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South Stack is famous as the location of one of Wales' most spectacular lighthouses, South Stack Lighthouse. It has a height of 41 metres (135 feet). It has a maximum area of 7 acres.
Until 1828 when an iron suspension bridge was built, the only means of crossing the deep water channel on to the island was in a basket which was suspended on a hemp cable. The suspension bridge was replaced in 1964, but by 1983 the bridge had to be closed to the public, due to safety reasons. A new aluminium bridge was built and the lighthouse was reopened for public visits in 1997. Thousands of people flock to the lighthouse every year, thanks to the continued public transport service from Holyhead's town centre.
There are over 400 stone steps down to the footbridge (and not, as local legend suggests, 365), and the descent and ascent provide an opportunity to see some of the 4,000 nesting birds that line the cliffs during the breeding season. The cliffs are part of the RSPB South Stack Cliffs bird reserve, based at Elin's Tower.
The Anglesey Coastal Path passes South Stack, as does the Cybi Circular Walk. The latter has long and short variants; the short walk is 4 miles long and takes around two hours to complete. Travelling from the Breakwater Country Park, other sites along the way are the North Stack Fog Signal station, Caer y Tŵr, Holyhead Mountain and Tŷ Mawr Hut Circles.
Robert Stack was born in 1919 in Los Angeles, California. His parents divorced when he was a year old, and he was raised by his mother, Mary Elizabeth (née Wood). His father, James Langford Stack, a wealthy advertising agency owner, later remarried his mother, but died when Stack was 10. He spent his early childhood in Adria and Rome, becoming fluent in French and Italian at an early age, and did not learn English until returning to Los Angeles when he was seven. He took some drama courses at the University of Southern California, where he played on the polo team. Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy were family friends who often took him hunting and fishing. By the time he was 20, he had achieved minor fame as a sportsman. He was an avid polo player and shooter. His brother and he won the International Outboard Motor Championships, in Venice, Italy, and at age 16 he became a member of the All-American Skeet Team. He set two world records in skeet shooting and became national champion. He took drama courses at Bridgewater State University, a mid-size liberal arts school located 25 miles southeast of Boston. His deep voice and good looks attracted the attention of producers in Hollywood. During World War II, he served as an Aerial Gunnery Officer and gunnery instructor in the United States Navy. He was awarded the World War II Victory Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, American Campaign Medal, Expert Rifle Ribbon and Expert Pistol Ribbon.
In his first film he played the character of Ted Drake in First Love (1939). In his first Western film he played Jim Holliday in Badlands of Dakota (1941). He appeared in Western films with: Richard Dix, Ann Rutherford, Broderick Crawford, Andy Devine, Jackie Cooper, Ralph Bellamy, Mickey Rooney, Wanda Hendrix, Robert Preston, Joan Taylor, Robert J. Wilke, John Doucette, Virginia Mayo, Ruth Roman, Raymond Burr, Leo Gordon. Some non-Western films he appeared in were: The Mortal Storm, The High and the Mighty, Good Morning Miss Dove, Airplane, Caddyshack II, Joe Versus the Volcano. His final film appearance was as The Gooch in Killer Bud (2001).
He made his first appearance on TV in an episode of Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1951). He appeared as a guest on other shows, but not in any Westerns. He is mostly remembered for playing the part of Eliot Ness in The Untouchables (1959-1963). He was the voice of Stoat Muldoon in the animated series Butt-Ugly Martians (2001). He hosted/narrated the true crime series Unsolved Mysteries (1987-2002). For 30 episodes he was the voice of Bob the Narrator on Disney’s animated series Hercules (1980/81). He portrayed Captain Frank Murphy in the series Strike Force (1981/82), Captain Linc Evers in the series Most Wanted (1776/77) and former federal agent turned true-crime journalist Dan Farrell in the series The Name of the Game (1968-1971). His final work on TV was as the voice of Reynolds Penland in an episode of King of the Hill (2001).
The Piikani Nation of the Blackfoot Confederacy, which was known as the Peigan Nation before the 1990s, honored him by inducting him into their chieftainship in 1953 as Chief Crow Flag.
His film and TV career spanned 62 years, during which he made more than 40 films and made many appearances on TV. In 1957 he won the Golden Laurel Top Male Supporting Performance Award. In 1960 he won the Primetime Emmy Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Series Award, and was also awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in motion pictures. In 1971, he was inducted into the National Skeet Shooting Association Hall of Fame. In 1981 he was inducted into the California Skeet Shooting Association Hall of Fame (inaugural class). In 1996 he was awarded a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars. In 1999 he received the John F. Kennedy National Award. In 2000 he won the Golden Boot Award. In 2001 he won the Temecula Valley International Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award. His autobiography, “Straight Shooting,” was published in 1979.
He said about his role in The Untouchables: “Well, I come from a military family. Whether it's the country or city, I never liked the bad guy. I never put my arms around John Gotti, Al Capone or Lucky Luciano. For me, very simply they were the bad guys. And when I did The Untouchables, I told them going in, ‘If you try apologizing for any of these crumb bums, get someone else to play the part.’.” He also said: “As a matter of national survival, we need to do the best we can to sponsor the good guys and to do something active about bringing down the bad guys.” In a 1998 interview with The Associated Press, he said: "Somebody once said, ‘You really think you're Eliot Ness.' No, I don't think I'm Ness, but I sure as hell know I'm not Al Capone.' "
He underwent radiation therapy for prostate cancer in October 2002 and died of heart failure on May 14, 2003 at the age of 84. He and his wife, Rosemarie, had been married for 47 years at the time of his death.
He was an actor who didn’t take life in Hollywood too seriously. He said: "It's all malarky; even the wonderful part is malarky”. In life, and in the business, he was a nice guy and a professional, who followed the advice Clark Cable gave him when he was first starting out: “You're gonna be one thing: A pro. Show up on time, know your lines. ... And if you ever become a thing called a celebrity - a word I hate - if you ever do, and you use that power to push people around, I'm gonna kick you right in the (expletive)."
Books I have yet to read...I try not to buy more books, I really do! ...so I get some off Freecycle :P
Some of these are signed: Barbarians and Who Murdered Chaucer by (Monty Python's) Terry Jones, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson, plus 24:16 by (racing driver) Derek Bell.
There are actually some books that didn't make it to the stack, but I can't get them all out *again* for a big group picture so I might make a second stack photo.
Oh, and this doesn't necessarily count books that I'm in the middle of reading.
Seeing as I'm currently confined indoors with a potentially fatal dose of man flu I thought I'd have a go at a couple of photo stacks.
This one was about 80 photos done with a £30 focus rail from e-bay a Sigma 105mm and Raynox 250
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Another image from my recent trip to Dorset. My son and i walked over the headland from Swanage to Old harry Rocks and spotted this along the way. The light play out at sea adding some drama to an already dramatic scene.
South Stack is famous as the location of one of Wales' most spectacular lighthouses, South Stack Lighthouse. It has a height of 41 metres (135 feet). It has a maximum area of 7 acres.
Until 1828 when an iron suspension bridge was built, the only means of crossing the deep water channel on to the island was in a basket which was suspended on a hemp cable. The suspension bridge was replaced in 1964, but by 1983 the bridge had to be closed to the public, due to safety reasons. A new aluminium bridge was built and the lighthouse was reopened for public visits in 1997. Thousands of people flock to the lighthouse every year, thanks to the continued public transport service from Holyhead's town centre.
There are over 400 stone steps down to the footbridge (and not, as local legend suggests, 365), and the descent and ascent provide an opportunity to see some of the 4,000 nesting birds that line the cliffs during the breeding season. The cliffs are part of the RSPB South Stack Cliffs bird reserve, based at Elin's Tower.
The Anglesey Coastal Path passes South Stack, as does the Cybi Circular Walk. The latter has long and short variants; the short walk is 4 miles long and takes around two hours to complete. Travelling from the Breakwater Country Park, other sites along the way are the North Stack Fog Signal station, Caer y Tŵr, Holyhead Mountain and Tŷ Mawr Hut Circles.
86 images stacked, el nikkor @ F/5.6
This little bee was caught in Utah when i was visiting family. I was hunting for some jumpers and noticed a snap dragon flower moving around wildly. Curious I peeked inside the flower and noticed this little guy stuck between the two pedals. Apparently it was just a bit to big. I cut the flower and put it into a container to take with me on my drive home. I thought it would be the perfect test subject so here it is
(as a side note this is my largest stack yet....)
These are all ready for their corners. Fun to see how each block would turn out with the two sets of stacked fabric :)
Stack of $20 bills.
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The concept of stacking two twisted is also possible for hexagonal twists. This is one molecule.
Folder: Dirk Eisner
Kami
Stacks of memories through this door which was once the entrance to Collingwood Library - including to a dusty stack
© Anne Holmes
Elegant stacked wedding cake, too bad we didn't get a photo with the cake topper of flowers on it....
oh, ya, its show off.
Overwhelmed with the overflow. Another weekend of suspense and i'll be at peace or not.
The average American spends 2.5 hours per day driving. In Europe, its less than 2 hours. Which means, the average car stands around unused for more than 20 hours each day, taking up valuable space which could be used for urban housing or gardens.
Is it really such a clever idea to make everyone own a car that is idle more than 80% of its lifetime, depletes natural resources, and pollutes the atmosphere? Wouldn't it make more sense to invest in a tightly woven, reliable public transportation network which offers comfort as well as working or resting opportunities while traveling? And complement this by an equally tightly woven bicycle lane network? Wouldn't the average American (or the average human) be healthier if they walked to the bus stop or train station for, say, 10 minutes, then took a 30 to 40-minute ride, and walked another 10 minutes to their work place? Instead of entering the car in front of their door, cursing traffic jam while on the way, riding into their car park at work, and then driving to the gym at night to spend extra time on the treadmill to get some exercise? Or, for those who live less than 5 miles from their workplace, wouldn't it be healthier and less stressful to ride the bike to work for half an hour twice a day - at least when it's not pouring, freezing, or scalding hot?
Focus stacked in Element 12 with plug-in.
using two images should have been 3 as mid ground is not sharp. Still its a economic way to get focus tacking in Photoshop Elements. using smart phone to control camera on low tripod. with out having to get on my knees I could adjust position of camera on tripod looking at phone screen.
Double stacking at Statfold Barn. No 2 'Howard and No 4 'Trangkil' head towards the Pirate Ship loop whilst No 13355 'Saccharine' & No 2 'Prince' waits its turns.
Statfold Barn Railway - Trangkil’s 50th anniversary celebration gala.
Workers monitor the upper instrumentation payload stack for the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission (MMS) as it is lowered toward the mission's lower stack in the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Florida, near Kennedy Space Center. MMS consists of four identical spacecraft that will work together to provide the first three-dimensional view of magnetic reconnection, a fundamental process which occurs throughout the universe. Launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is targeted for March 12. To learn more about MMS, visit www.nasa.gov/mms. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
The Anaconda Smelter Stack is 585 feet (178.3 m) tall. It consists of a brick chimney (555 ft, 169.2 m tall) and a concrete foundation (30 ft, 9.1 m). Though no longer in use, it is the tallest surviving brick masonry structure in the world.
Stacking of 8 pictures with different focus.
You can access the original picture here www.flickr.com/gp/npittet/fzRfLN
Another stacking fabric. Instead of having all of the horizontal and vertical lines, I wanted to have some diagonal lines in the blocks, so I cut the strips at a 45 degree angle. Looks like I'll have a lot of different star shapes in the blocks. If I'd been cutting this piece in the regular way, I'd have 22 blocks. Cutting on the diagonal gave me 18 blocks and I do still have the second half of the fabric left.
Latest iteration of my macro stacking setup. Canon 50D, Canon MT-24EX macro flash, Asahi Pentax Auto Bellows, Surplus Shed 172mm achromat lens, and Nikon CFI Plan 10x/0.25 objective. Taken with an Olympus 1030SW (forgive quality).
The 172mm lens is mounted inside 9mm (inside metal collar sanded to fit) and 30mm M42 extension tubes and a 16mm tube is between the body and bellows. Adapters used are Nikon M25 to 52mm, 42mm to 52mm set up ring, and Canon EF to M42. Inside metal surfaces are lined with ProtoStar Hi-tack flocked light trap material.