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Found this fuel-level gauge at an antique store in Portland, ME. It was used to measure fuel levels in the 150,000-gallon fuel storage tanks at the Portland-Montreal Pipeline tank farm in South Portland. Debbie gave it to me as a birthday gift, and I decided to make it into a coffee table. Since it weighs 78 ponds, I needed a particularly dense base to keep it from being top-heavy. Eighty pounds of concrete later, along with a wooden sand-casting form, an acrylic rim and some heavy lifting from my friend Mike Libby, Step-by-step images follow the finished images.
The queue in front of the Natural History Museum on a Sunday in sunny London! Now as a Dutch woman I'm quite used to queueing when things are for free, so I just got in line ;-)
Oh, and the spelling of the word queueing is just amazing!
The afternoon when I first ascended the new tower (upon the pinnacle of Mount Mitchell) I did rejoice; I was very nearly alone. Gone were the crowds of years past, the roaring masses that had a way of making nature feel like a night out at a singles bar.
There was but one man standing upon the carapace of the tower, a workman and his tools. He greeted me with a hearty nonchalance and was eager to be disposed, I had no trouble keeping him out of my view. He told me of his job up there, and it was a story I found to be most peculiar:
The outline carved in cement before you here, that is obviously the state of North Carolina, with a four pointed compass setting. The man (I'm afraid I didn't get his name) was standing there, waiting for his caulk to dry. He had, about an hour before my arrival, replaced the four brass compass directions into their slots on the concrete. The great slab had been in place weeks before, but a surveyor decided that it wasn't going to be as accurate as was wished. You see, the compass points were aligned with magnetic north on the first emplacement, and the surveyor wanted it to be pointing towards "true north".
So here, great denizens of the state of North Carolina, your tax dollars at work for the greater good of all: A construction crew was drawn all the way back up the mountain, heavy equipment and all. The slab was removed from its foundation, moved a fraction of an inch, and replaced. Then the letters, obviously removed in said moving, were being reset. All in the name of...a retentiveness of a sort I shall not full describe.
So now you know; and when you next arrive at the tower, you will have a tale of your own to pass on to a stranger. But one last passing note: if the compass is in perfect alignment now, won't that make the state crooked? Oh, dear...
Canon EOS 1V
Canon EF 35 mm f/1.4 II
Kodak UltraMax (@ 400)
Developed by Conns Cameras
Scanned with Canon EOS 1D X Mark III
Processed with Negative Lab Pro
Montoya, New Mexico.
Route 66 (Alignment 1926-1962) - I-40 Frontage Rd (near I-40 / US54 Entrance 311).
Meal for family near remains of the old gas station & store.
Montoya, New Mexico.
Route 66 (Alignement 1926-1962) - I-40 Frontage Rd (près de la I-40 / US54 Entrée 311).
Repas pour la famille, à proximité des vestiges de l'ancienne station essence & magasin.
On and off the Mat
The New Year brings with it a fresh start. A reboot. An opportunity to refresh your daily agenda. A chance to change directions. An excuse to Re:Align.
Work less. Eat better. Travel more. Start a business. Volunteer. Save Money. Get Organized. Read more often. Learn a new language. Lose weight. Master Photoshop. Get a promotion. Reconnect with old friends. Run a marathon. Write a book. Launch an app.
No matter what 2014 has in store for you, we wanted to help make that happen. Re:Align wasn't a program for the faint of heart. It was an opportunity for kickass women with big dreams to hit the ground running. And that they did!
Congratulations ladies!
The Crescent Beach Swing bridge is ready for the morning Amtrak Cascades service.
The swing span dates from 1914 although it has only been in place here since 1962. It was recently refurbished and is to remain after the wooden trestle is replaced next year.
Plant fossils in the Pennsylvanian of Ohio, USA.
"Carbonization" refers to fossils that are preserved as dark, flattened, carbon-rich films. This is a common preservation style in plant fossils, but some fossil animal groups are usually carbonized - for example, the graptolites.
The abundant plant fossil fragments shown here are in siliciclastic sedimentary rocks of the Pottsville Group, a Pennsylvanian-aged cyclothemic succession in eastern Ohio that contains nonmarine shales, marine shales, siltstones, sandstones, coals, marine limestones, and chert ("flint"). The lower Pottsville dates to the late Early Pennsylvanian. The upper part dates to the early Middle Pennsylvanian. The Lower-Middle Pennsylvanian boundary is apparently somewhere near the Boggs Member (?).
Notice that many of the elongated plant fragments are oriented more-or-less parallel to each other. This is the result of current alignment, probably in an ancient fluvial environment.
Stratigraphy: nonmarine siliciclastics above the Lower Mercer Shale, Pottsville Group, Atokan Stage, lower Middle Pennsylvanian
Locality: Rock Cut railroad cut - talus piece from a small, spring 2017, mass wasting pile along the southern side of Ohio Central Railroad tracks (west of milepost 134), ~southwest of Copeland Island & south-southeast of the town of Dresden, northern Muskingum County, eastern Ohio, USA (~vicinity of 40° 04’ 24.41” North latitude, ~81° 59’ 11.25” West longitude)
Combining the last two photo negs on the enlarger, aligned so the eyeball ring is positioned in the shadow of Jacob's socket. Fun in the darkroom.
On and off the Mat
The New Year brings with it a fresh start. A reboot. An opportunity to refresh your daily agenda. A chance to change directions. An excuse to Re:Align.
Work less. Eat better. Travel more. Start a business. Volunteer. Save Money. Get Organized. Read more often. Learn a new language. Lose weight. Master Photoshop. Get a promotion. Reconnect with old friends. Run a marathon. Write a book. Launch an app.
No matter what 2014 has in store for you, we wanted to help make that happen. Re:Align wasn't a program for the faint of heart. It was an opportunity for kickass women with big dreams to hit the ground running. And that they did!
Congratulations ladies!
"To take a photograph is to align the head, the eye and the heart"
"Una buena fotografia solo puede hacerse colocando la cabeza, el ojo, y el corazón en un mismo eje"
Henry Cartier-Bresson
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Photo: MyslowParade
Model: Rafael Ginel
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Plusieurs monuments parisiens dans le même axe : l'arc de triomphe de l'Étoile, l'obélisque de la Concorde, le bassin octogonal des Tuileries... Et "Magna Mater" des Frères Chapuisat.
At the Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway there is track renewal taking place at Dolarddyn Curve. New, S30 profile, rails are being laid on baseplates and composite reinforced plastic sleepers using screws. The screws are inserted using a Bance petrol powered impact driver.
In order to invent new materials to use in better batteries, solar cells and other technological advances, scientists must delve deeply into the nanoscale—the nearly atomic scale where structures determine how materials react with each other. At the nanoscale, anything can happen; materials can change colors and form into astonishing structures. These are some of the results from studies at the nanoscale.
ABOVE: Nanofabrication of aligned carbon nanotubes in patterned structure.
Artist/Researcher: Junbing Yang
More information on Argonne National Laboratory.
Clear Aligners are transparent trays made of special material which are used to straighten teeth just like braces. Know the benefits of it. Read the blog!
By Junbing Yang
Scientists grow these extremely tiny "nanotubes" out of carbon for a variety of technologies. Carbon nanotubes are already in electronics, boat hulls, tennis rackets, wind turbine blades, and more, but researchers have many more ideas for future technology. This is an image straight from a scanning electron microscope without any alteration.
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Controlled growth of aligned carbon nanotubes in different patterns.
Walking on the roads of Greenwich, I turned my head towards these windows just as the lights in both the floors lined up. Thought it'll be a fun shot, considering that moving a foot on either side made the lights completely out of line :)