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Tent pegging!
The specific game of tent pegging has a mounted horseman riding at a gallop and using a sword or a lance to pierce, pick up, and carry away a small ground target (a symbolic tent peg) or a series of small ground targets.
"The Dirty Urchkins," Central Park Mall, Central Park, Manhattan, New York.
Canon EF 135mm f/2L USM
©2013 Patrick J Bayens
On a late August trip to the French Alps with BenjaminBarakat, Sadeq Hayati, and Jeremy Singer, we discovered a tranquil mountain lake that acted as a flawless mirror. Orion rose about an hour before dawn, but it wasn’t until after the end of the dark night that it aligned perfectly above the peak of Aiguille Verte.
To capture this alignment, I kept shooting well into the astronomical twilight. By then, the sky had turned a deep blue, and the growing daylight softened the contrasts. Yet, thanks to my narrowband filter, I was still able to record the vivid red hydrogen emission nebulae - visible even in the reflection.
The interplay of red and blue hues, accented by the faint yellow glow on the horizon, makes this one of my favorite images from that magical night.
EXIF
Canon EOS-R, astro-modified by EOS 4Astro
Sigma 28mm f/1.4 ART
IDAS NBZ filter with Canon EF-EOS R drop-in adapter
iOptron SkyTracker Pro
Sunwayfoto T2840CK tripod
Foreground:
Stack of 5x 60s @ ISO1600, f/2.8
Sky:
Stack of 7x 30s @ ISO1600, f/2.8, clear filter & 3x 90s @ ISO6400, f/2.8, IDAS NBZ
Reflection:
Stack of 5x 12s @ ISO6400, f/2, clear filter & 3x 90s @ 6400, f/2, IDAS NBZ
Sometimes the stars align and...
...the sky conditions are perfect
...the monorail stops in the perfect spot
...an epic photographic opportunity is created.
Magic Kingdom | Space Mountain
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The Krkov-Pilaniek revolving rifle is a true oddity in the world of firearms. While it may look like a bolt action rifle with a revolving magazine, its actual operation is much odder. The "magazine" is actually a rotating system of open-topped compartments that fit closely against the walls of the drum, and each of these compartments is filled from the top with loose powder and ball. The "bolt" serves as both a ramrod and a breech face, and is both used to move loads from the magazine into the chamber and to block the chamber while the round is fired. The weapon is readied by bringing the ramrod assembly to the rear, pressing the drum rotator located in front of the trigger to align a new chamber with the ramrod, pushing the ramrod home and turning the handle down to lock it, and then priming the percussion lock with a percussion cap. This allows for a higher rate of fire (roughly six shots a minute from an eight-shot magazine) than a contemporary muzzle loading rifle.
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I may not be so inactive after all, guys. I'm getting quite a bit more free time now, but exams are looming so don't hold your breath.
El campanar romanic de Ribera de Cardós emula el pic del Puitavaca, dominant sobre la vall de Cardós.
L'església de Sta. Maria de Ribera de Cardós conserva prous elements romanics, com la porta, una absidiola i notablement el ferm campanar. Aquí vista des de l'Hotel Cardós, on varem passar una setmaneta de vacances.
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribera_de_Card%C3%B3s
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_de_Ribera_de_Card%C3%B3s
www.aldeaglobal.net/artmedieval/Santa%20Maria%20Ribera%20...
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The romanesque bell-tower of Ribera de Cardós church, in the Catalan Pyrenees, aligned with the mighty peak of Puitavaca.
The church of Ribera de Cardós, in the Catalan Pyrenees, retains part of its romanesque structure, specially the bell tower.
www.aldeaglobal.net/artmedieval/Santa%20Maria%20Ribera%20...
(page in Catalan)
After spending 11 hours on the road driving back to Taos from DFW after seeing the eclipse, friends, and family, I almost didn't want to grab my camera for this alignment...but I love it when things align themselves so nicely. The next night I knew the moon would be way too high, so I captured this after getting the telescope and all the bags out of the car.
This is a stack of 5 images taken with 3.2-second exposure and a dark frame to help reduce the signal-to-noise ratio, stacked in Sequator for 16 seconds of integration time.
Consecutively serialled F-16AMs of the Belgian Air Force pass the spectators at the 2014 Kleine Brogel event.
They are FA-106 and FA-107.
Kleine Brogel, Belgium
12th September 2014
20140912 IMG_5056
Norita 66 • Noritar 1:2 80mm
Agfa Copex Rapid ACR 50 ISO film in Caffenol CLCN 16.5min @ 20°C
Scanned with Plustek OpticFilm 120 at 2400dpi with Silverfast AI Studio 9
Luxembourg
Caffenol CLCN
500 ml Filtered Water
5gr Anhydrous Washing Soda
1gr Vitamin C
8gr Instant coffee ("Cora")
10 slow inversions then 3 times every 5 minutes for 16.5 minutes, fixing 60 sec.
This was taken last November during Thanksgiving weekend. Was an amazing mix of low fog, high clouds, and crescent moon rising. There were at least 3 levels of epicness from twilight all the way to sunrise.
Happy Holiday! :)
Focus could be better but I like the composition.
Thanks all for the well-wishes on Explore 03/13/2025! -L B
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A most Happy Mother's Day to all who have brought (slid) into the world the light of life!
And Happy Sliders Sunday!
- I saw this in the sky, something I never seen before. The clouds were all aligned into stripes or bands with few thick ones as the spines almost perpendicular to the thin bands. Then, for a brief moment, there was this rainbow when I looked up. It wasn't a halo because it curved away from the sun to the upper left outside the shot. Was the rainbow caused by small ice crystals or water droplets in the clouds? What about the unusual location and viewing angle of the rainbow? I don't have the answers, anyone knows about this one?
Aligned to sunset - Sunset at Winskill stones with the grykes lining up with the distinctive lone hawthorn tree clinging to the limestone pavement under a colourful sky.
Winskill Stones, Yorkshire Dales National Park
Explore #2 15/09/2024
Valley Railroad "New Haven" 3025 is seen outside the engine house, waiting for the conductor to align the switch back to the Essex station. After running around, the locomotive will hook back onto its train and prepare for another trip to Deep River
Les alignements de Carnac dans le Morbihan
3000 menhirs répartis sur 40 hectares et 4 kilomètres de longueur selon une organisation architecturée. Les alignements de Carnac sont classés monument historique par liste de 1889.
The Alignments of Ménec, Morbihan department of Brittany.
3000 menhirs stretched over 40 hectares and 4 kilometres of length. The Ménec alignment was classified as a historic monument in 1889.
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The lives of Alexander Croll and John Wright represent one of the most enduring and successful partnerships in the pioneering history of the New South Wales North Coast timber and shipbuilding industries.
To a lesser extent, their early venture also aligned with fellow pioneer John Rodger, laying the foundational roots for the timber communities of the Myall Lakes and Great Lakes regions of NSW, Australia.
The Early Bond: From Glasgow to the Colony
The deep lifelong connection between Alexander Croll and John Wright began across the globe in Scotland.
Born just a few years apart in Banffshire (Wright in May 1835 and Croll in August 1835/1837), the two men moved to Glasgow as youths to train in the demanding trade of shipwrights. During their grueling apprenticeships on the Clyde, Croll and Wright shared living quarters, developing a mutual trust and work ethic that would define their future. Though they initially planned to settle in New Zealand, trade disruptions caused by the New Zealand Wars redirected their ambitions and they moved on to Australia, arriving in New South Wales around 1860–1861 aboard the Lord Worsley.
Like many young men of the era, they first tried their luck panning for gold along the Snowy River. When the goldfields failed to yield a fortune, they relied on their trade skills and journeyed to the dense, untouched coastal forests of the Myall Lakes district.
Pioneering the Myall Lakes (1860s–1872)
Arriving in the Bulahdelah region, Croll and Wright started out in the grueling business of pit-sawing. They soon gained employment at Boolambayte Creek working for Duncan MacRae, who had established the area's first timber mill. The two Scotsmen put their shipwright training to immediate use, constructing vessels—such as the Caledonia—to transport MacRae’s timber. During this period of foundational hard work,
Croll settled down, marrying Eliza Jane MacKay in 1867. By 1872, after years of working alongside MacRae, Croll and Wright were ready to strike out on their own. Partnering with a third skilled associate, John Rodger, they established the first official sawmill at Bungwahl on the top of the Myall Lakes. This industrial site was strategically chosen to allow their flat-bottomed punts and newly built timber vessels easy access to navigable water, ensuring they could ship heavy logs and sawn timber out to the booming Sydney market.
Diverging Paths and Legacies
While the Bungwahl partnership was highly successful, the three pioneers had different long-term geographic ambitions, leading them to amicably divide the business over the next few years.
John Wright sold his share of the Bungwahl sawmill and shipwright business to Croll in 1877 for £2000, having earlier, in 1875, moved to the North Shore of Forster, by 1879 known as Tuncurry. On arrival in Tuncurry Wright leased waterfront land to build a massive new sawmill, slipway, and established John Wright & Son Shipyards, which operated for nearly a century. By 1878 John Wright had also taken up several thousand acres of land just east of Krambach where he built another large sawmill known as Avalon.
The third Bungwahl Mill partner, John Rodger, eventually migrated north as well, moving his sawmilling focus toward the Camden Haven River and Laurieton to tap into new forest reserves.
Alexander Croll remained firmly anchored at Bungwahl. He bought out Rodger and Wright's shares and expanded the Bungwahl mill, running it it as a highly prosperous family empire.
Croll spent the rest of his life at his Bungwahl estate, "Huntley." As he aged, he passed the management of the mill to his capable sons, Alexander Jr. and James (who later expanded the family timber legacy into Dungog as J. Croll & Sons). Alexander Croll passed away at home on August 16, 1917, at the age of 82.
Reflecting the immense respect he commanded, his funeral was the largest ever seen in the district at the time. His coffin was carried 19 miles by river launch to Bulahdelah, where 32 of his sawmill employees formed a solemn guard of honour as he was carried to his final resting place—marking the end of a grand colonial journey that began in a shared Glasgow boarding house room.
Image Source - Great Lakes Museum
Information, Restoration and colourisation of image by Chat GPT Ai.