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Taken in Fairmount, Indiana on a Nikon FE with a 28-85 f3.5-4.5 lens. Shot on Lomo Berlin Kino film and developed in ID11 stock.
In diesem Jahr wurden wieder Demonstrationen und Kundgebungen an der Air Base Ramstein durchgeführt.
In diesem Jahr wurden ergänzend ein Zufahrt zur Air Base für eine dreiviertel Stunde blockiert und erst nach dreimaliger Aufforderung durch die Polizei aufgegeben.
Stopp AIR BASE Ramstein!
Drohnen töten täglich in vielen Teilen der Welt unschuldige Zivilisten. Die U.S. Air Base in Ramstein spielt eine Schlüsselrolle bei völkerrechtswidrigen Einsätzen, ohne sie wäre der weltweite Drohnenkrieg unmöglich.
Military bases worldwide are a backbone of global warfare.
Mainly the USA have huge armed forces and warfare material in other countries, including atomic bombs.
In the meantime no other country in the world has so many foreign soldiers, family afliates and civil contractors like Germany. These people and facilities are mainly located in the greater region of Kaiserslautern.
Therefore a central part of the action days by “Stopp Air Base Ramstein” was an international congress about military bases.
The well-atended event provided important impulses that will lead to a new networking of the long-standing worldwide resistance against military bases.
This anthology contains contributions from the ongress itself, as well as other materials that illustrate the worldwide diversity of resistance.
Base B8301786
Camera 2 (X8111592)
Text 1: Grotto Plot
Battery Level: 100%
Pics on camera: 3
camera2/p_000447.jpg: PIR Trigger
Go North East's Deptford-based 5369 (NL63 XAZ), Wright Streetlite DF/Wright Streetlite, carrying its "Drifter" branding, and is pictured here at Park Lane Interchange, Sunderland, whilst unusually working service 26 to Downhill. 26/12/13
In Go North East's North Division - which operates services from five different depots in areas around Gateshead, North Tyneside, West Durham and Southern Northumberland - Sunderland Road (Gateshead) depot is the only depot which opens on Boxing Day. This means that Saltmeadows, Percy Main, Winlaton and Hexham depots are all closed on Boxing Day.
In Go North East's South Division - which operates services from five different depots in areas around Sunderland, County Durham and South Tyneside - Deptford and Chester-le-Street depots are the only depots which open on Boxing Day. This means that Washington, Stanley and Peterlee are all closed on Boxing Day.
As such, the most profitable and economical services are provided by other depots if their 'home depot' is closed. This results in a vast array of photographic opportunities and unusual workings which otherwise would not usually occur.
I have provided a list of 2013's "unusual Boxing Day allocations" below:
Deptford:
"Red Arrows" service X1 - "Prince Bishops" Solar - PVR 7
"Connections 4" service 4 - "Northern" Solar - PVR 3
Service 9 - "Fast Cats" Solar - PVR 3
Service 26 - "Drifter" Streetlite - PVR 2
"South Tyne" service 88 - "Laser" Citaro - PVR 3
Gateshead:
"TEN" services 10A/10B - "Tyne Tees Xpress" B9 or "Citylink" Versa - PVR 8
Arriva North East services 44/45 - "Orbit" Versa - PVR 3
"Blaydon Racers" services 49/49B - "Crusader" Citaro - PVR 6
"Cobalt Clipper" services 309/310 - "Loop" Solar or "Highwayman" Solar - PVR 8
Chester-le-Street:
"Diamond" services 43/44 - "Northern" Renown or "Lime" Renown - PVR 6
"Toon Link" service 47 - "Whey Aye Five 0" Solar, "Northern" Solar or "Waggonway" Solar - PVR 7
Once the tower was opened, we were able to get right up to it and climb the stairs inside to the top. Photos available for purchase at Wits End Photography. Follow my blog Traveling at Wits End for ways to create travel adventures everyday.
Locomotion, previously known as Locomotion the National Railway Museum at Shildon, is a railway museum in Shildon, County Durham, England. The museum was renamed in 2017 when it became part of the Science Museum Group.
The museum was opened on 22 October 2004 by Prime Minister and local MP Tony Blair. Built at a cost of £11.3 million, it is based on the former "Timothy Hackworth Victorian Railway Museum". The museum is operated in partnership with Durham County Council and was expected to bring 60,000 visitors a year to the small town. However, during its first six months, the museum attracted 94,000 visits. Locomotion was shortlisted as one of the final five contenders in the Gulbenkian Prize, which is the largest arts prize in the United Kingdom.
As part of the 2025 plans for the National Railway Museum, a second building will be built to house more of the wider collection. In addition, parts of the original museum including the coal drops will be restored having fallen out of use.
The museum is sited near Timothy Hackworth's Soho Works on the world's first public railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway (opened on 27 September 1825 with a train hauled by Locomotion No 1 which took 2 hours to complete the 12-mile (19 km) journey from Shildon to Darlington). The town was to become a major centre for British railway engineering thanks to the Shildon wagon works, which closed in 1984.
Shildon station, on the Tees Valley Line was rebuilt and modernised as part of the museum's construction and is actually situated adjacent to the trail and demonstration rail line through the museum site. It is served by all services on the line, operated by Northern.
The museum is arranged as stops along the 1-kilometre (0.6 mi) demonstration line with station direction board signs and information points on the trail between the car parks and the main collection building. The museum has a six-spur apron in front of the main shed and another short length of track for showing off resident locomotives and visiting trains.
The trail starts at the 19th-century welcome building. The original Sans Pareil was previously on display here (It has since been moved to the Collection Building). The second building is Timothy Hackworth's house. It contains several activities about the history of Shildon. Soho is a stone building that was a railway workshop, having originally been an iron merchant's store. The fourth stop is the former goods shed for the town, with most incoming and outgoing goods being delivered to the railway by horse and cart. The building is built partially from recycled stone sleeper blocks, the old fixing slots being visible in the wall.
The railway station's parcel office is the next part of the trail and at the junction, visible across the tracks are the former stables for the early horse-drawn wagonways that linked to the line. The coal drops were a refuelling point for steam locomotives. Wagons were hauled up an incline and the coal 'dropped' down wooden chutes into the tender below.
The trail passes under the roadway. There is a children's playground and a picnic area outside the Collection building. The trail ends at the largest building in the museum. It contains the exhibition hall and a conservation workshop with viewing gallery to see the work carried out by volunteers restoring some of the exhibits. Other facilities in the building include interactive games, a cafe and shop.
The museum is home to several locomotives from the National Collection, including a replica of Timothy Hackworth's Sans Pareil. The original engine, built to compete in the Rainhill Trials, is also at Shildon. The trials were to decide which engine should operate the passenger railway between Liverpool and Manchester. After a 175 years absence from the town, the locomotive was returned and is displayed in the Collection building. LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard which is usually displayed in the NRM's York museum was temporarily displayed in the museum from June 2010 to July 2011. In 2014, ahead of the 75th-anniversary celebrations for Mallard's setting the world steam speed record, 8,000 visitors turned up to welcome five sister A4 locomotives including 60008 "Dwight D Eisenhower" and 60010 "Dominion of Canada" that were repatriated from North America, the latter was given a cosmetic overhaul in Shildon's workshop.
The main exhibition building houses most of the collection and includes the sole examples of the prototype APT-E and Deltic units. The museum has a wind turbine which provides power to the National Grid and an on-site biodiesel bus for transporting visitors around the site.
The NRM recommends checking with them in advance if going to see a particular exhibit.
"ONE SMALL STEP FOR SAM, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR SAMKIND"
What (you ask) has this magazine cover to do with the Science Fiction movie "Moon"?
Well, it's one that I just happen to have in my collection, a copy of which I spotted in the film....
Here's my review:
MOON
Feature Film
Directed by Duncan Jones
Screenplay by Duncan Jones and Nathan Parker
97 minutes
United Kingdom
Zowie! Let’s get that out of the way. Yes, Duncan Jones, co-writer and director of the British Science Fiction movie “Moon” is David Bowie’s son and if you want to think of the film’s plot as revealing the ultimate fate of Major Tom, go right ahead I won’t stop you.
Budgeted at five million dollars, “Moon” cost a lot less than a NASA lunar mission, or indeed a NASA moon shot toothbrush but, as with the slightly more pricey genre hit, “District 9”, provides an astonishingly big bang for its paltry space-credits.
Well, perhaps not so much literal pyrotechnics, as this is more cerebral Science Fiction, rather than space war, super hero slugfest or giant robot rampage. (Which is not to say that they can’t be brainbusters as well.) Rather, “Moon” is set on the title satellite within futuristic spitting distance of today. We’re mining dear old Selene naked (Down lads! Naught to do with the star of "Underworld"!) essentially raking through the moon dust for Helium 3, celebrity isotope of the century because of its potential use in nuclear fusion reactors. Here splendidly realised (in a tidy montage at least) and providing 70 percent of Earth’s energy needs. Korean based Lunar Industries Ltd. is a big mining concern that maintains a semi-automated one-man station on the moon station. Why they don’t shift over to total mechanisation given the high level of sophisticated robotics otherwise on display is one of the film’s few sticking points. Never mind, perhaps there’s a property rights derived legal necessity that requires the base have an actual human living and working on site. If so, you’d think that Occupational Health And Safety wouldn’t let them get away with a lone operator! With good reason too, as solo Astronaut Sam Bell, very near the end of a gruelling three year contractual tour of duty, is looking and acting increasingly seedy. Taking his character on what turns out to be an existential quest to find himself is actor Sam Rockwell, who's shaping up into a rather noteworthy genre star.
Rockwell was Crewman Number Six from “Galaxy Quest”, Zaphod Beeblebrox in the “Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” movie, and even played Batman in the short film “Robin’s BIg Date”. He’s also rogue industrialist Justin Hammer in “Iron Man 2”. The “Moon” role is an actor’s challenge that results in one small step for Sam, one giant leap for Samkind. Rockwell quirkily paints a ‘Dorian Gray’ portrait of an off world working stiff coming messily unglued at the space suit seams. As who wouldn’t, with nothing to do but service dust harvesters, build intricate scale model buildings and watch reruns of “Bewitched” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”. Even his technical reading mater is dustily dated, I spotted a copy of the old weekly aviation encyclopaedia “Take Off” on his space bunk. What sad ubergeek would still have that? It’s issue # 15 and came out in 1988. Very interesting article on carpet bombing Germany with B-17s, as well as a spiffing reference guide to business jets, including (Tee hee) the “Rockwell” Sabreliner Series. (Sometimes, I even let Arnold J. Rimmer borrow my copy.)
There aren’t many other faces to take the focus off Rockwell’s cleverly star-crossed performance, though I did notice that Matthew Berry has a minor, as opposed to a miner, role. Berry is well known to surreal genre buffs for being in “The IT Crowd”, “Garth Marenghi's Darkplace” and “The Mighty Boosh”. Blink, and you’ll miss him here!
Poor Garth is well upstaged by the voice of Kevin Spacey, whose genre credits include: “Superman Returns”, “Seven”, “Outbreak”, “K-Pax”, “Austin Powers In Goldmember”, “Fred Claus” and the upcoming “The Men Who Stare At Goats”. It’s just as well he’s a voice actor too, (in “A Bug’s Life” at least) because he’s the calmly spoken GERTY, the base’s built-in HAL -9000 like computer/robot assistant. Actually Kubrick’s “2001” and its implacable Right Stuffy Space Rangers has a little less to do with the gritty tone of “Moon” than films like “Silent Running”, “Outland”, “Dark Star” and, at an existential stretch, “Solaris”. So, regarding rogue robots, you won’t find too many echoes of Duncan Jones’ bachelor degree in philosophy thesis: “How to Kill Your Computer Friend: An Investigation of the Mind/Body Problem and How It Relates to the Hypothetical Creation of a Thinking Machine.”
No, it’s not robot revolution that’s at the heart of Lunar Station Sarang’s (the Korean word for ‘love’) increasingly over pressurised troubles. Still, that entirely unflappable, too reasonable voice is one more reason to go over the edge and stay there. The film’s effectively evoked atmosphere is a low budget marvel and everything in the production design, from the womb like padded space suits to the cramped lunar rovers and the unyielding confines of the base itself, serve to bottle up the long suffering main character’s angst; as the human condition turns in on itself backed by a constant, air conditioned hum. (Craftsmanship like this doesn’t just happen, take a bow Production Designer Tony Noble, Costume Designer Jane Petrie and all your clever artisan Selenites!)
As an occassional propmaker myself I couldn’t help but keep an eye out for the usual recycled flotsam and jetsam being used in the sets, but for a film this low budget I was quite surprised that even I had trouble identifying the usual junk, apart from a few repainted plastic cutlery draw liners and packaging discards. I also suspect extensive reliance upon real miniatures and models tweaked with computer jiggerypokery also helped keep costs down. Oh, and Luna’s 1/6th Earth gravity is generally well depicted outside on the surface, with ‘moon hopping’ being the preferred (presumably wire rigged) mode of walking and roostertails of dust taking a long, stately time to fall. INSIDE the base, however, the filmmakers either worked around or ignored the issue. Given the questionably high level of biotechnology on display perhaps ‘The Company’ also makes artificial gravity generators?
I’m not sure if the main idea has enough juice to warrant an additional two planned sequels without serious tinkering but for the most part “Moon” is a deliberately slow paced, reflectively sturdy Science Fiction film, though veteran buffs will probably twig to what’s going on quickly enough. No real matter, the ending still feels organic to the plot, even if the ‘grand gesture’ finale doesn’t quite deliver on the measured build up. In a year that also yielded up the splendid “District 9”, “Moon” is a most impressive debut feature. You’ve really made the grade Mr Jones, protein pills all round!
Rob Jan
Zero-G
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152621 Grumman A-6E Intruder [I-169] (United States Navy) RNAS Yeovilton~G 03/08/1979. From a slide. Written off 07-11-1990.
From thedailylumenbox.blog LomoChrome Turquoise shot at ISO 100 with Leica Ic and Voigtlander 15mm, Heliar Super Wide. Developed by The Darkroom in San Clemente, CA
Based on the Renault 8, Dinky Toys #517 (1962). Meccano Tri-Ang released this Gordini version #1414 in 1968, together with rare 8S versions. This one was re-issued by Mattel / Atlas two years ago in a Gordini set, also including a yellow 8S and a white Dauphine. The one you see is the french model that I´ve bought in an almost complete but playworn condition back in 1991. I restored it immediately . Even in 1991 the original model was (too) expensive. I used duplicolor fjordblau 78 [01-114748-1578235] and repro stripes by Graph and Petra Perrel ("36" numbers). Years later I added the repro box .
The lights, tires, license plates and the driver are originals.
Another shot courtesy of Flickr user m20wc51, taken in Korea in 1968-69 by Specialist Mueller. I don't quite know what we're seeing here, but other photos in the series seem to imply that five or six soldiers were brought by bus to this event, and Mueller thought it worth while to get shots of individual soldiers dismounting from the bus, followed by a group of shot of them lining up for whatever it was. One other shot appears to show them at tables enjoying a meal with the ladies. Note that the skin colour of the lady's legs is darker than her arms because she is probably wearing that new-fangled invention pantyhose. She also has a note-book and a pen, so she may be one of the organizers of this event, whatever it is.
The yellow plate on the bus tells us it is from Seoul area, and between the lights, two hanja (Chinese) characters and the hangeul characters to make an English word – 'beu-suh", that is, "bus."
Original shot can be found here for purposes of comparison. The shot was clean and only required minor detailing. Film stock unknown, but like a number of Mueller's shots, it fades down to emphasize the yellows and purples, with the blues tending to suffer.
I haven't uploaded this image on account of any photographic merit, but simply as a first attempt at photo stitching. For some reason I have struggled to find some software to carry out this task. It would seem that at long last I might have unlocked the "Photoshop Elements" process. This particular view comprises two shots taken last week of Terry approaching the summit of Base Brown. They weren't taken in readiness for stitching, it was just a coincidence that they were compatible. Fingers crossed next time on the hills I can shoot something a little more noteworthy.
Pictured are Members of the Air Traffic Operations team (Part of 90 Signals unit), guarding a Radar unit at a Deployed Operating Base airfield.
The RAF personnel were conducting Air Traffic Operations and Force Protection during Exercise VOLCANEX at a fictional Deployed Operating Base in southern Germany.
90 SU was formed on 1 April 2006, by bringing together 3 separate communications Air Combat Service Support Units – Expeditionary Radar & Airfield Support, Information Services Support Unit and Tactical Communications Wing. The 900+ personnel on the Unit are required to ensure effective delivery of the Information Services whenever and wherever they are required.
The Unit is focused on Expeditionary Support with a significant percentage of our personnel deployed to current Operational Theatres.
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I KNOW, IT IS AN OLD CREATION. I just edit it.
A small base but it is cool ! :)
Video link : www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygnHtIwCi7E
Being in North East London today, I decided to make a small detour to Hackney and see if I could find this rare survivor (originally discovered by Sim's pics) again.
Last time I photographed this car I spoke to the owner. This time I spoke to his daughter! She was a bit suspicious of me initially, I don't think she understood the appeal of car spotting!
I had a peek inside and it all looked very original, apart from that distinctive steering wheel cover and aftermarket seat covers. It still doesn't have a radio fitted!
The vehicle details for GVG 510Y are:
Date of Liability01 05 2013
Date of First Registration14 07 1983
Year of Manufacture1983
Cylinder Capacity (cc)1593cc
Fuel TypePETROL
Vehicle StatusLicence Not Due
Vehicle ColourRED