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Kodak Portra 400 - Yashica Electro 35 CC
Snapped in Rethymno, Crete, Greece
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i'm at a loss of creativity these days.
anyway, layering of sx-70 blend film (bottom) and a time zero mis-shot.
Our grandson, who is about to turn three, helps make cookies by unwrapping pieces of candy. He was good at resisting the temptation to eat them!
this wasp was stripping the wood
wasp, any member of a group of insects in the order Hymenoptera, suborder Apocrita, some of which are stinging. Wasps are distinguished from the ants and bees of Apocrita by various behavioral and physical characteristics, particularly their possession of a slender, smooth body and legs with relatively few hairs.Jun 20, 2023
It seems the 5 Tuckers found in the warehouse is only part of an ongoing intrigue. Along with a number of other photos and documents found on the premises, these two transparencies came to light and caused a sensation in Elgin Park.
The entrepreneur, who back in 1950 clearly invested time, money and creative talent trying to produce a Tucker related vehicle, still remains unknown.
Aside from the What, Where, How and Why of it all is the burning question:
Do these two prototypes still exist?
Oh, the possibilities!
On a different note, the creation of these two front end designs were achieved by digging through my parts box plus a little bit of modeling.
The "prow front" was cobbled together by forming an arch out of thin styrene, fitted with a rounded vertical strip of plastic in the front, then placed over the center headlight.
The "bullet nose" style was created with a brass grommet and a hemisphere of styrene.
As for the egg crate grille, it was taken from a broken Cadillac diecast and trimmed to the appropriate shape.
The fender skirt is a piece of styrene fitted into the wheel opening and painted the body color.
A few other changes include;
- Removing the rectangular turn signals and substituting round, milk glass fixtures close to the headlights.
-Adding a short chrome bumper-ette above the grille on the Prow Nose prototype
and a long chrome bumper-ette that connects the two round turn signals on the Bullet Nose prototype.
-On both of the models, half bumpers were installed onto the main bumper unit for a more massive look.
-A chrome trim spear along the front fender and a chrome trim piece below the doors to create a longer, lower appearance.
-The air intake vent, on the rear fender of the bullet nose, was painted the body color to create a smoother appearance.
It was a very interesting project for me because the Tucker is such an iconic vehicle.
I wanted the alterations to be sensitive to the original Tucker/ Tremulis design, yet address the changing style that was starting to emerge in the industry at the time.
The colours wash away,
And the sounds fade into memory.
Your pale ghost...
With outstretched arms, tries to hide it all from passer-by.
This started as a test shot to set the exposure of the strip lights. In a subsequent shot I added a snooted light about 2 stops underexposed to the center of my face and my hands. Turns out I liked this contrastier version better.
Strobist Info:
Two Vivitar 285's left and right (both behind subject) fired inside DIY strip light fixtures.
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Paper: ca. 8 cm x 45 cm DC Kraft
Model: Shuzo Fujimoto
Book: Origami Foldings Twisted p. 64-65 for the strip and p. 46 for finishing of the stars.
Second time I folded this model. Folded it with the same stars as in the book, as I realized how to make the twists better. A bit smaller too. A wonderful model, a real pleasure to fold.
More sad news from Alaska this week as Frank Keller reported that the final AquaTrain sailed from Whittier to Prince Rupert ending just shy of six decades of service and wiping Alaska from Canadian National’s system map for the first time since 1962. So let’s take a look back at what was lost. After their first two decades of service the CN made a major commitment when they contracted with Shin-A shipbuilding to build the then world’s largest railcar barge at 400 ft long by 100 ft wide with a capacity for 45 standard 50 ft freight cars on eight tracks. Launched in 1982 and sailing from Prince Rupert, BC the AquaTrain offered the shortest railcar service to Alaska at only 600 miles slip to slip. At its peak the barge operated on roughly a 12 day cycle making 30 complete round trips to Alaska annually.
As a CN service the physical and paper interchange with the Alaska Railroad was Whittier northbound and returning southbound cars actually went off demurrage in Anchorage where they staged pending the next cycled arrival. Operated by Foss Maritime on behalf of CN she was towed by either the Justine Foss or the Barbara Foss, 4300 HP twin screw tugs both built in 1976 by Mc Dermott Shipyards of New Iberia, LA. At least for now Foss still lists this service on their web site and you can check it out here: www.foss.com/projects/case-study-topic-aquatrain/ And while the CN has deleted the AquaTrain service from their corporate home page this advertising video they produced less than a year ago can still be found here: vimeo.com/425592336
Anyway, my all time favorite image of this barge is this aerial view seen here: flic.kr/p/2iF4uR3
But looking back eight years prior here is a ground level shot on another typically gloomy day at the head of Prince William Sound. After the Barbara Foss backed the barge up to the slip a GP40-2 & GP38-2 duo in old school paint are reaching on to the barge with a handle of empty flat cars to begin the process of stripping (unloading) the arriving cars. In fact this was one of (if not the) first barges to use the new hydraulic remote controlled barge slip that replaced the old cable driven towers and winches that raised and lowered the slip and that came down only days earlier after a half century of service.
Visible to the left of the loco northeast about five miles across Passage Canal is five mile long Billings Glacier flowing down from the Chugach Mountains. This river of ice was named in 1908 by the U.S. Geological Survey for commodore Joseph Billings of the Imperial Russian Navy who commanded a Russian exploration and surveying expedition in the Bering Sea and North Pacific Ocean in 1791-92.
Whittier, Alaska
Tuesday August 03, 2010
Westcott 12x36-in RapidBox Switch with a 4-in Profoto OCF Stripmask on a Profoto A10 speedlight. This setup makes beautiful gradients.
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Apple iPhone 13 Pro Max.
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Model;- SB
Photographer:- Will
Location:- Her place
©Willie
Britannia Bridge (Welsh: Pont Britannia) is a bridge across the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales. It was originally designed and built by Robert Stephenson as a tubular bridge of wrought iron rectangular box-section spans for carrying rail traffic. Following a fire in 1970 it was rebuilt as a two-tier steel truss arch bridge, carrying both road and rail traffic.
The opening of the Menai Bridge in 1826, a mile (1.6 km) to the east of where Britannia Bridge was later built, provided the first fixed road link between Anglesey and the mainland. The increasing popularity of rail travel necessitated a second bridge to provide a direct rail link between London and the port of Holyhead, the Chester and Holyhead Railway.
Other railway schemes were proposed, including one in 1838 to cross Thomas Telford's existing Menai Bridge. Railway pioneer George Stephenson was invited to comment on this proposal but stated his concern about re-using the suspension bridge. By 1840, a Treasury committee decided broadly in favour of Stephenson's proposals, with final consent to the route including Britannia Bridge given in 1845. Stephenson's son Robert was appointed as chief engineer.
The design required the strait to remain accessible to shipping and the bridge to be sufficiently stiff to support the heavy loading associated with trains, so Stephenson constructed a bridge with two main spans of 460-feet (140-m) long rectangular iron tubes, each weighing 1,500 long tons (1,700 short tons), supported by masonry piers, the centre one of which was built on the Britannia Rock. Two additional spans of 230-feet (70-m) length completed the bridge making a 1,511-feet (461-m) long continuous girder. The trains were to run inside the tubes. Up until then the longest wrought iron span had been 31 feet 6 inches (9.6 m).
Stephenson retained the services of two distinguished engineers as consultants. William Fairbairn was an old friend of his father. Eaton Hodgkinson was a leading theorist on strength of materials. Hodgkinson believed that it would be impractical to make the tubes stiff enough, and advised auxiliary suspension from chains. However, Fairbairn believed chains unnecessary declaring:
Provided that the parts are well-proportioned and the plates properly rivetted, you may strip off the chains and have it as a useful Monument of the enterprise and energy of the age in which it was constructed.
The consensus of received engineering opinion was with Hodgkinson, but Stephenson, rather nervously, backed Fairbairn's analysis. A 75 feet (23 m) span model was constructed and tested at Fairbairn's Millwall shipyard, and used as a basis for the final design. Although Stephenson had pressed for the tubes to be elliptical in section, Fairbairn's preferred rectangular section was adopted. Fairbairn was responsible both for the cellular construction of the top part of the tubes, and for developing the stiffening of the side panels.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia_Bridge
Oneonta, NY. April 2024.
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These structures have now been stripped of all the working that were on top, hopefully they won't remove the whole structure as I love to photograpgh them as do many other people
Polaroid 103 Land Camera, Polaroid type 108 packfilm (expired 2000).
North Las Vegas, NV.
Shot during a photo outing with Kim Ulmanis.