (CSR) of Fiji. It was withdrawn in 1960 and put on static display at the mill apart from a brief return to steam in 1978 for the mill's 75th anniversary celebrations. It arrived at Statfold in May 2012 and was back in steam in the spring of 2013.

refining the HydRingEa: I moved the triangle and hex twists from the back to the front. the triangles can be mostly hidden. and the hex twist gives rise to some nice extra floral decoration (others ways are conceivable).

I like it more this way.

in other news: spring has finally come, hooray hooray!!! :-D

(today almost felt like summer even.)

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Nikon F601s, Vivitar 2,8/28mm, Rollei Retro 400s, Refinal 12min.

Still refining how I edit using old photoshoots.

United Refining Company, Warren, Pennsylvania

Fallow Deer Buck giving those branches a good thrashing. Presumably to get the antlers in condition for the coming Rut. You can see how much bark has been rubbed off

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I managed to cut down the number of dolls I actually acquired this year to nearly half my acquisition rate in 2017 and reduced significantly on last year’s new arrivals. I’m hoping to further refine things this year but I’m not sure there will be many leavers.

I had a GREAT year with some truly spectacular and special dolls joining my crew! Such highlights! I have to mention my two dolls of the year of course - London Show Nadja and Zephyr, my OOAK Fairytale Tate created by superstar doll creator Patrizia Sine ❤️Voce! They both rock my world, as you will by now have grown tired of hearing! Lol! The doll I feel has been most neglected is poor Sergio! It is shameful that I haven’t taken any photos of him since his box shots. But I have an excuse - I have these elaborate diorama plans for him and they are on my ‘make list’. The trouble is my ‘make list’ is so incredibly long... but plans for him are ‘in the pipeline’! I also feel like Cabot and Milo have been neglected and a few others too! Some dolls have just monopolised my attention and what with sewing and diorama creating my time has been spread rather thinly. Sigh! This is why I want to get fewer dolls this year and concentrate on really enjoying my collection.

So a few stats:

This year’s leavers:

Elyse Key Pieces - I couldn’t bond with her and decided in fact that I can’t bond with the Elyse sculpt. I have felt better since making this discovery and it’s a good thing for my wallet too since we have been offered a rather large number of Elyse dolls again this year.

Adele Paparazzi Darling - although she was beautiful I felt like I didn’t need her in my collection as well as the faces of Adele, so I decided to let her go where she will be more appreciated.

Agnes Aristocratic - a lovely Agnes but not one I had much feeling for. I let her go too.

Jordan Coquette - I tried really hard with Jordan but I’m beginning to think that this is also a sculpt I don’t bond with. I even decided in the end not to enter the lottery for the new one. I hope I don’t regret it...

Eugenia Ruffles & Blooms - Eugenia is another sculpt I have decided I just don’t bond with. She is somehow too cold and imperious to me. I do have one Eugenia still in my collection who I think will be a keeper - As Dusk Falls on a Nu Face body (she is my ‘Young Eugenia’)

14 new arrivals and 5 leavers.

2015 -

2016 -

2017 - 29 joiners 10 leavers (net additions 19)

2018 - 25 joiners 8 leavers (net additions 17)

2019 - 14 joiners 5 leavers (net additions 9)

Of the 14 new joiners six were guys. I would have got more but the Monarchs don’t appeal to me and they are too expensive. Apart from the Love is Love set we had no Industry guys, who are my fave. I miss them and hope they come back this year (with a K Pop inspired Tate, please, please! 🙏). Thankfully we had TWO Lukas dolls which was SUCH a treat since I really really wanted more Lukii in my collection!

This year I am really looking forward to receiving the FOUR dolls I have on pre-order (Ocean Drive Agnes, Like No Other Nadja, Mademoiselle Eden and It Girl Girl Magic Colette). I hope I manage to keep my other additions low!

So over to you! If you haven’t played this game yet, please join in and share with us a recap of your collecting year! Thanks to everyone who has tagged me and I will try to tag as many as I can!

These little guys are so predictable, that it seems you have unlimited opportunities to improve and refine. Here I just moved the feeder in relation to the same background pine branches.

I'm not spending a lot of time a this...I'm just popping in between farm/ranch chores.

As I continue to learn and refine my photographic skills I find myself turning back to my archives and there within lives a treasure trove.

Shots I once didn't know how to use I have ideas for, problems I couldn't solve are now solvable. Scenes I couldn't do justice to I can now present in their full glory. Case in point this scene of the Arc De Triomphe which for all my trying two years ago when I took this photo I could never get to look anything but flat and lifeless but now feels vibrant and energetic.

An important reminder, I think, never to discard photos hastily I think. Even so you must keep moving forward and so this week I head to Melbourne to explore my own back yard further.

Cheers, Chris

Colonial Sugar Refining Co (CSR) 0-4-0ST No.19 reverses back into Statfold Junction station whilst running round its train ready for another departure, 5th April 2025.

Locomotive History

No.19 is a two foot gauge 0-4-0ST locomotive built in 1914 by Hudswell Clarke, Leeds (Works No. 1056} and supplied to the Colonial Sugar Refining Co (CSR) of Fiji. It was withdrawn in 1960 and put on static display at the mill apart from a brief return to steam in 1978 for the mill's 75th anniversary celebrations. It arrived at Statfold in May 2012 and was back in steam in the spring of 2013.

From wikidedia: The Rodeo San Francisco Refinery is a oil refinery located in Rodeo, California, which is located in the San Francisco Bay Area. The refinery is currently owned and operated by ConocoPhillips...The complex is capable of refining 100,000 barrels of crude oil per day.

The Ineos operated Grangemouth refinery was the largest industrial plant by volume in Scotland and supplied much of the oil based fuels used in Scotland and the North of England. Crude oil refining ended in April 2025 and the site is now transitioning to an import facilty for fuels.

Colonial Sugar Refining Co (CSR) 0-4-0ST No.19 reverses back into Statfold Junction station whilst running round its train ready for another departure, 5th April 2025.

Locomotive History

No.19 is a two foot gauge 0-4-0ST locomotive built in 1914 by Hudswell Clarke, Leeds (Works No. 1056} and supplied to the Colonial Sugar Refining Co (CSR) of Fiji. It was withdrawn in 1960 and put on static display at the mill apart from a brief return to steam in 1978 for the mill's 75th anniversary celebrations. It arrived at Statfold in May 2012 and was back in steam in the spring of 2013.

Original model (bottom) from 2:1 rectangle, next one from 4:1 and top one from 8:1.

All rectangles 52 cm length and 4 iterations hex grid.

PBF Oil Refinery in Oregon, OH.

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