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I did sky replacement on photoshop and removed the ship in the background. I tried adding more space between the blurry person and the girl but it was difficult.
If it's too bright, then your display isn't adjusted right ;-)
Technique/Processing
Almost SOOC, just changed the white balance a bit, to remove the slight green color cast
This two-storeyed former hotel was constructed in 1885 for Brisbane publican Daniel Costigan. It replaced a previous, less substantial structure on the site, which had functioned as the Plough Inn since 1864. The new building was erected during South Brisbane's heyday and was part of the 1880s boom-time reconstruction of Stanley Street premises.
The building was designed by architect Alexander B. Wilson, who is more known for his domestic work. It was built by contractor Abraham James, whose tender of £3,300 was accepted in March 1885.
The hotel, prominently located in central Stanley Street, serviced the commercial heart of South Brisbane. Its proximity to the South Brisbane wharves ensured its popularity amongst those engaged in shipping interests.
Initially the L-shaped interior comprised on the ground floor: a central hall, staircase, dining room, two private rooms (probably for dining also), bar, parlour, storage spaces, billiard room, and lavatories; the first floor contained fourteen guest rooms and a bathroom. A verandah along the back of the building connected it to a detached single-storey kitchen. A cellar completed the facilities.
The building has been altered a number of times since its initial construction. In 1922, additions were made by contractors Robertson and Corbette, following the designs of GHM Addison and Son. It is thought that the street awning was added at this time.
In 1987 the building was modified to function as a tavern during Expo '88. Most of the internal walls were removed, the central fireplace and chimney were taken out, and the interior was re-fitted. Also the front verandah was widened, the rear verandah extended, and windows and doors replaced at this time.
In 1991 - 1992 a conservation plan for the Plough Inn was prepared by Bruce Buchanan architects, and the interior was fully refurbished. The front verandah was also reconstructed.
Source: Queensland Heritage Register.
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PARIS.- Rive droite ... Le Marais Quarter ...
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Former W Collier & Son factory beside the Grand Union Canal.
Worsted spinners
Old 1892 map says this was the carding & reeling building.
Mr Bashful! American Mink , reluctantly poses again for me...you can see the tiny flecks of ice that have formed on its fur after emerging from the water, it rubs itself along the ice and shakes itself off to remove excess water but what remains freezes...and appears to be little flecks! Sweet to look at but if you're a fish or food source...you dont want to see one of these coming your way!!
Would like your opinions on this attempt.
1x 750w studio strobe through umbrella, camera left and above.
Model: Hannah.
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1. Removes a tool (camera), not a photographer.
2. The choice of tool limits the possibilities.
3. Experience allows him (instrument) less and less to limit their capabilities.
4. The ability to see is given only when the observer allows ...
5. The moment of observation is the real find ...
6. Training and mastering it defies. Training leads to poor imitations of the original.
7. Often the result should ripen, like wine. Although time is the understanding of the mind, therefore it is very speculative.
8. The meaning of all this is the process!
9. Let it be!
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I go back to February in this photo. Some ask if the sun is always blue over Fjaerland, and the answer is sadly no. I am afraid Flickr is a fake reality, if not as bad as Facebook. We post mostly the sunny photos and the ones where the belly somehow looks smaller than in reallity.
Today there is a heavy and cold rain coming down. Not nice, and I will not post pictures of it, but I must admitt that it removes the snow a lot more effective than sun in day and frost at night.
There is a lot more photos in the first comment.
I often like rock versions of well known songs. It is hardly ever wrong to add a punch in the arrangement, nor power in the vocals. One I found a few weeks ago is Bad Wolves version of Cranberries Zombie. I really like this one www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XaS93WMRQQ
If you want to learn more about the story behind it, then read on further. I feel this to be a good version, and the reason behind it a touching one.
"One of our most asked-about songs recently has been the cover of "Zombie" done by the rock group Bad Wolves
Personally, the first time I heard this song, it instantly became one of my favorites. The haunting lyrics...the slow build to a chorus that's almost impossible NOT to turn the volume up to 10 and sing along to. Obviously, most of us have heard this song from the Cranberries original version in 1994.
According to Songfacts , the song is about the Irish Republican Army, who in 1993 set off bombs in a busy shopping area near Liverpool, England that killed a 3-year-old and 12-year-old boy and injured more than 50. Although they said ( according to the New York Times ) that they "profoundly" regretted the death and injuries.The Irish rebellion against British power began in 1916, hence the lyrics " it's the same old theme since 1916..." from the Cranberries version of the song.
Cranberries lead singer Dolores O'Riordan claimed that "Zombie" speaks about "the Irish fight for independence that seems to last forever."
According to Songfacts:
On August 31, 1994, just a few weeks after this song was released, the IRA declared a ceasefire after 25 years of conflict, leading some critics of The Cranberries to wonder if the IRA was willing to call a truce to make sure the group didn't release any more songs about them.
Fast-Forward to 2018:
The hard-rock band Bad Wolves wanted to do a cover of this song. They recorded a demo and in order to get clearance on the copyright laws of the song, sent it to management of the Cranberries. Management let the band hear it, and O'Riordan liked the song so much that she said she'd lend her vocals to this new version of it.
When news got back to Bad Wolves, they were excited about the opportunity and ecstatic that O' Riordan wanted to collaborate on it.
According to an interview, lead singer Tommy Vext said " She was really excited about that because the nations may have changed but we're still fighting the same battles today. Humanity is still fighting to assert itself despite all the conflicts."
The day that O'Riordan was set to join Bad Wolves in the studio for recording, she sadly passed away in her hotel room.
According to an interview with Billboard , , Vext and his bandmates were shocked and were at a crossroads: do they just 'shelf' the song and forget about it...or do they release it anyway?
They felt releasing it may be bad for their image as they didn't want to make it look like they were capitalizing on O'Riordan's death.
Instead, they decided that all the proceeds they made from the single release would go to O'Riordan's children. Meanwhile, it was pushed to Rock radio stations in the USA. The song follows suit with successful covers from 'Modern Rock' bands of older songs such as Disturb's "Sound of Silence" (originally done by Simon and Garfunkel )and Five Finger Death Punch's "Gone Away" (originally done by The Offspring ) and "House of the Rising Sun" (originally done by The Animals .)
Check out the homage paid to O'Riordan (who was painted in gold in the original video) with the recent video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XaS93WMRQQ"
Walt Disney World
The Magic Kingdom
Fantasyland
Taken on the same rainy night as the shot I posted of Main Street on Monday. This was originally a fisheye shot in landscape orientation, but there were two extremely large area lights on either side that produced some nasty flare and were just distracting so I cropped it and used CS5’s lens correction to remove the fisheye distortion. I think this works better.
the last update of my panzer I series
it still has the removable 15cm sig 33 :D
I hope you like it! :)
See next photo for how this shot looked before I used Photoshop's "Remove Tool" on an outhouse and other objects in this photo.
Here is another frame from the same location as the prior post.
Engineer Larry Pitbladdo throttles up his four big six axle Alco and MLW monsters coming up from a sag seen here at about MP 106.6 on the Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad's Pocono Mainline.
A local railfan recommended this spot just before a curve that is exactly one mile to the east of Tobyhanna station. The long telephoto lense pulls the scene in highlighting the mangled ties at left from the long removed second main track harkening to the days when this was the DL&W's heavy duty mainline hosting innumerable anthracite coal drags, hot merchandise, and glamorous passenger trains such as the famed Phoebe Snow. Those days may be gone but the one daily train the D-L runs puts on one of the greatest shows in all the land!
The four Delaware Lackawanna units in charge are: 3643 (MLW M636 blt. Nov. 1970 as CP 4743), 3642 (Alco C636 blt. Apr. 1968 as PC 6342), 3007 (MLW M630 blt. Dec. 1970 as PGE 707) , 3000 (MLW M630 blt. Dec. 1970 as PGE 706)
To read the story of this day's adventure check out this earlier post caption: flic.kr/p/2jDHTjU
East of Tobyhanna
Coolbaugh Township, Pennsylvania
Friday September 4, 2020
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On 28 April 2023, I had to go for a day’s drive because everyone had to remove their vehicle out of the parking lot (again!) for the day. We were told to remove by 8:30 am, ready for the guys coming at 9:00 am. Well, the guys who used blowers to remove all the dust and loose gravel, etc. started working at 7:00 am. The painters arrived at 8:30 am, just as I was ready to leave home. The lot was cleaned and the yellow lines between cars were repainted. The whole day was spent driving the roads SW of Calgary, all of them familiar, but a couple only driven a few times.
I very recently decided to buy a new camera, the Canon SX70 HS. I found it concerning that I had been using my Canon SX60 since May 2017 - at least, the earliest photo I can find on my Flickr page was taken on 6 May 2017. The camera has been used a lot! I was very undecided about the Canon SX70, as my daughter has had this camera for quite a long time and finds that the photos tend to be rather blurry. For many months, I have read up about the Canon SX70 and never felt completely happy with everything I read. I have researched other similar cameras and there really isn't anything much out there. I already have the Nikon P900 (totally lousy/useless/ viewfinder) and the Panasonic FZ1000 (far less zoom). Both these cameras are heavy and I need a much lighter camera, especially now because of my damaged right shoulder, which makes holding and using a camera both painful and awkward. Things I read these days seem to say that phone cameras are kind of replacing point-and-shoot cameras and companies are producing very few point-and-shoot models. No telling how long it could be before they stop making them altogether. So, I wanted to be prepared for if/when my faithful and much used Canon SX60 eventually dies.
I took both cameras with me, though I did take more shots with the SX60. I can't say that the photos from either camera came out as sharp as I would have liked - very bright out, and windy. Now I have to compare the quality of the images. I found the SX70 a nice, light camera to use, I must say. I had changed a few of the most important (to me) settings, but I’m sure there are others that need checking and tweaking. Some of my Bluebird photos came out better with the SX70. I saw my first Wilson's Snipe of the season and the SX70 did well, as did the SX60, though the colour is very different between the two cameras. I need to compare a lot of images in the next while. The five photos posted this evening have all been edited.
edited to remove distortion and baseball caps [etc.] here's the best I could do with the massive facade of this huge cathedral
In a rare daylight move train CP 930 charges south through Westport, NY approaching mp 129.9. Trains are again beginning to move down the D&H after the blockades protesting the pipeline in British Columbia that have pretty much paralyzed rail service throughout eastern Canada are are starting to be removed.
The former station tracks have long since been removed from the Corbin, KY, L&N depot, but the depot itself still stands restored and remains as a fixture of Corbin's railroad heritage as southbound CSX freight train Q539 slowly pulls down the yard lead on the afternoon of May 2, 2021.
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further practise. removed the tacking from the under collar, back neck facing, front facing and sleeves. then cut out another undercollar, attached it to the back neck facing and machined both to the blazer neckline, continuing on to the front facing
critique
for the photo i should have opened the collar down to where the first button is to be positioned. never mind, next time
the collar, lapel and front are machined but still have to be edge stitched. that's for another day, as are the making of the button holes and covering the buttons in the same fabric.
happier with the collar and lapel though the angles are still not quite symmetrical.
hoping i don't mess up when i edge stitch.
reset and machined the sleeves to lose the puckering on the shoulder.
the hemming of the front, back and sleeves has not been done. i'll only do that on the actual blazer
tomorrow i'll prepare the green linen for the actual blazer
i'm following the classic blazer pattern downloaded from this reference book flic.kr/p/2q55djV
'the dressmaking book' by alison smith mbe publisher dk
alongside the reference book i use you tube tutorials that i search for when more explanation is needed
How to Sew Darts | Beginner & Advanced www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9x-i-txyfo
5 Tips on how sew non-pointy darts! www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8M_TLn_do4
How to Sew an Invisible Zipper
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaza9t-CAiQ
How to Sew an Invisible Zipper - Updated
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG8CSr11kjA
How To Sew Invisible Zipper On Shirt / Dress | Sewing Technique Tutorial
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHNrRoCSxaE
Invisible Zipper
www.youtube.com/shorts/npDSSAMzNNc
Super clever invisible zip trick
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UyfKL5G-Bw
how to understitch www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFz4tsplENI
what is understitching?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnRDeKqKgto
ten top stitching tips www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDRXfYgkU4k
Top and Dress
Detailed Sewing Tutorial For A Beginner : Simple Linen Top, Bias Binding Neckline【Free Pattern】
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cFiT8UcU54
Download the Pattern
www.madebysachi.com/2021/09/27/super-simple-top/
LINEN DRESS DIY【Free Pattern +Easy Draft】Step by Step Guide for Beginner /back opening /Skirt Pleats
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDFRlF_yEtA&t=0s
Download the Pattern
www.madebysachi.com/2021/09/27/super-simple-top/
BASIC SEAM POCKET
www.madebysachi.com/2022/07/09/basic-seam-pocket/
How to Sew Pleats | Box Pleat, Knife Pleat, Inverted Box Pleat
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRlHcPh38MY
Forming Box Pleats
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNXJ_BIsb1E
Inverted Pleat
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfdE3DlJdFQ
setting the sleeve www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqo-SIy8MXY&t=178s
coat pattern instructions www.sewmag.co.uk/free-sewing-patterns/serena-wool-coat#lo...
How to properly sew a shawl collar jacket/sewing techniques for beginners www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjeqgIfSt9c
Easy Way To Sewing shawl collar | Coat Collar Tutorial Cutting and Stitching | Sewing Tutorial www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsUZjA9JErI
my sewing machine JL220 flic.kr/p/2odruLA from john lewis www.johnlewis.com/john-lewis-jl220-sewing-machine-pepperm...
sewing machine maintenance flic.kr/p/2q9GVTh
How to Use your SEWING MACHINE (for Beginners)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmaZBTMzkoY
A Beginners' Guide To Using Your Sewing Machine
www.youtube.com/watch?v=imryOl_LNaw
Beginners Sewing Course - Day 1 - The Basics
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGITrkYdjJs
Seam Finishes
10 SEAM FINISHES Without a Serger || Basic to Couture
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYt7JxC_bIc&t=596s
7 Seam Types and How to Make it- Sewing Lesson for Beginner
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax6JDDP_6O8
French Seam Pockets
How to Add Pockets to a Side Seam using French Seams
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aatWJL_aAYY
Lining
How to add lining to ANY dress pattern | Sewing Tutorial
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENKI3fSBQBo
How To Sew a Slip Stitch by Hand
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjky55Cp1_I
Buttonholes
3 Sewing Tips to Make Buttonholes Neatly and Quickly
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oOz28Ybk8I
How to Machine-Sew and Custom-sized Buttonhole
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6P-TKK3tjg&t=135s
Place and Sew Hooks and Eyes Correctly
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d06GhQx_Wg
How to Fix a Low Neckline
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U-W6W5fh-4
Interfacing
How to fuse iron-on interfacing to fabric
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7idVbAkUBTU
reference books
i'm a complete beginner at dressmaking. posting photos of progress to encourage myself to continue www.flickr.com/photos/connect2012/albums/72177720305370633/ i'm not making any recommendations ...
The details are mostly for family and friends who are interested. (So I won't hold it against you if you find it boring!) 😊
This is a three photo joiner so a bit distorted. Just to show how open the backyard looks without the trees. More light, airflow and less mosquitos! We had the stumps ground down this morning but in this shot you can see where the trees were. Now we have to put down some topsoil and grass but maybe in the Fall. It's too hot to put grass seeds down now.
Also, I will post when the sliding door is finished.
Too bad we don't heat with wood anymore. I don't know how we are going to get rid of all these logs but I'm sure someone will want them.
1. Very large maple right beside the screened porch.
2. Medium sized maple which impeded the movement to our shed.
3. Tall skinny maple which was leaning over the shed and also had a rotting hole in it.
4. Huge (70') poplar
5.Two V-shaped maples which were in the way of felling the poplar. One side was dead. See previous images.
BIG BONUS.. Think of all the leaves we won't have to rake this fall... yahoo!
47406 is about to pass under Brumber Bridge with 1E08 11:05 Liverpool Lime Street to Newcastle. 14/5/88. I think the "Railrider" nameplates had just been removed. This is very backlit and the film I was using at the time - Kodakchrome 25 hasn't helped, as my scanner doesn't like it.
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Like other species in the genus, bee-eaters predominantly eat insects, especially bees, wasps and ants, which are caught in the air by sorties from an open perch. Before swallowing prey, a bee-eater removes stings and breaks the exoskeleton of the prey by repeatedly thrashing it on the perch. Migration is not known but they make seasonal movements in response to rainfall. These birds are somewhat sluggish in the mornings and may be found huddled next to each other on wires sometimes with their bills tucked in their backs well after sunrise. They sand-bathe more frequently than other bee-eater species and will sometimes bathe in water by dipping into water in flight. They are usually seen in small groups and often roost communally in large numbers (200-300). The birds move excitedly at the roost site and call loudly, often explosively dispersing before settling back to the roost tree. The little green bee-eater is also becoming common in urban and sub-urban neighborhoods, and has been observed perching on television antennae, only to launch into a brief, zig-zag flight formation to catch an insect, then return to the same perch and consume the meal. This behaviour is generally observed between the hours of 7:00 and 8:00am, and after 4:00pm.
The breeding season is from March to June. Unlike many bee-eaters, these are often solitary nesters, making a tunnel in a sandy bank. The breeding pairs are often joined by helpers. They nest in hollows in vertical mud banks. The nest tunnel that they construct can run as much as 5 feet long and the 3-5 eggs are laid on the bare ground in the cavity at the end of the tunnel. The eggs are very spherical and glossy white. Clutch size varies with rainfall and insect food density. Both sexes incubate. The eggs hatch asynchronously with an incubation period of about 14 days and the chicks grow fledge in 3 to 4 weeks and in the fledging stage show a reduction in body weight.
A study suggested that green bee-eaters may be capable of interpreting the behaviour of human observers. They showed an ability to predict whether a human at a particular location would be capable of spotting the nest entrance and then behaved appropriately to avoid giving away the nest location. The ability to look at a situation from another's point of view was previously believed to be possessed only by primates.
They feed on flying insects and can sometimes be nuisance to bee-keepers.The preferred prey was mostly beetles followed by hymenopterans. Orthopterans appear to be avoided. They are sometimes known to take crabs. Like most other birds they regurgitate the hard parts of their prey as pellets
An endoparasitic nematode (Torquatoides balanocephala) sometimes infects their gizzard.
from Wikipedia.Big Boy ...
Union Pacific Railroad (UP) introduced the Challenger-type (4-6-6-4) locomotives in 1936 on its main line across Wyoming. For most of the way, the maximum grade is 0.82% in either direction, but the climb eastward from Ogden, Utah, into the Wasatch Range (Wahsatch, on the railroad) reached 1.14%. Hauling a 3,600-short ton (3,300 t) freight train demanded doubleheading and helper operations, and adding and removing the helper engines from a train slowed operations.
The answer was to design a new locomotive, but for such locomotives to be worthwhile they had to be faster and more powerful than slow mountain luggers like the earlier compound 2-8-8-0s that UP tried after World War I. To avoid locomotive changes, the new class would need to pull long trains at sustained speed—60 miles per hour (100 km/h)—once past the mountain grades. (The 1950s Wyoming Div timetables allowed them 50 mph or less, passenger or freight.)
Led by Otto Jabelmann, the UP's design team worked with Alco to re-examine the Challengers, which had been designed by A.H. Fetters. They found that the goals could be achieved by making several changes to the Challenger design, including enlarging the firebox to about 235 by 96 inches (6.0 m × 2.4 m) (about 155 sq ft/14.4 m2), lengthening the boiler, adding four driving wheels and reducing the size of the driving wheels from 69 to 68 in (1.753 to 1.727 m).
The Big Boys are articulated, like the Mallet locomotive design. They were designed for stability at 60 miles per hour (100 km/h). They were built with a heavy margin of reliability and safety, as they normally operated well below that speed in freight service. Peak horsepower was reached at about 35 mph (56 km/h); optimal tractive effort, at about 10 mph (16 km/h).
Without the tender, the Big Boy had the largest engine body of all reciprocating steam locomotives.
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For a bit of the background ...
* This engine, #4017, is at the National Railroad Museum, Green Bay, Wisconsin
at maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=m&lat=44.4646609686101&lon=-8
* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Pacific_Big_Boy
* To really appreciate the length of this locomotive and its 4-8-8-4 wheel arrangement...www.steamlocomotive.com/bigboy/