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Water is sooooooooooooooo refreshing =)
how's weekend?
talking about the earthquake and tsunami that recently happened in Japan, some people said that now only they can see people care about others, people start praying, people talking philosophy, people throw opinions and others. at least there are still people that care, concern and pray even it's "seasonal-based".
how about us? where are we?
semoga hidup kita hari ke hari sentiasa diberkati. Insya-Allah.
A thin spear of Mary Washington asparagus dripping with mist droplets that have merged into larger droplets of a refreshing thirst quencher.
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My newest acquisition!! Wu-Hoo! I've wanted this for forever and was able to make a trade for a brand new one!! (Thank you soooo much Joy!!)
These are just quick shots of it, but I hope to take some awesome pics later this week!
A naval cannon with brush, rammer, powder and shot.
I spent ages on this, then the export code messed up and I lost it, second time round I accidentally refreshed, and as such this has caused a lot of shouting at my laptop. Please enjoy.
Underbarrel attachment version for your custom weapons coming soon, as seen in COD Black Ops.
Pastie for all those salty sea dogs out there: pastie.org/1006915
This is not a HDR image. Another try on digital blending. This image was composed from 3 exposure.
Hope you like it as much as I do!
Looking Refreshed after months of not being in service; First Great Western class 150261 in the revised FGW plain blue livery at Cheltenham Spa after ariving from Westbury 23-11-14
The Museum of Flight, Seattle.
Walking through the Concorde fuselage, I was struck by the tiny windows and somewhat cramped seats. Well, with a New York to London flight time of just under 3.5 hours, Concorde didn't need to provide its passengers with the creature comforts required to endure long-haul flights on conventional airliners.
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Here's a first-hand account of a trip on Concorde by By Jeffrey Levine in The Washington Post of December 17, 1989:
The Concorde -- transporter of the rich and famous, supersonic sled to sophisticated shores, chariot of the demigods -- has been around now for nearly a decade and a half.
Air France first went supersonic in January of 1976,featuring a flight from Paris to Rio de Janiero, and by the end of this month, the Air France Concorde will have carried about 850,000 passengers. I can now say I was one of the fleet few.
Not long ago, I found myself sitting in an opulent Air France lounge at New York's Kennedy Airport, swigging free champagne and waiting for the boarding announcement for the Paris-bound Concorde.
I tried to keep from gaping at my exquisitely outfitted and supremely blase fellow travelers, but when Sean Penn slouched over to a nearby phone, I debated whipping out my trusty auto-focus. On second thought, however, I decided I'd rather take my flight inside the plane.
When the lounge hostess made the boarding announcement, I drained my flute of champagne and headed for destiny at warp speed. As two nattily uniformed crew members checked my ticket and showed me to my seat, I had the sudden feeling that something was terribly wrong. In a flash I realized what was amiss: The crew members were smiling and politely helping me to stow my baggage, in startling contrast to the aloof soft-drink dispensers I've encountered on regular flights lately.
But as I bashed my head on a luggage rack, I realized that, in terms of passenger space, the Concorde doesn't differ much from smaller aircraft. This plane was built for speed, not comfort.
There are two gray-leather seats on each side of the aisle, and the cabin looks like a normal passenger jet that has shrunk to three-quarter size. The central aisle makes for frequent intimate encounters with other passengers, and even the serving carts are down-sized.
I settled into my seat and tried to look out the window -- a task not easily done through a window that is three panes thick and smaller than a paperback book.
But soon we were taxiing to the runway and lining up for takeoff. (No waiting behind scores of domestic flights for this bird!) The pilot, in elegant French-accented tones, warned us that we would be turning left immediately upon takeoff, and with that, he fired up the beast.
The engine note slowly grew to a sharp, overpowering, yet somehow muted whine. The plane, helping itself to plenty of runway, gradually built to a thrilling speed and nosed into the air. I was expecting to have my eyeballs pressed into my head, but there was none of the brain-compressing sensation of lift that normally comes with takeoff.
Instead, there was a sensation of terrific forward momentum, accompanied by a light juddering as the Concorde skimmed low over the water. This plane was in no hurry to gain altitude. True to his word, the pilot carved a sweeping left turn, the craft now beginning to shudder like a rocket sled on bumpy ice.
Then it leveled and began to climb -- not in a steady rise but in stages -- a shaking, racketing struggle for altitude. When I finally gathered my wits about me, I took a look at the Machmeter -- a small screen on the bulkhead registering our speed in cool green liquid crystal numbers -- to see that we were already traveling at over Mach 1, the speed of sound, or about 740 miles per hour.
We would soon reach a cruising altitude of 57,000 feet (as opposed to about 35,000 feet for most commercial aircraft) and a speed of Mach 2.2, or about 1,600 mph.
Once we reached cruising altitude and I could take stock of things, three qualities of supersonic travel became apparent.
First, turbulence is minimal way up there. We were not buffeted even once by wind.
Second, Mach 2.2 is noisy; conversation required leaning and screaming.
Third, at supersonic speed the Concorde produces a constant vibration, as much heard as felt, rather like driving rapidly over a smoothly packed gravel road.
It was as if we were flying through light sandpaper. Flying at that speed also produces heat, and when I held my face to the window I could feel warmth.
I decided to see what the brains of this machine looked like. I got permission to go forward and peer into the cockpit, half expecting to see only a large blinking computer up there, perhaps wearing a beret.
But no, there were three officers in what was a remarkably unremarkable cockpit. Absent were the video-game-like screens and computerized paraphernalia present on more modern aircraft. Instead there was the bewildering profusion of dials, gauges and switches found on the aircraft of my youth.
Nodding and mumbling under the captain's haughty gaze, I turned and headed for my seat. By now a line had built for the bathrooms, probably because, due to space considerations, the plane had only two bathrooms for its hundred passengers.
As I inched my way to the end of this squirming line, I realized that even though a person may amass tremendous wealth and travel in the most sophisticated form of transportation on earth, nothing can dispel the loss of dignity that comes of waiting in line to go to the bathroom.
When my turn came, I discovered that the bathrooms had been designed for a retromingent.
The rest of the flight? Rather uneventful. The other passengers provided little entertainment -- although one gentleman did spend the entire time wearing his raincoat, with a newspaper draped over his head and face -- and there was no movie.
The food was good, but almost everything was pureed and formed into a soft mold, which made for easy chewing but a disturbing feeling of infantility; the wine, however, was excellent (this was, after all, Air France).
Sean Penn slept the whole way. The landing was more conventional than the takeoff, although as the plane slowed to near landing speed it again turned into a shaking ox-cart.
Best of all, and to my mind the real element that made me a Concorde convert (besides the gift-wrapped leather folders that were handed out as gifts as we approached Paris), was the fact that we debarked in Paris after 3 1/2 hours, feeling refreshed, relaxed and ready to hit the Champs Elysees instead of a hotel pillow.
Air France has daily Concorde flights between New York and Paris; the current round-trip fare is $5,308.
From January through March, Air France will offer a special fare between New York and Paris, in conjunction with American Express; if you charge a first-class ticket ($4,422) on your American Express credit card, your ticket can be upgraded to a Concorde flight.
British Airways also flies the Concorde between New York and Paris; in addition, it has three Concorde flights a week from Washington to Paris, with a round-trip fare of $6,398.
Jeffrey Levine is a freelance writer in Chicago who usually takes the bus.
www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/travel/1989/12/1...
A little sign of life from me, it's been a while again. Hope everyone's fine out there! :)
This is one of 3 sneak peeks of Kasumi with her new Face up I did some time ago. It was the third try on her and definitely the best result I had for her since then, when you ask me. I totally love it and I'm much satisfied, what's definitely rare for me. XD *lol* My most favourite part of her is the lip blushing with the two-toned lip lines (white and brown colored). It was a kind of little experiment with the lip lines and I'm fully happy with how it came out. <333 *love*
I know she definitely looks much different than before, she looks much more naturally now with a tiny bit more colors. Also she got another style this time for this pictures for some reasons, but she's still herself and that's the main important thing for me. :)
Hope you'll like Kasumis new look, too! <333
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Refreshing plans for an afternoon so warm even the most rambunctious squirrels are moving at an ambling pace. Word puzzles and ginger-peach iced tea in front of a fan until dinner. Thanks for stopping by and keep cool.😎
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That's the point that I like the most to reach when doing sports:) When I'm tired as hell and just longing for some water, and than I get it...It rereshes me, cools me down...And it's simple.Just water..
I got wet and cold so fast during this experiment, so I had to stop after a few tries:) I wanted to shot it with wide aperture, to get the spreading drops out of focus(as bokeh).But this way it was not so easy to keep the key parts sharp enough...I wish it was summer and i had time to get the perfect one:)
23rd January 2010
Nothing like a steaming hot cup of tea in this winter evening...
Specially when you've just finished a rough and tough week of exams...!
Vintage Coke machine at the Africa Coolpost (formerly Refreshment Outpost) of Epcot's World Showcase.
Have a great weekend everyone!
Picture Spring Day 8: the sparkle of spring
Today for the Picture Spring workshop, we prompted to capture the sparkle of water droplets. This is something I love to do, but I have never done it when it hasn't actually been wet outside. So I carried around a spray bottle all day, and I was actually disappointed with the quality of the drops.
Late in the day I tried this shot with seltzer and fruit. I've been going back and forth about using this one or my magnolia one for the assignment. Right now it's this one. I like the other a lot, but this is more "sparkly."
hello, friends!
just one-day-trip yet i refreshed myself in the nature.
i will upload more later what i saw in there.
thank you for your kindness my frineds toshie-san, toku-san and akane-chan in tono. it was such a lovely journey:))
and thanks all flickrs who visited here and left comments and added as your fav while my absence.