A pious man explained to his followers: "It is evil to take lives and noble to save them. Each day I pledge to save a hundred lives. I drop my net in the lake and scoop out a hundred fishes. I place the fishes on the bank, where they flop and twirl. 'Don't be scared,' I tell those fishes. 'I am saving you from drowning.' Soon enough, the fishes grow calm and lie still. Yet, sad to say, I am always too late. The fishes expire. And because it is evil to waste anything, I take those dead fishes to market and I sell them for a good price. With the money I receive, I buy more nets so i can save more fishes.

~Anonymous

(as told by Amy Tan in 'Saving Fish from Drowning')

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Scale by Kola

Scale Force near Buttermere. A stunning little corner of Cumbria.

Aletta Jamerson in "Counter Strike" © 2019.

My kitchen scales at home.

Miniature man or giant doll-house (or Advent treat box ;)

1:1 with minifigures. ALL of these kits require some kind of stock part with them to work.

the wee figures give a nice scale me thinks

1/6 scale... for my girls...

Ordinary things seen in extraordinary ways.

Scale insect (Coccoidea)

Red Sands sea forts abandoned in the middle of the Thames Estuary. Designed by Guy Maunsell, they were military bases in WW2 used to shoot down aircraft and stop mining in the channel.

Just a bit upstream, this creek is quite peaceful, slowly, and lazily negotiating its way around stones, cliffs and the like. But at one point, as if by a change of heart, it makes a run for it, and the quiet babbling quickly becomes a roaring crescendo, ascending in intensity, as the water loses height, one step at a time.

Bandai 1/48 scale Snowspeeder. Blur effects were captured completely in camera, with diorama background taken from Star Wars: Battlefront.

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It occurred to me that I hadn't taken a good scale photo with the minifigs in front.

So here it is.

LE SCALE

Le scale

questi ansanti tabernacoli bianchi

marmi sui quali gli umani

pavimentano l’anima.

Scale fatte d’aria

dove non ruotano i venti.

Scale adorne

che separano i ferrati dai lenti.

Scale in stile gotico, apostolico

che non portano a Dio

né alla sacralità dell’Essere.

Scale intime, abissali

sotto boschi

dove urlano i corvi.

Le scale

questi penosi tabernacoli bianchi

dalle antiche radici di ferro

che non danno colore

non spargono odore

a chi stringe più in alto lo scettro.

Luciano Nota

I felt like building some more micro scale T-formers, so I decided on Shockwave. Consists of 30 pieces and transforms from robot to tank without adding or taking away parts.

Too many ideas for my own good.............

I've been wanting to take pictures of my teeny tiny Silverbeam ponies for a while now :) they are perfectly 1:4 scaled. I hope the colors on these turned out okay, I edited them on my laptop and its a color gank :/

Playing with scale

Cappella Bizantina

Chiesa di San Nicola dei Greci, meglio conosciuta come la Chiesetta dello Spedale in quanto pare che, durante il regno borbonico, questa fu trasformata in ospedale per offrire cure ai meno abbienti. Originariamente, la chiesa era parte integrante di un monastero bizantino, ma oggi ne rimangono solo pochi ruderi, all’interno dei quali sono rimasti intatti gli affreschi della cappella principale dell’antica chiesa bizantina, nei quali è ben visibile l’effige di San Nicola.

Eastern Water Dragon at Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra

#Zodiac

waage libra scales

Extreme close-up of the wing of the beautiful Buff-tip moth

One thing that is always surprising me when building models in the same scale is when you see them side by side, especially from different eras. My latest, the YF-23 next to my C-47 (also undergoing upgrades).

A single seater fighter and a cargo transport, and guess which is bigger?

Both 1/72 scale

The window of the house but.

Extreme close-up of the wing of the beautiful Buff-tip moth

I never realized how many interesting buildings and views there are in the town I live in until I seriously started to scout around for backgrounds.

The one thing I have to do is wait until the shops close so there aren't any cars or trucks mixing in with the Elgin Park vibe.

Usually early in the morning or on the weekends is the best time.

The Holidays, though, are great because everyone leaves town so the streets tend to be empty.

When I was young, I would purposely take walks by way of short cuts and back alleys to avoid seeing people. It gave me the impression that I was the only person around.

But I must add here, I liked the fact that I could walk by an open window and hear a radio or a muted conversation, or off in the distance I could hear a train rolling by.

How interesting that decades later I would be photographing such scenes.

I know, I know, perhaps I should see a therapist. Actually I did but there were no inroads made on this particular subject.

Just think, if there were, Elgin Park might not exist!

Now that's a scary thought.

Here is the completed image:

www.flickr.com/photos/24796741@N05/11594728873/

Marine Air-Ground Task Force half-tracked APC.

MAGTF set

this lovely falls is hidden away but worth finding

Female Iceryine Scale Insect (Icerya sp., Monophlebinae, Margarodidae).

Fogo-apagou (Columbina squammata). (Lesson, 1831).

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A macro image of the arrangement of scales on a wing of a moth camouflaged on a algae grown rock.

Here is link to the moth image

www.flickr.com/photos/karthikakm/24624570390/in/dateposte...

The view you get to see through view finder is even more stunning. Making macro is always difficult,fun and exciting.