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This is my collection of remotes and other devices for controlling all of my home theater and home theater PC components.
February 2017
Swimming in a river to reach a forest inventory plot in Sundarbans, Bangladesh.
©FAO/Mondal Falgoonee Kumar
Antarctica: as remote as it gets on Earth. Concordia research station is a collaboration between the French Polar Institute and the Italian Antarctic programme. It is one of only three bases that is inhabited all year long, and is located at the mountain plateau called Dome C. Pictured in this image is the astronomical observatory near the base.
As well as offering around nine months of complete isolation, Concordia’s location at 3233 m altitude means the crew experience chronic hypobaric hypoxia – lack of oxygen in the brain. During the Antarctic winter, the crew of up to 15 people also endure four months of complete darkness: the sun disappears from May and is not seen again until late August. Temperatures can drop to –80°C in the winter, with a yearly average of –50°C.
As a station set in Earth’s harshest space, Concordia is an ideal stand-in for studying the human psychological and physiological effects of extreme cold, isolation and darkness.
Credits: IPEV/PNRA/ESA–S. Thoolen
Dad had to go to the office for a bit on a Sunday...kids get to drive their remote control vehicles in the vacuous marble lobby.
So my mother has this thing about constantly destroying television remotes (she drops them from her wheelchair, forgets about 'em, etc.), and even though I've long since profited from Radio Shack's 3 year warranty replacement policy (countless times), I was getting kind of embarrassed returning every month, and depending on which store I went to (the manager at the St. Laurent shopping centre is a dick) they would often give me a hard time, claiming that they could only replace my remote with the exact same model, etc, which sucked because often the model didn't exist anymore, which caused delays as they ordered it from another store, slowing the entire transaction for days. Only when they couldn't find an exact match would they begrudgingly provide me with a "similar" model. Why the song and dance? Meanwhile, my mother has no tv remote, and I refused on principle to buy another remote for one that was supposed to be no-hassle guaranteed in the first place. Basically, they were pulling the "policy" out of their asses, making it up as they were going along.
Anyway, her last remote only lasted one freaking week! So my friends and I (Megan, Yves, and myself) came up with this idea, swathing the remote in foam and fastening it with rubber bands to keep access to the buttons. The ziplock bag should provide protection from stickiness, as well as provide one final minor guard against the shock of impact.
Of course, my mother tends to defeat every system meant to improve her life eventually, but I'm hoping this one has a little longevity. I'll probably post an "after" picture someday, chronicling the sorry adventures this poor little hermetically sealed remote will be subjected to. Till then, my friends!
Nikon D70, Sigma 12-24.
Camera is attached to ceiling with Impact Super Clamp. Triggered by IR Remote ML-L3.
2 SB-26 attached to ceiling with Spring Clamp, and aux-powered by Nikon SD-8.
Flashes syncs with alienbees cybersync. Not a single misfire. Thanks Paul C Buff! )
I think the antenna make it - standing beside the li´l rat makes her look like a rc- toy-car for li´l boys - looks to funny ! ;o)
St Mary, Combs, Suffolk
Combs is a large parish, and although there is a remote, pretty village that takes its name up in the hills, the bulk of the population of the parish is down in the housing estate of Combs Ford in suburban Stowmarket. Consequently, this church is often busy with baptisms and weddings, and can reckon on a goodly number of the faithful on a Sunday morning.
St Mary is on the edge of the housing estate, but the setting is otherwise profoundly rural: you reach it along a doglegging lane from the top of Poplar Hill, and the last few hundred yards is along a narrow track which ends in the wide graveyard. The church is set on low ground, hills rising away to north and south, and the effect, on looking down at it, is of a great ship at rest in harbour.
With its grand tower, aisles and clerestories this is a perfect example of a 15th Century Suffolk church in all its glory. In the 1930s, Cautley found the main entrance through the south porch, a grand red brick affair of the late 15th century. It has since been bricked up, and entrance is through the smaller north porch, which faces the estate. The gloom of the north porch leads you into a tall, wide open space, full of light, as if the morning had followed you in from outside. If you had been here ten years ago, the first striking sight would have been the three great bells on the floor at the west end. They represented the late medieval and early modern work of three of East Anglia's great bell-founding families, the Brayers of Norwich and the Graye and Darbie families of Ipswich. The largest dates from the mid-15th century, and was cast by Richard Brayser. Its inscription invokes the prayers of St John the Baptist. The other two come from either side of the 17th century Commonwealth; that by Miles Graye would have been a sonorous accompaniement to Laudian piety, while John Darbie's would have rung in the Restoration. It was fascinating to be able to see them at such close quarters, but they have now been rehung in the tower.
Stretching eastwards is the range of 15th century benches with their predominantly animal bench ends, some medieval and some clever Victorian copies, probably by the great Henry Ringham. The effect is similar to that at Woolpit a few miles to the west. The hares are my favourites. One is medieval, the other Ringham's work. They seems alert and wary, as though they might bolt at any moment. Clearly, the medieval artist had seen a hare, but lions were creatures of his imagination.
The great glory of this church, however, is the range of 15th century glass towards the east end of the south aisle. It was collected together in this corner of the church after the factory explosion that wrecked most of Stowmarket and killed 28 people in August 1871. The east window and most easterly south window contain figures from a Tree of Jesse, a family tree of Christ. Old Testament prophets and patriarchs mix with kings, most of them clearly labelled: Abraham and his son Isaac wait patiently near the top, and Solomon and David are also close companions.
This second window also contains two surviving scenes from the Seven Works of Mercy, 'give food to the hungry' and 'give water to the thirsty'. But the most remarkable glass here consists of scenes from the life and martyrdom of St Margaret. We see her receiving God's blessing as she tends her sheep (who graze on, apparently unconcerned). We see her tortured while chained to the castle wall. We see her about to be boiled in oil, and most effectively in a composite scene at once being eaten by a dragon and escaping from it.
Under the vast chancel arch is the surviving dado of the late 14th/early 15th Century roodscreen, a substantial structure carved and studded with ogee arches beneath trefoiled tracery, the carvings in the spandrels gilded. At the other end of the church, the font is imposing in the cleared space of the west end. It is contemporary with the roodscreen, and the suggestion is that we are seeing a building that is not far off being all of a piece: the fixtures and fittings of a new building roughly a century before the Reformation.
A period of history not otherwise much represented here is that of the early Stuarts, but a brass inscription of 1624 reset on a wall had echoes of Shakespeare: Fare well, deare wife, since thou art now absent from mortalls sight. One of those moments when the human experience transcends the religious tussles of those days.
Outside in the graveyard, two other memorials caught my eye. One dates from 1931, and remembers My Beloved Sweetheart Stan... who died in Aden aged 22 years. Not far off, a small headstone of the late 17th Century records that Here Restesth ye body of Mary, ye wife of Tho. Love Coroner with two still born Children. I stood in the quiet of the graveyard, looking across to the suburbs of the busy town of Stowmarket, and I felt the heartbeat, the connection down the long Combs Ford centuries.
Behind me, there was something rather curious. Although this is a big graveyard, the church is set hard against the western edge of it. Because of this, a processional way was built through the base of the tower by the original builders, as at Ipswich St Lawrence and Stanton St John. This would have allowed medieval processions to circumnavigate the church on consecrated ground. The way here has since been blocked in, and is used as storage space. A surviving stoup inside shows that, through this processional way, the west door was the main entrance to the church in medieval times, when this building was the still point of the people's turning world.
Driving from the running board as always, Eddie Lenahan eases his old Ruston towards the wagon tippler. Gilltown, Co Kildare 26/10/2011
Nikon D70, Sigma 12-24.
Camera is attached to ceiling with Impact Super Clamp. Triggered by IR Remote ML-L3.
2 SB-26 attached to ceiling with Spring Clamp, and aux-powered by Nikon SD-8.
Flashes syncs with alienbees cybersync. Not a single misfire. Thanks Paul C Buff! )
See this and this for detailed setup shoots.
If you are interested in print purchase, send me the flickr mail or contact via roman@makhmutov.com.
Southern Utah's Capitol Reef and the Henry Mountains from the top of Boulder Mountain. Visibility is over 100 miles. Here is a fabulous description from National Geographic:
The unifying geographic feature of Capitol Reef is the Waterpocket Fold. For a hundred miles (161 kilometers) its parallel ridges rise from the desert like the swell of giant waves rolling toward shore. Exposed edges of the uplift have eroded into a slickrock wilderness of massive domes, cliffs, and a maze of twisting canyons.
Geologists know the fold as one of the largest and best exposed monoclines on the North American continent. Travelers know it as a place of dramatic beauty and serenity so remote that the nearest traffic light is 78 miles (126 kilometers) away.
Just reading that brought tears to my eyes. I knew I had to see it. When I first caught this view while driving along highway 12, my whole world stopped. I pulled over at the first suitable place I could find and just fell down on my knees at the sight. How could there be a place of such unspeakable beauty that so few people even know exists? I wanted to tell everyone. On second thought, let's keep it a secret.
It's powered by 2 M motors, driven tank-style. The front wheels are plastic to help turning, but it is 4WD.
Unfortunately it will not get finished because I ran out of red for the back-end, and I'm harvesting parts for another MOC. Oh well! This worked great as a test of the drive system, I'll use that again.
Postbox north of Derwent village beside Ladybower Reservoir.
Ladybower Reservoir is a large Y-shaped reservoir, the lowest of three in the Upper Derwent Valley in Derbyshire, England. The River Ashop flows into the reservoir from the west; the River Derwent flows south, initially through Howden Reservoir, then Derwent Reservoir, and finally through Ladybower Reservoir.
The area is now a popular tourist location, with the Fairholmes visitors' centre located at the northern tip of Ladybower.
Ladybower was built between 1935 and 1943 by the Derwent Valley Water Board to supplement the other two reservoirs in supplying the water needs of the East Midlands. It took a further two years to fill (1945). The dam differs from the Howden Reservoir and Derwent Reservoir in that it is a clay-cored earth embankment, and not a solid masonry dam. Below the dam is a cut-off trench 180 feet (55 m) deep and 6 feet (1.8 m) wide filled with concrete, stretching 500 feet (150 m) into the hills each side, to stop water leaking round the dam. The dam wall was built by Richard Baillie and Sons, a Scottish company. The two viaducts, Ashopton and Ladybower, needed to carry the trunk roads over the reservoir were built by the London firm of Holloways, using a steel frame clad in concrete. The project was delayed when the Second World War broke out in 1939, making labour and raw materials scarce. But construction was continued due to the strategic importance of maintaining supplies. King George VI, accompanied by Queen Elizabeth, formally opened the reservoir on 25 September 1945.
During the 1990s the wall was raised and strengthened to reduce the risk of over-topping in a major flood. The original dam wall contains 100,000 tons of concrete, over one million tons of earth and 100,000 tons of clay for the core. The upstream face is stone faced. Materials were brought to the site on the Derwent Valley Water Board's own branch line and their sidings off the main line in the Hope Valley.
The dam's design is unusual in having two totally enclosed bellmouth overflows (locally named the "plugholes") at the side of the wall. These are stone and of 80 feet (24 m) diameter with outlets of 15 feet (4.6 m) diameter. Each discharges via its own valve house at the base of the dam. The overflows originally had walkways around them but they were dismantled many years ago. The bell mouths are often completely out of the water and are only rarely submerged, often after heavy rainfall or flooding.
Derbyshire Peak District, UK
11th March 2013.
Satellite Freshwater LED+
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SPC Mahon operates the tank using the Omnitech Panther Remote Robotic System which lends the machine its name.
The first Remote-Handled Transuranic Waste Shipment to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, NM.
VAZIANI, Country of Georgia, August 2, 2017 – Georgia Army National Guard 1st Lt. Robert Chubarov and 2nd Lt. Jared Linson of the 810th Engineer Company oversee construction of a rifle range at the Vaziani Training Area near Tbilisi, Georgia during exercise Noble Partner 2017.
Georgia National Guard photo by Capt. William Carraway / released