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Event: Morris Minor Repairs - 07/09-05/10/24
Location: Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Camera: Pentax ME Super
Lens(s): 28mm f/2.8
Film: Ilford Delta 400
Shot ISO: 800 (+1 stop)
Light Meter: Camera
Lighting: Various
Mounting: Hand held
Firing: Shutter button
Developer: Ilford DD-X(1+4) for 10m 30s
Scanner: Epson V800
Post: Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop (dust removal)
Event: Morris Minor Repairs - 07/09-05/10/24
Location: Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Camera: Pentax ME Super
Lens(s): 28mm f/2.8
Film: Ilford Delta 400
Shot ISO: 800 (+1 stop)
Light Meter: Camera
Lighting: Various
Mounting: Hand held
Firing: Shutter button
Developer: Ilford DD-X(1+4) for 10m 30s
Scanner: Epson V800
Post: Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop (dust removal)
Yank tank or máquina are the words used to describe the many classic cars (for example: 1957 Chevrolet, 1953 Ford, 1958 Dodge, etc.) present in Cuba with an estimated 60,000 of them still driving the roads today. In 1962 a United States embargo against Cuba was introduced, effectively cutting trade between the two countries. This meant that the cars in Cuba could no longer receive new replacement parts when something broke. Currently, the only way to keep these cars on the road today is by using Cuban ingenuity to adapt household products and Soviet technology into these vehicles. If a car is unable to be repaired at the time, the car is usually either “parked” for future repair or “parted out” (to produce extra income for the owner’s family) so that other cars can remain on the road. During the years of Soviet Union influence on Cuba, Ladas, Moskvitchs and Volgas became the main cars imported by the communist regime, mainly for state use. As a result of these internal economic restrictions, to this day there is no such thing as a new or used private European or Asian automotive dealership branch in Cuba for independent purchasing by regular Cubans.
The only American cars that can be purchased for private use in Cuba (with "particular" plates) are those that were previously registered for private use and acquired before the revolution. However, if the owner doesn’t have the proper paper work called a “traspaso”, the vehicle cannot be legally sold. American cars that were present, at the time of the embargo, have been preserved through loving care and ingenuity. And since there were many of these, due to the presence of a past strong Cuban middle-class, classic cars have been the standard, rather than an exception in Cuba. Even President Fulgencio Batista’s son owned a 1956 Corvette. Due to the constant good care, many remain in good working order only because Cuban people are able to adapt to a diminishing source of parts to keep the vehicles running. The owners of these yank tanks are sitting on a potential “gold mine” that, if the embargo were to be lifted, the Cuban people could make quick cash by selling their cars to people who collect and restore them.
On the other hand, many of these vehicles, especially those in taxi service, have been converted to accept replacement engines, usually Soviet diesel engines. Fortunately, this is a modification that gives a car a new lease on life. The practical limits of engine longevity, scarcity of replacement parts, and the high cost of fuel in post Cold War (roughly 75 U.S. cents a liter in the summer of 2002) Cuba have made diesel power (roughly 15 to 20 U.S. cents) a popular choice for engine replacement, if a suitable gasoline engine couldn’t be acquired.
However, the old American cars on the road today have “relatively high inefficiencies” due in large part to the lack of modern technology. This has resulted in increased fuel consumption as well as aiding to the economic plight of its owners. With these inefficiencies, noticeable drop in travel has occurred from an “average of nearly 3000 km/year in the mid-1980s to less than 800 km/year in 2000–2001”. As the Cuban people try to save as much money as possible, when traveling is done, the cars are usually loaded past the maximum allowable weight and travel on the decaying roads, resulting in even more abuse to the already under maintained vehicles. The extreme lack or scarcity of parts is directly a result of the Revolution and the embargo. However, there have been talks about easing some of the restriction of the embargo. Former President Clinton has pushed for U.S. citizens to be allowed to send up to $300 a month to Cuba and for “direct mail service between Cuba and the United States, suspended in 1963, to be reestablished.” This would allow for families in the U.S. to send the needed parts (assuming they can be located) to their own families in Cuba, for the necessary repairs.
Currently, it is estimated that there are some 173,000 cars in Cuba, of these it is unknown how many are yank tanks and are considered road worthy.
All our ice had melted by this morning, but the trees on the mountain were beautifully icy, and brilliantly lovely in the morning sunlight. Unfortunately, I couldn't stop to take a picture because I had to get the kids to school and then back home for a meeting.
I was back on the mountain late this afternoon, and there was still ice in the trees catching the late-afternoon sun in the most fetchingly dazzling way, but in trying to find a place off the highway to park and try to capture the magic, I got stuck behind this repair crew doing their thing - the ice really wreaked havoc on the trees and powerlines on the mountain. By the time the cherry picker came down and I could proceed, the light was gone.
I'm not super-happy with this photo - especially since it was taken through the car window (hence the monochrome processing) - but it's what I got for today.
First thing you have to do to open the XA, is remove the 5 screws on the bottom plate. The screws are marked in the picture by red squares.
Pasadena, California, USA
Nice to see strong clouds in Los Angeles !
Il y a deux jours, j’ai été amené a changer ma routine de mon trajet maison – boulot. Je suis tombé sur cette ancien garage abandonné dans Pasadena au nord du centre ville de Los Angeles. Malheureusement, le lieu était clôturé, j’ai du prendre la photo entre la grille du portail.
Même si cela n’étais pas à la « golden hour » ni entre chiens et loups, la lumière était tout de même intéressante avec des nuages très menaçants. J’ai accentué la chose avec le traitement dans Lightroom.
I have great admiration for the very skilled people who repair dry stone walls, and make them as good as new. The walls are built without using mortar, in areas where large quantities of rock and stone are found above the soil, and especially where trees and hedges do not grow easily because of the climate, elevation, strong winds or thin soils. This is why dry stone walls are most prominent in northern and western Britain, and often at the higher altitudes.
Dry stone walls have been used as field boundaries in Derbyshire and northern Britain for hundreds of years.
Please, please, please do not refer to them as 'rock fences' ......which are very modern and entirely different!!
Because I repaired it! :)
Nandu Uncle's old Rolleicord
The problem was that the Aperture and shutter speed levers broke so it was close to impossible to change the settings. I removed the front cover of the lens assembly and the case it was in, thus exposing the levers of the same. I manually marked it for the aperture and shutter speed.
Its still equally lightproof.
I also tried holding its carl zeiss lens to my DSLR body, and clicked the photo on the top right corner.
The lever still gets stuck at 1/2 and 1/25, but I'm going to keep that for some other day :P
I also cleaned the mirror and the viewfinder glass inside along with the Carl Zeiss lens.
The smell of the lens cleaning fluid is damn addictive...
I thought, yellow will be too much. It will make it look cartoony. Then I thought, it's a mecha hanger, cartoony isn't a bad thing. Underground at the farm can be a busy, noisy place. The pilot gantry is extended in this shot too.
n 1593. 20 October 1983.
AEC Regal III FF-14-35 at the headquarters depot of Carris, Lisbon, with some accident damage.
Event: Morris Minor Repairs - 12/10-03/11/24
Location: Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Camera: Pentax ME Super
Lens(s): 28mm f/2.8
Film: Ilford Delta 400
Shot ISO: 800 (+1 stop)
Light Meter: Camera
Lighting: Various
Mounting: Hand held
Firing: Shutter button
Developer: Ilford DD-X(1+4) for 10m 30s
Scanner: Epson V800
Post: Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop (dust removal)
Apparently you could get your tires repaired with hay and then striped here. Spotted on the east end of Navajo Blvd in Holbrook, AZ.
Repairs taking place at the old Independent Order of Odd Fellows Building. This was photographed on East High Street, Illinois Route 177 in Okawville, Illinois in Washington County.
just had to finish off 'roid week with my new favorite place on earth: the repaired deck at my lovely house
and tonight is exactly one month since my first night spent here at the house (two days after the sale finally went through), so a perfect way to celebrate!
Crews use large trees with root balls and various sizes of rocks to create an interlocking crib wall to protect SR 530 from Sauk River erosion at milepost 58.8.
Oooh, a puncture right outside the only bike repair station on the entire 10 mile route. Spooky huh?
I carry all the tools to effect my own repairs, but the track pump integrated into the stand was jolly handy to get the pressure to 90psi.
Situated just below The Collach on the Moray Coastal Trail is this clever Bike Repair Station. Fitted with a good sized pump and on the other side ......
Event: Morris Minor Repairs
Location: Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Camera: Pentax MZ-M
Lens(s): 28mm f/2.8
Film: Ilford Delta 400
Shot ISO: 800 (+1 stop)
Light Meter: Camera
Lighting: Various
Mounting: Hand held
Firing: Shutter button
Developer: Ilford DD-X(1+4) for 10m 30s
Scanner: Epson V800
Post: Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop (dust removal)
An unidentified Metroline (ex First) enviro 200 is seen undergoing some structural repairs at Metroline's "CELF" engineering facility
Sea Gypsies don't have a proper education, but their skill especially in the boat making is undoubtedly one of the best compared to those who studied at the university, if they given the opportunity to study further maybe they can built something that we have never seen before, there are a lot of boat making service on the Island of Mabul, some built a small boat and others a little bit bigger. They built their boat through years of experience and knowledge...
This poor 50mm f/2.9 trioplan somehow ended up with one (of 12!) iris blades dislodged and floating around loose inside the lens.
Event: Morris Minor Repairs
Location: Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Camera: Pentax MZ-M
Lens(s): 28mm f/2.8
Film: Ilford Delta 400
Shot ISO: 800 (+1 stop)
Light Meter: Camera
Lighting: Various
Mounting: Hand held
Firing: Shutter button
Developer: Ilford DD-X(1+4) for 10m 30s
Scanner: Epson V800
Post: Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop (dust removal)