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A 1985 ZIL-4104—built as a Soviet state car for dignitaries—spotted on the street in Downtown Fort Worth, Texas.
The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called zils. I never knew that!
My granddaughter got out her tambourine for me to use this week.
HMM!
Macro Mondays: Member's Choice - Musical Instruments
Massive shoutout to Jazzliebhaber for giving me this top tip.
And Victor Lysenco for helping me find these. Make sure you check their photo streams. Both are amazing car spotters and super awesome guys!
The title, "The Zil" pulls my brain in the direction of a nice dark Italian red wine called the "The Zinfandel". How it could jump from "The Zil", a Russian military truck sat rotting in the woods of North Wales, to a nice glass of wine is hard to explain but I suspect some minds work differently to others. And I must point out, we see things differently too.
I recently looked a bit more closely at some pictures on flickr and thought they looked faded, too light, the colours not saturated enough. But when I looked at them on another PC they looked fine. And suddenly it has worried me. When I view my shots on my phone they seem darker and some of the detail is lost in the shadows. And that's what troubles me about this pic. I wanted it dark, but not too dark as there is a lot of detail in the shadows.
How do we know when our screen is set so that it gives the same amount of brilliance and contrast as someone else? Is there a test you can do to set your screen up to a common industry standard?
Answers please!
Quite interesting truck with pre-1977 grille, long wheelbase (such version was made by ZiL but never went into mass production) and Meiller loader crane
Scale model of the iconic Soviet truck. The scale is about 1:35.
All parts exist in right colors, so the model can be built.
Designed in 2019.
Mecabricks: mecabricks.com/en/models/X8jO504QaYJ