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Those glass cubes, I believe, were windows onto something below, and I wish I had taken a picture of the sign or something so I'd be able to say what they were for. I saw on the Internet the other day that they might be looking down at the foundations of an old town hall.
The brown metal-looking thing on the ground is the outline of a former German air raid shelter from World War 2.
Also, look at the pattern on the roof of that church!
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If you do not live on the east or west coast and the temps soar into the 90's, what do you do? You grab your favorite floatation device, a couple of friends, drinks, snacks, and head to the nearest creek. It seems that a lot of folks around this area already have those items at there disposal, and all they needed was a reason. Thus the event "Swatty Float" was created by Triston Vinson and Shaun Caraby that was held to celebrate Independence Day weekend on Sunday July 5th, 2020. Staying high and dry, Rick "Beetle" Bailey of #bbphotographer58 and #My4one2 wondered around the launching site and up on the bridge to get some photos of people having the time of their life. #StayActive #RuLockedIN #LockedINMagazine #GetLockedIN
Common Brown (Heteronympha merope). A great many butterflies accompanied us on our walk to Green Hillock. [Kanangra-Boyd National Park, NSW]
Julian is a very easy person to work with. Pull up to a spot, he straps his skates on, handles business and works on it until it is correct. Well done Backside Royal in an abandoned building I use for many different types of shoots.
those eyes..
dead and soulless as i,
those eyes..
torture and kill
those eyes..
will be my death
someday
those eyes will always
remind me
of innocence..
"Truth Festival"
August 22, 2008
Plaza Rajah Solayman
Those blurs behind the table are Andy and Ralph. Andy was showing off DIY photographic lighting techniques. But that steering wheel/antenna looking thing up front is actually his steadying rig for shooting non-jiggly iPhone video.
I'm not even going to try to clean up this scan. This shot ended up about two stops underexposed, because some hyper little rugrat kicked my tripod and I had to cut the exposure short. Stretching the contrast back up reveals every horrible little bit of dust and gunk adhering to the glass of my scanner.
I don't know if you other film shooters have read this, but it's one of the most depressing, yet accurate things I've read in a long time.
This young girl was doing her weekly washing at the river.
She was pleased to pose for a portrait, once I promised to make sure she got a copy.
An abandoned factory
This abandoned factory was pretty cool tho , there was a lot of stuff still inside here. But damn i hated those pigeons in here...
For those who are comfortable doing their map stitching in Photoshop, but for whom the GDAL tools for creating an online version of that map (a tileset) are a bit overwhelming, it does work to just take your Photoshop map and upload it to Knitter: cartagen.org/maps
Here's an example:
cartagen.org/maps/lima-morflex-nrg
then i pressed Export in the upper right corner, and it generated a GeoTiff (a geo-tagged Tiff), a TMS tile service, and an OpenLayers viewer:
cartagen.org/tms/lima-morflex-nrg/openlayers.html
This makes sense because Knitter is built on GDAL -- however, it can be a much easier interface for creating all the export formats.
It's also just a great way to share your maps online -- sometimes if you send a link around to a gigantic TIFF file you made in Photoshop, it crashes peoples' browsers when they try to open it... yikes.
The International Peace Garden is a 3.65-square-mile (9.5 km2) park located adjacent to the International Peace Garden Border Crossing along the Canada–United States border between the province of Manitoba and the state of North Dakota. It was established on July 14, 1932, as a symbol of the peaceful relationship between the two countries.
The slogan Peace Garden State originates from the International Peace Garden, and was added to vehicle registration plates of North Dakota in 1956, In the next year, the North Dakota Legislative Assembly made the slogan an official state nickname.
The park plants over 150,000 flowers each year. Main features of the garden include an 18-foot (5.5 m) floral clock display, and fountains. A chime, and twin 120-foot (37 m) concrete towers straddled the border with a peace chapel at their base; the chapel walls were inscribed with notable quotes about peace. However, the concrete towers had been declared unsafe due to irreparable weather-related erosion and were demolished in 2017. As of 2018, a new tower was slated for construction on the spot.
The Arma Sifton bells are a chime of 14 bells cast by Gillett & Johnston bellfounders. The bells were a gift from Central United Church of Brandon, Manitoba, in 1972. The tower was supplied by North Dakota Veterans and dedicated in 1976. Some building remains of the World Trade Center attacks of September 11, 2001, have been placed in part of the garden.
The Masonic Auditorium, built in the shape of a Masonic Square and Compasses, was completed in 1981 as centennial project of Grand Lodges of Manitoba and North Dakota and features seating for 2,000 people. The Peace Garden Lodge of Freemasons holds an annual communication on the property. The officers, ritual and program are rotated each year between the Grand Lodges of Manitoba, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Saskatchewan.
The Peace Garden hosts two youth camps every summer, the International Music Camp and the Legion Athletic Camp. Additionally, it has hosted the International Hamfest, an Amateur Radio meet-up, every year since 1964.
Located at the garden is the North American Game Warden Museum.
The park lies near the center of the Turtle Mountain plateau, whose climate, topography, wildlife, and natural vegetation differ considerably from the surrounding prairies.
The park is located north of Dunseith, North Dakota, at the northern terminus of U.S. Highway 281 in northwestern Rolette County. It is also adjacent to the southeast corner of Turtle Mountain Provincial Park in the Municipality of Boissevain – Morton, south of Boissevain, Manitoba, at the southern terminus of Manitoba Provincial Highway 10. Paid admission is required.
Visitors from either country can enter the park via US 281 or MB 10, without passing through customs, and may move throughout the park (crossing the international boundary at will) without restriction. However, the International Peace Garden Border Crossing stations for Canada and the U.S. are located on the roads just north and south (respectively) of the access drives for the garden, requiring all visitors – including those returning to the country from which they arrived – to go through the immigration procedures of their destination country upon leaving the garden.
International Peace Garden Airport is located to the east of the garden on the U.S. side of the border.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Peace_Garden
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St Mary's church in Huntingfield is one of those you simply have to see if you're in the area, and I'd frustratingly been only a village away on a previous expedition a year before (then looking at a church which disappointed me) without realising how close I was to something far better, so this time I knew I couldn't miss it again!
The reason why it shouldn't be missed becomes apparent once you're inside, otherwise the exterior doesn't prepare you, looking like a fairly ordinary 15th century church with some nice flushwork on the porch. The west tower is quite plain aside from a few accents of flushwork, however it did make a refreshing change to see a nave attached to it with aisles on both sides after the last few churches I'd just seen.
Inside everything looks bright and cheerful, the pleasing whiteness of the walls dispels any gloom and the north arcade of the nave with its square piers and round arches is a remnant of the Norman building. And then you look upwards and a riot of colour awaits! The entire roof of the nave and chancel ceiling beyond are a delicious display of colourful patterns, angels and saints, all painted over a seven year period by the vicar's wife, Mildred Holland in 1859-66. This really was a labour of love and the legacy she has left is astonishing, rendering what would have been a fairly ordinary space a sight you won't soon forget. She was apparently unaided in her work beyond help with erecting scaffolds, so this dazzling display is all her vision and countless hours of patient attention to every detail . The nave is mostly adorned with patterns and a few small figures of apostles, whereas the chancel has the most memorable design with its central panels of kneeling angels against a rich blue ground. The roof-beams feature angels carved in the same period (replacing lost originals?) and are similarly coloured and adorned. It was all done for pleasure, and pleasure it continues to give.
There are a few other features of note, a fine late medieval font at the west end is crowned by a tapering late 19th century cover, itself a memorial to the artist who enlivened the church's ceiling (though one might argue the ceiling performs this task better; reader, if you seek a monument look above you!). There are some nice Victorian carvings on the bench ends and a few pieces of ancient glass (that I managed to overlook completely) in the south chapel. A few monuments to the local landowners can be seen in the chancel, including a plain tomb which fills the former Easter Sepulchre recess, still showing some vestiges of its ancient mural painting.
Huntingfield church needs to be seen to be believed, it was a delight even on this dull afternoon, the low light subdued its colours somewhat but it still impressed, so I can only imagine how joyous it would look on a sunny day. I shall have to return in brighter conditions. It is happily normally open and welcoming and deserves to be visited and enjoyed.
For more see its entry on the Suffolk Churches site below:-
Those were the days! Hawker Siddeley Aviation Trident 2E. Way ahead of her time with hands-off blind landing capability. I had the pleasure of flying a former BEA Trident simulator a few years ago (G-AWZQ) and flew the infamous 10,000ft per minute descent with airbourne reverse thrust.
I always think Pr1mo has the looks and the brains and Rocco just isn't the average dog you're going to fall for. But his eyes sometimes hit me rockbottom, they are so intense and you always have to watch them very good because the slightest change can tell that he's going to act in a way we don't like.
But I (we) love him, although he's difficult and can be a pain in the butt and never be trusted with other people.
Lately I've been experimenting with Fantasy Photography, this image was very much inspired by Frozen, a fantastic movie by Disney.
it was a big event of Taipei automobile exhibition every yesr, I took a day to take those beautiful car models,volvo girls were best of this time of car models show
"ART IS NEVER FINISHED, ONLY ABANDONED."
Okay, so one thing I'm learning after my first week or so in Lightroom and Photoshop is that you can literally image edit forever. There comes a point where for better or worse, you have to call it done. It's hard, because there's always one more little thing you'd like to change. As for this photo of Colby, I felt the 'final' edit in the post below was a little too harsh. I lost his skin tone in trying to recover the washed out areas that had been over exposed in the straight out of the camera shot. I'm going to call this the 'finished' edit, although I'm beginning to believe more and more, that these things are never really finished... you just come to a point where you have to let go.
DAY 2 Of Brands Hatch and the Masters Historic Festival. After a fantastic day of Qualifying on the Saturday it was time for each driver to turn up the Heat and head out onto the Race track ready to put their machinery to the test and see who will come out victorious in each of their respective categories.
Gentlemen Drivers-Race 1
The Gentlemen Drivers Race saw a lot of action thought the 90 minutes of track action with many different cars and drivers taking part.
In First Place was (James Cottingham) in his Shelby Cobra with a best lap time of 1:43.987 a Lap that even Carol Shelby would have been Proud to see.
In Second Place was (J Pearson and Brundle A) in their shared Jaguar E Type with a best lap time of 1:43.509. That Jag really knows how to roar around the Grand Prix Circuit.
In Third Place was (Spears J and Needell T) in their shared TVR Griffith 200 with a best lap time of 1:44.352 An Impressive Lap for the Griffith Engine.
An Amazing Race for the Gentlemen Drivers Series and no doubt their will be even more battles to look forward to as the season progresses.
Equip Libre-Race 2
Equip Libre saw a lot of action taking place during Qualifying with al different cars trying to achieve Pole Position for this Race. From MGB GT'S to Jaguar E Types taking part.
In First Place was (Tom Smith) in his MGB with a best lap time of 1:52.526. British Leyland would have been proud to see that Car Win.
In Second Place was (Alison C and Thompson P) in their shared Shelby Cobra with a best lap time of 1:50.621. Carol Shelby would have been looking down and smiling over that one.
In Third Place was (Willmott J and Willmott H) in their shared Austin Healey 3000 with a best lap time of 1:52.576. That Healey looked to be flying around the Grand Prix Circuit.
Every Driver Looked to be pushing hard this year so lets see what else the season brings.
Masters Endurance Legends-Race 2
The Masters Legends always bring a lot of noise and excitement to the Grand Prix circuit and to see them once again after so long was a real treat for all Motorsport fans alike. Lets see what Happened during the Race.
In First Place was (Steve Tandy) in his Lola Judd B12/60 with a best lap time of 1:23.217. Eric would have been cracking open a beer in celebration seeing his car cross that finish line.
In Second Place was (Shaun Lynn) in his BR01 with a best lap time of 1:23.433 A Tremendous effort especially during those times on track trying to catch and pass Steve Tandy.
In Third Place was (Mike Newton) in his MG Lola EX257 with a best lap time of 1:27.178 The colour and the livery design of this car is just so stunning to look at. Definitely one of Eric Broadly's Best.
A Really Amazing Race to watch with every driver pushing their Machinery Hard and trying to achieve that points finish. This season is turning out to be one of the History books.
Masters historic Formula 1-Race 7
The Formula 12 cars of the 60's 70's and 80's were about to head out onto the circuit and from the loud revving of the engines in the pitlane it sounded like these Guys were ready for some serious Competition between each other. Lets see what happened.
In First Place was (Steve Hartley) with his McLaren MP4/1with a best lap time of 1:23.009. James Hunt would have smiled and said now that's how you are meant to drive this car.
In Second Place was (Lukas Halusa) in his McLaren M23 with a best lap time of 1:25.563 James Hunt would have really been joyful about seeing a McLaren 1-2 finish on the podium together.
In Third Place was (Mark Hazell) in his Williams FW08C with a best lap time of 1:26.013. Frank would have thought who is that lunatic driving one of our cars.
A Really Amazing Race for the Historic Formula 1 Championship and a real showing of just how powerful and capable these cars of their era were. Lets hope that each drier can push hard this season and see who will be the bravest and fastest in terms of wining the Championship.
Historic Sports Cars-Race 6
Historic Sports Cars were up next and it was time to see what the Cars of the Sports 60's-70's could get up to on the Grand Prix circuit. With Powerful V8'S and V6 Engines the Grid was shaping up to be a really Epic Race of Power Ability and Talent to Tame these beasts.
In First Place was (Alex Brundle) in his Lola T70MK3B with a best lap time of 1:30.550. Eric would have raised a Glass or two to that Magical Victory and very well deserved Win.
In Second Place was (Nick Sleep/Martin Stretton in their shared LolaT70MK3 putting in a best lap time of 1:32.184 Another Really Proud moment for Broadly seeing tow of his creations coming Frist and Second.
In Third Place was (Henry Fletcher) in his Chevron B19 with a best Lap time of 1:32.094 Avery Strong and Powerful Drive thought the Race From Henry.
Amazing Drives from each Driver and a well deserved Win for Alex Brundle. Hoping to see more of him behind the wheel taming that Beast as the season progresses.
Masters Pre 66 Touring Cars-Race 4
Touring Cars from Pre 66 were up next and this series of Race cars were really going to be showing what it was like during the time of the Early Touring Car Era. From Falcons to Cortina's and much more. What Happened? Lest find out.
In First Place was (Thomas j and Lockie C) in their Ford Falcon with a best lap time of 1:48:064 That Falcon was flying and Ford would have been proud to see one of their Cars take the Victory.
In Second Place was (David Conyne) in his Ford Mustang with a best lap time of 1:49.156 A very Fast and Respectable Drive from David really showing what the Mustang is capable off.
In Third Place was (Roy Alderslade) in his Lotus Cortina with a best alp time of 1:49.373 Colin Chapman would have been very pleased to see his car once again on the podium and being raced like it should be Raced.
An Awesome Race for the Pre 66 Touring Cars and a very well deserved Victory for Thomas and Lockie who drove like mad in order to Win the Race. Lest hope that they can keep this sort of Speed up thought the Remainder of the Season.
Pre 66 Mini's-Race 11
The Mini's were once again back at Brands Hatch and during their time out in Qualifying were putting in some respectable lap times thought the Session. Now it was time for the Race and to see who would be Victorious on the track and who would loose out.
In First Place was (Ian Curley) In his Austin Mini Cooper S with a best lap time of 1:49.811 He really knows how to take a Mini to the edge and More when it comes to being behind the wheel.
In Second Place was (Ollie Streek) in his Austin Mini Cooper S with a best lap time of 1:50.399 Another Very Fast and Capable Lap during the Race and a really tight battle with Ian Curley at the front as well thought.
In Third Place was (Page J/Page M) In their Austin Mini Cooper S with a best lap time of 1:51.422. Still some work to be done but a very commendable effort by both and a really well driven race too.
A Fantastic Day of Pre 66 Mini's and a very well done to Ian who put on an incredible show batting with the likes of Ollie thought the Course of the Race. Hope to see more of this action as the season continues.
A Huge Congratulations to all of the Race Winners and a very big well done to those who finished Second and Third. Keep pushing hard and cant wait to see it all again next year were maybe we may have some new Winners and Champions in the Mist waiting to be Crowned.
our Clif Bar group order just came in, and in case you didn't already know... these are tasty.
my only regret is that i hadn't known of the tastiness of the clif shot blocks prior to the order, otherwise i would have been ALL OVER those. OMG... omg.