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Swatch Women's Pro in Trestles San Clemente with pro surfers /models Alana Blanhard, Lakey Peterson, Laura Enever, Sally Fitzgibbons, Coco Ho, Stephanie Gilmore, newcomer Nikki Van Dijk, and more!
The new Nikon D810 rocks for sports photography! New Instagram!
Goddess videos! vimeo.com/45surf
Nikon D810 Photos Pro Women's Surfing Van's US Open Sports Photography Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD !
I shot in DX mode which crops away the extra pixels and takes me 1.5X closer while allowing for up to 7 FPS with the Nikon D810's Nikon MB-D12 Battery Grip using the 8 AA battery option! 8 Duracels took me through around 3,000 shots no problem--maybe more! I was shooting at the equivalent of 900mm with the 1.5x crop factor! Pretty close! Had I gone with the Nikon D4s, I would have gotten 12 fps, but no DX crop factor, as the sensor has only around 14mp, compared to the d810's 36 megapixels! Sure the larger pixel size on the Nikon D4s full frame sensor comes in handy indoors or at night, but in the bright sun, there's more than enough light for the smaller pixels in crop mode! Sure we lose some pixels from the outer edges when shooting in DX crop mode, but most of those pixels would be cropped away in lightroom anyway. And the smaller files make the memory cards last longer, while also upping the FPS to 7 shots per second! Not quite 12 FPS, but still awesome and enough I felt!
What a beautiful way to test the Nikon D810 and Tamron 150-600mm zoom lens for sports photography!
Athletic graceful girl goddesses! Tall, thin, fit and in shape! Pro women's surfers form the van's us open wearing both long wetsuits and bikini bottoms with shorty wetsuit tops/summer wetsuits. Sexy, beautiful beach babes and water goddesses all! Many are professional swimsuit bikini / surf lifestyle models too!
Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD Autofocus lens for Nikon AF-D Cameras.
The new Nikon D810 rocks for sports photography New Instagram!
This is VC Tower, an interlocking rail station located slightly one block east-ish of Portland, OR's Union Station. My husband worked there during the 90s, and was present for its last throes of life.
The Tower finally closed in November of 1997, when the Union Pacific changed the operations of this tower from a local manual system to the automated process controlled by the huge centralized UP dispatch center in Omaha, NE. VC Tower at one time also served as a telegraphing office. The top floor contained all the big brass handled controls for signals and switches, as well as a direct phone line to the Steel Bridge, which was accessed by an old-timey style phone mounted to the interlocking machine on an accordion arm. The bottom floor contained the bulk of the interlocking machine.
The window at top left in the photo was used back in the day (before modern communication technology) to pass paper messages via pole to the train engine crew. The window came so close to the engine cab it seemed like you could almost reach your arm out and shake hands with the engineer. Sure, the engineer was separated by feet rather than inches, but I'd never been that close to a working, moving train in my entire life. It was nearly like a drive-thru window at Taco Bell - reflective of just how short the distance viscerally felt between the window and the cab.
The roar of the oncoming trains was awesome, sounding like doom pouring down a mountain: an avalanche of metal machinery bearing towards you over the tracks. The early 20th century brick building would shiver and shake as trains approached; it felt like the little tower was trembling in fear. It was amazing, really - experiencing the sensational rumble and energy-rich vibration from a train without physically being upon it impressed itself forever upon my memory. Previously having seen the engineers of trains solely pass by only in a blur, it felt unreal to me to examine their faces as something concrete and specific.
One of the neatest features inside the building was an old transit board, hanging above the windows, displaying the surrounding track that fell within VC Tower's control. It showed a bit of local rail history, containing mentions of switches and tracks that no longer existed, as well as prominently labeling the contents of the board as Northern Pacific property. The board would light up individual LEDs when and where a signal was active. There was also some sort of needled meter on the board, but not being a railroad employee myself, I can't say what the lighted meter was for - I only took notice of "oooh! shiny lights!" (I'm shallow, sadly, what can I say?)
The interior surfaces of the building were rather richly coated in the accumulated grease and dust of the century, and while exuding an ostensible tidiness, the room upstairs simply could not escape the dirt and grime of being railroad property. The guys who worked there didn't take any especial notice of this, so it's perhaps telling that I, as a female and an outsider to the job, DID notice this particular detail.
The guys who worked there in the 90s put up with one oddly similar working condition that film actors I've known do when they're on set - long periods of interminable boredom and waiting, punctuated by bursts of over-busy activity and hustling to get the work done. Those VC Tower guys unfortunately were also charged with chasing off trespassers/vagrants who might want to sleep on the tracks, which could be a scary and risky endeavor indeed.
One of the former VC Tower employees sued for injuries resulting from falling asleep and tipping over in his chair on-the-job, and he did so successfully.... It was a long-standing pejorative joke about the particular employee himself, which is why I think I got to hear of it.
This is actually the second VC Tower. The original was a wooden structure, with the brick structure built to replace the first. The scuttlebutt is that the wooden building burned down, thus necessitating a new tower. Railroader gossip also holds that VC Tower was one of the last of its kind, if not THE last, in the United States.
The real pity about the preservation of this building comes down to the utter neglect of the Tower's interior contents - while VC Tower was initially supposed to be preserved in whole, the contents of the structure were ultimately left to the homeless squatters who slept in the building rather than by the historical society officially charged with its preservation. This means much of the old documents and diagrams/blueprints were used up as toilet paper and/or scrapped material long ago by those myriad trespassers. Some of the old blueprints showed old city street/line planning and technical specifications that are now lost into the mists of history because they were not immediately conserved into a library. Instead they were left to sit inside the unguarded (officially protected by railroad police, but unofficially easily trespassable for anyone able to break a window) building for casual destruction. As it turned out, the only thing remaining inviolable is the brick structure itself. Lots of stuff is now disappeared, representing a real loss to both railroad history buffs and to historical preservationists of the City of Portland.
My information here comes either from railroader (specifically via pre-'85 guys from Portland) lore or from my own observations both current and when visiting my then-boyfriend/now-husband and his co-workers at work at VC Tower.
The VC Interlocking Tower is now being given new life thanks to Portland's TriMet light rail line - an article on this proposal has been written up in a Portland Tribune article. In particular I love that the PT article makes sure to mention and define the railroader slang of "foamer." It used to drive those poor VC Tower guys nuts when the foamers would give them such idiotic grief that they couldn't get inside the Tower to take a million pictures. In Great Britain they have "trainspotters," but in the U.S., we have their less passive cousins, the "foamers."
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Original date: Mar 25, 2016
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Swap was to make inchies for different celebrations in the month of July: National Hot Dog Month; Build a Scarecrow Day; Hug a Cow Day; National Blueberry Month; National Junk Food Day; Cousins Day; Independence day and National Ice Cream Month
Linda:
Shot with Pentax K-1000 with a Pentax 50MM F/2.0 on Kodak 160 vc-2. Scanned with Nikon Coolscan V ED. edited with Corel Photopaint.
Nikon D810 Photos Pro Women's Surfing Swatch Women's Pro Trestles Sports Photography With New Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD Lens for Nikon!
New blog!
I get a lot of questions here, so if you have one, please ask at the blog! Thanks!
Swatch Women's Pro in Trestles San Clemente with pro surfers /models Alana Blanhard, Lakey Peterson, Laura Enever, Sally Fitzgibbons, Coco Ho, Stephanie Gilmore, newcomer Nikki Van Dijk, and more!
The new Nikon D810 rocks for sports photography! New Instagram!
Goddess videos! vimeo.com/45surf
Nikon D810 Photos Pro Women's Surfing Van's US Open Sports Photography Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD !
I shot in DX mode which crops away the extra pixels and takes me 1.5X closer while allowing for up to 7 FPS with the Nikon D810's Nikon MB-D12 Battery Grip using the 8 AA battery option! 8 Duracels took me through around 3,000 shots no problem--maybe more! I was shooting at the equivalent of 900mm with the 1.5x crop factor! Pretty close! Had I gone with the Nikon D4s, I would have gotten 12 fps, but no DX crop factor, as the sensor has only around 14mp, compared to the d810's 36 megapixels! Sure the larger pixel size on the Nikon D4s full frame sensor comes in handy indoors or at night, but in the bright sun, there's more than enough light for the smaller pixels in crop mode! Sure we lose some pixels from the outer edges when shooting in DX crop mode, but most of those pixels would be cropped away in lightroom anyway. And the smaller files make the memory cards last longer, while also upping the FPS to 7 shots per second! Not quite 12 FPS, but still awesome and enough I felt!
What a beautiful way to test the Nikon D810 and Tamron 150-600mm zoom lens for sports photography!
Athletic graceful girl goddesses! Tall, thin, fit and in shape! Pro women's surfers form the van's us open wearing both long wetsuits and bikini bottoms with shorty wetsuit tops/summer wetsuits. Sexy, beautiful beach babes and water goddesses all! Many are professional swimsuit bikini / surf lifestyle models too!
Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD Autofocus lens for Nikon AF-D Cameras.
The new Nikon D810 rocks for sports photography New Instagram!
Waiting to be auctioned was this 1966 VC Valiant Sedan.
Taken at the clearing Sale Auction near Woomelang, Victoria in 2019.
VC-121A.
1954.
Leased to Pan Am as N9907F, then N9007E where it was transferred to govt of Thailand. Returned to USAF Jun 1955. Retired from USAF Apr 1968. To Christler Flying Serivice as N9463. Now registered to Columbine II of Santa Fe, NM, where it has been parked since 1998 when it returned from an unsuccessful sale at auction at Scottsdale, Arizona. Seen at Marana, Arizona in 2011.
Just thought I'd have a go at the Sherman VC Firefly seeing as it's basically British and I was bored of my standard Sherman.
I may be no athlete of a particular beverage but I reckon it turned out OK, although the other side of tracks isn't complete. But sshh ;)
Front sloping idea by Rumrunner
The VC-09 is a heavy frame designed and fielded by the shadowy sect known as "The Dissident". Building upon the design of the VC-02 "Deacon", the Solstice functions as a heavily armored frame capable of bringing heavier weapons to battle, at a cost of mobility.
The Solstice is fitted with an "Eye of Isis", a larger, deadlier version of a standard Ijad Stingbeam Sphere, and comes with reinforced armor plating fitted with heavy field dampener shields.
Additional Shots:
LFOW's Note: I was messing with some Ijad parts and came up with a very large version of Soren's Stingbeam sphere, and immediately had to try my hand at scaling up his famous Scrambler to fit it. I think it barely fits in MFZ's Solar Calendar (it's currently the size of my largest Ecclesiarch frame) but a little larger and I think it's minifig scale!
VC: Swap for Swap-Bot. "One Little, Two Little Twinchies." (One Haunted House and Two Wicked Witches)
Wednesday 30 September 2015.
Year 11 students from Brisane and regional areas came together for the Vice-Chancellors STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). The students are pictured with a robotic arm playing with the board game operation which was one of the projects for the week. Pictured from left to right are Paris Arens-Strelnikoss from Trinity Anglican School Cairns, Katelyn Dickinson from Mareeba State High School, Mikaylah Wall from Home Hill State High School and Simon Halavi from Trinity Anglican School Cairns.
Photo:QUT Marketing and Communication/Erika Fish.
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Lamentável tudo o que está acontecendo!!!!Nem tanto pelas fotos que vc publicou,pois todo mundo sabe e está vendo que os trabalhos são meus,mas pela capacidade que um ser humano como vc tem de se sujar diante de uma rede inteira,de provar sua incapacidade e seu desequilíbrio!!!!Vc,quando vai dormir,realmente acredita que as pessoas a invejam ou é mais um fruto da sua imaginação.Vc não se envergonha caso seus familiares vejam toda essa sujeira?QUE FEIO!!!!Vc acredita em Deus????Pq,caso não saiba,ELE TUDO SABE E TUDO VÊ!!!!!ELE È JUSTO e sua mão pesa sob aqueles que não seguem o caminho do bem.À mim vc não está fazendo mal algum,o dom está comigo e foi dado por Deus,mas à vc não posso dizer o mesmo.