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Light after storm.
Avondale Estates, Georgia, USA.
7 October 2021.
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1911 Baker Electric Special Extension Coupe, Model V
In the first decades of the 20th century, electric vehicles seemed poised for primacy. Early internal-combustion engines were rudimentary, dangerous, and difficult to operate, requiring all sorts of pump priming and starter torqueing. Those tasks were uncouth for the wealthy gentlemen who were the automobile’s first customers and downright risky for the era’s women, clothed in voluminous, billowing Edwardian dresses and patriarchal notions of competence. Electric cars, on the other hand, were extremely simple to use. So long as the heavy batteries were maintained and charged, all one had to do was click the on switch, twist the go lever, and roll.
Having founded the American Ball Bearing Company in 1895, Midwestern engineer Walter C. Baker understood the basics of carriage production. This background gave him faith that he could make the leap into car building. Teaming up with his father-in-law and brother-in-law, he started the Baker Motor Vehicle Company in Cleveland in 1899. Seeing the aforementioned advantages inherent in electric vehicles, Baker decided to place his faith in this powertrain.
“Number one, it’s comfortable, and it’s not terribly difficult to drive,” said Stew Somerville, a volunteer mechanic at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome museum in upstate New York, which holds a 1911 Baker in its eclectic collection. “But part of the attraction of the electric automobile was the fact that it did not emit gasoline fumes, you didn’t have to crank-start the engine, there was no big wheel to wrestle with. It was a very smooth-handling automobile. You didn’t even have a loud, offensive horn. There’s a dainty little bell to warn of its coming.” Period ads were frequently, although not exclusively, pitched directly at women.
Baker’s first car to market was a two-seater, the Imperial Runabout. Priced at a competitive $850, it was first shown in New York at the city’s (and nation’s) first auto show. It attracted a number of notable buyers, including Thomas Edison, who purchased one as his very first car. (Edison designed the long-lived nickel-iron batteries used in some Baker vehicles.) By 1906, Baker was, briefly, the world’s top producer of electric vehicles.
But like many of his cohort in the emergent automotive industry, Baker wasn’t just in it for the business. He was in it for the speed. As his company was enjoying success in the consumer market, he was pursuing his dream by developing a series of advanced, record-setting racing cars. His first, the Torpedo, was built in 1902, at great personal expense to Baker. With its 11 batteries, 14-hp mid-mounted motor, outrageously low-slung 48-inch height, streamlined and lightweight white-pine and oilcloth body, and bizarre webbed canvas seat restraints, it seemed poised to set a world land speed record.
Sadly, in that year’s Automobile Club of America speed trials on Staten Island, the car was involved in a disastrous crash. After crossing the 1-kilometer (0.6 mile) mark in just over 30 seconds, Baker and his co-driver lost control and crashed into a group of spectators. One person died at the scene, and another died later from injuries. The drivers were both arrested and charged with manslaughter but were freed when it was determined that the crowd had pushed past protective barriers and onto the course. (Baker’s innovative safety harness likely protected the car’s occupants from serious injury.)
Further attempts with two smaller, single-seater race cars he named Torpedo Kid were also employed in pursuit of the land speed record but were subsequently abandoned following another, nonlethal spectator crash in 1903. Baker has often been noted as the first person to cross the 100-mph barrier, although his records weren’t official due to these wrecks.
Given this peril, Baker decided to forgo his quest for top speed. As gasoline-powered vehicles increased in popularity and gained infrastructural support, he shifted his attention instead to diminishing the electric car’s liabilities, particularly their limited range. He worked diligently on new battery designs, shaft drives, and other componentry. In 1910, Baker’s new chief engineer, Emil Gruenfeldt, set a record for distance driven on a single charge, taking a Baker Victoria for a 201-mile trip at an average speed of 12 mph. Not exactly Ludicrous speed, but an impressive feat nonetheless.
Baker’s successes gave the company prominence among the elite, and the company capitalized on this publicly. In advertisements around 1909, the brand boldly boasted about the King of Siam owning a Baker. The company made a similar splash in American politics when President William H. Taft’s administration purchased a 1909 model as one of the White House’s first automobiles. (A steam-powered White and two gasoline-powered Pierce-Arrows were also included, Taft hedging his bets on how the battle of the powertrains was going to play out.) Taft later added a 1912 Baker Victoria that went on to be driven by five First Ladies. The Baker brand maintains some celebrity allure today, with car-collecting comedian Jay Leno holding a 1909 model in his expansive collection.
As a means of offsetting some of the powertrain’s inherent shortcomings, Baker made investments in battery-charging infrastructure. The brand announced plans to open stations at every major intersection in Cleveland and to grow the network from there, although this effort became cost prohibitive and never came to fruition. Expansion into the production of electric trucks, police patrol wagons, and even trucks and bomb handlers for the U.S. Army during World War I was not enough to fend off the rising dominance of the internal-combustion engine, especially after the proliferation of the electric starter, first available on the 1912 Cadillac, significantly increased safety and convenience. By 1915, the Baker company was defunct.
By Brett Berk, Car and Driver
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Clovercritters are A line of smaller, interactive companions. They can be worn, rezzed, renamed, made to wander around, interact with interactable items when wandering (Beds, food bowls etc), and emote (while wandering or on interactable items).
Each critter is exclusive, this means you can only get one kind, they will not be sold elsewhere, which is a unique color, or variation.
Come down to Clover and collect as many as you want!
New variations will be released regularly, as well as interactive
items!
When wandering this creature will wander, in a flat specified radius, not avoiding obstacles, It will go up to avatar, interact with interactive items, emote, and walk around.
When worn, this creature can be attached anywhere you want, moved around, and you can click it to set a different animation.
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Peaky Blinders - Canadian Version......
www.waymarking.com/waymarks/wm14H7M_Shelter_Almonte_Ontario
This sculpture (resembling a portion of a shelter used by indigenous peoples) was revealed in Almonte's Metcalfe GeoHeritage Park in 2019. However, Stephen Brathwaite's sculpture was originally commissioned more than a quarter-century earlier for the Canada 125 celebrations in 1992. In the 1990s, Shelter was located in Rideau Falls Park, near France's embassy to Canada.
Eventually, the Rideau Falls Park site of the sculpture was required for a building project so the National Capital Commission (NCC) moved the sculpture to NCC headquarters. When NCC HQ was renovated, the sculpture went into storage. For Canada's 150th anniversary, the NCC gifted the sculpture to the township of Mississippi Mills.
Shelter consists of sticks in an interweaving design intended to resemble shelters created by aboriginal peoples. Fifty-five faces cast in glass were added to the wood shelter. Those faces represent an age and gender balance and a cultural mix proportionate to the various regions of Canada.
When Shelter was restored and left storage for the park in Almonte, six more faces were added, members of the Mississippi Mills communities.
this is a digital version of the same scene. Previously I posted the film one. As it was captured using a vintage lens, the image still has some vintage charm and interesting color tones. At the same time digital version required a bit more work to prepare for publication.
Beethoven: Symphony no. 6 "Pastoral" (Furtwangler)
This composition will perfectly complement your experience.
Here is a film version. You can compare both and let me know which one you prefer.
If you have a chance to find a very positive and inspiring movie "The Green Beautiful" or "La belle Verte", you will enjoy it.
Smoke from forest fires throughout western and northern North America is spreading across the continent, requiring air quality warnings in communities hundreds of miles from the fires. This is one of the clearest manifestations of climate change to occur at least to date. The clear summer skies we've historically enjoyed will likely be more rare in the future. The new norm will be smokey skies during a progressively longer fire season, at least until most of the fuel is gone.
This view is of a light smoke layer in central Colorado, looking from the northern Sawatch Range towards the Gore Range, with Vail nestled in one of the distant valleys. The day before the Gore Range was only faintly visible, and on bad days this summer completely invisible from this vantage point.
This photograph required some planning and strategy. Rio Grande's double track mainline emerged from the small town of Thistle, Utah, heading in a due east direction with Soldier Creek sandwiched between the right of way and US Highway 6. During the month of June, the sun angle moves into the northern hemisphere, especially early and late in the day. By June 12th of 1977, the lighting was 'as good as it gets' on the north side of the Rio Grande Zephyr as it ducked beneath the US Highway 89 overpass on a gorgeous morning in Spanish Fork Canyon.
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for utata ip 322 which requires:
1. Something used for a past-time or hobby
2. Something which smells good
3. A dreamy processing style
One of my birthday presents from December was a small film scanner so I have been revisiting old shots I made in high school but never bothered to print as it wasn't required by an assignment or the yearbook (or I was too cheap to pay for paper and the chemicals). So have been finding some fun memories.
Here was our cat, Chester, peering through the chair at the desk dad had built. Magazines, books, and a cassette player (that I would use to make mix tapes with and record songs from the radio). Not quite sure how this look was achieved but it sure seems to be some sort of double exposure.
or...Nectaroscordum siculum, Allium nectaracsardium,
Allium siculum...take your pick!
texture thanks to TCP
June...a strange month...it begins with warm..dare I say 'hot' sunny weather...hmmm...I might need another summer dress!I so...I buy the required dress....and...the weather decides that cooler temperatures and thunderstorms....and torrential rain (on and off...you'll never know when it's coming) is what we need...aaaagh!! a typical British summer!!
we needed some rain for the garden....but...ENOUGH NOW! our Peonies have collapsed from so much rain :-(
"I know well
that the June rains
just fall."
Onitsura
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Having been required in the North East the previous day the royal train passes through Primrose Hill as ECS running as 1Z61 back to base .
The feather on the green signal means the consist will be routed via the old road missing out Sheffield and reappearing on the Midland Main Line north of Chesterfield .
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Market Day stalls and end of trading for the day. This is my home town of Newcastle-under-Lyme. Newcastle-under-Lyme town centre (traffic free zone) hosts a market on six days a week and operates from 9am to 4pm each day selling a wide range of goods. From 1871 there was a cattle market too, housed in the Smithfield
Cattle Market. But sadly that moved out of town to the outskirts of the town of Market Drayton some years ago, more space required.
49. A Civic/Government/Public Building - 117/2017
Market and Guild Hall info from BBC - Domesday Reloaded.
The first market place was in Upper
Green now the A34 Road. This moved to
the High Street about 1280. The whole of
the present High Street would have been
a Large Market place. In 1203 the
original Sunday Market was moved to
Saturday, then to Monday in 1590. In the
early 19th century, Saturday became a 2nd
market day and later Friday a 3rd. In
1853 the first covered market was built
to supplement the portable street
market and to offer a halfway house
between shop and stall. This was
replaced in 1963 by a more up-to-date
covered market.
Guildhall
Newcastle Guildhall was built by an
employers association in about 1235. It
was then that Henry III recognised that
Newcastle was more than an ordinary
market town and so granted the Townsman
the right to form a Guild Merchant. They
quickly became the most powerful
force, both economically and
politically, in Newcastle. Later on when
a town council emerged to administer
the town the Guild became less
important, but in a continuing memorial
the Town Councils meeting place has
continued to be called a Guildhall
rather than a Town Hall. The Guildhall
today, which is a little to the south
of the original site, is used for many
functions. Various organisations hire it
for many things from Jumble Sales to
plays. Whatever its many uses today it
is still a beautiful building which
dominates the Newcastle Market Square.
Photography is my hobby like many other people I have good days and bad days and sometimes an amazing day. I try to post various types of subjects and idea's that interest me and I am aware that I
naturally seem to be better at some styles than others. I look around Flickr and see some amazing
photography often wondering how it was done and envious of some of the locations. Any Help! comments/ tips/ tricks, criticism good or bad is much appreciated.
Website: www.karlruston.co.uk
I don't recall ever seeing a "Blood Moon" before but did see the one tonight. It was also a reminder that a long lens was required (which I don't have) but at least I have this image to show that I really did see it.
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 4th of June is “tiny-tiny” which requires a small object to be photographed alongside a larger object to help give the item scale. When I read the theme, I thought how perfect it was for me, and a few of my friends who also post to this group. Anyone who follows my photostream knows that I love and collect 1:12 size miniatures which I photograph in realistic scenes. The artifice of recreating in minute detail items in 1:12 scale always amazes me, and it’s amazing how the eye can be fooled. Therefore, when the theme came up, I immediately thought of some of my kitchen accessories. I settled on the idea of baking, as I had only a few days prior to the announcement of the theme received a pastry preparation board and tray of empty tart casings. I originally just had the floured board and the tray of tart casings which I photographed alongside my beloved and well used rolling pin to show the scale. Then I decided to add to it, so I have included a fluted teacup that could be used to cut the ruffled pastry casings, the flour, butter and jug of water needed to make the pastry, and some P. C. Flett & Co. jam and some Macfie’s treacle to fill the tarts with. I even included cutlery and a floral spoon rest in the shape of a teapot. The latter is less than half a centimetre in diameter to give you a clue as to how tiny-tiny these objects are! I hope you like my miniature whimsy for this week, and that it brings a smile to your face.
All these miniatures are 1:12 scale, and some are artisan pieces.
The pastry preparation board, complete with flour, cut and uncut pastry and the rolling pin come from Kathleen Knight’s Dolls’ House Shop in the United Kingdom, as does the accompanying tray of pastry shells. Both are artisan made pieces with amazing attention to detail.
The rather worn and beaten looking enamelled flour cannister in the typical domestic Art Deco design and kitchen colours of the 1920s, cream and green, has been aged on purpose. An artisan piece, it also comes from Kathleen Knight’s Dolls’ House Shop, as do the 1920s enamel handled spoons and knife, the floral spoon rest in the shape of a teapot, and the hand painted tray on which the butter sits.
The jug with its dainty rose pattern and gilt rim is made by M.W. Reutter Porzellanfabrik in Germany, who specialise in making high quality porcelain miniatures. The floral patterned teacup comes from an online miniatures stockist on E-Bay.
The butter is also an artisan piece that has been hand painted and printed. It comes from Mick and Marie’s Miniatures in the United Kingdom.
The tin of Macfie’s Finest Black Treacleand jar of P.C. Flett and Company jam are 1:12 size artisan miniatures made by Little Things Dollhouse Miniatures in Lancashire, with great attention to detail paid to their labels and the shapes of their jars and cans. Robert Andrew Macfie sugar refiner was the first person to use the term Golden Syrup in 1840, a product made by his factory, the Macfie sugar refinery, in Liverpool. He also produced black treacle. P.C. Flett and Company was established in Kirkwall in the Orkney Islands by Peter Copeland Flett. He had inherited a small family owned ironmongers in Albert Street Kirkwall, which he inherited from his maternal family. He had a shed in the back of the shop where he made ginger ale, lemonade, jams and preserves from local produce. By the 1920s they had an office in Liverpool, and travelling representatives selling jams and preserves around Great Britain. I am not sure when the business ceased trading.
One of my favorite catches of the 2022 summer vacations at my family up north.
SM42-349, the last of all SM/SU42 locomotives in PolRegio's fleet in the old Przewozy Regionalne's livery, was deployed for around 3 days in August to run one pair of trains on the Ostbahn between Chojnice and Tczew instead of a Pesa Link, which broke down. Here the evening train can be seen leaving Czersk on the way back to Chojnice, which once used to be called Konitz.
This required me to wake up at 4am to take a train from the tricity to the Ostbahn, spend a whole day there and return back home around 1am the next day, nevertheless I find that it was worth every drop of tear and sweat :).
Also check out the picture of the morning train in Starogard Gdański here
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
I almost didn't get this shot. I was feeling a little tired and lazy, and knew this shot would require waking at 4am, driving an hour, hiking a mile, waiting in the cold etc. My husband talked some sense into me and basically told me to suck it up. So he stayed back at the campsite with the kids while I trekked off on my own. So grateful for my husband who continues to support me, push me, and encourage even when the mom-fatigue threatens to take over. Of course, it ended up being an amazing, invigorating experience standing on this rock overlooking Moraine Lake at sunrise. There was an audible gasp from all the photographers around me when the rainbow appeared. It seemed too perfect to be true, and everyone just stood there in silence taking in the beauty of this incredible scene.
Getting this shot required about 2% of effort... 3% of patience... and 95% luck!
Getting out from the warmth of my bed well before dawn was the easiest part. The mostly clear sky wasn't looking very promising for a pink sunrise... but after a quick (strong) cup of coffee... there was no point in going back to bed.
I wanted to find something different to what I usually shoot when I'm in Greyton... but I didn't have a clue where to go... and the fact that it was still dark wasn't really helping me find to an interesting subject either!
So I did what I usually do... just drive around aimlessly... waiting for that little voice in my head to speak... saying things like "stop the car, I wonder what the view is like from the top of that hill?".
The little voice did speak... and I did stop the car and hike up a hill... and this is what I found when I looked over the top of it.
Hmm... nice tree! Pity about the hazy air though! I could barely make out any detail in the mountain when the dawn broke... and the whole scene continued to look flat and dull... despite a little bit of pink.
Damn... yet another fruitless shoot! The chances of this scene looking amazing were miniscule! I imagined how it could look if a beam of light came shining out between the clouds to light up just the tree and nothing else... but considering all my recent failures in communicating effectively with mother nature... I wasn't really expecting that to happen!
I've had too many fruitless shoots recently... my hit-rate has dropped to about 1 interesting photo to every 500 photos taken... which has even recently made me wonder if I should perhaps start thinking about maybe getting depressed about that!?
But that seemed like too much effort... so I decided to just stick around... enjoy the beautiful scenery and sunrise... and just maybe get lucky.
Mother Nature clearly felt sorry for me on Sunday morning... as she rewarded me for my patience and perseverance with this amazing spectacle!
The beam of light only lasted for about 5 seconds... allowing me to get only 5 shots... with only one shot where the spotlight was exactly on the tree!
What a "Hum-Worthy" moment that was... sometimes everything just falls into place perfectly... I was humming all the way on my hike back to the car!!
Nikon D800, Nikkor 24 - 70 mm at 38 mm, ISO of 100, aperture of f/14 with a 1/200th second exposure.
It's Sepia, need I say more!
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Explore, December 15, 2007