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Acquired for operation of service 101/102 between Dumfries and Edinburgh which commences Saturday 1st April 2023 from Stagecoach is MCV Evolution bodied Volvo B7RLE WP12BUS in the depot of Houston of Lockerbie being prepared.
The image shows a region in the constellation with numerous galaxies and streams of IFN (integrated flux nebula).
The main galaxies in the frame are NGC 2629, NGC 2630, NGC 2631, NGC 2633, NGC 2634, NGC 2636, NGC 2641, NGC 2646, IC 2389, IC 511 and IC 520.
Data were acquired in December 2022 and January 2023 from my Bortle 4.5 site with a TS Photoline 130/910 and an ZWO ASI2600mm-pro.
420 x 180 s Luminance
105 x 60 s Red
102 x 60 s Green
98 x 60 s Blue
Recently acquired from Colas Rail Freight and the first of the GBRf 'Tugs' to be outshopped in its new owner's livery.
GBRf 60095 is seen heading through Broad Green with the early running 6F63 Ashton-in-Makerfield Kelbit Siding - Tuebrook Sidings empty aggregates.
This is a newflow - the origination of the aggregate being Shap Quarry and the loaded working runs overnight to Liverpool Tuebrook Sidings whereupon the train is split due to capacity issues on the branch at Ashton-in-Makerfield..
The two consists then form a morning and afternoon round trip to Ashton-in-Makerfield Kelbit Sidings for unloading before the empties are reformed as a single consist for the next working to Shap Quarry for loading.
Photo taken with iPhone.
Acquired Traits Natalia Fatale and Midnight Garden Aymeline looking sophisticated in silk sheath dresses.
Natalia wears hers with the jacket from Wicked Narcissism Eugenia while Aymeline paired her two tone dress with a sheer black blouse from the Social Behavior style lab outfit.
Thanks to a dear friend for the dresses and styling inspiration!
Another acquired slide by an unknown photographer. The only information I have is that the shunter is D3730 and that the photograph was taken on the 30th of September 1959.
The loco was allocated to St Margarets and the Clerestory coach seems to have an SC number so I think its a reasonable assumption this is somewhere in Edinburgh.
Not sure exactly what was going on there seem to be quite a few people leaning out of the coach next to the brake van.
Acquired from the outskirts of a midsize town, under quite a bit of LP, and with average to bad seeing conditions. Also, I had a moving dust particle on the camera window, that rendered my flats pretty useless. So a lot of manual work to recover 2.5 hours of data.
Acquisition details: LRGB (75:25:25:25), 5-min subs bin 1x1, with Apogee U8300, AP167 FLZ with 2x barlow (@f/14.4).
NASA image acquired July 12, 2011
If you have never been north of the Arctic Circle, it is easy to imagine that the “ice cap” at the top of the world is a uniform sheet of white. The reality, particularly during the spring and summer melt, is a mottled landscape of white, teal, slate gray, green, and navy.
The sea ice atop the Arctic Ocean can—as shown in this photograph from July 12, 2011—look more like swiss cheese or a bright coastal wetland. As ice melts, the liquid water collects in depressions on the surface and deepens them, forming melt ponds. These fresh water ponds are separated from the salty sea below and around it, until breaks in the ice merge the two.
Researchers on the NASA-funded ICESCAPE mission—Impacts of Climate on Ecosystems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment—have been examining melt ponds, the ice around them, and the waters below for three weeks, with three more to go. Carried by the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy, a team of oceanographers, marine biologists, and glaciologists are investigating how changing conditions in the Arctic affect the ocean’s chemical and biological makeup.
The science team collects water samples to examine water chemistry and to observe the colonies of plankton growing in the water and on the surfaces of the ice. Other instruments are used to assess how much and how far sunlight is penetrating into—and warming—the Arctic Ocean. Still others are measuring the current systems that move water from the depths to the surface, as well as horizontally across the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas.
Incidentally, the crew members in the photo are not harvesting data; they are collecting supplies. A C-130 airplane flew by earlier in the day, dropping a parachuted canister of hardware for fixing instruments and other machinery on the icebreaker.
NASA science writer Kathryn Hansen is blogging daily from the ICESCAPE cruise. Click here to learn some science, see what people are eating, and sample life on an Arctic icebreaker. You can also get a daily glimpse of the ice in the Arctic by clicking on the MODIS Rapid Response page.
NASA photograph by Kathryn Hansen. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.
Instrument: Photograph
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I recently acquired a stack of South Shore Line color prints taken by the late Bernie Smith between 1967 and 1971. Here's another action shot of Line Car 1100 at work, in this case near Hegewisch in March of 1967. Today the 1100 is preserved at Illinois Railway Museum along with several other pieces of South Shore equipment.
I acquired an Improved Conley Magazine camera recently and had it out last weekend for a test run. I originally found this same camera at an estate sale last summer, but it didn't have any of the plate holders and was relegated to a display piece. At first I didn't know what the camera was because it was unmarked, but after some research I discovered that it was a Conley. I was really intrigued by the camera's massive size so I picked it up. In the months following I kept searching online for another similar Conley that had the plate holders. As luck would have it, one popped up on Ebay recently for a decent price and I bought it. The camera came with 9 plate holders though it was originally equipped with 12. The camera is a falling plate design, that was originally intended to use glass plate negatives. I know glass plate negatives are still available, but I decided to run 4x5 sheet film through it for the initial test run. The plate holders fit in a channel inside the camera and are held secure by two metal rods and a wire spring is attached to the back of the camera to move the plates forward after each exposure. After you expose an negative you crank a lever on the side of the camera and the exposed negative falls forward into the front of the camera and a new negative is pushed in to position. All in all I was really pleased with how the images from my first test turned out...the sharpness and clarity are truly amazing for a 100 plus year old box camera. This image is a feed mill in the industrial district of Atchison, KS. Image captured using Foma 200 film and developed with Xtol at 1:1.
N524MC : Boeing 747-2D7B(F) : Atlas Air.
Originally Thai International's HS-TGC.
Acquired by Atlas Air in 1996, WFU in 2012.
My recently acquired Voigtlander Vitoret. These were made in West Germany between 1960-1971. It needed a bit of TLC when I got it, but it's ready to shoot. I have the DR version too, a true rangefinder with light meter and slightly higher shutter speeds, and with a Lanthar lens; however, I really like the simplicity of this one. I was also drawn by the Singapore Airlines sticker on the case. Maybe it belonged to someone from the cabin crew of one of their jets, and I like to imagine that this camera had some globe-trotting adventures.
Having recently acquired the new Nikon 200-500 it's been fun trying out new things. As someone who is used to shooting wide angle mostly, the zoom/telephoto stuff is fun too. Here is a grouping of fall color I found the other day....while this small image for the web doesn't do it justice, I think it will look pretty sweet on a 40x60 canvas or some slightly textured paper...
Noisy and blurry with a vignette thrown in too... But I know one person who likes it...
Me :-)
I've posted a NEW GALLERY and if you haven't seen Helen Suzanne's inspiring work before then you're in for a wonderful treat. I hope you can spare a few minutes to go and enjoy her photography.
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At the time when I acquired the exposures for this image, my idea was to produce a panorama. I did that and posted it to this photo-stream, but somehow I never really liked it. Too busy I think.
Recently, I reassembled the images into a panorama, and fiddled with that idea, and still did not like it, so I decided to crop the field and generate an image which emphasizes the reflection aspect of the scene.
The water in the reservoir is near it's lowest annual level and it is very clear, having had a winter to allow fine particles to settle to the bottom. I like the contrast between the color of the water and that of the sky. It's real. And the jet aircraft exhaust trail - what more could you ask for?
Unfortunately, it appears the target is me. See the tiny goggles and flying helmets ....View On Black
720 (YX09FLD) Route 21 at Ongar, Four Wantz
New to First Centrewest as DML44112
Previously at Metroline West as DE1678
The Main Library of Philadelphia has acquired many of my Philadelphia pictures. You can view them at:
Acquired from Hakos, Namibia in June 2024 using a William Optics GTF81 on a ZWO AM-5 and a Canon Ra camera.
Marshalls acquired the two youngest classic model Solos in the Travel Wright fleet after the latter ceased trading last April. YJ61JGZ (OP129) is seen as it heads through Car Colston just as the fog began to lift with the 10:50 Newark-Bingham 91.
Recently acquired Pentax KM.
The KM is very much like the K1000's I already have, but it has a self-timer and depth-of-field preview button. I was the sole bidder on eBay for $20 ($54.88 after shipping and taxes), so I'm happy to add it to my collection.
The shutter is working well on the camera, with correct speeds from low to high; however the self-timer is not working, which is not something I usually use. The meter is not working either, and I tried to solder the loose wire, but couldn't, and now the wire is too short; and that's okay, since the camera is mechanical and I'm used to shooting without a meter or can use a handheld one. The lens is in perfect condition, super smooth and one of my favorites; it's a SMC Pentax 55mm f/2, which I believe was a kit lens and never sold on its own.
Minolta X-300
Kodak 250D/5207
Home developed in Unicolor, remjet removal with baking soda
Pakon F135
I acquired this Pure Neemo body a while ago, mostly out of curiosity. Then I came across a Licca head, and so I seem to have a new doll...
I don't even know what particular Licca she is, but she's pretty and she has black hair.
The botanical garden is a photographers playground in spring. Loads of subjects. It took my quiete some tries to get a good composition on that one. But its always impressive what modern AF systems can do. No problem at all to keep the bee in focus.
I recently acquired a Revue Electronic C (of course, Alfred has one, see below), a local rebranding of the ubiquitous (and very nice) Cosina Compact 35 (here it is in its original manufacturer's brand: www.collection-appareils.fr/x/html/appareil-10729-Cosina_...) . It contained a roll of Agfa XRG 100 which I brought for developing. There was a bunch of family pictures that appear to have been taken in the '80s or early '90s by someone who was having a hard time with rangefinder focussing. This one is actually quite nice. Let's see whether I can get get it to the original owner. As for the camera, it will need the usual viewfinder cleanup and removing the oil on the shutter before it's good to go for a new lease of life.
Revue Electronic C with its Cosinon 1:2.7 f=38mm, Agfa XRG 100 developed by Foto Express on the Schweitzer Straße and digitalized using kit zoom and extension tubes.
Thank you everyone for your visits, faves and comments, they are always appreciated :)
A second visit to photograph the Kingfishers at the end of April. The day started overcast with very light rain. But the brightened up slightly.
The male Kingfisher landed on the perch and quickly Acquired its Target, A tasty Fish.
Only the male Kingfisher was seen throughout the day. But it was returning regularly to catch fish where it would dive and catch a fish for itself and then dive and catch a second fish before flying off.
Recently acquired Brickmanias new Frogskin camo figure... Congrats Lando it's a MASTAPIECE!!! You've improved so much on your previous figure and put a lot of effort into your creations and it's clear to see. Very happy with my new fig, and I strongly recommend it to any Pacific War enthusiasts out there. The figure officially comes with a custom netted helmet and a detailed card, but I didn't include them in the pic.
Hovering in position before dropping onto its prey,love watching these birds and on this occasion he found his target.
Acquiring some extra firepower and breaching tools.
(Apologies for the dust and picture quality, my setup is a little rudimentary at the moment).
Last week I acquired a Kodak Special Six-20 6x9 folder, with the Anastigmat Special lens. I'd been looking for a decent one for awhile (most have bellows like a sieve) and this one seemed like a decent candidate for restoration. (This is the camera: flic.kr/p/2mHW4G3)
This roll of test film was Tri-X 400, exposed at just under 200 ASA. The exposure here was 1/2 second at f16. The film was processed in Pyrocat HD. The Anastigmat Special lens appears to perform better at f16 than any aperture larger than that.
The negatives are acceptable for an 80 year old folder of this caliber, but not as sharp as what my Medalist II produces. Still, its a perfectly usable camera.
I acquired this beautiful Canon S II rangefinder at an Estate sale in Kansas City last week. I was first in line at this sale and was able to acquire all the items shown here plus two additional cameras. The interesting thing about this sale is that the pictures for the sale listing were very blurry and the camera had a Leica lens cap mounted on it. It took some detailed analysis of the picture to determine it was a Canon and not a Leica.
Shown here is the Canon S II (#19024) dated to around 1947. It has a 5cm Serenar f3.5 lens mounted on it. I was also able to acquire a 13.5cm Serenar lens with case, and a 9cm f4 Ernst Leitz Wetzlar Elmar lens. I was very pleased to also acquire the Ernst Leitz Wetzlar viewfinder that is mounted on the camera here. The camera came with the original leather case and an original Canon lens shade/filter holder. I've run two rolls of film through the camera and everything seems to work perfectly. I was very pleased with this find and acquisition.
Acquired from my amateur backyard observatory in Fremont, Michigan using a QHY11 Monochrome CCD/Takahashi E-180 using narrowband filters and captured over 5 nights, I started this project last year and it’s far from finished. Shown here is a Hubble Palette view of The Gamma Cygni Region covering 4.83 x 4.03 degrees of sky.
Total Integration Time 10 hours
The resolution is not the best either on Flickr or Facebook so I encourage you to view the image in this high resolution annotated view nova.astrometry.net/annotated_full/1152351
Prominent in this image is The Crescent Nebula NGC6888 over to the right, open cluster NGC 6874 top right, the sub-region Gamma Cygni Nebula IC1318A and part of the larger formation known as the Gamma Cygni Region (IC1318, or the Sadr Region). Just to the left of centre is open cluster IC1311.
Gamma Cygni/Sadr (bottom centre), the namesake star of the constellation of Cygnus the Swan. Very young for a star, a 12 million year old Supergiant and extremely bright. At a distance of 1,800 light-years, this young star easily outshines the vast majority of stars that are very close to the earth. In the study and classification of stars, Gamma Cygni served as an invaluable point of reference in contrast to other stars, allowing early astrophysicists the ability to develop an understanding of stellar evolution and a codified system of classifying all stars.
Image details
Location: DownUnder Observatory, Fremont MI
Date of Shoot: March 12th and May 29 2014, June 9th, June 19th, June 20th 2015
H-Alpha 230 min, 26 x 10 min bin 1x1
OIII 180 min,18 x 10 min 1x1
SII 190 min, 19 x 10 min 1x1
Equipment
QHY11S monochrome CCD cooled to -20C
Takahashi E-180 F2.8 Astrograph
Paramount GT-1100S German Equatorial Mount
Image Acquisition Maxim DL
Stacking and Calibrating: CCDStack
Registration of images in Registar
Post Processing Photoshop CS5
Blue and yellow again
In 1925, Welsh architect Clough Williams-Ellis acquired the site which was to become Portmeirion. He had been searching for a suitable site for his proposed ideal village for several years and when he heard that the Aber Iâ estate near Penrhyndeudraeth was for sale, he did not hesitate to make an offer.
He wanted to show how a naturally beautiful location could be developed without spoiling it, and that one could actually enhance the natural background through sympathetic development. The Aber Iâ estate had everything he had hoped for as a site for his architectural experiment: steep cliffs overlooking a wide sandy estuary, woods, streams and a nucleus of old buildings.
But the history of Portmeirion started long before 1925. The construction of Castell Deudraeth was recorded in 1188 by Gerald of Wales, who wrote: "We crossed the Traeth mawr and the Traeth Bychan. These are two arms of the sea, one large and one small. Two stone castles have been built there recently. The one called Castell Deudraeth belongs to the sons of Cynan and is situated in the Eifionydd area, facing the northern Mountains."
Castell Deudraeth was referenced again by the 17th century philologist, geologist, natural historian and keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Edward Lhuyd in 1700. Lhuyd recorded the name as Aber Iâ, stating " The Castle of Aber Iâ yet stood in ruined form overlooking the south western extremity of the peninsula".
In 1861, Richard Richards wrote a description: "Neither man nor woman was there, only a number of foreign water-fowl on a tiny pond, and two monkeys, which by their cries evidently regarded me as an unwelcome intruder. The garden itself was a very fine one, the walls of which were netted all over with fruit trees...Aber Iâ, then, gentle reader, is a beautiful mansion on the shore of Traeth Bach, in Merionethshire."
When Williams-Ellis acquired the land in 1925 he wrote, "a neglected wilderness - long abandoned by those romantics who had realised the unique appeal and possibilities of this favoured promontory but who had been carried away by their grandiose landscaping...into sorrowful bankruptcy." Clough immediately changed the name from Aber Iâ (Glacial Estuary) to Portmeirion; Port because of the coastal location and Meirion as this is Welsh for Merioneth, the county in which it lay.
His first job was to extend and convert the old house on the shore into a grand hotel. The concept of a tightly grouped coastal village had already formed in Clough's mind some years before he found the perfect site and he had quite a well-defined vision for the village from the outset.
Portmeirion was built in two stages: from 1925 to 1939 the site was 'pegged-out' and its most distinctive buildings were erected. From 1954-76 he filled in the details. The second period was typically classical or Palladian in style in contrast to the Arts and Crafts style of his earlier work. Several buildings were salvaged from demolition sites, giving rise to Clough's description of the place as "a home for fallen buildings".
"An architect has strange pleasures," Clough wrote in 1924. "He will lie awake listening to the storm in the night and think how the rain is beating on his roofs, he will see the sun return and will think that it was for just such sunshine that his shadow-throwing mouldings were made."
The first article about Portmeirion appeared in The Architects' Journal (January 6 1926) with photographs of scale models and preliminary designs prepared by Clough to impress potential investors. In this article, John Rothenstein writes: "On the sea-coast of North Wales, quite near his own old home, Plas Brondanw, he has acquired what he believes to be an ideal site, and he is engaged upon plans and models for the laying out of an entire small township. The results of his scheme will be significant and should do much to shake the current notion that although houses must be designed with due care, towns may grow up by chance."
The Hotel Portmeirion officially opened for the Easter Weekend, on 2nd April 1926. The last building, the Tollgate, was built in Clough's 93rd year.
Waking in Portmeirion
In 1925, Welsh architect Clough Williams-Ellis acquired the site which was to become Portmeirion. He had been searching for a suitable site for his proposed ideal village for several years and when he heard that the Aber Iâ estate near Penrhyndeudraeth was for sale, he did not hesitate to make an offer.
He wanted to show how a naturally beautiful location could be developed without spoiling it, and that one could actually enhance the natural background through sympathetic development. The Aber Iâ estate had everything he had hoped for as a site for his architectural experiment: steep cliffs overlooking a wide sandy estuary, woods, streams and a nucleus of old buildings.
But the history of Portmeirion started long before 1925. The construction of Castell Deudraeth was recorded in 1188 by Gerald of Wales, who wrote: "We crossed the Traeth mawr and the Traeth Bychan. These are two arms of the sea, one large and one small. Two stone castles have been built there recently. The one called Castell Deudraeth belongs to the sons of Cynan and is situated in the Eifionydd area, facing the northern Mountains."
Castell Deudraeth was referenced again by the 17th century philologist, geologist, natural historian and keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Edward Lhuyd in 1700. Lhuyd recorded the name as Aber Iâ, stating " The Castle of Aber Iâ yet stood in ruined form overlooking the south western extremity of the peninsula".
In 1861, Richard Richards wrote a description: "Neither man nor woman was there, only a number of foreign water-fowl on a tiny pond, and two monkeys, which by their cries evidently regarded me as an unwelcome intruder. The garden itself was a very fine one, the walls of which were netted all over with fruit trees...Aber Iâ, then, gentle reader, is a beautiful mansion on the shore of Traeth Bach, in Merionethshire."
When Williams-Ellis acquired the land in 1925 he wrote, "a neglected wilderness - long abandoned by those romantics who had realised the unique appeal and possibilities of this favoured promontory but who had been carried away by their grandiose landscaping...into sorrowful bankruptcy." Clough immediately changed the name from Aber Iâ (Glacial Estuary) to Portmeirion; Port because of the coastal location and Meirion as this is Welsh for Merioneth, the county in which it lay.
His first job was to extend and convert the old house on the shore into a grand hotel. The concept of a tightly grouped coastal village had already formed in Clough's mind some years before he found the perfect site and he had quite a well-defined vision for the village from the outset.
Portmeirion was built in two stages: from 1925 to 1939 the site was 'pegged-out' and its most distinctive buildings were erected. From 1954-76 he filled in the details. The second period was typically classical or Palladian in style in contrast to the Arts and Crafts style of his earlier work. Several buildings were salvaged from demolition sites, giving rise to Clough's description of the place as "a home for fallen buildings".
"An architect has strange pleasures," Clough wrote in 1924. "He will lie awake listening to the storm in the night and think how the rain is beating on his roofs, he will see the sun return and will think that it was for just such sunshine that his shadow-throwing mouldings were made."
The first article about Portmeirion appeared in The Architects' Journal (January 6 1926) with photographs of scale models and preliminary designs prepared by Clough to impress potential investors. In this article, John Rothenstein writes: "On the sea-coast of North Wales, quite near his own old home, Plas Brondanw, he has acquired what he believes to be an ideal site, and he is engaged upon plans and models for the laying out of an entire small township. The results of his scheme will be significant and should do much to shake the current notion that although houses must be designed with due care, towns may grow up by chance."
The Hotel Portmeirion officially opened for the Easter Weekend, on 2nd April 1926. The last building, the Tollgate, was built in Clough's 93rd year.
Acquired for operation of service 101/102 between Dumfries and Edinburgh which commences Saturday 1st April 2023 from Stagecoach is MCV Evolution bodied Volvo B7RLE KP12BUS in the depot of Houston of Lockerbie being prepared.
...100th view 3-27-20...
...200th view 4-6-20...
...300th view 6-8-20...
...400th view 3-2-21...
...500th view 5-2-23...
Acquired a vintage Soligor digital spot meter real cheap in for-parts-or-repair condition, fixed and CLA'ed it, and revisited the Zone System with it for a roll.
Pentax 67
SMC Pentax 67 55mm f/4
Fujifilm Pro 400H converted to b&w (expired for 2 years)
Self developed in CineStill Cs41, scanned with DSLR (Nikon D610 + Tokina 100mm f/2.8 macro lens).